WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:12.599 A g r H Garden Line with Skip Rickard's crazy trip. Just watch him 2 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:33.479 as many things, the suprasy double back again, not a sound, the 3 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:48.719 sun beam and down stop morning, good Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. 4 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.840 Congratulations you're one of the early birds today. Good to have you with 5 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.479 us here on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and we're 6 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.920 here to answer your gardening questions. That's what it's all about. Or the 7 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.039 way I like to put it is, we want to help you turn your 8 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:04.879 brown thumb green, or how about another way. We want to help you 9 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:11.000 have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape. That's why we're here. We 10 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:12.879 look forward to visiting with you. If you got some questions you'd like to 11 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.200 give us a call, feel free to give us a call. Seven to 12 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:21.000 one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two 13 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:26.599 k t r H. And uh, I tell you if you've been outside 14 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.680 lately, you know that summer has arrived. It doesn't take a rocket scientist 15 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.480 to know, although we have a few in the Houston area. It doesn't 16 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.000 take a rocket scientist to know that it is blazing hot outside during the day. 17 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.560 But we can get a lot of things done in the morning, and 18 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.680 I encourage you to take your cell phone to get your little kt r H 19 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:51.400 app or your iHeartMedia app rather tune into ktr H garden line, carry it 20 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.359 with you as you're out and about and come up get a little sunshine here 21 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.000 in a bit, head out in the garden. Let's talk about what's going 22 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.439 on in your garden that we can. That way, you can get things 23 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.000 done and still enjoy listening to guardline. Who knows, maybe you'll even run 24 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.920 across a bug you need to take a picture of and send me for ID 25 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.479 or however you want to go about it. I was in my yard this 26 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.719 week, just doing regular kind of maintenance. I still had a little bit 27 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.960 of pruning to do, and someone asked me the day can you prune in 28 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.599 the summertime? And the answer is, well, you can. You can 29 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.039 prune any month of the year. There's months that are better. There's certainly 30 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.360 months that are better for certain types of pruning. Like you're going to do 31 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.759 a lot of heavy duty pruning to your trees, then I would try to 32 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.919 get that done at the end of winter. That's the best time because spring 33 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:40.719 is the fastest time for wounds to heal, and that followed by fall, 34 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.240 by the way, and then summer. So getting that all done early on 35 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:47.680 is a good idea. Plus, you don't have the leaves on the tree 36 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:52.080 at the late winter season, and you can look up and see what needs 37 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.439 to be done. It's a lot a lot clearer and easier to get the 38 00:02:54.520 --> 00:03:00.479 job done right. But anyway, I've got some crape myrtles that it's been 39 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.199 a while, let's just say, since they had any kind of work done. 40 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:07.639 And so I had some branches that originally when they were planted and started 41 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.479 off, they weren't trained or proved properly. When we bought the place and 42 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.719 moved in, I just kind of have to make some decisions as to Okay, 43 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.240 that's not how it should be, but what's the best thing for me 44 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:20.680 to do now to fix it? And in general, with crape myrtles, 45 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.840 we want to follow the flow of the branches. So I'm going to explain 46 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.960 what I mean by that. This is true of a lot of plants, 47 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.400 by the way, with crape, Let's say you have three trunks coming out 48 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.520 of the ground, just as an example, and you go up one of 49 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.280 the trunks and at some point you want a branch to fork and make two, 50 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.159 and then at some point each of those can fork and make two more, 51 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.479 and on and on. And when you end up with branches that need 52 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.960 to come off, you never stub them off. That's what people do in 53 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.719 the winter. We call it crepe murder. They reach up and about seven 54 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.479 eight feet high, they are six feet high. They cut everything off and 55 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:00.199 just in nubs. That's called heading cuts, and that's bad, bad for 56 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.800 the great myrtle structure and beauty. Instead, look at as a branch goes 57 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.599 out, and let's say you've got a branch that's going way over rubbing on 58 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.280 your house or sticking out where you have to walk by, which is what 59 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.040 mine we're doing. You just follow them back to where they attach to another 60 00:04:15.079 --> 00:04:20.759 branch and cut it off right there, so we redirect that growth. So 61 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:25.720 you picture a y in the road, like what did Yogi Bear say, 62 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.600 when you come to a fork in the road, take it? Well, 63 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.879 when you come to a fork in the branch, take one or the other 64 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.560 off, Take the long one off and leave a shorter one, or take 65 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:40.120 one going the wrong way off and leave one going the right way. And 66 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:45.319 so it basically just imagine you're a vehicle driving down that branch, and if 67 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.240 there's a road that is not a good road, then that's where you take 68 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.079 it off where it joins the other one. There's a branch that's in the 69 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.839 wrong anyway. I was doing some of that kind of printing this week and 70 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.519 just getting things shaped up, because you know they're in one case, my 71 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.399 some of my crapes were shading the lawn so much I couldn't get light through 72 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.600 to go grass, and so I had to do a little thinning out of 73 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:11.439 the canopy for that here and there. But when I got through pruning, 74 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.360 when you looked at the plant, you couldn't tell it was pruned if you 75 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.959 hadn't seen what it looked like before. There's not a bunch of stubbed off 76 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:24.480 branches. It's all a very smooth and natural form and a good pruning job. 77 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.240 It's hard to tell that it was pruned. It doesn't just you don't 78 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.040 just walk up and go who butchered that? You just see that it looks 79 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.639 a lot better in that case, I tell what we are gonna. Let 80 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:41.639 me run here to the phones and or, by the way, our phone 81 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.680 number if you'd like to give me a call today seven one three two one 82 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.079 two k t Arch. We're going to go to Houston and talk to Renee. 83 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:53.720 Hello, Renee, Hell are you? I'm well? I'm well how 84 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.040 can we help today? Well, you know, we just planted a new 85 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.120 new grass in our in our front yard. We din about three three to 86 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:05.759 four pallets. And the reason that I had to replet was because we had 87 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:10.199 a lot of shade and we prove our trees, and now we planted the 88 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:15.800 grass and I wanted to it seems like it's struggling a little bit to kind 89 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.199 of thrive, and I wanted to see what I can do so that we 90 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:23.680 can make sure that it's you know, plantic. You know, it builds 91 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.319 up the roots it and it kind of thrives. Okay, so you opened 92 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.480 up the canopy of the tree. So the grass is doing better, is 93 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:36.680 what you're telling me, right, Yes, okay, So the thing that 94 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.800 grass most needs is sunlight, and after that, of course, it needs 95 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:46.959 moisture and it needs nutrients, so and then finally regular mowing. So you've 96 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.040 provided the sunlight, assuming you've got it enough light for it to be able 97 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:57.480 to build up its reserves and actually grow, meaning get thicker, meaning fill 98 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.120 in areas and stuff like that. It's got enough light that then it's just 99 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.959 up to you to water it moderately periodically, not often, not every other 100 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:10.920 day, but once or twice a week with a good soaking. And then 101 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.759 if you haven't fertilized, fertilizing for summer is a good idea. And if 102 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:20.839 you do any kind of nutrient additions that you haven't done yet, go ahead 103 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:26.399 and get them done. But finally, the mowing is so important, Renee, 104 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:31.360 because the more often you mow, the denser the grass gets. Okay, 105 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:36.519 now, what kind of so good I was gonna say, I'm gonna 106 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.879 assume that the light is not outstanding because you had to do a little pruning 107 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.199 to improve on it. So if you're not, you're probably not getting eight 108 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.480 hours of sunlight a day, so you might if it's the more shady it 109 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:53.120 is, the taller you want to mow to lead more grass blade. Grass 110 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.639 blades are solar panels, and you got to capture as much light as you 111 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:01.360 can, so don't cut the solar panels off. Real short, Okay, 112 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.680 what type of what type of summer summer fertilizer should I use? You know, 113 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.160 I would suggest you just get some of the silver Bag from Nitrofoss that 114 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.639 is Superturf. Superturf is an excellent product. It gradually releases. In fact, 115 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.399 if you fertilize now with the silver Bag super Turf, you won't have 116 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:26.399 to fertilize again until fall. Have you downloaded my schedule? Spend any chants 117 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.839 from online? I have not? Okay, that's fine. You go to 118 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.080 Gardening with Skip dot com. That's the website Gardening with Skip that's me dot 119 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.679 com. And the schedules are there. They tell you what to apply and 120 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.799 when all through the year, and so that'll make it real easy for you. 121 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.840 But on there you'll see Nitrofoss Superturf. Uh and you can find it 122 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:56.919 at a lot of places. Where in the Houston General area are you Cypress? 123 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.120 Cypress area? Okay, yeah, well you can go up to the 124 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.279 Ace Hardware there on Jones Road. You can go to M and D Ace, 125 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.759 which is much further north than that. You can go to really a 126 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.919 number of different places in the Cypress area. Plant twelve Seasons is not too 127 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.960 far away from you, and they carry the super Turf as well. All 128 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.159 right, perfect, we'll we'll make our way to say today. All right, 129 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.399 well, thank you sir, I appreciate the call. Folks. We're 130 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.480 going to take a little break here and I'll be right back. Welcome back 131 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.960 to the garden line. Good ahead. You let us what are we going 132 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.960 to talk about today? You know, I can talk about the things that 133 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.120 I'm interested in. I can talk about the things that I know people have 134 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.720 questions about now because I've been doing this for thirty five years, listening to 135 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:46.919 gardening questions and being a gardener myself, so I know what the things to 136 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.639 talk about this time a year. But what are you interested in? Do 137 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.919 you have an issue at your lawn or your landscape? Are you wanting to 138 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.240 try a new plan, want to know if it'll grow here? Do you 139 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.399 need something identified you get the idea? Feel free to give us a cough. 140 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.519 We can help. That is why we're here to help you have a 141 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:09.480 more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. Our phone number seven one three 142 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.399 two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t 143 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.080 r H. Wile ago, I was talking about the Nitrofis silver bag, 144 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:24.919 the excuse me, super turf, and I mentioned that you can get that 145 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:26.519 at plants for all seasons. You know, if if you go up and 146 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.279 down two forty nine, you pass by plants for all seasons all the all 147 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.080 the time, as you go back and forth from Tomball to down into the 148 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.919 Houston area. They're right there, just north of Luetta on the east side 149 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:41.639 of the road. Uh So, as you're heading out, you just exit 150 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.559 Luetta if you're heading toward Tomball, and then just north of Luetta is plants 151 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.559 for all seasons. I am always amazed when I go in there at the 152 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.360 amount of color that they have and at the variety of plants from shrubs to 153 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.519 trees to house plants to I got a venus fly trap there one time. 154 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.200 Yeah, you have, and it's kind of cool. By the way, 155 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.840 if you don't have a venus fly trap, you need one for your house. 156 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:05.879 You need a little light to keep it under and make it happy. 157 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:11.399 But I tell you that is so fun. You know, flies in the 158 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.480 house and all you have to do is get one to Sometimes you have ways 159 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:20.080 of capturing them and turning them loose in there, or just wound them seriously 160 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.039 and they wiggle around that thing closes down. Oh my gosh, it's fun 161 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.879 to watch and the kids love it too. They can't believe that a plant 162 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.879 actually eats living things. So anyway, the Plants for All Seasons has got 163 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:37.799 that. They've got beautiful pottery, gorgeous, gorgeous pottery that looks so good. 164 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:43.960 And right now the color baskets are outstanding. And you know you've walk 165 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.840 outside and look around your landscape. What you're going to see, in many 166 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.320 cases is a sea of green. That means green grass, green shrubs, 167 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.399 green ground covers, green trees. How do we get color in our landscape? 168 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.840 One quick way is to go get your hanging baskets, such just some 169 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.919 of the those coumbo planters that they have there at Plants for All Seasons. 170 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.320 You hang it up, it looks good. So you got a little thing 171 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.120 going on this weekend, you know you want to beautify the patio or whatever. 172 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:15.360 That's a way to do it instantly and it looks awesome when you know 173 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:16.799 when you go in there, you're going to get good advice and you take 174 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:22.279 pictures and samples and other things for diagnosis, for solutions to plant problems. 175 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.120 You're having Plants for All Seasons dot Com, Plants for All Seasons dot Com, 176 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.840 or just give them a call at two eight, one, three, 177 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:35.080 seven, six one six for six. I was talking a moment ago about 178 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.639 pruning and the fact that you can do some limb removal anytime of the year 179 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.840 that you need to get it done. Just know this, when you're going 180 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.919 to do any kind of pruning, you want to learn what to do before 181 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:54.399 you do it. A lot of people go out with a saw, pruning 182 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.759 shears, loppers, whatever, and they just begin cutting. It seems appropriate. 183 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.679 I think you need to step back a little bit and I'm gonna I'm 184 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.159 gonna be I'm gonna overstate this, but just to make a point. But 185 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:15.360 if they say that a sculptor can look at a giant rock and see the 186 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:20.519 figure inside. In other words, they look at this massive stone, but 187 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:26.080 they know if you're Michelangelo, they know that you're gonna chip away and leave 188 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:31.639 the David Famous David statue because they they they know what they want to accomplish. 189 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.759 And when when you look at a plant, you ought to look at 190 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.399 it a while and just kind of think about what do I want to accomplish. 191 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.000 If it's a hedge, you want the top to be narrow, uh 192 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.279 and the base to be a little wider, and that's so that light can 193 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.480 reach all levels of that hedge. If you let the shrub do what it 194 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.919 wants, it will go top heavy. It will be instead of being shaped 195 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.720 like the capital A, it'll be shaped like a capital V. And you 196 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.720 don't when that happens, the lower levels don't get light, the leaves don't 197 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.519 grow there, and you end up seeing through what you wanted to be something 198 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.039 to block a view. And so you keep the top a little narrower, 199 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.279 not like a capital A shape, more just a little narrower on the top, 200 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.360 at least at least exactly vertical sides, but maybe a little narrower on 201 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.720 the top. And that's how you do it. If you're going to do 202 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.919 a blooming plant, you prune it in the way that you want that plant 203 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:31.039 to be shaped. If you're going to whatever you're going to prune, imagine 204 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.120 what you want it to look like. And crpe myrtles are a good example. 205 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.879 You do need to train a crp myrtle. You don't need to butcher 206 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:39.480 them, but you do need to train them. And so you look at 207 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.440 that little scrawny stick you just put in the ground out of the pot from 208 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.960 the garden center, and you think about, Okay, when that thing is 209 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.360 fifteen feet tall, what do I want the shape to be? How many 210 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.879 trunks? Where do I want them to start branching? And I want to 211 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.879 choose things that are kind of going outward a little bit, because I want 212 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:01.440 to form that beautiful shrub. And so that that is kind of how you 213 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.639 go about it, and you picture what you wanted to eventually become. And 214 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.559 then as you begin to prune, each cut is made with a purpose. 215 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.000 And so we'll just call this little segment prune with a purpose. That is 216 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.840 very important. Prune with a purpose. We're going to go now out to 217 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:24.720 the phones and talk to Clark in Magnolia. Hello Clark, welly, good 218 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.759 morning. I guess I'm guilty of this. Craig mertling as well. I 219 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.840 was always under the impression that if you didn't print them back in, you 220 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.320 know, on February or March, then they wouldn't bloom. Well, no, 221 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.679 they'll bloom. What happens is if you've never prune to crate myrtle, 222 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.720 it would be a big old bush and then the blooms would be smaller, 223 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.840 but they'd be more numerous all over the planet. As you prune it, 224 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.759 and then it gets this vigorous new growth. You tend to get bigger blooms, 225 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.320 but fewer of them that you have these long, long lanky shoots, 226 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:06.879 because if it was an excessive pruning, long lanky shoots that end up breaking 227 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.360 off in a rainstorm or sort of flopping out in all directions. But I 228 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.200 think the main thing, Clark is that I'm trying to say is you want 229 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.440 the beautiful shape of a crape myrtle's form to be maintained and not to be 230 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:25.759 marked by just hacking the top off. So you don't prune them back in 231 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.919 February or March for the spring growth. You would leave one loan other than 232 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:36.720 the branches that you walk out of the way. Yeah, you prune it 233 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.320 for shape in February and March if needed. And I'll tell you this, 234 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.799 if you from the time you plan a crape myrtle, you begin to do 235 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.960 your training in printing. There's really very little printing that needs to be done 236 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.759 that just a little guiding, a little removal here and there. You know, 237 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:56.240 if you have a branch it's i say, growing out in the walkway 238 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.039 where you can't walk by, and you leave it three years down the line. 239 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.960 You cut it off. Now you make this big old wound to remove 240 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.279 it, whereas it could have been removed with hand pruners if you were doing 241 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.640 that, I'm envisioning what I want type of pruning. I was just talking 242 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.599 about. Okay, all right, I appreciate it, thank you, Yeah, 243 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:19.279 you bet. Yeah. You know this whole thing about great murder and 244 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:22.160 whatnot. And I realized here we were talking about crepe myrtle pruning and it's 245 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.319 the middle of summer. But it's what I've been doing this week, and 246 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:29.119 I know some of you are probably out doing a little bit of pruning too 247 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:36.519 on some things. The whole thing about it is designing and creating this natural 248 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:41.799 form. And the further the longer you allow a pruning decision to be put 249 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.319 off, the more of a pruning cut you make. The more of a 250 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:48.240 pruning cut you make, the longer it takes to heal, and the more 251 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:53.400 it mars the natural beauty of the plant. I'm going to go one last 252 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.119 time, hopefully last time, back to crapes for just a moment. If 253 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:03.200 you used hand pruners your crapes and whenever you said up these branches don't have 254 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:06.079 a long term future. I'm gonna snip that little thing off. Snip that 255 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.440 little thing off. You would never need to use a saw, and you 256 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:14.119 could create a beautiful structure to a crape myrtle. The more you let it 257 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:17.680 go past that to where now you got to get a chainsaw out there to 258 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:22.319 cut something up, you've got it. It's just a it's just a not 259 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.319 a good thing for the form. The way I like to put it is 260 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.359 this, when you pull out a saw, it's an emission of guilt. 261 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.960 Let that sink in a little bit. When you pull out a saw, 262 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.599 it's an emission of guilt. Now that's overstated. But if you've owned a 263 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.240 plant for years and you haven't pruned, you haven't done what you should do 264 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.359 to that plant, and it finally comes to a spot where you're having to 265 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.640 saw limb off, you're admitting that you know, I should have prined this 266 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.880 a long time ago, when I could have taken handprinters or loppers and got 267 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.079 it done. Now, I know there's always situations where you do have to 268 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:57.960 saw, But if you just think of it that way, when I get 269 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:02.519 out of saw, it's an a mission of guilt that helps you think in 270 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:08.519 terms of looking at things earlier before they are obviously an overcrowded problem, and 271 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:14.160 making those decisions as you go along makes it real easy. I I think 272 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:21.160 that it's just something to think about. Works pretty good. I was visiting 273 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.440 a good while back with ty Strickland, who is the owner of Fixing My 274 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.480 Slab Foundation Repair T He's been doing it for twenty three years with them, 275 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.359 and he was explaining to me about how foundation work gets done, what has 276 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:38.119 to be done when you're fixing a foundation and whatnot, and how the problems 277 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.519 for them. And we're talking about plants and different things, trees and their 278 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:47.480 effect on foundations and whatnot, and I just was so impressed. Tye is 279 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:53.839 very knowledgeable and he's got that those type of business practices that approach to taking 280 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:59.839 care of his customers that we used to think of as the old fashioned good 281 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.400 customer service kind of approach. What do I mean by that? I mean, 282 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:04.200 if he tells you he's going to show up at a certain time, 283 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.359 he shows up on time, that when he fixes it, his pricing is 284 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:12.160 fair, and when he fixes it, he fixes it right. And if 285 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:15.680 you see cracks in your brick outside and the sheet rock inside. If you've 286 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:21.079 got doors sticking, don't mess around. Call TI. Tell him you're a 287 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:25.720 guardenline listener. You get free estimates for guardenline listeners and have him come out 288 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.079 and take a look at it. Because it only gets worse, it doesn't 289 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:32.440 get better. And so do yourself a favor. Fix myslab dot com. 290 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:36.400 That's a website. Fix myslab dot com and the phone number two eight one 291 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:40.160 two five five forty nine forty nine. We're gonna take a little break here. 292 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.880 I'll be right back. Don't forget our number. If you'd like to 293 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:48.599 give us a call seven one three two one two kt r H bottoms its 294 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.359 line. Good to have you with us this morning. What are we going 295 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.880 to talk about? You tell me, hey, do you want to talk 296 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.240 about vegetables or herbs or flowers. We can switch into any of those topics 297 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.960 that you would like. I've been talking about trees and pruning, summer pruning, 298 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.480 which is kind of weird, Like I thought we in the winter. 299 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:10.759 What we do. The best time to prune is the winter, but just 300 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.440 remember that there are exceptions to that, and there are reasons we need to 301 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.200 prune at other times. And speaking of all this pruning makes me think about 302 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.960 affordable tree service Martin spoon More. You know, Martin's been doing this for 303 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.759 a very long time and he is an expert at it. And that's why 304 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.039 we suggest that you give Martin a call when you have any kind of pruning 305 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.920 that you need to do. Martin knows how to come out. He can 306 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.960 do things from deep watering, deep deep feeding. He can do minor pruning 307 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:41.599 you do planting. He can do training of trees. He can advise you 308 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:44.440 on things. Maybe you've got some issues in the landscape. Listen, if 309 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.160 you are going to do anything around a tree. When I say anything, 310 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.079 I mean digging away soil, adding soil, putting in a trench to run 311 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.920 a power line or water line or something like that. Definitely call him first, 312 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.160 have him come out and look, because by the time the damage is 313 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.119 done, it's too late to fix much. And that's true with bad pruning 314 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.480 too. Don't hire a guy just because he owns to pick up a chainsaw 315 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.720 and drives down the roadsticking cards in your door, business cards in your door 316 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.400 that you need to hire Martin. You need to go with him. He 317 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.920 knows what he's talking about. I've seen and talked to a lot of customers 318 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:23.279 that are very very happy and with storm season here, I mean there's already 319 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.920 a hurricane in the Gulf here come in our direction. Unfortunately doesn't appear to 320 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:33.279 be landing on Houston this time. But you need to have your trees ready 321 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.799 and Martin can come out and do that kind of pruning to prepare your trees 322 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.400 to minimize the amount of storm damage to make them the most storm resilient that 323 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:47.079 you can. Phone number seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 324 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.000 Here's Martin's phone number again, seven to one three six nine twenty six 325 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:57.279 sixty three. The website is afftree Service dot com. Aff tree Service dot 326 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:03.480 com. Whatever you do, don't wait because you know once the storm hits, 327 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.000 it's a little late. And trust me, you don't like the kind 328 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.880 of pruning storms due to your trees. I give part and the call having 329 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.559 come on out, you're listening to Guarden Line. I'm your host, Skip 330 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:18.680 Richter, and it is right now the time to discuss with you the things 331 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.160 that are of interest to you. So what kind of questions have you had? 332 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:25.240 Maybe you're wanting to here's an idea. This is a you know, 333 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:27.759 it's always interesting. I know, when the phone rings, it's probably trees, 334 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.680 turf for tomatoes, the three t's, that's what makes a phone ring. 335 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:34.720 But there are a lot of other topics out there that we can talk 336 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:40.680 about. And sometimes there's things that I wish people would ask about, especially 337 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:44.720 ahead of time, like how do I go about pruning a tree? How 338 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.799 do I properly plant a plant? Or here's a good one. I would 339 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.319 like to give a gift to a friend or family member and just to say 340 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.799 thanks, And what would you suggest is a good gift plant for people? 341 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:03.079 There's a good idea, you know, plan are there's just a way to 342 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:08.839 say thank you in an ongoing fashion. A fellow I used to know up 343 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:14.240 in Conro, Texas, and mister Alden Colston. He was ninety something years 344 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:18.680 old, gardener and still going strong. He was quite the character too, 345 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.480 But anyway, he used to say that flowers leave part of their fragrance and 346 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.440 a hand that bestows them. And I always thought that was beautiful. Flowers 347 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.400 leave part of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. When you give 348 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.319 a gift, let's just say it's a rose, which by the way, 349 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.880 is a great gift for people. You give a rose bush. Then every 350 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.640 year when that thing blooms or somebody comes in there walking around the yard and 351 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.240 saying, yeah, look at this, and so and so gave me the 352 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.559 it's a memory of you and of your kindness to them. And I just 353 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:53.319 think plants are an excellent gift. You know, sometimes we look at our 354 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:59.000 landscapes like, you know, we throw this in there, pull this out, 355 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:02.039 and it's just like a plug and play, which it can be. 356 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.279 But you think about historically people that would even move and take plants with them. 357 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:14.519 There is a rose in Tucson, Arizona, and it is a Ladybank's 358 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:19.640 rose, which is a thornless, very vigorously climbing rose that blooms in the 359 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:25.640 spring. Only a bride took it there in a buckboard wagon in the eighteen 360 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.599 hundreds and it's still there. At one point it covered a quarter of an 361 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.440 acre. They built this like arbor canopy, going out in all directions for 362 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.960 the rose canes to grow on a quarter of an acre. That is that's 363 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:42.319 a big rose. That's a very big rose eighteen hundreds and it is still 364 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:45.960 still going strong out there. That's what I'm talking about. Those kind of 365 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:52.160 memories are a wonderful way to connect with family, with friends. And so 366 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.640 if you've been thinking about a gift for somebody, why not a quality plant, 367 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.599 one that will live for years and years that they can enjoy. If 368 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.119 you'd like to give us, call our phone number here is seven to one 369 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:08.799 three two one two kt r H seven to one three two one two kt 370 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:15.359 RH. If you look at your landscape when you drive up, just think 371 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:18.039 about that today or this week. Drive out and look at your landscape from 372 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:22.359 the front, from the street and just say what what would I like to 373 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.720 be different? What would be missing? Uh? For example, maybe it 374 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:32.119 does lack the color. It's that sea of green that so many landscapes become 375 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.559 in summer when we don't have to just be green. Green's a pretty color, 376 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.279 but it's not the only color. Uh. Well, call up perscapes, 377 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:44.000 have them come out, take them some pictures in sit doun. Say 378 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.319 hey, look, I want to renovate this bed. I want to create 379 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.119 a new bed here. What would you do with this landscape? They can 380 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:55.119 do anything from the full bloode create everything from scratch to renovating and redoing and 381 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:59.599 making something better, more beautiful. If you need hard scapes, if you 382 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:03.000 need, uh, perhaps your irrigation system looked at. They do all of 383 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.880 that. They do landscape lighting if it means the outside gets more beautiful, 384 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:12.880 pierscapes, they're your people. They do that. That is what they specialize 385 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:17.519 in. They also do quarterly bed maintenance. Now'd be a great time to 386 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:22.000 call them up. Quarterly bed maintenance every three months. They come out. 387 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.400 They fertilize weed, they trim, they check your irrigation. They do seasonal 388 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.680 color changes as needed, They molt. It's all at Peerscapes. Peerscapes dot 389 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.680 Com is their website. You need to go look at it. It's amazing. 390 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:40.599 And two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven 391 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:45.240 o five zero six zero. We're going to take a break if you'd like 392 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.160 to get on the board with Chris six seven to one three two one two 393 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.559 KTRH. And when we come back Ron in Cleveland, you'll be our first 394 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.559 stop. When you ask someone in their name, welcome back to the garden 395 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:03.039 line. May be with us this morning, looking forward to visiting with you 396 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.279 about the things that are of interest to you. The other day I was 397 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.640 dealing with some issues I have a neighbor that has some issues in the lawn 398 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:17.640 where various primarily take off patch, but there's some other things going on in 399 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:18.839 the lawn. I was just kind of helping them with it and talking about 400 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.880 it, and we were talking about different things you can do the lawn. 401 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.160 You know, one of the things you can do when you want to get 402 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:27.400 out there and give your lawn a boost. I mean, it could be 403 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:33.119 the complete fertilization, but it also could just be let's give a little boost 404 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:37.000 to some areas here that need it. That. Medina has a product part 405 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:42.160 of the has to Grow line called Supergrow Plus. Super Grow Plus is a 406 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:47.480 sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a liquid. It hooks up to a garden 407 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.279 hose. It covers about four thousand square feet. It takes you about ten 408 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:56.839 minutes to do that area with your lawn, so I mean it's about the 409 00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.759 fastest way you can get out there and get some fertilizing done. Just walk 410 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:04.799 through spraying the grass with Medina super Grow Plus sixteen zero two. A good 411 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:10.759 portion of that nitrogen is slow release. It's got seaweed extracts, it's got 412 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:17.160 humic acid, it's got molasses all the things to stimulate microbial activity and growth 413 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:22.559 plus iron in a kelated form. And this past week I looked at three 414 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:27.880 different email situations. I've been helping somebody with on yellowing grass and iron, 415 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.319 and this would be a way to get out there put a little boost to 416 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.240 it. Supergrol Plus is easy. You hook it up, you go out, 417 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:36.559 you spray, You're done. And it's not just for launch. I 418 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:37.480 mean you can put on anything you want to do. I mean I know 419 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:42.799 people that use them their vegetable gardens. Medina has to grow supergrow plus sixteen 420 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:47.480 zero two. Get some try it out. I think you'll see what I'm 421 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:49.759 talking about. We're going to head out now to Cleveland, Texas, and 422 00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:53.200 we are going to go talk to Ron. If I can get a hold 423 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.079 of here we go. Hey, Ron, welcome to guard Line. Well, 424 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.720 good Morris. Skip a few things if you don't mind. You're talking 425 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.839 about trim and I've got three pretty good sized by texts that have bloomed this 426 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.519 year, and they got those seed pods on them. If I trim those 427 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.319 seed pods off, well that push that tree, those trees to bloom again. 428 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:18.079 It can so Ron, here's the two things that help a vi text 429 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.880 rebloom. When you prum back a little bit, not just the seed pod, 430 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.880 but you cut the branch back just a little bit and you stimulate new 431 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:29.880 growth. It will tend to produce blooms on the ends of those new shoots. 432 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.440 Vitext blooms at the ends of its shoots. If you catch it right 433 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:38.599 after bloom, there's the blooms fade and cut the pods off. Then all 434 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.160 the energy that we've gone into building those seeds. You know, seeds are 435 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:48.759 very oily protein. There's a lot of what the plant's producing that's going in 436 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.799 to make those seeds. If you do it before they make the seeds, 437 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.680 that energy can go into new growth and blooms better. If you wait until 438 00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:02.079 it already has seeds, it's still worth taking them off, but they've already 439 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:03.640 put the energy into doing that. So if you could do it a little 440 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:07.079 earlier, that would be even better. Okay, I'll be ready to make 441 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.119 sense. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Well. By Text is a 442 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:17.720 tough That was a very very tough plants. I put in those crape myrtles 443 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:21.319 I was talking to you about, and I don't remember should I be watering 444 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:25.440 them like? And I did the Medina Hamster grill for plants, you know, 445 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.640 smoking them in? Uh? Do I need to be watering them every 446 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:32.000 day for a while because I got them right out here in the full sun 447 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.640 of course? Or is that like, you know, just stick your finger 448 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.799 in there, do like you say, you know, see if it's wet. 449 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:44.079 We're talking about creant myrtle plants. Yeah, right, yeah, I 450 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:51.640 got five of them. I put in some pink and like say, we 451 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.759 talked, I remember talking about, you know, checking if they're wet or 452 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.839 do I need to keep them wet every day? You know, I don't. 453 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.200 I don't really remember. Yeah, no, just a good soaking periodically. 454 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.920 How long ago did you actually put the containers in last Sunday? Okay, 455 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:15.319 so yes, I'm Here's the thing. That root system looks just like 456 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.799 it did when it came out of the pot. It is not established at 457 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.119 all. And over the next weeks and months and even a couple of years, 458 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.960 it's getting bigger and bigger and more extensive, and the plant's getting more 459 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.680 resilient as a result. Right now, imagine that you just set the whole 460 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:34.839 pot. You didn't even take the plant out of the pote. You just 461 00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:37.240 set the whole pot in the ground. That's what your root system still is 462 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.559 like. So you still have to treat it like it was in a pot, 463 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:45.839 meaning you're not drowning it watering every day. You're just you're just giving 464 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:50.400 it enough water to keep that root ball in the area right around at moist. 465 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:55.079 And so if it's in full sun, that may mean every other day 466 00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.480 probably is going to be adequate. It may in some situations the every day, 467 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.079 but not just be careful that you don't overdo it and drown the root 468 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.720 system. But keep it that water log. Yeah, all it needs moist, 469 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:14.240 but remember that in the course of a ninety degree day, it's pumping 470 00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:16.559 that little cylinder that went in the ground, that cylinder of soil. It's 471 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:21.519 pumping that dry and the soil around it may be moist. So that's why 472 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:23.960 I say pretend it's still in the pot, because for a while, that's 473 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.519 where the roots are still going to be. Yeah. I had a lot 474 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:30.200 of work putting those five things in break from my bag doing it. I 475 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.440 don't want to lose them, you know, I'm telling you, like no 476 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:37.200 kidding. I get home at night and it's like, man, those leaves 477 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:38.599 look like they're wilting. So I've been watering, but I don't want to 478 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:42.559 overwater, so I've just didn't know if I should be doing every day. 479 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.480 If you're seeing wilting, you need to give it a little bit of water, 480 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:52.400 assuming that it wasn't just grossly overgrown in the pot. That plant, 481 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.759 if you can just keep that moist, should be just fine. And uh, 482 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.720 just a little drinking and they'll be on there. You know, you 483 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:02.559 planted them at a tough time, and we can plant be a month of 484 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.960 the year here, it's just when we do it now. We just have 485 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.239 to water a little differently than if you had planted them in November or January. 486 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:17.400 I'm going to put down some nitrofoss silver bag today. Uh some gets 487 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:22.039 around these, uh crate myrtles. That's gonna be okay, wouldn't it? 488 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.400 Or would I should I shy away from keep them away from that? It'd 489 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.440 be okay, It'd be okay. Just don't overdo it right at the base 490 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:34.760 of them. I would just kind of fertilize like you're fertilizing. And usually 491 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.719 when I plan a plant like this, I'm going to want to use some 492 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.559 sort of a liquid as a drench. A watering in drench periodically just to 493 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.360 kind of feed those roots right there, because again they're all confined, uh 494 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:51.679 and then dead. Yeah, go ahead. I bought the Madina hastroll for 495 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.719 plants and I have been doing it every other day with that, you know. 496 00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:59.440 All right, Well, I appreciate your time, and I uh, 497 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.360 you know, I listening. I was listening to Randy for years. I 498 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:06.719 believe you've taken the show to the next level. I appreciate you. That's 499 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.239 kind. Thank you, appreciate that. Welcome, Take care, take care. 500 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:21.119 I I was the other day, I was looking at some some stuff 501 00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:25.599 from je Jjes Hidden Gardens down in Alvin, and uh, just looking at 502 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.920 the things that they're up to, things that are doing. Of course it's 503 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.519 it's summer and they're they're very busy down there, you know, Jorges Hidden 504 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.800 Gardens. That that is the garden center down in Alvin, due South. 505 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.480 So for those of you live near Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, 506 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:45.159 maybe Alta Loma, al Goa, Arcadia, all of those communities, Uh, 507 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.159 this is your local garden center and they're down there in Alvin. They're 508 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:53.280 open, by the way on Friday. You need to consider these times. 509 00:35:53.320 --> 00:36:00.280 It's primarily weekends right now Friday from nine to three and Saturday and Sunday that 510 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:05.239 will be today eight am to four pm. So eight am to four today 511 00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:08.880 and tomorrow ninety three on Fridays, and just go down there. It's seventeen 512 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:15.199 seven twenty one Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway six. Horayes 513 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.159 always got things on lots of excellent selection of little trees and shrubs that he's 514 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.760 growing. But he has other you know Peggy Martin roses and krepe myrtle. 515 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.599 Course during the various vegetable planting seasons, they're going to have that with some 516 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.199 herbs and other things. It's always a good time to go visit. But 517 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:34.199 check them out one weekend, especially with those of you down in that area. 518 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.760 This is just a hop, skipping or jump away from where you live. 519 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:42.199 At Horages Hidden Gardens, I think you will be very pleased with what 520 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:45.880 you see. By the way, he also carries that three sixty tree stabilizer 521 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:50.880 in stock there, so that's when you get a tree from him. You 522 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.679 definitely need to get a tree stabilizer from him to keep that tree in place. 523 00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.599 Well, you are listening to garden line, and it is time for 524 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:01.840 us to with this hour in the books. If you would like to give 525 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:06.119 us a call and get on the boards, just give Chris a call seven 526 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.800 one three two one two k t R seven to one three two one two 527 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:16.199 K two our h. I'm being back here in a little bit after we 528 00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:22.320 get some news taken care of to talk about your gardening questions. What is 529 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.199 of interesting? They have questions about how can we help you? Know, 530 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:30.320 my goal is to help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful 531 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:35.480 landscape. But also my goal is to help you have fun. The gardening 532 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:39.360 is not supposed to be stressful. It's not like I'm afraid I'm gonna fail. 533 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.880 It's not like I don't know how to do that. We can help 534 00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:47.880 you have success because it should be fun. It is an outstanding, relaxing, 535 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:53.320 health promoting hobby without a dom ny any ways, all right, you're 536 00:37:53.400 --> 00:38:15.920 right, Ben, crazy gas shrimp. Just watch him as gas man. 537 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:23.400 It takes the soup hot crazy gas again. You did us back again? 538 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:39.039 Not a sound and credit gases gas sound beam and down between a gas starting 539 00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:45.639 out treat. All right, let's get going again here. Welcome back to 540 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.880 garden line. We are glad to have you with us this morning, ready 541 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:53.000 to talk about how to have a beautiful, beautiful landscape, how to have 542 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:58.440 a bountiful garden, how to have fun with gardening. You know, gardening 543 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:01.480 should be fun. And even though we live in a very warm climate and 544 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:07.320 in summertime it is hot, we still can grow anything we want to grow 545 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.360 just about here in the Greater Houston area. When it comes to being able 546 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.760 to take the heat, we have flowers that do better in the heat. 547 00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:16.679 We have vegetables that do better in the heat. And I want to talk 548 00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:21.639 about that just a little bit. What do you do when the mercury busts 549 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:25.599 the top out of the thermometer. What are some things that you can grow 550 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.480 when it's just so blazing hot. I know a lot of plants that look 551 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:35.400 good in spring don't look good in summer, especially when it comes to flowers. 552 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:38.119 You know, Petunias are a beautiful flower, calibri CoA is a beautiful 553 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:43.519 flower. But when it gets just almost one hundred degrees, I mean, 554 00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:45.400 they are struggling out there. But there are things that don't struggle. So 555 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.119 here's a few ideas for some things you might want to consider. We're going 556 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.800 to do it first in the flower garden. The first thing we'll talk about 557 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:58.840 is in the flower garden, and that would be things like angelonia. Angelonia's 558 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:04.239 also call some or snapdragon, not a name I like because if people look 559 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:06.719 at them, go that I don't look like a snap dragon. Well they're 560 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.320 not snap dragons. But anyway, Angelonia summer snap dragon laughs at the heat. 561 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:14.639 It does well. Zenias do very well. Whether it's a cut flower 562 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:20.360 types, the little mounding bedding plant types of zenias, or there's actually a 563 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:25.800 zenia with strappy leaves that grows almost like a little groundcover. It's an annual, 564 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:29.880 but it spreads outward. It'll go over the sides of a container. 565 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.400 I've got some in the backyard coming over the sides of a bed, and 566 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:38.599 it's called Zenia lanaris or zenia and gustafolia. The common name would be narrow 567 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:43.559 leaf zenia. It comes in yellow, comes in white, it comes into 568 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.199 kind of an orangey color. Those are the three options. The blooms are 569 00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:51.320 about size of a quarter and they just sort of shrink up and disappear after 570 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.400 they bloom, so you don't have to dead head it. It loves summer 571 00:40:53.480 --> 00:41:00.239 weather as well. There are many plants that are just that that heat tolerant 572 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.599 that we can choose from. Remember, in summer, we look to foliage 573 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:09.000 also. We have some outstanding foliage plants that can live in the sauna that 574 00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:15.440 is a Southeast Texas summer. For example, cannas. Cannas have beautiful blooms, 575 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.519 but they can also have very beautiful foliage. And there are some outstanding 576 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:24.880 types of cannas that if you give them adequate water, they can absolutely shine 577 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:30.079 in the summer. One of them I love is tropicana. It has I 578 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:31.840 don't even know how to describe the colors. It's of course it's got green, 579 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.960 but it also has kind of a coral color, a bronzy color in 580 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.360 it. It's just really beautiful, beautiful, beautiful leaves. There are some 581 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:44.159 types that have purple leaves that do very very well here. They're just a 582 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:50.880 bold purple, dark dark purple color. Cannas are an excellent choice. Copper 583 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:54.960 plant is another one in the summer heat that does well. There're one called 584 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.800 Joseph Coat that does well in the shade. We got kalladiums that do very 585 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:02.039 well in the summer heat and By the way, speaking of blooms, wishbone 586 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:08.320 flour and the Impatients are both good blooming plants for shady types of areas. 587 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.599 So we have a lot of different things. I mean, I could do 588 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:15.639 the whole show just talking about plants that will bloom or produce beautiful foliage in 589 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:20.000 summer when you get to the vegetable garden. Now we're talking about things that 590 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:24.320 are warm season sweet potatoes, for example, black eyed peas, purple whole 591 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.960 peas, crowder peas, those are all called summer peas. Zipper cream pieas 592 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:34.119 is another one. Summer peas. They actually are a bean, but hey, 593 00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:37.880 they're called you know, like we say black eyed peas instead of black 594 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.239 eyed beans. They do well in the summer. Okra, oh my gosh, 595 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.760 okra begs for summer. It loves heat, it loves the humidity that 596 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.239 we're in right now. Very very happy. I got some okra outside my 597 00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.719 house that I just I'm kind of an ochre nut. That will save that 598 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:59.920 discussion for another day, But that is just doing super well. Melons like 599 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.760 watermelon, canalopes, they can take the heat and do very well for us 600 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:07.360 here. I think I don't know if I mentioned sweet potatoes already poor I 601 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.519 think I did, but that's another good summer crop. And then we have 602 00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:15.880 summer greens. So when we say the word green to a Texas gardener, 603 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:23.039 you're probably going to picture lettuce and spinach, maybe kale. You're going to 604 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:28.320 picture the cool season greens, maybe a regular some others like that. Well, 605 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:32.119 we have warm season greens from places in the world where it is as 606 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.079 hot and sultry as it is here in Histon, and they do well here. 607 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.480 Malabar is an excellent green, very vigorous, very plump, very succulent 608 00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.519 leaves does super well here. There is something called Egyptian spinach. It's a 609 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.480 type of slosha that has grown here. There are probably my favorite summer green 610 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:57.199 is perslane. Perce lane is a weed. Person lane is also a flowering 611 00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:00.639 hanging basket. But then there are vegetables types of person lane. They're very 612 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:07.079 very big leaves and very fleshy, high bita high content of omega three fatty 613 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:12.400 acids, a little bit of a lemonee zip to the taste really good. 614 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:16.840 Personally is an excellent, excellent green for summertime. So there are many others. 615 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:22.639 There's molokia, which is popular, especially in Middle Eastern cultures, but 616 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:28.920 not just there, other areas. It just loves summer. It grows very 617 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:30.960 well. And I could go on and on. My point is that we 618 00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:36.559 have vegetables and flowers that do super well here in our summer season, and 619 00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.039 we should take advantage of that just because it's summer. Get out there when 620 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.840 it's early in the morning, cool, pleasant, get the planning done, 621 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:47.039 get your irrigation system set up, and most the beds well and you don't 622 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.079 have to work in the heat, and you could still enjoy some really healthy 623 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.800 and flavorful vegetables and beautiful flowers as a result. Well, just a few 624 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.039 thoughts or tips for you to consider right there. If you haven't fertilized your 625 00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:07.719 lawn yet, you got to consider Nelson's Plant Foods turf Star Slow and Easy. 626 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:15.000 Now. Turf Star is a line of turf fertilizers by Nelson's and they 627 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.840 just perform well because they in the case of the Slow and Easy, they 628 00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:25.000 gradually release those nitrogen molecules out to the plant into the soil so it gets 629 00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:30.760 a gradual feeding on through the summer on through the summer season. In fact, 630 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:37.000 if you do turf Star right now, you will not have to fertilize 631 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.360 again until we get into the fall fertilization. You get my schedule, look 632 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.840 at it and you'll see the next fertilizations coming in the fall. So easy, 633 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:49.519 easy to know exactly. You know when to do it when you just 634 00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:52.000 look at the schedule. But the bottom line is turf Star carry right through. 635 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.719 It acidifies the soil a little bit. It's got a little bit of 636 00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.280 acidifying effect, which is always a good idea, especially as we do with 637 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.239 things like take our root rot that like highph soils, anything we do to 638 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.679 help out with that. It gradually feeds the microbes that are in the soil 639 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:12.440 and of course microbes and feed the plants. That's how that works. Turch 640 00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:19.360 Star is just just very very quality technology. It's a fertilizer that is designed 641 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.719 to do super well here and it's from Nelson Plant Food. The same folks 642 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.599 that give us nutra Star nutri Star for indoor plants, nutri Star for hibiscus, 643 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:32.280 Nutra Star for Plumeria and whatever you want to grow. The same folks 644 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.480 that give us color Star from Nelson, easy easy to find all over the 645 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.000 place, are available and they really do work. We're going to take a 646 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:43.920 little break here. We'll be right back. Our phone number if you'd like 647 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.400 to give Chrystal Coon, get on the board seven one three two one two 648 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:57.920 fifty eight seventy four. With the snap of your fingers, all right, 649 00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:00.920 we're back. Welcome back to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 650 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.480 Richter. What do we want to talk about today? You tell me our 651 00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.519 phone number seven one three two one two k t R H. And I'm 652 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:13.360 going to go straight out to the heights and we're going to talk to Mike 653 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:17.599 this morning. Hello Mike. Hey, thanks Skip. I'm just too mature. 654 00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:24.880 Two story type magnolia tree in separate areas, and one has I found 655 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:34.519 an exposed route that is rotting. The second one has a fracture if you 656 00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:38.960 wish or that is very small, and but there it goes all the way 657 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.639 up to the tree. The lea, the leaves are looking great on both 658 00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:47.800 trees. But it's like a little fissure on this second one that is split. 659 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.480 And I'm wondering what I should be concerned about. Okay, it's on 660 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:57.599 the trunk you're talking about the fissure, Yes, trunk, the bark, 661 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:02.199 the bark is separating, but it's a very small separation at this point going 662 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.039 up to the top of the tree. Yeah, it could have been a 663 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.880 freeze crack from one of the freezes we had over the past few years. 664 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.440 Sometimes that can happen. There are different things that can cause that kind of 665 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.800 thing, but usually it's going to be like a freeze crack related or some 666 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:23.559 of the kind of physical injury on a magnolia because it's evergreen. Probably not 667 00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:29.320 sun damage to the trunk, which can occur, but not on an evergreen 668 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:32.400 magnolia. So as far as what you can do, there's not really anything 669 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:37.519 to do about it. The thing the tree needs is to be healthy and 670 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.119 to be able to create callous to close that gap over, to reseal over 671 00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.519 the wood on the inside. And the same is true in the roots that 672 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.599 you know, where you may see some wood exposure, some decay kind of 673 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.800 things. It just has to close it over. It's part of nature. 674 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:55.679 It happens out there. But especially in our landscapes, we got things like 675 00:48:55.800 --> 00:49:00.639 lawnmowers and weed eaters and foot traffic and erosion across the surface and things that 676 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:05.960 expose roots and wound roots and whatnot. But the bottom line for you is 677 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:10.079 just keep it happy. Like last summer was so brutally hot and so brutally 678 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:15.400 dry for so brutally long that we lost magnolia's, which is a rare thing 679 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:21.199 around here to see magnolias just flat dye. But we did last summer, 680 00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.639 and some of them were partially killed, some of them were completely killed. 681 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:30.119 So this summer, if we go without rain and it's hot, you don't 682 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.760 have to do it often. But let's just say once every week or two, 683 00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:37.480 a good soaking of a wide area around the plant in the absence of 684 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.559 rainfall. Had and rain for two weeks, and it's one hundred degrees, 685 00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.119 and go ahead and just put our irrigation out there. And what a large 686 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.480 area. There's a little gadget called the tree hugger sprinkler that goes around the 687 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.079 tree, hooks up to your garden hose, and that old water a very 688 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.639 large area in a circular fashion right around the tree. So it's really good 689 00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:01.119 for targeting that water. Okay, thank very much. Yeah, yep, 690 00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:06.760 all right, good luck, all right, yeah, you bet take care 691 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:12.400 now that that is definitely the case that can happen. I was in the 692 00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:17.639 backyard yesterday and noticed one of my bird feeders had gotten empty. And I 693 00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:22.920 tell you our birds, you I should let the birds come in and talk 694 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.280 to you about war Birds Unlimited because they could be a better spokesman than I 695 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:31.119 am. But they love the mix. I've got a nesting super blend that 696 00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:35.400 is a good thing to be putting on right now because birds are still newt 697 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:37.960 nesting. There's still some of that going on. And then there's also the 698 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:44.239 molting season, which birds go through molts once two or three times the here. 699 00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.800 It depends on the bird. But they shed their old feathers, they 700 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.960 generate new ones, and so they kind of take cover, hang out, 701 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.559 don't fly around as much, and it's nice to have a good source, 702 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:58.599 dependable source of food for him during that time. Nesting super Blend does all 703 00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:01.079 that, and that's what I use in my landscape this summer, and boy, 704 00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:05.440 they love it. And then I'll throw in a little bit of some 705 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:09.840 of the other excellent feeds from Wabirds Unlimited, perhaps something with some sunflower or 706 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:15.800 whatever. Wabird feeds are very high quality, and when something goes into a 707 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:21.119 wild bird sack of feed for birds, you know it's something birds want to 708 00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.960 eat. They don't put the little red bebies that cheap bird seed has, 709 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:29.800 so you end up spending more on cheap bird seed because you have less to 710 00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:31.840 go into a bird less percentage wise that the birds are going to eat. 711 00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:37.800 Wabirds Unlimited is easy to find. You just go to WBU dot com forward 712 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:42.519 slash Houston, WBU dot Com forward slash Houston and you can find one of 713 00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.880 the six Wallbirds Unlimited stores near you. It's always a good time to go 714 00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:50.440 in for a gift for a friend, a feeder, a bird house. 715 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.519 Just go in and check them out. You'd be very very impressed, and 716 00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:58.960 trust me on this and your birds you're gonna love it too. My goodness, 717 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:02.360 our yard, I would say probably right now, since I started the 718 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.159 feeding this summertime, I'd gone away for a while, didn't redo the feed 719 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:12.039 Since I started, I think I probably have five times as many birds that 720 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:14.519 are in the yard, and it's just going to get more and more. 721 00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.199 A little water, a little bird food. By the way, they need 722 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:20.719 water. Make sure your birds have water and you can have great success. 723 00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:22.119 Let's go now, we're gonna head back to the phone. We're going about 724 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:30.719 to Spring, Texas and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark hello today. 725 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:40.320 Yeah, I got two questions. What's the best mulched good around centris tree 726 00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:47.840 in a container? In a container, you know, the mulching is helpful 727 00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.239 to keep the soil a little cooler, but Centrius tends to shade it's soil 728 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.760 and a container pretty well. So you could really use kind of any type 729 00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.840 of mult you would like. I would use something a little smaller in terms 730 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:04.920 of particle size. You know, if you had big old chunks of pine 731 00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:09.119 bark or something in a container. You can't mulch three inches deep in a 732 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:15.360 container, So maybe something a little finer textured in a malt that way, 733 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:17.400 if you even got it an inch inch and a half deep, that would 734 00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.159 be enough to provide what you want multch to do. Okay, excellent. 735 00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:30.719 Oh my second question is I got a hearty high biscus and it's just not 736 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:37.199 growing. It's not big like the other ones mother too. Okay, it's 737 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:44.400 tall, and their leaves seem wrinkled, they're not big. H that's very 738 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.000 interesting. I'm probably gonna use a picture of that one to know for sure. 739 00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.199 Is this the kind that makes the big old giant red pink or white 740 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.679 blooms? Yeah, there's sort of like a light pink with a red center. 741 00:53:57.519 --> 00:53:59.800 Okay, yeah, okay, I I just want to make sure we're 742 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.280 talking about the same plant. Uh, they need water, they don't go 743 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:07.559 into drought. Well, Uh, they're not Prima Donna's that you got to 744 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:09.679 water every day. It's just that don't let the soul dry out. That's 745 00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:15.039 important. Be careful using any kind of a broad leaf weed control product around 746 00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:20.519 them, even in the lawn right next to them. Broadleaf we control products, 747 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:24.039 especially when the weather's hot, they can cause some problems. Yeah, 748 00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:35.400 I haven't used any of that. Okay, start drop it. Yeah, 749 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:37.400 okay, well, Mark, I need to turn that radio in the background 750 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.480 down. It's kind of feeding back on us. So let's do this. 751 00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.239 I think the best way to help you is I'm going to put you on 752 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:52.360 hold and have uh, the producer Chris give you my email so that you 753 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:58.280 can uh send me some pictures of the bush overall and some up close pictures 754 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.159 and let me see if I can tell what's going on. On. If 755 00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:07.400 it's not drought, if it's not a chemical injury, it's possible that nematodes 756 00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:12.559 could be working on the root system and have hit a point where it's just 757 00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:16.639 so inefficient that the plan is struggling. But let me look at let me 758 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:22.719 see some pictures of it. Okay, okay, that's sound good. Yeah, 759 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.079 okay, I want to put you on put you on hold here and 760 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:30.400 we will get uh. We will get right to you, hick. Just 761 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:32.920 hang on just a second. We'll be right back with you to give give 762 00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:37.480 you that email that you need. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your 763 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.559 host, Skiprector, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. We love 764 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:44.760 to visit with gardeners. I think one of my favorite thing to do. 765 00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:47.800 I guess I'm doing the right job right now because my favorite thing to do 766 00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:52.400 is to talk to gardeners. And when when you just have a chance to 767 00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:54.920 hang out with gardeners, you find out some of the best people in the 768 00:55:54.920 --> 00:56:00.679 world. They're just fun. We are eternal optimists. We absolutely have to 769 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:06.199 be uh. And you know, it's it's a healthy activity, it's a 770 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:14.039 mind healing activity, it really is. It's just just a lot of enjoyment 771 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:16.519 in gardening. So I guess that's one of the reasons why gardeners are so 772 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:22.559 much fun to be around. But anyway, our phone number if you'd like 773 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.679 to give us a call seven one three two one two k t r H. 774 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:31.559 Seven to one three two one two k t r H. I did 775 00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:37.119 my final appearance of the season the other day, and we got a little 776 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:42.000 summertime off here now before we start those things up again in the fall. 777 00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:45.719 But one of my appearances toward the end of the season this year was the 778 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:50.400 one at Langham Creek. ACE Hardware. Uh. You know. ACE Hardware's 779 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.320 are all over the Greater Houston area and it's always fun going into an ACE 780 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:59.119 because people walk up during these appearances. They ask me questions like, well, 781 00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:00.880 I've got this we they pull it out of a bag, or they 782 00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:04.960 ask some other kind of question. And when when I'm in an ACE hardware 783 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.159 store, I just say, yeah, you just go right over there and 784 00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:08.960 there's such and such and you can get it. They carry it all. 785 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:15.320 Do you need the fertilizers I talk about on Guardenline Ace Hardware as simple as 786 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.400 that. Do you need fire ant control, preferably starting with a bait, 787 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.079 that's the best way to start. They have it. Do you need mosquito 788 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.280 dunks? You hear me talk about those. We put them in the water 789 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:30.480 and they control mosquitoes, mosquito larvae. Do you need a fogger for mosquitos 790 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:35.599 on the patio or any other kind of gadget. Do you want to beautify 791 00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.519 your outdoor setting? Do you need barbecue equipment? Ace is the place for 792 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:45.679 your summer landscape and your summer outdoor living. Acehardware dot Com and find the 793 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:47.920 store locator and you'll find a store near you. Take a little break here 794 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:54.800 for the news. I'll be right back. Houston's News, Why they're traffic 795 00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:01.639 plus breaking news twenty four to seven. This is News Radio forty KTRHEL Everywhere. 796 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:09.320 More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios, Beryl coming 797 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:14.480 for Texas. I'm Cloff Saunders. It's seven thirty on KTRH and with traffic 798 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:23.039 and weather together, here's Gary Mack. Welcome back to guard Line. Glad 799 00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:28.400 to have you with us today. Thanks for tuning in. It's always good 800 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.320 to visit about gardening with friends. Right, Let's get that. Let's get 801 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:35.039 that done today by answering your gardening questions. All you got to do is 802 00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:37.000 give us a call seven to one, three two one two k t r 803 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:42.159 H. We'll talk about the topics that are most of interest to you. 804 00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.440 That sounds fair enough, doesn't it. Night Fuss has a really cool product 805 00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:51.440 called sweet Green. Sweet Green. Why sweet well sweet, because it's actually 806 00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:55.639 from a basis in horticultural molasses. You know molasses. Organic gardeners know that 807 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:01.400 you put molasses on the soil and it stimulus. It's microbial activity, specifically 808 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:07.440 beneficial bacteria that help your plant roots to thrive. And sweet Green's eleven percent 809 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:12.800 nitrogen product. It increases the health of the soil as it increases that population 810 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.559 of all those beneficial microbes. And when you create that kind of a rich 811 00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:21.280 environment to promote health of your plants, they're going to do well. That's 812 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:24.480 how nature does it, and that is why I think that you will find 813 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:30.320 sweet green to be a very effective and pretty quick available product as well. 814 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:32.239 You just put it down, I would say, at this time in the 815 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:35.920 season, if are we using sweet green, what I would do is I 816 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:39.440 would take the application and maybe split it in half and do some of it 817 00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:45.199 now and then about six eight weeks from now do it again. And that 818 00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:49.320 way you give a more extended feed and a small dose, which is a 819 00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.159 good thing. You know, we eat small amounts every day over time in 820 00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:55.480 order to have health. And the same is true with your lawn with sweet 821 00:59:55.480 --> 01:00:00.440 grain. A split application like that in the summer would work very very well. 822 01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:04.280 Now you're gonna find sweet green all over the place. If you're up 823 01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.559 in Montgomery, Jim's Hardbur's got it there on fourteen ninety seven. In Brenham, 824 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.960 Plants and things have it down in Angleton, Lake Hardware, Angleton on 825 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:17.119 Velasco. Are all places where you can get sweet Green by Nitroposs. I'm 826 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:22.039 gonna head now to the phones. We're gonna go all the way to Dickinson 827 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:27.280 and talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, Hello, Hey Charles, what 828 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:31.320 regard line? Can you hear me? Yeah? I can't. Yeah, 829 01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:35.400 I hear you on my phone, I mean on the TV. I mean 830 01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:40.519 I'm already. I'm sorry. Okay, So I just asked a question about 831 01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:47.280 fertilization. But I've got some I just started growing BlackBerry's and I want over 832 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:52.440 the last couple of years. I've got a really three faint varieties. I've 833 01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:57.639 got some Navajos and we can't think of the other one. But the main 834 01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.920 one I have right now is my Primark Freedoms. And these things are. 835 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:07.079 I've got stalks on them because my middle finger and I've got and I have 836 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.960 I have got berries all over right now and it's but the size of my 837 01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:16.679 thumb, and uh, I'm just kind of surprised there's still producing. But 838 01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:21.719 I'm just trying to figure out do I need. It's kind of like a 839 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:23.519 fertilization on the thing. You know, I go to I go to the 840 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:28.960 YouTube and there's so many different people around the country that and I can't find 841 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:32.679 anybody in this where we live out here for fertilization. Uh, you know, 842 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:37.840 some some answers on what I need to do to fertilize in this area. 843 01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:42.239 But those Primarchs, I just can't believe it's still growing and producing fruit. 844 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:46.039 That's just beautiful they are. So I'm kind of if I if I 845 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:49.840 need to, you know, if I need to need to fertilize them, 846 01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:54.000 but you know, anytime soon or anything. But the other one all all 847 01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:58.760 all kind of everything's just kind of like dying back on them and you know, 848 01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:02.800 no no fly or anything. But they're just beautiful. Yeah, well 849 01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:07.400 good, Yeah, that Primark Freedom and there's another Primark Travelers and the other 850 01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:13.239 and they're both excellent berries out of the University of Arkansas, thornless berries that 851 01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:16.800 do very very well here. So I would you know as far as fertilizing, 852 01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:21.119 First of all, we don't have to sweat it a lot on blackberries. 853 01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:23.159 Yes, you own to fertilize them, but they're pretty tough. I 854 01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:28.599 mean you think about like you see dewberries while blackberries growing all over the place 855 01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:31.400 and they just kind of live out their nature they do. Okay. The 856 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:36.679 most important element for your blackberries is nitrogen, and it's better to apply it 857 01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:40.559 in small applications. Typically we'll do a little fertilizing in the spring as the 858 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:45.800 buds begin to push out, and then after the fruit harvest is completed in 859 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:51.360 summer. And this is standard types of blackberries. Your freedom is an ever 860 01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:54.760 bearing or repeat bearing. It's we call it a primal cane bearing BlackBerry. 861 01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:58.079 You get some the first year on the canes, and you get some of 862 01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.119 the second year too, in the same cane. Get there, So I 863 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:07.079 pardon, no, Dad, I'm sorry, I'm going to be interrupting. 864 01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:13.239 Good okay, Yeah, So I would just primarily focus on nitrogen. If 865 01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:17.559 you want to have a soil test done to see maybe your magnesium is low, 866 01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:22.800 maybe potassium is low. Who knows, but a soul test would tell 867 01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:27.000 you what else you might want to put down. I use lawn fertilizer on 868 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:30.880 my blackberries. Uh. When I've had that to fertilize, I think it 869 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:36.119 works fine. You could also just use a little bit of nitrogen source on 870 01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.440 them, but again not a lot. You don't want to push them into 871 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:43.760 supergrowth because as you are have already pointed out, those are vigorous enough as 872 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:50.360 it is. Uh So yeah, and and Charles, if you if your 873 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:52.920 new shoots coming out are a little yellow, or maybe the veins are green, 874 01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:58.360 but they're yellow in between the veins, then that is an iron chlorosis. 875 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:02.000 And in our soils would Thu're often high higher pH here than we want 876 01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:06.480 them to be. In Southeast Texas, you can see some ironclerosis and you 877 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:13.920 would just supplement with a keylated iron product if that happens. Alrighty, I 878 01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.280 appreciate it. All right, you take care now, you know, aeron 879 01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:20.719 Guardline, our advice advice is free. But all we ask is that you 880 01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:25.639 bring half of your BlackBerry harvest to the station when it comes in and we'll 881 01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:29.960 call it even okay, all right, sir, thank you a great show. 882 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:33.039 Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. Enjoy having fun. 883 01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:36.239 You boy. Blackberries. We got to grow more blackberries along the Gulf coast 884 01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.880 really throughout the state, but East Texas. When I say East Texas, 885 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.719 I mean kind of north south the direction the eastern third of the state that 886 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:49.400 is prime place for grown BlackBerry. You can grow further further west as well. 887 01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:54.840 But blackberries are so easy to grow in these new varieties. He was 888 01:04:54.840 --> 01:05:02.400 talking about the prime arc prime arc fun. In fact, blackberries are typically 889 01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:12.599 a primacane and floracane producing plant, which means in year one, a shoot 890 01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.800 comes out of the ground. It's called a primacine prime primo one first year, 891 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:20.559 that's what that means, primacaine. It goes through winter after it has 892 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:27.280 set buds, and in the spring it blooms since sets fruit year two floracane 893 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:31.400 as in flowers. Primacine first year turns into a floraicane, blooms and then 894 01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:36.320 dies after you harvest it. Well, that's the two year cycle of normal 895 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:44.920 BlackBerry plants. For years now, people have been working on blackberries that can 896 01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:49.880 produce on the first year that the cane grows. A primacane has fruit and 897 01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:53.880 it can go through winter, and as a floricane it can have fruit. 898 01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:59.199 Those are the primary breeder of those was Jim Moore, now John, a 899 01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:02.079 guy named John, last name escapes me at the University of Arkansas, and 900 01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:06.480 they produce some wonderful varieties, Primark Freedom and Primark Traveler, or two of 901 01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:10.480 the best. We're gonna take a little break. We'll be right back our 902 01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:19.119 phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four Socialism. Welcome 903 01:06:19.119 --> 01:06:23.719 back to garden Line. Thanks for joining us this morning. We got a 904 01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:26.880 lot of gardening stuff to talk about, got some folks online here. In 905 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:30.400 fact, we're gonna run straight out to the phones and let's see, we're 906 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.480 gonna head to Lake City and talk to John. Good morning, John, 907 01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:41.760 Hello, good morning. I have some Yeah, I have some azelias that 908 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.199 the leaves they're real healthy, they've been there for years. They leaves, 909 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:48.840 though, are starting to drop off. It's weird. I'm seeing more leaves 910 01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:54.679 dead underneath. It's kind of sending out. It doesn't look like iron chloruss 911 01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.639 or anything. It's the leaves are kind of yellow and green, kind of 912 01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:03.039 almost like a black yellow and green. And then they and then they turn 913 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:08.320 brown and drop. And I didn't know if you had any idea what you 914 01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:14.159 think that might be. Well, usually it's due to a sole moisture problem. 915 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:18.159 The whenever you get wide fluctuations and moisture, it's not unusual for an 916 01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:24.440 as elia to have the old leaves basically get cast off the plant. They 917 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:27.960 turn yellow, and then of course they turn brown and fall off, so 918 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:35.760 that that is one likely cause for it. If anything causes the sole moisture 919 01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:42.679 availability to change, then you're also going to get that that same kind of 920 01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:45.320 a symptom. For example, a root rot would kill roots, and it 921 01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.199 would be the same things as having drought where you can't take water up because 922 01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:50.679 you don't have roots to take it up. That's kind of what I'm talking 923 01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:54.519 about. Physical damage to the root. You know, someone take a should 924 01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:59.000 cut roots, or any of those kinds of things. It sounds to me 925 01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:04.039 more like a water problem. It could be related to a sore moisture issue. 926 01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:08.679 Uh, And it could also be related to a root rot, in 927 01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:13.280 which case you would need to treat. But how fast did this come on? 928 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:18.760 Uh? Probably you know they they bloomed really well in the spring and 929 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:25.079 then I started my fertilizer cycle, and I would say for the last two 930 01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:30.920 months probably you know, somewhere in May and maybe mart mid May to June. 931 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.000 I started noticing this and I kind of watched it kind of like it 932 01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:36.840 was I have like maybe six of them big, cause Ellia is like four 933 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:41.119 feet high five feet high. And then I started noticing it's kind of getting 934 01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:44.800 worse, spreading throughout, and I was like, well, what's going on 935 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.319 here? And they get you know, they only get excessive water. You 936 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:50.479 know, we've had heavy rains, but it's just kind of odd they've been 937 01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:55.640 They've been sitting there in the same place. So it's not like the you 938 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:59.399 know, the soil's changed or anything that I'm aware of. Yeah, okay, 939 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.600 have we done anything like was a tree limb taken out? For example? 940 01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:08.960 We did have some Yeah, we did have some maintenance springing done with 941 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.560 some oak trees that were above them. Well, you know, that opens 942 01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.960 it up and now suddenly the lands go up a lot. So keeping a 943 01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:18.520 mulch, keeping a moist, that would be what I suggest. If you 944 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:23.760 end up losing entire bushes, it may be time to jump in with a 945 01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:28.479 drench of a root rot fung just side. But I'm not inclined to go 946 01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:32.359 there. I don't think that's what's needed. Based on our conversation so far 947 01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:36.239 here, you wouldn't recommend I like drench them with a fungus side now and 948 01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:39.520 sprain or anything. I was wondering if it could be a fungus, but 949 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.199 I don't know. Well, it could be a root rot. But again, 950 01:09:44.279 --> 01:09:48.159 as we talk about this, I'm not hearing some things that I would 951 01:09:49.479 --> 01:09:56.439 think root rot shot. So I hate to send people out to spend money 952 01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:01.439 and time applying products when they're not need did so, Yeah that that. 953 01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.960 Yeah, it's weird. I don't ever hardly see that many leaves, you 954 01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:06.359 know, this time of year. They don't usually drop their league. Yeah, 955 01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:10.279 it's like they're sitting out. I mean you still look green by the 956 01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:14.199 way, you know, But I see these dead leaves all in different areas. 957 01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:17.199 So it's weird. Yeah, well that you know, it's not unusual 958 01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:21.960 with any kind of a stress for that to happen on on Azila's anything that 959 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:26.479 limits up. Hey, you're in Lake City, is that right? Leak 960 01:10:26.600 --> 01:10:29.880 City? League City? Oh? League City? Okay city? All right? 961 01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:32.520 Good good? That would have been a long distance call Lake City. 962 01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:36.680 Yeah, well, thanks a lot. Good luck with that. I hope 963 01:10:36.680 --> 01:10:41.079 that, hope that turns around. If it doesn't, give us a callback 964 01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:45.960 and we can suggest some type of a root roight drench, but again I 965 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:50.760 think that's a long shot. Okay, thank you, John. Alrighty, 966 01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:56.600 let's see here. We are now going to go to Ron in West Houston. 967 01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:02.960 Hello, Ron, good morning. How can we help? What I'd 968 01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:08.680 like to do is I'd like to plant a blueberry patch. But I'd like 969 01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:14.359 to know when is the best time to plant the blueberries prior to, of 970 01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:23.520 course their season. Yes, I would plant them at anytime from mid to 971 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:29.720 late fall on into through the winter time. That would be ideal. So 972 01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:33.720 while it's cool, the demands are lowest it's possible on the plant, it's 973 01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:39.479 easy to keep them moist and everything that gives them the most time possible to 974 01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:45.560 get some roots going before the next summer hits. And what kind of fertilizer 975 01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:49.439 or what kind of preparation do I need to do to make sure that they 976 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:56.680 have the best chance for survival? Good question? Is your soil a clay 977 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.560 or a sand or what kind of soil are we dealing with here? It's 978 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:15.239 had died mulge for a couple of years. So does it hold water? 979 01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:18.720 Does the soil whole water well? Or does it drain really well? Or 980 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:24.920 is it kind of a sticky heavy clay when you dig down into the soil 981 01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:30.239 itself, do you notice any can you describe anything for me? Is this? 982 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:35.239 It is a sticky excuse me, sticky soil and it is a heavy 983 01:12:35.279 --> 01:12:42.880 clay, and I want to remediate that. And I wanted to remove that 984 01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:50.119 clay area down to what I need to for the blueberries to survive. You 985 01:12:50.119 --> 01:12:56.399 can do that, I'm sorry, not blueberries, blackberries, oh, blackberries. 986 01:12:56.479 --> 01:13:00.239 Okay, thank you for clarifying that I was about to leave you in 987 01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:03.680 the wrong direction. Blackberries are not real happy with a heavy clay. They 988 01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:08.840 like sandy loam soils. But I don't know that removing the soil is the 989 01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:13.039 best way to go about it. I would say bringing a good quality mix 990 01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:16.039 in and building up the soil with a good sandy loam mix with some compost 991 01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:20.000 and things would be best. When you dig a pit like I think of 992 01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:24.279 it as digging a grave to remove the soil out, and then you put 993 01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:28.159 good soil in it and plant your plant. Now they're in an underground flower 994 01:13:28.199 --> 01:13:32.359 pot where that it's like the clay hole's water and so you didn't improve the 995 01:13:32.439 --> 01:13:38.119 drainage any if instead you put stuff on top of the ground and build it 996 01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:42.760 up. Now the excess water drains away, but they're still growing in good 997 01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:46.840 quality stuff. I think that's probably your best best approach. So what I 998 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:50.880 would be what I would do run is I would get a good quality mix 999 01:13:51.079 --> 01:13:57.800 like a rose soil or like a airlimb soils makes a blend for or fruit 1000 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:00.600 plants, and that would be a good choice. You can buy it by 1001 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:04.039 the bag. You can have the book delivered end uh. If you you're 1002 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:14.880 probably not too far away from Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with 1003 01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:41.039 skip Richard's trim. You just watch him as so many birthings to seepots not 1004 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:54.840 a sign sun Beamon of Welcome back to guarden Lines. Hey, thanks for 1005 01:14:54.880 --> 01:14:57.960 listening, Thanks for tuning in today. We are looking forward to talking to 1006 01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:01.039 you about the things that interest you. How do we help you have a 1007 01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:04.800 more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's what this is about. 1008 01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:08.600 And if you'd like to give us a call, you're welcome to do that 1009 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:15.600 well. Happy to tackle the questions for diagnosis and identification and suggestions or whatever 1010 01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:17.680 you want to do to have success. Make your place a more enjoyable, 1011 01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:21.520 enjoyable place to be, because you know, gardening is about having a really 1012 01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:26.039 good time. It's about relaxing, it's about having fun. It's about having 1013 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:30.520 the just the joy of being able to create something. Beauty, productivity, 1014 01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:34.720 fresh fruits and vegetables. You grew yourself, we can help you do that. 1015 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:40.479 Here's the number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 1016 01:15:40.479 --> 01:15:43.920 to one three two one two five eight seven four. And we're going to 1017 01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:46.359 start by going out to Alvin and talking to Wayne. Hello, Wayne, 1018 01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:54.039 good morning, Skip. Hey. We got a got a good producing Mustang 1019 01:15:54.840 --> 01:16:00.920 great wild great, and this year it was doing good. It starts setting 1020 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:03.560 fruit real well. Then we got all that rain and then all of a 1021 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:10.119 sudden, all the leaves just turned brown, dried up, And this thing 1022 01:16:10.199 --> 01:16:14.439 is loaded, it's ready to be picked. The new growth has come back 1023 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:18.760 in. It has small green leaves on it. But I'm not skinning any 1024 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:26.439 of the wildlife touch these grapes. What's your opinion on it? The grapes 1025 01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:30.119 look like they're ripe. You're saying, yes, sir, Yes, sir. 1026 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.680 They look this thing is loaded to the hill. So are you pretty 1027 01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:39.560 sure that nothing got sprayed on or around that plant? Yes, sir, 1028 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:43.600 I've looked all around it. As soon as it started happening. There's no 1029 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:48.840 dead grass. I can't see anybody just spraying the plant without it getting on 1030 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:53.119 the grass. It's on the chain linked. Then it's probably about four foot 1031 01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:58.159 high, so it would have killed something around it. I'm seeing other grape 1032 01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:02.279 vines in the area that has done this same thing. They're not produced, 1033 01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:09.960 and they're they're young, but the leaves dad and now they've come back looking 1034 01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:14.800 better. All right, Look, Williams, you know it could be a 1035 01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:17.840 number of things. We have not had the drought that would explain defoliating or 1036 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:24.640 anything there is. There are some diseases, fungal diseases that can really wreck 1037 01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:28.159 havoc on vines. Normally, Mustang's are pretty tough grape. We don't have 1038 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:31.039 as many problems with that with a lot of the other grapes that we have, 1039 01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.279 but black spot is one. It can cause foliage spots. There's other 1040 01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:39.560 fungi that can do it, and whenever we get a lot of rainy weather, 1041 01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:45.359 it's splashing spores around and it's helping those disease sports to germinate and infect 1042 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.520 the leaf. And I would say that's probably what happened right now. The 1043 01:17:49.520 --> 01:17:53.920 fact that it's pushing out new growth again means the vine's healthy. You just 1044 01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:57.720 got a leaf disease that defoliated it and so it'll come back. Doesn't do 1045 01:17:57.760 --> 01:18:00.800 it any good. And as far as those apes that are on it, 1046 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:05.079 they got to have sugar, and sugar comes from leaves, and so I 1047 01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:10.840 don't know what the crop quality would be like with that, but if they 1048 01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:13.960 can hang on any longer, give them a little more time, it'd probably 1049 01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:16.000 be good to do that, just to give them the best shot they can 1050 01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:21.199 do. Y'all typically harvest those yes, sure, yes, sure, okay, 1051 01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:26.520 all right, well that would be my suggestions. The only thing in 1052 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:30.119 your control right now. Certainly shouldn't be necessary to spray a mustang grape, 1053 01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:36.439 but you always could. But again, most people that have a wild grape 1054 01:18:36.520 --> 01:18:39.560 like that, they're not going to want to have to get out and spray 1055 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:44.159 it. Correct, all right, Skip. I appreciate cam Poe and love 1056 01:18:44.199 --> 01:18:47.720 the show all right, So in guardenline, all our advice is free. 1057 01:18:47.760 --> 01:18:51.720 But I do ask that half of whatever you grow and produce as a result, 1058 01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:55.720 you drop by the station. So that could be mustang wine, it 1059 01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:58.760 could be mustang jelly. However you want to do it, I'll call it 1060 01:18:58.800 --> 01:19:06.600 even better. Go build you a bigger pantry. All right. You know, 1061 01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:12.640 my family grew up kind of along the Gulf coast of Texas, not 1062 01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:15.600 my dad, as that family grew up my dad, and they used to 1063 01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:19.359 harvest mustangs every year, and they, you know, they made everything that 1064 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:25.520 you would expect you would make out of grapes. Oh yeah, yeah. 1065 01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:31.479 The wife put up forty eight jars of jelly. And there's two gallons of 1066 01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:35.359 wine going now off of my cow. There you go, There you go. 1067 01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:42.279 There's also a greed, sir, do what I said. We'll see. 1068 01:19:42.359 --> 01:19:45.800 Yes, you'll leave with a smile. Hey, yeah, there you 1069 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:48.000 go. That's good. Thanks a lot, man. Hey, good to 1070 01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:54.600 talk to you. Appreciate appreciate the college. Bye bye. Oh man. 1071 01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:58.319 Hey, if you lived down in the League City area, just south a 1072 01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:01.520 little bit to the east of Houston the way to Galveston, well your hometown 1073 01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:04.720 feed store is League City Feed. And when I say hometown, I mean 1074 01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:09.359 your hometown feedstore. If you're in Santa Fe or Dickinson, or Lamark or 1075 01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:13.399 Baycliffe for Elkamina, Reale, Clear Lake City, all that whole region down 1076 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:17.039 there. League City Feed. This store has been around since forty years ago 1077 01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:25.680 when the grandfather Thunderberger's grandfather first got that thing rolling, and Wes and Madison 1078 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:28.920 his sister, are still running the place. If you go in there, 1079 01:20:28.920 --> 01:20:31.279 you're gonna find ever fertilizer I talk about on Guardline. You're gonna find soil 1080 01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:34.760 blend, like the heirloom soil bags we talk about. Uh, they're going 1081 01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:40.079 to be there as am I. You're going to find that their quality pet 1082 01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:43.800 feeds, very high quality pet feed. They're gonna have pesticide, herbicide fundside, 1083 01:20:43.840 --> 01:20:47.399 whatever you need to make your lawn and garden look its best. That's 1084 01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:53.000 League City Feed. They're open Monday through Saturday and today nine am to six 1085 01:20:53.039 --> 01:20:57.119 pms again six pm today to run by there. Closed on Sunday. Here's 1086 01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:01.079 the number two eight one, three, three two sixteen twelve. Now it's 1087 01:21:01.239 --> 01:21:05.560 just a few blocks south of ninety six on Highway three in League City, 1088 01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:10.479 just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. Easy to find, easy 1089 01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:13.199 to get to, and when you get there, you're going to find what 1090 01:21:13.239 --> 01:21:17.520 you're looking for. League City. Let's head now out to WESTU and we're 1091 01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:24.640 going to talk to Charlie. Hello, Charlie, we have a Charlie. 1092 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:32.079 Did I push the right button? Charlie? Hey Charlie, you got you 1093 01:21:32.159 --> 01:21:36.079 all right? Good? Welcome to Guardline. How can I help nice Skip? 1094 01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:42.840 I have a Saint Augustine lawn which is not doing well, and I 1095 01:21:42.880 --> 01:21:47.199 was wondering if I need to take plugs all along. I think I've heard 1096 01:21:47.199 --> 01:22:00.199 the advertised of maybe a Randy ship Brandy shall m androgate arrogates. So are 1097 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:03.560 you are you saying the lawn is dying back slowly or what are you seeing? 1098 01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:12.159 Just to agress is not doing well? It's got some some weeds in 1099 01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:17.159 it, Okay? Yeah? You know the schedule that I put online at 1100 01:22:17.279 --> 01:22:21.560 Gardening with Skip dot com. That's my website, Gardening with Skip dot com. 1101 01:22:21.560 --> 01:22:26.800 The schedule there talks about how to make your lawn party basically, and 1102 01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:30.119 it talks about mowing, watering and fertilizing to talking about frequency of watering, 1103 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:34.760 uh, the amount of water you put on. It talks about the fertilizers. 1104 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:40.800 Have you done any fertilizing this spring or summer? Uh? You know, 1105 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:45.760 we have just done some fertilizing. Us also put on some weed prevent 1106 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:49.640 just recently. Okay, good, yeah, good, Well I would I 1107 01:22:49.640 --> 01:22:53.439 would just kind of watch it. Whenever you use any kind of a weed 1108 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:59.359 control product, be be cautious to follow the label very carefully because overdosing can 1109 01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:04.039 be a problem on those. But I would say sounds like just a matter 1110 01:23:04.119 --> 01:23:11.119 of giving it adequate water that if you, let's see you're in the West 1111 01:23:11.199 --> 01:23:14.399 View area, if you got a couple of options. You could send a 1112 01:23:14.439 --> 01:23:18.000 sample of the turf up to the state Plant Clinic at A and M and 1113 01:23:18.079 --> 01:23:21.119 have them analyze it. Maybe there's a disease on it, like take all 1114 01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:27.319 root rot that they would find. That would be an option. But other 1115 01:23:27.399 --> 01:23:32.159 than that, making sure it has adequate fertilizer and moderate amounts feeding through the 1116 01:23:32.199 --> 01:23:39.119 season and adequate sunlight and then of course adequate watering would be the most important 1117 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:42.520 things. Let's do this, Charlie, I want you to hold on. 1118 01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:45.000 I'm gonna have Chris pick up the line here and give you my email. 1119 01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:49.600 Could you send me some photos of your lawn from a distance and close up 1120 01:23:49.920 --> 01:23:53.960 and make sure they're in really good sharp focus and I'll see if I see 1121 01:23:53.960 --> 01:23:57.000 anything else that is not coming to mind as we talk. All right, 1122 01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:03.359 okay, but on the subs, just taking plugs out of the lawn, 1123 01:24:03.520 --> 01:24:10.880 do you generally recommend that or not? Irri out? You can. You 1124 01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:14.439 can put plugs in to help it fill in. You can do that, 1125 01:24:14.479 --> 01:24:18.159 but you need to so they make a little little holes, a little holes 1126 01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:21.359 and pull some of the old toil out to let the air in. No, 1127 01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:24.960 no, no, don't worry about that. Oh oh, air rating, 1128 01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:29.680 Yes, absolutely, I'm sure. Yes. Air rating is always a 1129 01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:32.840 good thing. Do it as as soon as you can put some leaf, 1130 01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:36.960 more compost on top and watered in really good that I'm gonna have to run. 1131 01:24:38.159 --> 01:24:40.600 I'm late for a break here, but good luck with that. And 1132 01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:44.319 if you want to hang on hold uh josh, we'll give you an email. 1133 01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:45.680 All right, folks, we got to take a break. We'll be 1134 01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:50.199 right. Welcome back to the guardenline. Good to have you man, Good 1135 01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:53.880 to have you listening today. We got a lot to talk about it. 1136 01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:56.920 Hey, it is summer, but our plants are out there. They are 1137 01:24:56.920 --> 01:25:00.880 hanging on through the hot weather and whatnot, and we can do a lot 1138 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:02.600 of things to help them out. One of the things that you can do 1139 01:25:02.640 --> 01:25:08.880 for your lawn to help it out is to do a aeration and compost top 1140 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:11.960 dressing. I was just kind of busiting with that a little bit with Charlie, 1141 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.239 and so basically, what is this. What this means is we're punching 1142 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:19.439 a hole in the ground and pulling a plug of soil out. That last 1143 01:25:19.439 --> 01:25:24.720 part is important. There are machines that will push a probe in the ground 1144 01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:29.479 and sort of squeeze an opening down into the soil. That's okay, but 1145 01:25:29.560 --> 01:25:32.960 it's better to have a core aerator that reaches into the soil with a hollow 1146 01:25:32.960 --> 01:25:36.039 tube and pops that plug out and leaves it on top of the soil. 1147 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:42.800 Professional turf aerated all the time, golf courses and things very important. It 1148 01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:46.560 helps with compaction, It helps with a lot of root issues for your grass, 1149 01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:51.279 and grass needs a good healthy root system, which requires a good soil 1150 01:25:51.319 --> 01:25:56.079 profile. So when you do a cororation and then you do the compost top 1151 01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.439 dressing, you've done that. And if you live south and west the Houston 1152 01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:06.199 area, BnB turf Pros is your go to company for this Listen B and 1153 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:10.439 B. They know what they're doing. I've seen the work that they do. 1154 01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:13.319 I'm amazed by it. In fact, if you want to see the 1155 01:26:13.399 --> 01:26:17.600 kind of work they do, go to BB Turfpros dot com, bb turf 1156 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:21.399 Pros dot com or you can give them a call seven one, three, 1157 01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:25.880 two, three, four, five, five, nine to eight. Here's 1158 01:26:25.880 --> 01:26:29.680 the thing about BnB, Here's why I am excited and am happy to recommend 1159 01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:34.439 them to you, is they are all about customer satisfaction. They do high 1160 01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:38.720 quality work. Look at the ratings. They receive, high quality work, 1161 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:45.720 and they only use quality products. For example, good quality compost from Cnamlts 1162 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:49.119 just down the road from them. There absolutely top quality. I saw something 1163 01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:54.680 the other day. They were doing a Microlife edition with the compost top dressing. 1164 01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:57.399 What a great idea. What a great idea? Again, what are 1165 01:26:57.439 --> 01:27:01.800 they doing? Top quality work with top quality products. They go above and 1166 01:27:01.800 --> 01:27:06.000 beyond and make a personal connection. So if you live as far west as 1167 01:27:06.079 --> 01:27:11.079 sugar Land, maybe up to Missouri City, all the way across to Pearland, 1168 01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:15.479 or down in the general area of Fresno, Sienna Arcola Iowa Colony, 1169 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:19.680 Manvil. This is this is their backyard. This is where they do their 1170 01:27:19.720 --> 01:27:27.000 work. BB Turfpros dot com. Help your lawn survive through the heat and 1171 01:27:27.119 --> 01:27:30.159 through the drought. If you've got a lawn that's struggling, this is like 1172 01:27:30.359 --> 01:27:34.960 step A and bringing it back, give them a call at Bbturfpros dot com. 1173 01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:39.680 Seven one, three, two, three four five five ninety eight. 1174 01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:44.000 We're now going to go to let's see where are we going now We're going 1175 01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:48.520 to Pearland to talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, Hey, Caril Caryl. 1176 01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:51.760 How are you doing? Sir? Well, excuse me, welcome the 1177 01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:59.760 garden line. Thank you. Quick question. I have Molly Holly tree sorry, 1178 01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:02.479 Holly trees a lined in my backyard. Yeah, kind of like, 1179 01:28:02.840 --> 01:28:06.680 you know, to help just a private or you know, just natural private 1180 01:28:08.199 --> 01:28:13.239 pen team. I guess I want to change my if it's a good idea, 1181 01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:17.319 I think I've seen it once to change my mulch and use crush granite. 1182 01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:20.359 I feel like the mult, it's a it's a small backyard, and 1183 01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:24.840 I feel like the mult runs really quick whenever there's my sprinters are on or 1184 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:31.479 where it rains. So I seen crust granite around holly trees before. I 1185 01:28:31.520 --> 01:28:34.119 don't know if it's a good idea of what type of if it has to 1186 01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:38.520 be a special quality to use that trust grind it around. That's kind of 1187 01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:43.680 like a decorative mult system situation. Yeah, I'm not real big on on 1188 01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:47.199 granite as a mulch. There are situations like if you're trying to grow something 1189 01:28:47.239 --> 01:28:51.479 that wants to be in West Texas in Houston, putting crush granite on the 1190 01:28:51.520 --> 01:28:56.640 surface gives it a quick drying, uh, you know, a little bit, 1191 01:28:57.479 --> 01:29:00.399 a little bit better environment, uh for those kind of plants. But 1192 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:03.920 with a holly, I would use an organic mult. I would use shredded 1193 01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:13.039 bark, shredded hardwood bark. You could use, uh the pine bark mult 1194 01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:20.600 that's one that I know Louisiana Pacific. The shredded hardwood excuse me, the 1195 01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:26.159 shredded hardwood and pine bark mults. Both would be two of the top choices 1196 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:30.359 that you could make for that landscaper's pride, is what I was trying to 1197 01:29:30.359 --> 01:29:34.479 say. They have a quality example of both of those are available by bags 1198 01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:41.239 everywhere. You could you could try hollies for the health of the hollies, 1199 01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:45.239 it wouldn't be a good idea to use granite, No, it would not. 1200 01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:48.199 That would cut down on aeration in the soil a little bit. But 1201 01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:55.800 we mainly use the granite and pathways and stuff where ye pathway and a holly 1202 01:29:55.880 --> 01:30:00.039 tree is from a southeastern US forests that's are a asia in the same kind 1203 01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:04.560 of place, and so they are used to having lots of decomposing organic matter 1204 01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:09.039 in the soil. That's what helps them thrive. So a good organic most 1205 01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:14.920 that will gradually over time decompose, that's the long time, long term benefit. 1206 01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:19.039 Perfect, Okay, so that was the question. That really appreciate you 1207 01:30:19.159 --> 01:30:23.760 til good, good, well, good luck with those. They are an 1208 01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.680 excellent plant for creating a privacy screen, that is for sure. Thanks for 1209 01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:32.119 the call, Carol. Correct, yes, sir, bye bye. That 1210 01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:36.920 is true. Let's see here. We are going to now run out to 1211 01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:43.359 Sweeney, Texas and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, or I got 1212 01:30:43.359 --> 01:30:48.680 a question. Oak tree in my backyard probably pushing two hundred years over better. 1213 01:30:49.399 --> 01:30:54.600 I had a huge branch come down a couple of weeks ago and then 1214 01:30:55.119 --> 01:31:00.159 dropped another branch here not two days ago. Just fell out tree, no 1215 01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:03.239 wind, no nut, that just snapped off and come down. Is there 1216 01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:06.880 some way am I supposed to be fertilizing that or what can I give it 1217 01:31:06.920 --> 01:31:10.399 to make it more healthier? Because I don't want to lose that tree. 1218 01:31:10.920 --> 01:31:14.279 Yeah. That's a condition called sudden limb drop, and it happens a lot. 1219 01:31:14.319 --> 01:31:16.960 We really see a lot in pecand trees. I saw some the other 1220 01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:21.279 day on an elm tree. It's like everything looks good and is normal, 1221 01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:26.279 and suddenly there's not even a storm and a wind just cracks and pops falls 1222 01:31:26.279 --> 01:31:30.279 out of the tree. It's kind of a scary deal, but that can 1223 01:31:30.399 --> 01:31:34.760 happen, and it typically happens on you. In the summertime. We see 1224 01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:40.319 a lot of it, and there are various contributing factors to it, but 1225 01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:44.800 nothing that you can do anything about other than make sure the tree has adequate 1226 01:31:44.920 --> 01:31:49.359 soul moisture. But it's just a factor of summers. It's weird. We 1227 01:31:49.840 --> 01:31:53.840 have no wind at all and you come out in the morning and there's a 1228 01:31:53.920 --> 01:31:58.279 limb lane on the ground big enough to have hurt somebody. Oh yeah, 1229 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:00.840 yeah, because up one branch, I can it. I think it just 1230 01:32:00.920 --> 01:32:08.159 off. The branch itself had one hundred and twenty rings on it holy cow. 1231 01:32:09.239 --> 01:32:16.600 Yeah, well you may want to have Martin from Affordable Tree come out 1232 01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:19.720 and take a look at it and just make sure. Maybe there's some narrow 1233 01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:24.239 branch angles that are contributing to that. There could be something else going on, 1234 01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:30.119 but uh, you know that sudden lind drop is it happens unfortunately. 1235 01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:33.239 But if you wanted to have a Martin from Affordable Tree he could he could 1236 01:32:33.279 --> 01:32:38.640 take a look at it and tell you for sure is it needing anything or 1237 01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:42.359 does it need some pruning, because if it's doing that, then when we 1238 01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:46.760 have storms, that's even an increased risk. Yeah. I just said, 1239 01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:50.479 no, you know, if there is a fertilizer or speed or something, 1240 01:32:50.479 --> 01:32:55.399 I need to be given it or make it healthier or what. No, 1241 01:32:55.600 --> 01:32:59.159 I mean unless the tree is just looking struggling, it doesn't have good green 1242 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:02.399 color in the foe and other things. Fertilizer is fine, but that's not 1243 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.399 the solution here. The only thing I would say would be most important is 1244 01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:12.319 during periods of extended heat and lack of rainfall, a good deep soaking on 1245 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.560 an infrequent basis, you know, apply over an inch inch and a half 1246 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:21.960 of water and one good deep irrigation soaking every few weeks in the absence of 1247 01:33:23.039 --> 01:33:27.560 rainfall when it's so blazing hot. Okay, all right, so get one 1248 01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:31.640 of those tree hugger thing up. Yeah, that'd be fine. If it's 1249 01:33:31.640 --> 01:33:34.039 not too big of a tree, Yeah, that would work fine. The 1250 01:33:34.079 --> 01:33:39.319 tree huggers will the biggest ones will reach out pretty far. Yeah, it's 1251 01:33:40.239 --> 01:33:44.359 it's pretty big. Yeah. So you may want to just get a regular 1252 01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:47.680 sprinkler and move it all around in a big circle like you're watering a doughnut 1253 01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:50.800 shape on the ground, you know, underneath that tree. All right, 1254 01:33:51.880 --> 01:33:55.640 all right, sure, appreciate you. All right, sir, thank you, 1255 01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:58.399 Mark, appreciate your call very much. We're gonna take a little break 1256 01:33:58.439 --> 01:34:00.960 here and I will be right back. The number is seven one three two 1257 01:34:01.039 --> 01:34:05.640 one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come back, John, you'll 1258 01:34:05.680 --> 01:34:14.760 be our first up. Welcome back to the garden line. Hey, good 1259 01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:16.039 to have you with us. Thanks for joining us today. By the way, 1260 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:21.880 we really really appreciate that. I just enjoy the chance to get to 1261 01:34:21.880 --> 01:34:26.119 talk with gardeners. That that's kind of the bottom line. I think it's 1262 01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:30.079 fun. I think gardening is a great hobby. Listening to me, you 1263 01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:33.840 are never going to learn at all. As someone once said, probably sounds 1264 01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:39.359 like something Mark Twain or Oh, I don't know one of those folks would 1265 01:34:39.359 --> 01:34:44.880 have said. But the older I the smarter I get, the more I 1266 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:46.800 know how much I'm dumb at or something along those lines. And boy, 1267 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:50.119 is that ever true? You know, every year I learned about new plants 1268 01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:54.359 I've never heard of before. Can you believe that we're doing this thirty five 1269 01:34:54.479 --> 01:34:58.840 years? Studying and talking about plants for thirty five years? And I still 1270 01:34:59.159 --> 01:35:01.880 run across things. It's like, Okay, that's new new to me and 1271 01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:05.920 learning something else. Or maybe we have new diseases, new insects, we 1272 01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:11.319 have new opportunities for growing things in ways we didn't know we could grow them 1273 01:35:11.319 --> 01:35:15.760 before. It's fun to do the whole gardening thing. If you live up 1274 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:18.640 in the Tombol area and you are looking for a feed store that out west 1275 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:23.159 to Tombole on twenty nine to twenty D and D Feed, D and D 1276 01:35:23.239 --> 01:35:28.079 Feed on twenty nine to twenty West to Tombole is an outstanding place to get 1277 01:35:28.079 --> 01:35:30.880 all kinds of supplies for your lawn and for your garden. They carry the 1278 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:34.520 fertilizers, all of them that I talk about here on garden Line. You 1279 01:35:34.560 --> 01:35:41.439 can find them there. You can find quality soil blends like Heirloom Soils, 1280 01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:45.560 Rose Soil, or their fruit berry and citrus mix. I was talking about 1281 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:50.600 while ago with someone about using a soil mix for BlackBerry plants. This would 1282 01:35:50.600 --> 01:35:53.880 be a great one for that. They have a veggie and herb mix. 1283 01:35:53.920 --> 01:35:59.039 They've got the aged leaf mold compost, D and D feed now they bring 1284 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:02.199 plants into I mean you can go and always find something going on outside there 1285 01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:05.239 in the area where they keep their plants out on twenty nine to twenty. 1286 01:36:05.640 --> 01:36:10.640 You can also go inside and find every product you might need for inside control, 1287 01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:14.439 past control, disease control for all of you at West to Tomball. 1288 01:36:14.560 --> 01:36:18.560 This is your backyard right here. And DND feed that hometown feed store that 1289 01:36:18.640 --> 01:36:23.720 you're going to find the things you hear me talk about on garden Line. 1290 01:36:23.720 --> 01:36:27.640 I always like to visit there, me talking with Jeff and the team there. 1291 01:36:27.720 --> 01:36:30.359 It's just it's always fun to get to go out and enjoy and the 1292 01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:33.520 way they treat you there is the way you should be treated when you go 1293 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:38.880 to a good quality feed store. We're going to go now to the phones. 1294 01:36:39.680 --> 01:36:43.279 Let's see here who we got coming up. I believe I've got John 1295 01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:47.000 and friends with Hello John, Hi, Skip, how are you today? 1296 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:53.720 Hey? Listens Tom oh no, no, no problem. I put in 1297 01:36:54.479 --> 01:36:59.399 a good bit of new Saint Augustine turf back in February. In March, 1298 01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:04.560 I was out of town almost all of June, and I came back. 1299 01:37:05.600 --> 01:37:09.920 I had a company do my lawnmowing while I was gone, so it wasn't 1300 01:37:09.960 --> 01:37:15.279 a jungle. That Saint Augustine is solid, it's thriving. But when I 1301 01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:23.159 came back after a few days ago, I had a ton of sedges growing 1302 01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:30.319 in all of that. I have used sedge hammer before in small spot treatment 1303 01:37:30.520 --> 01:37:36.560 necessities, but I wanted to find out if the heat right now is too 1304 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:43.319 too hot for me to go out there and do big swathes swaths of the 1305 01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:46.840 grass with that sedge hammer product. I think it's okay. Still, I 1306 01:37:46.960 --> 01:37:50.800 just would go out early in the morning as well. I say early, 1307 01:37:50.920 --> 01:37:54.920 you know, before it even begins to really heat up, and do the 1308 01:37:55.000 --> 01:37:59.880 application at that time. I let it okay, come dry off. If 1309 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:03.720 you can spot treat as opposed to just treating everything, that's fine. If 1310 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:06.760 not, just do it however you need to do it to make sure that 1311 01:38:06.800 --> 01:38:12.920 the sedge shimmer gets on sedges and nutgrass or cutlinger or any kind of sedges 1312 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:15.560 that you have. Yeah, yeah, I got a little bit of each. 1313 01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:20.800 So okay, real quick question. I've got some flax liies. I 1314 01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:29.479 put in about four pots of those a few years ago, and they are 1315 01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:31.960 they're just there're too many of them right now. How can I go in 1316 01:38:32.079 --> 01:38:39.640 and sind those out? Well? Are you wanting to just get rid of 1317 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:42.920 them, or are you wanting to keep them where they'll growing, or you 1318 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:47.880 can share them with somebody. I wouldn't mind getting rid of them, but 1319 01:38:48.159 --> 01:38:56.039 they're just they've gotten bigger, I mean height wide, and they've just completely 1320 01:38:56.119 --> 01:39:00.800 filled up a little bit more of an area than I want. Okay, 1321 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:04.600 So you could use a shovel and go in there, and a good sharp 1322 01:39:04.640 --> 01:39:08.920 shovel. You need to actually sharpen the edge because we're not just digging dirt 1323 01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:12.760 here, we're cutting through plant materials. But you will if you use a 1324 01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:16.079 shovel and cut down. You could basically go around the clump and take out 1325 01:39:16.119 --> 01:39:21.199 sections to leave what you want to leave, or you could dig the whole 1326 01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:25.319 clump up. It's a little bit hot weather to do the whole thing right 1327 01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:28.159 now. But if you want to dig the whole thing up and then split 1328 01:39:28.199 --> 01:39:31.640 it into sections to repot, replant, share with friends, you could also 1329 01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:36.119 do that. I would try to do that in a little bit milder time 1330 01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:39.920 of the year. But as far as just taking a shovel and cutting into 1331 01:39:39.960 --> 01:39:43.720 the clump, you can do that now. Okay, all right, great, 1332 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:46.119 that would get me going. Thanks a lot to get good luck. 1333 01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:50.720 Appreciate the call. Thanks a lot. I appreciate that very much. Let's 1334 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:57.079 see here. We are going to now go to Brenham, Texas and talk 1335 01:39:57.119 --> 01:40:01.520 to Mike. Hello, Mike Skip, how you doing. I'm actually friends 1336 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:09.720 with But my problem my problems in Brenham. Oh, I got a place 1337 01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:13.800 up there. It's loaded with live oaks. They're doing beautifully, but it's 1338 01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:18.720 had some huge seedars. I'm talking two foot diameter trucks in the last four 1339 01:40:18.760 --> 01:40:23.479 or five months they have. I've got ten or twelve that are actually did 1340 01:40:25.479 --> 01:40:30.840 and no one seems to know what's hitting them. I mean not, you 1341 01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:32.720 know, I don't mind losing them too much, but they're offully large. 1342 01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:41.720 Yeah, well, what what hit them was last summer? This has happened. 1343 01:40:41.800 --> 01:40:45.520 We've had widespread reports of it all the way up as you go through 1344 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:48.319 the Belt through Texas, where you see a lot of the eastern red seedars. 1345 01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:53.560 Uh, depending on how much rainfalling area got, I know, up 1346 01:40:53.600 --> 01:40:57.199 in the Brian College Station area up that direction north of you on down into 1347 01:40:57.239 --> 01:41:00.720 Huntsville and whatnot. It's been really bad. And it basically what happened is 1348 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:04.720 the plants. It was too hot and too dry for too long. And 1349 01:41:04.840 --> 01:41:09.560 cedars are very tough, resilient plants. I mean they well, that's the 1350 01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:12.119 last time I was worried to be oak tree. I was worried about the 1351 01:41:12.119 --> 01:41:15.479 oak trees. Not yeah. Well but no, we've seen a lot of 1352 01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:18.760 it. I mean they just turned bronze. It looks like overnight, it's 1353 01:41:18.800 --> 01:41:25.239 not and four months they're gone. Yeah, I mean it's just yeah, 1354 01:41:25.279 --> 01:41:29.279 they started the top and go down. And so the only thing to do, 1355 01:41:29.600 --> 01:41:31.960 if you could go back in time, would be this good deep soaking 1356 01:41:32.199 --> 01:41:36.039 very infrequently, like every two and three weeks, a good soaking, drink 1357 01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:43.800 the heat. No, there's not a practical way to do that. No, 1358 01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:48.600 No, it's exactly exactly it. And and so that's that's why I 1359 01:41:48.640 --> 01:41:55.800 think it's just something we live with others. But I'm just curious what was 1360 01:41:55.800 --> 01:42:00.239 getting him now. I'd love to find someone that would like some some red 1361 01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:08.600 cedar to make furniture with. Oh yeah, yeah, but I do. 1362 01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:11.319 I do have a problem in friends with it is. I just had a 1363 01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:16.359 section my yard resided because okay, Mike, can you hear me, I'm 1364 01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:18.560 gonna have to put you on hold and go to a break. I'm late 1365 01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:25.000 for a break. Fine, Okay, you take care. Folks. If 1366 01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:28.000 you'd like to give us a call phone number seven one three two one two 1367 01:42:28.159 --> 01:42:33.720 K t R H. I'll be right back. Welcome. What kinds of 1368 01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:36.119 things do you want to talk about? That's what we're going to be doing 1369 01:42:36.119 --> 01:42:41.239 today and we have been will continue to do that. You know, you've 1370 01:42:41.279 --> 01:42:45.960 heard me talk about Southwest Fertilizer before. Southwest Fertilizer is the place where if 1371 01:42:45.000 --> 01:42:49.319 they don't have something, you don't need it. And that sounds facetious, 1372 01:42:49.319 --> 01:42:57.600 but I literally mean that Southwest Fertilizer has every kind of insecticide funge aside. 1373 01:42:58.199 --> 01:43:04.039 We control fertilize tool products to spread fertilizer, you know, like a push 1374 01:43:04.079 --> 01:43:11.000 spreader, a handheld Fredder. Everything you would need is there at Southwest Fertilizer. 1375 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:14.439 That is what they specialize in. They're on the corner of Bissinet and 1376 01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:16.920 Runwick in Southwest Houston, so it's easy to get to them. But I'm 1377 01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:21.119 just telling you when if you're looking for a place that has everything that you 1378 01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:27.560 would need, that's Southwest Fertilizer. They pride themselves in that, and they 1379 01:43:27.560 --> 01:43:30.199 also have knowledgeable staff. You go in there, you talk to Bob, 1380 01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:32.199 you talk to Aaron, any of the folks. They know what they're talking 1381 01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:35.159 about. They can look at a bug, or look at a leaf, 1382 01:43:35.399 --> 01:43:40.239 or look at a photo that you bring in and help you diagnose it and 1383 01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:43.680 help you find the product that's needed. If indeed a product is needed, 1384 01:43:43.880 --> 01:43:46.239 for example, Microlife fertilizers, you're going to have those there. In fact, 1385 01:43:46.359 --> 01:43:53.279 anything organic. Nobody has as good a selection of organics as Southwest Fertilizer 1386 01:43:53.319 --> 01:43:58.680 does. That includes Microlife's humates plus that's a purple bag, the concentrated compost 1387 01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:00.720 in a bag. It includes the green bag, the one we think of 1388 01:44:00.880 --> 01:44:04.720 as the lawn fertilizer, the six two four in the green bag. It 1389 01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:10.239 includes everyone that Microlife is going to carry both their liquid products, which they 1390 01:44:10.239 --> 01:44:16.119 have some outstanding liquid products at It includes also, certainly the dry granular fertilizers. 1391 01:44:16.119 --> 01:44:23.279 Microlife has been a purveyor of quality organic materials for a very very long 1392 01:44:23.359 --> 01:44:28.039 time. So do you need some Ocean Harvest liquid to drench over your plants 1393 01:44:28.239 --> 01:44:30.880 so that they do well? I mean, that's a fish based fertilizer. 1394 01:44:31.000 --> 01:44:35.479 It does really really good job. Microlife also has the seven to one to 1395 01:44:35.520 --> 01:44:39.960 three. It's an orange label bag. I use it for houseplants, but 1396 01:44:40.000 --> 01:44:44.199 ease for outdoor plants too. Watering things in when you're getting them going in 1397 01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:47.279 this heat, A good quality drench like the fisher mulsion, like the Ocean 1398 01:44:47.319 --> 01:44:51.840 harvest, like a seaweed type product like the seven to win three product from 1399 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:56.159 Microlife helps those plants get off to a good start. Do it when you 1400 01:44:56.199 --> 01:44:58.680 water them in, when you plan them, do it a week later, 1401 01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:01.079 do it again a week later, going to help that plant get established. 1402 01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:04.920 That's as simple as that. We're going to now run out to let's see 1403 01:45:04.960 --> 01:45:09.279 where were we were? We in northwest Houston. No, we were in 1404 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:13.000 Brenham, about to go somewhere else. Hey, Mike, go back, 1405 01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:16.439 Yeah, thank you, I'll be real quick. Last year, I had 1406 01:45:17.079 --> 01:45:21.399 no sage take over a little courtyard area and I followed Randy's hill. We 1407 01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:27.960 killed, tilled, and filled, and I had I got it completely sodded, 1408 01:45:28.760 --> 01:45:32.119 but the sod came in with what appears to be Johnson grants and some 1409 01:45:32.279 --> 01:45:38.039 sort of weed that looks like a mimosa leaf. Okay, coming up all 1410 01:45:38.039 --> 01:45:42.680 over it. As any way you can kill that out. The mimosa leaf 1411 01:45:42.720 --> 01:45:48.560 weed is you're going to need to use something probably containing celsius, like the 1412 01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:55.840 temperature celsius, and it's a post emergent broad leaf weed killer. You could 1413 01:45:55.840 --> 01:45:58.840 do things to prevent the seeds from coming out, but we're a little late 1414 01:45:58.880 --> 01:46:03.199 for that. Now spring those existing weeds with a product containing with the product 1415 01:46:03.199 --> 01:46:06.800 called celsius. Doing it early in the morning when it's as coolest, the 1416 01:46:06.840 --> 01:46:12.520 coolest time you could possibly spray it the day is best. Follow the label 1417 01:46:12.640 --> 01:46:15.600 carefully, don't mix it too strong, and it'll knock those out. As 1418 01:46:15.640 --> 01:46:17.640 far as the Johnson grass type of weeds, uh, there's not a way 1419 01:46:17.640 --> 01:46:23.960 to kill a grass in grass most of the in most situations, so you 1420 01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:27.840 would just have to let it get up above the grass and then wipe a 1421 01:46:27.920 --> 01:46:31.560 product on it that would kill it. But instead of spraying it and getting 1422 01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:38.680 dead spots in your grass, just wipe round up on a brush or on 1423 01:46:38.760 --> 01:46:43.600 a sponge type applicator. Yeah, if you can do that, if you 1424 01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:47.079 can do a lot of it, if you got a lot of it, 1425 01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:54.039 that that's a challenge. Yeah, it's it's it. They came in and 1426 01:46:54.079 --> 01:46:57.640 fully soiled it, and it's popping up everywhere. Uh. I mean, 1427 01:46:57.760 --> 01:47:01.319 of course it grows a lot faster than st August. And that's I guess 1428 01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.520 the advantage of trying it because I pulled some of them dug it up. 1429 01:47:05.840 --> 01:47:10.920 Yeah, so let's do let's do one other thing here, Mike, if 1430 01:47:10.960 --> 01:47:14.800 you want, I'm gonna I'm gonna about to go to break here a little 1431 01:47:14.800 --> 01:47:16.279 bit. Put you on hold, and if you want to send me some 1432 01:47:16.359 --> 01:47:20.720 close up pictures of that Johnson grass looking weed. Let me take a look 1433 01:47:20.720 --> 01:47:25.239 at it and see if I see anything, I may go oh no, 1434 01:47:25.239 --> 01:47:27.960 no, no, that's something else. And here's what you do for that. 1435 01:47:28.239 --> 01:47:32.239 Okay, covered our bases with you, all right, Okay, thanks 1436 01:47:32.239 --> 01:47:38.760 you all right, I'll put you on hold here and Crystal picked up the 1437 01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:44.079 phones, pick up and give you my email address. Appreciate that very much. 1438 01:47:44.239 --> 01:47:47.279 We're going to now go to Northwest Houston and talk to Dick. Hello, 1439 01:47:47.439 --> 01:47:54.960 Dick, good morning, Good morning. I'm help. I am inundated 1440 01:47:55.079 --> 01:48:02.119 with goose grass. How do I get rid of it? Well, I 1441 01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:05.680 was just saying, you know, killing a grass and a grass is very 1442 01:48:05.680 --> 01:48:12.119 difficult to do because what kills goosegrass kills Saint Augustine or Bermuda. By the 1443 01:48:12.119 --> 01:48:15.319 way, what kind of grass do you do you have in your lawn? 1444 01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:18.760 What your law? I have St. Augustine and a little permute it. 1445 01:48:19.840 --> 01:48:24.960 Okay, Well, goosegrass is an annual so even if you don't get it 1446 01:48:25.000 --> 01:48:29.720 out this year, it's going to be coming back from seed. So if 1447 01:48:30.039 --> 01:48:34.800 you next year will use the barricade product, a pre emergent herbicide by nitroposs 1448 01:48:35.520 --> 01:48:40.840 follow my schedule on when to use it, you can prevent the goosegrass from 1449 01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:45.399 next year. As far as this year. You would have to dab something 1450 01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:47.520 to kill goose grass. That would also kill your lawn, but dab it 1451 01:48:47.560 --> 01:48:51.439 straight on the goosegrass instead of spraying it where it gets on your lawn. 1452 01:48:53.039 --> 01:48:56.520 That's the option at this point in the season where you already have the grass 1453 01:48:56.600 --> 01:49:01.760 growing it is. You got a lot. I have a lot of it. 1454 01:49:02.640 --> 01:49:08.920 Okay. You know it produces a little crow's foot like seedhead and the 1455 01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:12.239 more if you mow you I might throw a bagger on it just to keep 1456 01:49:12.239 --> 01:49:16.560 from spreading those seeds if it gets to the seeding stage. Okay, but 1457 01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:20.680 yeah, you're you're just caught. It's pre emergence. The best way to 1458 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:25.279 go prevent it so you never have it. Once you have it, then 1459 01:49:25.720 --> 01:49:28.680 then we have to go to great links to try to get stuff on it 1460 01:49:28.720 --> 01:49:32.800 without hurting your saint artisteine. Okay, thank you, all right, sir, 1461 01:49:33.479 --> 01:49:38.880 you bet, thanks, you appreciate that a lot. Well, you 1462 01:49:38.880 --> 01:49:43.359 guys, hear the music. Trying to work my way through some calls here. 1463 01:49:43.800 --> 01:49:46.079 When we come back from break, I'll Luis, you'll be our first 1464 01:49:46.199 --> 01:49:51.000 up. Susan in Lake City and enjoy and Lockhart, Texas. I can't 1465 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:55.159 wait to talk that and I used to live in Lockhart, Texas. We'll 1466 01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:58.119 look forward to that when we come back. Just remember you're listening to the 1467 01:49:58.119 --> 01:50:00.880 guard Line and we're here every Saturday and Sunday morning from six a m. 1468 01:50:01.439 --> 01:50:06.079 To ten am. You can listen to garden Line on your iHeartMedia app. 1469 01:50:06.439 --> 01:50:12.279 Download that app. You can listen to us on there. Listen I Panish 1470 01:50:12.520 --> 01:50:17.319 Ball website and see us live on them. Just glad you're listening and we'll 1471 01:50:17.319 --> 01:50:29.359 be right back. Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1472 01:50:29.479 --> 01:50:45.960 It's trip. Just watch him as well. Tell us so many things 1473 01:50:45.000 --> 01:50:56.039 to set in. We are back. We are back to take your gardening 1474 01:50:56.119 --> 01:51:00.439 questions to basically help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautifull landscape. 1475 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:03.960 That's what we're here to do. Let's just jump straight on and here. 1476 01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:08.720 We're going to go talk to Louise out on the phone. Hey Louise, 1477 01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:15.640 welcome to guard Line. All right, there to be going to hold 1478 01:51:15.800 --> 01:51:21.680 Louise, put him back on hold. We'll come back to Louise shortly. 1479 01:51:21.680 --> 01:51:25.560 We're going to go now to Lake City and talk to Susan. Hello, 1480 01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:32.079 Susan Hight there. So I wanted to chat about composting. If you don't 1481 01:51:32.119 --> 01:51:39.399 mind, I get about two well barrowfuls of wilted produce weekly from a grocer. 1482 01:51:39.800 --> 01:51:45.199 It's been such a blessing. Well, I learned that. I learned 1483 01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:50.039 that open air composting was a really bad idea. So I ended up getting 1484 01:51:50.039 --> 01:51:54.880 a bunch of bags of soil and covered everything. But I'm still like kind 1485 01:51:54.880 --> 01:51:58.039 of dealing with fly. So I did a little bit more research and learned 1486 01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:01.640 about black soldier fly. I have chickens, so that'll be a win win 1487 01:52:01.800 --> 01:52:08.000 for me. So I was wondering two questions. Number one, is, 1488 01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:13.560 other than the rain that we're going to be having, if there's any other 1489 01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:15.720 way of getting rid of all the stupid flies that I gathered. I don't 1490 01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:19.159 know if you notice you had less flies in your yard for about a week 1491 01:52:19.239 --> 01:52:27.000 though we're here. And then secondly the black soldier fly worm casting and then 1492 01:52:27.000 --> 01:52:30.560 the leech eight that comes from that. Can I use those directly in my 1493 01:52:30.640 --> 01:52:32.960 gardens? Or do I need to delete the leech eight? I've heard something 1494 01:52:33.000 --> 01:52:38.039 about it's pretty strong. Yeah, I would delute it. So we've got 1495 01:52:38.039 --> 01:52:42.479 a lot going on here. First of all, something that I don't think 1496 01:52:42.520 --> 01:52:47.279 you mentioned that is worma composting or worm earthworm composting with red wrigglers, or 1497 01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:53.439 are what's called a brown noseworm? Those yeah, done in boxes. You 1498 01:52:53.479 --> 01:52:56.600 shred up newspaper and then you put your food scraps in there and they do 1499 01:52:56.680 --> 01:53:00.039 the whole thing there. That's one the black solver fly. For those that 1500 01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:02.600 are listening that are of familiar with it, that's a really unique creature. 1501 01:53:03.239 --> 01:53:06.680 It If you saw it, it would look like a little tiny wasp sitting 1502 01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:15.119 with its wings laid back over its body. And they're very effective at decomposing 1503 01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:21.439 a lot of different kinds of organic materials. And as far as I don't 1504 01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:26.359 know that there would be a leech eate though out of those, because what 1505 01:53:26.399 --> 01:53:30.960 they're gonna do is they're going to feed on the materials and there, yes, 1506 01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:35.399 they'll they defecate and whatnot from all that feeding. But then the soldier 1507 01:53:35.439 --> 01:53:40.600 flies themselves go off somewhere to pewpeat. And I don't know what you've gotten 1508 01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:43.920 into black soldier flies, but I don't have time on the air to explain 1509 01:53:44.279 --> 01:53:48.199 the whole thing. But basically, people create systems for those fly larva when 1510 01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:51.560 they try to crawl out of the box to pewpeat, for them to be 1511 01:53:51.680 --> 01:53:57.079 used to chicken feed and what. It's pretty cool stuff, but either one 1512 01:53:57.159 --> 01:54:00.399 would work. You could use either one. Basically, what we're doing is 1513 01:54:00.399 --> 01:54:04.800 we're using creatures to eat up organic matter and turn it back into a rich 1514 01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:10.199 material for the soil. Yeah, because of the volume of produce that I'm 1515 01:54:10.199 --> 01:54:12.800 getting. I mean, some of the produce I use for the chickens, 1516 01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:16.399 but you know, like potatoes and onions, they don't eat. So yeah, 1517 01:54:16.680 --> 01:54:20.399 I went to I have the little box started and set up, so 1518 01:54:20.479 --> 01:54:26.359 we'll see if I'm successful if that, But do you have any other suggestions 1519 01:54:26.399 --> 01:54:31.039 about the flies? Like this promithne work against those. I keep spraying the 1520 01:54:31.119 --> 01:54:36.800 coupe and spraying the yard. But yeah, I just attracted like half of 1521 01:54:36.840 --> 01:54:41.840 the flies at the scenia. Yeah, yeah, sure. Well Promethans is 1522 01:54:41.880 --> 01:54:45.199 a synthetic perithra and it's somewhat persistent, but not as much as some I 1523 01:54:45.239 --> 01:54:47.920 don't know if I want to spray it all over the chicken yard and stuff 1524 01:54:47.920 --> 01:54:51.600 where they're pecking and eating and whatnot. Since you're yeah, I get something 1525 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:58.159 to eat from those chickens, right, I would probably instead use a fly 1526 01:54:58.319 --> 01:55:02.920 bait. And there are there's several ways to fly control. That Number one. 1527 01:55:03.800 --> 01:55:08.119 You're in clear Lake City, is that? Yeah, I'm over in 1528 01:55:08.199 --> 01:55:12.439 League City and I've put a bunch of those little fly Yeah, those fly 1529 01:55:12.560 --> 01:55:16.119 bait things, and and it almost feels like it's attracting more again, So 1530 01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:21.800 I didn't know if there was something else attracted to the bait, but they 1531 01:55:21.840 --> 01:55:25.760 feed on it. You don't want the bait where your chickens pegget, don't 1532 01:55:25.840 --> 01:55:29.680 hang it up right chicken house, put it else. But I would have 1533 01:55:29.720 --> 01:55:32.680 a lot of small bait stations and they eat it and it will poison them, 1534 01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:36.399 and that works pretty well. There are also bags you can hang up 1535 01:55:36.439 --> 01:55:41.119 that attract them in and they go in the bag and then they die in 1536 01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:44.600 the bag and kind of a liquid goo and it's it's nasty, but it's 1537 01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:47.319 all enclosed, so you can just throw it away when you're done. Yeah, 1538 01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:51.079 that's what I have. Yeah, League City Feed is going to have 1539 01:55:51.159 --> 01:55:55.279 a lot of supplies for you when it comes to that stuff. Go talk 1540 01:55:55.319 --> 01:55:59.399 to the folks at Leak City Feed and they can they can get you set 1541 01:55:59.479 --> 01:56:01.640 up on the bait et and on the bags and anything else like that. 1542 01:56:02.279 --> 01:56:05.680 So you think the word castings though, those could be used just straight into 1543 01:56:05.720 --> 01:56:11.560 the garden. They won't be too strong. The castings can be mixed straight 1544 01:56:11.600 --> 01:56:15.239 into the soil. I wouldn't put our changes deep. You're not going to 1545 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:18.079 have them any right, But you can sprinkle them out, and that's just 1546 01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:21.800 fine. If you were going to make a liquid out of some of the 1547 01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:26.640 materials, that's where I would cut it, because with liquids, we typically 1548 01:56:26.760 --> 01:56:30.760 are sprinkling them on foliage and whatnot, and so you don't want something too 1549 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:34.439 strong when you do that. Okay, well, thank you. And I 1550 01:56:34.520 --> 01:56:39.399 hadn't heard people talk about composting, so other people wanting to chat about it 1551 01:56:39.399 --> 01:56:43.640 would be really interesting for me as well. But thank you. I appreciate 1552 01:56:43.680 --> 01:56:50.600 you. Yeah, all right, thank you. We're going to now go 1553 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:57.359 to lock our Texas and talk to joy. Hello, Joy, are you 1554 01:56:57.399 --> 01:57:03.800 there? I'm Joyce? And deal oh rod Dale. Okay, I have 1555 01:57:05.600 --> 01:57:11.520 mimosa tree was cut down and it's coming up out of the ground. I 1556 01:57:11.520 --> 01:57:15.760 think at first it was cut off where it wasn't always the ground. I 1557 01:57:15.840 --> 01:57:19.000 think someone has cut it off to the ground. The limbs coming out on 1558 01:57:19.039 --> 01:57:24.319 the ground and up higher. Some of the limbs are ten feet long. 1559 01:57:25.479 --> 01:57:28.720 It's right by my car port and I need to get rid of this mimosa 1560 01:57:28.960 --> 01:57:31.680 growth. You want do you want the whole thing? Dad? Is that 1561 01:57:31.720 --> 01:57:35.680 what you're wanting to do? I don't care if I have a tree there 1562 01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:41.319 but I can't have all of this many many shoots, really big ones that 1563 01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:45.439 have come up. Okay, So you can either cut off the branches that 1564 01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.399 are going toward the driveway or sidewalk or whatever, uh and leave the other 1565 01:57:49.800 --> 01:57:53.880 or you if you want to kill the whole thing when you yes, cut 1566 01:57:53.920 --> 01:58:00.239 it off a few inches above the ground. In fact, I cut it 1567 01:58:00.239 --> 01:58:02.279 off about a foot above the ground. And the reason is after it dies, 1568 01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:06.720 you want something that you can get a hold of to help grub that 1569 01:58:06.920 --> 01:58:11.319 or pull that out. So if you cut it off at the ground there, 1570 01:58:11.880 --> 01:58:14.960 that's another option. But either way, when you cut it off, 1571 01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:20.239 joy, I want you to get a product that contains triclop here. Uh 1572 01:58:24.479 --> 01:58:30.279 pardon what was that actually here? Okay, I'm going to spell it out. 1573 01:58:30.479 --> 01:58:32.279 I'm going to spell it out. It makes it's easier. T R 1574 01:58:32.439 --> 01:58:40.239 I C L O P y R. Now did you say you were in 1575 01:58:40.359 --> 01:58:47.199 Rockdale? Right? Are you listening on radio or on the phone on the 1576 01:58:47.199 --> 01:58:50.680 phone? Okay? Good h Well, first of all, welcome, Well 1577 01:58:50.720 --> 01:58:56.279 I was on the radio. Now I'm on the phone. Okay. So, 1578 01:58:56.840 --> 01:59:00.960 uh, the triclop peer is going to be sold products with names like 1579 01:59:01.720 --> 01:59:08.920 brush Control or brush and stump killer or poison ivy killer, those are all 1580 01:59:09.239 --> 01:59:14.439 there's all kinds of things for killing that type of plant that contained trilope here. 1581 01:59:14.920 --> 01:59:17.560 So what you do is you cut the tree off and right away, 1582 01:59:18.039 --> 01:59:23.399 not an hour later, but right away, you take a little foam paintbrush 1583 01:59:23.520 --> 01:59:28.279 and dab the straight product right onto the cut surface. So you've cut the 1584 01:59:28.319 --> 01:59:31.079 try off and then you just dab this product right on that wound, that 1585 01:59:31.239 --> 01:59:36.479 fresh wound, especially around the outside part of the of the stump that you've 1586 01:59:36.520 --> 01:59:40.880 cut off, and it will move down in the soil and it will kill 1587 01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:45.000 it. Now, if it's a very strong plant, you may have to 1588 01:59:45.000 --> 01:59:46.239 do it a second time. If it doesn't get it all, but it's 1589 01:59:46.359 --> 01:59:50.560 very effective at controlling brush and poison ivy and anything like that. You just 1590 01:59:50.600 --> 01:59:56.640 want to create that wound to apply the straight product, not diluted right too. 1591 01:59:58.199 --> 02:00:01.079 Thank you so much. All right, good luck with that, Take 1592 02:00:01.119 --> 02:00:08.560 care having you as a listener. It just come on, come on, 1593 02:00:08.880 --> 02:00:13.560 turn a radio on, is right in, I a won'to gotta do my 1594 02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:18.439 hair, my man, gumma is right and I won't Welcome back to the 1595 02:00:18.479 --> 02:00:23.199 guard Line's good to have you with us. Today, looking forward to talking 1596 02:00:23.239 --> 02:00:25.920 to you about the things that are of interest to you. You know, 1597 02:00:26.520 --> 02:00:32.119 ACE Hardware Stores they pride themselves in carrying the products that you need to have 1598 02:00:32.560 --> 02:00:39.159 a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Do you need things to control weeds 1599 02:00:39.319 --> 02:00:44.600 or diseases or pests. Do you need things that will help enhance plant growth, 1600 02:00:44.640 --> 02:00:47.239 like fertilizers. If you hear me talk about a fertilizer on guardline, 1601 02:00:47.239 --> 02:00:51.239 they're going to have it at ACE Hardware that. That's what they do. 1602 02:00:51.640 --> 02:00:58.920 Fire at control, mosquito control products, everything to make your outdoor area a 1603 02:00:58.920 --> 02:01:03.199 little more pleasant. We have these invaders here in Texas, these fire ants 1604 02:01:03.520 --> 02:01:08.239 and things that just can make it unpleasant to be outside. Ace Harder can 1605 02:01:08.279 --> 02:01:11.159 fix that. They can help you fix that. They've got all kinds of 1606 02:01:11.159 --> 02:01:15.079 products. Perhaps you're dealing with some insects in the lawn and you need some 1607 02:01:15.159 --> 02:01:19.439 of the nitrofoss bug out Max. They've got that at ACE Hardware Stores. 1608 02:01:19.520 --> 02:01:24.640 Nitrofoss bug out Max is an insecticide. It's a granule. You put it 1609 02:01:24.680 --> 02:01:27.760 down, you apply it a little bit of water to soak it in to 1610 02:01:27.880 --> 02:01:31.199 the surface of the soil, soak it into the thatch and when ants and 1611 02:01:31.239 --> 02:01:35.520 fleas and ticks and chinchbugs things like that begin to feed in the lawn, 1612 02:01:35.880 --> 02:01:39.000 they're going to encounter it. And when you put it out, it's going 1613 02:01:39.039 --> 02:01:41.800 to last you all the way through this summer season. So you don't apply 1614 02:01:41.920 --> 02:01:45.359 it over and over and over again, but it'll go to work within two 1615 02:01:45.399 --> 02:01:48.439 days. It's already done the job that it's going to do on the insects 1616 02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:53.479 that are there. It works pretty quickly. Now. Nitrofoss bug Out Max 1617 02:01:53.520 --> 02:01:56.720 is available at all kinds of ACE hardware stores. You're going to find it 1618 02:01:56.760 --> 02:02:00.600 at places like the asen Sinco Ranch, the ACE hard City on Memorial Drive 1619 02:02:00.920 --> 02:02:05.279 in the Houston area Kingwood as a task Asta as you get the idea. 1620 02:02:05.800 --> 02:02:12.520 Nitrovis Bugout Max from Nitropos widely available. I'm very effective for pests that are 1621 02:02:12.560 --> 02:02:16.479 in your turf. And if you're wondering about that, go to the website 1622 02:02:16.560 --> 02:02:21.760 Gardening with Skip dot com. Download my lawn care schedule which tells you how 1623 02:02:21.800 --> 02:02:28.239 to grow a good lawn O water fertilized and also the past disease and wheat 1624 02:02:28.319 --> 02:02:32.159 management schedule. Two schedules on the website Gardening with skip dot com. The 1625 02:02:32.239 --> 02:02:36.960 second one deals with diseases, insects and weeds and how to manage those all 1626 02:02:36.960 --> 02:02:43.840 the way through the season. Both schedules offer both synthetic and organic options for 1627 02:02:44.000 --> 02:02:47.560 managing pests. We're going to now go to sugar Land and talk to Don 1628 02:02:47.640 --> 02:02:55.640 Hello, Doc Skip. I have a big question. I've got two different 1629 02:02:55.720 --> 02:03:00.800 pigs and their well, it's just two different plants. No one is getting 1630 02:03:00.840 --> 02:03:04.319 The figs are really the good size, but they have brown spots on them. 1631 02:03:05.159 --> 02:03:09.399 Is that anthracnose? And what's you to do with it? And then 1632 02:03:09.439 --> 02:03:14.760 also I have another tree. The figs are small. The thing goes straight 1633 02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:19.479 up or is real tall. Cut it back earlier in the year, but 1634 02:03:19.520 --> 02:03:24.399 the thing is still shot back up, and the figs are just diminutive in 1635 02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:30.680 size. And I don't know if some of it is a fertilizing we kind 1636 02:03:30.680 --> 02:03:34.600 of, you know, to fertilize it more or what's the issue with it. 1637 02:03:35.800 --> 02:03:41.319 Yeah, Well, generally speaking, figs don't need a lot of fertilizer. 1638 02:03:41.439 --> 02:03:45.159 They're very well, very willing to grow. It is possible that you 1639 02:03:45.279 --> 02:03:49.560 have, you know, the lack of nutrient in the soil, but generally 1640 02:03:49.600 --> 02:03:55.079 we don't have to add a whole lot when it comes to managing figs. 1641 02:03:55.119 --> 02:04:00.079 In fact, they they're very eager to grow, and sometimes so eager we 1642 02:04:00.199 --> 02:04:04.640 just say hold back if you have droughty conditions, if you have nematodes in 1643 02:04:04.680 --> 02:04:11.960 the soil, that definitely will affect the figs and detrimentally, and they can 1644 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:15.520 get some leaf diseases. One the primary one we see is rust. Figs 1645 02:04:15.560 --> 02:04:20.079 otherwise are pretty resilient as far as spots on the fruit. It could be 1646 02:04:20.119 --> 02:04:26.119 something that's just skin deep and is not really hurting the fruit. I see 1647 02:04:26.159 --> 02:04:30.840 those kinds of spots on figs from time to time. If it's actually causing 1648 02:04:30.119 --> 02:04:34.039 a decay of the fruit, I think we need to see a simple photo 1649 02:04:34.119 --> 02:04:39.800 of it to try to assess specifically what it is. But generally speaking, 1650 02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:45.199 we do not spray figs for fruit problems. Right, it's not affecting the 1651 02:04:45.319 --> 02:04:47.560 fruit. It just they look kind of weird, you know, like when 1652 02:04:47.560 --> 02:04:54.960 a banana turns colored sorts the spots on them, and also like papaya they 1653 02:04:55.039 --> 02:05:00.520 say that's anthracnose or something when they start getting spots. One, yeah, 1654 02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:04.640 I think the fig you're probably seeing it like a large, dark blotch right 1655 02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:11.159 on the Yeah, but they're they're over there over a lot of the surface, 1656 02:05:11.199 --> 02:05:15.520 and when they ripe and more, of course they have more. Okay, 1657 02:05:15.520 --> 02:05:17.840 smaller ones. Yeah, that could be a little bacterial spot or something 1658 02:05:17.920 --> 02:05:23.159 like that. My way of dealing with them is to ignore them. I 1659 02:05:23.199 --> 02:05:27.359 guess it could be bad enough to where you would want to do something, 1660 02:05:27.439 --> 02:05:30.520 But in general, I've never sprayed a fig for that, that kind of 1661 02:05:31.000 --> 02:05:34.119 that kind of thing. Okay, what do you think the other one that 1662 02:05:34.399 --> 02:05:40.399 grows real tall and the fruit is real small and maybe not as many figs 1663 02:05:40.479 --> 02:05:45.960 on it growing tall could be a result of just having a really good vigor, 1664 02:05:45.079 --> 02:05:48.560 maybe being a little lower light, so it's stretching to get sunlight. 1665 02:05:50.399 --> 02:05:56.039 I'm not you can always cut them back in the branch so that that would 1666 02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:00.720 be fine. I wouldn't do it right now. I'd wait until any fig 1667 02:06:00.800 --> 02:06:04.000 you have you've harvested off of it. As far as the small figs here, 1668 02:06:05.279 --> 02:06:11.479 okay, Okay, the small figs, some varieties are just smaller than 1669 02:06:11.479 --> 02:06:15.000 others, so that that could be a varietal thing. Some get huge, 1670 02:06:15.000 --> 02:06:17.800 some stay very small. Celeste, there's a smaller type of fig, but 1671 02:06:17.880 --> 02:06:24.479 it's a good one. Yeah, okay, yeah, So the only other 1672 02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:28.840 thing, yeah yeah, the only other thing thing, don would be if 1673 02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:32.600 you had nematodes in the soil, you could what you could do is take 1674 02:06:32.640 --> 02:06:36.319 a shovel and kind of go out maybe a foot from the plant and just 1675 02:06:36.399 --> 02:06:41.119 sort of lift the soil up and then with a strong blast of water, 1676 02:06:41.319 --> 02:06:44.800 blast the soil away and look at the roots and look for little knots on 1677 02:06:44.840 --> 02:06:50.039 the roots. Because it's going to take a significant nematode infestation to see problems 1678 02:06:50.079 --> 02:06:55.760 in the tree and figs or nematode magnets. So if you see that, 1679 02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:59.439 that's a different thing. Now our figs are struggling because of a lack of 1680 02:06:59.479 --> 02:07:03.159 water and true and availability brought on by the nematode infestation. And had you 1681 02:07:03.319 --> 02:07:13.560 kill nematods, there's not a good way that the you can uh clear everything 1682 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:16.880 out there's there, there's cover crops you grow to trap them. There used 1683 02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:21.479 to be people use the Fuma gun to fumigate the soil and truly kill them. 1684 02:07:21.920 --> 02:07:27.600 Otherwise we're basically moving the fig We're not moving it. We're taking a 1685 02:07:27.640 --> 02:07:30.399 cutting, reading that cutting and planting it somewhere else where. There aren't nematods 1686 02:07:30.399 --> 02:07:34.319 somewhere in your yard where there's not a nematod product. But there is not 1687 02:07:34.520 --> 02:07:41.920 a chemical cure for nematodes, not of an effective one. Okay, we'll 1688 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:45.840 let them fight it out. Well, you know, I've been dealing with 1689 02:07:45.880 --> 02:07:49.119 nematodes. I've got them in two spots in my yard. I just discovered 1690 02:07:49.159 --> 02:07:54.920 another one this week, and uh so I just uh yeah, you just 1691 02:07:54.960 --> 02:07:57.359 have to plant them in a different area. Some people grow them in a 1692 02:07:57.439 --> 02:08:03.600 very large container. That's an option. That's a little more effort to try 1693 02:08:03.640 --> 02:08:07.720 to do that. Mm hmm. Okay, enjoy your show, thank you. 1694 02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:11.720 Yeah, yeah, but don don do do the washing up of the 1695 02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:15.640 roots and look for the mots because it may not be nematodes at all. 1696 02:08:15.720 --> 02:08:18.520 You don't want to want to give it up until you've determined that's for sure 1697 02:08:18.520 --> 02:08:22.279 what it is. Okay, So you're looking for a little feeder root, 1698 02:08:22.359 --> 02:08:26.119 that's all you're looking for. Yeah, just small roots, and there'll be 1699 02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:30.359 little bumps on them. As they get bigger, the roots become swollen and 1700 02:08:30.439 --> 02:08:33.960 look like the mischiline man, you know, a lumpy him on the tomato 1701 02:08:35.119 --> 02:08:43.079 plants. Before. Yes, you probably have thanks. Thank you. All 1702 02:08:43.199 --> 02:08:46.399 right, well let's see here, let's go ahead and run out to the 1703 02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:50.720 heights and we're going to talk to Maria. Hello, Maria, Hello, 1704 02:08:50.800 --> 02:08:54.000 good morning. Yes, I have scale on my great myrtles, although I 1705 02:08:54.000 --> 02:08:58.880 did spring them in the spring. So what can I do without defoliating the 1706 02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:05.399 whole tree? Ah? Boy, Well, here's the problem with killing scale 1707 02:09:05.600 --> 02:09:11.279 on crp myrtles. The products that will do it also end up in the 1708 02:09:11.079 --> 02:09:16.600 nectar of the blooms and our pollinators in summer. They go to crate myrtles 1709 02:09:16.680 --> 02:09:22.199 quite a bit because it's one of the dependable blooming plants that carries us through 1710 02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:28.680 three months of summer. So I'm very slow to say we'll drench a systemic 1711 02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:33.760 insecticide around that tree, although it will be taken up by the roots and 1712 02:09:33.840 --> 02:09:37.399 kill the scale. You got that secondary damage, and if it's not too 1713 02:09:37.439 --> 02:09:41.159 big of a crape myrtle, you can just cut the blooms off to get 1714 02:09:41.159 --> 02:09:45.640 past that. And let's go ahead and knock the scale out first, and 1715 02:09:45.119 --> 02:09:48.880 then they can bloom next year or later in the season. Maybe that would 1716 02:09:48.880 --> 02:09:54.319 be one thing, but yeah, that's the big challenge with the crepe myrtle. 1717 02:09:54.319 --> 02:09:58.840 Bark scale. The other thing you can do, and this is going 1718 02:09:58.920 --> 02:10:01.079 to be trouble, but if you want to go to the trouble, you 1719 02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:09.239 can put a double sticky, double sided sticky tape around the branches that have 1720 02:10:09.319 --> 02:10:13.239 the little white scale you see the little white scale spots on the on the 1721 02:10:13.279 --> 02:10:18.720 plant, and do that in March, and then replace the tape if you 1722 02:10:18.800 --> 02:10:22.439 need to as it gets dusty and is no longer sticky. But keep watching 1723 02:10:22.479 --> 02:10:28.760 it. And when you see little tiny red crawlers with your scale in stuck 1724 02:10:28.800 --> 02:10:31.760 in that tape, that means now's the time, and you spray the whole 1725 02:10:31.800 --> 02:10:35.960 plant, every surface of that you can see, with an oil or an 1726 02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:43.159 insecticide in order to shut that scale down before it honkers down and becomes resistant 1727 02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:48.920 to pesticide applications to the surface of the plant. Okay, okay, I 1728 02:10:48.960 --> 02:10:52.039 know that that's a little more trouble, but that's the best way to time 1729 02:10:52.119 --> 02:10:56.600 it so that you can use something that's not going to hurt your pollinators. 1730 02:10:56.439 --> 02:11:01.439 Yeah, okay, sounds good. Thank you. I ready to talk to 1731 02:11:01.479 --> 02:11:05.079 you about the things that are of interest to you. Seven to one three 1732 02:11:05.199 --> 02:11:09.159 two one two k t R H seven one three two one two K t 1733 02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.399 R H. We're gonna run out right now and head let's see Santa Fe. 1734 02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.640 We're going to talk to Raphael. Hey, Raffael, welcome to Guardline. 1735 02:11:18.680 --> 02:11:20.960 Hey Skip, how you doing. I'm well, thank you. How 1736 02:11:22.000 --> 02:11:26.359 can we help? Yes, I have some browning in my Saint Augustine grass. 1737 02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:31.880 It appears just to be thatch, probably at the end of the stolen 1738 02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:37.039 you know, as it dies off, but it's actually causing my lawn not 1739 02:11:37.159 --> 02:11:41.279 to be as green as I want it. I did use about eight weeks 1740 02:11:41.279 --> 02:11:48.239 ago Nitrofoss slow release silver bag. Okay good, And I wanted to know 1741 02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:54.560 your opinion on the spray defchers to try to kind of make that thatch go 1742 02:11:54.640 --> 02:12:00.880 away quicker. I'm not sure which products you're specifically refer to there, but 1743 02:12:01.439 --> 02:12:07.960 basically that occurs when we're overwatering and over fertilizing and creating a lot of fast 1744 02:12:07.079 --> 02:12:11.840 runner growth. Uh And as a result, one runner climbs over the next 1745 02:12:11.840 --> 02:12:16.319 one, and they don't touch the soil as well as they should, and 1746 02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:20.239 so as a result we get we get a thatchy build up that doesn't decompose 1747 02:12:20.279 --> 02:12:24.039 away. You can put down a compost top dressing over them to help break 1748 02:12:24.079 --> 02:12:30.720 down the runner. That helps a lot. Returning your clippings helps with that 1749 02:12:30.920 --> 02:12:35.439 because those those little pieces of clipping, they decompose faster than the runners do, 1750 02:12:35.000 --> 02:12:39.199 but they help keep it moist so that the runners decompose a little bit 1751 02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:45.239 better. And then core aeration popping the plugs out of the soil, dropping 1752 02:12:45.239 --> 02:12:48.119 them up on top of the ground. All of those things work toward reducing 1753 02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:54.640 thatch in your in your Saint Augustine lawn. That helps a lot, Thank 1754 02:12:54.680 --> 02:12:58.399 you very much. Yeah, and you mentioned you said something earlier and I 1755 02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:01.359 didn't quite catch it, but it sounds like you said like the ends of 1756 02:13:01.399 --> 02:13:05.720 the runners are dying. Did you say it that way or am I misunderstanding? 1757 02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:09.399 Yeah, yes I did. I was watching some videos on YouTube mom 1758 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:16.560 in Novice. But these what I'm calling thatch is that that's still like attached. 1759 02:13:16.840 --> 02:13:22.079 In other words, it's not just loose thatch. This is still attached. 1760 02:13:22.159 --> 02:13:26.800 Yes. With Saint Augustine. It's very different than northern turf grasses, 1761 02:13:26.960 --> 02:13:31.079 where we do something called de thatching. With Saint Augustine, we don't do 1762 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:37.119 de thatching because it's an on top of the ground running grass and so if 1763 02:13:37.159 --> 02:13:41.560 you tried to use a de thatcher, it would be ripping up and wounding 1764 02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:45.880 all the runners, which is the life of the plant. Northern turf grasses 1765 02:13:45.920 --> 02:13:48.439 are more clumping and de thatching is a process that they use up there but 1766 02:13:48.600 --> 02:13:56.039 not down here. So what we do is the correoration and the compasstop dressings 1767 02:13:56.079 --> 02:14:00.399 and things like that, as well as getting back to a more moderate amount 1768 02:14:00.399 --> 02:14:07.000 of fertilizer to avoid growing ourself into a thatch problem. All right, yeah, 1769 02:14:07.319 --> 02:14:15.159 the deftch I guess spray that was advertised. I think it said that 1770 02:14:15.239 --> 02:14:20.720 they would help with the decomposition, it would make it quicker. Well, 1771 02:14:20.239 --> 02:14:24.800 I could see that that could help, But my again not knowing the specific 1772 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:28.800 spray or what's in it, my gut response on that is going to be 1773 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:33.760 Look, anything organic laying on the ground in nature is going to rot if 1774 02:14:33.760 --> 02:14:37.760 it's kept moist, if it dries out, it's not That's why the forest 1775 02:14:37.800 --> 02:14:43.960 floor is covered with dry leaves that are not decomposing, But underneath those where 1776 02:14:43.960 --> 02:14:48.199 they've covered up other leaves, those old leaves are decomposing because they stay moist. 1777 02:14:48.399 --> 02:14:52.960 Your runners on your grass plant are the slowest to decompose. Part of 1778 02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:58.119 the grass plant, the runners and the roots actually too, and so it 1779 02:14:58.640 --> 02:15:03.680 takes longer. If they're kept moist. There's already enough microbes in nature to 1780 02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:09.640 decompose them. So the spray maybe adding some sort of a microbe to speed 1781 02:15:09.720 --> 02:15:13.439 that up. But if it doesn't stay moist, it's not gonna work. 1782 02:15:13.960 --> 02:15:18.159 So I don't know that you need the spray. I would probably myself. 1783 02:15:18.079 --> 02:15:20.600 I mean, it wouldn't hurt to use them. I'm not saying don't use 1784 02:15:20.640 --> 02:15:24.600 them. I'm just saying I would just keep it moist out there. And 1785 02:15:24.640 --> 02:15:28.079 if you could do a little compost screened compost top dressing, I think that's 1786 02:15:28.119 --> 02:15:33.000 going to help your line and speed the decomposition too. Got it. Thank 1787 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.119 you very much, all right, good luck with that. Good luck with 1788 02:15:37.159 --> 02:15:41.239 that. I appreciate that. Yeah, the whole idea of thatch is something 1789 02:15:41.279 --> 02:15:48.840 we should talk about because whenever you have a southern turf grass that would be 1790 02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:54.720 Zeuisia, Saint Augustine, and Bermuda grass. All three of those are running 1791 02:15:54.000 --> 02:16:01.000 turf grass is not clumping further north where you're dealing with Kentucky bluegrass fescues of 1792 02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:05.800 various types of fescue. Those are clumping grasses, so you run a little 1793 02:16:05.840 --> 02:16:07.920 think of it. A de thatcher is like a rake with fingers that are 1794 02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:13.760 ripping the thatch up out near the soil surface. Well, that's fine with 1795 02:16:13.800 --> 02:16:16.600 a clumping grass, but when you have runners, they rip the runners up. 1796 02:16:16.640 --> 02:16:20.760 You're left with these strands on top. You're pulling them up out of 1797 02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:24.000 the ground, and it's just we don't do that. There is something called 1798 02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:28.720 vertict cutting, which is like vertically slicing blades. So think of it as 1799 02:16:28.840 --> 02:16:33.639 like an edger that goes around the edge of your patio or down the sidewalk, 1800 02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:37.399 and you're edging vertically cutting down in to cut the grass from running across. 1801 02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:43.600 Vertical cutters have cutting blades like that that are spaced out probably about four 1802 02:16:43.639 --> 02:16:50.040 inches apart for Saint Augustine, and they literally cut through the grass like that. 1803 02:16:50.559 --> 02:16:54.440 But even that I there, let me just say, at this weight, 1804 02:16:54.600 --> 02:16:58.120 most of the time, I would not recommend doing that for reasons that 1805 02:16:58.200 --> 02:17:01.879 our grass is often struggling with diseases, with drought, with heat, with 1806 02:17:01.360 --> 02:17:05.200 a lot of things, and so stresses don't need to be added to it. 1807 02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:11.040 I would put in a compost oop dressing so that those runners sitting on 1808 02:17:11.079 --> 02:17:15.719 top of the ground that are already naturally slow in their decomposition. They would 1809 02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:20.040 decompose faster as you water and keep it moist as you return your clippings and 1810 02:17:20.079 --> 02:17:24.959 put those wet high nitrogen clippings down on the surface of the soil. That 1811 02:17:24.040 --> 02:17:30.319 all helps speed the thatch, along with following my schedule, not overdoing the 1812 02:17:30.399 --> 02:17:35.639 nitrogen applications. Because we grow ourself into a thatched problem. People think clippings 1813 02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:41.600 contribute to thatch. Clippings decompose rapidly. They're like let us leaves out there. 1814 02:17:41.120 --> 02:17:46.680 They rot fast on the ground. On the surface. Runners are very 1815 02:17:46.760 --> 02:17:52.239 high in lignins, the tissues that don't decompose very fast, and that takes 1816 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:54.399 a longer time. So the more you create a lot of runner growth, 1817 02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:58.879 the more you create that so you grow yourself into thatch, you grow yourself 1818 02:17:58.920 --> 02:18:01.319 out of thatch. In my pin, by following those practices I was just 1819 02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:07.600 talking about, that is important. In fact, I need jake that low 1820 02:18:07.879 --> 02:18:11.360 like say low clip. We won't put that on social media with just a 1821 02:18:11.360 --> 02:18:15.200 little explanation if folks would like to refer back to it. In time. 1822 02:18:15.680 --> 02:18:20.920 You're listening to Guardline our phone number is seven one three two one two k 1823 02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:26.239 t r H. I am getting really close here to a break time, 1824 02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:28.920 so Elmer and Laporte, I'm going to hang on and take you right after 1825 02:18:28.959 --> 02:18:33.520 we come back from break. If you'd like to give Chris a call seven 1826 02:18:33.600 --> 02:18:35.879 one three two one two KT al right, you'll put you on the boards 1827 02:18:35.959 --> 02:18:41.000 and we will come to your call as well. We appreciate you listening to 1828 02:18:41.079 --> 02:18:46.200 guard Line. Just really enjoy helping you to have more success in your garden, 1829 02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:48.479 and that's why we're here. I hope you enjoy listening as well, 1830 02:18:48.520 --> 02:18:52.360 and tell your friends about Guardline. We uh, we always would like to 1831 02:18:52.399 --> 02:18:56.680 have more folks listening and being aware of the kind of help that is available. 1832 02:18:56.920 --> 02:19:01.600 And believe it or not, I can't running into you know, guarden 1833 02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:05.680 Line's been on the air for decades now back do he comptem, I wouldn't 1834 02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.360 call garden Line back then. But back in the fifth nineteen fifties, this 1835 02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:13.799 show started and it's just been going for all those decades and still are runded 1836 02:19:13.879 --> 02:19:16.559 a lot of people that aren't aware of it, that are gardeners. I 1837 02:19:16.559 --> 02:19:20.280 don't know how that happens, but let's stop it. Let's let them know 1838 02:19:20.360 --> 02:19:24.479 about garden line and so they can have success with their garden in their landscap, 1839 02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:26.760 hopefully a little bit of fun along the way. We'll be right back, 1840 02:19:30.159 --> 02:19:35.600 Brandon. Just speak to them day do I've got plenty to talk about 1841 02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:39.559 this morning as we enter our last segment of the day. If you've not 1842 02:19:39.639 --> 02:19:43.479 been out at the arbor gate recently, you need to go now. I 1843 02:19:43.559 --> 02:19:46.719 just I want you to hear this for a minute. Just listen to me 1844 02:19:46.760 --> 02:19:50.600 for a second. When it gets to be summertime, people are like, 1845 02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:54.520 oh, it's hot, I can't plan anymore. You know, it's my 1846 02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:58.719 plants are going to die out there. That is not true. If you 1847 02:19:58.760 --> 02:20:01.959 take care of your plan and pick plants that want to be here in the 1848 02:20:01.959 --> 02:20:07.879 summer, and Arbigate has got an unbelievable selection of those. You can go 1849 02:20:07.920 --> 02:20:13.680 to Arbigate and you can find things like Thrialis tryalis Is Showers of gold is 1850 02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:18.840 another term for it. It's a perennial slash shrub type plant and it blooms 1851 02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:22.680 more months of the year than just about anything I know, beautiful yellow blooms. 1852 02:20:22.719 --> 02:20:26.639 If you shear it back, it'll just come back denser and more beautiful. 1853 02:20:28.280 --> 02:20:31.319 It is an excellent plant. By the way, deer are not fond 1854 02:20:31.360 --> 02:20:37.120 of thrialis. Either things likevillia. We know those like hot weather. Duranta 1855 02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:39.840 likes hot weather. Roses can still bloom in hot weather if you give them 1856 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:43.360 some water, prune them back periodically, fertilize them, keep them vigorous. 1857 02:20:45.280 --> 02:20:52.440 Arburgate's got lantanas that are just outstanding, just great repeat bloomers through the summertime 1858 02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:56.040 in shade. Do you need something like kalladiums or impatience for example, They've 1859 02:20:56.079 --> 02:21:00.559 got that. Now there's a plant out there that I think you really need 1860 02:21:00.600 --> 02:21:03.479 to Actually, I can't limit myself to one. Excuse me. I've already 1861 02:21:03.479 --> 02:21:07.360 mentioned a bunch of them. But there's Vinka, which is a summer blooming 1862 02:21:07.399 --> 02:21:11.799 annual. It is wonderful. There's a little dwarf type of vinka because sorie 1863 02:21:13.760 --> 02:21:16.760 that one. The blooms are small. It makes a little bit of a 1864 02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:22.360 mound that spreads outward a little bit wider. Beautiful plant and one that you 1865 02:21:22.440 --> 02:21:26.639 got to go buy an ask for. And it's called sun believable Helianthus. 1866 02:21:26.680 --> 02:21:31.319 Unbelievable Helianthus that is a shrub's been around for several years now in the market, 1867 02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:35.239 and it just blooms and blooms and blooms, and it can take the 1868 02:21:35.280 --> 02:21:41.040 heat. Salvia's like the nemerosa types of salvias. Those are excellent for the 1869 02:21:41.079 --> 02:21:45.239 summer. All kinds of salvias are excellent for the summer, and they're all 1870 02:21:45.239 --> 02:21:48.079 at Arburgate. Go by there. Now is a great time to get these 1871 02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:52.159 things planted. It is still a good season for that. Listen, think 1872 02:21:52.159 --> 02:21:56.280 about it this way. It is the beginning of July. It is going 1873 02:21:56.360 --> 02:21:58.559 to be October before things start to cool off around here a little bit. 1874 02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:03.879 Well, look at all those months of color that you can have if you 1875 02:22:03.920 --> 02:22:07.719 get those things in the landscape and turn that sea of green into something beautiful. 1876 02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:11.239 From Arburgate, they're on twenty nine to twenty west of Tomball. Just 1877 02:22:11.280 --> 02:22:16.479 take Trishel Road around behind the arbor Gate and see that wonderful new parking lot 1878 02:22:16.639 --> 02:22:20.719 where it's really easy to get in and get out safely. You got to 1879 02:22:20.760 --> 02:22:24.639 go to Arburgate. Don't let summer thwart you. There's a lot that needs 1880 02:22:24.680 --> 02:22:28.440 to be planted right now, and Arburgate's got you set up for just that. 1881 02:22:30.159 --> 02:22:35.079 We are going to now head back to look at the calls here I've 1882 02:22:35.079 --> 02:22:37.319 got my computer screen is deciding whether it wants to play with me or not. 1883 02:22:37.399 --> 02:22:41.760 There we go. We're going to go to Laporte and talk to Elmer. 1884 02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:46.000 Hello, Elmer, Hey, good morning. I've got three questions for 1885 02:22:46.040 --> 02:22:48.440 you. I'll make them real quick. The first one is, I just 1886 02:22:48.440 --> 02:22:52.479 want to confirm my ceatrus trees that I've got our twenty fifteen foot tall. 1887 02:22:52.600 --> 02:22:56.000 One is a grapefruit, one is a lemon tree, and one is an 1888 02:22:56.000 --> 02:23:00.520 orange tree. I can want of those every day, once a day, 1889 02:23:00.920 --> 02:23:03.799 twice a week, three times a week, or just once. Yeah, 1890 02:23:03.959 --> 02:23:11.120 I'm not sure a well established citrus plant like yours the one size you're describing, 1891 02:23:11.159 --> 02:23:16.120 those are well established in the absence of any rainfall at all. If 1892 02:23:16.159 --> 02:23:20.879 you watered them once, maybe twice a week at the most, is all 1893 02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:24.479 you would need to do. Probably a good soaking. Now, now, 1894 02:23:24.479 --> 02:23:26.920 when we say water, I don't mean it like, you know, a 1895 02:23:26.959 --> 02:23:31.959 half inch of water or something that just barely wets the surface of the mulch. 1896 02:23:31.000 --> 02:23:35.319 But I'm talking about soaking the soil good. Once a week would be 1897 02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:39.159 plenty for your citrus. Okay. Secondly, I want to buy a tree 1898 02:23:39.200 --> 02:23:43.680 where I can take my trailer and give my back on big a hole and 1899 02:23:43.799 --> 02:23:46.600 just buy a big old tree. And I don't know where to go to. 1900 02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:48.559 What would you recommend me to go? Buy a tree where I can 1901 02:23:48.600 --> 02:23:50.040 just plant it in my yarn and get my back on big a hole. 1902 02:23:50.479 --> 02:23:54.520 And then I'll go to the last question here And then you're in Laporte. 1903 02:23:54.840 --> 02:23:58.280 So if you just go up the street a little bit there, you can 1904 02:23:58.319 --> 02:24:03.200 go to Moss Nursery, which is out there in Seabrook, not very far 1905 02:24:03.239 --> 02:24:05.879 away from you, down the road you want to, you know, head 1906 02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:11.040 a little bit. We got a lot of great nurseries and garden centers and 1907 02:24:11.040 --> 02:24:15.399 whatnot, but Seabrook Moss Nursery is probably about the closest one to you. 1908 02:24:15.719 --> 02:24:20.879 If you go down to. They have full grown trees. I mean, 1909 02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:22.280 I'm not full verdent, you know what I mean, something that's pretty big 1910 02:24:22.360 --> 02:24:26.520 already. Yeah they got oh yeah, they got pretty good sized ones too. 1911 02:24:26.600 --> 02:24:28.399 You can ask them depends on the counter tree you want as to what 1912 02:24:28.559 --> 02:24:31.680 size they may have it in, but they're gonna have large sizes out there. 1913 02:24:33.120 --> 02:24:39.280 If you head over to the Just give me one second, just Vergant 1914 02:24:39.600 --> 02:24:43.440 v e r d a n T. Verdant Tree Farm is in Paarland, 1915 02:24:45.040 --> 02:24:46.559 So that's a little bit of a drive for you, but still not too 1916 02:24:46.600 --> 02:24:52.959 far, that's what they say. And they have Verdant Tree Farm v e 1917 02:24:52.079 --> 02:25:00.760 r d A n T. The Verdant v E r D and Tea. 1918 02:25:01.680 --> 02:25:03.479 Verdant has a lot of different kinds of trees. They have palm trees, 1919 02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:07.760 they've got standard types of trees for shade and blooms and whatnot. That where 1920 02:25:07.799 --> 02:25:11.879 you go, those two pretty close to you and one is more of you 1921 02:25:11.920 --> 02:25:15.120 know, kind of like the little retail source of Seabrook a garden center. 1922 02:25:15.799 --> 02:25:20.479 Great plants there Paarland, the Verden Tree Farm, that's what they specialize in. 1923 02:25:20.559 --> 02:25:22.239 They come out and do the planting themselves. It sounds like you want 1924 02:25:22.280 --> 02:25:26.239 to do a do it yourself for though. Oh yeah yeah. And lastly, 1925 02:25:26.399 --> 02:25:31.200 and this was this was a complicated one. So I've got an area 1926 02:25:31.280 --> 02:25:35.760 about fifteen feet about five feet area where my wife wants me to plant some 1927 02:25:35.719 --> 02:25:39.600 you know, four or five foot evergreens and live with this way make it 1928 02:25:39.639 --> 02:25:43.600 like a landry type scenario restaurant. When you see the do I need to 1929 02:25:43.639 --> 02:25:46.440 actually dig the ground up. Or can I go buy like a dump truck 1930 02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:50.079 of dirt, dump it down, separated and then plant those plants. What 1931 02:25:50.200 --> 02:25:54.399 do I need to do in that case to plant and make it look like 1932 02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:58.159 that landryes types you know when you see that jounery when you go to the 1933 02:25:58.239 --> 02:26:03.840 restaurants, right, So what you want to do digging a hole and putting 1934 02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:09.360 good soil in it just creates an underground bathtub. Think if the clay soil 1935 02:26:09.399 --> 02:26:11.000 as something that holds water, all right, you dig a hole and do 1936 02:26:11.079 --> 02:26:16.239 that. I would put the mix on top. Buy a good quality bed 1937 02:26:16.280 --> 02:26:20.360 mix. If you don't know which one to get, something called roast soil 1938 02:26:20.440 --> 02:26:24.399 would be a good one. I know airline soils creates roast soil. The 1939 02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:31.239 nature's way up toward conradirection delivers all through the area too. They do that. 1940 02:26:31.280 --> 02:26:35.040 And if you put that down, I would put it down about three 1941 02:26:35.079 --> 02:26:39.280 or four inches deep, and then I would mix it with the soil you 1942 02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:43.319 have, and then I would add more on top of the good soil. 1943 02:26:46.879 --> 02:26:50.239 Because the area that I want to do, the area that I want to 1944 02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:54.280 do is probably about fifteen foot long and about six foot wide. So I 1945 02:26:56.159 --> 02:26:58.120 thought in my mind. The easy thing is go get a freaking dumb cruck 1946 02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:01.319 of just top soil, dump it out, and then plant the plants on 1947 02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:07.159 top of that. Yeah, and I didn't know that makes sense. No, 1948 02:27:07.159 --> 02:27:11.000 No, you could do that. I just rather than having like your 1949 02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:15.959 standard soil, think of it as your driveway with concrete, and then you 1950 02:27:16.000 --> 02:27:18.520 put a good mix on top. You have this interface where it goes from 1951 02:27:18.559 --> 02:27:22.280 wonderful soil to crummy soil. I would put four inches three or four inches 1952 02:27:22.319 --> 02:27:26.600 down, mix them together, and then put the good stuff more of it 1953 02:27:26.639 --> 02:27:30.639 on top. And that way you have a trus from good stuff down into 1954 02:27:30.799 --> 02:27:33.639 not so good stuff that's a little bit better. Otherwise, sometimes you end 1955 02:27:33.719 --> 02:27:37.239 up with what's called a perch water table, where the water goes down and 1956 02:27:37.319 --> 02:27:41.159 hits that bad soil and doesn't go any further. If you would lock to 1957 02:27:41.200 --> 02:27:43.559 hold on, I'm gonna have to run take a little break here. Well, 1958 02:27:45.280 --> 02:27:50.120 gosh,'re at the end of the day. Sorry about that, 1959 02:27:50.479 --> 02:27:52.559 Elmer. I would That's what I would do. I would mix it in. 1960 02:27:52.639 --> 02:27:56.360 I would add the good stuff on top. If you want to drive 1961 02:27:56.520 --> 02:28:00.959 over to Sienna, Texas, that's just south and a little to the west. 1962 02:28:00.959 --> 02:28:05.120 Of Houston off Highway six near Iowa Colony in Arcola. That area that's 1963 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:09.799 where seeing a multius. They only deliver about twenty miles. But if you 1964 02:28:09.799 --> 02:28:11.959 can go get it, they're going to have those excellent soils. And that's 1965 02:28:11.959 --> 02:28:16.280 gonna be about the closest source that I would recommend to you for all of 1966 02:28:16.280 --> 02:28:22.319 They makes us like a rose soil or a yeah much all right, you 1967 02:28:22.360 --> 02:28:26.079 got it. I appreciate you, man. You stay safe, all right. 1968 02:28:26.159 --> 02:28:30.520 Hey, once you get that in then all you need to do is 1969 02:28:30.559 --> 02:28:35.840 turn the house into a restaurant and I'll come visit. Wonderful week. Dam 1970 02:28:35.680 --> 02:28:39.440 I won't go Landrys, I'll come to your place. Thanks a lot, 1971 02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:41.200 you guys. Will be back tomorrow