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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's

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smell crazy just watching as woods becomes
back kicking. Well, good morning on

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what is going to be a good
Saturday. You're listening to Garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Rictor,
and wow it is. You know,

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it's like I've been traveling all this
week and it just feels like I've started

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in a new dimension here this morning, with with my brain being on all

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kinds of other things, and suddenly
here we are back in the saddle again,

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ready to talk about gardening with you
guys. In fact, we're gonna

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not even hesitate. David's been out
there hanging on for a little wastle.

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We're gonna jump on the line and
see what's happening with David out in southwest

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Houston. How's it going, David, It's going good. Blessed morning,

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Skip, Thank you. I noticed
in my grass that it's either will it's

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turning yellow or gold and some big
spots. Don't know if it's brown patch

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or what's a bug called chinch bugs? Yes, uh, it's not it's

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not chinch bugs. You know,
if it's kind of doing gold and you

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don't have any fully brown and stuff
like that you're seeing, that's not that

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and it's not brown patch. I
think what you're seeing it could be several

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things. First of all, I'm
you might just check and grab some of

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the grass and pull on it just
a little bit, you know, like

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a big handful. So try to
like you're picking up a carpet, and

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see if it does lift up off
the ground like that pretty easily, or

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if it's still firmly pegged down.
That's gonna be a long shot, but

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that would be grubs. I think
what you're probably looking at is take all

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root rot disease. Now, I
can't diagnose a disease based on, hey,

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my grass is turning yellow, uh, you know, information, but

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having seen a lot of this stuff, that would be the first thing I

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would I would be curious about.
Are these areas in any particular location like

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shade or sun or next to a
driveway, or you know anything unique about

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where you're you're seeing these or are
they random? No? Not really,

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I have no trees and I am
water and at nighttime around three o'clock I

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have a sprinkler system, So I
don't think it's because you know, not

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enough water, too much water.
Okay, I did do the can.

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I did do the can the other
day and push you down and put water

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in there and didn't see any bucks
come up or anything like that. So

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okay, will there be anything of
a fungus or anything that, well,

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take All is a fungus, and
you know, I know water and like

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at three the only thing about that, And this isn't a you know,

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it's like a black and white issue, like you absolutely can't do that.

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But when you water, let's say, toward midnight end of things, or

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even late in the evening, your
your grass tends to stay wet for longer

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over the period of the evening,
and that moisture for over time can help

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predispose things to certain disease problems.
I don't think that's what the problem is

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with what you're describing. It could
be take All ride and the only way

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to tell for sure, I mean, you could send me a photo of

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it from a distance. I'm not
going to be able to diagnose it specifically,

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but I can tell you, yeah, that really does look like take

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All instead of me just kind of
picture and what you're saying, or the

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best way is to take a sample
and send it up to the state Plant

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clinic and they will for a for
a fee, they do a diagnosis of

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it. They actually get it in
and look at it under a microscope and

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look for the fungus itself. So
we could do this one or two ways.

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I mean, you could you could
go that root so we know,

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you know what we're aiming for,
or you could just aim toward take all

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root right treatment, uh, and
then hope that works and if it doesn't,

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well then you're back to Okay,
let's look at plan B here.

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Okay, it sounds less for a
life. They would have the stuff that

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I need to take care of it
there. Oh absolutely, yeah they Okay,

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you're talking about the products and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I know

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that was kind of a dumb question. Okay, Well, yeah, Southwest

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Fertilizer they have everything. Oh I
know, I know, I know,

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I know they're there there. Might
go to the outside of call it.

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So what's the best time I should
set my sprinkler system the water to the

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yard? You know. It ideally
would be about like six in the morning

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or something, because it's the coolest
part of the day. Uh, and

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it you know, you give it
a good soaking and then the sun's coming

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up and it's kind of drying off
the surfaces. To keep it from sitting

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wet for so long, that would
be ideal. But again, this isn't

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like a huge problem like if you
water it three you're gonna kill everything.

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It just it's just leans a little
bit in that direction. That that's all

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I'm saying. But if you'd like
to stay on, I can put your

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on hold. Josh can give you
an email and you can send us a

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picture or if you want to go
to send a sample in also send me

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the email in Los Angeles video on
how to take a turf sample. But

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you're going to send it to plant
clinic. Uh dot TAMU dot edu.

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It's really easy. It's plant clinic. One word. Okay, whatche dot

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dot it's it's at A and M. So it's dot t A m U

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dot E d U. I have
a picture, Okay, I appreciate it.

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I do have a picture. If
you put me on hold, I'll

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afford that to you. All right, I'm gonna put your on hole right

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here, and Josh is taking care
of some callers and he'll be right with

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you. All right, Yeah,
you know. The diagnosing plant problems,

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I mean, we can do it
visually. Some of them are easy.

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You look at them and like the
what people still call brown patch. Technically

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it's now large patch is the name, but uh, you know, the

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big brown circles and here we are
and first of October, get this little

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coal front front blow through and here
comes the circles. That that's easy visually.

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But there are other diseases you really
need to get a get a good

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look at in order to diagnose them
effectively. And that's one of the advantages

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of having a plant clinic available,
you know. I mean, if you're

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going to go out shop for a
products, spend money on it, come

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home, take time to apply it, and you had the wrong product,

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you know, misdiagnosed, Well,
nobody's happy with that, right. So

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that's one reason why for a lot
of things, I just say, especially

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with valuable plants, it's probably better
to have a diagnosis so you know for

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sure what you're going after. Let's
see here. This past week I was

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at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association
trade Show or Expose, what they call

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it in San Antonio, and this
is a this is like you know,

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it's like going to some giant thing
at George O. Brown Conventions that are

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I mean, they are booths everywhere. A lot of our sponsors were there.

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Is good to kind of touch base
and catch up with some of those

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folks. Gosh, I can sit
here, start to name up. I'm

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sure I'll leave you up. But
I saw I talked with the folks at

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Ego Garden. Nitro FoST fertilizer was
there. Let's see. Nelson plant Food

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and Microlive plant food were both there
at the event. I caught up with

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Dave with r CW. That was
kind of nice and rich Eddie while Bird

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was out there. Just lots of
good, kind of a lower reunion to

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get out there and get to visit
with people. But walking through the place,

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I mean there's a lot of cool
stuff. I'll talk about that more

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a little bit later. Right now, we're gonna go take a break and

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do some news or not news,
but just get you know, pay the

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bills. If you'd like to get
on the air, our phone number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Good morning on a

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Saturday morning that is going to turn
out really nice. I think being outside

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yesterday I really enjoyed just early in
the day, you know, kind of

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getting out was a little cooler and
poking around and doing some things. I

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was done to Santonio yesterday for a
conference and it was just a pleasant time

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to get out and walk around.
Well, I'll tell you something, you

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know, a while back, I
was in a let's just say a national

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chain store and there was an employee
there standing in front of the aisle of

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all these pesticides, herbicides, fungicides
and everything else. I began talking to

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them, asking a couple of questions
that I always like to kind of find

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out whether people are up to date
and know what they're talking about or not.

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And they absolutely did not. And
I ask him, was, so,

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how long you've been working here?
Well, they've been there a week.

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And what did you do before?
Well? I was a hairstylist.

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Okay. I don't think that prepares
you to sell chemicals to people that are

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going to go out and try to
kill stuff with it. But anyway,

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that is why I love our mom
and pop garden centers, and something like

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that is not going to happen at
a place like Plants for All Seasons.

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For example, the Flowerty family there
has been doing that for all seasons,

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I think since nineteen seventy three.
They know what they're talking about. You

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bring them in a sample, in
a baggie, bring them in a photo.

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They can tell you what it is. And that is very valuable because

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again, as I said earlier,
you know, you go, take time

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to get go somewhere, you buy
a product, you come home, you

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try it, it doesn't work because
it was the wrong product for what you

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have, and then you got to
go back and start over again. Waste

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of time and money. Not at
Plants for All Seasons. True lawn and

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garden experts, from education to selection, to delivery, to planting, even

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custom potting. They're the ones.
I mean, they know what they're talking

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about. They're right there on tom
Ballparkway FM two forty nine where Luetta comes

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in, right at that intersection or
almost at that intersection, and just go

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in and it's a beautiful place.
Their selection is unbelievable. You can go

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online Plants for All Seasons dot com, or you can give them a call

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two eight one three seven six one
six four six one cool thing that they

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have out there that I had not
seen one of these before. But rangoon

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creeper is a vine that has these
big clusters of pink and white. Are

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pink red and white as they fade, the change our colors, flowers,

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beautiful, beautiful, and they have
a double one. I didn't even know

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a double one existed. So if
you are interested in a plant nobody's got,

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well, I would say this would
be it, or a good example

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of one, and it's out there
at plants for all season. Jet to

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go check them out. Today,
we're gonna head out to the phones and

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we're gonna make a long trip out
here to Titusville, Florida and talk to

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DC. Hello, DC, I
should get how are you doing well?

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I'm well, thank you. How
can we help? I don't know if

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you ever heard of this, but
we got something here in Florida called alligator

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reed. When you look at it, if you if you actually let it

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grow, it actually looks like Saint
Augustine, but it's a darker color.

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But you literally just put your hands
in and just pull it right out without

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a problem. So it's one of
you stop that from spreading, other than

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going and picking it out by hand. Yeah, is it. Is it

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in your Sat Augustine lawn? Yes, okay, a broad leaf, a

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post emergent, we'll do a pretty
good job on it. Alligator weed is

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not one we normally deal with in
lawns over here in Texas. Just just

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difference, a little bit difference in
our climates like that. But you can

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I don't know. The stuff that
would have triclopier in it would work very

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very well. Triclopier is a brush
killer, but you want to be very

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careful using it. I would not
treat it now, and I would be

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very careful with using it. You
may have trouble finding tricolo pier in a

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lawn labeled home application, so that
would be one challenge. Some people will

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use just a product that kills everything, like a glyphosate product, and just

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rub it over the top of it, just kind of a wicker Wick type

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applicator of it. And that that's
another strategy that's excuse me, some people

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have used for it. Uh,
it's just it's it's not a super easy

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one to kill without hurting your Saint
Augustine. And that's the problem. Now,

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you probably don't have control of this, but if you can make it

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dryer. Uh, the alligator weed
isn't going to do as well as when

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it has a lot of water,
So that that's a way not to control

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it, but just to kind of
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a lot of the waterways they import
a certain kind of insect that basically eats

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it up. Well, the thing
is is that it gets really inside the

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Saint Augustine, Yes, and it
literally just grows from underneath, and and

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the stoles and all that stuff are
just they're just covered with this thing.

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You're just it's it's like I said, it looks darker green than normals Saint

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Augustine like fourte yourself. Yeah,
I'm familiar with it, and you're right

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about that. The thing about it
and has is a little white kind of

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white balls blooms on it. The
little small white white blooms. I don't

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know if you've run across that or
not, but yeah, we normally deal

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with it in an aquatic habitat,
and that's why it's kind of a challenge

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once you once you get it down
into a lawn. I'm trying to think

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of of another product that might might
work on it. Pretty much everything I

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know that's labeled for it is labeled
more for waterways, or it's it's too

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hard on your lawn. So I
think that that's probably I can't think of

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another lawn herbicide that you might you
might try on it other than what I

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just meantion thing you do. If
you go out there, when you see

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a patcher, when you pull it
out, yeah, that's gonna be a

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that's gonna be a job. And
I don't know. Let's see the alligator

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weed. I believe that one is
that that's a perennial. It's gonna come

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back each year, and so I
don't know that that pulling may not be

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that great. I think if it
remind what I would do is I would

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get a product that kills, you
know, just a general killer like a

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glyphosate product and a wiper applicator.
Because the alligator weed will it'll come up

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above your lawn if you don't mow
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higher for you? Yeah? Yeah, So if you can give it some

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time to get up there, I
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but then at least you can get
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the saint Augustine. That's that's the
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all right, Like I said,
you know, I can also let it

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grow and it will look a pretty
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it's pretty grass. Yeah it is, but it is, but it's uh,

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I don't know. I don't know. You're right, it's dark green

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and it finds along. But I
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to you. Okay, all right, thank you for the call, thank

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you for the inform machine. I'll
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how it goes. All right,
thank you very much. I appreciate that.

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Just be careful with the things I
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All right, that's all? Yeah, well absolutely absolutely sure, you

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bet. Yeah. You know,
find talking about finding products and stuff.

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When you go aroundtown and you see
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that is a garden center. It's
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have their section where they sell all
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the fungicide, herbicides, all of
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recommend it on garden Line. You're
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Hardware, and there's thirty nine around
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that ACE Hardware dot Com. Look
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do they have the products, but
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ACE Hardbreast, so they have everything
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first time in recent times that I
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at how amazing the way the stores
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ACE Hardware is just go ahead and
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in there to get you some garden
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lot more that you definitely want.
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we're gonna talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, good morning. How are

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you doing well? I'm well,
how are you? And I wanted to

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know what beneficial nematodes will control chinch
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but the you know how there's off
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yeah, butt to this one.
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right kind of nematode. There's a
couple of species out there there don't the

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names don't matter, but Steiner needed
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nematodes that are used in insect control. They call them entomopathic nematodes. So

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you got to buy one that's labeled
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Flease, they'll attack them in the
larval stage. Flease lay eggs in the

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lawn and the eggs hatch out into
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stage where the nematodes have to hit
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that entomopathic nematodes are effective. I
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I've never heard of using them for
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and so when we get into June, when the grubs have hatched and

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are young, feeding at the surface. You can use them in a lawn,

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but they're living organisms, so you
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the garage for a month and they're
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You've got to follow the label.
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and then use the nematode and then
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soil, because basically you're spraying a
bunch of little tiny worms out there that

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are you want to wash down,
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bodies and move in and do what
they do. That's very been It would

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be good information. I'd like to
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I like to spray the foliage in
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a mist, and I think that
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through the roots. Yet to be
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misting the trunk and the foliage I
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to I have to disagree with you
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of water that can actually move in
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root system, uh, you know. And plus when you get the leaves

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wet a lot, if you do
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of your leaf diseases. But that
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or results with it. I think
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I think works good for me.
Well, well, Gary, I appreciate

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the call on good luck with those
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I may look around a little bit
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on the air today, if I
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I'm just I would be hesitant as
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on those other lawn pests, they
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much. Stay cool, all right, Thank you very much. I appreciate

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that very much. You know,
are you looking for a quality soil?

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And I hope you are, because
everything everything begins in the soil. Airloom

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Soils is the place you go.
I mean, and you don't even have

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to go. I mean, they're
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at a number of our sponsors that
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hardware stores, feed stores, garden
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They've got the one yard superstack super sacks.

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So imagine someone brings one of those
little take home grocery sacks that holds

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a whole cubic yard and drops it
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about. You can call them from
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They have a really good deal new
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yard on rose and Rose soil is
about the best mix you can get for

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all kinds of general purpose work.
That's Heirloom Soils of Texas. We're gonna

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take a break here and do the
news. Our phone number is seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Well, good morning. The

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dark sky is lightning just slightly outside
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the making. Though. I just
enjoy getting out in summertime in the morning

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early on, getting my gardening work
done and just enjoying. I love mornings

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outside because of the birds. That's
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it's the most pleasant time of the
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songs of the birds are so cool. In fact, I need to talk

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a little bit more about birds later
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that extra dimension. You know.
We have a number of senses. We've

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got a site we got smell,
we've got sound and so on. Well,

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sound in the garden, the sound
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are two things that can really enhance
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to do. I was saying,
here are some houseplants the other day using

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of course, the Microlife bio Matrix
orange label. That's a seven one three

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product seven one three. There's also
the Microlife Ocean Harvest Blue label, which

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is I think it's best to use
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That's a four two three ratio a
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use it as folior feed. Works
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fertilizer, it's gonna provide a lot
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they do so so well when you
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couart jug. I mixed mine and
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know, use them as a liquid
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really good. You get a good
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By the way, it's also packed
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the soil root. Oh my gosh, I'm still thinking about the phone call

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from Gary. Now it's not packed
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microbes. I guess that's closed.
But yeah, you know, roots need

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microbes. Absolutely. Microbes make the
world go around. And when you got

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that biomatrix the orange label, you're
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that you use it on the plants. And I can see from my own

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plants that it does. It does
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to it. Well, let's head
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talk to John V. Good morning, John V, Good morning Skips,

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and good morning garden Line. Yes, my question is on the excuse me

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one second. Is that the red
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know about I know it. We
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grew all the way about to the
second story really so needs a lot of

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space. And there's a species a
native plant to Texas. Is that why

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the name? Uh Texas star?
Okay, okay, could you turn the

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radio off in the background or something? Oh, yeah, the radio's not

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on. I apologize, I'm on
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so yes, so Texas, I've
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red Texas star hybiscus. Yeah,
okay, well like a two story There's

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some other types of hibiscus that can
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Texas Star. Interestingly enough, it's
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to Texas. It's got Texas in
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know, Southeast Texas is not quite
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here. It absolutely loves it here, and it does really, really well.

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It'll put up with some very wet
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conditions. I've got some at home
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always having to run out there and
water to keep it happy. So yeah,

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this is but it does well here. It comes in the red that

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you're familiar with, but it also
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How beautiful is that? Well,
that's wonderful. So it comes in two

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seas because it's got five petals.
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the star, so that's that's wonderful. That's where it got its name.

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but Hey, what do they say, I wasn't born in Texas, but

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I got here as fast as I
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Star. We'll go ahead and let
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Texas. Well, thank you y'all
have a wonderful Saturday. All right,

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you two, thank you very much. John appreciate that. Do you have

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pest problems? Well, if you
have a house, you probably have pest

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problems. You got some cockroaches running
around, you got some silver fish that

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are chewing up your books, and
all the other things that happen around when

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we've got this little six legged creatures
living in the world we live in.

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McGrath pest Control is the one you
need to talk to. You know,

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they've been here since what nineteen seventy
four, Scott's dad Scott McGrath's dad started

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it over over forty eight years ago. Still family run. They cover all

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your pest control needs. And what
is pest You know, pests don't have

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to have six legs. They can
have four legs too. In fact,

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some people would say some pests have
two legs. But anyway, things like

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rodents, raccoons, things like termites
in the wall, and some mosquitoes.

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With each season, the pests we're
mostly dealing with change season to season.

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You know, September to February,
we're about to get into big time rodent

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season. McGrath can help with control
and exclusion. McGrath does not tell you

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I'm gonna come sometime tomorrow afternoon.
They schedule a time and they show up

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at the time. They said.
That's why they're so highly related. On

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all the review sites, the owner
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The owner is accessible to all customers. You can go on line to

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McGrath pest Control dot com or call
them two eight one four six nine eighty

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two forty. With McGrath it's modern
technology and techniques with old fashion customer service.

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McGrath Pest Control. I always enjoy
visiting with Scott. Just a wealth

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of information. I mean, if
you want to know anything about pess,

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that guy knows it for sure.
You're listening to garden Line. Our phone

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number is seven one three, two
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three two to fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call, get you

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on the boards and talk about some
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if you're in an active adult age
fifty five and better, and you are

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looking for a new home, a
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just really enjoy a very active life, you know, with lifestyle programs designed

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around you. Well, that's a
dell Web community, I mean. And

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there's a new one, by the
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in full sure. It's on FM
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from downtown, and it has a
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garden, to me, just makes
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Beautiful homes, beautiful quality or a
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It makes it even better. Community garden.

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You can get more information there or
just give them call to eight one

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four five nine zero six zero nine. I need to get I need to

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get back out there effective and talking
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that direction, check on how things
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inside the loop, I guess if
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had was noticing that I felt like
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rocky mountains. I mean the soul
heaving up and down and moving things.

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And you know it breaks water lines
in the summer. Well, that's because

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our soul moves. And what does
that mean. It means when it gets

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wet, it swells, When it
gets dry, it shrinks. And that

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plays havoc on house foundations, on
driveways, on sidewalks and so on.

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I mean, you've seen it all
over town. Priby experienced at your house

407
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or your door sticking is a brick? Is there a brick crack? As

408
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you walk around the outside and you
see this crack, or maybe inside in

409
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the sheet rock you see a cra
you need to call Tai Strickland with fix

410
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my slab foundation repair. So just
go to fix myslab dot com. Easier

411
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to remember fix my slab dot com
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412
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nine forty nine. Tell them you're
a gardenline listener because they do a free

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estimate for gardenline listeners and they they're
committed to a fair price. They're committed

414
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to showing up on time, and
they're committed to doing it right. Let's

415
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let's fix it once, and let's
fix it right. That fix my slab

416
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:41.400
foundation repair again, fix myslab dot
com. I was in San Antonio this

417
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week, and you know we're at
a conference. I'm gonna tell you a

418
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little bit more about that. I
want to talk about some of the things

419
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I saw there that I think are
new and cool when it comes to horticulture.

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Right now, we're gonna take a
break and our phone number seven one

421
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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. We'll be right back. Everybody,

422
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:21.039
say, hey, you're listening to
garden Line. I'm your host,

423
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:26.160
Skip Richter, our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

424
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four. Now, when you go
to a garden center and shop, what

425
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are you what are you looking for? Well, you want place that has

426
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:36.599
selection, right, you want a
place that has plants that grow Here for

427
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:41.440
crying out loud, yes, absolutely, you want good customer service. You

428
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just want to have fun too,
I mean you want a place it's literally

429
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.160
fun to go to. And what
am I describing? Well, tell you

430
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one thing I'm describing is Enchanted Gardens. Enchanted Gardens out in Richmond. If

431
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you're in Richmond, you're head up
toward Katie Way there. They're up that

432
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:59.240
direction. They're on FM three fifty
nine. You can go online to Enchanted

433
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Garden Richmond dot com and you can
find them. And man, do they

434
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.400
have a selection. Salvia's awesome selection
of salvias. And by the way,

435
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.599
the hummingbirds are here. They are, They are arriving here to you know,

436
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.000
beef up and get ready to go. They're gonna have to fly all

437
00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:17.400
the way across the Gulf of Mexico
for their overwintering spot, and so they

438
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.200
need food. We need our hummingbird
feeders out there. But you also need

439
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.079
to plant hummingbird food, you know, and salvias are one of the many

440
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:29.559
kinds of plants that do just that. And boy, do they ever have

441
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.680
a good selection. One of my
favorite is amistade. The amistade salvia is

442
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:38.359
kind of a purple type salvia.
It's really just deep dark purple and really

443
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:43.000
beautiful. And I mean there's only
a million great salvius. They also have

444
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:47.359
a good selection of a hibiscus,
the southern hibiscus, the perennial hibiscus.

445
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.680
They've got one called Summer Carnival.
Another one airbrush effect at midnight Marvel.

446
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:57.440
When you go to in Channa Gardens, and I hope go do that today.

447
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:01.559
Check out. Say I want to
see your airbrush effect and your summer

448
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:05.839
Ific, all of those hybistics.
They even have a yellow on It's kind

449
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:09.440
of light buttery yellow called summer Ific
French Vanilla. They are beautiful. Go

450
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:14.079
see what I'm talking about. They
laugh at our heat. If you say

451
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:15.960
I'm going to be one hundred and
five degrees and the humidity is one hundred

452
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:20.640
thousand percent, they just go,
okay, I'll take it. I'm here,

453
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.680
let's do this. I mean,
they are tough, tough plant as

454
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.319
long as you give them some water. They are super super tough plants.

455
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:32.920
And it's all out there at Enchanted
Gardens out in Richmond again Enchanted Gardens Richmond

456
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.400
dot com. Go and in fact, before you go, grab a friend

457
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.559
and let's make this a let's make
this a fun trip together, because it's

458
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:44.240
really a place. You don't just
go, Okay, I'm gonna pick up

459
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.880
a plant and come home. You
go and you wander and you wonder the

460
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.519
whole time. At enchanted gardens.
We're gonna head out now to pair Land

461
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and talk to Archie. Hello Archie, Good Morning's skip. I got a

462
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.680
couple of problems, actually, but
the one is been an ongoing problem off

463
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.839
spring with my grass. And last
year I left this time last year for

464
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:09.679
about three weeks to go to Germany
and come back, and my whole backyard

465
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:14.440
had turned yellow. And uh,
at that time, I wasn't sure what

466
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:16.280
it was. I called Randy.
He said, he thought, you know,

467
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:19.920
it might have been take all patch
or something like that. Okay,

468
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:24.440
So I put a bunch of organic
composts all over the yard about you know,

469
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.599
a half an inch thick, and
uh, what I got back was

470
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:31.679
some of the sant Augustine came back, but a lot of bermuda came back.

471
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And I understand that, and you
know, I'm cutting it and it

472
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was still green. But now I'm
starting to get yellowing again in various parts

473
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:43.840
of the yard, especially in that
backyard area, and part of the soil

474
00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:49.199
kids kind of sunk to where there's
like little, you know, fissures in

475
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.039
the in the ground. I'm thinking, do I level that off? And

476
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:59.800
I've already put out some microlife brown
patch, you know, thinking if it's

477
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.119
patch, I'll hit it with that
and and I put out some microlife hue

478
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.119
mates. Okay, so uh at
this point, I don't know what else

479
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.000
to do. I mean, I
went out there and I try to tug

480
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.320
on it. It doesn't come up. I mean it's it's okay, it's

481
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.159
solid to the ground. And did
you say sun or shade? I didn't

482
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:19.320
hear it. If you did,
uh, it's part you know. I've

483
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.119
got it. Not not much shade, not much shade, mostly full sun,

484
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.119
all right, okay, and not
near masonry or any kind of a

485
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:31.800
dry since it's in the back well. Yeah, out by the street,

486
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.199
it's really bad out there by the
asphalt and by the driveway there's a little

487
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.960
bit of it, but it's mostly
in yrds, away from any of the

488
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.320
concrete stuff. So the only thing
I've got is rose beds. That but

489
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.000
those are those that's that's that's lumber
rest, timber well arch. I tell

490
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:52.000
you. The challenge with this is
a lot of things can cause a similar

491
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.039
symptom, and without actually seeing it, I'm kind of shooting in the dark.

492
00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.800
My gut is that if you're pretty
sure you're keeping it quickly moist.

493
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.639
The soil is adequately moist. I'm
watering like crazy. Okay, then I

494
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.840
would probably look to take all root
rot as being the cause of this.

495
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:13.320
I can again put you on hold, and you can send me a photo

496
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.840
of it from a distance and then
something up really close and good sharp focus.

497
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.079
Uh, let me take a look
and see if I see anything that

498
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:24.199
I'm not picturing as we talk on
the on the radio here, and I'll

499
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:27.719
be happy to help you with that. But that that is my gut feeling.

500
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.559
It is not a brown patch,
but the product you use a good

501
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.000
product. In fact, you need
to hang on. If you got any

502
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.480
extra left, you need to hang
on because we're about to be putting that

503
00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:38.920
kind of stuff on again when we
hit the fall. That that uh winter

504
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:45.599
riser kinds of fertilizers. But yeah, let me let me take a look

505
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:46.800
at a picture. But if I
were to, you know, if you're

506
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:49.960
just say, okay, give me
your best guests, I think it's I

507
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:52.119
think it's take all root rot.
But I'd rather see the picture before we

508
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.079
send you out to buy stuff.
Okay, all right, now, the

509
00:36:55.119 --> 00:37:00.280
other thing, the other thing I
have, I'd bought some hanging kind they're

510
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.199
not hanging baskets, but they're kind
of the longer baskets that are metal and

511
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.599
have the coconut liners and they're only
about six inches deep. I've got them

512
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.480
an ace and I put them along
my fence line, and I got some

513
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:17.679
this running vinca, the red vinka
that runs spreads. But I'm having the

514
00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:21.760
water it twice a day in the
morning and in the eave and just keep

515
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:24.559
it alive that because it's just not
enough soil in there. Yeah, there's

516
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:30.719
no there's no root bank account of
moisture. The bigger the more soil you

517
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.719
have, the less off in your
water a container or hanging basket. So

518
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.199
that I guess you know. For
now it is what it is. Just

519
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:43.440
keep watering it. But whenever you
go back and do this again, I

520
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:47.559
would put pots like that in a
shady area, growing shade loving plants because

521
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.960
the demands are less, and then
get a bigger one if you want to

522
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.400
do that out in the sun.
Hey, I've got a run. But

523
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:57.079
I hope that is helpful, and
I do appreciate the call. I'm going

524
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.119
to put you on hold, Archie, so if you choose to send me

525
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:06.440
a photo Joshua, help you do
that. You're talking about yards. We

526
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.719
need to be water in our yards
properly. That you need to water a

527
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:14.000
good soaking in frequently. So you're
thinking, well, it's hot, I

528
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:15.800
got a water every day. No, that's not good for the grass.

529
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.239
It doesn't develop good rooting and you
spend a lot of money on water and

530
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.559
then the sewer bill goes up to
as a result. If you go to

531
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:28.880
water my yard dot org water my
yard dot org, you can get an

532
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:32.239
app as well as on an Apple
App Store or Google Play, but you

533
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:36.119
can just go to the website.
You sign in. They will send you

534
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.880
an email each week as to how
much water your grass needs because there's a

535
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:45.800
local weather station near you that they
tie into and they get the exact water

536
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.320
use and that that's important. It
saves money, I may saves resources,

537
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:57.360
but it helps you avoid overwatering,
underwatering, or miss watering. So a

538
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.800
good soaking on an infrequent basis,
that's how we water. We want to

539
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:05.440
fill the soil volume and then we
want to let it begin to dry out

540
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.719
and let air come back into the
soil roots neat oxygen, so to just

541
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:15.360
constantly keep it saggy wet on top. You are literally depriving roots underground of

542
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:21.119
good oxygen levels where they can thrive. So when you water wet the sail

543
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:24.000
deeply. It takes about an inch
to do that, and most soils can't

544
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:27.960
take an inch in at one time. Most of our sprinkler heads put it

545
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:30.880
out too fast for it to all
soak in. So you water for a

546
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.000
little while before it starts to runoff. Have the water go off, Wait

547
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:37.760
forty five minutes, water again.
Do that cycle and soak until you get

548
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.519
an inch in the ground. Can
you get the most from your watering dollar.

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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

550
00:39:50.000 --> 00:40:15.280
on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip Ricord. Well,

551
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:21.599
good morning, the light has arrived. It's you can get outside and see

552
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:24.599
what you're doing right now, get
a little early morning gardening, dunk.

553
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:29.000
Got a little nice breeze out there
to even make it a bit more pleasant,

554
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:32.360
because this is definitely the time of
day when we enjoy being out and

555
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:37.440
about and enjoying ourselves out in the
out, in the garden and in the

556
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.880
landscape. You know, I talk
all the time about how everything starts in

557
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:46.880
the soil, how important soil is. And I don't think I don't think

558
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:51.840
a lot of gardeners here realize just
how fortunate we are in Houston to have

559
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.760
sources of soil that are quality.
I didn't apply to everyone, for sure,

560
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:59.239
but I tell you who it does
apply to, and that's Nature's Way,

561
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.639
Nature's Way Resources. They're up there
on Interstate forty five. As you're

562
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:07.960
going north toward conro About where fourteen
eighty eight comes in. Just turn right,

563
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.159
cross over the railroad tacks. You're
there Nature's Way. Now. You

564
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.679
can find their products bagged and some
of our local source local retailers here,

565
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:19.599
but you can also go out there
and you can buy it by bag,

566
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.599
you can buy it by bulk.
I mean they have it both ways.

567
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.960
In fact, they got a lot
of good quality fungal compost available. They

568
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.880
have a thing called Fungal Friday.
Ever Friday ten percent off the bag product,

569
00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:37.039
twenty percent off the bulk product.
And fungal compost is a very high

570
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:43.119
quality compost. That is, it'll
change things. It'll change things in your

571
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:46.360
yard and garden when you fix the
soil like that with a quality product and

572
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:51.559
by the Way, Nature's Way,
roast, fungal composts, leave mold composts,

573
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.440
on and on and on. Lots
of quality products, all of them

574
00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.599
because they take their time to do
it right. By the way, when

575
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:00.119
you're out there, check out their
nurse. They have one of the best

576
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:06.639
selections of native plants here in the
Greater Houston area Nature's Way. I think

577
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.639
it's cool. They're they're continuing to
change up the plan area a little bit

578
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:14.199
to get it just step by step
nicer and nicer as we go along,

579
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:19.480
and the selection just continuing to expand
and increase out. So while you're out

580
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:22.760
there picking up the soil, why
not why not pick up some plants that

581
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:28.039
will thrive here because they're from here. Makes sense, doesn't it. You're

582
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:31.480
listening to Garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter and our phone number

583
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:37.599
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

584
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:42.639
two fifty eight seventy four. I
was talking earlier about being in San Antonio

585
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.840
this past week. In fact,
that just drove down yesterday evening, finally

586
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.880
finished up at the Texas Nursery and
Landscape Association show. And that is always

587
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:52.480
fun. Number One, you get
to meet a lot of old friends or

588
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.920
see a lot of old friends again, meet a lot of new people.

589
00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.280
But there's a ton of new products, all the new plant lines that are

590
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:02.480
coming out. You know, there's
boothfuls of you know, all the companies

591
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.159
that are saying here's our latest greatest, come see it. And that's always

592
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:09.039
a lot of fun, good a
lot of new good tools and you know,

593
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:13.519
quality things like that. I got
to see the folks at Vego bed

594
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.840
while I was out there. That
was kind of nice to visit with them.

595
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.159
I think I mentioned earlier. I
visited with Dean Nelson, you know,

596
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:23.360
Mike's ran from from Microlife was out
there and some of his team.

597
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:28.239
Uh it. Got to visit with
Dan Snyder over at Nitrofoss and talk to

598
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.599
them about some of the technologies they've
got going on and some of the product

599
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:37.159
line that which as very wide as
you know, as you would imagine that.

600
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:38.800
That was really nice to get out
and kind of get to see all

601
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.480
that kinds of thing. Got rented
a lot of other good old friends out

602
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.320
there and spend some time out.
But it's always refreshing to get out and

603
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:50.559
see what's new. You know,
they say that the most important part of

604
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.519
cutting cutting down trees is sharpening the
saw. And boys that ever true.

605
00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:59.320
You may have a sharp saw,
but once it gets dull, you were

606
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.239
working lay to try to accomplish anything. Well, the way I look at

607
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:06.760
it as a horticulture is is I'm
constantly sharpening the saw, and the saw

608
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.119
is me. If I don't stay
up to date, if I don't continue

609
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:14.800
to read, to look at research, to talk to people, to visit

610
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:19.719
with the industry, my advice just
becomes less and less valuable because it becomes

611
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:22.360
dated. And so it's always good
to get out and do that. And

612
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.119
I would encourage you if you're interested
in gardening at any level, find ways

613
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:28.960
to learn. There's a lot of
good information out there. I mean,

614
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:31.320
just as a start, you can
go to the Aggy Horticulture website. It's

615
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:39.440
Aggy Dash Horticulture dot TAMU dot edu. There's a section on vegetables, it's

616
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:45.559
really awesome. There's section on earth
kind roses, Texas superstar plants, section

617
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:51.199
on fruit trees. It's outstanding.
Just poke around and just learn. You

618
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:53.800
know, the smarter you get,
the prettier your plants are. Right,

619
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:57.800
Remember what I say, there's no
such thing as a brown thumb. There

620
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:04.000
is an uninformed when you inform your
thumb, suddenly it starts to look a

621
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.559
lot, a lot greener, a
lot greener. Hey, let's go out

622
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.360
to bel Air and we're going talk
to Greg. Good morning, Greg,

623
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.039
Good morning, Skip. Thank you
for taking my call. Yes, I

624
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.320
have a couple of questions. One
on an improved Myers lemon. It's it's

625
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.280
new this year. I put it
in a pot and it's I've got it

626
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:28.079
setting next to one that froze back
last year, but it came back.

627
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:30.280
And the one that's in the park, the leaves on it are kind of

628
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:35.679
was getting some yellow spots or yellowing
in it, I guess spots. And

629
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:38.440
I watered the plant every day,
and I was just curious if you had

630
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:42.960
any thoughts on what might be causing
that. You know, I see that

631
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:47.719
sometimes on citrus. And first of
all, you shooting your water in it

632
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.199
plenty. Are you sure the drainage
is good and it's not staying too soggy?

633
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:58.440
Is it? Well, it's it's
setting on the ground, so it's

634
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:00.840
not on a like a block work
and drain out even better. But but

635
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.800
maybe I can elevate it somewhat.
Yeah, you can just take your finger

636
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.880
too and dig down or a little
hand spade, just go down about four

637
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.719
inches and feel the soil and that
that'll your answer right there. I doubt

638
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.840
you're overwatering. But sometimes when we
set our pots on the ground, especially

639
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.039
at clay soil, it's just like
you took a piece of modeling clay and

640
00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:22.280
plug the hole at the bottom of
the pot. You know, it didn't

641
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.480
accomplish much. So it could be
that, I know, you know,

642
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.440
just in the combination of things like
that, something's going on in the roots.

643
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:32.800
But certainly the heat, you know, is stressful to plants, but

644
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:37.519
centrist is tough. It can normally
take the heat without these any kind of

645
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:42.719
problems that we worry about. On
the yellowing spots, you see them more

646
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:47.239
on the old leaves or on the
new leaves. I guess it's more of

647
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:52.400
the older or maybe time throughout the
plant. But okay, I would say

648
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.559
the older leaves. Perhaps there are
okay, there are a few nutrients that

649
00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.519
are mobile. In other words,
when the plant is lacking, it's steals

650
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:04.599
them from the old leaves and it
supports the new growth with those nutrients.

651
00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:08.119
And so when you see old leaf
problems. I think of two things.

652
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:12.079
Number one, I think of the
water content, you know, too much,

653
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.679
too not enough, that kind of
thing. And number two the mobile

654
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:21.199
nutrients. So it could be that
that something nutrient wise is lacking. When

655
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.280
was the last time you give them
a fertilization? Has it been recently?

656
00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:30.360
Or probably about six weeks two months
ago? Okay, well you might consider

657
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:35.079
giving them another one gets you a
good quality fertilizer force citrus and yeah,

658
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:38.599
and just follow the instructions on how
much to put out, you know,

659
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:42.679
depending on the concentration in the product, you put out more or less.

660
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.639
Yeah, I have a microlife or
so yeah, Okay, well that that's

661
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.519
gonna be a good one. Just
put it down, follow the label and

662
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.239
water it end really good. Maybe
even scratch it into the soul surface if

663
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:57.800
you could, because that's that microbially
breaks down. So hey, Greg,

664
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.119
I'm gonna have to take break.
We're hit another break time. But I

665
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.880
hope that helps, and good luck
with it, and feel free to call

666
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.920
us back if if you continue to
see problems and none of that seem to

667
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.599
help. Our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

668
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:28.000
Sweet lit Well, good morning.
You're listening to garden Line. I'm

669
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.320
your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to answer your gardening question.

670
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:36.360
So give us call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

671
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:40.199
Now, if you live, if
you live up north and west of the

672
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:45.719
Greater Houston area, up in that
direction out, let's say Carlos, Texas.

673
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:47.920
Does that kind of ring a bell
for anybody? Well, I always

674
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:51.639
talk about this place like God's country, because it is. We're talking about

675
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:55.039
Rohnes Prairie. We're talking about beat
Eyes, Iola I We're talking about neighborhoods

676
00:48:55.119 --> 00:49:00.480
like kings Wood and Kingwood, king
Oakes, excuse me, and your Wood.

677
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:02.599
I always get those two confused.
King Oaks and your Wood. We're

678
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.320
talking about College Station and Brian Navasota, that whole region. Your hometown feed

679
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:14.320
store is Grimes County Feeding Farm,
Grimes County keep Feeding Farms on State Highway

680
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.440
thirty and it's about two miles west
of FM two forty four. Now it's

681
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.159
a family owned and operated. I
mean, you know, Chris and his

682
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:27.039
family, They've really put together a
nice place and they give you the kind

683
00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:29.559
of service. I mean you walk
in there and you feel like your family.

684
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.119
It's how they treat you, and
it trusts me. Go try it

685
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.960
out. You'll see what I'm talking
about. You know, Chris is he

686
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:39.039
started fifteen years in the Houston Fire
Department. Public service always been his passion.

687
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:43.599
And you see that every day when
you go out to the feed store.

688
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:46.000
I mean he puts his personal cell
phone on his business card for crying

689
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.800
out loud. It's not like here, let me say something to go away.

690
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.960
It's like you got any questions,
give me a call, because they

691
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:55.760
are there to make sure you have
success. Whether it's livestock feed, whether

692
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:01.920
it's lawn and garden products. That's
what they're doing now. They in fact,

693
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.800
today I believe is the last day
of their customer appreciation Week, and

694
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.719
so you should get out there.
It's ten percent off on all the tree

695
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:14.800
hugg sprinklers that they have in stock, ten percent off on Nelson plant food,

696
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:20.039
Medina products, nitro FoST products,
microlife products, ten percent off on

697
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.639
all this. It's a good time
to go out and get that because you're

698
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.880
gonna need all those. By the
way, we're before very long we're going

699
00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:29.440
to be doing our fall fertilizations here. Believe it or not, and you

700
00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:30.960
need to have those on hand.
Now's a good time to purchase some.

701
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:37.320
Two eight one eight one four twenty
four ninety four. Two eight one eight

702
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:43.920
one four twenty four ninety four.
That's Grimes County Feeding Farm. We're gonna

703
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.320
head out to Clear Lake and I
believe we're gonna talk to Jim. Good

704
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:52.639
morning, Jim, good morning.
I'm curious about the frequency that I can

705
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.719
put down. The medina has to
grow for a long and what's some optimal

706
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.920
time of day to do that.
A time of day doesn't I would put

707
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.119
it down, but then go ahead
and water it in really well. You

708
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.400
want to kind of get it down
there on the soul surface and keep that

709
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:15.440
moist because it's going to be able
to put out the nutrients. This is

710
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.760
the liquid, right talking, right, comes in the while, it comes

711
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.159
in a gallant choke, and then
you add it to the spray bottle.

712
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:24.679
Right. But yeah, So what
happens though, is when you spray it,

713
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:30.039
it's the grass and it what's the
thatch, right, the moisture of

714
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:31.840
your spray with the medina, and
it is doing that. I like to

715
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:34.760
give it a little bit of a
watering. I mean, I'm talking about

716
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.320
an inch of water, but just
just move it down into the soul surface

717
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:42.000
there with a little irrigation. I
think it works even better. I mean,

718
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:44.039
it's not the end of the world
if you don't. That's just how

719
00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:46.760
I would go about that. As
far as the frequency of it, it's

720
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:50.719
kind of up to you. I
would watch your lawn and see what your

721
00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:54.360
lawn says. I you could do
it about once a month, and that

722
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.519
would be fine. You know it, You're not putting a ton of it

723
00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:00.760
out at any one time, and
so you could do that about once a

724
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:04.599
month. I've seen people stretch it
out a little further. I've seen people

725
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:07.880
do it a little more often.
Just kind of to let your lawn tell

726
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.320
you visually. You know, you'll
see the difference and it'll kind of guide

727
00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:16.960
you in that. So one other
quick question that a little off topic,

728
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:22.920
but all of these little brown lizards, are they eating bugs in the lawn

729
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.320
or what are they existing on it? Yeah, they're they're eating insects.

730
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.480
They love caterpillars one thing. I
mean, yeah, caterpillars, and one

731
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:32.639
of their favorite those, I believe
the brown I don't know which one you're

732
00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:37.800
talking Abou've got a brown and knowlie
that's kind of a slick, slicker skinned,

733
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:39.920
a light brown lizard. And then
there's some other ones but lizards or

734
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:45.480
predators and they run around grabbing stuff
to eat like the Toronto Source rex would.

735
00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:49.960
I haven't seen a bug in the
lawn and the longest time, but

736
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.519
I have hundreds of these things running
around. Yeah, they're they're not I

737
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:57.039
wouldn't worry about them, but that's
what they're doing. Yeah, they're out

738
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.400
there running around. Fortunately they don't
have teeth like a Toronto source X or

739
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:04.039
we wouldn't be able to go outside. Well, thank you very much,

740
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:07.719
you bet Jim, thank you.
I appreciate your call very much. You

741
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:13.360
know, you're talking about the medina
product. I need to get back out

742
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:15.679
and do some planting, and when
I do, I want to have some

743
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:20.719
medina has to grow on hand.
That's the six twelve six got a pretty

744
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.599
good punch of phosphorus in it.
And phosphorus is important, you know.

745
00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:28.239
It helps with the flowering, it
helps with rooting, and it affects other

746
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:32.280
processes in the plant that are absolutely
essential for plant life and success. This

747
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:37.039
has to grow six twelve six.
It's also got it's really cool blend.

748
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:40.840
It's you've got Medina still activator to
simulate some biological activity. You've got humic

749
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.360
acid, which is always beneficial.
It's going to help with us a little

750
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.840
structure and nutrient uptake. And then
of course it's got the seaweed extracts too,

751
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:52.360
So that's quite a cocktail of cool
stuff. And every time I put

752
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:55.719
a plant in the ground, watered
in, watered in five days later,

753
00:53:55.760 --> 00:54:00.880
again, watered in five to seven
days later, again, give it about

754
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:06.119
a succession of I would say about
three good soakings with this product to get

755
00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:09.280
that plant. You wanted to hit
the ground running. That's basically what you're

756
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:15.840
aiming for. And Medina has to
grow will do absolutely just that and make

757
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:20.400
your microbes in the soil happy while
probably adding a few microbes a few meanings

758
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:25.039
several million as well. But yeah, it's really good. Just it makes

759
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:29.599
sense to take care of your plants
early on. Especially you know, sometimes

760
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:31.840
we wait until we see problems.
But you know, if I'm gonna put

761
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:35.800
a plan out there, I know
it there's a transition for it to get

762
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.320
established. And that is one of
the reasons why we like that Medina products

763
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:44.840
so much. We're gonna head out
to a leaf now and talk to Ralph.

764
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:49.119
Hello, Ralph, how are you
today? Good morning? My grass?

765
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:53.039
Most of it is turned brown like
the color of hay. And so

766
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:58.280
what in the heck do we do? Well? Well, I bet you're

767
00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.639
not the only lawn and a leaf
that's looking a little bit like that this

768
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:06.559
time of the year. So one, one more thing, it might be

769
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:09.960
helpful. There's one house on the
corner. It has no trees in the

770
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:15.119
front, like ours don't have any
trees in the front. So but there's

771
00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:20.440
this is still green. So that's
amazingly. There must be doing something right.

772
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:22.800
Yeah, you may have to go
knock on the door find out what

773
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.159
they're doing. I tell you,
though, Ralph, it's it's it's going

774
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.639
to come down to just two or
three things. Water Is it getting enough

775
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.199
water? Is when you water?
Are you wetting the soil deeply or are

776
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:37.039
you just is it just soaking in
and maybe getting the top inch or two

777
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:42.679
wet? That's one, and right
now, with the demand so high,

778
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:46.119
you gotta work at keeping the sole
moisture up doesn't mean soggy, it just

779
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:51.519
means moist and so that would be
number one. There are root diseases,

780
00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:54.599
like take a a root rot.
There are chinch bugs. That generally is

781
00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:58.559
going to be something that starts over
by a curb or a driveway and kind

782
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:01.800
of gradually moves out in the yard. So it could be a number of

783
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:07.559
different things. Grubs also, by
this time of year, they're chewing enough

784
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:10.320
roots that that grass is having trouble
pumping water. If you don't have roots,

785
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:15.480
you can't pump water, So it
could be one of those. I

786
00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:20.599
would start with really giving a good
look at the lawn moisture content. You

787
00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:23.519
can take a long, straight handle
screwdriver and push it in the ground,

788
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.880
and if your soil is moist it'll
push through it just like well it's like

789
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.159
soft butter, you know, it
just pushes on down when you hit dry

790
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:34.960
soil. I mean, it'll be
like you hit concrete without screwdriver, And

791
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:37.760
that kind of gives you an idea
how deep is this soul went? I

792
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.480
think I would try try that test
as the first step. What does the

793
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:45.519
brown grass turn green or does it
just die? And how the grass grow?

794
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:50.920
Is your lawn Saint Augustine or Zosia
Bermuda, what do you have?

795
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:55.119
We don't We're not lawn people,
so we just have we know something's growing.

796
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:59.800
Okay, Okay, you have green
grass, okay. Yeah. So

797
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.719
some lawn grasses will turn brown and
a heartbeat when it gets dry, and

798
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:07.480
they'll just sit there and they'll be
ready to come back. And that would

799
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:12.599
be something like buffalo, which should
not be planted here. Others like Saint

800
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:16.360
Augustine, they live like there's no
tomorrow. They just they're all above ground.

801
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:21.800
There's no underground rhizomes, and so
when that turns brown, it may

802
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.079
be dead. Now there are Saint
august There is a stage where it goes

803
00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:30.880
pretty brown, but the runners are
still green and it can recover. But

804
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:35.280
there's a stage which it can't recover
from. So depending on your grass type,

805
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:37.000
I mean, if you want to
send me a picture really up close

806
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:39.599
and good sharp focus, I might
be able to identify it for you.

807
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.000
But so the answer to your question
is, I don't know, because I

808
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.639
don't know for sure which grasses we're
talking about. Some of them turn brown,

809
00:57:47.719 --> 00:57:52.679
come right back, some of them
not so much. Oh great,

810
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:55.480
great answer, Well, thank you
very much. I thought maybe we'd have

811
00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:59.679
to do braking or things like that
course and get everything out. Well,

812
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:02.719
do you feel like it's staying adequately
moist. Do you have a feel for

813
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:07.400
that? Oh no, definitely not. Okay, well I would, I

814
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.360
would blame that. So if you
can't get out there and water, just

815
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:14.079
wait, you're probably over time going
to end up with a mixture of grasses

816
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:17.679
and weeds. That's what happens when
it gets kind of droughty, the grass

817
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.800
gets thin. So but I have
a friend of mine over in Mississippi,

818
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:24.599
and I love this statement. He
said, you know, if you want,

819
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:30.679
if you want a weedy lawn to
look good, take your glasses off

820
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.239
weeds. Your green grass is green. It looks great without your glasses.

821
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:38.480
Thought. I think that's what we'll
do. Thank you so much. All

822
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:43.280
right, you take care. Yeah, that's not advice. It's going to

823
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.800
be that a lot of people are
gonna want to embrace. But you get,

824
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:51.559
you get the idea of what I'm
talking about. Speaking of taking care

825
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:53.840
of your lawn. One of the
things we need to do is keep that

826
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:58.320
nutrient content up there. And we
want to keep it up there evenly.

827
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.559
In other words, we don't want
famine. You don't want to dump a

828
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:07.840
bunch of a fertilizer that dissolves and
immediately just releases everything you want to have

829
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:13.199
release over time. At Nitrofists Supertarf, that's their silver bag. I like

830
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.719
these colored bags because you walk in
the store, look for the silverbag.

831
00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:21.360
That's it. It's nineteen four ten
and the nutrients and it it's got some

832
00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:24.559
that are available right now and it'll
get green right now. But then it

833
00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:29.159
continues with the chemistry. I was
visiting with Dan Snyder out at the Texas

834
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:34.280
Nursery and Landscape Show and about it, and we're just talking about those technologies

835
00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:38.360
that release that nutrient gradually over time, so you get a good even growth

836
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:43.360
you're mowing is more smooth. The
chinch bugs aren't as happy because you didn't

837
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.800
cause this flush of top growth at
the expense of root growth, and the

838
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:52.599
root system is deeper. Did you
know that when you over fertilize with nitrogen,

839
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.440
when you overdo it, and you
know one application of overdone, you

840
00:59:55.519 --> 01:00:00.239
get top growth at the expense of
root growth. Well, we need heck

841
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:04.239
of a root system right now for
that grass to do good. Nitrofile super

842
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.639
Turf can help you build that kind
of root system, and it's available at

843
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:12.800
all of the places we talked about
here the home garden centers that we're talking

844
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:16.119
about, the feed stores about he's
hardware stores not hard to find. Hey,

845
01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:21.320
we're gonna take a break, do
a little news network with Niki Nikki

846
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:23.880
News Network. That's how it works. Our phone number seven one three two

847
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:43.960
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Can't you see well, good morning,

848
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:47.360
beautiful Saturday morning out there. Every
day is a good day for gardening.

849
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:51.400
I don't care if it's gonna be
a hundred degrees. It is a good

850
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.480
day for gardening. That's just that's
the way it works. I was I

851
01:00:55.559 --> 01:00:59.719
follow a lot of our sponsors on
their social media and stuff, and I

852
01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:02.599
was looking at A and A Plants
and Produce up there in Montgomery area,

853
01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:07.960
and on their on their Facebook pager's
a little meme of a Kermit the frog.

854
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:09.960
Okay, Kermit the frog. He's
drinking water and he's standing out in

855
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.599
a desert and it says remember to
drink lots of water and to stay indoors

856
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:22.000
between eleven am and November first.
If I though it feels like that sometimes.

857
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:23.639
By the way, up at A
and A they have a ton of

858
01:01:23.719 --> 01:01:28.119
cool stuff. I mean, do
you want plants that can survive in the

859
01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:30.519
heat. Walk around your landscape.
Look at it, I mean, is

860
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:32.880
it a sea of green? That's
what happens in the summer here in this

861
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.639
area. We kind of lose some
of our color. Well, how about

862
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:43.639
a bougainvillea. How about a plumbago. Oh that gorgeous blue sky plumbago flower,

863
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.400
or they have a white form as
well. Rose bushes, I mean,

864
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:51.079
yes, roses, they do well. They do their cycling through the

865
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:53.320
summer and they are about to really
kick off and fall, So you know,

866
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:57.280
pick up some of those that would
be a good time. They're just

867
01:01:57.360 --> 01:02:00.559
a lot of good plants, you
know, hibiscus and stuff. And for

868
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:02.519
those of you up in the Montgomery
area, when you go to Ana Plants

869
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:07.000
and Produce, you're at your hometown
garden center and everything you need is going

870
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:10.639
to be there. They're right there
in Montgomery on one oh five if you

871
01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:15.559
go like toward Conro from Montgomery on
the east side of Montgomery, they're right

872
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:17.960
there, easy to find, and
they carry all the products we talk about.

873
01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:22.360
That's the thing I like about this
is, you know, I know,

874
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:23.320
when you go there, if you
need to pick up some of the

875
01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:29.320
fertilizers and soils and things they're gonna
happen right there on hand as well,

876
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:32.639
and a lot of other stuff at
ana plants and produce out there in Montgomery.

877
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:38.599
So yes, stay indoors between eleven
AM and November. First, let's

878
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:43.000
go out to Richmond, and we're
gonna talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth,

879
01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:50.440
good mornings. What's up in Richmond. Well, we have had in

880
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:59.039
the ground for several years a small
ten by five twelve by five butterfly garden,

881
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:06.840
and the corners of it we have
a copper canyon daisy and until this

882
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:12.599
summer day looked great. One in
one corner. We thought it was mealy

883
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:22.519
bugs that were affecting it, okay, and we read to spray I think,

884
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:29.280
I want to say the knem oil, But then we read that nm

885
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:34.199
oil may be harmful to butterflies.
And it's sitting in the butterfly garden.

886
01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:42.239
But anyway, so as one deteriorated
to death, the other copper canyon daisies

887
01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:49.679
are declining, but the lantana in
between. Of course, we're watering it

888
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:57.119
and we don't know if it is
mealy bugs, how how should we treat

889
01:03:57.159 --> 01:04:00.000
it? And we thought that copper
canyon daisy would do good in the heat.

890
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:03.280
Okay, So mealy bugs, what
makes you think it's mealybugs? What

891
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:09.639
are you seeing? What is the
discus? There were some white on the

892
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:14.039
stems of the plant. Okay,
Okay, then again, maybe maybe it

893
01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:20.480
was something else. Because they are
not next to each other. It could.

894
01:04:21.239 --> 01:04:27.679
I won't say it can't be mealy
bugs, but generally there if you

895
01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:30.440
see the white along the stems,
there's an aphid that can do that kind

896
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:34.079
of thing. There's some other insects
that can cause the white kind of material.

897
01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:41.800
Mealy bugs typically are all clustered together
around like where the leaf attaches to

898
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:45.760
the plant or some other places.
And if you grab them and squeeze them,

899
01:04:45.760 --> 01:04:49.119
if you're unsqueamish, grab grab some
of the white between your thumb and

900
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:53.480
forefinger and just push and slide to
the side, you can dismiss it out.

901
01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.039
If it's mealy bugs, it'll be
a pinkish goo on your hand.

902
01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:00.559
That's the easiest way to identify me
books. I don't think that's what it

903
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:05.760
is. As to why that one
is go ahead, no, that's good

904
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:10.960
to know. Yeah. As to
why that one is going downhill when the

905
01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:15.719
others aren't, I don't know me. Copper canyon daisy can take blazing hot

906
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:18.000
heat. It can now it doesn't
want to be drowned, but it needs

907
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:23.000
adequate soul moisture. But it can
take the heat, so it's not a

908
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:30.440
heat problem. Spider mites like marigolds, and copper canyon daisy is a marigold

909
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:36.639
type relative. You might try putting
a piece of paper under some branches that

910
01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:42.639
are going from healthy green towards losing
that color and thump them real sharply with

911
01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:46.800
your fingers, and then look at
the paper for little specks that are crawling

912
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:51.480
around. That would be spider mites, And so that's a possibility. I

913
01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:56.960
would check that and make sure that
that's not what's going on. So soul

914
01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:00.599
moisture, no spider mites. Other
than that, I don't know. Send

915
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:05.239
me a picture. I can take
a look. But it's really I just

916
01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:11.199
have not seen copper canyon daisy have
a lot of problems. Wow, and

917
01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:15.280
we thought, yes they were.
They were quite nice at one time,

918
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:20.079
and the aroma of them when you
walked by, yes, yes, but

919
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:26.960
now the other two are in decline. Okay, so I will look for

920
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:31.840
the APIs what are the signs of
the APIs no, Oh no, it's

921
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:35.719
your spider mites. You want to
put it, Put a white piece of

922
01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:41.159
paper under a branch and then real
sharply, just pup that, thump it

923
01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:45.679
and then look at the paper for
little tiny specks crawling around. That's your

924
01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:49.920
sign for spider mites. But you
can also send me go ahead, how

925
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:56.440
would we treat How would we treat
if it is spider mites this time of

926
01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.800
the year. I would get a
blast of water. And it's gonna be

927
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:02.199
a messy to do this, but
just get one of those spray nozzles on

928
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:06.480
the end of your hose and put
it on that hard blast, you know,

929
01:07:06.599 --> 01:07:11.039
just a mist, not a shower
like your watering plants, but just

930
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:15.239
a blasting mist or a fan spray, and get underneath it and just just

931
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:20.400
drench and blast all the undersides of
the pleas leaves around the plant. Do

932
01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:23.920
that once, do it to begin
a week later, and you pretty much

933
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:30.079
have them under control. Avoid avoid
oils and soaps when it's going to be

934
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.679
over ninety degrees outside, which it's
gonna be for a long time. All

935
01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:39.039
right, Okay, well, thank
you very much, and I just send

936
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:41.840
where do I send? The photo
again. I'm gonna put you on hold

937
01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:45.719
and Josh will get you the email. All right, thanks for that call.

938
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.079
Hey, if you are an active
adult and you would like to have

939
01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:53.800
a neighborhood where you have a beautiful
home or a beautiful walk pathways and it's

940
01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:57.480
just a it's just a pleasure to
be part of. If you want a

941
01:07:57.519 --> 01:08:01.000
place where there's active program active life
style programs, because that's who you are.

942
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:05.400
You want to you want to continue
in these years to just enjoy life

943
01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:10.440
and get out there. That's Dell
Web and the new Dell Web community in

944
01:08:10.599 --> 01:08:14.840
fulsher Texas on three fifty nine has
a community garden. So there we did

945
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.319
it. We seal the deal.
I mean all of the Dell Web plus

946
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:23.239
a community garden. That is the
place a gardener needs to enjoy. Dellweb

947
01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:27.239
dot com slash Houston for more info
or two eight one, four, five,

948
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:42.600
nine oh six o nine all day, but I have no bed to

949
01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:48.439
go. Well, good morning,
beautiful Saturday morning. Hey, we made

950
01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:51.119
a little cloud cover out there.
That's kind of nice. It kind of

951
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:56.439
slows things down, heating up a
little bit. Nice breeze to be outside,

952
01:08:56.680 --> 01:09:00.720
and it's a good day. To
also to be inside talking on the

953
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:03.119
phone to garden line, talking on
the radio. We are here to answer

954
01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:06.279
your gardening questions. That's what this
show is all about. We want to

955
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:12.720
have you, help you have success. That's my goal. How can we

956
01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.520
make you enjoy gardening more? How
can we make your place more beautiful?

957
01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:23.880
How can we help make your place, your garden more bountiful. That's what

958
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:28.359
it's about. And we can do
that because good gardening is all about having

959
01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:31.279
the right information. It really is. Your thumb is not browned, your

960
01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:35.640
thumb is uninformed. And that's why
we're here. We're gonna head out to

961
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:40.920
Santa Fe now and talk to John. Hello, John, good morning.

962
01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:44.439
How are you. I'm well,
how are you doing fine? I want

963
01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:47.920
to know how I start Brussels spros. Okay, growing him before, but

964
01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:53.319
it's been years ago. I want
to start from seed. Do I put

965
01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:57.359
some seed in some potting soil in
the little cups and get them started there?

966
01:09:57.640 --> 01:09:59.880
When do I need to get him
in the ground? All righty?

967
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:01.880
Well, you want to plan them
today in a cup or in a pot

968
01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:05.119
whatever, you know, a little
six pack tray, whatever you're gonna grow

969
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:08.800
them in. Go ahead and get
a good quality potting soil or a seat

970
01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:13.000
even better, a seed starting mix
that's a finer ground. It's a very

971
01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:16.760
fine textured, so you get good
contact between the seed and the potting mix

972
01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:23.159
the growing media, and that helps
with germination percentage being better. But go

973
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:26.399
ahead and do it now, because
you're gonna want to put those out as

974
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:30.199
we get on into late September.
Probably it coin depends on what the weather

975
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:33.359
does. You know, mid to
late September. Even you can do it

976
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:39.199
in October two. But russell sprouts
take a long time, and so the

977
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:43.199
sooner you get them going, probably
the better off you're gonna be. Okay,

978
01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:47.039
now, I do have some very
good growing okrah right now, And

979
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:51.199
I have a question. You know, I notice on the ocrapods I see

980
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:58.600
clusters of ants. Yes, they
don't seem to hurt the ocropod, but

981
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.279
I'm wondering, what what part do
they play in this? Okay? Well,

982
01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:05.640
it's one of two types of ants, one specifically as fire ants,

983
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:09.560
and they'll go up there to get
some of the oils. They'll even chew

984
01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:14.920
into the pods to get moisture from
the fire ants and whatnot. They're basically

985
01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.800
oil slash protein. Interested that's their
food stuff, and the other type is

986
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:27.399
just all the other general ants that
feet that farm aphids or ranch aphids I

987
01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:30.800
guess would be the term ants actually
will pick up aphids that will carry them

988
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:33.359
up onto a plant and put them
there and take care of them because they

989
01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:36.720
can come back later and use their
antenna, and they essentially are like dairy

990
01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:42.359
cattle. They literally make the aphid
produce a drop of honeydew and they feed

991
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:47.000
on that. So literally it's like
ants being dairy farmers on your plant.

992
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:51.279
And those ants are of no damage
to you, but if the aphids built

993
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:55.560
up high enough, they could be
a problem. I've got a whole big

994
01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:59.880
patch of oakre and I have one
plant that is just covered with aphids and

995
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.399
it's because an ant took them up
there or they landed there. But ants

996
01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:05.039
will actually protect them too, so
they don't you know, like a good

997
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:11.119
dairy farmer, don't let your cows
get killed. Well, I don't see

998
01:12:11.159 --> 01:12:14.520
any damage to the yolkra pod itself, but I see the ants on it,

999
01:12:14.560 --> 01:12:17.039
and I'm wondering, Yeah, what
part do they play? Do I

1000
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:19.640
want to keep them away from there? If so, how do I do

1001
01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:23.840
that. Well, if it's fire
ants, you need to get a bait

1002
01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:29.359
with spinosaid, a fire ant bait
with spinosaid, and one of the mut's

1003
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:33.760
on the markets called come and get
it. Come and get it. Trying

1004
01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:35.640
to think of who makes it,
but anyway, come and get it.

1005
01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:41.119
So when when you go, when
you find that come and get it,

1006
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:43.760
you sprinkle it around and the fire
iNTS find the bait and it kills the

1007
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.000
fire ants other kinds of ants.
The only thing would just be blast them

1008
01:12:46.039 --> 01:12:48.960
off with water. That's all I
would do that. That's what I've been

1009
01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:53.640
doing, is blasting them off with
water. Yep, that's probably it.

1010
01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:59.000
Not much to worry damage the yolkra
at all. Well then you know,

1011
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:00.880
I wouldn't worry about it a lot. Just a lesser fire ins and you

1012
01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:03.880
go pick oak rah and now you're
getting bit. I mean that that's a

1013
01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:08.640
problem. But yeah, all right, well, thank you for your information.

1014
01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:11.239
Have a good weekend. All right, well you too, thank you

1015
01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:15.880
for the call. I appreciate that
very much. Bye bye bye. You

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01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:18.000
know, it is hot outside and
it is dry outside, and our birds

1017
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:21.279
have to have water, I mean
they do. I just got a new

1018
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:26.039
bird bath. In fact, I've
got two different kinds of bird best now

1019
01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:29.479
in the backyard. You know,
you got to give those things some to

1020
01:13:29.560 --> 01:13:31.520
drink. I mean it. There's
not a lot of good water sources around

1021
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:33.680
for them. And if you want
them to hang out at your yard,

1022
01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:39.840
well we put feeders and stuff out, put water out that attracts them into.

1023
01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:43.359
Hummingbirds are arriving now, I mean, we need to be getting our

1024
01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:45.720
hummingbird feeders out and if you don't
have one, you need to go buy

1025
01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:49.600
wild Birds Unlimited. Ask them about
there. It's I think they call it

1026
01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:56.439
a high perch hummingbird feeder. It's
a little flat thing and it is super

1027
01:13:56.560 --> 01:14:00.079
effective, and it just it's easy
for the hummingbirds to get in there and

1028
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:02.319
to do what they do. And
you need more than one too. You're

1029
01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:04.920
gonna want to put them, you
know, quite a little bit of a

1030
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:10.520
distance apart, let them where they
start bossing each other and protecting the feeder.

1031
01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:12.520
You don't take care of that,
so they don't do that. But

1032
01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:16.279
Wilbirds has that. Wilbirds has everything
related to birds, and I just have

1033
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:20.640
to warn you taking care of birds
as addictive it really is. I was

1034
01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:26.960
not a bird person before and now
I can't imagine not having the sound of

1035
01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:30.199
birds. And I sit where where
I sit in my living room, I

1036
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:32.680
can look out and watch my feeders
and see what they're doing, and it's

1037
01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:38.640
just entertaining. And if you're outside, the sound and just the colors and

1038
01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:42.239
the antics and everything, it's really
cool. By the way, continue to

1039
01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:45.159
feed that nesting super blend from wild
birds. It's it's our birds are in

1040
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:48.520
their molt and they need it.
You know, they're getting new plumage,

1041
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:53.920
keeping it in top condition. Nesting
super blend is important. It's one of

1042
01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:58.279
the many quality feeds that wallbird has. And do you have to have quality

1043
01:14:58.319 --> 01:15:00.640
bird feed, Yes, you do. If you buy feed just full of

1044
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:04.520
those little red beebies, they don't
want that. They don't eat that.

1045
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:08.279
And so you think, well,
I got a good deal on bird seed.

1046
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:12.800
No, you probably are losing half
of your bird seed to stuff birds

1047
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.680
aren't eating, so you're paying double
for what the birds are eating. Go

1048
01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:20.159
to wildbirds. Just let them teach
you about it. There's there's different blends

1049
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:25.199
for all kinds of birds. There's
a lot of options. And I have

1050
01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:30.119
a big sack of a wild bird
feed that because it is so effective.

1051
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:32.560
I don't use as much, and
I'm the birds are there at the feed

1052
01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:36.960
are all the time. But I'm
telling you it makes a difference if you

1053
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:45.239
if you are looking, you know, for something that is going to really

1054
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:50.399
help you control a pest or control
and maybe managing weeds in the garden or

1055
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:56.760
diseases in the garden. Southwest Fertilizer
is the place you need to go.

1056
01:15:56.840 --> 01:16:00.399
We were talking about Southwest earlier with
another caller and it's just they have everything.

1057
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:04.760
They have everything you need. We're
getting ready for fall fertilization. Bob

1058
01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:09.520
at Southwest has a soil probe that
you can check out. Now, you're

1059
01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:12.279
gonna have to leave a deposit so
you don't decide you want to keep the

1060
01:16:12.359 --> 01:16:15.840
thing right you bring it back,
but it's free. Just go buy there,

1061
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:17.920
You leave a deposit, you take
the soil probe and you can take

1062
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:25.319
a quality soil sample that's accurate.
Soil tests are accurate in measuring what you

1063
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:29.600
send them, but if you don't
send them a good representation or your soil,

1064
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:32.479
then it's not The results are not
representative of what's in your soil.

1065
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:36.159
Does that make sense? Go by, just get talk to Bob. Get

1066
01:16:36.239 --> 01:16:41.840
that soil probe. Go home,
sample your soul properly, and you can

1067
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.960
send it to soil Testing DOTMU,
dot EEDU and they'll give you the results

1068
01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:48.840
you need and then you can buy
your fertilizers accordingly. And Bob has ever

1069
01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:54.119
kind of fertilizer you can imagine there
at Southwest Fertilizer. I mean, I

1070
01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:58.039
was in the other day just writing
some things down. I always check on

1071
01:16:58.159 --> 01:17:01.159
what's available in garden centers, and
he had that and it was just,

1072
01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:08.880
you know, the selection was just
unbelievable, unbebelievable and outstanding. And so

1073
01:17:09.399 --> 01:17:13.359
check him out at wild Birds wild
Birds still got birds in my brain.

1074
01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:15.720
A Southwest Fertilizer, and you'll find
everything. By the way, if you

1075
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:18.479
need to get your lawn mower blade
sharp and maybe a small engine or a

1076
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:23.159
little bit of small engine repair done, they can do that too. But

1077
01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:28.880
you'll find your service and the knowledgeable
staff they're unparalleled. I mean, they

1078
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:31.359
really know what they're talking about.
So when you go home, you spend

1079
01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:35.039
your money on a product that is
going to work. I can guarantee you

1080
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:40.520
that. Well, here we go
again, another break for the news.

1081
01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:45.119
Our phone number seven one three two
one two five, eight, seven,

1082
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:49.079
four, seven, one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Give

1083
01:17:49.199 --> 01:17:53.720
Josh a call, get on the
board. We'll talk to you when we

1084
01:17:53.880 --> 01:17:58.399
come back. I'm enjoined being back
in the saddle again visiting it. It's

1085
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.520
been a it was a wonderful week
out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association

1086
01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:05.560
show. Good to see so many
of our sponsors out there, visiting with

1087
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:11.840
Louise and Heirloom Soils for a little
while talking about some of the products they

1088
01:18:11.960 --> 01:18:15.000
have in line. He did a
really good talk too, by the way,

1089
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:18.479
at the number of educational sessions.
I was moderating all a lot of

1090
01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:24.439
the educational sessions, and Lewis did
a really really good talk for garden centers

1091
01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:29.039
on some educational tips and techniques for
how to have success. A lot of

1092
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:34.920
fun being out there. We'll be
right back. KTRH Garden Line does not

1093
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:41.960
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

1094
01:18:42.239 --> 01:19:11.840
KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor Crazy, just watching as the club. Good

1095
01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:16.079
morning, good Saturday morning, beautiful
outside there. You're listening to Garden Line.

1096
01:19:16.239 --> 01:19:18.920
I'm your host, Skip Ricter.
Our phone number is seven one three

1097
01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:25.000
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1098
01:19:25.439 --> 01:19:29.319
seventy four, while I was down
in San Antonio at the Texas Nursery and

1099
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:33.800
Landscape Association show, got to visit
with Dean Nelson down there. And you

1100
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:38.920
know, Dean started Nelson plant food
back in nineteen eighty three. I mean

1101
01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:43.600
they've been doing professional grade horticulture fertilizers
for a very very long time. A

1102
01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:46.640
lot of a lot of professionals are
used Dean Nelson's plant foods because they know

1103
01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:49.800
they work, they know their quality, and when it comes to your lawn,

1104
01:19:50.159 --> 01:19:55.880
you have that same kind of technological
advantage by going with something, for

1105
01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:59.239
example, like slow and easy.
Slow and easy, what is that?

1106
01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:02.159
Well, I like that name,
slow and easy. That's how it applies

1107
01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:06.279
fertilizer. You can take it.
It's a twenty two two ten. You

1108
01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:09.840
can take it, put it on
your lawn, and you're not just going

1109
01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:13.199
to get a flush of growth and
then here come the chinch bugs and small

1110
01:20:13.319 --> 01:20:15.199
roots, you know, all the
shorter root system, all the things that

1111
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:20.439
happen when you overdo nitrogen. Nope, this one is designed to release a

1112
01:20:20.520 --> 01:20:23.760
little bit early, a little bit
later, a little bit later, a

1113
01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:27.359
little bit later, and it just
gradually feed your lawn over time. That's

1114
01:20:27.399 --> 01:20:30.239
why they call it slow and easy. How easier can you get? Then

1115
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:32.520
you put the lawn fertilizer down and
it's going to feed for several months for

1116
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:35.479
you. I mean, it's going
to give you that gradual release. It

1117
01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:39.760
works really well. It's part of
their whole turf Star line. You know,

1118
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:42.560
turf Star. They've got a number
of products in there. I probably

1119
01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:45.319
don't brag about the rest of them
enough, but we'll change that. We'll

1120
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:49.359
talk about some other shim bit,
but basically, slow and Easy is the

1121
01:20:49.479 --> 01:20:54.520
one for your summertime feeding of your
lawn. You're going to have the beauty

1122
01:20:54.600 --> 01:20:58.880
you want. And while you're talking
about while we're talking about Nelson's Color Star,

1123
01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:01.840
Neutral Star, our Nature Star,
Nature Stars, your organic line of

1124
01:21:01.880 --> 01:21:08.119
fertilizers. They have a wide variety
of options with Nelson plant Food and that

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01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:12.640
slow and Easy is one that is
very timely to have a beautiful lawn right

1126
01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:15.319
now. By the way, when
you're taking care of a lawn like that,

1127
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:19.479
you want to also consider the micros
that are needed. And that is

1128
01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:24.920
why we like a product called azamite. Now, don't think of asamite as

1129
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.960
a fertilizer per se. It's like
you need to fertilize your lawn, but

1130
01:21:29.439 --> 01:21:34.439
you also need to have the nutrient, the small micro trace whatever you want

1131
01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:38.960
to call them nutrients available as well. It's a mind product. It comes

1132
01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:41.720
out of Utah. They dig it
out of the ground and it is just

1133
01:21:42.039 --> 01:21:45.359
packed with all kinds of trace elements. You put it on your lawn.

1134
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:48.600
What I'll do is I'll do a
fertilization. I'll turn right around loaded up

1135
01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:53.600
with the asamite and apply that separately. It's a different sized gran you'll so

1136
01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:57.520
don't mix them together than your fertilizer. But asamite works well. I was

1137
01:21:57.640 --> 01:22:01.640
visiting with Mike Hodge at the t
n LA show in San Antonio this week.

1138
01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:04.279
We're looking at some of the new
products they got coming along and pretty

1139
01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:08.960
cool stuff. But you can go
to azamite Texas dot com. You're gonna

1140
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:12.319
find azamite and a lot of the
places we talk about here on garden Line

1141
01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:17.399
widely available, easy to find,
and azamite as that addition to your fertilizer

1142
01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:23.079
to make sure the micronutrient levels are
what they need to be. Let's head

1143
01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:26.479
out to Fairfield and we're gonna talk
to Marty. Now, Hello Marty,

1144
01:22:27.479 --> 01:22:32.680
good morning. Skip question my Libularia
chapter seat. Plants that I have on

1145
01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:38.439
the front porch are have got some
kind it almost looks like an aged but

1146
01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:42.760
the leaves are just like one day
I see a little bit of aphid and

1147
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:47.119
I was spurring them all and the
next day they're like brown and dead the

1148
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:55.520
leaves and you're you're seeing apids on
lobularia. Well, I don't know if

1149
01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:58.760
they're ageds or what kind of bugg
it is, but they're sucking the juice

1150
01:22:58.760 --> 01:23:04.640
out of the leaves and you're not
eating them. I can't see like little

1151
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:08.840
jagged edges, but they're just sucking
the juice. And one day they're alive

1152
01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:13.439
and one day they're did that's interesting, Well, I don't know I would.

1153
01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:15.640
I'm not run into that on those
plants. They seem to be pretty

1154
01:23:15.680 --> 01:23:19.199
pest free for me, but hey, ever plant has its pest, I

1155
01:23:19.239 --> 01:23:23.119
would say probably a block. I
would do get up early in the morning

1156
01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:27.279
and do it when it's still cool, barely daylight, and I do a

1157
01:23:27.399 --> 01:23:30.880
spray of inseexcital soap on those plants
follow the label carefully, but you want

1158
01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:33.680
to do it early because you don't
want the leaves to be wet with soap

1159
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.479
when the sun comes out and it
gets really hot, or you can burn

1160
01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:42.840
plants with that. I would try
that the go ahead. They're pure shape.

1161
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:49.319
Well it's I don't know it.
I don't know which pesture you're seeing,

1162
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:53.920
unless you could capture some and send
me a picture of them. But

1163
01:23:54.119 --> 01:23:58.359
I still, you know, whatever
the pest is, soap is good against

1164
01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:01.600
small, soft bodied pests, and
pests in their young immature stages, and

1165
01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:04.720
for adult past it just irritates the
heck out of them. We use it

1166
01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:09.199
to make worms come up, caterpillars
come up out of the lawn and chinch

1167
01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:12.359
bug come up out of the lawn
by by drenching them with soapy water.

1168
01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:15.319
So I would I would try that
as the simplest if we knew for sure

1169
01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:18.560
what kind of pest? Is it
a piercing sucking past you said it didn't

1170
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:23.479
seem to be chewing the leaves,
so you may be dealing with some sort

1171
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:27.760
of a plant bug that's a piercing
sucking that's going to take something a little

1172
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.840
bit stronger. But I always hate
to send people out to tell you go

1173
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:34.319
buy this product, Marty, because
I really don't know what's doing it.

1174
01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:39.399
And that's kind of what we need
to get to the bottom of. You

1175
01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:44.399
know, there are a number of
insecticides out there that will kill insects that

1176
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:47.640
are piercing, sucking types of insects. We call it. The true Bugs

1177
01:24:48.079 --> 01:24:53.920
is one of the groups, and
you can go try one, but you

1178
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:57.680
may be wasting time and money if
we don't find what it is. If

1179
01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:00.439
you could, you know, I've
talked before about putting a a sheet of

1180
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:03.359
paper underneath the plant and swatting the
plant and then looking on the paper for

1181
01:25:03.399 --> 01:25:08.399
a little tiny things crawling around.
Just you may try that and see what

1182
01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:12.439
you see. If you can capture
anything and get a good picture of it,

1183
01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:15.439
I can look at it and identify
it, and then we know exactly

1184
01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:20.439
what to do. Okay, and
then real quick on the acorn they're topping

1185
01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:25.039
out that they're like when one day
there's a bloom in the next day it's

1186
01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:29.800
like six inches tall, and it's
this one variety. It's got that kind

1187
01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:33.279
of a maroon color with green oh
on okra, Yeah, yeah, uh

1188
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:40.079
okay, well yeah, okrew grows
fast. Typically we pick okra about three

1189
01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:45.000
days after the bloom drops, so
we can say pick it when it's four

1190
01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:49.880
inches long or two inches long or
whatever, but it's really the time because

1191
01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:54.279
if it were growing slow for whatever
time, it may still be small and

1192
01:25:54.359 --> 01:25:57.800
be tough. But about three or
four days after bloom, so you may

1193
01:25:57.880 --> 01:26:00.560
kind of get out there. Some
varieties are long and slender and fast.

1194
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:04.680
One that's like that, Oh gosh, I just went blank on the name

1195
01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:10.680
aunt Hetty's. Aunt Hetty's red is
a burgundy, and it grows really fast,

1196
01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:14.079
really long. So you may have
a variety like that, and in

1197
01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:17.640
that case, longer is not a
problem. You can you can. They

1198
01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:21.880
can be a little longer, okay, because like when they pop up,

1199
01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:26.399
there's like the next day they're huge. Yeah, so I've been pulling them.

1200
01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:29.199
I thought they were chaffs, so
I was pooling them and putting the

1201
01:26:29.239 --> 01:26:33.000
seeds. Can I still plant the
seed? You could once they're dried.

1202
01:26:33.079 --> 01:26:36.079
I wouldn't plant them while they're still
white. But you can also grab an

1203
01:26:36.119 --> 01:26:41.600
ochrapod and just bend it and if
it snaps loose, that's a good pod

1204
01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:45.640
to eat it. If it's like
got some woody strands that are holding it

1205
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:47.920
together. When you try to snap
it that throw it away. That's not

1206
01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:50.479
worth eating. Okay, Hey,
I've got to run for a break,

1207
01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:54.560
but I hope that helps. Thanks, thank you for the call, Marty.

1208
01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:58.920
Appreciate that our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven

1209
01:26:59.119 --> 01:27:11.840
four In the saddle again, will
be time, come back in the saddle

1210
01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:16.640
again. Oh that makes me happy. Gene Autry one of the singing cowboys.

1211
01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:21.960
Most of us, even me,
not old enough to remember remember the

1212
01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:29.159
original singing cowboy days. But oh
gosh, that's fun, fun stuff.

1213
01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:32.640
Hey. We are here on garden
Line for one purpose, and that is

1214
01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:36.199
to answer your gardening questions, to
help you have success with gardening. Our

1215
01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:41.840
phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

1216
01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:46.600
two and two fifty eight seventy four. Listen, these these hot days are

1217
01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:49.640
harder on your trees. Your trees
pump a lot of water. To think

1218
01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:53.960
about this, Go set you know
anything sitting out in the sun. Go

1219
01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:56.760
out about two o'clock today and put
your hand on it. It's gonna burn

1220
01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:01.319
your hand. Think about every leaf
on a tree is essentially subjected to that

1221
01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:05.520
radiation that literally would cook the plant
tissues and kill them. Why are the

1222
01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:11.239
leaves all not brown, It's because
they transpire water. What happens if they

1223
01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:15.279
don't have water? Yeah, you
get the idea Affordable tree Care. We're

1224
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:17.479
talking about our good friends at Affordable
Tree Care. By the way, the

1225
01:28:17.560 --> 01:28:23.840
number seven one three six nine nine
two six six three. They can come

1226
01:28:23.880 --> 01:28:28.119
out and do the deep root watering. Now you know there's deep root feeding

1227
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:31.000
where you put nutrients in the ground. But Martin will get out there or

1228
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:35.279
him and his team get out there
and do the deep root watering, and

1229
01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:42.720
that's important and injects water to fill
that soil profile because trees need a huge

1230
01:28:43.159 --> 01:28:45.880
volume of soil with water in it
to be able to survive. For this,

1231
01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:50.279
I mean they can survive, but
not without water. So any tree

1232
01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:53.840
that's important to you, oaks,
pecans, elms, any big tree on

1233
01:28:53.920 --> 01:28:57.279
your property, keep them healthy now, because here's what happens. A tree

1234
01:28:57.319 --> 01:29:00.079
gets drout, stressed and then issues. It wouldn't have been a problem like

1235
01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:05.800
hypoxlin canker on oaks suddenly are killing
the tree now the draft stress just set

1236
01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:10.000
them up for that. Don't let
them do that now, Martin can do

1237
01:29:10.079 --> 01:29:13.000
all kinds of stuff. I mean
they do. They do stump grinding,

1238
01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:15.279
you know, they do consulting on
your trees. They can clear the power

1239
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:19.000
lines because here comes hurricane season.
Right, we're already in it seven one

1240
01:29:19.199 --> 01:29:25.760
three six ninety nine two six six
three or just go to aff tree Service

1241
01:29:26.199 --> 01:29:30.600
dot com. Aff Tree Service dot
com. Don't wait until your tree show

1242
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:34.720
problems. It's probably too late by
the time you get that. Protect them

1243
01:29:34.760 --> 01:29:39.039
now, take care of them now, hydrate him now to help them get

1244
01:29:39.119 --> 01:29:44.119
through. Let's head out to sugar
Land and we're gonna talk to Mike.

1245
01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:49.560
Hello, Mike, good morning,
Skip good talking to you again. I

1246
01:29:49.800 --> 01:29:56.159
was at the Stafford Center Home and
Garden show this summer. Oh good,

1247
01:29:57.000 --> 01:30:00.840
yeah, yeah, I met you
there, but you get gave me some

1248
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:05.039
of that color Star by Nelson food. Oh man, that's rocket fuel,

1249
01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:10.960
man it is. I put it
on boogabilias. I haven't found anything that

1250
01:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.680
I'll make it bloom keep it blooming, but it's worked well so far.

1251
01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:19.880
Well good, all right, One
quick question, then, when can I

1252
01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:26.159
start the fall grass feeding and what
do you recommend? Well, we're not

1253
01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:29.840
gonna be feeding our fall grass until
we get close to October or sometime in

1254
01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:32.079
October most cases. I see you're
done in Sugarland. Yeah, i'd be

1255
01:30:32.119 --> 01:30:36.520
about the beginning of October probably we
would be looking at putting on a fall

1256
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:41.079
feeding. I've got a new schedule
that's about to come out. We're just

1257
01:30:41.199 --> 01:30:45.119
trying to get some things worked out
with the website. But it'll have all

1258
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:48.000
that on it and I will talk
about it incessantly once we get that up

1259
01:30:48.039 --> 01:30:51.439
there. But basically, the quick
answer to your question is you're gonna put

1260
01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:57.359
on your fall fertilizers about the beginning
of October. That doesn't mean it has

1261
01:30:57.359 --> 01:30:59.680
to happened in a week or two. There's a range. If you do

1262
01:30:59.760 --> 01:31:01.800
it eight September, that's fine,
If you do it in late October,

1263
01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:04.199
that's fine. But you know,
we want to get it on there while

1264
01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:08.399
the grass still is able to take
it up and do some good with it.

1265
01:31:09.439 --> 01:31:14.640
Yeah, So what's the combination that
you suggest? Well, you want

1266
01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:16.680
you want to go ahead? I'm
sorry what we're saying. Well, I

1267
01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:20.319
lost a lot of grass during the
winter last year. I don't know what

1268
01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:24.119
it was, due to the freeze
of the drought. I don't want to

1269
01:31:24.159 --> 01:31:27.359
go through that again. Yeah,
no, you sure, you sure don't.

1270
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:31.680
I would say, you know,
as far as combination you're talking about,

1271
01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:34.840
like the numbers and stuff like that, well, you know you were

1272
01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:39.520
talking about nitrofiles. That's a Nelson
product, and Nelson also makes something called

1273
01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:43.720
carbo load. It's ten ten twenty, so that would be like a one

1274
01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:47.439
one two. Now, different companies
their fall fertilizers are going to have different

1275
01:31:47.560 --> 01:31:53.439
ratios slightly. But unlike summer where
we want a three one two or four

1276
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:56.640
one two ratio, when we get
to fall, we want a little bit

1277
01:31:56.680 --> 01:32:00.560
of nitrogen, but we mainly need
to get that third number the potassium in

1278
01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:04.680
there. That's the winter heartiness and
the chemistry of it is that they are

1279
01:32:04.800 --> 01:32:11.000
taking up taken up together and that
that helps you. So you know,

1280
01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:13.720
if you use the summer fertilizer in
the fall, it wouldn't be the end

1281
01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:16.079
of the world, but the much
much better thing would be to go with

1282
01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:24.920
the higher potassium and unless nitrogen like
turf Star carbo loade. Right, okay,

1283
01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.560
great, well, thank you love
your show. Well, thank you,

1284
01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:33.199
I appreciate that. You take care
you bubby. Yeah, and you're

1285
01:32:33.239 --> 01:32:36.960
gonna you know, I'm talking about
these products like turf Star and whatnot.

1286
01:32:38.039 --> 01:32:42.000
You're gonna find every kind of product
like that. I mean, we I

1287
01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:45.000
talk about a lot of different things
on the show and one thing I like

1288
01:32:45.079 --> 01:32:46.760
about ACE Hardware is if we're gonna
talk about it, they're going to carry

1289
01:32:46.800 --> 01:32:49.560
it. You can go to ACE
hardware dot com, go to their store

1290
01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:54.840
locator, find one of the thirty
nine stores near you, and, by

1291
01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:58.119
the way, allow yourself a little
bit of time because you're gonna find the

1292
01:32:58.199 --> 01:33:01.159
fertilizers, you're gonna find the pesticide
products and things you want. But you

1293
01:33:01.279 --> 01:33:05.880
need to walk through that store and
see It would take a long time to

1294
01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:11.279
describe the store fully to you because
they have so many different kinds of things,

1295
01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:14.439
and ACE hardwarees are independently owned,
so each can be a little different.

1296
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.479
I like to go different ones sometimes
just to see what's new. What

1297
01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:20.760
do they have? ACE Hardware is
going to have it. I mean that's

1298
01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:25.039
simple. They've got what you need. By the way, it's grilling season.

1299
01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:28.680
Still time to get out there and
get that big green egg you can't

1300
01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:31.720
live without, or a trigger or
maybe a webber grill, or maybe some

1301
01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:36.439
bling. They got lots of cool
bling for outdoor cooking as well. Let's

1302
01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:42.439
head out now to David, and
David, you're in kind of the west

1303
01:33:42.960 --> 01:33:47.039
central area. That's correct, Skip, thank you very much. I live

1304
01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:51.199
on an alley and there's kind of
a gravel bed that runs the length of

1305
01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:57.079
my town home. And growing out
of that gravel bed is a very robust

1306
01:33:57.239 --> 01:34:01.199
oleander. It's now recovering from the
second breeze, doing good job. But

1307
01:34:01.359 --> 01:34:04.880
that gravel bed just had a ton
of weeds. I had a guy with

1308
01:34:05.039 --> 01:34:09.920
a weed eater I go through it
yesterday, and I'm wondering, how close

1309
01:34:10.640 --> 01:34:15.880
can I spray the round up to
the oliander to just permanently kill those weeds.

1310
01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:23.840
Okay, the answer is as close
as you want, but don't get

1311
01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:27.119
it on any green tissue on the
oliander. So if you've got it,

1312
01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:30.399
you want to not pump your sprayer
up too high where you get that mist

1313
01:34:30.520 --> 01:34:34.880
that kind of drifts up. If
it gets on green stem or green leaves,

1314
01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:41.840
it'll damage that oleander significantly. And
second the roots. Well, secondly

1315
01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.680
on the roots. When you're using
a product like that, all you have

1316
01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:49.439
to do is dampen the foliage.
If you're spraying and it's just dripping off

1317
01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:54.159
and you're drenching the soil, then
you're gonna you're potentially gonna have a problem

1318
01:34:54.199 --> 01:34:58.920
with the roots as well, but
in general, just barely with the weeds

1319
01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:01.199
that you can't kill it deader than
that will kill it, you know.

1320
01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.039
In other words, if you go
beyond just dampening the leaves, you're wasting

1321
01:35:05.079 --> 01:35:10.920
the product and potentially having some that
secondary damage where you're talking about trying to

1322
01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:15.600
avoid it so deep that it saturates
the soil that will get the rate that

1323
01:35:15.680 --> 01:35:21.239
will that will not do any additional
good and can do additional harm. Great,

1324
01:35:21.399 --> 01:35:25.279
Thank you very much. I appreciate
your show. Thank you, David,

1325
01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:30.439
appreciate that call. Appreciate that very
much. I keep talking about Texas

1326
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:34.680
Nursery and Landscape Association show because I
was out there is visiting with David Williamson

1327
01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:40.239
from it, you know, out
in RCW Nurseries and uh, just talking

1328
01:35:40.239 --> 01:35:42.680
to him about some of the things
they've got going on. By the way,

1329
01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:45.319
you can go to RCW nurseries dot
com. That's for those of you

1330
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:48.239
who aren't from a with the area. That's the nursery that's on Tomball Parkway,

1331
01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:51.520
which is Highway two forty nine.
Goes up to Tomball Robbery comes into

1332
01:35:51.560 --> 01:35:57.079
Beltway eight. You know, it's
real easily located northwest northwest Houston, and

1333
01:35:57.359 --> 01:36:00.399
r CW's got all kinds of good
stuff. I mean they always do.

1334
01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:03.760
You can always go there and know
that when you go to RCW you're going

1335
01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:08.279
to have a good selection of plants. Right now, they got the Mexican

1336
01:36:08.319 --> 01:36:12.199
plumb in that's their tree of the
month. And Mexican plum is a native

1337
01:36:12.520 --> 01:36:15.640
plum. It's it's a single trunk
plum. Some of the plums form thickets

1338
01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:19.239
and they just become a mess in
your yard. Mexican plumb is a single

1339
01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:25.000
trunk plum and it does well.
It has beautiful spring flowers, it's native,

1340
01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:28.880
it's tough, and plus you get
something for you know, wildlife as

1341
01:36:28.920 --> 01:36:31.319
well with that fruit that's on the
little bit of plums. I guess they're

1342
01:36:31.439 --> 01:36:34.520
edible. They're not, you know, it's not the if you want fruit,

1343
01:36:34.640 --> 01:36:38.800
I would plant a fruit type plum. But they're on there and they

1344
01:36:38.960 --> 01:36:42.800
it's this is one heck of a
tough trees. I've seen these things survive

1345
01:36:42.920 --> 01:36:47.319
in some pretty pretty brutal conditions.
So I've been really impressed with that native

1346
01:36:47.359 --> 01:36:51.520
plum, but August August time is
when they have their sale. Fifteen percent

1347
01:36:51.560 --> 01:36:56.600
of perennials select trees and shrubs on
sale as well. They're open money through

1348
01:36:56.640 --> 01:37:00.479
Saturday seven to four. That would
be today seven to four Sunday Tomorrow nine

1349
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:08.079
to four at r CW Nurseries r
CW nurseries dot com. Let's go to

1350
01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:13.600
Kingwood now and we're gonna talk to
Bill. Hello, Bill, good morning,

1351
01:37:13.880 --> 01:37:18.960
Good morning. I'm interesting. I
have nematodes, and which is like

1352
01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:23.560
having some kind of dere deadly social
disease. As far as I'm concerned.

1353
01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:30.239
They are in both of my beds, both my garden beds at New Caney

1354
01:37:30.359 --> 01:37:33.920
and my garden beds in Kingwood.
Years ago, I was able to use

1355
01:37:34.000 --> 01:37:40.079
some stuff called vapan to kill nematodes
and it worked really great. But now

1356
01:37:41.720 --> 01:37:45.359
people like me with an advanced orgaining
chemistry degree are not able to get that

1357
01:37:45.479 --> 01:37:53.119
stuff because they have restrictions on I
think it's called controlled use pesticide or something.

1358
01:37:53.800 --> 01:37:57.319
Yeah, but what do you recommend? Well, tell me again,

1359
01:37:57.399 --> 01:38:02.399
what are the kinds of plants that
are growing in the nematodes? Mostly vegetable

1360
01:38:02.439 --> 01:38:11.239
plants for an example, cantaloupes and
the tomatoes and pepper. Okay, so

1361
01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:15.119
here here's the deal on nematodes.
And it's not a fast easy answer.

1362
01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:18.479
I wish I could say go buy
product B and you're done. We don't

1363
01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:26.159
have one of those, but we
do things that reduce their numbers in the

1364
01:38:26.239 --> 01:38:30.279
summertime, growing a wall to wall
marigolds in the bed. I mean,

1365
01:38:30.359 --> 01:38:33.199
I'm talking about every cubic centimeter or
soil has a marigo root in it.

1366
01:38:33.359 --> 01:38:39.800
That's the goal that you go in
there. Pardon fun specific a marigoles.

1367
01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:43.319
The African types are the big pom
poms are better, but that's the other

1368
01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:45.039
types will work as well, but
that would be that. Then you go

1369
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.760
to the cool season and you do
cereal rye grass, the grain type of

1370
01:38:48.920 --> 01:38:51.760
rye, which you can get at
a good feed store, and the cereal

1371
01:38:51.880 --> 01:38:58.640
rye grass is the trap crop for
the winter time. Anytime you grow mustard,

1372
01:38:58.760 --> 01:39:00.439
I know people that plant must or
not to eat it, but just

1373
01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:05.000
wall to wall and then they chop
it, turn it under, it decomposes

1374
01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:10.399
and kills nematodes. At planning nematode
resistant crops, getting in a rotation where

1375
01:39:10.439 --> 01:39:15.359
you plant things that they don't get
to kind of starve them down. Those

1376
01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:18.000
are all some of the options.
Solarizing helps a little bit at the surface,

1377
01:39:18.079 --> 01:39:21.359
but it doesn't go deep enough to
control them. And Bill, I'm

1378
01:39:21.399 --> 01:39:25.720
sorry, but I'm running against a
hard break here. But those are a

1379
01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:28.800
few of the things that you can
do that will work pretty well on the

1380
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:32.840
nematodes. Just trying to keep your
susceptible crops out of that soil. Maybe

1381
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.880
a different garden bed so that you
can rotate a little bit better. Thank

1382
01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:41.800
you for the calling. I tell
it, hey, Bill, Bill,

1383
01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:44.159
would you hang on. I'm gonna
put you on hold and we'll come right

1384
01:39:44.239 --> 01:40:03.960
to you after break. I've got
I've got to cut looseier. All right.

1385
01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:09.000
There you have it. You were
listening to garden line seven one three,

1386
01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:15.279
two, one two five eight seven
four. We were I was talking

1387
01:40:15.279 --> 01:40:19.119
about earlier visiting with Dan Snyder out
at the TNLA show and talking about some

1388
01:40:19.199 --> 01:40:21.479
of the fertilizers and stuff they have. You know, they have the sweet

1389
01:40:21.560 --> 01:40:24.960
Green and I don't know if you've
used this before, if this is an

1390
01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:30.119
organic fertilizer. It's eleven percent nitrogen, which is one of the higher rates

1391
01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:32.640
of nitrogen and you can get in
a product. Of course, you just

1392
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.560
apply it accordingly. You know,
you get stronger products, you apply less

1393
01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:41.000
fertilizer products, you apply more fertilizer. But this Sweet Green, it has

1394
01:40:41.000 --> 01:40:45.199
a wonderful sweet smell and it is
basically a molasses based product. They go

1395
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:49.880
through a certain process that where microbes
are involved in it and it breaks it

1396
01:40:49.960 --> 01:40:54.079
down and it gets those numbers up
where they need to be. But when

1397
01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:57.720
you put that on the soil,
the microbes go crazy, and microbes are

1398
01:40:57.720 --> 01:41:00.279
what makes the world go around.
In the root system of a plan.

1399
01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:04.600
You can put that down. You
can see a pretty darn fast response in

1400
01:41:04.680 --> 01:41:08.680
my opinion, from it, and
it works really well. Again, it's

1401
01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:13.039
easy, it's easy to apply,
it works well, it does well.

1402
01:41:13.199 --> 01:41:17.159
It's got an organic it's basically an
organic based product. Sweet Green is available

1403
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:23.560
everywhere nitrofoss is available, which is
everywhere. I mean really the ace hardware

1404
01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:26.560
stores, we talk about a lot
of the home and the home, mom

1405
01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:29.840
and pop nurseries and garden center,
even feed stores that we talk about here

1406
01:41:29.880 --> 01:41:32.399
on garden Line are going to carry
the nitrofost products and that would include the

1407
01:41:32.439 --> 01:41:34.840
one Sweet Green, and that would
be a good time to put some of

1408
01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:39.600
that down. It would it would
continue to feed your lawn, carry you

1409
01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:43.920
on into the upcoming fall fertilization,
which is still a little bit away.

1410
01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:47.079
But nitrofost sweet green, I think
you will be very pleased with it in

1411
01:41:47.199 --> 01:41:51.640
many many aspects and regards. We're
going to head back and talk to Bill

1412
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:55.680
back in Kingwood. Bill, I
think we were still working on some nematode

1413
01:41:55.760 --> 01:41:59.760
questions. Right, Yeah, but
you know, really have a go to

1414
01:41:59.800 --> 01:42:03.319
Joe. Gonna tell you that I
was considering using plotonium, but I thought

1415
01:42:03.359 --> 01:42:06.640
there might have some mild side effects. Yeah, yeah, just mild.

1416
01:42:06.680 --> 01:42:10.640
It wouldn't it wouldn't do much.
But you know what you wouldn't need outdoor

1417
01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:19.479
landscape lighting make the yard glow.
Oh, I got it. You take

1418
01:42:19.560 --> 01:42:24.119
care, Thanks for the call.
Sorry to waste yours all right, bye,

1419
01:42:24.319 --> 01:42:26.760
Hi, it's fun. It's never
a waste of time when we're having

1420
01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.319
fun. Yeah. I need to
tell Jason at Pierscapes about that. We

1421
01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:36.439
just need nuclear reactive materials to do
the landscape lighting. Now. Actually Pierscapes

1422
01:42:36.520 --> 01:42:41.279
does landscape lighting, but they do
it the right way. These high quality

1423
01:42:41.479 --> 01:42:45.880
LED lighting, you know, saves
you some energy, and you just don't

1424
01:42:45.920 --> 01:42:51.079
want your place glowing like Peerscapes also
does irrigation. Maybe maybe your system needs

1425
01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:55.239
a little work done. You know, things aren't working right. Most irrigation

1426
01:42:55.319 --> 01:43:00.520
systems are not efficiently designed, and
they're definitely not maintained properly, and you

1427
01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:03.760
waste water and then you end up
with brown spots. You know you're watering

1428
01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:06.520
and you got this spot over there, stay's brown, and it's because the

1429
01:43:06.960 --> 01:43:12.239
sprinkler heads are not reaching that area
with the same volume of water they are

1430
01:43:12.319 --> 01:43:15.920
other areas and so on. You
know what I'm talking about. But Peerscapes

1431
01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:18.720
pretty much anything you need done,
they're going to do it. Jason and

1432
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:24.479
his team. We're talking about experienced
people. We're talking about professionally trained employees.

1433
01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:27.640
The average tenure for their employees over
ten years. I mean, they

1434
01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:30.199
got folks that have been there twenty
six years and more. They've got their

1435
01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:35.560
certification, they got their license.
You want something designed, They've got designers

1436
01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:40.840
Bob Candice that they know how to
do it right. They can turn your

1437
01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:43.920
place into a show place. Maybe
it's a front yard. You want people

1438
01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:46.720
driving by to see a beautiful home. Maybe it's a backyard where you're enjoying

1439
01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:51.439
time with friends. Pierscapes. You
can go online to peerscapes dot com or

1440
01:43:51.520 --> 01:43:59.439
just Callumn two eight one three seven
zero five zero six zero. Oh my

1441
01:43:59.439 --> 01:44:03.960
gosh, Antonium, what do we
think of next? Right? I was

1442
01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:10.800
talking earlier about tree problems and things, and watering our trees is really critical.

1443
01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:15.119
Watering them right is also critical.
The squirt you put on your lawn

1444
01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:18.680
is typically not going to do them
much to help the trees. It's just

1445
01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:24.000
not going to get down deep enough. And you know, trees and grass

1446
01:44:24.119 --> 01:44:27.760
compete, so we need to do
additional care. But when a tree is

1447
01:44:27.880 --> 01:44:30.439
new, you absolutely have to water
it regularly. Right now, in the

1448
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:33.319
heat of summer, a tree that's
been planted in the last few months,

1449
01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:36.960
you better be watering that thing almost
every day. Now. I don't mean

1450
01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:42.239
drowning it and creating a swamp.
I mean a regular watering of that little

1451
01:44:42.319 --> 01:44:45.119
root ball you put in the ground
or roots cylinder I prefer to call it,

1452
01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:46.840
because that's where all the roots are, and so the soil may be

1453
01:44:46.960 --> 01:44:51.239
moist around it, but it pumps
dry that little roots cylinder, and gradually,

1454
01:44:51.319 --> 01:44:55.319
over the months and years, roots
get further and further out and it's

1455
01:44:55.399 --> 01:44:59.800
not touching go at all. They're
very resilient. But early on that's where

1456
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.880
the tree hugger sprinkler comes in.
Because tree hugger you can set that thing.

1457
01:45:02.960 --> 01:45:05.079
You put it around your trees.
It's got a little valve on it,

1458
01:45:05.159 --> 01:45:08.439
and go back to the faucet and
turn it on. You can have

1459
01:45:08.520 --> 01:45:11.560
it water just a little bit to
water that root cylinder, and a little

1460
01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:14.159
beyond that. You can turn it
up more and more. You get a

1461
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:16.600
fifteen inch tree hugger. They come
in seven, eleven and fifteen. I

1462
01:45:16.680 --> 01:45:20.039
believe the fifteen inch we'll put water
all the way out, you know,

1463
01:45:20.319 --> 01:45:25.840
put it out fifteen feet or more
in both directions or all directions, all

1464
01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:29.720
around the tree, so you can
really give a good watering underneath that branch

1465
01:45:29.760 --> 01:45:32.279
spread of the tree where watering is
so critical. So I would say even

1466
01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.840
the first five years of a tree's
life at least that I would be looking

1467
01:45:35.880 --> 01:45:42.600
at a tree hugger sprinkler during these
days of absolutely blazing hot weather and not

1468
01:45:42.880 --> 01:45:45.640
enough rain. Unfortunately. You can
go to tree Hugger Sprinkler dot com.

1469
01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:48.319
You can find out more information there
and they are sold in all the good

1470
01:45:48.359 --> 01:45:51.800
places we talk about here on Garden
Line. We're gonna head out now to

1471
01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:57.119
Tiki Island, Texas and talk to
Jeff. Good morning, Jeff Warrant,

1472
01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.560
Sir, how you do today?
I'm well, what's happening in the wild

1473
01:46:00.640 --> 01:46:04.600
tropical world of Tiki Island, Texas? Oh, not a whole lot where

1474
01:46:04.880 --> 01:46:09.560
I'm looking at some of the mango
plants growing, and you know they're they're

1475
01:46:09.600 --> 01:46:12.720
not minding the heat too much.
But I was gonna rack your brain on

1476
01:46:13.279 --> 01:46:16.920
a winter garden. I'm already starting
to think of transferring over to uh right

1477
01:46:16.960 --> 01:46:20.560
now, the flower or the garden
is full of grass clippings and all my

1478
01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:25.199
old cuttings and that stuff. But
yeah, I already started seeing something baby

1479
01:46:25.279 --> 01:46:30.039
tomato plants show up at the stores. And when when do you usually transfer

1480
01:46:30.119 --> 01:46:31.600
over to your your winter crop?
And what do you do to get the

1481
01:46:31.640 --> 01:46:35.399
tomatoes going? Well, you need
to do that asap. It is definitely,

1482
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:41.079
uh the later part of tomato planting
season. So go ahead and get

1483
01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:45.439
those transplants in the ground. Choose
varieties that that move fast. You know,

1484
01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:48.960
brandywine may take almost eighty days.
That's too long for fall, uh,

1485
01:46:49.359 --> 01:46:51.800
you know, so get things are
a little faster, uh, and

1486
01:46:51.920 --> 01:46:55.159
get them in the ground as soon
as you can. As far as the

1487
01:46:55.239 --> 01:46:57.600
tomatoes. The rest of the fall
garden, you know, it comes in

1488
01:46:57.760 --> 01:47:01.680
stages where we're planting cucumb and squashing
things. Right now, we're gonna as

1489
01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:04.680
get to the end of August,
we're gonna be putting in potatoes, a

1490
01:47:04.960 --> 01:47:12.800
little new potatoes. I've been I've
been seeing celebrity. I've been seeing some

1491
01:47:12.920 --> 01:47:15.680
of the better boys. Those are
the ones that I'm seeing right now.

1492
01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:18.159
Yep, that are out there.
I don't know if you've got a preference

1493
01:47:18.199 --> 01:47:20.560
on that one. Those are usually
the two I go to. Yep,

1494
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:25.840
I do quite a bit. I
would do the celebrity that's a Texas Superstar.

1495
01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:30.479
By Iggonlife Extension or Econlife Research has
something called superstar plants, and that

1496
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:34.680
is a superstar plant. It does
very very well the benefit of celebrity.

1497
01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:38.560
It is also has nemotoad resistance.
And you know, you get out near

1498
01:47:38.600 --> 01:47:42.920
the coast, get some sandy soils, and you need that nematoade resistance.

1499
01:47:43.079 --> 01:47:45.359
Hey, I'm gonna have to take
a break here. If you have a

1500
01:47:45.439 --> 01:47:47.600
follow up, just hang on and
I'll come back to you. If not,

1501
01:47:47.960 --> 01:47:50.159
Jeff, it's great to talk to
you. Sorry, we got gotta

1502
01:47:50.199 --> 01:47:54.640
go to a break. Our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

1503
01:47:54.720 --> 01:48:18.720
eight seventy four. Well, good
Saturday morning. We are talking gardening today,

1504
01:48:18.800 --> 01:48:23.560
which is what we do every Saturday
from six am to ten am and

1505
01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:28.000
every Sunday from six am to ten
am here on garden Line our phone number

1506
01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:31.840
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eight seventy four. If you are looking

1507
01:48:32.079 --> 01:48:41.039
for a beautiful home in a beautiful
neighborhood, walking trails in even an active

1508
01:48:41.359 --> 01:48:44.319
lifestyle. We're talking about you know, folks fifty five and better that are

1509
01:48:44.399 --> 01:48:48.800
just wanting to enjoy their retirement years
or have to be retired, but just

1510
01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:53.239
an active lifestyle. That's Dell Web. And Dell Web has a new community

1511
01:48:53.319 --> 01:48:59.119
down in the excuse me, full
Share area on FM three fifty nine,

1512
01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:01.199
a couple of miles out at a
full Sure, they have a community garden.

1513
01:49:01.239 --> 01:49:03.520
In fact, I was just talking
talking to someone the other day.

1514
01:49:03.520 --> 01:49:06.520
I'm about to go down there again
because I've been helping them with that garden.

1515
01:49:08.239 --> 01:49:11.840
That community garden just makes I mean, Dell Web's enough right there,

1516
01:49:12.159 --> 01:49:15.760
but you throw a community garden into
a Dellweb community. And for those of

1517
01:49:15.840 --> 01:49:18.520
you listening on garden Line, wow
that I don't know how you do better

1518
01:49:18.560 --> 01:49:24.399
than that. It makes sense,
right, Dell webs built, it's designed

1519
01:49:24.439 --> 01:49:28.479
around you, the lifestyle programs designed
around you, and so of course they

1520
01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:30.880
would have a community garden. That
just makes a lot of sense. Hey,

1521
01:49:30.960 --> 01:49:34.760
you can go online to dellweb dot
com slash Houston for more information,

1522
01:49:35.239 --> 01:49:40.720
or you can call two eight one
four to five nine zero six zero nine

1523
01:49:40.720 --> 01:49:44.680
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six zero nine, so you can discover

1524
01:49:44.840 --> 01:49:48.199
that Dell Web difference for yourself.
Well, here we are listening to garden

1525
01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:51.000
Line and we are going to go
back here. I believe we're gonna talk

1526
01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:54.640
to Jeff in Tiki Island. Jeff, I c out there still. I

1527
01:49:54.720 --> 01:49:58.680
think we must have more to talk
about. Yes, sir, you're previously

1528
01:49:58.760 --> 01:50:00.920
talking about nemato and I don't know
this is just a wise tale, but

1529
01:50:01.000 --> 01:50:06.239
my dad and other senior gardeners always
told me to put the remnant crab shells

1530
01:50:06.880 --> 01:50:11.439
that I catch down here in the
garden after they dried out to help with

1531
01:50:11.520 --> 01:50:15.319
the nematode population. And I've been
doing it for years I don't know if

1532
01:50:15.359 --> 01:50:17.199
it's truthful or not, but it's
it's really helped me out. It is

1533
01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:24.880
truthful. The kitan in things like
you know when you eat crawfish and you

1534
01:50:25.000 --> 01:50:29.159
got that pile after you're done of
all the body parts. That's basically a

1535
01:50:29.279 --> 01:50:31.680
high kitan as is you know,
crab shells and other things. You get

1536
01:50:31.720 --> 01:50:36.560
the same thing, and there are
there are organisms in the soil that they

1537
01:50:38.319 --> 01:50:43.079
feed on that material. Your crab
shells you put down, and they are

1538
01:50:43.439 --> 01:50:48.159
they helped fight nematodes and so you're
it's like you're you're increasing their numbers by

1539
01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:54.119
putting in the high kiten materials,
and then the nematodes that are there have

1540
01:50:54.479 --> 01:50:57.600
a tougher time of it, and
it helps reduce It doesn't eradicate, but

1541
01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:00.920
it does reduce their numbers. Excellent. Next one, I was going to

1542
01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:05.359
ask you the plumbarias that I've got
going everywhere, they're full bloom and gorgeous.

1543
01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:10.680
Is it damaging to the plant if
I snip off some of the leaves

1544
01:51:10.680 --> 01:51:15.000
They're getting very very heavy, and
I'm adding support underneath of them. But

1545
01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:18.279
I wanted to kind of cascade the
floral a little bit more and it didn't

1546
01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:21.600
know if that's damage in because I
know it, let's add a white secretion

1547
01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:27.840
afterwards. Yeah, am I hurting
them at all? It's it's a percentage

1548
01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:30.720
game. I mean, every time
a plant has a leaf that's green and

1549
01:51:30.880 --> 01:51:33.439
active, it's doing that plant some
good. So as you take them off,

1550
01:51:33.479 --> 01:51:35.520
I gonna take them one leave off. Well, that's not a kill

1551
01:51:35.520 --> 01:51:40.800
a plant, but you know,
there's it's a it's a gradual from it's

1552
01:51:40.840 --> 01:51:44.279
not black and white line, it's
gray across there. But at some point

1553
01:51:44.319 --> 01:51:47.560
you're taking enough leaves off so that
you're probably affecting your balloom production and your

1554
01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:51.760
overall plant health. You know,
it's carbohydrate production and storage. So I

1555
01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:56.520
don't know that there's a certain amount
of leaves you can take off, but

1556
01:51:56.960 --> 01:52:00.640
just be aware of the fact that
the more you take, the more you're

1557
01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:03.600
probably setting it back a little bit. I'm keeping it at a pretty I'm

1558
01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:06.920
just kind of just getting it to
the floral doesn't have the leaves going into

1559
01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:10.560
it, okay at all? So
not a huge number, all right,

1560
01:52:10.600 --> 01:52:14.319
Next, what I have Do you
have any recommendations on pineapple plants. I've

1561
01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:17.119
had several of them over the years, I've gotten one pineapple, but I

1562
01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:20.079
can't get to it to replicate and
shoot out the fruit to get Okay,

1563
01:52:20.119 --> 01:52:25.000
what you do is, once your
plant reaches a good size, it's not

1564
01:52:25.159 --> 01:52:27.840
just a little young plant trying to
grow, but you've got a good sized

1565
01:52:27.880 --> 01:52:30.479
pineapple. You put an apple in
the middle of the top and then get

1566
01:52:30.560 --> 01:52:33.840
you one of those. What I
would use is a dry cleaner bag,

1567
01:52:33.960 --> 01:52:39.720
a clear bag put over the whole
thing, and basically you're keeping the ethylene

1568
01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:44.880
gas from the apple in around the
base of that crown of the pineapple,

1569
01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:49.520
and it initiates the bud formation that
will become the bloom slash fruit that comes

1570
01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:53.600
up. I can't remember how long
you need to leave the apple there.

1571
01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:56.359
It's not a super long time.
It's just there long enough to cause that

1572
01:52:56.479 --> 01:53:00.680
initiation. But as an apple sets, it does give off gas that will

1573
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:01.800
do that. But you've got to
capture it and hold it in. That's

1574
01:53:01.800 --> 01:53:04.399
why we have the dry cleaner bag
over it. Of course, you wouldn't

1575
01:53:04.439 --> 01:53:08.960
want it in the sunshine. When
you're doing that. You put anything behind

1576
01:53:09.000 --> 01:53:13.359
a clear cover in the sun and
it's gonna cook. So I'm moving it

1577
01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:16.359
to a shaded area. Apple and
I'm covering the entire plant. Yeah,

1578
01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:19.479
yeah, you're you're keeping it in. And if you go online and you

1579
01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:26.760
know, do a search for just
say pineapple, fruit apple, you're probably

1580
01:53:26.920 --> 01:53:30.800
gonna find more information on some of
the details of it. I'm gonna have

1581
01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:33.159
to run to another call. But
that is it, you bet, that

1582
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:35.800
is it. In a nutshell,
Thank you, Jeff, I appreciate that

1583
01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:43.239
call. Buchanis Plants in the Heights. They have one of the best selection

1584
01:53:43.279 --> 01:53:45.319
of plants that you're going to find
in Houston. And you know, with

1585
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:51.439
hummingbird season arriving now, they've got
an excellent selection of hummingbird plants. Firebush,

1586
01:53:51.520 --> 01:53:57.000
Jamelia, Patton's butterfly weed, esperans
a, Turk's cap the autumn sage

1587
01:53:57.039 --> 01:54:00.960
Zavia, greg Guy, the cardinal
flour, they cape, honeysuckle, cypers

1588
01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:05.479
vine. There's just a lot of
really cool plants. Even the even the

1589
01:54:05.720 --> 01:54:11.680
Pride of Barbados is a good one
for that firecracker bush and coral honeysuck.

1590
01:54:12.479 --> 01:54:15.199
Buchanans has all that, and they
have a lot a lot more. By

1591
01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:17.239
the way, today you need to
write this down. It's right out.

1592
01:54:17.319 --> 01:54:20.720
In fact, when the show ends, it's starting, so I'll give you

1593
01:54:20.800 --> 01:54:26.880
permission to quit listening a few minutes
before ten Okay, I'm joking. August

1594
01:54:26.960 --> 01:54:30.640
twelve, that's two day ten am
to eleven am. There's a totally tomatoes

1595
01:54:30.720 --> 01:54:34.319
program put on by Sherry Crews at
Buchanans, and she's going to get you

1596
01:54:34.399 --> 01:54:38.960
set up for the whole fall season
of tomatoes. What do you plant,

1597
01:54:39.239 --> 01:54:41.560
how do you plan it? What
kind of products do you use in the

1598
01:54:41.640 --> 01:54:45.640
soil to have success? That's all
of Buchanans and it's today, so don't

1599
01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:47.199
delay. I mean you'll miss it. If you wait until after the show

1600
01:54:47.239 --> 01:54:50.159
to drive over there, you've missed
it. So get over there and look

1601
01:54:50.199 --> 01:54:53.399
at it. And while you're there, say I want to see everything you

1602
01:54:53.479 --> 01:54:56.840
have that attracts hummingbirds. And by
the way, you better have a plenty

1603
01:54:56.880 --> 01:55:00.479
of time because they have a lot
you can plants dot com. Uh.

1604
01:55:00.600 --> 01:55:04.560
They're on East eleventh Street and the
heights, easy to find. Everybody who's

1605
01:55:04.600 --> 01:55:09.960
been gardening here for a while knows
about Buchanan's plants. It is definitely one

1606
01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:14.479
of those destination garden centers. Let's
head out now to Spring and we're going

1607
01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:17.960
to talk to Sherry Hello, Sherry. Hey, Skip, it's nice to

1608
01:55:18.199 --> 01:55:23.920
hear your voice. Thank you.
Hey. My question is years ago,

1609
01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:28.239
you were the county Extension agent in
Montgomery County, and I remember there were

1610
01:55:28.359 --> 01:55:33.600
volunteer gardens where you could go volunteer
and by doing that you would get experiencing

1611
01:55:33.720 --> 01:55:40.000
garden gardening, and you know it
would help you with problems that you're having

1612
01:55:40.079 --> 01:55:43.520
in your own garden. Okay,
I was pretty young then, but now

1613
01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:46.960
I'm interested in finding something like that. Is there something like that near Spring

1614
01:55:47.039 --> 01:55:49.680
Texas? All right, I'm going
to give you a quick answer, and

1615
01:55:49.840 --> 01:55:53.520
that answer is I don't know,
but I'm going to find out. That

1616
01:55:53.720 --> 01:55:57.520
is an excellent question, and I'm
going to call all or contact all our

1617
01:55:57.600 --> 01:56:00.800
garden centers and ask does anybody do
this? And I'll announce it on the

1618
01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:02.319
air if I get a yes.
Thank you for that. I'm sorry to

1619
01:56:02.399 --> 01:56:05.000
have to be in a hurry,
but I got to run to another call

1620
01:56:05.119 --> 01:56:09.840
here and we'll be right back.
But yeah, I will announce it on

1621
01:56:09.880 --> 01:56:12.239
the air, Sherry. If I
do find that out, that's a great

1622
01:56:12.359 --> 01:56:16.640
question. Thank you, Thank you. I've been talking about fertilizer and importance

1623
01:56:16.680 --> 01:56:20.840
of fertilizing your lawn importance of having
a healthy lawn. If you are looking

1624
01:56:20.960 --> 01:56:27.399
for a quality organic fertilizer, I'm
going to suggest a two product punch,

1625
01:56:27.479 --> 01:56:32.000
and that would be Microlife's Green Bag
and Microlife's Purple Bag. The green bag

1626
01:56:32.239 --> 01:56:38.199
is six to four. That is
just a standard top organic fertilizer in the

1627
01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:42.680
region. Absolutely in terms of you
know, look at how much of sold

1628
01:56:43.439 --> 01:56:45.640
the products, the popularity of that
product, that's it. And then with

1629
01:56:45.760 --> 01:56:49.840
purple humates plus add that to it
and you've got that combination. Go to

1630
01:56:49.920 --> 01:56:57.600
Microlife Fertilizer dot com for more information. Kelly, I see that we are

1631
01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:00.600
about to take a break here.
If you will hang on a little longer,

1632
01:57:00.720 --> 01:57:02.680
I know you have hung on for
a long time. Sorry about that.

1633
01:57:03.600 --> 01:57:08.359
You will absolutely be first up when
we come back if you'd like to

1634
01:57:08.399 --> 01:57:13.000
give us a call. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1635
01:57:13.359 --> 01:57:47.039
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. K t r H

1636
01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:51.000
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

1637
01:57:51.079 --> 01:58:05.720
program. Welcome to k t r
H Garden Line with Skip rictor that just

1638
01:58:06.079 --> 01:58:20.560
watching as we did Saturday morning.
You're listening to garden line. I'm your

1639
01:58:20.600 --> 01:58:24.079
host, skip rictor, and why
are we here. We are here to

1640
01:58:24.159 --> 01:58:29.159
help you have a more beautiful garden
and a more bountiful landscape. Really,

1641
01:58:29.239 --> 01:58:31.600
that's the bottom line. I mean, how do we help you to have

1642
01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:35.479
success? Because let me tell you, there is no better hobby than gardening.

1643
01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:40.079
And I know folks that listen to
the show that are not gardeners.

1644
01:58:40.239 --> 01:58:43.359
They're just curious. I mean,
I don't know. Maybe they wonder what

1645
01:58:43.479 --> 01:58:46.039
the next crazy song we're going to
play is. Who knows why, But

1646
01:58:46.199 --> 01:58:49.600
I know they're there, that you're
out there, and I would encourage you.

1647
01:58:50.319 --> 01:58:53.760
Why not this fall? Why not
become a gardener? Hey, just

1648
01:58:53.880 --> 01:58:58.720
start with some containers, just a
few containers. It is therapeutic, it

1649
01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:01.760
really is. I mean, if
it's just a house plant, let's get

1650
01:59:01.840 --> 01:59:04.760
started. Let's give it a try. We will hope you have success.

1651
01:59:05.479 --> 01:59:10.920
You live if you're listening in the
Houston area, you live in the town

1652
01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:14.960
with the best group of nurseries anywhere
in the state. And I know what

1653
01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:16.840
I'm talking about. I've lived in
Austin, I'm in a Santonio area.

1654
01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:20.800
I've been ben to Dallas many times. Those are all great towns got some

1655
01:59:20.960 --> 01:59:24.399
awesome garden centers. If you're gonna
go on a trip to one of those,

1656
01:59:24.520 --> 01:59:27.159
just let me know and I'll tell
you where to go. Some cool

1657
01:59:27.239 --> 01:59:30.760
places, but not like here,
not as many and not just the uniqueness

1658
01:59:31.119 --> 01:59:34.840
and everything. It is great.
It's a great, great place to live.

1659
01:59:34.920 --> 01:59:36.920
And what's an example of that.
Well, I'll tell you an example

1660
01:59:38.000 --> 01:59:43.359
of that. Arbourgate Nursery up in
Tomball. It's a destination place. The

1661
01:59:43.520 --> 01:59:47.479
plants they have are amazing, The
service they give is amazing. Beverly and

1662
01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:51.760
Kennon, all the group out there
at Arborgate, they know what they're talking

1663
01:59:51.800 --> 01:59:56.920
about. They take time. How
can they help you, They listen to

1664
01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:00.439
what you're asking. They put you
and the plant need together so that you

1665
02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:03.600
can have beauty, you can have
bounty, you can have success. And

1666
02:00:03.720 --> 02:00:06.039
while you're out at Arbourgate, then
by the way, you can go on

1667
02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:10.600
line to Arburgate dot com and find
out more about them, where they are

1668
02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:13.960
and everything there. They are about
a mile and a half west of two

1669
02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:17.960
forty nine on twenty nine twenty in
Tomball, So go up two forty nine,

1670
02:00:18.039 --> 02:00:20.880
turn left on twenty and twenty about
a mile and a half on the

1671
02:00:21.000 --> 02:00:26.039
left. While you're out there,
check out the one two three completely easy

1672
02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:30.840
system. It's a food of four
four three organic fertilizer plus calcium and it

1673
02:00:30.920 --> 02:00:34.680
feeds anything with roots, so that's
pretty much anything. They have a soil

1674
02:00:34.800 --> 02:00:40.720
for every application. That soil is
specially designed knowing the issues we have in

1675
02:00:40.840 --> 02:00:45.359
our soils here Arburgates. Soil is
designed not just you know, like a

1676
02:00:45.479 --> 02:00:49.199
peat and so on. This product
is a quality products. It's got compost

1677
02:00:49.279 --> 02:00:53.520
in it, a quality compost,
it's got large particles sand, and it's

1678
02:00:53.520 --> 02:00:57.199
got shale, expanded shale. What
does that do? That opens up a

1679
02:00:57.319 --> 02:01:00.600
clay. The more shale you add, the better, I mean, because

1680
02:01:00.640 --> 02:01:02.640
you need quite a bit of it
to really open up a clay. And

1681
02:01:02.760 --> 02:01:06.600
when you use their organic Soil Complete
over and over over time, you're just

1682
02:01:06.720 --> 02:01:11.159
going to be building it up better
and better and better. Their compost complete,

1683
02:01:11.319 --> 02:01:15.319
Organic compost complete, two different kinds
of compost mixed in there into that

1684
02:01:15.479 --> 02:01:21.319
product. Tons of microbial diversity,
lots of microbial content and diversity, which

1685
02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:26.359
are both important. And you know
they also have expanded shale in that it

1686
02:01:26.800 --> 02:01:30.800
promotes that internal drainage of the soil
that is so critical. Now. I

1687
02:01:30.880 --> 02:01:33.159
know it hadn't rained in a while
here, but boy, when it rains

1688
02:01:33.199 --> 02:01:36.399
here, it pours. And if
you're soil doesn't have good internal drainage,

1689
02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:42.880
you're gonna have issues with your plants. Arbogate dot com check them out.

1690
02:01:43.439 --> 02:01:46.840
If you've got family coming into town, there's that destination. They can go

1691
02:01:46.920 --> 02:01:50.960
out there. They may even go
in the gift houses and just look around

1692
02:01:51.000 --> 02:01:55.600
at the little shops that they have. And I mean, just trust me

1693
02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:57.720
on this one. If you hadn't
seen it before, you got to see

1694
02:01:57.720 --> 02:01:59.680
it. And if you have seen
it before, you know what I'm talking

1695
02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:03.079
about. We're gonna head out now
to Base City and talk to Mike.

1696
02:02:03.640 --> 02:02:09.640
Hello, Mike, Hello, how
are you doing today? I'm doing well.

1697
02:02:11.039 --> 02:02:13.000
Got to listen to a lot of
it, so I haven't heard you

1698
02:02:13.119 --> 02:02:17.319
tell everybody that anyway. Sorry,
all right, Hey, you in the

1699
02:02:17.399 --> 02:02:23.760
past talking about pepper plants and how
you can nurse them through the you know,

1700
02:02:24.000 --> 02:02:29.359
into the fall and have great bountiful
harvest and all of that. My

1701
02:02:29.560 --> 02:02:36.039
question is, I'm they're coming along
great, but they're getting kind of Mike.

1702
02:02:36.159 --> 02:02:43.199
I lushed you there. Are you
still there? Tell you where I

1703
02:02:43.319 --> 02:02:45.960
think Mike was going and as we
try to get Mike back here, we'll

1704
02:02:47.439 --> 02:02:49.960
hopefully I'll I'll tell you what,
Mike, I'm gonna put you on hold

1705
02:02:50.000 --> 02:02:54.319
just a second and we'll try to
get that audio straighten out. You may

1706
02:02:54.399 --> 02:02:57.560
have to call back in. We're
gonna put you on hold, and I'm

1707
02:02:57.560 --> 02:03:00.720
gonna go to Kelly and Centerville.
First of all, with a lot of

1708
02:03:00.760 --> 02:03:02.640
apologies. Kelly, I said you'd
do first, and then next thing you

1709
02:03:02.720 --> 02:03:06.239
know, I'm taking a different call. So no worries at all. Is

1710
02:03:06.319 --> 02:03:13.960
this center fill up up highway?
Okay, yes, that's correct. My

1711
02:03:14.119 --> 02:03:18.720
question, I just bought a small
track of coastal hay Hay was just cut

1712
02:03:18.800 --> 02:03:25.920
off of it, and I did
soil samples Monday wedding for the results and

1713
02:03:26.079 --> 02:03:31.800
the recommendations. And the previous owner
has not fertilized or done any kind of

1714
02:03:31.840 --> 02:03:38.399
herbicide this year. And my question
is in these drought conditions do you recommend

1715
02:03:38.840 --> 02:03:45.239
a liquid or a granular And the
other part is would you add any herbicide

1716
02:03:45.279 --> 02:03:50.159
at this time? So that that
is basically an ad question. And being

1717
02:03:50.199 --> 02:03:56.159
in horticulture, I've always worked with
agriculturists to handle the pastures and things I'm

1718
02:03:56.479 --> 02:04:00.119
I'm fairly aware of it. So
I'm gonna give you my answer. Are

1719
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:04.600
you in Leon County? Yes?
Okay. Richard Parrish is your agg agent

1720
02:04:04.720 --> 02:04:10.039
at the Extension office AIR and Richard
is excellent. I would you can listen

1721
02:04:10.079 --> 02:04:13.079
to what I say, but then
call Richard and believe what he says.

1722
02:04:13.880 --> 02:04:16.640
That's how I do it. He
is very good at Yeah. So I

1723
02:04:16.760 --> 02:04:18.960
don't know that a liquid at this
time is going to do you a whole

1724
02:04:19.000 --> 02:04:24.920
lot of good. I would you
could put a granular down. What the

1725
02:04:25.000 --> 02:04:29.079
Bermuda grass needs is moisture though,
and so uh, you know, if

1726
02:04:29.119 --> 02:04:32.279
we could get some some rain coming
and you put a fertilizer down and kind

1727
02:04:32.319 --> 02:04:34.680
of get it washed in, it
would kick it into high gear. It's

1728
02:04:34.720 --> 02:04:40.720
a warm season crop and you've got
a lot of growth yet, growth yet

1729
02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:45.680
to come on bermuda grass pasture up
and in the Centerville area. But as

1730
02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:48.119
far as drought is concerned, uh, you know, at the right rate,

1731
02:04:48.199 --> 02:04:51.159
you're not going to burn the plants
with the fertilizer on the pasture you're

1732
02:04:51.159 --> 02:04:55.760
putting on if you don't overdo it. But ultimately it's going to be the

1733
02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:59.880
water that it needs and so I
don't know, we all need to be

1734
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:03.680
out there doing rain dancers right now. Put an end to this nonsense.

1735
02:05:03.840 --> 02:05:08.279
But yeah, that that, But
it talked to Richard Parrish. I don't

1736
02:05:08.279 --> 02:05:11.199
have his phone rub on the top
of my head, biteen f I can

1737
02:05:11.279 --> 02:05:14.079
find it. Yeah, yeah,
he's he would be the one who would

1738
02:05:14.079 --> 02:05:17.640
give you a better answer. As
far as the weed control you're gonna wanna,

1739
02:05:18.239 --> 02:05:23.399
you need to spray something that has
actively growing weeds. If your weeds

1740
02:05:23.439 --> 02:05:27.119
are drought stressed and they're just kind
of stunted and sitting there, the products

1741
02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:30.680
that would normally kill them very effectively
will not work very well. Okay,

1742
02:05:31.000 --> 02:05:35.039
yeah, so I mean it or
not. People will spray round up on

1743
02:05:35.279 --> 02:05:40.560
a bermuda grass lawn in the winter
to kill winter weeds because the round the

1744
02:05:40.720 --> 02:05:45.359
bermuda grass is so out of it
asleep not doing anything that round up doesn't

1745
02:05:45.359 --> 02:05:46.800
even kill it. Isn't that a
weird deal? I mean normally, which

1746
02:05:47.239 --> 02:05:50.600
is kill bermuter very well. But
that's just that whole point about plants being

1747
02:05:50.640 --> 02:05:57.920
stressed or actively growing. I've heard
that. Yeah, okay, information,

1748
02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:00.760
Hey, hey, are you listening? Are you listening on the radio or

1749
02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:04.760
on the computer or what up there. I'm listening on the radio. Okay,

1750
02:06:05.159 --> 02:06:09.960
I'm actually yeah, I'm actually down
in the in the woodlands right now,

1751
02:06:10.119 --> 02:06:13.800
so I'm more local. But I
would just I listened to you on

1752
02:06:13.880 --> 02:06:16.760
the radio, appuly. I just
didn't know if I didn't think the radio

1753
02:06:16.840 --> 02:06:21.560
signal carried up to Centerville. So
yeah, I'll get it. Okay,

1754
02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:25.439
I don't know why, but okay, well good, I'm good. I'm

1755
02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:28.479
glad you're listening. Tell your friends
and neighbors about it. You take care,

1756
02:06:28.640 --> 02:06:30.600
I will. All right, We're
gonna take a break ride here our

1757
02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:34.920
phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four will be right

1758
02:06:35.000 --> 02:06:58.159
back. You are listening to garden
Line, and we're glad you're listening,

1759
02:06:58.560 --> 02:07:00.399
because what is this about. Well, this is about you and me talking

1760
02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:06.800
and figuring out stuff and making your
garden more beautiful, making your gardening more

1761
02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:11.159
enjoyable. You know a lot of
people have banged around out there trying to

1762
02:07:11.199 --> 02:07:14.279
get something done on a garden and
just felt like I got a brown thumb,

1763
02:07:14.279 --> 02:07:15.439
it doesn't work. Well, that's
not true. You don't have a

1764
02:07:15.479 --> 02:07:19.840
brown thumb. You have an uninformed
thumb or a misinformed thumb. Boy,

1765
02:07:19.880 --> 02:07:24.319
there's a lot of misinformation on gardening
out there, but we're here to happy

1766
02:07:24.319 --> 02:07:29.640
to have success because gardening is way
too rewarding, way too much fun for

1767
02:07:29.800 --> 02:07:33.319
you to feel disappointed in any way, shape or form. That is absolutely

1768
02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:36.279
true. If you've got a little
piece of property outside of town, maybe

1769
02:07:36.279 --> 02:07:40.079
a few acres, maybe a lot
of acres, you need to consider a

1770
02:07:40.159 --> 02:07:43.960
Caboda tractor. I mean, though
it's the original orange tractor, they are

1771
02:07:44.159 --> 02:07:47.079
cool and a lot of fun.
I like to say, you know that

1772
02:07:47.159 --> 02:07:50.560
the Caboda is kind of like getting
a new car. You know you're out

1773
02:07:50.560 --> 02:07:57.640
there enjoying it. And speaking of
comparing the Caboda tractor L twenty five zero

1774
02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:00.760
one, you can get it with
a front loader, you can get it

1775
02:08:00.840 --> 02:08:03.439
with a little mower behind it,
and all kinds of stuff to trick your

1776
02:08:03.600 --> 02:08:07.359
riot out. Really really really cool. And where do you get a Caboda

1777
02:08:07.439 --> 02:08:13.319
tractor. You get it at LM
tractor dot com. LM tractor dot com.

1778
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.479
There are several LM tractors in this
listening area down here. It's not

1779
02:08:16.640 --> 02:08:20.399
hard to find one. And when
you put the combination of Cabota and Lansdowne

1780
02:08:20.439 --> 02:08:24.119
Moody together, you've really got a
winning deal. And let me prove it

1781
02:08:24.359 --> 02:08:31.000
this way. They have a deal
right now, zero down, zero percent

1782
02:08:31.079 --> 02:08:35.920
interest for eighty four months at seven
years. I mean that hand like they

1783
02:08:35.000 --> 02:08:39.680
say, hands down, it's lansdown, and that is absolutely true. You're

1784
02:08:39.680 --> 02:08:41.439
not gonna get a better deal than
that. Go buy there. Just sit

1785
02:08:41.520 --> 02:08:45.600
on one. Just try some of
this stuff. Sit on one, check

1786
02:08:45.640 --> 02:08:46.960
it out, let them tell you
about it. I think you will be

1787
02:08:48.079 --> 02:08:50.199
as absolutely as impressed as I am. And next thing you know, you're

1788
02:08:50.199 --> 02:08:54.560
gonna be hauling that mulch with that
front end loader around the property and getting

1789
02:08:54.600 --> 02:08:58.159
a lot of other good fun stuff
done. In fact, it might even

1790
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:01.880
be working on one hundred degree day. I don't know. Maybe that's stretching

1791
02:09:01.920 --> 02:09:07.039
a little bit, but I always
enjoy being out on a quality tractor.

1792
02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:13.279
Let's go to Mike in Bay City. Hello, Mike, Hello, Sorry,

1793
02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:16.479
missed your call while ago. Something
happening all right? Well, hey,

1794
02:09:16.760 --> 02:09:20.199
I think you have a pepper question, right I do. You talked

1795
02:09:20.239 --> 02:09:24.399
about nursing your peppers through to the
fall and you'll have a great crop.

1796
02:09:24.520 --> 02:09:28.840
They're more abundance and so forth.
Yes, Well, I'm doing great with

1797
02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:33.920
the pairs, but they're getting pretty
tall, not necessarily lanky, but pretty

1798
02:09:33.960 --> 02:09:37.359
tall. And I'm wondering if I
can cut a bunch of little lambs off

1799
02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:41.479
and that won't that won't deter anything. You'll be helpful, be a little

1800
02:09:41.520 --> 02:09:46.000
more sturdy plant. What do you
think about You could do that. Mine

1801
02:09:46.000 --> 02:09:48.760
are getting tall too. You could
do that and they'll branch out. But

1802
02:09:48.920 --> 02:09:52.720
that's gonna delay things, so it's
gonna have to you can cut them back.

1803
02:09:52.760 --> 02:09:54.239
They're gonna pop for a little bit
and then they're gonna start setting out

1804
02:09:54.319 --> 02:09:58.880
new shoots. And those shoots have
to mature and hit a point where they're

1805
02:09:58.479 --> 02:10:03.399
you know, have looms on them
and then set peppers. So what I'm

1806
02:10:03.439 --> 02:10:07.399
doing on mine is I bought some
of these steaks, like survey air type

1807
02:10:07.439 --> 02:10:11.920
steaks, right and I just hammer
one down right beside each plant, right

1808
02:10:11.920 --> 02:10:15.840
in the middle, and then I
use some twine or something and just kind

1809
02:10:15.880 --> 02:10:18.439
of pull those limbs up and together. Say that it doesn't fall apart,

1810
02:10:18.520 --> 02:10:22.119
you know, the limbs, because
peppers are a little brittle and you don't

1811
02:10:22.159 --> 02:10:26.720
want them to break over little.
I would not cut them back. I

1812
02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:30.800
would just do that, and I
think overall going to be better off as

1813
02:10:30.840 --> 02:10:33.640
a result of that, I've been
thinking about this every week. I never

1814
02:10:33.840 --> 02:10:37.199
called in to ask about it because
I'm just tempted to cut them. And

1815
02:10:37.319 --> 02:10:41.840
I'm glad I called you so I
didn't want to cut them. Well,

1816
02:10:41.039 --> 02:10:46.039
I'm glad to hear that and happy
to be able to help. And all

1817
02:10:46.079 --> 02:10:48.520
we ask is that half your pepper
crop you drop off at the studio so

1818
02:10:48.600 --> 02:10:52.199
I can enjoy it too. Okay, I'll take them all the ones there.

1819
02:10:52.319 --> 02:10:56.840
That's a small price, the man. I have a good time with

1820
02:10:56.920 --> 02:11:01.640
your peppers out there. Okay.
Take Here's funny. I've talked about trees

1821
02:11:01.720 --> 02:11:05.640
a number of times today and different
things, you know, importance of that

1822
02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:09.600
tree hugger, sprinkler and things like
that. By the way, I saw

1823
02:11:09.600 --> 02:11:13.520
a tree hugre ride at Verdant Tree
Farm a while back. They Verdant Tree

1824
02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:18.479
Farm. There's two locations. One
is on West Houston over at Barker Cypress.

1825
02:11:18.520 --> 02:11:22.159
Actually there's three now, West Houston
and Barker Cypress. There's one on

1826
02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:26.920
Broadway Street down in Pearland, and
then if you go up to the Heights

1827
02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:33.199
where Yale comes in to Highway ten, there's one there as well. You

1828
02:11:33.239 --> 02:11:37.239
can go online to Verdant Treefarm dot
Com. And I know it's verdict.

1829
02:11:37.359 --> 02:11:39.079
I don't know why I say verdant, It's just what comes out of my

1830
02:11:39.199 --> 02:11:45.079
mouth. But verdict means green and
Verdant means green as well. Uh.

1831
02:11:45.439 --> 02:11:46.880
It's turnkey service. You pick out
a tree, you tag it, they

1832
02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:50.479
install it for you, truly simple. I mean, if you want a

1833
02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:52.279
huge tree, if you want instant, they go up to like seven hundred

1834
02:11:52.319 --> 02:11:56.039
gallons I believe maybe even more than
that all sizes of trees. If you

1835
02:11:56.159 --> 02:12:01.960
need a palm, they are the
play that is the place for palms in

1836
02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:05.600
the Greater Houston area. Do you
want a Florida sable? Do you want

1837
02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:09.560
a mule palm or windmill palmer,
a Canary Island palm, or on and

1838
02:12:09.720 --> 02:12:13.760
on and on. And they know
how to install these trees. So go

1839
02:12:13.880 --> 02:12:16.720
out there, pick out the one
you like, put it, have them

1840
02:12:16.720 --> 02:12:18.920
put a tag on it, They'll
bring it to your house and they'll get

1841
02:12:18.960 --> 02:12:24.439
it done right. Verdant Tree Farm. You can go to Verdant Tree Farm

1842
02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:28.840
Verdant tree Farms dot com and find
out more about it. And when you

1843
02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:31.000
see that, you will be very
impressed, as I am, at the

1844
02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:35.600
quality of trees they grow because they
know how to grow them, and then

1845
02:12:35.680 --> 02:12:39.159
when you have them install it,
that's a tree that has the best chance

1846
02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:43.720
possible of succeeding and doing very very
well. Let's head out now and we're

1847
02:12:43.720 --> 02:12:48.439
gonna talk to Dale Read this morning. Well, Hello Dale, Hello,

1848
02:12:48.680 --> 02:12:54.800
Kip Harris County Master Gardners. I
thought that might be a familiar name.

1849
02:12:54.880 --> 02:12:58.560
How are you doing today? Very
good? I just called to tell you

1850
02:12:58.880 --> 02:13:01.640
about the time all community garden.
What's happening up there? I used to

1851
02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:05.960
go out there and I've been there
in a long time. Well, my

1852
02:13:07.119 --> 02:13:09.960
husband told me that somebody, a
lady from Spring called it wanted to know

1853
02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:18.199
where it was. Oh okay,
uh, Spring community gard No, well

1854
02:13:18.279 --> 02:13:20.760
he it was a caller from Spring
that you had on your show this morning.

1855
02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:26.560
Oh was she talking about community guards? I thought she was not garden

1856
02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:31.680
centers? Okay, Oh okay,
Well my husband taught it was community gardens.

1857
02:13:31.119 --> 02:13:33.560
You wanted to learn about gardening?
Yes, So I just wanted to

1858
02:13:33.880 --> 02:13:39.479
let people know that it was at
sixteen oh three Baker Street in Tomball,

1859
02:13:39.600 --> 02:13:41.800
sixteen o three Baker. Yeah,
it's a cool little community garden out there.

1860
02:13:41.840 --> 02:13:43.920
You guys are doing a good job. I like I said, I

1861
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:46.760
haven't seen it in a while,
but that's good. Yeah, community gardens

1862
02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:50.640
a good place to learn about gardening
because you've got a lot of gardeners around.

1863
02:13:50.000 --> 02:13:56.560
You know you can will and we
are access to teach people and you

1864
02:13:56.680 --> 02:14:00.760
know, a guide on the long
through, especially what's going on right now.

1865
02:14:00.960 --> 02:14:03.399
I mean, we're doing the best
we can, but Tomball is now

1866
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:09.640
in mandatory water restrictions. I'm sitting
right here at the garden because I came

1867
02:14:09.680 --> 02:14:13.600
to do a little hand watering.
Well, enjoy that, but yeah,

1868
02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:18.439
I feel you're pain. I'm getting
tired of running drinking water out on my

1869
02:14:18.560 --> 02:14:22.840
plants, but it's what we gotta
do. Well, I wanted we only

1870
02:14:24.119 --> 02:14:28.159
we work on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
and right now we're working summer hours from

1871
02:14:28.239 --> 02:14:31.399
eight thirty to nine thirty. So
I just wanted to let people know that

1872
02:14:31.479 --> 02:14:35.079
we were here all right Tuesday thirty, eight thirty nine up in the Tomball

1873
02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:37.840
area, and I know we have
a lot of listeners up in that direction.

1874
02:14:37.439 --> 02:14:39.600
So there's your job. Thank you, good to talk to you,

1875
02:14:39.680 --> 02:14:43.079
Dyl say hi to all the master
gardeners for me. Okay, I will

1876
02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:48.199
thank you, skip you bet you
bet I was. I was talking to

1877
02:14:48.279 --> 02:14:52.199
somebody the other day who went to
a be class somewhere. It is like

1878
02:14:52.279 --> 02:14:56.359
over in San Antonio is San Antonio
area I think, And it just reminded

1879
02:14:56.399 --> 02:15:01.279
me. If you want to learn
about bees, here we have I think

1880
02:15:01.319 --> 02:15:03.039
we have the best place in the
state, and that is the B Supply,

1881
02:15:03.359 --> 02:15:05.800
the B Supply. It's out in
data and text. A little bit

1882
02:15:05.840 --> 02:15:11.640
of drive out there, but well
worth it a great outing because when you

1883
02:15:11.720 --> 02:15:15.319
get out there, you number one. Their shop has I mean, their

1884
02:15:15.399 --> 02:15:18.880
store is just amazing just learning about
all the different things that go into bees

1885
02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:22.119
if you want to be a beekeeper. They have beginner classes once a month

1886
02:15:22.239 --> 02:15:26.159
out at there and by the way, the website the B Supply dot com,

1887
02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:31.000
so you can go out and you
can learn about them. And the

1888
02:15:31.079 --> 02:15:33.119
folks at the B Supply they don't
just want to sell you something, take

1889
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:35.479
your money, move on, good
luck, you learned it, leave us

1890
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:39.720
alone. They want to know when
you have problems. They want you to

1891
02:15:39.800 --> 02:15:43.720
come back in and talk to them
and ask questions. And they are willing

1892
02:15:43.800 --> 02:15:50.119
to take the time because they know
when you have success that is going to

1893
02:15:50.159 --> 02:15:54.560
make you one happy customer and that
just makes them happy because they really are

1894
02:15:54.680 --> 02:15:56.199
into bees. Now, if you
just want to go take a tour,

1895
02:15:56.680 --> 02:16:01.199
they are free honey tours and they're
about one a month out there in Dayton,

1896
02:16:01.560 --> 02:16:03.079
and any group can go, you
know, a group of youth,

1897
02:16:03.239 --> 02:16:07.720
group of kids or something on four
each club or garden clubs of adults.

1898
02:16:07.840 --> 02:16:11.880
Yeah, adults can do it to
church groups, civic organizations. Give them

1899
02:16:11.920 --> 02:16:15.600
a call out there and check them
out. But go to the b Supply

1900
02:16:15.720 --> 02:16:18.199
dot Com. That's where you get
all the information you need about how to

1901
02:16:18.279 --> 02:16:20.880
call them, where they are and
everything like that. I love the honey

1902
02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:26.479
tour. You know, you learn
about bees, which is fascinating. And

1903
02:16:26.600 --> 02:16:28.640
then I think they have like six
different kinds of honey that you get to

1904
02:16:28.760 --> 02:16:33.479
taste a honey sampling. That's a
lot of fun. While you're out there,

1905
02:16:33.520 --> 02:16:35.600
you can pick up some honey and
all the other bee products that bees

1906
02:16:35.680 --> 02:16:39.440
make that are good for us and
good for our health too. By the

1907
02:16:39.520 --> 02:16:45.399
way, well, our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

1908
02:16:45.559 --> 02:16:50.440
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Give

1909
02:16:50.520 --> 02:16:52.520
us a call. We'll be glad
to talk about whatever you're interested in.

1910
02:16:54.319 --> 02:16:58.360
For those of you who live down
south, we're talking about Rosharon Direction.

1911
02:16:58.639 --> 02:17:05.120
Okay, seem Ults is your local
mults and rock supplier and garden Line recommended

1912
02:17:05.159 --> 02:17:09.520
products supplier. So if we talk
about any fertilizer, fertilizer on garden Line,

1913
02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:13.280
they've got it down there. So
I mean it's a one stop shop.

1914
02:17:13.399 --> 02:17:16.159
You head down, you pick up
your bags of mults, bags of

1915
02:17:16.280 --> 02:17:20.559
composts, you pick up your fertilizers. When you're down there, you can

1916
02:17:20.719 --> 02:17:24.319
order it in book. They'll do
delivery for a small charge within twenty miles

1917
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:26.360
of the location. And so if
you live in Sandy Point, if you

1918
02:17:26.440 --> 02:17:31.159
live in Riverstone or Fresno, or
from Muriti and our first colony, or

1919
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:35.079
anywhere out you know Braz'spen State Park, anywhere in that whole region, this

1920
02:17:35.319 --> 02:17:39.120
is your supplier. CNA Maltz Or
open Monday through Friday from seven thirty to

1921
02:17:39.280 --> 02:17:43.639
five and today Saturday, seven thirty
to two. And if you have not

1922
02:17:43.840 --> 02:17:48.520
seen their rock selection, it is
amazing. First time I went out there,

1923
02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:50.200
I thought, you know, I
wouldn't even think about putting it in

1924
02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:52.879
a hardscape. When I saw these
rocks, it was like, I gotta

1925
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:56.239
do this at my house because this
is gorgeous stuff. Just go look,

1926
02:17:56.319 --> 02:18:01.440
you'll see what I'm talking about.
CNA Maltz SNA dot com. All right,

1927
02:18:01.479 --> 02:18:05.719
we're gonna head out to spring.
Derek. We got a little over

1928
02:18:05.799 --> 02:18:09.399
a minute here. How can we
help? Yes, thank you for taking

1929
02:18:09.440 --> 02:18:13.600
the call. So we just built
a house, We've got just dirt in

1930
02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:18.600
our yards. So we're gearing up
to plant grass, trees, plants.

1931
02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:22.200
I just want to see if the
time is right, given the heat,

1932
02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:24.360
to go ahead and pull the trigger
and everything, or if it'd be better

1933
02:18:24.479 --> 02:18:31.280
to hold off a month or two. Yeah, you know, if if

1934
02:18:31.319 --> 02:18:33.600
you want to get something planted,
you can do it now, and you

1935
02:18:33.680 --> 02:18:37.760
can keep them alive and it can
be done successfully. It's a challenging time

1936
02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:39.959
because it's touch and go. You
know, you're having to keep that root

1937
02:18:39.040 --> 02:18:45.719
ball wet with daily regular watering really
just to get them going until they get

1938
02:18:45.840 --> 02:18:50.600
established. The best time overall for
planting is in the fall. If you

1939
02:18:50.680 --> 02:18:56.399
can get into about October, it
that is ideal for especially woody ornamentals and

1940
02:18:56.479 --> 02:18:58.440
other things like that. But if
you know what you're doing, you follow

1941
02:18:58.479 --> 02:19:01.799
the instructs and things, you can
still plant now. There's no reason not

1942
02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:05.600
to, you know, to plant
things now. It's just I would probably

1943
02:19:07.399 --> 02:19:09.440
focus maybe on some of your color
plants so you can have some summer and

1944
02:19:09.520 --> 02:19:15.079
fall color things like that, perennials
and whatnot. There's vegetables that need to

1945
02:19:15.159 --> 02:19:18.719
be planted now, so that,
yeah, hopefully that'll get you off to

1946
02:19:18.799 --> 02:19:22.719
a good start. But yes,
and you're up there in the Spring area.

1947
02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:24.399
You got a lot of good,
good nurseries and garden centers in your

1948
02:19:24.440 --> 02:19:28.159
area, you know, from plants
for all seasons. A little further up

1949
02:19:30.440 --> 02:19:33.360
Arbor Gate up there in the Tomball
area years and R. C. W

1950
02:19:33.559 --> 02:19:37.920
is right there, not too far
from you, where Beltway eight and two

1951
02:19:37.000 --> 02:19:41.920
forty nine come together. So those
kind of places they can give you the

1952
02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:45.360
advice and say, hey, here's
a plant, and you know here here's

1953
02:19:45.360 --> 02:19:48.319
the best ones to be planting right
now. I'm sorry, I gotta run.

1954
02:19:48.360 --> 02:19:50.559
We're on a hard break, but
thank you so much for that.

1955
02:19:50.680 --> 02:19:54.920
Call our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1956
02:20:05.120 --> 02:20:11.399
That's upbeat. You're listening to garden
line seven one three two one two fifty

1957
02:20:11.440 --> 02:20:15.040
eight seventy four. That's our number. Give us a call if you're interested

1958
02:20:15.040 --> 02:20:18.200
in talking about any kind of thing
gardening. If you're interested in fertilizing your

1959
02:20:18.280 --> 02:20:24.360
lawn and having a beautiful place,
I'm talking about lawn that is fed gradually

1960
02:20:24.399 --> 02:20:31.040
over time with quality nutrition. That
would be Nitrofists Superturf nineteen four ten.

1961
02:20:31.719 --> 02:20:35.239
Good example, silver bag, easy
to spot, easy to find. You

1962
02:20:35.360 --> 02:20:37.479
know when you put it down,
you're not going to burn your lawn.

1963
02:20:37.520 --> 02:20:41.559
People ask me all the time it's
summer, if I fertilize them or burn

1964
02:20:41.600 --> 02:20:43.120
my lawn. No not. If
you do it at the right right and

1965
02:20:43.200 --> 02:20:46.559
then give it a good watering in, it's going to be just fine.

1966
02:20:46.680 --> 02:20:52.280
In fact, it's a good time
to get that done. Nitrofists Superturf nineteen

1967
02:20:52.319 --> 02:20:56.879
four ten that releases gradually over time. Now is this is the design of

1968
02:20:56.920 --> 02:21:00.760
fertilizer. This is the ratio or
fertilizer that has been re commended by Texas

1969
02:21:00.799 --> 02:21:03.959
A and M for a long time
for our southern lawn grasses. We know

1970
02:21:05.239 --> 02:21:07.920
that that's the ratio that plants take
up nutrients, and so why not feed

1971
02:21:09.000 --> 02:21:11.840
them in the way that they eat
if you want to think of it that

1972
02:21:11.959 --> 02:21:16.319
way. Nitrofos Superturf is available everywhere
Nitrofoss is sold. And where is that,

1973
02:21:16.600 --> 02:21:20.680
Well, that's everywhere. All the
ace hardwares. We're talking about our

1974
02:21:20.879 --> 02:21:22.879
mom and pop garden centers, our
feed stores. Easy to find it,

1975
02:21:24.200 --> 02:21:26.760
silver bag. Just look for that, if you may forget the names and

1976
02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:31.319
the numbers, silver bag by Nitrofoss. That is the gradual feed that you're

1977
02:21:31.360 --> 02:21:35.760
going to find. We're gonna head
out to Sour Lake and talk to John.

1978
02:21:35.879 --> 02:21:39.440
Hello, John, Hello, I
got to us ten twenty ten.

1979
02:21:39.840 --> 02:21:46.760
Yes, our raid and murt was
good for vining plants like pepcumbers or watermelons

1980
02:21:46.799 --> 02:21:52.879
and uh, somepins. Okay,
do you recommend that or well, I've

1981
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:56.000
never heard. I've never heard that. I don't know about that. Just

1982
02:21:56.079 --> 02:21:58.799
because it's a vine means it needs
ten twenty ten. I don't recommend it

1983
02:21:58.799 --> 02:22:03.879
a lot because it's got a lot
of phosphors in it, and some soils

1984
02:22:03.920 --> 02:22:07.120
already have enough. Now, if
you have a soil test done, it

1985
02:22:07.239 --> 02:22:11.280
may be that it says you need
a higher phosphorus fertilizer. There's nothing wrong

1986
02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:16.079
with using it if you got it, but in general I would probably shift

1987
02:22:16.159 --> 02:22:20.399
toward a larger first number and a
lower second number in terms of you know

1988
02:22:20.600 --> 02:22:24.239
the ratio between them. But when
you put it out, if you're putting

1989
02:22:24.280 --> 02:22:30.000
it in your garden, just mix
it into the soil and water it in

1990
02:22:30.120 --> 02:22:33.000
real well, and you know it's
a good fertilizer. I mean, just

1991
02:22:33.079 --> 02:22:35.879
gonna do some good. Just I
wouldn't use it over and over year after

1992
02:22:35.079 --> 02:22:41.440
year. Yeah, I don't know
how I ended up with it, and

1993
02:22:41.360 --> 02:22:45.879
I don't use very little of it. Okay. I was reading about it

1994
02:22:46.479 --> 02:22:50.879
as well. I've got some fresh
plants starting in the south, okay,

1995
02:22:52.079 --> 02:22:54.680
and I thought I'd give them a
little shot and let them soak in.

1996
02:22:54.440 --> 02:22:58.399
That's fine, you can do that. Just just be moderate in your application

1997
02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.200
of it. But in the meantime, be looking to get something else with

1998
02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:05.799
a higher first number for most of
the gardening things, or you know,

1999
02:23:05.959 --> 02:23:09.360
John Bestia, to just get a
soul test about every three years and find

2000
02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:13.399
out what you have, because you
know, I recommend all the time,

2001
02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:16.920
you know, use this fertilizer,
use that fertilizer. And the bottom line

2002
02:23:18.000 --> 02:23:20.399
is really what's already in the soil. So you know, like let's just

2003
02:23:20.799 --> 02:23:24.040
say you in your next door neighbor, you may have super high phosphorus already.

2004
02:23:24.159 --> 02:23:28.799
They may not have enough phosphorus.
And so if I recommended the same

2005
02:23:28.879 --> 02:23:33.680
fertilizer to both of you, I'd
be misleading somebody, right, Yeah,

2006
02:23:33.000 --> 02:23:41.799
yeah, you think it's too early
plant purple peas and sugar snap peas purple

2007
02:23:41.879 --> 02:23:46.239
holes. It's probably too late.
They take a long time. I'd have

2008
02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.799
to look at a chart to see
if we still could. No, I

2009
02:23:48.840 --> 02:23:52.159
don't think. I don't know,
we might squeeze a member. I think

2010
02:23:52.159 --> 02:23:54.799
it's too late on purple holes,
on sugar snaps, the cool season peas,

2011
02:23:56.760 --> 02:24:00.520
I would wait until about the third
or fourth week, accept member and

2012
02:24:00.639 --> 02:24:03.799
get those planted. Then you want
it to cool start just a little bit,

2013
02:24:03.840 --> 02:24:07.559
cooling off. We're planning them when
it's hotter than they want it to

2014
02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:11.440
be. But it's gonna cool real
quick after we plan them. And so

2015
02:24:11.719 --> 02:24:13.360
I would say about the third or
fourth week, let's see where are you.

2016
02:24:13.879 --> 02:24:18.200
You're done sour like I'd probably able
to do the fourth week of September

2017
02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:24.479
for the purple hole. I mean, sorry, any kind of a cool

2018
02:24:24.520 --> 02:24:26.799
season pea. That'd be snow peas, that'd be English peas, that'd be

2019
02:24:26.840 --> 02:24:31.239
sugar snap peas, all of those
snow peas. Yeah, yeah, all

2020
02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:33.920
right, well, thank you very
much. Hey, thanks for listening.

2021
02:24:35.360 --> 02:24:39.159
I appreciate you calling you take care
yep. There. You know, there's

2022
02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:45.680
a lot of information out there,
and sometimes it can be misleading. I

2023
02:24:45.719 --> 02:24:50.680
don't know how to say it other
than I see social media. I listen

2024
02:24:50.760 --> 02:24:56.079
to talks people give, listen to
radio shows driving around the country, and

2025
02:24:56.799 --> 02:25:01.120
sometimes I cringe. In fact,
let me not be so. In almost

2026
02:25:01.159 --> 02:25:05.040
all the time, I cringe because
a little information can be true in one

2027
02:25:05.200 --> 02:25:11.200
situation, that can be absolutely untrue
in a different situation. Or it can

2028
02:25:11.239 --> 02:25:16.239
be true in a certain sense,
but if you expand that out far enough,

2029
02:25:16.399 --> 02:25:18.280
it becomes untrue. You know,
I'd be like me saying, hey,

2030
02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:22.079
if your yard is turning brown,
you got chinch bugs. Well,

2031
02:25:22.360 --> 02:25:24.799
you might have chinch bugs, you
might have drought, you might take all

2032
02:25:24.879 --> 02:25:28.399
root rot, you might have grubs
chewing on the leaf. And folks that

2033
02:25:28.559 --> 02:25:33.120
don't fully understand what they're talking about
them and trained in that, you end

2034
02:25:33.200 --> 02:25:37.600
up then with them giving an answer
that is partial, but they don't have

2035
02:25:37.680 --> 02:25:41.719
that perspective to see the whole thing. And then sometimes there's just people that

2036
02:25:41.920 --> 02:25:45.799
I don't know where on earth they
got that. I heard one time driving

2037
02:25:45.840 --> 02:25:50.879
through Houston. It was in the
October time of the year, and the

2038
02:25:50.959 --> 02:25:54.319
host of a radio show was saying, this is was in Houston, This

2039
02:25:54.520 --> 02:25:58.399
was where? What town was I
in? Anyway? Driving through town,

2040
02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:01.120
the host of radio show was saying, yeah, you want to plant winter

2041
02:26:01.239 --> 02:26:03.959
squash? Now? Well, yeah, if you want them to die at

2042
02:26:03.000 --> 02:26:07.319
the first frost and never do anything. But you know it makes sense winter

2043
02:26:07.520 --> 02:26:11.399
squash, so they just extrapolated,
that's for winter. Why am I talking

2044
02:26:11.399 --> 02:26:15.799
about all this? Well, good
information is important, and I'm not saying

2045
02:26:15.840 --> 02:26:18.719
I can never make a mistake on
gardening. I certainly can and do probably,

2046
02:26:20.319 --> 02:26:22.959
But you've got to get good research
based information to have success, because

2047
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:28.040
the whole reason for gardening is to
have success, to have fun, to

2048
02:26:28.280 --> 02:26:31.520
enjoy it, you know. And
so let's get you off to a good

2049
02:26:31.600 --> 02:26:35.280
start. Well as a long droning
thing there, but I think you know

2050
02:26:35.360 --> 02:26:37.840
what I'm talking about. If you
are an active and adult age fifty five

2051
02:26:37.879 --> 02:26:41.879
and better and you're looking for a
place to move, you'd you'd like an

2052
02:26:41.959 --> 02:26:46.000
active lifestyle. You want to enjoy
the rest of your life, all the

2053
02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:48.120
years of retirement and things, not
just you know, sitting a rocking chair

2054
02:26:48.120 --> 02:26:50.079
I mean, I guess you could
sit in a rocket chair if you want.

2055
02:26:50.159 --> 02:26:54.079
But we're talking about a Dell Web
community. They've got those lifestyle programs

2056
02:26:54.120 --> 02:26:58.559
that are designed around you. The
designs, the quality of the home,

2057
02:26:58.079 --> 02:27:01.239
the beauty of the community, the
walking trails and all that. That's all

2058
02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:05.959
part of Dellweb. The community down
in Full Shirt, two miles from downtown

2059
02:27:05.000 --> 02:27:09.920
Full Shore on FM three fifty nine. It has a community garden going in

2060
02:27:09.440 --> 02:27:15.360
and this new community is really beautiful
and with a community garden, wow,

2061
02:27:15.639 --> 02:27:18.879
it's just a win win win.
Dellweb dot Com slash Houston will get you

2062
02:27:18.959 --> 02:27:22.520
more information, or you can call
them at two eight one four five nine

2063
02:27:24.040 --> 02:27:28.879
zero six zero nine two eight one
four five nine zero six zero nine.

2064
02:27:28.959 --> 02:27:33.120
Someone the other day was asking me
about they had moved in up in kind

2065
02:27:33.200 --> 02:27:37.959
of north northern part of Houston,
kind of over toward Magnolia direction, and

2066
02:27:39.000 --> 02:27:41.200
they were saying, what's a good
feed store for here? Well, that's

2067
02:27:41.239 --> 02:27:46.159
an easy one, because Spring Creek
Feed is your hometown feed store if you

2068
02:27:46.280 --> 02:27:48.680
live up in that area. We're
talking about a FM twenty nine, twenty

2069
02:27:48.719 --> 02:27:52.639
eight Spring Creek Feed, big,
old, beautiful, barn looking. It

2070
02:27:54.520 --> 02:27:56.079
just makes you want to go in. When you drive up, it looks

2071
02:27:56.120 --> 02:28:00.319
so cool on the outside. What's
cool on the inside too? To carry

2072
02:28:00.319 --> 02:28:03.399
all the products we talk about.
They about lawn supplies, garden supplies,

2073
02:28:03.479 --> 02:28:07.120
pond supplies, friendly staff to help
you, discounts for senior citizens, for

2074
02:28:07.200 --> 02:28:11.760
military, for for h FA,
they'll special order if they don't have it.

2075
02:28:11.879 --> 02:28:16.879
To quality food, quality for pets, livestock, but especially for my

2076
02:28:18.040 --> 02:28:22.319
interest, quality products. The fertilizers
are recommend and other supplies for your garden.

2077
02:28:22.639 --> 02:28:26.719
Minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway
two forty nine on FM twenty nine

2078
02:28:26.840 --> 02:28:31.760
seventy eight. That's Spring Creek Feed. I'm gonna take a break right now.

2079
02:28:31.000 --> 02:28:35.920
Our number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.

2080
02:28:37.000 --> 02:28:39.120
Give Josh call, let's get you
on the boards. And who knows what

2081
02:28:39.200 --> 02:28:43.200
you want to talk about, but
I bet we find out after the break.

2082
02:28:56.360 --> 02:29:01.239
Well, good morning, good Saturday
morning, on a great day for

2083
02:29:01.319 --> 02:29:03.079
gardening. Every day is a great
day for gardening. I'm sorry if it

2084
02:29:03.920 --> 02:29:11.600
were outside and it was hailing and
snowing and nine hundred degrees and I don't

2085
02:29:11.600 --> 02:29:13.520
know, let's make up stuff.
You could be inside taking care of house

2086
02:29:13.600 --> 02:29:16.920
plants. You could be inside starting
your fall garden. By the way,

2087
02:29:16.959 --> 02:29:20.000
now's the time. If you want
to have broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower,

2088
02:29:20.120 --> 02:29:24.680
call Robbie, all those transplants.
You can start them indoors right now because

2089
02:29:24.760 --> 02:29:30.120
it's cooler indoors give them good lighting. Best is to buy an artificial light

2090
02:29:30.200 --> 02:29:33.040
to get them going, but if
not, at least get the seeds up

2091
02:29:33.079 --> 02:29:35.879
and growing and then move them out
during the day into a bright, shady

2092
02:29:37.000 --> 02:29:41.920
area where they get good light but
not direct sun initially and get them going.

2093
02:29:41.000 --> 02:29:43.879
About six eight weeks later, you're
putting those things in the ground and

2094
02:29:45.079 --> 02:29:48.760
enjoying it. So even today,
even today, a hundred degrees daylight today,

2095
02:29:48.799 --> 02:29:50.719
I don't know how hot it's going
to get here, but every day

2096
02:29:50.799 --> 02:29:54.239
feels like one hundred and five degrees. Sometimes when you're in this part of

2097
02:29:54.280 --> 02:30:01.280
the summer, you can be gardening
indoors of course as well. You know

2098
02:30:01.479 --> 02:30:07.600
the one of the mini destination garden
centers throughout this area, and again I

2099
02:30:07.719 --> 02:30:11.840
always brag on them, but I'm
telling you it's unique. If you live

2100
02:30:11.879 --> 02:30:16.559
in the Houston area, you've got
a selection of awesome garden centers North southeast,

2101
02:30:16.600 --> 02:30:22.120
West Central that are just outstanding and
worth a visit. Family comes into

2102
02:30:22.159 --> 02:30:26.200
town that likes gardening, Oh my
gosh, you can spend all day Saturday

2103
02:30:26.280 --> 02:30:30.920
just running around having a good time
all over the place. Up in the

2104
02:30:31.040 --> 02:30:35.639
Northwest area in Kingwood, we're fortunate
to have two that would be Kingwood Garden

2105
02:30:35.719 --> 02:30:41.000
Center and Warrens Southern Gardens now Kingwood
Garden Center. That one's on Stonehallow Driving

2106
02:30:41.079 --> 02:30:46.040
Kingwood. Warren's Garden Center just a
little crosstown there, North Park driving Kingwood.

2107
02:30:46.360 --> 02:30:50.879
And they have unbelievable supplies of stuff. If I'm talking about fertilizers,

2108
02:30:50.920 --> 02:30:52.440
you know, like, hey,
you gotta go buy this fertilizer, They've

2109
02:30:52.479 --> 02:30:56.920
got it there. The products I
talk about, like mosquito dunks for example,

2110
02:30:56.040 --> 02:30:58.520
they've got it there. In fact, right now, one of their

2111
02:30:58.559 --> 02:31:03.680
products, key products for this month
is the tree Hugger sprinkler. And how

2112
02:31:03.719 --> 02:31:07.760
many times have I bragged on those? They are wonderful. You can get

2113
02:31:07.799 --> 02:31:11.680
them at Kingwood Garden Center. Warren
Southern Gardens, they're out there. They've

2114
02:31:11.719 --> 02:31:15.639
had hibiscus for a while, just
cajun hibiscus. I don't know, you

2115
02:31:15.760 --> 02:31:18.479
just need to go see one to
see what I'm talking about. But they

2116
02:31:18.520 --> 02:31:22.639
are. They're amazing. They ask
when you're out there, ask for the

2117
02:31:22.719 --> 02:31:24.840
case. I want to see a
Cajun hibiscus. Now that's not one kind

2118
02:31:24.879 --> 02:31:28.879
of biscus. There's a lot of
different bloom forms. It's a series.

2119
02:31:28.600 --> 02:31:31.520
But oh my gosh, some of
them you look at and you go,

2120
02:31:31.600 --> 02:31:33.479
I didn't know a hibiscus could look
like that same thing. You know.

2121
02:31:33.520 --> 02:31:37.360
They got manda villas out there.
They just got in some Cricuma ginger that's

2122
02:31:37.440 --> 02:31:43.920
the hidden ginger. Really good in
a bright shade. It's got these beautiful

2123
02:31:43.600 --> 02:31:48.719
stalks that come up yell pink and
some other related colors right around there.

2124
02:31:48.440 --> 02:31:52.159
Just really beautiful. It makes a
good cut flower too, by the way.

2125
02:31:52.319 --> 02:31:56.680
Outstanding cut flower, those Cricuma gingers. And they got the Calandra which

2126
02:31:56.719 --> 02:32:01.440
is pink powder puff. It's just
a little wispy pink bloom. You gotta

2127
02:32:01.479 --> 02:32:03.760
see it. I'm not going to
try to describe it. It's just beautiful.

2128
02:32:05.040 --> 02:32:07.959
A good tough plant too, by
the way, summer tough. While

2129
02:32:09.079 --> 02:32:13.920
you're thinking about it, grab your
calendar and write down August nineteenth from nine

2130
02:32:15.000 --> 02:32:20.479
to ten am at Warren's Southern Gardens
again August nineteenth. That would be from

2131
02:32:20.520 --> 02:32:24.159
nine to ten am at Warren's Southern
Gardens on North Park Drive. They're going

2132
02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:31.159
to have their Cultivate a Harvest of
Abundance program. Now, this is fall

2133
02:32:31.239 --> 02:32:35.360
gardening, soil and prep. You're
going to talk to their seasoned garden team.

2134
02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:37.280
They know what they're talking about.
They'll take you step by step through

2135
02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:43.600
the process of getting your soil ready. So so important. I know it's

2136
02:32:43.680 --> 02:32:48.040
exciting to get the big hibiscus blooms. Maybe a bag of brown stuff isn't

2137
02:32:48.079 --> 02:32:52.719
so exciting, but it is the
rocket fuel that makes anything you put in

2138
02:32:52.840 --> 02:32:58.399
it succeed and makes you look good
as a gardener. So check this out

2139
02:32:58.639 --> 02:33:01.760
nine am to ten am. It's
Warren's Gardens that are cultivated Harvest of Abundance

2140
02:33:03.040 --> 02:33:05.799
August nineteen. You need to put
that on your calendar because if you want

2141
02:33:05.840 --> 02:33:09.600
to do one thing, if you
want to learn one thing to make you

2142
02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:13.600
a better gardener, this is it. It all begins in the soil.

2143
02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:16.799
Oh and while you're out there,
you can take home some soil and you

2144
02:33:16.840 --> 02:33:20.879
can take home the plants that you're
going to put in it. Now that

2145
02:33:20.000 --> 02:33:24.120
you'll know what to do. That
love that. I'm so excited they're putting

2146
02:33:24.159 --> 02:33:28.040
that kind of a program on.
Let's head out to Spring Branch and we're

2147
02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:31.559
going to talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Hello, Skip. How

2148
02:33:31.680 --> 02:33:33.920
you doing today? Well? I
think I'm all right. How are you

2149
02:33:33.000 --> 02:33:37.120
doing? I'm doing well, Thank
you, sir. I have a Yoshino

2150
02:33:37.319 --> 02:33:41.959
flowering cherry tree. I got it
from Tattown Nurseries and Georgia about two years

2151
02:33:43.000 --> 02:33:46.840
ago, and it'd been doing really, really well. And after the last

2152
02:33:46.079 --> 02:33:50.520
rain we had about a week and
a half ago, I cut back on

2153
02:33:50.680 --> 02:33:54.600
watering. Now all the leaves about
halfway up are turning brown, so I

2154
02:33:54.680 --> 02:33:58.680
started watering again. I have a
two foot diameter ring around it so the

2155
02:33:58.760 --> 02:34:03.159
long more doesn't hit it. But
when I water, I get about a

2156
02:34:03.239 --> 02:34:07.040
six foot diameter circle of water out
on the ground. Am I overwatering?

2157
02:34:09.399 --> 02:34:11.959
I don't know what to do?
What can I do to help it?

2158
02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:13.799
Yeah? You know, it's hard
for me to say if you're overwatering or

2159
02:34:13.840 --> 02:34:16.239
not. But the way to tell
is to get a little hand trial,

2160
02:34:16.319 --> 02:34:22.680
dig down about four or five inches
and feel the soil. Cherry is a

2161
02:34:22.840 --> 02:34:28.479
prunus species. It's like plums,
it's like peaches and nectarines, and they

2162
02:34:28.600 --> 02:34:31.440
do not like soggy soil. But
they also, of course don't want to

2163
02:34:31.520 --> 02:34:35.879
dry out too far, and so
you need to be able to provide them

2164
02:34:35.959 --> 02:34:41.079
that you are stretching the zone on
your Chino cherry, that is we are.

2165
02:34:41.159 --> 02:34:43.479
I would say, in general,
I probably would tell someb I don't

2166
02:34:43.479 --> 02:34:48.360
plant one, but you your tree
may prove me wrong, but in general,

2167
02:34:48.840 --> 02:34:52.520
you know, we're looking zones five
to eight little further north on that

2168
02:34:52.639 --> 02:34:58.840
particular one, and so it's probably
really struggling with the summer heat and sun.

2169
02:34:58.399 --> 02:35:01.360
So even if your soil is moist, it just may it just may

2170
02:35:01.440 --> 02:35:05.159
be struggling with that. But we're
not too much longer before we're out of

2171
02:35:05.239 --> 02:35:09.520
this period of time and it can
get a little relief. Okay, Well

2172
02:35:09.559 --> 02:35:13.559
they told me we're zone nine and
they said it was good for zone man,

2173
02:35:13.879 --> 02:35:18.399
so maybe maybe they lied to me. Well, no comment, no

2174
02:35:18.239 --> 02:35:22.319
comment, I'm just I'm just telling
you. You know, when you look

2175
02:35:22.360 --> 02:35:26.479
at a plant range and it says
zone five to zone eighth, if it

2176
02:35:26.520 --> 02:35:33.319
would do a wider and I guess, let me say this carefully from a

2177
02:35:33.440 --> 02:35:37.079
reliable source that is not selling you
the plant, uh, look at the

2178
02:35:37.280 --> 02:35:41.000
range and that sometimes you have to
look at two or three. Sometimes I'm

2179
02:35:41.079 --> 02:35:45.680
stunned. I'll go to two or
three places and they'll say a plant will

2180
02:35:45.719 --> 02:35:48.360
grow in zone nine, and another
one says, no, it won't grow

2181
02:35:48.399 --> 02:35:52.360
south zone seven. It's like,
come on, man's what gives here?

2182
02:35:52.760 --> 02:35:58.280
So you can't believe everything you see
you're here. But I hope it does

2183
02:35:58.360 --> 02:36:01.040
well, and if it does as
it does, I'd like to hear from

2184
02:36:01.079 --> 02:36:05.479
you, because I'm always open to
learning something new. But that that's a

2185
02:36:05.639 --> 02:36:09.079
stretch on it. But I hope
it does well for you. But I

2186
02:36:09.159 --> 02:36:13.000
think I think it's probably just saying, what in the heck did you do

2187
02:36:13.159 --> 02:36:16.600
hauling me down here to one hundred
degree weather for months, months at a

2188
02:36:16.680 --> 02:36:24.079
time. Uh? I wouldn't,
now, does it. You know?

2189
02:36:24.280 --> 02:36:28.079
If generally we do fertilizer in the
spring on those, we can do a

2190
02:36:28.120 --> 02:36:33.280
little bit in the summer when the
plant is young. But you just you

2191
02:36:33.399 --> 02:36:37.639
want a moderate growth rate. You
need a decent amount of nutrient for it

2192
02:36:37.760 --> 02:36:41.920
to do well. So that that's
what I would say on that one.

2193
02:36:41.319 --> 02:36:46.440
Just go easy if you fertilize it. Maybe let's do it this way,

2194
02:36:48.159 --> 02:36:50.319
Bill. Let's say that go up
to the trunk of the tree. Take

2195
02:36:50.360 --> 02:36:54.840
your thumb, stick it out there, and for every thumb with across the

2196
02:36:54.920 --> 02:36:58.079
trunk, give it one cup of
a good lawn fertilizer, just a good

2197
02:36:58.200 --> 02:37:03.760
quality lawn Elijah, one cup per
inch of trunk diameter across the trunk,

2198
02:37:03.840 --> 02:37:07.440
not circumfers, but diameter and watered
in really well. I would do that

2199
02:37:07.600 --> 02:37:11.040
now, do to get in the
spring, and I'd do again probably in

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June. Okay, you shouldn't be
a liquid fertilizer. I know. I

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just use one pound of dry fertilizer, just a bag of dry lovel and

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fertilizer and not weed and feed because
that'll that'll do damage. Okay, Okay,

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thank you so much. If you
have a good weekend you too,

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Thank you very much. And I
do hope to hear back from you that

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that thing is actually doing better and
better because plants. It proved me wrong

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more than once I tell you.
Something else it's proved me wrong is deer.

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I used to work in Travis Kenny
in Austin, Texas, and I

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gosh, there's more deer than people
I think around there, and they come

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in the yard. They're starving to
death and they eat everything. So I

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had a deerproof plant list. One
night, some deer broke into the extension

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office, got into my office,
opened to fall drawer, took the list

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out and ate it, and so
I lost my deerproof plantless. Seriously,

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though there are plants deer would prefer
not to eat, but when a deer

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is hungry, they will eat cactus
and have thorns in their lips. And

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so I've just learned through the years
be careful because there's always exceptions.