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Welcome to Katie r. H Garden
Line with Scared Rickard's crazy trip. Just

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watch him as many good things to
septy not a sound sun beam done.

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Good morning, Good morning, welcome
to garden Line. Boy. We are

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ready to go today. We got
plenty to talk about. You know,

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it's summertime and it's a little hot
and uncomfortable to be outside during the heat

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of the day. But there's a
lot of things we can get done with

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a little early morning, a little
bit late afternoon hours as well. I

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even take advantage of the mid parts
of the day to get some other things

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done. Perhaps inside we've been potting
up some string ofves. Do you know

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what I'm talking about? String ofves? My wife has a bunch of different

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kinds of string, string of purple, string of tears, string of bananas,

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string of turtles, all that kind
of thing, string of pearls.

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Anyway, getting some of those repotted
up, doing some propagating on them.

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By the way, succulents are one
of the most popular plants and have been

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for a number of years now.
Just really grew in popularity because they're so

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easy to care for, you know, with succulents. But the worst thing

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you can do is water them too
much. But if you ignore them,

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if you neglect them, if you
forget them, they just have the ability

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to hang on and wait for you
to show up again and take off growing

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again. And boy, they're fun, they're easy, and they're so many

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kinds of succulents, Lots and lots
of options out there, and this would

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be a great time when you're out
and about visiting garden centers. Pick you

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up some of those, bring them
home. Some of our garden centers are

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doing a great job of putting together
combination planters of all kinds. You can

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do a combination planter for succulents.
And whereas with most things we put in

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a container, I'm telling you one
container size bigger than you think. You

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know, go bigger, go bigger, more soil, more moisture holding ability.

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Well, with succulents, you can
put them in things that don't have

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as much. In fact, you're
less likely to overwater a succulent if you

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don't put it in too much soil. If you take a you know,

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you can have a succulent that's in
I don't know what two cups of soil

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and it's got strings hanging three feet
down all sides, and it's perfectly happy.

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It dries out quickly, which is
what it wants. It doesn't want

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to sit there and soggy wet soil. And it's just an easy plant to

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grow. And you know when you
buy from a nursery that knows what they're

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talking about, and that would include
every one of our sponsors here on Guarden

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Line. You can talk to the
folks. They understand the plants, they

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understand how to take care of them. If you have issues, they help

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you with that, and that is
so valuable. Plus it's more fun to

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shop at those places. They just
have more selection than knowledgeable staff. Though

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I think that you can't you can't
overestimate the value of that. And I

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see so many people go home with
plants from places. Well, let me

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just say, you will not be
even be shopping at because the plants are

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not in good condition in many cases, and they may not even be plants

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that need to grow. Here,
I just cringe when I'm trying to stay

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out of the naming game here.
But you probably can figure out the kind

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of places I'm talking about when you
go into those places and you see things

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for sale that don't grow here.
They will not grow here. They are

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destined for death in our climate.
And it's because some national company is ordering

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them for all the stores. I
guess. I don't know how that works,

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but it doesn't make sense. Go
to a good garden center and right

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now succulents are a cool thing to
pick up. I hope you'll consider doing

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that. You're listening to garden Line. It kind of would help for me

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to give you a phone number since
this is a call in show. Uh

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

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two five eight seven four, give
us a call listen if you have been

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Maybe you're okay on your lawn fertilizer. You've got that covered for summer.

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When was the last time you put
down the azamite application. Asamite is the

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micronutrient, the trace mineral supplement that
helps make sure the bank account has the

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small things that are essential for plant
growth. They're not needed in quantity,

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but they are absolutely needed. That's
azamite. Asimite Texas dot com is the

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website azimite Texas dot com. You
can find azamite everywhere. It's easy,

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easy to find. When we talk
about feet stores and garden centers and ace

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hardware stores and Southwest fertiliz All these
places you hear me talk about, they're

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going to have as might And that's
something you don't do it every time you

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fertilize. You just once a year. Even best thing of all is just

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have a soil test done periodically and
see where you are on nutrients, because

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nutrients are essential and a nutrient balance
is very important, and so I encourage

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sol testing whenever you get a chance, and especially though, make sure if

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your soil is lacking some micros is
a mite important thing to know. I

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was up in the Tumbul area the
other day and D and D Feed Store

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is your local feed store on the
west side there of Tombul on twenty nine

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to twenty. I always like to
stop in at D and D because they

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have a good selection of all the
kinds of things that you would need in

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order to have success. So like
if I talk about fertilizers, you're going

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to find them at D and D
feed. When we talk about things like

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a soil blends, a D and
D is going to have things like the

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aged leaf mold compost. It's so
important for a top dressing. And I

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don't talk. I don't mention this
enough and I should more. But it's

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you can do the complete yard deep
tinme aerration, you know core aeration.

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You can do the top dressing of
compost over the whole yard. That's a

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great idea. It's especially helpful when
you have a heavy clay or a compacted

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type soil. But if you're just
patching up spots, grab you a few

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bags of age leaf more compost,
like a D and D feat and put

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it out, sprinkle it out.
You only have to put it about third

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to a half inch deep over the
area, so even a bag goes pretty

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far and that will help patch it
up. I've got a spot that is

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struggling with some take all root rot
that has come in due to some stress

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from excessive shade. And so the
first thing I did was, you know,

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puur in the trees to get a
little more light in there. This

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happened to be a big old matches, crape myrtle, and then secondly,

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do some air rating, just hand
aer rating in that because it's a small

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area, and then leaf more compost
over the top. That's what we've done.

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We've got it we're bringing it back
along with regular watering to keep it

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happy. But anyway, place like
D and D Feed, you're going to

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find heirloom rose soil, You're going
to find the fruit berry and citrus,

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the veggie and herb soils, and
every kind of product you need to control

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pest, weeds and diseases in your
landscape. D and D Feed again,

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they're on the west side of Tombull
twenty nine to twenty. If you want

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to give them a call to eight
one three five one seventy one forty four.

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Say hey to them when you go
in. I think you'll enjoy also

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seeing when you walk in if you
haven't been there in a good while,

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you're gonna be surprised at the new
material that they have that. Of course,

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they expanded the store last summer and
it just is a great place to

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shop. If you'd like to ask
a question or discuss something that you're dealing

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with, give us a call at
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H. I'll be right good to
have you with us today. Again,

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if you'd like to give Uskull seven
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rh ktr makes it easy to die
that way. I hate you just a

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kind of public service announcement if you're
down anywhere near the Richmond area today after

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the show starting in other words,
at ten am this morning, going to

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noon, Enchanted Gardens is having a
Container Herb Gardening class now Maria, who

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is their magician of all kinds of
combination planters. If you've been to Enchanted

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Gardens, you have seen the work. It is beautiful. And I'm telling

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you a combination planter is so beautiful. Whether it's flowers or herbs or even

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vegetables, there are a lot of
ways to combine things to make it really

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really interesting. Today there'll be that
class, and that is going to be

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from ten am to twelve noon Container
Herb Gardening. She's going to share how

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to combine things, how to put
them together. The cost is based on

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kind of what you select. You
know, you pick out the plants you

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want to put together, you purchase
those plants, and they're going to help

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you learn how to create that kind
of beautiful, beautiful planting. By the

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way, if you haven't been to
Enchanted Gardens, first of all, you

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need to crawl out from under a
rock, because pretty much everybody has.

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I think by now it's on FM
three point fifty nine north of Richmond.

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So if you're heading up toward Katie
Way from Richmond at trut there, and

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while you're out there, you need
to check out some other stuff. They've

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got some really cool plants. For
example, have you seen the Texas sage

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blooming all over town? The Texas
Age is kind of the color varies from

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kind of a pinkish, there's some
white versions, kind of lavender colors,

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beautiful shrub. It grows wild out
west to San Antonio. You see it

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out in the hillsides out there.
So that tells you how much water it

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needs, which is none. Tells
you how much care it needs, which

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is essentially none. You can do
some pruning and things on it. But

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they've got some beautiful and so they
got one called silver Star that has silvery

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foliage. And so following periods of
rain, the Texas Age just bursts out

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and blooms. We see those cycles
all through the year. And I'm telling

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you there are very few plants that'll
track the honey he's in Like that plant.

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When it blooms, it's like a
notice goes out to all the bees

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and they show up. But while
you're riding in Jenny Gardens. Why don't

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you grab you one of those Texas
sages. The one called Silver Star is

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just one of many beautiful ones that
are out there. Excuse me. This

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past week have been working on my
yard. I let mowing get away from

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me. And I'm the guy who
tells you the most single most important thing

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you do to your lawn to make
density is mow it. Sunlight's important,

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fertilizers important, water is important,
of course, of course, but mowing

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regularly creates density, and I let
it get away from you. I've had

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some things going on here and there
where I can't get around to mowing my

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lawn. Finally did cut it way
back, and now it's time to start

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over again on regular mowing to create
that density. That's an important aspect of

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long care. Another important aspect is, of course, fertilizing your lawn.

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If you haven't fertilized your lawn this
summer, now's a good time to do

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it. I create a schedule that
two schedules that are on my website,

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gardening with Skip dot com. They're
free, you can download them. They

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got the products, they got the
times you apply them. It's all really

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easy, really easy to do.
But if you haven't fertilized yet, or

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you look at the schedule and go, well, the schedule said do it

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back here, and I didn't get
it done, then then go ahead and

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do it now. You can still
do it now. The product that will

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release those nutrients rather quickly for you
in an organic type form is sweet Green.

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Sweet green is made by nitrofoss and
sweet green is naturally occurring. It's

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made from a molasses space and it
will absolutely energize the beneficial bacteria in the

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soil. That's why organic gardeners put
molasses in the soil. It helps with

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all the microbes that are there helping
you in your plants. Sweet Green's eleven

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percent nitrogen, very high percent for
an organic type product. I would recommend

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using it this way rather than creating
a flush excessive flush of growth. Why

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not split that sweet green in half. And you're going to want to put

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ten pounds per thousand square feet of
sweet green, So do five pounds now

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and six to eight weeks from now
it do the other five pounds. Just

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small doses. You know. We
can use a slow release product and get

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gradual release, or we can take
a not slow release product and immediate release

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and put it on in small amounts
and in a period that could be two

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or three applications. And that's what
I would do this summer at this point

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in time. Starting off with that
sweet green, Let's take the ten pounds

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and cut it in half and do
it in two about six to eight weeks

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apart. I think you'll be very
pleased. It dissolves quickly, it moves

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down in the soil and the plants
will respond. You will see a really

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nice response. You can buy sweet
Green many places. If you're up in

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the Willis area, Grows Outlet has
it up in the Woodlands, you're going

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to find it at all Spa Ace
Hardware Shades of Texas as well, and

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then in the Memorial area Memorial Drive. Ace City Hardware is another place you

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can find that sweet Green. You're
listening to Garden Line. I'm your host,

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Skip Richter, and we're here to
help you have a more bountiful garden,

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a more beautiful landscape. That is
what it's all about. Gardening is

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the best hobby in the world.
It just is. And for those of

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you who haven't gotten around to it
yet, that's okay. Just one of

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these days, I'm gonna talk you
into it. I think we need to

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find gateways into gardening, you know, like gateway drugs into gardening, such

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as taking care of house plants,
or learning to propagate plants, or just

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a few plants in a small area
for cut flowers to bring in. There's

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so many ways. If you have
a five gallon bucket, you can drill

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some holes in it, fill it
full of a quality product, like a

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veggie and herb mix for example,
that would be a good one, and

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then plant some herbs in it,
plant a pepper in it for plant a

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small tomato. Five gowns a little
small for a tomato. But you can

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do it. There's lots of things
you can and grow and kind of start

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getting your feet wet and trying out
guarding. I'd encourage you to do that.

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It is a lot of fun,
it's not hard to do, and

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the best thing of all is I'm
here officially giving you permission to fail.

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That's right. Didn't that sound strange? Where that come from? I'll tell

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you why I have failed at growing
things many times in my life. Listen,

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to be a good gardener, you
got to kill a lot of plans.

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That's one good way to look at
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permission to fail. No, we're
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never know. You know, nature
has throws its curves, and sometimes we

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try something that doesn't want to grow
here. Sometimes we try it in a

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way that doesn't work. Really well, that's okay. You just learned something

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and became a better gardener. And
gardening is not like you're painting your house.

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You know, you paint the whole
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you go, oh, I hate
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to paint the house again. Gardening
is a constant rearranging. It's like inside

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your house, you rearrange the furniture. You may add some new chair,

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couch, your love seat here,
you may put in new curtains, or

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you may move this from here to
over there. And you see what I'm

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saying. Gardening is that way you
can do from A to Z the whole

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yard from scratch. Good luck with
that and bring your checkbook. Or you

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can just do it a little at
a time. You know that front flower

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bed that needs redoing, you can
redo that bed and just make it look

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nice. Maybe it's just reshaping the
bed so it's a nice flowing bed that

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has a more esthetic shape and more
balance to it. Didn't matter what you

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want to do. It may just
be putting in one plant like that silver

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star sage I was talking about dan
in Chinne Gardens. It may just be

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putting that one plant out in a
sunny spot so in the brutal heat of

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summer we get a little rainstorm and
boom, you've got beautiful color. Whatever

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you do, have fun doing it, and keep listening to garden Line and

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call us when you have problems.
Let's help you get it right. Because

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this is a really fun, relaxing
and healthy both physically and mentally healthy hobby

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and you can have success. You
will. Don't give up, just keep

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keep trying and get good advice.
One of the things I often say on

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garden Line is the brown stuff comes
before the green stuff. Take care of

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the soil first, and then get
good plants, put them in, and

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that's the steps to success. Another
thing I say is there aren't any brown

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thumbs that are only uninformed thumbs,
and we're going to inform your thumb.

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When you see somebody that can grow
things and you can't grow things, it's

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not because they have some special kind
of thumb. It's because they've learned some

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things. Maybe they got lucky and
learned them that way. Maybe they paid

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attention and learned them that way.
Whatever it is is you get the right

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information on how to create success,
you get better and better at it,

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and your thumb gets greener and greener. So in the meantime, let's keep

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listening to guard Line. If you've
got a question, you'd like to give

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us a call about seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

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one three, two one two five
eight seven four. One of the important

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things for summer is making sure that
you do not leave bear soil anywhere on

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your property. Where the soil is
bare, nature plants of weed. Wherever

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sunlight hits the soil, nature plants
a weed. That's how it works.

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Mulch is your friend. Mulch does
a number of things. It blocks the

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sunlight out so weed seeds cannot germinate
and establish successfully. That's important. It

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prevents erosion when we get the gully
washers, and we've already had them this

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year, already more than one.
It also help prevents crusting when when rain

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hits the soil and then it dries
out. You get this little shell,

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this little crust over the surface,
and many types of soils and mulch helps

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prevent that. One of the most
important things it does in summer is moderate

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soil temperature. It is bla hot
here and you can measure the temperature an

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inch deep or even three inches deep, and it's hotter than roots are gonna

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thrive in. It just is,
and that's taking away some of your root

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zone of your plant. And the
roots tend to be up near the surface

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where there's good oxygen. And if
you make that area too hot by not

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mulching in the heat of summer,
then you're just dressing your plants. Mulch

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is wonderful and the folks at Landscaper's
Pride have a number of excellent mulch products.

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They've got their black Velvet and that
is a beautiful velvety, dark,

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naturally dark, not dyed mulch that
is excellent for use in your plants.

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You can find it in bags all
over town. The hardwood mulch is another

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good one. Ground up hardwood.
This is ground up the trees. The

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hardwood is a clear lands. They
take down trees and things. They grind

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that up and make a mulch out
of it. That's excellent. This isn't

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ground up palets like Jo products will
be. You do not want that.

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It's pine bark Moltz. There's another
one, probably their most popular one,

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very slow to decompose. And then
things like cedar and Cypress. Cedar and

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Cypress both are very nice natural multus. I like cedar because initially you know

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it comes out with this wonderful air
aroma, beautiful natural red streaking through the

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mulch. Cypress is very durable and
very very i'll say heavy, and that

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when it gets wet, it stays
in place and doesn't just float around and

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go places. Very light colored.
All from Landscaper's Pride. You can go

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to Landscaperspride dot com find the stores
that carry it. But I can just

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tell you this, it is very
widely available in the human Houston area.

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Whichever molts you choose, get it
done and keep it done, meaning add

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to the mulch as needed. Mult
decomposes away where it touches the soil.

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That's how the forest floor works,
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each time. Don't take the ulmulch
away that's just getting really good for the

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soil. Just add some new to
the top. But just remember this.

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Wherever the sunlight hits a soil,
nature plants a weed, so don't let

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it get the surface of the soil. It's time for me to take a

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break for some news here. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

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two k t RH if you'd like
to give us a call broadline. Glad

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you're with us today. Good to
have you with us today. Listen,

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we've gotten that rain recently, and
oh boy, do we ever get some

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rain. Most of you did it
at least, and some of in excess.

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When that happens, your clay soil
swells up. It literally gets bigger,

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It literally swells up. And then
when it gets dry. A lot

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of our clay soils have that same
characteristic. They shrink down. And that

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movement, that soil movement. That's
why when you down drive through streets downtown

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and you see it's like you're driving
down a mountain range. You know the

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street is buckling and pushing up and
sinking down, and that's from the movement.

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It breaks water lines, it's not
powerful, and it breaks foundations,

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and it breaks sidewalks and it breaks
driveways. Fix my slab Foundation repair is

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a place that you want to call
when you're dealing with anything like that.

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Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty
three years. It's a local small business.

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But I'm telling you he knows what
he's talking about. He's got the

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experience. I've sat on him with
him and picked his brain and just learned

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a lot about the whole world of
soil movement and the effect that has on

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foundations and other things. Do you
have sicky doors in the house, that's

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a possible sign of movement. Do
you see cracks in the brick or cracks

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in your sheet rock indoors. Don't
waste time. It's not going to get

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better, it only gets worse.
So give him a call. You can

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reach time. Let me give you
a phone number two eight one two five

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five forty nine forty nine two eight
one two f five forty nine forty nine.

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Or go to the website fixmyslab dot
com. Let me tell you something

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about tie in his business. He
shows up on time, he fixes it

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right, and he does it at
a fair price. What more can you

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ask from any kind of a service
company? On time, fixed right and

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fair price. That's fixed. My
lab foundation repair Tietrickland two eight one two

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five five forty nine forty nine our
phone number if you'd like to give us

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a call seven one three two one
two K t R H. And we're

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going to head straight out to the
phones now and talk to Troy and Plantersville.

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Hello Troy, and welcome to garden
Line. How's it going? Hey?

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I got me thinking about fifty area
that I'm working with and it's I've

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tore it down because I'm doing some
landscaping in it and it's uh clay,

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and I want to bring it back. And I got a tractor with a

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killer on the back that I was
going to kill it up. Can I

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put regular tree uh chippings that's coming
from the trees, that from the chippers.

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Can I put that in that mix
mix that into soil to bring it

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back? Well, I wouldn't mix. Yeah, I wouldn't mix those chunky

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wood things in the soil. Well, that is fine for use as a

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surface mult you know, shredded whatever
is fine to use as a surface mult.

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I would The thing is when we
put a lot of undecomposed wood type

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material in the soil, it ties
up nitrogen quite a bit and that eventually

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that balances back out. But we
would rather use something that's already decomposed in

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the soil. That's why you always
hear people talk about putting compost and bed

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mix things like that in the soil. Now, if you're not going to

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deal with that soil for a long
time, if you're not going to plant

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in it, and you know it's
gonna be six months or something, you

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could mix some things in the soil. But the bigger and chunkier it is,

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the more the soil is going to
settle down as it decomposes away.

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And it just for some kinds of
gardening things like planting seeds, it's very

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hard to plant them when you don't
have a nice fine seed bed mix.

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You know, when you got big
chunks, do what I want to do

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in that area? Well, you
know one thing I might do is pile

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it up and let it decompose.
And if you got the equipment sounds like

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you do, uh, you know, every month or two, just turn

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that pile over and mix it a
little bit and let it keep decomposing,

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and then you're going to have something
ready to go right into the soil.

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If you want to go that route. So that's another option there. But

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yeah, if you mix it again, I got it, it'll settle in

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time. But yeah, okay,
because I got something's about four years old

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is sitting there too, just multi
multing away, you know, decomposing too.

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So yeah, okay, yeah,
And so I'd scrape the outside of

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that pile off because it's not going
to be decomposed on the outside, just

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like leaves on the forest floor on
top or not decomposed. Uh, And

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get to the stuff down in the
pile that is breaking down well and use

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that material. That's why I said
mix the piles occasionally because and you may

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even have to water them occasionally,
you know, get them wet again,

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and that helps the decomposition. All
right, that'll work, all right,

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appreciate it sounds like a plant drug. Hey, thanks for the call you

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Yes, sorry, take care.
Yeah, that is that is important.

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I'm going to go now to bel
Air and talk to Beth. Hello,

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Beth, good morning, Good morning. I have a question about poison ivy.

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I have been fighting poison ivy in
a bed with an oak tree and

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some you know plants that I want
to keep, and now I have discovered

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in another part of my yard.
I've been trying to pull it out,

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but it's gotten beyond beyond that stage, and I was wondering, Okay,

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what can I do to try and
get rid of it but not damage you

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know, trees and other plants that
I want to keep good. Question,

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So is the poison ivy a little
tiny spinley stemmed plants still very small or

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is it something that has a trunk
on it, like the size of one

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of your fingers are bigger? Most
of it is small. There's one area

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in a bed that I haven't gotten
to because it's it's gotten so overgrown.

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But it's in some lagustrum which are
surrounding my air conditioner condensers outside and we

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had to have one replaced, and
I just want to get it out of

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there. I was waiting for the
reins to try and pull it out,

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but I thought, if there is
something I can spray on it, you

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know, protect everything else around and
systemically it gets drawn in, I would

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I try and do organic, but
I'm really allergic, and so it's most

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other people in my family, so
I'm just I don't know. I don't

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know an organic there's an ivy control
that's it's very effective. But there is

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a product ingredient called triclo pier try
as in tricycle clowe pier tr i c

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l o p y r, and
you'll find it in things like brush and

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stump killer poison ivy killer. But
triclop pier is what you're looking for,

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and that's going to help you get
to the You know you're down in bel

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Air. You're not far away from
Southwest Fertilizer. Oh, they know me.

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I go there all the time.
Well, just go in there and

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say I need some triclo peer for
poison ivy. And then what you're gonna

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do now. Triclo peer kills things
that are broad leaf, especially effective against

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woody things that many other broad leaf
killers won't kill. So if you've got

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it on a little augustrum and you
spray it, you kill the lugustrium and

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the poison ivy. So what you're
going to need to do is go down

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to where the stems are and I
would take the straight tricle peer, And

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if you want to be extra effective
in that, you could mix a little

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bit of like an oil product.
People typically will use diesel, which is

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an oil, but you could use
even a cooking oil. Put a little

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bit in the straight tricle paer and
that helps it stick to the surface of

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the thing. Get you a little
tiny foam brush, you know those little

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things you get for painting, those
little brushes with a wooden handle. Just

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get one of those and dip it
in that and then just paint it right

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on the stem of the plant.
You don't have to do the whole stem,

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just even a section, you know, four to six inches long.

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Get it all around that and it'll
soak into those tissues. Now, if

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you ever have to cut a poison
ivy off, dab the fresh cut immediately

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with the same thing. In fact, you don't have to have the oil

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for that, but just dab the
cut with that. If you've got areas

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where there's poison ivy and not a
desirable plant, you can spray the tricle

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paer on the foliage of the poison
ivy, but it moves down. It

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does a good job. Sometimes you
have to do another application, depending on

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how strong the plant is and how
much you get on it. But that

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is the best way to do with
poison ivy and any other kind of witty

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weed that shows up in your landscape. I really appreciate it. Thank you

406
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so much. All right, good
luck, Thank you for your call.

407
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I appreciate that very much. We're
gonna have to take a little break here.

408
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.920
I'll be right back when we come
back. Let's see Terry and Steven.

409
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You'll be our first two up your
summer get away from the shoot.

410
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Good to have you with us,
looking forward to talking about the things that

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most interest you. That's what we
try to do here. If you're done

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in the League City area, your
local hometown feed store, and we do

413
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love feed stores. Here on Garden
Line is League City Feed. League City

414
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Feed has been around for forty years
now. In other words, they know

415
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what they're doing and you get the
same kind of old fashioned service that they've

416
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always provided there at League City Feed. They, by the way, are

417
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.839
a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six on Highway three in League City.

418
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:57.279
So you're heading across ninety six,
just turn south on Highway three just a

419
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few blocks and it'll be if you
turn south, that'll be there on the

420
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.400
left hand side. They serve Santa
Fe. They serve Webster, Clear Lake

421
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City, Lamark Baycliff, San Leone, El Camino Real. That whole region

422
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:14.319
down there. They're open from nine
am to six pm Monday through Saturday,

423
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clothes on Sunday, so anytime,
even if you're at work through the week,

424
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.960
you can just head right after work
swing by there on the way home,

425
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.440
grab the things you're looking for,
such as I was talking about azamide

426
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:30.160
earlier. They carry nitrofoss products,
microlife products, Nature's creation, Nelson plant

427
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.359
food, airloom soils, all the
different kinds of brands that you may hear

428
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:38.200
me talk about here on guardenline,
pesticide, herbicide, fungicides to control the

429
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things that are messing up your garden. They can help you with that as

430
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.759
well. Phone number if you want
to give them a call two eight one

431
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three three two sixteen twelve two eight
one three three two one six one two.

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Of course, it's a feed store, so you're going to find everything

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for your backyard, chickens, for
pet foods and whatnot. They're at League

434
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City Feed City Feed just a few
blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway

435
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three in League City. Let's head
now out to the phone. We are

436
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going to go to Rosenberg, Texas
and talk to Stephen. Hello Stephen,

437
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.960
Hello, my name step Yes sir, Yeah, how can we help welcome?

438
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.319
Regard line first? Foremost, Sir, I want to say, hey,

439
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.759
I've been listening to this show for
probably about fifteen twenty years, and

440
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:26.759
I had a lot of time in
with Randy Lemon, and you have been

441
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:33.079
an excellent replacement for him, or
thank you, I should say, yeah,

442
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:38.119
nobody replaces Randy, but I've enjoyed
here on the show for it.

443
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.559
That's good. How can we help
you? So, I just got rid

444
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.400
of a water road thanks to this
storm, and I'm looking to replace it

445
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.839
with a jack Aranda. I don't
know. I'm not sure if I'm saying

446
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:56.039
that correctly. It's a big purple
tree. Internet of all of us wisdom

447
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:59.680
tells me they grow down here pretty
well. I've never seen one down here.

448
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.119
Do you have any tips or advice
on how to get started with at

449
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:09.680
Randy used to always say, do
rose soil for starting trees. But what

450
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.680
do you got for me, sir? So? Jack aroanda is beautiful blooms,

451
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.000
but most of the trees that grow
fast are not strong wooded and long

452
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.960
lived and whatnot. So if you're
looking for a nice, big shade tree,

453
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.279
I'd go a different direction. The
blooms. I won't question the fact

454
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.559
that they are beautiful. I just
wouldn't look at it, especially when you

455
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.759
look at future storms and other things
like that is probably the best choice for

456
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.160
that. There's a lot of good
trees if you want small blooming trees,

457
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:42.039
if you want a big old shade
tree, there's a lot of options out

458
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:46.400
there. But my advice would be
to look elsewhere. Okay, how do

459
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:52.640
you feel about red maples? Red
maples are okay. They do have some

460
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:54.880
issues. One of the issues with
red maples. You know, every plant

461
00:32:54.920 --> 00:33:00.039
has pros and cons. Stephen kind
of like people, right, and so

462
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:06.160
red maples tend to have narrow branch
angles, so you have to really work

463
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:08.880
with training them to keep them from
having limbs that are more likely to split.

464
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:15.880
They do okay here, and you're
even further south than a lot of

465
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.799
the listening area, being down below
eye ten. There they're not going to

466
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.720
have the color that you expect out
of a red maple. Like if you

467
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.480
went up to the northeast during the
fall and saw a beautiful maple color.

468
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:31.119
We don't quite get that color down
here. So one of the biggest pluses

469
00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:36.880
of red maple we kind of don't
get much of so that's one reason why

470
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:39.240
I tend to not put them high
on the list. But there's nothing wrong

471
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.720
with planting one other than the branch
angle thing. You just have to watch

472
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:49.400
for understood. If you have any
suggestions as far as what you think I

473
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.960
should put in. I'm looking for
something with pretty blooms and it doesn't go

474
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.599
down here pretty blims. How big
does it need to be real big?

475
00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:59.519
Or do you want a medium or
small size tree? Or what are you

476
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:04.079
looking for on size? If a
medium or it can be it can be

477
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:08.760
huge though. The one that is
it's replacing effectively was the giant water oak.

478
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.920
Run it out from the inside and
luckily fell in my yard at out

479
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.039
of my house. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm glad to hear that.

480
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:24.239
So. Chinese fringe is a small
to medium sized tree. It grows

481
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:29.960
a little bit slower, but it
has beautiful shaggy white blooms that have a

482
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:34.320
honey like fragrance in the spring.
That's a nice one. There are crape

483
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:38.599
myrtles that'll get thirty feet tall.
Natchez is one that has beautiful cinnamon colored

484
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.360
bark and white blooms and if you
train it and prone it. You can

485
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:46.000
make a single trunk tree out of
them, or you can have multi trunk

486
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.719
trees and they will cast nice shade, and of course they bloom for like

487
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.559
ninety days during the summer, three
months of bloom. That's what a crape

488
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:58.440
myrtle can do for you. So
that would be a good choice for that.

489
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:00.880
I'm trying to think. You know, as you get in a bigger

490
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:05.719
and bigger tree, Stephen, you
don't really get to see the blooms because

491
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.159
they're way up high, as opposed
to a smaller tree where you have a

492
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:12.679
line of sight on the blooms.
So the bigger the tree gets, I

493
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.199
would say, the less significant the
fact that it blooms is. You may

494
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:22.159
just start looking instead for something that
has good structure and long term health and

495
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.159
a good growth rate. Red oaks
are that way. If your area is

496
00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.599
a little on the web side red
oak, I would plant the nut tall

497
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:36.000
and newt l I may be misspelling
that by a letter. Nut tall red

498
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.920
oak is good if you have soggy
soils. It's very tolerant of that.

499
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:45.480
It'll grow on not soggy soils too, but it's tolerant of soggy Shumart oak.

500
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.960
If you've got a really nice,
deep quality soil, Shumart would be

501
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.960
a good red oak to plant.
And then there is let's see, Mexican

502
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:59.840
white oak grows at a very good
rate and it is a white oak that

503
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:05.280
it makes a beautiful shade tree too. And then we have things like Chinese

504
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:10.519
elm, Drake elm or other Chinese
elms that have beautiful exfoliating bark that's gray

505
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.599
and rusty patched, and I think
it would be another good choice. So

506
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.320
there's dozens of good trees out there. Okay, took a lot. I

507
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.639
appreciate it, all right, You
take care. I appreciate the call.

508
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:29.440
Thank you very very much. Speaking
of trees, folks, Affordable tree Service.

509
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.239
Martin spoon Moore, boy, is
he ever busy right now? He

510
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:36.079
always is busy because he does a
good job. But when we get storms

511
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.920
in he's, you know, out
dealing with the things that have happened since

512
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:44.039
the storm. What I'm trying to
get you to consider is having Martin come

513
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.920
out before the storms, not right
before a storm, but like go ahead

514
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:52.039
and get on the schedule now with
him to come out and prepare your trees

515
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.679
for the storm and Just because you
made it through a hurricane barrel or made

516
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.440
it through the storms before, doesn't
mean that the next summer storm, hurricane

517
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:01.400
or not, isn't going to cause
problems to your tree. That's just how

518
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:07.519
this thing works in nature. Have
Martin come out do some selective printing in

519
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:09.559
order to make your get the dead
areas out of your tree, make it

520
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:14.239
safer during the heavy winds, to
set your trees up to do the best

521
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.159
they're going to do. As far
as being ready for a storm, I

522
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:22.000
can't express enough the importance of proper
tree care. As we move more and

523
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:25.320
more into this storm season, it's
predicted to be a bad one with their

524
00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:30.440
early arrival of barrel. So just
get Martin a call seven one three six

525
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:36.000
nine twenty six sixty thirty. Let
me say that again, seven one three

526
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.400
six nine nine two six sixty three. Or go to a f F Tree

527
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:45.920
Service dot Com, a f F
Tree Service dot in holland tell him your

528
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:50.320
guardenline listener that gets you to the
front of the line because he does good

529
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.360
work, he stays busy. Or
call him back again and again because they

530
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.760
know the kind of word Martin.
Though well, I hear the music that

531
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.079
means we're about to put this hour
into books and then Katie, you will

532
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.760
be our first caller if you can
hang on until we come back out of

533
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.840
this break. Thank you for being
patient on that you're listening to Garden Line.

534
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.559
I'm your host, Skip Richter our
phone number if you would like to

535
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.519
call Chris and get on the boards. Uh seven one three two one two

536
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:35.599
kat t r H. I'll be
right Brown. Just watch you as many

537
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:46.000
good things to welcome back to the
Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to

538
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:50.000
have you back. We've got plenty
to go talk about here. We've got

539
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.840
some calls on the line. I
just want to remind you that if you

540
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.880
are looking to renovate your landscape,
or if you're looking to put in a

541
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.719
brand new landscape, or if you're
looking to just do some small work here

542
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:05.480
and there. Maybe you need some
irrigation work done, Maybe you need just

543
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.119
a bed redone, some new plants, put in a little bit of a

544
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:13.239
redesign on something. Maybe you want
to go all out and do landscape lighting,

545
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.960
you want to do hard scapes,
you get the idea. Pierscapes is

546
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:21.320
a company that can do all of
the above. Also, by the way,

547
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:23.679
they do quarterly maintenance. So if
you just already have your landscape,

548
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:27.840
you're happy with it, you want
somebody to come in and do trimming and

549
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.280
weeding and fertilizing, to inspect the
irrigation in the beds, to do seasonal

550
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:35.039
color changes. As you know,
you pull out the old flowers and put

551
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.360
out the new ones, add molts
to the surface, top it off.

552
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:44.000
Pierscapes can do that. Pierscapes is
an outstanding company that does outstanding work.

553
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.239
And if you don't believe me,
just check out their website. In fact,

554
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:52.519
whether you believe me or not,
please go to Pierscapes dot com pierscapes

555
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.000
dot com. You can see their
work there and you see what I'm talking

556
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.360
about. You can give them a
call at two eight one three seven oh

557
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:05.360
fifty two eight one three seven oh
fifty sixty. No matter what you need

558
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:09.039
done, even if it's just quarterly
maintenance or if it's new installations, Peerscapes

559
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:13.800
can do it. And listen.
Summer is a great time to contact him

560
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.360
and get that work done. They
have excellent crews out there. They stay

561
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.480
busy and you want to get on
the schedule get the plan done. Maybe

562
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:23.920
you need to sit down with them, do a little bit of a you

563
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:27.960
know, kind of a design out
and plan and figure out what it is

564
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.159
you want done, and then have
them come out and get that work done.

565
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:35.280
Now's a great time to give them
a call. Perscapes. We're going

566
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.639
to go back to the phones.
Now, we're going to go to Sharon

567
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:43.360
and Katie. Hello Sharon, thanks
for waiting. Good morning, morning,

568
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:46.719
Thank you, Good morning. I
have a question about my oak tree.

569
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.719
I have a question about my oak
tree. Can you hear me? Yes,

570
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:57.960
ma'am, go for it. Okay. The oak tree is probably thirty

571
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:01.440
five years old. I keep it
trim every other year. It's beautiful.

572
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.159
I discovered the other day. So
let's say the main trunk is about eight

573
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:12.480
feet tall, and then I have
three big branches that come out from that.

574
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.360
Well in the middle there is a
little like cavern, and I noticed

575
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:22.320
the other day it fills with water. Yeah, what do I do?

576
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:29.480
Yeh? Well, so what's happened. A branch was cut or broke off

577
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.679
or something, and water got access
to that interior wood, which has no

578
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:37.519
ability to resist rot. And so
because it was moist exposed to air and

579
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:43.400
microbes and water, it's going to
start decomposing away, and a lot of

580
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:49.880
older trees have dark and partially hollow
interior areas just where branches over the years

581
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:54.679
have given that open the opportunity for
microbes to get in and start working on

582
00:41:54.719 --> 00:42:00.159
the wood. You know, there's
no really covering that anymore. If it's

583
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.320
an older tree, it's probably never
going to heal back over, even if

584
00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.880
you provided it with some sort of
a little shelf for the callus to grow

585
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.199
over. So I would say the
best thing you can do is occasionally throw

586
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:16.440
some mosquito bit's up in that area, because mosquitoes will be very happy to

587
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:22.679
breed in that wet standing water inside
of a tree hollow like that. That

588
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.239
would be one thing to do.
And other than that, you may want

589
00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:29.239
to have an arborist come out and
look and see if there's anything they could

590
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:32.000
suggest. But most of the time, by the time you have a hollowed

591
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:37.960
out area that's reached that stage of
decay, there's no fixing it. It's

592
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.679
not like you squirt something in there
and it stops the decay. I did

593
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:46.719
have a neighbor that said I did
have a neighbor that said, try expandable

594
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:52.639
foam. Yeah, things have been
tried over the years, from concrete,

595
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.599
which is a very big mistake,
to expendable foam and creating a Yeah,

596
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:02.280
don't do the concrete one. Creating
a kind of a shelf with the expendable

597
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.840
phone and it sort of occupies that
space. It's not going to stop the

598
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:09.760
decay. The decay is already active
and going on down in there, and

599
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:16.400
it'll continue. If the hole was
a smaller one and you could create a

600
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:22.880
shelf with the expendable foam, then
maybe as the callous forms from the sides

601
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:27.639
of the hole, it would it
would go across that equivalent of a shelf

602
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:32.559
and close over. That's the concept, but in reality that generally is not

603
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:37.400
going to work, And especially if
it's a larger opening like you're describing,

604
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:42.480
I don't think you're ever going to
see closure on it go ahead. Probably

605
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:50.119
about the size of a large dinner
plate. Yeah, I think that's yeah,

606
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:54.800
I think that's that's too large.
You probably heard me talk about affordable

607
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:59.159
Tree earlier. But I would give
Martin a call if you want to make

608
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:01.840
sure that there's nothing they can do. Just if there's anything they can do,

609
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.599
I would I would have him come
out and look at it. But

610
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:12.079
anyway, I've kind of the bottom
line, right, Okay, I have

611
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:17.440
one more question. Sure, if
I have a tree removed and the stump

612
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.480
grind, how soon can I install
a new tree? And do I have

613
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:27.480
to get out all those chips or
fine sand that they turned it into?

614
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:31.360
Got to get all that out.
It's the more you get out the better

615
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:37.239
because all that woody, any kind
of an organic material, as it decomposes

616
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:43.119
away, it shrinks down to nothing. And so what was a level area

617
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:46.039
of soil is going to become a
hole again as that sinks down, and

618
00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:50.440
as the soil settles, So two
things are going on. The soil is

619
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:57.000
settling itself and the organic materials the
chips are decomposing. So I usually try

620
00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.840
to get as much of that as
you can. If you can't, then

621
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.039
leave it as a mound as opposed
to flat, because it will sink down.

622
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.239
And if you start with like a
pitcher's mound, then as it sinks

623
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:13.480
down, you end up more level. Okay, they ground it so much

624
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:17.920
that it looks like sand or soil. Does that make sense? In other

625
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:22.840
words, there's a bunch of chips
there, right, And what about getting

626
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:29.719
out the whole stump. I'm sure
they only went down a foot. That's

627
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.880
all we need to do. Now, there are tree roots all over your

628
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:37.199
yard from that, and you're going
to see areas other areas where there was

629
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.320
a big root. Maybe of the
root was you know, big as you're

630
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.199
part of your leg and it's but
it's underground somewhere and it's going to decompose

631
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.480
a way too. But you can
put a new tree in that spot.

632
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.639
I might move over just enough to
not be right in that hole itself.

633
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:58.480
That I think that would be you. I think you would longer term be

634
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:04.320
better served by that, unless there's
for some reason you can't move at all.

635
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:06.639
The tree has to go right there, which I can't think of.

636
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:13.440
A one area where it would go
is a small area and that would be

637
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.719
the center point where they took the
old tree out that in other words,

638
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:23.039
something else would look awkward if you
anyway, okay, okay, thank you

639
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:28.599
for your all right, And like
the previous caller, like the previous caller,

640
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.960
been the longtime listener. Love Randy
Lemon, you're doing a great job

641
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.840
and I love listening to you too, and best of best swishes for your

642
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.800
future. Thank you, Thanks for
the kind words. Sure, I appreciate

643
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.440
that we're going to take a break
right now. When we come back,

644
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:49.079
Michael and Kingwood Shane, you'll be
our first two callers up the back of

645
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.480
the garden line. Good to have
you around today. Hope you are enjoying

646
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:57.400
the show. We certainly want you
to. We want you to have success

647
00:46:57.480 --> 00:46:59.920
with your garden, with your landscape. And if you like, you can

648
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.199
us a called it's seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

649
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.159
I do not know if you have
been to Ana Plants and Produce. They

650
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:13.079
are up in the Montgomery area.
In fact, if you are on Highway

651
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.400
one to five goes from Conroy to
Montgomery, they're on the east side of

652
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:20.039
Montgomery. So all of you up
there in Lake Conro area, well they're

653
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:22.920
in your backyard. They've got some
good deals going on right now. All

654
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:29.159
their hanging baskets are on sale.
That you need beautiful ferm baskets or other

655
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.719
things. It's a great way to
decorate a patio or a porch. Now's

656
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:36.119
a good time to do it.
At A and A Plants and Produce on

657
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.440
Highway one to five and Montgomery.
They also have a forty percent sale off

658
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:45.559
all of plants that they have going
on right now. That is that's a

659
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.840
lot that's an incredible on a sale. You know when you go to Ana,

660
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.920
you're going to find every fertilizer I
talk about on garden line, and

661
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:58.360
I mean that on nitrophoss and Nelson's
in microlife in Nature's Way and the heirloom

662
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.639
soils, the soil mix and blends
from heirloom soils and from Nature's way are

663
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:07.559
there. They have a landscape crew
that can come out and do some cleanup

664
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.159
and work. If you're out there
in the Lake Conroe area, you need

665
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.679
to give them a call A and
A plants and produce swing by there.

666
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:19.000
Now is the time to get a
really good deal on a lot of different

667
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.719
kinds of plant opportunities that you might
want to put in. And remember just

668
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.000
because it's summer doesn't mean you can't
plant. Now's the time to get in

669
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.639
color that will carry you all the
way up until it's time for fall planting.

670
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:35.320
We had several months before we're talking
about putting in fall flowers, so

671
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.559
take advantage of it. Let's have
some beautiful color so your landscape isn't just

672
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:43.119
a sea of green during the summertime. We're going to go out to Kingwood

673
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:46.159
now and talk to Michael. Hello
Michael, and welcome to garden Line.

674
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.760
Thank you. I appreciate your callback. Here. I have a gallon jug

675
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:59.559
that a purchase from Ace Hardware and
Kingwood. It's by Microlife and it's humous.

676
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:05.440
Plus I read the instructions to apply
it. However, I'm not quite

677
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.639
sure the per application. I have
about one thousand square foot of grass and

678
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:15.559
says to put like four to six
ounces in the water. Do I put

679
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:19.199
that in a sprayer that I put
on my hose, Do I fill it

680
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.760
completely up? Or do I put
it in a pump up sprayer with a

681
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:25.760
gallon the water? Well, you
could do the pump up. I think

682
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:29.920
the easiest thing is to hook up
one of those sprayers to the end of

683
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:35.400
your end of your garden hose and
put it in and you want to apply

684
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.760
it somewhere between three and six ounces
per thousand square feet. Okay, okay,

685
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:44.760
So however that little hose end sprayer
works, you can do it that

686
00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.440
way. Get let me give you
something. I was just talking about A

687
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:52.280
and A plants and produce. They've
got some information on their I think it's

688
00:49:52.320 --> 00:50:00.000
their Facebook page. I believe it's
their Facebook page where it tells about differ

689
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.960
diferent ways of applying these microlife products
like seaweed and whatnot. And you ought

690
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:08.039
to just go check it out A
and A Plants and produce, go on

691
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:15.159
there and just have to scroll down. But it's from Microlife's Facebook page too,

692
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:17.119
but it talks about how to apply
the different products. You can put

693
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:20.079
them in a watering can, you
can put them in a pitcher, you

694
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:22.760
can put it into your hose in
spray er. You know, however you

695
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:27.519
want to go about it, okay, And what about the frequency on application

696
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:31.480
is that once every six months,
once every three months? You know,

697
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:36.039
if you're using one of the products
that we would consider more of a fertilizer,

698
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:39.960
then you would do that according to
like our fertilizing schedule. Depending on

699
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.159
the plant you're going after, like
with your lawn, you could do that

700
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:47.920
several times during the summer season.
If it's a liquid application, I've spread

701
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.599
them out about six weeks apart probably
now. If you're looking at something like

702
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:59.480
the humates plus there we're going after
that concentrated compost and the benefits to the

703
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:04.239
microbe activity so you can apply that
however you wish, as often as you

704
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.880
want. You know, you can
use it in different ways. I wouldn't

705
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.880
just wait until you see a problem
to use it. I would use it

706
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:16.880
on an ongoing basis to avoid problems. Okay, so something in the neighborhood

707
00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:22.800
of every two or three months,
apply it to the lawn. That would

708
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.679
be fun. And it's okay,
Yeah, you could do that flower beds

709
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.320
around the lawn. You can do
it in anything. Humates. We're putting

710
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:35.440
hum mates down. Think of him
as putting down concentrated composts. It's a

711
00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:42.880
it's a carbon source that really helps
microbes which need carbon sources. And so

712
00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:51.159
there's the granular form from microlife and
there's also the liquid form that you're talking

713
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.519
about in the gallon, Joe,
and you get same kind of idea,

714
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:58.159
same kind of ingredient. We're just
applying it in different ways. With the

715
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.559
granule, you're getting more of it
in a granule that's going to go out

716
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:06.079
there. With the liquid, you're
applying it in smaller amounts each time you

717
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:13.760
apply it. Same thing, okay, And do you water it in after

718
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:20.840
you apply it? Or is the
Gordon hose enough when garden hoses enough.

719
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.800
I mean, you know, it
wouldn't hurt to water it in a little

720
00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:28.880
bit because with the humans, plus, we're not it's not a folier feed

721
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:34.079
that we're putting on the foliage like
seaweed or their ocean harvest would be Uh.

722
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:37.000
It's more something we're wanting to get
down in the soil, and so

723
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.400
if you followed it with a watering
end, that would be fine. Uh.

724
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.480
It's gonna get watered in either way, you know, and when next

725
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:51.960
time it rains, next time irrigation
comes on. Okay, Well, appreciate

726
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.679
your show, and we'll get with
you again when we need some help here.

727
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.639
All right, Michael, thank you, thank you very much. I

728
00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:01.880
appreciate your call. Yes, the
rebob, that is the case. We

729
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:07.159
want to make sure that we get
those ingredients into the soil. Very important.

730
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:10.440
And by the way, if you're
interested, you're hearing him Michael and

731
00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.119
I talk about Microlife. You can
go to their website Microlifefertilizer dot com and

732
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.800
learn about hummates. Plus you can
learn about all their products and also where

733
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.320
to find them, which is I
can just give you the shortcut to that.

734
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.320
It's everywhere. If you hear me
talk about a good garden center.

735
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:31.079
Ace hardware stores OUTUS fertilizer speed stores. They're going to carry quality products from

736
00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:37.159
Microlife like that. Let's see,
We're going to go now out to Shane.

737
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:40.719
Hello Shane, and welcome to garden
Line. Good morning, Good morning.

738
00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:45.920
I wanted to say too, I'm
a huge fan of the show and

739
00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:52.800
even got my sixteen year old son
and seventeen year old daughters while I'm watching

740
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.920
it now are listening to it.
Now They've they've become big fans. Whenever

741
00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:59.039
they're they're always in the truck with
me and they're like, man, dam

742
00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.840
why are you listening to the all
the time? And then now they're loving

743
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.480
it, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, this is great.

744
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.960
You know how I have callers.
Go ahead, I was gonna say,

745
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:10.000
Shane, I have callers from time
to time that they used to listen

746
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:15.480
to Dewey Compton in the same way
with their parents, wondering why is dad

747
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:17.559
listening to this or why is mom
listening to this? And they're still Guarden

748
00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.639
Line listeners. So good to hear
that. Exactly the generational thing. Now,

749
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:30.079
I just had a quick question about
my primeria. We've my my wife

750
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:31.440
and I we you know, we
keep quite a few of them in different

751
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:38.800
pots and such, and uh we
we brought the plan in during the hurricane

752
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.400
and saved it and everything that was
no issue, and we kind of had

753
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:49.920
it underneath our patio for maybe about
a week or so, and then I

754
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.519
noticed that the leaves started to kind
of droop a little bit. So I

755
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:54.400
was like, okay, well it
needs to go in ahead and go back

756
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:59.840
out where you know, it was
normally put in the yard. It gets

757
00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:02.360
a good amount of morning sun and
then in the afternoon it's it's kind of

758
00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:07.360
shaded, and then it gets just
a little bit of evening sun. And

759
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:10.360
of course, we you know,
we water you know, pretty religiously,

760
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:14.880
like every either every night or every
other night, because we don't usually let

761
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:22.039
it go too far without having water. However, we've noticed that I guess

762
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:24.639
it was probably Wednesday, there was
a couple of leaves that were turning yellow

763
00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.039
then, you know, like krispy
brown. And it was like, oh,

764
00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:30.199
okay, so you know, I
thought, well, maybe there was

765
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.000
just a couple of leaves that maybe
got damaged or something. So I went

766
00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:36.599
ahead and I plucked them off.
Well, then I go out there this

767
00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:39.280
morning, and I got about another
four or five on there, and I'm

768
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:43.800
like, oh no, this is
not good. And even the wandering Jew

769
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.880
that we have planted in the in
the bottom of the pot, you know

770
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:52.039
that kind of surrounds the perimeter of
the of the pot. I'm starting to

771
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:53.719
notice a couple of leaves on that
they're starting to go bad, and I'm

772
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:55.880
like, oh gosh, if it's
hitting that too, I don't, you

773
00:55:55.920 --> 00:56:01.199
know, I'm wondering if maybe a
fungus or something. Probably not. Diseases

774
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:06.320
tend to be pretty specific to one
kind of plant, and so I don't

775
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.199
think you have the same disease on
wandering Jew as you would have on plumeria.

776
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:14.880
I think it's a water issue and
plants, you know, they leaves

777
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:17.639
don't live forever, and so older
leaves can be cast off, and when

778
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:22.079
you go through fluctuations like a little
drowdy, a little too soggy, wet,

779
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:24.559
or fluctuations, we often see that. You'll even notice that on your

780
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:28.280
pothus ivy house plant. You know, you let it get a little dry

781
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.639
and then you water it and it
perks up, but then the old leaves

782
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:34.199
try yellow and fall off. And
that's just part of that's just kind of

783
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:37.800
how nature is. Make sure it's
getting adequate moisture, makes sure not soggy,

784
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:43.159
but adequate, and make sure you're
fertilizing it periodically to help, you

785
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.199
know, provide the nutrition that it
needs to support vigor and growth. And

786
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:50.280
even as older leaves might be lost, new leaves are going to be coming

787
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.519
on to replace them, and so
just a little bit of that leaf yellowing

788
00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:59.119
and loss is not a big concern
in my book. Okay, would just

789
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:01.039
be like a you know, just
like your regular uh you know, miracle

790
00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:06.599
grow plant food. Would that be
adequate enough? But like you were,

791
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:09.400
that's not a fund That's not a
one that I'm fond of. I think

792
00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:15.920
Electropas makes a plumeria type food that
works very very well. Uh know.

793
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.760
Some plant food makes a very good
plumera food too, And wherever you are,

794
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:22.320
you're going to find one or both
of those that do an excellent job

795
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:29.679
designed just for tropical blooming plants like
plumereas. Oh wonderful. I didn't.

796
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:32.679
I wasn't aware of that because yeah, I don't come the miracle grow stuff

797
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:38.840
for wherever, you know, yeah, just follow wonderful all right, wonderful.

798
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:42.440
Well, I appreciate it. Thank
you so much. Thanks for the

799
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:45.800
call. I appreciate that. And
we are hitting up against a break here,

800
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.559
So Jody from West Columbia. When
we come back, you will be

801
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.159
the first caller up. In the
meantime, if you would like to give

802
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:57.880
Crystal call, get on the boards
seven one three two one two fifty eight

803
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:02.880
seventy four. I'll be right back. Yesterday with one of my kids and

804
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:08.599
we were looking at birds that are
outside in our landscape. I've got bird

805
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:14.239
feeders set so where I sit typically
in the house in the especially in the

806
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.079
mornings, I can look out two
different windows and see two different bird feeders.

807
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.519
I like that. It's kind of
entertaining to see what's going on.

808
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:25.559
You know, Wildbird's Unlimited is the
source of everything bird and that includes good

809
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:30.920
information about birds. You can go
to the website. In fact, I

810
00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:38.400
write this down WBU dot com forward
slash Houston WBU dot Com forward slash Houston

811
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.199
that gives you the wabird stores in
Houston. There's six of them. Wherever

812
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:46.000
you live, there's going to be
a wallbird store fairly close to you that

813
00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:51.119
you can run over to to pick
up things like bird seeds, bird feeders,

814
00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:54.039
bird houses, any kind of information
you need. They got quality feeds

815
00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:58.039
like nesting super blend. It's always
a good time to be using that.

816
00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:02.280
I use it myself in my land
Escape. They have wonderful feeders, lots

817
00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:07.400
of different types, from tray feeders
to the squirrel excluding feeder. That's my

818
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:12.400
favorite. One squirrel excluding feeder to
you just name it. If you can

819
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:15.960
imagine a bird feeder, they're going
to have it there at Wallbird's unlimited and

820
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.199
a quality version of that. Now, if you're going to take a trip

821
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:22.480
out of town, you need to
consider a seed cylinder. That is seed

822
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:27.320
that is compressed into a cylinder,
kind of like one of those candles that

823
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.199
you put on your table, you
know it stands up a cylinder. Well,

824
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:31.880
it's like that, but it's packed
a bird seed and so it takes

825
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:35.800
them a while to pick that seed
out of it, and so they don't

826
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:37.280
just grab a bite and run away. You get to watch them for a

827
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:40.239
little longer. And if you're going
on a vacation a trip out of town

828
00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:45.400
for a little while, seed cylinder
is the easiest, longest lasting, most

829
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:49.039
convenient way to feed your birds and
Wabbirds Unlimited has those. They even have

830
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.360
them that have the hot pepper oil
in them. So if squirrels come along,

831
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.440
ouch, they will not they will
not mess with that. They'll leave

832
00:59:55.480 --> 01:00:01.079
it alone. So you can feed
your birds Birds Unlimited, wbu dot Com

833
01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:06.519
Forward Slash Houston. You just need
to go by Hey a little quick tip.

834
01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:09.440
The stores are air conditioned. It
would be wonderful, a wonderful way

835
01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:15.199
to spend part of your Saturday afternoon
stopping in at a wild Bird's Unlimited store

836
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:17.719
to see what this is that I
keep talking about as being such a cool

837
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:23.119
place. We're going to head now
out to West Columbia and talk to Jody.

838
01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:29.119
Hello Jody, and welcome to garden
Line. Good morning ship. How

839
01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:31.360
you doing? I really enjoy your
show. Thank you, sir. How

840
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:37.039
can I help? I think I've
overdosed my yard. I've got about a

841
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:43.760
forty by sixty area of Saint Augustine, and early in the spring had a

842
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:47.039
lot of dollar week come up,
and I took the chief chief way out

843
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:50.960
and I put a weeding feet on
it. Waited a period of time,

844
01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:54.679
nothing happened. I did it again, nothing happened. I sprayed it with

845
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.760
image. Nothing happened. I sprayed
it with two spots raid with two four

846
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:05.920
d nothing happened. Uh. My
neighbor gave me the product Euge called We'd

847
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:10.000
be gone on Gordon Sprayer. I
sprayed it and all my Saint Augustine grass

848
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:15.960
died dollars dollar wheed is still growing. Oh my gosh, jerdy. So

849
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:20.400
at nighttime when the at night time, when it's dark and you look at

850
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:28.280
the lawn, is it glowing?
You've neew. I believe this isn't a

851
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:32.360
this isn't a laughing matter. But
I that that was quite a I believe

852
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:36.760
you. There are very few things
you left out of that list. But

853
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.920
seriously, if the grass is died
back, you know you're going to have

854
01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:45.159
to replace it, whether if it's
severely damaged, I would just do a

855
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:50.079
wall to wall replacement of it as
being the fastest easiest way to get back

856
01:01:50.119 --> 01:01:53.000
in town there on it. Uh, if you wanted to do some plugging

857
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:57.960
or patching here and there, you
could do that and have that grow in.

858
01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.760
It's going to be a more ongoing
tea thing. And anywhere the grass

859
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:05.199
gets thin, you're going to start
to seaweeds come through because sunlight's reaching the

860
01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:10.360
soil surface, so it's you know
the fast ways you just reside. That

861
01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:15.440
costs more money, but it's done
and you're done with it. The less

862
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:21.159
expensive what would be the patch patch
your way back to it. I think

863
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:25.559
I will resaw what can I do
in the future to prevent dollar weed or

864
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:30.199
kill dollar weed? If it comes
back it's up under a microtree kind of

865
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:32.719
in a shaded area. Yeah,
yeah, well dollar weed. First of

866
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:37.119
all, know this dollar weed likes
wet soil. So the weather it is,

867
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:40.119
the happier dollar weed is. So
the first step is on you water,

868
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:44.239
give it a good soaking, but
don't water so often. Don't water

869
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.039
so much. I mean, you
can't control hurricanes and rainstorms and other things,

870
01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:52.159
but you can't control the irrigation.
So that would be the first step

871
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.119
on a lot of weeds like dollar
weed and Virginia button weed. The like

872
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:59.719
wet conditions is cut back on the
water because the grass will be happier and

873
01:02:59.800 --> 01:03:02.840
you the weed will be less happy. Secondly, you're going to have to

874
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.599
treat it, but I would use
a product called Celsius when you're having to

875
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:12.880
treat it. Now, if the
grass has dyed and you're going to replace

876
01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:15.000
it. A lot of it has
died and you're going to replace it.

877
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:19.519
Now would be a good time to
treat that dollar weed when you don't have

878
01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:24.880
any grass you're worried about hurting.
So yeah, there are a number of

879
01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:30.320
products that control the dollar weed really
well, and with where you're located.

880
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:34.480
I would go over to Southwest Fertilizer
and talk to them there on the corner

881
01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:38.599
business Notton Runwick. Go to Southwest
Fertilizer. They have got every product you

882
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.199
can imagine. Explain to them what
you told me and say, you know,

883
01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:45.440
we talked about it, and you're
wanting to come in, and this

884
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:51.840
is your chance to get something to
really hit that dollar weed because you don't

885
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:55.719
have any lawn at risk. Once
you get the lawn in I would use

886
01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:00.840
a product called Celsius on the dollar
weed, but it's much better to get

887
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:04.360
rid of it, and now's your
chance to go after it. And I

888
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:08.880
think that would and stay away from
the future, stay away from the weed

889
01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:13.920
and feed. Let's instead pick a
quality fertilizer and use it, and then

890
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:17.519
let's pick a herbicide to match the
weed you're going after and do that.

891
01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:23.039
Because weed and feeds can have anything
from broadly if we control to pre emergent

892
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:27.920
weed control in them, and those
are very different products. So I like

893
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:30.440
the idea of being able to do
them separately, where I can pick the

894
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:34.760
best fertilizer and the best weed control
for the particular weed as opposed to the

895
01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:39.320
combo. I understand why people do
the combos. That's fine. You can

896
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.199
use them, and if the particular
thing in the combo is and the timing

897
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:45.840
is right, you can do that. Just overall, I think we should

898
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.159
aim for the dollar weed and not
try to combo it with the weed and

899
01:04:49.199 --> 01:04:54.800
feed. Thank you very much,
and I will do that. I appreciate

900
01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:57.960
it. Stup and enjoy your show, all right, you take care.

901
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.639
Thanks for the call. I appreciate
that. Yes, yeah, the whole

902
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.400
thing of the weed and feed,
it's complicated, and uh, you know,

903
01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:09.679
I can go into it more,
but uh, just know that depending

904
01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:13.360
on the time of year, the
time to put out a pre emergent weeden

905
01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:18.559
feed may not be the time to
fertilize and vice versa, and so to

906
01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:24.599
combine them sometimes the timing is off. It doesn't mean there's never a place

907
01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:26.800
for them. There is. There's
a place where you can use them and

908
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.079
they and it works and it does
what you want to do. Uh,

909
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:34.480
it's just I don't know. I
like the idea of prescribing going after one

910
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:36.920
and the other. You know,
if you need a barricade application for pre

911
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:41.199
emergent, put it down when you
need to put it down. Don't don't

912
01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:45.519
try to make it match up with
your your fertilization. But in the fall

913
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.440
time, it's actually a time when
they tend to overlap a little bit better.

914
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:49.840
And that's that's coming out. But
you'll find all that stuff on my

915
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:56.320
on my lun care schedules at Gardening
with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip

916
01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:00.679
dot com. Well, we're coming
up on a break here. When we

917
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:02.960
come back, Carol and a tascasita, you'll be our first up. I'm

918
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:04.840
gonna go ahead and take a break. If you'd like to give us a

919
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:10.280
call seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Have you with

920
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:13.400
us today? We are talking about
all kinds of things gardening. We've got

921
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:15.199
some folks on the line we're going
to head to in just one second.

922
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:19.719
When was the last time you were
at enchanted Forest out in Richmond? And

923
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:24.440
if you haven't been well, Today's
the next time you need to go.

924
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:30.119
And Channa Forest has the best selection
of all kinds of plants, everything from

925
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:35.199
you know, gifts in the gift
shop to house plants to annual color to

926
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:41.920
shrubs and trees and bulbs and containers. And they really specialize in plants that

927
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:47.719
attract beneficial insects like pollinators and uh, perhaps plants that attract butterflies that you're

928
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:53.679
interested in creating that right now,
they got an excellent, excellent selection of

929
01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:59.280
all kinds of things that take the
heat, like Vinka periwinkle at agascar periwinkle,

930
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.239
or people call it menca. It's
an annual plant. It is absolutely

931
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:05.880
fireproof. It comes in colors of
you know, like white and pink and

932
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:11.320
kind of a lavendery. The magenta
may be the proper name for it.

933
01:07:12.440 --> 01:07:16.400
I'm color challenge so anyway, but
they've got that. They also have an

934
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:20.519
unbelievable selection of herbs. You need
to go check out their herbs right now.

935
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:26.000
The happiest herb in your garden is
probably basil. It just loves warm

936
01:07:26.039 --> 01:07:29.760
weather. And our basil is growing
like crazy. And listen when basil blooms,

937
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.440
here comes the pollinators. The bees
are all over it and they have

938
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:38.280
a number of different selections of basil. They're at Enchanted Forest Richmond. Whether

939
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:42.159
you put it in a container,
whether you put it in a bed,

940
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.079
a garden bed, you know,
you can plant basil and flower garden.

941
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:47.960
You can plant it in your vegetable
garden. It doesn't have to just be

942
01:07:48.039 --> 01:07:53.360
in an herb garden. It's an
excellent plant and basil along with many other

943
01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:58.800
herbs at Enchanted Forest and Richmond.
It is an fm twe fifty nine in

944
01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:00.880
outside of Richmond. If you're heading
up towards sugar Land Way, it's off

945
01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:08.119
to the right. Here's the website
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.

946
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:14.000
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot
com. Go check out their website.

947
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:16.520
You will see why I think it
is such an impressive place to go,

948
01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:19.399
and with all the shade and stuff
they have around there, it would

949
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:25.680
be a wonderful place to go this
afternoon to just enjoy being out and about.

950
01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:30.880
You are listening to Garden Line our
phone number seven one three two fifty

951
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.159
eight seventy four. We're going to
go now to Carol and a Taskasita.

952
01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:40.479
Hello Carol, good morning, I'm
looking for a recommendation for a tree service

953
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:44.560
that will upright a tree that I
have. It's a great myrtle about fifteen

954
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:49.479
feet call. Can you recommend someone? I would recommend Martin's. I would

955
01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:54.960
recommend Martin Spoon Moore at Affordable Tree
for about Do you need a phone number

956
01:08:55.039 --> 01:09:00.399
or a website? Yes? I
need phone number? Please okay seven to

957
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:04.920
one three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three. We'll give it to you

958
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:13.680
again seven one three six nine nine
two six six three, And that's Affordable

959
01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:16.520
Tree. Affordable Tree. Martin Spoon
Moore is the guy you won't talk to.

960
01:09:16.760 --> 01:09:19.960
Okay, thank you so much,
thank you, thanks for waiting,

961
01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:26.600
and I appreciate your call. Absolutely
no hesitation on that one. Uh Ace

962
01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:30.600
Hardware Stores or the place where you
find whatever you're looking for. To have

963
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:36.600
a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape
that includes fertilizers like nitrophoss, for example,

964
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:43.319
they have they have an outstanding selection
of all though nitropos fertilizers. I

965
01:09:43.319 --> 01:09:47.000
would recommend stopping in and getting some
of the silver bag that that is the

966
01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:51.199
one that we carry through our warm
season with the silver bag. It's called

967
01:09:51.279 --> 01:09:56.960
super Turf Nitrofoss superturf. Just think
silver. It's only silver bag I've ever

968
01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:00.520
seen in a garden center. All
right, So Nitrofoss Superturf is going to

969
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.600
carry your lawn all the way up
until the fall fertilization. Now, if

970
01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:08.039
you just fertilized already with the slow
release this summer, don't do it again.

971
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:11.479
But if you haven't, now's the
time to do the super turf.

972
01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:14.359
It's always good to have it on
hand. You can use it any month

973
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:17.199
of the year. But the bottom
line is we primarily are doing our summer

974
01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:21.600
fertilization to keep the grass going through
its busiest growing season of the year.

975
01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:27.279
And super turf does that with a
chemistry that is designed for our soils and

976
01:10:27.319 --> 01:10:30.279
designed for our climate. That is
important. And again, you do it

977
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:33.399
now, you're not going to do
it again until the fall season. You

978
01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:36.760
know, ace hardware not just fertilizer. It's also a place where you get

979
01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:42.079
fireant control. And it's time.
I've got fire antce. I just discovered

980
01:10:42.119 --> 01:10:44.880
them in my ear. All this
rain made them come to the surface,

981
01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:48.520
and that's why baits are so important. Fire ant. Baits control fireance.

982
01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:53.800
You don't see the mountains even yet
because the foragers are out there, they're

983
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:57.399
picking up food to bring it back, but they just haven't increased the mound

984
01:10:57.439 --> 01:11:00.439
and brought it up to the surface
to where you see it on the surface.

985
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:04.000
Fire bait works and ACE Hardware has
it. Do you have mosquito problems?

986
01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:08.800
Listen, it's been long enough now
since that rain. The mosquitoes are

987
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:13.479
popping up everywhere. Anywhere there's a
tablespoon of water. A mosquito can lay

988
01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:16.079
an egg and go through its larval
stage and come out as an adult.

989
01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:19.840
So we got to be diligent,
and we've got to find things like the

990
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:25.840
mosquita dunks, the mosquito granules,
mosquito bits that is, and put them

991
01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:30.000
in these areas where there's any kind
of standing water and it'll take care of

992
01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:31.239
them. It's a natural mosquita control. By the way, it didn't hurt

993
01:11:31.239 --> 01:11:35.800
birds then her cat dinners of the
dog very very safe. It's just an

994
01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:40.439
issue with the mosquito larvae. Now, do you need mosquito repellents? Do

995
01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:44.319
you need maybe a fogging machine?
What do you need to make your outdoor

996
01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:48.319
landscape a place you can't wait to
go be in? That's ACE hardware,

997
01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:57.000
That is ACE is the place for
a beautiful outdoor landscape, garden and sitting

998
01:11:57.000 --> 01:12:03.880
area to enjoy during the cooler evening. I always we've we've been taking care

999
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:09.000
of our backyard area, trying to
get some the patios, some enhancements done

1000
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:13.479
and things. And we just put
up actually, my daughter just put up

1001
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:16.640
a string of lights at her place
and it's one of those out We call

1002
01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:19.359
them beer garden lights because it's kind
of that, you know, that outdoor

1003
01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:24.359
setting where you have the strings of
bulbs that aren't really bright each one,

1004
01:12:24.479 --> 01:12:28.000
but overall it just creates a great
ambience. By the way, as hardware

1005
01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:31.039
has those strings too, But we
were just getting some set up and man,

1006
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:34.920
it transforms that outdoor area into place
you want to be, that is

1007
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:43.000
for sure. Have you been to
Arburgate Nursery lately? Arburgate is an outstanding

1008
01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:46.159
destination garden center. I mean there
are people all over the state and even

1009
01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:50.439
out of state that know about Arburgate
Nursery because it's been that kind of place

1010
01:12:50.479 --> 01:12:55.279
for a very long time. They
got a wonderful new parking lot. It's

1011
01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:59.359
in the back of the store.
You just turn down Trischel Road by the

1012
01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:03.279
way Arburgate on twenty nine to twenty
just west of Tumball, Texas. And

1013
01:13:03.439 --> 01:13:06.880
as you're going out that direction,
you'll see Trishel Road. You just you

1014
01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:12.479
can turn down it before Arburgate or
after Arburgate and either way it's a loop.

1015
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:15.439
It swims around behind Arburgate, great
parking lot. While you're there at

1016
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:20.159
Arburgate, you're gonna have people that
know what they're Their staff is so educated,

1017
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:24.600
they're so on top of things.
They can tell you about every single

1018
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:28.079
plant you walk in and you say, here's a situation, what do you

1019
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:30.439
recommend? And they're gonna have three
or four recommendations. And when it comes

1020
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.880
to summer, color that color that's
going to carry you all the way into

1021
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:42.159
fall. Arburgate has options upon options
upon options. You can have a beautiful

1022
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.439
plate. Don't let your lawn and
landscape be a sea of green. Put

1023
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:47.399
some color in it and Arburgate will
help you do that. While you're there,

1024
01:13:47.720 --> 01:13:53.960
grab their one two three completely easy
system that is a fertilizer for anything

1025
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:57.439
that has roots. That is a
soil mix that has expanded shale in it.

1026
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:01.920
Also and a compost that has ex
banditshell and it also all of those

1027
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:05.199
build up the soil and set you
up for success. You know, on

1028
01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:10.359
garden line, I say brown stuff
comes before green stuff. The one two

1029
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:15.880
three completely easy system is brown stuff, soil, compost, and a fertilizer

1030
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:24.479
that sets the stage for their wonderful
plants to do absolutely stunningly in your landscape

1031
01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:28.520
and garden. We're going to go
back out to the phones now to clear

1032
01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:31.399
Lake and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning. Sure,

1033
01:14:31.439 --> 01:14:35.439
hope you're doing well. Thank you? How can I help? Did you

1034
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:41.560
see the picture I sent? Let
me go look, I'll check that quick

1035
01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:48.439
cure morning early this morning. Nope, oh yes I did. Hang on

1036
01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:54.960
just a second. Are you talking
about vines? Yes, okay, that

1037
01:14:55.319 --> 01:14:59.640
is Virginia creeper. Virginia creeper for
those of you listening on radio going,

1038
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:02.720
hey, I can't picture this well, and some people think it looks like

1039
01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:08.159
poison ivy. It doesn't because this
has sets of five leaves all coming out

1040
01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:12.640
of the exact same point on the
stem, and it's not poisonous, but

1041
01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:16.199
it is vigorous. Virginia creeper is
fine. I've seen people use it as

1042
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:20.119
a vine to cover a wall.
The question, your question Mark, is

1043
01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:24.800
is it a danger to the tree, and the bottom line is only if

1044
01:15:24.800 --> 01:15:28.920
it gets up in the tree and
shades the canopy. The one that it

1045
01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.520
is in for you is a cedar
tree. And cedars when they lose their

1046
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:36.560
foliage. Let's say you get some
Virginia creeper or something over the limbs and

1047
01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:41.800
the leaves can't get light, they'll
die, and that branch will never reach

1048
01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.680
sprout, so it's really weird.
Compared to other trees that you could cut

1049
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:49.359
them off like a hat rack and
they'd sprout back out again. Cedar can't

1050
01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:54.079
do that. So I would just
say, mark, it's fine until if

1051
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:59.000
you see it getting on the branches
and becoming a shading like an umbrella over

1052
01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:01.159
the tree, and just go to
the base where it's going up the stem

1053
01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:05.239
and cut those stems and everything above
where you cut or die. Okay,

1054
01:16:05.319 --> 01:16:11.159
sounds to me like it's better to
get rid of it now before it becomes

1055
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:15.239
impossible to get rid of So yeah, yeah, And but it's never impossible

1056
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:17.359
because you always have one little trunk
at the bottom and if you cut every

1057
01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:21.479
vine going up that trunk, everything
above it dies, so it can you

1058
01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:25.079
can shut it down real quick if
you need to. But if you don't

1059
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:27.640
do it now, that's fine too, Thank you very much. Sure,

1060
01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:30.960
take care. Yeah, let me
give you a real quick tip. When

1061
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:33.159
I come back, i'm gonna talk
about what to do about it. Hold

1062
01:16:33.159 --> 01:16:45.039
on if you want, Yes,
we'll be right back. Folks, credit

1063
01:16:45.039 --> 01:17:14.439
for deciding whilst just watch. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. I'm your

1064
01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:16.600
host, Skip Richter, and we're
here to help you have a more bountiful

1065
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:20.680
garden, a more beautiful landscape.
And let me tell you, all it

1066
01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:25.880
takes is some good information and guidance
and advice, because as we say here,

1067
01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:30.000
there are no brown thumbs. There
are only uninformed thumbs. And we're

1068
01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:34.119
here to inform your thumb to help
you out to have more success. Another

1069
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:39.920
place that can help you turn a
brown thumb green is Plants for all seasons.

1070
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They're on Highway two forty nine.
That's Tomball Parkway. As you're heading

1071
01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:47.159
up toward Tomball from Houston, you
exit Luetta and crossover Luetta and they're right

1072
01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:50.000
there on the right hand side,
right on Tomball Parkway. I mean,

1073
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it's just easy, easy to get
to get in and out of. And

1074
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:57.279
they've always got something good going on
there. Number one, they've got the

1075
01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:02.439
advice that turns a brown thumb green, whether you struggle with success with plants

1076
01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:05.960
or whether you're a professional at it
plants for all seasons. It's the kind

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01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:09.199
of place you want to go.
And a lot of people already know that

1078
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they have a loyal following of customers
and for a good reason such as good

1079
01:18:14.359 --> 01:18:17.399
information, knowledgeable people, quality plants. By the way, did you know

1080
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right now they've got a sale in
their knockout roses Instead of well less than

1081
01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:27.279
half price for a three gallon rose, I mean it's like fifteen bucks for

1082
01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:30.880
three gallon rows. You know,
knockout is probably the most bulletproof ros we've

1083
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:36.640
got in our arsenal for options.
If you want maybe you're not a rosarian,

1084
01:18:36.760 --> 01:18:40.640
you're not looking for big, beautiful
cut flowers and everything. You just

1085
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:44.319
want to shrub. That's pretty well. Knockout rows a great choice for that.

1086
01:18:44.359 --> 01:18:47.039
You see them all around town,
real popular. The original cherry red

1087
01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:54.079
one is still going strong everywhere.
I saw knockout roses in a McDonald's parking

1088
01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:59.319
lot in Chicago, Illinois. I
see Chicago. I see knockout roses doing

1089
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:01.000
just as good in Houston, Texas. That is one heck of a rose

1090
01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:06.239
almost no. In fact, I
would say no disease problems at all on

1091
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:10.359
a knockout rose. It's the one
you can share and have success with.

1092
01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:14.520
There's other kinds of knockouts. There's
a pink knockout now. They just keep

1093
01:19:14.560 --> 01:19:17.399
coming out with new versions of knockout
that do well. But here's your chance

1094
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1095
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them as well as beautiful hanging baskets, wonderful summer heat color, and again

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the products you need to have success
with your garden and your landscape. Plants

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for All Seasons dot Com. That's
the website, Plants for All Seasons dot

1098
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Com. We're going to go now
to clear Like Texas and talk to Mark.

1099
01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:44.079
Welcome to Garden Line, Mark.
Well, this is a continuation of

1100
01:19:44.119 --> 01:19:46.359
the first call. Oh, that's
right, for the break I forgot you.

1101
01:19:46.439 --> 01:19:51.000
We were talking about your Virginia creeper
and the cedar trees. So Mark,

1102
01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:57.159
what you need is a product that
contains the ingredient Trichlo Peer t ri

1103
01:19:57.319 --> 01:20:02.840
i clo P where I are now, Tricla Peer you'll find it. Sometimes

1104
01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:08.039
the product will be called Stump and
Brush Control sometimes it'll be called poison,

1105
01:20:08.119 --> 01:20:12.439
ivy killer or something. It's the
ingredient triclo peer that you're looking for.

1106
01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:16.359
You can spray it on the foliage. If you get it on the trunk

1107
01:20:16.520 --> 01:20:20.079
of the tree and it's just dead
bark on the outside trunk, it's not

1108
01:20:20.119 --> 01:20:25.880
going to hurt the tree. If
there's a living shoot or any broad leaf

1109
01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:30.199
plant that you like and you get
tricle paer on it, it'll damage it

1110
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:33.119
or kill it. So from your
photo, I see you ought to have

1111
01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:36.680
pretty good access to spray in the
trunk. You can also get a little

1112
01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:44.439
spongebrush like you would use for painting
at a hardware store, the little wooden

1113
01:20:44.520 --> 01:20:48.479
handle spongebrushes and dip it straight in
the triclo peer and paint it on the

1114
01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:54.359
stem of that Virginia creeper. I
would do it down low, kind of

1115
01:20:54.399 --> 01:20:57.920
near the base and just paint it
on the stem. I would even put

1116
01:20:57.960 --> 01:21:02.319
a little bit of vegetable or if
you have diesel oil in the tricle pair

1117
01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:08.479
and it helps it stick and soak
in better to that outer stem. But

1118
01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:14.319
in the photo I see those stems
are very small still. The Virginia button

1119
01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:18.119
weeds of Virginia button. Virginia creeper
stems are very small, so you just

1120
01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:21.640
painted on there and it'll soak into
that tissue and go down in the plant

1121
01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:27.319
and kill it. And that's the
fastest, easiest, least damage to the

1122
01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:30.439
environment, way and safest that I
can think of. Well, on those

1123
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:34.239
two trees that I took a picture
of, it'll be easy just to snip

1124
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:39.000
each each run. I'm pretty sure
I can get it that way, and

1125
01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:44.039
then I can dab the end of
the cut. A little bit of a

1126
01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:49.000
story about thirty years ago, we
bought a small Leland cypress, a little

1127
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:53.760
baby for a Christmas tree, and
I planted it out there in the front.

1128
01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:58.640
And I should have made this call
twenty years ago to you, because

1129
01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:05.760
some of that creeper got all over
the tree and eventually went to the top

1130
01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:11.239
and start hanging down. It was
real green, and I liked it.

1131
01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:15.680
The tree was dead underneath all that. The storm just knocked it down.

1132
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:19.600
Saved me about twelve hundred dollars.
So fortunately it went the right way.

1133
01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:26.279
I guess it went to the mailbox
rather than the houses. So if I

1134
01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:30.359
had known what you were telling me
about it shading the tree to the point

1135
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:33.960
where it could be damaged. I
wouldn't have let it die like that apparently,

1136
01:22:34.159 --> 01:22:39.520
Yeah, but I mean it was
so thick you couldn't tell the underneath

1137
01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:42.199
there were much of dead leaves.
I mean, yeah, it's you know,

1138
01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:45.640
we had lines like that in the
southeast. They have kudzoo that is

1139
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:49.159
like on steroids. It covers up
everything. But I see you also had

1140
01:22:49.159 --> 01:22:51.680
I mentioned in cedary you also having
it in a pine tree too. But

1141
01:22:51.800 --> 01:22:55.800
yeah, just cut it off at
the bottom. Even though you dab it

1142
01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:59.359
on the ends, that's a little
small cut surface, So I would still

1143
01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:03.119
paint it on the sides of the
stem of that Virginia. Cut it off

1144
01:23:03.199 --> 01:23:08.039
to ab the end, but then
just maybe four or five inches just kind

1145
01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:10.439
of painted on that stem, and
I think that'll do the job for it.

1146
01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:13.800
Okay, Well, at this point
it's easy enough to get to and

1147
01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:16.239
ahead and start killing the tree.
So thank you very much for the advice

1148
01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:19.720
that we should have given it to
me twenty years ago. Well, I'll

1149
01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:24.479
try to do better next time.
Thanks Mark, I appreciate the call.

1150
01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:28.439
You take care if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

1151
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:32.640
one two fifty eight seventy four,
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1152
01:23:33.039 --> 01:23:39.800
seventy four. If you want success
with plants, it starts with the soil.

1153
01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:43.960
You know, it's the foundation.
Soil is the foundation. So what

1154
01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.159
is a good soil? Well?
A good soil holds some moisture, but

1155
01:23:47.199 --> 01:23:53.720
it also drains well. It drains
internally by letting water percolate down through the

1156
01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:58.800
soil so that oxygen comes in and
the plant roots are not sitting submerged.

1157
01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:01.760
That is a good well. A
good soil has organic matter in it which

1158
01:24:01.800 --> 01:24:09.600
stimulates biological activity, microbial activity that
just enhances the root system in ways that

1159
01:24:09.720 --> 01:24:14.479
I could spend a whole garden line
show talking about. A good soil has

1160
01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:18.760
nutrients at the right balance in the
soil. That is important so that when

1161
01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:25.439
the plant needs any of twenty plus
nutrients, it just its root has access

1162
01:24:25.439 --> 01:24:28.239
to them. They're in the bank
account. That is a good soil.

1163
01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:31.880
So what makes a good soil?
Adding organic matter to the soil quality?

1164
01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:36.760
Organic matter? Ciena Malts. They're
down south of Houston in the Siena area.

1165
01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:41.880
They're just north of Road sharing near
where Higway six and two eighty eight

1166
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:45.560
come together. The actual road that
they're on is FM five twenty one,

1167
01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:49.119
five twenty one. They're open Monday
through Friday seven to five and Saturday seven

1168
01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:54.680
thirty excuse me seven thirty to five
and Saturday seven thirty to two. Closed

1169
01:24:54.720 --> 01:24:58.560
on Sunday. Here's the website,
Sienna bolts dot com. When you go

1170
01:24:58.720 --> 01:25:01.319
there, you're going to find every
fertilizer I talk about on garden line,

1171
01:25:01.479 --> 01:25:05.680
which is part of the brown stuff
of the soil. You're gonna find composts

1172
01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:11.600
and rose soil, and you're going
to find a veggiane herb mix that's part

1173
01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:15.760
of the brown stuff. You're going
to find Landscaper's Pride, black velvet malts

1174
01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:18.920
and other quality mulches. That's part
of the brown stuff. When you drive

1175
01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:23.199
off from cienamultch or if you're within
twenty miles, have them deliver it to

1176
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:28.640
you. You're going to have this
foundation for success with your plants. Don't

1177
01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:31.560
just buy a beautiful plant and stick
it into an unprepared plot. Go to

1178
01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:35.520
Cianamalts get you the stuff you need. When you bring that plan in,

1179
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:42.319
it's going to hit the ground running. Cenamlts cinimlts dot com. We're going

1180
01:25:42.359 --> 01:25:45.159
to take a break. We'll be
right back. Look forward to your calls

1181
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:48.720
two eight one excuse me, seven
to one three two one two ktr h.

1182
01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:54.439
Every year we talk about today.
What are your questions? Well,

1183
01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:57.239
let's help you with that. Give
us a call at seven one three two

1184
01:25:57.279 --> 01:26:02.000
one two fifty eight seventy four.
If your lawn is struggling, you're looking

1185
01:26:02.039 --> 01:26:05.920
at your lawn and you're saying,
I hear skipsay all the time. Wherever

1186
01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:10.279
sunlight it's a soil, nature plants, a weed will. Sunlight is hitting

1187
01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:14.680
the soil all over my yard.
Well, here come the weeds, weed

1188
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:17.199
seeds. Warm season, weed seeds
will sprout. That gives them the opportunity.

1189
01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:20.439
What do you do. You got
to get that lawn denser. And

1190
01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:25.520
one of the best things you can
do for a lawn that is struggling is

1191
01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:30.319
to do an aerration, a core
aeration, and a compost top dressing.

1192
01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:33.399
What's core aeration? That means we
pull a plug out of the soil and

1193
01:26:33.479 --> 01:26:36.960
drop it on the surface. When
they have gone through your yard and done

1194
01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:42.399
core aeration, you will think that
there was a little tiny fufu dog convention

1195
01:26:42.600 --> 01:26:45.319
all over the yard. In other
words, this looks like dog droppings everywhere.

1196
01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:50.960
It's the best thing you can do
for a heavy compacted clay soil,

1197
01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:56.439
and whether it's compacted from foot traffic
or whatever, it helps with that.

1198
01:26:56.600 --> 01:27:00.159
When your soil is struggling, Getting
oxygen into the roots system is important.

1199
01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:04.640
Getting organic matter onto the surface and
down in those holes is important. That's

1200
01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:09.920
why we do the compost top dressing. And you're not going to find anyone

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They're outstanding. There are service provider
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Houston area BnB turf Pros. They
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about customer satisfaction and quality work.
I love recommending this company because I've seen

1205
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the work they do. I've talked
to them about their mindset. It's just

1206
01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:41.720
really clear. Go to their website
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dot com, BB turf Pros dot
com, or give them a call seven

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01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:49.319
one three two three four fifty five
ninety eight. Look at the work they

1209
01:27:49.359 --> 01:27:54.520
do. They only use products and
companies that I trust. Here on garden

1210
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:58.439
Line, so Ciena Maltch, you
just heard me bragging on them that is

1211
01:27:58.479 --> 01:28:02.680
a composted product. They have a
composted product at Sienna. The BnB turf

1212
01:28:02.720 --> 01:28:08.359
pros uses because they use quality.
They go above and beyond to make a

1213
01:28:08.399 --> 01:28:13.640
personal connection with you and to ensure
you are satisfied with what they do.

1214
01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:17.560
They serve Sugarland and Missouri City on
the west end. They serve Pearland on

1215
01:28:17.640 --> 01:28:21.199
the east end, and as you
go down south Fresno, Siena, Arcola,

1216
01:28:21.239 --> 01:28:26.159
Iowa Colony, Manvil. Those are
all communities and everything in between those

1217
01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:30.760
that are named is the B and
B Turf Pros area. You will be

1218
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:33.640
very pleased with the results. And
don't wait until your yard is full of

1219
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:39.079
weeds and these even declined more.
Go ahead and get the core aeration.

1220
01:28:39.520 --> 01:28:44.439
Not just punching squeezing a hole by
shoving something into the soil. We're talking

1221
01:28:44.439 --> 01:28:47.520
about popping a plug out, leaving
it on the surface and then compost top

1222
01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:50.199
dressing. That's how you do it
right, and that's how B and B

1223
01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:54.600
does it because they do things right. We're going to go now to the

1224
01:28:54.640 --> 01:29:00.199
phones and head out to let's see
Fort ben County and talk to Lee Helle.

1225
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:03.840
Hey, good morning, how you
doing. I'm good I'm good.

1226
01:29:03.840 --> 01:29:08.680
How are you good? I'm well, Thank you for asking. Hey,

1227
01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:15.199
here's what happened during that storm.
I've got a mature Texas Mountain Laurel,

1228
01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:20.520
and it blew it over. Now, it's not dead. The roots didn't

1229
01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:26.000
come up. It slipped the anchor
roots through the mud. It's laying there

1230
01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:30.319
better than a forty five degree angle, like the side of the crown is

1231
01:29:30.840 --> 01:29:35.479
almost at the ground, and it's
very much alive. There's nothing dead about

1232
01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:39.640
it. And I'm trying to I
wondered, how do I stand this thing

1233
01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:45.079
back up? And unless you have
any questions for me, Yeah, unless

1234
01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:47.600
you have any questions for me,
I'm gonna hang up and listen because it's

1235
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:50.720
kind of hard to hear on this
old one. I got got you,

1236
01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:55.239
all right, We'll take it from
there, all right. Thanks. We

1237
01:29:55.319 --> 01:29:59.960
have had yes, sir, We've
had a number of folks that have asked

1238
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:04.479
questions about trees leaning over. And
I discussed that pretty much in depth last

1239
01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:09.239
week. But let me go into
it again because I know a lot of

1240
01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:13.439
you had that same question. Lee
does if a plant has been in the

1241
01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:18.319
ground for like, let's say,
three to five years or more, it's

1242
01:30:18.439 --> 01:30:23.680
probably going to be difficult for it
to recover, especially if it's a larger

1243
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.600
tree. The bigger the tree,
it's just you're just not going to have

1244
01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:31.760
success. I can go into great
detail on it, but bottom line is

1245
01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:34.600
a big old tree, don't try
standing it up, get rid of it,

1246
01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:36.800
get a new one in there.
And I can explain why if you

1247
01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:41.399
want to call in, we talk
about that. But if it's a younger

1248
01:30:41.439 --> 01:30:44.880
tree, the first three years,
for example, it's very practical to have

1249
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.319
them stood back up and staked into
place. But you're gonna have to leave

1250
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:50.720
mom a while. Now. In
Lee's tree, he's not talking about broken

1251
01:30:50.840 --> 01:30:55.960
roots. He's just talking about kind
of they just pulled and sunk in and

1252
01:30:56.000 --> 01:31:00.760
everything, and the tree still looks
good. Well, if the roots are

1253
01:31:00.840 --> 01:31:03.880
broken, which happens some and I
suspect there's some breaking on this Texas Mountain

1254
01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:08.920
rarel, you're going to have to
leave it staked for a while because what's

1255
01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:11.199
going to have to happen is new
roots are gonna have to come out.

1256
01:31:11.239 --> 01:31:14.760
They're a little tiny things, they
can't hold on anything. And after a

1257
01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:17.239
year, two years, three years, four years, it just gets stronger

1258
01:31:17.239 --> 01:31:20.920
and stronger. So for at least
three years, you're gonna need that steak

1259
01:31:20.960 --> 01:31:26.840
in place, depending on the size
of the tree and everything else before it

1260
01:31:26.880 --> 01:31:30.239
is really well anchored again, because
remember it was a well anchored tree to

1261
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:32.439
begin with and the storm blew it
over, So now you're starting with a

1262
01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:36.279
much weaker anchored tree, and so
you're going to have to be patient.

1263
01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:41.720
If it's not a big trunk,
I would get a three sixty tree stabilizer

1264
01:31:41.880 --> 01:31:45.399
and a steak and attach it to
that. If it's a bigger you may

1265
01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:47.840
need to use some guy wires to
pull it in, But at three sixty

1266
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:51.640
for most of the things that are
worth standing up, three sixty tree stabilizer

1267
01:31:51.720 --> 01:31:56.800
is going to be perfect for that. If as you stand it up,

1268
01:31:57.000 --> 01:32:00.800
if you're feeling some resistance, it
may be that water has washed in underneath

1269
01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:05.680
roots and now you're pulling against that
washed soil in. Now you're pulling against

1270
01:32:05.720 --> 01:32:08.600
that soil, so you may have
to kind of get under there a little

1271
01:32:08.600 --> 01:32:11.079
bit, and you know, open
it up a little bit so the tree

1272
01:32:11.119 --> 01:32:14.520
can stand up a little better,
and then put soil around the roots.

1273
01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:17.039
Water it in real goods, settle
them in, get it staked, and

1274
01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:20.319
be patient. It's going to take
time to do that, but you can

1275
01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:24.199
do that. You want to pull
gradually. You can kind of tell when

1276
01:32:24.239 --> 01:32:27.000
if I pull any further, I
think I'm going to break something. And

1277
01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:29.199
it may be that later you can
move it a little bit more, but

1278
01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:31.279
probably not. You probably need to
get that move done all at once.

1279
01:32:31.800 --> 01:32:35.760
But a Texas Mount Laurel is a
slow growing plant. It's a very resilient

1280
01:32:35.840 --> 01:32:40.199
plant. As long as it has
good drainage. It does okay here in

1281
01:32:40.239 --> 01:32:44.399
the Houston area and Lee, that's
what I would recommend that you do on

1282
01:32:44.399 --> 01:32:49.640
that particular one. I do want
to mention a garden center for the folks

1283
01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:54.119
in West Houston, really for the
folks all over the place, because it's

1284
01:32:54.159 --> 01:32:59.800
a destination. That is Nelson Water
Garden and Nursery that's out in Katie.

1285
01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:01.920
As you head out, I ten
to Katie. When you get to Katie

1286
01:33:01.920 --> 01:33:04.920
Fort Ben Road, you turn right
and it's just a little north across the

1287
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:09.600
tracks right there in Katy. Easy
to get to. I mean just a

1288
01:33:09.640 --> 01:33:12.239
hop skipping. It won't take long
at all to get out there. It's

1289
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.600
our West Houston destination garden center.
One of a kind plants, one of

1290
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:19.119
kind pots. They got fish and
fountains. You know, water gardening.

1291
01:33:19.159 --> 01:33:25.159
They are nationally known for their water
gardens. They designed that. You've seen

1292
01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:30.840
the large beautiful glazed pottery urns that
come upward then have water coming over the

1293
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:34.079
side and go into some gravel at
the bottom and it recirculates and comes back

1294
01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:38.119
out through the middle of the pot. They designed that idea, and they

1295
01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:40.920
have all the equipment to do it. They'll come out and do it,

1296
01:33:41.239 --> 01:33:44.720
or they'll tell you how to do
it. You can buy the components and

1297
01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.119
do it yourself if you want to
go that route and do it. But

1298
01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:50.399
what you need to do now is
just go get some friends and go out

1299
01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:55.439
there and walk around. I mean, they ought to charge admission for the

1300
01:33:55.439 --> 01:34:01.000
therapy of walking through all of their
water garden features and just hearing that soothing

1301
01:34:01.039 --> 01:34:04.520
water. To walk in the shady
area, you know, today be a

1302
01:34:04.560 --> 01:34:09.359
great day. We're always watching the
weather to see when it's safe to go

1303
01:34:09.399 --> 01:34:12.520
out in terms of rain and things. But you know, anytime you can

1304
01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:17.199
get out to Nelson Watergarden and walk
through and enjoy and hear that beautiful music

1305
01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:20.079
of water, you're gonna want to
do this at your house and while you're

1306
01:34:20.119 --> 01:34:25.039
out there, check out the nursery. I'm telling you they have an outstanding

1307
01:34:25.159 --> 01:34:30.199
selection of all kinds of landscape plants, including citrus trees and annual color and

1308
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:39.520
groundcovers and herbs and whatnot. Nelson
Watergarden and Nursery. Here's the website Nelsonwatergardens

1309
01:34:39.600 --> 01:34:42.960
dot com. Nelsonwatergardens dot com.
Go check it out. But when you

1310
01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:45.199
do, take your friends. I'm
telling you it is a fun place to

1311
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:48.640
go and visit. We're gonna head
now out to the phones and go to

1312
01:34:48.680 --> 01:34:58.479
Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hello, Martyn kip I earlier here your four

1313
01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:03.960
hanging back? Did and what you
play cross? And he's got tobina because

1314
01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:11.560
she said, oh, don't handle
all that well, I'm Marty, Martie.

1315
01:35:11.600 --> 01:35:14.800
Let me cut in. I'm sorry, let me interrupt you. I'm

1316
01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:17.600
having trouble hearing you. It's it's
a little muffled. I don't know if

1317
01:35:17.600 --> 01:35:25.640
you can go ahead. I think
you did you say guardena nobina verbina.

1318
01:35:25.720 --> 01:35:29.079
Okay, let me call you that. I just got through a walk.

1319
01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:34.520
I've got my Okay, all right, we'll put you back. Chris Crys

1320
01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:36.279
will put you up the front of
the line. When you go back.

1321
01:35:36.359 --> 01:35:40.680
Thanks a lot, appreciate that very
much. Let's go to Conroe and talk

1322
01:35:40.760 --> 01:35:45.359
to Bill. Hello Bill, Hey, good morning Skip. I bought a

1323
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:49.119
book and Vilia about it six weeks
ago and it was a small little guy,

1324
01:35:49.680 --> 01:35:54.800
about eight inches round at most.
And now it's really growing well.

1325
01:35:54.840 --> 01:35:58.840
It's two and a half feet round
and it's even when I pinched it back,

1326
01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:03.600
it's really well. But it's got
the flowers. That's not good.

1327
01:36:03.640 --> 01:36:08.159
But yeah, the growth is really
great. It looks really healthy and happy

1328
01:36:08.159 --> 01:36:13.279
and all that stuff. Anyway,
that what's the what's the secret or the

1329
01:36:13.279 --> 01:36:17.600
secret? Uh? Yeah, any
ideas for pushing the flowers out? I've

1330
01:36:17.640 --> 01:36:26.760
heard I'm sorry say that last thing? Salt? No you heard putting salt

1331
01:36:26.800 --> 01:36:30.760
around it? No, don't do
that. Nelson plant food makes a Boogainvillia

1332
01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:34.920
food. It's good for all kinds
of tropical vines and vines like that.

1333
01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:39.239
Comes a little canister. You just
sprinkle it in. You want to do

1334
01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:42.600
that. Boom Villa does best when
it's a little root bound, and so

1335
01:36:42.720 --> 01:36:45.600
your new plant probably hadn't quite hit
that stage yet. It's still growing actively.

1336
01:36:46.159 --> 01:36:48.800
You don't want to overfertilize it,
but you do want to fertilize it

1337
01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:53.720
periodically. That's important. Make sure
it gets full sunlight and it'll settle down

1338
01:36:53.800 --> 01:36:56.760
and you will get some bloom.
It's just right now in kind of a

1339
01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:00.680
growth spurt. Face, So maybe
be a little sparring with the water,

1340
01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:04.800
don't you know. Subject it to
severe drought, but let it dry out

1341
01:37:04.800 --> 01:37:09.600
a little bit between waterings, and
that'll also cut back a little bit on

1342
01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:13.800
that vigor and help it settle in
a little bit. Okay, Oh,

1343
01:37:14.239 --> 01:37:17.319
hey, sounds good, very good. Thank you, thank you. Good

1344
01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:19.359
luck with that. I appreciate that. Hey, we got to take a

1345
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:23.319
break. Scott and Cypress you'll be
our next up when we come back from

1346
01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:27.680
break. Let's see our phone number
seven to one, and greener and greener

1347
01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:30.199
as we go along. You know, it's all about informing our thumbs and

1348
01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:33.039
that's what makes them green. That's
what we do here on Garden Line.

1349
01:37:33.159 --> 01:37:36.640
We're gonna head out now to Cypress, Texas and talk to Scott. Hello,

1350
01:37:36.800 --> 01:37:41.560
Scott, Hello, got a cuzon
for you. I think one of

1351
01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:45.880
my pine trees has pine beetle in
it, and I'm just curious what to

1352
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:47.119
look forward to see if it has
it, and then if it does what

1353
01:37:47.239 --> 01:37:53.119
I need to do? Tell me
what you're seeing that's making you think maybe

1354
01:37:51.920 --> 01:37:56.960
pop it? Never like the other
pine trees are really green, really got

1355
01:37:57.000 --> 01:37:59.920
a lot of needles on them.
This one's real thin, almost looking,

1356
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:02.520
it's kind of dying off, like
it's barely making it. And then I

1357
01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:06.399
did look around the tree and I
see a bunch of little holes all over

1358
01:38:06.479 --> 01:38:10.680
it that the other ones don't have. Some of them have a little sap

1359
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:15.840
kind of coming out. I'm just
stopped, really sure, Okay, it's

1360
01:38:14.760 --> 01:38:19.560
a plus. Okay, how big? How big are the holes that you're

1361
01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:27.439
seeing that little bitty circle? You
know small? You are they in horizontal

1362
01:38:27.840 --> 01:38:33.359
are they in horizontal rows going across
or are they just random everywhere? They're

1363
01:38:33.439 --> 01:38:40.039
Okay, they're random and some of
them have yeah, okay, well,

1364
01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:43.319
I mean it could be. It
could be. There's I think five different

1365
01:38:43.359 --> 01:38:46.960
species of pine bark beetles from turpentine
beetle that attacks down low and has large

1366
01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:51.920
gloves of sap typically associated with it, to ips and graver beetles, and

1367
01:38:51.960 --> 01:38:56.039
the southern pine bark beetle, and
so there's a lot of them. Some

1368
01:38:56.079 --> 01:39:00.880
of them will attack, you know, all the way up the trunk and

1369
01:39:00.760 --> 01:39:05.479
signs or typically globs a sap when
the tree has enough energy to push them

1370
01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:11.000
out. Sometimes you'll see sawdust catching
in the bark as it falls down the

1371
01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:19.000
trunk that the beetle is pushing out. So I think you probably need to

1372
01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:23.319
get a professional arbist in there,
Scott to take a look at it,

1373
01:39:23.399 --> 01:39:29.479
because me on the radio, not
seeing your tree and stuff, I'm not

1374
01:39:29.520 --> 01:39:30.920
going to be able to diagnose it
accurately. I've given you kind of some

1375
01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:34.159
facts to look for, but having
an arborist come out some of you can

1376
01:39:34.199 --> 01:39:40.359
trust to come out and look at
it and assess it. Oftentimes, by

1377
01:39:40.399 --> 01:39:43.640
the time you're seeing globs the sap
and holes all up and down the trunk,

1378
01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:46.439
it's a little too late to save
that tree. That's usually the case.

1379
01:39:46.840 --> 01:39:50.119
But if you have other trees around
it, you can put products on

1380
01:39:50.239 --> 01:39:55.439
them to protect them from the beetles
moving in. But that's where a professional

1381
01:39:55.479 --> 01:39:58.760
arborist coming in and kind of boots
on the ground to take a look at

1382
01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:01.079
it. That's where that would be
real hopeful, all right. And what

1383
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:06.000
about if it does happen to have
it. I've heard different varying things with

1384
01:40:06.079 --> 01:40:11.079
it do so you need to remove
that tree out and have it hauled off.

1385
01:40:11.119 --> 01:40:15.800
Don't heard somewhere with redsmore like you
don't burn it as firewood? Is

1386
01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:18.880
that true? No, there's no
problem with burning Well, you wouldn't burn

1387
01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:24.000
a pine anyway as farwood. But
if there's no problem with burning it.

1388
01:40:25.479 --> 01:40:30.880
The pinmarked beetles are really poor flyers, and just in the forest where they

1389
01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:32.960
can't go through all the spraying and
stuff, they can't afford to do that.

1390
01:40:33.439 --> 01:40:38.199
In a natural forest, they just
take a chainsa. I'll cut them

1391
01:40:38.239 --> 01:40:42.279
off at the ground and drop them
horizontal on the ground and the beetles they

1392
01:40:42.279 --> 01:40:45.239
come out of it, or they
have a very difficult time like flying up

1393
01:40:45.279 --> 01:40:48.960
to the tree to attack another tree. So they get them down as soon

1394
01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:53.279
as possible. That's the first thing, because the beetles are going through their

1395
01:40:53.319 --> 01:40:57.239
life cycle in a tree. But
before we jump to conclusions, I really

1396
01:40:57.279 --> 01:41:00.640
think you need to have an arm
look at it and let me let me

1397
01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:02.680
give you a phone number if if
you don't have it for Martin spoon More

1398
01:41:03.039 --> 01:41:11.279
it's a seven to one to three
six nine nine twenty six sixty three six

1399
01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:14.920
six Cale Martin. Have them come
out and look at it. Because you

1400
01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:16.920
know, it may be that you
got a problem, maybe that there's nothing

1401
01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:20.159
you can do for that tree,
but something you can do for other trees,

1402
01:41:20.479 --> 01:41:23.960
or maybe your neighbors need to be
aware of it if they have pine

1403
01:41:24.000 --> 01:41:27.159
trees. Right, exactly cool,
All right, all right, sir,

1404
01:41:28.119 --> 01:41:31.000
thank you, bet, thanks a
lot, appreciate appreciate your call very much.

1405
01:41:32.479 --> 01:41:36.520
Uh. One of my favorite new
products that has come on the market

1406
01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:40.279
this year, or let me do
a bit this way, that has become

1407
01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:45.720
widely available this year is Medina's Supergrow
Plus. It's one of the Hastro Grow

1408
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:48.840
line of products from Medina. Medina
has to Grow. You're familiar with that

1409
01:41:48.840 --> 01:41:54.159
that's been used for decades and decades
around. Uh. There is the hast

1410
01:41:54.279 --> 01:41:58.159
Grow Lawn, which is a fertilizer, hashed form of has to Grow that's

1411
01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:00.920
used in the lawns. And then
the super Girl Plus is another fertilizer.

1412
01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:04.479
It's a sixteen zero two. It's
got a low metal number of phosphors.

1413
01:42:04.520 --> 01:42:11.000
Most of our lawns already have enough
phosphorus, so that design that sixteen zero

1414
01:42:11.039 --> 01:42:15.079
two is a good one. Really, it contains more than just the nutrients

1415
01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:16.640
though, by the way, about
a fifth of those nutrients, a fifth

1416
01:42:16.680 --> 01:42:21.119
of the nitrogen, its slow release
form and supergro plus, but it also

1417
01:42:21.199 --> 01:42:27.359
has molasses, it's got humic acid
in it, it's got seaweed extract in

1418
01:42:27.399 --> 01:42:30.600
it, and it's got a kelated
form of iron that gets into your plant.

1419
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:34.119
And if you've got a lawn that's
struggling with take a root rod and

1420
01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:39.000
you're seeing the yellowing from the loss
of roots. When you can get a

1421
01:42:39.039 --> 01:42:43.319
folia or iron into that plant,
that is helpful for greening it up.

1422
01:42:43.319 --> 01:42:48.039
It's like you're bypassing the roots that
in essence don't exist because of being lost

1423
01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:51.960
to the disease, and it helps
sustain that plant while it tries to get

1424
01:42:53.000 --> 01:42:57.359
back on its feet again. The
grass plant. I'm speaking of supergrou Plus

1425
01:42:57.439 --> 01:43:00.960
from Medena sixteen zero two. You're
gonna find it widely available all over town,

1426
01:43:01.159 --> 01:43:04.439
easy to find and an excellent product. Hooks up to a hose en

1427
01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:10.640
sprayer, takes ten minutes to cover
about four thousand squeak square feet. That's

1428
01:43:10.800 --> 01:43:15.520
what air will cover of the Medina
Supergirl Plus. We're going to go back

1429
01:43:15.560 --> 01:43:19.760
out now to Fairfield and talk to
Mary Mary Marty on a brand new phone.

1430
01:43:19.800 --> 01:43:25.239
Hey, Marty, is this better? Can you hear me now?

1431
01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:31.520
Okay? Like that? Yeah?
Sorry, so we're talking right. Yeah,

1432
01:43:31.520 --> 01:43:35.079
Well that's what I had. That's
what the galles Over Plants for all

1433
01:43:35.119 --> 01:43:39.680
season told me to put in there. At the time, that was all

1434
01:43:39.720 --> 01:43:44.600
they had. It was still cold. But I was wondering if you had

1435
01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:54.720
some suggestions. I've I've thought about
the Angelonia and the the purse lane and

1436
01:43:54.760 --> 01:43:58.399
the vinka, but you know,
I want something. I like things that

1437
01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:02.880
are different, and it's it is
hanging baskets. There's four of them,

1438
01:44:03.239 --> 01:44:08.720
and I just wondered if you had
some other types of suggestions that would work.

1439
01:44:08.800 --> 01:44:13.840
It gets full sun almost all day, full son. Okay, Well,

1440
01:44:13.840 --> 01:44:16.000
Boogovillia is always an option, you
know when you've got lots of sun

1441
01:44:16.039 --> 01:44:19.760
and a hanging basket and that's kind
of unusual. Uh, kind of nice

1442
01:44:19.760 --> 01:44:24.600
one to do. Uh let's see, did you mention scavola. That is

1443
01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:29.239
uh fan flower. Uh it comes
in a purple, a blue, kind

1444
01:44:29.279 --> 01:44:33.159
of a pinkish white and white colors. That will be an option. It

1445
01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:43.159
uh fan flower s c A E
s c A E v O l A.

1446
01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:47.840
The flowers are not big and showy, but they're pretty and I'm telling

1447
01:44:47.880 --> 01:44:50.840
you that thing just about can grow
in a barbecue pit. When it comes

1448
01:44:50.840 --> 01:44:57.079
to heat. It's a it is
a very very tough plant. Uh.

1449
01:44:57.239 --> 01:44:59.600
That would be a good one.
Uh, you know, plant for all

1450
01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:02.039
season. Have a lot of those, since I believe that sounds like that's

1451
01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:05.319
where you like to shop, and
they're going to have some good selections of

1452
01:45:05.359 --> 01:45:10.560
those. I'm trying to think of
person laying baskets. Did you mention that

1453
01:45:10.640 --> 01:45:16.319
as being one that is too common? Okay, yeah, trying to think

1454
01:45:16.359 --> 01:45:20.840
of either. There are I like
the hangings, there are several other possible

1455
01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:25.720
options on it. I'm just trying
to think. I like colorful foliage too,

1456
01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:30.159
and so something doesn't just have a
flower to add color. And so

1457
01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:33.039
there are some some colises that will
trail over, but they're not They are

1458
01:45:33.159 --> 01:45:36.680
heat tolerant. But when you do
the combo is sticking them in full sun

1459
01:45:38.039 --> 01:45:41.239
and the heat. You just got
to keep them watered for them to do

1460
01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:46.880
well. Uh. Oh that's more
than enough for anything. Yeah. That

1461
01:45:47.079 --> 01:45:51.600
so those would be some options,
okay, all right? And then the

1462
01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:57.680
ones in the front are shape full
shade, no sun, and should I

1463
01:45:57.720 --> 01:46:00.960
am in the soil that they're in. Everything put in there, it seems

1464
01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:08.760
to die. I've done in patience
core Line Colius, everything's dying. All

1465
01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:11.439
right? Hey Marty, can you
hang through break? I'm gonna have to

1466
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:14.680
run, but I'd like to continue
the discussion. Yeah, all right,

1467
01:46:14.760 --> 01:46:17.760
no problem, hang on, I'll
be right back our phone number seven.

1468
01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:23.880
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us today. Hey,

1469
01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:28.000
we just had a storm, didn't
we. We had a big storm that

1470
01:46:28.119 --> 01:46:32.119
knocked out tons of power for a
long long time for folks. One of

1471
01:46:32.159 --> 01:46:35.880
my kids lives in the Houston area
and they were one of the last ones

1472
01:46:35.920 --> 01:46:40.119
to get power from that big storm. And then here comes Beryl to just

1473
01:46:40.159 --> 01:46:43.399
give us a repeat. So we
need to be learning our lesson, and

1474
01:46:43.439 --> 01:46:46.600
that is that when you live in
this area, storms do come. Hurricane

1475
01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:51.159
season starts in June and goes all
the way through November, and this year

1476
01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:56.159
looks to be a bad one.
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1477
01:46:56.199 --> 01:47:02.520
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1478
01:47:02.600 --> 01:47:08.760
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1479
01:47:08.800 --> 01:47:14.680
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1480
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1482
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01:47:29.439 --> 01:47:32.119
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1484
01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:35.479
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1485
01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:42.279
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1486
01:47:42.319 --> 01:47:45.319
put whatever you're going to do,
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1487
01:47:45.359 --> 01:47:47.760
put down. They're only ones I
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1488
01:47:48.039 --> 01:47:53.520
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1489
01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:59.479
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1490
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1491
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1492
01:48:09.840 --> 01:48:14.079
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1494
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1495
01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:30.079
fifteen hundred dollars off. Now,
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1496
01:48:30.199 --> 01:48:33.960
plus people in Houston without power forty
eight hours still after tropical Storm Barrel,

1497
01:48:34.520 --> 01:48:40.560
more than two million homes without power. More than two million homes have been

1498
01:48:40.600 --> 01:48:44.039
without power. Now this shouldn't include
you. You need to act now.

1499
01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:47.920
It takes it. It's a process
to get one chosen, selected, prepared,

1500
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set up and all of that.
So get on it now. Give

1501
01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:55.960
them a call seven one three quality. We're going to head back out to

1502
01:48:56.000 --> 01:49:00.680
the phones now and continue our conversation
with Marty. Hey, Marty, sure,

1503
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:04.159
I'll just make it short and sweet. I do. I do the

1504
01:49:05.239 --> 01:49:12.239
fillerspiller, thriller, and my pot's
up front and they're I just I'm wondering

1505
01:49:12.279 --> 01:49:17.560
if the soil needs to be amended
because everything I've been putting in there is

1506
01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:23.479
dying. And it's full shade,
no sun at all, full shade,

1507
01:49:23.479 --> 01:49:25.840
no sun, and you got plants
that want to be in shade. I

1508
01:49:25.880 --> 01:49:31.039
assume, right, yes, co
is in patience, cordaline, yeah,

1509
01:49:32.159 --> 01:49:39.359
all those things. So I assume
you're watering enough to keep it moist.

1510
01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:42.279
I know you know how to garden, so you're you're not letting it dry

1511
01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:47.079
out and you're not keeping it submerged
in water undergrown, right correct? Uh.

1512
01:49:47.319 --> 01:49:50.600
The only thing I can think of
is just check the drain holes on

1513
01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:55.479
the pot and make sure they're not
plugged. If a pot is sitting on

1514
01:49:55.560 --> 01:50:00.560
the ground, the soil seals the
drain hole that they're not with the pot.

1515
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:04.880
Okay, then I would say,
perhaps dump that soil out and get

1516
01:50:04.960 --> 01:50:09.079
some fresh new soil and put it
in there. Maybe if it's been in

1517
01:50:09.119 --> 01:50:14.920
a while, all soil continues to
decompose away and it gets thicker and muckier

1518
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:17.159
as it sits there. So what
started off as a really good loose weldering

1519
01:50:17.479 --> 01:50:24.039
potting mix or growing mix becomes you
know, muckier if you will, as

1520
01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:28.680
it decomposes away. So maybe that's
it. It's not a lack of nutrients.

1521
01:50:28.720 --> 01:50:30.119
It's just like killing them, you
know. That would be lack of

1522
01:50:30.159 --> 01:50:38.199
growth or not good color in the
leaves and things like that. So I

1523
01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:44.000
did one time, I put that
the indoor microlife stuff on them, the

1524
01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:46.800
orange one, the orange bottle.
Yeah. Would that have done it?

1525
01:50:47.119 --> 01:50:50.479
Would that have? No? No? That's good, No, I have.

1526
01:50:50.760 --> 01:50:55.399
I have used it over and over
and over again in house plants,

1527
01:50:55.479 --> 01:50:59.399
and it no that doesn't do it. And if you had a salt based

1528
01:50:59.439 --> 01:51:03.319
fertilizer and you over applied it and
watered it, and you can burn plant

1529
01:51:03.399 --> 01:51:09.239
roots and plants with the salt based
fertilizer. But this the uh is it

1530
01:51:09.359 --> 01:51:12.439
seven to one two? I'm trying
to remember the third number on it the

1531
01:51:12.479 --> 01:51:16.720
orange label. But anyway that that
won't burn them. Okay, well I'll

1532
01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:23.119
just keep I'll put some more soul
and then just change it out, all

1533
01:51:23.199 --> 01:51:25.880
right. Yeah, I had a
feeling. I knew the brown before the

1534
01:51:25.920 --> 01:51:29.840
green, and you know how it
goes. Yeah, yeah, well that's

1535
01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:32.600
that's what it is. Now.
One other thing that will help is you

1536
01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:35.960
know people tell you to talk to
your plants, right, have you heard

1537
01:51:36.000 --> 01:51:41.840
of that talking to you? Well, I'm talking to my dogs while I'm

1538
01:51:41.840 --> 01:51:45.960
outside at the front port, so
maybe they think I'm talking to them.

1539
01:51:45.439 --> 01:51:48.680
There is a last dish effort at
talking to your plants, and that's called

1540
01:51:48.680 --> 01:51:54.079
threatening your plants. I'm not people
to walk out with a chainsaw fired up,

1541
01:51:54.159 --> 01:51:56.520
stand in front of a tree and
say if you don't start growing,

1542
01:51:56.560 --> 01:51:59.920
I'm coming back and I'm going to
finish the job. You know, walk

1543
01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:02.159
out there with some round up and
show the plant and go, I know

1544
01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:05.079
how to use this if you don't
start drowing, And of course you wouldn't

1545
01:52:05.119 --> 01:52:10.039
do that, but the plant doesn't
know that, so you know, scared

1546
01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:13.760
straight. I just bought some the
other day. I will go out and

1547
01:52:13.800 --> 01:52:17.640
see if that works. Don't be
afraid to throat. Thank you, Barty,

1548
01:52:18.039 --> 01:52:23.119
appreciate your call. Oh gosh,
the things that come out of this

1549
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:26.279
mouth on garden lines. All right, at least we're having fun. At

1550
01:52:26.359 --> 01:52:30.039
least I hope you are too.
Speaking of having fun, have you've been

1551
01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:33.199
to Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights
lately? They're on eleven Street in the

1552
01:52:33.239 --> 01:52:38.640
Heights, and boy, with weathered
the storms and cleaned up and the place

1553
01:52:38.720 --> 01:52:42.359
is in good shape and it's a
great, great fun place to visit.

1554
01:52:42.439 --> 01:52:45.239
You just head down eleven Street and
it's this little place off to the side.

1555
01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:48.479
You know, it's kind of like
a secluded and the way I like

1556
01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:50.800
to think of it. And boy, when you park and go in there,

1557
01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:56.000
it's just a fun place to walk
through. There's every kind of plant

1558
01:52:56.000 --> 01:53:00.199
you can imagine. Any Buchanan's Native
Plants they specialize in natives, but they

1559
01:53:00.199 --> 01:53:02.800
don't at all limit themselves to natives. You can buy anything, buy house

1560
01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:10.239
plants or herbs, or vegetables or
flower things that aren't native there. Buchanansplants

1561
01:53:10.279 --> 01:53:14.439
dot Com, Eleventh Street in the
Heights. Go buy there. Let them

1562
01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:17.680
show you their Houston area natives.
We talk about a plant that is going

1563
01:53:17.760 --> 01:53:20.920
to survive here. I've at a
plant that was here before we came and

1564
01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:26.600
started trying to quote garden with it. Buchan's Native Plants in the Heights.

1565
01:53:26.600 --> 01:53:29.199
They can get you set up on
that. They have all the fertilizers that

1566
01:53:29.239 --> 01:53:32.439
talk about on guardline, quality,
soils. Everything you need to have success,

1567
01:53:32.520 --> 01:53:38.640
including knowledgeable people and good advice.
Eleven Street in the Heights. Buchanan's

1568
01:53:38.760 --> 01:53:41.760
Native Plants. Put that on your
two do list. It would be a

1569
01:53:41.840 --> 01:53:45.920
fun outing any day to go buy
and enjoy well. I hear music.

1570
01:53:46.079 --> 01:53:49.479
That means time to put this hour
in the books. But we will be

1571
01:53:49.600 --> 01:53:53.000
back. Our phone number if you'd
like to get on the board. By

1572
01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:57.279
the way, board just opened up. That last call seven one three two

1573
01:53:57.399 --> 01:54:00.399
one two k t RH give Cris
to call and if you're the first call

1574
01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:15.399
and going to be the first one
up when we come back. Thank you.

1575
01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:21.840
Welcome back to guarden Line. Welcome
back. Good to have you with

1576
01:54:21.920 --> 01:54:26.640
us. Looking forward to talking to
you about the things that are of most

1577
01:54:26.720 --> 01:54:29.640
interest to you. What are the
kind of questions that you might have.

1578
01:54:29.840 --> 01:54:32.720
Well give us a call seven one
three two one two K t R H.

1579
01:54:32.840 --> 01:54:36.920
If you'd like to talk gardening.
We love to do that and we'd

1580
01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:40.880
be happy to visit with you.
We're going to start off by going out

1581
01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:45.119
to League City and talking to Dina. Welcome to garden Line, Dina,

1582
01:54:45.199 --> 01:54:49.319
thank you, thank you for taking
my call. Sure, I just recently

1583
01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:55.279
purchased some as am I put the
super turf down in spring, and my

1584
01:54:55.359 --> 01:54:59.319
lawn looks great that I've got a
few little jealous spots. But my question

1585
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:02.800
is my lawn is so wet right
now and I have stand in water in

1586
01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:08.279
certain places. When's the best time? And how do you put the eighth

1587
01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:11.399
and mic down? I know you
don't use a lot, but I'm just

1588
01:55:11.479 --> 01:55:15.359
concerned is it too wet to put
it down right now? It's it's the

1589
01:55:15.760 --> 01:55:19.399
issue with wet is it's more than
just you know, trying to get out

1590
01:55:19.439 --> 01:55:24.079
in the lawn if it if it's
soggy and sop and wet and stuff.

1591
01:55:24.079 --> 01:55:26.640
It's not easy, but it didn't
matter when you put it down. You

1592
01:55:26.640 --> 01:55:30.079
can wait until it drives out a
little bit, get your spreader and set

1593
01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:32.439
it so you know you put out
the right amount. Asamite bags will tell

1594
01:55:32.439 --> 01:55:36.960
you what to put out, and
then you just apply it. I would.

1595
01:55:38.079 --> 01:55:41.760
I usually like to use half of
an application. This is true a

1596
01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:45.079
fertilizer too, going one direction across
the lawn. Just for example, let's

1597
01:55:45.119 --> 01:55:48.680
say north and south, and then
turn around and go east and west and

1598
01:55:48.720 --> 01:55:51.760
put down the other half. And
that way, you know, if you

1599
01:55:53.119 --> 01:55:57.159
misestimated, you know, maybe you're
putting it out too fast or not fast

1600
01:55:57.239 --> 01:56:00.840
enough. You can kind of adjust
that accordingly and get a good, nice,

1601
01:56:01.000 --> 01:56:08.520
even application if it dries out.
If the lawn dries out and it

1602
01:56:09.399 --> 01:56:13.079
appears to be pretty dry, do
I need to spray water and wet it

1603
01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:17.520
down before put the a's and mite
down or spray water it down. It's

1604
01:56:17.560 --> 01:56:20.520
better for the lawn not to be
wet because you want the granules to fall

1605
01:56:20.560 --> 01:56:24.880
to the ground and not stick to
the leaves, so you don't have the

1606
01:56:24.920 --> 01:56:30.960
water spread it well, you could
and I water it to work to wash

1607
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:34.439
it in into the soil a little
bit that eventually it's going to have to

1608
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:41.239
have moisture to move that particle on
down. But it's really wet now.

1609
01:56:42.680 --> 01:56:45.359
Yeah, so there's no hurry.
Listen. This is not like nitrogen.

1610
01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.000
This is trace minerals and there's no
rush at all. So just take your

1611
01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:54.000
time. When you get around to
it and it's dry, go ahead and

1612
01:56:54.039 --> 01:56:57.600
put it down. A forty four
pound bag is going to cover six to

1613
01:56:57.640 --> 01:57:02.079
twelve thousand square feet. I have
a huge backyard, a very very big

1614
01:57:02.159 --> 01:57:05.680
backyard. Well, you can make
it go a little further, you know,

1615
01:57:06.600 --> 01:57:13.039
that would be fine? You bet
this? Yeah, yeah, you

1616
01:57:13.119 --> 01:57:15.439
bet. Hey, thanks for the
call, Dean. I appreciate you calling

1617
01:57:15.479 --> 01:57:19.640
to get that clarified. All right, welcome back to Guarden Line, folks.

1618
01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:24.039
We're ready to continue with this last
hour of the day. We got

1619
01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:27.119
one more hour in us today and
then I'll be back tomorrow morning. By

1620
01:57:27.119 --> 01:57:30.840
the way, while i'm talking about
that, uh, if you are enjoying

1621
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:32.720
garden Line, I want to tell
your friends and family and neighbors about it.

1622
01:57:32.840 --> 01:57:38.479
We would appreciate that they can listen
to us. Certainly listen on the

1623
01:57:38.600 --> 01:57:42.199
radio. If you're in the kt
R H listening area, which is pretty

1624
01:57:42.239 --> 01:57:45.319
broad. It goes all the way
up I knowed at least Huntsville and a

1625
01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:48.800
little beyond that. I've had calls
and calls from almost all the way over

1626
01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:51.960
to New Bronfels and then over to
the Louisiana border. So we got a

1627
01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:56.560
big area that can listen by radio. I like to listen on my phone

1628
01:57:56.800 --> 01:58:04.119
to the station. You can uh
get the iHeart Media Apple red emblem iHeartMedia

1629
01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:09.279
app. You can go to find
garden Line and subscribe to it, and

1630
01:58:09.479 --> 01:58:13.119
you can listen live to KTR at
any time. So during the garden Line

1631
01:58:13.159 --> 01:58:15.920
hours you can listen to us live. You can also listen as if it

1632
01:58:15.960 --> 01:58:21.199
were a podcast, because we do
post these shows where you can listen to

1633
01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:26.640
them afterwards. So if you heard
me say, I just said six to

1634
01:58:26.760 --> 01:58:30.920
ten thousand square pounds our square feet
per bag of ASMI, and you go,

1635
01:58:31.000 --> 01:58:33.319
what was he saying? You go
back and listen. You can catch

1636
01:58:33.439 --> 01:58:38.600
up on that and hear it.
Anybody anywhere can listen. We have folks

1637
01:58:38.640 --> 01:58:42.960
that listen, you know, long
road truckers halfway across the country. We

1638
01:58:43.079 --> 01:58:45.760
got folks that listen way outside the
area that just listen by phone. A

1639
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:49.840
lot of our people will just absolutely
put it on their phone and that's the

1640
01:58:49.840 --> 01:58:53.279
only way they listen. They put
the phone in the pocket and they go

1641
01:58:53.319 --> 01:58:56.880
outside and do yard Right right now, you could be out there doing something

1642
01:58:56.920 --> 01:59:00.600
to the yard during these nice cool
hours, listening to Garden Line right there

1643
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:02.439
in your pocket. So there's a
lot of easy ways to do it,

1644
01:59:03.039 --> 01:59:05.880
but we just encourage you to do
it. Also, the nice thing about

1645
01:59:05.880 --> 01:59:10.760
carrying it around in the yard while
you're working is you may run across something

1646
01:59:10.800 --> 01:59:14.880
you want to give us a call
and we can help you find success,

1647
01:59:15.279 --> 01:59:19.840
solve a problem, identify an issue, diagnose a problem. That's easy to

1648
01:59:19.880 --> 01:59:26.279
do when you just got your phone
right there with you. Speaking of easy

1649
01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:31.079
to do, Ace Hardware is a
place where when you walk in, you

1650
01:59:31.199 --> 01:59:34.279
know you're going to have what you
need to have a beautiful lawn, a

1651
01:59:34.319 --> 01:59:39.800
beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden because
they have it all. Ace Hardware has

1652
01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:43.880
the fertilizers that I talk about on
guarden Line. They have sold products to

1653
01:59:43.960 --> 01:59:46.760
improve your soil. They have all
the tools that you're going to need,

1654
01:59:46.880 --> 01:59:51.960
you know, the garden hose and
the hoe and rake and prunters and whatnot.

1655
01:59:53.640 --> 01:59:56.640
Every fertilizer I talk about on guard
like, we're just talking about asmite.

1656
01:59:56.640 --> 02:00:00.359
They got asimite at Ace Hardware Store. You have insecticide, do you

1657
02:00:00.399 --> 02:00:04.640
have herbicides? Do you have fungicides? Organic or synthetic? Ace carries a

1658
02:00:04.680 --> 02:00:10.159
mix of both. They have a
great supply of products to control fireance or

1659
02:00:10.199 --> 02:00:15.119
to manage mosquitoes, which unfortunately we're
too familiar with those here, aren't we

1660
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:18.600
in the Southeast Texas area. They've
got all of that. They have things

1661
02:00:18.640 --> 02:00:25.399
to make your outdoor setting wonderful,
including one of the best barbecue sections you're

1662
02:00:25.439 --> 02:00:28.239
going to see anywhere. I mean, they've got Trigger, they've got Big

1663
02:00:28.279 --> 02:00:30.800
Green Egg, they've got Weber,
They've got all kinds of quality equipment there

1664
02:00:31.079 --> 02:00:35.159
so that you can have success with
that. Ace is the place. Ace

1665
02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:40.520
Hardware definitely is a place, and
with forty stores in the Greater Houston area,

1666
02:00:40.880 --> 02:00:44.760
it's easy to find one. Just
go to Acehardware dot com and find

1667
02:00:44.760 --> 02:00:49.119
the store locator and it's easy to
find the stores stores plural, that are

1668
02:00:49.159 --> 02:00:54.000
nearest to you. We're going to
go now back to the phones and head

1669
02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:58.720
out to Arlington, Virginia. Speaking
of far away and talk to Joe,

1670
02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:10.720
Hello Joe Hoddy in Arlington, Oh, the amazing and the English ivy are

1671
02:01:10.720 --> 02:01:15.840
growing profusely. Okay, But back
Jersey Village, I cannot. I've given

1672
02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:20.800
up on grass under my oak trees, and so I'm going for ground cover.

1673
02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:30.000
English ivy Arlington is amazingly lush and
plentiful. And I'm thinking, would

1674
02:01:30.000 --> 02:01:36.359
English ivy work under the oak trees
there in Jersey Village for the summer in

1675
02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:42.880
the winter, well the summer heat
anyway, and or would jazmine be better

1676
02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:46.800
choice? Uh? English ivy I
think will do a little bit better and

1677
02:01:47.000 --> 02:01:50.640
more shade than jasmine, but both
would be okay if the shade is dright

1678
02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:59.319
enough. The positive of jasmine over
ivy is that jasmine doesn't climb up your

1679
02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:02.000
trees and take over the world.
It does grow, and you've got to

1680
02:02:02.119 --> 02:02:05.560
edge the sides of the bed to
keep it from crawling out of the bed.

1681
02:02:06.199 --> 02:02:10.720
But English ivy grabs onto stuff,
and it'll grab a tree trunk and

1682
02:02:10.760 --> 02:02:15.000
go to the top and completely envelop
that tree if you ignore it for a

1683
02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:18.560
long period of time. So if
you're willing to keep it trimmed and keep

1684
02:02:18.600 --> 02:02:24.039
it from doing that, English ivy
is a very good tough groundcover. It

1685
02:02:24.079 --> 02:02:27.439
can also be used as something growing
on a wall because it has the ability

1686
02:02:27.439 --> 02:02:30.439
to grab a wall or a tree
chunk. But they both have their advantages.

1687
02:02:30.520 --> 02:02:34.840
Just remember with the English ivy that
it it does not understand what you

1688
02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:39.520
consider the border of the bed,
and it looks on the street and wants

1689
02:02:39.520 --> 02:02:44.960
to go seven blocks down the road
to keep growing. All okay, I

1690
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:49.359
think that answer that question. So
I'll go with jazzmine or some other than

1691
02:02:49.560 --> 02:02:51.800
you. You bet, if you
got enough light, Jazz, I'm gonna

1692
02:02:51.800 --> 02:02:55.800
be okay. Thank you, sir. I appreciate appreciate your phone call.

1693
02:02:55.960 --> 02:03:00.399
We're we're going to go to WESU
visiting with Charlie. Hey, Charlie,

1694
02:03:01.439 --> 02:03:06.760
Hi, good morning. Yip.
I called you because they've got some maybe

1695
02:03:06.880 --> 02:03:15.359
mars flying around in lariaty. Okay, maybe a hap happened long light pan.

1696
02:03:16.199 --> 02:03:21.199
I could send you a picture if
that would help, Okay, I'd

1697
02:03:21.199 --> 02:03:27.279
be happy to look at a picture. There is not a lorioty pest that's

1698
02:03:27.279 --> 02:03:30.199
a moth that I'm aware of,
at least not one that's of any significance.

1699
02:03:31.000 --> 02:03:35.159
Uh So, there's a bazillion different
kinds of moths out there in nature.

1700
02:03:36.000 --> 02:03:40.279
We encounter them all the time.
There could be a hatch out and

1701
02:03:40.359 --> 02:03:45.520
so I mean they hatch out the
larva eat something and then they go into

1702
02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:48.079
pupas. And now you got the
moths flying around. So if you had

1703
02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:51.920
seen a bunch of damage on something, then we might look at that as

1704
02:03:51.960 --> 02:03:57.560
a possible culprit the moths that you're
now seeing. But my gut on this

1705
02:03:57.600 --> 02:04:00.600
one is it's probably not a problem
of what you're say. If you want

1706
02:04:00.640 --> 02:04:02.680
to send me a picture of one, I'll take a look. I'm not

1707
02:04:02.760 --> 02:04:06.359
a moth expert, but if it's
any of the common pests, I'll know

1708
02:04:06.439 --> 02:04:14.119
what it is, okay, all
right, yeah, well, thanks for

1709
02:04:14.159 --> 02:04:16.399
the call, and I'm going to
put you on hold. Chris will pick

1710
02:04:16.479 --> 02:04:19.359
up and get you an email to
send me. Make sure the photos are

1711
02:04:19.399 --> 02:04:23.640
as close as you can get them
in as sharp a focus as you can

1712
02:04:23.680 --> 02:04:25.800
get, and if you kind of
get some different angles on it, that

1713
02:04:25.840 --> 02:04:29.960
would be helpful. While you're out
taking pictures, look see if something has

1714
02:04:30.000 --> 02:04:32.600
been decimated by a caterpillar. That
would be another helpful thing to know.

1715
02:04:33.439 --> 02:04:38.039
All right, all right, you
take care. I'm going to run back

1716
02:04:38.079 --> 02:04:41.680
out now and we're going to head
to Matthew and Livingston, Texas. Hey

1717
02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:45.680
Matthew, Hey, how's it going. I'm good, I'm good. Help.

1718
02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:50.359
So my godfather out there in Luston, Texas. He's lived on the

1719
02:04:50.359 --> 02:04:55.199
same property for about forty years and
he's had a constant battle with cutter ants

1720
02:04:56.880 --> 02:04:58.920
over the years. He's been able
to kind of push him back, but

1721
02:04:58.960 --> 02:05:02.680
they always come back and usually come
back worse. As one ANSWER's anything we

1722
02:05:02.720 --> 02:05:10.159
can do to completely eliminate those well, you know, in nature, we

1723
02:05:10.520 --> 02:05:13.960
usually don't use the term eliminade.
It's kind of like saying eliminate mosquitoes.

1724
02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:16.079
You know, there's gonna be more
that fly in kind of thing. But

1725
02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:20.720
I do have a little a mix
that I would like to send you,

1726
02:05:20.800 --> 02:05:23.760
And so what I'm gonna need to
do, I'm not going to try to

1727
02:05:23.800 --> 02:05:27.720
read it all out over there.
If I'm gonna put you on hold here

1728
02:05:27.880 --> 02:05:31.359
and have Chris pick up the phone, get your email, and I will

1729
02:05:31.399 --> 02:05:35.560
send you a combination of a couple
of things that can be mixed together.

1730
02:05:35.640 --> 02:05:41.239
But the instructions are key. So
but that's why I would like to put

1731
02:05:41.239 --> 02:05:44.640
it in print and send it to
you that way. It's a couple of

1732
02:05:44.760 --> 02:05:46.560
ingredients you mix together, you let
it's sit in a bucket a while,

1733
02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:49.279
and then you put it out and
it seems to be as good as we've

1734
02:05:49.279 --> 02:05:54.279
been able to do in terms of
a bait to control leaf cutter ants because

1735
02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:59.720
they are a problem. Excellent,
Thank you, all right, So here

1736
02:05:59.720 --> 02:06:02.880
we go on hold and Chris will
pick up and give you that recipe.

1737
02:06:03.840 --> 02:06:09.079
Okay, let's oh. I did
want to mention something for those of you

1738
02:06:09.159 --> 02:06:12.239
down south. Have you been to
Hoges Hidden Gardens. I've been meaning to

1739
02:06:12.279 --> 02:06:15.800
talk about this. Horace Hidden Gardens
is in Alvin, Texas. It is

1740
02:06:16.039 --> 02:06:21.600
on Elizabeth Street, Elizabeth Street and
Alvin, Texas, and it's a really

1741
02:06:21.720 --> 02:06:26.039
unique little place. Hoorge has been
building this place for a while now and

1742
02:06:26.079 --> 02:06:30.279
it just keeps getting better and better. They carry a lot of good products.

1743
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:33.439
They have quality fertilizer options. They've
got lots of different kinds of plants.

1744
02:06:33.479 --> 02:06:38.760
Always Horace Hidden Gardens is a place
where you're going to be able to

1745
02:06:38.760 --> 02:06:43.760
find the three sixty tree stabilizer,
for example. That would be definitely worth

1746
02:06:43.760 --> 02:06:46.720
the price of admission right now.
They got a really good selection of avocados

1747
02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:51.039
and yes, if you're down south
like that. Avocados is an option.

1748
02:06:51.159 --> 02:06:55.600
Occasionally we got one of those doozy
freezes it comes through, but a lot

1749
02:06:55.600 --> 02:06:59.479
of people have fun growing some avocados
out in the art. You're going to

1750
02:06:59.520 --> 02:07:05.039
find Mexicola, Lula, the Arizona, the Joey, just a lot of

1751
02:07:05.039 --> 02:07:10.079
different varieties that are the ones you
need to be planting here at Hojragez Hidden

1752
02:07:10.159 --> 02:07:15.920
Gardens. Now, they're open Fridays
from nine to three and Saturday and Sunday

1753
02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:19.920
from eight to four, So today
and tomorrow eight am to four pm.

1754
02:07:20.279 --> 02:07:26.439
And again, the avocados are still
in stock there, so I suspect other

1755
02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:29.840
people are heading that way to get
one, so don't delay. But for

1756
02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:33.039
those of you down south though,
in Alvin area, Horayes Hidden Gardens is

1757
02:07:33.279 --> 02:07:39.479
a nearby nursery that is going to
provide quality plants and I think you will

1758
02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:44.319
enjoy give them. Check them out. We'll see what you think. I'm

1759
02:07:44.359 --> 02:07:46.359
going to head out now to Tumball, Texas. We're going to talk to

1760
02:07:46.439 --> 02:07:49.680
John. Hello, John, good
morning to Skip. How you doing.

1761
02:07:50.720 --> 02:07:55.880
I'm good sir. How can I
help? Well, I've met you in

1762
02:07:55.920 --> 02:07:59.760
the past at Arbor Gate and I'm
kind of wrapping my brain around this.

1763
02:08:00.359 --> 02:08:05.000
I'm looking for some hedges to go
in front of my fence to kind of

1764
02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:11.119
kind of like a privacy to kind
of bounce off the noise behind me.

1765
02:08:11.159 --> 02:08:16.439
And I don't have a lot of
room to work with with my cable box.

1766
02:08:16.560 --> 02:08:20.560
Fact, I've got two three feet. So what do you think about

1767
02:08:20.560 --> 02:08:26.199
the linebacker the stelium? Is that
a good would that be a good fit

1768
02:08:26.319 --> 02:08:30.720
for what you think? Or what
about the Eagles? Now that's a good

1769
02:08:30.800 --> 02:08:33.279
question. I do not know linebacker. I mean I would have to look

1770
02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:39.079
into that one. Yeah, the
challenge the hedge, Yeah, well,

1771
02:08:39.119 --> 02:08:45.079
I don't doubt that Arburgate's got about
everything you could possibly want. Uh.

1772
02:08:45.199 --> 02:08:48.239
They I would talk to them because
they're gonna know obviously, they're gonna know

1773
02:08:48.279 --> 02:08:52.319
that plant better than I do.
Uh. And in terms of how will

1774
02:08:52.319 --> 02:08:54.199
it perform, you know, if
they're selling it, it's a good plant,

1775
02:08:54.560 --> 02:08:58.359
Okay, So I don't I don't
have any question about it doing well

1776
02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:05.119
here, but the specifics of the
performance of it. My concern on the

1777
02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:09.520
distillium is you're gonna have a pretty
wide plant, and so you're talking about

1778
02:09:09.560 --> 02:09:13.920
only having a couple of feet,
Is that right? A couple of feet.

1779
02:09:13.960 --> 02:09:16.199
A couple of feet, you know, you don't have to have these

1780
02:09:16.239 --> 02:09:20.199
table boxes, these concast boxes.
Is probably a couple of feet from the

1781
02:09:20.199 --> 02:09:26.039
fence. So my concern was the
roots and if I could keep it trained

1782
02:09:26.239 --> 02:09:31.119
to where it would be a little
more thinner. The roots don't worry me

1783
02:09:31.199 --> 02:09:33.119
as much as you know. It
wants to be about probably six to eight

1784
02:09:33.119 --> 02:09:39.640
feet wide, and so keeping it
at two feet is going to be quite

1785
02:09:39.680 --> 02:09:43.000
a chore to do. There are
not a lot of plants that will stay

1786
02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:46.319
that narrow. Arbigate is going to
have some. They may have a juniper

1787
02:09:46.479 --> 02:09:50.960
that's that way. They may have
a upright yo pond that stays kind of

1788
02:09:50.039 --> 02:09:56.199
narrow. The other thing to be
just be aware of so your expectations are

1789
02:09:56.239 --> 02:10:00.960
at the right level. John is
plants as a sound bear or helpful,

1790
02:10:01.439 --> 02:10:05.840
but they're not huge. Okay,
you're gonna you're gonna hear the sound coming

1791
02:10:05.880 --> 02:10:09.479
through. It's gonna there's gonna be
some reflections and muffling and benefits. But

1792
02:10:09.680 --> 02:10:11.640
just know that it's not gonna you
know, it's not loyal, it's not

1793
02:10:11.720 --> 02:10:16.760
noise canceling headphones. Uh. Level
of help there. So something you might

1794
02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:20.399
want to try go ahead. All
right, So what do you think about

1795
02:10:20.399 --> 02:10:26.880
the Eagleston Do you think that's sounded
big enough area either it's also narrow for

1796
02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:31.800
Eagleston holly, But Egleston's fine.
Anytime you're gonna do a holly, you

1797
02:10:31.840 --> 02:10:35.319
want to make sure the first two
or three years to hand water it,

1798
02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:39.239
because it's very important that it not
get dry, that you water all of

1799
02:10:39.279 --> 02:10:45.960
the root system all around it.
Uh. And I just I see a

1800
02:10:45.960 --> 02:10:50.960
lot of times people have an automatic
system and something foliage or something is blocking

1801
02:10:50.159 --> 02:10:56.560
one of the emitters, and the
eagle you're holly of any kind starts to

1802
02:10:56.640 --> 02:11:01.880
have issues because it's not getting getting
that. But Wilson will get quite large,

1803
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in fact get very large, which
is also helpful in terms of a

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02:11:05.680 --> 02:11:09.439
sound barrier. But it's going to
get big. It wants to be.

1805
02:11:09.680 --> 02:11:13.560
You know, it'll get twelve feet
or so wide in time, So you're

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going to have to stay with the
pruning of it. I'm just when you

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02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:22.800
got that limited of it with,
it's hard to find something that's going to

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02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:31.399
do well and be thick enough.
Some people will put in like maybe some

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02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:33.840
sort of a trellis panel, like
a livestock panel or something, and they'll

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02:11:33.840 --> 02:11:39.359
put vines on it to block of
you, but you don't have the depth

1811
02:11:39.399 --> 02:11:43.640
of foliage. It's giving you the
best sound barrier that way. But that

1812
02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:48.319
is one way you can when we
don't have room for a shrub, that

1813
02:11:48.359 --> 02:11:52.039
we can get a good flat panel
of foliage out there. Okay, thank

1814
02:11:52.079 --> 02:11:58.920
you, Yeah, go ahead,
I'm sorry skip the teddy bear may know

1815
02:11:58.039 --> 02:12:01.359
you can I keep that in a
different But could I keep that tour it

1816
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:07.399
doesn't continue to grow high? Real
real high? Can I keep them somewhat

1817
02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:13.520
six to eight ten feet tall?
Boy? I think that would be a

1818
02:12:13.600 --> 02:12:16.760
challenge. Teddy bear wants to be
bigger than that. It's a fairly slow

1819
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:22.119
grower, as man southern magnolias are. But I think that would be a

1820
02:12:22.159 --> 02:12:26.359
little bit of a little bit of
a challenge. So theoretically, yes,

1821
02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:31.119
you could. I mean people take
elm trees that are sixty feet tall,

1822
02:12:31.399 --> 02:12:35.119
put them in little pots to make
bones eye plants out of them by burning

1823
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:39.159
them all the time and going through
great links. So you can keep any

1824
02:12:39.199 --> 02:12:43.640
plants small. But it's going to
be a lot of work over a long

1825
02:12:43.720 --> 02:12:48.159
term, and I don't know if
you'd get tired of having to do that,

1826
02:12:48.239 --> 02:12:52.760
but you certainly could try. All
right, thank you Skip, All

1827
02:12:52.800 --> 02:12:56.479
right, well, good luck,
thank you for the call. Appreciate that.

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Tom. Let's see here, where
are we a little short on time?

1829
02:13:01.279 --> 02:13:05.199
Here? I tell you what,
I'm going to have to take a

1830
02:13:05.239 --> 02:13:09.720
little break here for the news.
When when I do come back from a

1831
02:13:09.760 --> 02:13:13.680
break, d in Montgomery, You're
gonna be our first up, and Randy

1832
02:13:13.720 --> 02:13:16.600
you'll be right after that as we
come back. I just want to remind

1833
02:13:16.640 --> 02:13:20.680
you that my website, Gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot

1834
02:13:20.680 --> 02:13:24.960
Com is where you find my garden
schedules. The law and Care schedule tells

1835
02:13:26.000 --> 02:13:30.159
you mowing, watering, and fertilizing
advice, what do apply, when to

1836
02:13:30.279 --> 02:13:35.159
apply it, organic and synthetic options. The other one, Pest, Disease

1837
02:13:35.239 --> 02:13:41.720
and Weed Management schedule, talks about
controlling insects like chinchbugs and side web worms,

1838
02:13:41.760 --> 02:13:46.960
for example. It talks about diseases
like take all root rot and brown

1839
02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:50.600
patch, are large patch and so
on. It talks about the various weeds.

1840
02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:54.520
What do you use pre emergence,
When do you use them? Which

1841
02:13:54.560 --> 02:13:58.079
ones do you use? How about
post emergence? And again for all these

1842
02:13:58.119 --> 02:14:03.119
things. There's organic and sonthetic options
on those schedules are multicolor January through December.

1843
02:14:03.199 --> 02:14:07.520
One page free to download, print
up, carry with you when you

1844
02:14:07.560 --> 02:14:18.079
go shopping, or stick up in
the garage. So next time. So,

1845
02:14:24.000 --> 02:14:26.880
welcome back to the guard Line.
Thanks for joining us again today.

1846
02:14:26.920 --> 02:14:30.039
We are so glad to talk to
you and I hope that this is a

1847
02:14:30.159 --> 02:14:35.079
helpful show that gives you the opportunity
and the what the information you need to

1848
02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:39.039
have a more bountiful garden, a
more beautiful landscape, or the way I

1849
02:14:39.119 --> 02:14:41.920
like to put it, the information
you need to turn brewn Thumb's green.

1850
02:14:43.840 --> 02:14:46.920
That's what it's about. We're going
to go out to Montgomery, Texas and

1851
02:14:46.960 --> 02:14:52.399
talk to d Hello, d Hi, how are you today? I'm good,

1852
02:14:52.520 --> 02:14:56.399
I'm good. How can we help? Well? Unfortunately I lost my

1853
02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:03.560
absolutely gorgeous giants eighty but oak tree
in the storm and it was my porch

1854
02:15:03.840 --> 02:15:09.800
shade tree. Do you have any
suggestions for a fast growing tree I can

1855
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:15.920
put replace it with something that's a
good long lived tree. Could be a

1856
02:15:16.079 --> 02:15:24.199
red oak, that's one option.
Red oak, a red oak, red

1857
02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:28.239
oak? Okay, it is your
soil. Does a spot tend to stay

1858
02:15:28.239 --> 02:15:33.479
a little wet after rains. Is
it a little bit soggy a time?

1859
02:15:33.640 --> 02:15:37.439
Sure, it's a little in my
it's in my sprinkler system, so it

1860
02:15:37.479 --> 02:15:39.640
does get water, it doesn't retain
it. It's a little It was a

1861
02:15:39.640 --> 02:15:43.119
little on an angle this tree.
I'll plant it a little farther down this

1862
02:15:43.279 --> 02:15:48.840
time. Okay, Well, if
the soil drains well, then a shoemard

1863
02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:54.800
red oak would be the one.
I would choose. Nut or nuttall in

1864
02:15:54.079 --> 02:16:00.840
u t T a L not tall
t a l okay, read out book

1865
02:16:00.920 --> 02:16:07.119
either of those. Another good one
would be a Chinese elm. It is

1866
02:16:07.439 --> 02:16:11.760
very open. It's a drake elm. You see them all over town.

1867
02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:16.520
They are tough. They use them
in landscaping and parking lots and stuff like

1868
02:16:16.600 --> 02:16:20.680
that, and shopping center parking lots. Because they're tough. You just want

1869
02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:24.039
to make sure that it's it's grown
right and it is very well anchored.

1870
02:16:24.079 --> 02:16:26.199
Sometimes they can lean a little bit
when they're young. Uh, And so

1871
02:16:26.600 --> 02:16:31.040
just picture it's planted properly and it
does really well. But there's some big

1872
02:16:31.079 --> 02:16:35.639
beautiful specimens of Chinese elm around too. They cast a nice light shade.

1873
02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:43.600
So okay, and where in my
area. What you think Arborgate or I'm

1874
02:16:43.639 --> 02:16:48.719
not by AA nurseries? Do they
carry something like that? A Montgomery?

1875
02:16:48.920 --> 02:16:52.840
Uh, give them a call,
give Kathy or whoever they're a call and

1876
02:16:52.079 --> 02:16:54.559
see if they have If they don't
have anything, probably get them in for

1877
02:16:54.639 --> 02:16:58.760
you. We certainly have tree companies
that carry all of these things as well.

1878
02:16:58.799 --> 02:17:03.479
But if you're I think Arburgate,
if they don't have it, they

1879
02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:05.239
can get it in for you.
Or again A and A F and Montgomery

1880
02:17:05.280 --> 02:17:09.600
that I think they could. Yeah, I haven't been there. There's so

1881
02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:13.360
many nurseries I don't keep up with, you know, every plant that everyone

1882
02:17:13.399 --> 02:17:18.000
carries, I can't. But the
ones I recommend it are pretty common and

1883
02:17:18.000 --> 02:17:20.000
should be pretty widely available. And
then when you go there they may have

1884
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:24.159
some other options. I mean I
pulled two out of the air here there

1885
02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:26.680
I can give you probably a dozen
good options that would work well. So

1886
02:17:26.719 --> 02:17:31.159
it doesn't have to be either you
know, the red oak or the drake

1887
02:17:31.600 --> 02:17:35.680
or the Chinese elm. Okay,
well, thank you so much. By

1888
02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:39.200
all right, You take care good
to talk to you. Appreciate that Nelson

1889
02:17:39.239 --> 02:17:46.479
Plant Food is a purveyor of all
kinds of quality plant foods. And here's

1890
02:17:46.520 --> 02:17:50.719
what I'm talking about, the turf
Star line. We have lots of products

1891
02:17:50.719 --> 02:17:54.399
that are used for the lawn and
the turf Star line by Nelson. Probably

1892
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:56.479
the one that I most would focus
on right now is slow and Easy.

1893
02:17:56.520 --> 02:18:00.760
That's the one that will feed gradually
for three or four months. You put

1894
02:18:00.760 --> 02:18:03.040
down slow and Easy. Now,
if you've not fertilized for summer yet,

1895
02:18:03.479 --> 02:18:07.559
you don't have a slow release already
in your lawn, then do the slow

1896
02:18:07.600 --> 02:18:11.760
and Easy and it'll carry all the
way until it's time for fall fertilization.

1897
02:18:11.000 --> 02:18:16.719
Turf Star Slow and Easy, excellent
product. Then they have the Color Star.

1898
02:18:16.040 --> 02:18:20.159
Color Star works on all kinds of
flowering plants. It's one of the

1899
02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:24.159
most popular products they have and widely
widely available. Then they have their specialty

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02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:28.079
plant foods. For example, earlier
someone was talking to me. We were

1901
02:18:28.120 --> 02:18:33.719
talking about the Nelson Plumeria plant food
and it's not just plumerias, it's all

1902
02:18:33.799 --> 02:18:39.120
the flowering tropical plants. It will
do very well for those. Bougain villa

1903
02:18:39.200 --> 02:18:43.680
plant food any kind of a vining
plant, a flowering vine is what they

1904
02:18:43.719 --> 02:18:48.600
recommend the bougainvilla plant food for.
It works very well. The rose food

1905
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:52.280
another example, the tree and shrub
food, the crape myrtle food, the

1906
02:18:52.399 --> 02:18:58.600
vegetable garden azalea, citrus fruit,
and avocado hibiscus. They have all of

1907
02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:01.520
these by Nelson Plant Food. They're
available in jars, and we also have

1908
02:19:01.639 --> 02:19:07.680
local retail garden centers that will have
a refail station, so you take your

1909
02:19:07.760 --> 02:19:11.360
jar back in you can refill it, save the plastic and save a little

1910
02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:16.399
bit of money on the cost of
refilling those jars. Just makes them even

1911
02:19:16.440 --> 02:19:20.799
more convenient. And all of this
is from Nelson Plant Food. We're going

1912
02:19:20.879 --> 02:19:24.040
to go now back to the phones
and let's see here. We're going to

1913
02:19:24.120 --> 02:19:28.159
go to Randy. And where are
you located, Randy. I can't quite

1914
02:19:28.200 --> 02:19:33.840
make it out there. We're down
in Bay City, Texas. Skip Ah,

1915
02:19:33.879 --> 02:19:37.280
Okay, good well, welcome to
the show. Yeah, thanks for

1916
02:19:37.280 --> 02:19:41.600
having us on and answering our questions. Hey, my wife and I were

1917
02:19:41.639 --> 02:19:46.280
recently in the Pacific Northwest on the
Oregon coast, and we were kind of

1918
02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:48.440
mesmerized by the road of dendrons that
they had up there, and so we

1919
02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:54.360
started doing some research online about whether
or not you could grow them down in

1920
02:19:54.479 --> 02:20:00.239
our grow zone and there's a lot
of conflicting information out there. Ohther or

1921
02:20:00.280 --> 02:20:03.360
not you can be successful with rhododendrons
on the Gulf, I don't know if

1922
02:20:03.360 --> 02:20:05.959
you have an opinion on it.
And if if you can grow them,

1923
02:20:07.000 --> 02:20:11.440
what type you some type you would
recommend? Okay, Well, I think

1924
02:20:11.479 --> 02:20:16.440
it's a challenge, and by and
large, as you move further and further

1925
02:20:16.559 --> 02:20:20.399
south, the rhododendrons just don't perform
as well as, for example, the

1926
02:20:20.440 --> 02:20:24.879
azalias might perform. I've seen some
rhododendrons further up in East Texas, you

1927
02:20:24.879 --> 02:20:28.399
know, you get up the Tyler
and areas like that, you'll see some.

1928
02:20:28.840 --> 02:20:31.760
But even there, it's asking a
lot for them. And I'm not

1929
02:20:31.799 --> 02:20:37.920
a rhododendron expert, I'll just admit
that. But the times that I've talked

1930
02:20:37.959 --> 02:20:41.159
to people that grow them and have
tried growing them and things, it's just

1931
02:20:41.360 --> 02:20:45.799
it's quite a challenge. So if
I told you no, you can't do

1932
02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.719
it, I'll get ten calls from
people saying they do. Because that's how

1933
02:20:48.719 --> 02:20:52.920
it is with all plants. But
bottom line is, I think if you're

1934
02:20:52.920 --> 02:20:56.760
looking for something, I think azilias
are probably the ones that you would be

1935
02:20:56.840 --> 02:21:03.319
interested in. There are even some
name of azaleas that are deciduous, uh,

1936
02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:05.239
and they drop their leaves and then
they come out with the blooms and

1937
02:21:05.319 --> 02:21:09.799
things. And then there's our standard
types of azaleas. And there's a lot

1938
02:21:09.799 --> 02:21:11.799
of options out there. But I
don't blame you for falling in love with

1939
02:21:11.840 --> 02:21:16.600
the rhododendrons when you get up there. Uh, they have some gorgeous ones.

1940
02:21:18.879 --> 02:21:22.159
They do absolutely okay, and you
answer my next question, so we'll

1941
02:21:22.200 --> 02:21:24.520
look into the zailies. Thank you
so much. Skip all right, Randy,

1942
02:21:24.639 --> 02:21:28.959
thanks for the call. Appreciate that
a lot. All Right, well,

1943
02:21:28.000 --> 02:21:33.239
folks, Uh time taking another little
break here, Lloyd. When we

1944
02:21:33.280 --> 02:21:35.399
get back, I'll I'll put you
first up and we'll come right to you

1945
02:21:35.559 --> 02:21:39.079
in the meantime, take a little
break our phone number seven one three two

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02:21:39.200 --> 02:21:50.680
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Welcome back to the garden Line. Good

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02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:54.040
to have you with us. If
you are looking for a one stop shop

1948
02:21:54.159 --> 02:21:58.639
where you're gonna find every product you
need to have a bountiful garden and a

1949
02:21:58.639 --> 02:22:03.600
beautiful landscape, Southwest Fertilizer down at
Southwest Houston is a place you need to

1950
02:22:03.639 --> 02:22:05.280
go buy and if you haven't been
there. You definitely need to go buy

1951
02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:07.600
there. By the way, the
place is air conditioned. It's safe to

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02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:15.280
go during the summer. Southwest Fertilizer
has every kind of pest control, every

1953
02:22:15.399 --> 02:22:20.280
kind of weed control, every kind
of insect control, every kind of fertilizer,

1954
02:22:20.879 --> 02:22:24.959
an eighty foot long wall of tools, so quality tools, everything you

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02:22:24.040 --> 02:22:26.639
need to do the job right.
And you know, there's nothing like having

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02:22:26.680 --> 02:22:31.399
the right tool for the job,
and Southwest has got that. They've got

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02:22:31.520 --> 02:22:33.399
knowledgeable staff. You bring in a
sample, you bring in a picture,

1958
02:22:33.440 --> 02:22:37.079
you just walk in and describe something
going on. They can point you to

1959
02:22:37.280 --> 02:22:41.520
what you need to have success and
then tell you how to use it properly.

1960
02:22:41.639 --> 02:22:46.000
That's important. They're at the corner
of Bissonet and Renwick and there's not

1961
02:22:46.079 --> 02:22:48.520
a fertilizer I talk about here,
nor will you hear me talk about some

1962
02:22:48.639 --> 02:22:54.639
pest control that Bob doesn't have it
Southwest Fertilizer, because that is what they

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02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:58.559
specialize in having everything. I like
to put it this way, if Southwest

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02:22:58.680 --> 02:23:03.760
doesn't have it, you don't need
it. And that is not an exaggeration.

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02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:07.440
That is absolutely true. Excellent,
excellent place, good supplies. Even

1966
02:23:07.520 --> 02:23:11.840
things like I always brag on those
kneeling benches, the kind you can flip

1967
02:23:11.879 --> 02:23:16.040
one way and sit on, flip
the other way and kneel on. You

1968
02:23:16.079 --> 02:23:18.479
can fold them up and store them
easily. Listen, if you're anywhere north

1969
02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:22.479
at forty years old, you gotta
get you one of these. Those are

1970
02:23:22.680 --> 02:23:26.319
really cool tools among the many nice
things that they have. If you're an

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02:23:26.360 --> 02:23:30.879
organic gardener, you're not going to
find a better selection of organic supplies than

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02:23:30.920 --> 02:23:35.399
they have at Southwest Fertilizer corner of
Bissinet and Runwick. Here's the website Southwest

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02:23:35.920 --> 02:23:41.600
Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot
com. For example, why you're there.

1974
02:23:43.079 --> 02:23:48.360
Nitroposs bugout Max. That is the
insecticide granular form from nitrofoss that we

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02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:54.120
put in the lawn to prevent lawn
pest issues. Do you have ants like

1976
02:23:54.200 --> 02:24:00.719
fire ants, yep, it works
well. Do you have fleas fleas have

1977
02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:03.760
an egg and a larval form that's
out there in the thatch of your grass.

1978
02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:07.079
If your dog has fleas and walks
out there, fleas are going to

1979
02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:11.079
hop off lay eggs. You're going
to find them out there night fuss bug

1980
02:24:11.120 --> 02:24:13.600
out max will control that. You
can get night Fuss at Southwest Fertilizer as

1981
02:24:13.639 --> 02:24:18.120
well as many many places and night
Fuss products are widely spread out and all

1982
02:24:18.159 --> 02:24:22.200
over the area. Chinchbugs. That
season is upon us and it's only going

1983
02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:26.440
to get more and more as we
move into later summer chinchbug season. You

1984
02:24:26.479 --> 02:24:31.040
put out bug out Max, it's
going to give you protection through the rest

1985
02:24:31.120 --> 02:24:35.000
of this summer growing season to control
those kinds of things. Over one hundred

1986
02:24:35.000 --> 02:24:39.600
and thirty different kinds of insects from
night Fuss Bugout Max. Let's head back

1987
02:24:39.639 --> 02:24:41.600
to the phones. Now, we're
going to go talk to Lloyd and Growton.

1988
02:24:41.719 --> 02:24:46.399
Hey Lloyd, how are you doing
today? I'm good, sir.

1989
02:24:46.440 --> 02:24:52.360
How can we help? Okay,
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter

1990
02:24:52.399 --> 02:24:58.319
in law brought me a peach of
for her grandfather's tree. I beat into

1991
02:24:58.360 --> 02:25:03.239
it that peach blue. It was
a dark, dark blue. The flesh

1992
02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:07.959
of it was. Can you tell
me what kind of peach that is?

1993
02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:15.520
Well? If today was April first, I would have an explanation for your

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02:25:15.600 --> 02:25:22.120
question. I have never heard of
a blue fleshed peach, and I would

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02:25:22.120 --> 02:25:26.040
almost say that doesn't exist. I
don't oh boy uh. Anyway you could

1996
02:25:26.079 --> 02:25:31.799
send me a picture of one,
or get more information on it. I'll

1997
02:25:31.799 --> 02:25:35.239
see if I got any more.
She had to tag where she boughted,

1998
02:25:37.000 --> 02:25:50.879
and he said, okay, but
I know, yeah, no is a

1999
02:25:50.920 --> 02:25:54.280
good peach for this this area.
But it's a yellow flesh peach. It's

2000
02:25:54.360 --> 02:26:03.840
not not blue. I don't know. Uh, go ahead, This peach

2001
02:26:05.000 --> 02:26:07.920
was blue. I mean it was
a dark blue cad and but it was

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02:26:07.959 --> 02:26:13.760
a good it was an absolutely good
peach. It was good. Well,

2003
02:26:13.879 --> 02:26:20.520
I'm gonna rewind this. You have
won. You have won the game called

2004
02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:26.040
Stump the chump today because you got
me on that one. I think I'm

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02:26:26.120 --> 02:26:30.159
just gonna put you on on hold
here in a second half, producer Chris,

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02:26:30.200 --> 02:26:33.559
give you my email and if you
can find it more information on it.

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02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:39.200
Mainly send me a picture because what
I'm picturing in my head does not

2008
02:26:39.639 --> 02:26:46.280
does not exist. I've called about
five nurse reagions and nobody had ever heard

2009
02:26:46.319 --> 02:26:54.319
of Well, my master's my master's
degree in horticulture was in pomology, which

2010
02:26:54.360 --> 02:26:56.959
is a study of fruit. That
is what I specialized in. I've had

2011
02:26:58.040 --> 02:27:01.840
peach orchards myself. I've advised speech
orchard just I've never heard of this and

2012
02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:07.040
I'm old enough to know never say
never, right, So I'm not going

2013
02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:11.040
to tell you nothing exists. But
I'll tell you this. I'd bet a

2014
02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:13.200
lot of money that there's no such
thing, and you're telling me you saw

2015
02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:16.760
it. So I'm willing to open
my mind and say, send me a

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02:27:16.840 --> 02:27:18.159
picture. Let's take a look.
I'll be happy to see what I can

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02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:26.639
figure out on it. But let
me well, okay, but that would

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02:27:26.719 --> 02:27:31.719
be something completely different. And still
you using the word blue for the interior

2019
02:27:31.840 --> 02:27:39.559
doesn't sound right now? Maybe exterior
it's got a it's it doesn't have a

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02:27:39.600 --> 02:27:46.520
fuzzy skin, right, that's right, it doesn't. Listening to her,

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02:27:48.000 --> 02:27:52.559
I appreciate, all right, will
hang on. I want to because I

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02:27:52.600 --> 02:27:54.600
really want to see more on this. If you can provide it, I'll

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02:27:54.600 --> 02:27:58.120
put you on whole right here,
Uh, Chris, if you'll pick that

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02:27:58.239 --> 02:28:01.239
up and get in my email,
because we're gonna have to look into it.

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02:28:01.559 --> 02:28:03.559
There's the first time for everything.
We're going to go to Bess in

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02:28:03.680 --> 02:28:11.639
Conroe. Now, Hey, Bess, Hello, thus are you there?

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02:28:11.200 --> 02:28:16.319
Yeah? Hey, welcome to Droudline. Can you hear me? Yes?

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02:28:16.399 --> 02:28:24.920
I can can you hear me?
Yes? Okay, we have a new

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02:28:24.000 --> 02:28:30.600
build in Huntsville, Texas, forty
pallets of grass. My husband was a

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02:28:30.639 --> 02:28:35.760
little overachieved, and how do I
take care of it. It's been down

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02:28:35.799 --> 02:28:39.159
about a month. Do I need
to fertilize or just keep water and it's

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02:28:39.399 --> 02:28:43.319
really struggling of course in this heat. Yeah, the most important thing on

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02:28:43.440 --> 02:28:46.680
grass that's been down a month.
As you were planting it in June,

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02:28:48.680 --> 02:28:52.559
that grass needed water from day one
more than once a day to help it

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02:28:52.600 --> 02:28:54.760
get established. But now that we're
a month out, if it's still alive,

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02:28:54.840 --> 02:28:58.879
you're in pretty good shape. I
would water it with a good soak,

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02:29:00.280 --> 02:29:03.200
but just once, maybe twice a
week. If you do it once

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02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:05.799
a week, try to get an
inch on it. It may take more

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02:29:05.840 --> 02:29:09.879
than one application over the course of
a morning with about a forty five minute

2040
02:29:09.920 --> 02:29:13.559
soak in between them to get an
inch down, But to give it a

2041
02:29:13.600 --> 02:29:18.040
good soaking and frequently helps develop a
deep root system and a resilient grass.

2042
02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:22.000
If you need to go twice a
week, do about a half inch with

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02:29:22.120 --> 02:29:26.479
each irrigation. As far as fertilizing, if it's been in a month,

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02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:30.479
you can go ahead and fertilize it
if you feel like you know it needs

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02:29:30.520 --> 02:29:35.600
it. Just use a slow release
product. A slow release product, and

2046
02:29:35.639 --> 02:29:39.840
if you go to my schedule.
Have you seen my lawn schedule that's on

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02:29:39.920 --> 02:29:46.079
the website Gardening with skip dot com. I have not, but we are

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02:29:46.159 --> 02:29:50.280
definitely going to follow that with this
new grass. Yeah good, We'll just

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02:29:50.319 --> 02:29:54.360
go there and do the lawn care
schedule and it'll tell you the slow releases.

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02:29:54.440 --> 02:29:58.840
We have several options. Here are
great companies here in the Houston area

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02:29:58.040 --> 02:30:01.840
that provide you with summer fertilization options. I would go with a slow release

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02:30:03.159 --> 02:30:05.959
and it's going to carry you gradually
feeding the grass all the way in into

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02:30:07.079 --> 02:30:09.200
fall, and that's what you want. You don't want to overdo just this

2054
02:30:09.319 --> 02:30:13.840
giant flush of nitrogen all at once. That's not good. But you do

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02:30:13.879 --> 02:30:16.200
want a little bit of nitrogen over
a long period of time, and that

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02:30:16.440 --> 02:30:22.360
they do that perfectly. These these
for products do that perfectly. Well.

2057
02:30:22.399 --> 02:30:26.559
He's been they told him, when
he put it down to water three times

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02:30:26.559 --> 02:30:30.959
a day. And because we still
live in Conroe and he's traveling back to

2059
02:30:31.040 --> 02:30:35.639
Huspital, he's only done it once
a day, but he's done a deep

2060
02:30:35.799 --> 02:30:39.959
soak every time. But it is
struggling with his heat so he needs to

2061
02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:43.959
back off on the watering. Well
this next week is oh yeah, yeah,

2062
02:30:43.040 --> 02:30:48.000
yeah, yeah. Twice a week
is often enough. Twice a week

2063
02:30:48.079 --> 02:30:50.879
is often enough. If it's been
in a month, you don't need to

2064
02:30:50.879 --> 02:30:54.239
be watering it that often. But
when you water it, give it a

2065
02:30:54.239 --> 02:30:56.399
good soaking. But just twice a
week, and if you can move toward

2066
02:30:56.440 --> 02:31:00.319
once, that's fine. You know, in shade, it's not I can't

2067
02:31:00.319 --> 02:31:03.399
need near that much water. In
sun it's gonna need that much water.

2068
02:31:03.559 --> 02:31:05.440
In a sandy soil, you're gonna
have to water more often than you are

2069
02:31:05.479 --> 02:31:09.520
in a clay soil. So it's
hard to have a one size fits all.

2070
02:31:11.079 --> 02:31:13.479
But what the advice I gave you
on an inch a week is about

2071
02:31:13.520 --> 02:31:18.559
as close to one size fits all
as I can give you. Okay,

2072
02:31:18.680 --> 02:31:22.280
thank you very much, Good luck
with that. Did you say forty pallettes

2073
02:31:24.479 --> 02:31:31.600
forty palletts? It's an overachieaver,
yes. And how many riding lawnmowers do

2074
02:31:31.680 --> 02:31:39.040
y'all own? Probably a new one? Yeah? All right, well,

2075
02:31:39.079 --> 02:31:43.200
I have fun. So I was
like, you need to like start a

2076
02:31:43.200 --> 02:31:48.479
golf course or something. Hey,
best, thanks to the call. I

2077
02:31:48.559 --> 02:31:52.040
appreciate it. Good bet, well
the music means we're done with garden Line.

2078
02:31:52.159 --> 02:31:56.079
Thank you for listening. I'll be
back in the morning six am all

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02:31:56.120 --> 02:32:01.360
the way to ten am tomorrow morning, four hours of gard Line. John

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02:32:01.479 --> 02:32:03.479
back with us again. In the
meantime, go check out my website gardening

2081
02:32:03.639 --> 02:32:09.200
with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip
dot Com. There you'll find the schedules

2082
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and you know, we're slowly building
stuff. To keep building that website out

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make it more and more valuable.
I don't quit making promises as to what

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02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:20.600
I'm going to put up and just
tell you when they're up. How about

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that? I think that works?
About that? Thanks for listening to the

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