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Welcome to KRH Guarden Line with Scamp
Richter. We're gonna be talking about a

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lot of things regarding gardening right now. We've got a lot going on,

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you know this, we've kind of
been through a lot of rain lately and

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that has brought some interesting things to
our gardens, good and bad. And

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as a matter of fact, it
has helped in many ways our plants to

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just really thrive. You know,
plant, there's no such thing as too

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much water with a plant. Hold
on, hold on for you. What's

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the problem with too much water is
lack of oxygen in the roots. So

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if you, for example, here's
a good example, you put a plant

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in a vase of water and drop
on those little aquarium stones in the bottom.

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That's bubbling the water up, the
air up through the water, and

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that plant will do just fine.
I mean, as long as the roots

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can get oxygen, they're going to
be okay. But when you sit in

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stagnant, not moving, no oxygen
being added water in the ground in a

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clay soil, plants struggle. And
a lot of our plants have been that

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way. And what does that What
does that mean in terms of what does

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a gardener do and what do we
learn from that. Well, one thing

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we learned from it is to say
over and over again the mantra brown stuff

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before green stuff, and what that
means. Basically, for those of you

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who are new to garden line have
heard me go on and on about it,

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brown stuff before green stuff means get
the soil right and then put in

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the plants, and the plants will
thrive. That's how that works. So

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what does get the soil right mean? It means raised beds so excess water

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drains away. I'm going to put
a couple of peach trees, which hate

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soggy wet feet. I'm going to
put them in a spot in my yard

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that is notoriously poorly drained, but
I'm putting them in raised beds. I'm

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getting them by a foot up off
the ground, and then I'm going to

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work with amending the soil around there, and I'm going to do a little

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bit to improve drainage. But I'm
getting the plant roots up. At least

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a majority of them I can up
out of that out of that water,

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and they'll do fine drainage. That's
important. Secondly, the content of the

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soil when it comes to organic matter, the more organic matter you have there,

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The soil tends to go from just
a sticky mass of clay into something

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that's crumbly when it's moderately moist,
and that is good. Crumbly soil has

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structure. Air can move down,
water can move down. Your plants are

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going to do well. So that's
organic matter, and that would be also

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expanded shale. Expanded shale. If
you don't know what it is, the

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easiest way I can describe it is
remember the old gray kitty litter, the

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dusty stuff. Well, imagine that
gray kitty litter that's been fired in an

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oven with steam and the little particles
swell up and are very pitted in portous

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like lava rock on a barbecue pit. That put in the soil at a

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decent rate, not just a sprinkling, but at a good amount of it

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mixed in holds the soil particles open
and it creates an ongoing benefit there.

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Now with the compost that adds the
nutrients, it helps stimulate microbial activity because

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they love organic matter. They love
carbon and decomposed organic matter. There's a

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lot of carbon in it, and
that helps your soul structure as well.

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It decomposes over time, so you
have to continue to add some But what

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have we fixed? We fixed the
drainage with a raised bed, and we

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fix the soil itself internal structure with
expanded shale and organic matter. And then

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finally it's the nutrients. Nutrients are
critical and nutrients are essential for the plant

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to grow, but in order for
it to be healthy and for it to

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perform well, they're absolutely essential for
that as well. For example, with

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your lawn, Nitrofoss Superturf is a
quality fertilizer that gradually feeds over time.

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And if you haven't fed your lawn
by the way, now's the time to

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get the slow relief summer application on. If you go to my website gardening

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with Skip dot com, there's two
free lawn care schedules there. One of

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them includes about fertilizing and what to
use and the products we would recommend.

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Now, Nitrofos Superturf definitely on that
list. You're going to find it in

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a lot of places in Chanty Forest
down to Richmond, Rosenberg Growers Outlet up

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in Willis and RCW Nursery on Tombo
Parkway. They all carry the Nitrophos superturf.

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You put it down now and it
will feed your lawn for three or

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four months to come quality product.
So we've improved the drainage of the soil,

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we've improved the internal structure of the
soil, and we've improved the nutrient

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content of the soil when we add
the nutrients as needed, and after that

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you get you a good quality plant. Take decent care of it, and

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you're going to have success. But
to PLoP a poor plant into an unprepared

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plot, yes, that's a tongue
twister, is just it's amount to plant

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abuse. The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Plants needs to have officers

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stationed at all plants sell counters,
and they need to follow you home and

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make sure you're you've prepared your soil
before you put that poor little plant in

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the ground. Okay, I'm joking, but you get the idea. I

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can't over I cannot over emphasize because
it is so important to get the brown

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stuff right before you do the green
stuff. What was the last time you

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went up to Arburgate. Arbigate Nursery
in Tomball is one of the premier nurseries

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in this whole region and Arburgate is
the kind of place where I like to

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say, just make sure and allows
some time because you're going to want to

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wander through there. There's so many
kinds of plants. There's all these little,

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you know, gift shops and buildings
you can go through. There's lots

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of landscape bling, but plants,
plants, plants and staff that know what

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they're talking about. And Arbigate knows
about brown stuff before green stuff because they've

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got their one two three easy system. The one two three easy system is

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a fertilizer for anything that has roots. It is a soil that also includes

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some of the expanded shale, and
a compost that also includes some of the

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expanded shale. And when you take
those three together and then you bring your

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plants home with it, you're setting
yourself up for success. Now, Arbrogate's

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got a brand new parking lot in
the back. I've been talking about it

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for a while, but you need
to try it out. It's easy to

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get in and out of. All
you do is turn down Trisha Road either

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before or after Arburgate and swing around
the back. And that all weather a

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lot. I could rain ten inches
and you just drive right in there.

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It's a really cool new porous design
that absorbs the moisture. But oh gosh,

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that back access that's all I use
now. I used to drive it

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front all the time. Nope,
not anymore. Back access is so easy,

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easy and easy out at the arbor
gate. And you know when you

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get in there, you're going to
find people that know what they're talking about,

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that won't steer you wrong. It'll
make sure you get the right plants

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that are going to thrive where you
live. We're going to take a little

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break on a garden line. You
know it would help. Since this is

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a call in show. If I
gave you our number seven one three two

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one two KTRH, go ahead and
call now, get on the board and

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you'll be first up. Pierce Capes. Pierce Caapes, they're the professionals that

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can do it. And Pierscapes not
only will do landscape renovations, they can

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do hardescapes, they can do landscape
lighting. They can improve poorly drained areas.

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Yes, they will make sure that
water goes somewhere else. They know

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how to do that. They can
also check your irrigation system so it's running

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efficiency efficiently. We're about to start
and needing at big time, so now's

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the time to give them a call. You know, if you go ahead

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and get on the schedule. Listen, a good landscaper stays very busy,

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so give them a call. Don't
delay, even if you don't want the

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work done right now. I mean, just give them a call and get

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on the schedule. Piercescapes dot com
two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty

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pierscapes dot com two eight one three
seven oh five zero six zero and ask

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them about their quarterly maintenance service.
That also is a really cool thing that

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takes the worry away from you and
they make sure it keeps looking good.

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We're going to head out to talk
to Jeff. Now, Hello, Jeff,

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Hello, how are you? I'm
well, sir, How can we

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help? Well? I grew some
tomatoes in ten gallon pots from sea.

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They you know, all the green
parts grew very quickly, got some nice

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tomatoes on them. But I would
say the top three quarters to about five

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six to the tomato is red.
But the bottom of the tomato just looks

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like it has a black cap on
it, right, almost like if you'd

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taken a little bit of black paint
and put it in a saucer and dip

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the tomato. It's black and I'm
wondering what has caused, what do we

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do wrong? And yeah, how
to fix it going forward? The most

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common cause, especially as you this
may progress into full fledged decay what you're

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seeing, but a blossom androt is
what we often happen on our have happened

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to our tomatoes, and it's caused
by a lack of calcium reaching the end

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of the fruit, which is the
bottom of the fruit. Uh. And

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so typically it's water level fluctuations like
very dry to wet or soggy wet to

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dry. Those fluctuations will cause that. There's also something that can happen internally

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where cells begin to break down and
you start to get that darkening and collapse

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on the inside. That shows up
as black on the out side as well,

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And that's more physiological in general.
If I would I would check the

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water levels in the swot they're staying
too wet to soggy, wet or fluctuating

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like I described, Then if you
can fix that part, that would be

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step one. There are sprays that
help get calcium to the tomato, but

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they're not by the time you see
the problem, it's a little late.

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Really for them, and it generally
fixes itself as we move on into the

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season. However, right now you're
talking about a lot of fruit that's already

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been lost, and so there's just
not a magical wand to take care of

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it. Did you tell me if
this isn't a container or not it is,

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it's a ten gallon container. Yeah, So the problem with the containers

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the roots are limited to that spot
and they dry out easy, they drive

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fast because it doesn't have the extensive
root system, So fluctuating soul moisture is

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almost inherent to growing in a container. You've got to be a little extra

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careful with that. And then secondly
that the container drain holes drain properly if

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they're plugged up by sitting on the
soil, you know, and the drains

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in the bottom. You can get
a backup of water logging from that as

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well. What would you recommend as
far as consistency of water? How many

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times a week and how much water
for you know, like I said,

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it's in a ten gallon container.
The plant itself is probably about yeah,

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three feet tall, you know,
Jeff, I can give you a while

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stab at it, but it depends
so much on the kind of soil mix,

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is it chunky or is it mucky? The certainly the volume, the

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size of the tomato plant, because
the bigger the plant, the more water

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it's going to pump. The location, How many full hours of sun,

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I mean, the very the options
are so endless when it comes to recommendations.

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In general, all things being pretty
normal, a good amount of sun,

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a good mix, and so on, I would say you ought to

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you probably ought to be one uttering
those about every other day with about a

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gallon of water. But it's it
may it may be that you have to

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water more often than that if there
are in a lot of sun and the

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temperature really gets high. Okay,
okay, I don't think. Well,

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Skip, I appreciate, I appreciate
the advice, all right, enjoy your

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share chartle listen every week. So
thanks, thank you so much. I

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appreciate that. Appreciate that very much. Thanks for call. Nature's Way Resources

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is having a summer sale. In
fact, I was just talking to Ian

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yesterday. They have thirty percent off
of most of their plants. Now that

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excludes one thing, that is the
native sun perennials. Native native plants that

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are perennials for sun that is excluded
everything else thirty percent off through July first,

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So this is the month if you're
going to get them. If you've

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thought about putting out native plants or
pollinator plants, they've got a huge selection

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of those. And every time I
walk through there and I was looking at

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their plants of the day, and
I'm always surprised at some of the things

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they carry. They have just some
plants that's like, Oh, I didn't

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know that was even available on the
market. That is really cool. Now

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what they really are about it,
Nature's Way traditionally has been soil, but

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don't forget that they have those plants. They also have twenty percent discount on

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all composts, mulches, and soil
blends twenty percent off. But listen,

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you have to tell them that you
heard about them on garden Line in order

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to get that twenty percent off.
Now, the twenty percent off is for

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bag products and their bulk products.
Nature's Way is up there on Interstate forty

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five where fourteen eighty eight comes in
almost all the way to Conro forty five.

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It's real easy to get to get
in and out Nature's Way resources.

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You need to check them out their
materials are high quality and you're not going

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to go wrong. I'd like to
go out to Jersey Village and now we're

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going to talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, good morning,

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Skip you again. I love your
program man, Thank you. So I've

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got some squash that's really going good, except that the vine borders that digging

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into them pretty well. So is
there any hope to saving the plant?

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And if I start over again,
there is a way to prevent them from

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coming back on new plants? All
right. So depending on the degree of

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damage, you know, you may
have like three or four vine bores in

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a vine. I mean, they
can attack that heavily, and when you

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hit that point, it's very difficult
to keep the things alive. Some types

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the squash will root at the node
wherever the vine goes and there's a leaf

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coming out, they'll put a root
out there, all right. And so

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if you can cover that up with
just a little bit of soil and get

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them rooting down the vine, then
when they are disconnected from their own root

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system, they still can keep going. So's that's one thing. Beginning to

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spray regularly with BT and getting it, making sure you're getting it on the

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vine around the base of the vine
and a long the vine. That is

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important. If you don't have a
lot of squash, you can check them

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over for vine bore eggs. You're
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I was in a planting the other
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vine bore eggs on one plant.
And when you find you can just pick

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those little things off and smash them
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bout size ahead of a pin,
but that would be an option if

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you're going to grow some more,
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There is a garden netting. Think
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as a bedsheet, very tiny squares
and garden netting. Some people use roe

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cover fabric. I like the garden
netting a little better. But if you

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can't get it, get the roe
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to the ground, and the mama
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eggs because they've been out laying eggs. Well now as you know, terrific.

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Yeah, And then what happens is
watch your squash. They typically start

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with male blooms and then begin to
also add the female blooms, leave the

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cover on until the email balloons appear, and then you have two options.

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You can pull the cover off and
the vinebergers you're going to find them,

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but you're going to get a decent
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laid, the larva hatch out,
they tunnel, they do the damage.

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The vined eyes. You got a
little window there. The other thing you

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can do is lift them up.
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a little brush hand pollinatum, a
qute tip and pollinatum. Sometimes I'll pick

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a mail bloom, pull the pedals
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pollinate, and then put the cover
back down again. That's a little more

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work, but it's a higher percent
success. It's a worth it all right.

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Thanks t Hello, appreciate it.
Good luck with that, George,

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appreciate the call very much. A
and A plants and produce. Those of

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you who live up in Montgomery,
you know about them. You got dry

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pass it practically every day. It's
right there on the east side of Montgomery

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on one oh five, so it's
really close to all the lake neighborhoods.

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Just your backyard basically, not just
a short drive from Conro as well.

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They always care a good supply of
everything you need, including the fertilizers I

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talk about on Gardenline. So if
you're looking for a product from nitrofost or

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Nelson or Microlife, if you're looking
for a soil from Heirloom Soils or Nature's

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Way resources, they've got all of
that up there. Their landscaping crew also

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serves the area around Lake Conroe.
You might want to contact them about getting

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some work done. If you'd like
a little help with some of the things

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you're doing out there, they can
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days a week from nine to five, So basically they're always open. That's

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one way to put it. A
and A plants and produce up in Montgomery

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Shed. Give them a good hard
lookover. They really do a good job

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and they have that the Microlife,
Yeah mentioned that, that's one of the

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things they carry. They have that
purple bag. That's the humans plus.

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And when we're fertilizing, we always
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and potassium. Those are important and
they're the three numbers on every fertilizer

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bag. Sometimes you get an extra
number two for some other things. But

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basically ever bag has got those three
numbers, and with microlife it's a six

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' two four, which is a
three one two ratio. It works excellent.

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regimen of at least once a year. Once a year'd be fine. The

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purple bag microlife humts plus. If
you take composts and you concentrate it down

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into little granules, that is what
humts plus is stimulates. Microbial activity helps

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with soil structure. It's basically a
very high carbon material and microbes just really

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really go nuts with that. They
need an external source of nitrogen to survive

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all from microlife. If you want
to know where to get it, I

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will go to a NA Plants and
Produce or go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and

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find out all the places you can
find it here in this area. We're

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going to go now to Paarland and
talk to Mary. Hello, Mary,

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bye, good morning, good morning. My question is several months ago I

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had in my backyard resold and when
I'm mowing it, I'm seeing the moths

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fly out in this in the evening
when I'm mowing and I know that that's

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not good. That's not a good
sign, and I don't know what to

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do with how to treat them.
Well, we are way on the early

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end of sid webworm. We can
start getting them. If you look at

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my schedule, I have the side
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in June. But it would be
a little unusual for that to be what

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the moths are right now. I'm
not saying it isn't. But if you

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could capture some and put them in
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freezer, freezer, and then take
a picture of one and send it to

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me, I can tell you if
that's what you got or not. I

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need a moth to be able to
see it. There's a lot of different

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kinds of moth that you'll find.
So I tear what Mary, Let's hang

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on. I'm going to go to
a break and I want to continue this

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discussion with you if you don't mind
hanging on just a moment. All right,

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here we go. We'll be right
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live here? Mary? Are you
there? Yes, sir? All right,

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there we go. Thank you.
Well, we were talking about moths.

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There are other moths that could be
flying up, so if we could

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identify it, that would be very
helpful. If they're little tiny moths and

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they as you walk across the lawn, they fly up out of the lawn,

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stay down low, and go back
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a lot like sideweb worms. But
it's not the only moth that can do

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that. So if you notice that
habit, that flight habit of them as

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you walk through, they're probably more
on the larger side. And then they

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fly away. Okay, they don't
go back down. I would put about

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an eighty percent chance you don't have
sodwb worms out there, but I'm happy

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to look at one. If you
can catch one. They're flying away.

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It's gonna be hard to catch anyway. But yes, if you get my

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schedule, if you go on line
to gardening with skip dot com, there's

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a free schedule called the Lawn Pest, Disease and Weed Management Schedule, and

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it takes you January through December through
insects, diseases, and weeds. What

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happens when and if you look June, July, August, and September or

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potential sod web worm months very unusual
to happen. This early, but it

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could happen, okay, And so
what do you recommend it if it is,

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Yeah, if you're going to treat
for them on the schedule, I

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have it color coded so insects are
yellow. So you go to the bottom

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and if you look at yellow,
it says chinchbugs and sodweb worms. And

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there's a couple of products on there
for those. There's a nitrofossbug Out max

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us bug Out Max, and there's
another product called Cyanara. Like what is

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what a cyanari means? See you
later? I don't I don't know I

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should know that, But anyway,
Nitropos bug Out Max is one you might

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want to try. It's a granule
from Nitrofoss and basically you spread it out

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there and within forty eight hours it's
doing what it does and taking taking out

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the insects that would be that you
are your target, and that could be

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fleas ticks. I mean, it
could be chinchbugs, it could be you

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know, any kind of a pest
insect that is out there in your lawn.

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And that would also include the you
know, the sod web worms as

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well, and would that heart frogs
and lizards and all My good stuff.

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Well, it is. It is
an insecticide, and used properly, we

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don't worry about that. But there
is always the potential with an insecticide to

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have damage to something. If you
wanted to go with something that is more

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organic on the sod web worms,
you could use either BT or spinosid.

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Now, bt LA's only a day
or two, and so you're gonna spread.

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You're gonna probably spread a week later, probably spread a week later,

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you know, just continuing to stay
with it. Spinocid is going to last

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a little bit longer. But don't
apply those until get out there in your

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lawn. You may have to drop
down on your knees and look close.

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When you see leaf blades being chewed
up. That's when BT and spinosid should

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be applied, because these pests have
they have to eat the BT. Okay,

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yeah, so if yeah, if
you spray it on, the mad

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is not going to do anything,
right, Okay, that's true. You

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know, I mean I have so
many good little critters. I don't want

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to get rid of them. Okay. Well, I mean, you know,

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people range in their thoughts and opinions
on all of it, but that

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I can respect that. That's fine. You have, you have many options.

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Okay, yes, sir, all
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I enjoy your show tremendously. I
think you're doing a great job and I

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appreciate it. Thank you, Mary, thank you, cal You take care.

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Yeah, that night, Fusz bug
out Max. It's it's it is

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an insect to site. If it's
an insect that's going to kill it,

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that basically is what happens. And
it and it sticks around at last,

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it'll it'll basically work for the entire
season out there. Now that would include

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you know, if fire ants crawling
through it, they're gonna they're gonna get

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controlled by that that it's not going
to go down in the mound, but

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it's going to kill the ones that
crawl across that product out there in the

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thatch. Uh and then chinchberks and
side web worms too. Uh. And

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you can find it like all are
Microsoft products. I mean, they're available

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just about everywhere you would go,
especially like places like Ace Hardware stores Katie

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Ace Hardware for example, Ace Hardware
City and Memorial. Uh. You're going

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to find them at Stanton Shopping Center
down in Alvin as well. They carry

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that. All right, Well,
we had somebody on the line there was

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about to click on it. They
disappeared, so they who knows what happened.

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I had been talking about soil this
morning, the importance of getting that

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right and everything that. The issue
with water and why too much water is

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a problem on our soils. We
complain about rain, too much rain,

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and then next thing you know,
we're complaining about not having seen rain for

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three weeks, and it's one hundred
degrees every day, and that's just kind

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of how the weather goes. If
it was easy, anybody could do it.

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you take care of it, you
make sure that you know it has

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the nutrients it needs, and you're
going to find it. It's not that

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difficult to guard here. Let's go
to the woodlands and talk to Warren.

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Hello, Warren, heyre you do
Skip? I'm well, thanks, say

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Skip, I've got a I put
in much of a sod for those rain

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floord square feet whole palette and it's
this. It's this shade tolerant s Bermuda,

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not Bermuda. And I did everything
that practiced right. I killed tail

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till they all all your prescribed procedures, and I watered it every day and

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it just took all through it really
well. Then then we had those heavy,

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heavy rains, and I think it
must have gotten over water because it's

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starting to dine back. Okay,
and now I've got sprigs. There's a

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lot of little streaks growing up that
it really wasn't that full lush coat.

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So I'm wondering. I put some
fertilizer in some also some roots stimulator.

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What else can I do? All
right, I've got about thirty seconds for

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a break if I need to carry
over, if you're willing to wait.

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Basically, if the shade is too
much, that's not an unusual result.

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I've got some zoiza. It's the
same kind of thing and sun it looks

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great, and in shade it's getting
that spriggy sparsely to it. It could

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also be a disease take all root
rots possible a little fast for take all

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after sodding, but it also could
be something called gray leaf spot. If

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you would like, I'm going to
put you on hold here for our commercial.

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If you would like, the producer
will pick it up and give you

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my email and then you can get
up real close to it and take me

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some good, well focused pictures and
I'll be happy to, you know,

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take a look at them and see
if I can diagnose the disease there.

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But for right now, I'm gonna
have to put you on hold and run.

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I'll come back to if you're still
around after break, all right,

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folks, we'll be right back,
hey, Warren. So we're talking about

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your siding and the issues that you've
had with it. Gray leaf spot is

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it loves shady areas, and it
loves moist moist conditions, and especially excessive

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fertilizing too, it makes it even
worse. That's one that rots the leaves

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of uf. Generally the grass will
come right back. The problem with shady

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areas is, you know, we
pick a grass that is shade tolerant.

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That doesn't mean it wants to be
in the shade. It just means it's

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more tolerant than others with the shade. But the less sunlight you have,

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the less energy you can get into
the plant. And so therefore regrowth and

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density and filling back in is a
lot slower. Are you there, uh,

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warrant, you are cutting out a
lot on us here. Let's let's

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try to get we may. Let's
go ahead and try again. Yeah,

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I tell you what we're not.
We're not I'm not able to I'm not

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able to understand it all. Uh
just hang up and call back in and

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our producer will put you right up
the top here. Okay, thanks,

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all right, sorry, but oh
wait, are you there still? I'm

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here? Okay, suddenly you got
clear as of Well, go ahead,

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let's continue this. So what I
reach, stimulator, No, because it's

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not a lack of roots that's the
problem. I think if you want to,

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you know, take those pictures and
send them, email them to me.

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Let me look up close where I
can see as if you know,

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my eyes were like six inches away
from the grass runners or something that that

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kind of or maybe a picture of
the whole area too, would be very

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helpful, And let me look at
them because I can sit here and guess.

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Because there's a lot of possibilities,
but we need to get you nailed

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down to the specific cause and therefore
the specific treatment to get out out of

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that situation. I got your email
dress now, okay, good, all

406
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right, Warren. Well let's take
it that way. I think that's going

407
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to get your better answer. No, I thank you. Appreciate it,

408
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you bet, you bet, yeah, that something to think about the when

409
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it comes to grass, Saint Augustine
is about as shade tolerance you're going to

410
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get. And there are some Saint
Augustine's that do a little bit better than

411
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others in the shade. It's not
night and day, but it's you know,

412
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it's a little bit better. We
say. You know that palmetto,

413
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for example, is one that's touted
is being a little more shade tolerant.

414
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But the bottom line is light intensity, you know, because think of it

415
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this way. Think of grass leaves
as solar panels, and think of the

416
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energy that a solar panel produces as
the carbohydrates the food that drives the grass

417
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plant. So if you take a
solar panel and you put it in fifty

418
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percent sun, you're going to get
a lot less electricity out of it.

419
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Right, if you take a grass
blade and you put it in fifty percent

420
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:52.119
shade, you're going to get a
lot less carbohydrate production, which drives everything.

421
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.079
It drives growth, it drives density, it drives health. And so

422
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.720
we can get launs to hang on
in the shade. But how shady is

423
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shade, you know? Is it
full sun? For six hours and then

424
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:10.599
it goes completely pitch dark shade or
is it a dapple shade all through the

425
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.519
day that's very bright. You see. Again, it's just like a solar

426
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.000
panel. The more light that you
get, if you can get a decent

427
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:23.440
amount of light all through the day, then you can grow in quite shady

428
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:29.279
areas because the shade is so bright. And that's how that works. So

429
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.079
you know, it's not we like
to say, well your grass needs six

430
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.119
hours of sun. Well that's a
good guess for Saint Augustine, but in

431
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.279
general it really there's a lot of
different kinds of shade, as I just

432
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.880
pointed out, So when you can't
get enough energy, it's not going to

433
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.039
fill back in. It may look
okay, it may hold on, but

434
00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:53.319
when something starts giving it problems like
foot traffic or disease or anything like that,

435
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.880
then it declines and it just isn't
able to come back to where it

436
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.839
was. That's been my experience with
it. When shade is too much,

437
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:08.000
so you can brighten the shade removing
a tree, removing limbs. The problem

438
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:14.559
with pruning to brighten is the treatise
regrows again and so you end up pruning

439
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:17.759
your tree in ways that are not
the best way to prune, and oftentimes

440
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.480
but also you end up with it
just being a temporary fix, and it's

441
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.119
not inexpensive to go in and do
enough pruning to actually improve the light levels

442
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.160
down at the ground level. All
Right, some things to think about there

443
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:37.680
while Bird's Unlimited is it is absolutely
my favorite place to get things related to

444
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.319
birds and whether it's a quality feeder, whether it is you know, a

445
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.680
book to learn more about birding,
whether it's just walking in and talking to

446
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:51.279
the folks there and getting good advice
on birding, it's the place to go.

447
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.640
But I tell you, when it
comes to the seeds, the feed

448
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.599
for the birds, they have blends
for every kind of bird. They even

449
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:01.920
have seasonal blends. The nesting blend
is one we've been putting out a lot

450
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:07.160
at our house. The nesting blend
is a product that is going to help

451
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.759
them when they're trying to raise young, when they're trying to, you know,

452
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:16.880
go through that process. And what
I find is that Wildbird's Unlimited Seed

453
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is all bird feed. It's all
bird feeding. It all goes in a

454
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.200
bird unless it has a sunflower haul
on it. They're going to kick that

455
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.279
on the ground, but they're not
going to pick through the seed and kick

456
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.519
some they don't like out. It's
all going into the bird. So when

457
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.599
you buy a pound of wild bird
seed, you get a pound of feed

458
00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:36.279
that goes into a bird. That's
kind of how I like to look at

459
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.079
it. Wilbird's unlimited six stores in
the greater Houston area. Just go to

460
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:44.920
WBU dot com forward slash Houston you
can find the one that's going to be

461
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.640
closest to you. We're going to
go now to Tomball and talk to Ken.

462
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.519
Hello. Ken, Hey, Skip, Hey, morning morning. You

463
00:33:55.559 --> 00:34:04.240
were just talking about shady areas.
I've got an area like that that I

464
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:10.440
have difficulty getting anything to grow there, and I've noticed that I have had

465
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:17.840
like a little bit of moss that
has grown there. Is that something that

466
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.000
you've heard of. Yeah, moss
often grows in a shady area, especially

467
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:29.320
if it stays moist moist it does
well, and you know it's in the

468
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.840
way of grass trying to root in
and stuff like that, so there's a

469
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.159
little battle going on between the two. But if it's so shady moss is

470
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:39.400
growing, I think you're gonna have
a little difficulty getting a good dunse lawn

471
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:46.440
in that area. That's offer.
It's a very uh, it's not travel

472
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:51.159
traveled area. In other words,
people don't go there on that side.

473
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:55.519
So is there a moss that I
could get to grow over there? Oh?

474
00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:59.880
So you're looking for moss? Yeah, it was. I was just

475
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:07.400
wondering since I've got something that is
surviving there. Yeah. Ken, to

476
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.840
be honest, I think I've seen
things like that for sale and garden centers,

477
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.079
but I am not a not a
good moss expert. In other words,

478
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.840
moss you would want a plant you're
in Tombol, just give them a

479
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.079
call over at the Arborgay talking to
Beverly or Kennon and just say, do

480
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.440
you sell any kind of a little
moss material that could be used in the

481
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.360
ground. I think they might or
they're going to have plants like that that'll

482
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.480
put up with a lot of shade, But as far as which particular one,

483
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.320
I wouldn't be able to tell you
that. All right, Thank you?

484
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:42.039
All right, Ken, thanks a
lot. That's good. That's turning

485
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:50.400
lemons into lemonade. We love to
visit new garden centers new to us.

486
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.559
That is not necessary brand new gardens, but new to us, and I

487
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:58.599
just like going and seeing what's new
at a garden center. You know,

488
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.760
in Chanted Gardens is one of those
kind of places. It's a destination.

489
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:06.480
It just absolutely is. When you
go to Enchanted Gardens, you know you're

490
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.639
going to have an outstanding selection of
quality, quality plants. You know you're

491
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:14.239
going to get people that know what
they're talking about. You know that whatever

492
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:17.639
kind of gardening you're interested in,
they're going to be able to show you

493
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.719
and sell you and provide advice on
that kind of gardening. That's how that

494
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.559
works. Do you want summer color
plants, they got it. Do you

495
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:32.719
want containers? And you should want
containers. There's so many beautiful container options

496
00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:36.320
and you can change them out.
They can show you how to put a

497
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.760
container together. They can give you
a selection, like here's an idea for

498
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:43.920
four or five plants. Give it
a try. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

499
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:47.599
They're on the Katie Folscher side of
Richmond. You got to get out

500
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:51.079
there. You got to visit it. Today wouldn't be a bad day to

501
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.239
go do that. Well, you've
been listening to garden Line. We're going

502
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.159
to take a little top of the
hour break here. We will be back

503
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.679
with your gardening questions if you would
like to give a call now. That

504
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:05.719
way, when we come back from
the break, you'll be the first up.

505
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:07.840
That's always a good way to go. Things tend to get kind of

506
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.519
busy once we get rolling again.
Appreciate you being a listener. We're going

507
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:15.639
to turn it over to the news
right now and I will be back.

508
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.360
Oh, I want to remind you
one thing June fifteenth. I'm going to

509
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:23.000
be at the Wall Birds Unlimited in
bel Air bel Air, Ye, Southwest

510
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:29.719
usteron June fifteenth, two weeks from
now eleven am to one pm. You

511
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:31.480
need to come out and see me. We're going to have some giveaways and

512
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.000
we always have a good time.
Entering our seven o'clock hour, second hour

513
00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:39.280
of the day, ready to answer
your gardening questions. Always enjoy visiting plants

514
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for all seasons up on two forty
nine on the way to Tomball Tomball Parkway.

515
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You know, the one way I
like to think about things is when

516
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.440
it comes to plants for all seasons. That is is that if you have

517
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:53.920
a brown thumb, if you walk
in there, they'll make it green.

518
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:59.519
How about that? Meaning now you've
heard me say before, there are no

519
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.119
such things brown thumbs. There's only
an informed thumbs. That's how they make

520
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.079
it green. They give you the
advice that you need, they sell you

521
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.559
the plants that will grow here,
and they give you after the sale service

522
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.800
that is worth its weight in gold. Right there. Plants for All Season

523
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has been around since what nineteen seventy
three? The Flierty family. They know

524
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the area, they know the plants. They are experienced in every way,

525
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shape and form with how to have
success with things. They're gardeners themselves.

526
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For crying helloud, you can take
a picture in there for diagnosis. You

527
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:35.119
can take a sample in there,
putting all a plastic bag, especially if

528
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.280
it's got some creeping crowd on it. But Plants for All Seasons dot com

529
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is their website if you'd like to
give them a call. Two eight one,

530
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three seven six sixteen forty six.
If you've never been there before,

531
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.800
crawl out from under that rock and
go up Highway two forty nine, exit

532
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.440
Luetta and just pass Luetta on the
way toward Tumble. You'll be right there

533
00:38:54.599 --> 00:39:00.000
at Plants for All Seasons dot com. We're going to go now to Baytown

534
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.840
and talk to Steve Hello Steve,
Good morning. I have a question.

535
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.239
I've got some live oaks in my
yard that are twenty five years old,

536
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:15.920
and I have the aero of Exceptic
system. Two of the trees that were

537
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.679
sprayed pretty i mean like daily by
this system. Now I have a bark

538
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:25.639
where the bark is deteriorated and rotting
off where the waters hit them constantly.

539
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:35.119
Yeah, I've obviously moved the sprinkler
heads when I've discovered the problem. I

540
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.320
found it on the first tree four
or five years ago, and I removed

541
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.960
all the rotten bark and you know, there were ants living under it and

542
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:49.239
that stuff. Yeah, it seems
to have kind of recovered and it's healed

543
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.320
over on the leading edge. But
once I continue to kind of rode away,

544
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:58.119
and now I've got another tree that
seems to be having the same problem

545
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:02.159
developed, even though I've stopped the
water it years ago. What do you

546
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.360
recommend you just feel back the rot
and help it comes heels. Yeah,

547
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:12.519
you know, you just get the
old dead material out of there so that

548
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:16.039
that interior wood that is now exposed
to the elements can dry out after a

549
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.559
rain when it gets wet. That'll
slow down the rotting. If it's allowed

550
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:25.800
to fully dry out between rains.
Just keep pulling it back. Well,

551
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:31.440
take back the loose bark. There's
no funge side or anti canker spray to

552
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.920
put on it if it were a
canker going on in there. Generally,

553
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:42.960
a healthy tree with some health to
it will start to create callous to close

554
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:46.840
that area back over as I think
you refer to the leading edge. It'll

555
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:52.000
start closing it back over in time. Now, if a tree is very

556
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.360
weak and is not able to do
that, or if you got an active

557
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:59.119
canker that is continuing to eat away, the only thing in your power is

558
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.320
try to get that tree healthy.
And that would be you know, during

559
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.639
summer extensive drought in terms of lots
of hot, lots of dry for a

560
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:14.239
long time. You're giving your tree
some rescue treatments with water would help.

561
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:20.760
Certainly nutrients can help too. But
now they're super healthy, they are great

562
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:25.800
shape except for this issue. Well
then they auto callousat over again. What's

563
00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:32.599
the trunk diameter roughly on that tree? The biggest one the diameters probably two

564
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.800
feet and the other ones probably twenty
inches. Okay, well, they're getting

565
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:45.119
kind of where they're reaching they're closer
to their full size than they were when

566
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:49.320
they're planted, for sure, so
they're slowing down a little bit. And

567
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.519
that is okay, that is an
okay thing. I think your trees ought

568
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:55.920
to wall it off and be fine. A good healthy tree just has a

569
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.199
way of shutting that down, as
we say, walling it off and then

570
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:04.239
beginning to call us back in to
close over. Should I go ahead and

571
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.639
take it back to where there's solid
good growth? Are just the loose?

572
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.159
Well, take take the loose back. The only my only hesitation in saying

573
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:20.920
yes to that question is don't rewound
the tree in taking it back, you

574
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:25.960
know, yeah, just be careful
not to significantly overdo it. Yeah,

575
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.000
okay, okay, okay, thank
you very much. All right, Steve,

576
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.119
thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. And you know,

577
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.880
talking about trees, Affordable Tree Service
here in Houston, that is the one

578
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that we talk about all the time
on guard Line. That is the one

579
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that I'm happy to have as our
sponsor. Affordable Tree Martin Spoon Moore.

580
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They know what they're doing. And
listen, today starts hurricane season. When

581
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the wind blows, we have havoc
on our trees. And you need a

582
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good, strong, well pruned tree
to do that. Any dead limbs for

583
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:04.000
crying out love, those have got
to come out, but also just good

584
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.400
pruning to create a structure that holds
up well during the wind. You don't

585
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:12.960
want a tree to fall on anything
valuable. I can't express enough the importance

586
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.559
of proper tree care going into the
season. We are now entering the storm

587
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season doesn't even have to be a
hurricane. Call Martin spoon Moore at seven

588
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589
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590
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Martin's a professional, he does good
work, and he stays busy.

591
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Don't delay. Go ahead and call
him now. Get something set up so

592
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.039
he can come out and give your
trees a lookover. He's gonna charge one

593
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.960
hundred and fifty bucks to come out
and look at a tree. But if

594
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:47.559
he says, well, this is
what I think you need and you hire

595
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.480
him to do it, that one
fifty goes right into that. So essentially

596
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.559
it didn't cost to have him come
out. Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree

597
00:43:55.320 --> 00:44:01.039
I'm going to head out now to
Alice. Hello, Alice, good morning

598
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:08.199
morning. I have a well,
I've kind of had a white old tree

599
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.639
about thirty years old in our backyard, and when Harvey came, it kind

600
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:17.960
of damaged that little and I kept
it prune really good where the air would

601
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:28.159
flow through it. And but yesterday
I had part of it just salves.

602
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:34.559
Okay, so I'm having I'm having
it, yeah, taken down completely today.

603
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.960
All right? Do you want to
replace it? Right? I want

604
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:39.880
to replace it, but I don't
want a big tree like that. Well,

605
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:43.920
I'm seventy eight, so I said
it's time to be it. Yeah,

606
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:51.719
don't have to worry about big trees. It was beautiful shade in my

607
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:54.920
patios. And I'm going to have
nothing but done out there. All right,

608
00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:58.880
let me let's do this. I'm
gonna put you on hole. We

609
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:00.480
got to run a little break here. When we come back, I'll give

610
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:05.360
you some suggestions for trees that would
do well for that area. Thank you

611
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:09.440
so much. All right, Oh, we're gonna go back to Alice and

612
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:14.000
Alice. Let's see, we were
cutting we cut on it. We're cutting

613
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.559
down an oak tree and we need
something a little smaller to replace it for

614
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.800
shade on the patio. Is that
correct? Yes, alrighty, well you

615
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.480
could. There are a number of
crape myrtles that achieve a pretty good size

616
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:29.480
actually that will spread out and provide
a shade. Plus you get the blooms

617
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.920
when they're young. You get them
when they're older, but they're up high

618
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:37.639
and you don't see them. But
Craig Murdle be a possibility. There is

619
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:45.239
a tree called Chinese fringe tree.
Chinese fringe has beautiful white fringe john like

620
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:52.000
the like friend f r that's it. That's it. Chinese fringe that has

621
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.880
beautiful shaggy white blooms in the spring
that have a nice little fragrance to them.

622
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.199
And it doesn't grow real fast,
but it doesn't get big either.

623
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.800
You know, it's gonna probably if
you get around twenty five feet in time,

624
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:14.400
but that that's that's in time.
There's certainly a lot of other trees

625
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.360
we could put out there, but
if you're you know, it's kind of

626
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.360
here's the trade off. We're trying
to get you some shade soon, but

627
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.559
we're trying not to have a big
tree, and that combo is a little

628
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.239
a little hard to come by.
You know, grow fast and don't get

629
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:31.280
too big. But my neighborhoods create
myrtles, and I was thinking about that,

630
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:37.199
but I don't know how. Yeah, you know, well I'll probably

631
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.360
go with that. Yeah you can. Here's what you need to take.

632
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.079
Go online and do your Google or
whatever search you use, and write and

633
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:50.639
type in type in crape myrtle,
and type in Skip Richter all in a

634
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.920
Google search, and you will find
a chart that has crape myrtles from three

635
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:58.519
feet to thirty five feet high.
Is that a little picture? I mean,

636
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:04.440
Skip Skip Richter like the earthquake scale. That's my name, Skip Richter,

637
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:13.360
Hatch and also put I just went
blank. There a great myrtle and

638
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:15.639
Skip Ricter. You're going to find
a chart and it'll have all sizes and

639
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:19.559
have a little picture of them.
It'll tell you if they're disease resistant or

640
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:21.519
not. And you just want to
get one that's going to get big.

641
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:25.239
Natchez is a good one. Natchez
has white ballooms. It'll get thirty feet

642
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:30.239
in time, but it has beautiful
cinnamon colored barks, so when you're sitting

643
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:34.920
on the patio looking at the tree
trunk, it's even pretty. Okay,

644
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:39.000
okay, all right, thank you
there all right, Thank you appreciate it.

645
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.480
Thank you for the call very much. We're going to go now to

646
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:46.880
Mike in the Woodlands. Hey Mike, Hey, good morning Skip. I

647
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:52.840
sent you some pictures of a grassy
weed that I have. Yes, looks

648
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.840
it looks a lot like Saint Augustine, but it's not. Yep, that's

649
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:04.000
right. That is called doweed,
doveweed. It loves wet conditions. Welcome

650
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:10.280
to Houston. Just infiltrates in the
grass if you use a pre emergent herbicide,

651
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:15.400
and if you go to my schedule
on my website, the website's Gardening

652
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:22.119
with Skip dot com, there is
a two free, two free schedules on

653
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:24.960
there. One of them is the
Pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. That's

654
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:28.960
the one you want to look for. It tells you about the pre emergent

655
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:35.880
herbicides and the post emergent herbicides.
So a pre emergent herbicide like barricade by

656
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:39.639
nitrofoss would be something you would put
out to probably. I would do this

657
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:47.719
in mid February mid February in your
area to prevent the doveweed and other weeds

658
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.960
from sprouting. The post emergent which
is where you're sitting right now. You

659
00:48:52.960 --> 00:49:00.480
want to get a product called celsius. Celsius like the temperature celsius, and

660
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.880
you can apply it when the weather
is a little warmer like it is getting

661
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.119
now, and it is effective against
doveweed. And if you shop around you

662
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:14.400
should be able to find it.
Okay, Yeah, I did a pre

663
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:17.840
emergent back in February or March,
and then I called you and you told

664
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:23.000
me to wait probably till still like
Jude or so, to reapply. Yes,

665
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:28.039
but it didn't seem to help much, so okay, yeah, I

666
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.320
just need to kill it now.
Yeah, kill it now. The thing

667
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.119
about pre emergency is, you know, you got to get them on at

668
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:36.639
the right rate. You got to
get a good even spread of them.

669
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.199
You got to get them watered in
and stuff. And not every weed is

670
00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:45.280
equally controlled by any herbicide. You
know, there are some some weeds that

671
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.000
a particular herbicide may not work against. But anyway, celsius will knock it

672
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.320
out. But do so soon before
it starts going to seed, because then

673
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:58.599
you just have a whole lot more
seeds for next year. Yeah. Yeah,

674
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:04.119
Also, I've got a crate myrtle
that probably I've probably planted it six

675
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:07.199
or eight years ago and it's still
not blooming. And I heard you a

676
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.920
couple of weeks ago say, you
know, just wait, but I'm not

677
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:17.000
seeing any type of bloom blooms on
it at all, you know, where

678
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:21.840
it's even sprouting out. So yeah, I'm just wondering. We get that

679
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.840
on crapes every now and then.
I always, first of all, start

680
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:28.960
with is a getting full sign that
they want lots of sign in order to

681
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.440
bloom. Well, some varieties are
a little slower to start blooming than others.

682
00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:37.280
That's a factor, but you know, by now you are to be

683
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.639
seeing at least it's putting buds out
where it's going to open up and looms

684
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:45.320
pretty soon. Yeah, I don't
know. I'm not go ahead, I'm

685
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.199
not seeing that at all, but
yeah it probably it gets sun from early

686
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:55.079
morning till probably three o'clock in the
afternoon. Yeah, well, I don't

687
00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:59.880
know. Time is really the only
thing I know to say on that.

688
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:02.519
There's not something you put on a
crpe myrtle that makes it bloom. It's

689
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:07.559
not lacking some nutrient. You know, if the plant is growing, it's

690
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.639
getting the nutrients it needs. So
yeah, it looks real good. You

691
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.960
know, it's very green and no
problems. But it's just not there's no

692
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:20.480
seed pods coming out yet, right
or pods. Yeah, I get that.

693
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.119
Well, so I guess my my
suggestion is just kind of wait and

694
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:29.440
give it some time and see if
time heals a wound. Hopefully it would.

695
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:31.920
Should I should I try to put
some crate myrtle fertilizer on it.

696
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:36.119
You could do that. It wouldn't
hurt. Yeah, you could. You

697
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.880
could do that. Yeah, I've
done it probably two or three months ago.

698
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:43.760
But oh okay, we reapply it. You know, it's probably okay.

699
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:47.599
I it wouldn't hurt to add some
I just wouldn't overdo it. You

700
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:52.239
know, we're not trying to push
it with too much nitrogen and so on.

701
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:57.400
But hopefully that that'll give you an
idea. Yeah, I used a

702
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:02.559
crate myrtle food, so hopefully that'll
that would help. Okay, well,

703
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:06.639
I'll give that a try. Try
to find out Celsius. Do you think

704
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:09.480
ACE would have it? Uh?
They probably would, most ACE hardware stores

705
00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:13.280
do. Yeah, okay, yeah, I would, I would try.

706
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.920
I would try ACE all right,
Mike, thank you? All right?

707
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:20.000
Yeah, for those of you out
there listening. You know Ace. We

708
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:22.239
say ACE is a place. It's
a place for you fill in the blank.

709
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:25.280
It was a place when we had
storm damage and we were looking at

710
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:30.119
cleaning up. It was a place
when we had Christmas lights to put up.

711
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.079
It's a place all the time right
now. It's a place to get

712
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:37.519
your fertilizers and your herbicides. They
if I talk about a fertilizer on Guardline,

713
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:39.599
they carry in at ACE. That's
kind of the arrangement we have with

714
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:44.320
them because you need to know when
you go there, you're going to get

715
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:46.199
what you want to get. And
if it's on the schedule, they should

716
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:49.679
have it there at ACE Hardware stores. And Celsius, by the way,

717
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:53.079
is on my lawn pest disease and
weed management schedule, and ACE is going

718
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:57.920
to have that. There's like forty
stores here in the Houston area. Ace

719
00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:01.800
Hardware dot Com. I would recommend
just bookmark aceharbord dot com, look at

720
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:06.639
the store locator and bookmarket because then
you can see all the little red dots

721
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:08.760
all over the area. It's easy
to find an As fact, if you

722
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:10.840
walked out in your front yard and
throw a rock, if you got a

723
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:16.320
halfway decent arm. You probably could
hit an ace from wherever wherever you are.

724
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:22.679
We're going to go now to Westbury
and talk to Anthony. Hello Anthony,

725
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:28.440
Good morning, sir. I have
a sago palm. It's about four

726
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.920
feet high four feet wide, and
it came with a home and the little

727
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:37.079
palms used to come out of the
top in bloom, not bloom, but

728
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:42.320
you know, grow really nicely.
However, right now, just notice there's

729
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:45.519
this pine cone looking thing growing up
out of it, and right now it's

730
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:53.920
about twelve inch tall and looking to
take over the area where my palms palms

731
00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:58.280
will come out. What can I
do about that? Is that? Okay?

732
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:00.880
Or all right? Tell me about
Yeah, so it's I assume it's

733
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:05.920
kind of narrow and upright, like
a rocket in its shape. Right,

734
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:10.039
it's not a round bowling ball,
okay. That's the male pollen structure of

735
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:15.880
the sego. Segos are male or
female. Their separate plants male and female,

736
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.960
and the females get this little like
a bowling ball type round thing in

737
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.559
the middle. The males produce that
cone. Basically, that's a cone,

738
00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:28.559
pollen producing cone on your sego.
Nothing to worry about, nothing to do

739
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:31.239
about. It'll do that and it'll
keep growing. Okay, you can do

740
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.119
once. Once it dies or whatever
goes away, you's got it. Prongs

741
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.199
will continue to come out like it
used to. You should Yeah, you

742
00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:45.320
make it. You may end up
getting a multiple bud split up at the

743
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:49.360
top where you have more than one
trunk come out like a side shoot or

744
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.719
something. You just have to watch
it and see. It depends on several

745
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:55.079
factors. But I'll just tell you
this nothing to worry about. Your Sego

746
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:59.960
palm will live on super Thank you
for your time, SRK you bet,

747
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.920
thank you. I appreciate. I
appreciate your call a lot. Nelson Plant

748
00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:07.559
Food has a couple of products that
you need to know about in summer.

749
00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:13.880
Bruce's Brew. We normally think of
it as their faster release fertilizer, and

750
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:16.559
it is faster release, but it
has two different kinds of slow release also

751
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:22.280
in it. So it is let's
say it's front loaded with Bruce's Brew.

752
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.440
You're going to get a lot of
the nutrients out soon and then some that

753
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:30.920
are provided over time, providing for
your lawn. Slow and Easy is the

754
00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:36.679
one that's backloaded. You got some
immediate nutrients, but slow and Easy is

755
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.639
going to give you four months or
more of fertilizing over time as we go

756
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:44.760
through the summer season. When you
do Slow and Easy now you do not

757
00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:49.639
fertilize again until get my schedule in
the fall. When we say fall fertilization

758
00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.960
time. That's the next fertilization that
you'll do, and that's going to be

759
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:57.280
way down the line. Slow and
Easy from Nelson widely available, high quality

760
00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:01.159
products, several different types of nitrogen
in it, so that it does gradual

761
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.320
release over time rather than just dissolve
and wash away like a typical salt based

762
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.199
for leisure wood and immediate release wood. This one's going to give you a

763
00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:15.079
very extended release over time, gradual
feeding. It's acidifying to the soil,

764
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:21.519
and it's just a quality product.
I'm gonna set out here. I lost

765
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:22.880
track of all the time. Here, let's see, we're going to go

766
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:29.239
to Jim and Clearlay. Hello,
Jim morning. I want to just I

767
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:35.880
wanted to ask how effective I had
noticed some gray spot and a few places

768
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:40.559
on the lawn, and I got
the ego out immediately and did that on

769
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:46.800
Tuesday of last week. Then I
had some spots that were starting to brown

770
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:54.719
and I had some brown patch ncrofoss
and I placed that. But we've had

771
00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:59.800
these torrential rains since then. I'm
wondering if any of that's left in the

772
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:05.000
long to do any good. Well, rain does wash these away. You

773
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:08.039
know, anything that can be dissolved
in water is going to be able to

774
00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:13.519
be moved away by rain. You
know. I hate sending people out to

775
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:20.280
do and redo, you know,
product applications, because you know, a

776
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:22.599
little bit is good, a lot
is not good. And Egle is a

777
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:28.280
systemic fungicide. It's got Michael buttanill
in it. It works very well,

778
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:32.440
but you don't want to overdose plants
with it, or with any that's the

779
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:37.000
side product for that matter. So
I would watch it a little bit and

780
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:42.599
see how long before the rain did
you say you got the Eagle down.

781
00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:46.320
I put it down about eight in
the morning. I think we started getting

782
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:53.159
rain at about four or five that
afternoon. Yeah, that's that is a

783
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:58.480
tough call. I think if it
were mine, I think I would redo

784
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:02.440
it. I believe I would.
That is an awkward question for me because

785
00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:07.480
I'm not you know, I don't
know exactly how much rain you got and

786
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:12.039
the rate that you put it out
and everything, but in general, I

787
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:16.039
think I think that I would redo
it. That that's not quite enough time

788
00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:20.320
for it to fully soak in and
do what it needs to do. And

789
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:23.639
then the brown patch I put down
on areas where I've had brown patch before,

790
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:30.320
and I and I, rather than
do more aggressive with the June feeding,

791
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:34.840
I was doing a white brown patch
in those areas. I bought some

792
00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:40.920
aged leath mole compost put down on
top of that. Would I would it

793
00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:47.760
be principle to lightly add the brown
patch again before I put down the You

794
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:50.880
could do that. If you like
to do that, you can do that.

795
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:53.079
Hey, I'm up against a break
here. I hope that helps,

796
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:57.320
but that leaf more compost will also
do you a world of good. Thank

797
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.599
you, Jim. I appreciate your
call very much. It's time for the

798
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:04.079
news our number seven one three two
one two K t R H. Give

799
00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:07.639
us a call. We'll talk to
you about what interests you. We're going

800
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:13.320
to head to Seabrook and talk to
Lisa. Hello, Lisa, good morning.

801
00:59:14.039 --> 00:59:17.559
I have a question about caterpillars.
I was awake for a couple of

802
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:23.400
days and I came home and I
was shocked some push starred was just destroyed

803
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:29.719
by caterpillars. So, I don't
know, I've never had this problem before.

804
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.519
Is it something I need to put
in the soil or what what should

805
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:36.440
I do? Okay? Uh?
You cut out when you told me what

806
00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:40.239
the plant was that they were eating. What was it? Okay? And

807
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:45.119
it was some kale okay? Uh. Those are going to be either cross

808
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:51.360
striped army worms or cabbage loopers.
Could be both. I've seen them both

809
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:55.719
on the plants at the same time. Products that contain BT and products that

810
00:59:55.760 --> 01:00:02.840
contained spinosad are both excellent organic options
for caterpillar control. BT is probably the

811
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:07.679
less toxic of the two. You're
going to need to spray it on the

812
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:10.159
leaves that they're eating because they eat
it, and it's a disease. It

813
01:00:10.199 --> 01:00:15.159
only affects the caterpillar. It doesn't
affect lady beetles or grasshoppers or you know,

814
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:21.400
anything else. It's a natural disease
of caterpillars, so BT, basilisther

815
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:24.280
and Gensis just it lasts about a
day or two out in the environment,

816
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:30.519
So spray it and two or three
days later check it for caterpillars and spray

817
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.599
again. If you need to but
that is the simplest, safest way to

818
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:38.039
go ahead and knock those out.
And are there any brand names you know

819
01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:40.800
that sell that or what they have
that at ACE? Oh my gosh,

820
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:45.000
they're going to have three different kinds
of BT at ACE. Yeah, they'll

821
01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:49.360
just go in and say I need
BT caterpillar control and you'll see that.

822
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.760
Yeah, it's it's real easy,
easy to easy to do. You just

823
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:57.880
know this that it's it's an organic
So when the caterpillars are young, it's

824
01:00:58.199 --> 01:01:00.440
very effective. When you get a
cat a pillar that's so old it's about

825
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:04.440
to make a cocoon, the BT
is not going to be as effective,

826
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:10.920
but it still is I think the
best way to go. Someone had missed

827
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:15.280
seven dusts. What do you think
about that? Seven dust is a synthetic

828
01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:20.280
product that will kill the heck out
of caterpillars and any other insect including beneficial

829
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:23.960
insects. So nothing, nothing,
you know, seven has been used for

830
01:01:24.079 --> 01:01:31.360
decades. It's an old time product, but it's going to last a long

831
01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:35.159
time. I said, BT breaks
it down in a day or two.

832
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:37.960
Seven dust a week later is still
out there toxic and doing what it does.

833
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:43.800
So if you're going to bring that
green and to eat the foliage,

834
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.599
you need to wash it really good. If it's all right. Seven,

835
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.000
yeah, thank you all right,
Lisa, thanks a lot. Appreciate,

836
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:59.000
appreciate your call. RCW Nurseries,
which is the nursery there where Tampa Parkway

837
01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:05.000
Highway too for you nine comes into
Beltway eight. RCW always has stuff going

838
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:08.679
on. They've always got great plants. They've always got I call it bling,

839
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:13.119
you know, the metal signs and
the various kinds of things that you

840
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:15.199
got to add to add to your
garden. They've got that. They're known

841
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:21.119
for their roses, I mean,
gosh, pages and pages of rose options

842
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:23.840
that they can bring in for you. They carry the fertilizers I talk about

843
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:28.559
on garden line. Rcw's easy to
get to. It's two forty nine belt

844
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:30.599
Way eight. If you went over
the bypass there kind of went over from

845
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:35.119
one to the other belt wait eight
to two forty nine. Privately, even

846
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:37.599
didn't see it. It's right down
there underneath, easy, easy to get

847
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:43.440
to. Now. RCW is gonna
have plenty of color plants. They're going

848
01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:47.440
to have things like hibiscus, the
beautiful Cajun Hibiscus series. They've got those

849
01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:52.079
there Boogain Villas. They've had all
kinds of things there, and a really

850
01:02:52.119 --> 01:02:59.119
good selection of trees as well.
Go to RCW nurseries dot com RCW nurseries

851
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:04.599
dot that's how you find out everything
you need to know. Get the phone

852
01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:07.360
number, give me a call,
do you know, just main things.

853
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:12.639
Just go by. Now's a great
time to stop by RCW Nurseries. We

854
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:17.960
are going to go to Chris in
Jersey Village. Hello, Chris, are

855
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.880
you there? All right? Chris? I'm gonna put you on hold and

856
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:28.599
I'll be back. We're gonna now
go to Dr Burke Williams. Hey,

857
01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:32.400
Dr Williams, good morning, Thanks
for taking my call. Yes, sir,

858
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:37.920
how can we help Well, when
I moved into the house that I'm

859
01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:44.199
in six years ago, one thing
that we noticed right away is the crape

860
01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:49.400
myrtles were twenty plus feet high and
they were growing in the shade of pine

861
01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.039
trees and oak trees. Well,
now two of those oak trees have died

862
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:55.519
and we're going to take them down, and those crape myrtles are gonna get

863
01:03:55.519 --> 01:04:00.840
plenty of sunlight, okay, So
I would like to cut them back considerably,

864
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:06.440
you know, so that they will
flower and really look nice. How

865
01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:10.039
far can I take them down there? And like I say, they're twenty

866
01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:15.119
plus foot high and they only bloom
at that height of there because that's the

867
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.559
only place where the sunlight gets tall. Yeah, I get it. So

868
01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:23.119
what do you recommend? Well,
and answer your question, how far you

869
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:26.199
can cut them off with the ground
and they're going to come out sprouting with

870
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:32.760
multiple shoots if you wanted to start
over, which is probably a legitimate thing,

871
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:35.320
because here's the thing. When you
go way back and cut them,

872
01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:39.840
let's say you cut them down to
ten feet high or to five feet high.

873
01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:44.440
Now you got this fence post flat
top stump that is going to re

874
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:46.239
sprout, and it's going to be
what we call a crow's foot. It's

875
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:51.880
just all these shoots growing upright.
The top of the trunk is bare wood,

876
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:58.079
and it's easy for them to break
off in a storm. You could

877
01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:01.199
do that, but I would seriously
consider taking it to the ground and if

878
01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:06.320
you want to make let's say a
three three trunk tree out of it,

879
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:11.320
cut everything off, but the three
that are going out away from each other

880
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:15.000
in kind of directions, you like, that look good and healthy. And

881
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:17.840
then as they get up a little
bit. You can tip prune those and

882
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:23.079
they'll branch, and so you end
up a beautiful krete. Myrtle typically comes

883
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:27.239
out of the ground with one to
three trunks, and then there's a y

884
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.840
fork in each of those at hopefully
different heights. It makes it look a

885
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:34.400
little prettier. And then those each
fork again, and so you end up

886
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:40.199
with a beautiful candelabra of branches that
is nice and healthy, and you don't

887
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:45.840
have all those stubbed off dead ends
and things. So I don't know if

888
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:48.400
that you just have to cut everything
on when you cut the ones you're not

889
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:54.079
gonna leave off though. If you
do this bert you need to you need

890
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:57.920
to make sure and cut them right
up against where they attach, because you're

891
01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:01.199
gonna have some suckering going on for
a while. But you just diligently cut

892
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:05.320
it back like you're just doing surgery
and removing the base of that, just

893
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:10.440
almost gouging it out of the of
the place where it's sprouting, because you

894
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:15.400
don't want more buds to just re
sprout right there. I'm thinking about cutting

895
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.440
them in January. Does it sound
like an appropriate time? That's fine,

896
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:20.280
I mean you could do it then, or I mean you could do it

897
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:25.440
now and begin the process of starting
to rebuild and give you a big head

898
01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:28.000
start, because when you first do
this, it's going to be a mess

899
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:32.639
for a while until you start rebuilding
a plant. The trunks on these things

900
01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:35.519
are three to four ranches, and
there's three of them. Yeah, yeah,

901
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:40.840
they're about six six feet apart.
Well, the alternative is to come

902
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:44.920
down to where there's a side branch
if it's an acceptable height. But I'm

903
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:47.599
telling you they're just not a pretty
way to get out of what you got

904
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:51.840
other than starting. Yeah, yeah, all right, well, thank you,

905
01:06:51.920 --> 01:06:56.400
all right, you take care,
appreciate appreciate that call time first to

906
01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.119
run again, take a little break
care. We will be right back with

907
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:04.079
your calls. Asmite is a mind
product. It's mined in Utah out of

908
01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:10.400
the ground, and it contains trace
mineral elements. What are trace minerals.

909
01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:15.000
They are minerals that are just as
essential to plant growth and development and health

910
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:20.880
as the big ones like nitrogen,
phosphorus, potassium. Trace minerals are just

911
01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:25.920
needed in tiny amounts. Trace You
just need trace of them as might goes

912
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:29.559
a long way, and asmite,
for example, you got a forty four

913
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:31.880
pound bag it'll cover six to twelve
thousand square feet of your lawn if you're

914
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:34.400
using it in a garden, which
I'd recommend you do by the way.

915
01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:40.360
You want your vegetables to have a
full complement of all the different nutrients and

916
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.199
compounds that help keep us healthy.
Ten pounds per thousand square feet in the

917
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.039
garden. So azmite is not difficult
to find at all. You can go

918
01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:51.559
to azimite Texas dot com. Our
sponsors carry it. You go to a

919
01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:56.920
garden center, feed stores, ace
hardware stores, you know, Southwest Ferdlight.

920
01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:00.199
You're gonna find azmite at all kinds
of places like that. Widely available,

921
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:02.280
easy to find. You don't need
to apply a lot of it.

922
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:06.920
Just follow the label very carefully,
you know, always follow the label.

923
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:11.360
I'm a broken record on that one. That's important. Follow the label.

924
01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:14.239
Let's head out to sugar Land.
We're going to talk to Greg. Hello.

925
01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:16.920
Greg, All right, how are
you doing. I'm well. I

926
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:26.720
had my two trees planted last Friday, and my watering schedule. I wanted

927
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:32.680
them Friday and a little bit Saturday. But being we had all this rain,

928
01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:39.439
am I need to do? I
need to back off watering? What

929
01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.239
schedules I go from. Now,
yeah, you do. So here's the

930
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:48.960
bottom line on tree watering. I
don't like to recommend schedules because every soil

931
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:55.760
is different, every situation is different. But if you keep the root zone

932
01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:59.319
moist, that's how much you water. So if you dig down, you're

933
01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:01.720
going to take your hand and a
little trowel or something, dig down about

934
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.119
three or four inches and feel the
soil. If it's moist, you're okay.

935
01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:12.000
Now that root zone, that cylinder
that came out of the pot,

936
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.079
the roots are all still there,
and so you could have wet soil all

937
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:20.199
around it, but it's not going
to wick into the root zone fast enough

938
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:25.800
to supply it on a hot,
sunny summer day, and so you have

939
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:28.680
to make sure and put your water
in that root zone. Of course,

940
01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:31.479
you don't want the soil around it
to be dry. But if it were

941
01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:33.960
still in the pot and you just
put the whole pot in the ground,

942
01:09:34.239 --> 01:09:38.560
that's basically what you got right now
because you just planted it. And it's

943
01:09:38.600 --> 01:09:43.439
going to take months, even years
really to fully extend and make a beautiful

944
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:46.560
root system. So for the first
summer, I would say in general,

945
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:50.800
probably a couple of times a week
is what you're going to need to do

946
01:09:51.199 --> 01:09:56.000
for the first month. First month, it probably is going to be a

947
01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:59.840
little water in that area about once
a week. Do you remember how big

948
01:09:59.880 --> 01:10:02.399
the the pots were? How many
gallons were the tree when you bought them?

949
01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:08.159
Twenty five twenty five? Okay,
I'd put about five gallons of water

950
01:10:09.159 --> 01:10:15.239
on that twenty five gallon root ball. I would do it once a day

951
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:19.720
or every other day, and that
gives it a good soaking. But just

952
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:24.760
watch that if it's getting too soggy, you back off because that's not good.

953
01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:30.359
Okay. And how I measured at
the water that I'm putting on me.

954
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:34.920
I noticed when I let the holes
run on it, it feels all

955
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:39.880
the way up to the top,
and then I'd say, about three or

956
01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:45.560
four minutes later it soaks down.
So is the tree drinking the water properly?

957
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:47.399
Yeah? I think so. I
often will put a little doughnut of

958
01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:51.239
soil around it, a little berm
of soil, you know, fill it

959
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:55.159
up with a couple of inches,
and then they all have to soak right

960
01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:58.239
down in that cylinder. That's a
good way to go because sometimes when you

961
01:10:58.359 --> 01:11:01.239
use a hose runs off to the
side. I tell something that affordable tree

962
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:06.439
folks do patrick in a tree,
they put a PBC pipe straight down in

963
01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:11.159
the ground beside the root ball.
Make it as deep as a root ball

964
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.880
that was as deep as a hole. You dug and let that pipe in

965
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:17.680
there, and then you can put
any kind of a stick, like a

966
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:21.239
yard stick or something down in that
pipe. Go to the bottom and pull

967
01:11:21.239 --> 01:11:26.479
it out and see is if it's
like wet for six inches deep, you

968
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:30.720
got standing water and you need to
back off. But that's right to make

969
01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:33.319
sure you don't overwater. That's why
I don't like the word schedule, because

970
01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:39.039
you know clays oil, sandy,
soil, full sun parts on. You

971
01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:44.680
see what I'm saying, right right
right, Okay, that sounds like playing

972
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:48.560
and I'll stick to it my saying
Augustine that I put around it's already got

973
01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:54.640
green all the way through it.
So just good. All right, Okay,

974
01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:57.680
thank you so much here, all
right, thanks for call Greg.

975
01:11:57.720 --> 01:12:02.479
Appreciate that Browns. The most important
thing you do to have success with plants

976
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.479
is get the soil ready first.
It is. It is the foundation.

977
01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:10.079
It's like you want to build a
house. So I'm going to go out

978
01:12:10.119 --> 01:12:14.960
here on the beach in Galaston,
and I'm going to start land two by

979
01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:17.439
fours on the ground and start building
a house. How does that turn out?

980
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:21.680
Right? It's the same thing with
a garden. You create a foundation

981
01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:27.479
for success, and that foundation includes
quality mulches, It includes composts, It

982
01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:32.039
includes anything it takes to help that
plant have success, includes nutrients. Ciena

983
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:38.119
Mulch down south of Houston in Sienna
area, just north of roach Sharing by

984
01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:41.399
the way, they're on FM five
point twenty one near Highway six and two

985
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:45.359
eighty eight. Ciena Maltch is the
place where you get the brown stuff.

986
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.960
Right when you drive in there and
drive out, you're going to bring out

987
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:54.920
things like quality soil blends. They
have a wide variety of different blends.

988
01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:59.600
You're going to find some of the
Airlin soils products that they carry there as

989
01:12:59.640 --> 01:13:03.279
well. At Cnmulch. Now you
can find things in bags, you can

990
01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:06.520
find things in bulk. You're going
to find all the fertilizers I recommend on

991
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:10.840
garden Line, including that asimite I
just talked about a minute ago. You're

992
01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:14.359
going to find those there at Siena. Now, if you need a lot

993
01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:15.640
of it, you don't have a
way to bring it in. They deliver

994
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:20.159
within about twenty miles of their area
for small delivery fee. But it is

995
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:26.000
a one stop shop for homeowners.
You go in there, when you drive

996
01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:30.840
out, you have everything you need
to make a well drained, quality internal

997
01:13:30.920 --> 01:13:35.399
drainage, raised bed, loaded with
decomposing organic composts that are going to feed

998
01:13:35.439 --> 01:13:39.960
your plants, and you're going to
have the fertilizers to top it all off.

999
01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:42.720
After that, you just get a
good plant, put it in the

1000
01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:46.199
ground. This can be very very
happy. Cienmulch FM five twenty one.

1001
01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:50.920
They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty
to five on Saturday seven thirty to two,

1002
01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:57.079
so after the show today you got
four hours to get that foundation prepared

1003
01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:01.319
for success with your plants. At
Cnmulch. By the way, they also

1004
01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:05.760
have some outstanding selections of rocks and
stones. So if you need a little

1005
01:14:05.840 --> 01:14:10.399
river rock for a drainway, or
if you need flat stones for a patio,

1006
01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:13.640
or you just fill in the blank, they've got a really good selection

1007
01:14:13.720 --> 01:14:15.840
there too. We're gonna go now
to Jersey Village and talk to Chris.

1008
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:24.520
Hello, Chris, do we have
a Chris there? All right, I'll

1009
01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:27.119
tell you what I'm gonna put you
on whole, Chris. I will be

1010
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:31.960
right back to check on you.
Southwest Fertilizer corner of Byssinette and Renwick is

1011
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:38.760
a place where you can get everything
you need to control pests, to control

1012
01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:45.880
diseases, to control weeds. The
excellent selection. If I talk about it

1013
01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:48.920
on guardline, if I have it
on my schedules, Bob's got it at

1014
01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:54.560
Southwest Fertilizer. Eighty foot long wall
of tools. So what do you need?

1015
01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:58.119
You name the tool. Bob's got
it for your gardening. It's there.

1016
01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:01.079
They have fertilizer spread there is that
everything you could possibly need. Like

1017
01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:03.920
I like to say, if Southwest
doesn't have it, you don't need it,

1018
01:15:04.119 --> 01:15:08.880
because that is exactly the truth.
And they're gonna have it. Southwest

1019
01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:13.720
Fertilizers on the corner of Businet and
Renwick. Businet and Renwick. So when

1020
01:15:13.760 --> 01:15:16.359
you go there, you just swing
in, you grab what you need and

1021
01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:20.079
you're off to have success when you're
in there. By the way, ask

1022
01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:26.920
Bob about the kneeling bench. That's
the product probably the best new prile let's

1023
01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:30.000
say, top three best new products
I've seen in the in the last three

1024
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:34.720
years. Outstanding outstanding. You can
use it for kneeling, you can use

1025
01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:38.520
it for sitting. You can when
you flip it over for kneeling. You

1026
01:15:38.600 --> 01:15:40.920
got two handles. It makes it
easy to get up. And if you're

1027
01:15:40.960 --> 01:15:44.399
north of forty you know what I'm
talking about there. But they've been around

1028
01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:49.640
since nineteen fifty five at Southwest Fertilizer
the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. We

1029
01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:53.960
are gonna now go, Chris,
We're gonna if you're there, are you

1030
01:15:56.039 --> 01:16:00.600
Hello? Hello? All right,
we're going back on hold. We're going

1031
01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:02.720
to have to take a little break
here. We are just hitting the time

1032
01:16:02.760 --> 01:16:08.840
where I should start hearing music about
now, I believe. Anyway, we

1033
01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:11.760
are going to take a break for
the top of the hour. We will

1034
01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:15.680
be back. When we come back, we'll be back to your gardening questions.

1035
01:16:15.720 --> 01:16:17.640
Chris will be the first up.
If you're around at that point,

1036
01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:23.840
I want to remind you that two
weeks from today, I'll be at wild

1037
01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:29.800
Birds Unlimited in bel Air. This
is your excuse to come to Wallbirds Unlimited

1038
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:34.720
in bel Air and let's talk about
gardening. They're experts on everything bird.

1039
01:16:34.760 --> 01:16:38.039
I mean you know that you hear
me brag about them all the time.

1040
01:16:38.199 --> 01:16:42.600
You can see these feeds that I
keep talking about that are so quality when

1041
01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:45.760
it comes to bird feed, just
super high qualities. But also bring in

1042
01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:51.319
plants, samples, bring in photos
on your phone, will diagnose, will

1043
01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:58.399
identify well, answer your gardening questions
and help you have success. Wildbird's Unlimited

1044
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:01.880
in bel Air Saturday, June fifteenth, two weeks from today, eleven thirty

1045
01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:05.600
am to one pm. I hope
you can make it out. I always

1046
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:11.640
love to visit with listeners. Welcome
back to garden Line, entering our third

1047
01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:14.880
hour of the day. Looking forward
to visiting with you about the things that

1048
01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:18.159
interest you. Listen. If you
have not tried Sweet Green by Nitrofoss,

1049
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:21.560
you ought to give it a try. Sweet Green is a product made from

1050
01:17:21.560 --> 01:17:30.840
a molasses base with microbial activity that
has turned it into eleven percent nitrogen natural

1051
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:34.439
fertilizer. It's going to dissolve away
like you would expect from molasses based product,

1052
01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:40.000
move into the soil, and microbes
love it. That's why organic gardeners

1053
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:45.239
use molasses in their gardening practices because
they know it's a stimulation for the microbes

1054
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:47.520
that need carbon. They need that
source of carbon, and Sweet Green provides

1055
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:53.840
that it is going to give you
a good green up. It's not immediate

1056
01:17:54.399 --> 01:17:58.479
fast, fast release, but it
is a quick release fertilizer. It's not

1057
01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:00.600
going to lock last around for a
long time. So you can do a

1058
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:04.680
light fertilization now. You can come
back in another month or two or three

1059
01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:09.720
do another fertilization if you feel like
your law needs it. With the Sweet

1060
01:18:09.800 --> 01:18:13.920
Green Sweet Green being a night frost
product, it's gonna be widely available.

1061
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:16.279
You're gonna be able to find it
in a lot of different places here around

1062
01:18:16.279 --> 01:18:19.880
the greater Houston area. For example, you're going to find it at all

1063
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:25.520
your ACE hardware stores. You're going
to find it at Southwist Fertilizer. Southwast

1064
01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:29.479
Fertilizer carries the Sweet Green as well. We're going to run back from out

1065
01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:31.439
of the phones and check in on
Chris. Hey, Chris, are you

1066
01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:40.880
around all right? I'm gonna put
you back on hold here. If you're

1067
01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:44.600
talking, I can't hear you.
Let's go to Richmond and talk to Pat.

1068
01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:47.640
Hey, Pat, Hi skip,
thank you for taking my call.

1069
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:53.680
I have a question about an oak
tree. The tree in my yard is

1070
01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:57.880
a five year old I'll say builders
grade live oak. I have no idea

1071
01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:02.880
what kind it is, and it's
doing very well, beautifully shaped, but

1072
01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:08.760
it is full of those little bee
round galls. And now there's started to

1073
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:14.680
be moss on the tree. Okay. And the second thing is when you

1074
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:17.800
look from under the tree to look
up, it is just so full of

1075
01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:23.640
branches you can't see anything. Okay. Is it okay to get it thin

1076
01:19:23.800 --> 01:19:27.079
down, trimmed up, Yes,
it's a young tree. Trim out all

1077
01:19:27.119 --> 01:19:31.079
the twiggy stuff inside, kind of
focus on the branches, leaving the branches

1078
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:34.760
that are going to be permanent parts
of the tree. It's hard for people

1079
01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:42.199
to do this pat because your tree
may have two branches that are like six

1080
01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:46.439
inches apart. Well, think about
when each of those branches is almost the

1081
01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:51.560
size of the steering wheel of your
car. They have long since grown together

1082
01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:55.960
and are pressing on each other own
stuff. So you kind of have to

1083
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:58.920
look at it with the long term. That doesn't mean you need to only

1084
01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:02.760
leave branches a foot of part right
now, but just realize that what is

1085
01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:05.560
going to be a permanent branch,
You know, if it's if it's head

1086
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:11.000
high, that is way too low
for the long term permanent branch. Because

1087
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:13.399
you're not gonna be able to mow
under it by the time it reaches out

1088
01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:18.079
and SAgs down. So I would
anytime a branch gets i'd say bigger,

1089
01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:23.520
any before it gets as big as
a golf ball. If it's not permanent,

1090
01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:27.239
I would remove it. Okay,
So you're you're you don't want to

1091
01:20:27.279 --> 01:20:30.520
prune every branch off and take you
know, seventy five percent of the foliage

1092
01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:33.720
off. It needs that foliage.
But as things get about the size of

1093
01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:36.600
a before they get the size of
a golf ball, go ahead and take

1094
01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:42.279
them off, and that way that'll
heal up quickly and the growth will go

1095
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.359
back into the other branches that are
out there on the tree. But yes,

1096
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:47.039
you can as far as the low
balls. Are these the ones on

1097
01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:53.279
the leaves or are these the ones
on the twigs? It's on the branches

1098
01:20:53.319 --> 01:20:58.079
themselves, and then sometimes on the
underneath of the leaves there's a little fuzzy

1099
01:20:58.119 --> 01:21:01.800
thing. Yeah, those are all. Those are two of several kinds of

1100
01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:05.399
gulls that we see on live oak. In general, they're not a problem.

1101
01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:11.399
And if the tree were super weak
and we're just overloaded with them,

1102
01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:15.960
well yeah, they're probably bothering it. But trying to control them is difficult

1103
01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:18.520
because a little wasp is laying an
egg inside the leaf or inside the twig

1104
01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:24.479
or whatever that those grow into,
and so by the time you see them,

1105
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.920
there's no sense in spring them.
It's not going to accomplish anything.

1106
01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:31.319
I would print out the branches that
are overloaded with them. Those wasps have

1107
01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:35.079
natural enemies. As long as you're
not blessed in the tree with insecticide all

1108
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:39.560
the time, those natural enemies will
bring it back under control. You know,

1109
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:43.000
the oak Houston is one giant live
oak for us, It really is.

1110
01:21:43.159 --> 01:21:45.560
And no one is going around spring
galls on all these live oaks.

1111
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:50.439
Okay, so don't worry about that. Okay, all right, thank you?

1112
01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:55.680
All right. One last thing.
You want to measure the trunk diameter

1113
01:21:55.760 --> 01:22:00.159
about chest high, and for every
inch of width us the trunk, you

1114
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:03.720
want to give it one or two
cups of a good quality lawn fertilizer,

1115
01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:10.800
not anything with wheat controlled, just
fertilizer, one to two cups. Okay.

1116
01:22:11.399 --> 01:22:15.000
That's going to help and inspire the
growth for it to kick in and

1117
01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:17.840
grow a little better for you to. You want to hang a hammock in

1118
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.239
it soon, and we're trying to
help you do that, Okay, to

1119
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:26.119
spread this fertilizer around through the drip
line of the tree. Yeah, well

1120
01:22:26.199 --> 01:22:28.960
yeah, the whole area. If
you imagine the tree, you know,

1121
01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:31.960
if the sun was at high noon, where would the shadow be evenly spread

1122
01:22:31.960 --> 01:22:36.399
the fertilizer through that area and watered
in? Really good? Okay, all

1123
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:40.920
right, okay, thank you,
all right, appreciate the call. Thanks

1124
01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:45.239
a lot. All Right, Well, I think we've lost track of Chris.

1125
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:50.079
Chris, if you for some reason
are trying to reach us and unable

1126
01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:55.399
to just just try to call him
back in, we'll give it another shot.

1127
01:22:56.319 --> 01:23:00.880
You know, we have really a
lot of good gardens in the greater

1128
01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:03.840
Houston area. This is just I
think it's the best place in Texas for

1129
01:23:04.079 --> 01:23:10.520
finding an outstanding, an outstanding selection
of garden centers, places that are just

1130
01:23:11.399 --> 01:23:15.520
something to write home about. And
one example of that would be our West

1131
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:19.119
Houston Garden center that is the Nilson
Water Garden and Nursery. They're not in

1132
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:25.079
Katie, which is just a stone
throw outside of Houston. Nelson Water Garden

1133
01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:30.800
and Nursery is an outstanding place for
all kinds of plants. Their plants selection,

1134
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:32.520
you'll be surprised when you get out
there. It is. It is

1135
01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:38.000
really really good. Pretty much everything
you can imagine you would want, they're

1136
01:23:38.039 --> 01:23:40.359
going to have it there, or
they'll be able to get it there.

1137
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:45.279
When it comes to water, oh
my gosh. The plants for water like

1138
01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:46.800
a lily pads, that's the one
everybody thinks about. But a lot of

1139
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:50.960
other plant species, the fish that
go in water, as shabunka and the

1140
01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:57.239
koi, for example, they've got
those there. The beautiful disappearing fountains,

1141
01:23:57.279 --> 01:24:01.079
you know, those giant ceramic urns
will walk flows over the side, so

1142
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:04.439
beautiful. By the way, the
birds and beneficial insects will appreciate being up

1143
01:24:04.439 --> 01:24:09.720
to get a little drink of water
from those as well. But anytime you

1144
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:13.720
have moving water, you have that
sound that is so soothing. And Nelson

1145
01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:17.520
Watergarden and Nursery has been a national
and i'm not exaggerating, a national leader

1146
01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:23.079
in quality water gardens for a very
very long time. As far as the

1147
01:24:23.159 --> 01:24:27.439
nursery itself, it's it's a destination
place and you need to get out there

1148
01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:30.159
and see it. It's in Katie. You just head out ten turn north

1149
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:36.960
on Katie Fort ben Road. Here's
the website, Nelson Watergardens dot com.

1150
01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:42.199
Go check it out. You'll be
very impressed. We're going to go now

1151
01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:46.880
to Southwest Houston and talk to Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, good morning morning.

1152
01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:53.560
I need to know what's eating the
leaves so my Chinese broccoli. It

1153
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:57.720
looks like if they're eating what I
call the soft part of the leaf,

1154
01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:00.800
okay, not the spam and not
what I call the rib, that is

1155
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:05.760
a caterpillar. And it could be
a inch worm, a what we call

1156
01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:12.560
cabbage looper attacks broccoli or all that
whole family of vegetables. It could be

1157
01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.239
something called a cross striped army worm, but it doesn't matter what its name

1158
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:21.159
is. You want to spray something
that has BT or something that has spinosid

1159
01:25:21.479 --> 01:25:29.119
in it BT or either one,
and you want to spray upward from under

1160
01:25:29.159 --> 01:25:32.720
the leaves. Those pests like to
hide under the leaf, So what you'd

1161
01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:35.600
want to do is you want that
leaf to get wet with the spray,

1162
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:40.800
and then when the caterpillar takes a
bite, it's like given the caterpillar the

1163
01:25:40.840 --> 01:25:45.000
bubonic plague, it kills them and
it doesn't If a grass operate the leaf,

1164
01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:46.920
it wouldn't kill it. If a
be del eate the leaf, it

1165
01:25:46.920 --> 01:25:50.079
wouldn't kill it. If a beneficial
insect runs around the leaf, it won't

1166
01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:54.399
hurt them. It just goes after
those caterpillars, which is what you want

1167
01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:56.680
to do. But don't delay.
The bigger they get, the harder they

1168
01:25:56.680 --> 01:26:00.760
are to kill. Okay, and
now that's to the BT in this spinosa

1169
01:26:01.039 --> 01:26:05.199
is what you use for the for
the webworms too. Yes, you could

1170
01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:10.079
use that for webworms, and then
you know, for the webworms, you're

1171
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:15.239
not eating the things that webworms are
on by and large. If we're going

1172
01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:18.760
about trees and shrubs and things,
yeah, on those you could also switch

1173
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:24.359
over to. There are a number
of synthetic piretheroids that will also work on

1174
01:26:24.479 --> 01:26:29.520
webworms. They're not organic, and
so I wouldn't I'd rather not spray those

1175
01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:33.159
on things I'm eating, like the
like the broccoli or coal crops and things.

1176
01:26:33.479 --> 01:26:38.720
Oh okay, but they're not hard
to go. Just got it.

1177
01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:42.880
For the webworms, you got to
get the spray of whatever you choose.

1178
01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:47.239
You got to get it to the
plants leaves and the webworms web will block

1179
01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:51.239
sprays from getting inside to the leaves
and they got to eat it to get

1180
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:56.239
sick. So take a pole,
break it up, take a strong stream

1181
01:26:56.279 --> 01:27:00.359
of water. There's some little hosing
gadgets that'll shoot a straight stream a long

1182
01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:03.439
way. And if you can break
that web up first, then any of

1183
01:27:03.439 --> 01:27:08.960
those sprays are going to work.
Well Okay, okay, great, thank

1184
01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:13.000
you, Thanks Carolyn, appreciate the
call. Thanks a lot. Well,

1185
01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:15.239
it's been a wet spring. And
when we have a wet spring, our

1186
01:27:15.279 --> 01:27:21.279
clay soils soak up water and they
swell that they literally get bigger if you

1187
01:27:21.319 --> 01:27:26.159
will. Then when it gets dry, they shrink. And we have cracks

1188
01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:30.520
in the backyard large enough to lose
your little fufu dog or toddler in I

1189
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:33.359
mean the giant cracks in the yard. Well that shrinks. Well, Rex

1190
01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:38.479
havoc on your sidewalks, on your
driveways, and most importantly on your home

1191
01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:43.119
foundation. Fix my slab, Fix
my slab. That's the company you need

1192
01:27:43.159 --> 01:27:46.039
to remember. Fixmslab dot com.
Is it? Can you get any easier

1193
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:50.399
for a website than that? Fixmslab
dot com. You need to call Ty.

1194
01:27:50.600 --> 01:27:54.800
He's been doing this twenty three years. He knows how to take care

1195
01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:58.000
of things. Walk around the house. Do you see cracks in the brick

1196
01:27:58.079 --> 01:28:00.239
running up through the brick wall.
Go in. Do you see cracks and

1197
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:04.319
sheet rock? Do you have doors
that are sticking? Those are all signs

1198
01:28:04.399 --> 01:28:08.399
you need to have somebody come look
now fix my slab. Tell them your

1199
01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:12.119
guardline listener, and they'll give you
a free estimate as a result. The

1200
01:28:12.199 --> 01:28:15.039
thing I like about him is,
first of all, Tie is a native

1201
01:28:15.159 --> 01:28:19.159
Ustonian. He's fifth generation Texan,
and he built his business about showing up

1202
01:28:19.159 --> 01:28:27.079
on time, giving you a fair
price, and fixing it right. No

1203
01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:30.680
hesitation at all to tell you fix
my slab. Foundation repair is who you

1204
01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:34.600
need to call. Two eight one
two five five forty ninety nine two eight

1205
01:28:34.680 --> 01:28:41.239
one two five five four nine four
nine. With all this rain and boys

1206
01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:44.880
that ever rained at my house,
when I go outside, I tell you

1207
01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:48.279
the mosquitoes come, and I swear
if they would all flap their wings in

1208
01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:51.000
the same direction, they could lift
me off the ground. There's a danga

1209
01:28:51.119 --> 01:28:58.680
many of them. Mosquitoes love rain, They love standing water. And do

1210
01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:02.319
you know that in a teaspoon standing
stagnant water, mosquitoes can breed and complete

1211
01:29:02.720 --> 01:29:05.239
complete that part of their life cycle, the larva, and come out as

1212
01:29:05.279 --> 01:29:09.399
adults. So you have a if
you have a saggy gutter, the little

1213
01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:14.439
drain basins underneath your plants, the
dog bowl, the bird bath, you

1214
01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:16.760
got to you gotta wash that out
and get that out of there, or

1215
01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:21.039
put a mosquito dunk in it.
You know, Mosquito dunks cover about one

1216
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:24.800
hundred square feet of water. It's
a little doughnut, floats on the water,

1217
01:29:24.920 --> 01:29:28.560
dissolves away for about a month.
It's a disease of the larva of

1218
01:29:28.600 --> 01:29:32.279
the mosquitoes. Just like bet,
the regular BT kills caterpillars, Mosquito dunks

1219
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:36.920
are a different BET that kills mosquito
larva. Is that cool or what I

1220
01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:40.319
mean? Birds can drink out of
the water. You can drink the water

1221
01:29:40.359 --> 01:29:44.720
if you want your dog, your
cat. I mean, it's not toxic

1222
01:29:45.119 --> 01:29:48.800
to us. But the mosquito larva
it shuts down. So when you have

1223
01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:53.640
stagnant standing water, maybe you got
a little pond out there, Maybe you

1224
01:29:53.720 --> 01:29:56.279
have a tree with a hole in
it and it's got you know, water

1225
01:29:56.359 --> 01:30:00.479
gathers inside there. Just toss a
dunk up in there. Let the take

1226
01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:04.199
care of it. Rain gutters,
all kinds of things. Mosquito dunks very

1227
01:30:04.239 --> 01:30:08.800
safe and by, by the way, they are so widely available. Every

1228
01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:12.399
independent garden center I've been in,
that's part of our garden line team.

1229
01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:15.880
They carry them. Feed stores,
they carry them, ace hardware stores,

1230
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:19.479
they carry them Southwest Fertilizer, they
care them. Mosquito uncture easy to get.

1231
01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:23.760
But you need to get ahead of
it because I'm telling you they are

1232
01:30:23.800 --> 01:30:29.399
breeding right now and they have a
meal planned and that meal is called you

1233
01:30:29.840 --> 01:30:34.000
don't make them happy. Don't make
them happy spot. I need to I

1234
01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:38.880
tell you I need to get also, just be a good thing to pick

1235
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:42.760
up as a fogger, to get
out there and just knock down the ones

1236
01:30:42.800 --> 01:30:45.119
that are already out and about flying. Just have a chance to sit outside

1237
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:48.119
and enjoy that area. Well,
we're going to go now and talk to

1238
01:30:48.239 --> 01:30:56.840
Jenet. Hello, Jenet, hi, Hi. I have a new mulberry

1239
01:30:57.079 --> 01:31:01.680
tree. It's a young mulberry tree
and it has to tiny white worms in

1240
01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:06.359
netting hanging on some of the branches. Looks like you know, tan netting

1241
01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:12.319
in the in the wormed are little
white wormed. Okay, what should I

1242
01:31:12.359 --> 01:31:15.560
do about that? It is called
the fall webworm, and even though its

1243
01:31:15.640 --> 01:31:21.239
name is fall, it occurs starting
now really all through the summer season off

1244
01:31:21.239 --> 01:31:25.279
and on, but especially in the
fall it gets really bad. The ones

1245
01:31:25.319 --> 01:31:29.119
you have now aren't as bad as
it can get. What you need to

1246
01:31:29.159 --> 01:31:32.520
do is if you can break the
webs apart, use a pole, use

1247
01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:36.479
a stream of water, a little
blast of water out of a garden hose

1248
01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:41.359
or one of those little applicators.
It'll shoot water like a pencil straight up

1249
01:31:41.399 --> 01:31:45.760
into the air. Break the webs
apart because they're feeding inside. When you

1250
01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:48.479
break them apart, wasps will get
in there and start hauling them out.

1251
01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:51.880
Wasps love to eat those things.
Birds some birds will eat those too.

1252
01:31:53.399 --> 01:31:56.319
But breaking the web apart is step
one. If you want to spray,

1253
01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:00.359
there are a lot of different insects
sides that will kill webworms. You got

1254
01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:04.039
to get it to the foliage inside
where they're feeding and then that web.

1255
01:32:04.359 --> 01:32:08.640
If you just have a little mist
of a sprayer going out there, it's

1256
01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:13.520
not going to get inside the web. Oh okay, okay, So if

1257
01:32:13.520 --> 01:32:15.520
we take them out, we've already
done it, really, but now it's

1258
01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:19.479
starting again. Yeah. Yeah.
When you first start to see them,

1259
01:32:19.520 --> 01:32:23.279
they don't have those big webs.
They're just little caterpillars out there. On

1260
01:32:23.319 --> 01:32:27.800
the leaves and they're start spinning the
web to protect themselves. And when you

1261
01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:31.319
first start seeing them, just just
have some have some BT or spinosid on

1262
01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:35.399
hand. That's the safest stuff you
can get for controlling them. You can

1263
01:32:35.479 --> 01:32:40.760
also use a lot of other insecticides
that are very effective in controlling them.

1264
01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:44.159
They may not they may be organic, they may not be. But I

1265
01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:48.560
like to just suggest BT and spinosid
as being Okay, well, BT or

1266
01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:55.039
what is the next Yeah, I'm
saying it fast s p I N O

1267
01:32:55.640 --> 01:33:01.960
s A D spin O sad.
That okay, all right, but remember

1268
01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:05.560
they got to eat the spray,
so get it on the leaves where they're

1269
01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:10.399
feeding. Oh okay, all right, all right, okay, good,

1270
01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:14.319
okay, thank you very much.
You met yep boy. We've got a

1271
01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:15.720
lot of questions on those. In
fact, I did a post. If

1272
01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:19.439
you don't follow garden Line on Facebook, you need to do that. Sign

1273
01:33:19.560 --> 01:33:24.159
up guarden Line on Facebook, follow
us. I did a post yet to

1274
01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:26.600
scroll down a little bit because we
put quite a few posts on there.

1275
01:33:27.319 --> 01:33:30.520
But if you scroll down a little
bit and you'll see the webworms read it.

1276
01:33:30.720 --> 01:33:32.920
I wrote out quite a bit on
it, but it gives you the

1277
01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:36.680
whole picture and tells you what to
do. That is what we try to

1278
01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:43.359
do when we have problems pop up
around here. Landscaper's Pride is a purveyor

1279
01:33:43.439 --> 01:33:48.920
of quality mulches and quality products for
the soil. Really twenty seven different products

1280
01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:55.159
that they carry, so it's it's
easy to find Landscaper's Pride products and it's

1281
01:33:55.159 --> 01:33:59.399
easy to find them near You go
to Landscaperspride dot com and you're going to

1282
01:33:59.479 --> 01:34:02.960
find all the places where you can
purchase their products. They sell by the

1283
01:34:03.000 --> 01:34:09.520
bag. They also have bulk as
well, but they have things for summer,

1284
01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:13.239
for the heat that go on top
of the soil. That's called malt.

1285
01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:15.439
And when I'm talking about that,
I mean the black velvet that is

1286
01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:20.079
a beautiful, velvety black molt.
It is not dyed. I hate dyed

1287
01:34:20.159 --> 01:34:26.439
mulch. I hate dyed malt.
Landscaper's probably black velvet is naturally dark,

1288
01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:31.159
very beautiful hardwood malts, hardwood based. I was in a store I shall

1289
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:35.680
not mention that sells hammers as well
as garden things, and I just happen

1290
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:40.119
to look at some of the mulches
and I could tell when you look into

1291
01:34:40.159 --> 01:34:43.640
the bag. It's like they ground
up palettes to put in there, and

1292
01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:46.760
people do that. They do that, not Landscaper's Pride. This is true

1293
01:34:47.000 --> 01:34:49.880
hardwood ground up mulches. They have
a pine bark mult one of the most

1294
01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:56.000
popular ones, very pretty pine bark
moltch decomposes very slowly. Their pine based

1295
01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:00.439
blend called Gardener's Magic Soil has humus
and screen, pine accomplished rice holes,

1296
01:35:00.479 --> 01:35:04.600
and a chicken pellet fertilizer that will
last up to three months. All of

1297
01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:10.720
these places, all of these products
rather you can find as part of the

1298
01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:15.039
Landscaper's Pride selection of products. Again
landscaperspread dot com find where you can get

1299
01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:19.000
it near you. We're going to
go now to Ralph in northwest Houston.

1300
01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:25.079
Hey Ralph, good morning, a
good day. Well, yes, my

1301
01:35:25.199 --> 01:35:29.560
Gordon, I have my tomato plants
and I've tried not to spray them,

1302
01:35:29.920 --> 01:35:32.920
but but then think bug got all
over them, and what is the best

1303
01:35:32.960 --> 01:35:38.800
thing to hit tim thing with?
You know, Ralph that once stingbugs become

1304
01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:43.039
adults and have wings, they're hard
to control because first of all that you

1305
01:35:43.079 --> 01:35:45.680
may spray, and then later in
the day they're flying back in from somewhere

1306
01:35:45.720 --> 01:35:50.319
else and there are If it's an
organic product, it's going to be a

1307
01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:57.039
prairethrine based product to knock them down. Synthetic it's going to be there's a

1308
01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:00.520
number of products that are labeled for
vegetables that are synth parihrooids that will kill

1309
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:03.760
the stink bug. You got to
get out early in the morning when they're

1310
01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:08.920
a little bit more sluggish and spray
them. Then by in the heat of

1311
01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:11.039
the day. We number one,
you don't want to be out there.

1312
01:36:11.039 --> 01:36:15.239
But number two it's it's it's harder
to catch them all there. Uh,

1313
01:36:15.880 --> 01:36:18.520
at this point in time when you
got the adults are difficult, very difficult

1314
01:36:18.520 --> 01:36:25.199
to control, and they are hard
to get that thing. I always got

1315
01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:29.520
the right thing, but this year
and it's just terrible when you let them

1316
01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:32.199
get the best of you. Yep, that's that is true. That is

1317
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:39.159
true. Uh. It's good talking
with you than being on. Thank you,

1318
01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:43.039
Ralph, appreciate your call very much. Appreciate that very very much.

1319
01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:45.880
We're going to run up against the
news break. Here our phone number if

1320
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:49.600
you would like to call and get
on the board with our producer. You'll

1321
01:36:49.600 --> 01:36:54.800
be up when we come back.
Seven one three two one two kat r

1322
01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:59.600
h and first two up when we
come back will be Mike and Marty.

1323
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:04.359
Mike in Magnolia. Hello Mike,
good morning to Skip. How can we

1324
01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:12.479
help? I played the nitroposs Imperial. Okay, in that four weeks were

1325
01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:15.920
some weeks ago a benches of rain. I was wondering if would be beneficial,

1326
01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:18.520
but maybe reapply some sweet greened about
twelve year. Yeah, you could

1327
01:37:18.520 --> 01:37:25.199
do that now. The rain Imperial
is a salt based furliz Imperial is a

1328
01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:28.800
cell based fertilizer, which you know
we do for our quick greenups and things

1329
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:31.319
like that. You can do it
on through the summer in small doses and

1330
01:37:31.640 --> 01:37:35.359
you know, gradually apply the nutrient
like that. But when you get a

1331
01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:40.119
good rain, it's gonna dissolve and
you are likely when it's a heavy,

1332
01:37:40.159 --> 01:37:42.760
heavy rain, to get some washed
away. So I would go ahead and

1333
01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:45.920
do the next application. If you
want to use the sweet green, that

1334
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:49.079
would be fine. All right,
Well, good after it? All right,

1335
01:37:49.119 --> 01:37:51.840
Thanks, appreciate your call. We're
going to go to Fairfield now and

1336
01:37:51.880 --> 01:37:59.279
talk to Marty. Hello Marty morning, Skip. I killed all my bermuda

1337
01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:04.239
or not my romita, all of
my net grass and yay, with that

1338
01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:12.680
image and behind it in my flower
bed, I found a bunch of bermuda

1339
01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:16.520
grass against the width of what can
I need to kill that? Can I

1340
01:38:16.560 --> 01:38:20.119
do the same thing image? Because
I sprayed it? But I'm not seeing

1341
01:38:20.119 --> 01:38:24.520
any reactions. Yeah, that not
the image. Can you tell me what

1342
01:38:24.600 --> 01:38:30.479
kind of flowers you have in the
bed? Well? I pretty much killed

1343
01:38:30.520 --> 01:38:33.279
everything, Okay, okay, so
nothing to worry about. Well, okay,

1344
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:39.600
what I would do if you got
desirable broad leaf plants? You know,

1345
01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:42.880
flowers, most of our flowers,
as long as they're not grass type

1346
01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:47.640
plant, you can use one of
two ingredients that will kill grass and not

1347
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:51.760
kill the broad leaves. Uh.
And the two I'm gonna make it easy

1348
01:38:51.800 --> 01:38:56.159
by just giving you the first few
letters of them. Uh. And it's

1349
01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:03.039
one it begins seth the boy's name
st h and that the ingredient is athoxidym.

1350
01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:06.520
But don't it's only if it kills
grass, and it begins with seth.

1351
01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:11.960
That's it. The other one that
kills grass begins with flu ass f

1352
01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:17.079
l u a z f l u
a z. Actually it's flu as a

1353
01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:20.239
flop beautle. I believe it is
a full name of it, but it

1354
01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:25.279
looks for seth or flu ass,
and that it will give you a grass

1355
01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:29.760
only killer. Uh. And as
long as your flowers aren't a type of

1356
01:39:29.880 --> 01:39:33.600
plant that's too closely related to grass, you'll be fine. No, it's

1357
01:39:33.640 --> 01:39:38.880
for it's no the other thing.
I have a Peggy Martin back there and

1358
01:39:38.920 --> 01:39:43.079
some speranza. Yeah, and you
can use those two on those plants.

1359
01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:46.600
Oh, very good. And if
I spree it in an area, can

1360
01:39:46.800 --> 01:39:51.479
how fast can I put down some
in a in a grass area in the

1361
01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:59.840
lawn? How can how fast can
I put down some zortia and some planted

1362
01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:03.520
stay in August? Team? Okay, So if we're in a lawn,

1363
01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:09.319
I would leave those things, give
them about five days of good, good

1364
01:40:09.319 --> 01:40:14.600
sunny weather to move down into the
plant and start doing the work before I

1365
01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:18.439
would take the tops off and plant
something else. In that situation, you

1366
01:40:18.479 --> 01:40:24.239
could also use a product like a
glyphosate, which is round up brand.

1367
01:40:24.239 --> 01:40:28.960
Everybody knows when you spray it again, give it five days, but then

1368
01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:32.279
it's not there and the soil your
new side will not be affected at all

1369
01:40:32.520 --> 01:40:40.119
by it. But that might give
you a little better control of it of

1370
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:44.239
the bermuda that's out there. But
I tell you bermuda is insidious, and

1371
01:40:44.279 --> 01:40:45.800
you spray it and you kill all
the top and all of a sudden,

1372
01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:49.279
a week or two later you look
and here comes a spreag out. So

1373
01:40:49.399 --> 01:40:54.880
if you can be patient enough to
kind of wait and watch, that might

1374
01:40:54.920 --> 01:40:59.439
be worthwhile too. Absolutely, with
the number of years that I've lived with

1375
01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:02.439
the nutgrond, hey it's dead,
it's so dead. Well good, I'm

1376
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:06.159
so excited. That's good. Thank
you so much. All right, Well,

1377
01:41:06.319 --> 01:41:10.359
you know, Marty, you can
you can eat the tubers from yellow

1378
01:41:10.439 --> 01:41:16.640
nuts edge I have there. They'll
teach you that edible and palatable are two

1379
01:41:16.640 --> 01:41:21.159
different things. Chew on them.
They taste a little bit like an almond,

1380
01:41:21.600 --> 01:41:27.399
h and then you have sawdust in
your mouth. So all right,

1381
01:41:27.439 --> 01:41:31.840
Marty, than fun facts. And
you heard it here on Guarden Line.

1382
01:41:32.199 --> 01:41:36.119
We're gonna go now down to sugar
Land and talk to June. Hello,

1383
01:41:36.239 --> 01:41:43.359
June. Hi. I was calling
for two things. One is, I

1384
01:41:43.399 --> 01:41:49.079
have some family coming in from Louisiana
and wanted to know of some different purty

1385
01:41:50.039 --> 01:41:55.159
nurseries to go to. And of
course I go in Chanet Forest and in

1386
01:41:55.239 --> 01:41:59.800
Chane Garden all the time. Okay, but would you recommend what are the

1387
01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:04.880
would you recommend? Oh my gosh, huh, I know that well number

1388
01:42:04.920 --> 01:42:09.319
one, I don't. If you
got those two next door, that'll keep

1389
01:42:09.359 --> 01:42:13.079
you busy. And those are outstanding, beautiful nurseries. I mean, they're

1390
01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:15.880
a lot of fun. As you
know, if you need to drive away

1391
01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:19.920
to go someplace else. We have
a wide range, you know, And

1392
01:42:20.119 --> 01:42:23.359
I'm not going to think of them
all here, So here I go.

1393
01:42:23.439 --> 01:42:26.319
I always hate to be kind of
on the spot because I'll forget somebody.

1394
01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.319
But if you go down to the
Heights as Buchanans and it's a little hide

1395
01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:33.319
away in the heights, very different, very different than the two you mentioned,

1396
01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:38.920
but a great nursery. If you
go way down to Seabrook Keema on

1397
01:42:38.960 --> 01:42:44.600
the boardwalk down that area Seabrook,
Seabrook has got Moss Nursery. That's eight

1398
01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:47.600
acres, a seventy year old nursery, eight acres to wander around on.

1399
01:42:47.760 --> 01:42:53.039
It's very different, very unusual.
Unuse. You can go and go get

1400
01:42:53.079 --> 01:42:56.600
you some seafood down there while you're
at it. Uh oh yeah. You

1401
01:42:56.600 --> 01:43:00.199
can go up to the Arborgate Nursery
up in Tomball. That's another good one.

1402
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:03.239
That's a drive up the wad.
Oh that's a good one. Okay,

1403
01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:09.239
that's enough. There is keeper busy. Yeah. Also, I have

1404
01:43:09.439 --> 01:43:15.000
a lot of nutgrass in my flower
bed and my yard guy, my landscape

1405
01:43:15.199 --> 01:43:21.640
is said to use sledgehammer. I
did twice, two applications and it's still

1406
01:43:21.760 --> 01:43:27.560
hadn't killed it. What else could
I use? You have? It's nutgrass?

1407
01:43:28.000 --> 01:43:33.079
Yes, sedgehammer kills nutgrass. I
don't know something is going wrong either

1408
01:43:33.119 --> 01:43:43.199
it's not nutgrass or I don't know
what else to say that it's sedge hand

1409
01:43:43.319 --> 01:43:48.119
that's the only thing. It's sed
help because it's nut said right, right,

1410
01:43:48.159 --> 01:43:55.359
said yeahedge? I got okay,
Well what's it growing in again?

1411
01:43:56.359 --> 01:44:02.159
My flower bed? But I just
planted like dwarf bottle brushes and stuff,

1412
01:44:02.199 --> 01:44:08.840
and they're still small and I can
work around them. Yeah. And also

1413
01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:15.880
I made a little homemade weed wiper. It's got sponges on it that you

1414
01:44:15.920 --> 01:44:18.840
can squeeze it over the nut sedge
and pull it up the nutsedge plant and

1415
01:44:18.880 --> 01:44:24.720
it wipes the product and it keeps
you from getting it on your desirable plants.

1416
01:44:24.760 --> 01:44:28.279
Because some things like image. There's
certain plants that you get a lot

1417
01:44:28.279 --> 01:44:30.720
of image on the soil and wash
it in and it'll mess with those other

1418
01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:38.000
plants. But such hammer is good. There's one called sedge ender. There's

1419
01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:42.640
image, there's you know, there's
several product options we have out there,

1420
01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:45.880
but just stay with it. I
don't know why such hammer would not have

1421
01:44:45.880 --> 01:44:50.840
given you results because it's very effective. Well, it's turning brown. Okay,

1422
01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:56.359
they are turning brown. But it's
been like a month and a half.

1423
01:44:56.520 --> 01:44:59.640
Yeah that's too long, but I
could see it taking a couple of

1424
01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:02.920
weeks, you know, to really
feel like, oh it's dying that month

1425
01:45:02.960 --> 01:45:05.960
and a half yeah, too long. But anyway, try those make you

1426
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:12.359
a little homemade wiper. I've seen
people take the little like barbecue tongs,

1427
01:45:12.399 --> 01:45:16.560
you know, but yeah, real
cheap okare and cut a kitchen sponge in

1428
01:45:16.600 --> 01:45:19.880
half and I don't know, bolted
or grew it to the two sides.

1429
01:45:19.920 --> 01:45:23.760
However, you can get it to
stay on there and just put your product

1430
01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:26.840
down the sponge. And this is
hands and knees, you know, but

1431
01:45:26.920 --> 01:45:30.079
you can get on right. Oh
that's okay, because I was almost hands

1432
01:45:30.159 --> 01:45:34.079
and knees with my sprayer. Okay, all right, so I didn't mind.

1433
01:45:34.479 --> 01:45:38.560
Okay, Well, then I'm using
the right product if it is not

1434
01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:42.199
good, but it is it has
the nut in the middle and then the

1435
01:45:42.279 --> 01:45:49.039
shoot goes around and okay, I
think for sure my landscape guy said it

1436
01:45:49.239 --> 01:45:55.439
was okay, we'll assume. Okay, okay, thank you so much for

1437
01:45:55.479 --> 01:45:58.479
your help. I appreciate it.
Bye bye, Thanks for the car.

1438
01:45:58.560 --> 01:46:02.039
Appreciate that. You know, we're
talking about garden centers, and you know

1439
01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:06.199
we had to call June and Sugarland. I want to tell you about a

1440
01:46:06.239 --> 01:46:09.680
little bit about some garden center here. In just a moment, it's time

1441
01:46:09.680 --> 01:46:12.359
for us to run take a break. I will be right back ed.

1442
01:46:12.399 --> 01:46:15.000
You'll be first up when we come
back. Talking a while ago about garden

1443
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:19.479
centers. Had to call from June
and sugar Land looking for someplace to go,

1444
01:46:19.640 --> 01:46:24.119
and just it kind of cracks them
up, you know, they say

1445
01:46:24.159 --> 01:46:29.720
that from what what is the deal
where you're around something all the time and

1446
01:46:29.760 --> 01:46:33.800
so you almost don't see it anymore
or whatever. Anyway, living done in

1447
01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:40.920
the Richmond Rosenberg area, you just
have these outstanding garden centers and it's it's

1448
01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:43.680
interesting, and I know, you
go to a place and you've been there

1449
01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:45.279
before and it's beautiful and you see
it and you won't try something else.

1450
01:46:45.319 --> 01:46:49.640
And that's good. But I tell
you, if anyone, maybe maybe we

1451
01:46:49.760 --> 01:46:54.279
got someone on the other side,
the other side of town that wants to

1452
01:46:54.359 --> 01:46:58.560
drive somewhere, you should go to
Jenne and Forest out there in the Richmond

1453
01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:02.560
Rosenberg area. It's the If you're
in Richmond Rosenberg area and you're going north

1454
01:47:02.560 --> 01:47:08.720
towards Sugarland, it's off to the
right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty

1455
01:47:08.800 --> 01:47:12.199
nine. Now, if you were
to interview one thousand different butterflies because you

1456
01:47:12.239 --> 01:47:14.880
want to get a good sampling,
and you were to say, where's your

1457
01:47:14.920 --> 01:47:17.000
favorite place to go? What's your
favorite place, They're going to tell you

1458
01:47:17.239 --> 01:47:24.000
Enchanted Forest and Richmond. They have
got every kind of plant that butterflies like

1459
01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:28.119
to be on. And I'm talking
about all kinds of butterfly plants. So

1460
01:47:28.279 --> 01:47:32.119
you got your swallowtails and golf fritillaries
and monarchs and queens and everything like that,

1461
01:47:32.640 --> 01:47:36.119
the buckeye and all those butterflies.
And then what about their larva,

1462
01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:40.239
Well, that's a different set of
plants. That's a different set for golf

1463
01:47:40.239 --> 01:47:45.640
fredillary. It's the passion vine that
they love that monarchs we know like milkweed,

1464
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:49.039
for example, so on and on
down the line. They've got all

1465
01:47:49.079 --> 01:47:53.399
those plants, and if you go
there, you're going to see these butterflies.

1466
01:47:53.399 --> 01:47:56.760
In fact, most of the time, if you'd like to take home

1467
01:47:56.800 --> 01:48:01.199
a caterpillar with your plant, like
a pipeline swallowtail with your pipeline plant,

1468
01:48:01.439 --> 01:48:04.359
they'll just let you put a calpillar
on there. If there's not already one,

1469
01:48:04.560 --> 01:48:08.039
take it home. It's kind of
like having a sour dough starter to

1470
01:48:08.079 --> 01:48:11.720
get gone. You got your own
butterfly farm beginning. Well, they do

1471
01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:15.600
much more than that, you know, I was noticing recently. They have

1472
01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:20.800
an outstanding selections of yarrow, and
yarrow is an underutilized plant. Yarrow makes

1473
01:48:20.800 --> 01:48:25.880
a ferny mat on the ground,
which in and of itself is a beautiful

1474
01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:30.840
different kind of texture, and then
these blooms rise above. They can be

1475
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:32.560
white, or they can be gold
and yellow, or they can be kind

1476
01:48:32.560 --> 01:48:38.239
of a rosy pink color or just
yellow. Yarrow's a great plant, and

1477
01:48:38.279 --> 01:48:43.000
those blooms, being simple, little
tiny blooms, are very popular with many

1478
01:48:43.199 --> 01:48:47.319
of our beneficial insect pollinators, like
little tiny parasitoid wasps and whatnot. You

1479
01:48:47.319 --> 01:48:51.960
always want to include plants like this
in your landscape because you're keeping the good

1480
01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:58.039
guys around, keeping them happy,
and in turn, when you have pest

1481
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:01.279
problems, you've got benefits there.
And Yerow is just a good plan for

1482
01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:06.640
doing just that. All of that. Of course, Enchanted Forest Garden Center

1483
01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:12.920
they have an excellent supply. They
are on FM twenty seven fifty nine just

1484
01:49:12.960 --> 01:49:18.560
outside of Rechmond. Here's the website
Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.

1485
01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:23.159
Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot
com. We're going to go now and

1486
01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:27.800
talk to Ed and friends Wood.
Hello Ed, Hi ski All, I'm

1487
01:49:27.840 --> 01:49:32.199
good sir. How can we help? We have about a six foot Sla

1488
01:49:32.239 --> 01:49:39.840
Maria. It's a tin gallon bucket
and some of the leaves are turning yellow,

1489
01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:48.199
and the yellow is turning to brown
on the on the on the leaf,

1490
01:49:48.319 --> 01:49:53.560
and eventually they're falling off. Is
that normal now? It sounds like

1491
01:49:53.600 --> 01:49:58.399
a disease or a you know,
I can't quite picture. Is it happening

1492
01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:02.199
in spots that the yellow or is
it just a general yellowing of the leaf.

1493
01:50:03.520 --> 01:50:11.399
It's happening on each heat branch of
the plumeria. Okay, but when

1494
01:50:11.439 --> 01:50:15.560
you look at an individual leaf or
you seeing spots of yellow on the leaf

1495
01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:20.760
or is it just a general yellowing
of the leaf. It's a general general

1496
01:50:20.840 --> 01:50:24.239
yelling. But I'm looking at some
of the leads. I'm looking at it

1497
01:50:24.279 --> 01:50:27.479
right now, and there's uh,
some of the leads there's white spots,

1498
01:50:28.279 --> 01:50:31.279
white spots. Yell, that's strange. I don't know what we create a

1499
01:50:31.359 --> 01:50:35.960
white spot. We have plumeria rust
which you see on the undersides of the

1500
01:50:36.039 --> 01:50:39.760
leaf. You rub your hand under
there and you get kind of an orange,

1501
01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:45.000
rusty looking powder on your hands.
That's one possibility, but that doesn't

1502
01:50:45.039 --> 01:50:48.199
sound like what you're describing. There's
some other fungal leaf spots that will often

1503
01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:53.439
have yellow halos around the fungal spots, but that's a brown spot. Ultimately,

1504
01:50:54.079 --> 01:50:58.600
Uh, there, you know it's
white. I'd almost need to see

1505
01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:00.920
it. I tell you what,
let's do. I'm gonna put you on

1506
01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:03.319
hold and I'm gonna get you to
send me a photo. Take some good

1507
01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:08.079
photos up close where I can really
see the spot, maybe the top of

1508
01:51:08.119 --> 01:51:10.640
the leaf and the bottom of the
leaf. Will you email those to me

1509
01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:15.399
and let me look at them,
because, uh, it's not sounding like

1510
01:51:15.600 --> 01:51:19.439
any common plumeria problem to me.
With the white spot is what threw me.

1511
01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:23.239
But anyway, send me a picture. I'm gonna put you on hold.

1512
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:26.479
The producer will give you my email
and I'll look forward to seeing those

1513
01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:29.319
pictures. Okay, thank you so
much, Yes, sir, thank you.

1514
01:51:29.520 --> 01:51:35.560
I appreciate very much you providing those
photos. That always helps. We're

1515
01:51:35.560 --> 01:51:40.680
gonna go now to John in the
Woodlands. Hello, John good More.

1516
01:51:40.960 --> 01:51:44.159
Yeah, I got some honeysuckle vines
on the back wall, four of them.

1517
01:51:44.359 --> 01:51:46.159
Yeah, the web worms are sitting
in. Just want to know if

1518
01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:50.560
there's a simple remedy for that simple
thing is on something like that. You

1519
01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:55.399
can reach break up those webs with
a broom, with a stick, with

1520
01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:59.359
whatever, break them up. You're
gonna see wasps coming in taking web worms

1521
01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:01.079
out. Now that's I mean not
gonna be enough in and of itself,

1522
01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:08.439
but they will be a beneficial predator
of webworms. I would squirt those leaves

1523
01:52:08.720 --> 01:52:15.079
with something containing either BT or spinose
said, those are the two safest products

1524
01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:17.359
to kill caterpillars on the foliage.
But you got to get it on the

1525
01:52:17.439 --> 01:52:21.920
foliage because the caterpillars will build webbing
around it. So you break up the

1526
01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:26.520
webs, go ahead and spray it
because that night they're going to rebuild webbing

1527
01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:30.039
to protect themselves from predators, and
if they feed on a leaf that's been

1528
01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:38.640
sprayed with spinosid or with BT,
it will kill them. Okay, great,

1529
01:52:38.760 --> 01:52:41.560
yeah, that sounds sounds good.
I'll get that done, Thank you,

1530
01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:44.520
sir. All right, thanks appreciate
that call. All right, we're

1531
01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:47.920
putting another hour in the books.
Just a reminder, I've got two schedules

1532
01:52:47.960 --> 01:52:55.039
online on the website Gardening with Skip
dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com.

1533
01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:57.479
I need to go on there and
add some more stuff. I always add

1534
01:52:57.479 --> 01:53:00.920
a few timely things to it.
But the longcare schedules there, the lawn

1535
01:53:01.279 --> 01:53:06.920
test disease and weed management schedules there
January through December. It's a big old

1536
01:53:08.159 --> 01:53:12.760
chart, big old checkerboard chart.
And for example, on the lawn care

1537
01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:16.760
schedule, fertilizing, mowing and watering
and air raiding and doing trace metals,

1538
01:53:16.800 --> 01:53:21.159
we're all on there. For the
other one insects diseases, preventing weeds,

1539
01:53:21.239 --> 01:53:27.199
killing existing weeds the bottom or a
list of products organic or synthetic, you

1540
01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:30.800
got options, They're all on the
schedule. We are going to take break

1541
01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:34.199
for the news and we'll be right
back our phone number seven one three two

1542
01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:40.319
one two kt rh. Nice temperatures
today. You know it's a little warm

1543
01:53:40.439 --> 01:53:44.000
side, but hey, it's okay. It's okay to get outside, get

1544
01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:46.840
a little work done, catch up
on some things. This is a great

1545
01:53:46.880 --> 01:53:49.600
time to be doing a lot of
things out there in the garden. It's

1546
01:53:49.640 --> 01:53:55.800
a good time to be making sure
that your lawn has been fertilized for the

1547
01:53:55.880 --> 01:53:59.319
summertime. A good slow release probably
the best way to go. You can

1548
01:53:59.479 --> 01:54:03.279
use an idiot release if you cut
it in half and do it twice.

1549
01:54:03.520 --> 01:54:08.399
That's one way to look at it. So you just don't put as much

1550
01:54:08.479 --> 01:54:11.079
down. You don't put all your
eggs in one basket and then get a

1551
01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:14.720
gully wash of rain, have it
wash away. Just put a little bit

1552
01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:17.279
out and later put some more out. Maybe put some more out. Do

1553
01:54:17.399 --> 01:54:20.319
that about once ever six weeks,
and you can go on through the summer

1554
01:54:20.479 --> 01:54:25.039
with an immediate release. I think
it's easier to take a slow release and

1555
01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:29.359
put it down something that's been designed
to graduate release over three or even four

1556
01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:33.319
months. These products are they're excellent, excellent products, and they cut down

1557
01:54:33.399 --> 01:54:36.479
on a lot of the work.
You don't worry about getting this flush of

1558
01:54:36.600 --> 01:54:42.920
growth, and now you have extra
mowing to do. And also, when

1559
01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:47.000
you overdo the nitrogen at any one
point in time, your grass grows top

1560
01:54:47.079 --> 01:54:51.199
heavy. You get a lot of
big green growth, mommo, and your

1561
01:54:51.279 --> 01:54:57.680
root system actually is less. Did
you know that when you overdo nitrogen you

1562
01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:00.560
end up with top growth at the
expense of root growth. Now why is

1563
01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:03.359
that important? One? In summer? Don't you think we need some roots

1564
01:55:03.399 --> 01:55:08.000
to take up water? Absolutely?
What if some grubs come along and chomp

1565
01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:10.800
off a few roots, Well,
you had fewer to begin with. You

1566
01:55:10.840 --> 01:55:14.479
see what I'm saying. It's gradual
fertilizing. And whether you do it by

1567
01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:18.520
taking an immediate release and you gradually
applying it over the months, you can

1568
01:55:18.560 --> 01:55:24.800
do that. Just make sure you
split it up or taking a slow release

1569
01:55:24.880 --> 01:55:27.880
easier way to go, I think
the better way to go, and just

1570
01:55:28.000 --> 01:55:31.840
applying it and being done until probably
we hit the fall season works pretty well.

1571
01:55:32.319 --> 01:55:34.640
Night Frost, by the way,
has a product called bug Out Max.

1572
01:55:34.680 --> 01:55:39.039
I talked about a little bit earlier
today just in passing with one of

1573
01:55:39.119 --> 01:55:45.840
our callers. But bug out Max
is an insecticide that within forty eight hours

1574
01:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.359
of putting it down. It has
killed the insects that you put it down

1575
01:55:48.439 --> 01:55:53.560
for. It works very quickly.
Also, it's going to last all summer.

1576
01:55:53.640 --> 01:55:57.039
You apply it once and it's going
to carry you through chinchbug season,

1577
01:55:57.399 --> 01:56:00.359
sod webworm season. If there are
any crawling around up there, it's going

1578
01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:03.720
to get those as well. If
you've got fleas or ticks. By the

1579
01:56:03.760 --> 01:56:09.159
way, do you know fleas go
through a pupa a life cycle in your

1580
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:13.319
thatch of your lawn, and then
when they're adults, they just hop on

1581
01:56:13.439 --> 01:56:15.560
the pit as it comes outside,
so they can take a free ride into

1582
01:56:15.640 --> 01:56:19.119
your house. Well, night Truss
bug Out Max helps the fleas as well.

1583
01:56:19.359 --> 01:56:23.800
You're going to find it at place
is like Ace Hardware at Single Ranch

1584
01:56:24.039 --> 01:56:28.279
You're going to find night Fuss Bugout
Max and a Tasca Sita, Ace Hardware

1585
01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:33.640
and Lake Hardware include as well as
Jim's Hardware in Montgomery. Yep, Easy

1586
01:56:33.680 --> 01:56:39.399
Easy works very very well. We
will go now to the phones. We're

1587
01:56:39.399 --> 01:56:44.720
going to talk to Andy. Hello. Andy, Oh hi, I've got

1588
01:56:44.760 --> 01:56:49.479
a quick question for you. There's
a there's eighth coon trees only a lot

1589
01:56:50.239 --> 01:56:58.640
and the seven in the front yards
are constantly dropping big limbs. I mean

1590
01:56:58.760 --> 01:57:03.159
big limbs. How big what's the
diameter of the bottom of the lomb?

1591
01:57:09.920 --> 01:57:13.039
Oh no, no, much bigger
than that. Okay, the last by

1592
01:57:13.079 --> 01:57:17.760
we're probably about three inches across.
Okay, wow, all but the one

1593
01:57:17.800 --> 01:57:24.920
in the backyard doesn't drop any limbs
at all. Oh that's interesting. Well,

1594
01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:30.680
Pecans are notorious for dropping little branches, and it's not unusual, especially

1595
01:57:30.720 --> 01:57:34.039
if we go in the summer season, to have a large limb just fall.

1596
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:38.239
And it's weird because it's like there's
no storm the night before, it's

1597
01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:42.279
dead still, and all of a
sudden you go out and they call those

1598
01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:45.359
widow makers for a good reason,
but they just boom. It comes out

1599
01:57:45.359 --> 01:57:48.079
of the tree and hits the ground
and there's nothing you can do about that.

1600
01:57:49.079 --> 01:57:54.920
There are different speculations as to what's
going on and why that spot would

1601
01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:57.920
be weak and cause it to break, but it's just the way it is.

1602
01:57:58.680 --> 01:58:03.319
I have heard of difference in the
varieties of pecans when it comes to

1603
01:58:03.600 --> 01:58:09.479
the branch dropping, but I don't
know as to why it's happening in the

1604
01:58:09.600 --> 01:58:13.840
front and not the back. I
would just have to speculate and I'd probably

1605
01:58:13.840 --> 01:58:20.840
be wrong. Yeah. No,
these are definitely widow makers. No if

1606
01:58:21.000 --> 01:58:28.199
ends the bots about it. Yeah, but okay, well, you know,

1607
01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:30.800
I don't mean to make light of
it, because it's a serious thing

1608
01:58:30.840 --> 01:58:34.199
when they fall. But the good
news is you got you can do your

1609
01:58:34.239 --> 01:58:38.640
summer barbecuing. Now. They're just
putting the branches right down there. For

1610
01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:45.159
we went through that breeze about three
years ago. It's going on the firewood

1611
01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:46.880
pile. But there you go,
there you go. Yeah, well,

1612
01:58:47.279 --> 01:58:51.039
and the truth of matter is those
branches that fall have too much juice in

1613
01:58:51.079 --> 01:58:54.560
them to put on a barbecue bit. They need to dry out a little

1614
01:58:54.560 --> 01:58:59.159
bit. Yeah all right. Yeah. We went days without electricity and all

1615
01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:01.439
we had was the tar place and
we were down to our last piece of

1616
01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:05.920
firewood. There you go, there
you go. Well, nobody wishes for

1617
01:59:06.039 --> 01:59:10.800
the branches to fall, but I
guess you can make lemons out of lemonade,

1618
01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:15.640
as they say, that is great. You knew if there was some

1619
01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:20.520
kind of possible disease or a treatment. Not a disease, not a treatment.

1620
01:59:20.640 --> 01:59:25.000
Sometimes when you get up there,
you'll see that the branch was wounded

1621
01:59:25.119 --> 01:59:29.199
and decay got into the wood,
and that is the more and there when

1622
01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:30.640
you look on the end of the
branch it fell. You'll see some brown

1623
01:59:30.720 --> 01:59:34.960
decaying in there, but a lot
of times it's not. It's just like

1624
01:59:35.119 --> 01:59:40.159
it's snapped off. And again you
can read about it, and they go

1625
01:59:40.359 --> 01:59:44.680
into these things, but none of
the what they go into has any bearing

1626
01:59:44.800 --> 01:59:47.560
on what you can or should do
or anything like that. Yeah, we

1627
01:59:47.840 --> 01:59:51.800
got a tree service coming out next
week to clean up the canopy and maybe

1628
01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:57.359
take some weight off the limbs.
Okay, all right, Well, you

1629
01:59:57.399 --> 02:00:00.039
know, Pecan's our state tree.
They've been around here along time doing really

1630
02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:04.479
well. That is one of the
things that about Pecan that makes it not

1631
02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:10.079
the best in the top ten yard
trees. But I understand why we want

1632
02:00:10.119 --> 02:00:14.159
to have them. That's true.
Thank you, sir, appreciate to call

1633
02:00:14.680 --> 02:00:17.159
you. Take care Buchanans Plants and
the Heights. When was the last time

1634
02:00:17.199 --> 02:00:21.880
you went to Buchanans. Oh my
gosh. They they just stay stocked up.

1635
02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:27.479
They are always something cool going on
when you go to Buchanans. Love

1636
02:00:27.520 --> 02:00:30.319
to go visit it. By the
way, I've said this before. Go

1637
02:00:30.439 --> 02:00:35.199
to the website Buchanansplants dot com and
look at the educational materials that are on

1638
02:00:35.359 --> 02:00:40.800
there that you got videos, you've
got lists of plants. I mean,

1639
02:00:40.880 --> 02:00:45.159
you're looking for let's say you need
annuals and you need them to be a

1640
02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:48.520
shady area, and you need them
to be I don't know, so high

1641
02:00:48.760 --> 02:00:54.319
or tall or whatever. You can
select those things in Buchanans list will pop

1642
02:00:54.399 --> 02:00:57.479
up and it'll tell you all these
good plants that you can plant. By

1643
02:00:57.520 --> 02:01:01.560
the way, right now, June
second, June second. It is the

1644
02:01:01.760 --> 02:01:10.640
what they call the Gardener's Reward Point
redemption period. So when you go to

1645
02:01:10.720 --> 02:01:14.800
Buchanons, when you buy for every
dollar, you get a dollar for every

1646
02:01:14.880 --> 02:01:16.960
thirty dollars you purchase, and you
can redeem points from up to half of

1647
02:01:17.039 --> 02:01:23.920
what you purchase during a particular purchase
you make. Get the newsletter. Sign

1648
02:01:24.000 --> 02:01:26.840
up for the newsletter, find out
what's going on. We're in that period

1649
02:01:26.960 --> 02:01:30.760
right now. Excellent house plants to
Buchanans. Just I could just go on

1650
02:01:30.119 --> 02:01:33.600
and on and on. No matter
what you're looking to grow, no matter

1651
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:39.359
what, you're gonna find what you
need there at Buchanans Plants, and you're

1652
02:01:39.399 --> 02:01:42.680
gonna find people that can advise you
and that can guide you. And if

1653
02:01:42.680 --> 02:01:45.520
you're looking for natives, it's the
best place in the whole region of the

1654
02:01:45.600 --> 02:01:51.399
state for native plants. They have
an outstanding selection and it just keeps on

1655
02:01:51.600 --> 02:01:56.000
coming. I'm always surprised when I
see, Oh, I didn't know you

1656
02:01:56.079 --> 02:02:00.720
could buy that plant on the marketplace. Yep, I should just go to

1657
02:02:00.760 --> 02:02:03.720
Buchanans. That's where you're gonna find
it. Let's see, we are now

1658
02:02:03.920 --> 02:02:09.760
going to go to trying to find
the next person up. We're gonna go

1659
02:02:09.840 --> 02:02:12.880
to Buddy. I tell you what, Buddy, I'm sorry I pulled up

1660
02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:15.640
the call. I'm gonna have to
put you on hold because we went a

1661
02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:18.880
little late on that particular read,
and you will be the first up in

1662
02:02:18.960 --> 02:02:21.800
Lorenzo, you'll be second when we
come right back. Hey, you know

1663
02:02:21.880 --> 02:02:27.159
how they have those emergency alert systems
where you have that horrible sound that gets

1664
02:02:27.159 --> 02:02:30.399
your attention. Well, I don't
think they'd like me using that sound,

1665
02:02:30.479 --> 02:02:36.000
but I have an emergency alert.
Heirloom Soils has a fifty percent off clearance

1666
02:02:36.079 --> 02:02:41.680
sale and it only goes until tomorrow. Today and tomorrow is all the two

1667
02:02:41.760 --> 02:02:45.239
days that are left in it.
Here, here's the deal. You like

1668
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:48.560
cactus and succulent mix, Do you
like the Works? The Works is an

1669
02:02:48.760 --> 02:02:55.239
excellent potting soil. They also have
them available both in the half cubic foot

1670
02:02:55.319 --> 02:02:58.159
bag and the eight court bag.
You know, if you're doing potting soil

1671
02:02:58.159 --> 02:03:00.920
and you're not doing a bunch of
plants, a little court bag is really

1672
02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:04.720
nice. So instead of fourteen for
the half cubic foot bag, seven dollars,

1673
02:03:05.079 --> 02:03:10.439
instead of ten dollars for the court
bag, five dollars each. Those

1674
02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:15.199
are high quality soils. Whether you're
growing cacti or succulent, you need a

1675
02:03:15.239 --> 02:03:20.039
good draining mix and cactie, cactus
and succulent mixes out for the potting soil.

1676
02:03:20.279 --> 02:03:24.800
The works, it is an outstanding
I've used it on my pot plants,

1677
02:03:24.880 --> 02:03:29.319
my houseplants. Well I shouldn't say
it that way. Wow, okay,

1678
02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:36.520
scratch, can me go back my
pot plant my house plan. I'm

1679
02:03:36.720 --> 02:03:43.119
sorry, that's funny. Well,
they're in pots five dollars each for the

1680
02:03:43.119 --> 02:03:45.760
a quirk. That is an excellent
mix though, really for both the works

1681
02:03:45.920 --> 02:03:49.960
and for the cactus and succulent mix. But today and to morrow only.

1682
02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:55.760
That is at IIRLM Soils, Warren's
Rock and mult out in Porter Texas on

1683
02:03:55.800 --> 02:04:00.720
Highway fifty nine up there in Porter
Texas and here's the phone. Just give

1684
02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:04.600
them a call to eight one three
five four nineteen fifty two eight one three

1685
02:04:04.720 --> 02:04:09.760
five four nineteen fifty And the reason
I'm giving you the phone number is I

1686
02:04:09.840 --> 02:04:13.359
want you to call them because this
is as supplies last, so just make

1687
02:04:13.439 --> 02:04:16.279
sure they still have some available.
I mean, this stuff is going like

1688
02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:21.359
hotcakes, and so Heirloom Soils of
Texas, and of course go to airloomsalsof

1689
02:04:21.399 --> 02:04:25.960
Texas dot Com and find out about
all their other great products, both in

1690
02:04:26.079 --> 02:04:30.399
bulk and in bags. All right, buddy, we're coming back here.

1691
02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:34.760
Let's see here. You had a
question about cleaning out underbrush. I believe,

1692
02:04:34.920 --> 02:04:42.000
is that right? I have about
ten twelve oak trees throughout my yard,

1693
02:04:42.359 --> 02:04:45.319
and I'm having a real problem with
the oak small oaks coming up and

1694
02:04:45.479 --> 02:04:49.119
growing up underneath and cut them back. I don't know how to keep that

1695
02:04:49.199 --> 02:04:54.319
from happening. I haven't done a
good job of maintaining that tree bit,

1696
02:04:54.600 --> 02:04:57.680
and so I kind of need to
know what I need to do to keep

1697
02:04:57.720 --> 02:05:00.279
that, get that all cleaned out, to keep it from having that roaths

1698
02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:03.600
back, and what the best way
to okay, you know, topped it

1699
02:05:03.680 --> 02:05:09.199
out. Do you know if this
tree was planted or if it just came

1700
02:05:09.279 --> 02:05:13.680
up from an acron there any I
believe it was planted because I'm a second

1701
02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:16.960
homeowner there. So it's all in
line, okay, And you're getting a

1702
02:05:17.000 --> 02:05:20.840
whole bunch of little sprouts pretty close
to the base of the tree. Is

1703
02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:26.000
that it correct? Okay? So
there's two things that can make this is

1704
02:05:26.039 --> 02:05:30.119
a live oak, yes, okay. Two things that can make sprouts on

1705
02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:32.159
a live oak. One is the
acorns. They come up, and those

1706
02:05:32.199 --> 02:05:35.720
things are dropping the acorns obviously underneath
the tree canopy, so you're gonna get

1707
02:05:35.720 --> 02:05:40.399
a lot of sprouts under there.
The other thing is root sprouting, and

1708
02:05:40.520 --> 02:05:45.560
there's live oaks are not all equal. There's a live oak along the southern

1709
02:05:45.399 --> 02:05:50.680
Gulf coast that tends to just make
single trees. There's a live oak over

1710
02:05:50.760 --> 02:05:55.199
in the hill country area that is
called the escarpment live oaks, and it

1711
02:05:55.319 --> 02:05:59.479
tends to do clumps of trees or
what they call them motts out there in

1712
02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:03.319
the country out west of Austin.
You'll see these. Well. Tree growers

1713
02:06:03.359 --> 02:06:06.760
can get acorns from me the place, and sometimes if they come from the

1714
02:06:06.920 --> 02:06:12.159
source that's more in the hill country, you end up with a tree that

1715
02:06:12.359 --> 02:06:15.680
tends to do a lot of root
sprouting mot forming, and that may be

1716
02:06:15.840 --> 02:06:18.960
what you have. And if that's
the case, you just have to kind

1717
02:06:18.960 --> 02:06:21.319
of dig down as far as you
can cut them off and keep them cut

1718
02:06:21.359 --> 02:06:27.399
off. I've seen people put a
very heavy landscape cloth down and then cover

1719
02:06:27.520 --> 02:06:30.880
it with something with weight, not
just a loose light mulch, but like

1720
02:06:30.359 --> 02:06:35.479
almost a gravelly kind of material.
But you need a good fabric that's going

1721
02:06:35.560 --> 02:06:40.520
to last to do that. That
will kind of hold them down, keep

1722
02:06:40.560 --> 02:06:44.920
them from coming up and getting light, and they just won't thrive. If

1723
02:06:45.000 --> 02:06:49.079
it were just acorns, you could
spray them or dig them either one and

1724
02:06:49.199 --> 02:06:53.560
get rid of them. But if
it's attached to the mother tree, and

1725
02:06:53.800 --> 02:06:57.680
from the description that you gave me
and where they're located, I think they're

1726
02:06:57.760 --> 02:07:02.720
probably attached to the mother tree,
right, So if you spraying that would

1727
02:07:02.840 --> 02:07:08.640
that would harm the mother tree because
they're connected, it would translocate down in

1728
02:07:08.720 --> 02:07:12.600
the roots, and to some degree, depending on how many sprouts and how

1729
02:07:12.680 --> 02:07:15.479
much you sprayed, it would have
a very negative effect on the mother tree.

1730
02:07:16.399 --> 02:07:18.760
All Right, I appreciate it,
Thank you so much. Thank you

1731
02:07:18.960 --> 02:07:23.319
appreciate the call. That's a little
bit of a complicated one, but hey,

1732
02:07:24.439 --> 02:07:27.800
it is what it is. Unfortunately, we're going to go now and

1733
02:07:27.880 --> 02:07:31.800
talk to Lorenzo. Hey, Lorenzo, Hey, good morning, Good morning.

1734
02:07:33.079 --> 02:07:38.600
I have a river birch tree with
two trunks kind of split in two,

1735
02:07:39.159 --> 02:07:43.479
kind of like in a ornamental kind
of way. With some branches are

1736
02:07:43.560 --> 02:07:46.399
dried up and on either side,
on both sides, i should say,

1737
02:07:46.760 --> 02:07:49.399
with some are higher, some or
lower, and one of the one of

1738
02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:55.720
the trunks has broken off at the
halfway point with some winter storms or windstorms

1739
02:07:56.760 --> 02:07:59.920
and money note, is that tree
on its way out? Or is there

1740
02:08:00.119 --> 02:08:03.079
kind of a remedy for this situation? You know, river birks is a

1741
02:08:03.119 --> 02:08:07.119
little persnickety in our area. Sometimes
you see them doing really well. They

1742
02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:11.359
like to be with a consistent supply
of moisture. That's why have a name

1743
02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:16.000
river birchs, because that's where you
find them growing. And when you're growing

1744
02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:18.199
on a river bank, you get
your reached down, there's gonna be a

1745
02:08:18.239 --> 02:08:22.520
water table right there to get moisture. When we get them in a landscape

1746
02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.239
and they're allowed to dry out,
and boy, last summer was a brutal

1747
02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:31.039
one hot hot for a time,
but almost no rain sprinkler systems were broke

1748
02:08:31.119 --> 02:08:37.159
last last summer, So I did
it suffer? Yeah, that alone could

1749
02:08:37.239 --> 02:08:41.279
explain what you're seeing. There may
be more involved, but that's possible.

1750
02:08:41.840 --> 02:08:46.399
Also, they are hardy trees.
But what's happened to some of our plants

1751
02:08:46.439 --> 02:08:54.079
here is two decembers ago, we
went into a cool season and had a

1752
02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:56.760
freeze that was early, the kind
of hard freeze. It was early,

1753
02:08:56.880 --> 02:09:01.560
and the plants weren't hardened off yet, and so we saw damage on things

1754
02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:05.520
that should have been adequately hardened off, but they weren't. So that might

1755
02:09:05.600 --> 02:09:11.479
have been a play in there too. But I'm thinking the lack of dependable

1756
02:09:11.680 --> 02:09:15.880
moisture, which is what they really
need. If you've got a split trunk,

1757
02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:18.960
it may or may not heal back
over, depending on how big the

1758
02:09:18.039 --> 02:09:22.199
split is. Uh, there's nothing
to do to treat it. You just

1759
02:09:22.359 --> 02:09:24.760
watch and at some point you may
have to saw it off down low.

1760
02:09:24.000 --> 02:09:28.000
They tend to reach sprout up.
You may get some more trunks coming up

1761
02:09:28.039 --> 02:09:31.960
from around the base. Its possibility. Uh. And as far as dead

1762
02:09:31.000 --> 02:09:35.079
limbs, when they're dead, just
prune them out where they join another limb.

1763
02:09:37.399 --> 02:09:39.920
Okay, and some of the dead
limbs is con that have a smaller

1764
02:09:41.000 --> 02:09:43.000
leaves, whereas some of the other
you know, other limbs have larger leaves.

1765
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:50.319
Is that part same problem too,
But that could be due to a

1766
02:09:50.399 --> 02:09:54.119
limited flow, could be a limited
flow, something weak in it like that

1767
02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:58.319
other possibility, just to throw this
out there. Uh, sometimes when they

1768
02:09:58.520 --> 02:10:03.039
use we control products around the base
of the trees, there can be damage

1769
02:10:03.079 --> 02:10:05.520
to the roots or it could be
you know, in a case around up,

1770
02:10:05.560 --> 02:10:09.479
if there was a little sprout or
coming off the base of the trunk

1771
02:10:09.560 --> 02:10:13.279
and you killed weeds around it,
that round up could get into the tree.

1772
02:10:13.920 --> 02:10:16.119
That that I'm not just picking on
that one product. I'm just saying

1773
02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:20.720
there's different ways sometimes that herbicides can
weaken a tree. And you may see

1774
02:10:20.760 --> 02:10:26.399
some unusual coloring of the leaves,
the development of the leaves, the size

1775
02:10:26.399 --> 02:10:31.119
of the leaves, and so on. Okay, and so again you know,

1776
02:10:31.800 --> 02:10:33.439
a spit trunk and I'm kind of
looking at them as twins that one

1777
02:10:33.520 --> 02:10:37.079
is acting different than the other.
That's yeah, one of my so yeah,

1778
02:10:37.159 --> 02:10:39.479
okay, well I'll keep an eye
on I'll put some of the dead

1779
02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:43.239
branches and I'll keep an eye on
it. Yeah, and when we get

1780
02:10:43.239 --> 02:10:46.359
into summertime, gets you a water
out there. There's a little device that

1781
02:10:46.439 --> 02:10:52.640
goes around the tree and it's like
a hinged sprinkler that goes around the base

1782
02:10:52.720 --> 02:10:58.000
of the tree, and you can
turn it on and water as far out

1783
02:10:58.079 --> 02:11:01.520
as you want, but it'll wet
that area through that region, and especially

1784
02:11:01.560 --> 02:11:05.680
on the side that's not doing as
well, providing some extra water. Once

1785
02:11:05.760 --> 02:11:09.239
we get into hot weather and we've
gone let's say, two weeks without any

1786
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.680
rain at all, you might give
it a good soaking, just one good

1787
02:11:13.760 --> 02:11:18.319
soaking about an inch or soil of
water and just to kind of supplementally help

1788
02:11:18.359 --> 02:11:24.279
it out like that. Sure,
okay, and it's called tree Hugger sprinkler,

1789
02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:28.359
the device I was talking about.
Okay, yeah, pretty widely.

1790
02:11:28.840 --> 02:11:33.920
All right, Thanks Lorenzo, Thank
you, Bye bye. Yep, yep,

1791
02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:39.079
yep. River birds can be a
little persnickety sometimes I wish they weren't.

1792
02:11:39.119 --> 02:11:41.800
I love that tree. Gosh,
the bark is beautiful. You know,

1793
02:11:41.880 --> 02:11:46.840
when we plant trees, we think
about things like how big does it

1794
02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:50.960
get, how fast does it grow, what's the canopy size or does it

1795
02:11:52.039 --> 02:11:54.880
bloom or things like we think about
all these things about trees, and we

1796
02:11:54.920 --> 02:11:58.680
should. But one thing we don't
think about a lot is tree bark.

1797
02:11:58.479 --> 02:12:03.159
And you know, when you look
at a river birch and the way that

1798
02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:07.399
bark peels off, papery peeling off, it is beautiful and so even in

1799
02:12:07.479 --> 02:12:11.840
the winter time, that is a
very nice feature in the landscape. Some

1800
02:12:13.079 --> 02:12:16.520
crape myrtles, like Natchez, which
gets real big and has white blooms,

1801
02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:20.880
and several other varieties have a cinnamon
colored exfoliating bark. It's not just the

1802
02:12:22.000 --> 02:12:26.600
regular putty colored crpe myrtle bark.
It's it's a beautiful cinnamon colored xfolioning bark,

1803
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:31.640
very attractive. We have other plants
that do things like that, and

1804
02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:35.279
so just another thing to think about
when you're planting plants. Some of these

1805
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:39.039
plants don't get so large, but
they would be nice around a patio and

1806
02:12:39.079 --> 02:12:43.039
you're sitting there close by and enjoying, enjoying the beauty of the form of

1807
02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:46.119
the tree and the bark and the
trunk. Just something to think about.

1808
02:12:46.600 --> 02:12:52.479
Time for news break. Here's our
number seven one three two one two KTRH.

1809
02:12:52.600 --> 02:12:54.680
Right now, we've got open lines. If you'd like to get on,

1810
02:12:54.960 --> 02:13:01.000
here's your shot. To Carla in
Richmond. Hello, Carla, it

1811
02:13:01.079 --> 02:13:05.359
seems like our neighborhood is just overnight
and inundated by the webworms and the trees.

1812
02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:11.039
Yes, and I don't know what
to do about it because some of

1813
02:13:11.079 --> 02:13:13.000
them are really high up where they
can't be reached. I can't cut the

1814
02:13:13.079 --> 02:13:18.840
branches out, so looking for recommendations. Well, if you can reach it,

1815
02:13:20.399 --> 02:13:22.479
you can control it. If you
can't reach it with a spray or

1816
02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:26.960
a pole to break up the webs
or something, then you're not going to

1817
02:13:26.000 --> 02:13:30.479
be able to the good news is
webworms don't kill your tree. Now,

1818
02:13:30.680 --> 02:13:35.039
if year after year you completely defolia, did the tree more than once a

1819
02:13:35.159 --> 02:13:37.880
year even, well, yeah,
you're going to weaken the tree. And

1820
02:13:37.000 --> 02:13:41.600
there are the potential issues that could
be contributing to the decline of the tree.

1821
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:45.840
But webworms in and of themselves,
trees bounce right back to them.

1822
02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:50.279
Just part of nature. They're ugly. I understand that, but I would

1823
02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:54.159
say everything you can reach, go
ahead and protect it or break the webs

1824
02:13:54.239 --> 02:13:58.560
up at least let wasps in.
And what you can't. It's kind of

1825
02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:05.199
like close your eyes and don't look
at it because they go away. Yeah,

1826
02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:09.159
they go away. They have about
three generations a year here in the

1827
02:14:09.239 --> 02:14:15.680
Houston area. South Texas has four, North Texas has two. It depends

1828
02:14:15.720 --> 02:14:18.600
on the year. But so we're
getting a generation, you'll see them again

1829
02:14:18.880 --> 02:14:24.840
and then the worst generation is almost
always in August September when they get the

1830
02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:28.680
worst. So that's that's where you
wouldn't want to get ahead of it as

1831
02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:31.319
much as you can. But this
seems to be a bad year, especially

1832
02:14:31.399 --> 02:14:35.399
for these early generations. We'll see
how it pans out for the others.

1833
02:14:35.640 --> 02:14:41.880
Anything to spray sprays, you have
options. The organic end is b T

1834
02:14:43.479 --> 02:14:50.239
and spinosaid are the two ingredients that
are effective. If you want something that's

1835
02:14:50.279 --> 02:14:54.199
going to last longer out there,
then a synthetic pirethroid. There are a

1836
02:14:54.359 --> 02:15:01.840
number of different things. The synthetic
pirethroids can tell them. Because the last

1837
02:15:03.319 --> 02:15:07.079
four letters are t h R I
n Thren. That's fine, that's five

1838
02:15:07.199 --> 02:15:16.840
letters. The last five three by
by fen threns si Okay flu Thren resme

1839
02:15:16.000 --> 02:15:20.600
Thren. Those are all threns.
Those are all synthetic. Now, the

1840
02:15:20.720 --> 02:15:24.079
one that's organic is pyrie Thren pyrethri. That's the only one. But I

1841
02:15:24.439 --> 02:15:26.680
would say if you want a little
you know, if you're gonna have to

1842
02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:30.960
rent a sprayer or something like that. Then you don't want to use the

1843
02:15:31.119 --> 02:15:35.039
organics because a few days after you
spray them, they're no longer working.

1844
02:15:35.880 --> 02:15:39.520
So I got you. Okay,
well, thank you for that. At

1845
02:15:39.640 --> 02:15:41.479
least there's hope on the horizon.
Yeah, yeah, there is. Well,

1846
02:15:41.600 --> 02:15:48.560
it's it's nature. Being nature doesn't
doesn't always suit our taste. But

1847
02:15:48.399 --> 02:15:52.880
yeah, the good news is it's
not gonna kill your tree. Okay,

1848
02:15:52.000 --> 02:15:56.399
thank you so much. You bet
happy, happy to do that. We're

1849
02:15:56.399 --> 02:16:01.920
gonna go now to Glenn and Tomball. Hello, Glenn, good morning.

1850
02:16:01.000 --> 02:16:05.680
How are you? I'm good,
sir. How can we help? I

1851
02:16:05.000 --> 02:16:16.199
was I just had some new landscaping
put in in the front by professional landscaper.

1852
02:16:16.279 --> 02:16:18.319
They came in, they cleaned it
all up, and then they put

1853
02:16:18.520 --> 02:16:24.399
in composted leaf, mold and new
dirt, and then they came back with

1854
02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:30.159
a layer of well, they put
the new plants in. It's about thirty

1855
02:16:30.439 --> 02:16:35.440
five different plants, and then they
put in a natural mult around it.

1856
02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:41.840
It really looks nice. And two
weeks two weeks later, here I look

1857
02:16:41.200 --> 02:16:48.520
and the nut grass is popping up
around in the front part. And I

1858
02:16:48.600 --> 02:16:52.840
went to pull it and somewhere in
my mind says, don't pull that nut

1859
02:16:52.920 --> 02:16:58.799
grass. And I've you in the
past, I've used is it sledge swimmer,

1860
02:17:00.079 --> 02:17:03.959
sedge hammer, Yeah, sedgehammer with
the yeah, with the surfact and

1861
02:17:05.120 --> 02:17:09.799
and right, I don't know what
would kill that stuff? Yeah, And

1862
02:17:09.920 --> 02:17:13.399
I was looking for some it's a
brand new bed and it wasn't cheap,

1863
02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:18.719
and I want to get that nutgrass
out where it won't come back. Yeah.

1864
02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:22.639
Yeah, sedgehammer is good depending on
where the nuts edge is growing.

1865
02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:26.399
Uh it. You know, there's
different products that are labeled for use in

1866
02:17:26.479 --> 02:17:30.719
that area. Image we often use
in the lawns, and you can use

1867
02:17:30.760 --> 02:17:33.559
it in flower beds. You have
to read the label because there's some plants

1868
02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:39.639
you shouldn't use it around. That's
the image. But sedgehammer, sedge ender

1869
02:17:39.040 --> 02:17:43.840
is another one. And I'm forgetting
some others that are out there on the

1870
02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:46.239
market. But gun you're up there
in Tomball. So if you head out

1871
02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:50.680
to Arbigate Nursery or D and D
is a feed store out that same twenty

1872
02:17:50.799 --> 02:17:56.760
nine to twenty going out, they're
going to have products like that for it.

1873
02:17:56.600 --> 02:18:01.280
Handy and plants for all seasons is
right now on the road. I

1874
02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:05.079
mean, they have a very good
selection. Of those two you're going to

1875
02:18:05.120 --> 02:18:11.000
find different stores. One may carry
sedge ender and another sedge hammer, you

1876
02:18:11.120 --> 02:18:16.159
know. But I was just into
plants for all seasons the other day and

1877
02:18:16.280 --> 02:18:18.079
Sherry had a whole bunch of things
on the wall, and I noticed some

1878
02:18:18.200 --> 02:18:22.680
nutsedge controls there. So just go
go talk to them, get a hold

1879
02:18:22.719 --> 02:18:26.280
of somebody there like Sherry that knows
what they're doing, and everybody there does,

1880
02:18:26.879 --> 02:18:31.000
uh, And and have them make
sure you tell them I want this

1881
02:18:31.239 --> 02:18:33.000
for a flower bed, or I
want this for a lawn, or I

1882
02:18:33.040 --> 02:18:35.680
want this for a rose bed.
To make sure they give you a product

1883
02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:41.840
for use in that area. Okay, good deal. I'm going there this

1884
02:18:41.040 --> 02:18:46.520
morning to pick up Nelson's fertilizer for
the front. Okay, well they've got

1885
02:18:46.600 --> 02:18:50.840
that, yep. Good, Okay, all right, thank you very much

1886
02:18:52.280 --> 02:18:54.680
to day and just be ready on
the nut sedge. Stay with it.

1887
02:18:54.479 --> 02:18:58.120
You don't get it all at one
time. When it reached sprouts. After

1888
02:18:58.200 --> 02:19:03.079
it gets maybe three to five leaves, you need to have applied something to

1889
02:19:03.200 --> 02:19:07.879
it. Don't don't let it pull
it. You can pull it, but

1890
02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:11.799
a nutsedge tuber has like seven to
nine buds on it. So you when

1891
02:19:11.840 --> 02:19:16.079
it sprouts a shoot and comes up
and you see the shoote and you break

1892
02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:18.280
it off, it just laughs and
sends the next one up. I mean,

1893
02:19:18.360 --> 02:19:24.280
it's God that does not. The
one thing that does is it prevents

1894
02:19:24.319 --> 02:19:30.079
it from getting sunlight and carbohydrates to
replenish the nuts. So it's not that

1895
02:19:30.200 --> 02:19:35.079
it's bad, it's just that it's
a false hope. So you gotta it's

1896
02:19:35.120 --> 02:19:39.079
better to get a product that will
translocate down into that tuber you and then

1897
02:19:39.239 --> 02:19:43.959
the daughter tubers. But if you
let it sit above ground catching sunlight for

1898
02:19:43.159 --> 02:19:48.399
four weeks, it's going to already
have daughter tubers that are producing. So

1899
02:19:48.559 --> 02:19:52.200
you've just multiplied the problem before you
got around to spray in it. So

1900
02:19:52.360 --> 02:19:56.520
don't three or five leaves, get
some spray on it. Okay, all

1901
02:19:56.639 --> 02:20:01.440
right, I'll do that, Thank
you very much. You bet. Sometimes

1902
02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:05.159
I feel like Patten. You know, we're at the beginning of the movie

1903
02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:07.120
Patent. He marches back and forth
telling the troops how they're going to have

1904
02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:11.479
to win this war. You're you're
up for a war with nut said,

1905
02:20:11.680 --> 02:20:13.479
and you got to face it the
right way. We're gonna take a little

1906
02:20:13.479 --> 02:20:16.680
break we'll be right back. Patrick, you are the first up when we

1907
02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:22.879
come back. Our phone number seven
one three two one two kat rh six

1908
02:20:22.959 --> 02:20:24.799
am to ten am. You can
tell your friends and neighbors to listen to

1909
02:20:24.879 --> 02:20:28.280
garden Line. Maybe that guy that
won't take care of his lawn, you

1910
02:20:28.319 --> 02:20:31.079
can get him listening. Who knows
the neighborhood might be a little pretty your

1911
02:20:31.159 --> 02:20:37.040
place to live. Ice hardware stores
are the place you go for all the

1912
02:20:37.200 --> 02:20:41.959
things that you need to have a
beautiful lawn, landscape, outdoor patio area.

1913
02:20:41.040 --> 02:20:43.600
I mean, they've got it all, from barbecue pits to strings of

1914
02:20:43.600 --> 02:20:48.719
beautiful lights out there for the mosquito
controls yep, the dunks and the mosquito

1915
02:20:48.799 --> 02:20:54.360
foggers and all the things that make
life livable outside. Right now, with

1916
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:58.479
the flocks of mosquitos that we've got, they've got fire in control, and

1917
02:20:58.600 --> 02:21:01.959
this is a good time to do
that. Throw a potato chip out there

1918
02:21:01.040 --> 02:21:07.639
on your lawn and check back fifty
minutes and check back whenever you find fire

1919
02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:09.879
ants on that potato chip. Is
a good time debate now. When it

1920
02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:13.159
gets ro hot, fire ants will
be out during the middle of the day

1921
02:21:13.200 --> 02:21:16.680
as much, but earlier or later
they are they like that temperature time,

1922
02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:20.879
that's the time to put your baits. And ACE Hardware has the baits that

1923
02:21:22.040 --> 02:21:26.159
you need. Ace Hardware carries all
the things that you need for your gardens,

1924
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:30.399
for your lawns, all the fertilizers
I talk about. Go to Acehardware

1925
02:21:30.399 --> 02:21:33.200
dot com find the store locator.
There's forty stores to choose from in the

1926
02:21:33.239 --> 02:21:37.600
greater Houston area. You ought to
be able to find two, three or

1927
02:21:37.639 --> 02:21:41.879
more not too far away from you. Certainly worth a trip over to get

1928
02:21:41.959 --> 02:21:45.040
stocked up. We're going to go
now to Missouri City and talk to Patrick.

1929
02:21:45.079 --> 02:21:50.200
Hello. Patrick, Yeah, I've
been seeing these big fucking account pillars.

1930
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:58.520
Yeah, me inch and a half
two inches long and about half a

1931
02:21:58.600 --> 02:22:03.879
dozen our plants all seen it.
What are they do? The birds like

1932
02:22:03.959 --> 02:22:07.360
them? Well, there's a lot
of caterpillars out there. The salt marsh

1933
02:22:07.440 --> 02:22:11.840
caterpillar somewhat fits the description that you
just gave me, So it may that

1934
02:22:11.959 --> 02:22:13.680
may be the name of it.
It kind of doesn't matter what it is.

1935
02:22:13.879 --> 02:22:16.479
If it's a caterpillar. First of
all, there's a good chance a

1936
02:22:16.559 --> 02:22:20.000
bird might be willing to eat it. Typically a big fuzzy thing crawling on

1937
02:22:20.040 --> 02:22:24.879
the ground not as much, but
that would be an option. But anytime

1938
02:22:24.920 --> 02:22:28.040
it's eating your plant, which is
what caterpillars do. They eat foliage.

1939
02:22:28.879 --> 02:22:35.399
You just need to spray the foliage
with spinosa or bt either one. And

1940
02:22:35.840 --> 02:22:39.280
when they eat it, they get
sick and die. Yeah, what are

1941
02:22:39.360 --> 02:22:46.719
they when they grow up? Different
kinds of different kinds of moths. You

1942
02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:48.120
know, we'd have to I'd have
to know for sure what it is,

1943
02:22:48.200 --> 02:22:52.840
but you might. Why don't you
do this? You write down salt marsh

1944
02:22:52.959 --> 02:22:56.000
caterpillar. Go do a search online
see if that's your caterpillar, and when

1945
02:22:56.040 --> 02:22:58.000
you do that, you'll be able
to see what the moth looks like.

1946
02:23:00.239 --> 02:23:05.440
Okay, and what do you know? What to pick cabbage anytime you want

1947
02:23:05.799 --> 02:23:07.440
from one. It's a size of
a tennis ball. The one that's the

1948
02:23:07.520 --> 02:23:11.440
size of an almost bowling ball.
It doesn't ripen. The heads just get

1949
02:23:11.479 --> 02:23:16.280
bigger depending on growing conditions and depending
on variety. There's some types that stay,

1950
02:23:16.879 --> 02:23:20.879
you know, a little bigger than
a softball size, and then there's

1951
02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:26.959
some that get on up much larger
than that. So it doesn't any any

1952
02:23:26.000 --> 02:23:31.600
stage you want to pick it is
fine. And what do a fireants eat?

1953
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:37.879
They eat proteins and oils, so
they love to eat caterpillars. Fire

1954
02:23:37.879 --> 02:23:41.360
ants are When they first arrived here, of course we all wish they hadn't,

1955
02:23:41.639 --> 02:23:45.760
but then we noticed that ticks and
flea populations were lower because they're out

1956
02:23:45.760 --> 02:23:50.360
there eating the larvae of ticks and
fleas or you know, fleas, uh

1957
02:23:50.559 --> 02:23:54.399
and ticks, and they were helping
keep those down for us. So protein

1958
02:23:54.520 --> 02:24:03.520
sources, the afforts to efforts.
Pardon it, freaks. They will not

1959
02:24:03.600 --> 02:24:05.239
eat daphits. Nope, they do
not do that. Yeah, hey,

1960
02:24:05.319 --> 02:24:07.879
Patrick, I got to run.
I got some callers and we're about running

1961
02:24:07.879 --> 02:24:11.799
out of time today, but thank
you for the call. I really appreciate

1962
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:16.959
that Medina has got a lot of
quality products and their has to grow line.

1963
02:24:16.239 --> 02:24:20.200
There's a regular hash to grow,
there's a has to grow for lawns,

1964
02:24:20.600 --> 02:24:24.879
for example. But they now have
super grow Plus super Grow Plus by

1965
02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:31.120
Medina. It's a sixteen zero two
fertilizer in a quart bottle with a hose

1966
02:24:31.280 --> 02:24:35.040
attachment. You hook it up.
You can cover four thousand square feet with

1967
02:24:35.120 --> 02:24:39.239
that quart. Takes about ten minutes
to do that whole area, and it

1968
02:24:39.360 --> 02:24:41.639
has got the nutrients that you need. It's got sixteen zero two, which

1969
02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:46.680
is a good blend for most lawns
that we have. It's got molasses in

1970
02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.000
it, it's got humic acid in
it. Part of the nitrogen is slow

1971
02:24:50.120 --> 02:24:56.600
release. It feeds the soil and
it feeds the plant. Medina super Grow

1972
02:24:56.000 --> 02:25:01.280
Plus highly recommended. I love that
ratio sixteen zero too, because most of

1973
02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:05.000
our lawns have enough phosphorus, and
that's why our number in phosphorus are a

1974
02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:09.280
little bit low. We don't almost
never need to add more for the lawn.

1975
02:25:09.760 --> 02:25:13.639
But supergrow Plus excellent product, easy, easy to use. You can

1976
02:25:13.719 --> 02:25:18.200
use it for a quick greenup.
And it's got a little bit of slow

1977
02:25:18.280 --> 02:25:22.399
release action as well. We're going
to go now to Carol in Sugarland.

1978
02:25:22.479 --> 02:25:28.000
Hey, Carol, good morning.
I have a little apricot drift roads In

1979
02:25:28.360 --> 02:25:33.559
every couple of nights, something eats
all of the leaves from it, so

1980
02:25:33.680 --> 02:25:39.040
it has bare stands except for the
thorns. Okay, and there are roses

1981
02:25:39.479 --> 02:25:45.520
but known leaves. And I've tried
Meme oil. It doesn't seem to help.

1982
02:25:45.639 --> 02:25:48.600
So I'm wondering should I try BT
or spinosa? You know, you

1983
02:25:48.680 --> 02:25:52.879
could guess. Spinosa would be the
best guess because it kills both beetles and

1984
02:25:54.120 --> 02:25:58.639
caterpillars. BT kills just caterpillars.
So if you're going to do a wild

1985
02:25:58.680 --> 02:26:03.399
guess, I'd do spinosid. There
are certainly some other more potent insecticides and

1986
02:26:03.479 --> 02:26:09.120
synthetic parihoids, a number of different
ingredients like that that would would last a

1987
02:26:09.159 --> 02:26:13.000
little better. I would go out
with a flashlight at night. A couple

1988
02:26:13.040 --> 02:26:15.559
of times. We got to catch
these guys in the act to see what

1989
02:26:15.719 --> 02:26:20.159
they are, right, I haven't
been able to see anything. Yeah,

1990
02:26:20.239 --> 02:26:24.280
the fact that they're nocturnal. I
don't know. I'm thinking caterpillar. But

1991
02:26:24.559 --> 02:26:26.079
you know, there are a lot
of things that eat leaves, but spinosa

1992
02:26:26.159 --> 02:26:30.360
should be a good a good first
guest. Let's give that a try and

1993
02:26:30.440 --> 02:26:33.040
see if it shuts it down before
you run out of leaves. I'll try

1994
02:26:33.120 --> 02:26:35.639
that. Thank you, Thank you
very much. I appreciate the call.

1995
02:26:37.159 --> 02:26:39.159
Tim from Baytown. You're our last
caller of the day. We got about

1996
02:26:39.159 --> 02:26:41.799
a minute left. How can we
help? Okay, how are you doing

1997
02:26:41.840 --> 02:26:46.360
this morning? I'm good, sir. I think I have a Saint Augustine

1998
02:26:46.440 --> 02:26:52.040
lun and it's always been thick lust
than green, and I noticed it had

1999
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a yellow spot. And what I
did at rake it all out and put

2000
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some compost tops on there. And
and I see some moreres did the same

2001
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thing. So I rate all it
out and put some uh both so and

2002
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I put some sad there some there
the other day. What what do you

2003
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think that was? Is it a
fun us or if it if it's just

2004
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if it's just yellowing, it could
be an iron deficiency and those are typically

2005
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temporary. But an iron keylated product
would help with iron deficiency. If it's

2006
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literally turning yellow and then dying out. That is take all root rot,

2007
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and take all root rot is on
my schedule. Since I'm out of time,

2008
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I'm just going to tell you go
to Gardening with Skip dot com.

2009
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That's my website, Gardening with Skip. I've got my schedules on there,

2010
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and look at the one for pests
and diseases and weeds. It will tell

2011
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you what to do for take all, what product do you use and when

2012
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to apply it and everything like that. Okay, Tim, okay, thanks

2013
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for all right, sir, Thank
you for the call. Appreciate that.

2014
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WOA. There was a busy day. All right. We'll be back tomorrow

2015
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morning, six am. Don't forget
two weeks from today, June fifteenth,

2016
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come to Wahbirds Unlimited m bel Air, Texas, Southwest Houston. Wawbird's Unlimited,

2017
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bell Air, I will be making
an appearancer from eleven o'clock in the

2018
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morning to one o'clock two hours there
answer your gardening questions. You can bring

2019
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me samples, you can bring me
photos. Just come in and say hi.

2020
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I'd like to meet folks that listen
to garden Line. If you haven't

2021
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seen me at an appearance anywhere this
year, you need to come out.

2022
02:28:33.200 --> 02:28:37.280
I want to meet you. While
you're there, you're gonna find lots of

2023
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cool stuff at Wallbird's Unlimited, always
a fun store to shop there. All

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right, we're putting it in the
books. See tomorrow morning at six am.