WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.960 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:11.000 program. Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Ricord's shoes, 3 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:34.920 crazy Gashrim just watch him as so many girl. Thanks to see Botasy gas 4 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:49.880 not a sound credits Gas Sun Beamon of tweet are welcome back. Welcome back 5 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.039 to garden Line. We're glad you're with us this morning. Congratulations by the 6 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.240 way on getting up right and early. Joe and I hope you got a 7 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.200 cup of coffee in your hand or whatever whatever it. Get those eyes open 8 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.519 and get ready to go. We got another decent day today. I'm looking 9 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.400 forward to getting some things done after the show that I got to get done. 10 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:12.480 It's a little warmer by then. But the way it is on weekends 11 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.719 we do garden Line, we don't do gardening in the morning, at least 12 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.959 not early in the morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and hey, 13 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.079 our show is a call in show. In other words, it's for 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.200 you to ask the questions you might have. If you like some advice or 15 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.519 direction or ideas or identification of something, give us a call seven to one 16 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:37.359 three two to one two KTRH seven one three two to one two k t 17 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.760 RH. A little tip too, by the way, that usually first thing 18 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.760 in the morning, especially on Sunday morning, the boards are a little quieter, 19 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.760 so it's easy to get through. And we have a question, you 20 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:52.079 have to wait very long, So just a little tip there if you're interested. 21 00:01:52.959 --> 00:02:00.840 I was driving by some neighborhoods and noticed a common in the yards that 22 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:05.040 I'm starting to see and that's a yellowing in the turf. And some of 23 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.759 you probably have had question, well you have had called into garden line about 24 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:12.599 things related to this. But you look at a green lawn and you just 25 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:16.800 see sort of some irregular yellowish areas, you know, where it's not round, 26 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:22.280 it doesn't have a shape or anything. And what that is is iron 27 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.280 deficiency. Now, if you want to see it up close, you just 28 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.560 grab a blade that's yellow, pull it up, pull it off, and 29 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.400 hold it up kind of to the sky, and you'll see green and yellow 30 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.080 stripes going up and down through the blade that's iron. Because iron causes what 31 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:46.159 we call intervenochlorrosis. Okay, that's too that's too much, too many words 32 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.719 for this hour of the morning. But my point is that the parts of 33 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.599 the leaf that get the iron last have the least, and so that would 34 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:58.159 be between the veins and veins being the supply lines. When you see that 35 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.960 in your lawn, you can say one thing that grass doesn't have iron in 36 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.120 it, like it needs iron in it. But then the question is why 37 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.879 is it because there's no iron in the soil? Most likely not. It 38 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:15.039 could be true, but usually it's not a lack of iron in the soil. 39 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.960 Well then why, Well, it could be because something is tying up 40 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.879 the iron and making it unavailable. Iron changes form in the soil. Some 41 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.879 forms of plant can get, some forms of plants can't get, so it 42 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.400 could be that the iron is tied up. On the other hand, it 43 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.039 could also be that the plant lacks roots. Iron is taken up at the 44 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.680 tip of the roots. So when take all root rot or drought die back 45 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:46.919 causes that grass plant to lose its tender, new, fresh, active roots 46 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.840 system, then you're going to see iron deficiency on the plants. So it's 47 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.560 gonna be one of those things you kind of have to work your way through 48 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:54.879 it. A soil test will tell you if there's iron in the soil. 49 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:00.000 A soil test will also tell you if you're like your pH and phosphorus are 50 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:05.080 both very high, then that means you're going to have an iron efficiency. 51 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.879 So that in and of itself would explain it from a soil test. So 52 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.639 you can get your soil tested by going to soil Testing dot TAMU dot edu. 53 00:04:15.839 --> 00:04:23.680 Soil Testing dot TAMU, dot edu. Choose the urban soil test. 54 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.160 I don't care if you're listening on your computer and Marfa, Texas eighty miles 55 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.680 from the nearest whatever urban sooil test. All the urban means is it's for 56 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.639 your yard and garden. They should have called it that, not urban, 57 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.319 but anyway, it means it's for your yard and garden. In other words, 58 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.600 here comes the sample from roses or vegetables or a lawn or whatever, 59 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:51.279 and not from a pasture where I'm growing grass for cattle or something. That 60 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:55.560 urbanoil test. Okay, put it out, send it in, see what 61 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.600 they say, and then we take it from there. If it is take 62 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:00.399 all root rot, then you have to deal with that disease. And that 63 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.199 is on my schedule at gardening with skip dot com the pest disease and we'd 64 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:12.360 management schedule has that information on it and you can decide or look on there 65 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.759 and see what products are my options and what time do I make the applications. 66 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:20.839 But anyway, iron efficiency, that's something that we often deal with. 67 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.079 It's pretty common, especially on Saint Augustine, a lot of other grasses that 68 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.839 don't have it. Well, let's do this. Let's go on out to 69 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.079 the phones and we're going to head out the fairfield and talk to Marty. 70 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:42.120 Hello, Marty, Martin Skip. I wondered if it's too hot to repot 71 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:48.079 some plans. I've got some really pretty pots and I wanted to, you 72 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.480 know, I'm just concerned about the heat. I know we're having a little 73 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.160 bit of rain today tomorrow, and thought it might be a good time to 74 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:02.639 redo them. I'm sorry what it was you were redoing. I'm repotting some 75 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:09.319 plants on my patio and I wondered if it's too hot. Oh, okay, 76 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:14.000 no it's not. If there's going to be significant root damage in the 77 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.680 process, then I would pot them up, immediately, water them in, 78 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.079 and move them to as bright of a shade as you can so the direct 79 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:25.040 sun doesn't bake down on them, and just give them a week or so 80 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:29.120 to kind of recover and get their roots back going Again, if it's just 81 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.160 a matter of pulling it out of a pot, maybe teasing loose a little 82 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.519 of the roots on the outside that are circling around, or minor damage, 83 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.639 then you can just do it as you would at anytime. Is there a 84 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:46.519 better time to do that to do repotting, Yes, sir. It depends 85 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.759 on the plants that you have. Some things, you know, if they're 86 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:56.040 more tropical, I'd probably do them in the spring or in the summer season. 87 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.800 You can really really redo it time you want. You know, if 88 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.959 it were something that we're going to die down to the ground in the cool 89 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.199 season, I'd try to get it done then because it's easiest, or go 90 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.040 into some sort of a dormant state that that's the easiest time, there's the 91 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:17.079 least stress on the plant then. But I just repotted several We just repotted 92 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:23.120 a little indoor ficus tree the other day, and we've repotted several other plants 93 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:28.120 recently. About to do a rosemary that needs to have a new home. 94 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.519 Okay, all right, Well, these are firecracker plants and they're out in 95 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:35.360 the sun sun, but I wanted to put them in this prettier pot. 96 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:42.000 They're a little bit bigger as well, and those usually go into the landscape. 97 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:47.480 Right. Yes, fracker plant is a very heat and humidity tolerant plant. 98 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.639 It does need water though it's not you know, it's not a succulent 99 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:58.160 and some people assume because it thrives in the heat that maybe it's a little 100 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.839 drought tolerant and you need to keep it adequately moist for best results with that 101 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.240 one. Okay, all right, well, thank you very much, have 102 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:09.000 a good day. All right, Marty, thanks for the call. Thank 103 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.839 you. How you get thanks you're listening to garden Line. Our phone number 104 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.959 is seven one three two one two k t r H. If you'd like 105 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.240 to give us a call and talk about some things that are of interest to 106 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.920 you. Just a reminder I was talking about oron efficiency. Well agouh. 107 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:31.759 Nitroposs Superturf is a fertilizer designed for year lawn in the summertime. And what 108 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.200 do I mean by that? Well, number one, it has a three 109 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.120 one two roughly three one two four one two ratio is what we're looking for 110 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.960 in our fertilizers. This will be more like a four one close to a 111 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.960 four to one two ratio. So that's got a lot of nitrogen, but 112 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.519 it's half of it at least is in a slow release form, So you're 113 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.639 going to get a gradual release of the nitrogen over the coming months. You 114 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.639 do the super turf, now you don't need to fertilize again until we get 115 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:05.519 to the phone fertilization. The nice thing about feeding gradually is it doesn't create 116 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.559 this sudden increase in your mowing frequency because your grass has grown so fast, 117 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.440 you get a nice, smooth, even growth. Another thing is you get 118 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.279 a good root system development. Did you know that if you overdo nitrogen you 119 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.159 get a lot of green top growth, but at the expense of root growth. 120 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.799 Actually, an overfertilized lawn with nitrogen will have less of a root system 121 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.080 than an adequately fertilized lawn. So that is one of the things I like 122 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.759 about these slower release products. They gradually feed over time, because I'll tell 123 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.360 you that's how grass eats, if I can use the word eats for talking 124 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:46.240 about grass. In other words, it takes up a little nutrient every day, 125 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.919 just like we eat every day. We don't need a month worth of 126 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:54.879 food and then not eat for thirty days. And so gradual release products like 127 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.120 nitropos superturf or excellent for the summertime. You're going to find Natropass supertur if 128 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.919 it Bearings. We're both the one on this and out the one on West 129 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.039 Timer. You're going to find it out at Enchanted Forests down in the Richmond 130 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:11.759 Rosenberg area, Kdace Hardware and Ace Hardware at Sinco Ranch. Lots of places 131 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.000 you can find this product. Remember it's easy. It's the silver bag that's 132 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.120 the one you're looking for. You're listening to Garden Line. If you like 133 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.840 to talk about gardening, maybe ask a question seven to one three two one 134 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:31.639 two kt r H. Right now we are going to take Bumper music. 135 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.799 I have trouble staying in my chair. I just, you know, love 136 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.919 to get up and move around a little bit. Hey, listen, we 137 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.679 were talking before we went to break about a couple of things. I was 138 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:48.559 talking about lawn fertilizing and dealing with lack of nitrogen or lack of iron in 139 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:54.279 the soil. The things that cause grass to stay green are nitrogen and iron, 140 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.519 and sulfur is a big part of that too. Magnesium has a huge 141 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.519 function in plants, and because it's part of the chlorophyll, molecule fun fact 142 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:07.159 there. But anyway, our goal is to make sure plants have all the 143 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.440 things they need in order to stay healthy, to perform well, to do 144 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.960 well. There are things that are very tiny that are needed in very tiny 145 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.399 amounts, like iron, and that's one reason why you hear me talk about 146 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:26.080 azimite. Asmide is a nutrient product that is mined out of the ground in 147 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:31.039 Utah and it contains all kinds of trace minerals. So here's the deal with 148 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.440 trace minerals. They are about twenty minerals that are essential. If the plant 149 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.360 does not have any one of those, then it's not going to be able 150 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.399 to function and grow and do some of the things that plants do in terms 151 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.600 of their physiology and fruiting and flowering, all that kind of thing that it's 152 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.399 essential. But some are needed in huge amounts, and that would be things 153 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.919 like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, the three on the fertilizer bag, the 154 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.360 three numbers. Then there are some that are needed in medium amounts like sulfur 155 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.200 and like magnesium for example, calcium. Then there's some that are needed in 156 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.639 trace amounts. That's what azemite's all about. Things that you never think about 157 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.879 like, who have you ever heard of someone say I'm going to go out 158 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.240 and put some molybdenum on my yard. I'm going to go out and put 159 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.159 some selenium on my Those tiny little elements zinc and iron and all of that 160 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.799 essential and asamite is a product that you can put out and I recommend about 161 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.440 once a year do a soil test and see exactly what you need. That 162 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.519 would be the best way to go. But in absence of that, about 163 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.559 once a year an application of asmite. You don't use much. You don't 164 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.000 want to use much. It's a trace mineral. Don't overload the soil, 165 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.759 just use the amount recommended. You can find more information at azimite Texas dot 166 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.320 com and learn more about it. But I can tell you this, you 167 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.120 can find azemite pretty much anywhere you would go and shop. It is widely 168 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.600 widely available. Let's head now out. We're going to go to the phones 169 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.759 and talk to Sun in Missouri City. Hello, Sonya, Hi, good 170 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:09.559 morning, good morning. I have some aztec grass in my front bed and 171 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:16.120 it shares a bed with the boxtail ferm and it's just not doing anything. 172 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.840 It's you know, I water them just a little bit, because I know 173 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.039 they don't like a lot of water. Some of them have been there a 174 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.440 year from last year. Some of them are new plants, but they're just 175 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.600 not growing. Is there anything I can do that I need to fertilize them? 176 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.759 Or Well, that's actually a pretty darn tough plant. You sure it 177 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.799 needs water, but I'm amazed at how well it does under less than ideal 178 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:45.600 water conditions. If you overwater it, you will get rots and decays. 179 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:50.120 But you just see the plant declining and dying when that happens. If it's 180 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.120 just sitting there, I don't know. Do you think your soil could be 181 00:13:54.200 --> 00:14:01.039 very compacted and tight in that area? It could be, yes, Okay, 182 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:07.120 well maybe if I could look at a photo of it and see if 183 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.639 I see anything else on it. But it just doesn't have major problems. 184 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.919 I've grown that plant for a while, and it's an excellent plant, and 185 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.120 it's a good combo with your ferns, A boy, the foxtail fern. 186 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.440 I think you said us an excellent plant for going along with those. The 187 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:28.039 only thing I would do, maybe is, assuming there's no other symptoms on 188 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.840 this plant other than just not thriving, I probably would take a little spading 189 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.440 for it and go straight down in the ground, just kind of wiggle it 190 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.320 a little bit and do that in a different places kind of around the plant. 191 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.919 Sprinkle a little compost over the top, and watered in maybe a little 192 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.559 bit of fertilizer or two to just give it a boost, and then try 193 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.519 to try to give it a good soaking about once a week. That ought 194 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:54.039 to be sufficient. How much sun is this in? It gets about five 195 00:14:54.120 --> 00:15:01.320 hours morning sun. Okay, well that's eight to one. That's almost ideal 196 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.799 to have it can grow in less sun than that, but to not have 197 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:11.000 that afternoon sun. Yeah, that's that's what I think there, Sonya from 198 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.279 based on what you're telling me it's doing. Okay, I'll give that a 199 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:22.399 try. And then I had one other question thanking to the fall for gardening, 200 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.600 I would like to do container gardening for like some tomatoes, like cherry 201 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:31.360 tomatoes and some pepper plants. What's the best soil to get for container gardening 202 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.080 for that? I would get probably a vegetable and herb mix. How big 203 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:46.159 is your containers going to be? Let's see, they're like two feet across 204 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.679 about two feet high, and then they narrowed down at the bottom that okay, 205 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.919 all right, yeah, I would get like a vegetable and herb mix. 206 00:15:54.159 --> 00:16:00.279 Heirlin Soils makes a vegetable and herb mix that is excellent. You are 207 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.600 in down a South Missouri City area, You're going to find it at your 208 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.840 ACE hardware stores down there. They generally will carry it. Missouri City. 209 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.159 I'm trying to think of who else would be the next closest to you for 210 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.919 done in that area. You're not too terribly far away from Sienamult. They 211 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:22.000 have it as well there. But anyway, that's the one that I would 212 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:30.080 use for that particular situation. Okay. And what was the name Heirloom Soils 213 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.879 vegetable and herb mix. I think they say veggie and herb mix. You 214 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:40.080 might find also, you might find one from Nature's Way. They sell it 215 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.639 by the bag too. They're up in the toward Conroe area, so on 216 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:48.559 the other side of town from you. But they also have a vegetable and 217 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.799 herb type soil mix. Both of those will be excellent, excellent products. 218 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.080 Okay, all right, thank you very much. All right, thank you 219 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:03.039 appreciate that call very much. Let's see here, Yeah, I uh, 220 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:11.079 this this past week I've been doing some things just to kind of enhance our 221 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.480 birds in the backyard, our collection of birds, and I'm telling you, 222 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.599 they just keep coming. We put in a little bit of a little kind 223 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:23.079 of a bird bath type of fountain, and the birds they hear that sound 224 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.319 of water and it brings them in because look, it's hot outside. Can 225 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.279 you imagine hanging out all day, flying around the neighborhood looking for water somewhere 226 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:34.079 to get a drink. So you put it in your yard, especially when 227 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.119 there's some sound with it. It doesn't have to be birds figured out, 228 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.279 they'll be there and they're going to hang out there. And the other thing 229 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.680 is to have a quality feed for them. It is season one still we've 230 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.680 got birds that are nesting, birds that are molting, two different things that 231 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:55.160 both require a good special quality blend, like nesting super blend. That's the 232 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.839 one that while birds makes. I use that one myself sometimes I'll mix it 233 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:02.759 in with some of their other mixes just to get a little bit of sunflower 234 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.119 some other things in there. But it is packed with sunflower, chips, 235 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.839 peanuts, dried meal worms, bark, butter bits, tree nuts, sapphlower, 236 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.240 calcium carbonate, just all the things that a bird needs, and warbirds 237 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:19.119 feeds are high quality. They are the kinds of seeds the birds want to 238 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.319 eat. And you buy these cheap bird seeds full of the red bebes, 239 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.440 and yeah they are cheap, but take all the bebes out because they aren't 240 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.960 gonna eat those hardly at all. Maybe some doves will. And what do 241 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:33.880 you got now? How much did you pay for that food? And that's 242 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.920 why I love warbird feed I love their seed cylinders. If you're going to 243 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.160 take a vacation and be out of town for a while, you can just 244 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.599 put one of those up. It takes them a while to get the little 245 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:48.279 seeds pecked out of those little solid, hard cylinders, but they do it, 246 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:49.640 and it gives you a chance to watch them a little longer too. 247 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.680 At the feeder. They don't just grab a byte and fly away. Hey, 248 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.799 go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston and that's where you'll find WTU 249 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:03.720 dot com forward. It's sleash Houston. That's where you'll find all the wallbirds, 250 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.400 six of them here in the Greater Houston area to choose from. It'd 251 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.640 be a great day to get out and just check out some of our wallbirds. 252 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.680 We're going to take a break now it's time for the news. I'll 253 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.480 be right back. The number if you'd like to call in seven one three 254 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.200 two to one. Maybe you'd like to give us a call and talk about 255 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.640 things related to your garden, your landscape. The number is seven one three 256 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:30.640 two one two kh RH seven one three two one two k t R H. 257 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.119 Well, we've got a hurricane sitting out there in the Gulf, and 258 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:41.079 for all apparent assessments, it's going to be bringing us a little bit of 259 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.920 rain. That's something we certainly do expect. Hopefully it'll be a moderate amount 260 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.160 and not too much. We've been there before. I remember I was in 261 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:53.440 Houston during the Tax Day flood way back when, and certainly during Harvey. 262 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.759 Uh, and wow, that's rain. What we're looking for, though, 263 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:03.039 is some relief for our summer landscapes. We've been water and trying to keep 264 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.359 them going, and a good soaking would be really good for setting us up 265 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.359 for at least a week or so of not having to just turn the water 266 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.960 on every day trying to keep things alive. Remember that if you get a 267 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.240 gradual rain over a period of time and get that water in the soil, 268 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:23.039 it does last a good while. And most people when they water, they 269 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:30.039 water too little, too often. The sprinter comes on, it squirts for 270 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.079 a while. What's the grass? What's the that starts to wet the soil 271 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.319 and then goes off, And so everything that's in the thatch and everything that's 272 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.960 in the grass can evaporate off and contribute to Houston's humidity. Thank you very 273 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:47.279 much for that, by the way. But what goes in the soil is 274 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:48.960 what's in the bank account to be drawn from. So what if instead of 275 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:53.559 turning it off at some point of irrigation, you let it go longer, 276 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.920 and now all that grass and thatch are wet, and now the water's run 277 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.079 down into the soil more. And so it's in a sense it's the end 278 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.599 of the irrigation cycle that's doing you the most good, right if you think 279 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.759 of it that way, because once the water goes off again, whatever sitting 280 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.440 there with that's going to dry off anyway. Just something to think about. 281 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.640 If you can get a half inch to an inch in the soil, then 282 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:25.440 it'll soak in like an inch of water will wet a clay soil probably six 283 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:29.920 eight inches deep, a sand soil even deeper than that. But once you 284 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:32.799 have that in the soil, now you cannot worry about water in for a 285 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:37.640 while, and it will gradually dissipate as plants take it up, but it'll 286 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.559 provide you a nice long feed and then oxygen comes back in the soil as 287 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:45.359 the soil begins to dry out. Just makes sense to water that way. 288 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:52.039 It's a water efficient way of going about things. Let's see. You know, 289 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:57.759 I was I was talking about soil the other day with somebody and we 290 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:02.920 were just we were discussed organic matter and particle sizes and things. They had 291 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:04.960 a lot of questions about, well, what's the best kind of compost And 292 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:08.720 there's a lot of answers to that, you know there. In other words, 293 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:15.759 that leaf mo compost is awesome. It's it's absolutely high quality stuff. 294 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:22.519 If you get a quality made compost that is blended properly into something like a 295 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:27.440 veggie nerve mix or a rose soil uh, then those are also excellent blends. 296 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:33.119 The idea is to get organic matter back down into the soil, and 297 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.200 that's what nature does over a long period of time, and that's also what 298 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.000 you can do when you contact Nature's way to get some of their products. 299 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.960 I was talking to Ian Ferguson out there a while back about some of the 300 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.440 products they have and things, and I believe in their products. They work, 301 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.160 They absolutely work, and Nature's might have been a leader in this for 302 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.160 a long time. You know, when I when we use terms like rose 303 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.960 soil and leaf mol composts, those are things that were invented Nature's Way. 304 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.519 Not that no one ever had a leave more compos that they made before, 305 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:10.079 but I'm talking about the concept of making that and using that and the benefits 306 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.640 of that and everything. They perfected it. And you know, Nature's Ways 307 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.640 you can go They're closed on Sunday, but they're open Monday through Friday from 308 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.799 eight to five and Saturday from eight to two. You can find their products 309 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:26.640 and stores. You can go to Nature's Way and you can buy bag by 310 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.440 by bulk or you can have them deliver it to you. I mean, 311 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:33.079 there's a lot of ways to reach out and to get information at Nature's Way. 312 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.759 So all you got to do is just give them a call. Go 313 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:40.200 by there. They're on Interstate forty five or just off Interstate forty five as 314 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:44.880 you head up north toward the Conroad direction. The actual address is one of 315 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:49.240 one's Sherwood Circle, but they're basically where fourteen eighty eight comes in to forty 316 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.480 five there. If you'd like to give them a call, the number is 317 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.720 nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety. Let's go back now, 318 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:02.200 we're going to head to the phones and talk to Debbie and Northwest Houston. 319 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.960 Hello, Debbie, Hi, Yes, I just sent you an email. 320 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:10.359 I have a tree. It's not very old and when it was planted it 321 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:14.200 was during the drought that I watered it and the bark it's just falling off. 322 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:18.680 I just sent you an email. Okay, I can get over here 323 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:26.880 too. Three pictures. What kind of tree it looks like. It looks 324 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.200 some kind of oak, Okay. I don't know if it's the water of 325 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.799 the leaves or some small So if you can get your compass in your head 326 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:41.720 out and go stand by that tree. Is those for those gaping splits and 327 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.559 openings where the wood is exposed, Are they on those southwest side of the 328 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:51.680 tree or on the east side. On the east side, Okay, that 329 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.880 may be a freeze crack from a long time ago. Uh, it looks 330 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.400 like that because it's a vertical. But The goodness is it's a young tree, 331 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.240 it's got good vigor. And if you look at that really thick rolls 332 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:11.799 of kellus coming back, it's going to close back. It's on the process 333 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:15.519 of healing. There's nothing to apply to it. We certainly didn't want that 334 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:22.559 to happen. It's not good to have the innerwood exposed to decomposing microbes. 335 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.079 But I think it's going to be okay. Just continue to give it good 336 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.160 care and that the bigger of a multary you can give it, the happier 337 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:33.000 that tree will be okay. Great, Thank you so much, appreciate it. 338 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:36.880 All right, you take care. Thanks for the call, you two. 339 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:41.640 Thank you boe by bye. All right. Well, hey, do 340 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:45.480 you need supplies for your garden, for your landscape like I'm talking about, 341 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.079 let's say some fertilizer, or let's say you need something to kill insects or 342 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:56.240 to kill diseases or pass Maybe you are fine with synthetic products and that's what 343 00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:59.720 you want to use. Maybe you are an organic gardener and you're only going 344 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:04.039 to use organic products. The one place you all can go and accomplish all 345 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:08.119 of that is Southwest Fertilizer. They're on the corner of Abyssinett and Renwick and 346 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:14.640 Southwest Houston, and they stay stocked up. If a new product comes on 347 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.319 the market, you're going to find it as Southwest Fertilizer. They just they 348 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.559 stay on top of things and talk with Bob all the time about Hey, 349 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.759 what do you think about this product? You know what? We just we 350 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.599 just talk shop when it comes to the different things out there, what's working, 351 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.920 what's not working, what's new? Uh, And it's it's really a 352 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.759 one stop shop. You walk in there with a sample, with a photo, 353 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.759 just with a question and Bob or his team are going to be able 354 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.400 to help you and point you to the product you need to do the job. 355 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.519 If one's needed. They won't say you something you don't need, but 356 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:49.880 if there is a product that'll do it best, they'll not only say here's 357 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:53.039 the one you need, but they'll tell you how to use it and any 358 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:59.440 specific things you need to know. And that is important so you go home 359 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.000 home, you use it properly and you have the results you need. Southwest 360 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.839 Fertilizer, corner of bus Nutt and Renwick UH seven to one three six six 361 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:14.359 six seventeen forty four, or just go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 362 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.480 See, we are gonna I'll tell you what. I am really close 363 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:21.759 to a break here, Bunny. I'm gonna come to you right after the 364 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:26.119 break because I want to be able to have adequate time to handle the question 365 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.599 you might have. Uh just remind you that my my website, Gardening with 366 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:37.039 Skip dot com holds both of my schedules, the lawncare schedule and the lawn 367 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:41.480 pest Disease and we'd management schedule, as well as a few other timely things 368 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.960 I've posted up there over time. Working on several new things to go back. 369 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.119 I'll tell you more about those later when we get them ready to load 370 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.799 up. But the website Gardening with Skip dot com. All right, here's 371 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:56.720 a break. I'll be right back your summer get away from the huge dat 372 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.680 We're going to head straight out and find out from Bonnie in Spring. Hey, 373 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:07.920 Bonnie, good morning, get back. I've sent you some pictures and 374 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.799 I wonder if you can diagnose a crape myrtle that has some white spots to 375 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:22.839 howdery mildew Oh, Bonnie, I've got uh, Saint Augustine, is that 376 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.480 yes, that's one of them. I have three different pictures there. Let's 377 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.880 see if I can find the rest of them here. They're they're kind of 378 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:36.359 embedded in. It's hard for me to it's hard to see. But we 379 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:44.160 could start with the grass. Let's do that. So uh on your turf? 380 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.599 What what I see there? Then? You know doing describing pictures over 381 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.519 the radio? Is I know? Uh? Yeah, You've got little spots 382 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:59.519 on your grass blades. And the spots have a border with a tan center, 383 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:03.000 and that's called gray leaf spot. Gray leaf Spot's a fungus are taxing 384 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:11.000 augustine, and it lovest humid and moist, very moist conditions, and it 385 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:17.200 likes shady area. It seems worse than shady areas. So I've told people 386 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:18.759 before, if you don't know what gray leaf spot looks like, go throw 387 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.720 a piece of plywood over your lawn, leave it there for a week, 388 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:25.960 pick it up, and you'll see gray leaf spot because it's everywhere. It's 389 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.240 as you created the perfect environment for it. So from our standpoint, from 390 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.960 your standpoint taking care of the thing, you need to not overwater. While 391 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.839 ago I just kind of went on a spiel about give it a good soaking, 392 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.799 let it dry out, don't squirt it every other day. Yeah, 393 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.000 and the more often you wet it, the more problems with this you have. 394 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:49.319 If you overdo nitrogen, it makes it worse. Also if you overdo 395 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:55.839 the nitrogen. And that's it. Now. One other observation earlier, and 396 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.880 for those of you listening this morning, I talked about how iron decency shows 397 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.559 up because if you pick up a leaf blade and hold it up to the 398 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:10.039 sky, you see vertical stripes of green and yellow. What it means on 399 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:15.160 your grass is speckles of green and yellow all over. They're not stripes, 400 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.440 they're just speckley spots. And that is Saint Augustine decline, which is a 401 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:26.559 virus and it attacks older types of Saint Augustine. So the new improved types, 402 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.680 the varieties and things are all bred to be resistant to it. And 403 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.519 so what do you do, Well, you can do nothing. A lot 404 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.119 of people have had long This lon's been here for a long time. I 405 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:47.480 guess, yeah, And so you could do nothing. It's just it weakens 406 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:51.119 the lawn a little bit, but it doesn't kill the lawn. Secondly, 407 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:55.920 you could plug in a resistant variety, so if this one gets weaker, 408 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.519 the other one has a chance to kind of fill in. I'm about that 409 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.960 option, but that is an option that you can do. But there's no 410 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.319 cure for the Saint Augustine. Now, as far as the take all undertake 411 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:12.319 all gray leaf spot, that one, it's very fungy sides and that will 412 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:18.759 help bring that into control that you can stove that from happening. But again, 413 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:25.079 don't overfertilize, don't water too frequently, and most lawns don't have to 414 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.960 be treated for gray leaf spot. Most don't. Okay, So there's a 415 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:34.240 time when it's wanted to spray, but not just because the disease exists, 416 00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:41.319 because it's ubiquitous. It's everywhere. I also sent a picture as a weed 417 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:47.480 that is driving me crazy. It's growing up on my neighbor's side at the 418 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.319 fans and over the fans, and now it's coming in the yard and my 419 00:31:52.400 --> 00:32:00.880 flower beds as well. It's just bustop. I don't see a weed. 420 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.799 I just have to turf and a crepe myrtle. The weed is inside the 421 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.079 turf meat well, not to get in the yard. It's a little bitty 422 00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:16.720 It has a reddish stem and little be pointy leaves. Oh I see it, 423 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:22.039 okay, all right, so that is that is called peppervine. Pepper 424 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:22.920 vine. A lot of people see it and they go, oh, I've 425 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.079 got poison ivy. Now you don't, uh, the poison ivy looks quite 426 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:34.319 different. Pepper vine has uh these that pattern to the leaves, but it 427 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.240 has it has more of the leaves than poison ivy does than they're they're smaller. 428 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:43.400 Pepper vine is very difficult to control because things that kill it may hurt 429 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:49.559 your Saint Augustine as well. If you can get a product that contains trichlope 430 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:53.640 here tri I c l O p y R, and just wipe it onto 431 00:32:53.680 --> 00:33:00.319 the pepper vine and let it translocate down and kill the vine itself. And 432 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.599 wherever it's coming up, it'll be coming up in your lawn or your flower 433 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.440 beds wherever. Yeah, it's everywhere, but everywhere it's coming up. You 434 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.880 just stay with it every time the shoot comes up, and then you wipe 435 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:15.119 some triclope here right on it, and it will it will kill it. 436 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.680 Okay, just now that it's on the lawn, it's gonna be a little 437 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:24.119 more tedious. Is there any way to handle it? Because it's coming up 438 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.559 over the fence in the backyard. It will. Yeah, it hangs over 439 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:35.400 the fence. So I've cut back those parts so it's not hanging over my 440 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:42.319 side. But it's a neighbor lives over there. It's a neighbor. Yeah, 441 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:45.839 okay, Well, if they won't control it, you're kind of just 442 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:52.839 get left with cutting it back and then the shoots come up underground unless they 443 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:57.440 will entertain a conversation with you about Hey, this is a problem for both 444 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.680 of us. Yeah, okay, well we'll have to deal with that. 445 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:08.480 And the white spots on the crepe myrtles, yeah, that is powdery mildew, 446 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.159 and powdery mildew is a common disease of crape myrtles. It shows up 447 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.000 as a little like a white dust on top of the leaf. Listening, 448 00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:22.320 they can't see this picture and it causes deformation of the leaf and stuff. 449 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.119 You can do a couple of things. You can ignore it, you can 450 00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:31.719 spray with a product containing belaton belaton to control it. Or and you don't 451 00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:35.280 want to hear this one, but I have to say that you can get 452 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.159 rid of that crape myrtle and put in a variety that's resistant and then forever 453 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:43.920 more going forward, you don't have to worry about it anymore. So those 454 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:49.199 are your well, it's a fairly new quite myrtle. I got it from 455 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:54.639 the Arbor Foundation. They just well, you send the money and they send 456 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:59.400 you trees, and so that was one of theirs. So I really don't 457 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:05.440 know what trying. It's a pretty Boston Well. Those are your options, 458 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:07.159 bunny, and you can decide how you want to go with it. If 459 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:10.159 you go to a good garden center and say I need a great myrtle that 460 00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:13.880 doesn't get powder, and they'ldew, they can put one in your hands. 461 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:22.320 All right, thank you so much, I think spine you bet you take 462 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:29.000 care in Channa Gardens out in Richmond is one of those garden centers that I 463 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.039 like to call destination garden centers. In Channa Gardens is the kind of place 464 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.079 you want to go and take your friends and family when they come visit in 465 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:38.639 town, and a lot of people do that. In fact, people drive 466 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:44.679 for a very long way Austin and other places that far away to come over 467 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:49.639 to Richmond to see this place, because it really is outstanding. Their selection 468 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.519 of all kinds of plants is wonderful. For example, if you like the 469 00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:58.840 tulip gingers the kirrkkuma. They have an awesome selection of those right now, 470 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.960 and that is an amazing plant that is very beautiful. The blooms can be 471 00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:07.320 cut as cut flowers and last a long time. It is you just have 472 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.360 to go see one. It's called a tulip ginger or a curcuma ginger. 473 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.320 They do well. And Chantic Gardens just got in their stock of tomatoes and 474 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:20.599 peppers the Herst shipment for fall. Do you know now, I know hot 475 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:24.480 outside, but now's when we're planting our tomatoes for the fall crop. This 476 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:29.800 would be midsummer tomato planting season. Scott of water and they'll be fined. 477 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.159 They're not gonna fruit until things cool off. But if you don't plant them 478 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.599 now, you won't have a good sized plant. Then it does cool off 479 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.000 enough to start setting fruit. So anyway, just something to think about. 480 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:46.000 Lots of selections of really nice milk weeds there and one of my favorite underutilized 481 00:36:46.000 --> 00:37:17.320 plants. I was just has this spicy any Welcome back to the yard line. 482 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:21.320 Good to have you with us today. We've got more talk about. 483 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.719 If you like to give us a call and talk about something of interest to 484 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:27.360 you. I have a question or something, give us a call it seven 485 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.719 one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one 486 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:37.199 two k t r H. As simple as that. We're going to go 487 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:42.639 out to Tumball now and talk to Mel. Hello, Mel, Hey, 488 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:49.079 good morning. I have two about fifty foot tall magnolia trees growing side by 489 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.840 side in the county yard right up to the house. One of them is 490 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.039 looking kind of sick, got some dead limbs on the things. And I 491 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:01.280 guess that what a treat ord he called what an arborist. I was wondering 492 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:07.719 who you might recommend. I would recommend you go ahead and call Martin Spoon 493 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.519 Moore. He's at Affordable Tree Care of Affordable Tree Service. Uh and do 494 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.880 you have a pin or paper pen and paper handy. I just give you 495 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:17.960 a couple of things to reach out to him. I'm writing it right now. 496 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.960 Well I can hardly hear you. Hang on old all right, okay, 497 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:29.880 go ahead, all right? Set seven one three six twenty six sixty 498 00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:35.519 three seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Martin knows trees 499 00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:37.199 here, and without a doubt, he would be the one you want to 500 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:43.519 have come out there. A F F tree service dot com is his website. 501 00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:49.920 Okay, Magnet, Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead aff tree service 502 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:51.960 dot com. Start. I'm still writing, hang on it, o' get. 503 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.800 Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Okay, go ahead, Tree 504 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.559 Service dot Com. So Magnolies took a big hit last summer. We flat 505 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.360 lost entire trees during the heat and drop in the summer, which is not 506 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:09.960 something that happens a lot around here. Now, there are other issues. 507 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:16.880 There's genetic differences from one treating another. There are usually there is always the 508 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:22.679 possibility that perhaps there's something strangling the roots of the tree or the trunk of 509 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.360 the tree at the base, maybe a root going around it, or something 510 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.000 that can cause it to be set back. The leaves are smaller, the 511 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:37.519 old leaves fall off and whatnot. But I think in general, probably it's 512 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:43.159 just some late results of that cold damage or the heat damage rather that they 513 00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:50.559 suffered. Right now, what have As far as expensive goes, When he 514 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:54.719 did what he did, he charged for coming out, and then yeah, 515 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:58.480 I think he'll charge you like one hundred and fifty to come out. And 516 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.760 that's just from running all over town because people are curious about a bug in 517 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.920 a tree. Or something. And then if you if he is able to 518 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.480 do something, whether it's a deep root treatment or whether he's doing some printing 519 00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:15.639 or whatever is needed, then that one fifty would just go into your cost, 520 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:21.360 so you're not out the one fifty if you have work done. All 521 00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:23.880 right, well, I feel like I'm going to be spending somebody because I 522 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:27.159 hate to lose it. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. The 523 00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:30.039 one right next to work to it is pretty doing pretty good. All right, 524 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.920 I appreciate it. Thank you, skip all right, good luck with 525 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:35.920 that, Mel, Thanks for the call. You take care of them, 526 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.679 all right, bye bye, all right, tree for sure, bye bye. 527 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:45.880 All right, there we go. Yeah, trees are they're the most 528 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:51.159 valuable plant in your landscape. They really are in terms of what they can 529 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.559 do. Number one, takes a long time to grow a big tree, 530 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:58.760 so to start over, that's going to take a while. On the other 531 00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:04.239 hand, or in a to that, whenever a tree, whenever someone's going 532 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.400 to buy a home and you've got beautiful trees, it adds value to the 533 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:13.360 house. But it also helps the house to sell. In other words, 534 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.400 you know, the people come and they look at it, and they I 535 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.840 want this house because you've got that beautiful set of trees, and so it 536 00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:24.920 is worth taking time to do several things. One thing is, if you're 537 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.679 going to plant a tree, plant one that is a long term investment, 538 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.559 not grow fast, die young. You know, the grow fast, die 539 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.079 young. The old Arizona ash, the Arizona ash we used to have in 540 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:42.639 neighborhoods everywhere that just pretty much ever build or seem to stick one in the 541 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:49.199 yard when he built a subdivision. Then we get three decades in and they're 542 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.639 falling apart. We're having to take them out, and now those homes are 543 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.880 starting over when they should have the most beautiful trees in the world if they'd 544 00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:00.199 had all those thirty years to grow. So pick a tree number two planet 545 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:06.159 right. Make sure it's planted properly. That is important. And then the 546 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.000 third thing is take care of them. And basically taking care of a tree. 547 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:15.440 Ninety percent of treecare is early pruning in a train in a way to 548 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:22.320 train the tree so that later pruning doesn't require a chainsaw all the time. 549 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:28.840 The second aspect of it is it creates the form that you're looking for in 550 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:34.400 the tree, and then provide that tree with adequate water during extended summer droughts, 551 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:37.960 that's important. Now we can fertilize our trees, that's fine, that 552 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:44.280 will help with growth, But nothing is as important as during an extended drought. 553 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:50.920 Alleviating the stress with an occasional good deep soaking. That that's important. 554 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.519 And that's the secrets to success. You plant the right kind of tree there, 555 00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.679 and don't be like I want the fastest growing tree you have. Remember 556 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.840 so fast, die young. That's that's the thing with trees. Now we 557 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.119 do have some pretty fast growing good trees and moderate growing good trees that we 558 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.719 can speed up with proper care. But a tree is so valuable. Take 559 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.039 care of the ones you have, and if you're going to plant one, 560 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:21.880 now's the time to make the right decision. They say that society grows rich 561 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:28.239 when old men plant trees under the shade under which they will never set. 562 00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:31.079 I think that's interesting. I probably butchered that that. That's the gist of 563 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:37.480 the of the sentiment. You're listening to garden line, and I am here 564 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.960 to answer your gardening questions. How do we make you have a more bountiful 565 00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:47.079 garden and a more beautiful landscape? More bountiful garden or beautiful landscap. That's 566 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:53.320 our goal. You know, gardening should be fun. We really it shouldn't. 567 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:57.239 It's not rocket science, and we need to not stress over it. 568 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:00.840 And don't worry if you plant a plant and it doesn't survive. Listen, 569 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.519 you gotta you gotta kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener. 570 00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.639 That's just the way it is. I say it that way to kind of 571 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.800 give you permission to try things and if they don't work, well, now 572 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.400 you learn something. Don't do that again. But there's a lot that we 573 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:17.760 can learn to avoid loss of plants. But at the same time, just 574 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.239 have fun. You know, it's a plug and play deal. I know 575 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.559 we think of landscapes as you know, you put in this landscape and now 576 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:30.840 you're done well for a while, maybe, but landscapes evolve and there is 577 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:35.559 no shame in the world in changing things up. I mean, have you 578 00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.519 ever like got to maybe you moved into a house that was built in I 579 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:44.280 don't know, nineteen sixty or something and the hold decor and everything just wasn't 580 00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.159 right. And you know, you pull out paneling and you put up this, 581 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:49.760 or you put up you know, you do all the things. You 582 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.639 paint inside because you want it to look different. You can do that in 583 00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:55.800 your beds and your landscapes and things. You know. You pull up trees, 584 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:01.559 of course, but you landscapes are a forever changing palette. And don't 585 00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:07.360 be afraid to change some things out. If your landscape is twenty years old 586 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:12.760 or older, I guarantee you there are some better plants to fit some of 587 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:17.199 the spots currently in your landscape, because we're constantly coming up with new wonderful 588 00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.000 plants to use to use for that. We're gonna take a little break right 589 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.639 now. That was my little soap box. I guess uh seven one three 590 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:29.360 two one two k t r H. Give me a call. We'll talk 591 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:30.920 when we come back back to garden line. Good to have you with us. 592 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.559 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to help you 593 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.239 have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. If you got any 594 00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.800 questions you'd like to visit with me about, just dial seven to one three 595 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:50.039 dial See that, I just I just aged myself right there. Call just 596 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.280 call seven one three two one two kt r H. How many of you 597 00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:59.159 out there listening know what a dial telephone is? Remember those I mean some 598 00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.000 of you probably know, but you've never stuck your finger in one before. 599 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:08.960 Well that's yeah, it's still in my head. Sorry. I was at 600 00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.679 an ACE Hardware store the other day looking at some of the products that they 601 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:19.039 had for things currently going on in the lawn and garden, and they there 602 00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:22.800 was a supply of things that are effective against take all root rot, and 603 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.760 that is a big deal we're dealing with right now. There was kelated arm 604 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:32.119 products for your soil. They had fire ant baits and individual mound treatments both 605 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:37.440 there. They had mosquito dunks, the ones you hear me talk about on 606 00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:43.360 Garden Line. They had the mosquito repellents. They had fogging machines for you 607 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:45.519 know, knocking them out of an area of the backyard. Just everything you 608 00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:50.519 could think about. Maybe we were just yesterday out on our patio and we 609 00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:53.119 got this little string of I call them beer garden lights, but it's a 610 00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:57.960 little you know, black cord of lights with the little bulbs hanging down, 611 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.760 very dim bulbs, and it's just so nice and you can get out at 612 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.239 Ace Hardware too. It creates such a beautiful outdoor on beyond setting. Because 613 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:08.719 you know it's not safe to go outside until it's almost sundown or because it's 614 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:13.119 so hot these days here, but oh my gosh, in the evenings. 615 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:16.760 What a nice, enjoyable place to create. And ACE hardware will help you 616 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:20.519 do it. And if you need to fertilize your lawn, maybe you're an 617 00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:24.360 organic gardener and you're looking for microlife. ACE hardware stores are going to carry 618 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:30.119 microlife as well. As you know microlife is. It's a widely available product 619 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.639 and it's a wide range of products. It's not just the green bag that 620 00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:37.960 we put on our lawns for fertilizing. It's the humans plus the purple bag 621 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:44.519 that is concentrated compost in a bag. They have a Microlife acidifier six two 622 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:49.239 four. I've recommended that I recommended somebody for a lawn this weekend because one 623 00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:53.119 of the things takeof Patch does not like is acid conditions, and so anything 624 00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:58.960 we do to push this surface of the soil, the runner zone into more 625 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.280 acidic conditions is helpful for that. Of course, it's good for azelias, 626 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.920 camellias, blueberries, acid loving plants. There are many many microlife products that 627 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.360 are out there on the market. I like some of the liquids, the 628 00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:15.400 super seaweed the ocean harvest. You know, organic gardeners for a long time 629 00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:20.239 have had the words fish emotion and seaweed come out of their mouth. That 630 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:25.000 is the if you want a liquid feed product for your plants and your gardens, 631 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.760 whether you're raising seedlings or whatever, that is the version for organic gardening 632 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:35.960 is fish emotion and seaweed. Microlife also has one called Biomatrix that is excellent. 633 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.639 It's a seven to one to three liquid. I use it a lot 634 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:43.480 for my houseplants. It's not because it's just a houseplant fertilizer, but I 635 00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:46.559 like to use it because you know, if you use a fish based product 636 00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:51.920 indoors, you often can smell that, and so I for indoors, I 637 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:55.199 would use the Biomatrix for example, But it's excellent. You can use it 638 00:48:55.199 --> 00:49:00.400 outdoors. I use it in transplanting. You get the idea. Microlife products. 639 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.880 Go to microlife for laser dot com. You can find out more about 640 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.920 microlife products where to get them near you, which is pretty much everywhere they 641 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.360 are. They are very widely available. Let's do this. Let's go back 642 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.519 out to the phones now again. The number seven one three two one two 643 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.440 k t R h we go all the way to Beaumont and talk to Gordon. 644 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:23.239 Hello, Gordon, Hello, sir. Uh, my question is about 645 00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:31.199 Nema toads, especially on the okrah roots system that causes knots and uh then 646 00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:42.039 the plant depleinishes from Then what is the best source that you have for the 647 00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:47.800 destruction of these nema toads. Yeah, well, Gordon, I got I 648 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:52.400 got bad news for you and for me because I just pulled up a bunch 649 00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:57.199 of plants in a bed that I had Okra in and uh, there is 650 00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.440 nematods all over the roots. There is not a magic bullet for nematodes. 651 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:06.559 There are things we can do to suppress them, and I'll say, manage 652 00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:10.199 them if you will, so the damage isn't so excessive. And there are 653 00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.079 a couple of products out there that I've not seen the research on to know 654 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:20.400 that they work. But Monterey has one for Nema tod control, and then 655 00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:22.440 I'm trying to think of the name of the other one. Anyway, they're 656 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:30.280 supposedly suppressive. They're based on saponins or soap like substances from yucca and other 657 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.400 things. I'm trying them this summer to see if they work. But I 658 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.039 don't know that they would. We're going to find out. What I do 659 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:42.480 for nematodes is number one. When I know I have them in area, 660 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.000 get the roots out as much as I can, and I do not plan 661 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:50.280 anything that gets nematodes back in that spot. There are a few plants that 662 00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.679 are resistant to them, and that's what has to go in that spot. 663 00:50:53.679 --> 00:51:00.599 If you allow the soil to dry out, like you roto tillot in the 664 00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:04.440 summer and the sun bakes down on it, and then you rote a tillo 665 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.440 it again the sun bakes down. That's not great for the soil, but 666 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:12.440 it does cause a lot of the nematos to desiccate and die. There's also 667 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:17.800 the ability to put in a trap crop the little tiny French marigolds, not 668 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.840 the big pump pum types, but the small flower types. Yeah, i've 669 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:27.800 got drop crop. I've got them, yep. Yeah, But you got 670 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.360 to plant them wall to wall, not like a marigold beside your chucker plant, 671 00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:36.239 tomato plant. Yeah, just a solid path. You want every cubic 672 00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.920 centimeter of soil to have a marigold root in it. That's the way you 673 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:44.000 need to think about that. Then in the cool season, switched to cereal 674 00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.039 rye grass, the rye, the grain type of rye, not the lawn 675 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:52.239 overseeding rye, the grain type of rye. And that is a trap crop 676 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:57.599 in the cool season. And then so the crop rotation, if you can 677 00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:00.159 give it at least three years before you come back to that spot with a 678 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.199 susceptible species of plant like okra. Yeah, that's what I went. I 679 00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:10.079 went years without planning anything there. And yeah, a thing like their producing 680 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:15.800 I you know, thirty plants. So they produced me about four hundred pounds 681 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:21.039 of okra per year, and I was just was looking for something to get 682 00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:25.599 rid of the nematode. Okay, that's a lot of okra after my own 683 00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:30.960 heart. Uh yep. Well, yeah, so that the crop rotation, 684 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:35.880 the trap crops, you could try some. They just know there are products 685 00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:38.400 there that are you can give them a try. I am not recommending them 686 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:43.440 because I don't know yet for them. No, thank you very much. 687 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.039 I appreciate your time. All right, thank you for the call, Gordon. 688 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:52.119 I appreciate that. Those nematodes, I tell you we we've got them. 689 00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:57.559 I've got them. I posted something to our Guardline Facebook page a while 690 00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:00.559 back. I dug up some boxwood that were in a spot I did not 691 00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:05.800 want them. Remember I talked about redoing gardens. Is okay, Well, 692 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.920 I redid a bit that someone else had planted. But anyway, when I 693 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:13.000 pulled them up, Nema toad's all over the roots. There's a lot of 694 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.840 plants to get fig trees. Oh my gosh, Nemo toad'sil walk a mile 695 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:20.000 to get to a fig tree. They love those things. So you got 696 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.760 to just watch the plants that you put in, and once you got them, 697 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.039 it's a matter of managing, not eradicating. The one thing that I 698 00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:29.400 did not mention and I should have to Gordon if you're still listening, Gordon 699 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:36.119 is solarizing in the summer season, Putting clear plastic over the soil and solarizing 700 00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.920 it for about four to six weeks will also reduce the nematode numbers. Not 701 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:45.360 eradicate, not control nematod six inches deep, but in the top three or 702 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.599 four inches. You ought to be able to get pretty good control with solarizing 703 00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:55.159 too. Let's see, I'm gonna go now to who's next up here garden 704 00:53:55.239 --> 00:54:04.559 oaks, and we're gonna talk to Pat Hello, Pat Inning I've got a 705 00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:09.079 question on my asparagus. They've been in for about four years, and each 706 00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.159 year I seem to get more of them, but then they start putting up 707 00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:22.000 a little small, not the asparagus sized plant, and then they bush out. 708 00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:27.519 Do I cut those things down or do I just leave them alone? 709 00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:37.840 And yeah, so asparagus, we're a little far south for the best results 710 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.440 with asparagus. I'm not saying you can't grow asparagus here. You absolutely can 711 00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:46.639 grow it here, but a further north it grows those fronds all summer captures 712 00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:51.400 lots of sunlight, puts a lot of carbohydrates down in the root system, 713 00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.960 and then it goes dormant because it gets so cold there. And then in 714 00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.480 the spring when the new growth begins, you have these nice thick spears coming 715 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:05.199 up, and they lost a while before they start to dwindle in size. 716 00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:09.239 Here we don't have the weather to kill it back to the ground and to 717 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:16.480 have that garmant period, and so it's like it's still burning carbohydrates and stuff 718 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:22.440 on into the winter time, and so we have a shorter harvest and sometimes 719 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:25.639 not as many nice, good sized spears. But that's just part of living 720 00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:30.320 in this area, you can grow it, but it's a more limited production. 721 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.320 Okay, well, I didn't know if there was something I could. 722 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:38.960 Should I just let those continue to grow. Yeah, as much as you 723 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:43.039 can let them grow. You got to be able to keep the weeds out, 724 00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.159 So keep it really well malted and stuff, because asparagus can become really 725 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:52.119 weedy. And yeah, that's it. If there are some varieties that are 726 00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:57.920 better than others, but other than picking the best varieties you can get, 727 00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:01.360 and that's that would be my advice. Okay, thank you so much. 728 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.239 Yeah, Pat appreciate that. Thanks to the call. Well, here we 729 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:08.840 are, it's time for taking a little break, Lisa and Seabrook. You're 730 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:13.320 gonna be our first up when we come right back from break. Our phone 731 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:17.239 number is seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one 732 00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:22.840 three two one two k t r H. Give us a call. Chris 733 00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:24.480 will get you on the board and we will talk to you when we come 734 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:35.920 back. You have you with us. You've got plenty of things we can 735 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.880 talk about right now. Hey, you the the one thing I want to 736 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:43.119 mention is if you are looking at your landscape and you see the sea of 737 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.559 green, I refer to it as a sea of green because it's green grass, 738 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:50.320 green ground cover, green shrubs, green trees, green green, green 739 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.119 green. That's fine. I like green. Green's a pretty color. It's 740 00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:58.000 not the only color. And just because it's summer doesn't mean that we have 741 00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.119 to give up on color in our landscapes. If you give the folks at 742 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:06.719 Pierscapes a call, for example, they can set you up for quarterly bed 743 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:09.360 maintenance and that means they come out. They do things like trimming and weeding 744 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:15.159 and fertilizing and irrigation inspection, make sure your irrigation system is working right. 745 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.920 And they just because they once worked right doesn't mean they still are. The 746 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:24.199 aeration seasonal color changes. You switch out those flowers that aren't thriving in the 747 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:28.679 heat and put some things that will thrive in the heat, mulching in the 748 00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.000 beds. This is all part of what Peerscapes does, but it's not at 749 00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:36.280 all all of what Pierscapes does. They do irrigation, drainage. They do 750 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:39.719 drainage systems so that when we have areas that are too wet, maybe a 751 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:45.119 natural stone river bed to just let it naturally drain out of an area. 752 00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:50.079 Plus it's kind of esthetically attractive. I think, how about a subsurface drainage 753 00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:52.119 system. They can do that. Do you need borders around beds or do 754 00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:55.400 you want to go all out? Just have them redesign a landscape. You 755 00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.199 will not believe the work they do. You got to go to pierce Scapes 756 00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:06.000 dot com Piercescapes dot com and check out. Just just flip through there, 757 00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:08.280 look at the pictures. See the kind of work they can do. Give 758 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:14.000 them a call seven or excuse me two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty 759 00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:20.119 two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero, and let Piercecapes make 760 00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:25.719 your place a showplace that is colorful in addition to green all through the hot 761 00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.960 blazing summer season. You know, we got a long time until we start 762 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.239 planting cool weather things, So now's the time to make sure these things are 763 00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:40.039 it's established effectively and taken care of and just I don't know, makes your 764 00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:45.000 place a lot more beautiful. Let's go out to Sebrook. Here we're going 765 00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.679 to talk to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, welcome to Gardline, Good morning, 766 00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:54.000 Thank you. We have been using compost top dressing instead of mulch. 767 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:59.960 It was recommended because we had our home tweet for termites, but it seems 768 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:04.239 that the weeds they just go right through the compost. So I'm just saying, 769 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.360 do you have any recommendations or do you have any thoughts on that? 770 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:13.960 Yeah, you can use composts as a mult Usually we don't pile compost that 771 00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:17.039 thick, you know, an inch of compost. There's a lot of composts 772 00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:21.199 to be adding, and so what you would have to do is get a 773 00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:23.719 little rake and kind of stir it up. When you see little seedlings just 774 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:25.920 starting to go, just kind of stir it up a little bit, and 775 00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.239 that sort of takes care of them pretty well. Otherwise you're going to need 776 00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:35.719 to go with maybe a maultch that the termites aren't as interested in, like 777 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:44.079 a cedar mulch for example. I'm not a termite expert. I'm not a 778 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:50.400 pest control operator either, but I would not worry as much about the multch 779 00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:54.320 as I would be about covering up the wheepholes. If you have a brick 780 00:59:54.440 --> 01:00:00.440 siding in your house, those little holes where things can go in, making 781 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:02.639 sure you can see access to those. So if termites tried to build a 782 01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:07.320 mud nest or a mud trail, up there. You could absolutely know it 783 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:13.199 and move quickly. There's a lot of wood in nature the termites are eating, 784 01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:15.920 and so every time a limb falls in the forest, that's a potential 785 01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:22.480 place for a termite to get its next meal. And so I don't know. 786 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.079 I would still malt myself. But if you want to switch to one 787 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:31.280 that's less inviting, like cedar, than you could do that. Thank you, 788 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:34.599 you bet. I hope that helps. Thanks Lisa, thanks for the 789 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:39.800 call. All righty, well, yeah, I need to one of these 790 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:44.599 days. They need to get like a termite PCO or something like on the 791 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:46.840 show. We can kind of pick the brain and learn a few more things 792 01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:51.440 about it. I think I'll make a note try to do that. I 793 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:54.760 like that idea. So out in the garden and out in the landscape right 794 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.679 now, the temperatures, of course are hot and there's a lot of stress 795 01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:05.920 on things. Just remember that proper watering is so very important. You need 796 01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:13.039 a moist soil so that you can have good root development and root health down 797 01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:16.559 underground. You also need to make sure that the soil is not too soggy 798 01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:23.480 wet, because when you are under high heat stress conditions to have the roots 799 01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:31.199 excluded or oxygen excluded from the root system. Is it's just a recipe for 800 01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:37.320 quick death and so overwatering in the hot, blazing summer season and continuing to 801 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.920 keep that soil too soggy is not a good thing. Let it dry a 802 01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:44.840 little bit and think of it a good soaking. Good soaking followed by drying 803 01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:47.800 up very important to do for all of our plants. Remember this too. 804 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:53.559 When you plant a container, maybe it's a shrub or tree, and you 805 01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:59.639 put that in the ground, I want you to play a little mental game 806 01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:04.599 for me here. Imagine that you put the whole thing in the ground in 807 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.880 the pot. That black, round pot goes straight down in the ground, 808 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:12.800 and then you bring up soil around it, mulch over the top, and 809 01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:16.480 water it in. The reason I like that image is because for a long 810 01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:20.039 time, that's where all the roots are going to be. If you knew 811 01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:22.679 there was a pot in the ground, would you water two feet away from 812 01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:27.360 that plant now there's no roots out there, You'd water where the pot is 813 01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.119 because that's where all the roots are. So just because you take it out 814 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.480 of the pot and put it in the ground doesn't change the fact that all 815 01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:37.159 the roots are still in the cylinder, and they're gradually going to move out 816 01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:40.280 into the soil around and with each month, with each week, with each 817 01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:45.760 month, with each year, that plant becomes better and better rooted in with 818 01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:50.480 the resilient root system that you don't need to pamper along because it's resilient. 819 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:53.639 So if you just do that, I'm going to picture this as my roots 820 01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:58.800 are all right there, and water that area where the pot is, or 821 01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:04.079 was the area just beyond that a little bit. If you focus your water 822 01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:07.960 on there, you can help that plant not only sustain and stay healthy, 823 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:13.880 but even grow faster and do well. And so when you water, just 824 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:17.079 in your mind with new plants, just picture that that plant is still under 825 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:21.480 sitting in a pot, but the pot's underground. And if you water like 826 01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:24.639 that, that of course is a little bit of an overstatement, but if 827 01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:29.559 you water like that, it will help you avoid losing that plant. Because 828 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:34.519 listen, in moist soil, that tiny cylinder root ball will pump dry in 829 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.880 a day, depending on how big the plant is and how big the root 830 01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:40.159 ball is, and you've got to be able, you've got to be able 831 01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:44.159 to have some resilience there. So take care of the roots that are there. 832 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:47.000 As it develops roots beyond there, it's time for me to take a 833 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:51.320 little bit of break here. We are going to head to that. I 834 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.159 want to leave you with the phone number if you want to give Chris a 835 01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:58.599 call, get on the board seven to one three two one two KTRH. 836 01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:05.960 Seven to one three two one two kt r H and welcome to garden Line. 837 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:09.559 Welcome back to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and 838 01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:13.679 we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. 839 01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:15.800 So how can we do that? Well, it starts with a phone 840 01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:19.159 call seven to one three two one two k t r H. And we'll 841 01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:24.639 be happy to jump in there and help in any way we can. Folks 842 01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:29.679 at plants for all seasons. Stop about the Flowery Family. They've been around 843 01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:32.719 since so nineteen seventy three, and it's the Garden Center on Tomball Parkway. 844 01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.960 That's Highway two forty nine. As you're heading from Houston toward Tombol direction, 845 01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:42.000 you exit Luetta and it's right on the other side of Luetta, just about 846 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.920 a block or so, not even a block up the street. There on 847 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:48.239 the right, you're going to find every kind of plant you can imagine there 848 01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:53.880 they're going to have right now. Some of the baskets that they have are 849 01:04:54.079 --> 01:04:58.320 just stunning, just really beautiful. But remember, just because it's hot outside 850 01:04:58.519 --> 01:05:01.519 doesn't mean we can't be playing things. Go ahead and get them established. 851 01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:05.400 If you got them here in the middle of a landscape renovation project and summers, 852 01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:09.480 find time to go ahead and make some big changes that you need to 853 01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:13.239 make. Well, go ahead and do that. Just pick some plants that 854 01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:16.679 are going to survive the heat and do well. Remember, we got months 855 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:21.039 of summer ahead of us here, and there's no reason for us, not 856 01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:25.760 for you not to have color in your landscape. Plants for all seasons can 857 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:29.199 help with that. When you have issues and problems, you can take samples 858 01:05:29.239 --> 01:05:31.840 into them. They know what they're talking about and they've got a selection of 859 01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:38.159 products for pretty much anything that you're going to encounter in your Houston area garden. 860 01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:42.119 Now. For example, they also have fertilizers. They got sweet Greens. 861 01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:47.239 Sweet Greens that product from nitroposs It is an organic type product, eleven 862 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:54.440 percent nitrogen made from a molasses base. That's where sweet comes in from the 863 01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:59.400 name sweet green. Any organic gardener knows when you put molasses on the soil 864 01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:04.320 emulates beneficial microbes, some of the bacteria the good guy at bacteria that help 865 01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:10.679 plant roots to thrive. Sweet grain will dissolve away release into the soil for 866 01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:14.880 a summer application. Here's how I suggest you do it. Get the sweet 867 01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:16.840 grain, look at the labels how much you apply. I would cut that 868 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:21.840 in half and apply it now, and then about six to eight weeks from 869 01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:27.480 now, do it again. Make another application of the other half of it, 870 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.679 and that's going to gradually provide those nutrients over a longer period of time 871 01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:35.880 here in the summer. Swee Green's a wonderful product, smells wonderful, and 872 01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:41.840 it's from nitroposs So it's going to be widely available places like plants for all 873 01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:45.679 seasons. We're going to have it. We're going to head out now to 874 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:51.119 Magnolia, Texas and talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie, how are you. 875 01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:55.840 I'm doing good. I'm doing good. What's up? I guess I 876 01:06:55.960 --> 01:07:00.280 need to turn it radio all. Hey, Google, turn off? That's 877 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.320 the pictures. Yeah, and you'd called me back or sent me a message 878 01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:09.360 that there's cabbage worms and give you a shout. We could discuss them. 879 01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:15.719 Okay, I'm having trouble hearing Ronnie and run he are you at a distance 880 01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:19.239 from your phone or is this something on our end? Yeh? Better? 881 01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:24.760 A little bit better? Yeah, okay. So the question was cabbage worms. 882 01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:29.440 Yeah, I remember your picture of that. Uh, the cross striped 883 01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:33.280 cabbage worm is what that is. And it's got the little horizontal black and 884 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:40.159 white stripes across its back. Those are really common for all the cucurbits or 885 01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:45.320 cruciferous or cabbage family plants. So that would be broccoli and cabbage and cauliflower 886 01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.920 and cole robbie and oh collars and kale. You know they like those kind 887 01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:58.639 of plants. And the best pardon absolutely yeah. So the best way that 888 01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:03.960 I'd recommend managing as with a spray containing bt B as in boy teas in 889 01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:09.119 tom. It's a natural caterpillar killer. Now, it's only gonna last about 890 01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:13.119 a day or so out there in the environment before it breaks down. So 891 01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:16.640 if you were to spray it today, I would check back mid week and 892 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:19.640 look and see or did you miss any Are they still alive? And it's 893 01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:23.640 not gonna kill them instantly? They eat it and they get very very sick. 894 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.439 And die, but don't be afraid to spray it again, and you 895 01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:30.000 know, anywhere from maybe three or four days later or a week later, 896 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:32.720 and then you can do it a third time even if you need to. 897 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:35.079 But you can get ahead of them that way. But the sooner you get 898 01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:39.319 it on them, the better, because young caterpillars are much easier to kill 899 01:08:39.399 --> 01:08:43.800 than older caterpillars. Got you got another question for you for a run off? 900 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:49.680 My corn plants, man, they didn't grow and last for two years 901 01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:56.119 straight, about maybe three four foot in the kernels about one inch of cross 902 01:08:56.159 --> 01:09:00.439 and four inches long or not kernels, but the cobs any ideas on that? 903 01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:08.439 So how long would you plant them? Right? Well, I planted 904 01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:15.920 them the early part of this spring, and then last year it happened the 905 01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:27.119 same way. Some boy small cobs. That's a that's kind of unusual. 906 01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.680 What happens with corn is well, First of all, the varieties differ a 907 01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:34.279 lot. There are types of corn that when they're three feet higher putting ears 908 01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:39.079 on, which is not normal, and then there are types that gets seven 909 01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:44.079 feet high the field corn and whatnot. So the size of the ears is 910 01:09:44.119 --> 01:09:48.079 going to also be part of that genetic difference but when there's narrow and spinley 911 01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:55.760 as what you're describing, that's unusual. The pollination that occurs as the pollen 912 01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:59.039 falls on the silks of the ear sticking out of the end of the ear, 913 01:09:59.720 --> 01:10:04.920 that helps all those little corn kernels develop on the cob. So the 914 01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:11.880 kernels were fine. Pardon, the kernels were developed. They just wouldn't. 915 01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:15.199 The ear wasn't very big at all. Yeah, that's very I don't know. 916 01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:19.840 On the ear, some of the secondary ears down the stalk will often 917 01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:25.439 not develop as far along as the primary ones we get up top. But 918 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:30.039 I would I would try. Do you remember do you remember what variety you 919 01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:38.399 put motok or mon tap and a and a honey bun and then a hybrid. 920 01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:45.159 Yeah, go ahead, that those that's the only three names I remember. 921 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:48.239 I went and ordered support and I've just reached this. I don't know 922 01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:54.960 those I don't know those varieties. I don't know. My suggestion and based 923 01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:58.840 on the fact that there's not some common thing that I'm aware of that would 924 01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:02.359 cause the ears themselves just to be spend late but still have good kernels on 925 01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:08.000 them. Uh So my suggestion would be to switch varieties. There is one 926 01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:13.560 called gen ninety that does very well. If you can find that one, 927 01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:20.000 get g ninety. There's one called Honey and Pearl that does well. So 928 01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:26.079 you are up in the Magnolia area, I would you can do. You 929 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:29.760 can go buy garden centers and find packs of seed on these. If you're 930 01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:31.720 going to need a larger quantity, if you're planting a pretty big patch, 931 01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:34.920 probably mail order is going to be what you're into up having to do for 932 01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:42.039 that quantity up in your area. Well, okay, my friend appreciate it. 933 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.119 Well, good luck with those. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna look 934 01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:47.479 into that because that's a that's a new one. Well, you know, 935 01:11:47.560 --> 01:11:53.960 and I'm out soul and now this is arbigate soul. It's a rose and 936 01:11:54.239 --> 01:12:00.399 uh mulch and uh uh huh. So you know, I ever finding else 937 01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.920 is just fluent. I mean, I've got tomatoes and beans and peas, 938 01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:10.920 it all just flourishing. But this series got me stymy. Yeah, it 939 01:12:11.039 --> 01:12:14.800 is unusual. I just want to blame it on the variety. But yeah, 940 01:12:14.920 --> 01:12:17.239 arbigate soil is excellent soil, and obviously everything else is doing well in 941 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:24.600 it, so it's definitely not a soil caused problem in this case. Okay, 942 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:28.479 sound like you need to go on break. Yeah, they're playing the 943 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.720 magic sounds out there, so I gotta do that. All right, take 944 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:36.479 care. Well, here we are top of the hour. We will be 945 01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:41.880 right back. I'm gonna do a little research on that one they for the 946 01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:45.039 top of the hour and see if I can come up with some solutions. 947 01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:48.159 That's a that's an You know, it's funny be in this thirty five years 948 01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:53.560 I still run into situations, but hadn't come across that one. You have 949 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:56.359 to hunte that down. Thanks for listening. By the way to garden, 950 01:12:56.439 --> 01:12:59.439 we're gonna take our low break from the news. Seven one three two one 951 01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:01.840 two k t r H is the number if you like to call and get 952 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:16.399 on the board. In Charlie from Western USI are first time. Well, 953 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:24.000 probably not the problem. I mean, if it is compacted. I think 954 01:13:24.079 --> 01:13:28.039 that's what you mean by when you're saying the DNS. It's going to limit 955 01:13:28.119 --> 01:13:31.199 root development, and so aeration would be helpful, helpful. The problem with 956 01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:35.680 aeration is you have so many tree roots in that area that you're almost gonna 957 01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:40.199 have to do it by hand. You can't run a machine through there with 958 01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:43.680 all those tree roots. Up at the surface. You could use a spading 959 01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:46.079 fork and kind of wiggle it straight down in the ground and kind of pull 960 01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:49.319 back on it a little bit and then pull it straight back up again. 961 01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:51.920 You know, you're kind of creating holes that way. It's not the best 962 01:13:51.920 --> 01:13:55.319 way to do it, but it is a way to do it. I 963 01:13:55.319 --> 01:13:58.920 think probably what you're looking at though, when I when I see your scamp 964 01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:03.239 your photos is it could be a combination of things. Number one, a 965 01:14:03.319 --> 01:14:08.960 lot of shade and Saint Augustine just can't get the energy that it needs to 966 01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:14.760 make good density when there's a lot of shade. Uh. That's a factor. 967 01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:17.840 That's why you're seeing some weeds coming into it. The compaction of the 968 01:14:17.880 --> 01:14:21.439 soil certainly is not helping, so aerrating would be helpful there. You may 969 01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:26.520 also have take all root rot going on. That's really common disease in our 970 01:14:26.600 --> 01:14:30.640 area. And I as looking at the the photos, I can't diagnose the 971 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:35.680 disease from from just the photo, but the way the grass looks the effects 972 01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:40.560 of it remind me of what take all root rot would do. And so 973 01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:45.039 that would be one where you would actually use a fungicide containing something called a 974 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:48.359 secesstrobo to be able to do that. But let me you don't have to 975 01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:54.239 worry about writing that down. Go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, 976 01:14:54.279 --> 01:14:59.920 Gardening with Skip dot com and on. There is the lawn pest, 977 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.920 disease and weed management schedule and the disease row Across the page you'll see when 978 01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:10.720 to apply things. For take all root lot, I would go ahead, 979 01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:13.560 even though this isn't the best season. I would go ahead and do it 980 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.840 now, but definitely come back and do it when we get it to October 981 01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:21.640 again. Those are the things that are in your power in the meantime. 982 01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:26.960 Because the plant is lacking a good root system, you're going to have to 983 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:31.840 water in more frequently in smaller doses. It's the opposite of what I've been 984 01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:36.520 talking about today, where we try to develop this resilient plant by not watering 985 01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:42.199 often, but watering well. When we do. This little shallow root system 986 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.000 is not going to go far between watering. So be ready to water a 987 01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:50.680 little more often until you get your grasp back to good health account. Okay, 988 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:56.520 and the I guess as you say, it's a fung de side to 989 01:15:56.680 --> 01:16:00.199 take care of the take all right, do I put that order or is 990 01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:05.439 that on your website. It's schedule, my schedule on the week. It 991 01:16:05.479 --> 01:16:10.319 tells you exactly when the plant. But I'm saying you won't see it it 992 01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:15.439 listed for July. But go ahead and do it now in your lawn in 993 01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.359 this situation, and then just get back on the proper schedule for it. 994 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:25.399 If you take, if you take compressed peat moss, spagming pete moss, 995 01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:29.840 it comes and compressed they call them bales. It's a plastic wrapped but it's 996 01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:33.520 been squeezed down so tight that it's shaped like a giant brick, I mean, 997 01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:39.600 a very giant brick three point and break it up, loosen it up, 998 01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:43.079 and put little piles of it everywhere and spread it out as thin as 999 01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:45.760 you can, and then water it in. That will also help. We're 1000 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:50.800 doing a number of things in this recommendation trying to help move the plant toward 1001 01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:56.279 health and away from the disease having the advantage. Okay, I'm saying, 1002 01:16:56.319 --> 01:17:01.239 what is the name that pete moss against staying him bagging and pete moss compressed 1003 01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:05.439 bals. You're out there west, you you know what I would just run 1004 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:10.840 out to. I would give them a call itself US fertilizer best and that 1005 01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:15.079 yes, too far from you. And they they're going to have. If 1006 01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:16.279 they don't have it, they can get it. I bet they already have 1007 01:17:16.399 --> 01:17:20.000 it on hand, but just talked about or someone out there. A three 1008 01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:27.960 point eight cubic foot bag covers about a thousand square feet at the very shallow 1009 01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:33.079 depth. Ok okay, all right, good luck with it, and in 1010 01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:35.960 the meantime, try to keep the foot traffic off as much as you can. 1011 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:43.479 Okay, A right doesn't get a luck, Thank you very much, 1012 01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:46.920 skipping. Yes, you take care well, I tell you, take all 1013 01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:50.079 the right. We need a miracle cure to come along for that. It 1014 01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:54.359 is. It is a difficult disease to deal with. And I've seen it 1015 01:17:54.560 --> 01:18:00.920 this summer, uh, just in many places and in many situations. And 1016 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.079 the thing we need to remember, I'll use take all as an example, 1017 01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:11.680 but this is true of plant disease and to some degree human disease too in 1018 01:18:11.840 --> 01:18:16.399 general, and that is that when the patient gets stressed, diseases are more 1019 01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:21.960 likely to have the ability to go in and to cause illness and in some 1020 01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:27.680 cases of your low death. And so with our bodies, what do we 1021 01:18:27.760 --> 01:18:30.800 do we exercise, we eat right, we get plenty of sleep. All 1022 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:34.560 those things right, that helps you be more healthy, so you're more resilient. 1023 01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:39.079 When it comes to a turf plant, when you stress it with compacted 1024 01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:44.640 soil, with shade, with damage from some sorts of weed killers, you're 1025 01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:46.760 gonna find take all root rot shows up. All right, We're gonna take 1026 01:18:46.760 --> 01:18:49.800 a little quick break here. I'll be right back in just a moment. 1027 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:58.840 Maryl is in the Gulf of Mexico approach the Texas coast. Ue. Welcome 1028 01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:01.800 to have you with us today. We've got a lot of things to talk 1029 01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:09.439 about. I wanted to mention sometimes I get there's a common question I get 1030 01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:14.720 sometimes people wonder, why aren't my flowers blooming. I've had flowers, but 1031 01:19:14.760 --> 01:19:16.319 they're not doing well. Why aren't they blooming? And one of the reasons 1032 01:19:16.479 --> 01:19:20.479 is a lack of nutrient. One of the reasons could be stresses from lack 1033 01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:24.840 of water or whatnot. So another reason could be the flower doesn't like that 1034 01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:28.039 time of year. In other words, if you have a petunia outlet, 1035 01:19:28.279 --> 01:19:30.520 let's go all the way. If you have a pansy and you have it 1036 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:33.079 out in July in Texas, it's not gonna be blooming. In fact, 1037 01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:39.359 it's gonna be dying in the heat that we have. But within our power 1038 01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:44.079 is making sure they are adequately watered and that they're fertilized well. I like 1039 01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:48.760 the products that Nelson Plant Food is put together that are in the Nutristar line. 1040 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:54.119 For example, there's a nutri Star for hibiscus and really any flowering tropicals. 1041 01:19:54.199 --> 01:19:59.319 You know, there's lots of different kinds of plants icera and others that 1042 01:19:59.800 --> 01:20:04.560 just do really well with the hibiscus and flowering tropical version of nutristar. There 1043 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:12.239 is an indoor plant Nutristar specifically designed for indoor plants. And whether you have 1044 01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:17.600 a Chinese evergreen agli anema, whether you have a Kalitha Diffenbakia drasina, all 1045 01:20:17.680 --> 01:20:21.000 those common houseplants, fiddly fig and on and on and on if it's a 1046 01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:25.920 houseplant. In other words, this is a quality plant food to help produce 1047 01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:30.640 healthy growth for it to succeed and do really really well. And then there's 1048 01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:34.119 a color Star line for our flower beds outdoors. Color Star itself is just 1049 01:20:34.199 --> 01:20:39.399 an outstanding fertilizer. All from Nelson Plant Food, All from Nelson Plant Food 1050 01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:43.399 and then remember too with your lawns. Turf Star slow and easy, that's 1051 01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:46.319 the season we're in. Carries you all the way to fall with a gradual 1052 01:20:46.439 --> 01:20:49.800 release and even a little bit of an acidifying effect, which is very, 1053 01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:55.760 very helpful for the things our lawns are struggling against. Right now, we're 1054 01:20:55.760 --> 01:21:00.239 going to go now out to Brazoria County and talk to Bob. But Bob 1055 01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:02.960 there all right, Bob, I think I have you. How can we 1056 01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:11.600 help the day? Are you the yes? Ree u? Two things? 1057 01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:16.159 Want to comment about your statement about the wheepholes, plugging them for because the 1058 01:21:16.279 --> 01:21:20.840 termite possibility, right. You don't want to plug them with anything that's not 1059 01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:27.920 poorous. You want to put something in there like fiberglass or a stainless stil 1060 01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:32.159 wool. Because those wheapholes are there to breathe. Oh yes they are. 1061 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:38.319 Listen. If I said plugging them, I misspoke. No, you you 1062 01:21:38.439 --> 01:21:41.520 want to leave them open. What I was trying to say was don't pull 1063 01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:44.640 the mulch up over them, because then termites get in and you don't even 1064 01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:49.399 know it. I have a little exposed foundation below the wheephole. If I 1065 01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:53.319 use the word plug, if I said that, I'm glad you brought it 1066 01:21:53.439 --> 01:21:57.039 up, because I do not know do not plug the wheepholes? That was 1067 01:21:58.159 --> 01:22:02.199 question I have giving off that topic. Have a lot of volunteer oak trees. 1068 01:22:03.199 --> 01:22:08.199 They're like three inches tall and they're in clusters around the yard, and 1069 01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:11.920 I haven't been mowing over them. What is the best way and the best 1070 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:15.760 time to try to plant transplant them? Should I do it now or wait 1071 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:17.960 till they get a foot tall? Or you know what? Should we do? 1072 01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.479 What I what I would do is starting. You could start now, 1073 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:29.880 definitely want to do this as we get into September October. But take a 1074 01:22:30.039 --> 01:22:35.079 shovel and go down straight into the ground. Let's say, what would you 1075 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:39.279 say as a trunk diameter on these trees right now? Are we talking about 1076 01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:44.840 your thumb or we talking a pencil or what? What was that again? 1077 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:50.039 You said, Diam, Yeah, the trunk diameter on the trees. Is 1078 01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:53.800 it more like a pencil or your thumb? Or how big? Is it 1079 01:22:54.880 --> 01:22:58.000 small? Half the size of a pencil? That they're just starters right now? 1080 01:22:58.239 --> 01:23:00.840 Oh? Tiny? Okay, Well, I'm going to take back the 1081 01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:04.199 shovel thing just so you know what I was saying. For in case you 1082 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:10.000 have bigger plants to transplant. I will often cut the roots. Oh you 1083 01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:13.279 know, maybe, depending on the size of the plant, could be eight 1084 01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:17.319 inches away or foot away from the trunk in several places, not all the 1085 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:20.560 way around, because that causes them to branch. So when you do dig 1086 01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:25.319 it, you have a more active root system right around the base of the 1087 01:23:25.399 --> 01:23:30.800 plant. But I would wait until November and would I would pull them, 1088 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:33.119 dig them up and move them in November. Put them at the same level 1089 01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:36.479 they were growing before, water them and really well, put them in the 1090 01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:42.319 soil they're gonna grow in. Don't put potting soil in the hole or anything 1091 01:23:42.439 --> 01:23:45.239 like that. Just whatever they're going to have to live in, that's the 1092 01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:47.680 soil you put back in the hole. Very good. I appreciate it. 1093 01:23:48.520 --> 01:23:50.720 All right, sir, you take care, Thanks for the call. Thank 1094 01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:56.920 you, Yeah, alrighty, yeah, you're listening to guard Line. I'm 1095 01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:01.359 your host, Skip Ricker and our phone number seven one three one two fifty 1096 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:08.079 eight seventy four seven to one three two one two five eight seven four. 1097 01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:14.880 As easy as that. I have talked about in the past, enchanted for 1098 01:24:15.039 --> 01:24:17.920 us that in Richmond a number of times, and I always mentioned several things 1099 01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:20.720 about it number one in the springtime. They got all kinds of programs all 1100 01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:24.479 the time. I ever seemed like every weekend there's something going on out there. 1101 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:30.840 If you're looking for a quality, uh selection of things that attract butterflies 1102 01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:36.479 or birds or humming birds for example, things that attract pollinators, and Chanted 1103 01:24:36.520 --> 01:24:42.039 Forest has got you covered. In fact, I was joking with any a 1104 01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:46.680 good while back. It's it's funny. They they have these larval food source 1105 01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:53.720 plants like milkweed for monarch caterpillars, or passion vine for gulf fritillary, or 1106 01:24:54.439 --> 01:25:00.000 pipeline swallowtail like caterpillars like pipeline plants. And if you buy a plant, 1107 01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:02.560 they'll give you a caterpillar to say home. So you got your own little 1108 01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:06.199 kind of like a sour dough starter. You go home with it. You 1109 01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:10.880 got your own starter there to get you going in the butterfly business. Well, 1110 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:13.680 they have a lot of other things. Do you're not enchanted forest? 1111 01:25:14.159 --> 01:25:16.760 They have got an excellent selection of every kind of plant that you would need. 1112 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:20.439 I don't care if it's a vegetables, brand new vegetable thing they built 1113 01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:27.640 this year a vegetable structure herbs outstanding selection of herbs, really very impressive, 1114 01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:30.600 tree, shrubs, roses, no matter what it is, they've got it. 1115 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:34.359 There. A nice little gift shop also very very nice. Now they're 1116 01:25:34.439 --> 01:25:38.920 on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading toward 1117 01:25:39.039 --> 01:25:43.279 Houston up fifty nine, it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine 1118 01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:49.199 in Richmond again. Enchanted Forest, Enchanted Forest. The the nice thing that 1119 01:25:49.359 --> 01:25:55.000 I am One of the nice things that I enjoy about Enchanted Forest is being 1120 01:25:55.039 --> 01:25:58.640 able to visit with the folks that are there, that are there to help 1121 01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:03.800 you to have success. Very friendly, just very helpful in every possible way 1122 01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:08.479 that you can imagine, and that is important. You can go shop a 1123 01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:12.720 lot of places that plants are not what they're all about, but they got 1124 01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:16.119 some plants, and you are not going to find knowledgeable people like you'll find 1125 01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:23.159 at Enchanted Forest. Enchanted Forest. Excuse me, let me let me give 1126 01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:26.760 me one second. Here, just's track of something I'm looking for. All 1127 01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:29.520 right, there we go, Yeah, ententted Forest. The website. If 1128 01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:31.720 you like to look at the website, I suggest you do because you're gonna 1129 01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:35.119 find a really good selection of all the things they have there and you kind 1130 01:26:35.119 --> 01:26:39.119 of get some photos and a picture. When I talk about it being such 1131 01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:42.159 a cool place to go visit, you kind of get a glimpse of that. 1132 01:26:42.479 --> 01:26:47.239 If you go to the website and that is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX 1133 01:26:47.680 --> 01:26:54.880 dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Go buy there, 1134 01:26:55.279 --> 01:26:59.479 check it out and you'll see what I'm talking about. Our phone number if 1135 01:26:59.479 --> 01:27:01.560 you would like to us a call with some sort of a question you might 1136 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:06.319 have about a plant or having success with a plant on garden line seven one 1137 01:27:06.439 --> 01:27:13.119 three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k 1138 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:19.960 t r H. Ciena Mulch is our go to place here on garden line 1139 01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:26.279 for any kind of soil based products down in Siena, Texas. So if 1140 01:27:26.319 --> 01:27:29.800 you go down to Sienna, it's north of Road Sharon. It's on FM 1141 01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:32.520 five twenty one. That's the easiest way FM five twenty one, near where 1142 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:36.720 Highway six and two eighty eight come together. Cienamultch is open Monday through Friday 1143 01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:42.159 from seven thirty in the morning till five Saturday seven thirty two. Closed on 1144 01:27:42.279 --> 01:27:45.720 Sunday. They'll be back open again first thing in the morning. And I 1145 01:27:45.199 --> 01:27:48.680 think when you go there, you will agree with me that it is one 1146 01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:55.279 of the well stocked, neatest places that you're going to ever see. They're 1147 01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:58.880 going to have things like, for example, they carry heirloom soils, Veggian 1148 01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:02.760 nermex They have Vegi nerm mix there. They have high quality mulches, high 1149 01:28:02.840 --> 01:28:05.720 quality bed mixes. What do you want to grow, They've got a bed 1150 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:10.039 mix to put it in. Do you want to do some stone? Maybe 1151 01:28:10.119 --> 01:28:14.079 you want to create a dry creek bed for drainage away from the property. 1152 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:17.279 Maybe you want to get some flagstones to create a little patio area. They've 1153 01:28:17.319 --> 01:28:21.119 got that every kind of stone. You can imagine things we never even dreamed 1154 01:28:21.199 --> 01:28:25.039 existed. And when you say I need some patio flagstone, they're going to 1155 01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:29.319 say which one because they got about seven of them different kinds of flagstone. 1156 01:28:29.359 --> 01:28:31.000 Maybe more than that. I just know there's a lot when I go visit. 1157 01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.960 Everything you need to make your plants thrive. Remember on garden Line I 1158 01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:41.159 talk about brown stuff before green stuff, right, brown stuff the soil. 1159 01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:45.439 They've got all the soil blends you need. Plus they have every fertilizer I 1160 01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:48.920 talk about on garden Line. So everything you need to set the stage, 1161 01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:55.880 the foundation, the soil. The success of plants is there at Ciena Mulch. 1162 01:28:57.000 --> 01:29:00.920 Check them out, go buy there cienamultch dot com website. I'll help 1163 01:29:00.960 --> 01:29:04.520 you find them, phone numbers and everything else you need. Ceenimulch dot com 1164 01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:09.800 super quality products and super friendly people too. By the way, we're going 1165 01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:13.960 to now go out to Sugar Line, Texas and talk to Bill. Hello, 1166 01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:18.600 Bill, good morning. I called you before about my sago palms with 1167 01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:24.119 with yellow spots on the leaves, and the apps and salts has solved the 1168 01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:29.960 problem looks great. Now I have clouds of white flies in my viburnum, 1169 01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:34.359 which is about eight feet tall and real bushy, and I'm calling to see 1170 01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:43.560 what should I spray with to kill the white fly. Well, there are 1171 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:45.920 a number of insecticides that will kill white flies. If you wanted to go 1172 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:54.279 with a little more organic type approach, using a horticultural oil, spray upward 1173 01:29:54.720 --> 01:29:59.279 from underneath the plant so as to coat the bottom sides of the leaves. 1174 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:03.199 I will kill any larva and pupa larva or pupa that are on the leaf 1175 01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:08.039 and not killed the adults flying around. So you can do that and stay 1176 01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:14.399 with that you can also use a number of insecticides. Products like acifate, 1177 01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:16.159 which is our theene, for example, will kill white flies. A lot 1178 01:30:16.239 --> 01:30:19.399 of things will kill white flies. The problem is that when you do, 1179 01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:24.720 you kill their enemies, and you end up with a rebound of white flies. 1180 01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:27.479 I'm gonna have to take a break here for the news. Bill, 1181 01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:30.760 will you hang on and I want to finish this discussion because there's a few 1182 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:34.680 more things that'd like to share with you about. There'll be fine, yeah, 1183 01:30:35.039 --> 01:30:38.520 And when we come back, we'll be back with Bill and Flint out 1184 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:42.560 in Santa Fe. You'll be right afterwards, Baard line with us. We're 1185 01:30:42.560 --> 01:30:45.520 gonna jump right back into the phones here. I believe we were in the 1186 01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:49.359 middle of a conversation with Bill and sugar Land about white flies. So Bill, 1187 01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:54.000 the thing I just want to point out is that I've watched a lot 1188 01:30:54.039 --> 01:30:58.000 of people try to spray and control white flies, and then it's like you 1189 01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:00.359 get on a treadmill. When you kill all the things that eat the white 1190 01:31:00.399 --> 01:31:04.840 flies, now they're all your job to manage, and so you end up 1191 01:31:04.840 --> 01:31:10.439 spraying more to keep controlling them. I'm not saying don't spray. I'm just 1192 01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:14.439 saying to be aware that when when you take out the natural enemies, that 1193 01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:18.359 is a problem. Oftentimes white flies may have a flare up, but then 1194 01:31:18.439 --> 01:31:23.520 there's things will settle down as their natural enemies kind of bring things a little 1195 01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:28.680 more into balance. So that is also a possibility. You may you know, 1196 01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:32.239 maybe you wait and wait and you're not seeing that happen. But if 1197 01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:35.600 it were mine, I would do everything I could to avoid spray in and 1198 01:31:35.680 --> 01:31:42.079 if I had to, then any good insecticide of synthetic periphthoids for example, 1199 01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:47.720 are going to be effective against the white flies. Okay, you mentioned spraying 1200 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:51.119 with the oil underneath the leaves, how how is that done? And what 1201 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:58.359 kind of oil? Horticultural oil, not Dorman oil. So you get you 1202 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:01.680 get a horticultural oil, and you're going to be able to find you know, 1203 01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:04.439 you're done in sugar Land, whether you go down to one of the 1204 01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:12.359 enchanted nurseries down southwest from you, you've got some really good ace hardware source 1205 01:32:12.439 --> 01:32:16.520 and the Sugarland you're right next to Southwest fertilizer business Renwick. I would turn 1206 01:32:16.600 --> 01:32:19.560 over there and just say I need a horticultural law and they'll understand. They 1207 01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:24.640 know that they've ever sween their oils and stuff. Here's the way that works, 1208 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:28.239 though, is the white flies lay eggs that hatch out into larvae that 1209 01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:32.159 then become pupa, and the people look like little tiny fish scales under the 1210 01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:35.359 leaf. So if you looked and you see these little flecks that are the 1211 01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:43.600 size of a lowercase typed o, that's a white fly pupa in a plant 1212 01:32:43.640 --> 01:32:46.359 that's invested with wildflies. That's what the pupa look like. And the oil 1213 01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:51.239 coats them and smothers them just like it would do scale. Now you want 1214 01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:55.720 to it early in the morning. You don't want to put oil out when 1215 01:32:55.800 --> 01:33:00.800 it's sun blazing down ninety five degrees and whatnot. You burn plants like that. 1216 01:33:01.720 --> 01:33:05.600 But and also coverage is critical because well it's not a poison. So 1217 01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:11.520 to the degree you coat every underleaf surface is the degree you're going to shut 1218 01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:15.319 down that those two stages of the whitefly. Yeah, it seems like it 1219 01:33:15.359 --> 01:33:19.119 would be difficult to spray on the underside of the leaves because if this is 1220 01:33:19.199 --> 01:33:25.199 a real bushy plant and I can hardly get to the imperior, well in 1221 01:33:25.279 --> 01:33:28.720 that case, then it's just not going to be practical. Tell me remind 1222 01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:32.560 me, did what type of plant did you say it was? I burn 1223 01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:38.840 them, burn them. You know, another option it would be to put 1224 01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:46.840 a systemic in there, like something that can contains a meddo cloprid or dinotepheron, 1225 01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:49.880 And I'll spell those out if you want me to. You, Yeah, 1226 01:33:50.039 --> 01:34:00.279 I am, I am, I d O c l O p are 1227 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:02.680 id. So I'm gonna it's spelled like it sounds, and I'll sound it 1228 01:34:02.760 --> 01:34:10.239 out. In mid dough clow prid, in mid dough glow prid, and 1229 01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:13.720 drench it on the soil. It's taken up by the roots and it goes 1230 01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:16.199 through the plumbing and things that suck the juice is out of the plant, 1231 01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:21.239 like white flies and soft scales, for example. They're at that poison and 1232 01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:25.239 it kills them. It makes the plant of bait station in a sense. 1233 01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:30.119 Okay, So you just want to remove any blooms that might form. There's 1234 01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:33.279 several different types of I burn them. Some of them we see the balloons 1235 01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:39.159 on them, and you don't want bees and butterflies coming until next summer, 1236 01:34:39.720 --> 01:34:45.359 because yeah, I've never seen any many blooms. I've never seen any blooms. 1237 01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:47.720 So then I'm gonna take back some of the other things I said, 1238 01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:53.880 and just suggest that I think that would be your best approach to these Okay, 1239 01:34:54.880 --> 01:34:59.600 okay, And how about well, if it's a systemic we're going to 1240 01:34:59.640 --> 01:35:05.039 have these big rains coming, should I wait until Wednesday or so? You 1241 01:35:05.119 --> 01:35:09.640 know, I would. Uh. You're just wanting to wet the surface of 1242 01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:13.079 the soil, not the surface, but a few inches down so the roots 1243 01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:15.119 pick up the product and you don't have to spoil far and wide. You 1244 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.239 follow the label. The label will tell you exactly how to do it. 1245 01:35:18.960 --> 01:35:24.359 There are is another product. If you end up going into Southwest Fertilizer, 1246 01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:28.640 Bob or just tell them, tell them what we talked about, and that 1247 01:35:28.760 --> 01:35:32.600 there is another product, the one that's dino teferon. Just think of dinosaur. 1248 01:35:32.840 --> 01:35:36.640 That's how it starts off. Uh, And it also works for this. 1249 01:35:38.439 --> 01:35:40.680 But they may, they may, they probably have both of them. 1250 01:35:41.880 --> 01:35:45.479 Okay, excellent, Okay, all right, sir. I really appreciate your 1251 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:48.880 health. Thank you very much. You bet, you bet, Bill, 1252 01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:54.119 thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Let's see here. Why 1253 01:35:54.119 --> 01:35:57.880 don't we run out now to Santa Fe, Texas and talk to flint Hey 1254 01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:02.079 Flint Hey, Hey, My question for you is, I've got a garden. 1255 01:36:02.199 --> 01:36:06.600 It's about forty by fifty is in size, and we've been planting there 1256 01:36:06.640 --> 01:36:10.640 for many, many years, and it's got to be a bowl. Well, 1257 01:36:10.680 --> 01:36:14.039 I elected to bring in some sand to raise the level up, and 1258 01:36:14.199 --> 01:36:18.720 now I'm having real trouble getting anything to grow there. What would you recommend 1259 01:36:18.840 --> 01:36:23.560 as to add to it to maybe help the nutrients for the garden, or 1260 01:36:24.319 --> 01:36:30.199 what should I do? So about how many inches of sand do you think 1261 01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:35.800 you brought in? Ooh? I would say at least six to eight inches? 1262 01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:39.960 Oh wow, okay, a lot. And it truly was sand, 1263 01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:45.680 not sandy loam or top soil. Least I bought half and half. It 1264 01:36:45.840 --> 01:36:47.319 was half and half. It had quite a bit of clay in it. 1265 01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:53.680 Okay. The first thing I'd do is the plants that aren't doing good, 1266 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:57.159 I would go pull one up here and there and look at the root system, 1267 01:36:57.239 --> 01:36:59.760 get a shovel underneath it, kind of shake it so you don't break 1268 01:36:59.800 --> 01:37:02.680 all the roots off when you pull it up, and look for nematod symptoms 1269 01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:11.039 on those roots. Nematods love sandy conditions and they that since it was doing 1270 01:37:11.159 --> 01:37:14.840 okay, and then you did this and now things aren't growing. I would 1271 01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:15.960 check that first, just to make sure, because if you have that, 1272 01:37:16.439 --> 01:37:20.199 you need to deal with those. But assuming that's not the problem, I 1273 01:37:20.239 --> 01:37:25.079 would get a high quality compost material. It could be a bed mix like 1274 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:30.119 a veggie and herb mix, or it could just be a finely screened quality 1275 01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:33.680 compost and you can just run. Basically, all you have to do is 1276 01:37:33.720 --> 01:37:36.840 run across the street to see in a mold, so they're not far from 1277 01:37:36.920 --> 01:37:42.800 you and they have it. They'll deliver within twenty miles. If you want 1278 01:37:42.880 --> 01:37:45.319 a bulk a delivery of it, or you can go get it with a 1279 01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:47.479 trailer, or you can pick up bags of stuff. But I would get 1280 01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:53.399 a quality compost, put it about. I'd put it two inches deep, 1281 01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:57.760 maybe a little deeper and mix it in as deeply as you can to try 1282 01:37:57.800 --> 01:38:00.359 to add a lot of organic materials into that well. I think that will 1283 01:38:00.439 --> 01:38:05.439 be enough to help things do better. There are a lot of reasons plants 1284 01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:10.880 would might not be growing, from droughty conditions to poor drainage, which I 1285 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:15.479 don't think you have that uh, to certain kinds of root diseases, the 1286 01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:19.520 particular species of plant, and the season that it's in like, for example, 1287 01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:23.800 broccoli in this heat is not going to be very happy. So there's 1288 01:38:23.800 --> 01:38:26.760 a lot of reasons plants wouldn't do well, but for a whole bunch of 1289 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:29.960 different species to not be doing well, it come sounds like, you know, 1290 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:31.840 you planted this whole garden and a lot of it is just not doing 1291 01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:38.199 good. That's probably okay. Yeah, it's everything comes up like I'll get 1292 01:38:38.239 --> 01:38:42.239 everything coming up and everything looks like it takes off really good, and it 1293 01:38:42.439 --> 01:38:47.239 just like it fizzles out. They just like run out of gas. And 1294 01:38:47.880 --> 01:38:54.439 there we were just concerned. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna says around 1295 01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:56.920 the guess, let's dig one up. Let's look at the roots. If 1296 01:38:56.960 --> 01:38:59.640 you see it and you're not sure what you're seeing, get your camera, 1297 01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:02.800 takes pictures of it, and call back in here to guarden line and you 1298 01:39:02.880 --> 01:39:08.000 can send me pictures of the plants, the samples showing look at this sick 1299 01:39:08.079 --> 01:39:11.159 plant, what's what's going on. Here's a picture of the roots or whatever. 1300 01:39:11.720 --> 01:39:14.760 And I'll be happy to take a look and maybe i'll see something that's 1301 01:39:14.840 --> 01:39:17.640 not occurring to me as we're talking about it. Okay, And what was 1302 01:39:17.640 --> 01:39:24.279 the name of the place, you said for the for the soil Sienna Mulch 1303 01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:30.199 Bienna mulch okay, and where they at of well there they're in Siena, 1304 01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:34.800 Texas, heying. I'm gonna give your dress. I don't have the actual 1305 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:40.920 location. They are A ninety six fifteen FM five twenty one, so they're 1306 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:45.079 they're nearbur Highway six and two eighty eight come together north of Rose, Sharon. 1307 01:39:46.319 --> 01:39:50.760 If you go to here's the website cienamultch dot com. Go there and 1308 01:39:50.880 --> 01:39:54.560 there you can learn all about everything you need to know from where they are, 1309 01:39:54.640 --> 01:39:57.800 that the phone number and everything else. All Right, I'm all right, 1310 01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:00.319 sounds good. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks, appreciate the call. 1311 01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:03.000 Flin all right, we're going to take a quick commercial break seven one 1312 01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:06.760 three two one two kt RH. I'll be right back. Yes today, 1313 01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:15.079 you know, the hurricane's coming looks like it's kind of bending over, making 1314 01:40:15.119 --> 01:40:17.680 a little bit of a b line for our direction. So the good news 1315 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:20.880 in that as you get some rain, we hope we do. The bad 1316 01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:25.479 news is we don't need the wind. That is for sure. If you 1317 01:40:25.640 --> 01:40:30.279 are wanting to do any kind of a treatment to your lawn. The thing 1318 01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:34.399 about rainfall is you don't know how much is going to occur. So if 1319 01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:39.920 you're going to put down a fertilizer that's not a slow release, then it 1320 01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:44.600 could easily dissolve and wash away if we get excessive amounts of rain. If 1321 01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.000 it's just an inch, well then that's perfect, but you know who can 1322 01:40:47.079 --> 01:40:50.600 predict exactly how much you're going to get. If it's a slow release, 1323 01:40:50.640 --> 01:40:55.479 it tends to stay in place unless you just literally get so much water sheeting 1324 01:40:55.600 --> 01:41:00.319 across the lawn that it picks up the particles and carries them away. That's 1325 01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:02.720 the nice thing I like about slow releases. It gradually releases, that it 1326 01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:08.920 doesn't just dissolve away in water. The other thing to keep in mind about 1327 01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:11.840 all of that is if you put on a pesticide, the same kinds of 1328 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:15.760 things can happen. And so I would recommend letting this rainfall get by, 1329 01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:20.239 just so we know where we are, because otherwise, you know, I 1330 01:41:20.319 --> 01:41:24.239 get the calls that like, hey, I put it on such and such 1331 01:41:24.520 --> 01:41:28.199 and I got three inches of rain or three and a half inches of rain, 1332 01:41:28.279 --> 01:41:30.439 and do I need to reapply it? And that's always a tough call 1333 01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:38.720 because whether it's a weed killer or insect side or fungicide. Usually you would 1334 01:41:38.760 --> 01:41:41.600 have to reapply it, but not always, and so it's I would rather 1335 01:41:41.760 --> 01:41:45.239 just wait once we get past this hurricane. Let's put that down now. 1336 01:41:45.479 --> 01:41:49.119 And that'll include things like Nitrofoss bug Out Max. That is Nitroposs's product for 1337 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:53.520 insect control in the lawn. It's a granule. You put it out and 1338 01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:56.760 then you want a little water on it to hit those granules and wash that 1339 01:41:57.359 --> 01:42:01.079 insecticide off the granule and into the surface area of the soil that that and 1340 01:42:01.359 --> 01:42:06.399 the runners in that zone right there. It's very effective. It works on 1341 01:42:06.439 --> 01:42:10.119 a lot of things. If you've got ants and fleas, do you know 1342 01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:14.359 fleas have a larval stage that lives in your lawn. So when that larva 1343 01:42:14.479 --> 01:42:17.039 becomes a pupa and then an adult, the adult jumps on your dog when 1344 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:20.960 it's heading back inside, and there we go. Well, nitro Foss bug 1345 01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:25.520 Out Max will help control that. It also works well on chinchbugs too, 1346 01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:29.319 by the way, which we're getting into chinchbug season, we're just waiting to 1347 01:42:29.359 --> 01:42:31.760 see when we're actually going to have the outbreak. If we do have an 1348 01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:34.520 outbreak this year, which many years we do, and You can get all 1349 01:42:34.560 --> 01:42:40.840 these products from nitrofaus at ACE Hardware stores. For example. You know, 1350 01:42:40.960 --> 01:42:45.479 there's what forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area, so it's not 1351 01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:49.039 hard to find them. Nitropous bug out Max is widely available at ACE Hardware. 1352 01:42:49.479 --> 01:42:51.960 And while you're at Ace Hardware, you're going to find all the other 1353 01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:55.399 things that you need. You know, when you've got to. When you 1354 01:42:55.479 --> 01:42:58.960 got forty stores in an area and it's easy to get to, it's just 1355 01:42:59.039 --> 01:43:04.279 a no brainer sense that whatever you need to for inside the house but also 1356 01:43:04.439 --> 01:43:09.319 outside you know, your patios, your lawns, your gardens, fertilizers, 1357 01:43:09.359 --> 01:43:13.039 pesticides, herbicides, do you need to quote control fire ants? Do you 1358 01:43:13.159 --> 01:43:17.239 need to manage other pests in the garden? Ace Hardner's got it. They've 1359 01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:20.359 got the equipment you need. A sprayer, for example. They can get 1360 01:43:20.439 --> 01:43:24.359 you fixed up with that and they know how to do it, and they're 1361 01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:27.960 so easy to find that it just makes it a no brainer. They also 1362 01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:31.920 have mosquito products, like a repellent or like maybe a fogging machine. And 1363 01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:35.560 they also have and this is one that I think everybody, just if you 1364 01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:40.000 live in the Greater Houston area. Let's just say all the south east Texas 1365 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:44.479 you need to have on hand some mosquito dunks. Mosquita dunks you may have 1366 01:43:44.520 --> 01:43:47.920 heard. I had Bill from Summit Solutions on the other day on the show 1367 01:43:48.039 --> 01:43:53.039 Some Responsible Solutions. It's a little doughnut about side of one of those little 1368 01:43:53.119 --> 01:43:58.640 white dusted powder sugar little debbies kind of deals, you know, about that 1369 01:43:58.840 --> 01:44:02.560 size. You throw it on to a body of water, It floats, 1370 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:05.600 It lasts about a month, and it covers about one hundred square feet of 1371 01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:12.159 water, releasing a disease that only affects the mosquitoes in your pond. It 1372 01:44:12.279 --> 01:44:15.760 also works, by the way, on fungus gnats, and so you can 1373 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:19.039 buy it also by granule, buy little bits of mosquito bits, and you 1374 01:44:19.199 --> 01:44:23.840 just toss a few of those around the surface of a plant where you're having 1375 01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:28.600 problems with fungus gnats and watered in and then now the disease is in the 1376 01:44:28.720 --> 01:44:32.159 surface of the soil, and fungus gnats eat that moldy stuff at the surface 1377 01:44:32.239 --> 01:44:35.439 of the soil that's kept too wet, and it'll get them. It works 1378 01:44:35.520 --> 01:44:39.880 well. Mosquito dunks are widely available too. You're gonna find them at all 1379 01:44:40.000 --> 01:44:42.720 the ace hardware stores. As I said, you can find them also at 1380 01:44:42.760 --> 01:44:45.079 independent nurseries and feed stores. Not hard to find. Go ahead and grab 1381 01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:47.760 some. Have them on hand. If you don't have the granule and you 1382 01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:51.039 need some little pieces, just take a dunk and a hammer and break it 1383 01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:55.319 up into little pieces and use it that way. Toss it up in that 1384 01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:59.319 gutter that's sagging you haven't gotten around to fixing yet, but it holds water 1385 01:44:59.439 --> 01:45:03.119 and breeze mosquitos. Toss them into a bird bath wherever they're standing water. 1386 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:06.640 Mosquito dunks, you're not going to get a better way to control them. 1387 01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:12.279 And listen the birds, the beneficial insects, the butter, you know, 1388 01:45:12.760 --> 01:45:16.680 the the gosh I just went blanket, Oh your pets, your cat and 1389 01:45:16.760 --> 01:45:20.479 your dog, and know everything like that wildlife. They won't hurt any of 1390 01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:26.960 that. They're not a disease of anything but mosquito. Larva and fungus not 1391 01:45:27.119 --> 01:45:30.000 larva. That's what mosquito dunks do. So that makes it real easy. 1392 01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:34.079 Yep. You gotta keep those on hand. Got to keep them on you 1393 01:45:34.239 --> 01:45:39.279 because you never know when you're gonna After this hurricane goes through, you're gonna 1394 01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:41.680 need them. We're gonna have some rain, they're gonna be some puddles and 1395 01:45:41.760 --> 01:45:45.039 things like that. We're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip 1396 01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:48.159 Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. Give us a call 1397 01:45:48.199 --> 01:45:53.720 if you'd like to visit. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1398 01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:57.199 four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're coming 1399 01:45:57.279 --> 01:46:01.640 close to our break and so you may need to get on the board and 1400 01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:06.199 when we come back, we'll answer your questions as well. If you haven't 1401 01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:11.159 been to RCW Nursery, you need to run out there. RCW Nursery has 1402 01:46:11.359 --> 01:46:15.239 an outstanding selections and an unbelievable self. It ends today. Listen. RCW 1403 01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:19.960 opens at ten o'clock when garden Line is over. RCW opens twenty five percent 1404 01:46:20.000 --> 01:46:26.119 off Cajun hibiscus, I love my Cajun hibiscus, fifty percent off select roses, 1405 01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:30.119 fifteen percent off all citrus trees, ten percent off all the trees in 1406 01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:34.720 general, and boy did they have an excellent selection of trees that grow ore. 1407 01:46:34.960 --> 01:46:42.159 Go to Rcwnursries dot com. They're the garden center that's there at Tamba 1408 01:46:42.279 --> 01:46:45.079 Parkway to forty nine where it connects with Beltweight eight. Easy to get to 1409 01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:49.279 and lots of good stuff. Today's the last day of that sale, so 1410 01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:54.199 from ten o'clock today you got to get over there and get to the best 1411 01:46:54.880 --> 01:47:28.760 on all those things. Jar it just watching many things to set again, 1412 01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:33.640 not a sign. All right, let's get going again here. We're entering 1413 01:47:33.760 --> 01:47:39.600 our last hour of garden line this weekend. Be done by ten o'clock. 1414 01:47:39.720 --> 01:47:42.359 Remember a garden line. For those of you who aren't familiar, haven't been 1415 01:47:42.439 --> 01:47:44.520 listening for a while. I know a lot of you been listening for a 1416 01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:47.520 very long time. But if you're not, we start at six am and 1417 01:47:47.600 --> 01:47:50.800 go to ten am on Saturday and on Sunday mornings, and you can call 1418 01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:54.800 in and ask whatever kind of gardening question you would like. We're here to 1419 01:47:54.880 --> 01:47:59.079 help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful, a beautiful landscape. 1420 01:47:59.279 --> 01:48:01.199 And that's what's all about. So give us a call of seven one 1421 01:48:01.279 --> 01:48:06.880 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 1422 01:48:08.079 --> 01:48:13.039 eight seven four. Well let's see here. We're going to go straight out 1423 01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:17.359 to the phones and talk to Mike and Brenham. Hello, Mike, Hey 1424 01:48:17.880 --> 01:48:25.359 skip now you don't I appreciate the callback? Sure's u Uh? You sent 1425 01:48:25.479 --> 01:48:27.760 me an email to I can give you a call back on the ground on 1426 01:48:27.800 --> 01:48:30.359 the email I sent you yesterday on the what I thought was Johnson grass and 1427 01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:36.359 my my courtyard. Okay, yes, I'm uh. Did you have a 1428 01:48:36.439 --> 01:48:39.600 pick? Was there a picture? Yeah, there was a picture with this. 1429 01:48:40.039 --> 01:48:42.319 So let me let me get that opened up here in front of me 1430 01:48:42.960 --> 01:48:45.159 so I can comment on it. Okay, you had you had a couple 1431 01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:48.199 of different kinds of weeds. There's not johnsngrass in the picture. Uh. 1432 01:48:48.800 --> 01:48:53.680 Okay, hold im just saying you sent me more than one picture, didn't 1433 01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:59.399 you? I sent you to All right, let me get get here where 1434 01:48:59.439 --> 01:49:03.880 I can them the little weed with the tiny leaves, the mouseier looking leaves 1435 01:49:03.920 --> 01:49:09.119 on it. It's a warm season. It's a warm season annual, and 1436 01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:13.520 it's just one we have to deal with in the gardens. Leaf flower is 1437 01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:16.960 one of the names for it. But you can do one or two things 1438 01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:19.199 if you just have a little of it here and there, just hand pulling 1439 01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:24.000 them getting them out of there as the simplest. If you have to spray 1440 01:49:24.039 --> 01:49:26.720 it you're gonna have to use a broad leaf we control product. And the 1441 01:49:26.880 --> 01:49:30.760 danger with those is when the temperatures are above the mid eighties, which the 1442 01:49:30.840 --> 01:49:39.479 mid eighties already today, so the the products can stress your Saint Augustine and 1443 01:49:39.600 --> 01:49:45.000 really really weaken it. And so I would you know, there's a product 1444 01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:48.680 called Celsius that is not as bad. You still you want to use it 1445 01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:54.800 earlier this morning, coolest time of the day. Yeah, but that'd be 1446 01:49:54.840 --> 01:49:59.199 the one you'd use for it. The other I see these nuts edges in 1447 01:49:59.359 --> 01:50:02.520 the lawn, and then I see some other grasses. There's more than one 1448 01:50:02.680 --> 01:50:08.399 type. Looks like orchard grass, but it came in with the sod. 1449 01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:13.479 It just really disappointed me when it came out. But yeah, no kidding, 1450 01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:17.920 no kidd. So you've got at this point this is a serious infestation. 1451 01:50:18.840 --> 01:50:25.720 And I would you could just mow and ignore them and just do the 1452 01:50:26.239 --> 01:50:30.680 watering and fertilizing and mowing regularly to help your sod. If you mow, 1453 01:50:30.800 --> 01:50:33.359 the sod's going to get light. If you don't mow often enough, these 1454 01:50:33.439 --> 01:50:39.520 weeds come up above the sod grass and shade out your Saint Augustine. So 1455 01:50:39.680 --> 01:50:46.880 you gotta regularly, so the get light the well St. Augustine crowded out 1456 01:50:47.000 --> 01:50:53.520 or in time. But what's happened is there was a lot of gaps in 1457 01:50:53.600 --> 01:50:57.159 there and where sunlight hits the soil, the seeds come up, and so 1458 01:50:57.600 --> 01:51:00.960 that's what's happening. So too. Two ways just to cut to the chase 1459 01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:05.199 on this MIC. You can mow regularly because it's an annual keep working on 1460 01:51:05.319 --> 01:51:11.880 getting denser and denser Saint Augustine. Then next spring, follow my schedule at 1461 01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:17.119 gardening with skip dot com. Okay, skip dot com the lawn weed disease 1462 01:51:17.439 --> 01:51:23.159 management schedule. That particular schedule tells you when to put the pre emerging out. 1463 01:51:23.199 --> 01:51:26.800 And there's a producoal barricade that nitroposs makes you right, you know, 1464 01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:31.039 follow the label very carefully, don't overapply it, don't underply it, make 1465 01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:33.960 sure you water it in after you apply it. But anyway, the barricade 1466 01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:38.880 will help prevent these from coming up next year, but it's not going to 1467 01:51:39.000 --> 01:51:43.760 kill the existing plants. The second option is to put a wiper applicator over 1468 01:51:43.880 --> 01:51:46.760 the top of the lawn because these grassy weeds are coming up above the lawn 1469 01:51:47.720 --> 01:51:54.920 right and so any kind of a sponge like applicator that has either a grass 1470 01:51:55.039 --> 01:51:58.880 killer only or a glycys aid round the equivalent round up in it. It 1471 01:51:59.079 --> 01:52:01.319 wiped over the top. It's going to get on those weeds and go down 1472 01:52:01.399 --> 01:52:04.920 in and kill them and give you your mass a little bit better head start 1473 01:52:05.000 --> 01:52:12.039 than just mowing. Okay, I meant to tell you something yesterday that you 1474 01:52:12.399 --> 01:52:16.039 might get a kick out of. I had. I got a beautiful white 1475 01:52:16.199 --> 01:52:20.840 fresh peach tree that I had. The squirrels have written me off about two 1476 01:52:21.000 --> 01:52:27.000 five years in a row when they're about half grown. This year, I 1477 01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:31.560 took a paintbrush and painted a bonaro sauce in the trunk and at the base 1478 01:52:31.640 --> 01:52:39.239 of large branches. I had a great crop this year. Really, the 1479 01:52:39.319 --> 01:52:44.119 squirrels cannot handle the albanaro sauce. Well, I know they don't like the 1480 01:52:44.199 --> 01:52:45.960 heat on stuff they eat. I didn't know they wouldn't even crawl through it. 1481 01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:49.880 That's they're not. They did not crawl through it. I was giving 1482 01:52:49.960 --> 01:52:57.399 peaches away, all right, there you go. I'm not sure if Peter 1483 01:52:57.680 --> 01:53:03.000 liked it, but well on, but then I think they get it on 1484 01:53:03.119 --> 01:53:05.800 it. They get it up, Yeah, yeah, they get it on 1485 01:53:05.920 --> 01:53:10.399 the on their paules, I think, and and if they lick it or 1486 01:53:10.439 --> 01:53:14.319 you'll try to clean it off, it's but it kept them off the peach 1487 01:53:14.399 --> 01:53:17.479 trees for about months. That's good. Good to know. Hey, Mike, 1488 01:53:17.920 --> 01:53:23.600 appreciate it. Hey, thanks a lot, take care you bet good 1489 01:53:23.680 --> 01:53:28.520 luck with that. Yes, folks, remember wherever sunlight hits the soil, 1490 01:53:28.680 --> 01:53:31.920 nature plants of weed. That's how it works. If you can just get 1491 01:53:32.000 --> 01:53:35.760 that etched into the brain, then a lot of things make sense. I 1492 01:53:35.840 --> 01:53:40.479 put in a flower bed and it's just full of weeds. Did you moultch 1493 01:53:40.560 --> 01:53:44.079 the flower bed after you put it in? If you moltched it, those 1494 01:53:44.319 --> 01:53:46.319 weeds coming from seed shouldn't have been able to come up. They can't. 1495 01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:50.159 They gotta have sunlight. When when a weed seed germinates, it's a tiny 1496 01:53:50.239 --> 01:53:54.720 little baby plant that barely has a root and hardly has a leaf on it. 1497 01:53:55.239 --> 01:53:58.880 And if that's in a shaded environment, it's gonna die before it ever 1498 01:53:59.000 --> 01:54:02.479 gets established. And that's why mulching is so important. And we got all 1499 01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:08.199 these quality mulches available here in the Houston area, we ought to take advantage 1500 01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:13.359 of them. They're excellent. They work, They absolutely work out. If 1501 01:54:13.399 --> 01:54:16.720 you've got a weed that's like a perennial like nut sedge or bermuda grass. 1502 01:54:16.920 --> 01:54:26.039 Well, there's probably three options for when you have a major nuts edge or 1503 01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:30.560 bermuda grass infestation. First option would be to call your realtorn move. That's 1504 01:54:30.600 --> 01:54:34.399 the easiest way to get rid of all of it, and that's option one. 1505 01:54:35.840 --> 01:54:40.159 Tongue in cheek. Option two, hand dig it. Oh, you 1506 01:54:40.199 --> 01:54:43.560 don't hear that. But if you get all the nuts, all the rhizomes 1507 01:54:43.600 --> 01:54:46.159 from bermuda grass, all the nuts from nutsedge out and you may have to 1508 01:54:46.239 --> 01:54:48.439 rehand dig because you're not gonna get it all, they're gonna break off, 1509 01:54:48.520 --> 01:54:50.960 but you can get it out that way. That would be an organic, 1510 01:54:51.079 --> 01:54:55.159 no spray way. And the third is spray spray. It was something that 1511 01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:59.880 will kill that weed. There's things that kill nutsedge and other sedges and kaylinga. 1512 01:55:00.119 --> 01:55:04.399 There's things that kilber metographs that work. But those are the three options 1513 01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:10.159 really. First one being kind of a joke, but seriously, getting ahead 1514 01:55:10.199 --> 01:55:15.800 of things is so important. If you wait until the weeds are well established, 1515 01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:18.520 it takes all the fun out of gardening because you're out there in hot 1516 01:55:18.600 --> 01:55:23.439 weather, the fire ance are crawling up your arms, while you're pulling weeds. 1517 01:55:24.960 --> 01:55:27.880 It's just no fun at all. Right, get ahead of it. 1518 01:55:28.119 --> 01:55:31.680 Avoid it. What if they say a stitch in time will save nine boy, 1519 01:55:31.800 --> 01:55:34.439 I need to come up with a horticultural version of that, because that 1520 01:55:34.880 --> 01:55:40.720 is absolutely true. The earlier you start, the better off you are. 1521 01:55:41.560 --> 01:55:45.439 I say this about insects all the time. If you want to use the 1522 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:49.520 least toxic ways to control insects, you need to be doing that when the 1523 01:55:49.600 --> 01:55:56.640 insects are very young. Bet On young caterpillars is deadly by the time they're 1524 01:55:56.680 --> 01:56:00.399 old enough to just about go into a PUPA not very effective, if not 1525 01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:04.039 nearly as effective at that stage. And with stink bugs, the things we 1526 01:56:04.119 --> 01:56:10.239 can do when they're in the nymph stage are much better than the things when 1527 01:56:10.239 --> 01:56:13.720 they're in the adult stage flying around. That's just basically what I'm trying to 1528 01:56:13.720 --> 01:56:15.760 tell you. Hey, we're going to take a little break here. I'll 1529 01:56:15.800 --> 01:56:19.199 be back with some more of that. Our phone number is seven one three 1530 01:56:19.319 --> 01:56:23.760 two one two five eight seven four. Or if you liked a da by 1531 01:56:23.840 --> 01:56:30.479 letter KTRH what once was forbidden? What did you say we now encourage? 1532 01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:35.920 Don't you talk back to me? You now have permission to don't talk back. 1533 01:56:36.239 --> 01:56:41.960 Tap the talk back mike while listening to news Radio seven KTR on the 1534 01:56:42.039 --> 01:56:45.720 iHeartRadio app about today before we wrap things up. If you're up in the 1535 01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:49.680 Montgomery area or Lake Conroe, that whole region, Ana Plants and Produce is 1536 01:56:49.720 --> 01:56:54.600 your hometown garden center. 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That would include all 1545 01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:28.920 kinds of plant material, like maybe you want to put in a little gem 1546 01:57:29.079 --> 01:57:32.119 magnolia, maybe a Sunshine lagustrum. That's the lagustrium with the yellow leaves. 1547 01:57:32.159 --> 01:57:36.239 On. It really sets itself apart in that sea of green that is our 1548 01:57:36.279 --> 01:57:42.800 summer landscape. Loriopy agapanthus, many other shrives and shrubs and perennials, A 1549 01:57:43.000 --> 01:57:45.800 and A plants and produce again. On Highway one oh five on the east 1550 01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:49.520 side of Montgomery, easy to get to. And don't just drive by, 1551 01:57:49.680 --> 01:57:53.239 I know, going up and down one to five all the time. Just 1552 01:57:53.359 --> 01:57:56.319 pull in check it out. Today'd be a good day to do that. 1553 01:57:57.399 --> 01:58:00.560 We are going to now head to the phones and go to a task Asida 1554 01:58:00.680 --> 01:58:04.880 to talk to Thomas. Hello, Thomas, good morning. Two quick questions. 1555 01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:12.760 One overnight, there's tons of gnats on my figs of purple figs, 1556 01:58:12.960 --> 01:58:15.760 and I've never had this problem before. I don't know what to do with 1557 01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:23.079 it. I don't want to put a poison on them. Gnats on figs, 1558 01:58:23.159 --> 01:58:26.319 I don't. I don't. They look like ant I don't know what 1559 01:58:26.399 --> 01:58:30.199 they are, but they're really small. Yeah, I don't know a fig 1560 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:36.960 pest that that's that description. So maybe they're there. Well, are they 1561 01:58:38.039 --> 01:58:42.079 on other plant parts or just on the fruit? No, just on the 1562 01:58:43.239 --> 01:58:45.039 on the on the fruit itself. A couple of years ago, I lost 1563 01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:50.319 the green fig tree. Overnight there were these small, small boring insects just 1564 01:58:50.439 --> 01:58:58.319 bordering into the trunken and in two days the thing died. That's unusual. 1565 01:58:59.279 --> 01:59:02.840 Well this is not that for sure, right, I would wait and watch. 1566 01:59:03.000 --> 01:59:05.319 I don't see a need to do anything. I mean, if I 1567 01:59:05.399 --> 01:59:10.279 guess, if you wanted to, you know, to apply like a soap 1568 01:59:10.359 --> 01:59:14.000 spray early in the morning, before the sun comes out and starts baking down. 1569 01:59:14.119 --> 01:59:17.720 You could probably knock most of them out with that. But in general, 1570 01:59:17.880 --> 01:59:23.159 I think i'd wait and watch. There's not a fig pest I know 1571 01:59:23.319 --> 01:59:28.680 of that. That's that description. Okay, great second question. I have 1572 01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:33.760 three climbing plants in my ad my backyard. Most of them they're in the 1573 01:59:33.880 --> 01:59:39.159 chasmin family. They've got the white jasmin that look like little stars. I've 1574 01:59:39.199 --> 01:59:44.479 got orange trumpets and I've got a red one and none of them are blooming 1575 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:50.479 right now. And I've got quality soil. They get said the right way. 1576 01:59:50.600 --> 01:59:58.159 I'm using a great liquid. What's the sunshine level of where they're growing. 1577 02:00:00.720 --> 02:00:04.680 It's abtinute, well, late morning and early it gets pretty sunny out 1578 02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:10.199 there, but they can't take that much sun. No, they can. 1579 02:00:10.399 --> 02:00:14.560 They need they need somen. I think the trumpet orange trumpets is probably called 1580 02:00:14.600 --> 02:00:19.640 trumpet vine. That is a common orange trumpet type vine we have here. 1581 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:26.199 Very vigorous too. By the way, the jasmine could be one of several 1582 02:00:26.279 --> 02:00:29.760 different types, so some types may not be blooming right now, others might. 1583 02:00:30.119 --> 02:00:36.720 I think just avoid overdoing the nitrogen. I would do that because that 1584 02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:41.479 pushes a lot of vegetative growth. You'd rather them settle in a little bit. 1585 02:00:41.520 --> 02:00:44.760 They're vigorous or not, both of those as it is. I can't 1586 02:00:44.760 --> 02:00:47.880 remember what the third vine you mentioned was. Was it? Did you say 1587 02:00:47.920 --> 02:00:54.119 purple? No, it's red, bleeding hot red. Oh, bleeding heart, 1588 02:00:54.199 --> 02:00:58.199 Yeah, bleeding Heart's a little persnickety here. I've had some problems with 1589 02:00:58.319 --> 02:01:01.680 getting that thing to bloom. I'm using the Medina uh liquid, and I 1590 02:01:02.039 --> 02:01:08.880 use it about every four weeks. I use about I'm doing roots feeding at 1591 02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:15.039 two ounces of gallon. Okay, okay, whatever the label is on whatever 1592 02:01:15.119 --> 02:01:18.439 product you pick. There's a number of Medina liquids. There's a has to 1593 02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:24.079 grow, there's has to grow lawn. There's super grow. Uh, there's 1594 02:01:24.479 --> 02:01:30.439 super It's it's a Supergirl. I'm using Supergirl. Okay, that is that 1595 02:01:30.560 --> 02:01:34.119 a hookup to a garden house. No, no, it's it's a quart 1596 02:01:34.319 --> 02:01:43.720 or or a gallon. Okay, continue to do that, But just anything 1597 02:01:43.880 --> 02:01:46.560 with a nitrogen content, I would hold off. So if it truly is 1598 02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:49.800 the only super Girl I know has a hosing connector, I need to check 1599 02:01:49.840 --> 02:01:53.640 on that see if there's another one. It might I might be I might. 1600 02:01:54.000 --> 02:02:00.960 Okay, But but Thomas, if you look at it and it has 1601 02:02:01.039 --> 02:02:04.920 three numbers on it, then it's a fertilizer And if I got the first 1602 02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:09.079 number is a little higher, let's hold off on that one. If it's 1603 02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:13.319 just a matter like it has to grow, typically is not going to have 1604 02:02:13.600 --> 02:02:17.119 a big fertilizer charge in it. It's got a lot of ncrogen is about 1605 02:02:17.199 --> 02:02:21.840 six I think it is. I think that's that's not too much. But 1606 02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:26.680 you might just hold off a little bit, and let's let's watch and wait. 1607 02:02:26.880 --> 02:02:31.199 Plenty of sunlight is essential for blooms on those plants. Good plant health. 1608 02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:33.920 It sounds like you've got good plant health, right. The plant is 1609 02:02:34.039 --> 02:02:39.359 healthy the healthiest can be. Yeah, So that's that's why I was thinking, 1610 02:02:39.479 --> 02:02:44.159 maybe they're too healthy, Maybe they're just been pushed into vegetative state. 1611 02:02:44.680 --> 02:02:47.680 Other than that time. Uh, and it should be some of those should 1612 02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:51.920 be blooming by now for sure, so that that would be my suggestion for 1613 02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:55.920 those. All right, I appreciate it. You have a great show. 1614 02:02:56.039 --> 02:03:00.399 Keep it up. Thank you, Thomas. Appreciate your call very much. 1615 02:03:00.319 --> 02:03:04.479 Let's see where are we here? We're going to go now to James in 1616 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:14.479 Is it carry Wood James H. Kingwood, keenwood Wood. Yes, well, 1617 02:03:14.600 --> 02:03:19.079 good morning, and uh, well I've noticed that beside my driveway and 1618 02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:24.119 a couple of places, I had this little uh on my Saint Augustine grass. 1619 02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:28.800 I just noticed this little brown dead spot and it almost seems to be 1620 02:03:28.840 --> 02:03:31.399 spreading a little bit. And then I know it's another one, and so 1621 02:03:31.439 --> 02:03:34.039 I've got about three of them. I'm not sure if there's some kind of 1622 02:03:34.119 --> 02:03:38.119 fungus or what. It's just uh, you know, it's just suddenly it 1623 02:03:38.199 --> 02:03:41.479 just appears dead, you know, and then uh, it might be spreading 1624 02:03:41.520 --> 02:03:45.319 a little bit. It's not going real real fast. But you know, 1625 02:03:45.479 --> 02:03:48.199 I'm is there something I need to do with that? Or do you know 1626 02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:53.720 what that could be? Is the sun or shade? And uh, how 1627 02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:57.359 long ago did it start? It's it's you know, it's in the full 1628 02:03:57.439 --> 02:04:02.439 sun and uh, and it started probably about two weeks, three weeks maybe 1629 02:04:02.520 --> 02:04:10.079 three weeks ago when it started going back south. Did it start by turning 1630 02:04:10.199 --> 02:04:15.640 yellow and then eventually dying out or did you suddenly just have a very soon, 1631 02:04:15.840 --> 02:04:19.239 almost sudden browning of that area almost just kind of all of a sudden, 1632 02:04:19.279 --> 02:04:23.439 it's just brown. Yeah, it just kind of came up all of 1633 02:04:23.439 --> 02:04:26.439 a sudden. It was a small place and one of them looks like it's 1634 02:04:26.439 --> 02:04:30.920 getting a little bit bigger. Okay, I could take a look at it. 1635 02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:32.760 If you don't send a picture in that may be the best thing. 1636 02:04:32.960 --> 02:04:38.239 If it's if it's sudden and it's brown, that makes me think about things 1637 02:04:38.439 --> 02:04:44.199 that are maybe toxic to the foliage. So for example, of course this 1638 02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:47.720 is not what your situation is, but some people have leaky lawnmowers, and 1639 02:04:47.880 --> 02:04:50.840 so wherever it drops a little gas when you stop for a while. Now 1640 02:04:50.880 --> 02:04:55.920 you got this dead spot. Well, that that's that very quick dead spot, 1641 02:04:56.000 --> 02:04:59.039 right. I don't think we have a couple of we have a couple 1642 02:04:59.119 --> 02:05:02.840 of golden retrieve that have become very good at creating brown spots in our yard 1643 02:05:02.880 --> 02:05:05.880 where they go to the bathroom because one has to go and then the other 1644 02:05:05.920 --> 02:05:10.119 one has to come comment on what the first one did with its own. 1645 02:05:10.640 --> 02:05:14.159 And so we just have all these little brown spots as a result of that, 1646 02:05:14.840 --> 02:05:17.239 but that those are the kinds of things that would cause the fast browning 1647 02:05:17.960 --> 02:05:20.600 it. Let's do this. I'm going to put you on hold and have 1648 02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:26.119 Chris pick up the phone and give you my email. And what we'll do 1649 02:05:26.680 --> 02:05:29.880 if you'll send me some photos of the overall picture of the lawn, and 1650 02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:33.640 then some up close in sharp focus. And when you send them, don't 1651 02:05:33.680 --> 02:05:39.079 embed them in the text, but attach them using the little paper clip to 1652 02:05:39.159 --> 02:05:43.479 the email attachment. Attach them to sure, and I'll be able to see 1653 02:05:43.560 --> 02:05:45.880 them better and take a look. And if you're if I see any if 1654 02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:49.920 you get them soon, you know we're running out of time here, but 1655 02:05:50.600 --> 02:05:54.840 we'll definitely be able to talk about them maybe next weekend, or if I 1656 02:05:54.880 --> 02:05:58.520 have a thought, I may send that to you. Sure. I appreciate 1657 02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:00.760 that, Thank you so much. All right, well, good luck. 1658 02:06:00.840 --> 02:06:06.319 I appreciate the call of thank you. I really appreciate it. All right, 1659 02:06:06.640 --> 02:06:10.960 take care, okay, bye bye. Yep. See, seems like 1660 02:06:11.000 --> 02:06:15.560 it's always something when it comes to our lawns and gardens and landscapes. There's 1661 02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:20.359 a lot of things that can get in the way of success. And part 1662 02:06:20.399 --> 02:06:26.159 of what I do is play Sherlock Holmes right. But what does that mean? 1663 02:06:26.239 --> 02:06:29.800 That means basically, I get all the clues I can and I try 1664 02:06:29.840 --> 02:06:32.720 to figure out who done it right, who done it? And so that's 1665 02:06:32.800 --> 02:06:35.600 what we're about to do here. Photos are good for that. By the 1666 02:06:35.640 --> 02:06:42.880 way, for those of you who are For those of you who listen to 1667 02:06:43.000 --> 02:06:45.600 Garden Line and want to know, well, how do I get you a 1668 02:06:45.600 --> 02:06:47.560 photo? How do I send things to you? You can call the show 1669 02:06:47.680 --> 02:06:51.640 and get an email to send that to I generally don't just give it out 1670 02:06:53.239 --> 02:07:00.680 because there's six million people that live around Houston in our listening area, probably 1671 02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:03.159 more than that, and I can't even begin to answer emails. So what 1672 02:07:03.279 --> 02:07:05.760 I do is I try to ask that you send me a picture with a 1673 02:07:05.880 --> 02:07:10.920 description and then call the show and let's talk about it. And there's time 1674 02:07:11.000 --> 02:07:13.640 to be able to do that. You can tell it pretty sure, Hey, 1675 02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:15.520 I just sent a photo to him and we need to do that. 1676 02:07:16.560 --> 02:07:18.680 I need to talk to him about it and we'll take care of it that 1677 02:07:18.760 --> 02:07:21.239 way. But that's that's how I'd like to handle it to help as many 1678 02:07:21.279 --> 02:07:25.079 people as I possibly can. It's time for us to take a little break 1679 02:07:25.119 --> 02:07:27.680 for the news. The phone number if you'd like to call for as we 1680 02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:32.199 move into the next segment seven one three two one two kt r H seven 1681 02:07:32.199 --> 02:07:36.640 to one three two one two k t r H. And we'll be right 1682 02:07:36.760 --> 02:07:42.760 back here in just a second with more of your gardening questions and Mike and 1683 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:54.000 Hockley, you will be the next one up Old Houston's News. Why they're 1684 02:07:54.079 --> 02:07:59.119 traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seven. This is use Radio seven forty 1685 02:07:59.319 --> 02:08:05.560 kt r H Everywhere avoids IRF. More of what's happening now from the John 1686 02:08:05.600 --> 02:08:09.680 Morris Services Studios barrel on its way. I'm sure, Lewis. It's nine 1687 02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:16.439 thirty on News Radio SEVENH. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have 1688 02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:18.960 you with us today, that is for sure. Listen, we were talking 1689 02:08:20.000 --> 02:08:22.600 a while ago about has to grow and supergrow and different things like that. 1690 02:08:24.239 --> 02:08:28.760 The Supergrow Plus that's a new product by Medina. It's part of the has 1691 02:08:28.880 --> 02:08:31.840 to grow line. There's a regular has to grow, there's has to grow 1692 02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:37.039 for lawns. There's now supergrow Plus. This is a green bottle green label. 1693 02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:43.359 It hooks up to a garden hose and it's a sixteen zero two fertilizer, 1694 02:08:43.920 --> 02:08:48.119 so a part of that sixteen percent nitrogen is slow release. But then 1695 02:08:48.600 --> 02:08:52.239 the thing that I think is really helps make this effective. In addition to 1696 02:08:52.279 --> 02:08:54.079 the fact that it's got good nutrients and a low phosphorus number, which is 1697 02:08:54.199 --> 02:09:01.720 very helpful, it is that it has also contains molasses which stimulates beneficial microbe 1698 02:09:01.800 --> 02:09:07.079 activity in the soil, humic acid, which we know is good. That's 1699 02:09:07.359 --> 02:09:13.520 humic acid from leonardide is in this product. And then it also has a 1700 02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:18.199 iron that's in a keylated form so that the soil doesn't just tie it up 1701 02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:22.239 like it has your other iron. You probably have enough iron in the soil. 1702 02:09:22.359 --> 02:09:24.000 The plants just can't get it. So when you put this to your 1703 02:09:24.000 --> 02:09:26.680 garden hose and what are your plants with it, you're going to get it 1704 02:09:26.680 --> 02:09:31.079 into those plants. You're going to get into the root system there where it 1705 02:09:31.159 --> 02:09:35.319 can take it up. Seaweed extract also present in Supergrow Plus. It's one 1706 02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:39.760 of the many products from Medina and that work. And although it is sold 1707 02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:43.600 primarily as something you'd put on your lawn, you can look it up to 1708 02:09:43.640 --> 02:09:46.479 a garden hose and spray your flower bedch, your shrubs, your herb gardens. 1709 02:09:46.560 --> 02:09:50.039 I mean, whatever you want to spray with. It's going to work. 1710 02:09:50.119 --> 02:09:54.399 I've seen pictures of someone that did it on their tomatoes and oh my 1711 02:09:54.479 --> 02:09:58.640 gosh, really good results from Medina has to grow supergrol plus. Just remember 1712 02:09:58.680 --> 02:10:03.159 souper grow plus from Medina and the green label. That's what we're looking for. 1713 02:10:05.119 --> 02:10:07.840 I mean, head out now to Hockley, Texas and talk to Mike. 1714 02:10:09.159 --> 02:10:16.000 Hello, Mike, how you doing. I'm well, Thank you good, 1715 02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:22.279 great question. I had some hydrangeas on mutual them. Am I supposed 1716 02:10:22.279 --> 02:10:30.880 to dead head the spent blooms or just let them fall off? You can 1717 02:10:30.920 --> 02:10:33.640 do it either way. They're gonna dry and be kind of tan colored there, 1718 02:10:35.119 --> 02:10:37.479 and so you know, if you don't like the look of it, 1719 02:10:37.640 --> 02:10:41.039 just deadhead them, take them out of there. Uh it. It really 1720 02:10:41.600 --> 02:10:43.720 can can go either way. It doesn't have to be done, but you 1721 02:10:43.840 --> 02:10:48.720 can. So if I dead head them, will that make them bloom again 1722 02:10:48.840 --> 02:10:58.840 quicker? Or on a hydrangea they're probably not setting many viable seat in there, 1723 02:10:58.000 --> 02:11:03.880 so I don't see a lot of energy going in to that point, 1724 02:11:03.479 --> 02:11:07.600 I would just say, you're for good bloom production. You just want good 1725 02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:13.920 nutrition in the soil and consistent so of moisture. Don't let them dry out 1726 02:11:13.960 --> 02:11:18.079 for a period of time. Hodringes are not built for that. Okay, 1727 02:11:18.479 --> 02:11:22.119 good enough, there's my answer. I appreciate it, all right, thank 1728 02:11:22.199 --> 02:11:26.920 you. I appreciate that too. Good luck with those. Let's run, 1729 02:11:26.479 --> 02:11:30.720 let's see, let's run out to Pearland and talk to Pat. Now, 1730 02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:39.039 Hello, Pat, Hi, I have what was gorgeous high viscus tall plant 1731 02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:45.319 and it was producing really pretty coral of flowers, and then all of a 1732 02:11:45.399 --> 02:11:50.720 sudden it's not and there's like a white dust on it, and I cut 1733 02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:54.199 several of the branches. I didn't know what it was, but it just 1734 02:11:54.319 --> 02:12:01.439 keeps coming and now it's flowering very well at all. Is this I didn't 1735 02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:09.119 know if is this tropical discus or is this the perennial hibiscus. You know, 1736 02:12:09.359 --> 02:12:11.760 honestly, I really don't know. Okay, Well, let me that's 1737 02:12:11.800 --> 02:12:15.560 okay. Let me. Let's do it this way. When you look at 1738 02:12:15.600 --> 02:12:22.399 the blooms are the size of a dinner plate, and they're either pink or 1739 02:12:22.560 --> 02:12:26.640 red or white, or are they smaller, furlier, with a lot of 1740 02:12:26.720 --> 02:12:31.680 other colors. Uh. Yeah, I've got two high discus plants. You 1741 02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:33.239 know. One of them is like the size of the dinner plate, but 1742 02:12:33.359 --> 02:12:39.880 this one is just thrilly and smaller. That's the tropical. It's leaves are 1743 02:12:39.920 --> 02:12:45.680 going to be a little darker green usually uh, and sometimes a little bit 1744 02:12:46.399 --> 02:12:48.880 not shiny, but a little slicker. The other ones are very dull, 1745 02:12:50.319 --> 02:12:54.600 not colored leaves that are much larger on the perennial. So uh, if 1746 02:12:54.680 --> 02:12:58.960 it stops, if it stops blooming, well it's going to be due to 1747 02:12:58.039 --> 02:13:03.880 some stress. I have some in a half whiskey barrel sized container, and 1748 02:13:03.039 --> 02:13:07.640 if I forget to water them for a while, bloom production goes down. 1749 02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:11.920 If I start watering again, bloom production comes back up. Good nutrition is 1750 02:13:13.000 --> 02:13:16.880 important. The white on the leadens sounds like powdery mildew. That's about the 1751 02:13:16.960 --> 02:13:22.439 only thing I know that creates a white kind of almost a dusty looking white 1752 02:13:22.600 --> 02:13:26.840 surface on the leaves. Would that be how you would describe it? Yeah, 1753 02:13:28.000 --> 02:13:33.960 you know it's on the branches too. Yes, mostly it's on the 1754 02:13:33.079 --> 02:13:37.760 branches, and it is on some of the leaves, but mostly it's on 1755 02:13:37.920 --> 02:13:43.119 the branches. I thought it was like a worm at first, but it's 1756 02:13:43.199 --> 02:13:46.399 not. When I think you do it, I think you're seeing mealy bugs. 1757 02:13:46.640 --> 02:13:50.520 Let's do this. Let's not we guess and waste your time and money. 1758 02:13:52.399 --> 02:13:54.960 I'm going to put you on hold. Chris will send you an email. 1759 02:13:56.119 --> 02:14:01.119 I need some good close up, sharply focused pictures that show it as 1760 02:14:01.159 --> 02:14:03.479 close as you can get, and also one of the overall bush, and 1761 02:14:03.680 --> 02:14:09.279 then attach them using the paper clip attachment for the email, as opposed to 1762 02:14:09.760 --> 02:14:15.359 embedding them like cutting and pasting them into the text. So attach them and 1763 02:14:15.600 --> 02:14:20.039 I'll take a look at it and we'll find a way to get you some 1764 02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:24.000 help on this one. All right, thank you, all right, Pat 1765 02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:31.199 appreciate that very much. You know, I've been been doing garden advising from 1766 02:14:31.399 --> 02:14:35.119 being a Agrolife Extension horticulture agent for thirty five years with Texas A and m 1767 02:14:35.159 --> 02:14:41.600 Agrolife Extension, and now then I did radio and college station for a long 1768 02:14:41.720 --> 02:14:46.439 time, and then now radio in Houston area. And in all of that, 1769 02:14:46.880 --> 02:14:50.640 one thing I've learned is as someone describes something and I picture it, 1770 02:14:50.960 --> 02:14:54.880 it's not always the same thing. And I'm not you know, it may 1771 02:14:54.920 --> 02:14:58.600 be the fault of the describer or the fault of the listener me not picturing 1772 02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:03.920 or to conclusions, which I try not to do. Uh. And oftentimes 1773 02:15:03.920 --> 02:15:05.319 I'll get a question and then I take a look at things. It's like, 1774 02:15:05.439 --> 02:15:09.239 oh, yeah, well that's such and such. But my brain was 1775 02:15:09.319 --> 02:15:13.039 going in a different direction when I was talking to the caller. And so 1776 02:15:13.720 --> 02:15:16.439 that's why I do like to see photos. It just makes it better. 1777 02:15:16.560 --> 02:15:18.920 And gosh, you don't need to go out and buy stuff you don't need 1778 02:15:18.039 --> 02:15:20.439 and waste your time and money applying it. We need to get you the 1779 02:15:20.560 --> 02:15:24.720 right stuff. So that's what we aim for. Hey, we've got one 1780 02:15:24.760 --> 02:15:28.800 more break here and then one last segment before we wind things up at ten 1781 02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:31.079 o'clock. If you'd like to give us a call two to one three, 1782 02:15:31.640 --> 02:15:35.560 two to one two excuse me, seven to one three two one two KTRHL 1783 02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:41.479 be right back. Thanks, welcome back to Ouardline. Good to have you 1784 02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:45.359 with us, Great to have you with us. As a matter of fact, 1785 02:15:45.720 --> 02:15:48.079 listen, we've been hearing the hurricane, the hurricane, the hurricane. 1786 02:15:48.199 --> 02:15:52.039 Okay, we know we're gonna get wins, we know we're gonna be dealing 1787 02:15:52.079 --> 02:15:54.760 with that, but listen, hurricane season starts in June goes through November. 1788 02:15:56.000 --> 02:15:58.319 We're gonna have other storms, and there'll be storms that aren't hurricane related, 1789 02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:03.119 like the one that knocked out power a few weeks ago, devastating to our 1790 02:16:03.199 --> 02:16:07.800 trees. You need to give a call to Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree 1791 02:16:09.000 --> 02:16:11.319 and just have him come out and take a look at your trees. See 1792 02:16:11.399 --> 02:16:16.279 what might be needed. Do they need pruning? Is there are there some 1793 02:16:16.439 --> 02:16:20.119 dead limbs up there that need to come out, some narrow angle branches that 1794 02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:24.319 have no good future. As far as being storm worthy, do everything you 1795 02:16:24.399 --> 02:16:30.479 can. I cannot express enough the importance of proper treecare coming into this storm 1796 02:16:30.600 --> 02:16:33.680 season. It doesn't even have to be a hurricane, of course. Call 1797 02:16:33.760 --> 02:16:39.040 Martin spoon Moore seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three, or 1798 02:16:39.319 --> 02:16:45.000 go to the website Afftree Service dot com. Tell him you're a guardenline listener. 1799 02:16:45.760 --> 02:16:48.200 Martin stays busy because he does a good job and he has been for 1800 02:16:48.239 --> 02:16:52.079 a very long time, and people know that his customers come back and so 1801 02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:56.079 tell him your guardline listener, get up toward the front of the line so 1802 02:16:56.239 --> 02:17:00.200 he can schedule a time to come out and do that for your trees again 1803 02:17:00.280 --> 02:17:05.040 the phone number seven one three six' nine nine twenty six sixty three. 1804 02:17:05.280 --> 02:17:09.319 Whatever kind of tree work you need, from pruning to deep roof feeding to 1805 02:17:11.360 --> 02:17:16.040 planting, proper training of shrubs or as trees as they're getting started. Martin 1806 02:17:16.079 --> 02:17:18.440 does all of that, including advising you. You know you got to put 1807 02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.159 a trench in near a tree. Oh my gosh, do not do that 1808 02:17:22.360 --> 02:17:24.760 until you call Martin, have him look at it and advise you on what 1809 02:17:24.959 --> 02:17:28.600 to do. And he knows how to handle that kind of thing. Makes 1810 02:17:28.639 --> 02:17:31.760 it easy. We're going to now run out to clear Lake City, I 1811 02:17:31.840 --> 02:17:35.159 believe, and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning, sir. 1812 02:17:35.319 --> 02:17:39.760 This may be one of the questions that's not a stupid question, but 1813 02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:46.399 it's a stupid person asking it again with respect to I can no longer use 1814 02:17:46.520 --> 02:17:50.879 my alias of Steve. You blew it for me a while back with Saint 1815 02:17:50.920 --> 02:17:58.559 Augustine runners if they are if left unattended, just merciless it across the sidewalk 1816 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:03.280 or and anything get into flower beds and stuff like that. Can you pull 1817 02:18:03.399 --> 02:18:09.840 those and scratch a shallow trench and lay them lay it in the trench fill 1818 02:18:09.879 --> 02:18:16.200 it up with dirt water and expect it to actually produce grants. Yes, 1819 02:18:16.680 --> 02:18:18.200 yes, you want to do that. I would do it in the morning 1820 02:18:18.319 --> 02:18:24.000 where the grass isn't already stressed, and maybe a little at a moisture deficit. 1821 02:18:24.680 --> 02:18:26.600 Uh, and then get them in the new location, water them in 1822 02:18:26.719 --> 02:18:31.319 really well and that'll be fine. You just have the water pretty often for 1823 02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:33.840 a little while, just to make sure they have plenty to keep them adequately 1824 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:39.079 moist But yeah, you okay, Well, wasn't expecting a good answer like 1825 02:18:39.120 --> 02:18:41.600 that, but thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we 1826 02:18:41.680 --> 02:18:48.840 call catch and release. Augustine. Thanks take care or something you take care. 1827 02:18:48.159 --> 02:18:52.000 Appreciate the call mark. Yeah, thanks a lot. Uh. If 1828 02:18:52.040 --> 02:18:56.600 you can't as native plants in the Heights, they're on Eleventh Street and the 1829 02:18:56.639 --> 02:19:01.079 Heights and you've probably been there before you can. Is just an outstanding place 1830 02:19:01.120 --> 02:19:05.040 to visit. They specialize in native plants, but they don't just have nati 1831 02:19:05.079 --> 02:19:09.799 plants. They have everything. One of the best houseplants selections I've seen anywhere. 1832 02:19:09.440 --> 02:19:13.520 For example, plants for shady areas, plant of flowers for sun, 1833 02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:18.520 vegetables and herbs and fruit trees and all kinds of things. Buchanans Native Plants 1834 02:19:18.559 --> 02:19:22.399 in the Heights something I thought about. They had to post the other day 1835 02:19:22.440 --> 02:19:26.600 their social media which you ought to follow them. You also ought to get 1836 02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:31.639 their newsletter. You can sign up for that on the website. The website 1837 02:19:31.719 --> 02:19:35.000 is Buchanansplants dot com. They have a thing on rain gardens, and here 1838 02:19:35.120 --> 02:19:41.200 we come with more rain. I mean there're like nine inches in some areas 1839 02:19:41.280 --> 02:19:45.559 and on down to little or nothing. But when you get too much water 1840 02:19:45.959 --> 02:19:48.680 and that area stays soggy and it's kind of slow to get dry, well, 1841 02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:52.159 you can install subservice drainage, have someone come out and do all that. 1842 02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:56.319 Or you can turn lemons in a lemonade by picking some plants out at 1843 02:19:56.399 --> 02:20:03.639 Buchanans that love what condition and such as a Louisiana iris for example. That's 1844 02:20:03.680 --> 02:20:05.639 a good example. A button bush can take that kind of thing, and 1845 02:20:05.719 --> 02:20:09.719 there's many many others. Cannons can help you pick out the plants to do 1846 02:20:09.879 --> 02:20:13.559 well. So take that area that occasionally is a little too wet for too 1847 02:20:13.639 --> 02:20:18.440 long and plant something that can take it, or maybe even that loves it. 1848 02:20:18.559 --> 02:20:22.000 There Cannons, for example, do you know cannis can grow in standing 1849 02:20:22.079 --> 02:20:24.719 water? They can. So if you've got an area it takes a while 1850 02:20:24.760 --> 02:20:26.760 to drain, that's kena heaven, you can put it right in there. 1851 02:20:28.159 --> 02:20:31.719 Pappers plant or various sedges and things, lots of good options. If Buchanans 1852 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:37.159 has those Buchanansplants dot com on a least East eleventh Street in the Heights. 1853 02:20:39.360 --> 02:20:43.799 Well let's see here, we are getting a little short of time here for 1854 02:20:43.920 --> 02:20:46.559 a call. If we got a quick one, real quick, we can 1855 02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:50.760 probably get to it. But otherwise I'm going to just discuss a few things 1856 02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:56.120 that I've been wanting to get to and talk about today as well. Remember 1857 02:20:56.159 --> 02:20:58.879 when you're putting a new plant in, give it adequate water in small doses 1858 02:21:00.079 --> 02:21:03.239 to the area where the container was, and don't stop planting just because it's 1859 02:21:03.280 --> 02:21:07.200 summer. The morning times are cool. First of all, the sun's not 1860 02:21:07.360 --> 02:21:11.799 up very far and you get a lot of work done without shining on you. 1861 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:13.920 It's still cool. You can water a plant in and if you just 1862 02:21:15.000 --> 02:21:16.680 give it regular water, take a little extra care of it, you can 1863 02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:20.200 keep it going. Remember we have three months of summer left. We got 1864 02:21:20.360 --> 02:21:24.200 July, we got August, and we got September. For those of you 1865 02:21:24.280 --> 02:21:28.559 who've moved here from further north. September is a summer month in Texas, 1866 02:21:30.319 --> 02:21:33.159 especially in this part, and so what are you going to have for color 1867 02:21:33.399 --> 02:21:37.200 until it gets late enough in the season where we start to put in cool 1868 02:21:37.239 --> 02:21:41.600 season color. Why not plant something now? Many plants. Your garden centers 1869 02:21:41.600 --> 02:21:46.079 that we talk about here on garden Line are just outstanding. Welcome to the 1870 02:21:46.120 --> 02:21:48.799 Houston area for those of you who moved here from out of state, by 1871 02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:56.000 the way, and you are in a place with more great gardening options than 1872 02:21:56.000 --> 02:21:58.680 any place I've seen, North, South, East, West, and central 1873 02:21:58.680 --> 02:22:03.360 whell great garden centers here in the Houston area that have plants that right now 1874 02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:09.040 could go to your landscape and give you easily three months of color to carry 1875 02:22:09.079 --> 02:22:13.159 you on through that season. Let's do that. Let's not have a sea 1876 02:22:13.200 --> 02:22:18.520 of green. Let's break it up. Let's keep things flowing and rolling out 1877 02:22:18.600 --> 02:22:22.120 in the garden so we can enjoy that. And you know, for those 1878 02:22:22.159 --> 02:22:24.280 of us who are gardeners, we need our facts, right. I mean, 1879 02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:28.520 you just got to get out, you got to enjoy, you got 1880 02:22:28.680 --> 02:22:31.520 to get your hands in the dirt. There is a therapy to that. 1881 02:22:31.799 --> 02:22:35.079 And I say that and I know sometimes when I go, you know, 1882 02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:37.840 gardening is good for your health and stuff, people are like, Okay, 1883 02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:43.840 come on, man, but it is. There's the physical activity, and 1884 02:22:43.959 --> 02:22:48.319 we have so many ways that we can help as people get older. Maybe 1885 02:22:48.360 --> 02:22:52.840 a kneeling bench would be a good gift to help with that. It's helped 1886 02:22:52.959 --> 02:22:56.959 meet a garden with les pain. I'll tell you that for sure. You 1887 02:22:56.079 --> 02:22:58.639 can sit on the seat, or you can flip it over and kneel down 1888 02:22:58.719 --> 02:23:05.399 on it. That's just an example. Ergonomic gardening tools, raised gardening beds 1889 02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:07.239 so you don't have the stupid as far to get down to the plants. 1890 02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:13.559 Many many ways to keep gardening going. But gardening is good for your health. 1891 02:23:13.680 --> 02:23:18.639 It's physical activity. But I think the best part of all is just 1892 02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:22.879 the way it feeds your mind and your soul. The peace that you get 1893 02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:26.520 as you get out in the garden. You're working in the soil, you're 1894 02:23:26.680 --> 02:23:31.440 dealing with nature, You're enjoying seeing things grow. You're getting healthy produce and 1895 02:23:31.680 --> 02:23:37.399 wonderfully smelling flowers to bring into a vase indoors. That is good for the 1896 02:23:37.479 --> 02:23:41.280 soul. It really really does work. And I'm serious about that, and 1897 02:23:41.399 --> 02:23:46.399 I've talked to people that do research in this many times over. Doctor Charlie 1898 02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:50.639 Hall at Texa A and M University is a leader in that field. And 1899 02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:56.079 the number of trials, the number of studies that have been done is amazing. 1900 02:23:56.600 --> 02:24:01.959 Kids in school with ADHD issues seeing plants out the window makes a difference 1901 02:24:03.399 --> 02:24:07.920 in their test scores. Seriously, people that are in a hospital recovering from 1902 02:24:07.040 --> 02:24:11.120 surgery. The difference between looking out a window at a parking lot and another 1903 02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:16.920 building versus looking out a window at a forested area and nature area. Things 1904 02:24:18.079 --> 02:24:24.840 like that absolutely just wonderful, absolutely wonderful, huge differences, and those are 1905 02:24:24.840 --> 02:24:28.680 the differences you'll enjoy too. And when you give the gift of garden, 1906 02:24:28.760 --> 02:24:31.760 when you take a child out and teach them the garden and grow things, 1907 02:24:33.440 --> 02:24:39.120 and you're setting them off to a life of healthier eating and certainly a peace 1908 02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:43.680 of mind. I'm telling you Nature has a way of doing that. And 1909 02:24:43.840 --> 02:24:48.879 there's so many ways that that is happening that some parts of the area they 1910 02:24:48.959 --> 02:24:54.159 talk about forest Baby and just walk through nature and enjoy that. However you 1911 02:24:54.280 --> 02:24:58.000 go about it, enjoy it. There's garden centers right now that are your 1912 02:24:58.239 --> 02:25:01.760 therapy centers. Therapy centers that are waiting for you to come out and walk 1913 02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:05.600 among the planets. Hey, have a good rest of your weekend and a 1914 02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:09.200 great week. We'll see you again next weekend. You're on guard.