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Katie r h Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r h Garden Line with Scape Rictor.

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It's crazy Trim. Just watch him
as sea a sun. Good Sunday

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morning. Glad to have you with
us today. What are we here for

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today, Well, what we're here
for is to talk about gardening, to

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help you have a more beautiful garden, more bountiful garden, and certainly a

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more beautiful landscape and lawn. That
is the goal. You know, the

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horticulture is not rocket science. I
mean it really isn't. I don't know

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if rocket science is rocket science sometimes, but anyway, basically, it's a

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matter of principles, following principles,
just like good health, just like a

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lot of things. You learn a
few basic things about what causes plants to

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succeed, and you follow those things
and you find yourself well on the way

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to success. There's a lot of
miscon conceptions out there about horticulture. Oh

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my gosh. I have a hard
time looking at sometimes looking at social media

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and other places where you see horticultural
information. Just because it's the wild West.

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Everybody is an expert, and that
often causes cringing because to lead people

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wrong with information that is just not
accurate. Maybe it's something you heard someone

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say and then so you repeat it. Maybe it is something that you did

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once and it worked, and therefore
you associate what you did with the fact

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that it worked, which is not
always a good way to go about it.

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For example, there is things that
correlate together that means you do one

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and the other happens, and then
there's things that cause each other to happen.

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So let's say I knew I knew
a fellow one time who well,

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actually I didn't know the guy.
The story as it was told to me,

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there's a fellow that sat out on
his porch and just to be honest,

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he clipped his toenails out there on
the porch and he would toss them

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over the rail under a hydrangea bush. And that hydranga bush got bigger and

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better than the one at the other
end of the porch. And so it

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is very clear that Grandpa's toenails makes
the dranges grow. No, it is

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not at all. That's called correlation, but not causation. You would have

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to get a lot of hydrangea bushes, plan them all out randomly and treat

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some of them with bostonhails than others
without to really assess whether that worked or

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not. And we see a lot
that's of course ridiculous, but it is

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true. But we see a lot
of that in a gardening information. It's

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just like, well, you know, that's not right, and because there's

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no principle that will cause that to
be able to work anyway, that's what

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we aim for here, trying to
lead you down the right path. A

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lot of you are interested in gardening
organically, and my goal is to help

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you to be as successful as possible
at however garden and whatever you want to

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grow. And so if you're an
organic gardener, you're working with nature.

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Your goal is to build the soil. That is number one. Long before

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organic pesticides became part of the big
picture of organic gardening, it started with

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the soil. Organics began with the
soil. And you build the soil,

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you make the soil better, you
make the roots better, and plants grow.

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No, what do I say every
time on guarden line, I say

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the brown stuff before the green stuff, meaning get the soil right. That

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means good internal drainage, that means
good water holding capacity. Also it means

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good nutrient holding capacity. You make
that soil right for the plant you want

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to grow and you're going to have
success. Yeah, there are sometimes times

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to treat an insect or a pest, and they're organic options for most things

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like that, But number one is
the soil and that's what Microlife's all about.

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Microlife is about building the soil.
That's why they have a product called

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hum Mates plus. The purple bag. It is zero zero four those are

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the numbers on it, so it's
got some potassium in it. But it's

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not about the fertilizers that you're putting
the hum made on for. It's about

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the microbial activity and it's about the
humus. Humus is a final decomposition stage

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of organic matter, and humates humus
products are part of what helps build the

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soil effectively. And you put out
Microlife Humates Plus and each time you do

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that, adding in small quantities.
Each time you do it, you are

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adding the kinds of compounds and the
kinds of micropial activity too as well that

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help build the soil for success.
Now, Microlife also has their Green bag

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that's the standard of all their products. In my opinion, it is an

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excellent lan fertilizer. It's a six
two four. You put it out,

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follow the instructions, get it down
on the ground, and again you're adding

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not just six two and four,
you're adding all the secondaries and the microves

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that are part of organic matter.
You know, if you pick up a

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piece of a leaf, it has
ink in it and manganese and other things

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because it requires those to grow a
leaf. So now when you turn that

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into compost or humus, or when
you turn it into an organic product,

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any organic materials, you've got the
whole nine yards. And that's what Microlife's

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all about. Hey, if you
want to find out more, go to

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microlifefertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot
COM's widely available. They have a store

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located there where you can find it. But as an organic system, this

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is what we do. We start
with soil, We create the best soil

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we can, and after that we're
well on our way to success. By

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the time you put a plant in
the ground, you are seventy five to

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eighty percent the way to success because
you've picked a plant that either grows there

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or doesn't. You've prepared a soil
that is the elephant in the room right

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there, and you've planted it at
the right time or not. And so

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that is the key. Start with
the soil. It is so important to

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do that. You know, micro
life products are I said there widely,

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but you can get places like Plants
for All Seasons. For example, Plants

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for All Seasons is on FM two
forty nine. We call that Tomball Parkway.

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It's the road that goes up toward
Tumble. If you go north and

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you cross over exit Lueta crossover Lueta
and you're at Plants for All Seasons or

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right there on the right the website. We need to check out the websites

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Plants for All Seasons dot com,
Plants for All Seasons dot com. The

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phone number you want to write this
down so you can give them a call

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two eight one, three seven six, sixteen forty six. When you're at

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Plants for All Seasons, you are
among people that know what they're doing.

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They've been growing things here for a
long time. They're very knowledgeable. You're

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among plants that do well here,
and you are on your way to success.

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The Flerdy family has been doing this
since nineteen seventy three. From education

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to selection, to delivery, to
planning, custom potting. They are truly

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lawn and garden experts, and that's
why people love plants for all seasons.

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I think it's time to take a
little break here. We will be back

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in just a moment. Albert,
you will be my first up when we

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come back. Our phone number if
you would like to. Would you like

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to give us a call? I
mean it does help if I give you

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a phone number, doesn't it I
think it does. I tell you what,

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I'll keep that when I come back. I got it a break.

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I'll be right back. Welcome back, guard Line. Good to have you

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with us today. Hey, I
wanted to let you all know something those

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of you listening to guard Line.
This is my preser Josh is last day.

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I am sad to see him go. He has been a great support

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and companion. He keeps me out
of the ditches, even though sometimes I

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purposefully run the car off the road. It seems like it's certainly a big

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loss for me in the show.
But I just want to wish him well.

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If you give him a call,
just just tell him you wish him

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well. And he's moving on to
some other things that we will. We

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will wish him well, even though
we don't want to see Josh go.

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That is for sure. I'd like
to head out now. I think we

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had Albert on the phone. We're
going to go up to Montgomery. Hello

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Albert, Hello Skip, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.

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Yes, sir, I got a
nut all oak tree I planted about two

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years ago. It's probably eight feet
tall, and this spring, you know,

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leaves start coming out, but only
like half the tree has leaves on

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that the other halves there's some branches
that are just bear with no leaves and

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guess it's struggling. Is there anything
I can do to help that little tree

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out? Let me ask you a
few questions. The if you're looking at

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the tree, are the branches that
are not doing well? Are they on

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the south or southwest west side of
the tree in that directly? They're kind

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of distributed all over. Okay,
last summer was pretty brutal for a tree

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that's only been in the ground a
couple of years and doesn't have the full

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root system. I don't know what
your watering schedule is like, but you

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know a good supply of water to
get it through the intense heat, which

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is almost zero rain at times for
extended periods. That also could play a

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factor in it. Another thing you
might want to check is dig down around

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it with a little hand trowel,
maybe even get a garden hose and wash

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some soil away from the and see
if you've got a root that's going around

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in a circle around the trunk.
It probably is not the case because it's

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still a younger tree, but be
worth just checking that. Other than those

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things, I think it's a matter
of fertilizer and water and getting the weeds

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away. The single most thing you
can do to make that tree, make

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any tree grow well in its younger
years, to have good growth rate,

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is to get the weeds away,
the grass away. The bigger of a

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moult bed you can put around it, kind of recreate the forest floor with

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a bunch of leaves and compost and
molts and all that, the better off

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it'll be. And so I would
do that. If you want to fertilize

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about take a lawn fertilizer that doesn't
have herbicide in it and give it a

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cup or two for every inch of
trunk diameter on the tree, and then

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water it in well. And then
when we go into summer and it hadn't

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rained for a week and a half. Go ahead and give it a little

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bit of a soaking through that whole
area of an area as you can,

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and hopefully you'll see some vigor return
to the tree. Okay, Skip,

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that's a lot of good points I
never thought of. So thank you so

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much. Hey, yes, thank
you, thank you for the call.

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I appreciate that very much. By
by, the folks at Landscaper's Pride have

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created a wonderful collection of soil building
products and molt products. This spring has

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just been a whirlwind. I mean
we are going and going and going,

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trying to get all kinds of things
done that are important. For example,

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it's time to get mulch down.
How about a black velvet multch from Landscaper's

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Pride. It's very velvety dense multch. It's not dyed. It's black,

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but it is not dyed. That
this is unnatural color and the way they

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do this mulch it just helps insulate
from extreme temperatures. That matters a lot.

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Hardwood multch is another product they have. It's a hardwood based fresh hardwood

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is not ground up palettes or wood
or things like that it is truly a

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hardwood from trees, hardwood trees if
you can put it in flower beds,

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and you can do it in your
walkways is and all where the pathway.

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They got a pine bark mulch,
very popular, locally sourced pine bark.

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A slow decomposition rate with that pine
bark, so people like it for that.

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And then the garden Magic soil,
which is a pine based blend.

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It's got humus center, it's got
screened pine and composted rice holes too,

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and a chicken pill at fertilizer lasts
up to three months, so that is

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a That's why they call it Gardener's
Magic. It is packed with good information

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again from the folks at Landscaper's Pride. Twenty seven different products available. Go

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to Landscaperspride dot com find out where
you can get them near you. Let's

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head out to Humble and talk to
Beth. Hello, Beth, Hello,

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good morning to you. Thank you
for taking my call. I have a

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beautiful potatoes and bean plants coming along, but they've developed something on it looks

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like rust. Okay, yeah,
well could be a rust. There is

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a rust that attacks beans. Uh. And then there are several leaf diseases

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that attack these. It could be
caused by fungi, it could be caused

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by bacteria. The leaf diseases depending
on I can't see what you're saying,

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but I am of the Some of
the leaves are completely rust colored and some

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of them just have a little specks
on them where it's coming out at this

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point. At this point, there's
not much you can do that will be

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really helpful. There are disease there
are fungicides that will prevent rust, but

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once you've got a rust infected leaf, they don't cure it. It doesn't

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go back to being a healthy green
leaf. And so they we have I

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just cut those off because it's just
now starting. You could, but rust

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spores are everywhere there. I mean
we're breathing them right now as we talk.

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They literally are floating through the air
everywhere. And so the leaves that

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don't have the symptom yet probably already
have some rust words that have landed,

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and some may have even germinated.
But again, rust is just one of

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many diseases that can kind of fit
the symptoms. Yeah, so I'll lose

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a whole plant in and they won't
produce right, they will produce if you

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can. It depends on how far
along they are, but you want to

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protect as much of the leaf area
as you can if you wanted. If

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you feel like you're catching it early
and you only have some of the foliage

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that's got that rest on it,
or what you're describing as rest on it,

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you can go ahead and spray with
a preventative. I'm just side to

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protect things that have not shown the
symptoms yet to try to get kind of

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it products that contain chlorothalonil. It's
it's sometimes called dack o'nil d A c

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O n i L. If you
go over to you you're or you're up

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in the Tomball area. No,
no umble, oh umble, okay,

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excuse me? Yeah, you can
go over to uh that's see Warrens Southern

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Gardens is pretty close to you there. You've also got I also got some

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ace hard restores in your area,
and just tell them you're looking for something

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with dac O'Neil d A c d
A c O n i L. Just

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like it said, that's a brand. That's a brand name. The ingredient.

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Though, if they well, what
what what causes this rust? Is

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it too much water or something?
No? Well, it's a spore landing

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on a leaf, and then you
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even even dew, and the spore
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goes into the leaf and it causes
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maybe, I thought maybe it was
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sprinkler out in the yard to keep
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and and then when I go,
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that the water sprays on them,
and I'm thinking that, well, I

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don't know. The more often you
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to have. Does that sprinkler work
on your deer? Pretty good? Oh?

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I love it. I love it
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plants now with that sprinkler c h
them good? Is it? That little

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scarecrow one? It looks like a
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kind of stands up as a little
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walks. I have it just set
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daytime they don't bother in the daytime
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uh, at night, the deer
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got that little sprinkler, they walk
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off. I love it. I'm
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run. But get that product.
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ahead of it. If it's not, you may do some good. You

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bet, you bet glad to glad
to help. Have you ever tried sweet

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green? Sweet Green is a product
by Nitrofoss. It's eleven percent nitrogen.

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It is a molasses and microbe created
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the sweet green. It smells wonderful
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smells. It has that kind of
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down, it dissolves away, goes
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molasses basically on the soil, you're
gonna make a lot of bacteria and other

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microbes very happy, and it'll make
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it in a lot of places,
you know, nitro Foss products being widely

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available. You can find it Bearings
Hardware on Bissonette and Westheimer, go out

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to Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond. Rosenberg you'll find the sweet green out

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there and up on a stuber airline
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We're going to head out now,
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Hello, Mel, Hey, good
morning. Okay, here we go.

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Grubs eat the uh roots like in
my flower bait, I imagine,

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correct, especially grassroots. But yes, okay, and and and and and

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clawless you okay. And moles eat
the grubs. And coons and possums and

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what not all eat the moles.
Now do I keep the moles to eat

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the grubs? You know, I
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I'm not a wildlife expert. There's
moles and voles. Bowles are like

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a little rat like things. Let's
see moles. I don't know. They

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may be just feeding. They may
feed on them. I should know that,

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but I don't off him. Okay, well that's fine, that's cool.

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I just didn't know. Man.
You know, I don't know what

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to do. You know, put
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or any holes are just you know, they dig tunnels under and everything.

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Yeah, yeah, I know,
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in your flower bed are probably not
a big problem. Probably not. In

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a logon. You need to have
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there's enough of them to where it's
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so we always encounter grubs, and
we dig into flower beds and gardens and

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lawns and things. You're always going
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there's a grub there, two or
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a whole bunch of them, and
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grass. But so I wouldn't worry
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of them and you're seeing an effect
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found a ton of them. So
hey, mel, Mel, I'm gonna

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have to go to a break.
If you want to hang on, i'm

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gonna put you on hold, and
if we're done, that's good. If

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not, i'll talk to you when
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you're listening to garden Line and our
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And there's the man himself straight. Oh

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my gosh, that goes back in
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the music business. Welcome back to
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us. I'm your host, Skip
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Listen, when our Houston soils,
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anywhere you got clay soils, when
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when they get dry they shrink up. That's just the movement some some clays

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are much worse than others. But
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of it here. It messes with
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even underground. But at your house, it's gonna affect your driveway,

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it's gonna affect sidewalks, it's gonna
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fix my slab comes in. Ty
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He's been doing this for twenty three
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when it comes to assessing and fixing
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your sheet rock inside? Do you
see cracks in the brick on the outside,

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you know, as your driveway heaving
up, or sidewalks or things like

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that, any kind of signs.
Another one would be sticking doors. You

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know, a door that used to
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moved and that's not a good thing. You need have him come out.

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He does free estimates for gardenline listeners. I want to give you his website.

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I'm going to give you his phone
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com. Fix myslab dot com.
The phone number two eight one two five

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five forty nine forty nine. Ty
is an expert. I have grilled him,

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ask him questions, just probe the
recesses of his brain. I'm saying

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the guy knows his stuff and he
prides himself on number one being on time

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showing up. Boy, is that
ever a good thing in the service industry?

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Right? He prices things fairly and
he fixes things right. And what

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more can you ask from fixmislab dot
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slab foundation repair. I'm gonna go
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mail mel. I guess we've got
some more to talk about, right yeah.

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Well, Also, by the way, I just side note, I

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like the music you play, so
that's cool. Thank you. We go

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all over the place, so sometimes
sometimes it gets weird. Yeah, that's

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all right. Hey, uh,
you know, back to my moles,

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I've got all kinds of stuff.
Do you know anything about getting rid of

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those critters because they just kind of
mole under everything and may dig all these

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tunnels. I'm afraid to uproot plants
or whatever. Right, Well, not

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being a wildlife expert, I'm going
to refer you to a place that knows

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everything about it. Okay, if
you go to there's a website at A

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and M that all of the like
horticulture publications and wildlife publications and all canning

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food and everything else. It's called
Agrolife Learn. So it's a g R

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And if you go there and type
in moles or gophers or you know

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any kind of wildlife issues, you'll
get a publication that's free to download that

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will tell you all about it.
If you's if baiting is part of the

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deal, it'll tell you how to
do it. If you know those traps

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are part of the deal, will
it will tell you what to do Okay,

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I appreciate it. And as far
as as far as the grubs,

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you'd say, that's probably not an
issue. I don't think it is.

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Nat could be. I mean,
if you have ornamental grasses and things in

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your flower bed, that could be
an issue. But just finding some is

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not the problem. It's it's the
quantity that that is the problem. Got

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it, appreciate it, Thank you
very much. You bet you take care.

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You're listening to garden Line. Our
phone number is seven to one three

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two one two. K t r
H. Makes it easy, easy,

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k t r H. Hey have
you seen the new parking lot at the

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Arborgate. I was out there just
said that. I had a little Facebook

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clip on it, just showing you
the parking lot. This is a really

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nice design. This isn't like asphalt
or concrete. This is a special grid

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that the rain water just runs right
through it and it just soaks right through.

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gully washer for days and you just

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drive right in there. I mean, it makes it easy. You go,

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you enter off Trishel Road, which
is like think of it as a

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little loop that leaves twenty nine excuse
me, twenty nine to twenty and goes

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behind Arburgate and comes back into twenty
nine to twenty. So whether it's before

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or after Arbrogate, you can jump
on Trishe'll run around behind it and there

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you are the parking lot and when
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you're going to find. I mean, Arbrogate is one of those destinations that

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people come from far and wide because
they have everything and it's set up so

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beautiful. It's one of the garden
centers you just love to wander through and

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look. And when you're there,
you're going to find people that know what

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they're talking about. They guide you
to the right plants and then advise you.

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I mean, you can just walk
in there and ask them a question

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if you want. They're there to
help you have success, and they know

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that that is the key. That
is the key, is to help their

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customers have success. So they sell
you plants that do well. Here,

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they give you advice that helps you
have success, and that you know.

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I've in visiting with them or being out

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there, I just see them interacting
with customers and I just realized, Yep,

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that's why they're here and doing well
because they know how to take care

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of of the folks that come and
visit. When you're there, take advice

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that I give all the time,
and that is get the soil right before

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you put the plant in the ground. And they've got you set up with

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a three bag system. It's a
food, organic food complete, organic soil

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complete, and organic compost complete.
So a food that feeds anything with roots,

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a soil that does have expanded shale
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and a compost that has expanded shale. With those three together will will create

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that perfect roots environment so your plants
can thrive. And it's all at the

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Arborgate. You can go to the
website arborgate dot com. You can follow

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them on social media. But whatever
you do, go out and visit.

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This afternoon wouldn't be a bad day
to go do that at the arbor Gate.

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Let's see. I'm going to head
now out to Santa Fe and talk

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to Terry. Hello, Terry,
Hey, Skip, good morning morning.

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Hey, I have a bad case
of dollar weed. Okay, Now,

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I went through the drought like everybody
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third of my front yard is but
dollar weed, and they're starting to look

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like the seed put out seeds.
I'm kind of worried about. I need

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to get rid of it. Yeah, yeah, no, can Well.

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Dollar weed is the first of all, it is encouraged by wet conditions.

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helpful. Okay, So that would
mean not overwatering, That might mean redirecting

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drainage, you know, from one
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do along those lines. That would
be step one. Then as far as

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dealing with the dollar weed that you
have in there, there are a number

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of different products that you can put
out that will control it, that will

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do pretty good at controlling it post
emergent, now that you've already got it

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and it's growing. There's a product
called Image, the regular Image. It's

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not all there's a bunch of different
things now that go by the name of

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Image, but the standard regular Image
would work really well. If you wanted

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to do like a fertile loan weed
free zone that would also control dollar weed,

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you could use that as well.
So either way you want to go,

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I'd probably try the fertile loan weed
free zone first. But remember on

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these things, when the temperatures get
up warmer. Those effective products can be

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a little stressful damaging to the grass. So get it done soon within I'd

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say, within the next week or
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Do the spray early in the morning
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temperatures get up in the upper eighties. Right, I put barricade down in

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October. Okay, bar can huh. But I still have the dollar weed.

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But it looks like they're starting to
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things on top of them. Okay, well they they might as well.

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I need to check the barricade label
on the dollar weed. Off the top

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of my head, I cannot remember
if that if that particular product for that

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particular weed. Barricade controls a lot
of grasses and broad leaf weeds. I

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just need to I need to be
sure before I would tell you yes absolutely

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on that one. What would it
hurt if I put it down anyway or

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the No, it wouldn't hurt.
Just follow the able and do it according

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to the label. Okay, Okay, do you yeah? Yeah, go

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ahead. Do you recommend us a
hose type tied onto your hose and spray

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well the way Barricade's a granule.
So you're gonna put it out with a

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fertilizer type spreader set to poly barricade. Oh yeah, I'll talk about the

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ms though. Oh the image could
be a spray. You get it on

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the foldage. You need a surfactant
because dollarweed has a slick leaf and a

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surfactant makes spray stick. So when
you buy that, make sure and buy

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the surfactant. Hey, I've got
a run for a break terry. But

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good luck in getting that one under
control. And thanks for the call.

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I appreciate that. We'll be right
back. The phone number is seven one

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three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to

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have you with us today. Hey, what do you want to talk about?

406
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We will talk about that. Seven
one three two one two k t

407
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r H. ACE Hardware Stores is
the place. ACE is the place where

408
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.279
you fill in the blank. What
do you need? Do you need fertilizer

409
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.880
for your lawn? Yep, they've
got it. Everything I talk about on

410
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.319
gardland, they've got it. Do
you need pest control? Disease control?

411
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.240
We control you know. I was
telling talking to someone earlier about a couple

412
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of things to control things in the
lawn. Ace has got it. And

413
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.920
there's forty ACE Hardware stores in the
Greater Houston area, so it's easy,

414
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:22.640
easy to find one. Just go
to Acehardware dot com, Acehardware dot Com,

415
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.759
use the store locator, or when
you load ASE Hardware, just say

416
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:27.920
yeah, you can use my location
this time, and you'll get this great

417
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.000
little map with red dots all over
the place, and that is ACE.

418
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They're going to have things that are
very timely too, like fire ant control

419
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:40.680
time to get out to fire ant
bait. They have the individual mound treatments

420
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.279
that two weeks after baiting if you
need. If you have some mounds that

421
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:48.480
you missed, you can hit those
with the individual treatment. They've got mosquito

422
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:55.400
controls everything from repellence to the granules
and dunks and things that stop the mosquitos

423
00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.000
by putting them in water and controlling
the little larvae. They've got foggers and

424
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:06.160
whatever you need to do to make
your outdoor patio enjoyable, beautiful place even

425
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.720
more beautiful and entertaining. ACE is
a place for that everything. To get

426
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:14.559
you set up and ready to go. We are going to go to Joseph

427
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:18.640
and Katie. Now, Hello Joseph, Hello, good morning, morning.

428
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.920
So I've got a couple of items
for you. Number One, I've got

429
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:29.000
a company that comes out and fertilizes
my yard, and they come out about

430
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:34.400
every six weeks and lay down fertilizer, and for the most part, my

431
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:41.359
lawn looks really good. But I've
got areas where the grass has virtually disappeared,

432
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.960
and all I've got is dirty,
and I don't know whether the best

433
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:52.119
way forward is to put down new
sod or do I need to do something

434
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.440
else. Yeah, So here's how
I approach that, Joseph. If you've

435
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:57.160
got grass, let's say within a
foot foot and a half of each other,

436
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.640
Like you know, there's a living
sprays or plugs here, and then

437
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:06.319
a put a half away, it'll
close back over. We're proper fertilizing by

438
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:08.480
the time we get into through the
summer. If it's further than that,

439
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:12.400
you probably need to plug some things
in or put some sawd in, or

440
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.680
if it's really bad, just reside
the whole area. Because every time you

441
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.640
have that bare soil, you're gonna
be fighting weeds on it. And that's

442
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.680
the challenge out there. So I
would I would just make the decision based

443
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.680
on that, All right, All
right, And then I had I had

444
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:36.480
Randy come out to my house a
few years back. And the problem is

445
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:42.960
that at the back of my fence, and I'm right on a commercial site

446
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:51.839
is right behind me, and I've
got areas at my back fence where the

447
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:59.079
ground is falling down. And he
had said that he felt that when the

448
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:06.519
can instruction on the house was done, they didn't properly tie off the ground

449
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:12.880
at the back of the of the
the yard. And so he had recommended

450
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:17.880
a company that would come out and
look and and give me some advice on

451
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.279
that, and I tried calling them
several times and I never got a call

452
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:27.960
back. So I wanted to see
if you had any companies in mind that

453
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.359
might be able to come out and
have a look and be able to Are

454
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:34.200
you telling me give me some advice? Are you talking about bringing in soil

455
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:39.279
or what? What do you want? So? Well, So, hey,

456
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:43.680
jose I'm sorry to interruption. I
can see this is gonna be one

457
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.279
that I'm going to have hard time
solving on the air. I want to

458
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:51.480
put you on hold and will you
email me some pictures and the details and

459
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.680
let me have a chance to kind
of look into that and I'll get right

460
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:58.079
back to maybe a better answer that
way, U, And I'm going to

461
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.160
put you on hold. Don't don't
go away, Joshua Pickop and he will

462
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.640
get you an email. Please send
me some pictures from different angles with a

463
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:07.480
little bit of a description of what
you were starting to tell me there on

464
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.400
the air. Okay, okay,
thank you. I think that'll work a

465
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:14.840
lot better for us. If you're
looking at fertilizing and you have done it

466
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.000
this spring yet, maybe you did
one early on, but if it's been

467
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.760
like you did a fast release early
on and it's been a month or two,

468
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:25.239
it's time to go ahead and do
your summer treatments. And here's what

469
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:30.400
I would recommend, Slow and easy
from Nelson's It gradually feeds that lawn over

470
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.559
months, I mean four months from
now, it's still going to be releasing

471
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:38.079
some nitrogen into your soil. Slow
and Easy is designed to give you that

472
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:44.199
nice gradual feeding because that creates a
better root growth balance with the top.

473
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.639
You have a more resilient, a
more drought resilient a grass plant as a

474
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.000
result, and it just continues to
help that grass get denture and denture.

475
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.840
Now. Bruce is Bruce another good
one. It's got more of its nitrogen

476
00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:59.880
in an immediate release form, with
just a little bit in a slow release

477
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.320
as well, so it's not totally
immediate release. You could do a couple

478
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:07.280
of applications through the summer of Bruces
brew and go that route. If you

479
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.239
prefer slow and easy. That's the
Cadillac to give you that. What you

480
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:14.280
apply it, now you're done.
I mean it's taken you all the way

481
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.000
into your fall. Fertilization works really
well, and again it's part of that

482
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:27.400
turf Star line from Nelson Plant Food. Let's see, I want to go

483
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.679
to We're going to Copperfield now and
talk to Adam. Hello, Adam,

484
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:36.000
Hey, good morning, good morning. We have a oak tree, a

485
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:39.840
twenty plus year old oak tree in
our front yard, and four days ago

486
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:46.679
it is started shedding leaves very rapidly. The leaves have a black speckled spots

487
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:51.679
on the back of the leaves.
They're very green and fresh. I'm just

488
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.320
curious if it's insect ridden or a
disease, or if it's just trying to

489
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:59.679
conserve itself because of drought of water. Can we talk about live oak tree?

490
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.440
No, No, I believe it's
a red oak, a red oak

491
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:07.159
black spec Okay, well the specs
if they're just on the back, I

492
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.199
don't have to think about that one. The diseases that would get on the

493
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.079
red oak leaves typically go all the
way through the leaf. Whether it's a

494
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:20.119
fungal leaf spot or something bacterial,
you have to be able to turn the

495
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.480
leaf over and see it on either
side. If it's on the back,

496
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:29.719
it may be something more superficial.
There are some algal and related types of

497
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:32.679
organisms that can cause just a spot. You see it on magnolia's with a

498
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.000
little gray spots. You see it
on live oaks with the little tar spots,

499
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.559
and red oak can have it too. Why the leaves are coming off,

500
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.920
I don't know right now. They
shouldn't be, but it could be

501
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:51.480
anything from are they coming off individually
or are you getting little ends of branches

502
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.960
with a bunch of leaves on them? No, I mean it's the entire

503
00:36:55.039 --> 00:37:00.039
tree. Like four days has probably
took twenty five percent of our leaves of

504
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.599
the tree. Wow, Adam,
once again, I'm going to ask you

505
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:06.760
to give me an email. Send
me an email, let me see a

506
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:08.239
picture of the tree, and then
get a whole bunch of leaves and lay

507
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:13.280
them down on table and take a
good close up, well focused photo.

508
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.119
Let me look at that, so
I'm picturing what you're describing correctly, and

509
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.320
I'll reply with what I think is
going on there. Okay, I certainly

510
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.719
appreciate that. Thank you, you
bet it. Put you on hold right

511
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.920
now and Josh will pick up and
send you that email. All right,

512
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.400
Well, here we go. We
are heading into another top of the hour

513
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.760
break. Morning's flying by. We'll
be back in a little bit. My

514
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:43.639
phone number is seven one three two
one two k t r H. If

515
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.880
you would like to call Josh by
the way, tell him, tell him

516
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:52.360
wish him well. This is Josh's
last day with guard Line and I'm sad

517
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.599
to see him go. He's been
a great support for me here. He

518
00:37:55.679 --> 00:38:01.000
and I kind of jumped on somewhat
close to the same time. And anyway,

519
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:05.719
do definitely want to wish Josh well, So say hey, say hey

520
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:07.639
to Josh when you call in today. Freda, I see out there.

521
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.480
I know you've been waiting. We're
going to get to you very first when

522
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.559
we come back from break. We
just have had quite a few folks calling

523
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:19.920
in this morning. I want to
remind you that next week I'm going to

524
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:23.920
be at Wildbirds Unlimited in Paarland.
Wildbird's Unlimited in Pairland, that's on East

525
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.079
Broadway down in Pairland. I'll be
doing this after the show, so it'll

526
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.199
be starting at eleven thirty and go
into one thirty and I'll be there to

527
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:37.800
answer your gardening questions. And you
know, come see me. You can

528
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.800
bring samples in, you bring photos
in, we can talk about anything you

529
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.119
want. Bring your bird questions in. And while you're in there, you're

530
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.039
going to see a really cool store. Hey, save your mother's day shopping

531
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:52.360
because you definitely will want to do
that at Wildbird's. Katrh garden Line does

532
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:59.519
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

533
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:05.440
to a c r H. Garden
Line with Skip Richard. It's so crazy,

534
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:28.920
Trim, just watch him as fill
us so many crazy. Welcome back

535
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:31.360
to Guardline. Good to have you
with us today. We are here to

536
00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:36.360
answer your gardening questions. At seven
one three two one two k t r

537
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:45.159
H. I was visiting with Ian
actually via text email Nature's Way and we

538
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:51.400
were conversing. Basically, the topic
was about the leaf mo compost and the

539
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:54.280
fungal compost, and uh, he
was telling me that he had done a

540
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:59.679
little kind of a test on the
the products, and you know, we

541
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:04.360
always talk about the importance of leaf
mole compost is super super high quality product

542
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.239
that, by the way, was
created there at Nature's Way resources. They're

543
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:14.159
the ones that that's where it was
originated. And the leaf the fungel based

544
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:17.480
composts are also a super high quality
product and a finely screened down to I

545
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:21.679
think three eighths of an inch or
something, little bitty particles that just fall

546
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:23.960
in between the grass blades. He
had done a little trial where he put

547
00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:30.159
the leaf more compost and the fungal
screened compost side by side as a top

548
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:36.800
dressing on laun and basically they both
performed very very well. And so that

549
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.480
was eye opening for me, you
know, because I know all the products

550
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:45.760
they make are good products. I
mean they John Ferguson has been a student

551
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.800
of soil science for a very very
long time and he knows what he's doing

552
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.280
out there, and he and n
now are putting out just a lot of

553
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.920
quality products at Nature's Way. Whether
you need a rose soil or a leaf

554
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:02.599
mole compost. The nice thing about
the the fungal based compost information is you

555
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:06.800
know they still have their fungal Fridays. It's ten percent off all the bag

556
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.840
products and twenty percent off all the
bulk. And so do you need a

557
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.159
load of that delivered to your house, they can put it right there on

558
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:15.920
the driveway and you can go right
to town if you want to do your

559
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.079
own top dressing, or if you
want to use it as an amendment in

560
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:22.559
flower beds. There is a mulch
on the surface of the far I mean,

561
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:24.800
how do you want to use it? Nine three six three two one

562
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.280
sixty nine ninety. That's the number
for Nature's Way Resources ninety three six three

563
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.920
two one sixty nine ninety. They're
up on Interstate forty five almost to Conro

564
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:37.079
and it's just really easy to get
there. If you want to go out

565
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.239
and pay them a visit. While
you're there, leave some room in the

566
00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:44.280
car for some of the cool native
plants that they grow, or that they

567
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:49.159
I say grow they sell there from
the place they also grow them. We're

568
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:51.960
going to go now to Pasadena and
talk to Frida. Frida, you get

569
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.679
the Patience Award of the Week.
Thank you. So much for hanging on.

570
00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:02.519
Thank you. Actually, I'll talk
to you yesterday about my Peggy Martin

571
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.239
Rose bush. I was expecting well, I ordered that, you know,

572
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:14.800
online, and I wound up with
four cuttings instead of a bush. And

573
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:22.559
yeah, and it came with instructions
to use perlite, let's find bark,

574
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:30.280
mulch, sand, and pearlite to
mooted with. So I went to Low's

575
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.159
and they didn't have any kind of
mixture like that. I had to buy

576
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:37.199
a sack of each. And so
then I went to another little place here

577
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:40.239
in Pasadena that was kind of an
interesting place. It's called Everlasting Earth unless

578
00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:45.639
you've ever heard of them. But
they didn't have anything either, but they

579
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:55.280
did have they make their own flower
of flower mulch okay. And then so

580
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:00.519
I bought a sack of bad It
was not I'm really being bag, but

581
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:05.559
I bought a sack of that and
and perlite. And but then I got

582
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:09.039
to thinking, hey, no,
I think I need to call Skip and

583
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:14.960
see what he has to say about
how to root these short of him and

584
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.920
to buy you know, big bags
of stuff that I won't use right right?

585
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.280
Oh boy, Well that's that's that's
interesting that they sent you unrooted cuttings

586
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.840
to yeah road, all right,
So here's here's what you need to do.

587
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.159
You need to get you some rooting
hormone, and you can get it.

588
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:37.960
Typically it's sold as a powder in
garden centers and stores, but there's

589
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.960
sometimes are liquid forms. If you
go to you got Nace hardware over there,

590
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.480
not too far away from over in
Deer Park on Center Street. It's

591
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.079
called Deer Park lumber Ace. They're
going to have a rooting hormone on the

592
00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:54.960
shelf there, okay, and you
can do that. You want to take

593
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.320
the cuttings, I don't how long
are they? How many inches long?

594
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.360
Oh? They're probably about eight or
ten inches long? Oh wow? Okay,

595
00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:06.559
well I would cut cut those in
half. Are there leaves all the

596
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:08.599
way up and down the cutting or
not? Now there's no leaves at all

597
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.280
on Now you know, I'm not
good at measurements, so I'm not sure

598
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:17.159
how long they or let me look
at the think about it. Think about

599
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:24.079
a piece of typing paper, a
little printed paper. Okay, they're probably

600
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:28.719
about six inches long? Maybe.
Okay, well let's just go with one.

601
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.719
Then what you're gonna do is you're
gonna dip the bottom inch into In

602
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.920
fact, I would at the bottom
where they cut them. Do you see

603
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.519
any callous forming or is it just
like it got cut with scissors? I

604
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:45.760
mean the printers and that's it.
Okay, I don't know. I don't

605
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:47.360
have to look at them. Well, you know what, I don't want

606
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:52.119
to have to do all that,
But just just dip these things in rooting

607
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.599
hormone, the bottom inch of them
in a rooting hormone, okay, powder,

608
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.800
and then put them into you can
put them into a regular potting soil

609
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:07.320
if if you want to that that
is okay. If you peer light is

610
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.519
it drains better and you have less
problems with rot. And so when you

611
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:15.519
go to this ace, you're gonna
probably find little bags of pearlte too.

612
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.760
You can you can mix two little
things together. Well, you get a

613
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.239
little per lighte and a little bit
of a of a PD kind of a

614
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.800
potting soil kind of material. But
you want to put the bottom about an

615
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.320
inch deep, maybe an inch and
a half deep in the pear lighter potting

616
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:35.880
soil kind of firm it in a
little bit and then cover it with something

617
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.480
clear. So I've done this many
ways. I've used cut the bottom out

618
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.119
of a two liter coke bottle,
you know, to put over the top

619
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.960
like a greenhouse. I've put them
in a box, like a rubber made

620
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.159
type box with a clear lid over
it. I've put them. I've used

621
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.400
saran wrap over the you know,
anything that holds the moisture all in and

622
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:00.119
allows light in. And then you
want it in a bright spot, but

623
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:05.559
not in direct sunlight, and it's
gonna take it any rate. Did you

624
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.840
say, I'm trying to write this
down. Okay, okay, okay.

625
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.159
I got to the point where you
talked about the rubber maid box, and

626
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:15.360
then what you say, yeah,
let me let me scratch the rubber maid

627
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.880
with just doing one or two in
or three or four that it's not just

628
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.119
get you, get you something that
you can put them in that will hold

629
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:30.039
that moisture in and something clear to
go over the top. I would probably

630
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.519
say saran wrap might be the easiest
way. If you've got a bread wrapper,

631
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:36.679
an old bread wrapper, you could
slip over the top and slide it

632
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.840
down. You're just creating a little
temporary greenhouse to hold the moisture in and

633
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:45.719
allow light. Okay, okay,
put it in a bright spot, not

634
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:50.760
direct sunlight. Make sure it stays
moist. You may need to miss it

635
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:54.079
with a little water once or twice, just because it is gonna dry out

636
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:59.599
a little bit. And then hopefully
within two or three weeks you should begin

637
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:02.159
to get some roots on it.
But you'll know it's got roots and is

638
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:06.760
growing when you see buds start to
grow. But don't don't hurry up and

639
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:08.840
pull them right up and try to
plant them. Give them a little bit

640
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:13.679
of time. Once the leaves are
coming on, you can take the bag

641
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.199
off the top and allow them to
have full access to the air, and

642
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:20.400
then probably within a month, go
ahead and pot them up. Okay,

643
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:23.719
okay, So how often should you
sprint them? Sprint them with water just

644
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:28.519
enough to keep it moist inside there. You're creating a humidity chamber, is

645
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.920
what you're doing. I know I
do that when I first gets the bag

646
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:37.039
do it? Tell you what freedom
do I keep? Let me put you

647
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.519
on hold. I'm gonna I'm gonna
have Josh pick it up and give you

648
00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:44.400
my email address. Will you email
me and I will send you a publication

649
00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:45.920
on how to do this? And
I think that'd be the easiest way.

650
00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:51.800
Okay, okay, okay, just
hang on. In the meantime, what

651
00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:54.800
I do with my coddings, put
me water, put them in moist paper

652
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:59.960
towels, and put the moist paper
towels in a plastic bag and put them

653
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.519
in the refrigerator. You're gonna get
this from me fast. Don't worry about

654
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.360
that, all right, you bet. Thank you for the call. Appreciate

655
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.480
that. Hey, I have to
run to a break here. Sandy and

656
00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:13.320
Terry, you'll be the first up
when we come back. Our phone number

657
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:17.239
seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy

658
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.880
with us today. You are listening
to a show that is dedicated to helping

659
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:27.519
you have a more bountiful garden and
a beautiful landscape. That's what we're here

660
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.440
for to answer your gardening questions.
The Anti Rosing Porium is one way that

661
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:35.440
you can have a more beautiful landscape, that is for sure. You know

662
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.239
they're up in Independence, Texas and
it is a great little drive out into

663
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:43.119
the country not too far and you
go out there and it's like you enter

664
00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:46.440
another world. That place is truly
a destination. People drive from all over

665
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:50.559
just to see the place, much
less to get the roses. They have

666
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.440
roses and two gallon containers, all
once at price twenty nine ninety five each.

667
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:57.920
That two gallon container allows them to
grow a little bit bigger, more

668
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:01.760
robust rose for you to get good
start. When you're there, just realize

669
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:07.159
they're not just roses, although they
definitely are roses, but they have so

670
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.719
much more. You can get fruit, trees and flowers, lots and lots

671
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.840
of native species. They even have
house plans and herbs there the Antique Rosing

672
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:17.920
Porium. Every Friday and Saturday,
they have their kids program called the Tinker

673
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.920
Garden Workshop, starts at one pm. It's an outdoor, play based education

674
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:27.880
curriculum for kids two to eight years
old. It's a ticketed event and go

675
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.920
through mid May. So what you
want to do is go to their website

676
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:37.280
Antique Roseiemporium dot com and look at
the upcoming events tab. You want to

677
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.480
do that now. On May eleventh, from nine to noon, you can

678
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:45.000
treat your mama to a memorial morning
surrounded by nature's beauty and their nursery and

679
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:49.880
display gardens. They're going to have
garmet sharcuterie options. There's a do it

680
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:53.480
yourself flower bar, an opportunity for
a mini session photo shoot. I mean,

681
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:58.840
whoa, how can you pamper your
mom better than that? For information

682
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:01.880
the tickets again, Anti gu Rosenporum
dot com. That's the website. Here's

683
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:07.880
the phone number nine seven nine eight
three six fifty five forty eight. We're

684
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:13.480
gonna now go to Cyprus, Texas
and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy,

685
00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:15.920
good morning, Yes morning are you? I'm very well? Thank you

686
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:23.039
for taking my call. I have
a question about my my okras. They

687
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:30.559
have holes in the lead okay,
and I put Captain Jackson it okay,

688
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.440
And you say not to use the
same thing every time, so I use

689
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.719
meme oil okay, have time on
the front and the back of the lead.

690
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.639
Yes, my egments are doing wonderful, but my oprahs aren't. And

691
00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:45.679
I don't know what's going on.
What do you when you say doing wonderful,

692
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:50.760
you mean they're not meaning they're getting
more holes? Or what do you

693
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.159
mean by not doing more? Yeah, we're getting more holes? You know

694
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:57.519
what. Okra is one tough plant, and I have never in my life

695
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:00.800
felt like I had so many holes
I needed spray it. I'll be honest

696
00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:05.119
with you now, it could happen. I'm not saying you don't have a

697
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:07.440
lot of holes, and it isn't
time to shut things down. But if

698
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:13.679
it's eating holes in an okra leaf, it's got chewing mouth parts and spinosid

699
00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:16.840
should work. That's the Captain Jacks
I believe has spinosid in it. The

700
00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:22.239
anime also should work on leaf feeding
beetles and caterpillars. So I'm not sure

701
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:28.800
why that you're getting more in there. But those two products both work,

702
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.239
and I just I mean, I
could tell you a different insecticide, but

703
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:36.360
obviously you're trying to stay organic with
those two choices, and those are your

704
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:39.840
two best organic products. If you
turn leaves over, you're not seeing a

705
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:47.760
caterpillars hiding anywhere, no, okay. And it's only on my not my

706
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:53.360
green oakra. It's on my red
burgundy oakras, okay. And those are

707
00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:58.320
the ones I'm having a lot of
time with. Well, again, just

708
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:04.239
to loop back, I'm questioning whether
they it's a it's a problem or not,

709
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.920
whether you have enough leaf loss for
it to be a problem. I

710
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.880
don't know why those two products aren't
working. The only other thing would be

711
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:16.199
to switch to a different insecticide.
Uh somesynthetic insecticide to go after them.

712
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:21.800
But I don't know, Well,
use the Can I try the Captain Jacks

713
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.199
again? Oh yeah, you sure
can. Yep. Just follow the label

714
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:29.280
and mixing it, spray it on
top and the bottom of the leaves,

715
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:32.440
and that that ought to shut it
down. Okay, okay, all right,

716
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:37.480
thanks so much, all right anything
you bet you too. I appreciate

717
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:40.039
that call. Told. I talked
to about Sweet Green a little bit earlier

718
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:46.199
today. And sweet Green is that
product that is a molasses based microbially built

719
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:52.559
if you will product that is by
nitroposs. It's that's eleven percent nitrogen in

720
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.280
it and it smells wonderful. You
put it down, you water it in,

721
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.519
it just dissolves in and when you
get into the soil bent official microbes

722
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:07.880
like bacteria especially, they love that
molasses type base that really and rejuvenates them,

723
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:10.400
if you will, and gets them
fired up and going. Sweet Green

724
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.920
is widely available. You can get
it just like other night Fosh products that

725
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.639
growers outlet up there in Willis.
You can go to Enchanted Forest out in

726
00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:23.679
the Richmond Rosenberg area or RCW Nursery
up on Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight.

727
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:28.519
All good places where you can go
and get that product. I want to

728
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.039
go now to Lake Conrae and we're
going to talk to Teres. Hello Teres,

729
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:36.199
good morning Skipping. Thanks so much
for having me on your program.

730
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:44.840
I have a couple of questions.
My issue is my hydrangees. I have

731
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:46.639
four plants. They're only about a
couple of months old, and they were

732
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:51.679
so beautiful when we bought them.
They were blue, and you know what,

733
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:57.159
they have turned green. And I
know that's supposed to be age,

734
00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:00.079
I believe, but anyway, I
was about to turn I do have them

735
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:05.119
on a drip line, you know, for deep rooting, for deep deep

736
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.880
watering, you know, deep root
watering, right, And so I guess

737
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:14.440
one of my questions, how number
one? How long do I I've had

738
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:19.039
them on for thirty minutes every like
three days something like that, every three

739
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:27.239
days. Oh water, deep water
them and so they've turned brown and pink,

740
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:34.920
you know, so am I overwatering? Is there a way to what

741
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:38.400
do I ever get the color back? The beautiful blue? Are they?

742
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:43.639
Are they old? How do I
revive them? Okay, they're away?

743
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:49.000
Well the brown is the old old
blooms, and those are actually used in

744
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:53.599
dried arrangements. Sometimes they're even dyed
or painted or something like that. But

745
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:59.199
with adranges, if you make the
soul more acidic, it makes the blooms

746
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:02.960
more blue. If you make the
soil higher pH and I don't mean like

747
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:07.920
super high pH, but like six
point five range, then you're going to

748
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:14.760
get a pink flower. So it
and there's a variation between cultivars of hydrangaes

749
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:19.320
or varieties of headrangas, in their
tendency toward a color. But what I

750
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.480
would suggest, if you want to
go from pink to blue, you can

751
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:28.639
buy something called aluminum sulfate and you
put one table one tablespoon in a gallon

752
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:35.159
of water and put it in your
watering can and drench it all around all

753
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:39.119
around the plant, and that will
help move that pH toward more acidic,

754
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:43.760
and it will move the bloom color
toward more blue. And you would just

755
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:47.480
do that as needed. Aluminum sulfate
is widely available in little bags and garden

756
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:52.599
centers as needed, So how do
I know when they need it? Is

757
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:57.880
well needed? Meaning if the color
is kind of going from blue, you

758
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.480
know, in toward a purplesh on
its way to pink or something, then

759
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:04.920
you would want to add more again, if you want your her dren just

760
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.599
to stay blue, I see wonderful. Oh, so there's hope for them,

761
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:14.239
absolutely absolutely, as far as watering
water enough to keep them moist not

762
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.440
soggy. But they don't like to
dry out. So it depends on your

763
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:21.360
soil. It depends on how much
sun they're in, and it depends on

764
00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:23.679
the temperature. So I can't tell
you water them, you know, twice

765
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.880
a week or four times a week
or it just depends on all that.

766
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:30.800
But you reach down, feel the
soil, keep it moist. They'll tell

767
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:34.519
you. If they get a little
dry, you'll see a little wiltiness on

768
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.599
them, and that means you need
to just water them a little more often,

769
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:42.199
but avoid keeping them. Don't make
it a swamp, okay. And

770
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.000
you know they're planted around a pear
tree, and our soil out here is

771
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:50.840
very clay, like you know,
but the soil is good enough for the

772
00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:55.840
tree. But does that tend to
change things at all? Uh? Anytime

773
00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:59.800
plants are around each other, it
changes things. But I wouldn't worry about

774
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:01.480
that at all. I think you're
in I think you're on the right track.

775
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:05.760
Just to follow those things I was
suggesting, and I think you're going

776
00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:07.679
to have success that along with a
little bit of fertilizer here and there,

777
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:14.119
and choose a fertilizer for acid loving
plants, for example, Microlife. Microlife

778
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:21.000
has a pink bag and it's got
a sulfur addition in it that helps produce

779
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:25.639
more acidity in the soil. So
Microlife. Find the pink bag of Microlife

780
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:30.519
and use that to fertilize your hedranges. It's an organic food, it's going

781
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:34.800
to gradually release. Just spread it
around the plants, scratch it in underneath

782
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:38.360
the plants, and that will also
help move them toward blue and Microlife you

783
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:42.760
can find it everywhere. If you
don't know, go to Microlife Fertilizer dot

784
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.800
com and that'll point you to it. But the pink bag is the one

785
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:50.320
you want for Microlife. Okay,
okay, okay. Do I have time

786
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:54.760
for a quick question on geraniums are
yellow? Yes? If it's really really

787
00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:00.360
quick, yes, go ahead.
Just that the leaves on the geranium they're

788
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:02.599
not you know, the little the
new blooms have kind of drooped and the

789
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:09.840
leaves are yellow. So uh,
new blooms drooping could be truly drying out

790
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:14.199
too much, or it could just
be their their spent and they're they're on

791
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:19.320
their way out. The leaves turning
yellow is usually a sign of a watering

792
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:23.079
problem in the soil on the geraniums, So to wet to dry, just

793
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:28.559
watch out for either extreme. Uh. They can stay a little on the

794
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:31.119
dry side and be okay, not
too much, but just a little bit.

795
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:34.880
They if you keep them too wet, they're gonna get root rots,

796
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:38.119
and then that leads to the loss
of the whole plant. Okay, okay,

797
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:40.960
good luck. That helps a lot. Thank you so much. All

798
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:44.599
right, thank you for the call. Hey, have you've been to Chanted

799
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:46.679
Gardens done in Richmond? In Enchanted
Gardens? And let me give you the

800
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:52.400
website first, because you want to
write this one down. Enchanted Gardens Richmond

801
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:54.559
dot com. And the reason I
say that is when you go to the

802
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:59.599
website, you're going to find a
wealth of information. You need to sign

803
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.159
up for the newsletter so you can
find out what's going on there. They've

804
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:06.800
got a great stock of plumerias.
In yesterday I was saying, you need

805
00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:08.639
to grow something different, do something
you never done. Have you ever grown

806
00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:13.000
a plumeria? A lot of people
haven't and they're not hard to grow.

807
00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:15.920
They are not that hard to grow, and they have a good selection there

808
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:21.639
at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. That's
the garden center on three fifty nine FM

809
00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:24.239
three fifty nine. So if you're
in Richmond and you're going toward the Katie

810
00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:30.639
fullsher direction h FM three fifty nine, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. They're open

811
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:35.400
today from ten am to four pm. So get out there and check them

812
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.440
out. It's an enchanting place and
you'll see why we call it one of

813
00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:44.119
our destination garden centers. People love
the drive there because I mean, they

814
00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.039
got everything you need. We're going
to take a break for Nicky and the

815
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:54.239
news my number seven one three two
one two KTRH. All right, welcome

816
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:57.519
back to garden I good, hey, you with us today. We are

817
00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:00.599
talking about everything plans, everything thing
plants. So what do you want to

818
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:06.559
talk about? Seven one three two
one two kt RH. Those of you

819
01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:09.559
up in Montgomery, you know your
hometown garden center that is Ana Plants,

820
01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:13.559
Ana Plants and Produce. So try
it on one O five on the way,

821
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.199
let's say the Conro side, the
east side of Montgomery. Now,

822
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:20.360
Ana Plants is a place where you
can go and get any kind of things

823
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:22.880
you want. They always have good
color in there. They've got wonderful bling

824
01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.400
in the landscape. I always like
to go in and look at the different

825
01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:30.079
kinds of art work. You know
that you could hang out metal art and

826
01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:34.039
signs and just all kinds of decorations, things like chim And as for the

827
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.960
patio, they they always are stocked
up well on that. They also are

828
01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:43.480
always stocked up well on the fertilizers
that I talk about on guard line.

829
01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:46.159
You know, if you hear me
talk about a fertilizer, Ana Plants and

830
01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:50.400
Produce has got it. They got
a landscape crew that can come out and

831
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.679
work on your homes. If you're
up there in the Lake Conroe area,

832
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:58.480
for example, call Ana Plant and
Produce and find out, you know,

833
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:01.360
talk about what you need done and
what they can do. And when you

834
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:05.559
go by you I'm talking about all
the fertilizers. Grab you some of that

835
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:10.800
nitrofus nineteen four ten, the slow
release by nitroposs the silver bag that is

836
01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:15.320
half of the nitrogen. Half of
that nineteen percent nitrogen is slow release and

837
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:20.280
it's going to feed for three months
or more out there in your landscape,

838
01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:23.360
real nice, gradual feed. It's
got iron in it to help with color

839
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:29.639
and color. You know, nitrogen
adds green color or causes the plant to

840
01:01:29.800 --> 01:01:32.800
develop the green color, but iron
is very important in that. And a

841
01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:37.760
lot of our Saint Augustine lawns get
these little yellowish areas because of a lack

842
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:44.239
of iron reaching the leaves. This
product four percent iron nitrofus superture can help

843
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:46.840
avoid that, avoid that problem or
remedy. If you've already got it,

844
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:51.280
you can go to the woodlands to
all spas ace and you can find it

845
01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.800
there. Also, in addition,
if you're not out in the A and

846
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:58.480
A plant and produce area, you
can come down to Plants for all seasons

847
01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:00.199
on two forty nine, or you
can go up to random plants and things.

848
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:06.920
Lots of places to get the super
turf nineteen four to ten by Nitrofoss.

849
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:09.920
We're going to now head out to
Richmond and talk to Karen. Hello

850
01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:17.079
Karen, good morning Skip. I
have a question regarding my broccoli. I

851
01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:22.239
have a small bed maybe just eight
or ten plants, and they've been beautiful,

852
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:29.719
They've done great. I'm now getting
the broccoli and it's not that real.

853
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:35.239
Rich blue green color. I've got
yellow mixed in with all of them.

854
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:38.960
Okay, what is it generally like
an older well, is it an

855
01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:45.440
older leaf that's kind of generally turning
yellow or are you seeing yellow spots on

856
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:49.920
the leaves and the brown they're brown
more in the middle of the spot and

857
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:55.800
yellow on the outsides. No,
the leaves of the plants themselves are just

858
01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:02.960
normal. I don't see any thing, you know, on them at all.

859
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:09.320
I was out yesterday looking for stuff
I've discovered that, you know,

860
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:15.719
I'm actually making the broccoli, and
on about six of the plants that I

861
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:22.719
have, there's just small heads forming
and they're all yellowly green over the heads.

862
01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:30.039
Yeah, sometimes there's some nutrient issues
that can arise that can cause yellowing

863
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.679
or browning. Ultimately, browning of
a head is long. Really, what's

864
01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:38.119
in your power right now at this
point in the season is to make sure

865
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:44.199
they have adequate water and continue to
provide them with a moderate dose of nitrogen

866
01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:49.519
fertilizer to encourage new growth. There's
not a spray for it, there's not

867
01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.920
a treatment for it like that.
Hopefully they'll pull out of it and be

868
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:57.039
fine. But occasionally I have seen
situations where you get a yellowing and a

869
01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:01.000
browning of the head, and it's
just because something's not making it up there.

870
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:04.480
It's either not in the soil or
there's issues with the roots being able

871
01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:09.599
to take up the nutrients. But
when we hit this point, there's just

872
01:04:09.639 --> 01:04:13.599
no like quick fix. We'll go
go do this, although I would try

873
01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:16.960
giving them a light dose of nitrogen
and see if that If that helps,

874
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:25.559
Okay, perfect, Okay, good
luck Karen, bye bye. That is

875
01:04:25.719 --> 01:04:30.800
important. I forgot to remind her
that advice is free. But I need

876
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:35.840
half that broccoli delivered to the radio
station as a thank you gift if if

877
01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:42.199
my suggestion works. Gosh, hey, yesterday I was out at South lest

878
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.079
Fertilizer. Great place to go.
You know, I love going there.

879
01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:47.199
I talk about it all the time. But we were out there visiting with

880
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:50.719
folks. A lot of you came
by, brought me all kinds of questions

881
01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:55.280
and things, and we had a
good time. Gave way some skip Bucks.

882
01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:58.000
You guys got a lot of great
products. We were out there.

883
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:04.599
We gave a way, or Bob
gave a way. After the appearance people

884
01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:10.159
that won the Toro, there's a
leaf blower. I think there was a

885
01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:15.039
weed trimmer I believe was the other
one. Two battery operated devices by Toro

886
01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:17.800
Quality Company. He won those as
well. I want to thank Medina for

887
01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:21.320
giving us some samples of things to
put out there. We had a really

888
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.440
good time. Well, you know, Bob's always got everything that you need.

889
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:29.239
And I was walking through as I
always do yesterday, just looking at

890
01:05:29.320 --> 01:05:31.639
all the products. I mean,
the fertilizers. Do you want organic?

891
01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:33.920
Do you want synthetic? Do you
want liquid? Do you want solid?

892
01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:38.880
Do you want immediate release? Do
you want slow release? Everything I mentioned

893
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.880
on guardline and then some and then
we were people were coming in and they

894
01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:45.599
had this weed or that thing or
that malady. And I mean it's just

895
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.360
without a doubt. I mean,
Bob would have three or four or five

896
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:55.159
different options for just about everything that
people were coming in with questions about,

897
01:05:55.320 --> 01:05:59.000
because that's what he does. He
stays up on top. If a new

898
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.400
product arrives on the market, Bob's
going to get it. He's going to

899
01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:04.800
have it. And that includes things
like that folding kneeling bench that I brag

900
01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:09.480
about all the time. That's a
great device. You can sit on it

901
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:12.039
as a bench, you can flip
it upside down and kneel on it,

902
01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:14.960
and when you flip it upside down, the legs or your handles to get

903
01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:17.119
back up. If you're north of
forty, you know what I mean by

904
01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:20.599
getting up and getting down and getting
up and getting down working in the garden

905
01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:25.960
through a day, it takes a
toll. That kneeling bench is really cool,

906
01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:29.320
really slick. He's got a good
stock of those, and he has

907
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:32.480
the you know, the three sixty
tree stabilizer that we talk about out there.

908
01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:36.320
I mean, you know, Bob
has always made sure and carry anything

909
01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:41.119
that's going to be something to help
you have success in the garden. And

910
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:44.199
Southwest Fertilizer if you haven't been there, you need to go. It's on

911
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:48.039
the corner of bis Sinett and Renwick
done in Southwest Houston and the website just

912
01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:54.960
write this down Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And thanks thanks to Bob and the

913
01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:57.719
folks at Southwest. Good to see
Aaron and a lot of the jobs.

914
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:00.639
There's a lot of a lot of
good folks are very not eligible. When

915
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:03.679
you walk in, they're gonna they're
gonna know what to do to diagnose and

916
01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:09.920
to direct you to have success and
turn turn the corner on things. If

917
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:12.639
you'd like to give us a call
today, our number is seven one three

918
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.599
two one two k t r H
seven one three two on two k t

919
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:20.159
r H. Just reminding you again, today's Josh, my producer's last day,

920
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:24.159
and I am sad to see him
go. From the time I came

921
01:07:24.199 --> 01:07:27.719
on board, Josh had just come
on board, and we've had a really

922
01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:30.199
good working relationship. Uh. He
keeps me out of the ditches, and

923
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.400
so I don't know, things may
get wild and wooly here on garden Line

924
01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:38.400
when he heads out the door,
but he's had a full time job just

925
01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:41.599
keeping this host going. Uh.
But anyway, give him a call and

926
01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:44.760
say, hey, Josh hates you
go, thank you for the things you've

927
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:47.760
done. Seven one three two one
two k t r H. And he'll

928
01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:50.559
send you over to me. We
can talk about the things that are of

929
01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:56.880
interest to you. Out in Kingwood. You got Kingwood Garden Center and you

930
01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:01.880
got Warnings Southern Gardens both outstays nurseries. You're very fortunate out there to have

931
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:08.519
two good nurseries right there in your
backyard. Warren Southern Gardens. They're always

932
01:08:08.519 --> 01:08:13.199
getting something new as a shipment in
there's always something cool and right now the

933
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:18.920
color is outstanding. I mean all
kinds of beautiful flowering plants. They've got

934
01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:24.399
a little vinka, you know,
venka. I call it Madagascar. Periwinkle

935
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:27.680
is another name. Vinka is what
most people call it. It's different than

936
01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:31.760
the groundcover venka. This is a
little annual flowering plant that goes through heat

937
01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:36.239
like nobody. It just laughs at
heat. You throw it on your barbecue

938
01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:41.079
pit when you're grilling burgers. Five
minutes later, lift the lid and it's

939
01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:44.520
just laugh and having a good time. And that this plant can take heat,

940
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:47.439
I'm telling you. And it comes
in pink, it comes in shades

941
01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:51.159
of pink, and it comes in
white typically, but they have one called

942
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:58.680
Sorri Kawaii, not h Hawaii,
but Kawaii venka. And it's like a

943
01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:02.279
little dwarf venka. Just imagine making
shrunk down. The leaves are smaller,

944
01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:05.760
the blooms are smaller, but it's
still blooms and blooms and blooms. And

945
01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:10.000
I think it would be one of
the best plants you could choose to put

946
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.920
in a mixed container because of its
stature and the form of the plant.

947
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.159
Excellent when you're at Warrans Garden Center, say show me that dwarf vinka that

948
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:21.439
you've got, and they'll show you
and it is really really cool stuff.

949
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:26.039
We're going to take a break.
Time for a break. I'll be back

950
01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:30.319
at seven one three two one two
katrh We welcome back to the garden line.

951
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:32.760
It is early in the morning.
We got a little cloudy day here

952
01:09:32.760 --> 01:09:36.239
today, but that ain't gonna stop
us gardeners. We have got plenty of

953
01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:41.079
things we can be working on out
and about in the garden. If you

954
01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:46.560
have planted a tree, if you're
gonna plant a tree, three sixty tree

955
01:09:46.600 --> 01:09:51.880
stabilizer is what you need to know
about. It is a strong plastic arm

956
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:56.600
that grabs the post and grabs the
tree. And I said post, not

957
01:09:56.720 --> 01:10:00.720
posts. You know, we used
to put three posts and guy wires.

958
01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:02.119
You had to go buy wires.
You had to get garden hose and cut

959
01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:04.760
them up to put them around the
branch so you don't cut into the tree,

960
01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:08.600
and then you trip over them when
you're trying to mow around them.

961
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:13.479
No one tea post hammered into the
ground just pretty close to the tree,

962
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:16.640
actually very close to the tree.
These three sixties are not that long,

963
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:20.880
and it attaches to the tea post
or it'll attach to another post. They

964
01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:25.560
have two different versions of it.
And then it grabs a tree and allows

965
01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:29.239
a little bit of movement, which
is important for building strength. Anytime you

966
01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:33.359
bend in stress plants, you end
up getting stronger plants. And it lasts

967
01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:38.039
forever. I mean it's a very
durable product. So you're going to have

968
01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:40.279
it and your neighbor plants a tree. You can loan it to your neighbor

969
01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:44.079
to do that too. I mean
it's that easy, widely available. You

970
01:10:44.119 --> 01:10:47.840
can go Southwest Fertilizer or just talking
about they had them there RCW Buchanans arbor

971
01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:50.720
gaate plants for all seasons. They
have them in all those places you go

972
01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:55.600
on south to Alvins and Jorges Hidden
Gardens or Hay carries them down there as

973
01:10:55.600 --> 01:11:00.399
well. Three sixty Tree Stabilizer.
It is the best most innovative thing I

974
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:04.960
have seen in decades for securing a
tree and helping it get off to a

975
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:09.560
good start. Let's head out to
Katie now and we're going to talk to

976
01:11:09.640 --> 01:11:14.600
Doug. Hello, Doug Skip,
good morning, sir. I'm remembering here

977
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:17.359
on the not too distant past.
You had a gentleman on that was talking

978
01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:21.680
about honeybees. Yes, sir,
I did. Okay. The reason I'm

979
01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:27.800
calling is uh uh a company I
worked for, they had some material that

980
01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:31.520
was stored out in the back and
the weeds, and we were moving that

981
01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:34.600
out there, trying to trying to
get that moved out the other day.

982
01:11:35.319 --> 01:11:41.520
And thankfully the forklift driver was in
a totally enclosed forklift because he uh,

983
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:45.920
when he went to move one piece
of equipment, there was a large honey

984
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:48.439
bee nest there and uh, he
got they got them all stirred up.

985
01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:53.359
Yeah, I bet they did.
Oh yeah. And and the reason I'm

986
01:11:53.399 --> 01:11:58.319
calling is I have some vague recollection
that these guys, the gentleman you talked

987
01:11:58.319 --> 01:12:01.159
to, or the organization he was, if that that you know, they're

988
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:06.479
obviously for preserving honeybees and that sort
of thing, rather than just you know,

989
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:12.399
killing killing something like this off would
would they have any interest in coming

990
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:15.680
out and trying to you know,
collect those bees, Doug, You'd have

991
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:17.439
to ask them. I'm gonna give
you you got a pin or paper paper,

992
01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:20.039
I'm ready, all right, I'm
gonna give you the website. It's

993
01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:27.880
the thebesupply dot com, the b
supply dot Com and they're out in Dayton,

994
01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:30.920
Texas, so they're kind of a
little northeast of downtown Houston. Are

995
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:35.079
okay? And uh, you would
need to call them though what they They

996
01:12:35.159 --> 01:12:41.119
may do that, but they may
also refer you to some bee keepers that

997
01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:45.199
will go out and get swarms and
and and and whatnot. I don't know

998
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:48.880
offhand. I know that you know
they there are a lot of things like

999
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:51.920
you're describing going on, and I
don't know if they chase all that down

1000
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:57.319
or not, but I would definitely
talk to them about it, okay,

1001
01:12:57.359 --> 01:13:01.039
because they they know bees. I
don't know any Paul Fagala is the guy

1002
01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:06.079
I had on over the Believe it
is over the holidays, and the guy

1003
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:12.680
knows more about bees than anybody I
know so well. I've heard on on

1004
01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:16.439
on your show and otherwise that you
know, honeybee populations are in decline and

1005
01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:20.560
and would seem like not the smart
thing to do to just go out there

1006
01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:25.079
and eradicate them. But well,
yeah, and but I tell you that

1007
01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:30.560
with good companies like B Supply and
the products they sell, people are we

1008
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:34.720
are seeing a resurgence in honeybees because
when you tend for them and take care

1009
01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:36.960
of them, Uh, there's a
lot you can do. You know.

1010
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:40.760
They have they have tests that they
can get. They got diseases they can

1011
01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:44.800
get, but that can all be
managed. And so we're we're seeing a

1012
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.319
resurgence thanks to people like the B
Supply that that know how to keep keeping

1013
01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:54.119
skip. Just to confirm, what
is the correct spelling of that website again?

1014
01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:58.039
Okay, it's I'm gonna spell it
letter by letter T th H E

1015
01:13:58.920 --> 01:14:05.560
B E E supp l y.
Okay, thebsupply dot com. Just give

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01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:09.039
them a call out there and see
what they can do for you. I'll

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01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:11.520
definitely do that, sir. Appreciate
your help. All right, thank you,

1018
01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:15.640
I appreciate appreciate that call. Yeah, the B Supply they keep innovating

1019
01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:17.600
out there too. First of all, those of you listening that have a

1020
01:14:17.640 --> 01:14:23.600
backyard garden, if you want more
productivity, better pollination, what about putting

1021
01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:26.039
a hive in your backyard, you
can do that. You know, even

1022
01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:29.520
in the city you can do that. There's regulations on you know, you

1023
01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:35.640
can't put it right underneath your neighbor's
backyard window or something. I don't know.

1024
01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:39.039
They have regulations, but you can
do it in the backyard. You

1025
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.479
make honey for yourself and then you
become the little honey producer there. In

1026
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.760
addition to getting the benefit, they
also do a b rental program and that's

1027
01:14:47.039 --> 01:14:51.079
for folks of five to twenty acres
that are within fifty miles of Dayton.

1028
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:57.199
Go to the website dbsupply dot com
check out the b rental program. When

1029
01:14:57.199 --> 01:15:00.960
you put those bs on your property. When they put those on your property,

1030
01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:06.000
they also tend them and so that
is an agricultural exemption. Bee keeping

1031
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:10.920
is an agricultural exemption too, so
it helps a little bit on your taxes

1032
01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:15.520
as well as being part of you
know, managing honeybee hives. They just

1033
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:19.199
come out and do that makes it
really really easy. You can also take

1034
01:15:19.239 --> 01:15:25.000
classes. They have all kinds of
classes. I mean, the beekeeping class,

1035
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:28.159
a honey extraction class come up this
fall. They're going to do a

1036
01:15:28.199 --> 01:15:31.560
candle making class that'll be fun,
and a mead making class. There you

1037
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:36.159
go, now the beesupply dot Common, Dayton. All of that and more

1038
01:15:38.880 --> 01:15:42.279
that I used to keep bees when
I lived in Willis. I used to

1039
01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:45.439
live in Willis many years ago.
I had a little farm out there in

1040
01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:49.039
Willis and I had bees on the
farm. I learned a lot about beekeeping.

1041
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:53.079
But I'm telling you, every time
I talked to Paul Fagal at the

1042
01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:56.399
Bee Supply, it's like, Okay, there's a whole new world. I

1043
01:15:56.399 --> 01:16:00.960
didn't know that either. So there
we go. It makes it good.

1044
01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:04.600
Have you been to Buchanans and the
Heights lately? Buchanans is one of those

1045
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:12.680
It's just an iconic garden center.
People all over Houston know about Buchanans.

1046
01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:15.920
It's just one of the destination places
you want to go. And I love

1047
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:18.560
going there. It's almost like you
get to go to the park, you

1048
01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:24.279
know, that feeling of your walking
through nature and whatnot. Buchanans nestled away

1049
01:16:24.319 --> 01:16:29.079
there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Every time you turn the corner,

1050
01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:31.640
you know, for you're there looking
at all their native plants, and they

1051
01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:38.520
Buchanans Native Plants has the best selection
naty plants I've seen anywhere. Just tons

1052
01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:43.680
of native plants. They're doing.
They're celebrating the Earth Day by planning a

1053
01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:45.439
native tree. That's a promotion.
They're saying, why don't you come and

1054
01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:48.640
do that? There? They were
offering a discount off of native trees.

1055
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:53.800
They were offering a discount off of
their life below all purpose soil to get

1056
01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:57.600
them started. They can advise you
on the tree that will do well in

1057
01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.720
your area, a native tree that
will do well in your And there's a

1058
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:03.199
lot of great ones, lots of
great ones for here. But then you

1059
01:17:03.239 --> 01:17:08.439
turn a corner and you go into
the shade area and you're seeing kalladiums and

1060
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:12.319
all kinds of things that just perform
well in the shade, from groundcovers to

1061
01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:15.880
color plants to foliage plants. They've
got it. And you turn in another

1062
01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:19.199
corner and you're in near a gift
shop that's outstanding. Another corner you see

1063
01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:24.600
the herbs and the vegetables, and
then you walk into this huge greenhouse full

1064
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:29.119
of nate, full of house plants. And when I say houseplants, I

1065
01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:31.319
mean, of course the standard things
you think about, but stuff you've never

1066
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:36.159
seen before. And you see stuff
that's succulents that are really cool that could

1067
01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:41.600
be indoor or outdoor. Buchanans has
it all. They're on the eleven Street

1068
01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:45.640
and the heights and here's the website, and the website is Buchanans Plants dot

1069
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:50.720
com. Buchanansplants dot Com. I
hope you wrote that down. When you

1070
01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:54.680
go there, you must sign up
for the newsletter. It is one of

1071
01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:59.199
the best newsletters I've ever seen,
always good information. Their website too,

1072
01:17:59.239 --> 01:18:03.680
has edge occasional information because they're about
helping you have success. That's what a

1073
01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:09.319
good nursery does, and that is
absolutely Buchanus Native Plants. They do that.

1074
01:18:11.479 --> 01:18:15.439
I love visiting garden centers. In
fact, I visit them too much,

1075
01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:18.439
meaning every time I walk into it. You know, there's stuff you

1076
01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:21.159
can't live without, and so you
go home with plants. That's part of

1077
01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:25.840
the fun thing though about it.
Right, Gardening is a great hobby.

1078
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:31.399
I hope you are actively involved in
gardening and expanding your gardening world as you

1079
01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:35.000
go. You know, we're talking
about things like herbs. Have you ever

1080
01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:39.319
grown herbs? Earlier I was talking
about plumeria. Have you ever grown a

1081
01:18:39.319 --> 01:18:43.000
plumeria? Beautiful Hawaiian layflower people come
to your house. You can just pick

1082
01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:45.159
a bunch of flowers, string them
up and put them around their neck and

1083
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.319
say welcome to Hawaii. In my
backyard, there's a lot of fun things

1084
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:51.600
we can do with plants, and
we need to be continuing to try new

1085
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:57.000
things. Don't be afraid you're going
to kill a plant. A famous horticulturist

1086
01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:59.920
once said you got to kill a
lot of plants to be a good hortic,

1087
01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:02.439
and that is true. We don't
want to kill them, but don't

1088
01:19:02.479 --> 01:19:06.159
be afraid to. We learn that
way. We learn by getting out.

1089
01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:09.840
We also learned by listening to Garden
Line. At least I hope we do.

1090
01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:13.000
That's what we're here for. If
you want to get on the boards

1091
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:15.920
with Josh when we come back from
our top of the hour news break here,

1092
01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:19.760
you could be the first one up
seven one three two one two k

1093
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:25.680
t R seven one three two one
two k t r H. Next Saturday,

1094
01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:30.920
the fourth of May, Wall Birds
Unlimited in Pairland. That is on

1095
01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:35.640
East Broadway Street in Pairland, Wall
Birds Unlimited. It will be there from

1096
01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:40.079
eleven thirty to one thirty doing what
I always do at appearances. I look

1097
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:43.600
at samples, I look at pictures, I visit with folks that listen to

1098
01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:46.239
Guardlane. To help you have success, come to Wallbirds and don't do your

1099
01:19:46.279 --> 01:19:53.319
mother's day shopping until you do that. Because Wabirds is loaded with awesome ideas

1100
01:19:53.560 --> 01:20:01.039
that your mom will h see you
next Saturday out there. Katie r H.

1101
01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:04.880
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on

1102
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:11.840
this program. Welcome to Katie r
H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.

1103
01:20:11.920 --> 01:20:28.520
It's crazy Trim just watch him as
well. You us so many goings to

1104
01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:41.880
supposing not a sou Hey, welcome
back to the Garden Line. Good to

1105
01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:45.600
have you with us today. What
do you want to talk about? What

1106
01:20:45.960 --> 01:20:49.800
plants are you having problems with?
What areas are not performing well for you?

1107
01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:55.479
Maybe you need a little some suggestions
or a little advice. Perhaps there's

1108
01:20:55.520 --> 01:20:59.359
a pest situation we'd like to get
ahead of. Whatever we want to talk

1109
01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:00.960
about, we'll talk about that.
Our goal is to help you have a

1110
01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:05.119
bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
That is the goal here. So how

1111
01:21:05.119 --> 01:21:08.920
can we help? Give us a
call at seven one three two one two

1112
01:21:09.520 --> 01:21:13.960
KTRH if you'd like to ask a
question, and I'll be happy too obliged.

1113
01:21:14.119 --> 01:21:16.239
I want to remind you those of
you out there that if you have

1114
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:21.920
not gone to my website and downloaded
the lawn care schedule and the lawn Pest

1115
01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:26.960
Disease and Weed Management Schedule. That's
a long title, but it covers it

1116
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:30.239
all. Let me put it this
way. Two schedules. The first one

1117
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:31.760
is how to grow a lawn.
The second one is how to deal with

1118
01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:36.039
things that mess with your lawn.
Okay, that makes it easy. These

1119
01:21:36.079 --> 01:21:42.960
schedules cover January through December, and
they give you organic and synthetic options and

1120
01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:46.800
they're free. Can't beat that to
download. You know. For example,

1121
01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.840
let's say you've heard that there are
grubs in lawns and you might need to

1122
01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:55.359
treat them. Well, you go
to my lawn Pest Disease and Weed Management

1123
01:21:55.399 --> 01:22:00.000
schedule, look at the insect row, and you go across in June.

1124
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:02.399
Boom. June is when we begin
to treat for grubs. We can do

1125
01:22:02.520 --> 01:22:08.840
a separate treatment in July and August
for older grubs, and that's different products

1126
01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:11.960
and those are all laid out right
there on the schedule. It's time to

1127
01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:15.359
fertilize. We once we hit April, it is time to put that slow

1128
01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:19.119
release fertilizer out. If you missed
it, that's okay, do it now.

1129
01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:23.439
You can do it now. You
can do it in June. The

1130
01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:28.279
goal is to continue to provide nutrients
for your lawn to have success. You

1131
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:31.520
know, when we do that,
we end up creating density, and density

1132
01:22:32.279 --> 01:22:36.640
is the key to having a good
weed free lawn. Now, there are

1133
01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:40.960
weeds that grow in a dense Saint
Augustine, but that is the exception,

1134
01:22:41.239 --> 01:22:44.840
not the rule. If you've got
a sparse, thin lawn, and last

1135
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:47.800
summer made a lot of lawns sparse
and thin with a drought in the heat,

1136
01:22:48.399 --> 01:22:53.439
when sunlight can hit the soil,
nature will plant a weed. And

1137
01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:57.439
here we go. Now we're talking
about how do you kill the weed or

1138
01:22:57.439 --> 01:23:00.079
how do you prevent the weed.
Well, the first step and weed control

1139
01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:03.960
is a dense, healthy lawn.
After that we can talk about pre emerging,

1140
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:08.039
we can talk post emergent. We
talk about a lot of things ham

1141
01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:13.079
pulling and timing and everything, but
dense, healthy lawn that comes first.

1142
01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:16.520
The folks at Madena they have a
number of has to Grow products. You've

1143
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:20.479
heard me talk about the different has
to grow products that are out there in

1144
01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:24.119
the market. Well, they have
a new one. This is a new

1145
01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:28.039
one, and this is one I'm
really excited about. It is has to

1146
01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:32.760
Grow super Grow Plus, has to
Grow super Grow Plus but here's the way

1147
01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:36.479
to pick it out off the shelf. Sixteen zero two. Those are the

1148
01:23:36.520 --> 01:23:42.560
three numbers. Sixteen zero two.
Very low in the phosphorus. Most of

1149
01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:45.319
our lawns really probably don't need phosphorus, but if they do, it need

1150
01:23:45.359 --> 01:23:50.199
any it's very small. But I
like this blend the sixteen zero two.

1151
01:23:50.520 --> 01:23:57.359
It's got a about let's say four
fifths or what would they be, eighty

1152
01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:01.279
percent of the nitrogen that's sixteen percent. Eighty percent is going to be available

1153
01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:05.920
immediately of that sixteen percent, and
then the other twenty percent of it,

1154
01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:11.800
the other fifth of nitrogen is going
to be available a little more slowly over

1155
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:16.039
time. It's got iron eedta,
which means it is a kelated iron that

1156
01:24:16.279 --> 01:24:21.039
will get to your grass. The
soils can't tie it up as easily as

1157
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:26.239
it can unkelated iron. It's got
seaweed extracts in it, and many many

1158
01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:29.680
other things, many many other things
there. But you put it on a

1159
01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:32.079
hose end. You can buy it
in different bottle sizes. But let's say

1160
01:24:32.079 --> 01:24:35.800
you buy the quirt which has the
little screw on attachment to the end of

1161
01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:40.079
your hose, and it takes about
ten minutes to go over your lawn.

1162
01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:45.399
One quart will cover about four thousand
square feet. And it's just a good

1163
01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:48.279
product for giving quick results. I
like that it's got the iron in it,

1164
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:53.199
you know. I like that it's
got the kinds of combinations that are

1165
01:24:53.239 --> 01:24:57.079
in the Medina Supergrow Plus. You
need to find it. It's been stocked

1166
01:24:57.079 --> 01:25:00.079
out. I was talking to Medina
folks. It has been and stocked out

1167
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:03.720
into the garden centers and things here. You're going to be seeing it on

1168
01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:08.159
the shelf if you haven't already.
And it's one you need to give a

1169
01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:10.199
try. You want to give a
quick boost to your lawn. You got

1170
01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:12.920
lawn that's not looking really good.
You want to give a quick boost and

1171
01:25:12.920 --> 01:25:15.479
get going. This would be a
product that would do that. It's got

1172
01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:18.680
molasses, it's got humic acid in
it. I mean, it is just

1173
01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:26.119
it is just the whole package right
there, Medina Supergrow Plus sixteen zero four.

1174
01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:31.520
It's formulated to both promote and to
enhance the plant growth of the plants

1175
01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:36.239
in your lawn, that is,
the grass plants in your lawn. We

1176
01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:41.720
directed a lot of people to that. At Southwest Fertilizer yesterday, a lot

1177
01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:44.760
of people came in and they showed
me pictures and little grass is a little

1178
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:46.840
bit yellowing, and so we need
to give it some nitroty. We need

1179
01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:50.239
to get some iron and stuff,
give it a quick boost and it just

1180
01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:55.279
makes it really really simple. No
calibrating, hook it up, spread it

1181
01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:59.600
on your lawn. You're done.
Doesn't take long at all. If you're

1182
01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:03.359
doing flower beds are in flower pots
rather, excuse me, flower pots out

1183
01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:09.439
containers on the patio, or vegetable
pots containers in the patio. Jungle land

1184
01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:14.600
flour and vegetable potting soil will do
that. Jungle land drains well, but

1185
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:17.880
it also holds moisture. So what
does that mean. That means your roots

1186
01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:25.239
are in a moist environment that is
well oxygenated because it drains the excess away

1187
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:30.039
and that is the key to success
with your plants. You can find jungle

1188
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:34.159
land vegetable or excuse me, flour
and vegetable potting soil in a number of

1189
01:26:34.199 --> 01:26:39.800
places. You're going to find it
at Ace Hardware over in the Memorial area

1190
01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:43.479
on Memorial Drive. You're going to
find it in Katiace Hardware on Penoak too,

1191
01:26:43.560 --> 01:26:46.079
they have it there as well.
You're going to find these and other

1192
01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:51.560
nitrofoss products at Alvin in Alvin at
Stanton Shopping Center, so lots of places

1193
01:26:51.560 --> 01:26:57.079
to go get it, jungle land
for your outdoor potting containers. We're going

1194
01:26:57.159 --> 01:27:00.920
to head out to full shren out
and talk to Clint Hellom Hey, Skip,

1195
01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.000
how you doing this morning? I'm
good, sir. How can we

1196
01:27:03.039 --> 01:27:06.000
help? Good? Hey? So? I have some flower beds of the

1197
01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:11.960
Froyt yard. We recently dug up
all the mult I have some incredibly invasive

1198
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.520
Saint Augustine that has taken over the
beds last season. I put down a

1199
01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:18.520
I don't know what the materially is
one of the barriers if you buy the

1200
01:27:18.520 --> 01:27:21.520
big box stores and is put down
and it came up through the barriers.

1201
01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:26.800
Now I just have the soil and
nothing on it. But I cannot get

1202
01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:30.199
rid of that grass. Any recommendations. You can't get rid of the Saint

1203
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:33.840
Augustine in the flower bed. Is
there other grasses Augustine? It's just St

1204
01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:39.520
Augustine's coming through. So we have
a brick I guess wall that we've kind

1205
01:27:39.520 --> 01:27:43.359
of built the beds of inside of, and it looks like the Saint Augustine

1206
01:27:43.439 --> 01:27:45.359
is kind of going under it and
coming out the other side into the actual

1207
01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:49.000
beds, and I don't know if
there's a subtack of spray on to just

1208
01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:53.960
rid of it completely. I hate
to question you, but I just need

1209
01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:59.159
to know. Are you sure it's
Saint Augustine that's coming in the bed now?

1210
01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:01.760
Now I'm question myself, Okay,
So well, the reason I asked

1211
01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:06.640
Saint Augustine runners are on top of
the ground. Saint Augustine can't go submarine

1212
01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:10.680
like Zoisia and Bermuda Grass can,
and all of a sudden they pop up

1213
01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:15.279
somewhere else. So and it's easy. You just grab the runner and it

1214
01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:17.720
just rips right up. And when
you edge the bed, you can grab

1215
01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:20.199
the runners in the bed and rip
them right up. I'm gonna run,

1216
01:28:20.600 --> 01:28:23.560
Clint, I got to run to
a break. Let's hang on to this.

1217
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:25.319
I want to come back to it. We're going to get the bottom

1218
01:28:25.359 --> 01:28:28.159
of this. Okay, just hang
on with me. I'll be right back.

1219
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:33.279
Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line.

1220
01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:36.119
You never know what you're gonna hear
on Gardenline when it comes to music,

1221
01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:40.199
but we try to have a little
bit of fun here. Okay. We

1222
01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:43.920
were talking to Clint in full Shore. We're talking about some flower bed issues

1223
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:46.960
and Clint, we can do this
a couple of ways. I can suggest

1224
01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:50.039
some things. If it is a
grass that you're seeing, no matter what

1225
01:28:50.159 --> 01:28:55.079
the grass, you can use a
grass only weed killer on it. And

1226
01:28:55.119 --> 01:29:00.439
there are a couple of products out
there. That couple of ingredients that are

1227
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.680
in products out there that kill grass
but not broadleaf weeds. So if you

1228
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:05.760
get them on your rose bush or
petunias, you're not going to kill the

1229
01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:10.600
petunias or rose bush. They just
kill the grass. The other alternative would

1230
01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.319
be for you to send me a
picture of it, let me take a

1231
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:15.279
close look at it and determine what
it is. But I'm going to end

1232
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:19.920
up recommending the same products probably so
would you. I'm not going to give

1233
01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:26.319
these long chemical names out it just
gets confusing because I can simplify it.

1234
01:29:26.399 --> 01:29:30.359
There are two ingredients you need to
look for. One of them begins with

1235
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.560
the boys name seth. It's for
killing grass. It's s E T H,

1236
01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:38.439
and then there's a lot more letters. The other one begins with the

1237
01:29:38.479 --> 01:29:44.920
four letter F l U five F
l U A Z flu as, so

1238
01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:48.680
seth and flu as those are the
two beginning names of ingredients that are grass

1239
01:29:48.720 --> 01:29:53.239
only killers. And you know you're
out there in the fullsher area. You

1240
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:56.760
probably are going to find those at
your chinny gardens down there. You're going

1241
01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:02.479
to probably find those for sure at
your plantation ace hardware down there in Richmond

1242
01:30:02.560 --> 01:30:06.319
Rosenberg area. So it's not gonna
be hard to find those things. But

1243
01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:11.680
you just spray them on the grass
and it kills the grass. Sounds good

1244
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:14.000
after looking. During a break,
I look, I look up some stuff

1245
01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:17.039
and it may be dove weed.
Oh do okay, let's see that.

1246
01:30:17.199 --> 01:30:23.000
I'm glad. I'm glad you did
that, because that is technically not a

1247
01:30:23.039 --> 01:30:27.520
grass. It has parallel veins like
grass does, but that would be a

1248
01:30:27.520 --> 01:30:30.600
little different. There are different things
you can use for that. There's a

1249
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:38.600
cinnamon based product and I'm trying to
agra ugh, I have to come up

1250
01:30:38.640 --> 01:30:40.560
with the name. It's not on
the top of my head right now.

1251
01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:43.920
A cinnamon based product when the when
the dew is out, when the leaves

1252
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:45.520
are wet, or if you just
spray it with a little water, you

1253
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:49.279
sprinkle it on it, and I
mean it just quickly turns them brown.

1254
01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:54.039
It fries them. That is one
thing that you can use for dove weed.

1255
01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.439
There are some other products that can
be used on it. Why don't

1256
01:30:57.479 --> 01:30:59.800
we do this. I'm gonna put
you on hold, and would you go

1257
01:30:59.840 --> 01:31:03.319
to make some close up pictures of
it and send them to me, and

1258
01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:06.960
let's make sure we got the right
thing so that I don't recommend the wrong

1259
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:11.720
product. Sounds good? All right, Glint, I'll put you on hold,

1260
01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:15.159
Josh, we'll pick up and get
you the email you need to send

1261
01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:20.159
those pictures to make sure they're in
good sharp focus. Do you have a

1262
01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:26.239
landscape that has struggled through last year's
heat and drought, Well, it's going

1263
01:31:26.279 --> 01:31:28.920
to get hot and dry again this
year. Just kind of how things go.

1264
01:31:29.000 --> 01:31:32.159
Hopefully not like last year was,
but it does happen well, Jason

1265
01:31:32.159 --> 01:31:38.520
at Pierscapes, the whole team there
at Peerscapes, they specialize in turning your

1266
01:31:38.600 --> 01:31:42.640
lawn and landscape into eden. That's
what they do. Do you need new

1267
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:45.319
flower beds put in? Do you
have some wimpy things that just aren't taking

1268
01:31:45.520 --> 01:31:48.439
the weather down here? Well?
Do you need to revamp a bit?

1269
01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:54.279
Do you want to do hardescapes,
landscape lighting? Do you have poor drainage?

1270
01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:57.319
That needs fixing. Do you have
an irrigation system that needs work?

1271
01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.079
Do you need design? Do you
want to create a rock patio in the

1272
01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:05.560
back with beautiful landscape lighting. They
can do everything and more there. They

1273
01:32:05.560 --> 01:32:11.399
also have a quarterly maintenance program quarterly, four times a year. They come

1274
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:15.479
out. They trim, they weed, they fertilize, they check the irrigation.

1275
01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:16.600
By the way, this is for
your bed's not your lawn. They

1276
01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:21.119
don't mow the lawn once everyfore every
three months. But for your beds,

1277
01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:27.840
trimming, weeding, fertilizing, seasonal
color changes. You know the old pansies

1278
01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:30.520
are looking bad because spring is here. Well, it's time to put in

1279
01:32:30.600 --> 01:32:33.680
warm season. Then the hot weather
comes. They can do two season changes

1280
01:32:33.720 --> 01:32:36.399
a year. They can do forty
changes a year. You tell them.

1281
01:32:36.439 --> 01:32:41.000
They molt, they check the irrigation, make sure it's working, all of

1282
01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:45.079
it. At Piercecapes they do all
that everything that I just mentioned. I

1283
01:32:45.119 --> 01:32:47.119
don't know how to get all that
done, but they do. They absolutely

1284
01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:54.680
do. Pierceescapes dot Com. Here's
the number. Write this down two eight

1285
01:32:54.720 --> 01:33:00.560
one three seven oh fifty sixty two
eight one three seven o five six zero.

1286
01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:04.359
They are professionals. They do excellent
work. Get on the phone and

1287
01:33:04.399 --> 01:33:08.199
call them, even if you don't
want the work done right now, because

1288
01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:11.600
they book up and because they do
a good job and people call them back.

1289
01:33:12.039 --> 01:33:15.800
So give them a call, get
on the schedule. Depending on the

1290
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:17.479
size of the job you're asking them
to do, they may be able to

1291
01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:20.279
jump on it fairly soon, or
it may take a while to get around

1292
01:33:20.279 --> 01:33:24.399
to doing that kind of level of
work. So don't delay. Give them

1293
01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:27.920
a call. I want to go
to Parland now and talk to Steve.

1294
01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:34.399
Hello, Steve, good morning.
Say I've got some I'm making a vegetable

1295
01:33:34.439 --> 01:33:42.279
garden in Potts and I use the
Marri Crow Grow organic soil. Okay,

1296
01:33:42.880 --> 01:33:47.359
but it looks like I'm having some
sunburn on my green beans, which you

1297
01:33:47.359 --> 01:33:54.680
know usually you know, they grow
real easy, Okay, And I'm kind

1298
01:33:54.720 --> 01:33:58.560
of concerned about that. And there
seems to be a bit of a cat

1299
01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:02.479
of a help killer problem. I
got several different varieties of tomatoes. Some

1300
01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:10.199
of them are doing great, and
the aroma tomatoes are not doing very well.

1301
01:34:10.239 --> 01:34:13.760
What is not well described to me? What not well? Looks like

1302
01:34:15.239 --> 01:34:21.640
they're looking a little yellowish and the
edges are sensed. Okay, all right,

1303
01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.319
Well, you probably have more than
one thing going on there. First

1304
01:34:26.359 --> 01:34:30.640
of all, in containers for vegetables, you need plenty of potting soil so

1305
01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:32.960
that holds plenty of moisture and plenty
of nutrients. That would be step one

1306
01:34:33.359 --> 01:34:36.800
to look at, and they probably
can't change that now. But going forward,

1307
01:34:38.119 --> 01:34:42.319
look at that. Make sure the
holes in the pot are draining well.

1308
01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:45.199
You may have holes, but they're
in the bottom, and if it's

1309
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:47.840
sitting on soil, it's like the
clay just plugs those holes and you don't

1310
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:50.720
get good drainage even though they're there. That's why I tell people when you

1311
01:34:50.800 --> 01:34:55.199
can put holes around the sides of
the pot at the bottom rather than just

1312
01:34:55.359 --> 01:34:59.720
underneath. It may I don't know
that soil mix well, and it may

1313
01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:01.920
be a little on the mucky side
and tend to kind of be a little

1314
01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:08.039
soggy water log. That can cause
problems, as can drying out. Now,

1315
01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:12.319
if it truly is sunburn you were
seeing on those beans, that is

1316
01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:15.600
probably only going to happen if they
were in a low light location and you

1317
01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:19.960
move the pots to the brun a
full sun pretty quick. If they've come

1318
01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:26.960
up in full sun, they shouldn't
sunburn that should not happen because they adjust

1319
01:35:27.000 --> 01:35:30.399
to that. Beans are made to
grow in full sun. As far as

1320
01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:32.880
the tomatoes, you know, there
are a number of things that can cause

1321
01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:39.520
issues with the tomatoes. Aroma is
not a super disease resistant variety. It's

1322
01:35:39.520 --> 01:35:43.640
a great variety, good pastd tomato. But there are things like early blight

1323
01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:47.760
they can get on the leaves.
If the new growth is kind of yellowing,

1324
01:35:48.560 --> 01:35:53.479
then it may be like an iron
deficiency brought on by so that's too

1325
01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:57.199
wet, or other issues. So
you kind of have a shotgun here of

1326
01:35:57.279 --> 01:36:00.560
issues going on. But maybe some
of those comments that I made will at

1327
01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:03.880
least lead you toward the right direction. And it never hurts to add a

1328
01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:10.079
little extra nutrition in the way a
fertilizer. Okay, thank you. Yeah,

1329
01:36:10.119 --> 01:36:13.880
just one last thought on that last
comment I made, Steve, beans

1330
01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:15.600
and peas, you don't want to
push them with too much nitrogen, so

1331
01:36:16.520 --> 01:36:20.600
on those don't do the extra fertilizing, but on the tomatoes they sure could

1332
01:36:20.680 --> 01:36:25.600
use it. Okay, Okay,
thank you, good luck, good luck

1333
01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:29.319
with that. I hope you hope
that does well for those of you that

1334
01:36:29.399 --> 01:36:33.000
are still needing to do your summer
fertilization on the lawn. Nitroposs has a

1335
01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.800
product called super Turf. You hear
me talk about it a lot because it's

1336
01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:42.239
a great product. Half the nitrogen
is slow release, so you're gonna get

1337
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.199
like three months of feeding maybe more
out of that super Turf as we go

1338
01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:49.680
into the summertime. It's a nineteen
four to ten ratio. Those are the

1339
01:36:49.720 --> 01:36:53.800
three numbers on the bag. But
the easy way to know it is walk

1340
01:36:53.840 --> 01:36:56.960
in the store and look for a
silver bag. It's a silver bag.

1341
01:36:56.960 --> 01:37:00.439
You're talking about Superturf by Nitropos.
It's got iron the net to help promote

1342
01:37:00.479 --> 01:37:05.399
a uniform good grass color and growth
too. By the way, you're gonna

1343
01:37:05.399 --> 01:37:10.920
find Superturf in Shades of Texas up
in the Woodlands. You're gonna find super

1344
01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:15.439
Turf at Fisher's Hardware, both the
one on Southmoor and the one in southeaston

1345
01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:19.279
the one on Broadway Street in Laport, it's easy to find super Turf.

1346
01:37:19.319 --> 01:37:24.239
And Chaney Gardens has Superturf too,
by the way out there in Richmond Rosenberg

1347
01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:28.159
area. What's head over to Baytown
now and we're going to talk to Ronnie.

1348
01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:35.159
Hello, Ronnie, good morning morning. What we have is a new

1349
01:37:35.199 --> 01:37:41.119
garden spot, so we could get
some sunlight and we plant. All of

1350
01:37:41.119 --> 01:37:44.960
the plants were playing with squash,
yellow squash. They're grown. The plants

1351
01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:50.720
are beautiful, big keach Lee's the
little yellow squash that's about two and a

1352
01:37:50.720 --> 01:37:56.840
half inches long, and there's fifteen
or so on one protected plant. But

1353
01:37:56.880 --> 01:38:00.000
they're not growing anymore. I don't
know what to do, whether it go

1354
01:38:00.199 --> 01:38:05.359
cut some of them off so that
the others can grow, or change fertilizer.

1355
01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:10.479
I need a recommendation. Okay,
you have yellow squash that the fruit

1356
01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:15.399
is how long? Probably two two
and a half? Thank you? Okay,

1357
01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:25.640
okay, yeah, and it's not
shriveling or turning brown on the end

1358
01:38:25.760 --> 01:38:30.039
or anything like that. No,
so fore ahead done that. But they're

1359
01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:35.680
you're hard. I would my memory
is a yellow squash would be tender or

1360
01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:41.720
no, that's small. But there
some of them have already gotten hard without

1361
01:38:41.800 --> 01:38:45.800
growing like they should. From the
best I can tell from the description,

1362
01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:51.560
you're probably looking at a poor pollination, not a complete pollination of that fruit.

1363
01:38:53.159 --> 01:38:57.159
Uh as far as it getting hard, that is very unusual. I

1364
01:38:57.159 --> 01:39:00.840
don't know any there's no disease or
insect that would cause the fruit to get

1365
01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:08.600
hard other than just getting older,
the skin gets tougher, So I would

1366
01:39:08.800 --> 01:39:13.840
I'd probably pull that fruit off that's
not looking right and just keep going here.

1367
01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:17.720
If you if you've got male and
female blooms both that are on the

1368
01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:21.520
plants, and you got some bees
to do the work for you, the

1369
01:39:21.560 --> 01:39:28.720
subsequent fruit should turn out okay,
that that should not continue if you don't

1370
01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:32.720
have a Yeah, if you don't
have the okay, all right. So

1371
01:39:33.079 --> 01:39:36.199
what you need to do is get
out there with either a little artist brush

1372
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:41.199
or a Q tip. Some people
just pick the male bloom off and rip

1373
01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:45.640
the petals off of it and use
it to dab pollen onto the female flowers,

1374
01:39:45.640 --> 01:39:48.680
because it's a separate flower and squash. Male flower is one, a

1375
01:39:48.760 --> 01:39:53.800
female flower is separate, and you
can do the pollinating yourself. You just

1376
01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:57.760
do that once a day, because
every day there's new blooms opening up,

1377
01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:00.640
and the better you do at pollinating, the better it's gonna set and produce.

1378
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:04.279
I think I'd switched to that.
I take matters into my own hands,

1379
01:40:04.319 --> 01:40:11.920
literally, runnie squash. Okay,
okay, all right, I've got

1380
01:40:11.920 --> 01:40:15.520
one of the course, if you
have I have about twenty seconds. Yep,

1381
01:40:15.560 --> 01:40:20.159
Well I'll call back next week.
Oh you can, you can hold

1382
01:40:20.199 --> 01:40:23.479
let me let me get just hang
on. You can ask me after I

1383
01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:26.119
come back from break that no need
to call back next week. Okay,

1384
01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:28.960
all right, thanks a lot.
We're going to take a little break here

1385
01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:32.039
for Nicky and the news. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

1386
01:40:32.079 --> 01:40:38.520
two k t r H. Seven
to one three two one two k t

1387
01:40:38.720 --> 01:40:42.239
r H. Give Josh a call, by the way, Tell him that

1388
01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:46.479
you appreciate him being a excellent producer
here for us on Garden Line. When

1389
01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:49.159
you call, get you on the
board. Yep, there's applause coming from

1390
01:40:49.239 --> 01:40:54.159
Nicky. Hey, Nicky, I'm
turning it over to you. Welcome back

1391
01:40:54.199 --> 01:40:56.600
Guardline. Good have you with us
today? What do you want to talk

1392
01:40:56.600 --> 01:41:00.319
about related to gardening? You can? I have a skull seven one three

1393
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:04.800
two one two k t r H. We are going to head back out

1394
01:41:04.840 --> 01:41:09.479
to Runnie in Baytown and running.
We were in the middle of something.

1395
01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:14.960
What's what was the follow up on
this? Okay, in the yard we

1396
01:41:15.079 --> 01:41:18.840
lost almost all the Saint August thing. Now we have a little short weed.

1397
01:41:19.560 --> 01:41:27.680
It's got a seed on it with
a tiny needle point, and it

1398
01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:32.680
will if we're not very careful rubber
boots in the cart yard, these things

1399
01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:38.640
sticking our feet. A seed looks
like it's about an eighth of an inch

1400
01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:42.640
in diameter and real fin but it's
got a sharp point on it that will

1401
01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:46.600
get your feet every day. Interesting. Okay, I am not picturing the

1402
01:41:46.640 --> 01:41:50.520
weed you're describing. Is it possible
for you to take a picture of it

1403
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:55.600
and send me that so I can
make sure we're we're getting the right product.

1404
01:41:57.319 --> 01:42:00.720
So it's probably gonna have to be
a I'll call you back on next

1405
01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:05.199
Saturday. Huh. Okay, with
that, how do I send a picture

1406
01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:10.439
to Josh? I'll put you on
hold, Josh will give you my email

1407
01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:13.720
and just take a picture before you
send it, check it and make sure

1408
01:42:13.760 --> 01:42:16.000
it's really sharp focused, because this
is a little tiny thing and I'm gonna

1409
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:18.119
have to get a good close look
at it. If you can show me

1410
01:42:18.159 --> 01:42:21.600
the leaves of the plant that it's
on, that's even better. Uh,

1411
01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:26.920
And we'll try to do you.
Can you tell if it's a grassy plant

1412
01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:32.159
or a broad leaf plant. I
would call it more of a broad leaf.

1413
01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:36.279
Okay, it's tiny leaves, it's
not it's not a grass. It's

1414
01:42:36.319 --> 01:42:44.039
not something that you know, flat
leaf like san Auguster anything. Chance chances

1415
01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:47.560
are you may be talking about burr
weed that that is a little tiny weed

1416
01:42:47.640 --> 01:42:54.680
with kind of a friendlyish looking partially
looking leaf, but very small. So

1417
01:42:54.960 --> 01:42:57.439
if that's the case, then you
don't need to send me a picture.

1418
01:42:57.640 --> 01:43:00.880
Just what you want to do is
get a product that is a post emergent

1419
01:43:01.119 --> 01:43:05.079
broad leaf weed control. And if
you go to my land my schedule online,

1420
01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:08.880
I don't know, have you ever
seen my schedules online on Gardening with

1421
01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:15.000
skip dot com? All right,
they're still okay, I lost them.

1422
01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:18.000
Uh So, Ronnie, if you
are still listening, go to Gardening with

1423
01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:24.279
Skip dot Com. Look at my
lawn piss Disease and weed managed schedule again

1424
01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:29.159
the website Gardening with skip dot Com. Toward the bottom of that you'll see

1425
01:43:29.199 --> 01:43:33.199
weeds kill existing and it has a
list of products that will work on that

1426
01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:38.399
particular weed that you were describing to
me. And I hope that hope that

1427
01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:43.560
uh solves it and works out for
you. Those products are very very effective.

1428
01:43:44.840 --> 01:43:46.119
When was the last time you went
to in Channon Forest? And if

1429
01:43:46.159 --> 01:43:49.359
you say I've never been to in
Channet Forest. Then I have to ask

1430
01:43:49.399 --> 01:43:55.399
you why not when Channet Forest is
a wonderful place to visit. Uh.

1431
01:43:55.439 --> 01:44:01.720
It is an outstanding nursery that has
extremely wide variety of everything. They are

1432
01:44:01.760 --> 01:44:05.079
classes going on in the spring just
about ever Saturday there. They always have

1433
01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:11.199
a food truck there as well.
Do you need things like color like lanana,

1434
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:15.920
or like annual flowers or other perennial
flowers or Salvia's they've got that.

1435
01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:20.039
Are you looking for roses like Peggy
Martin? They are stocked up on Peggy

1436
01:44:20.039 --> 01:44:25.760
Martin roses and they sure do look
good right now, Absolutely look awesome right

1437
01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:30.800
now. They have alstromeras. That's
a plant you probably have not grown before,

1438
01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:33.239
but I bet you've gotten it when
you went to the store and got

1439
01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:36.880
your big bouquet of flowers to bring
home. It's one of the longest lasting

1440
01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:42.399
flowers that are out there. They
have native types of plants like the Texas

1441
01:44:42.439 --> 01:44:46.119
primrose. That's an excellent little yellow
flowered native. It does very very well.

1442
01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:49.560
Enchanted Forest is the kind of place
you go and you just want to

1443
01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:54.840
spend time walking around because it is
enchanting to be out and about to see

1444
01:44:54.840 --> 01:44:58.359
that place. They if you're in
Richmond and you're heading up towards sugar Land

1445
01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:01.800
Way. They're off to the right
on FM twenty seven fifty nine. FM

1446
01:45:01.840 --> 01:45:06.000
twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond,
Texas. There's always something going on,

1447
01:45:06.079 --> 01:45:10.600
and I'm telling you that if you
want a butterfly garden, they have every

1448
01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:14.760
plant you can need for that,
and they also have plants for the larval

1449
01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:20.279
food sources. You know, you
you know that monarch butterflies they love flowers,

1450
01:45:20.359 --> 01:45:25.279
right, but they also their their
larva need to have milk weed to

1451
01:45:25.279 --> 01:45:30.159
eat, go fritillaries, they need
passion vine pipevine swallowtails need pipefine for the

1452
01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:33.479
larva to eat. That's the complete
deal. You know. Just plant flowers,

1453
01:45:33.479 --> 01:45:38.039
you plant things for the babies as
well. And Chenny Forest can get

1454
01:45:38.079 --> 01:45:41.880
you set up on all of that
stuff again FM twenty seven fifty nine in

1455
01:45:42.039 --> 01:45:46.479
Richmond, Texas. I always love
it when I go out there and visit.

1456
01:45:46.880 --> 01:45:51.800
You know, they they Danny and
Clay, they're just knowledgeable, very

1457
01:45:51.840 --> 01:45:59.119
helpful, and they've just turned the
place into a real showplace, really nice.

1458
01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:02.640
Mother's Day coming up is not far
away. That's your warning. Don't

1459
01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:08.439
forget for your mother, for your
grandmother, for your mother in law,

1460
01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:11.439
yes, your mother in law,
or if you have a mother outlaw.

1461
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:16.439
Some of you have that it's a
great gift ideas to go to the wibirds

1462
01:46:16.600 --> 01:46:23.800
Unlimited. Wibird's Unlimited has They have
a classic it's called the Eco Tough Classic

1463
01:46:23.840 --> 01:46:27.319
Feeder and it looks like it's made
of wood, but it's actually made from

1464
01:46:27.359 --> 01:46:30.840
recycled plastic milk. Chokes a beautiful
old thing. They've got the hyperch hummingbird

1465
01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:34.560
feeders. This is the best humming
bird feeder I've ever used, and I

1466
01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:41.159
love my hyperch hummingbird feeder. They've
got the Cadillac of bird feeders called the

1467
01:46:41.279 --> 01:46:46.079
Eliminator squirrel proof feeder. This one
the squirrels can't get into. And squirrels

1468
01:46:46.119 --> 01:46:53.840
are creative, they're smart. They
out overcome anything we set before them as

1469
01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:57.760
an obstacle in my yard. At
least they can't get into this one.

1470
01:46:57.840 --> 01:47:01.039
They just sit in the trees and
fuss and use language that nobody should use,

1471
01:47:01.359 --> 01:47:04.439
but they do because they can't get
into my feeder. It's called the

1472
01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:09.640
Eliminator. They have books, they
have other feeders. Wabirds Unlimited is the

1473
01:47:09.720 --> 01:47:13.399
place for that. And by the
way, next Saturday, the May fourth,

1474
01:47:13.720 --> 01:47:17.359
albe at Wallbirds in Pairland in Paarland. They're six stores by the way

1475
01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:20.640
around the Houston area. I'll be
there from eleven thirty to one thirty,

1476
01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:25.439
so come by and see me and
do your Mother's Day shopping there. I

1477
01:47:25.479 --> 01:47:29.119
guarantee you at Wildbirds you can come
up with something that your mother, your

1478
01:47:29.119 --> 01:47:33.880
grandmother or your mother outlaw would not
have seen coming because they just have so

1479
01:47:33.960 --> 01:47:36.439
many great gifts there. By the
way, the one in Pairland is on

1480
01:47:36.520 --> 01:47:42.399
East Broadway Street. If you go
to WBU dot com that sends for Wildbirds

1481
01:47:42.479 --> 01:47:48.479
Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Houston, you can see the six Wallbird locations

1482
01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:56.279
all around the area. Make a
note Mother's Day gifts. Wabird's Unlimited goes

1483
01:47:56.439 --> 01:48:01.159
really really well together. Those of
you who live down in Seabrook are fortunes

1484
01:48:01.159 --> 01:48:05.520
to have Moss Nursery in your backyard. And when I say why do I

1485
01:48:05.560 --> 01:48:10.600
say that you're fortune? Well,
Moss Nursery has been around for a long

1486
01:48:10.680 --> 01:48:14.319
term. Do you know that that
nursery is not just another garden center?

1487
01:48:14.439 --> 01:48:19.720
I mean it is eight acres of
wandering plants everywhere of every type. You

1488
01:48:19.760 --> 01:48:25.479
can imagine the trucks are always downloading
more and more plants, setting them out

1489
01:48:25.520 --> 01:48:29.479
there for you to come by and
get because people love to shop at Moss

1490
01:48:29.520 --> 01:48:33.920
Nursery. Moss nurseryesmen a run for
seventy years, the family operated garden center

1491
01:48:33.960 --> 01:48:41.000
again eight acres of anything you can
imagine that you might need. Tropical kinds

1492
01:48:41.039 --> 01:48:45.319
of things. Do you love tropical
foliage? Welcome to the Southeast Texas area.

1493
01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:48.840
We got hot, we got sultry, and tropicals are very happy here.

1494
01:48:49.159 --> 01:48:53.760
Elephantears do you have ten or twelve
different kinds of elephantears? Five or

1495
01:48:53.800 --> 01:48:57.920
six different kinds of bananas? Yes, you can grow bananas here. Some

1496
01:48:57.960 --> 01:49:00.880
types are just grown for the beautiful
foliage. The bird of Paradise, the

1497
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:03.359
orange and blue one, they've got
those. You got shady areas you need

1498
01:49:03.399 --> 01:49:06.880
something for? How about ginger?
Ginger does great in the shade, A

1499
01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:13.479
white butterfly like GARDENA fragrance. It's
unbelievable ligulary. It's a big like a

1500
01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:16.439
lily pad leaf, but sitting on
it grows in the ground, not in

1501
01:49:16.520 --> 01:49:19.800
the water, and it has these
big, old round lily pad leaves.

1502
01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:23.920
Puts up with a lot of shade
too. Moss Nursery, you know,

1503
01:49:24.079 --> 01:49:27.399
it's easy to get to. It's
on Toddville Road by the way in Seabrook.

1504
01:49:27.640 --> 01:49:30.439
Go to the website Moss Nursery dot
com. It's m A A S

1505
01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:39.880
Nursery dot com. When you wander
around there, you turn a corner and

1506
01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:44.600
you see this like some sort of
like an wooden carved ethnic mask. There

1507
01:49:44.760 --> 01:49:48.680
you see all kinds of artwork,
kinds of stone and what it's just,

1508
01:49:49.520 --> 01:49:53.720
it's just like a little wonderland like
you're in the jungle. That's it.

1509
01:49:53.840 --> 01:49:57.079
Like you're in the jungle and you're
wandering through all this foliage and every time

1510
01:49:57.119 --> 01:49:59.880
you turn a corner you see something
new. We're gonna take a little break.

1511
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:01.560
It is time for that. Our
phone number is seven one three two

1512
01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:06.760
one two ktrhil be right back,
hy Welcome back to guarden Line. Good

1513
01:50:06.760 --> 01:50:11.880
to have you with us today.
Listen, if you are looking for quality

1514
01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:17.239
soil products what I refer to as
the brown stuff that sets the stage for

1515
01:50:17.319 --> 01:50:23.159
success with plants, and you're down
south of the Houston area, CNA Moltch

1516
01:50:23.560 --> 01:50:27.760
is the place to go. Ce
in a Multch carries high quality stuff.

1517
01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:30.560
They have roast soil. They have
lead mole composts. They have all kinds

1518
01:50:30.600 --> 01:50:35.359
of mulches available in bulk and in
bag. If you hear me talk about

1519
01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:40.800
a fertilizer, it's at CNA mols. They carry them all Microlife and turf

1520
01:50:40.840 --> 01:50:45.840
Star, the bonite products, the
airloom soils, landscapers, Pride, Nailson,

1521
01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:48.680
plant food, Medina, Nitrophuss.
They've got it all there. They

1522
01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:55.760
will deliver within about twenty miles of
their location and they are on Highway five

1523
01:50:56.800 --> 01:51:01.039
twenty one FM five twenty one just
north of Sharon, FM five twenty one.

1524
01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:05.520
Siena molt dot com is a website. For example, something that they

1525
01:51:05.560 --> 01:51:09.760
have a great supply of is asmite. They have asmite and you hear me

1526
01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:14.199
talk about as mte, it's a
mineral supplement. It is a trace mineral

1527
01:51:14.239 --> 01:51:17.079
supplement, not the big three numbers
on fertilizer bags. You need a lot

1528
01:51:17.119 --> 01:51:20.800
of This is trace minerals, but
there are central minerals. Plants have to

1529
01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:25.199
have them, and when you put
azmite down, you are building the bank

1530
01:51:25.199 --> 01:51:30.279
account in the soil of minerals that
plants can use. Azmite Texas is the

1531
01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:34.079
website if you'll learn more about it, or just swing by Ciana Moulton pick

1532
01:51:34.119 --> 01:51:38.960
it up there, because that just
like all the other things I talk about,

1533
01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:43.600
Cianna Molch carries that azamite product as
well. We're going to head out

1534
01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:47.439
to Kingwood now and talk to Dean. Hello, Dean, Hello, thanks

1535
01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:53.039
for taking my call. I got
a little spot in my garden gets full

1536
01:51:53.119 --> 01:51:58.720
sun afternoon sun, and I want
to plant seven or eight rosebushes in it

1537
01:51:58.760 --> 01:52:01.159
and make a little rosegarden. And
I'm looking for a place where I can

1538
01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:05.279
buy big beautiful roses, not knockout
roses, not climbing roses, just big

1539
01:52:05.319 --> 01:52:10.119
beautiful blooms. No place like that. Well, you're in Kingwood, so

1540
01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:13.920
you got Kingwood Garden Center and Warren
Southern Gardens and they they do have a

1541
01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:16.239
good selection of roses there, So
if you're looking for something local, that

1542
01:52:16.479 --> 01:52:21.159
is what I would suggest. Garden
Center they don't have They've got knockout roses,

1543
01:52:21.159 --> 01:52:26.000
but they really don't have any.
They don't have any regular like hybrid

1544
01:52:26.039 --> 01:52:30.560
type ros That's what the other place
you said, Uh, warrens Southern Gardens.

1545
01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:35.640
Is that what you yes words?
What street is that? Is that

1546
01:52:35.840 --> 01:52:40.279
Kingwood itself? Yeah, it is
in. It is in Kingwood, and

1547
01:52:40.439 --> 01:52:44.800
let me give you the exact address. One second, Well you said Kingwood

1548
01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:47.720
Garden Center, So what you said, Well, Kingwood Garden Center is one.

1549
01:52:48.199 --> 01:52:54.880
Warren's Southern Garden is on North Park
Drive in Kingwood. That's okay.

1550
01:52:54.920 --> 01:52:59.479
I was thinking. I was thinking
Houston's. I would know I would not

1551
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:03.439
be sentding. Okay, Kingwogarden Center
and Warrens Warboroughs. Yeah, I think

1552
01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:08.399
you're going to find maybe a little
bit better selection at Warren's. Do you

1553
01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:13.159
just have to go check? But
Warrens is on North Park Drive. Okay,

1554
01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:15.600
Yeah, I think I know where
that is. Yeah, they're going

1555
01:53:15.640 --> 01:53:17.359
to have ch you bet, you
bet, Thank you. I appreciate that

1556
01:53:17.399 --> 01:53:21.840
call very much. If you live
in the Tombail area, your hometown,

1557
01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:26.680
feed stores D and DE feed D
and D. They've been around a long

1558
01:53:26.760 --> 01:53:30.920
time and they know how to carry
the things people need. They got plants,

1559
01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:34.119
they've got fertilizers. When I talk
about fertilizers, D and D is

1560
01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:38.000
going to have them. They're going
to have things like nitrif I like the

1561
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:42.039
Sweet Green and the Super Turf and
the Imperial and so on. They're going

1562
01:53:42.159 --> 01:53:46.199
to have products like the Age leaf
compost or heirlooms, rose soil or their

1563
01:53:46.239 --> 01:53:49.800
fruit, berry citrus, their veggie
and herbs. All of those are gonna

1564
01:53:49.800 --> 01:53:53.079
be a d and de feed,
d and de feed through the spring.

1565
01:53:53.199 --> 01:53:56.000
They are always getting in baby chicks. I think we may be drawn to

1566
01:53:56.039 --> 01:53:58.239
the end of that. I need
to go check their website and see that.

1567
01:53:58.279 --> 01:54:00.840
But that has been that is in
the place people have been flocking to.

1568
01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:05.399
Oh my gosh, sorry about that, but flocking to to get their

1569
01:54:05.399 --> 01:54:11.079
baby chicks offspring. They're on twenty
nine to twenty just west to Tombol and

1570
01:54:11.319 --> 01:54:15.520
you're gonna find the fertilizers I recommend
the products I recommend. You're gonna find

1571
01:54:15.600 --> 01:54:21.079
quality quality dog food, pet food, and livestock food there. And you're

1572
01:54:21.079 --> 01:54:25.920
gonna find mosquito dunks there. Mosquito
dunks are the little things you put in

1573
01:54:26.000 --> 01:54:30.319
the in the water. They float
in the water and they release a disease

1574
01:54:30.399 --> 01:54:34.560
of mosquitos. Mosquitos only birds can
drink out of the water. Your little

1575
01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:38.640
honeybee can go to the water's edge
and drink out of it. Your cat

1576
01:54:38.720 --> 01:54:42.000
and your dog can. Drek is
not a poison. It is a disease

1577
01:54:42.039 --> 01:54:45.199
of mosquitoes. Called mosquito dunks.
It's a little beige donut floats in water.

1578
01:54:45.520 --> 01:54:49.560
One donut will cover up to one
hundred square feet of water and it'll

1579
01:54:49.640 --> 01:54:53.840
last for about thirty days and they
just throw another one out there. So,

1580
01:54:53.880 --> 01:54:56.600
do you have a rain barrel,
do you have a hole up in

1581
01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:59.479
a tree, you know where the
water gathers in there, throw one up

1582
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:02.119
into that. You have a pond
or something where you're wanting to, you

1583
01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:06.479
know, protect that water surface from
mosquito larvae. Mosquito dunk will do it.

1584
01:55:06.520 --> 01:55:10.520
And they got them at d and
defeed makes it easy easy to get

1585
01:55:10.600 --> 01:55:14.159
them. Just one stop shopping as
you go by there. We're going to

1586
01:55:14.199 --> 01:55:17.920
go now out to Galveston and talk
to Michael. Hello, Michael Hello.

1587
01:55:18.720 --> 01:55:27.439
Three part question one, how to
get rid of wild onion weed. I

1588
01:55:27.520 --> 01:55:35.319
have a little olive tree on the
plot where they're taking over in the hold

1589
01:55:35.319 --> 01:55:40.720
the end there. Don't want to
harm them. And the other part is

1590
01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:49.000
what is a good landscaping company you
recommend that will give me honest price for

1591
01:55:49.319 --> 01:55:59.279
putting land on ground cover? And
the third I saw in this Auder magazine

1592
01:55:59.439 --> 01:56:06.239
on what wordly looks good creeping time
ground cover. Matt with the seed and

1593
01:56:06.279 --> 01:56:15.640
if that's thirty by seventeen, which
is pretty big, and do it yourself.

1594
01:56:16.399 --> 01:56:19.479
And that's a good idea. All
right, well, let's see it.

1595
01:56:19.640 --> 01:56:23.239
Yeah, good, good, Michael. Let's take those in that order.

1596
01:56:23.560 --> 01:56:28.159
For the onions products that have a
two four D herbicide in them,

1597
01:56:28.920 --> 01:56:32.800
the Furtloan wheat free zone is another
good one that you can use on them.

1598
01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:36.399
You just spray it on them.
But you need to do those products

1599
01:56:36.439 --> 01:56:41.319
in the morning when it's cooler,
and you need to do them very very

1600
01:56:41.439 --> 01:56:45.479
soon because once it heats up,
they can damage your turf. But do

1601
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:49.680
that soon and that'll work bad.
Let me get to your Can you go

1602
01:56:49.680 --> 01:56:55.159
ahead? Can you repeat those products? Yeah? You said four D.

1603
01:56:56.319 --> 01:57:00.439
Two four D is an ingredient that's
in products that contain something like trimech.

1604
01:57:01.119 --> 01:57:09.079
So a trimech type product would be
one example. A Burdalone company makes something

1605
01:57:09.159 --> 01:57:13.840
called weed freeze Zone. That would
be another one that you could use free

1606
01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:18.560
we'd freeze zone. Follow the label
very carefully, do it in the morning

1607
01:57:18.600 --> 01:57:23.880
when it's cool, and don't wait
to get it done this week because as

1608
01:57:23.880 --> 01:57:29.159
it us, those create problems.
Now the second, the third question you

1609
01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:33.600
had was about the creeping time.
Time is a decent little groundcover, but

1610
01:57:33.960 --> 01:57:40.640
it there's a lot of different kinds
of time and they don't all perform equally

1611
01:57:40.720 --> 01:57:44.720
well. And if the area doesn't
drain very well, the time is not

1612
01:57:44.760 --> 01:57:47.159
going to perform well for you.
So that is something you can keep in

1613
01:57:47.239 --> 01:57:49.600
mind. What was the middle question? Right quick? And then I'm gonna

1614
01:57:49.600 --> 01:57:55.439
have to run a good landscape and
cup, Yes, I do not know

1615
01:57:55.920 --> 01:58:00.439
companies in your area to recommend.
We generally have not gotten into recommending Pacific

1616
01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:03.239
landscapers, so I'm not going to
be able to help you with that one,

1617
01:58:03.399 --> 01:58:06.359
but I do I do appreciate your
call. I'm going to have to

1618
01:58:06.479 --> 01:58:13.000
run, but hopefully that'll get you
off the bed start. If you should

1619
01:58:13.039 --> 01:58:21.199
look for a sign that suitable for
this area, I guess yes, and

1620
01:58:21.560 --> 01:58:26.560
just to go to a good garden
center and they ought to be able to

1621
01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:30.840
direct you to a landscaper. And
by the way, instead of time,

1622
01:58:30.960 --> 01:58:32.479
I would do a regano. And
I'm sorry I have to cut it short,

1623
01:58:32.479 --> 01:58:35.119
but I have to run on that
one. If you're looking for a

1624
01:58:35.199 --> 01:58:40.640
quality tree, a quality tree,
Verdant Tree Farm has got you covered,

1625
01:58:40.680 --> 01:58:44.720
and there are three different locations there
in West Houston and Barker Cypress. They

1626
01:58:44.760 --> 01:58:49.399
are in South Houston in the Pearland
area actually on Broadway Street, and they're

1627
01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:55.119
in the Heights where I ten and
Yell come together. They have quality palms,

1628
01:58:55.399 --> 01:58:58.359
hardy palms. You can get hardy
palms there. They have quality trees.

1629
01:58:58.359 --> 01:59:00.960
They come out, they plant them. They got the tree you want,

1630
01:59:00.000 --> 01:59:02.439
they bring it to your house and
they do it right and they make

1631
01:59:02.479 --> 01:59:06.359
sure you have success and verdant tree. Patrick and his team there they know

1632
01:59:06.399 --> 01:59:10.279
what they're doing. They even have
large, very large shrubs like you want

1633
01:59:10.279 --> 01:59:14.439
to specific kind of holly to create
a screen. They can get you set

1634
01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:17.800
up on that. They have the
right trees at every kind of budget and

1635
01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:21.159
they can assist you to get you
off to a good start. And that

1636
01:59:21.319 --> 01:59:25.560
is very important, it really is. It is important that a tree is

1637
01:59:25.680 --> 01:59:29.720
chosen right, that it's planted right, and then it's cared for right and

1638
01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:31.760
they get you off. They have
a little system they set up so you

1639
01:59:31.800 --> 01:59:36.119
can check the soul, moisture levels, of water levels down in the planting

1640
01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:40.880
hole. Just talk to Patrick and
the team at Verden and they can show

1641
01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:44.359
you how they do all of that. It makes it really simple. I

1642
01:59:44.359 --> 01:59:49.600
think it's a really good idea,
very good it all right, we put

1643
01:59:49.640 --> 01:59:53.640
another hour in the books here,
got one left today. If you'd like

1644
01:59:53.680 --> 01:59:56.960
to give Josh a call and say
hey, Josh, thanks for thanks for

1645
01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:00.760
being a producer there on guarden Line
and keeping Skip from running the a car

1646
02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:04.880
off in the ditch all the time. Well do that seven one three two

1647
02:00:04.960 --> 02:00:09.279
one two kt RH. He'll put
you on the board and you'll be the

1648
02:00:09.319 --> 02:00:14.119
first stop when we come out of
this hour into the hour news break.

1649
02:00:14.199 --> 02:00:19.800
Don't forget next Saturday, Hairland Wild
Bird's Unlimited. It's on. It's on

1650
02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:25.359
Broadway Street and Paarland. So hey, while you're done there, you can

1651
02:00:25.359 --> 02:00:30.079
go to Ferd and Tree Farm get
your trees. Come over from eleven thirty

1652
02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:34.039
to one thirty and see me at
Wabirds Unlimited Wa Bird's Unlimited eleven thirty to

1653
02:00:34.079 --> 02:00:38.079
one thirty. I'll be answering gardening
questions. Remember, hold off on your

1654
02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:43.119
mama day shopping because they have everything
you need for a really cool surprise.

1655
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:48.760
Mom doesn't already have one out.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1656
02:00:48.800 --> 02:00:56.319
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line

1657
02:00:56.600 --> 02:01:23.439
with scamp Ricter. It's so trim. Just watch him as so many sat.

1658
02:01:23.880 --> 02:01:27.920
Hey, welcome back to garden Line
for the last hour of this weekend.

1659
02:01:28.159 --> 02:01:30.479
That's right, we wind up at
ten o'clock. We're here every Saturday,

1660
02:01:30.520 --> 02:01:35.560
every Sunday six am to ten am. So anybody in the greater listening

1661
02:01:35.560 --> 02:01:40.920
area of k t r H,
which is a huge section of southeast Texas

1662
02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:44.920
and even almost all the way to
us to the Interstate thirty five. Uh,

1663
02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:47.479
we are glad you're with us.
We're glad you're listening. If you

1664
02:01:47.479 --> 02:01:51.640
have friends that don't get the signal
where they are, they can listen online

1665
02:01:51.960 --> 02:01:58.279
via the iHeart Radio app. Yeah, iHeart Media, a little red app

1666
02:01:58.319 --> 02:02:00.720
with a white heart in it that's
easy to pick out. You listen live,

1667
02:02:00.760 --> 02:02:03.079
you can listen to pass shows there. You can go online to the

1668
02:02:03.119 --> 02:02:08.159
ktery's website and you can listen to
pass shows of garden Line there as well,

1669
02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:10.640
if you'd like to take that approach. I just know a lot of

1670
02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:13.800
people that use their phones to listen. So they got working in the garden

1671
02:02:13.880 --> 02:02:15.359
and who knows, they may think
of a question while they're out there.

1672
02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:18.239
Working and want to call in,
well, just take your phone with you.

1673
02:02:18.279 --> 02:02:21.600
If you've got the If you've got
it, the app, you can

1674
02:02:21.640 --> 02:02:26.479
listen live and also any kind of
a podcasting app you can listen to pass

1675
02:02:26.479 --> 02:02:30.880
shows of Garden Line as well.
Those of you who haven't fertilized your lawn

1676
02:02:31.000 --> 02:02:33.560
yet, it is time to get
that done, and we want to do

1677
02:02:33.640 --> 02:02:40.800
it with a slow, gradual release
fertilizer that's going to release that nitrogen gradually

1678
02:02:40.880 --> 02:02:45.560
over time to promote slow even growth. That is very important not to get

1679
02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:47.319
a flush of growth, because then
you get a top heavy grass plant that

1680
02:02:47.359 --> 02:02:51.199
has lots of green top, but
actually at the expense of a root system

1681
02:02:51.239 --> 02:02:57.279
development. So when you gradually feed
over time you get with a modern amount

1682
02:02:57.279 --> 02:03:00.760
of fertilizer, you get good top
growth, good root growth, and it's

1683
02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:04.439
just balanced, more resilient when it
comes to hot, dry weather. Superturf.

1684
02:03:04.920 --> 02:03:09.520
The Silver Bag by Nitrofoss nineteen four
to ten will do that. In

1685
02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:13.720
addition to having half the nitrogen in
slow release form, it's got four percent

1686
02:03:13.800 --> 02:03:17.199
iron for good green color. Just
get it spread out there, get it

1687
02:03:17.279 --> 02:03:20.840
down. You're going to put out
about five pounds per thousand square feet of

1688
02:03:20.880 --> 02:03:25.079
it, so it goes a long
way being a good concentration there of the

1689
02:03:25.199 --> 02:03:29.880
nitrogen. And it's easy to find. You know, nitrofoss products are widely

1690
02:03:29.920 --> 02:03:31.399
available here in the Greater Houston area. You're going to find them at the

1691
02:03:31.479 --> 02:03:33.960
Arbor Gate. You're going to find
them out Shades of Texas, out on

1692
02:03:34.000 --> 02:03:39.039
Genoa Red Bluff Road. You're going
to find them in a lot of different

1693
02:03:39.079 --> 02:03:43.880
locations like Kingwood. Ace Hardware's got
those as well, easy to find nitrofoss

1694
02:03:43.920 --> 02:03:48.239
products, including Superturf. By the
way, Ace Hardwares just in general all

1695
02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:54.239
around Ace Hardware's are going to have
them, and Ace Hardware it's the place

1696
02:03:54.279 --> 02:04:00.960
to go for anything you want to
make your backyard look beautiful. Certainly fertilizers,

1697
02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:04.640
certainly, pest controlled disease, weeds, insects, things like that.

1698
02:04:04.960 --> 02:04:09.399
They've got you covered on that.
But Ace Hardware also has you covered on

1699
02:04:09.479 --> 02:04:13.880
things like that beautiful barbecue pit,
the big green egg, the Traeger and

1700
02:04:13.960 --> 02:04:17.800
others. The uh yard lights we
call them, we call them beer garden

1701
02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:20.720
lights. You know, you string
them along and it's just that ambiance in

1702
02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:24.680
the backyard. They actually covered on
that kind of stuff. Do you need

1703
02:04:24.760 --> 02:04:29.840
foggers to deal with mosquitoes or mosquito
dunks that we keep talking about. This

1704
02:04:29.880 --> 02:04:32.359
is the season for mosquito duck.
Do you need fire ant control in your

1705
02:04:32.439 --> 02:04:36.640
yard? Whatever? You want to
make that outdoor place a place you just

1706
02:04:36.680 --> 02:04:41.319
want to hang out with family and
friends even through the evening hours. ACE

1707
02:04:41.359 --> 02:04:45.359
Hardware has got you covered. Acehardware
dot Com is a website find the store

1708
02:04:45.439 --> 02:04:49.720
locator. You got forty of them
here in the Greater Houston area to choose

1709
02:04:49.720 --> 02:04:53.800
from. Easy to find an ACE
Hardware and when you go in, it's

1710
02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:57.239
easy to get what you need.
We're going to head out now to Brenham

1711
02:04:57.479 --> 02:05:02.560
and talk to Leonard. Hello,
Leonard, good morning morning. I've got

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02:05:03.439 --> 02:05:08.319
I just pull up the old plants
that's been in front of my house all

1713
02:05:08.319 --> 02:05:12.720
the way down the front of the
house, that's been there for like twenty

1714
02:05:12.960 --> 02:05:17.159
years, and they just don't do
well at all. So I'm replacing them.

1715
02:05:17.159 --> 02:05:21.359
I've already went out and bought maybe
it's a mistake that I bought twenty

1716
02:05:21.399 --> 02:05:30.840
four box Japanese box woods, Okay, and prepare my bed and I want

1717
02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:36.000
to do everything I could do to
enhance the possibility of them surviving. And

1718
02:05:36.079 --> 02:05:42.600
doing well because the other ones were
having difficulty. I have crape myrtles on

1719
02:05:42.680 --> 02:05:46.000
each end of the house. I
think they maybe we're not getting enough sun

1720
02:05:46.640 --> 02:05:51.760
because of those crape myrtles. I
don't know. Okay, well, box

1721
02:05:51.840 --> 02:05:56.279
woods will take a little bit of
shade. They like sign, but they'll

1722
02:05:56.279 --> 02:05:58.840
take a little bit of shade if
it's bright or if they get part day

1723
02:05:58.880 --> 02:06:01.399
sign a little bit like that they
should do. Okay, you just you're

1724
02:06:01.760 --> 02:06:05.800
you're correct and wanting to get the
soil right before you begin. I would

1725
02:06:05.800 --> 02:06:10.880
buy some quality mix to blend in
with the soil you have, and then

1726
02:06:11.039 --> 02:06:14.479
even add on top of that to
make a raised bed that drains well.

1727
02:06:14.840 --> 02:06:18.800
They need good drainage. They love
that forest floor environment. So when you

1728
02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:24.920
put in a even a rose mix, a rose soil name roses on it,

1729
02:06:24.960 --> 02:06:28.359
but it's good for all kinds of
shrubs. I thought, I'm onna

1730
02:06:28.439 --> 02:06:33.079
dig all these holes, and then
I thought about putting some mushroom soil in

1731
02:06:33.119 --> 02:06:36.399
their mulch into the bottom of them, and would that be bad or yeah,

1732
02:06:36.479 --> 02:06:39.920
yeah, that would be bad.
I would not do that. What

1733
02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:43.399
I would do a lot of people
want to put stuff in a planting hole

1734
02:06:43.560 --> 02:06:45.279
and that is not the best way
to go about it. Think about nature,

1735
02:06:45.560 --> 02:06:48.000
you know nature in the forest,
leave fall on the ground, they

1736
02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:50.800
rot, more leaf swallow on them, they rot, and you end up

1737
02:06:50.840 --> 02:06:55.960
with this real rich material at the
surface all through the soil. Think of

1738
02:06:56.000 --> 02:06:59.039
it that way. So get you
a good blend. It could be composed,

1739
02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:00.439
it could be a rose mix.
I mean, there's a lot of

1740
02:07:00.439 --> 02:07:04.000
good blends. And lay it on
the soil and mix it all into the

1741
02:07:04.039 --> 02:07:08.760
whole bed evenly, and then I'll
put more on top of it. And

1742
02:07:08.800 --> 02:07:13.359
so now what you've got is a
simulation of the forest floor. Those roots

1743
02:07:13.439 --> 02:07:15.680
don't just have stuff in the bottom
of the hole. By the way,

1744
02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:18.960
mushroom compost is a little high in
pH and for your box woods, I

1745
02:07:19.000 --> 02:07:23.399
don't I don't think that's the best
way to go What about it. I've

1746
02:07:23.399 --> 02:07:28.479
got a big bag of cottonseed burr, they call it cotton Seabird compost is

1747
02:07:28.520 --> 02:07:32.560
fine, But you're gonna you set
a whole lot of boxwoods there, and

1748
02:07:32.600 --> 02:07:36.119
so you're gonna need quite a bit
of organic matter to spread, because you're

1749
02:07:36.119 --> 02:07:41.600
gonna put it about four or five
inches deep at least through there to create

1750
02:07:41.600 --> 02:07:44.279
that bed. You're gonna mix them
in with the soil and put more on

1751
02:07:44.319 --> 02:07:45.680
top of it. So it's gonna
take You may need to get a little

1752
02:07:45.720 --> 02:07:49.279
bulk delivery out there to the place, or just buy a whole bunch of

1753
02:07:49.319 --> 02:07:56.720
bags. It gets more expensive every
moment. I've got some mulch piles,

1754
02:07:56.800 --> 02:08:01.439
but I don't think they're quite ready. Yeah, are you wood chips and

1755
02:08:01.600 --> 02:08:05.039
mix it with a lot of Yeah, that's good stuff. Do that after

1756
02:08:05.079 --> 02:08:09.319
you plant maulch with that and just
let it decompose, and as it decomposes,

1757
02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:11.039
which will take a while, put
more of that same stuff on top.

1758
02:08:11.199 --> 02:08:16.600
You just keep making it better and
better that way after you get them

1759
02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:20.239
in the ground. But do anything
you can to get some organic matter in

1760
02:08:20.319 --> 02:08:24.520
that soil evenly all through the bed. And I think you're going to find

1761
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:28.000
they do super well for you.
Thank you so much. You did well

1762
02:08:28.119 --> 02:08:33.600
again. Thank you. I appreciate
it. Cal take care. Good to

1763
02:08:33.680 --> 02:08:35.680
talk with you. Good to talk
with you. If you are looking for

1764
02:08:35.760 --> 02:08:43.920
a quality soil blend potting soil for
your indoor plants, jungle land water saving

1765
02:08:43.239 --> 02:08:48.119
potting soil is one you need to
know about. Jungle land water What does

1766
02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:50.439
that mean? Water saving putting soil. It means when you water this mix.

1767
02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:56.319
Of course, it wets the organic
material, which is basically what putting

1768
02:08:56.359 --> 02:09:00.800
soil is, or decomposed organic materials, but it also has crystals in it

1769
02:09:00.840 --> 02:09:07.039
that swell up without water. And
even after the organic material begins to lose

1770
02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:11.960
its water as the plants pump it
out or evaporates away, those crystals hang

1771
02:09:11.039 --> 02:09:16.640
on a little longer and so the
roots get an extended release of moisture.

1772
02:09:16.760 --> 02:09:20.720
Are extended availability of moisture to keep
those plants going. In case you forget

1773
02:09:20.720 --> 02:09:24.680
the water, it just works really
well. You can get jungle land water

1774
02:09:26.600 --> 02:09:30.880
putting shore with water saving crystals at
places like Asen Sinko Ranch. You can

1775
02:09:30.880 --> 02:09:33.319
get it at a Tascasta Ace.
You can get it at Lake Hardware Include

1776
02:09:33.359 --> 02:09:37.680
or Jim's hard Rep in Montgomery.
It's time for us to take a little

1777
02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:39.399
break. We'll be right back done
in sugar Land. You will be the

1778
02:09:39.439 --> 02:09:43.840
first up. And you heard it
first tier on guard. Maybe not first,

1779
02:09:43.880 --> 02:09:46.920
but you probably remember that one.
How many you remember Alvin and the

1780
02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:54.039
Chipmunks? I do. I was
mildly amused. Alven and the Chipmunks actually

1781
02:09:54.039 --> 02:09:56.640
had a record of theirs by the
way, I don't know. That's kind

1782
02:09:56.640 --> 02:10:01.520
of weird, isn't it. Hey, If you are looking at doing some

1783
02:10:01.760 --> 02:10:05.439
compost top dressing and air rating,
and you are up in the let's say

1784
02:10:05.439 --> 02:10:09.159
the northwest quadrant of the Houston area
quadrant, being like Interstate forty five,

1785
02:10:09.199 --> 02:10:15.279
Interstate ten, that kind of thing, greenpro is your place. Greenpro dot

1786
02:10:15.319 --> 02:10:20.199
net. That's the website. Now. Greenpro is up in the Montgomery Magnolia

1787
02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:24.920
area actually, so they service Spring
Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis

1788
02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:31.079
over to Montgomery and Magnolia down to
Katie West, Houston area, Central Houston,

1789
02:10:31.159 --> 02:10:35.920
North Houston. So think of them
as your northwest section of the city

1790
02:10:35.199 --> 02:10:41.640
for core aeration, which is the
only way to go popping those cores out

1791
02:10:41.720 --> 02:10:45.560
of the ground to get air down
in the soil, followed by a quality

1792
02:10:45.560 --> 02:10:50.720
compost drop dressing. Greenpro only uses
quality compost, finely screened for the top

1793
02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:56.720
dressing so that it moves down in
the soil. That alleviates compaction. It

1794
02:10:56.760 --> 02:11:01.760
helps with the heavy clay soils that
we do deal with here. And I

1795
02:11:01.800 --> 02:11:05.920
would do the quality compostop dressing after
the aeration. I would also do a

1796
02:11:05.960 --> 02:11:09.600
fertilization at that point if you haven't
fertilized yet, and it'll move down in

1797
02:11:09.640 --> 02:11:13.159
those holes as well, and the
root system just gets stimulated in the grass

1798
02:11:13.199 --> 02:11:16.560
as well. Remember it's part of
that brown stuff before green stuff. You

1799
02:11:16.600 --> 02:11:20.239
want to make your lawn happy,
make the soil a better place for the

1800
02:11:20.319 --> 02:11:22.319
roots to be, and green Pro
can do just that. You can go

1801
02:11:22.359 --> 02:11:28.079
to the website greenpro dot net to
find out about what it costs to have

1802
02:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.800
it done, what the options are, and to get them scheduled to come

1803
02:11:31.840 --> 02:11:35.800
out to your place. I want
to go over now to sugar Land and

1804
02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:39.560
we're going to talk to Don.
Hello, Don, Good morning, skip

1805
02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:43.600
morning. Last time I called in, I asked you about behavior grass and

1806
02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:46.720
I have some that's kind of near
fruit trees, and you gave me the

1807
02:11:50.479 --> 02:11:54.199
poison to use to kill it.
Is it going to be toxic around the

1808
02:11:54.239 --> 02:11:56.239
trees or how close would be safe
to use around it? And then I'll

1809
02:11:56.239 --> 02:12:01.720
also ask you. I want to
ask you what is your favorite that's does

1810
02:12:01.760 --> 02:12:07.880
it pretty much disease free without you
know, I got a friend too that

1811
02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:13.199
has John Kennedy Rose, the real
big one, and she likes that,

1812
02:12:13.399 --> 02:12:20.119
but she'd like to get maybe something
else. Yeah, let's see here.

1813
02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:28.640
Well, the beeograss control is okay
if you do not just drench it all

1814
02:12:28.680 --> 02:12:31.520
over the soils, which is not
how you need to do it anyway.

1815
02:12:31.840 --> 02:12:37.479
So just lightly dampen the leaves of
the beeograss with your control products, and

1816
02:12:37.840 --> 02:12:41.920
that is that is the way that
you would properly apply it. And you

1817
02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:46.880
don't have to worry about hurting those
trees. And that's true with any herbicide

1818
02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:50.880
around trees. There's no sense in
drenching the soil. Herbicides are made to

1819
02:12:52.000 --> 02:12:56.840
work the post emergence, are made
to work on the foliage of the plant

1820
02:12:56.880 --> 02:13:01.920
itself. Okay, So what's the
name. What's the name of it,

1821
02:13:01.479 --> 02:13:07.680
the beheograss control? Oh, let
me see, I think hang on just

1822
02:13:07.760 --> 02:13:13.399
second, let me try to pull
that up. It's the over the counter

1823
02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:16.359
one that we're needing, we're needing
to be able to do. Your dad,

1824
02:13:16.000 --> 02:13:20.119
is it okay to spray it too? Or do you just paint brush

1825
02:13:20.159 --> 02:13:22.520
it on? No? No,
no, you spray it. You can

1826
02:13:22.520 --> 02:13:26.600
spray it. Spray it on it
METS sulfur on methyl Okay, So that

1827
02:13:26.680 --> 02:13:33.000
would be a product a manor M
A N O R would be one example.

1828
02:13:33.359 --> 02:13:35.520
It's a little hard to find Manner, but a lot of our places

1829
02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:41.159
it's specializing, carrying a wide variety
as well as they have it. And

1830
02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:48.880
so I would say that mets sulfur
on methyl that that would probably be the

1831
02:13:48.920 --> 02:13:54.920
best one for dealing with controlling the
beaeographs. That's that's the Manner. Man

1832
02:13:54.079 --> 02:13:58.239
Manner is a brand name of met
sulfur on methyl. Then let me let

1833
02:13:58.279 --> 02:14:03.079
me say there are there are other
brands of it out there, okay,

1834
02:14:03.119 --> 02:14:07.600
other than Manner. But you need
to be careful with that. That product.

1835
02:14:07.880 --> 02:14:11.399
If you overapply it and get it
down in the root zone, yes,

1836
02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:16.199
it will damage. It will damage
uh woody ornamental trees and shrubs and

1837
02:14:16.239 --> 02:14:22.199
things like that. So follow the
label carefully. Okay. I called Southwest

1838
02:14:22.239 --> 02:14:26.439
Fertilizer and they said they had some
other product that was similar to it.

1839
02:14:26.800 --> 02:14:28.039
Yeah, yeah, they do.
They. I'm trying to think of what

1840
02:14:28.079 --> 02:14:31.479
the other one is with metsulfur on
metal. But if you if you go

1841
02:14:31.520 --> 02:14:35.039
into Southwest and you say you talk
to Guardline and they were talking about manor

1842
02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:39.680
M A n O R. They're
gonna put you They're gonna put a different

1843
02:14:39.680 --> 02:14:41.600
product in your hand or they may
have manner, but they put a different

1844
02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:45.319
product in your hand and it'll be
the good one to be used to.

1845
02:14:45.479 --> 02:14:46.840
Don't worry about that. They know
what they're talking about. Okay. And

1846
02:14:48.159 --> 02:14:52.439
what's your favorite rose? Oh man, that is that is an unfair question.

1847
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.239
That's like saying, what's your favorite
child. I think for me,

1848
02:14:56.560 --> 02:15:00.560
if I had if you had to, like you can have only rose,

1849
02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:05.119
I think it would be Belinda's dream. And here's why. In fact,

1850
02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:09.479
at Disneyland in Florida, they said
to Belinda's dream was probably the best all

1851
02:15:09.520 --> 02:15:11.479
around rose. And here's why.
It's it looks like a rose. So

1852
02:15:11.600 --> 02:15:16.319
people that don't think single roses look
like roses and things. Belinda's dream has

1853
02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:20.399
that hybrid t sort of look to
the bloom, you know a rose.

1854
02:15:20.439 --> 02:15:26.079
Look, it's pink, it has
fragrance, and it has a bush that

1855
02:15:26.239 --> 02:15:30.479
is very resistant to disease problems.
And it doesn't mean he can't get any

1856
02:15:30.520 --> 02:15:33.079
but it's just not gonna be plagued
by him like some roses. So you

1857
02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:35.960
get a green bush even if it's
not blooming. It's a pretty bush.

1858
02:15:35.960 --> 02:15:39.319
It's a shrub. You can shrub
prune it, so you're not having to

1859
02:15:39.399 --> 02:15:43.720
learn all kinds of pruning schemes to
try to prune, like with hybrid teas.

1860
02:15:43.399 --> 02:15:46.479
So I'd say Belinda's dream. It
was bread. This is a fun

1861
02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:50.279
fact about it. It was bread
at tex A and M. But it

1862
02:15:50.319 --> 02:15:54.479
was bread not by horticulturists, but
by a math professor who did this as

1863
02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.880
a hobby. So that was kind
of fun. But a math professor to

1864
02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:03.399
developed it and named it after one
of his friends, his daughter. I

1865
02:16:03.399 --> 02:16:07.920
believe I interested. Yeahun Uch,
I'll give it a try. I think

1866
02:16:07.920 --> 02:16:11.880
that'd be the one. Yeah,
you bet, take care all right,

1867
02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:15.760
Bye bye bye boy. I tell
you to make me pick one rowse Ugh,

1868
02:16:16.000 --> 02:16:20.039
that is unfair. That's cruel and
unusual punishment right there. If you're

1869
02:16:20.079 --> 02:16:24.039
down in Dickinson, San Leone,
Baycliffe, El Camino, Real, Webster,

1870
02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:30.039
Clear Lake City, League City,
Santa Fe, La Mark, listen

1871
02:16:30.119 --> 02:16:35.000
up. Your hometown feed store is
League City feed League City Feeds on Highway

1872
02:16:35.000 --> 02:16:37.440
three, just a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six in League City.

1873
02:16:39.079 --> 02:16:46.040
That store has been around, that
feed source since nineteen forties when there's three

1874
02:16:46.120 --> 02:16:50.520
generations now Thunderbergs that have run that
store. But the grandfather built it over

1875
02:16:50.559 --> 02:16:54.280
forty years ago in an oakre patch. And they carry every fertilizer I talk

1876
02:16:54.319 --> 02:16:58.959
about. So you hear me say
things like microlife and nitrophoss and Nature's Way

1877
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:05.120
or Nature's Create and the Nelson plant
food and heirloom soils and all on and

1878
02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:07.520
azemite, on and on down the
line. They've got it. They're at

1879
02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:13.399
League City Feed. They have quality
premium pet food. They have everything for

1880
02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:18.719
your backyard chickens. They have the
pest control, disease control, weed control,

1881
02:17:18.120 --> 02:17:22.399
everything you need. League City Feed
is open Monday through Saturday, nine

1882
02:17:22.479 --> 02:17:24.399
to six, so after work you
swing by there. They're open. You

1883
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:28.079
can grab your stuff you need.
They treat you like they should treat you.

1884
02:17:28.200 --> 02:17:31.680
An all time feed store, carry
things out for you. That is

1885
02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:35.440
the kind of service we love.
Closed on Sunday. Here's the phone number

1886
02:17:35.479 --> 02:17:41.520
two eight one three three two sixteen
twelve. Say hello to the Wes and

1887
02:17:41.600 --> 02:17:45.479
Madison and Thunderberg's there at League City
Feed and they will get you set up

1888
02:17:45.520 --> 02:17:50.280
with the products you need to have
success with your lawn. That is important.

1889
02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:56.639
Affordable tree service, You've heard me
talk about them a lot. Randy

1890
02:17:56.680 --> 02:18:00.840
talked about them a lot. Affordable
tree service is the go to place when

1891
02:18:00.840 --> 02:18:05.000
you need stuff done to your trees. Listen, trees are long term investments

1892
02:18:05.040 --> 02:18:09.200
in your landscape, and all it
takes is an hour of somebody that doesn't

1893
02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:13.040
know what they're doing coming in and
butcher in that tree. And it's for

1894
02:18:13.159 --> 02:18:16.159
life. I mean, you can
do everything you can to try to help

1895
02:18:16.200 --> 02:18:20.000
out as it tries to recover,
but it will never be the same.

1896
02:18:20.639 --> 02:18:24.559
So the the business card in your
door, just throw it away. The

1897
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.200
guy who mows your lawn, I
know he owns a chainsaw. He's not

1898
02:18:28.280 --> 02:18:33.959
a tree person. Martin spoon Moore
is. And you call Martin spoon Moore

1899
02:18:33.959 --> 02:18:39.559
at Affordable Tree seven one three,
six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

1900
02:18:39.600 --> 02:18:41.079
Tell them that you are a guardline
listener. So you go to the front

1901
02:18:41.079 --> 02:18:45.200
of the line. Martin stays busy
because he does a good job, and

1902
02:18:45.200 --> 02:18:48.200
everybody knows Martin and they call him
back again. It costs one hundred and

1903
02:18:48.239 --> 02:18:52.120
fifty dollars for him to come out
and do a consultation. He'll tell you

1904
02:18:52.159 --> 02:18:54.559
what he thinks needs to be done. If you hire him to do the

1905
02:18:54.600 --> 02:18:58.200
work, that one fifty goes right
into your price, so he didn't lose

1906
02:18:58.280 --> 02:19:01.879
one fifty. But he knows what
he's talking about. So anything done around

1907
02:19:01.879 --> 02:19:05.680
your trees needs to be done by
Martin and that includes advice for Hey,

1908
02:19:05.680 --> 02:19:09.440
we're gonna put a trench in here, We're gonna put a sidewalk over here,

1909
02:19:09.760 --> 02:19:13.559
call him, have him come out. Afftree Service dot com seven one

1910
02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:20.280
three six nine nine twenty six sixty
three. Do not trust your trees to

1911
02:19:20.799 --> 02:19:24.959
two jerks on a chainsaw tree service. You know they own a pickup,

1912
02:19:24.959 --> 02:19:28.719
they own a chainsaw, they're tree
experts. No, they're not, absolutely

1913
02:19:28.280 --> 02:19:33.520
not. You're listening to Guardline.
Our phone number is seven one three two

1914
02:19:33.600 --> 02:19:39.959
one two k t r H.
Seven one three two one two k t

1915
02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:43.360
r H. We would love to
have you give us a call if you

1916
02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:46.440
got a question that we can help
with. That's what we are here for.

1917
02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.239
That's what we're all about. If
you haven't fertilized your lawn yet,

1918
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:54.600
and you probably have heard me talk
about Nelson Plant Food, turf Star products.

1919
02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.360
You know, Nelson is the company
that makes color Star and we all

1920
02:19:58.399 --> 02:20:01.399
know that when you want a color
bed to pop, you know, your

1921
02:20:01.440 --> 02:20:05.479
annual flowers and things boom, I
mean, color Star will make it do

1922
02:20:05.559 --> 02:20:09.319
that turf Star several different products in
the turf Star line. Two of them

1923
02:20:09.360 --> 02:20:13.360
you need to know about for summer. One of them is Bruce's Brew primarily

1924
02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:18.600
it's gonna be immediately available with some
slow release in it as well. And

1925
02:20:18.719 --> 02:20:22.639
the second is Slow and Easy,
which is all slow release. I mean,

1926
02:20:22.680 --> 02:20:24.840
it's got a little bit, it's
going to release some right away,

1927
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:28.719
but it is going to give you
feeding all the way four months. In

1928
02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:31.840
other words, you put Slow and
Easy down on your lawn right now.

1929
02:20:33.239 --> 02:20:35.879
The next time we need to talk
about fertilizing is going to be for a

1930
02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:41.280
fall fertilization. It lasts that long, superquality. The chemistry of these,

1931
02:20:41.399 --> 02:20:48.239
the way they design the nitrogen is
nice, and slow release works really really

1932
02:20:48.280 --> 02:20:52.319
well. Bruce's Brew and slowly.
Either where you're gonna go slow release,

1933
02:20:52.360 --> 02:20:54.479
I do it now and not forget
about it. You're done. If you

1934
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:56.000
want to do Bruce's Brew, do
it now. You're going to do it

1935
02:20:56.040 --> 02:21:00.520
again toward the mid part of summer. Do it again, Stretch it out

1936
02:21:00.520 --> 02:21:03.239
a little bit, and it will
carry you on into fall. Two.

1937
02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:05.399
Either way you go, you're just
not going to lose with a quality product

1938
02:21:05.879 --> 02:21:11.040
like that, like those two from
Nelson's Well, we're going to take a

1939
02:21:11.079 --> 02:21:16.360
little half hour break into not end
of your halfway through the hour. There

1940
02:21:16.399 --> 02:21:18.159
you go, I'm doing a halfway
good job. Attacker was going, you

1941
02:21:18.200 --> 02:21:22.520
want me to do half an hour
of news? Yeah, yeah, that's

1942
02:21:22.520 --> 02:21:26.760
well. If it was important news, we could do it. Was all

1943
02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:28.440
right, all right, we need
to do gardening news too. By the

1944
02:21:28.440 --> 02:21:31.799
way, sometime soon, I'm gonna
turn it over to Nikki. We'll be

1945
02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:37.399
right back, little bread. Paisley
there impatiently sitting in church waiting to hit

1946
02:21:37.440 --> 02:21:41.959
the hit the road and get in
the water. Uh. You're listening to

1947
02:21:41.000 --> 02:21:46.079
garden Line and I'm your host skiperic
Career to answer your gardening questions. If

1948
02:21:46.120 --> 02:21:48.440
those of you who have not been
to RCW, I keep telling you you

1949
02:21:48.559 --> 02:21:52.399
need to go, and you do
need to go. We had somebody earlier

1950
02:21:52.440 --> 02:21:56.120
that was asking about what's my favorite
rose? And if they they pinned me

1951
02:21:56.159 --> 02:21:58.360
down, they held a gun to
my head. You couldn't see it on

1952
02:21:58.360 --> 02:22:00.920
the radio, but they were doing
that, and I said, well,

1953
02:22:01.000 --> 02:22:03.760
I think I would go with Belinda's
dream just because it's got all the above.

1954
02:22:03.799 --> 02:22:07.639
It's not an antique, but it's
an old rose. It's been around

1955
02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:11.840
a while, so rcw's got it. They've got four pages of different roses

1956
02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:15.520
that they can get in and right
now they got a deal going on on

1957
02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:18.639
the roses. They've got to sale
actually going on on the roses. They're

1958
02:22:18.639 --> 02:22:26.680
at RCW. They have the beautiful
types of Hibiscus Cajun, the Cajun series

1959
02:22:26.680 --> 02:22:30.959
of Hibiscus and others. They have
a deal going on on their arbors and

1960
02:22:31.040 --> 02:22:35.120
the metal artwork twenty off arbors and
metal artwork, and they have beautiful ones.

1961
02:22:35.159 --> 02:22:37.159
As you walk through there, those
of you in king and saw me

1962
02:22:37.239 --> 02:22:41.479
there the other day, you know, you know how awesome that is.

1963
02:22:41.719 --> 02:22:45.920
Ten percent off all the trees and
all the roses. They grow their own

1964
02:22:46.120 --> 02:22:48.760
trees as well up in Plantersville,
they bring them in. So RCW is

1965
02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:52.000
just a good nursery. And if
they don't have it, they'll get it.

1966
02:22:52.040 --> 02:22:54.639
That's why we call it. They
get it. Got a nursery r

1967
02:22:54.000 --> 02:23:01.600
c W Nursery Nurseries Plural dot com. Rc nurseries dot com. That's the

1968
02:23:01.600 --> 02:23:07.319
website there at two forty nine Tomba
Parkway and belt Wag eight. Makes it

1969
02:23:07.399 --> 02:23:11.000
real easy to find them and get
in there and get what you need.

1970
02:23:11.399 --> 02:23:15.959
We're going to now go to Stephen
in clear like, Hello Stephen, good

1971
02:23:16.040 --> 02:23:20.879
morning sir. I hope you appreciate
the fact that the wind is building stronger

1972
02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:26.000
tree trunks have it? Okay?
It is? I hear you talking about

1973
02:23:26.040 --> 02:23:28.680
that. Yeah, I thought this
was your kind of weather. Then I

1974
02:23:28.760 --> 02:23:33.920
just sent you a picture of grape
belief. Have you had a chance to

1975
02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:37.280
look at it? Oh? Yes, but that came from Mark. Well.

1976
02:23:37.840 --> 02:23:39.959
Stephen is my radio name. Because
I don't want people to know who

1977
02:23:41.000 --> 02:23:43.840
I really am asking stupid questions.
I just blew it. I just blew

1978
02:23:45.120 --> 02:23:48.200
Hey, it's not a stupid question. What I like to sound guardline?

1979
02:23:48.239 --> 02:23:52.120
You may heart me say this is
there are any stupid questions, just stupid

1980
02:23:52.200 --> 02:23:54.799
answers. So the pressure's on me
not you don't worry. Well, I

1981
02:23:54.799 --> 02:23:58.760
have a different view. When I
ever I speak in front of people,

1982
02:23:58.799 --> 02:24:01.280
I say, please ask your qu
questions. There are no stupid questions.

1983
02:24:01.319 --> 02:24:05.399
Are just stupid people asking them that. Oh boy, well, I won't

1984
02:24:05.399 --> 02:24:09.520
go there. I won't go there. That's funny. Your grape has a

1985
02:24:09.559 --> 02:24:15.879
fungal leaf spot disease. Now the
exact one. It may be. It

1986
02:24:15.920 --> 02:24:20.639
may be black spot that you're seeing
on there, it could be something else

1987
02:24:20.760 --> 02:24:24.200
that it's not an insect, it's
a disease. And there are a number

1988
02:24:24.200 --> 02:24:28.559
of fungicides out there on the market, most of them for grape foliage disease

1989
02:24:28.639 --> 02:24:35.079
control are a little more difficult to
find in the home market, but you

1990
02:24:35.120 --> 02:24:41.639
will find things on your garden gardening
shelf if you will that are available that

1991
02:24:41.719 --> 02:24:48.799
are listed for grape disease control and
that are listed for foliage diseases. So

1992
02:24:48.920 --> 02:24:52.600
that's just what you're going to need. You're out there and clear Lake.

1993
02:24:52.000 --> 02:24:54.559
You know, you get out there, you go to your ace hardware store

1994
02:24:54.639 --> 02:24:58.639
and say, I need I need
a funge a side, but I need

1995
02:24:58.639 --> 02:25:03.000
it to be labeled for grapes.
That's the key. That's something will be

1996
02:25:03.120 --> 02:25:07.399
organic so they can be eaten right
away or not. There is there are

1997
02:25:07.479 --> 02:25:11.959
copper based sprays that you can use, but you need to be very careful

1998
02:25:11.000 --> 02:25:16.159
with those and read the label carefully
that that is organic. But you don't

1999
02:25:16.200 --> 02:25:22.600
want to overuse that the copper based
sprays. So you know, there's a

2000
02:25:22.600 --> 02:25:26.719
lot of products on the market and
you just need to find one that's labeled

2001
02:25:26.120 --> 02:25:33.680
for the grape control. A grape
foliage disease control because grapes are really a

2002
02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:37.719
lot of grapes are really prone to
that. That's why we recommend certain grapes

2003
02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:41.159
to try to, you know,
avoid these kind of issues. Some are

2004
02:25:41.200 --> 02:25:45.639
a little more resistant than others,
but in general, grapes are a little

2005
02:25:45.639 --> 02:25:48.760
bit of a problem. Okay,
So I guess that's something that a BT

2006
02:25:48.920 --> 02:25:52.399
wouldn't take care of it. I
wouldn't even come close. Nope, it'll

2007
02:25:52.479 --> 02:25:58.159
kill. All that will do is
kill the caterpillars that you would have eating

2008
02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:01.879
your grapevine and grapes. I have
caterpillars. They can they can well,

2009
02:26:01.959 --> 02:26:05.680
I know, I think I spoke
with you when you first started here about

2010
02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:11.159
the grape belief skeletonizer. I had
that one year that wiped out everything in

2011
02:26:11.159 --> 02:26:13.559
my backyard. Yes, and so
I keep a close eye to see if

2012
02:26:13.559 --> 02:26:16.959
there's any evidence of that, and
then I hit it with b T right

2013
02:26:16.000 --> 02:26:20.360
away. Yeah. Yeah, that's
that is the that is the case.

2014
02:26:20.120 --> 02:26:24.879
So yeah, you might be looking. They're just a number of different kinds

2015
02:26:24.879 --> 02:26:28.719
of things that that can attack grapes. That's that's that's one reason why you

2016
02:26:28.719 --> 02:26:31.120
don't see more people growing them at
home because they are a little bit of

2017
02:26:31.120 --> 02:26:33.840
a challenge. They do really very
hard to grow grapes organically. Yeah,

2018
02:26:33.840 --> 02:26:37.840
but if you don't tend to them, they'll take over an entire piece of

2019
02:26:37.840 --> 02:26:41.520
property. It's amazing. Yes,
that's true. Okay, Well, thank

2020
02:26:41.559 --> 02:26:43.239
you very much for advice. Appreciate
it, I hope. But I'm sure

2021
02:26:43.239 --> 02:26:46.479
it's worth more and I just paid
for it. All right. Well,

2022
02:26:46.520 --> 02:26:48.840
hey, and you know what,
that was a very intelligent question. Thank

2023
02:26:48.879 --> 02:26:54.680
you? Does that for my friends, for you, for anyone listening,

2024
02:26:54.799 --> 02:26:58.959
listen, listen to this guy,
cross your legs instead at his feet and

2025
02:26:58.000 --> 02:27:03.360
receive wisdom that whoa, oh man, am I going to screw up a

2026
02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:05.799
whole bunch of people? Wow?
Okay, Steven, thanks for having thanks

2027
02:27:05.799 --> 02:27:09.319
for having some fun with me here
today. Thank thank you very much.

2028
02:27:09.440 --> 02:27:13.399
Take care all right, bye bye
bye bye. Let's see, let's go

2029
02:27:13.479 --> 02:27:16.760
to sugar Land. Talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, good morning,

2030
02:27:16.799 --> 02:27:18.840
Skiff, Good morning. I hope
you're having a great morning. I got

2031
02:27:18.879 --> 02:27:22.200
several questions. I spoke to you
a couple of weeks ago about some problems

2032
02:27:22.200 --> 02:27:26.760
I was having with Bermuta. Yes, I went in and I took out

2033
02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:31.639
a whole section about twelve by twelve
of commuter and put back my Saint Augustine.

2034
02:27:31.760 --> 02:27:35.840
Okay, now, first question is
what can I do to help that

2035
02:27:35.319 --> 02:27:41.360
grass that I've just put down top
all Number two, we've got some yellow

2036
02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:45.399
spots in the backyard. I've been
on your schedule for quite a while and

2037
02:27:45.399 --> 02:27:48.360
now about five years. What can
I do about those yellow spots? And

2038
02:27:48.399 --> 02:27:52.360
number three, I'm looking at kalladiums. Is it too late to put down

2039
02:27:52.399 --> 02:27:56.879
kalladiums? Not at all too late. Go ahead and plant the kalladiums now.

2040
02:27:56.959 --> 02:27:58.440
It's a good time. Watermen,
really good. Make sure they get

2041
02:27:58.440 --> 02:28:03.680
good water initially to get them established, and then they'll do very well for

2042
02:28:03.799 --> 02:28:07.399
you. You're gonna put them in
sun or shade. They're gonna be on

2043
02:28:07.479 --> 02:28:11.680
the southeastern corner, which gets about
i'd say maybe eight hours a day of

2044
02:28:11.719 --> 02:28:16.959
sun. Okay, Well, the
new kalladiums are pretty darn sun tolerant,

2045
02:28:16.120 --> 02:28:20.000
so you should be good there.
Just have the water a little bit more

2046
02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:22.559
in that kind of environment. As
far as the yellow areas in your grass,

2047
02:28:24.920 --> 02:28:28.639
that is probably a sign of iron
deficiency. Now, if you grab

2048
02:28:28.680 --> 02:28:31.479
one yellow grass blade and hold it, pick it and hold it up to

2049
02:28:31.520 --> 02:28:35.000
the light, it will have green
and yellow streaks through it. It looks

2050
02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:39.399
yellow yellower than regular green Saint Augustine. But you see the streaks, the

2051
02:28:39.440 --> 02:28:43.680
stripes, and that means iron deficiency. So one of two things is happening.

2052
02:28:43.719 --> 02:28:48.360
Either it needs iron in a form
that soil doesn't tie up so fast,

2053
02:28:48.959 --> 02:28:52.159
or you could have a disease called
take all root rot that kills roots.

2054
02:28:52.639 --> 02:28:56.680
And when you kill the root tips, the plant can't take up iron.

2055
02:28:56.719 --> 02:28:58.840
Even if it's there and available,
it can't take it up. And

2056
02:29:00.159 --> 02:29:03.440
so those are two issues with two
different approaches to For the first one,

2057
02:29:03.520 --> 02:29:07.920
we need a keylated form of iron
to put down on it. Have you

2058
02:29:07.959 --> 02:29:13.239
fertilized that area this year yet?
Yeah? I thought the schedule both on

2059
02:29:13.239 --> 02:29:16.840
the front in the back. Fund's
doing great. But as I'm speaking to

2060
02:29:16.879 --> 02:29:18.399
you right now, I just actually
picked up a leaf of grass. It

2061
02:29:18.520 --> 02:29:22.680
is amazing. I could actually see
the stripes inside. There you go,

2062
02:29:22.360 --> 02:29:30.479
that's what it is. That But
no, it's just certain little spots death

2063
02:29:31.079 --> 02:29:35.120
or like little stripts. I'm thinking
it out. Maybe over fertilized in some

2064
02:29:35.280 --> 02:29:39.159
areas well. You could have.
I mean if the application was not even.

2065
02:29:39.200 --> 02:29:41.479
But if you see the yellow,
you need to do a little keylated

2066
02:29:41.520 --> 02:29:46.600
iron in those areas, and I
think that'll hope out for you. Great

2067
02:29:46.959 --> 02:29:50.520
appreciate you guys usually have a great
Sunday. Thank you, Michael. Do

2068
02:29:50.520 --> 02:29:54.639
you take care? Good to talk
to you. As always. I'm gonna

2069
02:29:54.639 --> 02:29:56.959
take a little break here and we
will be back for the last segment of

2070
02:29:58.079 --> 02:30:01.440
the day of the weekend. So
if you I like to ask a question

2071
02:30:01.559 --> 02:30:07.840
seven one three two one two kt
rh letting that play out a little bit.

2072
02:30:07.959 --> 02:30:09.079
Welcome back to the guard Line.
Good to have you with us today.

2073
02:30:09.120 --> 02:30:15.319
Hey, have you been out to
the Nelson's Water Gardens in Katie.

2074
02:30:16.840 --> 02:30:20.639
You need to trust mount this one
and go and see this place. Nelson's

2075
02:30:20.680 --> 02:30:24.959
Water Gardens is. It's a wonderland. It's a destination. It is a

2076
02:30:26.120 --> 02:30:28.440
garden center. Yes, you can
buy all kinds of plants there. They

2077
02:30:28.440 --> 02:30:33.479
have lots of different kinds of plants. Now, water gardens became famous long

2078
02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:37.280
ago because they were a leader from
the beginning in the water garden industry.

2079
02:30:39.079 --> 02:30:43.760
People from all over the place have
called on them to help design and install

2080
02:30:43.840 --> 02:30:48.239
water gardens. They do that.
They can do fountains, they can do

2081
02:30:48.280 --> 02:30:52.559
the disappearing fountains. You know,
a big beautiful pottery where the water comes

2082
02:30:52.559 --> 02:30:56.399
over the side and ripples down and
disappears into pebbles. And then you turn

2083
02:30:56.440 --> 02:30:58.520
around and here comes back in through
the center of the fountain. Good for

2084
02:30:58.600 --> 02:31:03.799
birds to stop, good for you
to enjoy. Anytime you have moving water.

2085
02:31:03.399 --> 02:31:07.920
It just creates a peaceful setting.
And when you walk through Nelson's water

2086
02:31:09.000 --> 02:31:13.079
gardens, you're gonna see inspiration everywhere
you turn. By the way, if

2087
02:31:13.120 --> 02:31:16.319
you'd like a good excuse to go
out Saturday, May fourth, yep,

2088
02:31:16.440 --> 02:31:20.120
that's just around the corner. They
are gonna have what's called a sip and

2089
02:31:20.239 --> 02:31:24.559
stroll Saturday, May fourth. And
now listen, it's it's five pm to

2090
02:31:24.680 --> 02:31:26.559
seven pm, so it's late in
the day, five pm to seven pm.

2091
02:31:26.600 --> 02:31:30.520
Get off, you know, get
off what you're doing and work or

2092
02:31:30.559 --> 02:31:33.760
whatever on Saturday, and head out
there five pm to seven. You're gonna

2093
02:31:33.760 --> 02:31:37.200
be able to walk through. They're
gonna have free drinks, they're gonna have

2094
02:31:37.319 --> 02:31:41.319
light refreshments, they're gonna have live
music out there, and just go through

2095
02:31:41.360 --> 02:31:46.319
and see what I'm talking about about
the inspiration they are out in Katie.

2096
02:31:46.719 --> 02:31:50.360
You just head out I ten turn
north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's

2097
02:31:50.360 --> 02:31:54.239
a stone's throw off of Ian right
there. Here's the website. Go there

2098
02:31:54.239 --> 02:32:01.719
and you can learn everything you want
to know. Nelsonwatergardens dot Comilsonwatergardens dot com.

2099
02:32:03.120 --> 02:32:05.680
And when you're there, you're going
to find that you can hire them

2100
02:32:05.719 --> 02:32:09.920
to come out and do stuff.
You can get advice from them if you

2101
02:32:09.120 --> 02:32:13.799
do it yourself. For you take
whatever level you want to get into it,

2102
02:32:13.840 --> 02:32:16.040
and they will set you up.
And I'm telling you, a beautiful

2103
02:32:16.079 --> 02:32:20.600
water garden, the sound of water, whether you use water plants or goldfish

2104
02:32:20.680 --> 02:32:26.239
or waterfalls, Nelson's can get you
fixed up and it is It is enchanting

2105
02:32:26.639 --> 02:32:30.479
to see that kind of setting.
So take advantage. Saturday Sip and stroll

2106
02:32:30.719 --> 02:32:35.600
May fourth, five pm to seven
pm. Go ahead and enjoy it with

2107
02:32:35.639 --> 02:32:39.719
them. We're going to now head
to Spring and talk to Bill. Hello

2108
02:32:39.760 --> 02:32:43.840
Bill, Hey, Skip, appreciate
you taking my call. Yes, I've

2109
02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:48.639
got a product and I'm not sure
what it is or where I got it.

2110
02:32:48.639 --> 02:32:54.680
It's called high Yield Curve and armamental
Weed and grass stopper with dimension.

2111
02:32:54.040 --> 02:32:58.079
Okay, that is right? Is
it? What do I do with it?

2112
02:32:58.120 --> 02:33:01.280
That is a pre emergent. It
is it is a product. That

2113
02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:07.879
you would use like you would use
barricade. It's a different ingredients Okay,

2114
02:33:07.959 --> 02:33:11.879
it's a different ingredient than barricade.
But it is a pre emergent herbicide.

2115
02:33:11.920 --> 02:33:15.280
So you'd put it down, you'd
water it in to prevent weeds. So

2116
02:33:15.760 --> 02:33:18.799
the primetimes. If you go online
to gardening with Skip dot com and look

2117
02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:24.360
at my weed management schedule, you'll
see that we do in the in the

2118
02:33:24.399 --> 02:33:28.520
February is when you put on a
pre emergent for warm season weeds, and

2119
02:33:28.639 --> 02:33:35.239
October is when you want to put
that down for cool season weeds. Fantastic,

2120
02:33:35.319 --> 02:33:37.440
gotta do that. I put that
down with the Raider like I did

2121
02:33:37.440 --> 02:33:41.639
my fertilizer, right. You just
have a different setting, of course,

2122
02:33:41.680 --> 02:33:46.360
because it's a smaller grand Okay,
but yeah, it's a preventatives. It

2123
02:33:46.360 --> 02:33:50.520
doesn't kill existing weeds. It prevents
weeds, just like just like the barricade

2124
02:33:50.559 --> 02:33:52.760
that I talk about all the time. Wonderful, Thank you very much.

2125
02:33:52.799 --> 02:33:54.959
I really appreciate it. All right, Bill, good luck with that.

2126
02:33:56.120 --> 02:33:58.920
We're going to now head out to
Montgomery and talk to carry in. Okay,

2127
02:34:00.079 --> 02:34:03.239
in good morning, Skip, I'm
calling. I'm recovering from take all

2128
02:34:03.319 --> 02:34:07.479
root rot and I replaced probably at
least a quarter of my yard, and

2129
02:34:07.760 --> 02:34:11.239
I'm wondering how to care for the
surrounding area as I do have some of

2130
02:34:11.239 --> 02:34:16.760
those yellowing leaves. We did put
a fungicide down last month, but it

2131
02:34:16.879 --> 02:34:22.040
needs food. I can tell it
looks, so I'm not sure what to

2132
02:34:22.479 --> 02:34:24.680
use because what I've read is nitrofoss
I mean you want to kind of stay

2133
02:34:24.680 --> 02:34:30.239
away from iron. Is that correct? No? Iron is often missing when

2134
02:34:30.319 --> 02:34:33.319
take all root rot affects the grass
because take all kills roots. That's why

2135
02:34:33.319 --> 02:34:37.959
we call it root rot. Take
all root rot the tips of the grass

2136
02:34:39.239 --> 02:34:43.200
roots or where iron is taken up. So when you when you kill the

2137
02:34:43.280 --> 02:34:46.120
ends of the grass or kill the
whole root, it can't take up iron,

2138
02:34:46.159 --> 02:34:48.680
and so you see the yellowing as
a result. Can I ask,

2139
02:34:48.760 --> 02:34:52.120
what do you know what fungicide you
used for the take all before? I

2140
02:34:52.239 --> 02:34:56.639
don't because I'd hired a yard company
along company to try to help me.

2141
02:34:56.840 --> 02:35:01.440
Okay, So if you go to
gardening skip dot com, my website gardening

2142
02:35:01.479 --> 02:35:05.399
with skip dot com, there are
two schedules there. One is the lawn

2143
02:35:05.520 --> 02:35:09.799
pest disease and we'd management and on
it. If you look at diseases.

2144
02:35:09.200 --> 02:35:15.200
You'll see that in March we do
an optional treatment for take all root rot.

2145
02:35:15.319 --> 02:35:16.920
If it's present in your lawn.
You don't just treat because you have

2146
02:35:18.000 --> 02:35:22.280
a lawn in the But in October
and November, those are the two most

2147
02:35:22.360 --> 02:35:26.159
important months for treating for take all
root rot. You want to do it

2148
02:35:26.200 --> 02:35:30.399
in October and then repeat it again
a month later in November. And if

2149
02:35:30.399 --> 02:35:33.159
you look on the chart, there
are a number of products that are listed

2150
02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:39.600
there. The ones that I would
recommend most is something called a zoxystroban,

2151
02:35:39.799 --> 02:35:46.319
and the brand is called Heritage Heritage
UH, and it has a zoxystrobin in

2152
02:35:46.360 --> 02:35:50.799
it. There are other products that
contain a zoxystroban, but you go to

2153
02:35:50.840 --> 02:35:54.639
a go to your you know wherever
you shop for your supplies and things,

2154
02:35:56.000 --> 02:35:58.799
and just tell them you're looking for
that. Take this printed out schedule with

2155
02:35:58.840 --> 02:36:03.840
you. The other ingredient on there. There's one called propaconnaisole and I know

2156
02:36:03.639 --> 02:36:07.319
remembering those names, but you can
print it out. It's right there.

2157
02:36:07.760 --> 02:36:11.559
There are products that have those two
combined in them and they are even better

2158
02:36:11.639 --> 02:36:15.559
against the take all. The main
thing to remember what take all is don't

2159
02:36:15.559 --> 02:36:18.440
stress your grass. If your grass
is stressed, it's going to get take

2160
02:36:18.479 --> 02:36:24.840
all worse. Shade stresses grass,
Drought stresses grass. Using broad leaf herbicides

2161
02:36:24.840 --> 02:36:28.799
when the temperature is above the upper
eighties stresses grass. So try to avoid

2162
02:36:28.879 --> 02:36:33.479
that. Okay, all right,
that I can go ahead and can I

2163
02:36:33.559 --> 02:36:35.600
use like sweet green right now and
go yeah, yeah, yeah, fertilizers

2164
02:36:35.840 --> 02:36:39.680
get it down, yep, fertilizer. You can go right ahead with no

2165
02:36:39.680 --> 02:36:43.000
problem. Okay, all right,
thank you, carry thank you so much.

2166
02:36:43.719 --> 02:36:46.719
Good luck with that. I guess
we're going to end today. I

2167
02:36:46.760 --> 02:36:50.120
got one more call, Jerry.
I'll get to you just one second.

2168
02:36:50.159 --> 02:36:52.239
Here. We're going to end today
kind of like I begin most days.

2169
02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:56.399
And let's say in brown stuff before
green stuff. You gotta build the soil

2170
02:36:56.520 --> 02:37:03.120
before you plant the plants. That
is a secret to success. Garden shoppers

2171
02:37:03.200 --> 02:37:05.040
all the time pick out a bunch
of flowers at the garden center. They

2172
02:37:05.120 --> 02:37:07.760
come home and they walk around looking
word to plut them. That is not

2173
02:37:07.840 --> 02:37:13.319
the way to do it. You
get you some quality soil materials with the

2174
02:37:13.360 --> 02:37:16.520
plants or before the plants, and
you put it down. You get the

2175
02:37:16.559 --> 02:37:20.920
bed ready. Once you've made the
bed, the plants hop happily hop right

2176
02:37:22.000 --> 02:37:26.879
in it and take off growing Veggian
herb mix from heirloom soil. That's one

2177
02:37:26.920 --> 02:37:31.559
of those fruit berry and citrus mix
from heirloom soil. That's one of those

2178
02:37:31.959 --> 02:37:37.959
quality compost products, leaf mold compost. All the products, many products from

2179
02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:43.920
heirloom soils are designed to create the
perfect environment for plant success. You go

2180
02:37:43.959 --> 02:37:48.319
to Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com. There's a
calculator on the website to figure out how

2181
02:37:48.399 --> 02:37:52.760
much you need. You can buy
it by the bag. It's sold everywhere.

2182
02:37:52.920 --> 02:37:54.040
You can buy it by the bulk. You can go get it,

2183
02:37:54.079 --> 02:37:58.079
you can have them deliver it.
But whatever you do, get the soil

2184
02:37:58.159 --> 02:38:01.559
ready first, and then when you
put the plants in, it's gonna look

2185
02:38:01.559 --> 02:38:05.120
like your thumb turned green. That's
the way you do it. I'm going

2186
02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:09.719
to head out now to Jerry and
Jerry, you're in Damon. Yes,

2187
02:38:09.760 --> 02:38:13.000
sir, okay, how can I
help pay you? What I got is

2188
02:38:13.239 --> 02:38:18.040
I have a pond and I have
this it's called short bristlet orange beach's edge

2189
02:38:18.120 --> 02:38:22.479
growing around it. It grows every
year and I usually put round up on

2190
02:38:22.559 --> 02:38:26.120
it kill it. But my neighbor
next door is got about eight bee hives

2191
02:38:26.159 --> 02:38:30.000
now, and she's concerned if I
put round up on it's trying to kill

2192
02:38:30.000 --> 02:38:35.000
her bees. It will not kill
her bees. It won't hurt on Okay,

2193
02:38:37.000 --> 02:38:39.079
I can tell her that for sure. The only the only effect of

2194
02:38:39.239 --> 02:38:43.639
round up on bees is when you
kill the flowers that the bees want to

2195
02:38:43.680 --> 02:38:46.600
be on, including a lot of
weeds that you know bees use the blooms

2196
02:38:46.639 --> 02:38:50.319
of. Well, you're taking away
a food source. But you know when

2197
02:38:50.319 --> 02:38:52.280
you got to get rid of weed, you gotta get rid of weed.

2198
02:38:52.719 --> 02:38:58.360
Well, they got they got plenty
of oak in Chinese calla and everything else

2199
02:38:58.360 --> 02:39:01.920
for a source. Right now.
I think if your weed is a sedge,

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though, and I'm we've got about
a minute left for a run out

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of time here, a little less
than a minute. If it's a sedge,

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I might try something different. I
might try something like sedge hammer,

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for example. Or there's a number
of sedge control herbicides that work best on

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the sedges. Kills all or something
like that kills all is going to be

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a round up. That's a that's
a glyca product, But sedge hammer,

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uh manage image. Those are all
sedge control products. And if it's sedges

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you're going after, and that's it. Then you could use that instead of

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the round up or the glycasate or
kills all kind of product. Okay,

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that sound great, man, that
sound good. I'll let her know then

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that I'm going to hear her Beth
and I'll i'll I'll talk to you about

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it, all right. I got
it from the authority. I appreciate you,

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all right, all right, you
take care of Jerry. Could to

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talk to you well. And with
that we close the day on callers.

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I'm glad you listened today. I
hope you learned something. I hope you

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enjoyed it too. We try to
make it a little bit fun here.

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If you want to give us a
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two one two k t RH put
us on speed doll. How about that

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that'll work. I'm going to be
next Saturday after the show. That's May

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fourth. By the way, you
can wear your star Wars garb to come

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out and see me. You know
about that. May the fourth be with

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you Wilbird's Unlimited in Paarland. I'll
be at Wibird's Unlimited in Pairland. We'll

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be answering gardening questions. And listen. I keep telling you it's Mother's Day

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shopping time, and you come out
to Wilbirds, you are going to find

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something with your mom would love