Katie r h Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Scape Rictor.
It's crazy Trim. Just watch him as sea a sun. Good Sunday
morning. Glad to have you with us today. What are we here for
today, Well, what we're here for is to talk about gardening, to
help you have a more beautiful garden, more bountiful garden, and certainly a
more beautiful landscape and lawn. That is the goal. You know, the
horticulture is not rocket science. I mean it really isn't. I don't know
if rocket science is rocket science sometimes, but anyway, basically, it's a
matter of principles, following principles, just like good health, just like a
lot of things. You learn a few basic things about what causes plants to
succeed, and you follow those things and you find yourself well on the way
to success. There's a lot of miscon conceptions out there about horticulture. Oh
my gosh. I have a hard time looking at sometimes looking at social media
and other places where you see horticultural information. Just because it's the wild West.
Everybody is an expert, and that often causes cringing because to lead people
wrong with information that is just not accurate. Maybe it's something you heard someone
say and then so you repeat it. Maybe it is something that you did
once and it worked, and therefore you associate what you did with the fact
that it worked, which is not always a good way to go about it.
For example, there is things that correlate together that means you do one
and the other happens, and then there's things that cause each other to happen.
So let's say I knew I knew a fellow one time who well,
actually I didn't know the guy. The story as it was told to me,
there's a fellow that sat out on his porch and just to be honest,
he clipped his toenails out there on the porch and he would toss them
over the rail under a hydrangea bush. And that hydranga bush got bigger and
better than the one at the other end of the porch. And so it
is very clear that Grandpa's toenails makes the dranges grow. No, it is
not at all. That's called correlation, but not causation. You would have
to get a lot of hydrangea bushes, plan them all out randomly and treat
some of them with bostonhails than others without to really assess whether that worked or
not. And we see a lot that's of course ridiculous, but it is
true. But we see a lot of that in a gardening information. It's
just like, well, you know, that's not right, and because there's
no principle that will cause that to be able to work anyway, that's what
we aim for here, trying to lead you down the right path. A
lot of you are interested in gardening organically, and my goal is to help
you to be as successful as possible at however garden and whatever you want to
grow. And so if you're an organic gardener, you're working with nature.
Your goal is to build the soil. That is number one. Long before
organic pesticides became part of the big picture of organic gardening, it started with
the soil. Organics began with the soil. And you build the soil,
you make the soil better, you make the roots better, and plants grow.
No, what do I say every time on guarden line, I say
the brown stuff before the green stuff, meaning get the soil right. That
means good internal drainage, that means good water holding capacity. Also it means
good nutrient holding capacity. You make that soil right for the plant you want
to grow and you're going to have success. Yeah, there are sometimes times
to treat an insect or a pest, and they're organic options for most things
like that, But number one is the soil and that's what Microlife's all about.
Microlife is about building the soil. That's why they have a product called
hum Mates plus. The purple bag. It is zero zero four those are
the numbers on it, so it's got some potassium in it. But it's
not about the fertilizers that you're putting the hum made on for. It's about
the microbial activity and it's about the humus. Humus is a final decomposition stage
of organic matter, and humates humus products are part of what helps build the
soil effectively. And you put out Microlife Humates Plus and each time you do
that, adding in small quantities. Each time you do it, you are
adding the kinds of compounds and the kinds of micropial activity too as well that
help build the soil for success. Now, Microlife also has their Green bag
that's the standard of all their products. In my opinion, it is an
excellent lan fertilizer. It's a six two four. You put it out,
follow the instructions, get it down on the ground, and again you're adding
not just six two and four, you're adding all the secondaries and the microves
that are part of organic matter. You know, if you pick up a
piece of a leaf, it has ink in it and manganese and other things
because it requires those to grow a leaf. So now when you turn that
into compost or humus, or when you turn it into an organic product,
any organic materials, you've got the whole nine yards. And that's what Microlife's
all about. Hey, if you want to find out more, go to
microlifefertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot COM's widely available. They have a store
located there where you can find it. But as an organic system, this
is what we do. We start with soil, We create the best soil
we can, and after that we're well on our way to success. By
the time you put a plant in the ground, you are seventy five to
eighty percent the way to success because you've picked a plant that either grows there
or doesn't. You've prepared a soil that is the elephant in the room right
there, and you've planted it at the right time or not. And so
that is the key. Start with the soil. It is so important to
do that. You know, micro life products are I said there widely,
but you can get places like Plants for All Seasons. For example, Plants
for All Seasons is on FM two forty nine. We call that Tomball Parkway.
It's the road that goes up toward Tumble. If you go north and
you cross over exit Lueta crossover Lueta and you're at Plants for All Seasons or
right there on the right the website. We need to check out the websites
Plants for All Seasons dot com, Plants for All Seasons dot com. The
phone number you want to write this down so you can give them a call
two eight one, three seven six, sixteen forty six. When you're at
Plants for All Seasons, you are among people that know what they're doing.
They've been growing things here for a long time. They're very knowledgeable. You're
among plants that do well here, and you are on your way to success.
The Flerdy family has been doing this since nineteen seventy three. From education
to selection, to delivery, to planning, custom potting. They are truly
lawn and garden experts, and that's why people love plants for all seasons.
I think it's time to take a little break here. We will be back
in just a moment. Albert, you will be my first up when we
come back. Our phone number if you would like to. Would you like
to give us a call? I mean it does help if I give you
a phone number, doesn't it I think it does. I tell you what,
I'll keep that when I come back. I got it a break.
I'll be right back. Welcome back, guard Line. Good to have you
with us today. Hey, I wanted to let you all know something those
of you listening to guard Line. This is my preser Josh is last day.
I am sad to see him go. He has been a great support
and companion. He keeps me out of the ditches, even though sometimes I
purposefully run the car off the road. It seems like it's certainly a big
loss for me in the show. But I just want to wish him well.
If you give him a call, just just tell him you wish him
well. And he's moving on to some other things that we will. We
will wish him well, even though we don't want to see Josh go.
That is for sure. I'd like to head out now. I think we
had Albert on the phone. We're going to go up to Montgomery. Hello
Albert, Hello Skip, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir, I got a nut all oak tree I planted about two
years ago. It's probably eight feet tall, and this spring, you know,
leaves start coming out, but only like half the tree has leaves on
that the other halves there's some branches that are just bear with no leaves and
guess it's struggling. Is there anything I can do to help that little tree
out? Let me ask you a few questions. The if you're looking at
the tree, are the branches that are not doing well? Are they on
the south or southwest west side of the tree in that directly? They're kind
of distributed all over. Okay, last summer was pretty brutal for a tree
that's only been in the ground a couple of years and doesn't have the full
root system. I don't know what your watering schedule is like, but you
know a good supply of water to get it through the intense heat, which
is almost zero rain at times for extended periods. That also could play a
factor in it. Another thing you might want to check is dig down around
it with a little hand trowel, maybe even get a garden hose and wash
some soil away from the and see if you've got a root that's going around
in a circle around the trunk. It probably is not the case because it's
still a younger tree, but be worth just checking that. Other than those
things, I think it's a matter of fertilizer and water and getting the weeds
away. The single most thing you can do to make that tree, make
any tree grow well in its younger years, to have good growth rate,
is to get the weeds away, the grass away. The bigger of a
moult bed you can put around it, kind of recreate the forest floor with
a bunch of leaves and compost and molts and all that, the better off
it'll be. And so I would do that. If you want to fertilize
about take a lawn fertilizer that doesn't have herbicide in it and give it a
cup or two for every inch of trunk diameter on the tree, and then
water it in well. And then when we go into summer and it hadn't
rained for a week and a half. Go ahead and give it a little
bit of a soaking through that whole area of an area as you can,
and hopefully you'll see some vigor return to the tree. Okay, Skip,
that's a lot of good points I never thought of. So thank you so
much. Hey, yes, thank you, thank you for the call.
I appreciate that very much. By by, the folks at Landscaper's Pride have
created a wonderful collection of soil building products and molt products. This spring has
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Pride. It's very velvety dense multch. It's not dyed. It's black,
but it is not dyed. That this is unnatural color and the way they
do this mulch it just helps insulate from extreme temperatures. That matters a lot.
Hardwood multch is another product they have. It's a hardwood based fresh hardwood
is not ground up palettes or wood or things like that it is truly a
hardwood from trees, hardwood trees if you can put it in flower beds,
and you can do it in your walkways is and all where the pathway.
They got a pine bark mulch, very popular, locally sourced pine bark.
A slow decomposition rate with that pine bark, so people like it for that.
And then the garden Magic soil, which is a pine based blend.
It's got humus center, it's got screened pine and composted rice holes too,
and a chicken pill at fertilizer lasts up to three months, so that is
a That's why they call it Gardener's Magic. It is packed with good information
again from the folks at Landscaper's Pride. Twenty seven different products available. Go
to Landscaperspride dot com find out where you can get them near you. Let's
head out to Humble and talk to Beth. Hello, Beth, Hello,
good morning to you. Thank you for taking my call. I have a
beautiful potatoes and bean plants coming along, but they've developed something on it looks
like rust. Okay, yeah, well could be a rust. There is
a rust that attacks beans. Uh. And then there are several leaf diseases
that attack these. It could be caused by fungi, it could be caused
by bacteria. The leaf diseases depending on I can't see what you're saying,
but I am of the Some of the leaves are completely rust colored and some
of them just have a little specks on them where it's coming out at this
point. At this point, there's not much you can do that will be
really helpful. There are disease there are fungicides that will prevent rust, but
once you've got a rust infected leaf, they don't cure it. It doesn't
go back to being a healthy green leaf. And so they we have I
just cut those off because it's just now starting. You could, but rust
spores are everywhere there. I mean we're breathing them right now as we talk.
They literally are floating through the air everywhere. And so the leaves that
don't have the symptom yet probably already have some rust words that have landed,
and some may have even germinated. But again, rust is just one of
many diseases that can kind of fit the symptoms. Yeah, so I'll lose
a whole plant in and they won't produce right, they will produce if you
can. It depends on how far along they are, but you want to
protect as much of the leaf area as you can if you wanted. If
you feel like you're catching it early and you only have some of the foliage
that's got that rest on it, or what you're describing as rest on it,
you can go ahead and spray with a preventative. I'm just side to
protect things that have not shown the symptoms yet to try to get kind of
it products that contain chlorothalonil. It's it's sometimes called dack o'nil d A c
O n i L. If you go over to you you're or you're up
in the Tomball area. No, no umble, oh umble, okay,
excuse me? Yeah, you can go over to uh that's see Warrens Southern
Gardens is pretty close to you there. You've also got I also got some
ace hard restores in your area, and just tell them you're looking for something
with dac O'Neil d A c d A c O n i L. Just
like it said, that's a brand. That's a brand name. The ingredient.
Though, if they well, what what what causes this rust? Is
it too much water or something? No? Well, it's a spore landing
on a leaf, and then you get leaf wetness from rain or whatever,
even even dew, and the spore goes into the leaf. It germinates and
goes into the leaf and it causes the disease and the leaf. I thought
maybe, I thought maybe it was too much water, because I have a
sprinkler out in the yard to keep the deer away, and this this emotionally,
and and then when I go, the deer in front of that lins
that the water sprays on them, and I'm thinking that, well, I
don't know. The more often you wet foldge, the more diseases you're going
to have. Does that sprinkler work on your deer? Pretty good? Oh?
I love it. I love it because I don't have anything eating my
plants now with that sprinkler c h them good? Is it? That little
scarecrow one? It looks like a little black and yellow scarecrow. It's black,
kind of stands up as a little linbs on it and you say it
walks. I have it just set for night, okay, because in the
daytime they don't bother in the daytime because I'm out there, okay, but
uh, at night, the deer come up there, and but since I
got that little sprinkler, they walk in front of the sprinker, console them
off. I love it. I'm going to have to I'm gonna have to
run. But get that product. Spray your your plants and try to get
ahead of it. If it's not, you may do some good. You
bet, you bet glad to glad to help. Have you ever tried sweet
green? Sweet Green is a product by Nitrofoss. It's eleven percent nitrogen.
It is a molasses and microbe created product. There's a process that that happens
the sweet green. It smells wonderful because I mean, you know how molasses
smells. It has that kind of fragrance to it. But you put it
down, it dissolves away, goes into the soil. Anytime you put a
molasses basically on the soil, you're gonna make a lot of bacteria and other
microbes very happy, and it'll make your lawn happy too. You can find
it in a lot of places, you know, nitro Foss products being widely
available. You can find it Bearings Hardware on Bissonette and Westheimer, go out
to Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond. Rosenberg you'll find the sweet green out
there and up on a stuber airline hiding and feed also carries that sweet green.
We're going to head out now, back to Tomball and talk to Mel.
Hello, Mel, Hey, good morning. Okay, here we go.
Grubs eat the uh roots like in my flower bait, I imagine,
correct, especially grassroots. But yes, okay, and and and and and
clawless you okay. And moles eat the grubs. And coons and possums and
what not all eat the moles. Now do I keep the moles to eat
the grubs? You know, I don't know if moles eat grubs or not.
I'm not a wildlife expert. There's moles and voles. Bowles are like
a little rat like things. Let's see moles. I don't know. They
may be just feeding. They may feed on them. I should know that,
but I don't off him. Okay, well that's fine, that's cool.
I just didn't know. Man. You know, I don't know what
to do. You know, put stuff down to get rid of the grubs
or any holes are just you know, they dig tunnels under and everything.
Yeah, yeah, I know, and uh so I would say the grubs
in your flower bed are probably not a big problem. Probably not. In
a logon. You need to have five to seven grubs per square foot before
there's enough of them to where it's doing enough damage to warrant treatment. And
so we always encounter grubs, and we dig into flower beds and gardens and
lawns and things. You're always going to see them. But it's not that
there's a grub there, two or three or four. It's it's that there's
a whole bunch of them, and they primarily are a problem for us on
grass. But so I wouldn't worry about them unless you're just finding a ton
of them and you're seeing an effect on plants. Then no, I haven't
found a ton of them. So hey, mel, Mel, I'm gonna
have to go to a break. If you want to hang on, i'm
gonna put you on hold, and if we're done, that's good. If
not, i'll talk to you when we come back. On the other side,
you're listening to garden Line and our phone number is seven one three two
one two k t r H. And there's the man himself straight. Oh
my gosh, that goes back in time. You talk about a legend in
the music business. Welcome back to garden line. Good to have you with
us. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening
questions. If you'd like to get me a call. Seven one three two
one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t r H.
Listen, when our Houston soils, in fact, the Gulf Coast and
anywhere you got clay soils, when they get wet, they swell up and
when they get dry they shrink up. That's just the movement some some clays
are much worse than others. But boy, do we ever have a time
of it here. It messes with all kinds of things, breaks water lines,
even underground. But at your house, it's gonna affect your driveway,
it's gonna affect sidewalks, it's gonna affect your foundation. And that is where
fix my slab comes in. Ty Strickland, the owner, fixed my slab.
He's been doing this for twenty three years now. He is an expert
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that, any kind of signs. Another one would be sticking doors. You
know, a door that used to close now starts to stick. Something has
moved and that's not a good thing. You need have him come out.
He does free estimates for gardenline listeners. I want to give you his website.
I'm going to give you his phone number. Write this down fixmslab dot
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showing up. Boy, is that ever a good thing in the service industry?
Right? He prices things fairly and he fixes things right. And what
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slab foundation repair. I'm gonna go up now we're going to go back to
mail mel. I guess we've got some more to talk about, right yeah.
Well, Also, by the way, I just side note, I
like the music you play, so that's cool. Thank you. We go
all over the place, so sometimes sometimes it gets weird. Yeah, that's
all right. Hey, uh, you know, back to my moles,
I've got all kinds of stuff. Do you know anything about getting rid of
those critters because they just kind of mole under everything and may dig all these
tunnels. I'm afraid to uproot plants or whatever. Right, Well, not
being a wildlife expert, I'm going to refer you to a place that knows
everything about it. Okay, if you go to there's a website at A
and M that all of the like horticulture publications and wildlife publications and all canning
food and everything else. It's called Agrolife Learn. So it's a g R
I L I F E L E A r N dot Okay dot t A
m U Texas A and M University t A m U dot E d U.
And if you go there and type in moles or gophers or you know
any kind of wildlife issues, you'll get a publication that's free to download that
will tell you all about it. If you's if baiting is part of the
deal, it'll tell you how to do it. If you know those traps
are part of the deal, will it will tell you what to do Okay,
I appreciate it. And as far as as far as the grubs,
you'd say, that's probably not an issue. I don't think it is.
Nat could be. I mean, if you have ornamental grasses and things in
your flower bed, that could be an issue. But just finding some is
not the problem. It's it's the quantity that that is the problem. Got
it, appreciate it, Thank you very much. You bet you take care.
You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three
two one two. K t r H. Makes it easy, easy,
k t r H. Hey have you seen the new parking lot at the
Arborgate. I was out there just said that. I had a little Facebook
clip on it, just showing you the parking lot. This is a really
nice design. This isn't like asphalt or concrete. This is a special grid
that the rain water just runs right through it and it just soaks right through.
So I mean it could be a gully washer for days and you just
drive right in there. I mean, it makes it easy. You go,
you enter off Trishel Road, which is like think of it as a
little loop that leaves twenty nine excuse me, twenty nine to twenty and goes
behind Arburgate and comes back into twenty nine to twenty. So whether it's before
or after Arbrogate, you can jump on Trishe'll run around behind it and there
you are the parking lot and when you get in there, you know what
you're going to find. I mean, Arbrogate is one of those destinations that
people come from far and wide because they have everything and it's set up so
beautiful. It's one of the garden centers you just love to wander through and
look. And when you're there, you're going to find people that know what
they're talking about. They guide you to the right plants and then advise you.
I mean, you can just walk in there and ask them a question
if you want. They're there to help you have success, and they know
that that is the key. That is the key, is to help their
customers have success. So they sell you plants that do well. Here,
they give you advice that helps you have success, and that you know.
I can't tell you how many times I've in visiting with them or being out
there, I just see them interacting with customers and I just realized, Yep,
that's why they're here and doing well because they know how to take care
of of the folks that come and visit. When you're there, take advice
that I give all the time, and that is get the soil right before
you put the plant in the ground. And they've got you set up with
a three bag system. It's a food, organic food complete, organic soil
complete, and organic compost complete. So a food that feeds anything with roots,
a soil that does have expanded shale in it, by the way,
and a compost that has expanded shale. With those three together will will create
that perfect roots environment so your plants can thrive. And it's all at the
Arborgate. You can go to the website arborgate dot com. You can follow
them on social media. But whatever you do, go out and visit.
This afternoon wouldn't be a bad day to go do that at the arbor Gate.
Let's see. I'm going to head now out to Santa Fe and talk
to Terry. Hello, Terry, Hey, Skip, good morning morning.
Hey, I have a bad case of dollar weed. Okay, Now,
I went through the drought like everybody did. Everybody else did, and h
third of my front yard is but dollar weed, and they're starting to look
like the seed put out seeds. I'm kind of worried about. I need
to get rid of it. Yeah, yeah, no, can Well.
Dollar weed is the first of all, it is encouraged by wet conditions.
So anything you can do to alleviate continual extra moist conditions would be very very
helpful. Okay, So that would mean not overwatering, That might mean redirecting
drainage, you know, from one one place to another, anything you can
do along those lines. That would be step one. Then as far as
dealing with the dollar weed that you have in there, there are a number
of different products that you can put out that will control it, that will
do pretty good at controlling it post emergent, now that you've already got it
and it's growing. There's a product called Image, the regular Image. It's
not all there's a bunch of different things now that go by the name of
Image, but the standard regular Image would work really well. If you wanted
to do like a fertile loan weed free zone that would also control dollar weed,
you could use that as well. So either way you want to go,
I'd probably try the fertile loan weed free zone first. But remember on
these things, when the temperatures get up warmer. Those effective products can be
a little stressful damaging to the grass. So get it done soon within I'd
say, within the next week or two if possible, and do it.
Do the spray early in the morning so that it can dry off before the
temperatures get up in the upper eighties. Right, I put barricade down in
October. Okay, bar can huh. But I still have the dollar weed.
But it looks like they're starting to seed. I guess a little yellow
things on top of them. Okay, well they they might as well.
I need to check the barricade label on the dollar weed. Off the top
of my head, I cannot remember if that if that particular product for that
particular weed. Barricade controls a lot of grasses and broad leaf weeds. I
just need to I need to be sure before I would tell you yes absolutely
on that one. What would it hurt if I put it down anyway or
the No, it wouldn't hurt. Just follow the able and do it according
to the label. Okay, Okay, do you yeah? Yeah, go
ahead. Do you recommend us a hose type tied onto your hose and spray
well the way Barricade's a granule. So you're gonna put it out with a
fertilizer type spreader set to poly barricade. Oh yeah, I'll talk about the
ms though. Oh the image could be a spray. You get it on
the foldage. You need a surfactant because dollarweed has a slick leaf and a
surfactant makes spray stick. So when you buy that, make sure and buy
the surfactant. Hey, I've got a run for a break terry. But
good luck in getting that one under control. And thanks for the call.
I appreciate that. We'll be right back. The phone number is seven one
three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us today. Hey, what do you want to talk about?
We will talk about that. Seven one three two one two k t
r H. ACE Hardware Stores is the place. ACE is the place where
you fill in the blank. What do you need? Do you need fertilizer
for your lawn? Yep, they've got it. Everything I talk about on
gardland, they've got it. Do you need pest control? Disease control?
We control you know. I was telling talking to someone earlier about a couple
of things to control things in the lawn. Ace has got it. And
there's forty ACE Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area, so it's easy,
easy to find one. Just go to Acehardware dot com, Acehardware dot Com,
use the store locator, or when you load ASE Hardware, just say
yeah, you can use my location this time, and you'll get this great
little map with red dots all over the place, and that is ACE.
They're going to have things that are very timely too, like fire ant control
time to get out to fire ant bait. They have the individual mound treatments
that two weeks after baiting if you need. If you have some mounds that
you missed, you can hit those with the individual treatment. They've got mosquito
controls everything from repellence to the granules and dunks and things that stop the mosquitos
by putting them in water and controlling the little larvae. They've got foggers and
whatever you need to do to make your outdoor patio enjoyable, beautiful place even
more beautiful and entertaining. ACE is a place for that everything. To get
you set up and ready to go. We are going to go to Joseph
and Katie. Now, Hello Joseph, Hello, good morning, morning.
So I've got a couple of items for you. Number One, I've got
a company that comes out and fertilizes my yard, and they come out about
every six weeks and lay down fertilizer, and for the most part, my
lawn looks really good. But I've got areas where the grass has virtually disappeared,
and all I've got is dirty, and I don't know whether the best
way forward is to put down new sod or do I need to do something
else. Yeah, So here's how I approach that, Joseph. If you've
got grass, let's say within a foot foot and a half of each other,
Like you know, there's a living sprays or plugs here, and then
a put a half away, it'll close back over. We're proper fertilizing by
the time we get into through the summer. If it's further than that,
you probably need to plug some things in or put some sawd in, or
if it's really bad, just reside the whole area. Because every time you
have that bare soil, you're gonna be fighting weeds on it. And that's
the challenge out there. So I would I would just make the decision based
on that, All right, All right, And then I had I had
Randy come out to my house a few years back. And the problem is
that at the back of my fence, and I'm right on a commercial site
is right behind me, and I've got areas at my back fence where the
ground is falling down. And he had said that he felt that when the
can instruction on the house was done, they didn't properly tie off the ground
at the back of the of the the yard. And so he had recommended
a company that would come out and look and and give me some advice on
that, and I tried calling them several times and I never got a call
back. So I wanted to see if you had any companies in mind that
might be able to come out and have a look and be able to Are
you telling me give me some advice? Are you talking about bringing in soil
or what? What do you want? So? Well, So, hey,
jose I'm sorry to interruption. I can see this is gonna be one
that I'm going to have hard time solving on the air. I want to
put you on hold and will you email me some pictures and the details and
let me have a chance to kind of look into that and I'll get right
back to maybe a better answer that way, U, And I'm going to
put you on hold. Don't don't go away, Joshua Pickop and he will
get you an email. Please send me some pictures from different angles with a
little bit of a description of what you were starting to tell me there on
the air. Okay, okay, thank you. I think that'll work a
lot better for us. If you're looking at fertilizing and you have done it
this spring yet, maybe you did one early on, but if it's been
like you did a fast release early on and it's been a month or two,
it's time to go ahead and do your summer treatments. And here's what
I would recommend, Slow and easy from Nelson's It gradually feeds that lawn over
months, I mean four months from now, it's still going to be releasing
some nitrogen into your soil. Slow and Easy is designed to give you that
nice gradual feeding because that creates a better root growth balance with the top.
You have a more resilient, a more drought resilient a grass plant as a
result, and it just continues to help that grass get denture and denture.
Now. Bruce is Bruce another good one. It's got more of its nitrogen
in an immediate release form, with just a little bit in a slow release
as well, so it's not totally immediate release. You could do a couple
of applications through the summer of Bruces brew and go that route. If you
prefer slow and easy. That's the Cadillac to give you that. What you
apply it, now you're done. I mean it's taken you all the way
into your fall. Fertilization works really well, and again it's part of that
turf Star line from Nelson Plant Food. Let's see, I want to go
to We're going to Copperfield now and talk to Adam. Hello, Adam,
Hey, good morning, good morning. We have a oak tree, a
twenty plus year old oak tree in our front yard, and four days ago
it is started shedding leaves very rapidly. The leaves have a black speckled spots
on the back of the leaves. They're very green and fresh. I'm just
curious if it's insect ridden or a disease, or if it's just trying to
conserve itself because of drought of water. Can we talk about live oak tree?
No, No, I believe it's a red oak, a red oak
black spec Okay, well the specs if they're just on the back, I
don't have to think about that one. The diseases that would get on the
red oak leaves typically go all the way through the leaf. Whether it's a
fungal leaf spot or something bacterial, you have to be able to turn the
leaf over and see it on either side. If it's on the back,
it may be something more superficial. There are some algal and related types of
organisms that can cause just a spot. You see it on magnolia's with a
little gray spots. You see it on live oaks with the little tar spots,
and red oak can have it too. Why the leaves are coming off,
I don't know right now. They shouldn't be, but it could be
anything from are they coming off individually or are you getting little ends of branches
with a bunch of leaves on them? No, I mean it's the entire
tree. Like four days has probably took twenty five percent of our leaves of
the tree. Wow, Adam, once again, I'm going to ask you
to give me an email. Send me an email, let me see a
picture of the tree, and then get a whole bunch of leaves and lay
them down on table and take a good close up, well focused photo.
Let me look at that, so I'm picturing what you're describing correctly, and
I'll reply with what I think is going on there. Okay, I certainly
appreciate that. Thank you, you bet it. Put you on hold right
now and Josh will pick up and send you that email. All right,
Well, here we go. We are heading into another top of the hour
break. Morning's flying by. We'll be back in a little bit. My
phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H. If
you would like to call Josh by the way, tell him, tell him
wish him well. This is Josh's last day with guard Line and I'm sad
to see him go. He's been a great support for me here. He
and I kind of jumped on somewhat close to the same time. And anyway,
do definitely want to wish Josh well, So say hey, say hey
to Josh when you call in today. Freda, I see out there.
I know you've been waiting. We're going to get to you very first when
we come back from break. We just have had quite a few folks calling
in this morning. I want to remind you that next week I'm going to
be at Wildbirds Unlimited in Paarland. Wildbird's Unlimited in Pairland, that's on East
Broadway down in Pairland. I'll be doing this after the show, so it'll
be starting at eleven thirty and go into one thirty and I'll be there to
answer your gardening questions. And you know, come see me. You can
bring samples in, you bring photos in, we can talk about anything you
want. Bring your bird questions in. And while you're in there, you're
going to see a really cool store. Hey, save your mother's day shopping
because you definitely will want to do that at Wildbird's. Katrh garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
to a c r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's so crazy,
Trim, just watch him as fill us so many crazy. Welcome back
to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We are here to
answer your gardening questions. At seven one three two one two k t r
H. I was visiting with Ian actually via text email Nature's Way and we
were conversing. Basically, the topic was about the leaf mo compost and the
fungal compost, and uh, he was telling me that he had done a
little kind of a test on the the products, and you know, we
always talk about the importance of leaf mole compost is super super high quality product
that, by the way, was created there at Nature's Way resources. They're
the ones that that's where it was originated. And the leaf the fungel based
composts are also a super high quality product and a finely screened down to I
think three eighths of an inch or something, little bitty particles that just fall
in between the grass blades. He had done a little trial where he put
the leaf more compost and the fungal screened compost side by side as a top
dressing on laun and basically they both performed very very well. And so that
was eye opening for me, you know, because I know all the products
they make are good products. I mean they John Ferguson has been a student
of soil science for a very very long time and he knows what he's doing
out there, and he and n now are putting out just a lot of
quality products at Nature's Way. Whether you need a rose soil or a leaf
mole compost. The nice thing about the the fungal based compost information is you
know they still have their fungal Fridays. It's ten percent off all the bag
products and twenty percent off all the bulk. And so do you need a
load of that delivered to your house, they can put it right there on
the driveway and you can go right to town if you want to do your
own top dressing, or if you want to use it as an amendment in
flower beds. There is a mulch on the surface of the far I mean,
how do you want to use it? Nine three six three two one
sixty nine ninety. That's the number for Nature's Way Resources ninety three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. They're up on Interstate forty five almost to Conro
and it's just really easy to get there. If you want to go out
and pay them a visit. While you're there, leave some room in the
car for some of the cool native plants that they grow, or that they
I say grow they sell there from the place they also grow them. We're
going to go now to Pasadena and talk to Frida. Frida, you get
the Patience Award of the Week. Thank you. So much for hanging on.
Thank you. Actually, I'll talk to you yesterday about my Peggy Martin
Rose bush. I was expecting well, I ordered that, you know,
online, and I wound up with four cuttings instead of a bush. And
yeah, and it came with instructions to use perlite, let's find bark,
mulch, sand, and pearlite to mooted with. So I went to Low's
and they didn't have any kind of mixture like that. I had to buy
a sack of each. And so then I went to another little place here
in Pasadena that was kind of an interesting place. It's called Everlasting Earth unless
you've ever heard of them. But they didn't have anything either, but they
did have they make their own flower of flower mulch okay. And then so
I bought a sack of bad It was not I'm really being bag, but
I bought a sack of that and and perlite. And but then I got
to thinking, hey, no, I think I need to call Skip and
see what he has to say about how to root these short of him and
to buy you know, big bags of stuff that I won't use right right?
Oh boy, Well that's that's that's interesting that they sent you unrooted cuttings
to yeah road, all right, So here's here's what you need to do.
You need to get you some rooting hormone, and you can get it.
Typically it's sold as a powder in garden centers and stores, but there's
sometimes are liquid forms. If you go to you got Nace hardware over there,
not too far away from over in Deer Park on Center Street. It's
called Deer Park lumber Ace. They're going to have a rooting hormone on the
shelf there, okay, and you can do that. You want to take
the cuttings, I don't how long are they? How many inches long?
Oh? They're probably about eight or ten inches long? Oh wow? Okay,
well I would cut cut those in half. Are there leaves all the
way up and down the cutting or not? Now there's no leaves at all
on Now you know, I'm not good at measurements, so I'm not sure
how long they or let me look at the think about it. Think about
a piece of typing paper, a little printed paper. Okay, they're probably
about six inches long? Maybe. Okay, well let's just go with one.
Then what you're gonna do is you're gonna dip the bottom inch into In
fact, I would at the bottom where they cut them. Do you see
any callous forming or is it just like it got cut with scissors? I
mean the printers and that's it. Okay, I don't know. I don't
have to look at them. Well, you know what, I don't want
to have to do all that, But just just dip these things in rooting
hormone, the bottom inch of them in a rooting hormone, okay, powder,
and then put them into you can put them into a regular potting soil
if if you want to that that is okay. If you peer light is
it drains better and you have less problems with rot. And so when you
go to this ace, you're gonna probably find little bags of pearlte too.
You can you can mix two little things together. Well, you get a
little per lighte and a little bit of a of a PD kind of a
potting soil kind of material. But you want to put the bottom about an
inch deep, maybe an inch and a half deep in the pear lighter potting
soil kind of firm it in a little bit and then cover it with something
clear. So I've done this many ways. I've used cut the bottom out
of a two liter coke bottle, you know, to put over the top
like a greenhouse. I've put them in a box, like a rubber made
type box with a clear lid over it. I've put them. I've used
saran wrap over the you know, anything that holds the moisture all in and
allows light in. And then you want it in a bright spot, but
not in direct sunlight, and it's gonna take it any rate. Did you
say, I'm trying to write this down. Okay, okay, okay.
I got to the point where you talked about the rubber maid box, and
then what you say, yeah, let me let me scratch the rubber maid
with just doing one or two in or three or four that it's not just
get you, get you something that you can put them in that will hold
that moisture in and something clear to go over the top. I would probably
say saran wrap might be the easiest way. If you've got a bread wrapper,
an old bread wrapper, you could slip over the top and slide it
down. You're just creating a little temporary greenhouse to hold the moisture in and
allow light. Okay, okay, put it in a bright spot, not
direct sunlight. Make sure it stays moist. You may need to miss it
with a little water once or twice, just because it is gonna dry out
a little bit. And then hopefully within two or three weeks you should begin
to get some roots on it. But you'll know it's got roots and is
growing when you see buds start to grow. But don't don't hurry up and
pull them right up and try to plant them. Give them a little bit
of time. Once the leaves are coming on, you can take the bag
off the top and allow them to have full access to the air, and
then probably within a month, go ahead and pot them up. Okay,
okay, So how often should you sprint them? Sprint them with water just
enough to keep it moist inside there. You're creating a humidity chamber, is
what you're doing. I know I do that when I first gets the bag
do it? Tell you what freedom do I keep? Let me put you
on hold. I'm gonna I'm gonna have Josh pick it up and give you
my email address. Will you email me and I will send you a publication
on how to do this? And I think that'd be the easiest way.
Okay, okay, okay, just hang on. In the meantime, what
I do with my coddings, put me water, put them in moist paper
towels, and put the moist paper towels in a plastic bag and put them
in the refrigerator. You're gonna get this from me fast. Don't worry about
that, all right, you bet. Thank you for the call. Appreciate
that. Hey, I have to run to a break here. Sandy and
Terry, you'll be the first up when we come back. Our phone number
seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy
with us today. You are listening to a show that is dedicated to helping
you have a more bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what we're here
for to answer your gardening questions. The Anti Rosing Porium is one way that
you can have a more beautiful landscape, that is for sure. You know
they're up in Independence, Texas and it is a great little drive out into
the country not too far and you go out there and it's like you enter
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just to see the place, much less to get the roses. They have
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That two gallon container allows them to grow a little bit bigger, more
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they're not just roses, although they definitely are roses, but they have so
much more. You can get fruit, trees and flowers, lots and lots
of native species. They even have house plans and herbs there the Antique Rosing
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Antique Roseiemporium dot com and look at the upcoming events tab. You want to
do that now. On May eleventh, from nine to noon, you can
treat your mama to a memorial morning surrounded by nature's beauty and their nursery and
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yourself flower bar, an opportunity for a mini session photo shoot. I mean,
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the tickets again, Anti gu Rosenporum dot com. That's the website. Here's
the phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. We're
gonna now go to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy,
good morning, Yes morning are you? I'm very well? Thank you
for taking my call. I have a question about my my okras. They
have holes in the lead okay, and I put Captain Jackson it okay,
And you say not to use the same thing every time, so I use
meme oil okay, have time on the front and the back of the lead.
Yes, my egments are doing wonderful, but my oprahs aren't. And
I don't know what's going on. What do you when you say doing wonderful,
you mean they're not meaning they're getting more holes? Or what do you
mean by not doing more? Yeah, we're getting more holes? You know
what. Okra is one tough plant, and I have never in my life
felt like I had so many holes I needed spray it. I'll be honest
with you now, it could happen. I'm not saying you don't have a
lot of holes, and it isn't time to shut things down. But if
it's eating holes in an okra leaf, it's got chewing mouth parts and spinosid
should work. That's the Captain Jacks I believe has spinosid in it. The
anime also should work on leaf feeding beetles and caterpillars. So I'm not sure
why that you're getting more in there. But those two products both work,
and I just I mean, I could tell you a different insecticide, but
obviously you're trying to stay organic with those two choices, and those are your
two best organic products. If you turn leaves over, you're not seeing a
caterpillars hiding anywhere, no, okay. And it's only on my not my
green oakra. It's on my red burgundy oakras, okay. And those are
the ones I'm having a lot of time with. Well, again, just
to loop back, I'm questioning whether they it's a it's a problem or not,
whether you have enough leaf loss for it to be a problem. I
don't know why those two products aren't working. The only other thing would be
to switch to a different insecticide. Uh somesynthetic insecticide to go after them.
But I don't know, Well, use the Can I try the Captain Jacks
again? Oh yeah, you sure can. Yep. Just follow the label
and mixing it, spray it on top and the bottom of the leaves,
and that that ought to shut it down. Okay, okay, all right,
thanks so much, all right anything you bet you too. I appreciate
that call. Told. I talked to about Sweet Green a little bit earlier
today. And sweet Green is that product that is a molasses based microbially built
if you will product that is by nitroposs. It's that's eleven percent nitrogen in
it and it smells wonderful. You put it down, you water it in,
it just dissolves in and when you get into the soil bent official microbes
like bacteria especially, they love that molasses type base that really and rejuvenates them,
if you will, and gets them fired up and going. Sweet Green
is widely available. You can get it just like other night Fosh products that
growers outlet up there in Willis. You can go to Enchanted Forest out in
the Richmond Rosenberg area or RCW Nursery up on Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight.
All good places where you can go and get that product. I want to
go now to Lake Conrae and we're going to talk to Teres. Hello Teres,
good morning Skipping. Thanks so much for having me on your program.
I have a couple of questions. My issue is my hydrangees. I have
four plants. They're only about a couple of months old, and they were
so beautiful when we bought them. They were blue, and you know what,
they have turned green. And I know that's supposed to be age,
I believe, but anyway, I was about to turn I do have them
on a drip line, you know, for deep rooting, for deep deep
watering, you know, deep root watering, right, And so I guess
one of my questions, how number one? How long do I I've had
them on for thirty minutes every like three days something like that, every three
days. Oh water, deep water them and so they've turned brown and pink,
you know, so am I overwatering? Is there a way to what
do I ever get the color back? The beautiful blue? Are they?
Are they old? How do I revive them? Okay, they're away?
Well the brown is the old old blooms, and those are actually used in
dried arrangements. Sometimes they're even dyed or painted or something like that. But
with adranges, if you make the soul more acidic, it makes the blooms
more blue. If you make the soil higher pH and I don't mean like
super high pH, but like six point five range, then you're going to
get a pink flower. So it and there's a variation between cultivars of hydrangaes
or varieties of headrangas, in their tendency toward a color. But what I
would suggest, if you want to go from pink to blue, you can
buy something called aluminum sulfate and you put one table one tablespoon in a gallon
of water and put it in your watering can and drench it all around all
around the plant, and that will help move that pH toward more acidic,
and it will move the bloom color toward more blue. And you would just
do that as needed. Aluminum sulfate is widely available in little bags and garden
centers as needed, So how do I know when they need it? Is
well needed? Meaning if the color is kind of going from blue, you
know, in toward a purplesh on its way to pink or something, then
you would want to add more again, if you want your her dren just
to stay blue, I see wonderful. Oh, so there's hope for them,
absolutely absolutely, as far as watering water enough to keep them moist not
soggy. But they don't like to dry out. So it depends on your
soil. It depends on how much sun they're in, and it depends on
the temperature. So I can't tell you water them, you know, twice
a week or four times a week or it just depends on all that.
But you reach down, feel the soil, keep it moist. They'll tell
you. If they get a little dry, you'll see a little wiltiness on
them, and that means you need to just water them a little more often,
but avoid keeping them. Don't make it a swamp, okay. And
you know they're planted around a pear tree, and our soil out here is
very clay, like you know, but the soil is good enough for the
tree. But does that tend to change things at all? Uh? Anytime
plants are around each other, it changes things. But I wouldn't worry about
that at all. I think you're in I think you're on the right track.
Just to follow those things I was suggesting, and I think you're going
to have success that along with a little bit of fertilizer here and there,
and choose a fertilizer for acid loving plants, for example, Microlife. Microlife
has a pink bag and it's got a sulfur addition in it that helps produce
more acidity in the soil. So Microlife. Find the pink bag of Microlife
and use that to fertilize your hedranges. It's an organic food, it's going
to gradually release. Just spread it around the plants, scratch it in underneath
the plants, and that will also help move them toward blue and Microlife you
can find it everywhere. If you don't know, go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com and that'll point you to it. But the pink bag is the one
you want for Microlife. Okay, okay, okay. Do I have time
for a quick question on geraniums are yellow? Yes? If it's really really
quick, yes, go ahead. Just that the leaves on the geranium they're
not you know, the little the new blooms have kind of drooped and the
leaves are yellow. So uh, new blooms drooping could be truly drying out
too much, or it could just be their their spent and they're they're on
their way out. The leaves turning yellow is usually a sign of a watering
problem in the soil on the geraniums, So to wet to dry, just
watch out for either extreme. Uh. They can stay a little on the
dry side and be okay, not too much, but just a little bit.
They if you keep them too wet, they're gonna get root rots,
and then that leads to the loss of the whole plant. Okay, okay,
good luck. That helps a lot. Thank you so much. All
right, thank you for the call. Hey, have you've been to Chanted
Gardens done in Richmond? In Enchanted Gardens? And let me give you the
website first, because you want to write this one down. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. And the reason I say that is when you go to the
website, you're going to find a wealth of information. You need to sign
up for the newsletter so you can find out what's going on there. They've
got a great stock of plumerias. In yesterday I was saying, you need
to grow something different, do something you never done. Have you ever grown
a plumeria? A lot of people haven't and they're not hard to grow.
They are not that hard to grow, and they have a good selection there
at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. That's the garden center on three fifty nine FM
three fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond and you're going toward the Katie
fullsher direction h FM three fifty nine, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. They're open
today from ten am to four pm. So get out there and check them
out. It's an enchanting place and you'll see why we call it one of
our destination garden centers. People love the drive there because I mean, they
got everything you need. We're going to take a break for Nicky and the
news my number seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, welcome
back to garden I good, hey, you with us today. We are
talking about everything plans, everything thing plants. So what do you want to
talk about? Seven one three two one two kt RH. Those of you
up in Montgomery, you know your hometown garden center that is Ana Plants,
Ana Plants and Produce. So try it on one O five on the way,
let's say the Conro side, the east side of Montgomery. Now,
Ana Plants is a place where you can go and get any kind of things
you want. They always have good color in there. They've got wonderful bling
in the landscape. I always like to go in and look at the different
kinds of art work. You know that you could hang out metal art and
signs and just all kinds of decorations, things like chim And as for the
patio, they they always are stocked up well on that. They also are
always stocked up well on the fertilizers that I talk about on guard line.
You know, if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, Ana Plants and
Produce has got it. They got a landscape crew that can come out and
work on your homes. If you're up there in the Lake Conroe area,
for example, call Ana Plant and Produce and find out, you know,
talk about what you need done and what they can do. And when you
go by you I'm talking about all the fertilizers. Grab you some of that
nitrofus nineteen four ten, the slow release by nitroposs the silver bag that is
half of the nitrogen. Half of that nineteen percent nitrogen is slow release and
it's going to feed for three months or more out there in your landscape,
real nice, gradual feed. It's got iron in it to help with color
and color. You know, nitrogen adds green color or causes the plant to
develop the green color, but iron is very important in that. And a
lot of our Saint Augustine lawns get these little yellowish areas because of a lack
of iron reaching the leaves. This product four percent iron nitrofus superture can help
avoid that, avoid that problem or remedy. If you've already got it,
you can go to the woodlands to all spas ace and you can find it
there. Also, in addition, if you're not out in the A and
A plant and produce area, you can come down to Plants for all seasons
on two forty nine, or you can go up to random plants and things.
Lots of places to get the super turf nineteen four to ten by Nitrofoss.
We're going to now head out to Richmond and talk to Karen. Hello
Karen, good morning Skip. I have a question regarding my broccoli. I
have a small bed maybe just eight or ten plants, and they've been beautiful,
They've done great. I'm now getting the broccoli and it's not that real.
Rich blue green color. I've got yellow mixed in with all of them.
Okay, what is it generally like an older well, is it an
older leaf that's kind of generally turning yellow or are you seeing yellow spots on
the leaves and the brown they're brown more in the middle of the spot and
yellow on the outsides. No, the leaves of the plants themselves are just
normal. I don't see any thing, you know, on them at all.
I was out yesterday looking for stuff I've discovered that, you know,
I'm actually making the broccoli, and on about six of the plants that I
have, there's just small heads forming and they're all yellowly green over the heads.
Yeah, sometimes there's some nutrient issues that can arise that can cause yellowing
or browning. Ultimately, browning of a head is long. Really, what's
in your power right now at this point in the season is to make sure
they have adequate water and continue to provide them with a moderate dose of nitrogen
fertilizer to encourage new growth. There's not a spray for it, there's not
a treatment for it like that. Hopefully they'll pull out of it and be
fine. But occasionally I have seen situations where you get a yellowing and a
browning of the head, and it's just because something's not making it up there.
It's either not in the soil or there's issues with the roots being able
to take up the nutrients. But when we hit this point, there's just
no like quick fix. We'll go go do this, although I would try
giving them a light dose of nitrogen and see if that If that helps,
Okay, perfect, Okay, good luck Karen, bye bye. That is
important. I forgot to remind her that advice is free. But I need
half that broccoli delivered to the radio station as a thank you gift if if
my suggestion works. Gosh, hey, yesterday I was out at South lest
Fertilizer. Great place to go. You know, I love going there.
I talk about it all the time. But we were out there visiting with
folks. A lot of you came by, brought me all kinds of questions
and things, and we had a good time. Gave way some skip Bucks.
You guys got a lot of great products. We were out there.
We gave a way, or Bob gave a way. After the appearance people
that won the Toro, there's a leaf blower. I think there was a
weed trimmer I believe was the other one. Two battery operated devices by Toro
Quality Company. He won those as well. I want to thank Medina for
giving us some samples of things to put out there. We had a really
good time. Well, you know, Bob's always got everything that you need.
And I was walking through as I always do yesterday, just looking at
all the products. I mean, the fertilizers. Do you want organic?
Do you want synthetic? Do you want liquid? Do you want solid?
Do you want immediate release? Do you want slow release? Everything I mentioned
on guardline and then some and then we were people were coming in and they
had this weed or that thing or that malady. And I mean it's just
without a doubt. I mean, Bob would have three or four or five
different options for just about everything that people were coming in with questions about,
because that's what he does. He stays up on top. If a new
product arrives on the market, Bob's going to get it. He's going to
have it. And that includes things like that folding kneeling bench that I brag
about all the time. That's a great device. You can sit on it
as a bench, you can flip it upside down and kneel on it,
and when you flip it upside down, the legs or your handles to get
back up. If you're north of forty, you know what I mean by
getting up and getting down and getting up and getting down working in the garden
through a day, it takes a toll. That kneeling bench is really cool,
really slick. He's got a good stock of those, and he has
the you know, the three sixty tree stabilizer that we talk about out there.
I mean, you know, Bob has always made sure and carry anything
that's going to be something to help you have success in the garden. And
Southwest Fertilizer if you haven't been there, you need to go. It's on
the corner of bis Sinett and Renwick done in Southwest Houston and the website just
write this down Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And thanks thanks to Bob and the
folks at Southwest. Good to see Aaron and a lot of the jobs.
There's a lot of a lot of good folks are very not eligible. When
you walk in, they're gonna they're gonna know what to do to diagnose and
to direct you to have success and turn turn the corner on things. If
you'd like to give us a call today, our number is seven one three
two one two k t r H seven one three two on two k t
r H. Just reminding you again, today's Josh, my producer's last day,
and I am sad to see him go. From the time I came
on board, Josh had just come on board, and we've had a really
good working relationship. Uh. He keeps me out of the ditches, and
so I don't know, things may get wild and wooly here on garden Line
when he heads out the door, but he's had a full time job just
keeping this host going. Uh. But anyway, give him a call and
say, hey, Josh hates you go, thank you for the things you've
done. Seven one three two one two k t r H. And he'll
send you over to me. We can talk about the things that are of
interest to you. Out in Kingwood. You got Kingwood Garden Center and you
got Warnings Southern Gardens both outstays nurseries. You're very fortunate out there to have
two good nurseries right there in your backyard. Warren Southern Gardens. They're always
getting something new as a shipment in there's always something cool and right now the
color is outstanding. I mean all kinds of beautiful flowering plants. They've got
a little vinka, you know, venka. I call it Madagascar. Periwinkle
is another name. Vinka is what most people call it. It's different than
the groundcover venka. This is a little annual flowering plant that goes through heat
like nobody. It just laughs at heat. You throw it on your barbecue
pit when you're grilling burgers. Five minutes later, lift the lid and it's
just laugh and having a good time. And that this plant can take heat,
I'm telling you. And it comes in pink, it comes in shades
of pink, and it comes in white typically, but they have one called
Sorri Kawaii, not h Hawaii, but Kawaii venka. And it's like a
little dwarf venka. Just imagine making shrunk down. The leaves are smaller,
the blooms are smaller, but it's still blooms and blooms and blooms. And
I think it would be one of the best plants you could choose to put
in a mixed container because of its stature and the form of the plant.
Excellent when you're at Warrans Garden Center, say show me that dwarf vinka that
you've got, and they'll show you and it is really really cool stuff.
We're going to take a break. Time for a break. I'll be back
at seven one three two one two katrh We welcome back to the garden line.
It is early in the morning. We got a little cloudy day here
today, but that ain't gonna stop us gardeners. We have got plenty of
things we can be working on out and about in the garden. If you
have planted a tree, if you're gonna plant a tree, three sixty tree
stabilizer is what you need to know about. It is a strong plastic arm
that grabs the post and grabs the tree. And I said post, not
posts. You know, we used to put three posts and guy wires.
You had to go buy wires. You had to get garden hose and cut
them up to put them around the branch so you don't cut into the tree,
and then you trip over them when you're trying to mow around them.
No one tea post hammered into the ground just pretty close to the tree,
actually very close to the tree. These three sixties are not that long,
and it attaches to the tea post or it'll attach to another post. They
have two different versions of it. And then it grabs a tree and allows
a little bit of movement, which is important for building strength. Anytime you
bend in stress plants, you end up getting stronger plants. And it lasts
forever. I mean it's a very durable product. So you're going to have
it and your neighbor plants a tree. You can loan it to your neighbor
to do that too. I mean it's that easy, widely available. You
can go Southwest Fertilizer or just talking about they had them there RCW Buchanans arbor
gaate plants for all seasons. They have them in all those places you go
on south to Alvins and Jorges Hidden Gardens or Hay carries them down there as
well. Three sixty Tree Stabilizer. It is the best most innovative thing I
have seen in decades for securing a tree and helping it get off to a
good start. Let's head out to Katie now and we're going to talk to
Doug. Hello, Doug Skip, good morning, sir. I'm remembering here
on the not too distant past. You had a gentleman on that was talking
about honeybees. Yes, sir, I did. Okay. The reason I'm
calling is uh uh a company I worked for, they had some material that
was stored out in the back and the weeds, and we were moving that
out there, trying to trying to get that moved out the other day.
And thankfully the forklift driver was in a totally enclosed forklift because he uh,
when he went to move one piece of equipment, there was a large honey
bee nest there and uh, he got they got them all stirred up.
Yeah, I bet they did. Oh yeah. And and the reason I'm
calling is I have some vague recollection that these guys, the gentleman you talked
to, or the organization he was, if that that you know, they're
obviously for preserving honeybees and that sort of thing, rather than just you know,
killing killing something like this off would would they have any interest in coming
out and trying to you know, collect those bees, Doug, You'd have
to ask them. I'm gonna give you you got a pin or paper paper,
I'm ready, all right, I'm gonna give you the website. It's
the thebesupply dot com, the b supply dot Com and they're out in Dayton,
Texas, so they're kind of a little northeast of downtown Houston. Are
okay? And uh, you would need to call them though what they They
may do that, but they may also refer you to some bee keepers that
will go out and get swarms and and and and whatnot. I don't know
offhand. I know that you know they there are a lot of things like
you're describing going on, and I don't know if they chase all that down
or not, but I would definitely talk to them about it, okay,
because they they know bees. I don't know any Paul Fagala is the guy
I had on over the Believe it is over the holidays, and the guy
knows more about bees than anybody I know so well. I've heard on on
on your show and otherwise that you know, honeybee populations are in decline and
and would seem like not the smart thing to do to just go out there
and eradicate them. But well, yeah, and but I tell you that
with good companies like B Supply and the products they sell, people are we
are seeing a resurgence in honeybees because when you tend for them and take care
of them, Uh, there's a lot you can do. You know.
They have they have tests that they can get. They got diseases they can
get, but that can all be managed. And so we're we're seeing a
resurgence thanks to people like the B Supply that that know how to keep keeping
skip. Just to confirm, what is the correct spelling of that website again?
Okay, it's I'm gonna spell it letter by letter T th H E
B E E supp l y. Okay, thebsupply dot com. Just give
them a call out there and see what they can do for you. I'll
definitely do that, sir. Appreciate your help. All right, thank you,
I appreciate appreciate that call. Yeah, the B Supply they keep innovating
out there too. First of all, those of you listening that have a
backyard garden, if you want more productivity, better pollination, what about putting
a hive in your backyard, you can do that. You know, even
in the city you can do that. There's regulations on you know, you
can't put it right underneath your neighbor's backyard window or something. I don't know.
They have regulations, but you can do it in the backyard. You
make honey for yourself and then you become the little honey producer there. In
addition to getting the benefit, they also do a b rental program and that's
for folks of five to twenty acres that are within fifty miles of Dayton.
Go to the website dbsupply dot com check out the b rental program. When
you put those bs on your property. When they put those on your property,
they also tend them and so that is an agricultural exemption. Bee keeping
is an agricultural exemption too, so it helps a little bit on your taxes
as well as being part of you know, managing honeybee hives. They just
come out and do that makes it really really easy. You can also take
classes. They have all kinds of classes. I mean, the beekeeping class,
a honey extraction class come up this fall. They're going to do a
candle making class that'll be fun, and a mead making class. There you
go, now the beesupply dot Common, Dayton. All of that and more
that I used to keep bees when I lived in Willis. I used to
live in Willis many years ago. I had a little farm out there in
Willis and I had bees on the farm. I learned a lot about beekeeping.
But I'm telling you, every time I talked to Paul Fagal at the
Bee Supply, it's like, Okay, there's a whole new world. I
didn't know that either. So there we go. It makes it good.
Have you been to Buchanans and the Heights lately? Buchanans is one of those
It's just an iconic garden center. People all over Houston know about Buchanans.
It's just one of the destination places you want to go. And I love
going there. It's almost like you get to go to the park, you
know, that feeling of your walking through nature and whatnot. Buchanans nestled away
there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Every time you turn the corner,
you know, for you're there looking at all their native plants, and they
Buchanans Native Plants has the best selection naty plants I've seen anywhere. Just tons
of native plants. They're doing. They're celebrating the Earth Day by planning a
native tree. That's a promotion. They're saying, why don't you come and
do that? There? They were offering a discount off of native trees.
They were offering a discount off of their life below all purpose soil to get
them started. They can advise you on the tree that will do well in
your area, a native tree that will do well in your And there's a
lot of great ones, lots of great ones for here. But then you
turn a corner and you go into the shade area and you're seeing kalladiums and
all kinds of things that just perform well in the shade, from groundcovers to
color plants to foliage plants. They've got it. And you turn in another
corner and you're in near a gift shop that's outstanding. Another corner you see
the herbs and the vegetables, and then you walk into this huge greenhouse full
of nate, full of house plants. And when I say houseplants, I
mean, of course the standard things you think about, but stuff you've never
seen before. And you see stuff that's succulents that are really cool that could
be indoor or outdoor. Buchanans has it all. They're on the eleven Street
and the heights and here's the website, and the website is Buchanans Plants dot
com. Buchanansplants dot Com. I hope you wrote that down. When you
go there, you must sign up for the newsletter. It is one of
the best newsletters I've ever seen, always good information. Their website too,
has edge occasional information because they're about helping you have success. That's what a
good nursery does, and that is absolutely Buchanus Native Plants. They do that.
I love visiting garden centers. In fact, I visit them too much,
meaning every time I walk into it. You know, there's stuff you
can't live without, and so you go home with plants. That's part of
the fun thing though about it. Right, Gardening is a great hobby.
I hope you are actively involved in gardening and expanding your gardening world as you
go. You know, we're talking about things like herbs. Have you ever
grown herbs? Earlier I was talking about plumeria. Have you ever grown a
plumeria? Beautiful Hawaiian layflower people come to your house. You can just pick
a bunch of flowers, string them up and put them around their neck and
say welcome to Hawaii. In my backyard, there's a lot of fun things
we can do with plants, and we need to be continuing to try new
things. Don't be afraid you're going to kill a plant. A famous horticulturist
once said you got to kill a lot of plants to be a good hortic,
and that is true. We don't want to kill them, but don't
be afraid to. We learn that way. We learn by getting out.
We also learned by listening to Garden Line. At least I hope we do.
That's what we're here for. If you want to get on the boards
with Josh when we come back from our top of the hour news break here,
you could be the first one up seven one three two one two k
t R seven one three two one two k t r H. Next Saturday,
the fourth of May, Wall Birds Unlimited in Pairland. That is on
East Broadway Street in Pairland, Wall Birds Unlimited. It will be there from
eleven thirty to one thirty doing what I always do at appearances. I look
at samples, I look at pictures, I visit with folks that listen to
Guardlane. To help you have success, come to Wallbirds and don't do your
mother's day shopping until you do that. Because Wabirds is loaded with awesome ideas
that your mom will h see you next Saturday out there. Katie r H.
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
It's crazy Trim just watch him as well. You us so many goings to
supposing not a sou Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. What do you want to talk about? What
plants are you having problems with? What areas are not performing well for you?
Maybe you need a little some suggestions or a little advice. Perhaps there's
a pest situation we'd like to get ahead of. Whatever we want to talk
about, we'll talk about that. Our goal is to help you have a
bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That is the goal here. So how
can we help? Give us a call at seven one three two one two
KTRH if you'd like to ask a question, and I'll be happy too obliged.
I want to remind you those of you out there that if you have
not gone to my website and downloaded the lawn care schedule and the lawn Pest
Disease and Weed Management Schedule. That's a long title, but it covers it
all. Let me put it this way. Two schedules. The first one
is how to grow a lawn. The second one is how to deal with
things that mess with your lawn. Okay, that makes it easy. These
schedules cover January through December, and they give you organic and synthetic options and
they're free. Can't beat that to download. You know. For example,
let's say you've heard that there are grubs in lawns and you might need to
treat them. Well, you go to my lawn Pest Disease and Weed Management
schedule, look at the insect row, and you go across in June.
Boom. June is when we begin to treat for grubs. We can do
a separate treatment in July and August for older grubs, and that's different products
and those are all laid out right there on the schedule. It's time to
fertilize. We once we hit April, it is time to put that slow
release fertilizer out. If you missed it, that's okay, do it now.
You can do it now. You can do it in June. The
goal is to continue to provide nutrients for your lawn to have success. You
know, when we do that, we end up creating density, and density
is the key to having a good weed free lawn. Now, there are
weeds that grow in a dense Saint Augustine, but that is the exception,
not the rule. If you've got a sparse, thin lawn, and last
summer made a lot of lawns sparse and thin with a drought in the heat,
when sunlight can hit the soil, nature will plant a weed. And
here we go. Now we're talking about how do you kill the weed or
how do you prevent the weed. Well, the first step and weed control
is a dense, healthy lawn. After that we can talk about pre emerging,
we can talk post emergent. We talk about a lot of things ham
pulling and timing and everything, but dense, healthy lawn that comes first.
The folks at Madena they have a number of has to Grow products. You've
heard me talk about the different has to grow products that are out there in
the market. Well, they have a new one. This is a new
one, and this is one I'm really excited about. It is has to
Grow super Grow Plus, has to Grow super Grow Plus but here's the way
to pick it out off the shelf. Sixteen zero two. Those are the
three numbers. Sixteen zero two. Very low in the phosphorus. Most of
our lawns really probably don't need phosphorus, but if they do, it need
any it's very small. But I like this blend the sixteen zero two.
It's got a about let's say four fifths or what would they be, eighty
percent of the nitrogen that's sixteen percent. Eighty percent is going to be available
immediately of that sixteen percent, and then the other twenty percent of it,
the other fifth of nitrogen is going to be available a little more slowly over
time. It's got iron eedta, which means it is a kelated iron that
will get to your grass. The soils can't tie it up as easily as
it can unkelated iron. It's got seaweed extracts in it, and many many
other things, many many other things there. But you put it on a
hose end. You can buy it in different bottle sizes. But let's say
you buy the quirt which has the little screw on attachment to the end of
your hose, and it takes about ten minutes to go over your lawn.
One quart will cover about four thousand square feet. And it's just a good
product for giving quick results. I like that it's got the iron in it,
you know. I like that it's got the kinds of combinations that are
in the Medina Supergrow Plus. You need to find it. It's been stocked
out. I was talking to Medina folks. It has been and stocked out
into the garden centers and things here. You're going to be seeing it on
the shelf if you haven't already. And it's one you need to give a
try. You want to give a quick boost to your lawn. You got
lawn that's not looking really good. You want to give a quick boost and
get going. This would be a product that would do that. It's got
molasses, it's got humic acid in it. I mean, it is just
it is just the whole package right there, Medina Supergrow Plus sixteen zero four.
It's formulated to both promote and to enhance the plant growth of the plants
in your lawn, that is, the grass plants in your lawn. We
directed a lot of people to that. At Southwest Fertilizer yesterday, a lot
of people came in and they showed me pictures and little grass is a little
bit yellowing, and so we need to give it some nitroty. We need
to get some iron and stuff, give it a quick boost and it just
makes it really really simple. No calibrating, hook it up, spread it
on your lawn. You're done. Doesn't take long at all. If you're
doing flower beds are in flower pots rather, excuse me, flower pots out
containers on the patio, or vegetable pots containers in the patio. Jungle land
flour and vegetable potting soil will do that. Jungle land drains well, but
it also holds moisture. So what does that mean. That means your roots
are in a moist environment that is well oxygenated because it drains the excess away
and that is the key to success with your plants. You can find jungle
land vegetable or excuse me, flour and vegetable potting soil in a number of
places. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware over in the Memorial area
on Memorial Drive. You're going to find it in Katiace Hardware on Penoak too,
they have it there as well. You're going to find these and other
nitrofoss products at Alvin in Alvin at Stanton Shopping Center, so lots of places
to go get it, jungle land for your outdoor potting containers. We're going
to head out to full shren out and talk to Clint Hellom Hey, Skip,
how you doing this morning? I'm good, sir. How can we
help? Good? Hey? So? I have some flower beds of the
Froyt yard. We recently dug up all the mult I have some incredibly invasive
Saint Augustine that has taken over the beds last season. I put down a
I don't know what the materially is one of the barriers if you buy the
big box stores and is put down and it came up through the barriers.
Now I just have the soil and nothing on it. But I cannot get
rid of that grass. Any recommendations. You can't get rid of the Saint
Augustine in the flower bed. Is there other grasses Augustine? It's just St
Augustine's coming through. So we have a brick I guess wall that we've kind
of built the beds of inside of, and it looks like the Saint Augustine
is kind of going under it and coming out the other side into the actual
beds, and I don't know if there's a subtack of spray on to just
rid of it completely. I hate to question you, but I just need
to know. Are you sure it's Saint Augustine that's coming in the bed now?
Now I'm question myself, Okay, So well, the reason I asked
Saint Augustine runners are on top of the ground. Saint Augustine can't go submarine
like Zoisia and Bermuda Grass can, and all of a sudden they pop up
somewhere else. So and it's easy. You just grab the runner and it
just rips right up. And when you edge the bed, you can grab
the runners in the bed and rip them right up. I'm gonna run,
Clint, I got to run to a break. Let's hang on to this.
I want to come back to it. We're going to get the bottom
of this. Okay, just hang on with me. I'll be right back.
Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line.
You never know what you're gonna hear on Gardenline when it comes to music,
but we try to have a little bit of fun here. Okay. We
were talking to Clint in full Shore. We're talking about some flower bed issues
and Clint, we can do this a couple of ways. I can suggest
some things. If it is a grass that you're seeing, no matter what
the grass, you can use a grass only weed killer on it. And
there are a couple of products out there. That couple of ingredients that are
in products out there that kill grass but not broadleaf weeds. So if you
get them on your rose bush or petunias, you're not going to kill the
petunias or rose bush. They just kill the grass. The other alternative would
be for you to send me a picture of it, let me take a
close look at it and determine what it is. But I'm going to end
up recommending the same products probably so would you. I'm not going to give
these long chemical names out it just gets confusing because I can simplify it.
There are two ingredients you need to look for. One of them begins with
the boys name seth. It's for killing grass. It's s E T H,
and then there's a lot more letters. The other one begins with the
four letter F l U five F l U A Z flu as, so
seth and flu as those are the two beginning names of ingredients that are grass
only killers. And you know you're out there in the fullsher area. You
probably are going to find those at your chinny gardens down there. You're going
to probably find those for sure at your plantation ace hardware down there in Richmond
Rosenberg area. So it's not gonna be hard to find those things. But
you just spray them on the grass and it kills the grass. Sounds good
after looking. During a break, I look, I look up some stuff
and it may be dove weed. Oh do okay, let's see that.
I'm glad. I'm glad you did that, because that is technically not a
grass. It has parallel veins like grass does, but that would be a
little different. There are different things you can use for that. There's a
cinnamon based product and I'm trying to agra ugh, I have to come up
with the name. It's not on the top of my head right now.
A cinnamon based product when the when the dew is out, when the leaves
are wet, or if you just spray it with a little water, you
sprinkle it on it, and I mean it just quickly turns them brown.
It fries them. That is one thing that you can use for dove weed.
There are some other products that can be used on it. Why don't
we do this. I'm gonna put you on hold, and would you go
to make some close up pictures of it and send them to me, and
let's make sure we got the right thing so that I don't recommend the wrong
product. Sounds good? All right, Glint, I'll put you on hold,
Josh, we'll pick up and get you the email you need to send
those pictures to make sure they're in good sharp focus. Do you have a
landscape that has struggled through last year's heat and drought, Well, it's going
to get hot and dry again this year. Just kind of how things go.
Hopefully not like last year was, but it does happen well, Jason
at Pierscapes, the whole team there at Peerscapes, they specialize in turning your
lawn and landscape into eden. That's what they do. Do you need new
flower beds put in? Do you have some wimpy things that just aren't taking
the weather down here? Well? Do you need to revamp a bit?
Do you want to do hardescapes, landscape lighting? Do you have poor drainage?
That needs fixing. Do you have an irrigation system that needs work?
Do you need design? Do you want to create a rock patio in the
back with beautiful landscape lighting. They can do everything and more there. They
also have a quarterly maintenance program quarterly, four times a year. They come
out. They trim, they weed, they fertilize, they check the irrigation.
By the way, this is for your bed's not your lawn. They
don't mow the lawn once everyfore every three months. But for your beds,
trimming, weeding, fertilizing, seasonal color changes. You know the old pansies
are looking bad because spring is here. Well, it's time to put in
warm season. Then the hot weather comes. They can do two season changes
a year. They can do forty changes a year. You tell them.
They molt, they check the irrigation, make sure it's working, all of
it. At Piercecapes they do all that everything that I just mentioned. I
don't know how to get all that done, but they do. They absolutely
do. Pierceescapes dot Com. Here's the number. Write this down two eight
one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five six zero.
They are professionals. They do excellent work. Get on the phone and
call them, even if you don't want the work done right now, because
they book up and because they do a good job and people call them back.
So give them a call, get on the schedule. Depending on the
size of the job you're asking them to do, they may be able to
jump on it fairly soon, or it may take a while to get around
to doing that kind of level of work. So don't delay. Give them
a call. I want to go to Parland now and talk to Steve.
Hello, Steve, good morning. Say I've got some I'm making a vegetable
garden in Potts and I use the Marri Crow Grow organic soil. Okay,
but it looks like I'm having some sunburn on my green beans, which you
know usually you know, they grow real easy, Okay, And I'm kind
of concerned about that. And there seems to be a bit of a cat
of a help killer problem. I got several different varieties of tomatoes. Some
of them are doing great, and the aroma tomatoes are not doing very well.
What is not well described to me? What not well? Looks like
they're looking a little yellowish and the edges are sensed. Okay, all right,
Well, you probably have more than one thing going on there. First
of all, in containers for vegetables, you need plenty of potting soil so
that holds plenty of moisture and plenty of nutrients. That would be step one
to look at, and they probably can't change that now. But going forward,
look at that. Make sure the holes in the pot are draining well.
You may have holes, but they're in the bottom, and if it's
sitting on soil, it's like the clay just plugs those holes and you don't
get good drainage even though they're there. That's why I tell people when you
can put holes around the sides of the pot at the bottom rather than just
underneath. It may I don't know that soil mix well, and it may
be a little on the mucky side and tend to kind of be a little
soggy water log. That can cause problems, as can drying out. Now,
if it truly is sunburn you were seeing on those beans, that is
probably only going to happen if they were in a low light location and you
move the pots to the brun a full sun pretty quick. If they've come
up in full sun, they shouldn't sunburn that should not happen because they adjust
to that. Beans are made to grow in full sun. As far as
the tomatoes, you know, there are a number of things that can cause
issues with the tomatoes. Aroma is not a super disease resistant variety. It's
a great variety, good pastd tomato. But there are things like early blight
they can get on the leaves. If the new growth is kind of yellowing,
then it may be like an iron deficiency brought on by so that's too
wet, or other issues. So you kind of have a shotgun here of
issues going on. But maybe some of those comments that I made will at
least lead you toward the right direction. And it never hurts to add a
little extra nutrition in the way a fertilizer. Okay, thank you. Yeah,
just one last thought on that last comment I made, Steve, beans
and peas, you don't want to push them with too much nitrogen, so
on those don't do the extra fertilizing, but on the tomatoes they sure could
use it. Okay, Okay, thank you, good luck, good luck
with that. I hope you hope that does well for those of you that
are still needing to do your summer fertilization on the lawn. Nitroposs has a
product called super Turf. You hear me talk about it a lot because it's
a great product. Half the nitrogen is slow release, so you're gonna get
like three months of feeding maybe more out of that super Turf as we go
into the summertime. It's a nineteen four to ten ratio. Those are the
three numbers on the bag. But the easy way to know it is walk
in the store and look for a silver bag. It's a silver bag.
You're talking about Superturf by Nitropos. It's got iron the net to help promote
a uniform good grass color and growth too. By the way, you're gonna
find Superturf in Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands. You're gonna find super
Turf at Fisher's Hardware, both the one on Southmoor and the one in southeaston
the one on Broadway Street in Laport, it's easy to find super Turf.
And Chaney Gardens has Superturf too, by the way out there in Richmond Rosenberg
area. What's head over to Baytown now and we're going to talk to Ronnie.
Hello, Ronnie, good morning morning. What we have is a new
garden spot, so we could get some sunlight and we plant. All of
the plants were playing with squash, yellow squash. They're grown. The plants
are beautiful, big keach Lee's the little yellow squash that's about two and a
half inches long, and there's fifteen or so on one protected plant. But
they're not growing anymore. I don't know what to do, whether it go
cut some of them off so that the others can grow, or change fertilizer.
I need a recommendation. Okay, you have yellow squash that the fruit
is how long? Probably two two and a half? Thank you? Okay,
okay, yeah, and it's not shriveling or turning brown on the end
or anything like that. No, so fore ahead done that. But they're
you're hard. I would my memory is a yellow squash would be tender or
no, that's small. But there some of them have already gotten hard without
growing like they should. From the best I can tell from the description,
you're probably looking at a poor pollination, not a complete pollination of that fruit.
Uh as far as it getting hard, that is very unusual. I
don't know any there's no disease or insect that would cause the fruit to get
hard other than just getting older, the skin gets tougher, So I would
I'd probably pull that fruit off that's not looking right and just keep going here.
If you if you've got male and female blooms both that are on the
plants, and you got some bees to do the work for you, the
subsequent fruit should turn out okay, that that should not continue if you don't
have a Yeah, if you don't have the okay, all right. So
what you need to do is get out there with either a little artist brush
or a Q tip. Some people just pick the male bloom off and rip
the petals off of it and use it to dab pollen onto the female flowers,
because it's a separate flower and squash. Male flower is one, a
female flower is separate, and you can do the pollinating yourself. You just
do that once a day, because every day there's new blooms opening up,
and the better you do at pollinating, the better it's gonna set and produce.
I think I'd switched to that. I take matters into my own hands,
literally, runnie squash. Okay, okay, all right, I've got
one of the course, if you have I have about twenty seconds. Yep,
Well I'll call back next week. Oh you can, you can hold
let me let me get just hang on. You can ask me after I
come back from break that no need to call back next week. Okay,
all right, thanks a lot. We're going to take a little break here
for Nicky and the news. Our phone number is seven one three two one
two k t r H. Seven to one three two one two k t
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you appreciate him being a excellent producer here for us on Garden Line. When
you call, get you on the board. Yep, there's applause coming from
Nicky. Hey, Nicky, I'm turning it over to you. Welcome back
Guardline. Good have you with us today? What do you want to talk
about related to gardening? You can? I have a skull seven one three
two one two k t r H. We are going to head back out
to Runnie in Baytown and running. We were in the middle of something.
What's what was the follow up on this? Okay, in the yard we
lost almost all the Saint August thing. Now we have a little short weed.
It's got a seed on it with a tiny needle point, and it
will if we're not very careful rubber boots in the cart yard, these things
sticking our feet. A seed looks like it's about an eighth of an inch
in diameter and real fin but it's got a sharp point on it that will
get your feet every day. Interesting. Okay, I am not picturing the
weed you're describing. Is it possible for you to take a picture of it
and send me that so I can make sure we're we're getting the right product.
So it's probably gonna have to be a I'll call you back on next
Saturday. Huh. Okay, with that, how do I send a picture
to Josh? I'll put you on hold, Josh will give you my email
and just take a picture before you send it, check it and make sure
it's really sharp focused, because this is a little tiny thing and I'm gonna
have to get a good close look at it. If you can show me
the leaves of the plant that it's on, that's even better. Uh,
And we'll try to do you. Can you tell if it's a grassy plant
or a broad leaf plant. I would call it more of a broad leaf.
Okay, it's tiny leaves, it's not it's not a grass. It's
not something that you know, flat leaf like san Auguster anything. Chance chances
are you may be talking about burr weed that that is a little tiny weed
with kind of a friendlyish looking partially looking leaf, but very small. So
if that's the case, then you don't need to send me a picture.
Just what you want to do is get a product that is a post emergent
broad leaf weed control. And if you go to my land my schedule online,
I don't know, have you ever seen my schedules online on Gardening with
skip dot com? All right, they're still okay, I lost them.
Uh So, Ronnie, if you are still listening, go to Gardening with
Skip dot Com. Look at my lawn piss Disease and weed managed schedule again
the website Gardening with skip dot Com. Toward the bottom of that you'll see
weeds kill existing and it has a list of products that will work on that
particular weed that you were describing to me. And I hope that hope that
uh solves it and works out for you. Those products are very very effective.
When was the last time you went to in Channon Forest? And if
you say I've never been to in Channet Forest. Then I have to ask
you why not when Channet Forest is a wonderful place to visit. Uh.
It is an outstanding nursery that has extremely wide variety of everything. They are
classes going on in the spring just about ever Saturday there. They always have
a food truck there as well. Do you need things like color like lanana,
or like annual flowers or other perennial flowers or Salvia's they've got that.
Are you looking for roses like Peggy Martin? They are stocked up on Peggy
Martin roses and they sure do look good right now, Absolutely look awesome right
now. They have alstromeras. That's a plant you probably have not grown before,
but I bet you've gotten it when you went to the store and got
your big bouquet of flowers to bring home. It's one of the longest lasting
flowers that are out there. They have native types of plants like the Texas
primrose. That's an excellent little yellow flowered native. It does very very well.
Enchanted Forest is the kind of place you go and you just want to
spend time walking around because it is enchanting to be out and about to see
that place. They if you're in Richmond and you're heading up towards sugar Land
Way. They're off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine. FM
twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond, Texas. There's always something going on,
and I'm telling you that if you want a butterfly garden, they have every
plant you can need for that, and they also have plants for the larval
food sources. You know, you you know that monarch butterflies they love flowers,
right, but they also their their larva need to have milk weed to
eat, go fritillaries, they need passion vine pipevine swallowtails need pipefine for the
larva to eat. That's the complete deal. You know. Just plant flowers,
you plant things for the babies as well. And Chenny Forest can get
you set up on all of that stuff again FM twenty seven fifty nine in
Richmond, Texas. I always love it when I go out there and visit.
You know, they they Danny and Clay, they're just knowledgeable, very
helpful, and they've just turned the place into a real showplace, really nice.
Mother's Day coming up is not far away. That's your warning. Don't
forget for your mother, for your grandmother, for your mother in law,
yes, your mother in law, or if you have a mother outlaw.
Some of you have that it's a great gift ideas to go to the wibirds
Unlimited. Wibird's Unlimited has They have a classic it's called the Eco Tough Classic
Feeder and it looks like it's made of wood, but it's actually made from
recycled plastic milk. Chokes a beautiful old thing. They've got the hyperch hummingbird
feeders. This is the best humming bird feeder I've ever used, and I
love my hyperch hummingbird feeder. They've got the Cadillac of bird feeders called the
Eliminator squirrel proof feeder. This one the squirrels can't get into. And squirrels
are creative, they're smart. They out overcome anything we set before them as
an obstacle in my yard. At least they can't get into this one.
They just sit in the trees and fuss and use language that nobody should use,
but they do because they can't get into my feeder. It's called the
Eliminator. They have books, they have other feeders. Wabirds Unlimited is the
place for that. And by the way, next Saturday, the May fourth,
albe at Wallbirds in Pairland in Paarland. They're six stores by the way
around the Houston area. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty,
so come by and see me and do your Mother's Day shopping there. I
guarantee you at Wildbirds you can come up with something that your mother, your
grandmother or your mother outlaw would not have seen coming because they just have so
many great gifts there. By the way, the one in Pairland is on
East Broadway Street. If you go to WBU dot com that sends for Wildbirds
Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Houston, you can see the six Wallbird locations
all around the area. Make a note Mother's Day gifts. Wabird's Unlimited goes
really really well together. Those of you who live down in Seabrook are fortunes
to have Moss Nursery in your backyard. And when I say why do I
say that you're fortune? Well, Moss Nursery has been around for a long
term. Do you know that that nursery is not just another garden center?
I mean it is eight acres of wandering plants everywhere of every type. You
can imagine the trucks are always downloading more and more plants, setting them out
there for you to come by and get because people love to shop at Moss
Nursery. Moss nurseryesmen a run for seventy years, the family operated garden center
again eight acres of anything you can imagine that you might need. Tropical kinds
of things. Do you love tropical foliage? Welcome to the Southeast Texas area.
We got hot, we got sultry, and tropicals are very happy here.
Elephantears do you have ten or twelve different kinds of elephantears? Five or
six different kinds of bananas? Yes, you can grow bananas here. Some
types are just grown for the beautiful foliage. The bird of Paradise, the
orange and blue one, they've got those. You got shady areas you need
something for? How about ginger? Ginger does great in the shade, A
white butterfly like GARDENA fragrance. It's unbelievable ligulary. It's a big like a
lily pad leaf, but sitting on it grows in the ground, not in
the water, and it has these big, old round lily pad leaves.
Puts up with a lot of shade too. Moss Nursery, you know,
it's easy to get to. It's on Toddville Road by the way in Seabrook.
Go to the website Moss Nursery dot com. It's m A A S
Nursery dot com. When you wander around there, you turn a corner and
you see this like some sort of like an wooden carved ethnic mask. There
you see all kinds of artwork, kinds of stone and what it's just,
it's just like a little wonderland like you're in the jungle. That's it.
Like you're in the jungle and you're wandering through all this foliage and every time
you turn a corner you see something new. We're gonna take a little break.
It is time for that. Our phone number is seven one three two
one two ktrhil be right back, hy Welcome back to guarden Line. Good
to have you with us today. Listen, if you are looking for quality
soil products what I refer to as the brown stuff that sets the stage for
success with plants, and you're down south of the Houston area, CNA Moltch
is the place to go. Ce in a Multch carries high quality stuff.
They have roast soil. They have lead mole composts. They have all kinds
of mulches available in bulk and in bag. If you hear me talk about
a fertilizer, it's at CNA mols. They carry them all Microlife and turf
Star, the bonite products, the airloom soils, landscapers, Pride, Nailson,
plant food, Medina, Nitrophuss. They've got it all there. They
will deliver within about twenty miles of their location and they are on Highway five
twenty one FM five twenty one just north of Sharon, FM five twenty one.
Siena molt dot com is a website. For example, something that they
have a great supply of is asmite. They have asmite and you hear me
talk about as mte, it's a mineral supplement. It is a trace mineral
supplement, not the big three numbers on fertilizer bags. You need a lot
of This is trace minerals, but there are central minerals. Plants have to
have them, and when you put azmite down, you are building the bank
account in the soil of minerals that plants can use. Azmite Texas is the
website if you'll learn more about it, or just swing by Ciana Moulton pick
it up there, because that just like all the other things I talk about,
Cianna Molch carries that azamite product as well. We're going to head out
to Kingwood now and talk to Dean. Hello, Dean, Hello, thanks
for taking my call. I got a little spot in my garden gets full
sun afternoon sun, and I want to plant seven or eight rosebushes in it
and make a little rosegarden. And I'm looking for a place where I can
buy big beautiful roses, not knockout roses, not climbing roses, just big
beautiful blooms. No place like that. Well, you're in Kingwood, so
you got Kingwood Garden Center and Warren Southern Gardens and they they do have a
good selection of roses there, So if you're looking for something local, that
is what I would suggest. Garden Center they don't have They've got knockout roses,
but they really don't have any. They don't have any regular like hybrid
type ros That's what the other place you said, Uh, warrens Southern Gardens.
Is that what you yes words? What street is that? Is that
Kingwood itself? Yeah, it is in. It is in Kingwood, and
let me give you the exact address. One second, Well you said Kingwood
Garden Center, So what you said, Well, Kingwood Garden Center is one.
Warren's Southern Garden is on North Park Drive in Kingwood. That's okay.
I was thinking. I was thinking Houston's. I would know I would not
be sentding. Okay, Kingwogarden Center and Warrens Warboroughs. Yeah, I think
you're going to find maybe a little bit better selection at Warren's. Do you
just have to go check? But Warrens is on North Park Drive. Okay,
Yeah, I think I know where that is. Yeah, they're going
to have ch you bet, you bet, Thank you. I appreciate that
call very much. If you live in the Tombail area, your hometown,
feed stores D and DE feed D and D. They've been around a long
time and they know how to carry the things people need. They got plants,
they've got fertilizers. When I talk about fertilizers, D and D is
going to have them. They're going to have things like nitrif I like the
Sweet Green and the Super Turf and the Imperial and so on. They're going
to have products like the Age leaf compost or heirlooms, rose soil or their
fruit, berry citrus, their veggie and herbs. All of those are gonna
be a d and de feed, d and de feed through the spring.
They are always getting in baby chicks. I think we may be drawn to
the end of that. I need to go check their website and see that.
But that has been that is in the place people have been flocking to.
Oh my gosh, sorry about that, but flocking to to get their
baby chicks offspring. They're on twenty nine to twenty just west to Tombol and
you're gonna find the fertilizers I recommend the products I recommend. You're gonna find
quality quality dog food, pet food, and livestock food there. And you're
gonna find mosquito dunks there. Mosquito dunks are the little things you put in
the in the water. They float in the water and they release a disease
of mosquitos. Mosquitos only birds can drink out of the water. Your little
honeybee can go to the water's edge and drink out of it. Your cat
and your dog can. Drek is not a poison. It is a disease
of mosquitoes. Called mosquito dunks. It's a little beige donut floats in water.
One donut will cover up to one hundred square feet of water and it'll
last for about thirty days and they just throw another one out there. So,
do you have a rain barrel, do you have a hole up in
a tree, you know where the water gathers in there, throw one up
into that. You have a pond or something where you're wanting to, you
know, protect that water surface from mosquito larvae. Mosquito dunk will do it.
And they got them at d and defeed makes it easy easy to get
them. Just one stop shopping as you go by there. We're going to
go now out to Galveston and talk to Michael. Hello, Michael Hello.
Three part question one, how to get rid of wild onion weed. I
have a little olive tree on the plot where they're taking over in the hold
the end there. Don't want to harm them. And the other part is
what is a good landscaping company you recommend that will give me honest price for
putting land on ground cover? And the third I saw in this Auder magazine
on what wordly looks good creeping time ground cover. Matt with the seed and
if that's thirty by seventeen, which is pretty big, and do it yourself.
And that's a good idea. All right, well, let's see it.
Yeah, good, good, Michael. Let's take those in that order.
For the onions products that have a two four D herbicide in them,
the Furtloan wheat free zone is another good one that you can use on them.
You just spray it on them. But you need to do those products
in the morning when it's cooler, and you need to do them very very
soon because once it heats up, they can damage your turf. But do
that soon and that'll work bad. Let me get to your Can you go
ahead? Can you repeat those products? Yeah? You said four D.
Two four D is an ingredient that's in products that contain something like trimech.
So a trimech type product would be one example. A Burdalone company makes something
called weed freeze Zone. That would be another one that you could use free
we'd freeze zone. Follow the label very carefully, do it in the morning
when it's cool, and don't wait to get it done this week because as
it us, those create problems. Now the second, the third question you
had was about the creeping time. Time is a decent little groundcover, but
it there's a lot of different kinds of time and they don't all perform equally
well. And if the area doesn't drain very well, the time is not
going to perform well for you. So that is something you can keep in
mind. What was the middle question? Right quick? And then I'm gonna
have to run a good landscape and cup, Yes, I do not know
companies in your area to recommend. We generally have not gotten into recommending Pacific
landscapers, so I'm not going to be able to help you with that one,
but I do I do appreciate your call. I'm going to have to
run, but hopefully that'll get you off the bed start. If you should
look for a sign that suitable for this area, I guess yes, and
just to go to a good garden center and they ought to be able to
direct you to a landscaper. And by the way, instead of time,
I would do a regano. And I'm sorry I have to cut it short,
but I have to run on that one. If you're looking for a
quality tree, a quality tree, Verdant Tree Farm has got you covered,
and there are three different locations there in West Houston and Barker Cypress. They
are in South Houston in the Pearland area actually on Broadway Street, and they're
in the Heights where I ten and Yell come together. They have quality palms,
hardy palms. You can get hardy palms there. They have quality trees.
They come out, they plant them. They got the tree you want,
they bring it to your house and they do it right and they make
sure you have success and verdant tree. Patrick and his team there they know
what they're doing. They even have large, very large shrubs like you want
to specific kind of holly to create a screen. They can get you set
up on that. They have the right trees at every kind of budget and
they can assist you to get you off to a good start. And that
is very important, it really is. It is important that a tree is
chosen right, that it's planted right, and then it's cared for right and
they get you off. They have a little system they set up so you
can check the soul, moisture levels, of water levels down in the planting
hole. Just talk to Patrick and the team at Verden and they can show
you how they do all of that. It makes it really simple. I
think it's a really good idea, very good it all right, we put
another hour in the books here, got one left today. If you'd like
to give Josh a call and say hey, Josh, thanks for thanks for
being a producer there on guarden Line and keeping Skip from running the a car
off in the ditch all the time. Well do that seven one three two
one two kt RH. He'll put you on the board and you'll be the
first stop when we come out of this hour into the hour news break.
Don't forget next Saturday, Hairland Wild Bird's Unlimited. It's on. It's on
Broadway Street and Paarland. So hey, while you're done there, you can
go to Ferd and Tree Farm get your trees. Come over from eleven thirty
to one thirty and see me at Wabirds Unlimited Wa Bird's Unlimited eleven thirty to
one thirty. I'll be answering gardening questions. Remember, hold off on your
mama day shopping because they have everything you need for a really cool surprise.
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with scamp Ricter. It's so trim. Just watch him as so many sat.
Hey, welcome back to garden Line for the last hour of this weekend.
That's right, we wind up at ten o'clock. We're here every Saturday,
every Sunday six am to ten am. So anybody in the greater listening
area of k t r H, which is a huge section of southeast Texas
and even almost all the way to us to the Interstate thirty five. Uh,
we are glad you're with us. We're glad you're listening. If you
have friends that don't get the signal where they are, they can listen online
via the iHeart Radio app. Yeah, iHeart Media, a little red app
with a white heart in it that's easy to pick out. You listen live,
you can listen to pass shows there. You can go online to the
ktery's website and you can listen to pass shows of garden Line there as well,
if you'd like to take that approach. I just know a lot of
people that use their phones to listen. So they got working in the garden
and who knows, they may think of a question while they're out there.
Working and want to call in, well, just take your phone with you.
If you've got the If you've got it, the app, you can
listen live and also any kind of a podcasting app you can listen to pass
shows of Garden Line as well. Those of you who haven't fertilized your lawn
yet, it is time to get that done, and we want to do
it with a slow, gradual release fertilizer that's going to release that nitrogen gradually
over time to promote slow even growth. That is very important not to get
a flush of growth, because then you get a top heavy grass plant that
has lots of green top, but actually at the expense of a root system
development. So when you gradually feed over time you get with a modern amount
of fertilizer, you get good top growth, good root growth, and it's
just balanced, more resilient when it comes to hot, dry weather. Superturf.
The Silver Bag by Nitrofoss nineteen four to ten will do that. In
addition to having half the nitrogen in slow release form, it's got four percent
iron for good green color. Just get it spread out there, get it
down. You're going to put out about five pounds per thousand square feet of
it, so it goes a long way being a good concentration there of the
nitrogen. And it's easy to find. You know, nitrofoss products are widely
available here in the Greater Houston area. You're going to find them at the
Arbor Gate. You're going to find them out Shades of Texas, out on
Genoa Red Bluff Road. You're going to find them in a lot of different
locations like Kingwood. Ace Hardware's got those as well, easy to find nitrofoss
products, including Superturf. By the way, Ace Hardwares just in general all
around Ace Hardware's are going to have them, and Ace Hardware it's the place
to go for anything you want to make your backyard look beautiful. Certainly fertilizers,
certainly, pest controlled disease, weeds, insects, things like that.
They've got you covered on that. But Ace Hardware also has you covered on
things like that beautiful barbecue pit, the big green egg, the Traeger and
others. The uh yard lights we call them, we call them beer garden
lights. You know, you string them along and it's just that ambiance in
the backyard. They actually covered on that kind of stuff. Do you need
foggers to deal with mosquitoes or mosquito dunks that we keep talking about. This
is the season for mosquito duck. Do you need fire ant control in your
yard? Whatever? You want to make that outdoor place a place you just
want to hang out with family and friends even through the evening hours. ACE
Hardware has got you covered. Acehardware dot Com is a website find the store
locator. You got forty of them here in the Greater Houston area to choose
from. Easy to find an ACE Hardware and when you go in, it's
easy to get what you need. We're going to head out now to Brenham
and talk to Leonard. Hello, Leonard, good morning morning. I've got
I just pull up the old plants that's been in front of my house all
the way down the front of the house, that's been there for like twenty
years, and they just don't do well at all. So I'm replacing them.
I've already went out and bought maybe it's a mistake that I bought twenty
four box Japanese box woods, Okay, and prepare my bed and I want
to do everything I could do to enhance the possibility of them surviving. And
doing well because the other ones were having difficulty. I have crape myrtles on
each end of the house. I think they maybe we're not getting enough sun
because of those crape myrtles. I don't know. Okay, well, box
woods will take a little bit of shade. They like sign, but they'll
take a little bit of shade if it's bright or if they get part day
sign a little bit like that they should do. Okay, you just you're
you're correct and wanting to get the soil right before you begin. I would
buy some quality mix to blend in with the soil you have, and then
even add on top of that to make a raised bed that drains well.
They need good drainage. They love that forest floor environment. So when you
put in a even a rose mix, a rose soil name roses on it,
but it's good for all kinds of shrubs. I thought, I'm onna
dig all these holes, and then I thought about putting some mushroom soil in
their mulch into the bottom of them, and would that be bad or yeah,
yeah, that would be bad. I would not do that. What
I would do a lot of people want to put stuff in a planting hole
and that is not the best way to go about it. Think about nature,
you know nature in the forest, leave fall on the ground, they
rot, more leaf swallow on them, they rot, and you end up
with this real rich material at the surface all through the soil. Think of
it that way. So get you a good blend. It could be composed,
it could be a rose mix. I mean, there's a lot of
good blends. And lay it on the soil and mix it all into the
whole bed evenly, and then I'll put more on top of it. And
so now what you've got is a simulation of the forest floor. Those roots
don't just have stuff in the bottom of the hole. By the way,
mushroom compost is a little high in pH and for your box woods, I
don't I don't think that's the best way to go What about it. I've
got a big bag of cottonseed burr, they call it cotton Seabird compost is
fine, But you're gonna you set a whole lot of boxwoods there, and
so you're gonna need quite a bit of organic matter to spread, because you're
gonna put it about four or five inches deep at least through there to create
that bed. You're gonna mix them in with the soil and put more on
top of it. So it's gonna take You may need to get a little
bulk delivery out there to the place, or just buy a whole bunch of
bags. It gets more expensive every moment. I've got some mulch piles,
but I don't think they're quite ready. Yeah, are you wood chips and
mix it with a lot of Yeah, that's good stuff. Do that after
you plant maulch with that and just let it decompose, and as it decomposes,
which will take a while, put more of that same stuff on top.
You just keep making it better and better that way after you get them
in the ground. But do anything you can to get some organic matter in
that soil evenly all through the bed. And I think you're going to find
they do super well for you. Thank you so much. You did well
again. Thank you. I appreciate it. Cal take care. Good to
talk with you. Good to talk with you. If you are looking for
a quality soil blend potting soil for your indoor plants, jungle land water saving
potting soil is one you need to know about. Jungle land water What does
that mean? Water saving putting soil. It means when you water this mix.
Of course, it wets the organic material, which is basically what putting
soil is, or decomposed organic materials, but it also has crystals in it
that swell up without water. And even after the organic material begins to lose
its water as the plants pump it out or evaporates away, those crystals hang
on a little longer and so the roots get an extended release of moisture.
Are extended availability of moisture to keep those plants going. In case you forget
the water, it just works really well. You can get jungle land water
putting shore with water saving crystals at places like Asen Sinko Ranch. You can
get it at a Tascasta Ace. You can get it at Lake Hardware Include
or Jim's hard Rep in Montgomery. It's time for us to take a little
break. We'll be right back done in sugar Land. You will be the
first up. And you heard it first tier on guard. Maybe not first,
but you probably remember that one. How many you remember Alvin and the
Chipmunks? I do. I was mildly amused. Alven and the Chipmunks actually
had a record of theirs by the way, I don't know. That's kind
of weird, isn't it. Hey, If you are looking at doing some
compost top dressing and air rating, and you are up in the let's say
the northwest quadrant of the Houston area quadrant, being like Interstate forty five,
Interstate ten, that kind of thing, greenpro is your place. Greenpro dot
net. That's the website. Now. Greenpro is up in the Montgomery Magnolia
area actually, so they service Spring Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis
over to Montgomery and Magnolia down to Katie West, Houston area, Central Houston,
North Houston. So think of them as your northwest section of the city
for core aeration, which is the only way to go popping those cores out
of the ground to get air down in the soil, followed by a quality
compost drop dressing. Greenpro only uses quality compost, finely screened for the top
dressing so that it moves down in the soil. That alleviates compaction. It
helps with the heavy clay soils that we do deal with here. And I
would do the quality compostop dressing after the aeration. I would also do a
fertilization at that point if you haven't fertilized yet, and it'll move down in
those holes as well, and the root system just gets stimulated in the grass
as well. Remember it's part of that brown stuff before green stuff. You
want to make your lawn happy, make the soil a better place for the
roots to be, and green Pro can do just that. You can go
to the website greenpro dot net to find out about what it costs to have
it done, what the options are, and to get them scheduled to come
out to your place. I want to go over now to sugar Land and
we're going to talk to Don. Hello, Don, Good morning, skip
morning. Last time I called in, I asked you about behavior grass and
I have some that's kind of near fruit trees, and you gave me the
poison to use to kill it. Is it going to be toxic around the
trees or how close would be safe to use around it? And then I'll
also ask you. I want to ask you what is your favorite that's does
it pretty much disease free without you know, I got a friend too that
has John Kennedy Rose, the real big one, and she likes that,
but she'd like to get maybe something else. Yeah, let's see here.
Well, the beeograss control is okay if you do not just drench it all
over the soils, which is not how you need to do it anyway.
So just lightly dampen the leaves of the beeograss with your control products, and
that is that is the way that you would properly apply it. And you
don't have to worry about hurting those trees. And that's true with any herbicide
around trees. There's no sense in drenching the soil. Herbicides are made to
work the post emergence, are made to work on the foliage of the plant
itself. Okay, So what's the name. What's the name of it,
the beheograss control? Oh, let me see, I think hang on just
second, let me try to pull that up. It's the over the counter
one that we're needing, we're needing to be able to do. Your dad,
is it okay to spray it too? Or do you just paint brush
it on? No? No, no, you spray it. You can
spray it. Spray it on it METS sulfur on methyl Okay, So that
would be a product a manor M A N O R would be one example.
It's a little hard to find Manner, but a lot of our places
it's specializing, carrying a wide variety as well as they have it. And
so I would say that mets sulfur on methyl that that would probably be the
best one for dealing with controlling the beaeographs. That's that's the Manner. Man
Manner is a brand name of met sulfur on methyl. Then let me let
me say there are there are other brands of it out there, okay,
other than Manner. But you need to be careful with that. That product.
If you overapply it and get it down in the root zone, yes,
it will damage. It will damage uh woody ornamental trees and shrubs and
things like that. So follow the label carefully. Okay. I called Southwest
Fertilizer and they said they had some other product that was similar to it.
Yeah, yeah, they do. They. I'm trying to think of what
the other one is with metsulfur on metal. But if you if you go
into Southwest and you say you talk to Guardline and they were talking about manor
M A n O R. They're gonna put you They're gonna put a different
product in your hand or they may have manner, but they put a different
product in your hand and it'll be the good one to be used to.
Don't worry about that. They know what they're talking about. Okay. And
what's your favorite rose? Oh man, that is that is an unfair question.
That's like saying, what's your favorite child. I think for me,
if I had if you had to, like you can have only rose,
I think it would be Belinda's dream. And here's why. In fact,
at Disneyland in Florida, they said to Belinda's dream was probably the best all
around rose. And here's why. It's it looks like a rose. So
people that don't think single roses look like roses and things. Belinda's dream has
that hybrid t sort of look to the bloom, you know a rose.
Look, it's pink, it has fragrance, and it has a bush that
is very resistant to disease problems. And it doesn't mean he can't get any
but it's just not gonna be plagued by him like some roses. So you
get a green bush even if it's not blooming. It's a pretty bush.
It's a shrub. You can shrub prune it, so you're not having to
learn all kinds of pruning schemes to try to prune, like with hybrid teas.
So I'd say Belinda's dream. It was bread. This is a fun
fact about it. It was bread at tex A and M. But it
was bread not by horticulturists, but by a math professor who did this as
a hobby. So that was kind of fun. But a math professor to
developed it and named it after one of his friends, his daughter. I
believe I interested. Yeahun Uch, I'll give it a try. I think
that'd be the one. Yeah, you bet, take care all right,
Bye bye bye boy. I tell you to make me pick one rowse Ugh,
that is unfair. That's cruel and unusual punishment right there. If you're
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That store has been around, that feed source since nineteen forties when there's three
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forty years ago in an oakre patch. And they carry every fertilizer I talk
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or Nature's Create and the Nelson plant food and heirloom soils and all on and
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with the products you need to have success with your lawn. That is important.
Affordable tree service, You've heard me talk about them a lot. Randy
talked about them a lot. Affordable tree service is the go to place when
you need stuff done to your trees. Listen, trees are long term investments
in your landscape, and all it takes is an hour of somebody that doesn't
know what they're doing coming in and butcher in that tree. And it's for
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one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t
r H. We would love to have you give us a call if you
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That's what we're all about. If you haven't fertilized your lawn yet,
and you probably have heard me talk about Nelson Plant Food, turf Star products.
You know, Nelson is the company that makes color Star and we all
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that turf Star several different products in the turf Star line. Two of them
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it's gonna be immediately available with some slow release in it as well. And
the second is Slow and Easy, which is all slow release. I mean,
it's got a little bit, it's going to release some right away,
but it is going to give you feeding all the way four months. In
other words, you put Slow and Easy down on your lawn right now.
The next time we need to talk about fertilizing is going to be for a
fall fertilization. It lasts that long, superquality. The chemistry of these,
the way they design the nitrogen is nice, and slow release works really really
well. Bruce's Brew and slowly. Either where you're gonna go slow release,
I do it now and not forget about it. You're done. If you
want to do Bruce's Brew, do it now. You're going to do it
again toward the mid part of summer. Do it again, Stretch it out
a little bit, and it will carry you on into fall. Two.
Either way you go, you're just not going to lose with a quality product
like that, like those two from Nelson's Well, we're going to take a
little half hour break into not end of your halfway through the hour. There
you go, I'm doing a halfway good job. Attacker was going, you
want me to do half an hour of news? Yeah, yeah, that's
well. If it was important news, we could do it. Was all
right, all right, we need to do gardening news too. By the
way, sometime soon, I'm gonna turn it over to Nikki. We'll be
right back, little bread. Paisley there impatiently sitting in church waiting to hit
the hit the road and get in the water. Uh. You're listening to
garden Line and I'm your host skiperic Career to answer your gardening questions. If
those of you who have not been to RCW, I keep telling you you
need to go, and you do need to go. We had somebody earlier
that was asking about what's my favorite rose? And if they they pinned me
down, they held a gun to my head. You couldn't see it on
the radio, but they were doing that, and I said, well,
I think I would go with Belinda's dream just because it's got all the above.
It's not an antique, but it's an old rose. It's been around
a while, so rcw's got it. They've got four pages of different roses
that they can get in and right now they got a deal going on on
the roses. They've got to sale actually going on on the roses. They're
at RCW. They have the beautiful types of Hibiscus Cajun, the Cajun series
of Hibiscus and others. They have a deal going on on their arbors and
the metal artwork twenty off arbors and metal artwork, and they have beautiful ones.
As you walk through there, those of you in king and saw me
there the other day, you know, you know how awesome that is.
Ten percent off all the trees and all the roses. They grow their own
trees as well up in Plantersville, they bring them in. So RCW is
just a good nursery. And if they don't have it, they'll get it.
That's why we call it. They get it. Got a nursery r
c W Nursery Nurseries Plural dot com. Rc nurseries dot com. That's the
website there at two forty nine Tomba Parkway and belt Wag eight. Makes it
real easy to find them and get in there and get what you need.
We're going to now go to Stephen in clear like, Hello Stephen, good
morning sir. I hope you appreciate the fact that the wind is building stronger
tree trunks have it? Okay? It is? I hear you talking about
that. Yeah, I thought this was your kind of weather. Then I
just sent you a picture of grape belief. Have you had a chance to
look at it? Oh? Yes, but that came from Mark. Well.
Stephen is my radio name. Because I don't want people to know who
I really am asking stupid questions. I just blew it. I just blew
Hey, it's not a stupid question. What I like to sound guardline?
You may heart me say this is there are any stupid questions, just stupid
answers. So the pressure's on me not you don't worry. Well, I
have a different view. When I ever I speak in front of people,
I say, please ask your qu questions. There are no stupid questions.
Are just stupid people asking them that. Oh boy, well, I won't
go there. I won't go there. That's funny. Your grape has a
fungal leaf spot disease. Now the exact one. It may be. It
may be black spot that you're seeing on there, it could be something else
that it's not an insect, it's a disease. And there are a number
of fungicides out there on the market, most of them for grape foliage disease
control are a little more difficult to find in the home market, but you
will find things on your garden gardening shelf if you will that are available that
are listed for grape disease control and that are listed for foliage diseases. So
that's just what you're going to need. You're out there and clear Lake.
You know, you get out there, you go to your ace hardware store
and say, I need I need a funge a side, but I need
it to be labeled for grapes. That's the key. That's something will be
organic so they can be eaten right away or not. There is there are
copper based sprays that you can use, but you need to be very careful
with those and read the label carefully that that is organic. But you don't
want to overuse that the copper based sprays. So you know, there's a
lot of products on the market and you just need to find one that's labeled
for the grape control. A grape foliage disease control because grapes are really a
lot of grapes are really prone to that. That's why we recommend certain grapes
to try to, you know, avoid these kind of issues. Some are
a little more resistant than others, but in general, grapes are a little
bit of a problem. Okay, So I guess that's something that a BT
wouldn't take care of it. I wouldn't even come close. Nope, it'll
kill. All that will do is kill the caterpillars that you would have eating
your grapevine and grapes. I have caterpillars. They can they can well,
I know, I think I spoke with you when you first started here about
the grape belief skeletonizer. I had that one year that wiped out everything in
my backyard. Yes, and so I keep a close eye to see if
there's any evidence of that, and then I hit it with b T right
away. Yeah. Yeah, that's that is the that is the case.
So yeah, you might be looking. They're just a number of different kinds
of things that that can attack grapes. That's that's that's one reason why you
don't see more people growing them at home because they are a little bit of
a challenge. They do really very hard to grow grapes organically. Yeah,
but if you don't tend to them, they'll take over an entire piece of
property. It's amazing. Yes, that's true. Okay, Well, thank
you very much for advice. Appreciate it, I hope. But I'm sure
it's worth more and I just paid for it. All right. Well,
hey, and you know what, that was a very intelligent question. Thank
you? Does that for my friends, for you, for anyone listening,
listen, listen to this guy, cross your legs instead at his feet and
receive wisdom that whoa, oh man, am I going to screw up a
whole bunch of people? Wow? Okay, Steven, thanks for having thanks
for having some fun with me here today. Thank thank you very much.
Take care all right, bye bye bye bye. Let's see, let's go
to sugar Land. Talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, good morning,
Skiff, Good morning. I hope you're having a great morning. I got
several questions. I spoke to you a couple of weeks ago about some problems
I was having with Bermuta. Yes, I went in and I took out
a whole section about twelve by twelve of commuter and put back my Saint Augustine.
Okay, now, first question is what can I do to help that
grass that I've just put down top all Number two, we've got some yellow
spots in the backyard. I've been on your schedule for quite a while and
now about five years. What can I do about those yellow spots? And
number three, I'm looking at kalladiums. Is it too late to put down
kalladiums? Not at all too late. Go ahead and plant the kalladiums now.
It's a good time. Watermen, really good. Make sure they get
good water initially to get them established, and then they'll do very well for
you. You're gonna put them in sun or shade. They're gonna be on
the southeastern corner, which gets about i'd say maybe eight hours a day of
sun. Okay, Well, the new kalladiums are pretty darn sun tolerant,
so you should be good there. Just have the water a little bit more
in that kind of environment. As far as the yellow areas in your grass,
that is probably a sign of iron deficiency. Now, if you grab
one yellow grass blade and hold it, pick it and hold it up to
the light, it will have green and yellow streaks through it. It looks
yellow yellower than regular green Saint Augustine. But you see the streaks, the
stripes, and that means iron deficiency. So one of two things is happening.
Either it needs iron in a form that soil doesn't tie up so fast,
or you could have a disease called take all root rot that kills roots.
And when you kill the root tips, the plant can't take up iron.
Even if it's there and available, it can't take it up. And
so those are two issues with two different approaches to For the first one,
we need a keylated form of iron to put down on it. Have you
fertilized that area this year yet? Yeah? I thought the schedule both on
the front in the back. Fund's doing great. But as I'm speaking to
you right now, I just actually picked up a leaf of grass. It
is amazing. I could actually see the stripes inside. There you go,
that's what it is. That But no, it's just certain little spots death
or like little stripts. I'm thinking it out. Maybe over fertilized in some
areas well. You could have. I mean if the application was not even.
But if you see the yellow, you need to do a little keylated
iron in those areas, and I think that'll hope out for you. Great
appreciate you guys usually have a great Sunday. Thank you, Michael. Do
you take care? Good to talk to you. As always. I'm gonna
take a little break here and we will be back for the last segment of
the day of the weekend. So if you I like to ask a question
seven one three two one two kt rh letting that play out a little bit.
Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today.
Hey, have you been out to the Nelson's Water Gardens in Katie.
You need to trust mount this one and go and see this place. Nelson's
Water Gardens is. It's a wonderland. It's a destination. It is a
garden center. Yes, you can buy all kinds of plants there. They
have lots of different kinds of plants. Now, water gardens became famous long
ago because they were a leader from the beginning in the water garden industry.
People from all over the place have called on them to help design and install
water gardens. They do that. They can do fountains, they can do
the disappearing fountains. You know, a big beautiful pottery where the water comes
over the side and ripples down and disappears into pebbles. And then you turn
around and here comes back in through the center of the fountain. Good for
birds to stop, good for you to enjoy. Anytime you have moving water.
It just creates a peaceful setting. And when you walk through Nelson's water
gardens, you're gonna see inspiration everywhere you turn. By the way, if
you'd like a good excuse to go out Saturday, May fourth, yep,
that's just around the corner. They are gonna have what's called a sip and
stroll Saturday, May fourth. And now listen, it's it's five pm to
seven pm, so it's late in the day, five pm to seven pm.
Get off, you know, get off what you're doing and work or
whatever on Saturday, and head out there five pm to seven. You're gonna
be able to walk through. They're gonna have free drinks, they're gonna have
light refreshments, they're gonna have live music out there, and just go through
and see what I'm talking about about the inspiration they are out in Katie.
You just head out I ten turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's
a stone's throw off of Ian right there. Here's the website. Go there
and you can learn everything you want to know. Nelsonwatergardens dot Comilsonwatergardens dot com.
And when you're there, you're going to find that you can hire them
to come out and do stuff. You can get advice from them if you
do it yourself. For you take whatever level you want to get into it,
and they will set you up. And I'm telling you, a beautiful
water garden, the sound of water, whether you use water plants or goldfish
or waterfalls, Nelson's can get you fixed up and it is It is enchanting
to see that kind of setting. So take advantage. Saturday Sip and stroll
May fourth, five pm to seven pm. Go ahead and enjoy it with
them. We're going to now head to Spring and talk to Bill. Hello
Bill, Hey, Skip, appreciate you taking my call. Yes, I've
got a product and I'm not sure what it is or where I got it.
It's called high Yield Curve and armamental Weed and grass stopper with dimension.
Okay, that is right? Is it? What do I do with it?
That is a pre emergent. It is it is a product. That
you would use like you would use barricade. It's a different ingredients Okay,
it's a different ingredient than barricade. But it is a pre emergent herbicide.
So you'd put it down, you'd water it in to prevent weeds. So
the primetimes. If you go online to gardening with Skip dot com and look
at my weed management schedule, you'll see that we do in the in the
February is when you put on a pre emergent for warm season weeds, and
October is when you want to put that down for cool season weeds. Fantastic,
gotta do that. I put that down with the Raider like I did
my fertilizer, right. You just have a different setting, of course,
because it's a smaller grand Okay, but yeah, it's a preventatives. It
doesn't kill existing weeds. It prevents weeds, just like just like the barricade
that I talk about all the time. Wonderful, Thank you very much.
I really appreciate it. All right, Bill, good luck with that.
We're going to now head out to Montgomery and talk to carry in. Okay,
in good morning, Skip, I'm calling. I'm recovering from take all
root rot and I replaced probably at least a quarter of my yard, and
I'm wondering how to care for the surrounding area as I do have some of
those yellowing leaves. We did put a fungicide down last month, but it
needs food. I can tell it looks, so I'm not sure what to
use because what I've read is nitrofoss I mean you want to kind of stay
away from iron. Is that correct? No? Iron is often missing when
take all root rot affects the grass because take all kills roots. That's why
we call it root rot. Take all root rot the tips of the grass
roots or where iron is taken up. So when you when you kill the
ends of the grass or kill the whole root, it can't take up iron,
and so you see the yellowing as a result. Can I ask,
what do you know what fungicide you used for the take all before? I
don't because I'd hired a yard company along company to try to help me.
Okay, So if you go to gardening skip dot com, my website gardening
with skip dot com, there are two schedules there. One is the lawn
pest disease and we'd management and on it. If you look at diseases.
You'll see that in March we do an optional treatment for take all root rot.
If it's present in your lawn. You don't just treat because you have
a lawn in the But in October and November, those are the two most
important months for treating for take all root rot. You want to do it
in October and then repeat it again a month later in November. And if
you look on the chart, there are a number of products that are listed
there. The ones that I would recommend most is something called a zoxystroban,
and the brand is called Heritage Heritage UH, and it has a zoxystrobin in
it. There are other products that contain a zoxystroban, but you go to
a go to your you know wherever you shop for your supplies and things,
and just tell them you're looking for that. Take this printed out schedule with
you. The other ingredient on there. There's one called propaconnaisole and I know
remembering those names, but you can print it out. It's right there.
There are products that have those two combined in them and they are even better
against the take all. The main thing to remember what take all is don't
stress your grass. If your grass is stressed, it's going to get take
all worse. Shade stresses grass, Drought stresses grass. Using broad leaf herbicides
when the temperature is above the upper eighties stresses grass. So try to avoid
that. Okay, all right, that I can go ahead and can I
use like sweet green right now and go yeah, yeah, yeah, fertilizers
get it down, yep, fertilizer. You can go right ahead with no
problem. Okay, all right, thank you, carry thank you so much.
Good luck with that. I guess we're going to end today. I
got one more call, Jerry. I'll get to you just one second.
Here. We're going to end today kind of like I begin most days.
And let's say in brown stuff before green stuff. You gotta build the soil
before you plant the plants. That is a secret to success. Garden shoppers
all the time pick out a bunch of flowers at the garden center. They
come home and they walk around looking word to plut them. That is not
the way to do it. You get you some quality soil materials with the
plants or before the plants, and you put it down. You get the
bed ready. Once you've made the bed, the plants hop happily hop right
in it and take off growing Veggian herb mix from heirloom soil. That's one
of those fruit berry and citrus mix from heirloom soil. That's one of those
quality compost products, leaf mold compost. All the products, many products from
heirloom soils are designed to create the perfect environment for plant success. You go
to Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com. There's a calculator on the website to figure out how
much you need. You can buy it by the bag. It's sold everywhere.
You can buy it by the bulk. You can go get it,
you can have them deliver it. But whatever you do, get the soil
ready first, and then when you put the plants in, it's gonna look
like your thumb turned green. That's the way you do it. I'm going
to head out now to Jerry and Jerry, you're in Damon. Yes,
sir, okay, how can I help pay you? What I got is
I have a pond and I have this it's called short bristlet orange beach's edge
growing around it. It grows every year and I usually put round up on
it kill it. But my neighbor next door is got about eight bee hives
now, and she's concerned if I put round up on it's trying to kill
her bees. It will not kill her bees. It won't hurt on Okay,
I can tell her that for sure. The only the only effect of
round up on bees is when you kill the flowers that the bees want to
be on, including a lot of weeds that you know bees use the blooms
of. Well, you're taking away a food source. But you know when
you got to get rid of weed, you gotta get rid of weed.
Well, they got they got plenty of oak in Chinese calla and everything else
for a source. Right now. I think if your weed is a sedge,
though, and I'm we've got about a minute left for a run out
of time here, a little less than a minute. If it's a sedge,
I might try something different. I might try something like sedge hammer,
for example. Or there's a number of sedge control herbicides that work best on
the sedges. Kills all or something like that kills all is going to be
a round up. That's a that's a glyca product, But sedge hammer,
uh manage image. Those are all sedge control products. And if it's sedges
you're going after, and that's it. Then you could use that instead of
the round up or the glycasate or kills all kind of product. Okay,
that sound great, man, that sound good. I'll let her know then
that I'm going to hear her Beth and I'll i'll I'll talk to you about
it, all right. I got it from the authority. I appreciate you,
all right, all right, you take care of Jerry. Could to
talk to you well. And with that we close the day on callers.
I'm glad you listened today. I hope you learned something. I hope you
enjoyed it too. We try to make it a little bit fun here.
If you want to give us a call next week, just write this number
down and keep it with you where you where your phone is seven one three
two one two k t RH put us on speed doll. How about that
that'll work. I'm going to be next Saturday after the show. That's May
fourth. By the way, you can wear your star Wars garb to come
out and see me. You know about that. May the fourth be with
you Wilbird's Unlimited in Paarland. I'll be at Wibird's Unlimited in Pairland. We'll
be answering gardening questions. And listen. I keep telling you it's Mother's Day
shopping time, and you come out to Wilbirds, you are going to find
something with your mom would love