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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip rictor

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it's crazy Trim. Just watch him
as we may give it. Please the

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Supertzy gas Club again, not a
sign sun. Hey, good morning,

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Welcome to Garden Line. It's great
to have you with us today. Congratulations.

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If you are listening to this,
you made it up. Maybe got

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a cup of coffee or tea or
whatever it is. It helps you open

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your eyes and we're gonna have a
good d day day today. We actually

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have a pretty some weekend here.
I got a little rain forecast maybe,

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but tomorrow today's gonna be a great
day. Look forward to getting outside today

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and getting some gardening work done,
making sure that we make I don't know,

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let's just say, the right adjustments
to our landscape. That would include

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from fertilizing and the right rate,
the right types of products. Right timing

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always important. Putting in plants.
This is a really important time to get

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things planted for summer. We are
still in mild temperatures. It is not

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bad yet and those of you been
here for a year know that it can

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get a little interesting when we get
into the brunt of summer. But by

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planting now, you can make sure
your plants are well established. You know,

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we have things that can take summer
heat just fine. Venka, for

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example. I prefer to call it
Madagascar periwinkle because there is another plant called

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vinca. But I guess there's another
plant called periwinkle too, So there we

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are. That's the deal with common
names. But anyway, what most people

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refer to as vinca super heat tolerant, and so many types of it now

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they're just breeders have really done a
great job of coming up with some nice

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twists on really an old plant.
I remember growing up we had that in

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flower beds in front of our house. I lived south a little further in

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south central Texas, and we had
it in the front flower bed and it

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would recede, and some of the
plants would just survive year to year because

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it didn't always get cold enough in
that protected area. But it's a great

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plant, does super well. Angelonia
super superflower for heat. Lots of types

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of Angelonia, different heights. Got
a nice little range of colors. We

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can do the typical, the pink, the red, the white. There

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is some purple, purple, lavender
colors and whatnot. It's just a good

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plant. It's an excellent, outstanding
plant. Really person lane Porto Laca and

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Slain both very closely related. They
can take the heat and they can also

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take the drought and do really well. We could go on and on.

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I mean there's shrubs, there's vines, there's all kinds of things. Get

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them in now so that they have
time to establish roots. And once they've

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established roots and the heat comes,
these are plants that are tough and they

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can take it. But don't delay. Go ahead and get them in.

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Get some size on them. You
know, you buy the little plants they're

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pretty in the garden center, but
you want them to get bigger. You

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want them to get to whatever size
they're going to be so they look their

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best. So whether you have sun
or shade, there are plants that will

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do wonderfully for you. Here in
the KTRH listening area, we have a

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lot of great options. Makes it
kind of nice. I'm go'na quit talking

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for just a minute. By the
way, I should give you a phone

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number seven one three two one two
KTRH. We're going to go to Des

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Moines, Iowa and talk to Dan. Hello, Dan, are you there

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all right? I'll tell you what. I'm gonna put Dan on on hold

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and we'll see if we can get
him back. That was interesting all the

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way from Des Moines, Iowa.
First thing in the morning. So I

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was talking about cool, cool,
heat tolerant plants, plants that can take

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the heat. One thing to always
remember is even the toughest of plants need

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a root system to be able to
be tough in heat and drought. And

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a root system requires good soil.
And we talk all the time about brown

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stuff before green stuff, and so
that is that is one principle. But

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it's also true if you're putting them
in containers, you need to sew a

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volume that is as much as pretty
much as much as you can really we

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oftentimes, you know, plant and
a little bit smaller containers, and that

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container volume of soil is the entire
area that that plant can get water and

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nutrients from. If we if we
can look at a larger area, a

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larger pot, then we're able to
draw from that larger area and the plants

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are just better able to survive.
And I'll talk about that more in a

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minute, We're gonna go back to
the boy and talk to Dan. Hello,

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Dan, we got you? Uh
did you? Is that for for

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Dan? Yes? Dan, You're
it. You're on you Okay, No,

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no, no, I don't.
I'm actually over in the Beaumont area

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now, okay, And when I
was in the one the boy, I'll

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tell you what. You could pull
some crops up there that are just crazy.

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But over here, I'm having a
problem with some pill bugs. Okay,

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how do I get rid of them? Well, let me ask you

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this first. What are they doing? What is uh what? They're eating

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my basil and uh some other uh
some stuff like cucumbers, but not as

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much as the basil. Okay,
well, yeah, typically they're not uh

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they're not one of our big pests
that we have to deal with. They

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feed on decaying organic matter. I've
got a strawberry patch and the underside of

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every strawberry that touches the ground.
It's going to ben about pill bugs.

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But there are baits that you can
put out there that are for pill bugs,

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and they're close relative called sow bugs, right and and other kinds of

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critters. And I would just go
to You've got you know, a couple

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of great A hardware stores out there
in your area. I would just probably

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go over them and say, you
know, I need a bait for snails

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and pill bugs and slugs and things
like that, and they can get you.

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They can get you fixed up with
one. I have done some research

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and I've seen that there was a
product called slug O Pro. Yeah,

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and I can't find it anywhere.
I don't know Slugo Pro. There's a

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Slugo Plus. I think could that
be a that what what you saw?

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That? Possibly? Yeah, slug
Slugo plus gosh, if memory serves me

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right, Slugo is basically an iron
based bait. It gives uh, it

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gives a toxic amount of iron to
the pests that eats it. Uh.

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Slugo Plus I'm pretty sure also has
spinosa in it, which is an insecticide

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that also works. And so it
just it just spreads out the number of

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things Slugo will work on. But
if you if you head over to you

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got an M and D there on
College Street in Beaumont, I would I

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would try them talk to them they. I've been to Ace hardware stores many

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times that had the Slugo Plus,
So I don't know if you've tried that

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one or not. But but but
I would, but I would just go,

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you know, just read the label
on anything like that, any kind

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of a bait that they would have, and just make sure that it's sow

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bugs or pill bugs are on the
level, right, Yeah, okay,

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you know they are crustaceans like crawfish, so you're in crawfish country. That's

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right. This is just a crustacean. I don't think you want to eat

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these, but who knows the same
taste? All right, Dad, thanks

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a lot, appreciate your call.
Yeah. Yeah, pillbugs you turn over

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organic matter, and they are just
everywhere. I got mulches in my garden,

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and whenever I pull the mulch back, it's like good night, there's

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herds of pill bugs into there.
I generally don't worry about them, but

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yep, they can do some feeding
on some things here and there. Just

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so it wasn't want check too that
when you see an insect and then you

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see damage, make sure that what
you're the pest you're seeing is truly a

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pest doing the damage. It's something
else and sneaking in there. Uh,

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and it gets blamed on on something
else. Let's take a little break.

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Our phone number is seven one three
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back to the garden Line. Good
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if you ever thought about having bees
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honey, to pollinate your own crops, if you will, you have fruit

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trees, you've got vegetables perhaps,
or you just enjoy being a support to

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the pollinators that we have, because
you know how important that is. Well,

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you can put bees in your backyard
and the bee Supply can help you

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do that. They specialize in things
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You can go to their website.
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really cool and that is a leaf
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It's little tubes that they live in. Leaf cutter bees are excellent pollinators and

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I'm going to head to Sugarland now
and we're going to talk to Mike.

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Hello Mike, Well, good morning, Skip Marni. I got a question

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about the pH of my soil.
How do I test it? And then

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if it's high what do I use? And then if it's a low pH

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what do I have? All Right, Why Mike, is your soil a

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clay soil, a sandy soil,
or something in between. It's primarily clay.

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Okay, so I've done several popsoil
applications. My problem is, like

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some green some of the grass blades
are light lime green as opposed to a

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dark green, right, Okay,
yeah, yeah, that could be a

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little bit of an ron deficiency,
but it also could be just well,

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there's a variation depending on the number
of nutrients in the soil, including nitrogen

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being the main one that helps drive
that green color. So as far as

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how do you do that, I
don't know if you've been to my website

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Gardening with Skip dot com and looked
at my lawn care schedule that's on there.

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But if you go there to Gardening
with Skip dot com, there's a

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free lawn care schedule. You can
look at it on your computer or print

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it out. There's also a lawn
pest, disease and weed management schedule again

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takes you from January way through December, tells you the problems you run into,

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what to use for that, and
how to time it. But the

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reason I bring it up is because
on there is a live link to the

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soil test lab at an M and
that is where you would find out your

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pH. You just send a sample
up to them. There's a link right

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to the form that you need on
there if you have a pen and want

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to write it down. It's soil
testing dot T A m U, dot

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ed U and they can tell your
pH. I can tell you this.

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Chances are it's a little bit high. And if it's a clay, chances

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are you're not going to move it
much. It's difficult to make a high

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pH clay more acidic. But what
you can do for beds, garden beds,

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vegetable beds, flower beds, you
can bring in a quality mix that

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has a good pH and put it
on top of the ground, mix it

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in a little bit with your soil
and just grow in that. That's the

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best and easiest way to deal with
it. Far as your lawn. You're

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not gonna make your lawn a raised
bad so, but but grass is pretty

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tolerant of pH. You may have
to use a little keylated iron or something

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like that. But i'd start with
finding out what the pH is and at

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the same time you're going to find
out your nutrient content, and that's important.

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Okay, what about some some have
said, well, put some sulfur

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down. Is that well, that's
that is how you bring pH down.

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But in a in a in a
clay soil, the term is buffered.

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The clay is so buffered that you
just add sulfur and add sulfur and add

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sulfur, and it's hard to get
the pH to come down. Uh,

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and so it's very difficult. If
not, I'll just say it's impractical to

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try to bring a clay high pH
clay down much in pH. And then

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the final question is I'm considering going
to a professional long service. Do you

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recommend them? I've done two applications. You know already they share so pretty

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using or is there one we would
recommend down there? Yeah, in the

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area, or well, what do
you think of them in general? Their

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prices are pretty high, so the
ones you've been looking at, Yeah,

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okay, Well, I generally don't
get into just the kind of the mow

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and care for lun care services we
do. Well, you do have BnB

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turf Pros down there and they'll do
the compost top dressing, which, by

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the way, will be another way
to help your loan because it's getting the

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compost down in the soil and the
roots find it and they have access to

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the nutrients. Maybe the high pH
tends to lock up. But BnB turf

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Pros down there, you'd have to
talk to them about any other services and

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whatnot that they that they might provide. I know that the website is Bbturfpros

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dot com and sugar lens is one
of the areas that they service down down

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where you are. So you're you're
saying, you know, if you can't

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do it on your own, then
maybe search out these professionals. I'm talking

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to me. I'm not the mowing
and the trimming. I'm talking fertilizing and

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doing so past. Uh so,
Yeah, I've never talked to them about

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whether they do sell tests, but
it's so easy for you to do that

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yourself, just to send the sample
in. But BB tur Pros would be

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the one I would call. They
do the compost, top dressing, they

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do deep time erration. Now those
those activities top dressing and neration are not

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inexpensive, but you're making a significant
difference in the lawn. It's not just

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like throwing fertilizer out there. It's
it's going beyond that. But you might

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I would call them and just see
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In the way they do business.
They really focus They only use products that

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are quality. Then they focus on
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It's more of a relationship with them. It's not just like send me a

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check and we'll show up ever so
often. It's I like the way they

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do this. I would give m
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and they could probably as you visit
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two you work out, you know, some sort of a plan. And

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so do you have a preference as
to whether you should use granular or liquid

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fertilizers? They both work, They
both work well granular. With granular you

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can get some nice slow releases that
will release over three or four months that

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you're not going to be able to
get that slow over release and a liquid

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and I like that gradual feed over
the course of the summer. So I

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would aim toward granular. But if
you want to get out there and get

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a nice green up, there's some
excellent products, including a new and I'll

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be talking about in a little bit
here from Medina that that's good. You

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just put it on the end of
a hose and you can get it done

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real quick. All right, so
if I have a low pH, well

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did you is there a certain thing
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Well, then yes, I think
there's a ninety nine point nine percent chance

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you don't have too low of a
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But lime lime is what is used
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with this old test. It's going
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your nitrogen, your potassium. It's
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you'll be able to fertilize more accurately. All right, I'm gonna have to

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thank you. I'm gonna have to
run. Thank you very much. Good

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luck to that lawn in good shape. Appreciate that. Yeah, you're talking

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about slow release fertilizers. Nitrophos has
got their superturf and that's the nineteen four

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to ten, nineteen four ten.
It's a silver bag. Makes it easy.

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Just remember silver nitrophs nineteen four ten. Half the nitrogen is in a

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slow release form. So it's going
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Here, it's going to give you
a nice gradual and also Mike's talking about

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you know a little bit of a
sharp trouse color of green well, it's

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going to give you more of a
boost because it has the four percent iron

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in it as well, and that
gives the nice green color on lawns that

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are struggling because the pH is high
and the iron is tied up. Nitrofoss

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nineteen four to ten Super Turf's available
a lot of different places. You're gonna

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find it at Gym's Hardware up in
Montgomery. You're gonna find it at Lake

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Hardware Inclute. You can find it
in a lot of places. Ace hard

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Ride and Sinco Ranch also carries the
Nitroposs Super Turf. We're going to head

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now to let's see, we're heading
to Greg and Hempstead. Hello Greg,

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Hey, good morning, Skip.
You've got a couple I've got a couple

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of questions for you. The first
one is core aerating my yard. I

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received the and doing a compost top
dressing. I received a price for it.

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I'm not saying the price is wrong, but the price is more than

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I can more than I can bite
off at this time. Okay. My

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question to you is if I do
a plug aeriation and instead of using doing

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the compost top dressing, could would
there be any benefits to doing something you

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know, putting down something like Microlife's
hummates instead of the top dressing. Well,

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yeah, it's beneficial. The humates
are very beneficial. I don't It's

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kind of a different thing than putting
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they both have their benefits and advantages
and things. But the humates would be

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fine. You know, you can
buy the compost for top dressing, a

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screened leaf leaf composts. You can
bite it by the bag, or you

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can just have somebody dump it off
there and spread at your But are you

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talking about using a like a little
step on it push it down in the

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yard aer rator? Are you talking
about renting one? No? I was,

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Yeah, I was going to either
rent one or even even buy the

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plug aerator to hook onto the back. I've got a small lawn tractor to

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hook onto the back of it.
And it wasn't going to be one of

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the core Yeah, you know,
one of the plug ones. But my

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problem is I've got twenty I've got
twenty two to twenty three thousand square feet

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a yard, and it's just a
little to put down the compost top dressings

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a little bit more than this fifty
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By himself at the twenty and again, I'm not saying the price I got

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to do it is wrong or it's
more than at an expense, very expensive

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equipment and hauling a lot of stuff. Well, you know, I maybe

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I would just have my wife go
do it be easier. I don't you

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know the old Germans they used to
get all their work done by this weather,

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their friw. So I don't know
if that. Yeah, I know,

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I grew up with the old Germans. So hey, I'm up against

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a heardbreak, Mike. Good luck
with that. I gotta run, Thank

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you very much, Yeah, thank
you, bye bye. All right,

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it's time for Nicky in the news
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I'm going to head out now to
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to Paula. Hello, Paula,
Hi, good morning, good morning.

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Okay, my Tameya. Problems keep
happening. Now. I've got tomatoes with

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green tomatoes with black bottom. I've
sent you a picture yesterday, Okay,

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that is called blossom end rot and
well that's rot. I remember that.

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Yeah, it's boss better. And
so what happens is it's usually due to

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a moisture fluctuation. The disease is
caused by a lack of calcium to the

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growing the tip of the tomato.
When the cells there start, when they

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don't get calcium, they start to
collapse and die, and then the rot

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sets in behind them. So we
see it more often early in the season

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than late because later in the season
the tomatoes root systems a little more extensive.

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It's taking up nutrients. Well,
chances are you've got enough calcium in

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the soil, but a soil test
would help confirm that. But if you

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can keep the moisture even it really
helps make that blossom indrot go away.

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I have a feeling it's going to
get better on its own. Are these

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containers or the ground I don't Yeah, yeah, these are in the grow

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boxes, so it's hard to keep
the moisture. I've held off on watering

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because they seem to be pretty wet, so I haven't been filling those reservoir

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there's nothing. There's no way I can

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add calcium, or well you could, but even if the calcium is there,

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with the moisture fluctuation, you're going
to get blossomed. Okay, blossom

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man. So, but I think
grow boxes have the reservoir underneath them,

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right right, Yeah, well,
yeah, you keep that full and it

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ought to be. Okay, you
can put in, uh, some nutrients

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in the soil if it truly is
missing. You can even make a kind

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of a solution of some nutrients in
that water in the bottom from the take

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it up something that does you know, that's all the nutrients in it,

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or mix in the like liquid micro
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I'd have to check the label to
see if they have calcium in the particular

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one you're you would be Oh,
I'll look in the bottle and see.

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Okay, check that regular Microlife's gonna
have some calcium in it, So you

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could just use that too. Well, it's got microlife in there. It's

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got mic life in this. Guy, leave my old composts. I don't

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understand. Well, oh well,
I don't know, but I still think

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it's a matter of maybe the box
water level. Yeah okay, yeah,

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okay, so water thing. You
have a minute to recap what you told

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me about that limp to made up
when I saw you at r c W

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last Saturday. Oh okay, okay, Look it looks it's real limp and

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it looks like it was dying,
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roots to see if it if there
was any light, little nodules on it

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or something. And I looked at
the roots and the roots look fine.

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But recap again, what what you
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we were looking for nots on the
roots, which is nematodes, which

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affects water getting okay, makes it
will huh. The other thing would be

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a root rot. If the top
of a plant is declining and you basically

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pull it up and look at the
root system and the root system is further

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declined, it's like it's rotting away. The problem started in the roots as

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a root rot. If the roots
look fairly normal and healthy and you're just

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getting wilting, then it's it's gonna
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Okay, Okay, I'm writing all
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And then you told me that if
it does, to go ahead and cut

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open that stem. Okay, yes, the last thing we look for.

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The last thing is you slice the
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this is the you're performing the autopsy
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and instead of healthy green with a
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You see streaks of brown like it
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but but streaks of it through there. That is another covering disease that came

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from the soil, so that we
fight with resistant varieties. Hey, Paul,

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I got another guy on the line
here. I'm gonna all right,

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you take care, appreciate that.
We'll go to Jonathan and clearly Hello Jonathan.

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Hey, good morning, sir.
I have a question. I hope

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it's an interesting question for you.
I have a Saint Augustine lawn full Sun,

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and I've been follow following the schedule
for twenty years. About six years

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ago, we had a very large
oak tree that was in the middle of

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this that we had removed and we
brought in the special the correct soil,

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and we did sod and it's been
doing great. Right where the tree was.

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I'm realizing I'm having to water a
lot more than in other parts.

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We did that a couple of years ago,

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but we've never air rated. So
this year I tried to air rate

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and I'm noticing, of course now
that I'm finding bits of root and things

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about four inches under the ground right
where we're having to water a lot.

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All right here, let me just
cut to the chase on this one,

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John, I think I know what
you got. Whenever you do have a

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tree and you take it out and
stuff, you've got a lot of wood

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in the soil. And that wood
does a number of things. Number one,

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initially ties up a little nitrogen as
it decomposes. But you just it's

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just going to be. It's just
going to take time for it to settle

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down and to decay away, and
having to water a lot is maybe part

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of that process, and there's no
fix to it. Keep making sure that

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it's kept moist, that you give
good fertilization to the grass is what's in

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your power. But other than that, you know what is is and that's

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wood in the all over in the
soil compared to the soil that you're lawn

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in other areas is growing in.
That's great. And then my question beyond

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that was I had a bag of
rose soil and I just kind of sprinkled

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it over top, thinking maybe I
could elevate the soil above those roots.

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Is that bad idea? No,
that's fine, that's fine. It may

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be a little greener spot. But
I think that's what's within your all right,

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man, thank you, thank you
a lot. I appreciate that.

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I appreciate that. If you're thinking
about putting a tree in, by the

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way, you need to get you
a three sixty tree stabilizer. If you

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put one in in the last few
months. Three sixty tree stabilizer holds that

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tree, but it doesn't hold it
tight. It holds it in a slightly

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allows the slight amount of movement,
and that allows it to establish well.

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And when the tree moves, it's
going to strengthen the tissues in the trunk

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and in the braceroots right there at
the bottom, it's going to strengthen those.

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Now you can get a three sixty
tree stabilizer at Buchanans and arbor Gate

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Plants for all seasons carries them.
RCW has them down and Alvin Jorge Hidden

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Gardens has them in Southwest Fertilizer where
I'm going to be today, by the

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way, I'm going to be there. I'll tell you about that in just

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a bit. They have those as
well. But three sixty trees say there's

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a quality product. It hooks right
to a t post or any kind of

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post you put in and it works
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we got to take another break here. Here we go. I'll be right

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back seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to

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Guardenline. Good to have you with
us today. If you have not been

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to RCW Nursery recently, you need
to go. I was out there a

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couple saturdas ago, I guess,
and just always amazing the color they have,

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it's just outstanding. The book and
villias are gorgeous. The roses,

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by the way, they got it. They have a cell going on on

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the roses. Ten percent off all
trees and roses. You got that right,

407
00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:45.440
all trees and roses both. Now's
a great time to get them established.

408
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.640
You know, with RCW they grow
their own trees, and so they

409
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.000
grow things that belong here, that
grow here, that'll do well here.

410
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.519
You can purchase a tree, or
you can have them come planet, which

411
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.759
I'd recommend the latter because they'll do
a good job. Make sure it gets

412
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established very very well for you,
and that is really important. They also

413
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.119
have in celebration of Arbor Day,
they've got all their beautiful arbors and all

414
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:12.759
the metal artwork for sale twenty percent
off. RCW Nurseries haven't been there before.

415
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:17.400
It's two forty nine, which is
Tomball Parkway where it comes into belt

416
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.400
Way eight. If they don't have
something, I bet they can get it.

417
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.599
That's why we like to call them
the get it, Got It Nursery

418
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.559
because they are excellent at hunting something
down and getting it in for you,

419
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:33.440
and the selection is just outstanding.
Check them out over at RCW yesterday I

420
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:38.640
was I was going around, stopped
in at Spring Creek Feed Sprint Creek Feed

421
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:45.039
is the feed starts up there on
FM twenty nine seventy eights and Magnolia,

422
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.519
so kind of north and east to
tom Ball, not very far all away

423
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.559
from ground Parkway Highway to forty nine. Their selection is just still excellent.

424
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.440
In fact, he keeps getting better. They had plants outside. They had

425
00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.000
all kinds of garden de core and
stuff outside, but inside to find the

426
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:05.400
fertilizers, I recommend on garden line, you're going to find all kinds of

427
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:09.920
pest. I was surprised at the
amount of different types of pest disease and

428
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:14.839
weed management products that they have.
It is excellent and of course it's a

429
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.759
feed store. You're gonna get quality
feed there. The store itself is cool.

430
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:21.519
I mean it's just beautiful, from
a little home to core and bling

431
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.400
to everything you can imagine that you
might need for animals or in this case,

432
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:30.079
for your landscape and garden. At
Spring Creek Feed. You should get

433
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:36.960
by there and check them out.
Not this coming week, but after that.

434
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.000
I've got to get out in my
yard and get some more potting done.

435
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.039
I've got a number of plants that
are just waiting on me to show

436
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:49.920
up and move them from the containers
that they came in to the pots that

437
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.480
I have. I got some beautiful
pots out there. We were talking about

438
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.960
the other day some my wife and
I some things that we might move and

439
00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.480
plant and where to put them and
whatnot. And you need a quality soil

440
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:01.880
when you do that. First of
all, you need a container that's large

441
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.640
because you need to hold a lot
of soil so you can hold moisture and

442
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:10.440
nutrients in our brutal summers. Don't
stick them in a little tiny pot unless

443
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:13.960
you want to water them three times
a day trying to keep them alive.

444
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.319
So we need a large pot that
has drain holes. And then a quality

445
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:20.839
soil like jungle land. Jungle Land
is the one you've heard me talk about

446
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:27.359
distributed by Nitrofoss. There's the outdoor
flour and vegetable planting soil, and there's

447
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.799
the indoor water saving potting soil.
That outdoor flour and vegetable that's the one

448
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:35.319
you use for all those plants out
on the patio or wherever you've got your

449
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:37.759
containers sitting. You're going to find
it in a lot of places, easy,

450
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:43.119
easy to find. Shades of Texas. Down in South Houston on Genoa

451
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.480
Red Bluff, some of you probably
know that one. Well, Kingwood Ace

452
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.759
Hardware has got it. In the
Arbrogate up and Tumble, They've all got

453
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:54.359
the Nitrofoss products. That's a good
you know, that whole line of products

454
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.480
is easy, easy to find,
and it's widely, widely available, easy

455
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:05.279
to go. I love to go
visit garden centers. That is one of

456
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:07.199
my favorite things in the world to
do, to get out and to check

457
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:12.519
things out and you know, just
kind of get a feel for what's new

458
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:19.719
and what's going on out there.
And I Enchanted Gardens down in the Richmond

459
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.079
Rosenberg area is one of those destination
places you just you just love to go.

460
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.760
And it's because they have everything everything
you can imagine. And I was

461
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:31.880
just looking at some things that they
had available, and one of the cool

462
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:37.280
things they do is container plantings.
You can get all you can get your

463
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:38.440
containers there. You can get all
the plants you need, you can get

464
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.360
the soils you need. And by
the way, they also have all the

465
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:45.760
fertilizers I recommend here on garden Line. But some of the combos they've put

466
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.880
together are just gorgeous and it just
you stare at them and there's things spilling

467
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.800
over the sides, there's things filling
in, there's things coming out of the

468
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:59.920
top. And when you use a
larger container and make a multiplant, different

469
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.840
types of planting, different species of
plants all combined in a planting, it

470
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:07.840
is just really cool. And they
of course they have that there at Enchanted

471
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:13.679
Gardens as long as well as can't
talk right now, as well as everything

472
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:19.039
else that you might need for your
plants. A cool new venka called tattoo

473
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.480
that you got to see that boy, that is a deep deep, deep

474
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.559
pink VCA really beautiful. Hey.
Enchanted Gardens, by the way, is

475
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.360
on FM three point fifty nine.
It's north of Richmond. So if you're

476
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:34.000
heading up Kiati direction full show direction, that is the way you go.

477
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.960
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Today'd
be a good day to get out there

478
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:45.519
and to check them out. So
anyway they say the cobblers' kids go barefoot,

479
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:50.280
and sometime at my house that is
the case, especially when I'm traveling

480
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:54.000
and off doing different kinds of things. And I'm ready looking forward to getting

481
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:58.920
back and getting some things in order. I've got a front flower bed that

482
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:04.599
we it's just plants have struggled there
and it is a nasty, sticky clay.

483
00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:08.280
It's just a mess. There's clays
that are good clays and there's clays

484
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.639
that are just I don't know.
They're not very conducive to plant growth,

485
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.280
for sure. And that's what I
got, and I need to put some

486
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.920
some amendment in there to fix it
up. And what do you do?

487
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:23.239
Well, Expanded shale is important.
That works very well on helping a clay

488
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:29.039
stay open. Takes about three inches
of shale on the top mixed in to

489
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.519
significantly do a good job, but
any little amount is going to help a

490
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:37.079
little bit. Also, organic matter, you know, I think about places

491
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.159
like Nature's Way. Nature's Way is
on I forty five north. They're right

492
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:45.239
where fourteen eighty eight comes in to
Interstate forty five, just south of Conra.

493
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.159
You turn right across the tracks and
you're there. And Nature's Way,

494
00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:54.320
for a long time, has led
in the creation of new quality product blends.

495
00:36:54.440 --> 00:37:00.360
For example, the rose soil that
started at Nature's Way, the leaf

496
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.039
more compost that we talk about top
dressing our lawns, but that started in

497
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.119
Nature's Way. Remember it. Nature's
Way. Every Friday is Fungal Friday.

498
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:13.440
Fungal based composts are ten percent off
in the bags and twenty percent off in

499
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:15.800
the bulk, and you can give
them a call. By the way,

500
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:19.400
I always listen to the guard line
with a pen and paper. Here's a

501
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:23.119
phone number. Write it down.
Nine three six three two one sixty nine

502
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:30.719
nine three six three two one six
nine nine zero. Nature's Way excellent source

503
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.840
of quality products to fix things like
that flower bed I got in front.

504
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.239
Before us stick my plants in it, I'm going to actually take my own

505
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:43.119
advice and take care of the brown
stuff before I start putting in the green

506
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.239
stuff. We're going to head out
to Paarland and visit with k now.

507
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:51.119
Hello, Okay, good morning,
Skip, Thank you for taking my call.

508
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:59.480
I have a question. I was
just inquiring about a fragrant plans,

509
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:06.400
particularly a climber if possible other than
jasmine, that would bloom at a different

510
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:13.639
time so it can have the fragrance
more frequently. Uh, something that would

511
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:19.599
bloom on through the There is gosh
a vine you want to vine? Well,

512
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:24.960
well, it could be of our
flower of Okay, well among our

513
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.800
fravorite fragrant plants in shade, a
very bright shade white butterfly ginger is going

514
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:36.000
to be a late summer and fall
bloomer that has a beautiful gardena like fragrance.

515
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:43.679
The almond verbinam saying that right,
Alma verbina aloisia. It's a it's

516
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.119
a shrub slash. It's not a
tree, but it's a very lanky,

517
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:52.840
big shrub that has an unbelievable vanilla
fragrance that just wafts through the air.

518
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:59.000
It's one of the more fragrant.
There's night blooming plants that have that kind

519
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:06.280
of fragrance as well. Let's see
what else A vine ladybanks, the white

520
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.440
lady banks in the spring. It's
a once Bloomer, that's going to have

521
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:14.159
a nice fragrance for you. Confederate
Jasmine. Uh, that that is a

522
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.960
good one. It just its fragrance
is outstanding. That'd be another one.

523
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:22.840
So those are a few that come
to mind. Oh that sounds that's great,

524
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:25.079
great choice. I appreciate it,
all right. And then finally,

525
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:30.519
don't forget don't forget angels trump at
or brug Mancia. Uh that late in

526
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.239
the day it releases its fragrance.
So it gets one and put it in

527
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.639
a big giant container on your patio
so you can enjoy. Angels trumpet is

528
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:43.280
kind of poisonous. Though you're thinking
of Datura. I'm talking about one the

529
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.960
flowers hang down like trumpets hanging from
heaven. That's where it gets to.

530
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:49.800
Yeah, that's the one I was
thinking of too, that i'd heard from

531
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.119
other people. Yes, I hear
their music. You gotta go. Thank

532
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.559
you so much for taking my blessed
day. Thank you, bye bye.

533
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.840
Appreciate your call. Hey, guess
where I'm gonna be today and where I

534
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.559
hope you will show up. Southwest
Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer in the corner of

535
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.440
Byssinet and Runwick I'm going to be
giving listening to this. I'm gonna give

536
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:13.559
away skip Bucks. So you come
out there, you stop at my table

537
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:15.079
and ask a question. I'll give
you skip Bucks, which is a very

538
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:22.000
valuable uh dollar value. You can
go and purchase stuff with Medina product.

539
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:25.639
We're gonna have Toro blower and a
Toro string tremor. Listen, you don't

540
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:30.760
want to miss this. Kat r
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

541
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:36.440
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt r H

542
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:47.760
Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's
so crazy, Trim just watch him as

543
00:40:49.039 --> 00:41:06.559
world. Give a tea the supt
Tasy not a side. Hey, welcome

544
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.159
back to Guarden Line. Good day
have you with us today? Got some

545
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:13.960
light outside, I see clouds.
But listen, this is gonna be a

546
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:15.360
good day. It's gonna be a
good day to get out and get things

547
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.559
done. These clouds are just let's
just say that, a're making it a

548
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.480
little cooler for you to get outside
and work. We'll look at the upside

549
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.719
of that. We're not looking to
get a lot of rain out of them

550
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:29.119
today. So I hope you're making
plans to get out and do some shopping,

551
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.719
get out and do some yard work, whatever you need to get done

552
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.519
around your place. What have you
never grown before? What have you never

553
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.639
tried to grow before? Have you
have you never tried to grow vegetables?

554
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.920
Have you never tried to grow a
plumeria? Have you ever created a terraria?

555
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.920
Remember those those are really popular back
years and years ago. They still

556
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:53.760
are. What what have you never
tried to do before? Something just off

557
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:58.880
off the top, hanging baskets,
beautiful hanging basket areas. Do you have

558
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.360
some areas of your law in landscape
that needs some work and need some renovation.

559
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.960
Maybe a shade that is so deep
that it just you just don't even

560
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:12.159
notice it. It's like you've sort
of lost that area from an esthetic standpoint

561
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.719
on your property. There are things
that will grow there. Why to tackle

562
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:20.719
one of those things this year?
If you've never tried it before, if

563
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.960
you have kids around the house,
I really hope you will try vegetable gardening

564
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:29.119
because when we grow it, we're
more likely to eat it, and when

565
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:31.440
we eat it, we're more likely
to have good, long, healthy lives.

566
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.400
You know, our number one health
problem is what goes into our mouth

567
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.400
and the fact that we like to
sit on the couch. Those kinds of

568
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:45.000
things are big deals, and we
can set kids off to a different kind

569
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.960
of lifestyle than that by getting out
with us in the garden, by enjoying

570
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:52.000
growing things, whether it's flowers or
vegetables. You know, have them grow

571
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.599
some cut flowers, and they can
take them and give them to to give

572
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.440
them to teachers at school, give
them to friends, give them to family,

573
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.599
grandma, who who ever. It
just gets them involved in nature,

574
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:09.079
and nature has a positive effect on
us. There's research a mile high on

575
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:15.440
the effects on us mentally, the
effects things like ADHD with kids, the

576
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:22.760
things with performance on tests, for
example, exposure to nature, exposure to

577
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.119
plants has an effect on that.
It does. I just believe that we

578
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:31.360
were made to be engaged with the
living world around us, and here we

579
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:37.800
are. We're gardeners. We've got
the easy way in. I hope you'll

580
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.400
try something new this year, tackle
something. If you got a question,

581
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:44.079
a problem you've been dealing with,
give me a call seven one three,

582
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.519
two, one two fifty eight seventy
four one of those problem areas. Maybe

583
00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:52.159
we can kind of help resolve that. You know, the best time to

584
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:57.159
plant a tree was what forty years
ago. Second best time is today today.

585
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.400
The folks at Verdant Tree Farm pack
and the team there. They grow

586
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.079
quality trees and they grow trees of
all sizes. I mean you can get

587
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:09.400
trees up to seven hundred gallon size, so I mean that's almost like it

588
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.760
ought to come with a hammock,
right, I mean, if it's going

589
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:16.239
to be that size, that is
awesome. They grow palm trees. Their

590
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:21.920
selection of palms is excellent. And
here's the deal. They plant them and

591
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:24.880
then when they plant them, they
will give you a one year warranty with

592
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:30.199
that installation because they know how to
do it right. They've been doing this

593
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.840
a while. Patrick's been doing it
a while. If they really serve the

594
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.000
community, you know, if you
were a first responder or a military farmer

595
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:42.880
military current military, ten percent discount
for those as well, and I appreciate

596
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:47.199
them doing that. They'll do free
office consultation. You come in, bring

597
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:51.039
them a picture, say hey,
I'm looking for and you fill in the

598
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.239
blank. Talk to them. They'll
get you set up. It's easy to

599
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.000
find one because there's three Verdant Tree
Farms. There's one on Barker, Cypress

600
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.480
and West Houston. There's one down
Broadway Street in Parland, and there's one

601
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:07.559
in the Heights where I ten and
Yelle Street come together. Verdant Treefarm dot

602
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.519
com. By the way, they
also have very large shrubs, like certain

603
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.519
kinds of hollies that you might want
to use for a screen. They can

604
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:22.719
get you fixed up on that as
well. Someone was making a comment to

605
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:27.760
me the other day about how much
they liked the smell of sweet Green fertilizer.

606
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:31.360
Not normally the people walk up,
you know, it's like, Hey,

607
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.719
I love the smell of fertilizer,
but I understand what they're talking about.

608
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:43.000
It's a molasses based fertilizer from nitrophoss
and my crobes work on the molasses

609
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:50.760
base and through magic, they turn
it into an eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer that

610
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.119
you can put out there on your
lawn. It dissolves away and a sugar

611
00:45:54.199 --> 00:46:01.599
based carbohydrate and molasses that substance is
just rocket fuel for beneficial bacteria in the

612
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:07.119
soil. It's just a it's just
a quality blend. It really works super

613
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:10.639
well and it will green up your
lawn and you see a nice benefit from

614
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:14.960
it. And it is widely available, you know, You're going to find

615
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:19.480
it all kinds of places. Sweet
Green, kingwoob Ace Hardware, for example,

616
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.039
they're going to have that product.
You can go down to Angleton to

617
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.559
Lake Hardware down there they're going to
have it, or over in Baytown Fisher's

618
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.079
Hardware they're going to carry it as
well. Over there. It's easy to

619
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.880
easy to find nitropost products that are
very widely available. You ought to try

620
00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:37.880
this Sweet Green. I think that
you'll be very impressed. Eleven percent is

621
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.079
one of the highest analyzes for an
organic plant food that you're going to find.

622
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.280
Not every day someone walks up and
says, hey, I like the

623
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:53.280
smell of fertilizer. This fertilizer.
I was at the Arbigate a while back,

624
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.119
and in fact, I posted something
to Facebook, to our Facebook,

625
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.599
our garden Line Facebook page, which
you should follow if you don't already,

626
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:05.639
about the parking lot in the back. You know, I keep talking about

627
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:07.800
it and I want you to see
it. It's this all weather parking lot

628
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:16.519
where it's got a grid, like
a plastic honeycomb looking grid with rock that's

629
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:20.280
inside of it, and so when
rain hits it, it goes right through

630
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.519
it. It just absorbs water.
So there's never muddy out there. I

631
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:27.159
mean, you drive in any kind
of weather and you have this all weather

632
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.960
surface. You have to turn down
Trishel Road, which goes around behind Arburgate.

633
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:35.360
So if you pass Arburgate and you
haven't seen Trischel, keep going,

634
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:37.599
but look better because you're going to
see the other end of Trish'll come back

635
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.559
in. Just drive around behind Arbrogate
and you get right in there. And

636
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:46.639
you know Arburgate always has quality products. There're one two three completely easy system

637
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:53.320
is just an outstanding, an outstanding
combination for making your plants happy. I

638
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:58.320
always say on Guardline, brown stuff
before green stuff. The one two three

639
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:01.719
easy system is brownst You know,
it's got a food for anything that has

640
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:06.920
roots with calcium added too, by
the way. Uh, it's got a

641
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:13.199
compost that has expanded shale in it. And it also has a soil,

642
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:16.039
a soil blend that has expanded shale
in it. So it's one two three

643
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:21.000
easy. You take those three bags
home with your plant. Your plant's going

644
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:22.320
to be happy, the roots are
going to be happy, it's going to

645
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.960
thrive. That's why Beverly and the
you know Arbrogate, that's why they have

646
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:31.000
that system. Because they want you
to take their beautiful plants home and have

647
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:36.440
success with them. And they know
that by getting those products in your hand,

648
00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:39.119
you're going to have success. Arbrogate's
on twenty nine to twenty just west

649
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:44.039
of tom Ball. It's easy to
find. Check them out on social media

650
00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.679
too. They got some excellent posts
all the time going on up there.

651
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.000
We're gonna take a little quick break
here. Our phone number is seven one

652
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:55.480
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Welcome back to Guarden Line.

653
00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:59.159
Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk about?

654
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:00.880
Well, you have to tell me. Well, and if I don't

655
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.239
hear from you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what I want to

656
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.519
talk about. Seven one three two
one two k t r H. Seven

657
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.360
one three two one two k t
r H. You may have heard Nicky

658
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:17.760
during the news earlier talk about the
fact that there is a holiday or tax

659
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.840
holiday when it this weekend. When
it comes to things that are emergency,

660
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.400
you know, emergency type items,
and I can't go through the whole list

661
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.800
of what's available. You can go
to the Texas Controller website and see But

662
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.320
if you've been looking to purchase some
of these items. ACE Hardware Store is

663
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.519
a great place to do it.
And while you're at ACE, here here

664
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:43.559
is a huge deal going on at
ACE. At two day, thirty two

665
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:50.119
participating ACE Hardware stores, thirty two
different stores will honor a sale on Still

666
00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:54.480
equipment Still power equipment. It's called
the ACE Big Still Sale. Still is

667
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.920
a quality brand of power equipment.
They're going to give you fifteen percent off,

668
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.119
and even if the item was on
sale, it's still a fifteen percent

669
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:09.079
off. I mean, you cannot
beat that if you've looked to get any

670
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:14.159
quality equipment for doing all of the
different things around. You know, we

671
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:19.719
got weed eaters and everything else that
still provides chainsaws and whatnot. Now's the

672
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.199
time to do it, because you're
not going to do better than a fifteen

673
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.320
percent off sale. You can go
to your local ACE Hardware store. If

674
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:30.239
you don't know where ACE Hardware store
is, well, go to ACE Hardware

675
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.639
dot com and find the store locator
and it'll tell you. In fact,

676
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:36.480
when I sign into Acehardware dot Com, it always says can I use your

677
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:38.800
location? And I say yes,
and I get this big map of red

678
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.960
dots all over the Greater Houston area. Forty different stores in the extended Greater

679
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:49.559
Houston area. Thirty two stores though
around here are doing that still sale today.

680
00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:53.239
The ACE big still sale take advantage
of that, and while you're in

681
00:50:53.320 --> 00:51:00.440
there, ask them about what qualifies
for emergency supplies. They're like, whether

682
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.480
I can go into it. But
there's a bunch of different things that qualify,

683
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:06.039
and you can say you won't have
to pay tax on those items as

684
00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.079
well. I got two birds with
one stone. Let's go to Cypress.

685
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:15.119
We're going to talk to Eric.
Hello. Eric, Hey, Skip,

686
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:22.559
I got a question for you about
a really terrible looking lawn. I've been

687
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:27.719
skimpy on chemicals in the backyard for
a few years, I guess because the

688
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:34.239
pets, grandkids, and guess what
landed in my yard this year And I

689
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:39.679
didn't really realize it until it was
too late. Burweed is everywhere, and

690
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:45.079
you can't walk on a yard with
burweed. Yeah it hurts. I'll start

691
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:52.639
digging it up. But then I've
looked at some of the possible chemicals like

692
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:57.440
atrazine. I don't know how toxic
that is in the back how long it

693
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.320
takes to get it away, and
if it harms the tree. Because I

694
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.679
had an arborist out of a while
back, and he said, don't use

695
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:07.599
around up on the yard, the
kind that's for lawns, and don't use

696
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.320
a lot of things because it kills
the microbes that the trees need. So

697
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:15.199
I'm a little bit of a quandary
as to what to put down for the

698
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:19.320
grass, and then now what to
do with the with this spur weed.

699
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:23.920
I've considered residing, and I know
that would cost it a small fortune and

700
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:28.880
be a backbreaker. So I just
calling for your thoughts. Let's drill down

701
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.079
on this. I just want to
make sure that I've got the right weed

702
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:35.719
with you. It's not grass burr. You're talking about a little frilly leafed

703
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.400
broad leaf plant that has the burrs
on it. Is that correct? Yeah?

704
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.199
Kind of. It's low, it
stays low, so it doesn't hardly

705
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:45.679
cut very easily. You got to
dig that out. And boy, they

706
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:51.079
right, and they're everywhere because I
saw that where they like sparse grass,

707
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:54.199
and mine is sparse, so it's
moved in anytime sunlight hits The sell nature

708
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:59.559
plants of weeds. So the density
of your lawn is like the bodyguard that

709
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:02.400
either does or does not let weeds
into your lawn. And that's kind of

710
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:07.440
what you described at the beginning of
the call. So your number one goal

711
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:12.199
is to go to my website,
Gardening with Skip dot com and get my

712
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:15.960
free download lawn care guide. It
ties you how to mow, water and

713
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.960
fertilize properly and the timing on those
things. And the more you build the

714
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:24.440
lawn over time, the less weed
problems you're going to have. Like burweed,

715
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:28.480
for example, there are a few
weeds that can coexist in a dense

716
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:32.760
Saint Augustine lawn. Most of them
can't. And so I would say I

717
00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.960
kind of hear from you you'd rather
not use chemicals if possible, but whatever.

718
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:46.000
So that mowwater, fertilized fact sheet
or chart calendar is very very important.

719
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.119
Do that all summer long. Now, as far as what to do

720
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.760
about the burweed, now you would
have to use a post emergent broad leaf

721
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.840
weed killer, but you're not going
to put it down at a rate that

722
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:02.400
would inch through the soil or harm
a tree or something like that. You're

723
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.199
going to apply it just enough to
dampen the leaves of the weeds, and

724
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:12.280
once you do that, it's going
to kill the weeds back. And then

725
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.400
as the grass begins to grow.
It's not like your long stays toxic for

726
00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:19.239
months, you know, or anything. It's not going to be an issue

727
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:24.440
there. Just just follow the label
carefully. These products that work best when

728
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:30.440
it gets in the upper eighties,
they begin to be stressful to Saint Augustine.

729
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:36.880
So we're right now in temperatures that
are hitting the upper eighties. But

730
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.519
if you do it in the morning
and let them dry up before the temperatures

731
00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:44.559
get up there, you're okay.
Still. If you wait another month or

732
00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:46.840
so, then we're looking at the
nineties and it's already hot first thing in

733
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:52.159
the morning, and so I would
get it done now rather than later.

734
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:58.079
If you're going to do those sprays, yeah, and so yeah, go

735
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:00.760
ahead. So I don't have a
whole of Saint Augustine to worry about in

736
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:04.639
the back. You could do in
the front. I haven't seen the birweed

737
00:55:04.679 --> 00:55:09.079
in the front yet. But what
is the chemical that you would recommend putting

738
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:13.320
down on that? And I'm guessing
I need to kill it and then dig

739
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.119
it up still because those birds don't
disappear. I mean the plant might die,

740
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:21.400
but yeah, but well, if
you're going to dig it up anyway,

741
00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:22.920
then I wouldn't spray it. I
just dig it up. But that

742
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:28.760
is one heck of a job digging
up burweed all over a lawn. If

743
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:30.760
you're up to that, then go
for it, but don't don't spray it

744
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:35.800
and then dig it up. You
just got to determine that you are going

745
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.280
to get the densest Saint Augustine anyone's
ever seen by the end of summer,

746
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:43.320
and you can do that with with
that mollwater fertilized with quality products, and

747
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:49.920
I would that's what I would aim
for. There are pre emergent herbicides that

748
00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:57.039
you would put out in this early
like February for the burweed. But let's

749
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.400
just work on getting the lawn dnse
and seeing how far we can it there.

750
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:04.920
And getting the burweed out is helpful
because it is a competition for your

751
00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.400
grass. Now that it's found this
little niche in the spots in the lawn

752
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:14.519
where sunlight hit the soil. You
decide the way you want to go about

753
00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:16.679
it, you know, from hand
pulling to spraying to whatnot. But the

754
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:22.880
simplest, least spray way I can
tell you to do it is maybe hit

755
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.440
them now with the spray to kill
the ones that are there. But then

756
00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:32.400
just really focus on that mowater fertilized
and what's fertilizer called again? Say it

757
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:37.239
again? What the name of your
fertilizer that you're talking about. Oh,

758
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.159
there's a number of them on my
schedule. You hear me talk about them

759
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:43.960
on garden Line. You know,
there's products from Microlife, there's products from

760
00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:51.000
Nelson's, there's products from nitrofoss and
from Medina and they all work. They're

761
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.000
all good products. They work.
They're different, you know, some are

762
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:58.480
immediate release, some are slow release. But when you look at my schedule

763
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:02.440
at Gardening with Skip, it lists
all of the products there and it talks

764
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.679
about when to apply them. And
so that that's why I'm trying to send

765
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:09.000
you there. Because it's free.
You just download it, print it up

766
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:13.199
if you want. And when when
a yard is bad enough, I mean,

767
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:17.559
do you at some point you got
to say there's nothing there to redeem.

768
00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:22.679
I mean talk about residing a little
bit. I know that's okay,

769
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:24.719
I'm gonna have to I'll do this
in a real quick way because I have

770
00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:30.559
to run on. But if you
have grass that's alive, that's in decent

771
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:37.639
health within a foot space apart.
It will cover back over by by summery,

772
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:42.920
you know, through the sometime in
the summer with good care. If

773
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.599
if it's more sparse than that and
you got larger areas, either you're having

774
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:49.960
to plug in strips here and there
to try to speed the fill in,

775
00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:53.480
or you just go to the total
resaid and it is money. But sometimes

776
00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:59.320
biting the bullet and just starting off
that way maybe easier. Unless you have

777
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:01.039
the time to it out and kind
of mess with your lawn each week,

778
00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:06.239
a couple of days a week doing
some things, it may be easier to

779
00:58:06.400 --> 00:58:10.320
just go to the reside. But
that you have any recommendations for reside companies

780
00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.960
are places to buy it. There's
a number of places around town. I

781
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.519
don't have a specific one that I
would recommend. I would do a little

782
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:21.760
research on what kind of grass you
want, and what variety of grass you

783
00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:27.000
want, what cultivar. Saint Augustine
it is the most shade tolerant that we

784
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:31.239
have. There are zoisias that are
moderate close in shade tolerance, but not

785
00:58:31.639 --> 00:58:37.480
as good as Saint Augustine. And
then I wouldn't even do Bermuda. It

786
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:43.320
has its own issues. It's just
a version of St. Augustine. There's

787
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.159
a couple of different breeds of it
or whatever. There's a lot of them,

788
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:50.239
and some of them are hard to
hard to find. I tell you

789
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:54.599
what. Let me let me do
this. If you go to the Aggie

790
00:58:54.760 --> 00:59:00.639
turf website, I'm concerned. I'm
on time here. If you go Aggie

791
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:06.199
Turf website, it's it's Aggie turf
dot TAMU t A m U dot e

792
00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:09.800
d U go to text turf grasses
being the lower left corner says it has

793
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:13.519
turf grass, weeds and turf grass's
by the way, you should look at

794
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.519
the weed part two. Uh and
and it'll list like you click on Saint

795
00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:21.960
Augustine or click on Zoisia and it'll
tell you cultivars and stuff. Now that's

796
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:24.480
not the most up to date list, you know, websites have to get

797
00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:30.320
updated periodically, but that's a good
start. Uh And And I I would

798
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:34.639
I would try that. Depending on
how much shade you have, and depending

799
00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:42.320
on uh some other factors, one
variety or another would be better suited to

800
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:45.320
your lawn. Okay, okay,
I appreciate you, all right, you

801
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:49.320
bet, Eric, thank you very
much for that call. You know we're

802
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.760
talking about fertilizing and things. Microlife. Micro Life products are excellent. You

803
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:57.440
know, Eric was kind of interested
maybe and stand away from some things that

804
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.000
are synthetic. Well that that's God's
fine. That's that's your prerogative. By

805
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:06.239
the way, my schedules, both
of them online, have organic and synthetic

806
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:08.599
options, so you choose what you
want. They're there. We help you

807
01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:13.159
have success based on the way you
want to go about it. And Microlife

808
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:16.719
is an organic product. The green
bag the six two four that is the

809
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.960
standard lawn fertilized standard organic lawn fertilizer, and I use it for things way

810
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:25.800
beyond the lawn. I mean,
it's an excellent product. The Microlife humts

811
01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:31.920
plus C zero four helps with your
soil structure. Humate is concentrated compost.

812
01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:37.480
If you take composts to its final
stage, that's called humus, and humates

813
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.639
plus is a high quality soil amendment
that you can put on the surface in

814
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:45.920
your lawn and in time, as
you do that and the lawn grows,

815
01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:50.639
you just create an environment where grass
can thrive. And that's that's what we're

816
01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:54.480
looking for. If you go to
Microlifefertilizer DOT com Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

817
01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:58.679
You can find out where to get
it, and it's widely, widely available.

818
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.039
I mean you hear me talking about
feed stores and ace hardware stores of

819
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:07.440
Southwest Fertilizer, and you know all
these places are going to carry micro Life.

820
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.360
It's easy, easy to find.
Well, we just ran through another

821
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.400
break Nikki. This morning is going
two dead gum fasts. It is really

822
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:19.199
I don't have time to talk about
all the things I want to talk about.

823
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:23.760
And humus is that like hummus but
different. It's like hummus for the

824
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:29.000
soil. Oh No, humus is
like okay, so you start with the

825
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:34.079
leaves and grass clippings, that's organic
matter. It decomposes into composts. That's

826
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:37.360
the good stuff to put in your
soil. And when composts decomposes all the

827
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:42.360
way as far as it can,
that's humus. Wow, I don't love

828
01:01:42.440 --> 01:01:45.199
the education. Maybe we need to
mix it up and put it in a

829
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.159
little one pint tens and I don't
know, maybe keep you regular or something

830
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:54.159
like that idea. Sure, I'm
just saying I never heard about anybody eating

831
01:01:54.239 --> 01:02:00.480
hummus, but humus all right,
I'm past sorry. Hey, welcome back

832
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:05.320
to the garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. You hear

833
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:08.000
me all the time brag about our
independent garden centers here in the Houston area.

834
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:13.760
I'm just telling you, if you
live in any other city here in

835
01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:17.280
Texas and a lot of I've been
to a lot of cities around the country,

836
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.400
nobody has got this selection of garden
centers that we do, the top

837
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:28.480
notch independent mom and pop whatever you
want to call them garden centers. And

838
01:02:29.079 --> 01:02:31.559
Warren Southern Gardens out in Kingwood is
an example of that. You know that

839
01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:36.360
you've got Warren Southern Gardens and you
got Kingwood Garden Center out there. It

840
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.599
is just one of those places where
you go and you just want to hang

841
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:44.239
out, You want to wander around
because they have so many cool things.

842
01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:47.119
By the way, they've got a
deal right now that whether you buy a

843
01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:52.679
bag of Nelson's Turf Star Slow and
Easy or Nitrofoss Super Turf, either one,

844
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.239
they'll give you a free tempon bag
of a barricade for the pre murder

845
01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.000
week control. That is a deal
they got going on out there also.

846
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:07.159
And they have a selection of plants, outstanding hibiscus, outstanding color anything you're

847
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:09.960
looking for, you're going to find
it out there. But there is a

848
01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:15.360
plant that I hadn't seen in a
long time, and it's blue butterfly clarodendron.

849
01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:19.000
And you've got to see this plant. It's a shrub, but it

850
01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:23.760
has a little clusters of little blue
flowers that look like butterflies. The petals

851
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:29.599
look like butterfly wings, and the
anthers and filaments, the pollen and everything.

852
01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:31.960
The reproductive part of the flower coming
up look like the antenna of a

853
01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:37.320
butterfly. Blue butterfly clarodendum. Just
go out there and see it. It

854
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.239
is an excellent plant. I like
to put it in a kind of a

855
01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:43.960
semi sun area where it gets a
little sun, a little bit of shade.

856
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.760
It does super super well there,
Blue butterfly Clara dendum. But that's

857
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:51.280
just typical of woring Southern gardens.
Of course you're going to have new things.

858
01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:54.039
Of course you're going to have cool
things going on, and they always

859
01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:59.360
have some great deals going on too. You can go to the website it's

860
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:05.480
Warrens Southern Gardens Warrens Southern Gardens.
So you know, I've I've been there

861
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:09.199
a number of times. By the
way, they're open seven days a week

862
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.320
too. That's another thing. I
mean, it's always a good day to

863
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:15.719
go out there to Warren Southern Guards
and a Kingwood Garden Center. While you're

864
01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:21.960
at it, well, guess what
Mother's Day is coming up? I hope

865
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:28.000
you know that. Guys, this
is your official You've been told, you've

866
01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:31.639
been minded, you've been remembered.
Mother's Day is coming up, and so

867
01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:34.800
what do you do for mom on
Mother's Day? Well, there's a lot

868
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:39.159
of things. Of course, people
think of flowers or box of chocolates or

869
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:42.400
whatnot. I'll tell you what mom
would really like. Mom would like something

870
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:49.559
from Wabirds Unlimited. Because at Wabirds
everything you can imagine that associates with birds.

871
01:04:49.679 --> 01:04:54.440
They're gonna have it. They're gonna
have feeders, they're gonna have the

872
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:58.119
bird houses. You know. They've
got the little hyper hummingbird feeder, which

873
01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:00.679
in my opinion, is the best
hummingbird there is. I've got one myself,

874
01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:05.039
high perch hummingbird feeder. They got
the Eco Tough Classic feeder. It's

875
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:08.920
the typical if you kind of picture
a bird feeder in your mind, it's

876
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:13.960
probably what you're picturing, but it's
made out of recycled plastic milk jugs.

877
01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:18.400
Really cool. My favorite feeder the
squirrel proof. It's called the Eliminator squirrel

878
01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:24.880
Proof feeder. That is a Cadillac
and it works. I'm telling you the

879
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.480
squirrels at my house. You should
hear the language they use around the yard

880
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:31.599
because they can't get into the darn
thing. They're very frustrated. There's books,

881
01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:39.480
there's just all kinds of things at
Wildbirds Unlimited, including even like jewelry

882
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:45.239
and decorations for the home, and
bird baths, bird bath, bird water

883
01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:50.679
feature for birds. Right, they've
got it. Wilbird's unlimited and super super

884
01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:56.039
quality feed where when you buy a
pound of wild Bird feed, you're getting

885
01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:59.239
a pound of stuff that's going to
go into the stomach of a bird,

886
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.679
not kicked off on the ground.
Super high quality. That's what they do

887
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:06.280
wild Bird's Unlimited. So get by
there, now, get mom something.

888
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:10.880
I guarantee you can find something from
Mom there. We're going to head now

889
01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:15.920
out to Mike in Surfside. Hey, Mike, Hey, Skip, thanks

890
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:19.000
for taking my call. I got
a quick question for him trying to store

891
01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:26.079
some vegetable seeds and I was wondering
if by refrigerating them and just a normal

892
01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:29.360
refrigerator. Would that extend the life
of the seed or are they just better

893
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:32.320
off at room temperature? No,
significantly better when you cool them down.

894
01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:36.199
You know, when people are want
to store seed forever, they put them

895
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:41.840
in the freezer, right, But
a refrigerator for our home garden purposes or

896
01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:45.639
refrigerators just find you just need them
to be dry, make sure they're dropping.

897
01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:48.880
That's why you know, whenever I
buy something you get those little desecon

898
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:54.079
packets in it. I always save
those because I throw those in with my

899
01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:57.800
seed and that's pulling moisture out of
the air. In cold storage, you

900
01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:01.320
need something that seals tightly, not
as I but like a Mason jar with

901
01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:06.280
a lid, or one of those
click down food storage jars that has a

902
01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:12.159
rubber seal. Yeah, yeah,
plan on using the Mason jar ceiling deal.

903
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:15.480
I'll figured the refrigeration would probably help
extend the life of the seed.

904
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.880
That wasn't quite sure it does significantly. All right, I appreciate you helping

905
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:24.440
me. All right, take care, Thanks, Mike, appreciate your call.

906
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:30.239
That is for sure. I've told
you about the silver bag. You

907
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:35.719
know what the silver bag is that's
Nitrophoss's superturf. Superturf, it's nineteen four

908
01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.639
ten. It's got a lot of
nitrogen in it. But don't worry about

909
01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:42.840
that. You're not. We don't
want to overdo nitrogen, but you don't

910
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.960
when you put on superturf. And
here's why. Half of that nitrogen is

911
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:48.880
in a slow release form that's going
to release over the next two or three

912
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:53.440
or four months. I mean,
it just depends on conditions, weather conditions,

913
01:07:54.000 --> 01:08:00.480
but it gradually feeds the grass like
grass takes up nutrients gradually. It's

914
01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:02.320
kind of like we eat. Do
you eat six months of food at one

915
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:05.920
time? Well, I've attempted it
on several occasions, but no, we

916
01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:12.039
don't do that. We eat gradually
each day, and grass takes up nudrinks

917
01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:15.920
gradually each day. So that slow
release is the way you spread out the

918
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.199
growth get a stronger, deeper,
more resilient root system. It also has

919
01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:24.800
four percent iron, which is important
for good color. A lot of times

920
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:28.720
in our clay soils and our highph
soils, we end up with a little

921
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:30.479
bit of an iron deficiency, especially
early in the season, but it can

922
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:35.119
occur through the year and the nitroposs
superturf the silver bag. That's how we

923
01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:40.640
avoid that. So where do you
get nitrofas superturf, Well, pretty much

924
01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:43.960
everywhere, that's a fast answer.
You get it plants for all seasons,

925
01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:46.239
yep, that's on Tomball Parkway,
you know that one. You can get

926
01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:50.560
into asposees up in the woodlands.
They carry nitrofoss products up there as well.

927
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:54.520
Or go out to Brenham to plants
and things and you're going to find

928
01:08:55.039 --> 01:09:00.560
superturf as well as other nitrofoss products. Makes it easy, you know,

929
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.319
I just realized I am not giving
the phone number out often today, and

930
01:09:03.439 --> 01:09:08.159
I always have to do that because
people tune in and they don't know where

931
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:11.520
to call. Well, our phone
number is seven to one three two one

932
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:16.760
two kt r H seven to one
three two one two kt r H.

933
01:09:17.439 --> 01:09:19.720
That makes it easy to get ahold
of us. What do you want to

934
01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:24.399
talk about? What kind of questions
do you have that we can assist you

935
01:09:24.520 --> 01:09:30.119
with. I earlier was talking about
getting out and doing some container repotting that

936
01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:32.479
I need to get done. That
is important. I've got a bunch of

937
01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:36.000
orchids. You know how it is, You go and you maybe you,

938
01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:40.119
I don't know. You get an
orchid, someone gives it to you,

939
01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:43.680
you buy it yourself, and you
bring it home. The moth orchid,

940
01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:48.119
that is the one that is just
ubiquitous. It's the one you see everywhere

941
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:55.000
from grocery stores to garden centers.
The moth orchid is the easiest orchid to

942
01:09:55.079 --> 01:10:00.600
grow indoors. It's the full,
almost fool proof orchid. If you've got

943
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:04.600
a bathroom with a real bright window, that's a perfect environment because you know,

944
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:08.760
every now and then you shower and
you get some humidity in the air

945
01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:11.960
and whatnot, and they're just happy
there in that bright light. They don't

946
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:14.279
want to be in direct sun,
but they want to be a nice bright

947
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:17.079
light to do their best. And
I've got a bunch that are sitting there.

948
01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:20.159
They most of them bloomed for me
this year. A lot of them

949
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:24.840
are about a year past when I
should have been repotting them. But I'll

950
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.399
go in there and pull them out. I cut away all the dead roots

951
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:30.399
and the base of the stem that
now is no longer functioning, and they're

952
01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:35.199
always sending new aerial roots down from
the stem up above. You probably see

953
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:40.439
those coming out, maybe sprawling outside
the outside of the pot. Orchids are

954
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:45.039
not a terrestrial well, moth orchids
are not a terrestrial plant. They live

955
01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:48.960
in trees. They attached to the
bark of trees, and that's their natural

956
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:54.600
habitat. So that's why we put
them in a bark mix and occasionally if

957
01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:58.920
you will clean them up like I'm
describing, repot them in a container with

958
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:03.760
some fresh bark chunks. You can
buy orchid blends at our garden centers that

959
01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:06.800
are designed for that. They may
even have a little bit of charcoal in

960
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:12.520
them or stuff. Just to avoid
soggy conditions. Orchids do not want to

961
01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:15.079
sit in water. They just need
to get a good soaking every now and

962
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:19.000
then and then drain really well.
Do not let them sit in water.

963
01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.920
But if you do that and then
begin to fertilize them very lightly, super

964
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:28.920
super low rate. When you water, you can get invigorating new growth along

965
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.000
with good sunlight, and that orchid
will cycle back into bloom for you later

966
01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:35.199
on. And I need to do
that to mine. I just got this

967
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:40.239
pile of orchids that have been neglected, and so the Society for the Prevention

968
01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:43.640
of Cruelty to Orchids is probably on
their way to my house right now.

969
01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:45.479
But I'm gonna fix that. And
I just a tip for you as well.

970
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:48.520
Hey, we're going to take a
break seven one three two one two

971
01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:53.600
ktr h. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Good

972
01:11:53.640 --> 01:11:56.720
to have you. We are.
We are hopefully walking on sunshine. We

973
01:11:56.760 --> 01:11:59.880
got a little bit of clouds out
there in the sky, but listen to

974
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:02.720
day is it's safe, It's safe
to go out. The weatherman keeps telling

975
01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:06.800
us, yeah, it's cloudy,
but chances of a rain are very scattered

976
01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:11.600
and not that high in any given
location. So let's get out there and

977
01:12:11.640 --> 01:12:14.800
get some stuff done in our yards. I was talking about wild birds being

978
01:12:14.920 --> 01:12:19.359
a good gift for Mother's Day,
and it just reminded me I bought my

979
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:25.000
mother outlaw. I'm sorry, mother
in law. I get those confused sometimes,

980
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:27.920
but you know, I'm gonna leave
that as it is. I bought

981
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:30.880
her one of those little hangars that
you put a bird feeder on. You

982
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:32.199
know, it's kind of like a
shepherd's crook that comes up. I got

983
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:36.479
one at Wildbird's Unlimited recently, and
I'm gonna get her all set up with

984
01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:41.520
a bird feeder right outside the window
where she likes to sit, and we'll

985
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:44.119
get her all fixed up to you. So don't forget your mother outlaw.

986
01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:48.000
I'm sorry your mother in law when
you're purchasing your mother's day gifts at wild

987
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:56.239
Birds Unlimited. If you're listening to
this, have you been to Nelson's Water

988
01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:00.920
Garden out in Katie A lot of
you have. No, It's a popular

989
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:03.239
place. They've been around a long
time. You know Nelson's water Garden.

990
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:10.159
They are national leaders in the water
garden industry. They have been building water

991
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:14.680
gardens for a very long time.
So everything from the fish, to the

992
01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:20.000
plants, to the structures themselves.
They can get you fixed up. They

993
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:24.680
will come and build like a waterfall
in your property if you like that,

994
01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:28.720
a pond whatever kinds of little When
I say a pond, I mean you

995
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:31.880
know, a little small pond for
your koi or whatever kind of fish you're

996
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:36.960
doing. They've been doing this.
They can do it turnkey. But if

997
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.039
you want to do some do it
yourself. They can guide you on that

998
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:45.720
as well. Yes, they also
help with that. Now, Nelson's Nursery

999
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:47.760
and water Garden is also a nursery. Don't forget that. I mean,

1000
01:13:48.079 --> 01:13:53.159
they got some sod in the other
day people were in purchasing the sod.

1001
01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:58.760
They've got all kinds of plants restocked
on zenias, really cool, really cool

1002
01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:01.680
shrubs, the kaleidoscope, babelia,
which is a beautiful little abilia. They've

1003
01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:05.359
got those, and I don't know, guardinas, adrajas, you name it.

1004
01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:13.760
Definitely got the hibiscus, of course, but they really the feature of

1005
01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:17.039
that place is the water gardens and
it's the way they transform a landscape.

1006
01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:24.520
And I just have to please do
this. Just go out the plan an

1007
01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:28.399
outing, get some friends, get
your neighbors, family, whatever, go

1008
01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:31.399
out there and check them out and
look, and you will be inspired you

1009
01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:34.600
walk through there, and I did
the first time I walked in there.

1010
01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:39.199
Everywhere I went it was just like, oh my gosh, I have to

1011
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:41.800
have that for my backyard. Oh
my gosh, I have to have that

1012
01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:45.399
for my backyard. When you see
it set up like that, it is

1013
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:50.640
so inspirational. And they really are
an inspiring place. A destination garden center

1014
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:57.399
Nelson's Watergardens dot Com. Think of
it as your West Houston garden center.

1015
01:14:57.720 --> 01:15:01.399
It is out on Katie Fortvenroe snort
of Katie Freeway out there in Katie.

1016
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:05.439
I promise you, if you go, you will be impressed, and you

1017
01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:11.560
will suddenly you will realize that how
did I ever get by without a disappearing

1018
01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:16.199
fountain coming out of a beautiful container
or a little waterfall. I love love

1019
01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:20.119
that kind of inspiration in places like
that. At the house, we are

1020
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:26.560
transitioning our vegetable garden. It's coming
out pretty quick here. I've got some

1021
01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:30.199
cool seasoned peas. I had some
sugar snaps that are now on their way

1022
01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:34.680
out. They have finished up,
and boy, they were productive. It

1023
01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:39.800
was with a very productive planting.
For sure. I need to get my

1024
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:45.920
tomato trellis vine. I need to
get my tomato vines attached to the trellis.

1025
01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:50.000
They're kind of flopping around. And
I like to use cattle panels just

1026
01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:56.840
those are those livestock panels, the
galvanized very heavy duty wire with big oldes

1027
01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.479
ones with like four inch by six
inch openings, and the and the thing

1028
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.359
you can put a couple of teeposts
in attach them to a teeposts. I

1029
01:16:03.479 --> 01:16:08.880
slap mine just a little bit and
then the tomatoes kind of grow on that

1030
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:12.199
and whenever one flops the wrong way, I just push it back through the

1031
01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:16.239
trellis and ends up with a wall
of tomato foliage and the tomatoes, because

1032
01:16:16.239 --> 01:16:19.439
they're slanted, they hang down a
little bit below the treillers where they don't

1033
01:16:19.439 --> 01:16:23.960
get as much sunburn. And it
works really well. But I occasionally have

1034
01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:27.319
to go back and kind of wind
them through it. But a lot of

1035
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:31.159
things to be done in the vegetable
garden this week. Have you been to

1036
01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:35.680
A and A Plants and Produce recently
up in the Montgomery area, All of

1037
01:16:35.760 --> 01:16:40.880
you who live up there in the
Lake Conroy area, this is your hometown

1038
01:16:41.079 --> 01:16:44.159
garden center. I mean it's just
right there on the back door. They

1039
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:46.399
have a landscape crew that can come
out to your place and they can do

1040
01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:53.319
work for you out there. They
absolutely are excellent at tending to things like

1041
01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:58.039
that. If you are needing any
of the fertilizers that I talk about here

1042
01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:00.960
on guarden Line, they have them. They always are getting restocked. They

1043
01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:08.159
restocked mulches, they restock the fertilizer, they restock the compost. So you

1044
01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:12.319
know, you hear me brag about
airloom soils and Nature's way, you hear

1045
01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:17.000
me brag about Nelson's fertilizers, micro
life, fertilizers, nitrophos fertilizer. It's

1046
01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:21.760
all there, and really cool garden
bling too, from signs to little metal

1047
01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:28.920
arbor structures. It's just I love
going through there. If you have any

1048
01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:32.000
imagination at all, you walk in
there and you can kind of see how

1049
01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:38.439
that place can really turn your beautiful, beautiful landscape even into a more beautiful,

1050
01:17:38.640 --> 01:17:41.399
enchanting one. Lots of activities for
kids too. When you go by

1051
01:17:41.439 --> 01:17:45.520
there, ask them about the things
that they do, the programs that they

1052
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.359
do with the kiddos, because they
always have something like that going on at

1053
01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:53.439
Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery.
By the way, they're on the east

1054
01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:58.039
side of Montgomery on one oh five, So if you are heading up in

1055
01:17:58.199 --> 01:18:00.279
that direction, you're going to drive
by. In fact, anybody going up

1056
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:04.159
and down one oh five all the
way from Nevinesota to Conrod, Texas,

1057
01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:10.840
you just drive by Ana all the
time. That's right there. I have

1058
01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:16.640
my lawn. I finally mowed the
first time my lawn. I always tried

1059
01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:20.840
to lay a little bit, but
I got that new grass put in that

1060
01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:25.119
I was talking about earlier, and
it's starting to grow and finally hit a

1061
01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:28.079
point where I needed to get it
mode. So I got that knocked out

1062
01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.800
because I'm going to be out this
week in a way, and got it

1063
01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:38.119
down to a good level. Just
remember when you're mowing, a sharp mower

1064
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:42.840
is important. Number one is less
strained on your lawn more. But number

1065
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:45.960
two, and this is something I
bet you haven't thought about. When you

1066
01:18:46.079 --> 01:18:53.920
look at your lawn, it's like
looking at a pixelated picture, but you're

1067
01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:59.159
so far away that you don't see
the pixels. Right. But each grass

1068
01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:02.119
tip is going to have a brown
edge where it was cut off. And

1069
01:19:02.239 --> 01:19:06.000
if your mower is sharp, that's
going to be a real thin brown edge

1070
01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:10.479
because it made a nice clean cut, like you just took scissors and snipped

1071
01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:14.359
it off. If your mower is
dull, it's going to be a split,

1072
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:20.640
ragged, larger ten brown end of
the grass blade because that blade just

1073
01:19:21.039 --> 01:19:27.359
essentially just just hammered off the end
of that grass blade as it flew by

1074
01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:31.079
and didn't make a clean cut.
Now you take that difference between like a

1075
01:19:31.159 --> 01:19:35.840
little one eighth of an inch brown
and maybe one half of an inch brown

1076
01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:41.520
in some cases, and you multiply
that times ten billion grass blades out there,

1077
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.000
and the green suddenly looks less green, and so a sharp more blade

1078
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:50.720
to a degree makes your lawn greener. I know that's just think about it.

1079
01:19:50.720 --> 01:19:54.079
I think it'll make sense the way
I described it if you just think

1080
01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:57.079
about it. You want to fertilize, you want to get it mode,

1081
01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.039
but you want to mow regularly.
Every time you mow is like you're hedging

1082
01:20:00.119 --> 01:20:03.600
your lawn. And the more you
hedge a plant, the dentre it gets.

1083
01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:08.920
And so the turf specialists first time
one of them told me this,

1084
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:12.960
I thought you got to be kidding, but it's true. Of all the

1085
01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:15.720
things we do our lawns, the
single most important thing to have a dense,

1086
01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:19.359
beautiful lawn is regular mowing. Yes. They need water, yes,

1087
01:20:19.399 --> 01:20:25.239
and we need fertilizer. Butt the
single most important thing is mowing frequently with

1088
01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:29.039
a very sharp mower, and that'll
give you success. I hope that helps

1089
01:20:29.079 --> 01:20:31.720
out. Hope that's something to think
about when it comes to fertilizing. Nelson

1090
01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:35.880
plant Food has got a couple of
products that are outstanding. One of them

1091
01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:40.720
is I always thought of it as
a fast release, but actually it also

1092
01:20:40.840 --> 01:20:44.840
has some slow release nitrogen in it
as well. It's called Bruce's Brew.

1093
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:50.560
Bruce's Brew is primarily one that releases
fast, but it does have some slower

1094
01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:55.399
release products in it. We use
it in spring for a quick green up.

1095
01:20:55.560 --> 01:20:58.039
You can do it anytime the year
you want to do it. You

1096
01:20:58.159 --> 01:21:00.399
can do a regular standard rate of
you can kind of cut it in half

1097
01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:03.960
and do a lower rate and then
later do another lower rate and that sort

1098
01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:09.279
of spreads out the release even more
or just gets slow and easy. Slow

1099
01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:14.399
and easy is Nelson's slow release.
And when I say slow, I mean

1100
01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:17.720
this is going to feed your lawn
for three months, four months. I

1101
01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:21.720
mean it really goes out there pretty
darn far. And when you return your

1102
01:21:21.760 --> 01:21:27.119
clippings, in addition to that,
they're decomposing. And so your lawn is

1103
01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:32.239
just getting the nicest, slowest feed
all through the summer months, just like

1104
01:21:32.600 --> 01:21:36.359
you would want it to be in
nature. And slow and easy by Nelson

1105
01:21:36.399 --> 01:21:42.479
plant Food is an outstanding blend with
the right kinds of nitrogen to provide that

1106
01:21:42.920 --> 01:21:46.800
kind of gradual feed over time.
Pretty important, pretty important to do.

1107
01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:51.920
Nelson plant Food products are widely available. They have everything from the jars of

1108
01:21:53.079 --> 01:21:58.399
color Star products to these these turf
fertilizers part of the turf Star line of

1109
01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:03.159
products work. I know because I've
used it to work very well. Where

1110
01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:06.199
you're listening to the Garden Line,
and I want to remind you that today

1111
01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:13.960
after the show at eleven am eleven
am, I'll be at Southwest Fertilizer corner

1112
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:16.039
of Bissing at and run with Now, Bob's going to be given away a

1113
01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:23.039
Toro blower and a Touro string tremor. That's a valuable gift to be given

1114
01:22:23.039 --> 01:22:27.680
to two valuable gifts. We'll be
giving away some Medina stuff. They'll be

1115
01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:30.680
something called skip Bucks. When you
stop by my table and maybe you bring

1116
01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:34.319
a plant sample or a picture,
just a question in and I'm helping you

1117
01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:38.399
with it, I'll give you skip
Bucks and you can use those to get

1118
01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:43.239
things at the store there. For
example, Medina has got something called super

1119
01:22:43.319 --> 01:22:47.199
Grow plus sixteen O to hose end
applicating. I'm going to tell you more

1120
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:50.079
about that in a little bit,
but you could use your skip Bucks to

1121
01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:55.840
get some of that. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1122
01:22:55.880 --> 01:23:00.800
products or services advertised on this program. To Katie r. H. Garden

1123
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:24.159
Line with skin Rict it's so trim. Just watch him as so many superasys.

1124
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:33.760
They're not a sign. Welcome back
to Garden Line. Good to have

1125
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.800
you with us, looking forward to
talking. We got a lot of things

1126
01:23:36.840 --> 01:23:43.079
to talk about this hour. If
you have been by Plants for All Seasons

1127
01:23:43.239 --> 01:23:45.439
lately, you know what I'm talking
about. When I say the place looks

1128
01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:50.760
gorgeous. It is stocked up.
There's plenty of everything there. One of

1129
01:23:50.760 --> 01:23:56.720
the things I enjoy there is the
fact that they're gonna carry things that do

1130
01:23:56.880 --> 01:24:00.600
well here, that that's just what
they do. They this place Plants for

1131
01:24:00.680 --> 01:24:03.119
all seasons, the Flowery Family.
They've been doing this since nineteen seventy three.

1132
01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:06.840
For those of you who haven't been
there, it's on Highway to forty

1133
01:24:06.960 --> 01:24:12.119
nine North. That's Tomball Parkway when
you get if you're heading north, when

1134
01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:15.039
you get to Luetta, you exit
Luetta and go over Luetta and it's right

1135
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:18.520
there on the side of Tomball Parkway, just past Luetta. Easy, easy,

1136
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:23.960
easy to get to. Now they
are green thumb experts, So if

1137
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:26.199
you have a brown thumb, you
walk in there, they're going to give

1138
01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:28.600
you a plant, and they're going
to give you advice, and they're going

1139
01:24:28.640 --> 01:24:31.640
to give you the products you need
to turn the brown green. That's what

1140
01:24:31.720 --> 01:24:35.000
we always say. There's no such
thing as a brown thumb, there's uninformed

1141
01:24:35.079 --> 01:24:39.840
thumbs. Well, when you take
quality plants, quality products, and quality

1142
01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:44.479
advice, everything looks like you have
a green thumb because you're doing it right.

1143
01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:47.800
And Plants for All Seasons helps you
do that. The website Plants for

1144
01:24:48.199 --> 01:24:53.199
All Seasons dot com. The phone
number you want to write this down two

1145
01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:57.560
eight, one, three, seven
six, sixteen forty six. Go in,

1146
01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:00.359
talk to Sherry, talk to Kelly, talk the whole crew there.

1147
01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:04.479
Everybody that's there is an expert in
helping you have success. You can take

1148
01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:09.000
them a sample, you can a
picture in there. Their goal is to

1149
01:25:09.119 --> 01:25:14.119
make sure that you have beauty and
bounty just like you're dreaming of when you

1150
01:25:14.199 --> 01:25:17.000
walk into the place, and they'll
work with you to help you achieve just

1151
01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:23.239
that at Plants for All Seasons.
I'm going to head up to Cypress now

1152
01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:28.359
and talk to Sandy. Hello,
Sandy, good morning, Thank you for

1153
01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:33.119
taking my call. I have a
question, like a general question on my

1154
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:41.800
vegetable plant. I know indeterminate tonight
You're not you're supposed to prune, but

1155
01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:48.520
like my black beauty eggplant they finally
produced, and my okras and my bell

1156
01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:53.640
peppers. If the lead at the
bottom are touching the oil, should I

1157
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:58.560
pick them off? But pip them
off? I generally do. I mean,

1158
01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:01.159
you know, there's always a potential, especially an unmulched soil, to

1159
01:26:01.279 --> 01:26:05.439
splash dirt up on them and maybe
get a little more disease issues that could

1160
01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:09.239
get in there a little leisier.
It's not night and day. It's not

1161
01:26:09.439 --> 01:26:11.560
like, you know, it's the
end of the world if you don't prone

1162
01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:14.960
them off. But number one,
just keep the soul mult and then you

1163
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:19.159
don't really even have to worry about
it, Sandy, I find containers.

1164
01:26:19.199 --> 01:26:23.199
Okay, yeah, no, I
wouldn't. I just wouldn't worry about it.

1165
01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:27.439
A lot. You'll find that the
older leaves start to get aged,

1166
01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:30.039
and they may get more leaf spots, or they may turn a little bit

1167
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:32.880
yellow and stuff. So sometimes you're
cleaning them up just for aesthetics, sort

1168
01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:40.239
of get disease issues reduced a little
bit in the in the plant. Thank

1169
01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:43.840
you, bet good luck. Now
you know, Sandy that if we give

1170
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:47.039
advice, it's free. But all
I ask for is half the eggplant you

1171
01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:51.000
grow, drop it off at the
studio. I got to make my baba

1172
01:26:51.079 --> 01:26:59.039
ganoosh and so I'm dependent on your
baba. You take care, you take

1173
01:26:59.079 --> 01:27:03.399
care. If if you are looking
to improve your lawn and you're looking for

1174
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:09.720
a natural product that has a high
concentration of nitrogen in it, Sweet Green

1175
01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:14.520
by Nitrofoss has just that. It's
eleven percent nitrogen product. It's based on

1176
01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:23.199
a molasses with the microbial content involved
to create this sweet Green product that absolutely

1177
01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:27.640
stimulates microbial growth in your soil.
You know, organic gardeners have been using

1178
01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:32.039
molasses on their soil for a long
time and they understand the value that to

1179
01:27:32.159 --> 01:27:36.880
stimulating beneficial bacteria and other microbes.
And Sweet Green will do that now.

1180
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:40.880
Sweet Grain, being a Knight Fosh
product, is easy to find. You

1181
01:27:40.960 --> 01:27:44.359
don't have to hunt everywhere for it. You're going to find it an enchanted

1182
01:27:44.479 --> 01:27:48.239
forest out there in the Richmond Rosenberg
area. A growers outlet up in willis

1183
01:27:48.359 --> 01:27:57.600
Or RCW Nursery where Interstate Interstate where
FM two forty nine Tambo Parkway comes into

1184
01:27:57.640 --> 01:28:02.199
Beltway eight. All places you can
get You're Sweet Green from Nitroposs. We're

1185
01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:05.000
gonna head out now to Jersey Village, and talk to Teddy. Hello,

1186
01:28:05.119 --> 01:28:09.760
Teddy, how are you doing?
Skip? I'm well, how are you?

1187
01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:15.800
I'm doing fantastic. I got a
quick question for you. I drove

1188
01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:19.079
around the neighborhood and as a matter
of fact, in my front yard,

1189
01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:25.960
I've noticed that I'm patches. I
only got a few patches of lime green

1190
01:28:26.159 --> 01:28:30.039
color. And I'm I'm over here, like am I'm the only one?

1191
01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:31.920
So hey, you know what.
I drove around, you know, and

1192
01:28:31.960 --> 01:28:35.119
a few homes and all that,
and they even had it too. I

1193
01:28:35.199 --> 01:28:40.880
mean, it's what's the problem there. It could be a couple of things.

1194
01:28:41.199 --> 01:28:45.439
Uh. Iron deficiency will cause a
lack of iron, I'm a lack

1195
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:48.920
of art, a lack of deep
green, the emerald green color you're probably

1196
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:55.000
looking for. Uh. If you
grab a grass blade that lacks the color

1197
01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:58.520
and you hold it up to the
light and let the light kind of come

1198
01:28:58.640 --> 01:29:02.119
through it, and you see green
and yellow stripes going up and down the

1199
01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:08.720
blade, that is an iron deficiency. And so now the next question is

1200
01:29:08.840 --> 01:29:11.760
why is there an iron deficiency.
It could be because of a lack of

1201
01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.039
iron, but more likely it's because
of a lack of available iron. And

1202
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:18.640
so putting down a product that is
going to give you iron. You can

1203
01:29:18.680 --> 01:29:25.359
do an iron keylate. A keylate
is a way they protect the iron molecules

1204
01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:28.960
so the soil doesn't tie it up
as fast. You could do that.

1205
01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:33.479
You could do fertilizers that contain iron. You know, this silver bag nitrophuss

1206
01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:39.319
superturf contains four percent. You know, I put that the nineteen fourten.

1207
01:29:39.439 --> 01:29:43.000
That yeah, I called in that
last week. I put that in last

1208
01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:46.319
week, okay, and that will
be that will be providing some iron for

1209
01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:50.640
them. The other thing that can
cause iron deficiency is loss of roots.

1210
01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:57.840
The disease take all root rot often
shows up as yellowish types of areas on

1211
01:29:57.960 --> 01:30:00.880
their way down to dead. And
if the yellow keeps going and you end

1212
01:30:00.960 --> 01:30:05.760
up with dead spots, that would
probably take a root rot. But I

1213
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:11.159
don't want to jump to conclusions.
I'm just telling you you're seeing an iron

1214
01:30:11.199 --> 01:30:14.560
deficiency and it's due to one of
those things. And I think you did

1215
01:30:14.600 --> 01:30:18.640
the right thing starting with the silver
bag super turf. Let's see if it

1216
01:30:18.760 --> 01:30:21.319
carry up from that. If not, you may want to treat those spots

1217
01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:26.039
with a little iron key late as
well. Okay. Is that a concern

1218
01:30:26.119 --> 01:30:29.239
I need to worry about? Right
now, or I just just I would

1219
01:30:29.279 --> 01:30:31.439
wait if it were mine, I
would wait and watch a lot of times

1220
01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:35.439
iron deficiency gets better as the weather
warms up a little bit too. All

1221
01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:39.600
right, okay, okay, all
right, skip, Thank you buddy,

1222
01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:45.079
all right, you bet, thank
you nobody. I wanted to tell you

1223
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:48.840
guys about Jorges Hidden Gardens. You
probably have have heard me talk about them

1224
01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:54.279
before. They're down in Alvin and
Hoores Hidden Gardens. Is it's easy,

1225
01:30:54.439 --> 01:30:58.039
easy to get to. I mean
they here's there. They're hours, by

1226
01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:01.760
the way. They're open for weekend
Friday from eight am to four pm Saturday

1227
01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:05.399
from a am to four pm.
Sunday from eight am to four pm,

1228
01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:10.479
so it's easy to remember, right
eight am to four pm Saturday through Sunday.

1229
01:31:10.520 --> 01:31:13.239
They have a lot of plants,
a lot of selection plants. You

1230
01:31:13.279 --> 01:31:15.079
can get fruit trees, you can
get bedding plants. You can get your

1231
01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:21.000
vegetables and herbs and blueberries and I
mean just all kinds of things at Jorges

1232
01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:27.399
Hidden Gardens. They also carry this
three sixty tree stabilizer three sixty tree stabilizer

1233
01:31:27.439 --> 01:31:29.760
a brago. They've got it down
there. You can get it, so

1234
01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:32.640
if you're in Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Alcoa, Arcadia,

1235
01:31:32.840 --> 01:31:36.960
Alta Loma, all those communities.
You got a hometown garden center right in

1236
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:43.119
your backyard. Jorges Hidden Gardens.
They are easy to get to. Again,

1237
01:31:43.239 --> 01:31:46.640
they're in Alvin, Texas, so
no problem finding Jorges Hidden Gardens.

1238
01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:50.279
By the way, they're on Elizabeth
Street. If you're looking, I'm gonna

1239
01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:53.960
go away, take a break.
I'll be right back. Seven one three,

1240
01:31:54.039 --> 01:31:58.439
two point two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, welcome back to garden

1241
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:00.119
Line. Good to have you with
us today. It's going to be a

1242
01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:02.800
good day. By the way,
I know you see clouds, but that's

1243
01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:04.920
just to keep a cooler for us. We're not going to get a lot

1244
01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:09.279
of rain today. In fact,
you probably will not see rain where you

1245
01:32:09.399 --> 01:32:12.319
are at all, even in a
little tiny sprinkle. So it's a good

1246
01:32:12.359 --> 01:32:15.000
day to get out, get some
work done, get some plants and products

1247
01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:19.159
and things, so you set yourself
up for success. Remember that spring,

1248
01:32:19.520 --> 01:32:25.239
we are still officially in. Spring
is the time when we set ourself up

1249
01:32:25.279 --> 01:32:30.439
for success. So when the brutal
summer months come, we've got healthy plants

1250
01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:33.119
with good, deep, strong root
systems because we've prepared the soil, and

1251
01:32:33.279 --> 01:32:39.560
we purchased plants that belonged, and
we got them planted and established before the

1252
01:32:39.720 --> 01:32:44.600
brutal weather of summer I hit them. So it's now's the chance. You

1253
01:32:44.720 --> 01:32:47.800
have been warned, you have been
advised, or whatever. Now's the time

1254
01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:51.920
to get all this done so you
can have that kind of success. Speaking

1255
01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:56.840
of getting out and about ACE Hardware
has got a deal that I got to

1256
01:32:56.880 --> 01:33:01.119
tell you about. This is the
Big still Sail Steel. Steel is in

1257
01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:08.720
the string tremors, as in the
chainsaws, as in the power equipment that

1258
01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:14.000
you love it, quality equipment.
Right now, thirty two participating ACE stores

1259
01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:16.399
will honor this sale today. There's
a couple of them that may. Some

1260
01:33:16.479 --> 01:33:18.600
of them are doing it yesterday,
some of them will do it tomorrow.

1261
01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:23.319
But today, all of them,
all of them today, Big Ace,

1262
01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:29.439
the ACE Big Steel Sale. And
it is now fifteen percent off. Even

1263
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:32.760
if something's on sale, you still
get fifteen more percent off. I don't

1264
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:38.600
know how you beat that. So
that's on all the steel serial numbered tools,

1265
01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:43.680
all the attachments, the batteries,
and the chargers. Now it doesn't

1266
01:33:43.680 --> 01:33:48.359
include industrial tools and accessories, but
all still serial number tools, attachments,

1267
01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:53.880
batteries and chargers at thirty two different
ACE Hardware stores. You're not going to

1268
01:33:53.920 --> 01:33:56.920
beat that. And by the way, while you're there, don't forget this

1269
01:33:57.159 --> 01:34:04.960
is the emergency weekend break where things
that we would purchase, such as batteries,

1270
01:34:05.239 --> 01:34:09.079
such as an escape ladder out of
the second story, and all the

1271
01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:13.920
kinds of things you might purchase during
it for emergencies at your house you can

1272
01:34:14.000 --> 01:34:16.760
get tax free, and ACE carries
those kinds of things, So talk to

1273
01:34:16.880 --> 01:34:20.520
them about that when you're in there
too. I want to head now to

1274
01:34:21.319 --> 01:34:26.479
Richmond and we're going to talk to
Steve. Hello, Steve, Hey,

1275
01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:29.600
good morning Skip. I got a
quick question for you. We've got some

1276
01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:32.439
live oaks in our front yard,
three of them. They've been here,

1277
01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:38.279
oh, probably five years. They've
been getting about twelve thirteen fourteen feet tall

1278
01:34:38.359 --> 01:34:42.399
now and I need to find somebody
that can come and excuse me and the

1279
01:34:42.800 --> 01:34:45.000
trim the tops of them. They're
getting kind of bushy. All right,

1280
01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:49.319
Well, the person I would suggest
you get is Martin spoon More. Martin

1281
01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:55.479
Spoon Moore's companies called Afordable Tree Service. You want to hear them advertised on

1282
01:34:55.600 --> 01:34:59.680
your shows or the channel there a
lot. So yeah, Mark's been doing

1283
01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:03.039
this long time if they're over thirty
years experience, and I've seen the work

1284
01:35:03.079 --> 01:35:06.960
he does, visited with the hem
and Joe. Uh. There, that's

1285
01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:12.399
that old time kind of company service
where the owners answer the phone and the

1286
01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:16.239
the they make sure you're happy with
the work. So uh here that was

1287
01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:18.640
right. Okay, here's the phone
number. Do you got a penhandy?

1288
01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:24.399
There? I do. I'm ready
seven one three six nine nine twenty six

1289
01:35:24.800 --> 01:35:29.119
sixty three seven one okay, six
nine nine twenty six sixty three. If

1290
01:35:29.159 --> 01:35:33.199
you want to go to the website
websites aff Tree Service dot com. Aff

1291
01:35:33.439 --> 01:35:36.840
Tree Service dot com. Okay,
I got one more quick question if you

1292
01:35:36.920 --> 01:35:42.840
have time absolutely work. My wife, our neighbor has an evergreen rosebush out

1293
01:35:42.880 --> 01:35:46.159
front and it's just beautiful and we're
having a hard time finding those, uh

1294
01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:49.079
and nurseries around. Do you have
any idea? Those are the ones I

1295
01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:53.000
had, like the five white petals
that look more like a flower than a

1296
01:35:53.119 --> 01:36:00.039
rose. Well, I'm not you
don't have to have a variety name for

1297
01:36:00.199 --> 01:36:08.079
it, yeah, rosesance. Oh, I'll tell you what I would.

1298
01:36:10.079 --> 01:36:15.359
I would call RCW Nursery and see
if they have access to that they've got

1299
01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:21.880
like, oh gosh, four pages
single space of roses that they have access

1300
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:27.039
to to be able to get some
stuff. RCW prib be your best bet.

1301
01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:31.520
RCW Nursery. You know, sense
a builder put these in five years

1302
01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.920
ago, you think they'd be clinical
because they don't really put the most expensive

1303
01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:39.840
things into yeah, you know,
landscape. But yeah, well that's a

1304
01:36:39.920 --> 01:36:42.760
hard time for some reason. Well, and I don't know that. I've

1305
01:36:42.840 --> 01:36:45.680
never grown that rose. I don't
know that rose. So that's why I'm

1306
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:48.960
going to refer you just to give
them, give them a call or go

1307
01:36:49.079 --> 01:36:55.119
buy. The website is RCW Nurseries
dot com. Uh, they're they're there

1308
01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:58.319
at We're talking about park Land belt
Way eight. Come together. Okay,

1309
01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:01.520
we'll give me show. Thank you
for appreciate you you bet appreciate the call

1310
01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:06.000
away audios. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't have to look that up.

1311
01:37:06.279 --> 01:37:11.800
I'm not familiar. Haven't grown that
one before. We talk about lawn

1312
01:37:11.880 --> 01:37:17.840
fertilizing, and you know the purpose
of fertilizer is to provide the nutrient bank

1313
01:37:17.920 --> 01:37:21.520
account in the soil that plants need. I know, we think of it

1314
01:37:21.880 --> 01:37:27.560
like you know, you fertilize and
it makes your plants grow. And well,

1315
01:37:28.359 --> 01:37:31.119
yes, to a degree, the
nitrogen is doing that, but you

1316
01:37:31.399 --> 01:37:35.680
have all these other nutrients that don't
make the plant grow. They support the

1317
01:37:35.760 --> 01:37:40.960
growth the plant is trying to do. And asamite would be an example.

1318
01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:45.119
As mite provides trace minerals. Trace
minerals are needed in tiny amounts. It

1319
01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:47.520
doesn't, you know, azamite goes
a long way. I mean, you

1320
01:37:47.560 --> 01:37:51.439
know, one one bag of azamite, what a forty four pound bag will

1321
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:57.159
cover six to twelve thousand square feet. But you got to have those nutrients

1322
01:37:57.199 --> 01:38:00.520
because remember how I was kind of
joking earlier that I don't eat six months

1323
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:01.920
worth of food in one day.
I eat a little bit every day.

1324
01:38:02.399 --> 01:38:06.159
And plants are taking up nutrients a
little bit every day. So you can't

1325
01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:11.640
fertilize every day for them. You
shouldn't. What you do is you build

1326
01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:14.600
that bank account and then when the
roots need it, it's there. And

1327
01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:17.159
as mite does just that. It's
easy to find as m It's widely available,

1328
01:38:17.319 --> 01:38:21.359
no problem at all getting hold azmite. It's one of the more easy

1329
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:26.239
to find products that we talk about
here on Garden Line. But it does

1330
01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:30.840
provide that kind of a boost.
You're listening to garden Line, and I'm

1331
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:34.079
your host, Skip Richter, and
here is the phone number seven one three

1332
01:38:34.239 --> 01:38:40.000
two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight

1333
01:38:40.399 --> 01:38:44.359
seven four. We're going to go
now to let's see spring and talk to

1334
01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:49.520
rich Hello, rich good morning.
Skip. Question regarding nuts edge, I

1335
01:38:49.640 --> 01:38:56.000
had a little patch in my yard, so I used Prosedge hell soap puron

1336
01:38:56.159 --> 01:39:01.159
methyl product. Okay, My neighbor
next door add a bunch of nuts edge

1337
01:39:01.319 --> 01:39:08.439
along with some Virginia button weed,
so I used blind side. The blind

1338
01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:14.039
side on his lawn knocked the heck
out of the nuts edge as well as

1339
01:39:14.239 --> 01:39:18.800
the Virginia button weed. But my
lawn using the pro sedge, it has

1340
01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:24.680
impacted it, but at two weeks
down the road, it's still not even

1341
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:35.760
dead any ideas the pro sedge tell
me again, it knocked backge. It

1342
01:39:35.880 --> 01:39:40.760
didn't. It knocked it back,
but nowhere near killing it. Like the

1343
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:45.319
nuts edge on my neighbors that in
four days it's totally brown. Okay,

1344
01:39:45.720 --> 01:39:48.399
well, okay. First of all, just in general about herbicides, how

1345
01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:53.600
fast it works doesn't necessarily mean it
works better or worse. You know,

1346
01:39:53.680 --> 01:39:59.119
some things take their time and do
an awesome job. So I'll just set

1347
01:39:59.159 --> 01:40:04.359
the speed aside. But the blind
Side is a product that's generally not available

1348
01:40:04.399 --> 01:40:09.399
over the counter. It's it's going
to have two different ingredients in it,

1349
01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:13.600
and so you're probably coming at it
from both sides. It is. It

1350
01:40:13.680 --> 01:40:17.479
does do good on on purple and
yellow nuts sedge. The pro sedgs the

1351
01:40:17.520 --> 01:40:20.439
halo you said, halo sulfur on, right, was the ingredient, and

1352
01:40:20.600 --> 01:40:25.600
yes, yeah, yes, sir, Yeah, the halo sulfur on is

1353
01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:30.600
also I believe that's the one that's
in manage. Let me see if I

1354
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:33.680
can find that particular thing or saige
excuse me, just an I'm gonna find

1355
01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:38.319
out sedgehammer that's the one. Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, it's

1356
01:40:38.359 --> 01:40:41.600
the same. I've checked it.
Yeah, and it works good. It's

1357
01:40:41.640 --> 01:40:45.279
a very effective product on the nuts
edge. So uh, just get be

1358
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.600
a little patient with it, I
guess, and see if you feel like

1359
01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:51.399
it's not going to do the job, which I'm not sure why I wouldn't,

1360
01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:55.760
because it does work. It's a
very popular product. Uh, then

1361
01:40:56.039 --> 01:40:58.960
maybe talk to your neighbor and get
a little bit of a little bit of

1362
01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:01.319
what he bought, because he probably
bought way more than he needs. If

1363
01:41:01.319 --> 01:41:05.680
you know I bought it, I've
got bottles of Blindside and Celsius. I'm

1364
01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:10.000
the guy that takes care of my
neighbors launched. Okay, so you're the

1365
01:41:10.439 --> 01:41:16.560
you're the local controller around the place
there. Well, I wouldn't just immediately

1366
01:41:16.680 --> 01:41:21.119
jump on that and apply that to
the product. I would I would stick

1367
01:41:21.199 --> 01:41:26.680
with waiting to see how what yours
is going to do. Give it another

1368
01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:30.279
couple of weeks to see if you
see results before you well do Joe.

1369
01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:33.039
Thanks collusions all right, Rich,
thank you for the call. Thanks appreciate

1370
01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:40.439
that very much. When it comes
to brown stuff and having success, Ciena

1371
01:41:40.520 --> 01:41:45.199
Mulch is a place where you're going
to get everything you need. Every fertilizer

1372
01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:49.079
I talk about on guardline, is
there, the heirloom soils, rose soil,

1373
01:41:49.279 --> 01:41:54.680
the leaf mole compost, it's there. They deliver within twenty miles and

1374
01:41:54.880 --> 01:41:58.920
twenty miles Ciena malt where twenty miles
of what Well, it's due south of

1375
01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:03.079
Houston. So if you are out
in neighborhoods like Iowa Colony or Coola Lake,

1376
01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:08.079
Olympia, Pomona Riverstone Manbill Roach,
Sharon, Meridian, first colony.

1377
01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:12.439
We can just go on and on
that. Cena Maultch is your hometown local

1378
01:42:13.039 --> 01:42:16.079
supplier. They are near Highway six
and two eighty eight just north of Roch

1379
01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:24.199
Sharon on FM five twenty one.
Cienamultch dot com is the website Sienna mulch

1380
01:42:24.479 --> 01:42:29.359
dot com. You can get all
the stuff to make the brown stuff perfect

1381
01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:31.880
for when you plant the green stuff
in it. That's how that works.

1382
01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:38.279
Soils, fertilizers, quality products,
mulches, that's it's all CNA malts.

1383
01:42:38.279 --> 01:42:43.159
They deliver within about twenty miles of
their location. All right, it's time

1384
01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:45.199
for a break here. Well,
I've got some folks online, those of

1385
01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:47.920
you that are out there, I
will come to you first when we come

1386
01:42:48.000 --> 01:42:51.319
back. We just want to make
sure we have plenty of time to be

1387
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:55.760
able to address your call. And
now it's time to turn it over to

1388
01:42:55.880 --> 01:42:58.640
Nikky for news. Right, I
got it. Is that what we're gonna

1389
01:42:58.640 --> 01:43:00.960
do. That's what we're going to
do. All right, Well, thanks

1390
01:43:00.039 --> 01:43:02.159
for listening to Garden And by the
way, don't forget I'm going to be

1391
01:43:02.399 --> 01:43:08.319
at Southwest Fertilizer today starting at eleven
a m. We're going to be giving

1392
01:43:08.359 --> 01:43:13.520
away all kinds of things, including
some really cool stuff like a Toro blower

1393
01:43:13.600 --> 01:43:16.680
and a Toro string trimmer. And
we got some cool products from Adina as

1394
01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:21.560
well. All right, well,
here's Nicky Welcome back to garden Line.

1395
01:43:23.399 --> 01:43:29.359
Little music from looking Glass. Also
music for Guardians from Guardians to the Galaxy

1396
01:43:29.479 --> 01:43:31.760
for those of you who know the
song from that. We're gonna go to

1397
01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:38.199
Northwest Houston and talk to Bob Hello, Bob, Hey, Skip. I've

1398
01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:43.159
got a dilemma. I mault my
yard every every year, and I've done

1399
01:43:43.199 --> 01:43:48.640
it, you know, for twenty
five years with bulk hardwood mult Last year

1400
01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:55.840
I put the mulch down and immediately
my my tender plant started drying, dying

1401
01:43:56.079 --> 01:44:01.239
young ones, certain varieties. Something
was in that malt. So this year

1402
01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:06.600
I changed where I got it.
Okay, put it down last weekend.

1403
01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:15.039
We got that heavy rain Saturday night
and everything's dying Sunday morning, my tomatoes,

1404
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:26.079
my young plants. I read that
the malt can leach an acid if

1405
01:44:26.159 --> 01:44:30.000
it hasn't been wet and dried prior
to putting it down. What's going on?

1406
01:44:30.399 --> 01:44:34.960
Oh boy? This would take a
while to drill down through all the

1407
01:44:36.239 --> 01:44:42.560
issues that might be going on on
it. But mulch can be a problem,

1408
01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:47.319
but generally is not. If someone
knows what they're doing making mulch,

1409
01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:53.960
creating a multch product, you shouldn't
have that problem with it. This wasn't

1410
01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:56.319
a dyed mulch by any chance,
was it. No, no, no,

1411
01:44:56.479 --> 01:44:58.920
no, no. This is just
regular hardwood. And like I said,

1412
01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:03.319
I had got mulch in prior years
at the same place for twenty years.

1413
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:08.800
Yeah, this year I changed and
it's irreputable. It's ground up,

1414
01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:15.119
the ground up and good looking mulch. Put it down and boom it kills

1415
01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:21.000
it. My thought was they it
doesn't have time to sit in the yard

1416
01:45:21.880 --> 01:45:29.560
to deteriorate, and it's still got
it's still green, and it's high nitrogen

1417
01:45:29.760 --> 01:45:33.600
as it as it decomposes, and
it's burning the plants. Well that is

1418
01:45:33.680 --> 01:45:38.319
yeah, the mult will not behind
nitrogen to be on the other end of

1419
01:45:38.359 --> 01:45:45.039
the spectrum. But people put undecomposed
mulches down all the time, dried leaves

1420
01:45:45.079 --> 01:45:49.840
for example, you know pine pine
bark chips, right, it's not not

1421
01:45:50.000 --> 01:45:55.000
the fact that it's not decomposed.
Only there are things that can happen in

1422
01:45:55.159 --> 01:46:00.920
the process that create an issue.
But what you're describing it, something's not

1423
01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:05.840
quite right. How fast did you
say you solve the problem overnight? Overnight?

1424
01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:13.199
Yeah, we had that heavy rain
and the next morning my my begonias

1425
01:46:13.239 --> 01:46:20.520
were dying. I had my tomatoes
are turning brown. A pepper plant,

1426
01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:27.880
a bell pepper plant. I mean
just generally the younger, the more tender

1427
01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:35.800
plants are dying. Helly, it
killed Basle overnight. Well, you got

1428
01:46:35.840 --> 01:46:40.920
me somebody to be able to answer
this. Yeah, this, And I've

1429
01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:45.479
done nothing different than I've done in
prior years. Prior, I mean,

1430
01:46:45.560 --> 01:46:47.920
I do it. I even put
it on a little thinner this year.

1431
01:46:48.039 --> 01:46:51.960
Normally I put about ten inches down, and I probably put four or five

1432
01:46:53.760 --> 01:46:56.920
thinking, you know, may yes, mothered them four or five inches deep?

1433
01:46:58.039 --> 01:47:00.560
Yes, holy cow, well ten
I've never heard of that. But

1434
01:47:00.760 --> 01:47:04.880
four or five is even a pretty
good thick. Well, I mean it's

1435
01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:11.199
composed down it, you know,
it compacts. Okay, And well,

1436
01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:13.880
I'll tell you what, Bob,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna have an

1437
01:47:13.920 --> 01:47:16.319
answer just immediately. I'm going to
try to check with some of our the

1438
01:47:16.399 --> 01:47:21.159
mulch makers that I know what they're
doing. Maybe one of them would like

1439
01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:25.319
to call in and discuss it.
I just think it's interesting that it happened

1440
01:47:25.319 --> 01:47:29.960
two years in a row with two
different suppliers. That is very strange,

1441
01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:34.039
and so I'm kind of at a
loss as to where to go from here.

1442
01:47:34.840 --> 01:47:38.640
It shouldn't be the case, though. I mean, I will say

1443
01:47:38.760 --> 01:47:44.159
this, A friend of mine got
part of this load. My last load

1444
01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:51.079
then finished up the yard with bag
mault, and the bag malts came from

1445
01:47:51.399 --> 01:47:58.920
one of the biggest supplier here in
town. And the bag malts didn't seem

1446
01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:02.680
to have the effect that the bulk
mulch. Okay, well let me look

1447
01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:05.479
into it. If I figure out
anything, we'll say it on the air

1448
01:48:05.520 --> 01:48:10.439
today. But you got you got
me on that one, okay, Well,

1449
01:48:11.159 --> 01:48:15.479
everybody the same thing I've said,
Yeah, okay, thank you,

1450
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:20.880
thank you. I appreciate it.
Bye bye. Speaking of multch products,

1451
01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:25.840
you know that it is important to
get a quality product when you do that,

1452
01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:30.560
and uh yeah, folks at landscaper
Spride they absolutely know how to create

1453
01:48:30.680 --> 01:48:35.359
quality products. They've got a bunch
twenty something different products twenty seven to be

1454
01:48:35.479 --> 01:48:41.920
exact. Landscaperspride dot Com is the
website you can learn about it there at

1455
01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.800
Landscapers Pride, you are going to
find quality products. They're going to have

1456
01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:48.560
the black velvet mulch, which is
not dyed. It is not dyed,

1457
01:48:49.000 --> 01:48:54.920
it is naturally that color and it
just beautiful, velvety and dense. It's

1458
01:48:55.000 --> 01:49:00.399
just it's an excellent They have a
hardwood mulch, a hardwood based mult ground

1459
01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:04.800
up. It's not you know people
that grind up palettes or repurposed wood.

1460
01:49:04.880 --> 01:49:09.680
No, this is truly hardwood malts. Good for walkways, you know,

1461
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:14.039
all where the pathway melting the surface
in your flower beds and recreation areas.

1462
01:49:14.600 --> 01:49:17.680
Pine bark maults they have that locally
sourced pine. It's got a very slow

1463
01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:23.199
decomposition rate which people like just kind
of lasts a little bit longer out there

1464
01:49:23.239 --> 01:49:27.000
in the garden. And then their
Garden Magic Soil. It's a pine based

1465
01:49:27.119 --> 01:49:31.680
blend that contains humus and screened pine
and composted rice holes as well as chicken

1466
01:49:31.680 --> 01:49:34.840
pellet furbilizer that will give you feeding
for up to three months. That's the

1467
01:49:34.920 --> 01:49:40.960
Garden Magic Soil from Landscaper's Pride.
If you want to find out more about

1468
01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:46.239
them, Landscaperspride dot com find out
about this twenty seven products and their store

1469
01:49:46.359 --> 01:49:50.520
locator as well. While you're out
about doing that, let's go to Dayton

1470
01:49:50.600 --> 01:49:54.760
now and we're going to talk to
Marshall. Hello, Marshall, Hey,

1471
01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.520
Skip, how you doing. I'm
well, thank you. Hey. I

1472
01:49:58.600 --> 01:50:02.800
got a question on I've got a
couple of silver maples still in the pots.

1473
01:50:04.560 --> 01:50:10.600
Without getting into a long story,
I was babying them and you got

1474
01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:15.319
them up to growing pretty good,
but then I got busy I didn't mess

1475
01:50:15.399 --> 01:50:18.680
with it. And then now they've
been in there a year and a half

1476
01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:25.439
and I want to transplant them.
How should I go about that? Well,

1477
01:50:25.560 --> 01:50:27.600
you need to pull them out of
the pot, and you're going to

1478
01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:31.079
see roots going in a circle,
and you need to either unwind those,

1479
01:50:31.199 --> 01:50:36.159
which is not going to probably be
practical, or slice through them in three

1480
01:50:36.279 --> 01:50:43.439
or four places vertically through that cylinder
of roots. I know that sounds drastic,

1481
01:50:43.479 --> 01:50:45.920
don't worry about. Just go ahead
and do it. Plant them in

1482
01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:48.079
the ground, get them established,
and within a couple of weeks are going

1483
01:50:48.119 --> 01:50:51.920
to have fresh new roots coming out
from where you cut the ends. That's

1484
01:50:51.960 --> 01:50:58.039
your best chance of getting them established. Now, if the roots have grown

1485
01:50:58.279 --> 01:51:01.760
through the pots, can trim those
roots or is that a no no?

1486
01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:05.279
Or what no? You got to
cut those off. You got to cut

1487
01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:11.279
them off. So the ball root
is probably still obviously inside the pot,

1488
01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:16.640
right the what root please? The
ball root? The root ball itself?

1489
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:20.840
Yeah, thes I like to call
it a root cylinder. It's called root

1490
01:51:20.920 --> 01:51:25.159
balls because people used to ball and
burlap trees, and you had a tree

1491
01:51:25.239 --> 01:51:28.880
with a little ball on the bottom
of roots and soil. But it's kind

1492
01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:31.560
of a root cylinder since you've grown
them in a pot and it's inside there.

1493
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.000
It's got all the roots of the
tree, unless some have come out

1494
01:51:34.039 --> 01:51:38.159
the holes into the ground. But
just cut them all off, cut those

1495
01:51:38.199 --> 01:51:40.760
off that are coming out of the
holes of the pot, and then slice

1496
01:51:40.840 --> 01:51:44.640
vertically through the others. It's drastic, but it's you know, it's the

1497
01:51:44.720 --> 01:51:48.760
only way to not end up with
a problem on those trees that you've grown

1498
01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:54.920
in the pot for a little extra
time there and on cutting them. Is

1499
01:51:55.000 --> 01:51:58.800
there a certain way I should cut
them like at a forty five or just

1500
01:51:59.520 --> 01:52:02.800
chomp it or clip it? Or
how should I I that? You know,

1501
01:52:03.319 --> 01:52:06.239
on some plants with the roots aren't
big. I take a box cutter

1502
01:52:06.319 --> 01:52:10.600
knife and just vertically slice through it
about an inch a date. If you

1503
01:52:10.720 --> 01:52:14.399
need to get pruners, just going
with pruners and snip off the ones going

1504
01:52:14.439 --> 01:52:17.760
in a circle, and do it
in about three or four places around there,

1505
01:52:18.079 --> 01:52:21.359
because everywhere you cut, it's going
to branch and it'll establish better.

1506
01:52:21.439 --> 01:52:26.439
All right, sounds great, Thank
you you, Bet Marshall. Thanks a

1507
01:52:26.479 --> 01:52:28.800
lot. I appreciate that. Hey, we got to take a little break

1508
01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:31.359
here. If listen, Linda,
you'll be first when we come back.

1509
01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:34.279
If you'd like to give us a
call seven to one three two one two

1510
01:52:34.880 --> 01:52:39.960
kat r h. All right.
If you put it and tap in,

1511
01:52:40.079 --> 01:52:45.199
you you better check your pulse,
that is for sure. If you're looking

1512
01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:48.039
for a quality mix to put in
a container for your indoor plants, that

1513
01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:54.000
would be jungle Land water saving potting
soil. It's got crystals in it that

1514
01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:58.640
swell up with water. After the
mix itself begins to dry out a little

1515
01:52:58.680 --> 01:53:01.319
too far, you know, you
forgot to water well. Those crystals are

1516
01:53:01.359 --> 01:53:05.039
still holding onto moisture and the roots
can get access. So let's just say

1517
01:53:05.079 --> 01:53:09.079
it makes the soil a little more
forgiving, if you will of a bad

1518
01:53:09.159 --> 01:53:15.000
watering schedule. Well, jungle Land
indoor water saving crystals, indoor potting salt

1519
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.960
with water saving crystals. You're going
to get it in enchanted forest. You're

1520
01:53:17.960 --> 01:53:25.000
going to get it at Growers Outlet
up in Willis RCW Nursery carries the night

1521
01:53:25.079 --> 01:53:29.880
Fist products as well. We're going
to head out now to Linda in Tomball.

1522
01:53:29.920 --> 01:53:33.760
Hello, Linda, I skip doing
a great job. Thank you.

1523
01:53:33.840 --> 01:53:41.680
Man. I need some help with
my all my plants basically, but I

1524
01:53:41.840 --> 01:53:48.760
have some night blooming jazmine bushes.
I have four around my back and for

1525
01:53:48.920 --> 01:53:55.479
some reason, I've had them for
ten twelve years and at night they are

1526
01:53:55.640 --> 01:54:01.840
fantastic. But something is eating my
leaves for the first time. Okay,

1527
01:54:02.920 --> 01:54:09.119
they're chewing them like this little red
and then some of them have like insl

1528
01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:14.840
sized holes in them. I sprayed
it twice with memol and that's not doing

1529
01:54:14.920 --> 01:54:18.079
it. Really, that's surprising.
Uh. You kind of have to once

1530
01:54:18.119 --> 01:54:20.760
you get a bunch of holes,
you kind of have to study where they

1531
01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:24.880
are so when you look again you
can tell if they're new holes or if

1532
01:54:24.920 --> 01:54:29.680
it's still the same old holes.
I was, well, go ahead pinching

1533
01:54:29.800 --> 01:54:33.479
off of the pinchin the old ones, the ones that are damaged off though

1534
01:54:33.560 --> 01:54:39.439
I couldn't and they're there every night, all right. I would switch over

1535
01:54:39.560 --> 01:54:44.800
and get a product called spin no
said s p I n O s a

1536
01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:49.520
D spin nose sad and spray that
on it, and I think that will

1537
01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:53.840
take care of it for you.
I just want to get good coverage on

1538
01:54:53.920 --> 01:54:56.960
it. But just realize too,
that night blooming jasmine, it can lose

1539
01:54:57.000 --> 01:55:00.319
a lot of leaves and it's still
okay. I may not look good,

1540
01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:02.880
but it's not like you know,
you get a few leaves with holes in

1541
01:55:02.960 --> 01:55:06.439
them and the plants in trouble,
it still will perform well for you,

1542
01:55:08.119 --> 01:55:14.000
all right. Yeah, they have
made it through the phrases and the monsoons

1543
01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:18.079
and everything, and they love that
plant. I absolutely love it. Hey,

1544
01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:20.359
Linda, thank you for the call
and good luck with it. I

1545
01:55:20.439 --> 01:55:24.680
think the spinosa is going to do
what you need to. I'm going to

1546
01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:27.680
give it. Thank you. You've
had you take care. Hey, have

1547
01:55:27.720 --> 01:55:31.239
you been to the antique rosen Porium. I'm telling you that place is crawling

1548
01:55:31.439 --> 01:55:34.319
with roses. You know, they
grow them in two gallons. Every rose

1549
01:55:34.520 --> 01:55:39.279
they have it's once that price twenty
nine to ninety five each. The two

1550
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:43.439
gallon containers. That's a good sized
container to grow a nice robust rose.

1551
01:55:43.520 --> 01:55:46.199
So it does well for you.
Now an antique Rose, you got to

1552
01:55:46.239 --> 01:55:50.159
go just to see the nursery and
display gardens because they are roses, but

1553
01:55:50.279 --> 01:55:55.680
they are so much more. Lots
of different kinds of quality plants out there,

1554
01:55:55.760 --> 01:56:00.000
houseplants, flowers, fruit trees,
lots of natives, tons of natives.

1555
01:56:00.000 --> 01:56:03.920
Every Friday and Saturday at one pm
is their Tinker Garden Workshops. That's

1556
01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:08.600
for kids, by the way,
age two through eight. It's a ticketed

1557
01:56:08.680 --> 01:56:11.520
event. It'll go through mid May, so you can bring the kiddos out

1558
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:16.840
there again Friday or Saturday at one
pm for the Tinker Garden Workshops. Go

1559
01:56:16.920 --> 01:56:25.319
to the website Antique Roseemporium dot com
and just check out the upcoming events tab.

1560
01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:28.560
That's where you find that kind of
stuff out. Still looks beautiful at

1561
01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:30.960
Antique Rows. Always looks beautiful at
Antiquerose. If you want to give them

1562
01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:35.920
a call, it's ninety seven nine
eight three six fifty five forty eight eight

1563
01:56:36.000 --> 01:56:41.479
three six five five four eight.
We're going to go out to Angleton.

1564
01:56:41.560 --> 01:56:44.840
Now we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, how are you

1565
01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:47.920
doing this twenty. I'm well,
sir, how can we help. Well,

1566
01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:54.479
we bought a house a few years
ago and it had what I would

1567
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:57.760
call, I guess, an ornamental
cedar tree in the front yard. It

1568
01:56:57.880 --> 01:57:00.560
was a couple of them. They
weren't real tall. They had been there

1569
01:57:00.600 --> 01:57:04.840
about twenty twenty one years and they
were starting to die. I'd cut them

1570
01:57:04.880 --> 01:57:09.039
off. I dug up the stumps
and got that out. But now for

1571
01:57:09.119 --> 01:57:12.119
the past almost three years, I
haven't been able to get grass to grow

1572
01:57:12.159 --> 01:57:15.159
in that area, and just wondering
if the soil may be toxic or from

1573
01:57:15.199 --> 01:57:19.079
the app or what. Sometimes we
see that around cedars. I think it's

1574
01:57:19.279 --> 01:57:23.760
I don't think it's toxic, but
I think it should get improved. I

1575
01:57:23.760 --> 01:57:26.760
would do a little errating on it, get some composts down in there.

1576
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:30.199
Even you know, it's not too
big of an area if it was around

1577
01:57:30.239 --> 01:57:31.680
a plant like that, So you
could even take a spading for it and

1578
01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:34.720
push it, wiggle it straight down
in the soil and just kind of pull

1579
01:57:34.800 --> 01:57:38.199
back a little to crack it open, and then move over and do that

1580
01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:43.680
again, and then put a fine
quality, very small particle compost like a

1581
01:57:43.800 --> 01:57:47.720
screened leaf mole compost over it watered
in really good, and then do your

1582
01:57:47.760 --> 01:57:51.760
fertilizing and I think you're going to
be able to bring it back. Just

1583
01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:57.119
that shouldn't last long what you're seeing. Okay, well, I appreciate it

1584
01:57:57.279 --> 01:58:00.399
all right, good luck, Thanks
a lot, appreciate your call very much.

1585
01:58:00.279 --> 01:58:03.720
You know, you can use a
product like Microlife on there, the

1586
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:08.680
sixty four that's a green bag.
Put that on after you make the holes

1587
01:58:08.880 --> 01:58:12.560
in the ground and in the situation
like I was just discussing with him,

1588
01:58:13.039 --> 01:58:15.840
and you can absolutely get that nutrient
done in the ground and it'll do very

1589
01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:20.880
well. Humants plus would be another
good example that is concentrated compost in a

1590
01:58:20.920 --> 01:58:26.479
bag. I would sprinkle Humage plus
over that area after doing the aeration in

1591
01:58:26.640 --> 01:58:30.199
this specific situation. For the rest
of you, you just sprinkle it out,

1592
01:58:30.359 --> 01:58:32.159
spread it out with your spreader on
the ground, do the Humane plus,

1593
01:58:32.239 --> 01:58:36.840
turn right around, do the Microlife
green bag six two four and those

1594
01:58:38.199 --> 01:58:42.039
over time, just get the soil
better and better and better, and you're

1595
01:58:42.079 --> 01:58:45.000
going to see. This is the
organic system, you know, it's not

1596
01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:49.880
just this quick fix thing. We
build the soil with quality products and things

1597
01:58:50.079 --> 01:58:55.399
get better and better. The grasskets
denser. We do all least less weed

1598
01:58:55.520 --> 01:58:59.479
problems. As a result of that, the soil is better, the aeration,

1599
01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:02.680
the and everything. The root systems
are happy all because you get on

1600
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:08.000
that system and stay on it.
Microlife Fertilizer dot com is where you can

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01:59:08.039 --> 01:59:12.399
find out where to get microlife as
well as learn more about their products.

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01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:16.079
I'm going to head out now to
Audrey and Tom Ball. Hello, Audrey,

1603
01:59:17.800 --> 01:59:28.960
Hi didn't learning Hi? March sixteenth, got planted at Guardina and it's

1604
01:59:29.279 --> 01:59:32.439
just sitting there with the balloons.
It's been sitting there with the balloons and

1605
01:59:32.439 --> 01:59:35.319
they're not opening. Okay. I
can see the flowers and they're just not

1606
01:59:35.439 --> 01:59:40.640
blooming. Okay. It's called a
gardenia August beauty. So far it hasn't

1607
01:59:40.640 --> 01:59:44.159
been too beautiful without any blooming.
Well, that's a that's a beautiful old

1608
01:59:44.199 --> 01:59:47.279
garden. You've been around for a
while now, your did you do any

1609
01:59:47.359 --> 01:59:53.840
show work before you planted it?
Yes, it said to Nick, sand

1610
01:59:54.039 --> 01:59:57.439
and soil a foot wide and a
foot deep, And I did that.

1611
01:59:57.920 --> 02:00:01.600
Okay. And how long did you
plant? How long ago did you say

1612
02:00:01.640 --> 02:00:12.800
you planted it on March sixteenth?
I tell you Guardina's love acidic soil that

1613
02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:16.199
has a lot of organic matter in
it, and I, you know,

1614
02:00:16.479 --> 02:00:19.079
I'm kind of sitting here trying to
decide which way would I go. I

1615
02:00:19.119 --> 02:00:23.720
think if it were mine, I
might lift it up and slide it onto

1616
02:00:23.720 --> 02:00:27.279
a tart, move it out of
the way, and then get a good

1617
02:00:27.479 --> 02:00:32.560
quality mix like a rose soil or
which which is good for plants, especially

1618
02:00:32.640 --> 02:00:36.239
those that like it a little on
the cidic side. Mix that in also

1619
02:00:36.520 --> 02:00:41.920
with what you've already done, and
then reset that plant watered in really well

1620
02:00:42.279 --> 02:00:47.640
and begin using a plant food for
acidic plants in it. If you don't

1621
02:00:47.680 --> 02:00:50.920
want to go to that trouble,
let's just get some good multa over the

1622
02:00:51.000 --> 02:00:57.640
top and begin using that acidic plant
plant food. I think that it will

1623
02:00:57.720 --> 02:01:00.520
do well. It's just gardenias need
really good rainage, and to just dig

1624
02:01:00.560 --> 02:01:06.119
a hole and put sand in it
is not necessarily gonna improve the internal drainage

1625
02:01:06.239 --> 02:01:10.840
down through the soil it. You
know, a whole, a clay soil

1626
02:01:10.920 --> 02:01:15.239
whole holds water like a bathtub.
And so I'm just kind of trying to

1627
02:01:15.319 --> 02:01:17.560
lift it up a little bit higher. I don't think that's why that's sitting

1628
02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:21.199
there in the blooms aren't opening yet, but I'm just thinking about Guardina's and

1629
02:01:21.279 --> 02:01:25.960
what they love and want to make
sure long term you're setting it up for

1630
02:01:26.119 --> 02:01:30.600
success, So that would be the
option I would consider. Okay, so

1631
02:01:30.840 --> 02:01:36.760
rose soil, yeah absolutely, yeah, up, yeah, you're gonna roast

1632
02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:40.760
soil is easy to find. Uh
you know, it's widely available. I

1633
02:01:40.880 --> 02:01:44.319
know you go out there to uh
D and de Feed on the west side

1634
02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:48.079
from Tomball. They carry the heirloom
soils products. You might call them first

1635
02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:51.600
make sure they got the roast soil
in stock that someone hadn't come cleaned them

1636
02:01:51.600 --> 02:01:55.760
out. But you can buy bags
of it from them. There are a

1637
02:01:55.760 --> 02:02:00.720
lot of other places that you're going
to get a quality roast sox perfect.

1638
02:02:00.800 --> 02:02:03.439
I'm by plants for all seasons.
Should they have that, they may have

1639
02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:08.560
that as well, but if not, they may have a different plant soil

1640
02:02:08.680 --> 02:02:12.439
for acidic plants. If you're close
to them, then just swing over there

1641
02:02:12.479 --> 02:02:17.079
and see what Cherry and them had
over there. Wonderful. I'm so thankful

1642
02:02:17.159 --> 02:02:20.560
for your help, all right,
and uh I appreciate it. That mean

1643
02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:24.840
a picture when it starts blooming.
Thanks a lot, Audrey. Okay,

1644
02:02:24.960 --> 02:02:29.560
you did all right, bye bye, okay, bye bye. Yeah.

1645
02:02:29.680 --> 02:02:31.560
Nature's Way Resources, that's another good
one. You know, Nature's way.

1646
02:02:32.239 --> 02:02:36.439
They created rose soil. That's where
rose soil was born, if you will.

1647
02:02:36.560 --> 02:02:43.319
And the finely screened leaf compost that
we talk about top dressing with,

1648
02:02:43.479 --> 02:02:46.159
that's where it came from. That's
where it came from. Nature's Way Resources.

1649
02:02:46.600 --> 02:02:50.920
They are on I forty five up
toward Conroe on the right hand side,

1650
02:02:50.960 --> 02:02:55.880
and they have all kinds of things. Don't forget fungo Friday's Fungo Friday's

1651
02:02:56.119 --> 02:03:00.560
ten percent off bag, twenty percent
off book. Write this number down nine

1652
02:03:00.680 --> 02:03:03.920
three six three two one sixty nine
to ninety. Nature's will get you set

1653
02:03:04.000 --> 02:03:10.000
up with quality products. Remember it
all starts with the soil. All right,

1654
02:03:10.119 --> 02:03:13.079
We're gonna put this hour in the
books. Just a reminder. I

1655
02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:16.640
am making a bee line for Southwest
Fertilizer. I'll get there at eleven o'clock

1656
02:03:16.720 --> 02:03:19.760
today. I hope you'll come out
and see me, bring me samples,

1657
02:03:19.880 --> 02:03:24.159
bring me your photos, just stop
by to say hi. I always love

1658
02:03:24.239 --> 02:03:28.119
to meet people that listen to Garden
Line. We're gonna be giving away a

1659
02:03:28.239 --> 02:03:31.840
toro blower, you heard that right, and a Toro, String Tremor.

1660
02:03:32.079 --> 02:03:35.000
I'm gonna be giving them away skip
Bucks. You stop by the table and

1661
02:03:35.039 --> 02:03:39.520
ask me a question and I will
give you skip Bucks where you can go

1662
02:03:39.880 --> 02:03:44.039
use them to buy products that are
there. And you know Southwest Fertilizer they

1663
02:03:44.079 --> 02:03:47.000
got every product that you can imagine. We'll have some the Dina giveaways as

1664
02:03:47.079 --> 02:03:50.479
well. It's gonna be fun.
Come on out and see us. Eleven

1665
02:03:50.520 --> 02:03:56.960
am KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

1666
02:03:57.000 --> 02:04:02.239
on this program. Welcome to Katie
r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

1667
02:04:02.399 --> 02:04:25.399
It's so we just watching as many. Welcome back to the guard Line.

1668
02:04:25.439 --> 02:04:28.560
Good to have you with us today. Good to have you with us today.

1669
02:04:28.560 --> 02:04:30.439
I'm glad, glad to talk to
you about the things that are of

1670
02:04:30.640 --> 02:04:35.239
interest to you. You know,
I am a broken record when it comes

1671
02:04:35.439 --> 02:04:41.920
to making sure your plants have success, that you get beauty and you get

1672
02:04:42.000 --> 02:04:45.279
bounty. And the way you do
that is what what is the mantra here

1673
02:04:45.319 --> 02:04:48.439
on guard Line Brown stuff before green
stuff. That's the simple way I put

1674
02:04:48.479 --> 02:04:51.920
together to say, if you get
the soil right, your plants are going

1675
02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:58.439
to thrive and heirloom Soils has designed
a wide variety of products to do just

1676
02:04:58.560 --> 02:05:01.000
that. For example, the veggie
and herb mix. The veggie and herb

1677
02:05:01.119 --> 02:05:06.920
mix is excellent for growing anything edible
out there in the garden, but especially

1678
02:05:08.159 --> 02:05:12.239
the veggies and the herbs. They've
got a fruit berry and citrus mix.

1679
02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:15.960
You're going to be able to get
a quality screened leaf more compost to do

1680
02:05:16.119 --> 02:05:19.119
your top dressing. You're going to
be able to get a rose soil that

1681
02:05:19.399 --> 02:05:23.920
is top notch. By the way, it's they got some really attractive brand

1682
02:05:23.960 --> 02:05:27.319
new bags of it, so if
you used to looking at the old bag,

1683
02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.600
they got a really cool pretty much
same old quality rose soil in it.

1684
02:05:31.319 --> 02:05:35.680
But that is just how they do
things at nature at the Airlom Soils

1685
02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:39.439
folks. Now, if you want
bulk, you can drive out there to

1686
02:05:39.600 --> 02:05:42.520
porter. You can get a bulk. You can have them deliver it.

1687
02:05:42.600 --> 02:05:45.600
You can have them put it in
a supersack, a one cubic yard container.

1688
02:05:45.720 --> 02:05:48.960
They sit it on your driveway.
It's real neat and easy. Or

1689
02:05:49.039 --> 02:05:53.560
you can drive out and haven't put
it on the trailer you got, put

1690
02:05:53.600 --> 02:05:56.159
them behind your truck if you want
to go about that route. However you

1691
02:05:56.239 --> 02:05:58.720
want to go about it, or
if maybe you just want to go to

1692
02:05:58.800 --> 02:06:04.239
some garden centers. Heirlom soils is
widely available. If you're listening to Garden

1693
02:06:04.279 --> 02:06:10.039
Line from way out beyond the Houston
area, heirloom soils is probably available in

1694
02:06:10.119 --> 02:06:13.840
your community because they just keep expanding
the reach, so a lot of people

1695
02:06:13.920 --> 02:06:18.520
have access to these quality soils.
Uh, I'm gonna see. We're gonna

1696
02:06:18.560 --> 02:06:23.399
go to the phone. Oh,
speaking of Uh, go to the phone

1697
02:06:23.520 --> 02:06:27.000
right now. We're going to talk
to Louise and Houston. Hey's Louise surprised?

1698
02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:30.840
Hey, Skip, I have I
have Mark Powen with Bego Garden on

1699
02:06:30.920 --> 02:06:34.800
the line. He was the mastermind
behind most of the recipes form. He

1700
02:06:34.880 --> 02:06:39.640
has the answered to the question you
have good Hey Bob, Bob in northwest

1701
02:06:39.640 --> 02:06:42.760
Houston. You had that question about
the molds. You put it out and

1702
02:06:42.880 --> 02:06:46.399
the next day you said plants were
struggling. So here comes the experts with

1703
02:06:46.560 --> 02:06:50.800
your answer. Mark. Good to
have you man. Hey, good morning,

1704
02:06:50.880 --> 02:06:56.600
Skip. I'm so great to be
joining you and Louise. Of course,

1705
02:06:56.960 --> 02:07:00.520
so I've run into this in the
past. There's like a potential like

1706
02:07:00.800 --> 02:07:09.159
perfect storm when it comes to mult
and here it is so the maltz production

1707
02:07:09.319 --> 02:07:15.000
process. Typically MULT is sold as
a finished product as a double ground mult.

1708
02:07:15.560 --> 02:07:17.399
So it's you know, you have
like large trees and branches and all

1709
02:07:17.439 --> 02:07:23.199
that are ground once into some big
large shreds like five to nine inches long,

1710
02:07:23.960 --> 02:07:28.279
and then it's aged up and then
down the road. Then they grind

1711
02:07:28.319 --> 02:07:31.359
it into smaller shreds, usually anywhere
from half an inch to like three inches.

1712
02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:35.720
That's what we call the second grind
or the double grind. And so

1713
02:07:36.319 --> 02:07:43.000
long story short, a second grind. If that malt is piled up in

1714
02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:47.119
a big pile what we call static
pile, there is a potential perfect storm

1715
02:07:47.199 --> 02:07:53.000
window of like three to fifteen days
later where that mult is sold three to

1716
02:07:53.079 --> 02:07:57.760
fifteen days later, that's the time
period when that moult goes into the thermophilic

1717
02:07:58.520 --> 02:08:03.279
heating. Heat process can go anywhere
from one hundred and fifty to you know,

1718
02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:07.199
two hundred degrees hot. Right,
you can cook it in a multipile.

1719
02:08:07.239 --> 02:08:09.840
I hear, Oh, Louis's cooked
steak and a whole meal in a

1720
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.039
I'm not going to be eating at
his house anytime soon. I hope you

1721
02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:18.239
wrap those up, Louis. Oh, you never know when you go to

1722
02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:24.520
Louise's house. So it's for sure, and just you could get the savici

1723
02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:26.399
right because then at least you know
that doesn't gone too the composing process.

1724
02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:33.880
All right, I digress. So
back to the So three to fifteen days

1725
02:08:33.000 --> 02:08:37.039
is really hot, and if it's
a really big pile with all that heat

1726
02:08:37.319 --> 02:08:41.239
and all that mass, sometimes they'll
go anaerobic. And during that thirteen day

1727
02:08:41.319 --> 02:08:46.600
period sometimes you walk up and dig
into the pile and it'll smell like vinegar.

1728
02:08:46.880 --> 02:08:50.600
And what's going on is that perfect
storm when it's really hot, a

1729
02:08:50.680 --> 02:08:54.079
really big pile and it goes anaerobic
where it doesn't have enough oxygen. Then

1730
02:08:54.159 --> 02:09:00.319
you'll have a pH which skip probably
will sound shocking anywhere from like one and

1731
02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:03.039
a half to three. And that's
like an indicator. And if it smells

1732
02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:07.439
like vinegar, yes, it's producing
acidic acid. And we all know what

1733
02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:13.720
vinegars use for in the horticulture industry
these days for people that you don't want

1734
02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:16.640
a natural way to combat weak it
kills plants. Good. Yeah, And

1735
02:09:16.720 --> 02:09:20.880
so you have this little perfect storm
and then so the good news is and

1736
02:09:20.960 --> 02:09:24.199
then what will happen is say that
gets sold, you know, goes in

1737
02:09:24.239 --> 02:09:28.640
the dump truck, somebody delivers it, and and and of course the mult

1738
02:09:28.680 --> 02:09:33.039
will be physically hot. Plus you
have the acidic acid. And so then

1739
02:09:33.119 --> 02:09:37.760
if it sits in a driveway,
and then it starts trying to cool off.

1740
02:09:37.840 --> 02:09:41.199
But then when people start digging into
the pile, well, when it's

1741
02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:43.159
piled, when it goes dumps out
it, say it takes a couple of

1742
02:09:43.239 --> 02:09:46.439
days or whatever it is, you
know, immediately starts to try to reheat

1743
02:09:46.439 --> 02:09:52.439
again. But and so what will
happen is often people if they take it

1744
02:09:52.479 --> 02:09:58.199
at that perfect storm stage, put
it on the landscape. The physical heat

1745
02:09:58.520 --> 02:10:01.359
can be an issue for plants like
that are more sensitive, like some of

1746
02:10:01.399 --> 02:10:05.840
the ferns and begonias, And and
then on top of it you've got the

1747
02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:09.840
acidic acid, and so it can
be a real issue. Now larger shrubs

1748
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:16.920
because this fellow and this fellow had
malted pretty deep too in the past,

1749
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:20.720
like up to ten inches and this
time maybe about five. So that just

1750
02:10:20.840 --> 02:10:24.760
adds to the potential for the heat
that you're describing, I think, right.

1751
02:10:24.840 --> 02:10:28.319
And then larger shrubs and trees will
usually withstand it. But you'll see

1752
02:10:28.319 --> 02:10:33.159
you know, on their the marges
edges of their leaves what looks like symptoms

1753
02:10:33.199 --> 02:10:37.319
like if something had a chemical you
know, burn, you know, or

1754
02:10:37.359 --> 02:10:41.079
something where somebody's putting you know,
something's gotten dumped into the soil or whatever.

1755
02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:46.560
So that's the So that's the bad
news that can happen in that cycle.

1756
02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:50.760
The good news is most plants will
withstand it. They may go into

1757
02:10:50.760 --> 02:10:54.239
a little bit of shock. One
of the best cures is just the water

1758
02:10:54.359 --> 02:10:58.000
more. If you spread it out
real thick the potentially you know, maybe

1759
02:10:58.079 --> 02:11:01.239
send it out a little bit and
then it down to two or three inches,

1760
02:11:03.199 --> 02:11:07.720
water it more and then if and
then the other thing I would say

1761
02:11:07.760 --> 02:11:11.760
if people want to be pretty safe
is just you know, if you if

1762
02:11:11.800 --> 02:11:16.119
you ever have a chance to smell
of it there, if it evere's like

1763
02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:22.520
vinegar, it may be in that
stage and then you either want to pass

1764
02:11:22.600 --> 02:11:26.000
on it or come back and revisit
the issue in the positive of buying it

1765
02:11:26.560 --> 02:11:30.479
later. But so the two things
to do is one, if you have

1766
02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:31.760
it the pile, it is like, wow, this is like really hot.

1767
02:11:31.960 --> 02:11:35.319
Ideally before you put in the landscape
it should be have dropped under one

1768
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:39.359
hundred and twenty degrees. So that's
one thing you could take a thermometer and

1769
02:11:39.920 --> 02:11:43.720
see if it's dropped under. And
then the second thing, if it smells

1770
02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:46.720
like the vinegar. The thing you
want to do, which is kind of

1771
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:48.800
the cure both ways, would be
to cure it off longer if you can't,

1772
02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:52.600
and then it could be as little
as two weeks for curing it and

1773
02:11:52.760 --> 02:11:56.520
up to but just to let it
come down on the temperature and let that

1774
02:11:58.079 --> 02:12:01.239
pH kind of come back up citic
acid to kind of work its way out,

1775
02:12:01.880 --> 02:12:05.439
and if you errate it a little
bit more too, that that helps

1776
02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:09.199
kind of mitigate the effects of that
acidic acid. Man, Mark, I

1777
02:12:09.279 --> 02:12:11.880
appreciate that, And Louise, I'm
up against another break. But thank you

1778
02:12:13.039 --> 02:12:18.439
guys so much. Louise from Heirloom
Soils and Mark you're you're my Vego friend

1779
02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:26.159
now over there at Vego Gardens too, right. That's great we can so

1780
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:30.000
they're lucky to heank you guys.
Thanks so much. Man, appreciate it

1781
02:12:31.680 --> 02:12:33.960
all. Right, there you go, folks that you just got the answer.

1782
02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:37.600
Uh, glad we could provide that. And Bob, I sure hope

1783
02:12:37.640 --> 02:12:39.760
you were listening. We're gonna take
a little quick break here and I'll be

1784
02:12:39.880 --> 02:12:43.560
right back. Bill, you'll be
the first up. Welcome back to Guardenline.

1785
02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:46.920
Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you're looking for

1786
02:12:46.239 --> 02:12:52.600
a fertilizer that you put down now
and you have fertilized your lawn with a

1787
02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:58.319
gradual release all through the coming two
or three four months, that would be

1788
02:12:58.560 --> 02:13:03.680
Nightcross Silver Bag nineteen four to ten. It's called superturf. And the reason

1789
02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:11.479
is it releases half that nutrient over
the coming weeks and months. Literally,

1790
02:13:11.720 --> 02:13:15.319
I mean it carries on and on, depending on weather conditions and different things.

1791
02:13:15.359 --> 02:13:18.479
That release me a little slower,
a little faster. But you basically

1792
02:13:18.560 --> 02:13:22.439
have got your summer fertilizing done with
Nitrofoss superturf and you put it down right

1793
02:13:22.479 --> 02:13:24.920
now. It's got this supplemental iron. And we've had two collars, say

1794
02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:31.079
we talk about iron deficiency in the
turf, well four percent additional iron promoting

1795
02:13:31.199 --> 02:13:35.000
that uniform, nice green color in
your lawn. You're going to find Nitrofoss

1796
02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:41.560
superturf a lot of places because nitrofoss
is basically a ubiquitously available product. You

1797
02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:45.520
can find it, for example,
the shades of Texas in the woodlands.

1798
02:13:45.560 --> 02:13:48.439
You're going to find it in enchanted
gardens down in Richmond. You're going to

1799
02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:52.079
find it at Fisher's Hardware, both
the one in South Houston on Sophomore and

1800
02:13:52.159 --> 02:13:56.800
the one in Laporte on Broadway Street. All places where you're going to get

1801
02:13:56.079 --> 02:14:03.359
nitrofass superturf product. Go to Bill
in Cypress Now, Hello Bill, A

1802
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:09.920
good morning. Skip A simple question
out here in Bridge Lines there's not enough

1803
02:14:09.000 --> 02:14:13.319
tree for hawks to live in and
anyway, we've got a problem with rabbits

1804
02:14:13.399 --> 02:14:18.439
eating my foliage. Okay, any
suggestions, Uh, you know, for

1805
02:14:18.600 --> 02:14:22.560
rabbits you're kind of basically fencing them
out with a real low fence. That

1806
02:14:22.760 --> 02:14:28.680
is one option around gardens and things. You just see people put the chicken

1807
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:31.399
wira up, get it down to
the ground where maybe a little below the

1808
02:14:31.439 --> 02:14:33.760
ground, even where they're not going
to just dig right under it, and

1809
02:14:35.439 --> 02:14:39.760
uh that I don't know to see
Zara. There is a rabbit repellent out

1810
02:14:39.800 --> 02:14:45.880
there, and I can't remember what
it's based on, probably a predator urine

1811
02:14:46.119 --> 02:14:48.600
or something like that, but there
is a rabbit repellent. I've never tried

1812
02:14:48.720 --> 02:14:54.720
using it before. What about molasses? I don't know that that would keep

1813
02:14:54.760 --> 02:14:58.399
them away? Have you heard that
it says. They said it keeps barmans

1814
02:14:58.399 --> 02:15:03.680
away, like you possums and stuff. Huh. I wonder why that is.

1815
02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:11.399
I don't know that that would be
new to me. But I used

1816
02:15:11.439 --> 02:15:15.279
to use it on the nut grass
too. Uh huh. Did it work

1817
02:15:15.319 --> 02:15:18.279
well for you? Yeah? It
just takes a while. Yeah, yeah,

1818
02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:24.520
all right, yeah you you uh, other than what I told you

1819
02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:30.520
that, That's about all I would
know to suggest. But hey, Bill,

1820
02:15:33.039 --> 02:15:35.800
you you can eat rabbits, you
know that, right, They're not

1821
02:15:37.000 --> 02:15:39.319
that big. I've got people.
I can hear screams from all over Houston.

1822
02:15:39.399 --> 02:15:43.640
People are how dare you? Okay? All right, I'm just starting

1823
02:15:43.680 --> 02:15:48.479
it up a little bit. I
have a good day. Oh gosh,

1824
02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:54.000
I shouldn't go there, but I
did. I did. Hey have you

1825
02:15:54.079 --> 02:15:58.720
been out to the Enchanted Forest?
And Jenner Forest is in Richmond. It's

1826
02:15:58.800 --> 02:16:01.039
the garden center that if you're Richmond, you're heading towards sugar Land. It's

1827
02:16:01.159 --> 02:16:05.279
off to the right hand side,
off to the right hand side. So

1828
02:16:05.399 --> 02:16:11.319
what you do is you just head
out FM twenty seven fifty nine, twenty

1829
02:16:11.359 --> 02:16:13.399
seven fifty nine. Let me give
you the website for I forget it.

1830
02:16:15.039 --> 02:16:20.000
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX.
Dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

1831
02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:26.000
TX dot com. Unbelievable website,
excellent, excellent website. You want to

1832
02:16:26.000 --> 02:16:28.399
get on there, find out what's
going on. It is a place you

1833
02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:33.760
go if you need anything in the
way of herbs, vegetables, flowers,

1834
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:37.040
trees, shrubs, if you like
butterfly gardens, man, can they fix

1835
02:16:37.120 --> 02:16:39.600
you up. They've got the flowers
for the adults. And they have a

1836
02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:45.440
lot of good larval food sources,
you know, things like milkweed to supply

1837
02:16:45.680 --> 02:16:52.440
monarchs, or passion vine to supply
go fritillaries, or pipeline for the pipeline

1838
02:16:52.479 --> 02:16:56.600
swallowtail caterpillars. They've got all of
that and then some. And they always

1839
02:16:56.639 --> 02:17:01.079
have things going on all the time. There's something happening on Saturdays, especially

1840
02:17:01.120 --> 02:17:05.360
in the springtime, out at the
Arborgate Nursery Arbor Gate. What am I

1841
02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:11.719
saying? And I'm halfway across the
county at Enchanted Forest Garden Center down on

1842
02:17:11.000 --> 02:17:16.639
FM twenty seven fifty nine. You
know, you I go on auto pilots

1843
02:17:16.719 --> 02:17:22.479
sometimes and that is never a good
thing to do. Let's head out now

1844
02:17:22.639 --> 02:17:26.280
to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, Hi, are

1845
02:17:26.360 --> 02:17:33.600
you I'm well, thank you.
I have a problem in my yard along

1846
02:17:33.760 --> 02:17:39.600
the curve and the walkways of the
dry grass, like it didn't get enough

1847
02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:46.719
water. Maybe okay, so dry. If I pull that out and put

1848
02:17:46.799 --> 02:17:52.840
some topsoil down on those edges,
will the grass be able to spread out?

1849
02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:56.079
It will, it'll close back in, But you got to get you

1850
02:17:56.159 --> 02:18:00.559
got to just make sure it has
moisture. That's important. Sometimes I bought

1851
02:18:00.600 --> 02:18:03.959
silker hosts. Oh okay, well
you could go that rude too. Then

1852
02:18:03.040 --> 02:18:07.600
you're then you're making sure that you've
got it covered. Yeah, yeah,

1853
02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:09.639
that ought to do. What kind
of grass do you have, Doris?

1854
02:18:11.559 --> 02:18:15.319
Okay, yeah, it'll crawl back
in there pretty quick if you I'd give

1855
02:18:15.360 --> 02:18:18.399
it a little extra fertilizer too,
not extra, but make sure you do

1856
02:18:18.559 --> 02:18:22.760
fertilize it as well, and that
will the water. Uh let's see.

1857
02:18:24.680 --> 02:18:28.000
Do you like organic? Do you
like synthetic or do you care? I

1858
02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:33.120
used the silver bag when I'm fertilize. Okay, Well that's it. That

1859
02:18:33.319 --> 02:18:35.680
is that is super turf. It's
going to gradually feed it. Uh.

1860
02:18:35.840 --> 02:18:41.000
Have you already fertilized that this year? You're saying, yeah, okay,

1861
02:18:41.319 --> 02:18:43.200
well you ought to be good.
You ought to be good to go.

1862
02:18:43.520 --> 02:18:46.399
You ought to be good to go, all right, Doris? All right,

1863
02:18:46.559 --> 02:18:50.040
thank you so much, you bet
thanks a lot. I I appreciate

1864
02:18:50.159 --> 02:18:54.120
that a lot, that is for
sure. Uh. The uh folks at

1865
02:18:54.159 --> 02:19:01.200
Southwest Fertilizer, I'm talking about Bob, they bye just make sure that he

1866
02:19:01.280 --> 02:19:05.520
has everything you could possibly need.
I mean everything, really, eighty foot

1867
02:19:05.559 --> 02:19:09.879
wall of tools. If there is
a pesticide to control insects, diseases,

1868
02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:15.799
or weeds, he's got it.
If there's a fertilizer, liquid, granular,

1869
02:19:16.959 --> 02:19:22.399
organic, synthetic, fast, really
slowerly, he has it all.

1870
02:19:22.639 --> 02:19:24.120
He has it all there. And
I'm going to be there today, by

1871
02:19:24.200 --> 02:19:28.639
the way, from eleven o'clock to
one o'clock, so you got a two

1872
02:19:28.719 --> 02:19:31.440
hour window to stop buy, and
I hope you will. I always love

1873
02:19:31.959 --> 02:19:35.079
to meet the folks that listen to
Garden Line. We're gonna be given away

1874
02:19:35.520 --> 02:19:41.799
the I can't even see the name, and now my brain just went blank

1875
02:19:41.879 --> 02:19:43.159
here for just a second. Hang
on something, sorry, Toro. I've

1876
02:19:43.200 --> 02:19:48.559
said it three times today, the
Toro blower and the Toro string trimmer.

1877
02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:52.879
Can you believe that that's a huge
giveaway thing. We're give away some Medina

1878
02:19:52.959 --> 02:19:56.399
samples and products and things. And
by the way, Bob just got a

1879
02:19:56.520 --> 02:20:01.360
shipment of this new Medina product called
super Grow Plus. Supergirl Plus. It's

1880
02:20:01.399 --> 02:20:07.680
a sixteen zero two. Sixteen zero
two is a wonderful blend. It of

1881
02:20:07.760 --> 02:20:11.600
course has zero on the phosphorus and
phosphorus. If you fertilize your lawn for

1882
02:20:11.760 --> 02:20:15.280
years, you have enough phosphorus.
It tends to build up over time.

1883
02:20:15.760 --> 02:20:18.639
This is a hose end application.
It's got iron edta. Remember how I

1884
02:20:18.799 --> 02:20:24.360
talked about iron keylate earlier. That's
what iron edta is. It's a type

1885
02:20:24.399 --> 02:20:28.600
of keylated iron. It's got seaweed
extract in it. It is going to

1886
02:20:28.639 --> 02:20:33.120
be primarily an immediate release, but
about one fifth of the nitrogen is going

1887
02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:37.280
to be slow release in that has
to grow Supergirl Plus. Hook it up

1888
02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:41.879
to your garden hose. One quart
covers four thousand square feet and Bob's got

1889
02:20:41.920 --> 02:20:46.479
it in stock. And you need
to try this one. This is a

1890
02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:48.760
new thing, and if you haven't
tried it before, you need to try

1891
02:20:48.799 --> 02:20:52.360
it. So swing by today.
I'll you stop at the table and I'll

1892
02:20:52.399 --> 02:20:58.360
give you super skip Bucks Super skip
Buck skip Bucks and you can take that

1893
02:20:58.719 --> 02:21:03.239
and get a huge discount off the
price of anything you want to purchase in

1894
02:21:03.319 --> 02:21:07.719
there, including the has to grow
super Grow Plus. You're not going to

1895
02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:11.600
find a better deal than this.
Absolutely. And Southwest Fertilizer where is it.

1896
02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:16.799
It's on the corner of Businett and
Runwick in Southwest Houston. Here's the

1897
02:21:16.920 --> 02:21:24.280
website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. Come see me today

1898
02:21:24.319 --> 02:21:28.040
again. I'll be there. I'll
arrive by eleven and I'll stay there until

1899
02:21:28.200 --> 02:21:31.120
one o'clock. I used to stick
a little longer around. When I do

1900
02:21:31.280 --> 02:21:33.280
that, I always love to get
to visit with Bob and his team there,

1901
02:21:33.399 --> 02:21:37.000
Aaron and all the folks. They
know what they're talking about by the

1902
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.799
way you carry them a sample in
there, You car them a picture of

1903
02:21:39.879 --> 02:21:43.680
something and whatever. They can point
you in the right direction. They understand

1904
02:21:43.760 --> 02:21:46.440
how their products work, so they
can guide you in that. That is

1905
02:21:46.680 --> 02:21:50.559
important. You know, you go
someplace and you buy a product from someone

1906
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:56.200
that doesn't have a clue what they're
talking about, and that's just wasted money

1907
02:21:56.239 --> 02:21:58.959
and who knows, you may end
up doing damage with it. That's why

1908
02:21:58.959 --> 02:22:03.200
I like to go to Bob in
Southwest Fertilizer because they do know what they're

1909
02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:05.559
talking about. And I'm going to
be there today. Come by and see

1910
02:22:05.639 --> 02:22:09.239
me. Let me get a skip
some skip Bucks in your hand so you

1911
02:22:09.399 --> 02:22:13.600
can go and get a great deal
on the many many products that they carry

1912
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:20.879
there at Southwest Fertilizer, including this
great new product has to Grow Super Grow

1913
02:22:20.079 --> 02:22:26.639
plus the hose inch prayer with a
sixteen zero two fertilizer in it. I'm

1914
02:22:26.680 --> 02:22:31.159
going to head out to Magnolia now
and talk to Ted. Hello, Ted,

1915
02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:39.239
good morning. Wow, my backyard, Saint Agustine I lost from last

1916
02:22:39.319 --> 02:22:43.440
year. I don't know if it
was take all ry rock, chinch bugs,

1917
02:22:43.600 --> 02:22:46.719
or heat or combination of all,
but I did my best to treat

1918
02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:52.079
all three, but it's gone.
I just air rated my entire yard and

1919
02:22:52.239 --> 02:22:58.719
I'm going to fertilize today and then
I was going to put kalman ere a

1920
02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:05.319
day and then put side on top
of that, uh and then treat for

1921
02:23:05.440 --> 02:23:09.399
the take all the root rock because
I'm seeing signs of that again. Okay,

1922
02:23:09.440 --> 02:23:13.559
I wouldn't do the calmandar. I
wouldn't do the calendar. It's a

1923
02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:18.760
it's a pretty high pH naturally high
pH product. And like take all loves

1924
02:23:18.040 --> 02:23:22.319
high pH and we we don't want
to encourage it by raising pH anymore than

1925
02:23:22.360 --> 02:23:26.600
it already is. Uh. But
uh, you know, a good quality

1926
02:23:26.680 --> 02:23:31.079
fertilizer applied at the right time.
What what did you say you were fertilizing

1927
02:23:31.120 --> 02:23:33.520
with. I'm sorry, other than
the calmndar, did you have something?

1928
02:23:33.399 --> 02:23:39.440
It's it's a slow release, uh, fertilizer. Okay, Like is it

1929
02:23:39.559 --> 02:23:46.280
the Nelson Slow and Easy It's uh. Now it's some that I had from

1930
02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.639
my it's less go I think.
Okay, all right, Well, I

1931
02:23:48.719 --> 02:23:52.040
mean if you got a fertilizer on
hand, you can you can, you

1932
02:23:52.120 --> 02:23:56.719
know, go ahead and use it. But I would recommend you get you

1933
02:23:56.840 --> 02:24:01.280
some Slow and Easy by Nelson.
That one will fertilized for the next three

1934
02:24:01.360 --> 02:24:05.920
months, and it's got several different
types of nitrogen so that they get released

1935
02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:13.079
very slowly over time out there.
Uh. It's easy slow and then with

1936
02:24:13.200 --> 02:24:18.559
apostrophe in and then easy slow in
easy. Uh. And it's Nelson plant

1937
02:24:18.600 --> 02:24:22.200
food, so that'll get you set
up. I'm up against a hard break

1938
02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:26.879
here, but I think the proper
fertilizing with adequate watering and regular mowing,

1939
02:24:26.959 --> 02:24:31.559
and you're going to grow yourself out
of this ted, but not worry about

1940
02:24:31.600 --> 02:24:35.040
putting any thing down before I put
the side down. No, no,

1941
02:24:35.239 --> 02:24:39.159
I would just get the side and
then I would begin to do the fertilizing.

1942
02:24:39.639 --> 02:24:43.159
Yeah, water it twice a day
the first week, once a day

1943
02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:46.639
the next week, and then back
off eventually to once a week. All

1944
02:24:46.719 --> 02:24:50.440
right, thanks a lot man,
appreciate it. All right. Our phone

1945
02:24:50.520 --> 02:24:52.280
number if you'd like to give us
a call seven one three two one two

1946
02:24:52.520 --> 02:24:58.600
kt r H. And here's Nicky. Yeah, all right, we're back

1947
02:24:58.680 --> 02:25:03.040
here on garden. I'm about to
enter our last half hour of the morning.

1948
02:25:03.159 --> 02:25:07.559
I just wanted to let's just start
by going straight to the phone here.

1949
02:25:07.600 --> 02:25:11.639
We're going to go to Matthew in
Conro. Hello, Matthew. How

1950
02:25:11.719 --> 02:25:13.000
you doing today, sir? I'm
good, I'm good. What's up?

1951
02:25:13.959 --> 02:25:18.239
Yes, sir, I've got a
celebration Bermuda celebration in my yard and i'd

1952
02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:22.360
like to try to get this torpedo
grass out of my yard. Oh boy,

1953
02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:28.200
what a combo, I know,
And you know how taken over more

1954
02:25:28.239 --> 02:25:30.840
and more I know, I know, and it's a booger. It's a

1955
02:25:30.879 --> 02:25:35.120
bogger to get rid of you can. I'm going to suggest a surgical way

1956
02:25:35.200 --> 02:25:39.120
to get it out of there,
and the alternative to that is not good,

1957
02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:43.280
and that's just get rid of everything, kill everything and let the bermuda

1958
02:25:43.360 --> 02:25:48.920
come back in. But that I'm
going to think you're gonna let's try first

1959
02:25:50.000 --> 02:25:52.959
the surgical. Uh. You know
how the torpedo grass comes up above the

1960
02:25:54.040 --> 02:25:58.239
bermuda, right, it's a it's
a mult upright figorous. If you can

1961
02:25:58.479 --> 02:26:03.479
create a wiper applicator and I'll tell
you how in a minute, and put

1962
02:26:03.719 --> 02:26:07.920
a product on it to kill grass, I would probably use Glyphoss eight because

1963
02:26:07.959 --> 02:26:11.680
it's very thorough in it. You
could also use a grass only killer.

1964
02:26:13.239 --> 02:26:16.360
There are products that don't kill broad
lace but kill grass. A couple of

1965
02:26:16.399 --> 02:26:20.239
those on the market, easy to
find. But if you buy one of

1966
02:26:20.280 --> 02:26:24.319
those little gadgets, you get a
jar off a shelf with it's got a

1967
02:26:24.360 --> 02:26:26.920
little pistol grip on one end and
the other end maybe two section cups or

1968
02:26:26.959 --> 02:26:31.520
something like that, and you grab
the jar, take the suction cups off

1969
02:26:31.760 --> 02:26:39.239
and get a plate, one of
those little metal plates at a lumber type

1970
02:26:39.360 --> 02:26:43.879
store that has holes in it.
You know, it's used for joining two

1971
02:26:43.000 --> 02:26:46.000
tuba fours. Do you know the
kind I'm talking about. It's like a

1972
02:26:46.040 --> 02:26:50.520
whole bunch of little holes in a
thin metal plate. It's about the size

1973
02:26:50.159 --> 02:26:54.639
of a deck of plane cards roughly, Yesta, put that on there,

1974
02:26:56.200 --> 02:27:01.520
and then put a sponge, a
kitchen sponge. Just take a standard size

1975
02:27:01.520 --> 02:27:05.959
sponge and cut it in half and
put on there. Put a boat with

1976
02:27:05.079 --> 02:27:09.440
a washer to hold the sponge on. So what you got is you got

1977
02:27:09.520 --> 02:27:13.719
the same gadget, but you've replaced
let's say the section cup with a plate

1978
02:27:15.040 --> 02:27:18.440
and a sponge. The plate just
to hold the sponge so it doesn't just

1979
02:27:18.520 --> 02:27:24.440
bend backwards. And you squirt those
sponges with the galiposate product, and you

1980
02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:28.079
go through your yard and you don't
even have to stoop because those things are

1981
02:27:28.079 --> 02:27:31.559
about three feet long, and you
can just reach down and grab the torpedo

1982
02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:35.959
grass and pull up, and then
grab the next one and pull up,

1983
02:27:35.000 --> 02:27:39.920
and you're just wiping it on individually
to the torpedogress. You're I can get

1984
02:27:39.959 --> 02:27:43.479
it all the first time. Just
plan on spending the next few Saturday mornings

1985
02:27:43.520 --> 02:27:46.600
with a cup of coffee in one
hand and your little applicator in the other,

1986
02:27:48.159 --> 02:27:50.559
and just every time you get a
chance, just stay on it,

1987
02:27:50.760 --> 02:27:52.760
get all of it you can,
and you can work your way back out

1988
02:27:52.799 --> 02:27:56.799
of it that way without having to
kill everything in renovate. Because there's not

1989
02:27:56.959 --> 02:28:01.280
a selective product. To kill torpedo
grass, it won't kill your celebration Bermuda,

1990
02:28:03.280 --> 02:28:07.399
Yes, sir, did that make
sense? Yes, sir, I

1991
02:28:07.520 --> 02:28:11.719
was just wondering, during the dormant
stage during our winter months, was it

1992
02:28:11.840 --> 02:28:16.319
possible I could put something down during
that time, because of course, you

1993
02:28:16.399 --> 02:28:22.040
know, my celebration goes dormant,
but then you don't see the torpedo grass.

1994
02:28:22.280 --> 02:28:26.799
Yeah, the torpedo grass is dormant, right, Well, you don't

1995
02:28:26.879 --> 02:28:30.479
see it, and you know,
with the celebration being dormant, I guess

1996
02:28:30.559 --> 02:28:33.440
the torpedo grass you know, does
too. But yeah, I was wondering

1997
02:28:33.440 --> 02:28:37.399
if at that time would it be
good to do something. Now they both

1998
02:28:37.479 --> 02:28:41.120
have that same growth schedule of not
being happy with winter weather, winter cold

1999
02:28:41.239 --> 02:28:46.840
and stuff, and so if it
were a broad leaf weed that was a

2000
02:28:46.879 --> 02:28:50.040
cool season weed, you could spray
it in the winter and not kill your

2001
02:28:50.159 --> 02:28:56.319
celebration because you're right, celebration is
dormant. But I think the wiper's probably

2002
02:28:56.360 --> 02:29:00.239
the best way and if it's already
gotten so far ahead of you, you

2003
02:29:00.319 --> 02:29:01.840
know, at some point you just
bite the bullet and you go, I

2004
02:29:03.000 --> 02:29:07.440
just have to kill everything and start
over. Yeah, in the military,

2005
02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:09.000
I cut everybody else's grass. Now
I'm trying to take care of my own

2006
02:29:09.040 --> 02:29:13.879
grass. I know, I know
I can tell you we're in the military,

2007
02:29:13.959 --> 02:29:16.079
Matthew, because I've never been told
yes, sir so many times in

2008
02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:20.239
my whole life. And thank you
for that. A lot of it is

2009
02:29:20.319 --> 02:29:26.319
my mom hitting the back of my
head when I don't do it all right.

2010
02:29:26.760 --> 02:29:33.920
Well, you know, family,
family's family. So anyway, good

2011
02:29:33.040 --> 02:29:37.000
luck with that torpedo grass man.
Thank you very much, sir, and

2012
02:29:37.040 --> 02:29:41.799
you have a nice day, sir, you too, Bye bye. All

2013
02:29:41.920 --> 02:29:46.000
right, Hey, have you been
to Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights.

2014
02:29:46.520 --> 02:29:52.239
That's right Eleventh Street in the Heights. This this place has been around a

2015
02:29:52.280 --> 02:29:56.399
long time, but everybody knows about
him because it's just cool. It's fun

2016
02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.920
to go there. I think of
it as almost like a hideaway. You

2017
02:30:00.120 --> 02:30:03.840
driving down Eleventh Street and all of
a sudden, boom, you're there,

2018
02:30:03.079 --> 02:30:09.040
and it's this nestled in to the
Heights. They specialize in native plants that

2019
02:30:09.680 --> 02:30:13.920
if you're looking for natives, even
down to I want a plant that was

2020
02:30:15.040 --> 02:30:18.879
native here in the Harris County,
well they can point you to those.

2021
02:30:18.920 --> 02:30:24.399
They have those separate out like that
Native Texas plants in general. But Buchanans

2022
02:30:24.479 --> 02:30:28.879
Plants always always has a good supply
of all kinds of things you need for

2023
02:30:28.959 --> 02:30:31.920
your lawn and garden. They're going
to have the fertilizers that I talk about,

2024
02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:39.600
they are going to have absolutely have
the soil type products to improve and

2025
02:30:39.719 --> 02:30:43.559
create that beautiful, wonderful soil.
But are you looking for color like begonias

2026
02:30:43.719 --> 02:30:48.200
and silotia. By the way,
I didn't talk about solosia earlier when I

2027
02:30:48.319 --> 02:30:52.959
was mentioning heat tolerant plants. Soilosia
is great. It's got those plumes on

2028
02:30:52.120 --> 02:30:56.680
top that are colorful. And some
types have beautiful burgundy leaves. I love

2029
02:30:56.760 --> 02:31:01.280
it. In College station we call
that maroon where I come from. But

2030
02:31:01.879 --> 02:31:07.920
beautiful burgundy maroon leaves. They have
that trees native trees. You know,

2031
02:31:07.040 --> 02:31:11.440
we're talking about Earth Day. This
stimmy year for Earth Day, and they

2032
02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:16.920
have thirty percent off their Native Texas
trees. How can you how much better

2033
02:31:18.000 --> 02:31:20.239
than that? Can you do?
They also have their life below all purpose

2034
02:31:20.319 --> 02:31:24.879
soil thirty percent off of that as
well. So here's your excuse. There's

2035
02:31:24.920 --> 02:31:28.639
a time to get it done.
Any kind of plants for decorating, for

2036
02:31:28.799 --> 02:31:35.639
creating beauty, herbs and vegetables and
everything else are at Buchanan's Native Plants.

2037
02:31:37.559 --> 02:31:43.760
Very knowledgeable staff absolutely steer you in
the right direction for success. And let's

2038
02:31:43.840 --> 02:31:46.440
just put it this way. It's
just a fun place to go and to

2039
02:31:46.600 --> 02:31:52.239
explore it just is. I love
going into there and you will too.

2040
02:31:52.399 --> 02:31:56.639
You probably already do you probably know
about that. Let's see where are we

2041
02:31:56.719 --> 02:32:00.239
going to go? Now? I'm
going to head out to Tyler and talk

2042
02:32:00.719 --> 02:32:03.319
to Nancy. Is that right Tyler, Texas? Yes, yes it is.

2043
02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:07.319
Well, actually I live on Lake
Palaestine. That's a little ways out

2044
02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:11.559
of there. But and I said
pictures just now, I just found the

2045
02:32:11.639 --> 02:32:15.959
address, but I'm sure if you
hard to get to. I have a

2046
02:32:16.719 --> 02:32:22.079
plum tree that is two years old
and it's got maybe a little bit bigger

2047
02:32:22.120 --> 02:32:26.600
than a quarter size plums on it, but it doesn't seem to be growing

2048
02:32:26.760 --> 02:32:33.639
any bigger. Also, I have
a lemon tree that looks like it needs

2049
02:32:33.719 --> 02:32:39.600
a really bad haircut. I've had
one lemon in four years. I have

2050
02:32:39.959 --> 02:32:46.799
something that's eating a few of the
leaves. I'm just wondering what am I

2051
02:32:48.000 --> 02:32:54.799
doing wrong? We don't have micro
life out here, are ace hardwares or

2052
02:32:54.840 --> 02:32:58.079
any other place? Okay, what
is a can I go online? What

2053
02:32:58.159 --> 02:33:03.040
would be a good for I'll purpose
for all my plants ventrum the deck,

2054
02:33:03.799 --> 02:33:09.040
Yeah, in my guarden. Well, if you can't get the micro life

2055
02:33:09.120 --> 02:33:16.159
up there, you probably have nitrophospertilizers
available up there, and that would be

2056
02:33:16.200 --> 02:33:18.319
a fine one. If you're looking
for organic, then you would need to

2057
02:33:18.360 --> 02:33:22.879
look for something that's got the Medina
products in it. That would be a

2058
02:33:24.040 --> 02:33:26.239
good choice. There. I'm looking
at your pictures. I did get them.

2059
02:33:26.319 --> 02:33:31.040
The plum has got some little things
that are sucking juices out of the

2060
02:33:31.079 --> 02:33:35.799
bottom of the leaves, and so
I would get an insecticidal soap product and

2061
02:33:35.920 --> 02:33:39.920
spray upward, upward from underneath the
leaves to knock those things out. It

2062
02:33:39.959 --> 02:33:45.639
could be spider mites, it could
be something else, but it's pretty severely

2063
02:33:45.840 --> 02:33:48.520
affected by that. The holes in
the leaves I wouldn't worry about that's not

2064
02:33:48.719 --> 02:33:54.399
significant. But you do need to
get that plum out of the container and

2065
02:33:54.719 --> 02:34:01.920
into either bigger container or out in
the garden soil hand because the containers are

2066
02:34:01.920 --> 02:34:07.600
a little on the small side and
it's gonna stunt it like plums. But

2067
02:34:07.680 --> 02:34:15.319
that's last on my back deck.
Yeah, my garden so very good.

2068
02:34:16.479 --> 02:34:20.559
So on the on the lemon tree, do you see the one branch that's

2069
02:34:20.719 --> 02:34:24.600
just yea out there? I do, I would, I would trim those

2070
02:34:24.680 --> 02:34:28.000
back. I'm sorry, but I
have got to run, Nancy, I'm

2071
02:34:28.040 --> 02:34:31.200
I'm up. I've already passed a
break I didn't catch. Okay, thank

2072
02:34:31.280 --> 02:34:35.479
you. Trim that wild branch back
a little bit, balance it out,

2073
02:34:37.079 --> 02:34:39.200
all right, We'll be right back. Well, welcome back to the garden

2074
02:34:39.280 --> 02:34:43.559
line. Good to have you with
us today. Well we are ending the

2075
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:46.200
show here in just a little bit. And I see we got some folks

2076
02:34:46.280 --> 02:34:50.079
on the board, so we are
going to jump right out there and head

2077
02:34:50.200 --> 02:34:54.280
to beat Eyes, Texas and talk
to Dane. Hello, Dane, Hey,

2078
02:34:54.639 --> 02:34:56.120
how's it going? But doing well? Doing well? How can I

2079
02:34:56.159 --> 02:35:00.559
help today? Man? I've got
a couple of tomato plants of my raised

2080
02:35:00.600 --> 02:35:03.559
garden, and uh, some of
the leaves on the tomato only two of

2081
02:35:03.639 --> 02:35:07.079
them, one more so than any
of them all the leaves are curling upwards.

2082
02:35:07.520 --> 02:35:11.600
And I've been reading on it and
they say the wind can do that.

2083
02:35:11.799 --> 02:35:13.360
Is that true? Well, a
lot of times we see it,

2084
02:35:13.760 --> 02:35:18.399
uh, when it gets a little
warmer than it's been. But varieties differ

2085
02:35:18.479 --> 02:35:20.600
a lot in that. And now
when you say, oh you do me,

2086
02:35:20.719 --> 02:35:24.239
not just the new growth at the
top, you're talking about the older

2087
02:35:24.319 --> 02:35:28.360
leaves too, right, That is
correct? Yes, yeah, I think

2088
02:35:28.479 --> 02:35:31.680
that's a natural physiological thing that is
not going to affect production. And I

2089
02:35:31.719 --> 02:35:35.799
wouldn't I wouldn't worry about it,
Yeah, because the virus would just affect

2090
02:35:35.840 --> 02:35:43.040
the new growth, gotcha. Yeah, Yeah, And it was. It

2091
02:35:43.159 --> 02:35:46.559
was weird because it was it's more
so one plant two plants, than the

2092
02:35:46.600 --> 02:35:48.639
other two. And they are two
different of the four, they're two different

2093
02:35:48.719 --> 02:35:52.680
varieties. Yeah, yeah, and
that that's kind of normal. But don't

2094
02:35:52.719 --> 02:35:56.479
don't worry about it. It's it's
an okay deal. Uh, just uh

2095
02:35:56.120 --> 02:36:01.000
get ready to enjoy your tomatoes.
Hopefully they're in good sunlight. You're gonna

2096
02:36:01.040 --> 02:36:05.319
get good production. They are and
they're already growing good. So I appreciate

2097
02:36:05.360 --> 02:36:07.559
your man. Keep up good work. Thank you, Dane. Say aha

2098
02:36:07.639 --> 02:36:11.799
to my friends over there at the
feed store over by Carlos. You're just

2099
02:36:11.879 --> 02:36:16.360
a rock throw away from them,
right, I was there this morning.

2100
02:36:16.639 --> 02:36:20.040
Good good, good folks, good
folks. Thanks, thanks son, bye

2101
02:36:20.040 --> 02:36:26.159
bye. If you are looking for
a quality potting soil for your containers out

2102
02:36:26.280 --> 02:36:31.719
on the patio, how about jungle
Land. Jungle Land flour and vegetable.

2103
02:36:31.079 --> 02:36:35.520
Jungle and flour and vegetable potting soil. It does two things that a soil

2104
02:36:35.600 --> 02:36:39.280
needs to do. It drains well
when there's access. It drains the access

2105
02:36:39.319 --> 02:36:43.120
away, but it holds onto moisture. So you gotta have good air air

2106
02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:46.559
in the soil and you have good
moisture in the soil. Both that is

2107
02:36:46.639 --> 02:36:50.879
important and jungle Land can do just
that for your soils. Now, where

2108
02:36:50.920 --> 02:36:54.200
do you find jungle l and soil? Well, Katie Ace Hardware has got

2109
02:36:54.280 --> 02:36:58.920
it. Ace Hardware City and Memorial
you can find jungle Land there as well.

2110
02:36:58.000 --> 02:37:03.520
Or Stanton Shoppings done in Alvin.
You can find your jungle and products

2111
02:37:03.840 --> 02:37:07.040
there. Let's now head out to
Friendswood and talk to Beverly. Hello,

2112
02:37:07.159 --> 02:37:11.559
Beverly, Hello, good morning.
I have a pine apple pear that has

2113
02:37:11.760 --> 02:37:16.719
never given me any fruit till this
year, and it is loaded, and

2114
02:37:16.879 --> 02:37:22.079
I covered it with a netting.
My question is, how do I know

2115
02:37:22.360 --> 02:37:28.040
when they're ripe? Pineapple is a
fairly firm pair. It's not like a

2116
02:37:28.159 --> 02:37:31.399
Kiefer or anything like that. But
you'll notice a little bit of a color

2117
02:37:31.520 --> 02:37:35.040
change in the scheme, that's one
thing. And you'll notice it gets a

2118
02:37:35.120 --> 02:37:39.079
little bit softer too, Okay,
so you kind of can feel with your

2119
02:37:39.120 --> 02:37:41.760
hands a little bit. If you're
thinking, you know, this is looking

2120
02:37:41.799 --> 02:37:46.159
pretty ripe. You could try sampling
one, right, I thought I would,

2121
02:37:46.319 --> 02:37:50.280
But I just wondered about the color
because the different pairs have different colors

2122
02:37:50.319 --> 02:37:54.639
than I was, Yeah, wondering
does it turn yellow? Yeah, well,

2123
02:37:56.239 --> 02:38:00.479
Pineapple, I'm surprised you haven't had
any production before because Pineapple asked the

2124
02:38:00.520 --> 02:38:05.959
crows got it, so I got
and covered it with a knitting so they

2125
02:38:05.000 --> 02:38:09.680
can't get to it or the squirrel. So yeah, yeah, I'm hoping.

2126
02:38:09.280 --> 02:38:13.399
All right. Well, uh,
it's a good one. It's one

2127
02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:16.559
of the older ones that we have. It does the green does kind of

2128
02:38:16.639 --> 02:38:20.440
blush out to a chartruse. Sometimes
you'll see a little bit of color on

2129
02:38:20.600 --> 02:38:24.479
the sunny side of the pair too, a little bit of a blush on

2130
02:38:24.760 --> 02:38:28.959
that, but it's a it's a
good old fashioned pair. It's tough,

2131
02:38:30.639 --> 02:38:33.920
kind of hard to kill. But
they are pretty hard. It's don't think

2132
02:38:33.000 --> 02:38:39.000
in terms of like a boss or
d'ango lit in the grocery store. This

2133
02:38:39.120 --> 02:38:41.399
is gonna be a harder pair.
Okay, all right, thank you so

2134
02:38:41.520 --> 02:38:45.120
much. Enjoying your program. All
right, thank you man, I appreciate

2135
02:38:45.200 --> 02:38:48.479
that. Good luck with that.
Let's go now out to Pasadena and talk

2136
02:38:48.559 --> 02:38:52.000
to Frida. Hello, Freda,
Hi, how are you this morning?

2137
02:38:52.120 --> 02:38:56.559
I'm well, I'm well, what's
up? How about Peggy Martin? Rose?

2138
02:38:56.799 --> 02:39:01.000
And I'm putting it in a place
there was an ano there that didn't

2139
02:39:01.040 --> 02:39:05.440
do well because it's been full sun. And I want to know what I

2140
02:39:05.520 --> 02:39:07.719
need to do for the soil and
what kind of fertilizer to put on it.

2141
02:39:09.239 --> 02:39:11.239
I would get a good roast soil
mix. You'll find those. They

2142
02:39:11.280 --> 02:39:16.079
are widely available. You probably get
them done in Pasadena direction. Local ase

2143
02:39:16.120 --> 02:39:20.360
hardware stores there are going to have
them. But if it you know,

2144
02:39:20.440 --> 02:39:24.479
if it's from airloom or from nature's
way, and it says rose soil,

2145
02:39:24.559 --> 02:39:28.799
then that is what I would use. I would build a good sized bed

2146
02:39:28.920 --> 02:39:31.840
with it, you know, don't
just put roast soil in a planting hole,

2147
02:39:31.959 --> 02:39:35.680
but mix it in with your soil, and then even add a little

2148
02:39:35.719 --> 02:39:39.680
more rose soil so you have really
good drainage. That's important. And then

2149
02:39:39.719 --> 02:39:43.440
plant, plant your Peggy Martin.
And she's not hard to be she's not

2150
02:39:43.600 --> 02:39:48.280
hard to make happy. She's pretty
pretty good tough ROAs. Just fertilize it

2151
02:39:48.600 --> 02:39:52.559
periodically and then get ready because it's
going to take off, run and so

2152
02:39:52.719 --> 02:39:58.440
have something for Peggy to grow on. Okay, all right, thank you.

2153
02:39:58.120 --> 02:40:01.319
I'm having all my pintilance. I
have a chance to grow on.

2154
02:40:01.600 --> 02:40:07.000
Oh that's wonderful. That's wonderful.
Well, it's it is a beautiful,

2155
02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:11.360
beautiful rose. That's why it's so
popular. Okay, thank you so much.

2156
02:40:11.600 --> 02:40:13.799
Thanks a lot, Fred, You
take care, appreciate it. I

2157
02:40:13.879 --> 02:40:16.840
appreciate your call. Wow, that
was it. That kind of went fast.

2158
02:40:18.680 --> 02:40:24.319
I want to remind you guys that
I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer

2159
02:40:24.479 --> 02:40:28.639
to day to day from eleven o'clock
to one. So after the show,

2160
02:40:28.680 --> 02:40:31.520
I'm going to head over there,
say hey to Bob and the team,

2161
02:40:31.799 --> 02:40:35.040
and get busy answering your gardening questions. At eleven will start off at the

2162
02:40:35.120 --> 02:40:39.479
table. If you come by the
table, I will give you some skip

2163
02:40:39.559 --> 02:40:41.479
Bucks. You have to come by
and ask a question to visit me at

2164
02:40:41.520 --> 02:40:45.760
the table and I'll give you skip
Bucks and you can use those to purchase

2165
02:40:45.879 --> 02:40:48.600
products out there in the store.
You know, I told you earlier.

2166
02:40:48.719 --> 02:40:54.440
Bob has gotten in this brand new
product, a brand new product from Medina,

2167
02:40:54.840 --> 02:40:58.840
the super Grow. It is the
has to grow Supergrow for lunch.

2168
02:40:58.920 --> 02:41:03.959
It's a sixteen zero two. It's
on a hose in hose end sprayer,

2169
02:41:03.079 --> 02:41:05.840
so you hook the hose up to
it. It takes about ten minutes to

2170
02:41:05.920 --> 02:41:09.600
go through your yard and do it, and most of the nitrogen is going

2171
02:41:09.680 --> 02:41:13.440
to be immediate release. You're going
to get a nice quick green up.

2172
02:41:13.600 --> 02:41:16.200
Those of you just put a lawn
in and want to get that growing.

2173
02:41:16.319 --> 02:41:18.399
Once it's established and rooted in,
it'd be good for that. If you've

2174
02:41:18.440 --> 02:41:22.479
got an existing lin it'd be good
for that too. But you hook it

2175
02:41:22.600 --> 02:41:24.799
up like that and then about a
fifth of the nitrogen this kind of slow

2176
02:41:24.879 --> 02:41:28.040
release. And it's even got some
keylated iron in it. I mean,

2177
02:41:28.079 --> 02:41:31.280
it's just all around. This is
good now, by the way, that

2178
02:41:31.360 --> 02:41:35.120
product is good for gardens and other
things too, you know how it is.

2179
02:41:35.239 --> 02:41:37.120
I sometimes something is sold for the
lawn, but it's good for other

2180
02:41:37.239 --> 02:41:41.760
things as well. Bob's got it, He's got a great supply of it.

2181
02:41:41.120 --> 02:41:45.040
He's ready to go. So come
on in, let's get some in

2182
02:41:45.079 --> 02:41:48.920
your hands. Stop by, get
a skip buck and head over there.

2183
02:41:48.959 --> 02:41:52.840
And you need a really good discount
on this cool new product or anything you

2184
02:41:52.920 --> 02:41:56.399
want to buy. There at Southwest
Fertilizer would be given away samples of Medina

2185
02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:01.319
products. They're going to have cold
drinks and popcorn there. Uh, they're

2186
02:42:01.360 --> 02:42:03.760
going to be given away. Get
this, this alone is worth the price

2187
02:42:03.840 --> 02:42:11.959
is showing up a Toro battery powered
blower and a Toro battery powered string tremor.

2188
02:42:11.680 --> 02:42:15.120
That's good. Tour is a great
brand and battery is a way to

2189
02:42:15.159 --> 02:42:20.200
go these days. All at Southwest
Fertilizer, bring me your samples in a

2190
02:42:20.360 --> 02:42:24.680
ziplock bag, Bring me photos of
things that you want to identify it or

2191
02:42:24.760 --> 02:42:28.399
diagnosed, or maybe it's a section
of the yard you would just like to

2192
02:42:28.479 --> 02:42:31.639
get, you know, some advice
on like hey, how can I bring

2193
02:42:31.760 --> 02:42:35.559
some color in here? Or what
do you think? What would you do

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if you had this section to kind
of make it a little more impressive or

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a little more effective. Well,
we'll talk about any of those things you

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want to you want to talk about. Don't forget too My schedules are online.

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If you go to Gardening with Skip
that's me gardening with skip dot com.

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There's a lawn care schedule January through
December. What are the art danic

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fertilizers, what are the synthetic fertilizers? And when do you apply them?

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And they're all listed there. It
makes it easy trace. Mineral supplements are

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on there. Aerration cor aeration,
proper mowing. You think I know how

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to mow my lawn, now listen
to me. There's information on there that

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will be very helpful for you.
And watering, I'll tell you month by

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month, what is the historic average
number of inches of water that a Houston

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lawn needs per week in the absence
of rainfall. Forget about the rain.

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I mean that is what it is. But I can tell you, like

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right now, we are in April. April is a month where three quarters

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of an inch per week is how
much water your lawn is using. And

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then there's my lawn pest disease and
weed management. Schedule, same thing for

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insects, diseases and weeds.