WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.879 Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:10.560 services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy r H Garden Line with Skip 3 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:27.559 Richard. It's crazy gasm. Just watch him as us so many birdies. 4 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:42.320 The super basic gas not a sure gas. Well, good morning, good 5 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:46.960 Sunday morning. Glad you're joining us today on Garden Line. We are going 6 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.840 to be talking about all kinds of stuff related to your lawn, your garden, 7 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.399 your trees. In fact, we'll talk about whatever you're interested in when 8 00:00:54.439 --> 00:01:00.000 it comes to horticultural topics gardening, whether it's helping identify something, maybe die, 9 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.120 diagnose the plant problem. You tell me what you're interested in, that'll 10 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.799 be our topic when you're during your call. Our phone number is seven one 11 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:12.319 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 12 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:18.519 eight seven four. You know the topic of the day yesterday, and I 13 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.599 suspect maybe for a while at least today is the lawn. The lawn, 14 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.159 the lawn. What to do about our lawns, how to take care of 15 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.680 our lawns. When's the time to fertilize our lawns? Well, I usually 16 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:34.719 will refer callers to my lawn Care Guide, which is online and it's really 17 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.319 simple. You just go straight there take a look at it. First of 18 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:44.120 all, the website is Gardening with Skip. That's me gardeningwith Skip dot com. 19 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.439 And on that site you'll find a lot of other information. And by 20 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:49.319 the way, we're building it and got a lot of great things we're going 21 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:53.159 to be adding here in the near future. Right now, it's got the 22 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.280 Lawncare Guide on it, and the Lawncare Guide tells you how to mow, 23 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.280 water, fertilize, do any kind of mineral supplement, do aeration. It 24 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.599 just gives you all the details on the basic cultural care of your lawn. 25 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.080 And when you look on there, you're going to find that we have the 26 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.080 products that you can use different times of the year. And on that list 27 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:16.319 is Nitrofoss and they have a combo package for fall that is really designed for 28 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:21.120 our soils, for our climate, and that is the Texas three Step. 29 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.800 And what is the three Step. It's a fertilizer, it's a weed preventative 30 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.159 and it is a fungicide to fight disease. The fertilizer is Nitrofoss's Fall Special. 31 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.560 Now the Fall Special is designed four fall all summer long. When I 32 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.759 was talking about fertilizers, we're talking about fertilizers that have a good high nitrogen 33 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:44.439 content. Because we're pushing growth on the lawn. When we get to fall, 34 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.439 we drop that nitrogen down and we have a but still a good strong, 35 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.560 if not stronger, potassium content. That's a third number, and that 36 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.560 is exactly what's in the nitrofoss fall special. It will send your lawn into 37 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:04.719 winter stronger, and therefore it'll come out stronger in the spring. Your fall 38 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:12.560 fertilization fuels your early spring lawn growth. Say that again, Your fall fertilization 39 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.240 is what fuels your early spring long growth. Now, the barricade is their 40 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.759 pre emergent barricade prevents grassy weeds and broad leaf weeds, and you want to 41 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.719 get it down before those weeds germinate. They're gonna be germinating this month and 42 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.360 next month. In fact, they'll germinate off and on all through the winter, 43 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.039 depending on the weather. But the barricade will carry you all the way 44 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.560 through that. But you need to get it on ahead of time, so 45 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.199 don't delay on that one. Then there's the terf fungicide that deals with things 46 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.840 like brown patch or large patch that's coming up at the Infection of take all 47 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.639 root rot also occurs in fall, primarily in the fall in the spring season, 48 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.000 and it helps prevent that as well. Being a systemic it soaks in. 49 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:59.240 It is ready to go to protect your your plants depending are not excuse 50 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.960 me, I can't even talk. It's ready to go to protect your plants 51 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:10.000 whenever that disease should show up. So getting ahead of the disease is important. 52 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:12.080 Now where do you find these Well, you're going to find them at 53 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.959 Bearings Hardware on Bisonette allspas hardware in the woodlands. It's an ace hardware in 54 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.079 the woodlands, and plants and things in Brenham not hard to find, simple 55 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.600 as that. But taking care of our lawns is important and a lot of 56 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:29.199 people, if you've listened to this show very much, turf is probably the 57 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.680 main thing that makes the phone ring around here. It certainly does at the 58 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.439 Eglife Extension Office, that's for sure. Trees are another big topic too. 59 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.199 People are concerned about those and after the brutal summer that we just had, 60 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.680 you should be concerned. I mean I talked to a bunch of people yesterday. 61 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.680 By the way, thanks thanks to the folks out at the Ace Hardware 62 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:55.000 store in Magnolia yesterday. That was a great time that we had out there, 63 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:00.399 the all star Ace Hardware and Magnolia. A lot of folks came out. 64 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:01.199 I was good to see you and good to talk to you. And 65 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.160 I can't tell you how many people said, my one, I've got these 66 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.079 huge dead areas. I mean, it's not just like it's struggling, it's 67 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:12.920 like, you know, it's gone. And I fell a brought a bag 68 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.560 full of grass end. I always say bring in your samples for diagnosis, 69 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.160 and it brought it in. I looked at it and I kind of had 70 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:24.680 to say, I do diagnosis. I don't do autopsies, because that is 71 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.240 true. That's true of the disease lab at ain and m By the way, 72 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.959 when a plant is completely dead, it's kind of hard to tell what 73 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.279 killed it. But if it's sick, if it's on its way down, 74 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:38.319 if it's declining, that's where we see a lot of the signs that lead 75 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:42.360 us to determine who done it, in the way of a disease or an 76 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.720 insect or whatever else it was. So it's something to think about. Our 77 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.439 phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven 78 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:59.000 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. This uh, this time 79 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.920 of the year. I've said this and I'll keep saying it. It's the 80 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:08.480 most important time for your lawn because all the cool season wages are about to 81 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.040 germinate. It's because your lawn right now is probably in weak in shape. 82 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.120 After the summer we went through, almost all lawns are and this is a 83 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:25.000 time where you fortify it for winter and for spring, and that's so important. 84 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:30.240 It's also the time when we are recognizing that once we get another cool 85 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.519 front, a little bit of rainy weather, the big brown circles start to 86 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.319 appear. That's brown patch. Now, you may not have ever had it 87 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:39.800 in your lawn, or you may be plagued by it annually in your lawn, 88 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.839 but it is kind of the disease of the fall, along with the 89 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.759 infection of take all root rut, which you don't see at the infection point 90 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.959 like you do with the brown patch. Let's see, we're gonna head out 91 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:57.600 to Meadows place and talk to Girardo. Hello, Girardo, Hey, how 92 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.839 you doing. I'm well. How can we help today. Quick question for 93 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:05.120 you, I uh plan some uh. I have some peach trees in my 94 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:11.480 backyard and seem to be doing pretty well. My question for you is do 95 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:16.120 you put down like an application of fertilizer like like for October and then hit 96 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.959 him again in the spring or you just leave it alone until maybe the springtime? 97 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:25.680 How long would you plan them? I mean it's more than just a 98 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.560 month, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was a way earlier 99 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.279 this year, maybe like in Mark or February or something like that. I 100 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.680 would wait until it. Yeah, I would wait until spring. Gerardo, 101 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:38.439 I would get a turf fertilizer, but not one with a herbicide in it, 102 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.720 just the fertilizer, a turf fertilizer, and I would go up to 103 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.399 the tree trunk. Use your thumb as your measurement guide gets about an inch 104 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.800 and how many inches wide is that trunk? You know a coke cans what 105 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:54.519 about three inches wide? So use your thumb and for every thumb wet across 106 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.800 the trunk, give it one to two cups of turf fertilizer if it's an 107 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.759 organic. If it's organic fertilizer, you can double or triple that because it's 108 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.000 a lower concentration, and it's not it's not going to burn. And so 109 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.800 one to two cops for synthetic probably two to three cops per inch of the 110 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.800 organic fertilizer. Okay, and then part you do that. We're right around 111 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:20.680 March. I guess oh, yes, as growth begins in the spring. 112 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.639 Yeah, March is fun. All right, sir, Thank you appreciate it, 113 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.480 Thank you, thank you. Thanks for the call. Hey, our 114 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.039 phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going 115 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.759 to take a break and we'll be right back. Good Sunday morning. We 116 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.440 are glad you're listening to Garden Line. Welcome to the show. If you're 117 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.039 just tuning in, hope you got a cup of coffee getting your eyes open. 118 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.279 Look over next door and lights are off at your neighbor's house. You 119 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.759 need to go over and bang on the door. Tell them they're missing Garden 120 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.720 Line, and they will rise up and call you blessed someday. Maybe, 121 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.679 especially that neighbor that doesn't take care of the yard, you know, the 122 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:01.960 one that looks like, oh my gosh, might be just a nice thing. 123 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.159 Take them a pound cake or something. I don't know. What a 124 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.759 neighborly things do. Go over and just say hey, I know a great, 125 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:13.360 a great idea for you. I'm sure they'll appreciate that. We we 126 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.679 talk about dirt a lot on garden line, and if my soul science professor 127 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.120 has heard me say the word dirt for soil, they would die and then 128 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.960 run over in their grave. Soil basically is the proper word for it. 129 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.480 They used to always tell me dirts which you sweep off the floor. Soil 130 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.600 is what you got in your garden, in your lawn. But when it 131 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.519 comes to soil, you're not gonna find a better place to get your soil 132 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.840 than Siena Maltch and Cinamultch is down south of town. It's in the Rose 133 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.120 Sharing area just north of Roa Sharing on FM five point twenty one. Now 134 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.679 you can find their website. In fact, i'd encourage you to write this 135 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.159 down. It's Sienna multch dot com. Sienna multch dot com. Simple as 136 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.279 that. Cena Mulch is a place where you can get not just mulches, 137 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.120 but also compost anything you need to make your soil better. They have a 138 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.399 great supply of stone rock products. They also have all the fertilizers we talk 139 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.840 about on guardline. For example, I was just noticing they had on their 140 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.320 on their Facebook page the turf Star ten ten twenty. That's Nelson's product called 141 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.759 Carbeload for fall fertilizer. That's the one that Nelson's is given the two dollars 142 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:20.039 off Forever Bag sold this fall for the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship for horticulture students 143 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.519 at Texas A and M. I know that every time I think about that, 144 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.879 I can just picture Randy smiling because I know how proud he would be 145 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.559 the fact that in his name and his honor, that scholarship was set up. 146 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.360 But you know, when you're out at Sienna, you're going to find 147 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.039 every kind of product like that that you need to take care of your lawn. 148 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.720 And they delivered within about twenty miles of their area for a small fee. 149 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.759 You are going to find if you're in the Meridian Rosharon Menvilquoil Valley, 150 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.639 Sandy Point, Olympia, Pomona, Fresno, what's out there? You know, 151 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.360 brasispin State Park area, you're going to find Ciena molt Is your hometown 152 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.720 place to take care of your soil, which when you take care of your 153 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.559 soil, you take care of your plants. Now they're closed on Sunday, 154 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.399 but they're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five and on Saturday from 155 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.720 seven thirty to two, So you want to get a hold of them, 156 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.399 you want to get signed up to get what you need, or just swing 157 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.440 by there and pick it up. I'm going to be out there in November. 158 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.320 I'll tell you more about that later, but I'm really looking forward to 159 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.200 heading out there as well. If you'd like to give us a call today 160 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.360 on garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two 161 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:33.519 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 162 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.440 We are talking a little bit earlier about fall or October being such an important 163 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.879 month and why it's an important month in the one It's an important month all 164 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.799 through the landscape. If you are going to plant a tree, a shrub, 165 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:52.320 a woody vine, a perennial, an ornamental grass, a perennial herb, 166 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.840 perennial flowers, any of those things, roses too. Fall is a 167 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.799 great time to do that because you're plants have all winter and spring to get 168 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.720 roots established before next summer comes and we know how summers go around here, 169 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.600 and so this is your falls, your insurance. It's like getting a little 170 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:18.360 insurance policy with your plant because instead of waiting until the doorstep of summer to 171 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.080 put something in the ground, which you can do that and you can keep 172 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:24.879 them alive. It's just a lot of TLC touching. Go with fall. 173 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:33.559 It's easier, and your survivability is better, and also your plants do better 174 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.320 in the long run. I've done this before as an experiment. I took 175 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.759 a let's say, a four inch or six inch pot, I can't remember 176 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.639 which size I had, put it out there in the ground, and then 177 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.720 in the spring, bought the same plant and planted it in mid to late 178 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.720 spring in a gallon sized pot. And by the time I got to the 179 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.919 end of that first season, and really well into the first season, I 180 00:12:54.919 --> 00:13:00.360 couldn't tell the difference between the two. And it's because given that head start 181 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.080 to even the smaller plant, as they got going, it just it just 182 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.480 caught up. It caught up, and it looked good. And I'm not 183 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:11.399 saying that you know, you could never see any difference at all, But 184 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.919 the point is that in fall, it's the head start, and that's important, 185 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.879 and I hope you'll consider that. So what comes first, the soil? 186 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.559 What comes second? Quality plants planted in the right way. That's how 187 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.000 you do it in that order. I see so many people that get inspired 188 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.679 and they go buy a plant, and they go home and don't know where 189 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.399 to put it, and they PLoP it down in an unprepared plot and it 190 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.320 struggles. And if we get good plants that are adapted here, they're probably 191 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.240 gonna make it even with that kind of thing. But it's so much better 192 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.919 to prepare that soil first. So first comes the brown stuff, then comes 193 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.320 the green stuff, and as a result, you end up enjoying what you 194 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.200 envisioned. You know, when you go to purchase a plant, you have 195 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.840 if you're going to buy a rose bush, let's say, don't you, 196 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.799 in your mind's eye picture a bush full of blooms at your house. You 197 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.600 look at the little picture on the tag of what the rose is supposed to 198 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.120 look like, and you just picture that in your mind's eye. That's the 199 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.200 dream, that's the hope, and that hope can be realized when you take 200 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.799 care of your soil. When you buy a plants that are adapted that will 201 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.399 do well here and you take care of them, it can be realized. 202 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:22.360 And that's why we're here on Garden Line is to help you realize that completely. 203 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.600 And when it comes to containers, you need a high quality potting soil 204 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.080 as well, and Nature's creation makes one of those by way. It's their 205 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.480 organic potting soil with micorhizal fungi. Organic potting soil with micorhizal fungi. What's 206 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:43.120 a micorhizal fungi. It's a fungus that lives in association with the roots and 207 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:48.600 makes the roots do better. Some go around the root and protect the root 208 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.600 against diseases. Some go in the root and then send strands out into the 209 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.000 soil to reach out and grab nutrients and moisture that the plant root. It's 210 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.759 too far away from the planet to get to it, Isn't that cool? 211 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.480 And that's what Nature's creation organic potting soil does. You're going to find it 212 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:11.200 at New Ridge Landscaping in Houston, Rustic Ridge Gardens and Willis Jimbo's Nursery and 213 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.679 Santa fe r cw Up in Tomball in all Houston garden centers as well. 214 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.919 Nature's creation organic potting soil, it's not it's not made from peat moss. 215 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:26.960 It's made from composed cocoa fibers, pecan molts, and other good things like 216 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.600 that, and it just helps your plants succeed. Don't buy cheap potting salt, 217 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.159 don't buy potting soil just because it's the least expensive one there. There's 218 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:41.039 a reason for that invests in equality soil, and in the long term you 219 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.759 end up saving money, whether it's a potting soil or whether it's a soil 220 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:50.320 that you're putting out in your garden. Because when you create the best environment, 221 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.000 you're going to have success with your plants. It's as simple as that. 222 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:58.519 And that's just general general gardening advice. When you're out there and you're 223 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.000 taking care of your plants, you know you're giving them what they need. 224 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.559 They just do better. That's as simple as that. That's another reason why 225 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.919 you will find us recommending like asamite for your lawn, your lawn fertilizing. 226 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.279 We talk about that all the time. The big three numbers, nitrogen, 227 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:21.039 phosphorus, potassium. What about all the trace elements in your soil. They 228 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:25.480 are absolutely as essential as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They're just needed in 229 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:30.440 very small amounts and as and mite provides that you can go to ASMIT Texas 230 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.919 and find out more if you want to learn more about azmite. But it 231 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.399 provides those trace minerals that are so important for your lawn. So when you 232 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.559 fertilize, if you haven't done asmite this year, go ahead and do it. 233 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.840 That's anytime is a good time to put it on. It's not going 234 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.679 to make your lawn take off and grow like nitrogen will. No, you're 235 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:55.200 building the bank account so that all twelve months of the year, the roots 236 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.440 can reach out in the soil and find the nutrients they need to build what 237 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.759 they're building, whether it's a grass plant, whether it's a tomato fruit. 238 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.960 You know, you get the idea. Asimite provides those nutrients for it. 239 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:14.079 Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 240 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.680 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call. 241 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.920 Let's figure out what you're interested in talking about, and that's what we will 242 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:29.240 talk about today. We've had some calls on fruit. I had some questions 243 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.759 on fruit at the Agrolife Extension office as well. People are very interested in 244 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:38.240 finding some types of fruit that they can plant and grow, and that is 245 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.680 a good thing. I love fruit. In fact, when I got my 246 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:48.519 master's degree, my primary initial area of study was palmology. Pomology is named 247 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.960 after the goddess of fruit, Pomona. Have you ever heard of Pomona, 248 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:56.720 the goddess of fruit? But pomology studies all the different kinds of fruit, 249 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.160 and we learned how to have success with fruit. And if you're thinking thing 250 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:07.599 about fruit this year, remember this Number one. Sunlight. The question is 251 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:11.160 not will a peach tree or a tomato, for that example, grow in 252 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.759 shade. It's the question is will it produce in shade and will it produce 253 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.960 quality fruit? And the answers no to both of those. They need sunlight. 254 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:22.680 So that's number one. Number two is drainage. When it rains, 255 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:29.119 it pours. Welcome to Southeast Texas, and so we need to make sure 256 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.799 even when there's too much water coming out of the sky, that tree's root 257 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.799 system has good drainage, so the roots get oxygen and they thrive. Those 258 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:42.039 two are important. Next, plant a species it does well. Here, 259 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.279 there's some things that you're just not going to have success with. Here, 260 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:51.240 there's others that do well, and thirdly, plan a variety that does well 261 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:56.160 here. You know, peaches have a little interior clock in the buds in 262 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:02.200 the wintertime and after a certain amount of weather between about thirty two and forty 263 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:07.160 five or thirty two and forty five degrees, it makes that clock tick down 264 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.680 where the buds can open up and grow. If you don't get that cold, 265 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.839 the spring comes and the tree barely is leafing out sporadically here and there. 266 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.799 Chilling hours is what that's called. So when you plant a peach, 267 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:23.160 whether you're in Tyler, Texas or Houston, you got to pick one with 268 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.559 the right amount of chilling hours. So those are all a few little tips 269 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.839 on fruit. There's a lot lot more to talk about on fruit, but 270 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.079 just remember that by the time you put that fruit tree in the ground and 271 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.119 walk away, you're probably in the case of a fruit tree, about eighty 272 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:42.200 five ninety percent of the way to success or failure because those things are not 273 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.359 replaceable. Well, we're going to take a break here for the Nick and 274 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.559 News Network. Our phone number is seven one three two pine two five eight 275 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.680 seven four. If Josha call, get on the board and you'll be first 276 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:57.160 up when we come back. Well, good morning, and welcome back to 277 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.759 garden Line. We are glad you're of course, we always are glad you're 278 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:04.319 listening. Give us a call. Let's talk about the things that are of 279 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:10.279 interest to you. You know, anytime I sit down with gardeners, it's 280 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:15.119 just questions, questions. One comes after another. Speaking to a group or 281 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.400 something. When I get done, there'll be a question and then another question. 282 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.079 It's just like a ball rolling downhill. As people ask questions, other 283 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.480 people think about a question they have themselves. And sometimes I think I got 284 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.680 to give talks that are one minute long and then just talk about whatever people 285 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.519 are interested. I may be in there to talk about I don't know what, 286 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.799 like fruit. While ago I was talking about success with fruit, and 287 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.039 I'll say those things and here comes well, how do I go fire ants? 288 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:41.039 And you know, how do I fertilize my law? And it just 289 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.079 goes from one thing to another. But that's fun. I love doing that. 290 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:49.079 That is that is why we're here. And you know I've said this 291 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.880 before, but horticulture is a wonderful hobby. It is. It is a 292 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.960 relaxing thing. It's a peaceful thing. And you know, nature itself. 293 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.480 So many studies have shown that even just a walk in the woods. I 294 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:10.000 think it's maybe Japan they talk about forest bathing and what that basically means. 295 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:15.359 It's not running through the forest unclothed. It basically is walking out in nature 296 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:22.400 and just taking deep breath and enjoying it and taking it in. There is 297 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.240 something about being around plants, the sounds of nature. You know. It 298 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.240 is when you have running water around you, when you hear the wind go 299 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.079 through the trees, or you hear the song of birds, or you just 300 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.759 smell the smells of nature and the fragrance of plants and other things like that. 301 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:45.519 It's a comforting, relaxing thing. And I realized after this year struggling 302 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.480 with lawns and heats and droughts and all the kinds of stuff, it's not 303 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.880 been a very relaxing thing. But you can make it that way. And 304 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:55.920 just think about that. What would you like to do? Would you like 305 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.079 to do a container garden this fall? Why not give that a try if 306 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.359 you never garden before. It is really simple. Just get your a container 307 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.240 that holds I would say at least five gallons of soil. That would be 308 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.200 a good place to start for most of the plants you're going to plant. 309 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:11.839 In fact, in the cool season, probably could get away with a little 310 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.599 bit less than that, because when it's summer and we got a big tomato, 311 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.920 we need at least five gallons. But the cool season you do with 312 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.880 less. Get your quality potting soil, Get you some plants, get you 313 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.519 some seeds, and try it out and see how that works. Maybe some 314 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.559 hanging baskets. Maybe you want to get a here's a good one, the 315 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:36.559 holiday cactus, like Christmas cactus and Thanksgiving cactus. There's also an Easter cactus. 316 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:38.680 I guess we have to name them all after holidays, depending on when 317 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:44.160 they bloom. But it's beautiful blooms. And I've got those that I've had 318 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.920 around for years, and I just got to tell you they're pretty easy. 319 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.920 I mean, if you totally neglect them and throw under the back tire your 320 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:53.920 car and roll over them, yeah you can kill one. But they're not 321 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:57.759 that hard to take care of. And then next year you take care of 322 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.279 them and they just loom again, and it's just nice and it's not a 323 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.960 difficult thing at all, not difficult at all. Talking about your plants and 324 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:12.359 your lawns. Microlife makes a couple of products that I call the Blue and 325 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:17.319 Blue, the Blue plus blue, if you will, and that what is 326 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.599 blue plus blue. Well, the blue at first blue is their Microlife Ultimate. 327 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.279 Now that's a standard fertilizer in a great ratio for pretty much all plants 328 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:33.240 really, but the Microlife Ultimate is used to build your soil over time to 329 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.400 feed your plants. Now, you get immediate results. It's a fertilizer, 330 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:38.680 so you put it down, you're gonna get the results from it. But 331 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.359 over time, as you continue to use it, you're continuing to add a 332 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:47.720 little organic matter. You're continuing to add the microbes that come with Microlife products, 333 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:51.480 and it just builds your soul. The other blue is the Ocean Harvest. 334 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:56.160 That's their liquid. It's a fish based fertilizer and it contains more than 335 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.519 just the three nutrients. You've got microbial activity in there. You've also got 336 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.240 a lot of the compounds that we don't even talk about when we're talking about 337 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.200 fertilizing plants, but there are a lot of things that influence plant growth. 338 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:14.839 And with that combination Blue and Blue, the Ultimate, which is a granular, 339 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:17.400 dry granular and you can put it on anything. Put it on your 340 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.720 vegetable garden, put it on your herbs, put on your lawn if you 341 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:23.000 want it. That's a good product. And then the fish emulsion, which 342 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.960 you could use as a drench when you're transplanting. You could use it as 343 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.039 a foli your feet. It will not burn your plants. It is not 344 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.240 going to burn your plants. And that combination really helps strengthen your plants. 345 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.839 It provides them with the boost they need to be stronger and to do what 346 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.759 you want them to do. That is to grow, to look good, 347 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.160 to bloom, to fruit, whatever you want out of that plant. When 348 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.920 you strengthen the plant, it is able to do that. Throw in a 349 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.640 little sunlight, a little bit of water, and you are well on your 350 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.720 way to success. Now, you can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 351 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.079 You can find where to buy these, you can find out more about them, 352 00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:00.839 and I'd encourage you to do that. There's a lot wide line of 353 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:03.920 micro Life products there that are something you need to take a look at. 354 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:07.920 We're going to go out to Katie now and we're going to talk to John. 355 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.680 Hello, John, Hey, Skip, how are you well I'm doing 356 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:14.759 good. I'm doing good. Yeah, good, thanks for taking thanks for 357 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:18.440 taking my call. Yes, about three acres out three acres out in Katie, 358 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.680 Texas used to be an old tree farm, so I've got quite a 359 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:25.960 bit of pine trees there. But I've got at about an acre that's wide 360 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.319 open on the north side of the property, and I really would like to 361 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:33.039 see if I can get a patch of blue bonnets growing there in my nuts. 362 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:36.599 No can I scrape it down? I don't that. Is there enough 363 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:44.720 sunlight? It's probably yeah, probably eighty eighties during the day. That makes 364 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.480 sense. Hey, eighties, eighties probably good. You know, blue bonnet's 365 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:49.240 like a lot of sun so you can do that, do you do? 366 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:53.960 You know on a Fand if your soil is sandy or if it is clay, 367 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:56.799 it's a very sandy, loamy soil, very sandy low. Okay, 368 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.920 good for you. There's there's there's actually five kind of blue bonnets. I 369 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.440 need to talk about that some other time, but five kind of blue bonnets 370 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.680 from Texas. The two kinds of the most the main one has the little 371 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:14.920 white tips at the top have ever bloom. That's I believe that's lupinas tex 372 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:18.519 census, if I'm not making getting that wrong. The other one is the 373 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.559 Sandy Lamb blue bonnet, and those blue spikes go blue all the way to 374 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.359 the top. They don't have a little white we call it a bunny tale 375 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:29.359 looking tip on top. You want to get the one for the Sandy Lamb 376 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.720 blue bonnet. And that's the difference between the two when you look at them. 377 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:34.799 When you look at a field of sandy land blue bonnets, they look 378 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.319 bluer because you don't have those little white pixels all through the field, right, 379 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.559 And so make sure you get that one. You can buy seeds from 380 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.000 a lot of different places. If you're doing a large area like that, 381 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:52.359 I would talk to either what's it called Native American Seed and Junction or wild 382 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:57.440 Seed Farms in Fredericksburg and they can sell you more of a bulk amount and 383 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.799 that will get you off to a good start. But if you're going to 384 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:06.359 do that, you need to do them really soon because they need to established, 385 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:11.039 sprout and be ready to go. Okay, So it's a there's grass 386 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.680 in the field now, obviously it's not in Augustine, but it's okay. 387 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.079 Do I need to kind of shred that up? A little bit. Yeah, 388 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.759 yeah, you do. You need to get all the organic matter that's 389 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.200 shading out off the top because they need light to come through. You need 390 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.319 to mow it really low. How to go about that at this short notice 391 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.000 is going to be a little more of a challenge. But uh, and 392 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.640 then you I've got to I've got a tractor with a box blade and a 393 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.400 ripper on it. I can I can. Okay, well, if you 394 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.960 can get it, if you can get to where you want the seed to 395 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.640 hit the ground, you want it to fall into the soil and make good 396 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.680 soil contacts so it can sprout and come up. And then we just need 397 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:52.880 a little regular Yeah. Should I put a layer of like compost top top 398 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.559 dress or something that you won't you won't need that, Just anything you can 399 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.839 do to scratch up that soil surface, rough it up a little bit so 400 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:04.680 the seeds can kind of fall into the into the cracks of what you scratched 401 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:10.079 up. That makes it even better. Cool. And the next one is 402 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.759 the guy kind of plant like any of paybrush with it. You can but 403 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:17.480 go to those two companies and they can sell you your blends as well. 404 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:21.160 So that that's what I would do all right, all right, thank you 405 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:22.920 very much, all right, thank you. I appreciate that call. We 406 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.559 are going to take break here. It is time for another one. Boy, 407 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.680 these seem to come fast when you're time flies and you're having fun. 408 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.039 Seven one, three, two and two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd 409 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.519 like to call in, we'll be right back. Well, welcome back to 410 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:40.279 garden Line. We are glad you're listening today and having a good time talking 411 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.720 about all kinds of things gardening. Hey, I'm going to be an Enchanted 412 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:48.319 Gardens next Saturday, and I want you to put that on your calendar if 413 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.960 you live anywhere out south and west of town, or if you want to 414 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.599 drive from a crosstown. We had some people that did that yesterday to go 415 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:56.880 up north to Magnolia. Come on out, let's do that. That's gonna 416 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:02.920 be Enchanted Gardens, which is on the Katie side of Richmond. You go 417 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.519 up on FM three point fifty nine, you get right there. Their websites 418 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:10.160 in channigardens dot com, and boy do they are they ever stocked up with 419 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.839 all kinds of things. Right now, one of the things I don't talk 420 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.400 about much, and I need to more is ornamental grasses, and they have 421 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:22.000 an excellent stock of ornamental grasses. These are the ans. The seaedheads of 422 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.359 the ornamental grass are just so decorative. Some of the grasses have beautiful coloring 423 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.319 in the foliage as well. And I like to keep ornamental grasses and don't 424 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.240 cut them back to the end of winter because the frost are just the light 425 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.240 coming through those seed ons is so so beautiful. There's something we need to 426 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.119 incorporate more into our landscapes. While you're out there, you need to check 427 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:45.519 out their pumpkin house. It is really cool. A whole wall full of 428 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.319 pumpkins. They got a lot of great places by it. Take the kids 429 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.799 and maybe your significant other out there, get some photos done. It's all 430 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.480 set up for you to do that. And while you're out there, you, 431 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.200 by the way, make sure and clean out the trunk and the back 432 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:00.960 of the pickup and every anything else because you're gonna need room. They got 433 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:07.079 so much great stuff to bring home from Enchanted Gardens. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot 434 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.799 com. By the way, today they're open from ten am to four pm. 435 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:14.599 Just saying you need a little outing. We're gonna head out now to 436 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.960 cypress and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hi, good mornings. 437 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.599 Get good morning. I hope you're doing good. I'm doing it. I 438 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:29.240 wanted to see on my contain our vegetables and flowers and plants that I have 439 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.160 in my backyard. Yes, do I still have to water them every day? 440 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.640 Or the containers? You're saying, yeah, the containers okay, uh, 441 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.920 you know you have to water them every day like I was doing that. 442 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.319 It's hot summer, Yeah, Sandy, that not as much, not 443 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.279 near as much, but saying, you know, like every day or twice 444 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.880 a day, or every other day or third day. It's hard to say. 445 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.920 Depending on the size of the container, the size of the plant, 446 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:59.799 the amount of sunnets in, and the temperatures on those days, that all 447 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:03.640 of affects watering dramatically. So I would say to the answer in general, 448 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.759 yes, you're gonna have to water much less, but just watch them, 449 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.799 kind of stick your finger down in the soil a couple of inches and feel 450 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.559 it, and you'll know when it's time to water that container with that plant 451 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:19.640 and that location. Okay, alrighty, all right, thank you so much. 452 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.119 Well, thank you for colin. I appreciate that very much. Hey, 453 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.680 if you all are interested in maybe a tractor, maybe even thinking about 454 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.279 adding a tractor to your property so you can get a little bit more work 455 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.480 done, or at least enjoy getting the work done a little bit more without 456 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:40.240 breaking your back. 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What is that that 465 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:16.480 zero down, no money down and zero interest for eighty four up to eighty 466 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.920 four months. That is unbelievable, really good deal. Hey, there's nine 467 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:27.799 Landsdown locations on the Gulf Coast, easy to find one. Lansdown's a Houston 468 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.079 company. It's been here since nineteen thirty six, not some big out of 469 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:37.079 town ag corporation. It's hometown, through and through lmtractor dot Com. Start 470 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:43.039 there, lmtractor dot Com and don't delay this as a deal like you're not 471 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.039 gonna find. So if you've even been thinking about a tractor, swing by 472 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.000 there, hop up on one and check it out and talk to them about 473 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.119 the tractor and the deals and stuff like that. I think you are gonna 474 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:59.119 really love the orange, the lansdown, Moody and Caboda. What a combination. 475 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.759 We're going to head out now to Lee and Conroe. Hello Lee, 476 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:10.839 Good morning, Skip Well, good morning. We've got some lougens from three 477 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:17.960 Lougenstrom bushes home we've been in for about three and a half years. The 478 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.680 homes five years old. And we get some brown spots on the leaves, 479 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:31.160 yes, which I have treated. One of the nurseries recommended turnalm trickle triple 480 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:38.079 action, and I've done probably I've done spray the sprayed that you know, 481 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.680 a couple of tablespoons and some UH effectant and one one gallon sprayer. I've 482 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:51.880 probably done that eight or nine times and it seems to reduce some of the 483 00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:54.519 brown spots. But then it comes right back, and I've taken a couple 484 00:33:54.519 --> 00:34:00.839 of pictures. I don't know if a picture would explain better than what I'm 485 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.920 sharing with your verbal I know what you got already, I do, Yeah, 486 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.719 okay, Yeah, that's a that's a fungal disease that plagues laugustrium and 487 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:14.559 uh, once you got it, those spores are in the air, you 488 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:20.960 know the Culturally, what we do is we pick off the infected leaves because 489 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.599 they are gonna have spores that reinfect the same plant. Rake up the leaves 490 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:29.440 off the ground if there are any. Avoid spray in the foliage anytime you 491 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:31.880 can. You can't control rain, but you can't control your your sprayers coming 492 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:36.400 on and wetting the foliage. And then it's gonna take a different kind of 493 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.480 fungicide than the triple action. Triple action is just not going to cut it 494 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:45.079 on this disease. You're gonna have to use two different types of fungicide and 495 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:51.920 alternate between them to avoid our resistance. Uh. And one contains propa conasole 496 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:58.840 propa conasole and the other one contains chlorothaloonil. Isn't that long words for you? 497 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:04.239 If you if you would like me to send you more information on that. 498 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.639 You could send me an email. I can give you a little more 499 00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:09.320 information on it, so you don't have to try to write down all those 500 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:14.920 words and stuff. But that's what it's going to take. And anytime it 501 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:17.960 rains, you just go out and just pray again, because that is a 502 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.079 disease. It just isn't easy to get rid of. But if you stay 503 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.519 on it and alternate those you can do that. Okay, well that'd be 504 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:31.280 great. I'll forget about the pictures I've tooken. But all right, this 505 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:37.239 is the second time I've called you on on a called on another subject but 506 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:43.000 previous weight. But I've never sent an email. Okay, alright, email, 507 00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:45.480 here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to put you on hold right 508 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.840 now and Josh will pick you up and he will give you everything you need. 509 00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.440 Thank you very much, Lee, I really appreciate that call. I 510 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:57.679 was talking earlier about Nelson's carbo load that is there ten ten twenty with a 511 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.480 pre emerging herbicide in it, and that is a product that ever bag sool 512 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:07.280 this fall is going to be a two dollars donation to Randy Lemon's new scholarship. 513 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.920 Yeah, scholarship up there in Texa, A and M for the horticulture 514 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.360 department. Now, you know Nelson's forty years ago. In fact, yesterday 515 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.840 was a forty year anniversary when Nelson Plant Food opened its stores for business. 516 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.280 That is an amazing thing. I mean when you think of all the lines 517 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:28.239 that they produced over the years, Color Star, nutri Star, turf Star, 518 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:30.719 which Carboload is a part of that, Nature Star, their organic line. 519 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:36.760 It's all out there at Nelson's good quality fertilizers. You want to get 520 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.159 that carbo load down right away though, right away, because you need the 521 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.039 nutrient in your soil. It's designed for fall fertilization, excellent combo. But 522 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:47.920 you also if you're going to put that down, it's got the pre emergent 523 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:51.400 in it, and you've got to get it down and get it watered in 524 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.199 right away because once the weeds start germinating, you've kind of missed that window 525 00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:00.559 for the pre emergence. Fertilizer is still good, but you know you've missed 526 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.960 that window, and so you want to make sure and get that down so 527 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:08.159 that you can have the full effect of it. And Carboload is the kind 528 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:14.360 of product that can really take that lawn that's been struggling this summer and get 529 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.599 it ready for fall to put Why do they call it carbo load because it 530 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:22.679 helps your plant produce carbohydrates, which is the ana freeze, to go into 531 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.599 winter and make it heartier. By the way, the potassium in it also 532 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.400 makes it more drought resistant. So lots of good reasons to use it. 533 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.360 It's your product. Well, wow, that hour went fast. I want 534 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:38.960 almost knuck up on me there, BC. I see you on the line 535 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.920 there. We're going to get to you. You will be first up when 536 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.920 we come back out of our hour break. I just want to remind you 537 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:51.519 guys, I'm going to be at Enchanted Gardens this coming Saturday, the twenty 538 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.800 first of October, from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be out there 539 00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.920 for two hours at a table. I will be diagnosing plant problems. You 540 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.800 bring in, please bring them in in a ziplock or some other plastic closure 541 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:06.920 bag so we can take a look at them. If you have plants you 542 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:08.840 want identified, we can do that with a sample. We can also do 543 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:13.639 that with photos. If you want to bring out photos of your landscape and 544 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.760 go look at this. What should I do here? What do you think 545 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.159 is wrong here? We'll do all of that kind of stuff. We're gonna 546 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.920 have a really good time, always a good time out there in Channet gardens. 547 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.320 But write that down Next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty. I 548 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:31.760 hope you can join us. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 549 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:37.320 any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r 550 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:58.239 H Garden Line with Scape Richter. It's trim. Just watch him as look, 551 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.239 good morning, hey, it is going to be a beautiful Sunday today. 552 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:06.719 Isn't this weather nice? Isn't it nice to have the temperatures that we're 553 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.079 having now? Oh gosh, it just makes you actually want to leave the 554 00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:15.360 house squa outside and enjoy the beautiful, beautiful weather that we're having. It's 555 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:16.880 safe to go back out in the yard again. I guess there's another way 556 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:21.079 to put it. Hey, while you're out in the yard, you need 557 00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.400 to be thinking about what am I going to do for my law in this 558 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:28.400 fall? And Nitrofoss has got you covered with their Texas three step three steps 559 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.360 one fertilizer two. It's a pre emergent weed control number three, it's a 560 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.880 disease control product. Now, if you take those three and put them together, 561 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:39.000 you pretty much have covered the things that are going on in the lawn 562 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:44.000 in the fall. So what is a fertilizer. It's a nitrophoss fall special. 563 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:49.320 Fall Special is a winterizer type fertilizer, meaning the nitrogen levels are a 564 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.280 little lower, which we want. We want some nitrogen and a lot like 565 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:58.400 in the spring and summer. Number two, it's got a really good content 566 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.400 of potassium the third number, and the phosphorus is important too, but especially 567 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:07.519 that potassium third number. That increases winter hardiness, that increases drought resilience and 568 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.760 so on. Those are important. Number two. The second step is nitroposp 569 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.159 barricade. That's their pre emergent for grass weeds and for broad leaf weeds that 570 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:21.280 are coming up from seeds. You want to get those down now because you 571 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:25.039 want to put that barricade down into the soil with a half inch of water, 572 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:30.639 and that forms a barricade on the soil's surface so the weed seeds can't 573 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.119 come through and establish. You never even see them. It worked. If 574 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.679 you don't see anything, it worked, right. That's how that works. 575 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.599 So if you take step three. Now you're talking about the fungicide, which 576 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.239 is a systemic fungicide soaks into the tissues of the plant, moves around inside 577 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:50.679 there, and protects the plant against brown patch, against infection from take all 578 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.440 root rot. Both of those work very well. Both of those are all 579 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:59.320 part of the nitrofoss three step. It's available at Warren Southern Gardens out in 580 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:06.159 Kingwood Hardware and Sinco ranch or Growers Outlet out in the Woodlands. We're going 581 00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:09.360 to head back to the phones now and go to Northwest Houston and we're gonna 582 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:14.440 talk to b c Hey. B c Hey, good morning, Good morning. 583 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.960 Yeah, I just have a question. I'll have two magnolia trees in 584 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.920 my front yard. They've been here for fifty four plus years. Well, 585 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:28.440 during the summer with this heat, one of them, all the leaves turned 586 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.559 brown. Yeah, So I don't know if he's dead or what what can 587 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:35.960 I do to bring it back to life. Yeah, if the whole thing's 588 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.719 brown, there's probably no bringing it back to life. Usually, especially with 589 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.599 an evergreen like that, we say, when it turns brown, cut it 590 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.679 down. And that's a sad thing, because magnolia is a wonderful tree to 591 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:52.400 have but boy, we have seen all over town this summer. Magnolia's just 592 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.000 it seems like overnight. It actually takes a little longer than that, but 593 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.960 just turned brown. And it's it was the drought. It hit a price 594 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:04.920 in the soil where the soil moisture in all those areas where the roots were 595 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:09.320 reaching, there was just not enough moisture and the whole system collapses and so 596 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:14.360 ok, you know, water in it just continued watering it. It's not 597 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:17.079 going to help it. There's just no life, no life left to bring 598 00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:23.039 back. That's the sad news. Hate to be It's been here for so 599 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:29.320 long since I was little. Oh man. Yeah, sorry to hear that. 600 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.599 I know how that I know that is, but yeah, that it 601 00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:36.599 is what it is. If you like another one, there's not a better 602 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.400 time to plant one than now. So getting it out of there, putting 603 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.320 one somewhere else. This is the last time to establish a magnolia, so 604 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:45.559 and get some roots going. So next smeer. When it gets hot, 605 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.400 it's a little easier to keep it alive and going, right, Okay, 606 00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:52.039 all right, well, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you. 607 00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:57.960 I appreciate I appreciate your phone call very much. I was out in Chanty 608 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.440 Forest a couple of weeks ago, and just I'm always impressed when I go 609 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:05.400 out there and enchanted forests that is out outside of Richmond. If you're in 610 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:09.000 Richmond, heading towards sugar Land, off to the right on FM twenty seven 611 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:16.000 point fifty nine, that's ingended forest. They have unbelievable supply of all kinds 612 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:20.199 of things. When I was there, you know, the moms were outstanding. 613 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:22.800 They always have good pollinator plants. In fact, they've got a deal. 614 00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.679 They got so many pipevine swallowtails that if you will stop by, they 615 00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.480 would love you to take a few home to put them on your pipe vine. 616 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.440 That way you get the you know, a start of butterflies right there 617 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.480 at your house as well. They also have woody ornamentals and things like Chinese 618 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:42.840 French tree, sunshine. Lagostrum lantana is a good perennial for example. They 619 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.320 are stocked up on all that stuff. Now's the time to plant them. 620 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:49.679 If you want native plants, they got a good supply of those coming in 621 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:53.800 too, and in fact they have them on stock. Natives are good because 622 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.719 you know they're from here. They know how to deal with this kind of 623 00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:04.079 stuff that just seems unbelievable difficult for most of our plants. Enchanted Forest out 624 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.960 in Richmond. You can check them out online. You can go to the 625 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:12.119 website and find out more about them. When you're out there, visit with 626 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.599 Clay and Danny and find out more about the different kinds of products they offer. 627 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:20.519 They're really good. It's stopping taking time with customers pointing you in the 628 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.599 right direction. You know, when you go to a place to buy plants, 629 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.840 you want people that know what they're talking about, and that is Enchanted 630 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.960 Forest out there in Richmond. We are going to now go all the way 631 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.599 to Titusville, Florida and talk to d C. Hey, DC, how 632 00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.639 are you this morning? I'm all right, Skip. How you doing today? 633 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:43.559 I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Yeah? I want to 634 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:49.280 know about Can I grow as Bronza's in central Florida over the ghost Absolutely? 635 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:57.000 Yes you can. You sure can't. Hey, So what I'm going to 636 00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.960 sell them over here? I think I told them about one of the guard 637 00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.920 people. They go, what's that? Uh huh? I don't know why. 638 00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.480 Why you couldn't they grow all the way from the southern tip of Florida 639 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:12.440 to about as far north as they can take the cold, you know, 640 00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.599 which Central Florida shouldn't be a problem. They may die back to the ground 641 00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:20.679 in a coal winter. I don't know exactly where all you are, but 642 00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:22.920 what you described, they shouldn't have a problem with that at all. Yeah, 643 00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:25.039 I don't know where to get them. I'd call the county I grow 644 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:30.639 extend or the county extension office and whatever county you're in over there in Florida. 645 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:35.519 Florida has an excellent extension service and they usually have horticulturists in most of 646 00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:38.000 the big counties, and they could point you to maybe a garden center. 647 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:43.559 All right, okay, so all right, I appreciate thank you, sir. 648 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.199 Hey, thanks for the call. Have fun out there in Florida. 649 00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:51.119 By the way, you know the when when I'm talking about planting in the 650 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:55.159 fall, I've been encouraging you to have some hash to grow six twelve six 651 00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:59.480 on hand has to grows six twelve six. Of course, it's got the 652 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:04.039 nutrients nitrogen, phosphors and potassium, and it's got seaweed extracts, and it 653 00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.079 it's got humic acid in it, a Medina soil activator in it. I 654 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.960 mean so it's a combination. When you mix it up in water and you've 655 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:15.800 planted a new perennial, whether it's a perennial herb or whatever, and you 656 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:20.239 watered in really well, do it again five or seven days later, another 657 00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:24.719 week later, do it again and those three soakings with Medina hast Grow will 658 00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:29.960 help that plant get started. Falls. The best time to plant and watering 659 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:34.280 in with Medina has to grow six twelve sticks the best idea if you want 660 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.239 to help that plant, give it a boost and help it get established. 661 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.719 Not going to burn your plants. It's easy to find. Medina hast grows 662 00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:45.480 six twelve six is widely available and will help get your plants off to a 663 00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:47.639 run and start. Hey, it's time for another break. Our phone number 664 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:53.199 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Good morning. 665 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:57.840 You're listening to garden line. Good Sunday morning. It's going to be a 666 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.400 great day. I can look outside the glow oh is starting in the eastern 667 00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.280 sky. That's always I think that's an exciting thing because I think every day 668 00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.599 is a day for new beginnings, and when it comes to lawn and gardening, 669 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:13.239 it is always a time of hope. You know, gardener's your eternal 670 00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.079 optimists. I don't know if you realize that, but we are. I 671 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.679 mean, every time you put this little brown piece of detritus called a seed 672 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.519 in the ground, looks dead, looks like just chip off a bark or 673 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:27.840 something, and you know that out of that seed is going to come a 674 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.599 tomato, or out of that seed is going to come beautiful flowers like zinnias 675 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:36.800 or whatever. It's just it is just a time of renewal. And that 676 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.400 is one of the cool things that is just hardwired into nature from the beginning. 677 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:44.280 That just it's always there's always hope, there's always a new day, 678 00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:49.719 there's always a new rising up out of the earth and a new hope. 679 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.320 And that is really cool stuff. I was out in the backyard the other 680 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.639 day and joining the birds that are out there, and I just love the 681 00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.159 songs. I told you earlier that I've become quite the person when it comes 682 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:05.519 to being conscious of birds. I just I've always been a gardener, but 683 00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:07.679 I never was really that into bird boy. I am now sure. I 684 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.159 am now. Wabird's Unlimited has a deal that you need to know about, 685 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.159 and I need to take advantage of this too. By the way, twenty 686 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:17.920 percent off a new feeder. When you bring in any old feeder, and 687 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.599 I'm talking about some old feeder in the garage, I'm talking about a broken 688 00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:24.320 feeder. I'm talking about a piece of an old feeder. Bring it in. 689 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.639 Do you have two different feeders, bring them both in. You can 690 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.480 get two new feeders for twenty percent off of both at all seven Wallbirds, 691 00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:38.199 Parlins, Kingwood, Clearlake, bell Air, Katie, Memorial Cypress, WBU 692 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.480 dot com, Forward Slash Houston. That's the website, WBU dot Com, 693 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:46.480 Forward Slash Houston. They're all there. Is it a squirrel resistant feeder? 694 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:50.280 Oh, they got a great one. I have a squirrel resistant feeder from 695 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:54.079 Wallbirds that I love listening to the squirrel's curse trying to get into that feeder 696 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.880 because they cannot. Do you need a cylinder feeder, a tray feeder? 697 00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:01.960 Do you need feeders free specific types of birds like a finch or for example, 698 00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:07.559 an oriel feeder for example, maybe a feeder that attaches to your window. 699 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:09.960 And they even have feeders for squirrels. I mean, if you're merciful 700 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:15.119 to squirrels, God bless you. But they have feeders for squirrels as well, 701 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:21.639 twenty percent off between now and October sixteenth. Guess when that is tomorrow. 702 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.159 Don't delay get that done. Take advantage of that deal. If you've 703 00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:30.480 even thought about adding a feeder this winter, now's the time to go ahead 704 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:31.599 and get it done, because you're not going to find a better deal than 705 00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:36.119 that at a Walldbirds. Let's go out to East Houston and we're going to 706 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:40.320 talk to Sam. Now, Hello, Sam, oh Well, I have 707 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:47.400 a question about the palm tree. He's a yes time Nancy lives near Rockdale. 708 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.199 He's bought some land. There's like, oh, a couple of bakers, 709 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.719 former farm land, no trees at all. I told him, well, 710 00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:02.559 I've got the columns and I've been not molled in my yard. I 711 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:08.480 could give him. He said he didn't want pecans because they're invasive. I've 712 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:13.280 never heard of the described that way before. Is he I don't know what. 713 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.559 No, that's absolutely not true. Ever. Plant to produces seeds is 714 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:22.880 going to come up somewhere. But pecans are not invasive. They are not 715 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:29.320 at all invasive. Yeah. No, do you think they would do well 716 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:34.039 near Rockdale? They do, okay. They like a deep well drained soil. 717 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.559 That's why the Ocum native grown on river bottoms. Uh. So at 718 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:42.079 Rockdale up in the Houston area, there are some heavy black clays. I 719 00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.000 don't know the soil on his property, of course, but uh, you 720 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.960 just want to make sure that the soil drains well. And if it's a 721 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.000 heavy heavy clay, pecans will grow there. But they're gonna they're gonna struggle 722 00:50:53.039 --> 00:51:00.280 a little bit. Okay, all right, Well, appreciate that. You 723 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.920 bet, Sam, you take care, wish him well, Yes, sir, 724 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:08.400 you bet Bye bye. If you haven't been out to RCW, you 725 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:14.480 need to go this month. And here's why. Every weekend in October they 726 00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:19.440 are having their celebration of fall. And listen to this. Remember I've been 727 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:22.480 telling you plant, what do your ornamentals plant? What a your ornamentals plant? 728 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:24.800 What are your ornamentals? Now's the time to do it. Fifteen percent 729 00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:30.480 discount on all their trees. Fifteen percent discount on all their trees. They 730 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.159 grow their own trees up in Plantersville. They've got all the types of trees 731 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:38.599 that do very very well here, and now they're saying in October, fifteen 732 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:43.639 percent discount. Now during their fall festival. There's fun and games for the 733 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.440 kids. You can go out to the well, just walk through the beautiful 734 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.639 garden areas. You can get family photos. They have little things set up, 735 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:51.960 or you can get the family together, get the kids together and take 736 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.960 a photo. They got refreshment and snacks just to make it even more fun. 737 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:01.559 Experiments, Experiment, experience. This autumn extravaganza add at RCW Nurseries is 738 00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:06.280 one you don't want to miss now. RCW that's the nursery on Tomball Parkway 739 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:12.559 to forty nine where it comes into Beltway eight. Just go to RCW Nurseries 740 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.280 dot com and you can find out a lot more information. You ought to 741 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.480 join them, get out there and have a great time because they are and 742 00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:22.800 other people are with them. Our phone number is seven one three two one 743 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:30.719 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 744 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:36.639 I was visiting with Luis over at Airloom Soils the other day and he 745 00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:39.280 was telling me about the fall special that they're doing right now, and boy 746 00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:43.199 is this ever a big one. And it's on their bulk products now. 747 00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:49.519 You can buy quality Airloom Soil products all over town. Buy the bag that's 748 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:52.960 that's a given. If you would like a quantity, maybe you don't want 749 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.000 to buy eight hundred bags or something to put make in a new bed, 750 00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:00.880 or you know a compost or molts that you're putting over some do the bulk 751 00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:07.599 the veggie and herb soil. The mix that veggie and herb mix is on 752 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:10.880 fall special at one hundred and nineteen dollars bulk or one hundred and forty eight 753 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:17.199 for a supersack. A supersack think of those cloth grocery bags you get, 754 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:20.760 you know, at the grocery store to bring your groceries home, so you 755 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:22.440 know, throw away plastic. Think of one of those so big that it 756 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:27.920 holds a yard a cubic yard of soil. That is a supersack one hundred 757 00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.679 and nineteen bulk for the veggie and herb one hundred and forty eight supersack. 758 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:36.719 The rose soil is one hundred and seventy bulk and ninety nine for the supersack. 759 00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:39.039 So whether you just want a bulk delivery, go buy pickup bulk, 760 00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:44.039 or whether you want them to bring that supersack to your yard or to your 761 00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:49.599 driveway, they can do that. Go to Airloom soilsof Texas dot Com. 762 00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:52.400 Don't don't miss out on this. I mean, here's your chance. You've 763 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:54.719 been thinking about building a bed, you've been thinking about putting in a vegetable 764 00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:59.760 bed, or maybe you know, increasing your flower bed, bringing bringing it 765 00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.119 up so the drainage is a little better, all of that stuff. Now's 766 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:06.400 the time to do it. And the rose soil and the veggie and herb 767 00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.280 soil are two of the best mixes that they make as far as popularity. 768 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:15.519 People love those soils because they work and they make plants work. And that's 769 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:21.119 what this is all about. Our phone number is seven one three two one 770 00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:28.599 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 771 00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.599 Give me a call and we can talk about things that are of interest 772 00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:37.039 to you. I was mentioning earlier about fruit trees. It's always a good 773 00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:39.559 time to plant fruit trees. A lot of our garden centers have a pretty 774 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:44.719 good stock, and some of them have fruit trees year round. Some of 775 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.599 them made me getting new stocks of different kinds of things in. But anytime 776 00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:52.840 you're planting any plant, your first question is is it going to do well 777 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.039 in my place? Is it going to do well in my location. You 778 00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:01.199 may have come from the Midwest and lilax are are your most wonderful memory of 779 00:55:01.320 --> 00:55:06.599 childhood. Well let that be a memory, because the closest you're going to 780 00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:09.000 get to having a lilac care is to plant a great myrtle and spray it 781 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:14.480 with perfume. They don't want to grow in Houston. That's just an example 782 00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:17.960 great plant where it belongs, but not a great plant where it doesn't belong. 783 00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:21.800 And that's true of all of our plants. Pick plants that are well 784 00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:24.599 adapted, pick fruit varieties that are well adapted, and on and on down 785 00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:29.159 the lie. That's your free tip of the day, among others. Let's 786 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:31.159 go out to Westbury and we're going to talk to Bentley. Hello Bentley, 787 00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:37.679 Hi, Hi, What I had out in the yard? I have these 788 00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:42.039 brown pod like looking things that are out the size of a golf ball, 789 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.840 and I think they're a fungus. If you hit it or break it, 790 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:52.920 it puffs, you know dust, Yes, you're right, and tell me 791 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.079 about it. There's a lot of different kinds of fungi out there, a 792 00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.920 lot of them. What they're about is not attack plants. They're about decomposing 793 00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:06.599 organic matter. When you see a log in the forest and it's got that 794 00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:09.400 little shelf thing sticking out, that shelf fungi sticking out of it, that's 795 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:14.760 what it's doing. It's turning the log back into soil. There's all kinds 796 00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:16.559 of weird stuff. There's one that looks like scrambled eggs that you see on 797 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.440 the top of the mulch. There's another one looks like the dog threw up 798 00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:23.840 on top of the mulch. And this little these little pods that you know 799 00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:29.280 when you stomp them, they the puff of spores goes everywhere. Is the 800 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:31.400 same thing. It's not a disease of your plants, though, No need 801 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:34.800 to worry about it. And when we get to fall and get some cooler 802 00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:37.639 weather and rains, we see a lot of mushrooms and other things like that 803 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:43.199 popping up. And it's the same story. So try to kill it, 804 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:45.320 no, sir, not at all. Like I always tell people, this 805 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:47.519 is one we don't have to worry about. You and I can go try 806 00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:53.960 to solve world peace and not worry about this particular fund fungus. Thank you 807 00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:57.679 for taking my call, all right, Bentley, thank you for the call. 808 00:56:57.719 --> 00:57:00.480 I know a lot of other people had that same a call. We 809 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:04.440 get a lot of those as well. That's it. Like those rings of 810 00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:07.719 mushrooms in the yard, you know, the fairy rings, they call them 811 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:12.480 white mushrooms and rings. All that's doing is decomposing the thatch layer at the 812 00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:15.519 surface, the organic matter right up there near the soil surface and in the 813 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:20.400 soil, and it's working its way out further and further, and it sends 814 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:23.920 up a little fruiting body, which is those white mushrooms, the fairy rings. 815 00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:29.159 You get a little bit greener lawn because it's decomposing things and releasing nutrients 816 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:32.239 in that area, but not a disease of your lawn. Hey, have 817 00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:37.199 you thought about redoing the roof? You know, maybe damage to the roof 818 00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:40.079 has caused a need for that, Maybe it's just getting older. Brinkman Roofing 819 00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:43.639 is the company you need to write down. And here's why I say that. 820 00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:49.119 Twenty twenty two Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award. They warrant for their work 821 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:52.440 and for twenty five years they use only the highest quality products. They've been 822 00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:58.119 doing this for fifty years in the Houston area. They're not fly by night, 823 00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:00.800 they're not stick a card in your window. They're not Hey, we 824 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:05.360 had a hailstorm. Hire us. No, they're here. They're from here 825 00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.719 Brinkman Quality dot Com. That's our website. Their phone numbers two eight one 826 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:15.119 four eighty seventy six sixty three. Any kind of roof you need, composite 827 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:20.559 metal? Or how about this the Brinkman Timberline solar shingle. Instead of a 828 00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:24.519 panel on top of your roof to make solar energy, to capture solar energy, 829 00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.960 how about a Brinkman Timberline solar shingle that's part of the roof. It 830 00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.320 is the roof and it captures and does the same thing. Can't get any 831 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:37.760 better than that, And that's Brinkman. No surprise there our phone number two 832 00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:45.800 or seven one three, two one two five eight seven four seven one three 833 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:54.039 two one two fifty eight seventy four. The opportunities that we have to grow 834 00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:59.199 things here in the Greater Houston area are amazing. Uh, they are amazing. 835 00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:00.880 Yes, I know it gets hot here in the summer and we deal 836 00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:05.880 with those kinds of things, but we can grow things here that people all 837 00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.000 over the place wish they could. Like citrus, for example, we can 838 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.400 grow citrus here in the Greater Houston area. And that's just one of a 839 00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:19.800 thousand examples of things that do really really well here. And when you've got 840 00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:22.679 that kind of opportunity, all you need is a good place to get what 841 00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:27.280 you got, and Arburgate is an example of that. I don't know I've 842 00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.800 been going to Arburgate for over ten years. I know about fifteen years or 843 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.000 more. Now I love to go to that place. They got a new 844 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:37.480 parking lot by the way, So what you do is you turn in before 845 00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:43.159 Arburgate or after Arburgate down a little street that will take you right there behind 846 00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:46.360 Arburgate where you park your car in an all weather parking lot by the way. 847 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:51.280 That street is called Trishel Road, and you just go right in and 848 00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:53.639 you shop. It's easy in, easy out. It's one of the most 849 00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:59.280 exciting things I've seen happening around in a long time. But Arburgate has old 850 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.280 garden roses, it's got southern bulbs in You gotta get by there and check 851 01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:07.000 out what they have. There's not a more enjoyable place to go visit anywhere 852 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:12.360 in the Greater Houston area. And there's no more enjoyable person than bad Oh 853 01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.960 isn't you love Beverly, I'd love you sweet well. And it goes all 854 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:17.840 the way through the whole staff. It does, it does. Yeah, 855 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:22.199 I just love going out there. Everybody knows what they're talking about. Yeah, 856 01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:23.960 that's what we call a good mom and bought nursery. That is a 857 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:29.000 slice of right there. It absolutely is. And here comes Nicky with the 858 01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:30.760 Nicky News. Our phone number, by the way, seven one three two 859 01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.639 one two fifty eight seventy four, if you'd like to give us a call. 860 01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:38.800 Well, good Sunday morning, on a beautiful Sunday morning. By the 861 01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:43.239 way, you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, 862 01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.840 and we're here to answer your gardening questions and we're gonna be doing that for 863 01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:51.280 the rest of this morning, all the way up to ten am. So 864 01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:55.119 give us a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four 865 01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:00.400 if you would like to ask a question. Uh, we're gonna head out 866 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:04.480 to Missouri City and we're going to talk to Patricia Well, Hello Patricia. 867 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:12.840 Yeah, good morning, mister kid morning. Yeah McCall. My question is 868 01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:19.159 said, but Opra and Cassava and from Nigeria in West Africa, And that 869 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:24.880 was Staple food. One of them is okra and cassava. Yes, and 870 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:35.360 cassava is anti anti cancer. Yes, that is one reason why people in 871 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:42.519 Nigeria we don't get cancer. But unfortunately my people are trying to be Western 872 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:46.320 night. Then we go to the store and buy box chicken from China. 873 01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:52.000 That's why, that's why cancer is half the nine Nigeria. All right, 874 01:01:52.039 --> 01:02:00.400 yes, so canap plant casa this time? I don't know where to by 875 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:06.239 the roots to plant. Oh boy, that I would have to hunt down 876 01:02:06.280 --> 01:02:14.119 for you. But cassava is what you're talking about, right, yeah, 877 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:17.559 yes, uh. In the in the South, I grew up eating tapioca, 878 01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:22.679 and tapioca is made from the cassava plant. It's a yeah, it's 879 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:28.440 very very good popular. It's a starchy vegetable. Cassava is not fully cold 880 01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:32.719 hardy here fully cold hardy, but it's close uh to cold hardy. Uh. 881 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:37.760 We grow. There's some that's grown as an ornamental. It's a beautiful 882 01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:42.840 it's got yellow, the red petioles that hold the leaves to the stem. 883 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.800 It's got yellow, the yellow and green splotched leaves. That's an ornamental one. 884 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:51.960 That's not the one you probably grew grew up eating. But that is 885 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.239 grown here as an ornamental, So we do know that that it can be 886 01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:59.719 grown here. It's just you're gonna probably have to deal with the cold weather 887 01:02:59.800 --> 01:03:04.800 and maybe replant or protected over winter or something like that. As to where 888 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:07.880 you would find straight casava, we would have to do some searching to look 889 01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:12.159 for that, because I don't know. But but yes, the plants, 890 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:15.480 the plants can be grown. And Okra, oh my gosh, Okra thinks 891 01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:19.360 Houston is heaven. It loves to be in Houston. It loves to grow 892 01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:23.320 here. It takes the hot weather just as super well. I'm a I'm 893 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:29.000 a big Okra fan. In fact, I actually breed Okra plants, crossing 894 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:34.440 the different varieties and things. So you're talking to probably the biggest Okra enthusiast 895 01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:38.239 in Texas at least, I'm gonna self self claim that whatnot. But hey, 896 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:43.039 let me ask you a question, Patricia, what what did you grow 897 01:03:43.119 --> 01:03:45.920 up? What did you all call Okra? In Nigeria and Africa? Did 898 01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:52.159 have another name? No? Is the same opera, same Okra? Okay 899 01:03:52.480 --> 01:04:00.000 okay because it has some people call it okay. Yeah, there's a lot, 900 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:01.639 a lot of names for Okra. As you go across the world. 901 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:09.199 Yeah, yeah, we call it a little in Nigeria. Of course, 902 01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:15.599 I've been here since nineteen seventy six. Almost forgot I said I have been 903 01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:20.599 in the United States is nineteen seventy six. Wow, wow, I forgot 904 01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:26.199 that name a litty Okay, so it's just happen to come back to me. 905 01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:29.039 Yes, we're good. Well, yeah, it's a great plant, 906 01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:33.840 many many good uses for it just does well as with you know, you 907 01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:38.119 you grew up with that. Most people here didn't even know you could eat 908 01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:40.559 the stuff. But if I said the word tapioca, they would know what 909 01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:44.079 I was talking about. Okay, yeah, you're right, you're right, 910 01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:48.440 all right. Well, and then and then I discovered there are many of 911 01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:58.679 our food staple food that is anti anti cancer. But how can somebody promote 912 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:02.840 something like that? Mister keep it? I want I want to help people 913 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:12.400 like Bonda fish, Parmorial this yeah, anti cancer. Well that that is 914 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:14.679 all good. And I think you just bringing it up on the air, 915 01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:16.440 people are going to go hunt those down and see what they can learn about 916 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:19.880 them. But good luck with good luck with that. If I happen to 917 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:29.360 run into a good cassava source other than the the ornamental version. Uh. 918 01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:31.199 And I guess the ornamental version. I don't know how well it does in 919 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:34.639 producing the starchy roots, but I've never looked at that part. We just 920 01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:39.760 grudt the one I see, the ones I see in this store, like 921 01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:43.920 yes, yeah, so hard. Yeah, it looks like is that the 922 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:47.400 one you're talking about? No? No, the one I'm talking about is 923 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:50.639 just grown because it has a pretty top. That that's it. Okay, 924 01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:54.559 So but hey, thank you, Patricia, thank you for the call. 925 01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:59.559 I appreciate that very much. Okay, you take care, call back again. 926 01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:02.760 Thank you. Bye bye, you bet bye bye. If you happen 927 01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:06.599 to live up in the Magnolia area, you need to know about Spring Creek 928 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:10.880 Feed because that is your hometown feed store. So do you need to get 929 01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:13.760 your lawn fertilize this fault? They've got them. They've got all the ones 930 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.320 we talk about here on garden Line. Do you need to deal with insects 931 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:19.880 or diseases or weeds, They've got the products to do that. Now. 932 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:25.559 They're on Magnolia in Magnoia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away 933 01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:30.599 from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. You're always greeted by friendly cartious 934 01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:34.840 staff there. They will special deliver special or special order as well if needed. 935 01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:41.159 They have discounts for senior citizens, military four h FFA. It's just 936 01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:45.000 a great place and it's a fun place to shop too. Lots lots of 937 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.320 products, lots of good things that you need for your pets, for your 938 01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:51.760 livestock, and as I'm talking about today, for your lawn and garden. 939 01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:57.000 At Spring Creek Feed out there on twenty nine to seventy eight in Magnolia. 940 01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.679 We're going to now go out to Kingwood and talk to Joe. Hello Joe, 941 01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:05.360 Good morning, Skip morning. I'd appreciate a few tips from you on 942 01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:11.840 trimming shrubs in the fall. October typically, is that a good month to 943 01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:15.599 be doing it, and just give most of the shrubs kind of a haircut 944 01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:19.800 and shape them. And are there any that absolutely should not be trimming? 945 01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:25.639 In general, I don't recommend fall trimming, and I'm not saying that it 946 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:28.920 would hurt every shrub if you did it. I'm just saying in general, 947 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:31.639 I don't And here's why. When you trim, it stimulates new growth and 948 01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:34.760 to have tender, succulent growth when we have a pheze, it's going to 949 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:39.559 burn it if not kill it, and so not the whole shrub, but 950 01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:43.280 that new growth it looks bad. And so I would wait until spring, 951 01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:46.039 when it warms up the danger of freezes past, and resume your trimming then. 952 01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.119 And you can keep trimming like that all the way through the year, 953 01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:54.440 probably all the way up into oh, I don't know, maybe September sometime 954 01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:59.320 on your on your shrubs that are dependably hardy as a species, you can 955 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:02.079 do that, but out of that now for that reason, so September is 956 01:08:02.079 --> 01:08:06.159 probably the last month that you would be trimming them. Yeah, and probably 957 01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:10.800 early to mid September. Now with things like we used to have red tip 958 01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:17.119 p atinias everywhere that shrub and we trimmed those typically late August to get some 959 01:08:17.359 --> 01:08:21.920 new sprouts of growth that would then turn that beautiful red color when the weather 960 01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:28.000 cooled off. But that wasn't done at this time of the year. And 961 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:31.039 again I'm not saying if you trimmed a shrub it would necessarily have a bad 962 01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:36.960 ending, just that principle of trimming causes succulent new growth. Succulent new growth 963 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:43.039 is not cold hearty. That's the thing. I'm concerned about gotcha. Okay, 964 01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:45.800 thank you for the tip. All right, Joe, thank you very 965 01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:47.560 much. I appreciate that. Hey, we're going to take another break. 966 01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:51.640 Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four will be 967 01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:58.880 right back. Welcome back to Guardline. On a beautiful Sunday morning. If 968 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:01.000 you haven't looked outside yet, you ought to take a look this afternoon. 969 01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:04.079 It would be a good time to get out and get some some gardening work 970 01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:10.000 done. Maybe go around do alut to shopping, getting the supplies you need 971 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.880 to get that gardening work done. You're listening to garden Line and I'm your 972 01:09:13.880 --> 01:09:17.079 host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven to one three two 973 01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:24.600 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 974 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:29.399 four. Hey, I got a quiz for you. Who originated rose soil 975 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:34.920 in the Greater Houston area? Who originated leaf mold compost in the Greater Houston 976 01:09:34.960 --> 01:09:39.119 area. I can keep adding to the list because they all have the same 977 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.000 answer, and that answer is Nature's Way, John Ferguson, and Nature's Way 978 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:47.560 has created some of the best products for our soils, for our plants, 979 01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:53.479 for our climate that you can have and they're still doing that out at Nature's 980 01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:56.600 Way. By the way, if you're heading up forty five toward Conro where 981 01:09:56.600 --> 01:10:00.920 fourteen eighty eight comes in, you just turn right, go across railroad tracks 982 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:04.399 and you're there. Real convenient. Now you can purchase products bagged run down. 983 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:08.479 You can also go buy and pick up bulk. You can go buy 984 01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:11.960 and or you can call them and have them deliver a bulk if you like. 985 01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:14.920 While you're there, if you drop by, which I'd recommend to do, 986 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:16.840 uh, you can see all the quality products they have. They have 987 01:10:16.880 --> 01:10:19.319 a two acre nursery in a garden center. In fact, I think it's 988 01:10:19.319 --> 01:10:23.600 bigger than that. Now they got all kinds of trees, are really specialized 989 01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:26.840 in a lot of the native plants, an amazing selection. I was out 990 01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:31.079 there on a Saturday appearance this fall and really impressed with the selection that they 991 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:35.159 had out there in Nature's Way and the rose, soil leaf mo compost, 992 01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:39.439 just to a many many products that they have. Give them a call nine 993 01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:45.479 three six three two one sixty nine ninety ninety three six three two one six 994 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:49.800 nine nine zero simple as that. Well, let's go now out to sugar 995 01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:57.640 Land and we're going to talk to Jeff Morning. Jeff Morning. So yeah, 996 01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:01.239 So my long guy was out there on on Thursday, and I had 997 01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:05.560 some spots that I've had chinchbugs in the front in the yard during the summer, 998 01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:08.880 and I tried to treat those, but then there's a few more spots. 999 01:11:09.239 --> 01:11:13.399 He said, there's still some chinchbugs there. So he suggested that I 1000 01:11:13.640 --> 01:11:17.159 get something to kill the chinchbugs with and then put some wheat and feed afterwards 1001 01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:20.159 to kind of just stimulate a little bit of growth. So I did that. 1002 01:11:20.199 --> 01:11:25.720 I got some spectrocide try as a side stuff, and then I followed 1003 01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:28.800 it with a little bit of bonus s that I got to thinking, now, 1004 01:11:29.079 --> 01:11:31.079 was that the right thing to do? And I haven't done any of 1005 01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:36.399 the fall you know, pre emergent or brown patching stuff, So should I 1006 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:40.119 go ahead and do that as well? Or is it? Am I in 1007 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:45.439 trouble or am I okay? Well, do you traditionally have a brown patch 1008 01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:50.119 problem in your lawn? It's been occasional but not having been a big problem. 1009 01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:56.720 Okay, When you overwater, when you overfertilize with nitrogen, that's when 1010 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.840 you aggravate it and you see a lot worse problems brown patch. When you 1011 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:03.520 mow your lawn very very short, it makes it worse as well. That 1012 01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:06.720 that stressful. Okay, I went I went down to number three one aboute 1013 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.960 it because I saw that you're supposed to take off some of that to get 1014 01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:14.119 the change bugs better. Yeah, but yeah, go ahead. Well yeah, 1015 01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:16.880 and so you know, as far as the bonus has, i'd probably 1016 01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.680 go a different direction when you're going to do that in the future. But 1017 01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:23.520 we can call you can call back. We can talk about that at another 1018 01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:26.560 time. As far as chug, yes, they are still active. I've 1019 01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:30.560 got some up in College Station in my yard up there that I was out 1020 01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:35.479 just yesterday and our date for yesterday and looking at and it is an issue. 1021 01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:39.239 It still is an issue. We expect them to go away soon. 1022 01:12:39.520 --> 01:12:42.880 So as to whether you treat or not, still it's like, but they're 1023 01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:45.520 alive and there there and they're feeding on grass. So I understand the need 1024 01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:49.520 the need to do that. As far as a brown patch generally, I 1025 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:53.960 just wouldn't recommend you treat every lawn every year for brown patch, if you 1026 01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:57.359 you know, because if you don't have it and it's not typical, then 1027 01:12:57.399 --> 01:13:00.039 it's it's not as likely that you're going to see it again. Some lawns 1028 01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:04.079 have it all the time, and so okay, And if you wait until 1029 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:08.800 the circles appear, well you're not going to make circles that are brown green 1030 01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:12.640 again. So yeah, pre treating it ahead of time is important. So 1031 01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:15.840 that's kind of the conundrum that we have, is you don't want to apply 1032 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:17.600 stuff you don't need to apply. But on the other hand, if you 1033 01:13:17.640 --> 01:13:20.399 wait until you see them, it's a little bit late. So focus on 1034 01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:27.079 getting lawn healthy and green. That's and not over fertilized with nitrogen. Okay, 1035 01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:28.880 Well I might have Yeah, like I said, I did, the 1036 01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:32.239 bonus has pretty much everywhere. As far as the spectrocide as well, spectrocide 1037 01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:34.840 that stuff is it okay for getting rid of change bugs should get rid of 1038 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:38.600 it. It is one of the ingredients in it or one of the things 1039 01:13:38.600 --> 01:13:42.720 that should control chinch bugs if properly applied, and it should have effect on 1040 01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:47.079 that. As far as the fertilization. Though, if you go online to 1041 01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:53.079 gardening with Skip, that's my website gardening okay, skip, print out my 1042 01:13:53.159 --> 01:13:57.680 long car guide because and you also print out my lawn pest Disease and weed 1043 01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:00.520 management schedule, and next time you go out to purchase pre emergent or to 1044 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:04.119 purchase a fertilizer, all of those products are listed on there. We do 1045 01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:09.600 special kinds of fertilizer for fall, different than spring and summer, and that 1046 01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:12.039 guidance will be there for you. And I would say, shift over to 1047 01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:15.119 that schedule, and okay, yeah, I've got that. I didn't know 1048 01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:18.159 if it was okay to do that, Like right after I've done the change 1049 01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:20.760 bugs and the fertilized the bonus house and stuff, I a way to start 1050 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:25.760 that fall schedule. Oh yes, you can. Just just if you've already 1051 01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:30.319 treated with for chinchbugs, don't treat again. If you've already done a product 1052 01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:34.840 for weeds or diseases, don't get it again right away. Okay, okay, 1053 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:38.520 all right, son, Hey, good luck, have fun out there 1054 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:44.560 in sugarland. All right, Well, I tell you, I keep saying 1055 01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:47.960 fall us for planting and follow us for planting fallow us for planting woody ornamentals 1056 01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:51.640 the most important thing in the world. If you're going to say when do 1057 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:55.279 I plant them, You're not going to have better time than now. And 1058 01:14:55.399 --> 01:14:59.680 Verdant Tree Farm three locations, in Houston. By the way, Verdant Tree 1059 01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:03.880 Farm grows the species of trees that do best here, trees and very large 1060 01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:08.479 shrubs as well. By the way, they got their West Houston location on 1061 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:13.159 Barker Cypress. If you're done in Perland on Broadway Streets, another location where 1062 01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:16.760 Yale comes into it up in the Heights area, there's another location there and 1063 01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:19.960 you just go in, you tag your tree, they bring it to you, 1064 01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:23.840 they plant it, they do it right, and you're good to go. 1065 01:15:24.359 --> 01:15:28.960 And to do that now means next summer when the brutal tough stuff hits 1066 01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:32.720 and that tree is not going to have a mature root system at that point 1067 01:15:32.760 --> 01:15:35.399 in time, it's still going to be getting roots out in this oil. 1068 01:15:35.439 --> 01:15:40.640 It will be working on that for several years. The earlier you plant, 1069 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:44.760 the better, and Verdant Tree Farms got the stock that you need. And 1070 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:46.479 if you go out there you're going to find. By the way, the 1071 01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:51.960 website is Verdant Tree Farm v E r d A NT Treefarm dot com. 1072 01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:55.920 If you go out there, let them pick out your tree. They got 1073 01:15:55.960 --> 01:15:59.600 deal going on trees as well. Just to make it even more worth it, 1074 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:01.159 take some pictures of your place. If you're not sure which tree you 1075 01:16:01.239 --> 01:16:04.600 might want, take some pictures. They'll sit down, they'll consult with you, 1076 01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:08.119 they'll get you plugged into the tree that you want. They offer a 1077 01:16:08.159 --> 01:16:14.239 one year warranty and a ten percent discount for military in first responders at Verdant 1078 01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:18.359 Tree Farm. Another way, when you're getting a tree, I just think, 1079 01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:24.079 just like you may have a shovel and a hoe and a spading fork 1080 01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:28.079 or whatever in your tool barn, well you need to have a treehogger sprinkler 1081 01:16:28.119 --> 01:16:31.359 in your toolbarn because anytime you're planning a tree, a shrub, a rose 1082 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:35.479 bush, that treogor sprinkler is the way to water at the base of that 1083 01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:41.119 plant. There's a seven inch eleven inch and a fifteen inch diameter form. 1084 01:16:41.199 --> 01:16:44.760 They're basically a circle that has a hinge, so that can go around the 1085 01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:47.079 trunk of the plant and water right there. And I mean, maybe you 1086 01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:49.640 had a tree that's been in the ground five years. It's got a good 1087 01:16:49.720 --> 01:16:54.720 root system, so you want a water maybe ten feet out in all directions. 1088 01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:59.079 Treogor sprinklers can do that. Just hang it up in the garage when 1089 01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:00.720 you need it. You got it there, and believe me, you're you're 1090 01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:08.399 gonna want to use it because these woody ornamentals are very valuable investments in our 1091 01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.359 landscapes and we don't want to we don't want to lose them. In fact, 1092 01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:16.800 we want some insurance tree Huger Sprinkler dot Com for insurance. That's a 1093 01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:21.239 way to go. We're getting close to running out of another hour here, 1094 01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:26.840 boy, this flying by again as usual. Don't forget that. My lawn 1095 01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:31.000 care schedule and lawn pest disease weed and management schedule are both online and they're 1096 01:17:31.039 --> 01:17:34.079 free. Can't talk you down on that price, can you? Well, 1097 01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:38.399 you can't beat that. You can go online and look at them. You 1098 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:42.439 can print them out their PDFs way, you're really easy to put out multicolors. 1099 01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:45.840 Everything's got a you know, a number by it to connect to the 1100 01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:48.359 products that you want for that. If you if you're organic, if you're 1101 01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:56.439 synthetic, there's options for both of those on both of those schedules. Don't 1102 01:17:56.439 --> 01:18:00.840 forget that. Next Saturday, I'm going to be an Enchanted Gardens in Richmond, 1103 01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:05.119 Texas. That's a Katie direction from Richmond, and I will be there 1104 01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:10.439 for two hours from eleven thirty am to one thirty PM. I hope you'll 1105 01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:14.039 come out to see me. Love to meet folks that listen to garden Line 1106 01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:18.079 and bring some plant problems. Bring some plants for ID. Put it in 1107 01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:23.560 a ziplock bag or some other plastic closure bag. We'll take time to look 1108 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.680 at it and to discuss your options with you. Maybe just want help with 1109 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:30.039 the landscape. What are some suggestions for an area? Bring me some pictures 1110 01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:33.159 your place. We'll talk about that next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty 1111 01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:41.199 at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 1112 01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:46.640 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt RH Garden 1113 01:18:46.680 --> 01:19:05.840 Line with Scamp Richt. It's so crazy just watch him as super hot tis 1114 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:16.399 the club. Good morning, Good Sunday morning. If you're listening to garden 1115 01:19:16.399 --> 01:19:19.399 Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter, And what are we here for? 1116 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:23.720 Well, we're here to talk about gardening. What's of interest to you? 1117 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:27.239 Questions about a lawn, tree, shrubs. Maybe you want to put 1118 01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:30.560 in a vegetable garden for the first time. Maybe you got some pests or 1119 01:19:30.560 --> 01:19:34.359 diseases that are bugging your place and you'd like some help getting some solutions to 1120 01:19:34.439 --> 01:19:38.239 those. Well, we're here for all of that, happy to visit with 1121 01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:42.760 you. Just give us a call at seven one three two one two five 1122 01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:47.640 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. It's 1123 01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:53.319 as simple as that. We can get going on helping you find a solution 1124 01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:56.640 to what you're looking for. Uh, speaking of solutions, you know we 1125 01:19:56.720 --> 01:20:00.640 just came well, I guess we're still in hurricane season actually, but it 1126 01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:05.800 didn't take a hurricane to have the power go out. Our grid tends to 1127 01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:09.439 at times be a little reliable. A lot of things can happen, you 1128 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:12.960 know, storm tree can fall. What happens when the power goes out, 1129 01:20:13.079 --> 01:20:15.359 Well, I'll tell you what happens when the power goes out. If you 1130 01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:19.560 have a generaic generator from Quality Home Products of Texas, the power comes right 1131 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:23.239 back on. They're set up. I don't care. If you're on a 1132 01:20:23.319 --> 01:20:28.520 vacation to timbucto back at your house, the generator comes on and it saves 1133 01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:30.880 that freezer full of food. I mean, do you need a generator for 1134 01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.199 your whole house? Do you need a generator to just cover certain essential items? 1135 01:20:34.359 --> 01:20:39.600 They can set you up with that now, Generaic generators are absolutely top 1136 01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:44.600 quality. That is a top quality product. But here's the key. Who 1137 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:47.880 do you buy it from? Quality Home And here's why you need somebody that's 1138 01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:51.680 going to service it. Quality Home's got twenty four to seven three sixty five 1139 01:20:51.760 --> 01:20:57.279 customer service. This is a family owned company, been around since nineteen eighty 1140 01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:01.359 nine. They have financial options for that I mean. And here let me 1141 01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:08.520 talk about reputation. A time winner of the Bedter Business Bureaus Distinct and Distinction 1142 01:21:09.079 --> 01:21:14.079 of Customer Service, seven time winner of their most Prestigious Customer Service Award, 1143 01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:19.439 fourteen thousand and five star reviews, seventy seven thousand satisfied customers. They engineer, 1144 01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:25.640 they install, and they monitor their products. That is a rare thing. 1145 01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:30.119 So when you buy a Generact from Quality Home, you know that you're 1146 01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:32.319 getting a quality product, but you're going to get quality care. They're going 1147 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:35.640 to number one direct you the right one for what you need, and then 1148 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:40.279 they're going to be there after the sale. And all of the things I 1149 01:21:40.359 --> 01:21:44.920 just mentioned are just evidence of the fact that for years and years they've continued 1150 01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:49.000 to do just that. Qualitytx dot com or just call seven to one to 1151 01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:55.319 three quality and find out what they can do for you. We're going to 1152 01:21:55.359 --> 01:21:58.159 go to the phones now and I'm going to head to a task casita and 1153 01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:01.000 talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, Hello, goodring. How are you 1154 01:22:01.800 --> 01:22:05.239 well? Well? What can we do for you today? Okay, I've 1155 01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:09.840 got some barricade and some May twelve sixteen that I'm going to be putting out. 1156 01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:13.720 Based on the schedule, I'm assuming that it's best to put out the 1157 01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:16.600 barricade first, and then what two or three weeks, and then put out 1158 01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:18.880 the eight twelve sixteen. No, sure, you can put them on the 1159 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:21.399 same day. And in fact, if you got them both on hand, 1160 01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:25.359 I'd do that. And here's why. You're going to want to water that 1161 01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:29.000 barricade in with a half inch of rain to get it into the soil surface 1162 01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:32.960 where it goes to work that incorporate we call that incorporation. That's very important. 1163 01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:35.880 And if you'll do them one and then turn it right around and fill 1164 01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:41.079 up the spreader, change the setting accordingly for the fertilizer, and put it 1165 01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:43.640 down, then you can just put that half inch of rain and you get 1166 01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:46.319 them both dissolving and down in the ground where they're going to do what you 1167 01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:48.600 want them to. Do. You don't have to wait for whenever the next 1168 01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:55.720 rainfall is. You want that nutrient in so that tomorrow your grass plants beginning 1169 01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:59.439 to take it up. Because with each week we go into the fall, 1170 01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:02.439 grass growth, grassroot growth slows down a little more and a little more, 1171 01:23:02.560 --> 01:23:06.039 so the sooner the better. Okay, So it looks like we're not going 1172 01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:10.520 to have any rain here for another two or three days. Yeah it is 1173 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:14.079 it. Okay, go ahead and put it down anyway. And oh yeah, 1174 01:23:14.119 --> 01:23:16.239 well, you know, if it were my yard, I would put 1175 01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:18.479 it down. I would just go and irrigate it with a half inch and 1176 01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:21.880 be done with it. Uh, if you want to wait for the rain, 1177 01:23:21.960 --> 01:23:25.600 you can put it down now. It'll sit there, there's no problem 1178 01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:28.399 waiting, and when the rain comes, it'll move it in. It's just 1179 01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:30.600 we just have to remember we can't control the rain. So if you get 1180 01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:35.319 a gully washer and water is sheet sheeting across the yard off to the ditch, 1181 01:23:35.960 --> 01:23:39.960 you're going to lose some of your fertilizer product. Okay, probably I 1182 01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:44.119 should apply this after the longest cut. Is that correct? I would do 1183 01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:46.319 Yeah, I would do that, and it just has a better chance of 1184 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:49.960 getting down in there, but it's not essential if you water it in especially, 1185 01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:54.520 it's gonna water it. It's its way down. It's gonna work its 1186 01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:58.000 way down with the water, and so either way it's fine. Okay, 1187 01:23:58.119 --> 01:24:00.319 thanks very much, have a good one, Yes, sir, thank you 1188 01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:04.039 for the call. Gary, I appreciate that very very much. Hey, 1189 01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:09.960 Buchanan's plants in the Heights. It's always fun to go to Buchanans. The 1190 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:14.479 shopping experience there is second to nine. I mean again, we brag about 1191 01:24:14.479 --> 01:24:16.880 Mom and Pops, but when you go to Buchanans, you've got people that 1192 01:24:16.960 --> 01:24:19.479 know what they're talking about, that are waiting on you. You got friendly 1193 01:24:19.520 --> 01:24:23.439 people that are waiting on you. There are going to people or these people 1194 01:24:23.479 --> 01:24:26.920 are going to direct you to the plant you need, or tell you, 1195 01:24:26.359 --> 01:24:29.399 you know, you describe the situation. They go, ah, this one's 1196 01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:30.199 not the one for you. Look at this over here. This is a 1197 01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:34.680 better one. Boy. That alone is worth the price of admission right there. 1198 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:40.159 Now. Buchanan specializes in natives, but they have so so much more. 1199 01:24:40.199 --> 01:24:44.640 They just restocked a bunch of the favorite natives like fall Aster. By 1200 01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:45.720 the way, if you don't have fall Aster, you got to get that 1201 01:24:45.760 --> 01:24:49.840 one. We always forget the plants that just bloom in the fall, that 1202 01:24:50.680 --> 01:24:56.039 include those in your landscape. We want season round beauty in the landscape. 1203 01:24:56.159 --> 01:24:59.720 Sava Greggy I is another good one for that purple cone flower. Oh my 1204 01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:02.520 god. Those are outstanding and they got them all there. Buchanans. They 1205 01:25:02.520 --> 01:25:09.159 specialize in natives. Do you need some herbs, outstanding selection of perennial herbs. 1206 01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:13.800 I bought them there earlier this year and it's just that quality plants and 1207 01:25:14.560 --> 01:25:17.479 just a wide variety, and that's what you're looking for. They got chimineas 1208 01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:20.199 with pinion wood, by the way, on sale. How about that for 1209 01:25:20.279 --> 01:25:26.920 a fall frosty evening where you're outside and you're you're sitting outside with friends around 1210 01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:30.680 the patio. Got nice new little chiminea with some wonderful pinion pine wood to 1211 01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:34.680 burn in it. You get the idea everything you need for your October celebrations, 1212 01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:40.640 your fall celebrations. They'll set you up. Their gift shop is wonderful. 1213 01:25:41.680 --> 01:25:44.880 I could I could go on all day just listing the reasons you need 1214 01:25:44.920 --> 01:25:47.800 to go to Buchanans Plants. By the way. Buchanansplants dot Com is their 1215 01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:56.439 website there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Yeah, I've talked about a 1216 01:25:56.479 --> 01:25:58.720 lot of different things when it comes to gardening. By the way, I 1217 01:25:58.760 --> 01:26:00.399 don't know if I gave your phone number this hour, but it's seven one 1218 01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:05.479 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1219 01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:10.039 eight seventy four. Uh. I've talked about a lot of different things. 1220 01:26:10.039 --> 01:26:12.880 I hadn't talked about herbs much, and I did want to talk a little 1221 01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:15.479 bit about herbs. Uh. You know, when you think about herbs, 1222 01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:19.399 what do you picture? Now? I know what an You know what an 1223 01:26:19.439 --> 01:26:24.560 herb is. I mean it typically most of our herbs we grow for culinary 1224 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:28.359 purposes to use in the kitchen. There are herbs that are used for a 1225 01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:31.279 lot of other purposes or medicinal herbs. There herbs that we use to make 1226 01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:34.479 salves and ointments and other things. A lot of reasons to grow herbs. 1227 01:26:35.279 --> 01:26:39.960 But when you think about herbs, do you picture a formal herb garden, 1228 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:43.079 you know, where everything is geometrically laid out. I mean you can do 1229 01:26:43.159 --> 01:26:46.760 that, that's fine, But do you picture in your vegetable garden an herb 1230 01:26:46.800 --> 01:26:51.479 at the end of each row? I use oregano as a groundcover around areas 1231 01:26:51.479 --> 01:26:55.840 of my vegetable garden, like around tomatoes. How hard is it to make 1232 01:26:56.119 --> 01:27:00.199 pasta sauce if you've got a regano growing under a tomato. I mean, 1233 01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:02.840 I think you can figure that one out right. Herbs are good in containers 1234 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:08.039 spilling over the sides like I reckon a trailing type RB or time. Uh. 1235 01:27:08.640 --> 01:27:13.000 They just they can be used versatilely in so many many ways. Mini 1236 01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:17.319 herbs bloom pineapple sage just is great, especially in the late late summer and 1237 01:27:17.399 --> 01:27:23.159 fall for blooming beautiful red tubutter blooms that attract hummingbirds. So when I said 1238 01:27:23.199 --> 01:27:27.399 herbs, did you think about hummingbirds? That's an herb plant. There's so 1239 01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.479 many great ways to use herbs, And I think a lot of times we 1240 01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:33.439 get in a mindset where if I say vegetable garden, you picture this little 1241 01:27:33.439 --> 01:27:38.680 mini farm instead of a container full of vegetables or a vego bed full of 1242 01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:42.239 vegetables. Let's let's get outside that box. Hey, we're gonna take a 1243 01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:45.880 little break right now seven one, three, two, fifty eight seventy four 1244 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:46.920 if you'd like to get on the board. So we've got some other folks 1245 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:50.640 waiting. We'll get to you first when we come right back. Well, 1246 01:27:50.680 --> 01:27:55.760 good morning. You're listening to Guardline on a beautiful Sunday morning. I'm your 1247 01:27:55.800 --> 01:27:59.840 host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk about the things that interest 1248 01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:02.039 seasonal things. We always throw a few tips in, like I was just 1249 01:28:02.039 --> 01:28:05.680 talking about herbs a moment ago. You know, when you're looking for a 1250 01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:10.479 place to buy your products. You've heard me talk about Ace before, but 1251 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:13.680 Ace has got it all. It absolutely has it all. By the way, 1252 01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:16.159 thank you to any and the folks up there at All Star Ace and 1253 01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.800 Magnolia for hosting me out there yesterday. That was a good time and I 1254 01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:24.479 appreciate y'all having us out. Really easy to get to that place too, 1255 01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:27.560 by the way, just write down fourteen eighty eight. So if the number 1256 01:28:27.640 --> 01:28:30.319 fourteen eighty eight sounds like a place near you, all you have to do 1257 01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:34.600 is head right down to All Star Ace up in a Magnolia area. But 1258 01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:38.439 you know ACE stores, there's thirty nine of them all over Houston. You 1259 01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:43.760 go to Acehardware dot com, forward slash Houston, or actually go to Ace 1260 01:28:43.800 --> 01:28:45.479 Harvard dot com and find their store locator. That's a better way to go 1261 01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:49.319 about it. And at the store locator you can see all thirty nine stores. 1262 01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:54.840 And when you go to an Ace Hardware, you know that the fertilizer 1263 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:57.520 you heard about on garden Line is going to be there. You know that 1264 01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:00.479 the pesticides and sexicides, herbicides, all the stuff you need to make a 1265 01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:05.319 beautiful lawn, a beautiful bountiful garden and landscape is going to be there at 1266 01:29:05.359 --> 01:29:10.640 Ace Hardware. That is just what they do. We're going to go now 1267 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:16.000 out to Pearland and talk to John. John, good morning, good morning. 1268 01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:28.079 Over the summertime into the drought, my Saint Augustine grass turned absolutely gold. 1269 01:29:29.079 --> 01:29:33.399 We weren't able to water because of the water restrictions, and you walk 1270 01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:40.239 on it and it sounded like you're walking on French fries. Anyway, it 1271 01:29:40.279 --> 01:29:47.359 is starting to turn the green again in areas. Do I need to fertilize 1272 01:29:47.399 --> 01:29:50.279 that or just leave it alone? Can you help me there please? You 1273 01:29:50.399 --> 01:29:55.119 do need to fertilize it. You do not want to use the fertilizers that 1274 01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:58.640 you used in spring and fall. Those have a lot of nitrogen. What 1275 01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:03.199 you want to do is put a fall fertilizer application on that and a fall 1276 01:30:03.239 --> 01:30:08.399 fertilizer application is going to be one that has a lower nitrogen and it's got 1277 01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:12.000 a little more of potassium the third number in it. And we've got a 1278 01:30:12.039 --> 01:30:15.680 lot of great ones. If you go online to my website Gardening with Skips 1279 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:20.000 Real Easy, Gardening with Skip dot Com, my lawn care schedule's on there 1280 01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:24.720 and it tells you through the year if you want to use synthetic or organic. 1281 01:30:24.800 --> 01:30:27.520 Either way, we've got options for you in there, and it tells 1282 01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:30.239 you right when to put them down. It gives you a list of products, 1283 01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:32.239 and so it's just a really good way to go. You can print 1284 01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:34.399 it out and that way you can kind of carry around with you if you 1285 01:30:34.399 --> 01:30:38.800 go into place to buy, you kind of look at whatever kind of product 1286 01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:43.359 you're looking for. There's also a disease, insect and weed control a schedule 1287 01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:45.760 as well, So I would recommend you to do that. I would recommend 1288 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:49.000 you do it sooner rather than later. Each week we go into fall, 1289 01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:53.319 it cools off more, the grass slows down more, and it's taking up 1290 01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:59.520 the nutrients slower much much less. So today is better than the day after 1291 01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:01.119 tomorrow. You know what I'm saying. Well, I have nothing that is 1292 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:03.880 going on that has urged it today, So I will jump right on it, 1293 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:08.960 all right, Go make that happy, all right? You take care. 1294 01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:12.000 I appreciate your call very much, you know. Speaking of those kind 1295 01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:15.399 of fertilizers, Microlife fertilizer has a wide variety of products, but for the 1296 01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:19.119 fall specifically, I like a combo of two things that they have. Number 1297 01:31:19.159 --> 01:31:24.279 one is Microlife brown Patch five to one three. Now, that is a 1298 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:30.720 fertilizer that is designed to make your lawn stronger, to make your lawn better 1299 01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:33.359 able to fight brown patch, and as microbial content in it, like Microlife 1300 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:39.159 products, do combine that with Microlife biogrow and that you just put out a 1301 01:31:39.159 --> 01:31:43.520 little bit because it's an inoculant. Microlife biogrow is an inoculant. It's a 1302 01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:46.159 kind of a violent colored bag. And when you do that, what you're 1303 01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:49.800 doing is you're adding a lot of beneficial microbes to the soil surface, to 1304 01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:54.840 the plant surface as they splash up there, and it just makes the plant 1305 01:31:55.039 --> 01:31:58.880 better able to resist some of the issues that we deal with in fall, 1306 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:02.520 like brown patch, for example. Now that one two combination is really easy. 1307 01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:06.159 Again, the brown Patch five to one three that's the orange bag. 1308 01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:12.000 It's a fertilizer. The bio grow inoculant is just used in small amounts ten 1309 01:32:12.039 --> 01:32:15.840 pounds, covers one thousand square feet and it is the bioinoculant, and that 1310 01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.239 combination for microlife is the one that I would recommend for your fall fertilization, 1311 01:32:20.239 --> 01:32:25.680 especially for those of you who are out there gardening organically. Go to Microlifefertilizer 1312 01:32:25.720 --> 01:32:29.720 dot com. You can find out more information and you can also find out 1313 01:32:29.760 --> 01:32:32.760 more information about where to get these products as well. We're going to head 1314 01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:36.560 out to Cypress now and talk to Ike. Hello. Ike, Hello, 1315 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:39.920 good morning, good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, 1316 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:46.159 so similar familiar, similarly to the previous caller. I have I think 1317 01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:51.079 chinchebut's got the best of my yard and it pretty much took over the majority 1318 01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:56.199 of it. So I'm planning on resotting it. Okay, Is this a 1319 01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:00.239 good time to do that now? Or what should I do to prepared to 1320 01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:03.880 reside in the spring. What do you suggest as far as resauting time right 1321 01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:10.520 now? You could reside now, but grass growth, grassroot growth is going 1322 01:33:10.600 --> 01:33:15.720 to be slowing a lot as we move into the next month, let's say, 1323 01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:19.079 and you'd like that grass to have time to get roots down and establish. 1324 01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:23.920 Well, I'm not saying don't do it now, but I'm just saying, 1325 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:28.000 if you do it now, do it the day before yesterday. No. 1326 01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:31.079 In other words, don't delay. If it were my yard, and 1327 01:33:31.399 --> 01:33:33.840 in fact, I've got areas of my yard like that, I'm gonna live 1328 01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:36.800 with it like it is. And in spring, when the weather warms up 1329 01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:41.159 and get strong, it'll give me a time if I need to fill in 1330 01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:44.560 any low spots or do any kinds of things like that, clean out the 1331 01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:48.920 dead debris of organic matter that was your long before, and I'm gonna do 1332 01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:53.520 mine, then I'm gonna wait to do it until then. But it's not 1333 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:56.000 black and white on the answer to that one. It's like, oh, 1334 01:33:56.000 --> 01:34:00.840 absolutely no you can't, or yes you must. You know, do you 1335 01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:05.600 suggest that I was thinking about breaking up all the dead and material the because 1336 01:34:05.600 --> 01:34:10.319 I can pretty much just see the dirt, yeah, in between all the 1337 01:34:10.359 --> 01:34:15.239 graphs dying off. Should I just rake that up? Now? What can 1338 01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:19.720 I do to that dirt now to prepare for spring? Top compost, the 1339 01:34:19.840 --> 01:34:24.960 mushroom compost, or well, I don't think you need to right now. 1340 01:34:25.720 --> 01:34:29.520 Now, if you've got dirt showing, you're going to have weeds coming through 1341 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:32.039 and cool season weeds, so you might want to have something that prevents the 1342 01:34:32.039 --> 01:34:38.319 weeds from coming up, like a barricade application. But this is why in 1343 01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:41.760 your initial question, I kind of had that trade off there. I'm leaving 1344 01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:44.439 the dead debris. I can live with that look of that, but that's 1345 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:47.039 helping shade the ground to keep weed seeds from coming up. And so I'm 1346 01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:50.319 leaving mine. If you want to pull it out of there, then maybe 1347 01:34:50.399 --> 01:34:54.600 get it raked out, get some side, and put it down. Just 1348 01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:59.319 depending on how soon we have a good hard freeze and the weather we have 1349 01:34:59.439 --> 01:35:02.359 going forward ward, your lawn may establish well or may not, and it 1350 01:35:02.399 --> 01:35:05.600 may take a little more time to get it established than coming out as we 1351 01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:10.119 go into the spring. But uh it, I hate to give you such 1352 01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:14.319 a gray answer, but that's the fact you got. If you're going to 1353 01:35:14.399 --> 01:35:16.640 rake it all out and have bear soil, then either put side on it 1354 01:35:16.680 --> 01:35:21.640 now or use a pre emerging herbicide for now and to get us up until 1355 01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:26.000 spring. It's gonna be about April or so before you you're going to want 1356 01:35:26.039 --> 01:35:30.479 to put that side down when it's not going to happen. And then what 1357 01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:33.479 the pre coller stated, I have the same fum in another area where that 1358 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:38.600 the grass is just completely brown, it turned gold. Can I can I 1359 01:35:38.640 --> 01:35:44.239 stay that down with the lawnmower and try to expose some better root system or 1360 01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:49.479 leave alone. I would leave it grass if it has any energy, and 1361 01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:53.800 as we go into fall it slows down. It's just a warm season thing. 1362 01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:57.199 It's not a cool season plant. And so if you can get some 1363 01:35:57.319 --> 01:36:00.119 leaves up to catch some sunlight, that's all the better. But I would 1364 01:36:00.199 --> 01:36:04.680 not expose those runners and stuff for the winter for several reasons. But yeah, 1365 01:36:04.800 --> 01:36:08.560 now, if you got living grass areas you're asking about a top dressing 1366 01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:12.079 like leaflow compost, Yeah, you could do that now to those areas, 1367 01:36:12.079 --> 01:36:15.199 but doing it to bear soil it, you know, wait until spring and 1368 01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:18.840 you got new grass growing and stuff, and once it's established, then look 1369 01:36:18.840 --> 01:36:24.399 at those kind of practices. All right, good, great, thanks so 1370 01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:27.119 much, Yes, sir, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 1371 01:36:27.199 --> 01:36:30.000 Yeah, you know a lot of people are they're looking at a lawn 1372 01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:32.039 that looks like heck, and you know there's those of you here do it 1373 01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:34.680 yourself. You're going to get out there and dig and plant and do all 1374 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.239 those things. And then there's some folks that just you know, I need 1375 01:36:39.359 --> 01:36:43.039 I need help here, and Puerce Scapes is the one you need to call 1376 01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:46.560 for that kind of help. Maybe your irrigation system didn't have good coverage, 1377 01:36:46.640 --> 01:36:50.039 maybe it's got broken heads and east NEETs repairs and that's part of the reason 1378 01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:55.199 your grass is dying. They can do that. Do you need to put 1379 01:36:55.239 --> 01:37:00.760 in some new plants, perhaps some things that are lotartle more out resistant. 1380 01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:04.399 Peer Scapes can do that. They're designers, they're folks. They know how 1381 01:37:04.439 --> 01:37:10.159 to select and establish, they know how to design to make it look good. 1382 01:37:10.279 --> 01:37:15.199 Call pier Scapes at two eight one three, seven oh fifty sixty or 1383 01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:19.039 go to pierce Scapes dot com. 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Josh, it's a good thing you're hanging there 1394 01:38:05.199 --> 01:38:10.479 before I run off a cliff with this vehicle. Seven one three two one 1395 01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:14.119 two fifty eight seventy four. Nikki, I think I'm losing it. I 1396 01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:17.079 absolutely think I'm giving out the wrong number for the phone number that I give 1397 01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:23.600 out only eight hundred times every day for crying out loud. Oh my gosh. 1398 01:38:24.079 --> 01:38:27.319 I was looking at some trees the other day that had some damage to 1399 01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:30.079 them on branches, and those need to come out. And if you've got 1400 01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:33.600 a similar thing, or maybe you'd like your trees looked over really good well. 1401 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:39.439 Martin spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service, Martin is the one that I would 1402 01:38:39.479 --> 01:38:44.399 call seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If Martin 1403 01:38:44.600 --> 01:38:46.880 or his wife Joe don't answer the phone, you've called the wrong place with 1404 01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:51.399 affordable in the name, hang up. Seven one three, six nine nine 1405 01:38:51.399 --> 01:38:55.439 twenty six sixty three. Why do I say that, because they know what 1406 01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:58.800 they're talking about. They've been doing this for decades. You can also go 1407 01:38:58.840 --> 01:39:02.680 to their website a fftree service dot com. UH, now's the time to 1408 01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:05.319 get on the list. By the way, he stays busy because he does 1409 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:09.960 good work. And so tell him your guarden Line customer. Get to the 1410 01:39:09.960 --> 01:39:13.319 front of the list. But don't delay. Don't wait until they're all booked 1411 01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:16.319 up. Call him now to get all that winter pruning work, the fall 1412 01:39:16.359 --> 01:39:20.159 pruning work you might be doing. UH, to have him evaluate a situation, 1413 01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:26.399 and especially before you go changing something in the landscape, trenching, building 1414 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:30.720 adding a sidewalk, call Martin to come out and advise you before you do 1415 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:34.560 damage to those very valuable trees. Seven one three, two, one two 1416 01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:38.800 five eight seven four is our number. And now I'm going to turn it 1417 01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:43.239 over to a sane person, Niki for the Nicky News Network News. Well, 1418 01:39:43.359 --> 01:39:45.920 good morning on a beautiful Sunday. You are listening to garden Line and 1419 01:39:45.960 --> 01:39:49.680 we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm gonna start by heading out to 1420 01:39:49.760 --> 01:39:55.600 Willis and talking to VICKI. Hello, Vicky, Hey, good morning, 1421 01:39:55.640 --> 01:40:00.479 good morning. Loving this weather. I'm sorry, I have been unable to 1422 01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:03.600 listen to your program for some time. Just now finally getting to where I 1423 01:40:03.600 --> 01:40:08.760 can get into the yard, and we have Saint Augustine looking pretty good if 1424 01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:12.640 hand weeded as much as possible. I wanted to put on some barricade and 1425 01:40:12.720 --> 01:40:17.319 the fall fertilizer. Is there a recommendation on doing one or the other? 1426 01:40:17.439 --> 01:40:21.880 Can we do both at the same time. You can do them both at 1427 01:40:21.880 --> 01:40:27.720 the same time, but not in the same fertilizer spreader. Okay, So 1428 01:40:27.920 --> 01:40:30.800 the particle size of different products is different, and so when you mix them 1429 01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:35.119 up you don't get even application. And so what you want to do is 1430 01:40:35.119 --> 01:40:42.920 spread the fertilizer and then spread the barricade or vice versa, and then water 1431 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:46.039 them together whatter both of those products are now down on the lawn with one 1432 01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:50.439 half inch of water to move them into the soil surface. And that way 1433 01:40:50.720 --> 01:40:56.800 the barricade locks up there and creates a barricade and the fertilizer nutrients get dissolved 1434 01:40:56.840 --> 01:40:58.960 and the roots take them up. And you want to do that soon. 1435 01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:02.479 And the reason I like to water them in is because then that day nutrients 1436 01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:06.520 are down there because as we go week by week into the fall. The 1437 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:11.960 plants are more and more slow in their movement, the roots are less and 1438 01:41:12.079 --> 01:41:15.159 less rapid in their uptake, and you want to get those nutrients and to 1439 01:41:15.239 --> 01:41:19.800 do as much good as possible before we get into the cool season. Okay, 1440 01:41:19.800 --> 01:41:24.439 well that being in the next few days. Okay, So that good. 1441 01:41:24.840 --> 01:41:27.039 Okay. I just want to make sure I could do that together. 1442 01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:30.199 I don't have the products yet. I'm picking them up today, okay, 1443 01:41:30.239 --> 01:41:33.600 and I saw I'll get your vice. Ri. Which direction up in Willis? 1444 01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:41.479 Are you from from downtown Willis? We're about eight miles east. Okay. 1445 01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:44.520 I used to have a peach peach arched out there. Is it called 1446 01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:46.880 Kenny Line Road or something like that out there, Yes, we used to 1447 01:41:46.920 --> 01:41:50.720 have a peach orchard out in that area years and years ago. So yeah, 1448 01:41:50.720 --> 01:41:55.279 I love it out here. It's really nice. It's becoming a very 1449 01:41:55.279 --> 01:41:59.560 popular place to move. Oh. I know we're still isolated. I'm happy 1450 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:03.399 about that. Well, there weren't any skyscrapers yet, so all right, 1451 01:42:03.439 --> 01:42:06.319 Hey, thanks for the call, Vicky. I appreciate you so much. 1452 01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:13.319 I appreciate that you have a wonderful day. Uh yeah, that all these 1453 01:42:13.359 --> 01:42:15.560 areas are growing up round Houston, but you know it's part of the thing. 1454 01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:19.760 People move in and that kind of thing happens. Uh. I've talked 1455 01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:26.840 to you before about the Anti c Rozenborium. They're up in Brenham, Texas. 1456 01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.479 It's one of the best outing drives. You're going to have beautiful up 1457 01:42:30.479 --> 01:42:31.920 there. Now. I say Brenham, I mean north of Brenham, and 1458 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:36.479 the little town is actually called Independence, but that's the direction you're heading out, 1459 01:42:36.520 --> 01:42:42.560 the Brenham direction now, antiq Rosmporium. Their website's Antiqurosenporium dot com. 1460 01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:45.800 You can learn about a whole lot more stuff by going to the website, 1461 01:42:46.039 --> 01:42:53.000 but just know this right now today it ends today. All roses are on 1462 01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:56.039 sale for five dollars off and you're not going to do better than that. 1463 01:42:56.239 --> 01:42:59.840 So this would be a good time to run out there, to run out 1464 01:42:59.840 --> 01:43:02.399 there and get you some roses. Now, they are roses, but there's 1465 01:43:02.399 --> 01:43:06.600 so much more. Their perennial selection. They've got annuals, they've got natives, 1466 01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:11.640 they got vegetable starts, they got herbs, much much more. I 1467 01:43:11.680 --> 01:43:15.640 mean it truly is roses and so much more. Yes, they specialize in 1468 01:43:15.720 --> 01:43:18.359 roses. For crime. They have our two thousand available out there at the 1469 01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:24.359 Rosenporum by the way right down Fall Festival of Roses November third, fourth, 1470 01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:27.960 and fifth. Fall Festival of Roses November third, fourth, and fifth. 1471 01:43:28.159 --> 01:43:31.199 They're going to have an exclusive farm to table dinner. They got some wonderful 1472 01:43:31.239 --> 01:43:35.960 speakers going on during those three days, both Saturday and Sunday. It is 1473 01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:41.720 just outstanding. It will be this year will be your thirty five of the 1474 01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:45.279 Fall Festival of Roses, and they know how to throw a party. The 1475 01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:49.439 phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight, or just 1476 01:43:49.439 --> 01:43:57.319 go to Antique Rosenmporium dot com. We're going to now head up to Bellevue 1477 01:43:57.359 --> 01:44:01.119 and talk to Scott. Hello Scott, good morning, Good morning. How 1478 01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:04.920 can we help today? Well, I sent a couple of pictures to you 1479 01:44:05.720 --> 01:44:11.960 with a pic of a weed that has appeared in Yes, I've never seen 1480 01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:16.039 before. Well, that is a common weed and it is way more drought 1481 01:44:16.079 --> 01:44:18.560 tolerant than our lawns. And as a result, this year, you drive 1482 01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:23.840 around town, you see lawns that are killed by drought and they're these dark 1483 01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:28.720 blue green weeds out there in the middle of the dead grass that is fall 1484 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:33.119 aster or roads actually roadside aster are slender astra. I like to use the 1485 01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:38.680 term slender aster. It'll make a big, tall, waste high weed in 1486 01:44:38.760 --> 01:44:44.239 a vacant lot in our lawns because of mowing. It goes completely horizontal and 1487 01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:47.439 it is about to pop out these little daisy like flowers that are outside of 1488 01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:51.239 a dime. They are kind of a pinkish lavender, light light pinkish lavender 1489 01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:57.760 color. Each flower's got fifty seeds. Each plant has what fifty flowers, 1490 01:44:57.800 --> 01:45:00.359 I mean, we're talking one hundred flowers. You need to pull it up. 1491 01:45:01.119 --> 01:45:04.920 It's too late to spray it with a post emergent killer. That could 1492 01:45:04.920 --> 01:45:10.279 have been done earlier, but most people don't notice it earlier on because it's 1493 01:45:10.359 --> 01:45:14.000 hiding in there among the grass. But it has a taproot, as you 1494 01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:16.159 found, and that shows in the picture. If your soil is moist, 1495 01:45:16.279 --> 01:45:20.399 they come up pretty easily, so a good soaking. If you need to 1496 01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:23.960 use a weed in farc go ahead and do it. I just grab them 1497 01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:27.279 my hand with a five gallon bucket and get as much out of there as 1498 01:45:27.319 --> 01:45:29.840 I can. Think of it this way, every time you pull one up, 1499 01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:34.640 you probably pulling twenty five hundred to five thousand seeds out of the lawn 1500 01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:41.439 before they cause this problem to be much worse next year. Right, if 1501 01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:45.239 it shows up again next year, when and what should I spray? So 1502 01:45:45.279 --> 01:45:48.439 starting when it warms up a little bit, you could put a pre emergent 1503 01:45:48.520 --> 01:45:53.479 product down in your lawn, like a barricade type product. That would be 1504 01:45:53.560 --> 01:45:59.560 probably I'd probably start that in about late March maybe for this weed. Probably 1505 01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:03.199 repeat it again about sixty days later to extend that coverage. Now, if 1506 01:46:03.680 --> 01:46:06.079 you don't do that, or if you see the weeds, you need to 1507 01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:09.720 be watching for them. You kind of know now what to look for with 1508 01:46:09.760 --> 01:46:14.199 those little slender leaves. You could use a post emergent product. I would 1509 01:46:14.239 --> 01:46:19.000 probably use something that contains celsius to spray those individual weeds or bon eyed weed, 1510 01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:25.159 eater, weed beater ultra. Just squirt, spray individual weeds. Don't 1511 01:46:25.199 --> 01:46:29.800 spray hold on, Just squirt the individual weeds and that would be the way 1512 01:46:29.800 --> 01:46:32.319 to kill them. But again way before they hit fall and get ready to 1513 01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:38.319 become reproductive. All right, good deal, appreciate sir, Good luck with 1514 01:46:38.359 --> 01:46:41.000 that weed. A lot of other people have that same thing. Oh, 1515 01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:45.880 boil boy. Oh sure, for sure. All right, you take yes, 1516 01:46:45.920 --> 01:46:48.560 sir, you take care, take care. I appreciate that. Boy. 1517 01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:54.640 I tell you the talking about roofs earlier. But Brinkman's Roofing they're the 1518 01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:58.319 ones to do any kind of roof work you need. They've been doing this 1519 01:46:58.399 --> 01:47:02.960 for over fifty years now. They warranty their stuff twenty five years of service. 1520 01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:08.319 Any kind of roof shingles. They're an expert metal roofs. They're an 1521 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:13.199 expert. Do you want a roof that is actually your solar panel, not 1522 01:47:13.319 --> 01:47:15.640 on the roof, it is a roof that's called Brinkman solar shingles. They 1523 01:47:15.640 --> 01:47:21.399 can do that too. Brinkman Quality dot Com is a website two eight one 1524 01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:27.239 four eight oh seventy six sixty three. Give them a call. We're going 1525 01:47:27.279 --> 01:47:30.960 to take a break. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 1526 01:47:30.319 --> 01:47:33.319 five eight seven four. Give us a call and you'll be first up. 1527 01:47:33.399 --> 01:47:40.039 Right after George in Baytown. Halloween's two weeks away. You're listening to garden 1528 01:47:40.079 --> 01:47:44.119 Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and this is a show about 1529 01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:45.560 gardening. What are you interested in? What do you want to talk about? 1530 01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:49.159 Give us a call that's all you gotta do. And the phone number 1531 01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:56.239 nine. Excuse me seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1532 01:47:56.279 --> 01:48:00.319 I think I need to eliminate every number in front of my eyes so I 1533 01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:02.800 don't see something and start talking about it. Uh, just give us a 1534 01:48:02.800 --> 01:48:09.039 call seven five, eight seven four. We will be happy to visit about 1535 01:48:09.079 --> 01:48:12.359 the things that you are interested in. If you never called before, today'd 1536 01:48:12.359 --> 01:48:14.640 be a good day to do that. Let's get some new callers. Had 1537 01:48:14.640 --> 01:48:17.159 one yesterday's first time caller ever. I always love to have a first time 1538 01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:21.319 caller. But for now we're going to go straight out to Baytown and talk 1539 01:48:21.359 --> 01:48:26.199 to George. Hello, George, good more to skip. Good morning. 1540 01:48:27.199 --> 01:48:30.520 Hey. My question for you is I'm finding these I guess it's like a 1541 01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:34.239 fungus growing in the yard. It looks like a mushroom. But whenever I 1542 01:48:34.359 --> 01:48:38.640 hit it with the lawnmower or kick it, yes, it turns into it 1543 01:48:38.720 --> 01:48:43.840 turns into like a purple powder or brown powder. That's a that is a 1544 01:48:43.920 --> 01:48:49.039 decomposer fungi. It is not a plant disease. But what it is is 1545 01:48:49.119 --> 01:48:53.960 it's causing organic matter to turn back into soil, which is a good thing. 1546 01:48:54.720 --> 01:48:57.680 If you got in the forest and find a tree trunk that's fallen over, 1547 01:48:57.720 --> 01:49:00.920 and you see those shelf fungi sticking out of it. That's their job, 1548 01:49:00.079 --> 01:49:03.560 turn a tree trunk into soil. Again. If you see the fairy 1549 01:49:03.600 --> 01:49:09.119 rings, the little white mushrooms that come up in circles, they're decomposing thatch 1550 01:49:09.199 --> 01:49:12.560 in organic matter at the soil surface. They're not a disease of your lawn. 1551 01:49:12.640 --> 01:49:15.800 And this is just another case of one of those. There's a bazillion 1552 01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:18.239 of them out there in nature and they're all doing their things. So every 1553 01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:23.920 time you run over one or kick one, those spores fly all over the 1554 01:49:23.920 --> 01:49:27.680 place to find organic matter and do the same thing to it. Oh are 1555 01:49:27.720 --> 01:49:31.079 they dangerous if you breathe them, Well, that's a good question. Uh, 1556 01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:34.359 you'd have to ask a doctor that one. I would generally say, 1557 01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:38.399 don't breathe them. You know, even composts. I mean, we talk 1558 01:49:38.439 --> 01:49:41.640 about composts all the time. It's wonderful stuff, right, it's part of 1559 01:49:41.720 --> 01:49:45.199 nature. But they are actually a couple of lung infections that if you got 1560 01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.840 in there and got the right microbes from the soil and stuff in your lungs, 1561 01:49:48.840 --> 01:49:51.880 it could be a problem. But does that mean we quit using composts? 1562 01:49:51.880 --> 01:49:55.560 No, And you've probably never heard of anybody got sick from compost and 1563 01:49:55.600 --> 01:49:59.159 you're not going to hear that. But I would just I would avoid any 1564 01:49:59.199 --> 01:50:02.119 kind of breathing in of any kind of spore that I have control over. 1565 01:50:02.199 --> 01:50:05.520 But as I'm sitting here talking to you, you and I both are breathing 1566 01:50:05.560 --> 01:50:13.479 in spores because they're in the air everywhere. You got it there you go, 1567 01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:16.479 Hey, George, thanks for the call. Have fun out there, 1568 01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:24.239 and yeahbo out there in Baytown for sure. Hey, if you haven't done 1569 01:50:24.399 --> 01:50:29.520 your lawn fertilization and care for the fall yet, now's the time to get 1570 01:50:29.520 --> 01:50:32.439 it done. Nitrofoss has their three step. It makes it easy. What 1571 01:50:32.520 --> 01:50:35.720 are the three steps? The Texas three step? I think that's a new 1572 01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.319 dance too, by the way, anyway, it's a fertilizer. It is 1573 01:50:40.359 --> 01:50:45.239 a weak control and it is disease control. Step one Nitrophus Fall Special. 1574 01:50:45.479 --> 01:50:49.960 You put it down, you water it into your lawn and it goes to 1575 01:50:50.039 --> 01:50:58.119 work making your lawn stronger going into winter and therefore stronger coming out of winter. 1576 01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:02.119 When you Putitrovas Fall Special down, now it means that next spring. 1577 01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:05.760 Your laune's going to be healthier as a result. That's what it's for now. 1578 01:51:05.880 --> 01:51:11.960 Number two nitro Fos barricade. That is a pre emergent that prevents broad 1579 01:51:12.039 --> 01:51:15.159 leaf and grassy weeds. You put it down now too. And the third 1580 01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:21.119 step is turf fungicide called Eagle by Nitrofoss, and that soaks in. It's 1581 01:51:21.159 --> 01:51:27.079 a systemic fungicide. Here comes brown patch season, here comes take all reinfection 1582 01:51:27.239 --> 01:51:30.640 season. Well, that's what it's there for. So all of these you 1583 01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:34.079 need to get down right now, especially the pre emergent and the fungicide, 1584 01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:38.520 because all it's going to take is another co front with some rainy weather and 1585 01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:41.760 you're gonna start seeing brown patch. You're gonna start seeing the sprouting of all 1586 01:51:41.800 --> 01:51:45.800 the cool season weeds. Nitrovos has got you covered with the one two three. 1587 01:51:45.840 --> 01:51:48.159 You can go to Katie Hardware. You can go to RCW Nursery up 1588 01:51:48.159 --> 01:51:55.399 there on FM Tombol Parkway Highway two forty nine, or you can go out 1589 01:51:55.439 --> 01:52:00.640 to the Arborgate in Tomball. They all carry Nitrovoss's Texas three step. We 1590 01:52:00.720 --> 01:52:06.600 are now going to head out to sugar Land. Mike. I believe we 1591 01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:11.439 already spoke right, Yes, good morning, skiff. Yes, we spoke 1592 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:15.000 yesterday. Okay, how can I help? And well my question. You 1593 01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:18.039 asked me to send you some photos, and I did so. There are 1594 01:52:18.079 --> 01:52:25.279 some photographs there of some of the fungus that I have in just one area 1595 01:52:25.319 --> 01:52:28.960 of my grass. Yes, small area maybe five feet by fifteen feet, 1596 01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:32.640 but it grew throughout the summer, even though I did put down what I 1597 01:52:32.680 --> 01:52:39.439 thought was some fungus retardant, but it continued to grow. I understand the 1598 01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:43.079 springtime is the best time to take care of fungus. It depends on which 1599 01:52:43.119 --> 01:52:46.479 one you're going after. But okay, okay, and I just you had 1600 01:52:46.520 --> 01:52:49.159 wanted to make certain that it wasn't insects. I don't believe it is. 1601 01:52:49.199 --> 01:52:51.720 But you could take a look at the photos if you have those available to 1602 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:56.359 you. I tell you, in the lawn that's still greenish over there, 1603 01:52:56.920 --> 01:53:00.279 there might be a little fungus called take all root rock going on. See 1604 01:53:00.279 --> 01:53:03.199 some yellowing of the grass that's typical of takeoll. But on the big part 1605 01:53:03.279 --> 01:53:06.239 that's all dead. The only thing green in that is a bunch of weeds, 1606 01:53:06.319 --> 01:53:12.079 especially nuts edge. And I bet that was chinchbugs. That kind of 1607 01:53:12.199 --> 01:53:15.199 total wipeout. When the lawn right across the sidewalk. Part of your lawn 1608 01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:19.760 across the sidewalk looks good, I think you had chinchbugs in that this summer 1609 01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:24.079 and that's going to require replant. First thing I would do, though, 1610 01:53:24.159 --> 01:53:27.760 is get out there. I'd start now with a treatment. But you need 1611 01:53:27.800 --> 01:53:30.479 to kill that nuts edge, and there are number of products that'll do that. 1612 01:53:30.520 --> 01:53:33.520 There's also a little bermuda grass going on in there. Chinchbugs do not 1613 01:53:33.600 --> 01:53:38.640 eat bermuda grass and they don't eat nuts edge, and so I would kill 1614 01:53:38.640 --> 01:53:42.600 those weeds before you put new lawn down, because they're going to come right 1615 01:53:42.640 --> 01:53:44.880 up through your new lawn too, and it's hard to get rid of them 1616 01:53:44.920 --> 01:53:48.239 once you got your grass growing. Okay, So take care of the weeds 1617 01:53:49.000 --> 01:53:53.960 and then put new lawn in the spring. Residing in the spring, yep, 1618 01:53:54.000 --> 01:53:56.359 it's going to look ugly for a while. If you wanted to throw 1619 01:53:56.399 --> 01:53:59.720 a pre emergent down to keep up winter weeds from coming out while it's bare, 1620 01:53:59.760 --> 01:54:01.520 you do that, or you could just wait in the spring and deal 1621 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:06.000 with the weeds in before you plunt your grass. Okay, you can see 1622 01:54:06.159 --> 01:54:11.840 beyond the sidewalk there where the grass is green. It looked like again I 1623 01:54:11.880 --> 01:54:15.119 thought it was fungus. Maybe maybe had blown over when I was bowing lawn 1624 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:20.319 from the fungus, the area had blown over to the greener area. I 1625 01:54:20.359 --> 01:54:24.840 should probably resaw on a good section of that. But you think that's also 1626 01:54:24.960 --> 01:54:31.239 chinchbugs, then I think the dead part was chinchbugs. The living part may 1627 01:54:31.319 --> 01:54:35.199 have had the start of chinchbugs on the edge there. They love to start 1628 01:54:35.239 --> 01:54:39.439 next to a driveway, a curb, a sidewalk, something like that. 1629 01:54:39.439 --> 01:54:44.239 That's typical of chinchbugs in the sun. But it may maybe some take all 1630 01:54:44.319 --> 01:54:46.079 root run in there, and that would be where we do the Faull FUNDE 1631 01:54:46.239 --> 01:54:50.720 side application to help clean that up prevent it. You're gonna if that's the 1632 01:54:50.760 --> 01:54:54.640 case, you would also have to do a treatment in the spring as well. 1633 01:54:55.920 --> 01:54:59.520 Okay, it's hard with a visual to say that's a disease because there's 1634 01:54:59.560 --> 01:55:02.880 a lot of things it can cause a similar symptom. But I've seen enough 1635 01:55:02.920 --> 01:55:10.000 of it to where I suspect I'm suspect or whatever. Okay, So those 1636 01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:13.760 are probably areas to really focus on chinch bugs, like you say, because 1637 01:55:13.760 --> 01:55:16.000 they're smaller areas, they're close to sidewalks, they're close to the curb, 1638 01:55:16.840 --> 01:55:20.920 so next next year. Chinchbugs are worse in the fall, but they can 1639 01:55:21.000 --> 01:55:25.760 attack in the summer as well. But when you first start to see a 1640 01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:28.359 little bit, I hate that grass needs water in a water and it doesn't 1641 01:55:28.359 --> 01:55:30.439 get better. Get out on your hands and knees, look in the grass. 1642 01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:33.720 After you've looked up what a chinchbug looks like. And if you've got 1643 01:55:33.760 --> 01:55:36.319 them, go ahead and nail them right then before they do what they just 1644 01:55:36.359 --> 01:55:41.560 did to your lawn this year. Okay, And I heard you just mention 1645 01:55:41.680 --> 01:55:45.760 about the nitrofoss three step three step, Yes, fertilizer, so yeah, 1646 01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:53.119 fertilizer, pre event preventative we control, and then a disease control, a 1647 01:55:53.239 --> 01:55:58.279 systemic disease control TEXTA. Okay, the nitropas eagle would be the one for 1648 01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:00.760 the take all root rot that you've got there. Okay, So my question 1649 01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:04.960 on that is it's probably not a good idea to put all three down at 1650 01:56:04.960 --> 01:56:10.159 one time. So you can put the fertilizer and then then wait a week 1651 01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:13.119 or two and then put the barrigade. No, actually you can, you 1652 01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:15.640 can do them all. But but here's what I would do the fertilizer and 1653 01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:19.600 the barricade need to be watered in with a half inch of water. With 1654 01:56:19.920 --> 01:56:25.880 the disease control you can water it in a little, but I don't want 1655 01:56:25.920 --> 01:56:28.720 to get too much washing off there. I wanted to get on the grass 1656 01:56:28.720 --> 01:56:31.560 and have a lot of time, so I would probably with the disease control 1657 01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:34.800 just go ahead. And you know what, I think you could do all 1658 01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:38.199 three with a half inch of water. I wouldn't worry about it. I 1659 01:56:38.199 --> 01:56:42.520 would do all three and then water man. Okay, because it's a grinder. 1660 01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:45.239 The disease controls a grandeur, so you do need some water for it 1661 01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:47.960 too. Okay, all right, perfect, thanks that much. Good, 1662 01:56:48.119 --> 01:56:53.600 Yes, sir, you take care. Appreciate that call you as well very 1663 01:56:53.640 --> 01:56:57.720 much. Well, there went another hour. Lisa and Donnie, I see 1664 01:56:57.760 --> 01:57:00.439 you on the boards. You will be the first one week. I'm back 1665 01:57:00.880 --> 01:57:02.840 after the break. I want to remind all of you listening. I know 1666 01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:05.560 people tend to tune in or tune out, have to go to church, 1667 01:57:05.680 --> 01:57:10.720 come back later and tune in whatever. So I have to repeat things right. 1668 01:57:10.840 --> 01:57:15.479 So if you go online to gardening with skip dot com, that's me 1669 01:57:15.079 --> 01:57:20.399 Skip gardening with skip dot com I've got a long care schedule online. I've 1670 01:57:20.399 --> 01:57:28.119 got a lawn pest disease and wed management schedule online. They're free to download, 1671 01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:30.760 save them on your computer. Check back periodically. You know, if 1672 01:57:30.760 --> 01:57:33.760 there's ever new things to put on there, I'll update them. So don't 1673 01:57:33.800 --> 01:57:38.960 assume something done six months ago is still the final version of it. I 1674 01:57:38.960 --> 01:57:42.680 may have updated a little bit. But they'll guide you on all these kinds 1675 01:57:42.720 --> 01:57:46.279 of products and timing. Timing is everything, and that's why we're putting those 1676 01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:50.159 online for you. We'll be right back seven one three two one two five 1677 01:57:50.239 --> 01:57:57.159 eight seven four. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 1678 01:57:57.239 --> 01:58:02.720 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with 1679 01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:19.199 Scip Richter. It's crazy Trim. Just watch him as word. Good morning, 1680 01:58:19.680 --> 01:58:24.920 good Sunday morning. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 1681 01:58:25.000 --> 01:58:28.680 Richter, and let's talk about gardening. Our phone number if you'd like to 1682 01:58:28.680 --> 01:58:32.319 give us a call is seven one three two one two five eight seven four 1683 01:58:32.439 --> 01:58:36.399 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, if you 1684 01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:42.000 have not been out to the Bee Supply Company in Dayton before you really need 1685 01:58:42.039 --> 01:58:45.000 to go, you really do. I mean they they have got their new 1686 01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:49.479 observation high back up and running have had for a while now. It's over 1687 01:58:49.560 --> 01:58:56.720 seven feet tall, plexiglass enclosed area, sixteen frames for the bees to build 1688 01:58:56.920 --> 01:59:00.199 their comb and fill with honey. In you can bees building the comb. 1689 01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:03.560 In fact, you can watch them coming in and out of this long tube 1690 01:59:03.600 --> 01:59:09.000 that goes to the outdoor outdoors part of the building. And it's a clear 1691 01:59:09.039 --> 01:59:11.520 too. You can just watch the bees coming in and out. It's really 1692 01:59:11.560 --> 01:59:14.479 cool. You can watch all kinds of b behavior over that. So it's 1693 01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:17.479 a great thing for kids of all ages, adults including myself. I can 1694 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:23.560 sit there for a long time just watching bees do their work. Really fascinating 1695 01:59:23.960 --> 01:59:29.840 by the way they are doing the pre order still, I believe for the 1696 01:59:29.880 --> 01:59:33.000 website. So if you're going to pick up things from there, perhaps be 1697 01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:36.439 specific. Is what I'm talking about here. They're going to begin doing the 1698 01:59:36.479 --> 01:59:41.159 pickups in April, I believe April eleventh, and go through the end of 1699 01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:44.560 May. So you need to choose from one of the two different strains of 1700 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:48.960 bees that they have and to get the earliest date possible. And they do 1701 01:59:49.079 --> 01:59:51.840 tend to sell out quickly. You need to order as soon as possible, 1702 01:59:51.840 --> 01:59:56.079 But just give them a call. There the Bee Supply, it's easy to 1703 01:59:56.119 --> 02:00:00.319 find, easy to get to. The phone number is nine three six seven 1704 02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:03.960 six O seven three nine. Now, if you're not already a beekeeper and 1705 02:00:04.039 --> 02:00:09.600 you want to become one, they're going to start their twenty twenty four beginning 1706 02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:15.119 classes. They're live on the website right now to sign up for the classes 1707 02:00:15.159 --> 02:00:18.920 to begin in January twenty twenty four. So don't delay on that. Whether 1708 02:00:18.960 --> 02:00:24.479 you want to look into maybe being a beekeeper, whether you are a beekeeper 1709 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:29.399 needing supplies, or you're just someone who wants to learn and watch. The 1710 02:00:29.640 --> 02:00:31.319 fascinating world to be is they do that little honey tour. You get to 1711 02:00:31.319 --> 02:00:35.079 sample all the different kinds of honey and stuff. It's a great idea. 1712 02:00:35.319 --> 02:00:39.720 A scout troop, a homeschool group, a garden club, all kinds of 1713 02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:45.560 people, same thing. Give them a call nine three six seven seven nine 1714 02:00:45.880 --> 02:00:50.960 O seven three nine, or go to thebsupply dot com. It's as simple 1715 02:00:51.000 --> 02:00:55.920 as that. Let's head now. First we're going to go to talk to 1716 02:00:56.000 --> 02:01:01.159 Lisa out in Seabrook. Good morning, Lisa, Good morning, we had 1717 02:01:01.159 --> 02:01:06.279 a raised bed, plant it with tomatoes. We want to use it again 1718 02:01:06.439 --> 02:01:11.399 for something else, and I'm wondering what should we do to replenish the soil, 1719 02:01:12.119 --> 02:01:15.079 just the normal fertilization you would do for whatever the upcoming crop is. 1720 02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:19.680 So have you had your soil test it in a while in that bed before? 1721 02:01:23.920 --> 02:01:27.880 I mean we've made new beds kind of at the beginning of last year 1722 02:01:28.000 --> 02:01:32.479 that we have the tomatoes dyed in the heat. Okay, Well, you 1723 02:01:32.479 --> 02:01:35.640 could have a soil test just to see where you're starting, because that kind 1724 02:01:35.640 --> 02:01:40.159 of tells you what may or may not need to be added. That's always 1725 02:01:40.199 --> 02:01:42.840 the best way to go about it. And I can direct you to that 1726 02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:45.920 if you like. The other thing to do would just be to go in 1727 02:01:46.000 --> 02:01:49.199 a generic way. Well, first of all, what are you wanting to 1728 02:01:49.199 --> 02:01:57.640 plant their next? Some kale, some herbs? Okay, So for that 1729 02:01:57.840 --> 02:02:02.000 I would get a turf type fertilizer. I mean, you can buy vegetable 1730 02:02:02.039 --> 02:02:06.720 fertilizers. I know Nelson's makes a vegetable fertilizer. They also make an organic 1731 02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:14.399 vegetable fertilizer, Nelson Plant Food, and so you can go those come in 1732 02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:17.600 in jars, you know, plastic jars that you sprinkle on the soil and 1733 02:02:17.920 --> 02:02:21.319 work it into the soil. You could do that, or you could use 1734 02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:26.319 just a standard lawn type fertilizer. Those work well for vegetables too. I 1735 02:02:26.640 --> 02:02:29.600 often will use that in my vegetable garden because I always have it on hand 1736 02:02:29.640 --> 02:02:32.239 because I bought it for fertilizing and lawns and stuff. So how often do 1737 02:02:32.279 --> 02:02:34.720 you have to wait? How long do you have to wait before you can 1738 02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:39.359 grow tomatoes again? Oh? Right away? No? I mean now, 1739 02:02:39.359 --> 02:02:44.239 tomatoes aren't a cool season crop. But you don't have to wait between tomato 1740 02:02:44.279 --> 02:02:46.479 crops. In other words, so like if you pulled one up in the 1741 02:02:46.520 --> 02:02:50.680 summer because it got too hot, you could replant tomatoes again in July and 1742 02:02:50.720 --> 02:02:55.800 August and early September for or not, probably July and August would be best 1743 02:02:55.960 --> 02:03:00.560 for the fall season. Thank you have fun out there. By the way, 1744 02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:06.840 Vegetable gardening is a blast, that is for sure. If you're at 1745 02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:12.560 in the Kingwood area, that Kingwood Garden Center and the Warren's Warren Southern Gardens, 1746 02:03:12.960 --> 02:03:15.640 they've got a deal going on right now. If you buy a bag 1747 02:03:15.680 --> 02:03:18.159 of azamite, which as mighte we talk about all the time for the lawns, 1748 02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:23.159 but just visiting there with lease on vegetables. Is it in the vegetable 1749 02:03:23.199 --> 02:03:28.359 garden too, because as might contains the trace minerals that are needed for all 1750 02:03:28.439 --> 02:03:31.439 plants to succeed and do well. So if you buy one of the forty 1751 02:03:31.439 --> 02:03:36.319 four pound bags of azamite, you get three dollars off per bag. No 1752 02:03:36.479 --> 02:03:44.199 limit of the heirloom soils aged leaf compost. And that age leaf compost is 1753 02:03:44.239 --> 02:03:47.000 an excellent product. So what a deal? I mean you always needing the 1754 02:03:47.039 --> 02:03:49.520 age leaf compost. You should have it on hand. You could use it 1755 02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:53.359 for mulching, use, mixing it into the soil, you can use it 1756 02:03:53.520 --> 02:03:56.880 top dressing, lots of uses for it. But just buy that bag of 1757 02:03:56.880 --> 02:04:00.319 azamite and it gets you three dollars off per bag of the heirloom leaf compost. 1758 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:04.119 Now, they got their red buds in the Chinese fringe magnolia. They've 1759 02:04:04.159 --> 02:04:08.960 got the weeping willows, live oaks, maples, all kinds of things. 1760 02:04:09.000 --> 02:04:12.079 Their spring bulbs are already into You need to get those in in the fall. 1761 02:04:12.159 --> 02:04:15.039 Get those done now. Onion and garlic bulbs for planting in the vegetable 1762 02:04:15.079 --> 02:04:20.920 garden are available all at the Kingwood Garden Center and Warrens Southern Garden out there 1763 02:04:21.119 --> 02:04:26.720 in Kingwood. Now, I want you to write this down also when you're 1764 02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:32.640 out there, just remember that Texas Native Plant Week starts today and it goes 1765 02:04:32.680 --> 02:04:36.920 through this week. So this is a special time to stock up on your 1766 02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:42.520 native plants as well. And their feature native plant this month is pink mewley 1767 02:04:42.600 --> 02:04:46.520 grass. I call it gulf Muley. They'll be selling that and featuring it 1768 02:04:46.680 --> 02:04:50.039 this but they've got other native plants that you can purchase. Hey. By 1769 02:04:50.039 --> 02:04:54.319 the way, Warrens is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone 1770 02:04:54.359 --> 02:04:59.279 Hollow Drive. Both of them are open seven days a week. We are 1771 02:04:59.319 --> 02:05:01.319 now going to head out to Uh let's see. I tell you what. 1772 02:05:01.600 --> 02:05:06.479 I am running short on time, Uh, Donnie and Jody in that order. 1773 02:05:06.520 --> 02:05:10.159 You'll be the first two up when we come back from break. I'm 1774 02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:14.159 about to not be able to give you enough time to justify your call right 1775 02:05:14.199 --> 02:05:16.119 here, so I'm going to hold you over after break. We will get 1776 02:05:16.119 --> 02:05:19.880 to you very first. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 1777 02:05:20.319 --> 02:05:26.439 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1778 02:05:26.680 --> 02:05:30.720 Hey, remember, any kind of supply you need is going to be available 1779 02:05:30.760 --> 02:05:33.119 at ACE Hardware. Do you need fertilizer that I've been talking about, They 1780 02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:38.000 carry them all. Do you need disease control for your lawn? Are any 1781 02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:42.800 plants, pest control, weed control? They've got it all. ADACE thirty 1782 02:05:42.880 --> 02:05:46.560 nine Local ACE Hardware stores. Acehardware dot com. That's the website for all 1783 02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:50.319 Ice Hardware stores. Find the store locator. You get a little map of 1784 02:05:50.439 --> 02:05:54.720 all thirty nine stores and you'll see how many of them are not that far 1785 02:05:54.760 --> 02:05:58.359 away from you, maybe even a Rocks throwaway. While you're there, sign 1786 02:05:58.479 --> 02:06:03.439 up for the rewards program where you can earn up uh money for your purchases. 1787 02:06:03.479 --> 02:06:06.279 In other words, you just build it up. I'm shopping at ACE 1788 02:06:06.319 --> 02:06:10.520 all the time. I belong to the aceh Rewards program, and you should 1789 02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.159 too. Hey, we're gonna take our break now, we'll be right back. 1790 02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:17.079 Well, good morning, and welcome back to garden Line. We're in 1791 02:06:17.119 --> 02:06:21.159 our last hour today, fact the last hour this weekend. We're gonna head 1792 02:06:21.159 --> 02:06:27.600 straight out to Liberty and talk to Thibodeaux. Hello Thibodeaux. Yeah, how 1793 02:06:27.640 --> 02:06:32.720 you doing, sir good? I have a pretty good little patch of mustards 1794 02:06:32.720 --> 02:06:36.720 and collar graens growing. And uh, I just picked some leaves a while 1795 02:06:36.720 --> 02:06:41.079 ago, and I got nose. I got some bugs eating holes in my 1796 02:06:41.159 --> 02:06:43.960 leaves. So what can I put on it to stop this? All right? 1797 02:06:44.479 --> 02:06:48.600 Uh? The holes are they like BB size holes or what are you 1798 02:06:48.640 --> 02:06:54.119 looking at? Some of BB size holes and some diame holes? Okay? 1799 02:06:54.880 --> 02:06:58.199 Uh? And but they're in the they're not like chewing from the edge of 1800 02:06:58.239 --> 02:07:01.680 the leaf. But it's it's it's like you shot, yes, yes, 1801 02:07:01.760 --> 02:07:09.760 Okay, that's probably a beetle. Caterpillars also eat holes in leaves, but 1802 02:07:10.039 --> 02:07:14.520 especially the smaller holes like that. You're probably looking at a beetle. Beetle 1803 02:07:14.600 --> 02:07:17.159 damage. There's a yellow margin leaf beetle. There's several little leaf beetles that 1804 02:07:17.720 --> 02:07:23.840 love mustard and colar greens as much as you do. The way to deal 1805 02:07:23.920 --> 02:07:29.399 with them would be an insecticide to control them. There is an organic product 1806 02:07:29.479 --> 02:07:33.960 out there. It's got a type of BT for beetles. Most betees for 1807 02:07:34.079 --> 02:07:40.239 caterpillars. But if there's one that has a type of BET called San Diego, 1808 02:07:40.439 --> 02:07:44.000 like the city in California, that will control leaf eating beetles, I 1809 02:07:44.039 --> 02:07:49.880 think I would probably suggest you use something containing spinosid. Spinosid is an organic. 1810 02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:55.199 It soaks into the tissue though, and when anything that eats leaves, 1811 02:07:55.199 --> 02:08:00.279 caterpillars or beetles eats the spinosid sprayed leaf, it kills it. And it's 1812 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:05.520 it's a very very safe product. So it's s P I N O S 1813 02:08:05.560 --> 02:08:09.840 A D, spine no SAD and it comes to many different ingredients. There's 1814 02:08:09.920 --> 02:08:15.199 a part one of the the Captain jackline of products, has Spino said, 1815 02:08:15.279 --> 02:08:18.279 but there's there's several others. Just go to your good garden center there locally 1816 02:08:18.560 --> 02:08:22.159 Ace Hardware if you got one nearby, and say I need something with spine 1817 02:08:22.199 --> 02:08:28.279 no sad in it, and uh make sure, sir, how long sway 1818 02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:33.279 can I start picking and eating my It'll be on the label. I don't 1819 02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:37.640 know offhand the different products that we call that. Uh you know, uh 1820 02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:41.840 uh the time you have to wait that that interval. But it's it's not 1821 02:08:41.840 --> 02:08:46.159 going to be very long for Spino said, because it is natural and it's 1822 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:50.520 very very very low toxicity. Okay, but hey, you got to get 1823 02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:52.079 good coverage. You got to spread all over the leaf. You can get 1824 02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:56.720 a backside and top sides of the leaves just get good coverage and that ought 1825 02:08:56.720 --> 02:08:58.680 to knock them out for you. All right, Thank you, sir, 1826 02:09:00.199 --> 02:09:03.640 sir, you take care appreciate that call. Hey, do you live up 1827 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:07.159 in the Montgomery area. You know I talk about A and A Plants and 1828 02:09:07.199 --> 02:09:11.680 Produce all the time up there. They're right there on the east side of 1829 02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:16.239 Montgomery on Highway one oh five. So anybody out in the Lake Conroy area, 1830 02:09:16.359 --> 02:09:18.800 the dozens of great neighborhoods out in Lake Conroe, this is your backyard 1831 02:09:20.000 --> 02:09:22.479 garden center. Seamster of of course Montgomery. Heck, if you're living in 1832 02:09:22.600 --> 02:09:28.520 Dobbin, this is your backyard garden center. That whole region up there. 1833 02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:31.520 The A and A Plants and Produce carries all the different kinds of plants you 1834 02:09:31.600 --> 02:09:35.680 need. They carry everything I've been talking about all day for fertilizing your lawn 1835 02:09:35.800 --> 02:09:41.199 and managing past problems in your lawn and your landscape. Seven days a week, 1836 02:09:41.239 --> 02:09:43.119 they're open nine to five. It's not hard to catch them open. 1837 02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:48.000 Three acres of every kind of plant you can imagine, and right now for 1838 02:09:48.079 --> 02:09:52.439 that fall decoration and the bling and the pumpkins. Even have areas you can 1839 02:09:52.439 --> 02:09:54.920 go and take your picture. Kind of cool. Get out there. They've 1840 02:09:54.960 --> 02:09:58.000 got it all set up for you to go kind of take your fall picture 1841 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:01.119 with the one you love or the kids out there. They can do that 1842 02:10:01.199 --> 02:10:03.399 out at Ana Plants and Produce. And while you're out there, make sure 1843 02:10:03.439 --> 02:10:07.960 and pick up some of that landscape. Bling boy, do they ever have 1844 02:10:07.199 --> 02:10:13.039 a lot of cool stuff for decorating your landscape at A and A Plants and 1845 02:10:13.079 --> 02:10:18.119 Produce out in Montgomery. We are going to now head up to Jody and 1846 02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:24.640 Lazybrook. Hello, Jody, Hey, good morning, good morning. I 1847 02:10:24.680 --> 02:10:28.520 have a question about crime them, Lily. How do I get rid of 1848 02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:35.600 them? I like that that. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing 1849 02:10:35.640 --> 02:10:39.560 with you because I tried to dig one up and literally the bulb was the 1850 02:10:39.600 --> 02:10:45.359 size of a volleyball. And at some point I stopped and called and found 1851 02:10:45.399 --> 02:10:50.680 out how much does it cost to rent abaco? Because those suckers do not 1852 02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:54.359 want to come out of the ground. One of my mentors, doctor Bill 1853 02:10:54.399 --> 02:10:56.880 Well, she said, crime them has never died. In other words, 1854 02:10:56.920 --> 02:11:01.840 there's no crime in the world died. That's how type they are. Oh, 1855 02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:05.199 they're wonderful. A lot of people are going I'll take it. I'll 1856 02:11:05.199 --> 02:11:07.920 take it. And you just have to tell them you come get it because 1857 02:11:09.079 --> 02:11:11.079 it's difficult to do. I mean, I guess you could spray one. 1858 02:11:11.159 --> 02:11:15.960 I have never in my life thought about spraying or crying them to kill it. 1859 02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:18.159 But if you had one of those general purpose weed killers, you could 1860 02:11:18.159 --> 02:11:20.199 spray that on there. You probably have to do it more than once. 1861 02:11:20.720 --> 02:11:24.359 But digging them up is just a chore because they got a root system and 1862 02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:28.239 they got strong roots that are hard to get out of the ground. But 1863 02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:33.319 other than grubbing it out or spraying it with you know, a general purpose 1864 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:35.680 to kill everything, spray the foliage. That's all you have to do is 1865 02:11:35.720 --> 02:11:37.960 spray the foliage. Are there good plants around it? You don't want to 1866 02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:43.079 kill no? Okay, then you could just spray the foliage without worrying about 1867 02:11:43.079 --> 02:11:48.319 getting it on something else. That That's probably what I would do, you 1868 02:11:48.359 --> 02:11:54.439 know, just general purpose. I'm sorry laughed, but that is funny. 1869 02:11:54.600 --> 02:11:58.319 There are very few beautiful flowers in the world that people call and ask me 1870 02:11:58.359 --> 02:12:03.520 how to kill them. But crying them get it? You know what you 1871 02:12:03.520 --> 02:12:09.800 ought to do? Where's Lazybrook by the way near the heights, near the 1872 02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:13.880 heights. Okay, inside, boy, put you, uh, put you 1873 02:12:13.520 --> 02:12:20.399 sign up in a you know, Buchanans or Wabash feed or someplace like that, 1874 02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:24.199 saying free crying them, come and dig it and maybe you can get 1875 02:12:24.279 --> 02:12:28.840 rid of it that way somebody wanted. Okay, thanks for the calling, 1876 02:12:28.920 --> 02:12:33.760 Judy. Have a good rest of your Sunday. Thank you all right, 1877 02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:37.680 take care bye bye, oh man, oh man. Yep. When a 1878 02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:43.199 crime gets established, like doctor Bill Wells, a crime has never died. 1879 02:12:43.720 --> 02:12:48.199 That's that's probably about after Uh. We're going to go out now to League 1880 02:12:48.239 --> 02:12:50.439 City and talk to Susan. Good morning, Susan. How can we help 1881 02:12:50.479 --> 02:12:56.560 today? Good morning Skip. I have to laugh about that last call. 1882 02:12:56.520 --> 02:12:58.880 I mean, that's a good that's a good call. Now. No, 1883 02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:03.560 I'll tell you I have a question about crying them too. I have Crino, 1884 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:09.000 Donna, Lily's in my garden, okay, and I love them, 1885 02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:13.399 but they didn't bloo me enough to summer for me. And I'm thinking they 1886 02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:18.119 are just overgrown. So I want to divide them. Okay, So I 1887 02:13:18.119 --> 02:13:20.680 think this is the right time to do that, right, It would be 1888 02:13:20.720 --> 02:13:24.920 fine. Yeah, you go ahead and get it done. Dig them up, 1889 02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:26.840 divide them, you can reset some, just give them little more space, 1890 02:13:28.560 --> 02:13:31.079 dig them up, put them in the ground, make sure they go. 1891 02:13:31.600 --> 02:13:33.359 You got a good bulb type fertilizer for them, something that's got a 1892 02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:37.439 good phosphorus content, Mix it into the soil, and then plant the bulb 1893 02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:41.600 on top of it. That bone meal or whatever kind of phosphorus you choose 1894 02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:46.520 to use is always helpful for bulbs. You don't need a lot of it. 1895 02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:50.840 Just follow the label on the product that you get. Okay. Now, 1896 02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:54.720 the question I have also is that I have friends and relatives that want 1897 02:13:54.800 --> 02:14:01.520 them. Now I know that last lady probably laughing about it, that they 1898 02:14:01.560 --> 02:14:05.199 want them, and I want to give them to them. But some of 1899 02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:07.479 them they're not going to take them right away. So what do I do 1900 02:14:07.560 --> 02:14:09.479 with them? Can I put them in the refrigerator? Can if I put 1901 02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:13.479 them in a temporary container? Do I have to water them? Or do 1902 02:14:13.600 --> 02:14:16.279 they do with tell me the name of the bulb? You said again, 1903 02:14:16.600 --> 02:14:26.880 cryin no, Donna, Donna? Okay, Yeah, so you could just 1904 02:14:28.159 --> 02:14:33.199 immediately replant them, okay in a container and water them in and then you 1905 02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:37.399 give them something that's got roots and is going to hit the ground running. 1906 02:14:37.960 --> 02:14:43.680 It does a lot lot better because of that. Uh. But the thing 1907 02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:48.439 of letting them dry out and then just you know, letting them have them 1908 02:14:48.479 --> 02:14:52.239 as a bulb. That would be fine too. Uh it either way, 1909 02:14:52.880 --> 02:14:54.920 there's are pretty good bulls yours. Apparently you're doing pretty good for you if 1910 02:14:54.960 --> 02:14:58.279 you already need to divide them. Oh yeah, yeah they are. They 1911 02:14:58.399 --> 02:15:01.000 just they just this summer, they don't you know, they don't have too 1912 02:15:01.039 --> 02:15:05.319 many flower stocks. So I want to encourage that. Yeah, yeah, 1913 02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:09.279 I understand that, and they do void are yours pink blooms, big pink 1914 02:15:09.359 --> 02:15:13.600 pink trumpets? The pink Yeah, they pink. Oh gosh, these are 1915 02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:16.439 so beautiful. Absolutely, and they have a less smell good too, so 1916 02:15:16.920 --> 02:15:22.319 yeah. Yeah. And they're in the same family as amarillis bulbs. Are 1917 02:15:22.880 --> 02:15:26.359 that the same family as it too? So yeah, you could dry them 1918 02:15:26.680 --> 02:15:30.720 and then give them the dry bulbs, or if you're just going to pot 1919 02:15:30.720 --> 02:15:33.960 them up, then maybe that gives them a little bit of a head start. 1920 02:15:33.960 --> 02:15:37.560 It's up to you, Okay, So I do replan them in the 1921 02:15:37.640 --> 02:15:43.319 pot. I have the water them right about the winter. Uh, just 1922 02:15:43.399 --> 02:15:46.079 a little bit, just keep it moist. The roots are going to be 1923 02:15:46.119 --> 02:15:50.600 growing and developing. You should be getting some new yours produce some strappy foliage 1924 02:15:50.600 --> 02:15:54.359 that comes up in the cool season, right or you see it in the 1925 02:15:54.399 --> 02:15:56.760 cool season. Yeah, so uh yeah, you want to you want to 1926 02:15:56.800 --> 02:16:03.079 support that because that helps get established so that next year you've already got a 1927 02:16:03.119 --> 02:16:07.680 head start because those those leaves are going to strengthen the bulb and get it 1928 02:16:07.720 --> 02:16:11.760 ready for the next time it blooms. Okay, that's right. Thank you, 1929 02:16:11.800 --> 02:16:13.920 Skip, You've been so helpful, and I'm enjoy listening to yourself. 1930 02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:18.520 I'm glad you listen. Thank you. I appreciate that you take care good 1931 02:16:18.520 --> 02:16:24.279 to talk to you. You know, if you're looking for anything that you 1932 02:16:24.359 --> 02:16:26.560 need for your lawn and garden, your vegetable garden, your flower beds, 1933 02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:31.680 your trees or shrubs, you're on down the line. Southwest Fertilizer, that's 1934 02:16:31.680 --> 02:16:37.399 the one Southwest Fertilizer is. Guess where in southwest Houston. That's why I 1935 02:16:37.559 --> 02:16:41.680 called it Southwest Fertilizer Corner Bissinett and Renwick. Easy to get to. Now. 1936 02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:46.959 They've been around a long time since nineteen fifty five, so they they're 1937 02:16:48.000 --> 02:16:52.680 a fixture. They're an institution here in the greater Houston area. And the 1938 02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:54.680 reason is they have everything. I like to say, if they don't have 1939 02:16:54.719 --> 02:16:58.159 it, you don't need it. And it's true. I have never mentioned 1940 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:01.399 a product on garden line that's not a Southwest Fertilizer, not on purpose, 1941 02:17:01.440 --> 02:17:05.520 just because no matter what I mentioned, if it's a good product, Bob's 1942 02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:07.600 got it there and he carries it there. Do you need tools? Do 1943 02:17:07.639 --> 02:17:11.559 you want organic supplies? Do you want synthetic supplies? Do you want fertilizer? 1944 02:17:11.559 --> 02:17:16.600 Do you want pesticide, organic and synthetic. They've got it all right 1945 02:17:16.639 --> 02:17:18.280 there. Do you want seeds? And most of all, do you want 1946 02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:22.319 good advice? You know, bring them a plant, bring them a question, 1947 02:17:22.399 --> 02:17:24.319 bring them a picture. They'll look at it and they'll tell you what 1948 02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:28.159 you need. They will not sell you something you don't need this. They'll 1949 02:17:28.159 --> 02:17:31.120 sell you the product that works. That's why people keep going back to Southwest 1950 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:37.079 Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website. While you're in there, 1951 02:17:37.559 --> 02:17:41.959 ask them about the kneeling benches. That's that tool they got that I 1952 02:17:41.079 --> 02:17:45.559 keep bragging on. It folds up, it hangs in the garage. You 1953 02:17:45.639 --> 02:17:48.440 can sit on it while you're working in the garden. In a bed. 1954 02:17:48.840 --> 02:17:50.799 You can kneel down on it. It's got little handles to get up again. 1955 02:17:50.879 --> 02:17:54.159 If you're north of forty, you know what I'm talking about. After 1956 02:17:54.200 --> 02:17:56.920 a good day of working in the garden, you need one of those kneeling 1957 02:17:56.920 --> 02:18:00.479 bits. Before a good day of working in the garden, and you need 1958 02:18:00.520 --> 02:18:05.040 one of those eating benches that they have. Let's run out now to Hockley, 1959 02:18:05.120 --> 02:18:09.639 Texas and we're going to talk to Jerry. Hello, Jerry. Yes, 1960 02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:18.280 my question is about relocating a young, small oak tree that's grown up. 1961 02:18:18.360 --> 02:18:22.440 They're too close to the house and I hate just to cut it off. 1962 02:18:22.479 --> 02:18:26.319 I'd like to relocate it somewhere on my property and I'm going to ask 1963 02:18:26.399 --> 02:18:31.559 advice on what to do to give it his best chance of surviving. Okay, 1964 02:18:31.440 --> 02:18:37.440 I'm assuming this is a volunteer tree. Is that right? Came up 1965 02:18:37.479 --> 02:18:41.399 from seed? It came up from seed on its own. It's it's not 1966 02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:46.479 when you planted, Okay. And how big is the trunk? A few 1967 02:18:46.520 --> 02:18:50.159 inches up above the grounds? As big as your thumb or bigger or smaller? 1968 02:18:52.200 --> 02:18:56.920 Uh probably maybe half a dollar size half a dollar? All Right, 1969 02:18:58.200 --> 02:19:00.879 I tell you what I'm gonna I'm gonna to talk to you about this. 1970 02:19:00.959 --> 02:19:03.239 I want to be able to give you a little more time and the answer 1971 02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:05.120 than I've got before I take a break here, So I'm going to ask 1972 02:19:05.159 --> 02:19:09.040 you if you can to hold on. If you can't hold on, I'll 1973 02:19:09.079 --> 02:19:11.639 put you on hold here. I'll just talk about it when I come back 1974 02:19:11.680 --> 02:19:15.920 from break. But I'd be happy to continue this discussion on the other side 1975 02:19:15.959 --> 02:19:18.440 of our break because there are a few little bits to the instructions that I 1976 02:19:18.520 --> 02:19:24.079 want to give you on how to have success in relocating that plant. So 1977 02:19:24.319 --> 02:19:26.200 thank you Jerry very much for that. It is time to take a break 1978 02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:28.879 for the Nicky News Network. If you'd like to give us a call seven 1979 02:19:28.879 --> 02:19:33.559 to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. NICKI I got it 1980 02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:37.559 right that time. It's all your well, good morning, welcome back to 1981 02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:41.840 Garden Line. We're looking forward to talking to a couple more callers we got 1982 02:19:41.840 --> 02:19:43.639 here on the line. If you'd like to call, the phone number is 1983 02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:48.280 seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and we're going to 1984 02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:54.159 continue now with Jerry Iden Hockley. Jerry, you've got that oak tree that's 1985 02:19:54.200 --> 02:19:56.920 about the size of I think you said a half dollars somewhere in there. 1986 02:19:58.639 --> 02:20:01.200 With a tree that size, it's going to a pretty good root system. 1987 02:20:01.879 --> 02:20:07.079 And if it was a seedling, which it was volunteer coming up, it's 1988 02:20:07.079 --> 02:20:09.760 going to have a tap root on it, and so you want to dig 1989 02:20:09.799 --> 02:20:13.159 out. I would try to get out at least a foot on each side 1990 02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:18.959 of it from the trunk, and then go down about a foot deep if 1991 02:20:18.000 --> 02:20:22.879 you can. If you have the ability to go deeper or wider, whatever, 1992 02:20:22.959 --> 02:20:26.280 that's all good. But the first thing I would do is I would 1993 02:20:26.280 --> 02:20:30.959 wait until the leaves start to fall off of it and you're seeing that it's 1994 02:20:31.000 --> 02:20:33.600 okay, it's on its way to being leafless, and I would dig it 1995 02:20:33.719 --> 02:20:37.719 in. So that's probably going to be in November sometime. Maybe it just 1996 02:20:37.719 --> 02:20:41.600 depends on the type of oak and the weather we have, and get as 1997 02:20:41.680 --> 02:20:46.440 much as you can up out of the ground. If the soil falls off, 1998 02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:50.479 that's okay, don't worry about that. If it falls off, just 1999 02:20:50.559 --> 02:20:54.559 let it. Don't hurt you back trying to pick that up, because it 2000 02:20:54.559 --> 02:21:01.479 doesn't take much soil to be really really heavy. Go go ahead. I'm 2001 02:21:01.520 --> 02:21:05.360 just saying, right, I'm just bottling along. Oh okay, all right, 2002 02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:09.079 all right. So I remember Randy used to remember some of the discussions 2003 02:21:09.120 --> 02:21:13.639 Randy used to have about rolls soil. It was big on that road. 2004 02:21:13.280 --> 02:21:16.600 So I wondered if you were going to get into that, well, well 2005 02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:20.200 we can now. Are you gonna want to put it immediately in its new 2006 02:21:20.239 --> 02:21:24.760 location or pot it up with what's your preference. I'm gonna put it in 2007 02:21:24.799 --> 02:21:28.760 a new location. I'm gonna have the hole already, Doug all right, 2008 02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:33.959 all right, So if you wanted to use an improved soil in the area, 2009 02:21:33.040 --> 02:21:37.440 you could, But with a tree transplant, I wouldn't worry about that. 2010 02:21:37.719 --> 02:21:41.280 I would just use the soil that it is going to have to grow 2011 02:21:41.319 --> 02:21:43.840 in because an oak tree is going to have roots going fifty feet in all 2012 02:21:43.879 --> 02:21:48.399 directions and then some, so a mending a little spot around the bases is 2013 02:21:48.479 --> 02:21:52.959 not going to be that helpful. But when you dig it up, you 2014 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:56.440 want to keep those roots moist. Do not let them dry out. If 2015 02:21:56.479 --> 02:22:00.159 you've got to. You know, it's gonna be several hours for you can 2016 02:22:00.200 --> 02:22:03.440 get it over it and get it in the ground. Then you can put 2017 02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:05.319 them in a bucket of water, a tub of water you can throw you 2018 02:22:05.360 --> 02:22:11.559 know, wet hay or barlap sacks, I mean anything to kind of keep 2019 02:22:11.600 --> 02:22:16.760 them moist. Dig the hole the same depth as the depth of the root 2020 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:22.719 system from where that original soil line is on it right now down to the 2021 02:22:22.799 --> 02:22:26.680 Harvard deep. You dig, put it in there and start to fill the 2022 02:22:26.719 --> 02:22:28.760 soil in, and as you do, fill about a third of it in, 2023 02:22:30.360 --> 02:22:31.879 settle it in around the roots, and water it in to let it 2024 02:22:33.000 --> 02:22:37.360 soak in. To settle that soil around the roots, fill another third and 2025 02:22:37.399 --> 02:22:39.600 then water it in to settle it in, and then fill the rest of 2026 02:22:39.600 --> 02:22:43.120 it in and water it in to settle it in. Now, if you 2027 02:22:43.200 --> 02:22:46.239 want, you can go ahead and make a doughnut shaped ring of soil, 2028 02:22:46.360 --> 02:22:50.959 like a big round dam around the whole thing to hole water, because next 2029 02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:56.719 summer when you water it, you're going to want to fill that dam with 2030 02:22:56.840 --> 02:23:01.159 two inches of water and have it all. That'll make could all soak straight 2031 02:23:01.200 --> 02:23:03.959 down where that root system is getting going, and you're gonna want to do 2032 02:23:05.079 --> 02:23:09.399 that when it heats up. Probably twice a week for this first at least 2033 02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:13.479 the first half of the summer, maybe go to once a week after that, 2034 02:23:13.200 --> 02:23:16.600 but you just the key is to get the roots in keep them moist 2035 02:23:16.680 --> 02:23:20.159 because all those cutoff roots they're going to branch and grow. People buy bear 2036 02:23:20.239 --> 02:23:24.280 root plants all the time that are going to have less roots on them than 2037 02:23:24.319 --> 02:23:33.879 what you dig up what any kind of I don't know, supplements. Yes, 2038 02:23:35.200 --> 02:23:39.319 yes, there is something called a root stimulator. There are several types 2039 02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:43.239 of those. They often contain they may have some vitamins. They definitely should 2040 02:23:43.239 --> 02:23:48.120 have hormones in them, and that helps stimulate root growth too. And so 2041 02:23:48.239 --> 02:23:52.319 you can buy a jug of those. I don't know if you've got an 2042 02:23:52.319 --> 02:23:54.280 ace hardware store out there near you, but someplace that will sell you a 2043 02:23:54.319 --> 02:23:58.719 good quality roots stimulator. Mix it in water, follow the instructions, and 2044 02:23:58.840 --> 02:24:03.319 just soak the soil when you plant. The final soaking is with that root 2045 02:24:03.399 --> 02:24:09.440 stimulator. Perfect. Yah, got I've got a worse here. Yeah, 2046 02:24:09.520 --> 02:24:13.479 I would do that, and then I do the root stimulator again. You 2047 02:24:13.479 --> 02:24:15.440 know, if you got that little berm, you can just fill it up 2048 02:24:15.440 --> 02:24:16.719 and soak it straight down in there again. In fact, you could do 2049 02:24:16.840 --> 02:24:20.840 that maybe on the I was talking about fill some soil, settle it in. 2050 02:24:20.959 --> 02:24:24.520 Fill some soil, settle it in. You could use a rich stimulator 2051 02:24:24.520 --> 02:24:26.399 for that process too, there's nothing wrong with it. That sounds like a 2052 02:24:26.399 --> 02:24:31.040 good idea. I just want to give it his best chance for survival. 2053 02:24:31.079 --> 02:24:35.000 Well, what I just described, you're you're digging it at the very end 2054 02:24:35.079 --> 02:24:39.680 of the season, where those leaves are pumping water, and you're settling soil 2055 02:24:39.719 --> 02:24:41.479 in around it. You're taking good care of it. You're making sure it 2056 02:24:41.520 --> 02:24:46.680 stays moist. That's the best thing you can do for it. All right, 2057 02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.200 Well, I appreciate that advice. That gives me a little more confidence 2058 02:24:50.280 --> 02:24:52.799 going into this. All right, Jerry, Well you're going to do great. 2059 02:24:54.120 --> 02:24:56.600 Uh yeah, call me, call me when it's big enough to hang 2060 02:24:56.600 --> 02:25:01.520 a hammock in and I'll come over there and we'll we'll have a good time. 2061 02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:09.040 You take care of Bye, bye, take care. Let's see where 2062 02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:11.440 we're going to go. Now, we're going to head to Katie and we're 2063 02:25:11.440 --> 02:25:16.000 going to talk to Ed. Hello. Yeah, what's up? Hey? 2064 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:20.440 We head Yeah, go ahead, what's up? We have an infestation of 2065 02:25:20.520 --> 02:25:26.239 those creeping weeds in our backyard with a little white flower. Okay, and 2066 02:25:26.319 --> 02:25:31.920 the stem of them is sometimes almost purple. Oh okay, all right, 2067 02:25:31.200 --> 02:25:37.479 that sounds like Virginia button weed. Is the white flower like four petals and 2068 02:25:37.520 --> 02:25:41.520 across. Yeah, that's Virginia button weed. Okay, for right now, 2069 02:25:41.559 --> 02:25:46.600 it's a little late to spray and accomplish anything without Virginia button weed. What 2070 02:25:46.639 --> 02:25:50.879 I would recommend you do as much as you can, either you or I'm 2071 02:25:50.879 --> 02:25:54.399 sorry, Oh can you hear me better now? Yes? I can't thank 2072 02:25:54.440 --> 02:25:58.399 you pulling up as much as you can now to get as much of those 2073 02:25:58.440 --> 02:26:05.200 little buttons and seeds out is a lot of them, and so no one 2074 02:26:05.239 --> 02:26:07.879 wants to hear the words hand pulling. But if you can carefully get as 2075 02:26:07.959 --> 02:26:13.319 much out as you can, you're reducing the battle some Next year it's going 2076 02:26:13.360 --> 02:26:15.760 to be back, and it'll be back with a vengeance, but at least 2077 02:26:15.799 --> 02:26:18.200 you're cutting down on it next year. When you first see that weed, 2078 02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:24.479 you need to start to spray it and a product like a bon Eye weed 2079 02:26:24.479 --> 02:26:28.600 Beater Ultra or a product site Bon Eyed b o n I d E b 2080 02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:37.040 nide Weed Beater Ultra or should I do it with a weed spreader or is 2081 02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:41.879 a liquid? No, you're you're you're getting it into a spray bought a 2082 02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:46.159 spray container and you're squirting each weed that you see with it, and you're 2083 02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:50.200 gonna do this more than once. But you just squirt the weed. You 2084 02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:54.120 don't treat the whole lawn with this product. You squirt the weeds. Another 2085 02:26:54.200 --> 02:27:00.719 alternative is called celsius, like fahrenheit and celsius. I'm sorry, skirt again, 2086 02:27:01.719 --> 02:27:07.360 celsius. Celsius like the temperature. All right, oh okay, And 2087 02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:11.360 you do those, repeat them, and whenever you see it coming up, 2088 02:27:11.440 --> 02:27:13.079 hit them with it and just stay with it. I'm gonna have to take 2089 02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:18.239 a break right here, ed, But that's the way a liquid or a 2090 02:27:18.239 --> 02:27:22.159 powder a liquid. You're mixing it up as a liquid. Yes, sir, 2091 02:27:22.239 --> 02:27:24.040 you take care. We will be right back. Folks. Seven one 2092 02:27:24.120 --> 02:27:30.639 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Stephanie your first up. Welcome 2093 02:27:30.719 --> 02:27:33.280 to a garden line. We are glad you're listening today. I'm your host, 2094 02:27:33.360 --> 02:27:37.319 Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions. Our phone number 2095 02:27:37.520 --> 02:27:41.479 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Probably gotten room 2096 02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:46.520 for another call, maybe two if we if we hurry things along, and 2097 02:27:46.559 --> 02:27:48.959 we're just gonna start off by going straight out to Katie and talk to Stephanie. 2098 02:27:48.959 --> 02:27:54.239 Hello, Stephanie, Hi, Skip, I'll be real quick. I'm 2099 02:27:54.280 --> 02:28:01.440 trying to make my own compost t okay for next year's gardening cycle, and 2100 02:28:00.959 --> 02:28:03.799 I'm not set up to make my own compost, so I'm looking to use 2101 02:28:05.399 --> 02:28:09.479 the bag to compost, okay, And is there something that's the better to 2102 02:28:09.559 --> 02:28:15.840 use right now? I have bags of the Happy Frog dual conditioner, but 2103 02:28:15.879 --> 02:28:18.959 I just want to make sure that I'm using the you know, whatever compost 2104 02:28:18.079 --> 02:28:22.360 is the best to make for us to use for compost. Yeah. You 2105 02:28:22.399 --> 02:28:26.000 know, anytime you have decomposed organic matter, there's gonna be microbes in it, 2106 02:28:26.040 --> 02:28:28.280 and there's gonna be nutrients in it, and that's a good thing, 2107 02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:31.760 and you can do that, you know. I tend to lean toward some 2108 02:28:31.840 --> 02:28:37.440 of the heirloom sols products, some of the Nature's Way products that are available, 2109 02:28:37.760 --> 02:28:39.079 just because I know the folks, I know how they're made. I 2110 02:28:39.120 --> 02:28:43.520 know they take the time to do it right, not just rush stuff out. 2111 02:28:43.120 --> 02:28:46.159 Uh. And so I would lean toward that. But I'm gonna tell 2112 02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:50.120 you that if you've got some decomposed organic matter and it's on hand, you 2113 02:28:50.120 --> 02:28:52.600 already got it there, just go and use it. Otherwise I would look 2114 02:28:52.639 --> 02:28:56.440 for one of those, uh. And I would probably go with a leaf 2115 02:28:58.239 --> 02:29:03.040 leaf mold compost or a fungal compost. Either one would do just fine. 2116 02:29:03.680 --> 02:29:07.040 But yeah, that'll get you off to a good start. Compost he's good. 2117 02:29:07.079 --> 02:29:11.239 Just remember keep it errated. It's very important to have oxygen in. 2118 02:29:11.239 --> 02:29:15.920 They're already use it right away. That's probably even better. Yes, I'm 2119 02:29:15.920 --> 02:29:18.600 going to do both. Slash it around, slash it around and have fun. 2120 02:29:18.680 --> 02:29:22.920 It'll do good. It's good stuff. Yes, great, Thank you 2121 02:29:22.000 --> 02:29:26.360 so much, you bat, thank you very much. I appreciate your call. 2122 02:29:26.440 --> 02:29:28.479 You know, I just want to take a moment before we run out 2123 02:29:28.520 --> 02:29:33.799 of show today, and I want to just congratulate Dean Nelson, the folks 2124 02:29:33.799 --> 02:29:39.799 at Nelson Plant Food, the family, the whole team out there. Forty 2125 02:29:39.879 --> 02:29:45.719 years ago, yesterday, October fourteenth, nineteen eighty three. I was just 2126 02:29:45.799 --> 02:29:50.719 starting my graduate school at that time. Dean Nelson opened Nelson Plant Food, 2127 02:29:50.000 --> 02:29:54.159 and it's the rest is history. I mean, they they have so many 2128 02:29:54.280 --> 02:29:58.719 great lines of products. They got the Color Star, they got the nutri 2129 02:29:58.799 --> 02:30:01.399 Star, they got the Turfs, they got their Organic Ligne, the Nature 2130 02:30:01.479 --> 02:30:07.840 Star products. They're all excellent products out there, and it's all grown little 2131 02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:11.920 by little over time by taking time to pay attention to, you know, 2132 02:30:11.959 --> 02:30:16.559 what does research say that our soils need. What is the latest information that 2133 02:30:16.600 --> 02:30:20.879 we have on how to make quality products, What are the ingredients that are 2134 02:30:20.879 --> 02:30:22.799 needed? And they do that there and that's why they've had success with that. 2135 02:30:24.280 --> 02:30:26.440 Right now, the number one product they got on the market if of 2136 02:30:26.479 --> 02:30:31.639 this season for almost everybody is because most people have a lawn is carbo load. 2137 02:30:31.920 --> 02:30:37.959 Carble Load is designed for fall applications. It's also got a pre emergent 2138 02:30:37.040 --> 02:30:41.879 in it, by the way, to prevent weed seeds from germinating. Now, 2139 02:30:41.959 --> 02:30:45.280 you need to get that on soon, especially because of that pre emergent, 2140 02:30:45.360 --> 02:30:48.159 to get the most benefit from it. And here's why October November and 2141 02:30:48.239 --> 02:30:52.799 even on through the cool season weed seeds cool season weed seeds are going to 2142 02:30:52.799 --> 02:30:56.680 be germinating. There's a lot of species that are in our lawns. And 2143 02:30:56.760 --> 02:30:58.719 by getting it down now, watering in with a half inch of water, 2144 02:31:00.360 --> 02:31:03.840 release those nutrients to the roots. You release the pre emergent to get in 2145 02:31:03.879 --> 02:31:07.440 the soul surface and do the work that it's going to do. And that 2146 02:31:07.600 --> 02:31:11.280 is very very important to do that. So don't delay on this, by 2147 02:31:11.319 --> 02:31:16.000 the way, as if we needed icing on the cake. Two dollars for 2148 02:31:16.159 --> 02:31:22.520 every bag of carbole load sold this fall will go to Randy's memorial scholarship up 2149 02:31:22.520 --> 02:31:26.719 at Texas A and M for horticulture students. So if you want to see 2150 02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:31.239 double benefits not only to your lawn but also to future students, and in 2151 02:31:31.280 --> 02:31:35.680 the name of a guy who hosted this show for over twenty five years, 2152 02:31:35.600 --> 02:31:39.440 this is a time to do it. Two bucks a bag for every bag 2153 02:31:39.479 --> 02:31:41.879 that's going out a carbo load, So don't delay get that done. Now's 2154 02:31:41.879 --> 02:31:45.559 the time. I mean now, it's the time you get those extra benefits, 2155 02:31:45.719 --> 02:31:48.120 and now's the time and you do the most good for your lawn and 2156 02:31:50.120 --> 02:31:52.319 Nelson's carbo load. It's a ten ten to twenty product. Brus the pre 2157 02:31:52.360 --> 02:31:56.639 emergent. This is the time to get that done. Oh thank Deane, 2158 02:31:56.639 --> 02:32:01.840 appreciate that very much. From doing that and that scholarship up and then now 2159 02:32:01.879 --> 02:32:05.239 adding that to it to just help build it more and more. Hey, 2160 02:32:05.280 --> 02:32:07.079 let's go out to Freeport. We're gonna talk to Anna. Hello, Anna, 2161 02:32:09.239 --> 02:32:13.559 Hello, how are you this morning? Are this I'm going I'm doing 2162 02:32:13.680 --> 02:32:16.760 good? Okay, this may not be serious or it may I don't know, 2163 02:32:16.879 --> 02:32:22.360 but I just have mushrooms coming up all over my yard. It's not 2164 02:32:22.440 --> 02:32:26.000 a problem. It's not a proble problem, no, ma'am. When we 2165 02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:28.879 get into fall and we get a little break from the heat or maybe get 2166 02:32:28.879 --> 02:32:35.040 a little rainstorm come through, all kinds of mushrooms start popping up everywhere. 2167 02:32:35.040 --> 02:32:39.680 We get the big round circles of white mushrooms sometimes in the yard. People 2168 02:32:39.799 --> 02:32:41.559 been calling. I've had two calls today of the little things you step on 2169 02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:45.920 and they puff spores up out in the air like dust going up in the 2170 02:32:45.959 --> 02:32:50.840 air. It's really common in the fall. Nothing for you to worry about. 2171 02:32:50.159 --> 02:32:54.040 Just go on with life and have fun gardening. Okay, great, 2172 02:32:54.079 --> 02:32:56.280 I've been calling them up, and it seems like the more I do, 2173 02:32:56.440 --> 02:32:58.760 I thought they were bad. I didn't know if they was bunk us, 2174 02:33:00.079 --> 02:33:03.399 you know, because you think of that. But well, here's why, 2175 02:33:03.520 --> 02:33:09.200 here's why they're coming back. Mushrooms are the fruiting structure of a fungus that's 2176 02:33:09.280 --> 02:33:13.680 all in the soil or in wood and stuff like that. In moults. 2177 02:33:13.120 --> 02:33:18.799 It depends on what kind it is. So pulling up a mushroom is like 2178 02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:22.280 going to a fruit tree and pruning off a bloom. It doesn't do anything. 2179 02:33:22.440 --> 02:33:26.440 It just sends out more blooms, right, and so all you're doing 2180 02:33:26.520 --> 02:33:30.840 is you're just popping the fruiting structures off the ground. No need to do 2181 02:33:30.879 --> 02:33:33.399 that, Just ignore it. I mean, if you're a golfer, get 2182 02:33:33.440 --> 02:33:35.360 your golf club. It's a lot of fun to go out there and try 2183 02:33:35.399 --> 02:33:41.079 to whack those things across into the neighbor's yard. Okay, all right, 2184 02:33:41.600 --> 02:33:45.399 I was just wondering, thank you so much. Okay, you bet have 2185 02:33:45.479 --> 02:33:48.680 fun out there in Freeport, and thank you so much for the call. 2186 02:33:50.040 --> 02:33:52.479 Yep, that's it. Don't worry about mushrooms. There are a lot of 2187 02:33:52.600 --> 02:33:58.399 organisms that are just part of the big created order out there that makes everything 2188 02:33:58.479 --> 02:34:03.479 work. I mean, think about it. If you've had forests around for 2189 02:34:03.799 --> 02:34:09.079 thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of years, grow in trees and drop 2190 02:34:09.079 --> 02:34:13.440 in logs and trunks and everything and limbs. The reason the forest isn't a 2191 02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:18.040 mile deep in tree trunks is because there's organisms whose job it is is to 2192 02:34:18.079 --> 02:34:22.959 turn those tree trunks back into soil. There's organisms that turn every tree leaf, 2193 02:34:22.000 --> 02:34:26.719 the twalls in the forest back into soil. Fortunate for us, we've 2194 02:34:26.799 --> 02:34:31.959 learned how to bring those in compost with them, make good good stuff, 2195 02:34:31.040 --> 02:34:35.799 screen it and sell it to gardeners so they can have a better yard. 2196 02:34:35.840 --> 02:34:39.079 You know, it would take I don't know, hundreds of years for a 2197 02:34:39.239 --> 02:34:43.840 rainforest to develop beautiful, beautiful soil naturally. But you can go to your 2198 02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:48.520 backyard with this heavy clay we got here in the southeast Texas region, all 2199 02:34:48.520 --> 02:34:50.959 along the Gulf coast. In fact, some of you listen to me from 2200 02:34:50.959 --> 02:34:54.120 over in the Austin area's black clay over there. There's black clay up through 2201 02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:58.479 Dallas and all kinds of things. Some of that soil is pretty rough to 2202 02:34:58.479 --> 02:35:01.360 grow things in. You get organic matter and you put it in that soil, 2203 02:35:01.600 --> 02:35:07.600 and suddenly that dense soil that holds water like modeling clay wood, suddenly 2204 02:35:07.879 --> 02:35:13.399 gets better internal drainage. It separates the particles, It creates structure, It 2205 02:35:13.479 --> 02:35:18.639 makes roots happy, It brings oxygen down into the soil because it's not just 2206 02:35:18.680 --> 02:35:22.000 a dense, thick, heavy clay. You got some organic matter in it. 2207 02:35:22.120 --> 02:35:24.639 Throw in some expanded shale too. By the way, if you're trying 2208 02:35:24.680 --> 02:35:30.959 to fix a heavy clay soil, that is a very long term benefit, 2209 02:35:31.000 --> 02:35:33.319 and it takes quite a bit of it to do its full work several inches. 2210 02:35:33.799 --> 02:35:37.559 But just keep adding it, just keep adding it, and that's the 2211 02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:41.040 whole. I mean. We can learn a lot from nature. You know, 2212 02:35:41.399 --> 02:35:46.280 think about the grasslands across Mid America. When the settlers came across in 2213 02:35:46.360 --> 02:35:50.239 wagons. The grass they said was deep as a horse's belly. Why did 2214 02:35:50.319 --> 02:35:56.280 that grass grow like that? Who's fertilizing, who's water in it, who 2215 02:35:56.319 --> 02:35:58.559 was rototelling it? You know, nature was taking care of it. It 2216 02:35:58.559 --> 02:36:01.639 takes a lot long time in nature. We can speed it up in our 2217 02:36:01.719 --> 02:36:05.360 lawns and landscapes because you don't want to wait eighty years to have a beautiful 2218 02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:09.440 flower. Bit. But that's how it works. And we can work in 2219 02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:16.159 cooperation with nature that way and just make things better and better. And we 2220 02:36:16.200 --> 02:36:18.360 brag all the time. Compost, compost, compost. It's kind of like 2221 02:36:18.399 --> 02:36:22.639 the movie My Big Fact Greek Wedding. He thought you had to squirk wind 2222 02:36:22.840 --> 02:36:24.879 x on anything and it would fix it. Well, I'm kind of that 2223 02:36:24.920 --> 02:36:30.079 way about gardening. You got a problem, throw some compost on it, 2224 02:36:30.079 --> 02:36:33.280 it'll fix it. Well, maybe that's stretching it a little bit, but 2225 02:36:33.399 --> 02:36:35.319 you get the idea. What I'm talking about. Hey, we appreciate you 2226 02:36:35.360 --> 02:36:39.879 being a listener to garden Line. We're closing our show down today. We'll 2227 02:36:39.879 --> 02:36:43.520 be back again next Saturday and Sunday from six a m. To ten am. 2228 02:36:43.600 --> 02:36:46.159 Remember, if you miss the show, you can go listen by podcast 2229 02:36:46.280 --> 02:36:50.680 or your iHeart radio app or whatever your podcast server is. Just look for 2230 02:36:50.760 --> 02:36:54.360 garden Line on there. You can listen that way. Tell your neighbors about 2231 02:36:54.399 --> 02:36:58.319 it. We always love to have new listeners because the more people listen, 2232 02:36:58.440 --> 02:37:03.600 the more people pay attention and follow the things we talk about here, the 2233 02:37:03.600 --> 02:37:09.639 more beautiful the greater Houston area or wherever you're listening from can become the happier 2234 02:37:09.680 --> 02:37:13.680 you as a gardener having success. Hey, we're in this to have fun. 2235 02:37:13.719 --> 02:37:18.479 We're in this to grow healthy food. We're in this to create beautiful 2236 02:37:18.559 --> 02:37:24.079 landscapes and bountiful gardens. That's what it's all about. Now next Saturday, 2237 02:37:24.319 --> 02:37:30.479 write this down again if you have them already. October twenty Firth twenty first, 2238 02:37:30.680 --> 02:37:35.920 Richmond, Texas Enchanted Gardens just north of Richmond up toward Katie Direction. 2239 02:37:37.079 --> 02:37:41.040 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be answering your gardening 2240 02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:43.920 questions. First of all, I love to meet you, get a chance 2241 02:37:43.959 --> 02:37:48.760 to visit, look eye to eye. I'll answer gardening questions. I'll identify 2242 02:37:48.840 --> 02:37:52.479 plants, I will identify problems. Bring them in in a plastic bag. 2243 02:37:52.959 --> 02:37:56.479 We're going to have a great time out there. And before you show up, 2244 02:37:56.799 --> 02:37:58.399 make sure your back of your pickup is empty, the back of the 2245 02:37:58.399 --> 02:38:01.040 car trunk empty, because you need to fill up with a lot of good 2246 02:38:01.040 --> 02:38:05.920 stuff, because boy, they ever loaded with that out of engendered gardens. 2247 02:38:05.959 --> 02:38:07.559 Hey, we'll see you next Saturday.