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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with skip rictor smell, just watching

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to sei. Good morning, Good
Saturday morning. On a day this is

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gonna be a good day for gardening. I can say that with confidence.

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It's still dark outside, but that
won't last long. We're gonna be getting

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some beautiful sunshine coming out today.
Good day to get out early on,

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hopefully and get a few things going. Knock out a few of those outside

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tasks, and we got a few
to do. By the way, this

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is you know, this is the
time of year when it's so hot.

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It's been hot for so long that
people kind of don't have a lot of

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motivation, you know, to get
outside and do some stuff. But morning

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time is a good time to do
it. I still, you know it,

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just being outside early in the morning, I don't know, the bird

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songs and all kinds of other perks
that I think are worth luring you outside

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for I can get a lot of
things done and we need to. And

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here's why fall is coming. Now
is the time to get tomatoes planted if

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you have them already. In fact, we're getting a little bit late on

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the tomato planting, but we can
still get some in. If you get

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a fast win going, don't take
don't plant a brandywine. It's gonna take

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eighty days or something to get get
to harvest. But something a little bit

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faster you can still do that.
We're coming up on the time with planting

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potatoes and planting green beans and squash, cucumbers, all those kind of things

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are coming up. If you want
to have you if you want to grow

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your own vegetables for a cool season, like broccoli or cabbage or things.

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Now is it time to plant those
seeds and get those ready to go.

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So when we get further into September, we'll be able to have a good,

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strong transplant that we can move out
into the garden. So we'll be

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talking about some things like that as
we go forward. Hey, I'm your

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host, Skip Richter. Thanks for
listening this morning. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Let's
start off by going to Tomball and talking

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to Mel. Hello, Mel,
Yeah, I got a problem with some

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poison oak coming up at the edge
of our property. You underneath some pine

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trees, and I'll just wonder if
if I spray that stuff with a brush

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killer, is that going to affect
the pine tree? Can not if you

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just get it on the poison oak
and not on green parts of the pine

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tree. And then second, don't
drench it so that you get it washing

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down in the roots of the tree. But you'll be fine with that.

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How big? How big is the
poison argument? Are the branches are excuse

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me, are the trunks small or
are they like as big as one of

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your fingers? There they're buying like
my fingers. See, they keep There's

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not a whole lot of grass going
down there, but it comes up.

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And every time I walk by there, and I've been just bowing them over,

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you know, Okay, now,
I mean I haven't. I haven't

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done that lately. And I noticed
they're they're sprouting up, so they're small

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yet, and I just didn't want
to, you know, anyone, My

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pine trees are like we've been We've
been living here for forty years in this

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place, and the pretty big anyhow, I just didn't want to affect them,

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you know what I'm saying. But
they're they're real small, so okay,

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well you can spray the foliage of
them as as it comes out.

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You do want to do that now
and you and if anything shows back up,

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do it again, uh sometime in
August or early September, early to

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mid September if you can, because
they're going to be going into fall storing

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all their carbohydrates and getting ready for
spring. And that that is a good

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time to have poison ivy when it's
you know, pulling down carbohydrates getting ready

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for the upcoming winter. So you
really you can do it all through September

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and still get pretty good control,
better than many times of the year.

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Well, I appreciate, thank you
much. Have a good day. Thank

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you, mel I appreciate that.
Let's head out now to Navsota and we're

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gonna talk to Dennis. Good morning, Dennis, Good wring Skip. I

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have a question. I have a
shrmid oak about three years ago. It's

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currently the about two inch diameter.
It's a good twelve fifteen feet tall.

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It's been doing really good. However, I don't know what The leaves have

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turned yellow with some round spots on
it, and I don't know if it's

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the water at least once to twice
a week. Okay, I may have

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really done something wrong. I have
to admit this. I I don't like

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weeds, and there's weeds growing year
around the tree and I hit it with

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some um it's like, uh,
what do you call the killer um like

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anyway? Like a round up kind
of thing or yeah, okay, eraser

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h anyway. I try to be
very careful. You have to get on

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the bark of the tree at all. All right, Well, Dennis,

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I can. I can cut in
there and put your mind at ease.

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You symptoms you describe are not the
symptoms of glyphosate damage. Good. Yeah,

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you didn't You didn't do that.
Um So tell me again how long

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the tree has been in the ground. About three years ago? Three?

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Okay, I think you need to
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probably step up the watering a little
bit. Are you using an automatic system

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or a hose end or what?
Um? Well, actually I put an

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automatic system out and I use a
little feeder twice a week for about an

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hour. Okay, and well you
haven't done. I took a piece of

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a PBC pipe about two foot long
with holes in it, and they drive

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it into the ground from the tree. Yeah, and I take a dripstick

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and I can tell how what the
water level is. Okay, So sometimes

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if I feel a little bit the
liquid I had with the garden hills,

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But most of the time I use
the drip system and it it usually keeps

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pretty good level of water in there. Okay. Well, I'll tell you

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at this point in that tree's life, and especially with the weather you're having

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up there, I think it's better
to water more soil volume than a drip

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will do. Unless you just have
that drip system covering you know, like

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three square feet or something. I
would get I would grab a tree hugger

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sprinkler. You've probably heard me talk
about those before. Oh yeah, but

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it's a little hinged thing. You
can put it around the tree. In

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fact, you're over in Navasota if
you just you know, head over to

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Grimes County feed which over over toward
Carlos. They got them there. They

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carry tree huggers over there, and
and it's really easy. You hook it

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to the hose, you can turn
the valve on the sprinkler, and then

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you go over to the you know, to your valve on the house your

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spigot and turn it on and you
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like a one foot circle. But
in this case, for your tree,

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i'd probably get that thing cranked up
pretty good. Where you're watering,

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oh, let's say fifteen twenty feet
across. Uh, I kind of have

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to see the canopy. You want
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imagine imagine at noonday, you're the
sun is shining down. Where would the

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shadow of the tree be. You
want to water that area plus a little

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beyond that. Okay, the soil
here is pretty bad with the with the

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clay, yes, and trucks of
people of Arborgate. I dug the hole

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of at least two foot in diameter
or two foot deep, and I treated

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it. I mean I put good
soil and I added to the uh what

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do you call it? It's like
little little stones in there. Okay,

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And so I think I did everything
right and planting. It's good soil there.

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Now, well you may have,
and you know, I think the

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tree's fine. It's just the demander
through the roof right now. I mean,

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you know, you've been how many
days above one hundred degrees and it's

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one hundred as far as we can
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get at the volume of water.
But again, you can't get enough roots

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around a small area to supply a
whole tree, you know. So even

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if you had a bunch of little
drippers for a tree that's hit your tree's

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size, then you got it wet
a larger volume of soil. That's the

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bottom line. And that's why I
like that tree hugger because you can control

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that whole thing, how wide you
water and everything and you start. So

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that's that too. Fo Yeah,
yeah, go over there, talk to

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talk to Christen, those folks over
there and they'll they'll get you set up.

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Hey, I appreciate that call.
We are going to take a break

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our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Well,

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good morning on a great Saturday morning
for getting some gardening done. It's

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too dark to garden outside unless you
got headlights. So let's just talk radio

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stuff this morning, and hopefully before
long you'll be out there getting a few

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things caught up, because boy,
this is the time of day to be

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outside in the summertime. We're gonna
head over to League City and talk to

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Rob. Hello, Rob, say, good morning morning, how can we

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help I've got I got a tree
in my front yard what the builders put

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in their house, about twenty years
old. But it's putting up a ground

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route that's bigger than my arm,
and it's headed towards the foundation and it's

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actually where the water comes in the
house and the BBC. I wondered,

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if I cut that with the chainsaws, they're going to kill the tree.

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Well, it's a percentage game,
and it's also a tree conditioned game.

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So here's what I mean by that. Uh, you know, if you

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take just like one root off that
isn't a huge percentage of that tree's root

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system, it's probably okay. Uh, the doing more than that is a

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stress. But I would hold off
on it until we get to fall if

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you're going to do it, because
right now that tree needs every available route

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to bring up ever drop of water
it can get. And so I wouldn't

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do that to it now for sure. Right Yeah. Yeah, it's a

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it's a big enough fruit and the
way it's grow and it's going to be

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underneath the foundation, okay, and
that a root that side could crush the

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fight, Yeah, yeah, it
could. And those kind of things happen.

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Something you might want to consider m
Martin spoon Moore over an affordable tree

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there there are tree service guy and
Martin can do something called an under It's

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an underground root barrier. So imagine
just putting a wall underground. It's basically

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what it amounts to. And you
just have to hit it and go down

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and and and so by the time
if they do go under and come up,

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which they probably won't, uh,
it's not going to be a problem.

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So you know, cutting roots is
a short term thing and it's stressful

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to the tree and you lose you
lose the anchorage of that root on that

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side. So you might want to
look at a longer term solution, like

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having a root barrier put in to
protect your foundation, sidewalks, driveways,

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whatever whatever might be at rest.
Okay, yeah, one more treat question.

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Um, I've got a tree in
the backyard that my neighbor's bushy trees

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kind of approached on my side and
it's still and half the tree. Okay,

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you know what it is it legal
to trim is tree on my side

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of the fence. Well, I
don't know that. You'd have to talk

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to a lawyer on that tree.
Get I'll stay, I'll stay in my

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yard. When and that's called horticulture. If I cut off the dead part,

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I mean it half the tree,
you know at branches at the top

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and a good half of the tree
on close to his side is dead.

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Yeah, it's a pretty good sized
tree. Yeah, if I cut that

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off as I mean, well that
I guess I need to talk to a

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tree person. But yeah, I
want to say the tree if it all

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possible. Yeah, and uh,
you could you know, went if you

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were to call Martin that that would
be another thing to ask him. You

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know, he probably he lives in
that world. He's probably not a lawyer,

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but he's probably familiar with you know, kind of us. What's what's

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service? Hang on just a second, it's an affordable tree service? Just

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one moment. Okay, all right, I'll look it up. Let me.

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I'll just give you the well but
I had it here, I'll find

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it here and i'll say it on
the air and just a little bit.

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Okay, okay, all right,
thank you three? All right, you

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bet, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah,

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you know, we're talking all kinds
of things trees to day. I

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mentioned tree Hugger a little bit earlier. You know, they have them out

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at Grimes Canny. Tree hugger sprinklers
are all over the place throughout the Houston

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area. You're going to find them
at at our home, mom and pop

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garden centers, You're gonna find them
at as hardware. They're just they're just

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all over the place. And it's
an excellent way to savior trees. I

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mean we're going through a period of
time now where the demands on trees are

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intense. I mean they are they're
having to pump a lot of water to

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get by, and we got to
take care of them. And you need

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people that know what they're doing.
And I mentioned you know, Affordable Tree

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martin Spoon Moore. And by the
way, the phone number for them is

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seven one three, six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. Right now,

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deep root watering is pretty important.
It's the same as deep root feeding,

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but it's basically injecting water down in
the tree. So whatever kind of tree

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you have that's important to you know, those big beautiful oaks, pecans or

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elms, those kind of things.
You want to keep them healthy now.

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And it's not just looking up and
saying, oh my trees dining. By

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the time you see that it is
hard to turn that thing around. You

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want to keep them healthy. And
so that's why good deep soakings are so

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so very important. That's why I
brag on the tree hugger sprinkler, because

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it provides that kind of soaking.
You are in total control of how big

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of an area you water and how
much water you put on, and you

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can get that water in the soil, not running off down the street.

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That's the beauty of the of the
tree huggers, you know. But if

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you if you're interested in giving Martin
a call seven one three, six nine

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nine twenty six sixty three, they
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Of course, they do everything else
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They do pruning, they do trimming, they do stump grinding, they do

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whatever kind of services you need if
you need. You know, if you

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need some old limbs taken off.
You know, we're just just visiting there

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about a neighbor's tree, and you
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the property. Those are all shoes
Martin knows how to do it with.

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If you go, if you want
to go online instead of a phone call,

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it's a fftree service dot Com aff
treeservice dot com. They are really

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good quality folks that know what they're
talking about. I'm going to head now

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over to Tomball and we're going to
talk to Rose Marie. Hello, Rose

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Marie, Yes, I'm here high
Skip, good morning. Hi. We

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recently had two create myrtle trees removed
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holly trees. And these trees are
you know, it's in a bad so

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I have this reoccurring problem with the
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I keep trying to dig them up. Okay, My problem is it's just

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so close to other things around it. You know that I don't want to

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kill. So what do you suggest
that I knew? What I suggest is

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that you get an ingredient and if
you have a pen or pencil, grap

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of it here it's t r I
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is time try is in tricycle clo
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find it. It'll be called things
like brush killer, poison, ivy killer.

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But what you want to do is
you just want to dab it right

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on those crapes that are coming up. You can wipe it on the stems

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as they're coming up. I put
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mine if I'm doing a wipe on
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helps it stick and soak in better, not for spraying it, but for

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soaking it into the stem. But
if you want to squirt it on the

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foliage, just don't drench the foliage. All you gotta do is barely get

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it wet. I'll use a sponge
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of course a glove on your hand
or some other way to do it and

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wipe it right along those those stems
and it will move down down and it

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will get them nip. Now,
probably not all with one treatment. You

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may have to do it more than
once, but it is very effective and

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that'll shut them down and it won't
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don't just, you know, take
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it. That would be a huge
mistake. Okay, okay, well,

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thank you so much. You bet, and you're gonna find that you're you're

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up in tom Ball area, they
probably have, you know, a tricolo

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pier. You've got several places up
there know that carry it. You're gonna

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be able to find it out at
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able to find it at Arbor Gate. I bet so. It's not gonna

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be hard at all for you to
find. Okay, well, thank you

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so much and I really enjoy your
show. Well, thank you. I

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appreciate that call. You take care. Oh, okay, you too,

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bye by. Yeah, there's as
it's tree time. I guess it's a

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tree calls a tree's turf and tomatoes. Those are the three things. Fact.

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I'm gonna give a talk this afternoon
at Obapalooza, which is at the

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United Way down on Wall Drive.
I'll be giving my talk toward the end

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of the day. They're they're gonna
be getting go in here pretty quick.

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That's gonna be an all day program, really good one. But I'm gonna

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talk about two things that make phone
ring. That's trees and turf. And

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that is for sure. And if
you're looking for a quality tree, Verdant

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Tree Farm is a place you need
to check out. And I you know,

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one convenient thing about Verdant is wherever
you live, there's one not too

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far away. They've got one over
in Barker, Cyprus for all those folks

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on the west side of town.
If you're kind of central, there's one

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where I ten comes together with Yale
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There's one down also in Parlin on
Broadway Street. But Verdant Tree Farm

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they have all the different species you
would want to grow that need to be

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grown here. They're not going to
say you trash trees that should not be

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grown anywhere, or trash trees that
shouldn't be grown here. Maybe maybe they

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fit some other place. They've got
palm trees a selection like nobody else's business,

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and they have all sizes and you
go pick your tree out Union shop

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through and I like this one,
put a tag on it. They'll bring

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it your house. They know how
to plant it and how to advise you

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on how to get it established.
And you're just not going to do better

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than that kind of service. You
can go online to Verdant Tree Farm dot

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com and find out more information.
Walk in, talk to him, take

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a picture of your place, say
hey, I need a tree for this

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area. What do you guys have? What do you suggest you got something

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that flowers? Do you want a
shade tree. They're gonna be able to

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take care of that. Well,
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to talk about a couple of other
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and getting ready for fall. But
first, well, actually let's go out

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to Pasadena and we're gonna talk to
Anne. Hello, Anne, how are

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you this morning? Good morning,
I'm fine, except for my yard need

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some help. I think I have
takeoff patch out in the grass starting in

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the middle of my yard. Okay. I say that because when I looked,

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I was looking for chinch bugs.
They am I not watering enough,

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et cetera, et cetera. But
it looks The main thing that makes me

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think that is it's blacks from the
roots coming up to the grass. Okay,

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And I understand that compost. Applying
compost is about the best thing you

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can do well. Composts can be
helpful. There's a number of things that

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you do for take all root rot. First of all, you need to

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get it diagnosed specifically that that would
be the best. And I can suggest

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things to do. But if we're
wrong about it being take all and I

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can't see it so I can't tell
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And money. What I would what
I would do if it were mine and

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you're you're just wanting to do some
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have it deep time narated. Get
one of those core narrators that pops.

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They'll soil out and open up that
lawn. Put in a leaf mold compost

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top dressing over the top, and
water and in really good that is that

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will get you off to a good
start. And then as you fertilize using

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a fertilizer that's a little more accentifying. That will also help. The time

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to treat for the take all is
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season is coming up right now.
Treatments that you put down spray wise are

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not going to be that effective.
Hey, I'm gonna have to go take

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a break. If you want to
continue this, Anne, after break,

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I'll just hang on and I'll be
I'll be glad. Okay. An important

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question on the first All right,
very good. Well, you're listening to

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Garden Success our number her garden success
garden line. What is today's show?

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Garden line? Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four La,

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all right, look next door,
dark outside your neighbor's lights aren't on.

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Go bang on the door, wake
them up, tell them they're missing garden

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line, and they will rise up
and call you blessed. Actually they'll rise

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up and call you something else today. But eventually they will appreciate the favor

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that you did for them. You
know that when it comes to success with

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plants, when it comes to getting
through drought, it's all about the soil.

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If your soil is plain, little
hard clay, no improvement whatsoever,

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you're gonna have a limited root system
because the oxygen doesn't move very down far

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down in the soil. You're gonna
have other struggles that your plants are going

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through. And that is why airloom
soil products are so successful. Heirloom soil

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has a wide variety of things.
I mean they all the different mixes.

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I could sit here all day just
reading all the different kinds of things that

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they have available. But I want
to tell you they have a sale going

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on a new lower price actually of
their rose soil, which is the standard

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soil mix for pretty much anything you
want to grow, but especially things like

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roses and shrubs and certainly perennials and
things. Rose soil is just a good

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mix ninety five dollars per qubic yard. Now, if you want to have

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a one qb yard supersack delivered to
your house, imagine this big old sack

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that holds a whole cubic yard of
soil. That's one hundred twenty four dollars

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dropped off on your property, and
it's neat, it's clean, you don't

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have to own a pickup in a
trailer and all that kind of stuff you

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just haven't brought right there, and
you can just shovel out of it as

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you're doing your projects and getting beds
made and soil improved or whatever you're doing.

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Now that's going to be available starting
today. You were listening on the

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right day, because this is now
the new thing. I mean, you

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know, the quality mixes and making
your soil right. It's it's just so

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important, and it's exciting to see
the different technologies and opportunities like the supersac.

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I really love that. I mean, that is so convenient, so

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absolutely convenient. Now they're open Monday
through Saturday from seven am to five pm

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for their bulk sales. They also
have their cocktail mix for seventy five dollars.

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I got about forty yards of that
available now. It's just a great

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opportunity. It's a good deal,
it's a good opportunity, and it's definitely

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a good quality mix. And they
deliver all over town. Heirloom Soils of

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Texas. You'll also find their bag
soils and a lot of garden centers,

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a lot of different ace hardware stores, different places like that, wherever good

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quality products are being sold. Let's
head back out. We're gonna continue a

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conversation we were having with any any
We were talking about your takeall root rot

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and I think you had another follow
up question you mentioned on the fertilizer.

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It was time I wanted to put
down some more slow and easy release fertilizer.

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Sure, should I avoid that with
the take all patch? No,

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not at all. No, A
moderate amount of fertilizer is always good.

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And the good thing about slow and
easy is it's going to give you a

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gradual release over time, so you
just don't have this, you know,

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this dump of all the nutrients that
are all put out there at once.

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And by using slow and easy,
you're gonna that grass is going to have

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an adequate supply of nutrients gradually released
all the way up into the fall at

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this point in time, if you
put it down, yeah, it's an

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excellent product. Okay. And when
you say diagnos that take all patch for

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sure, how should I do that? Well, I can look at pictures

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of it, but that's not the
most accurate diagnosis, you know, because

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other things can look like take all
root rot. If if the areas are

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irregular, if they're truly dying out
not you know, then then there's a

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good and you know you're getting it
watered adequately and it's not starting right next

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to a curb or driveway or something. Then I'm going to say we're probably

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about eighty percent sure it's take all
re rode, just based on all the

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things I've been seeing in the way
of samples. H Well, that's my

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situation. I was watching for,
you know, as it started turning,

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I was checking for chinch bugs.
Water's accurate, it's good. I go

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out and I, you know,
get down into the bottom, new to

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soil and okay, gotcha, d
it's not dry. Yeah. Well,

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and and do you have a pen
pencil handy? I do? Okay,

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I'm going to spell it out.
A z O x y azoxy A z

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o x y s t r O
B I N strobin azoxy strobin. Now

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you're over in the Pasadena area,
you're closer to Deer Park, Galena Park

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or Hobby Airport or which direction are
you Deer Park? Clear? Okay,

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Well you've You've got an ACE Hardware
store out there. It's Deer Park Lumber

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and Ace Hardware. It's on Center
Street and Deer Park, and they will

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probably most likely have the azoxy strobin. Because ACE carries a lot of a

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lot of things like that. I
would recommend you go check them out and

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get some. And once we get
into the fall season, well let's say

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we get into late September October.
I would apply it then I not apply

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it again four weeks later. Okay, I'm gonna have to run, but

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I hope that helps, and good
luck with it getting that lawn turned around.

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Okay, Okay, thank you sir. You bet. Yeah. Yeah.

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You can go to Ace Hardware dot
Com and find ACE anywhere near you,

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I mean, wherever it is that
there's AE. We only have thirty

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nine of them, so I mean, I know it's going to be hard

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to find one. Close your eyes, throw a rock and you hit one.

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Ace Hardware dot Com. Go to
their store locator and find one near

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you. You know, That's the
thing I like about ACE. They're all

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over town and people call, I
know, hey, you need a product,

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They're gonna have it. I might
recommend a fertilizer, they're gonna have

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it. Herbicide, weed control,
you know, for the fungicize, pesticide,

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anything you need for your lawn and
garden. Is even the soils that

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we talk about here. ACE Hardware
is going to have those. It's just

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it's that one stop shop. I
mean, while you're in there, and

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of course you're getting all your gardening
stuff there, there's a lot of other

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things that you need that are an
ACE when if you haven't been in one

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in a while, go check it
out and you'll see what I'm talking about

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out I mean from inside the home
to your outdoor living to ever kind of

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repair you can think of for your
plumbing, your pipes, your electric I

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mean, it's it's it's AS Hardware. They have everything. That's the one

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stop shop. One of the things
I really really enjoy about about AS Hardware.

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You know, the season, because
of the heat, it kind of

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keeps people from wanting to get out
and do things. But now's the time

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to get stuff done. Now's even
a time to get some kinds of planting

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done, getting ready for the fall. But now's the time to make sure

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you've got the supplies, whether it's
it's fertilizers, whether it's soil mixes that

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you're going to put down. Now's
the time to get set up for all

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that kind of stuff. If if
we're going into the fall season, you

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got to take all root rot,
go ahead and get your products, or

408
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you're ready to go when that time
comes to take care of it. And

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Plants for All Seasons is one of
those family owned and operated garden centers that

410
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is just it's just a destination that
you have to go to. And here's

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why I say that. If you
go to a place where they don't know

412
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what they're talking about, where people
that they hired to work have no knowledge

413
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:14.039
of plants, you are wasting money. You're buying plants that will die,

414
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You're getting bad advice. That's not
how it is. The Plants for All

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Seasons. The Flowerty family has been
doing this since nineteen seventy three. They're

416
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easy to find. They're right there
on two forty nine, on two forty

417
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.960
nine, right there about where Louetta
comes in. If you've got a brown

418
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.640
thumb, they will turn it green. They're knowledgeable. You take a picture

419
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.559
in, you take a sample in, you need a diagnosis. It's all

420
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.039
their Plants for All Seasons. Go
online to Plants for All Seasons dot com

421
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and check out what I'm talking about, or give him a call. Two

422
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:49.119
eight one three seven six one six
four six. I was in there just

423
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a while back, and I'm telling
you the color they have, the containers,

424
00:29:52.799 --> 00:30:00.759
the beautiful containers. It just makes
you what makes you want to buy

425
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.200
another pritics of land so you can
plant more plants? You know. That's

426
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That's the thing I look at is
we have so many plants and so little

427
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.400
time and space. When I go
into a garden center like Plants for All

428
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.079
Seasons, it's like, oh my
gosh, I wish I own more property

429
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.279
because I've got more things I want
to do. If you haven't live out

430
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.920
in the bomb Bellvue area that's on
the east side right, Texas Feed Stop

431
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.559
is your home. Doown feed store
now. They're on Highway one forty six,

432
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:33.440
just north of ten. So I
ten had one forty six just a

433
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.640
few minutes and Texas Feed stopping right
there. Brian Hope Rhodes have just created

434
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.680
a beautiful, wonderful store. And
again it's a place it's easy to brag

435
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.519
on because they're going to carry all
kinds of things. From that we talk

436
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.240
about the fertilizers, the pest control
products, they're going to carry, the

437
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:52.400
soils. They even had plants seasonally
coming through. You need some tomatoes and

438
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.839
vegetables and things like that, they'll
have that too. Of course, they're

439
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.920
an outstanding feed store. I mean
they're going to carry every kind of feed

440
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.599
and an animal related product you might
need. Fact, right now, I

441
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.240
notice they got a really good selection
of various kinds of hunting things. Those

442
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.480
of you who are out there getting
the lease ready and you need, you

443
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.839
know, various supplies for feeders and
stands and supplements for the deer and other

444
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:19.839
thing. They got it there too, Texas Feed Stop. Perhaps my favorite

445
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:23.200
thing about it is Brian and Hope
have created a place when you walk in,

446
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.839
you feel like family. And I
just love that and you will too,

447
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.759
and their customers do too, a
very loyal customer base because they have

448
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.839
learned that when you go there,
you get the kind of help you need

449
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:38.039
and you get the friendly service that
you're looking for as well. Texas Feed

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Stop. Let's take a break.
We will come back. Our phone number

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00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.160
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Give Josh call,

452
00:31:45.240 --> 00:32:04.680
he'll get you on the board.
Well, good Saturday morning on what is

453
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.599
going to be. In fact,
it already is a good day for gardening,

454
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:12.519
good day to get outside. Hey, if you are interested, perhaps

455
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.880
you'd like to retire. You've been
thinking about where what would be a good

456
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:22.119
place to get a home and retire
and just really enjoy life, haven't continue

457
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.480
an active lifestyle? Well that would
be Dellweb. Now, Dellweb has been

458
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:30.680
building communities for active adults age fifty
five and better for over seventy years,

459
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.240
and now they've got a community down
there in the full Shure Areas, a

460
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.319
couple of miles from downtown full Shure
on FM three fifty nine. Now,

461
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:42.680
this community is unique, and that
first was unique in that it's Dell Web.

462
00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.960
So it has all those quality lifestyle
programs built around you, quality homes,

463
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:51.920
beautiful walk areas. It's just it's
a gorgeous place. But it also

464
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.240
has a community garden that I've been
assisting them with and You can go to

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00:32:54.279 --> 00:33:00.559
dellweb dot com slash Houston for more
information or give McCall to eight one four

466
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:06.440
or five nine zero six zero nine
Dell Web. This new community garden means

467
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.119
that not only do you have the
beautiful Dell Web community, but you have

468
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.240
a chance to gather together enjoy gardening
with your friends. You know how it

469
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.640
isn't a community garden. You visit
with folks, you have a good time.

470
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And I just can't think of a
better combination than Dell Web and in

471
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:25.319
that community garden around. Let's hit
out to Cyprus and we're going to talk

472
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.400
to Rick now. Good morning,
Rick, Good morning, Hey, thank

473
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.640
you so much for taking my call
today. I've got a question about gardening.

474
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:38.640
My mother could find a stick on
the ground and planet and it would

475
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:44.640
turn into something beautiful, and fifty
years later, fifty five years later,

476
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.720
I'm trying to get into gardening.
So I've got about a twelve by twelve

477
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:54.359
spot where I put railroad ties,
okay, and it's where a shed used

478
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.039
to be, So there's no grass
we're on there in my backyard, and

479
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:05.319
I put four rings about fourteen inches
high and about three inches in diameter inside

480
00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:09.159
of that square and their metal rings. And my plan is is to put

481
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:15.480
herbs in there and some vegetables,
so mostly like rosemary, basil, some

482
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:21.719
chives, and then I want to
put in also like a serrano pepper and

483
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:27.480
little cherry tomatoes possibly, and then
around it I want to put lavender.

484
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.280
The reason I want to do that
is I'm trying to keep farmers out.

485
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:32.719
Okay, those are all the things
that I think we'll keep farmers out.

486
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:37.719
But what my question is what type
of soil? What type of soil should

487
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I put in there? I heard
your commercial earlier about the company that delivers

488
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.599
a soil. What would be good
gardening soil for that? And when do

489
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.679
I plant those things? Even garlic? Possibly might put in garlic good good

490
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.159
question. That would be Airboom soils
I was talking about, and I would

491
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.360
get their veggie and herb mix.
Now, it doesn't sound like there's a

492
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.800
lot of volume of soil that you
need. If I heard the numbers right

493
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.760
on the size of everything, so
you could just buy a bunch of bags

494
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.559
and use that to fill it in. But if it's going to be a

495
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:10.079
pretty large area, then you might
want to get that cubic yard supersack delivered

496
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:15.159
for that. But the veggiean herb
mix is absolutely outstanding for what you're trying

497
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to do. As far as planting
time, it kind of depends for the

498
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.159
garlic that's going to come a little
bit later, But right now would be

499
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.920
the time to plant tomatoes. Now
would be the time to plant peppers and

500
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eggplants and things like that. When
we get into later into September or mid

501
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.360
to September and on. We're looking
at all the cool season vegetables like broccoli

502
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.559
that are beginning to go in at
that time. They can be in October

503
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.360
as well. But yeah, you
got you got a lot of options,

504
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.599
and you're fortunate there, you know, being in Cyprus, you're not very

505
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.960
far from plants for all seasons just
down the street that they can they can

506
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:54.039
get y'all set up for the kinds
of plants you're talking about. Gotcha?

507
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:59.440
What about like for a rosemary and
basil? When would I plant those things?

508
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.519
I would do that right now because
once it cools off into the fifties,

509
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:07.800
Basel's going to be very unhappy and
heading out. Rosemary is a tough

510
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.239
perennial. It's a subshrub and it'll
just keep going I would get it planted

511
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.679
anytime from now on into the fall
would be good. Also, when you're

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00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.920
when you're doing that, you want
to when you put these plants in these

513
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:23.760
transplants, you want to water them
in really well, and you want to

514
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:28.400
use a soluble plant food for it. And you probably have heard me talk

515
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.800
about Microlife's Ocean Harvest Blue label.
It's a four two three fertilizer. It's

516
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.519
in a little quart bottle. It's
a blue label. You just take it,

517
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:38.679
follow the label, mix it in
a watering can, and each time

518
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:42.639
you do the plant, you water
it in, and then five or seven

519
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.679
days later do it again, and
then five to seven days later do it

520
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.639
again. And what that does is
it gets that plant root system ready to

521
00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:54.800
go because it's got you know,
it has the fish type fertilizers in it

522
00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:00.480
that it just it's really stimulating for
the root system. He's not going to

523
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.840
burn or anything. And by doing
that, you get your plants going.

524
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.840
Because right now it's a demanding time
to get anything planted, but it is

525
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:12.719
starting this time where we're doing all
our fall planting. So like tomatoes,

526
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.480
that needs to be done soon.
I'd do it this weekend, but you

527
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:17.639
know. It's funny. My mom
used to put my dad with a big

528
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.039
fisherman and so all the fishheads and
stuff. She would they would put a

529
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.239
compost pile and they would put all
the fisheads in there, and then he

530
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.639
would get his tiller and till it
up into her garden. Oh man,

531
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.519
that's all for her. I'll work
well, you know, Rick, I

532
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:35.920
hope, I hope that helps.
But yeah, grab that. It's the

533
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:39.239
blue label Microlife Ocean Harvest and do
it about three time. You can do

534
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.079
it more, but at least three
times, because you want that plant from

535
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:47.199
the time it hits the ground,
for the roots to be stimulated and growing,

536
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.519
and for the nutrients to be there
and whatnot. And then you'll curse.

537
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:54.440
You'll do other fertilizing as you go
forward. All right, well,

538
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:57.840
thank you very much. I appreciate
your help today. All right, Rick,

539
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.519
thank you. I appreciate that.
Yeah, I love that. I

540
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.320
love the blue label. I also
like the orange label. The orange label

541
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.599
is a seven one three. That's
a that is a fertilizer that actually has

542
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:14.599
beneficial microbes additionally chalked into there.
It is really outstanding. I use it

543
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.079
for my house plants now. There's
no reason you couldn't use it outdoors as

544
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:20.599
well. It's just fine for that. But I use it for my house

545
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:23.519
plants because I I just think it's
good. It's got that seven one three

546
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:30.360
ratio of nutrients that makes for a
really really nice start for a plant getting

547
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.960
going and for ongoing growth. At
seven one three, got a lot of

548
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:38.320
the nitrogen in there to really give
it a boost and get it going really

549
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:40.960
really well. Hey, if you
live down in the League City area,

550
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:46.400
your hometown feed store is League City
Feed. Now when I say League City

551
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.800
Area, I mean Santa Fe,
Dickinson, Lamark Bay Cliff, Clear Lake

552
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.440
City, you know all that area
now West and Madison Funderberg. They are

553
00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.519
now operating the place that there I
believe grandfather started forty years ago. They

554
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.079
carry all the products we talk about, the fertilizers, the pest control products.

555
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.679
They have premium pet food. If
you've got backyard chickens or any kind

556
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:09.599
of animal, they can get you
set up. Give them a call to

557
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:15.519
eight one three, three two sixteen
twelve, or just go to the place.

558
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:21.360
It's Highway three, a few blocks
south of Highway ninety six. Well,

559
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:25.119
here we go. We are winding
up our first hour of the day.

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00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.199
Boy, if time is flying this
morning, I'm gonna be heading out

561
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:36.480
to Obapaluza, which is at the
United Way on wad Drive. There's talks

562
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.559
going on all day. I think
they're about to kick it off over there

563
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.800
this morning, and I'll be the
last talk of the day. But I

564
00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.719
think he's about two thirty. But
anyway, i'll be there rat Aft Show,

565
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.360
I'm gonna hit over that way.
I'm gonna be talking about how we

566
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:55.559
can learn from nature in creating more
healthy lawns and more healthy trees. Really

567
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:59.679
it applies to every kind of plant
we would have. But a lot of

568
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:04.320
time we're the problem. The way
we water, the way we do or

569
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.760
do not prepare the soil, and
a lot of other things are Maybe we

570
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.239
can blame it on an insector a
disease, but really we're the one that

571
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:22.000
predisposed him for the problem. Ktr
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

572
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:29.280
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden

573
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:57.960
Line with scared rector smell. Just
watch him as well. Good morning on

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00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:02.199
a beautiful, beautiful Saturday morning.
Looking outside, I see the glow of

575
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:09.039
the sunshine on the big buildings downtown. You know, the weather we're having

576
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.360
is making it difficult, I know, to be out in the middle of

577
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.239
the day and doing kind of things. But think about your plants, and

578
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:21.519
your plants are out there, and
can you imagine I mean just I think

579
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:25.639
sometimes we take trees and other plants
for granted, but can you imagine standing

580
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:32.039
out in the direct one hundred degree
hot sun all day as the soil moisture

581
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.280
content goes down a little and a
little and a little more each day,

582
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:42.039
you know, one hundred degrees and
just blazing hot sun. It's amazing that

583
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.440
they're able to keep going. You
know, if you were to go outside

584
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.800
and just touch any surface that the
sun is shining on, I mean,

585
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:52.800
it gets blazing hot by the time, especially if we get to two to

586
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.079
four in the afternoon, really hot
down. But think about the tree leaves.

587
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:01.400
They would literally cook if that tree
was not pumping water fast all day

588
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:07.239
long to every leaf on the entire
tree. So think about that. What

589
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.559
if those leaf temperatures went up to
like one hundred and forty degrees, which

590
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.440
they could easily do. You know, if you were just talking about the

591
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.199
sun shining on them. But they're
essentially doing the equivalent of our perspiring in

592
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.840
that they're transpiring water. But what
happens when the water runs short, then

593
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:25.960
they can't do that, They have
to shut down their processes, they begin

594
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.320
to overheat. There's a lot of
issues that happen. It's a wonder any

595
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.119
tree is alive at all, in
my opinion, just based on when you

596
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.400
really consider the amount of stress and
what they're having to go through. And

597
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.280
that's why we want to take care
of them and make sure that they have

598
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:44.280
what they need. And the number
one thing in our power right now is

599
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:47.719
to make sure they have water.
When they have adequate soil moisture, they

600
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:52.480
can get by and even in these
temperatures as tough as it is. But

601
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:57.519
when they don't, the tree systems
begin to shut down, including photosynthesis and

602
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.320
other things, and that tree goes
into stress us and when it's in that

603
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:07.840
stage, then comes things that we
can't stop, we can't control. When

604
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.639
you get hypoxial and canker in an
oak tree, there's no spraying for it

605
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.880
and making it go away. It's
going to take it down, and so

606
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:17.639
our job is to avoid that.
And you walk out and look at your

607
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:22.440
trees this morning, and they'll look
okay, most of them. They'll look

608
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.440
okay. But what you're not seeing
is the stress they're under. And that's

609
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.480
the stress we're alleviating. So don't
think about watering as just keeping a tree

610
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:36.679
alive in the sense of drought.
Think about watering as keeping the tree healthy,

611
00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.440
because in the weeks and months to
come, the problems from the drought

612
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:45.119
we're going through now, the hot
weather we're going through now, that will

613
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.159
take its toll. And that's when
we start to see problems again that you

614
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.719
can't just have somebody come in and
fix. Well, let's head out to

615
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.719
Leak City this morning. We're gonna
talk to John V. Hello, John

616
00:43:54.800 --> 00:44:00.000
V. Good morning, and garden
wine. Yes, question this morning is

617
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:05.320
on the crepe myrtles. We have
one crepe myrtle. We have a two

618
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.960
story house. We've had it since
nineteen eighty nine, and it grows all

619
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:15.719
the way up to the second floor. Yes, and open your windows and

620
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:22.000
look at the blooms. Yes.
And so recently we had one of our

621
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:28.079
gardeners come and prune everything. So
I'm just now looking at that and I'm

622
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:32.159
wondering how long it'll it take to
have the blooms bloom again. You might

623
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.199
get a little more bloom out of
them, you know, when you take

624
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:39.239
out all the little spent blooms of
seedheads and you get some vigor. Make

625
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.880
sure and give them a good watering, give them a little bit of fertilizer,

626
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.719
not a lot. We're getting to
the point where we don't want to

627
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:51.000
fertilize our trees and shrubs a lot. Okay, going into fall. They

628
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.639
do need nutrition. But I'm just
saying, you know, if it's September

629
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.840
and you're still pushing them on nitrogen, that's probably not a good thing,

630
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.000
you know. But but a little
bit of water and some vigor and you

631
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.480
may get some more blooms out of
them. I love. That depends to

632
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.679
be on the on the cultivar of
the variety that you have. Some are

633
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:12.400
better than others. Yeah, it's
a light pink. I don't know which

634
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.639
which a species name it is.
It's truly lovely. Yeah, good,

635
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.639
well, that's the thing. Normally
we don't prove crepes at this time of

636
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.360
the year. I would in the
future hold off and have them told.

637
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:29.880
I told my father specifically, do
not touch this crape myrtle, and do

638
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:34.960
not touch my night jazz or jazz
and the do not touch them. I

639
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.440
even told a garden er not to. But again, this is not my

640
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.440
property. I just live here with
a guest, okay, so you know,

641
00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:45.760
and so it is theirs and their
under it's their ownership. So I'm

642
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:51.320
a guest. All right. Well, I'll leave the family matters to you.

643
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:53.360
I don't worry about that. It's
all of a good troll. I'm

644
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.360
the oldest. That's no big deal. But y'all have a blessing, wonderful

645
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:04.039
Saturday Saturday, and thank you so
much. Have a wonderful Saturday as well.

646
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.880
You take care, you take care. You know it is it is

647
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.199
blazing hot, and folks at this
time of the year thinking, oh my

648
00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:14.239
gosh, I don't want to get
on plant, but now is the time

649
00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:16.519
to get out and plant. There
are a lot of good things going on

650
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.519
at our garden centers around this area, you know. Swinging by RCW for

651
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.440
example the other day, Highway to
forty nine where it comes into Beltway eight.

652
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.800
RCW Nursery is a nursery where if
they don't have it, they can

653
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.719
probably get it. I mean,
they really are good about attending to their

654
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.519
customers and making sure they have on
hand what you need. I notice that

655
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:42.519
has some really beautiful crape myrtles on
hand. And you know crape myrtle is

656
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.800
just what is it blooms for like
ninety days or something during the summer.

657
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.280
Varies a little bit between varieties,
but they have all that. Of course,

658
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:53.639
they have trees, have really good
supply of trees and shrubs. They

659
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:59.599
are really really stocked up and have
a nice supply. Is still of a

660
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.599
lot of quality shrubs. Maybe you've
thought about doing a plumeria but you haven't

661
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.519
done it before. Boy, plumarias
love Houston heat and humidity. That would

662
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.119
be another good one from r CW. You know they're open today from eight

663
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:14.159
to five. It'd be a good
day to get out there and check them

664
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.360
out. Tomorrow morning from ten am
to five pm they'll be open as well

665
00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:22.719
at RCW Nurseries. And listen,
fall is coming and that is the prime

666
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:28.039
time to get your roses planted.
You can plan them now, but you

667
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.679
know, make sure you get the
supplies that you need. They have a

668
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:36.159
selection like nobody else at OURCW nursery. Just go by there, you see

669
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:38.360
what I'm talking about. I mean, it's color everywhere. Really cool.

670
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:43.440
Hey, let's hell out, head
out to bel Air and we're gonna talk

671
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:49.559
to Mark. Good morning, Mark, good morning. Question about some eagle

672
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:53.480
stone hollies. I've got about twenty
of them or so in the backyard and

673
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:59.239
there's all of them are doing great, except for one is on the edge

674
00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:01.920
of kind of the row. And
the reason I say that is because it's

675
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:08.519
next next to some star jasmine and
that one is not growing near the rate

676
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:13.920
the others are, and it's looking
a little light greenish, okay, almost

677
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:19.079
yellow. And I've been real I
say it's next to some star jasmine because

678
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:23.119
I've been reading online that that could
be the soil in that area, because

679
00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:30.039
that star jasmine is showing some red
leaves. Yeah, okay, curious you

680
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.159
have any thoughts on that? And
if I need to fertilize, what when

681
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.840
and what do I do? Right? When did you plant that? Oh?

682
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:39.320
Probably about three years ago? All
right? Well, Mark, I

683
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:43.800
am hitting on a hard break,
so I'm gonna have to put you on

684
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:45.880
hold. But when we come back, let me pick it up from there

685
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.679
and we'll talk about some things to
keep in mind for the Eaglestone. Sorry

686
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.000
to take the call and have to
go, but I do want to come

687
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.639
back all right. I'll be here
all right. Thank you appreciate that.

688
00:48:53.920 --> 00:49:00.920
Our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Why

689
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:15.239
stock op time on garden line.
Hey, we are glad you're listening today.

690
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:20.519
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

691
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.000
seven one fifty eight seventy four.
Hey, if you're thinking about getting some

692
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:30.480
landscape improvements done, you'd like to
have somebody who is a professional designer who

693
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:35.880
knows what they're doing come in and
I don't know, turn that backyard that's

694
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:37.960
a little bit blah right now into
a place where you can't wait to bring

695
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.760
people in for entertainment, for sitting
outside and enjoying it. By the way,

696
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.280
the temperatures for sitting outside and enjoying
it are on the way, so

697
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:51.159
don't delay. Well. Peer Escapes, Peerscapes, Jason Garrity and the whole

698
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.880
team there. They are exactly the
kind of place that I'm talking about when

699
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:59.559
I say professional designers who know what
they're doing, and pretty much whatever you

700
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.760
need to they can do it.
Maybe your irrigation system needs a little bit

701
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:05.639
of work done, a little improvement, a little repair. Perhaps you need

702
00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:07.800
to walk away put in or maybe
the drainage is bad in an area.

703
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.239
I know, remember when it used
to rain. Well, it will rain

704
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:15.239
again and when it does, and
we have those soggy spots. Our plants

705
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.360
do not like that, at least
most don't. They can fix that,

706
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.719
they can put in landscape lighting.
They can do anything you need to get

707
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:27.239
done pretty much. Peerscapes, the
designers are visiting with Bob I Candice.

708
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.519
Those folks know what they're doing,
and so if you want to give them

709
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:35.000
a call, it's two eight one
three seven h fifty sixty two eight one

710
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.880
three seven h fifty sixty or or
you can go online to Peerscapes dot com

711
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.559
peerscapes dot com and find out more
information. Now'd be the time to go

712
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:45.280
ahead and get them booked up.
Let's go in, let's talk to them

713
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:49.239
about. Here's pictures of what I
got. What do you think you can

714
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.119
do? You know, what are
the plans? Because it takes a while

715
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.159
to get everything in process, to
get things drawn out and to get them

716
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:59.320
installed. And fall is on the
way and that is prime time for getting

717
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:02.039
a lot of things established and planted. Right now it's a little dry,

718
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:05.599
it's a good time to get out
and get some soil work and things like

719
00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:07.840
that done out there. So don't
delay if you if you want to turn

720
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.079
your place into a show place,
I would get pier Escapes a call or

721
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:15.800
check them out online as soon as
possible, so you're ready whenever the weather

722
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:21.199
is such that you can't wait to
get outside and enjoy the beautiful little eden

723
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:25.239
that you're you've created for yourself.
Let's go back to Mark in bel Air

724
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:30.679
Mark. We were talking Eagleston Hollies
and you had one. Did you say

725
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.800
it was three years on the ground
about I'm going back thinking it's closer to

726
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:39.079
two clo. Yeah, the other
nineteen are doing wonderful. Okay, well

727
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:45.000
Holly is just an overall holly comment. First, the first year or two

728
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.119
or three that a holly is in, you really need to be taking care

729
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:53.079
with the watering on the roots.
They once they're established, they're pretty tough.

730
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:57.760
I mean they're not like cactus belong
in West Texas, but they're they're

731
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.159
pretty tough. But that first two
or three year it's kind of touching.

732
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:06.119
Go so I would check the one
that's not doing good. Is there.

733
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.559
We're we've checked the water. You're
doing good. So not too wet,

734
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.199
not too wet, and not too
dry, right I think, so okay,

735
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.199
it shouldn't be too bad. I
mean the other ones are doing great,

736
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.559
That's what I mean. Yeah,
Well, where I was heading was

737
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:22.719
sometimes you've got a sprinkler or a
drip thing that's clogged, that's blocked,

738
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.360
and the spray isn't hitting the root
system, and just make sure that's right.

739
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:31.199
Other than that, just adequate moisture
during this heat, and moderate amounts

740
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:37.039
of nutrition. You know, with
a with a fertilizer, primarily nitrogen is

741
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.440
the ingredient that they need, but
they don't need a whole lot at one

742
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:44.440
time, So you want to go
gradual with that. Okay, when can

743
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.239
I If I want to do a
little more fertilizer, I've read that you

744
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:50.440
shouldn't do that this time of year. Maybe do I need to wait to

745
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:52.639
the fall to start that? No, you don't want to wait till fall.

746
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:55.280
I would go ahead. If you're
gonna if you need to do something,

747
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:59.000
I'd go ahead and get a little
bit done. Now. It's if

748
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:05.079
you have plants that are marginally hardy
plants that often will freeze when we have

749
00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:07.440
a bad winter. Uh, you
know, bottlebrush can be that way,

750
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:10.800
Japanese blueberry can be that way.
Fig trees can be that way. You

751
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:15.880
know, they're they're they're good plants, but they just they're just not that

752
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:19.440
that fully hardy. I don't like
to fertilize those after about the beginning of

753
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.920
August because I don't want to encourage
any late season growth and then we have

754
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.320
another like last December when it got
so cold and our plants weren't ready for

755
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.639
it. That would be the only
thing. Hollies aren't prone to that.

756
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:35.239
But you know, if if if
you feel like it's lacking some nutrients,

757
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:37.880
I would give it a light application
of some fertilizer. Well at this point,

758
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:40.800
yeah, it would led me that
to that is it's next to some

759
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:46.840
star jasmine that's showing some some red
leaves, which is next to another star

760
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:52.000
jasmine that's doing great. So it's
like that. I don't know if that

761
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:57.000
little area where the patio meets the
kind of the side yard, if I

762
00:53:57.039 --> 00:54:00.039
don't know, maybe some soils not
right there. It could be, Yeah,

763
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.920
it could be. I mean soils
in our yards or not uniform.

764
00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:06.800
You know, once you get into
a neighborhood, things can get weird in

765
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:08.639
the soil from the time when they
were building the neighborhood. You know,

766
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:12.880
who knows what they did, but
yeah, I would do that. I'm

767
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.760
going to make a suggestion for you
on that holly. And this is an

768
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:21.000
un unusual one, but Nitrophos has
a product called sweet Green. It's an

769
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:25.480
eleven percent nitrogen, zero phosphorus,
four percent potassium. I would put some

770
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:29.800
of that down. Now that's we
think of it as a lawn furlizer,

771
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.199
and that's what it is. It's
great for lawns, but for your hollies,

772
00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:37.880
it would. It will be available
quickly and it'll really stimulate the microbial

773
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:43.119
activity having that molasses content that it
has. And I would do some light

774
00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:46.360
applications, you know, for a
let's see eleven percent, I would probably

775
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:52.880
put two cups of the sweet Green
around your bushes and a big scattered evenly

776
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.360
through an area about six eight feet
wide and then watered in. And you

777
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.760
could do that again a little bit
later if you need to. But it's

778
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:04.280
a light application. It's going to
be good for the roots system as well

779
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.320
as far as the microbes and stuff, and I would do that one.

780
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:09.639
And again that's the first time I've
ever suggested it for a shrub, but

781
00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:14.920
I think in this situation that would
be a really good, a good choice.

782
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:16.599
The name of it is sweet Green. Yeah, it's sweet Green.

783
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:22.519
It's a it's an organic from nitro
foss uh and it's you know where you

784
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:27.239
you're in bel air, so you
know the the ace hardware's nearest you are

785
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.639
going to have it. That's probably
the closest place that you're going to find

786
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:35.719
it to you. But it's it
works well. You know, I promote

787
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.880
it for lawns, but you know, hollies are a foliage plant, and

788
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:44.480
so are lawns, and so a
lot of times things that make the lawn

789
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:47.440
green and give vigorous growth and stuff
that will do it. And I like

790
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:52.320
the fact that sweet green is is
gonna be when you apply just a small

791
00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.480
amount like that, it's going to
be a stimulant for the for the plant

792
00:55:55.760 --> 00:56:00.360
without it just pushing it into lots
of long, long term growth, which

793
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:05.159
we'd rather avoid that at this point
in the season. Okay, great,

794
00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:07.480
Yeah, I'll give it a try. Thank you so much, And then

795
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:12.079
do the do the Colombo Sherlock Holmes
thing, walk around, look, say

796
00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:15.519
what's going on here? You know, is there a downspout or is there

797
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.960
anything that it hasn't appeared in our
conversation that you might notice. Okay,

798
00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:23.239
awesome, thank you so much.
Hey, thanks a lot. I appreciate

799
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:27.480
that call very much. Yeah,
Nitrofuss, you know, have a number

800
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:31.039
of great products. But that's Sweet
Green that's there. Their organic lawn fertilizer

801
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:36.760
and in the past, uh,
you know, it's real popular and last

802
00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:40.239
year kind of running into some shortages
trying to keep it stocked. And boy,

803
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:44.559
this year they got a great supply
on hand and you know, an

804
00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:49.239
anticipation of a great demand coming up. And it's just a good one.

805
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.199
It's good for the lawns. That's
what you name mainly recommended for. But

806
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:57.280
I think in this situation that was
another good application of the Nitrofuss. And

807
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.400
they're they're easy to find, you
know, all these hardwares have are most

808
00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:05.199
of our garden centers are going to
carry the Nitrofoss feed stores. You're gonna

809
00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.480
find Nitrofoss products in our feed stores. We'd like to brag about. So

810
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:12.320
just a really good choice, really
good choice. Hey, if you have

811
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.920
you got a piece of property and
you've been thinking about getting a tractor.

812
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:17.920
Now, you know, maybe you've
got a few acres or maybe a lot

813
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:21.840
of acres, but you'd like to
get out there and you need something,

814
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:24.880
you know, to carry the mulch
around, to haul the compost in for

815
00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:30.760
building beds or bringing in sacks of
feed. Who knows what. Kuboda,

816
00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:35.599
that just really fun, cool tractor. I think it a prettytail of those

817
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:39.719
orange tractors. Kuboda from the Landsdown
that is that combination. You're not going

818
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:43.639
to do better than that, I
mean Landsdown. They've got places all over

819
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:47.159
the greater Houston area here and you
can go to LM Tractor dot com as

820
00:57:47.159 --> 00:57:52.960
in LANSDOWNE Moody Lansdown Moody Tractor,
LM tractor dot com and you can find

821
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:55.000
out more about it. They got
a deal going on that they have extended.

822
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:59.880
And I was stunned when I first
started about this deal, because let's

823
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:05.639
into this zero down, zero interest
for eighty four months, seven years,

824
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.719
I mean, and with cabodas you
get that whole package. I'd recommend the

825
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:14.480
L twenty five oh one that is
that is one impressive tractor. You can

826
00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:16.840
trick it out with all the kinds
of equipment, the front endloaders and everything

827
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:20.760
that you need on it. But
go to LM tractor dot com. Or

828
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:22.400
if you just want to learn about
more about Caboda, can go to Cabodo

829
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:28.159
USA for more information. Landsdown,
Moody and Caboda. That is a combination

830
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:30.360
and you will be set up.
In fact, you may not even want

831
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:34.920
to come back inside watch football this
fall. Then once you get it out

832
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:39.559
there and enjoin your new tractor,
your new ride heading around the property a

833
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:44.000
lot of fun. Hey, let's
go up to Tom and Kingwood and find

834
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.239
out what's going on in Kingwood.
Hey Tom, Hey, good morning.

835
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:54.360
I've got some double knockout roses cut
back. Would that sweet green be good

836
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:59.519
for them? You know it could
with usually with roses, we're putting in

837
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:04.760
more ingredients than just primarily the nitrogen, with a lottle potassium. Uh,

838
00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:07.880
there would be. It would be
good for a stimulation of growth and blooms.

839
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:13.280
But I would I would consider one
of the rose fertilizers that are out

840
00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:16.239
there on the market, and we've
got some some really good quality ones that

841
00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:23.880
are designed for roses. Uh you
Nitrofoss has a rose fertilizer that's specifically for

842
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:35.519
that. Okay, okay, yeah
they do. And what's the ingredients the

843
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:37.920
numbers. I'm gonna have to pull
that that up. I don't have those

844
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:42.079
three numbers in front of me,
but I can. I can cut that

845
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.159
down for you and find it.
Just go where you would buy your Nitrofos

846
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:50.719
stuff. You're up in Kingwood,
so you're you're fortunately, yeah, you've

847
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.119
you've got you know, you've got
a number of ones in your area.

848
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:57.639
The K and m Ace, go
up to Porter, there's the the J

849
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.119
and R's ace and yeah, no
proble, I'm finding an ace up there

850
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:05.119
and they're going to carry those things. Okay, awesome, thank you you

851
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:09.159
bet you take care. Appreciate that
call Tom. Well we are gosh,

852
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:13.760
we're covering a lot of ground here
today. If you're in the Tomball area

853
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:16.360
and you are looking for your hometown
feed store, that is D and D

854
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:20.039
Feed and Supply. I love to
go out to D and D. The

855
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.800
Dover family has been running DND since
nineteen eighty nine. You've got a newly

856
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:28.960
expanded store and when you go in
there, if I'm talking about a fertilizer,

857
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.920
it's going to be at D and
D. If I'm talking about soils,

858
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:32.880
they're going to have those bags of
soils for you. D and D

859
01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.639
carries a high quality line of dog
food, of course, all the other

860
01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:42.760
foods you'd expect for your animals at
a feed store. If you need other

861
01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:46.679
kinds of unique products, maybe you
need one of those sprinklers that I keep

862
01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:51.039
talking about that wraps around the tree, you know, the tree huggers.

863
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.280
Maybe you need stuff for controlling pests, rodents, things like that are cleaning

864
01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:58.360
the pools. D and d's got
all of that kind of stuff. DND

865
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:02.320
Feed is on twenty nine twenty West
in tom Ball, about three miles from

866
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:07.679
two forty nine. Easy, easy
to find, and when you go in

867
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:09.760
there, you're going to get the
service. We wouldn't brag about them and

868
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:14.760
recommend them if it wasn't that way. And that is DND Feed for that

869
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:19.000
whole area. That is your hometown
feed store. Well time for news our

870
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:45.480
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four not well good Saturday

871
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:49.000
morning. Look outside, the sun
is out. It's a beautiful day.

872
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:52.440
It's a good day for gardening.
Good day to talk about gardening. Two

873
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.280
And if you'd like to talk about
gardening, give us a call. Seven

874
01:01:55.360 --> 01:02:00.079
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four three two one, two,

875
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:07.760
five eight seven four. Now,
if you've heard one show that I've done

876
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.280
here on garden Line, you have
heard me talk about the importance of soil.

877
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:17.239
Soil is everything when it comes to
plants. By the time you plant

878
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:21.880
a plant, whether it's a seed
or a transplant, and you walk away,

879
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:24.880
you are already eighty percent of the
way to success or failure. Right

880
01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:29.559
there. It's done. Now are
there are other things that are important after

881
01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:30.559
that? Of course, you got
to water, and you got to fertilize

882
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:32.800
them. You got to take care
of them. You've got some issues you

883
01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:37.639
may have to deal with. Eighty
percent is already decided. And why do

884
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:40.760
I say that, Well, you've
picked a spot that's sunny or shady.

885
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:46.760
You've picked a spot that's well drained
or not. You've chosen a species and

886
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:52.519
a variety that is suited to that
spot in this area or it's not.

887
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:59.679
And those are all important, But
even more important is the soil that it's

888
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:04.800
in. Plants need quality soil to
do well. And if you you know,

889
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:07.320
I mean, if you're going to
grow a plant, you need to

890
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.599
create that soil environment that it needs
and that we are fortunate in the Houston

891
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:16.480
area to have some really quality soil
providers in our area. We really are.

892
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:21.880
If you live down south of Houston
in the Sienna area, you know

893
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:24.519
we're talking about north of Roscheron,
So this would be Cena Plantation, this

894
01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:30.320
would be Manville First Colony or pair
Land even over by brass beIN State Park.

895
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.119
CNA Mulch is your soil supplier.
Now. They're open Monday through Friday

896
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:38.800
from seven thirty in the morning till
five pm today seven thirty to two pm,

897
01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:43.159
So when this show's over, you
need head right over there, and

898
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:47.079
then they're closed on Sunday. They
are on five twenty one near where Highway

899
01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:51.880
six and two eighty eight come together, just north of Rocheron. You can

900
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:55.199
go to Ciena Mulch dot com to
find out more about them. But when

901
01:03:55.199 --> 01:03:58.440
you go there, I mean,
it's not just like you're going to buy

902
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:00.239
malls. They have. First of
all, they carry all the fertilizers we

903
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:03.719
talk about, and then they have
mulch in bulk. They have mulch in

904
01:04:04.039 --> 01:04:09.559
bags. They have compost bulk compost
bags, or the soil mixes we brag

905
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:13.920
on, and oh my gosh,
when it comes to stone and rock and

906
01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:18.440
all those kind of hardscape types of
products, they have got an unbelievable selection.

907
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:24.239
They'll deliver within about twenty miles there
for a small delivery fee. So

908
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:26.960
if you don't have a vehicle that
can haul all that in, don't worry.

909
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.639
They'll bring it to you. But
CNA Malt is one of those places

910
01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:35.360
that, let's just put it this
way, they're your foundation for a successful

911
01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:41.239
garden. You take care of the
brown stuff first, and then you will

912
01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.679
have success with the green stuff.
How about that? Does that make sense?

913
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:48.519
First the soil to have success with
the plants. That is a secret

914
01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:51.760
and that's why we love SNA Malts
so much. Here on Garden Line,

915
01:04:53.119 --> 01:04:56.199
we're going to head out to northwest
Houston now and we're going to talk to

916
01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:01.039
Charles. Hello, Charles, Hello, Hello, How can we help today?

917
01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:08.079
I have a good growth of dove
weed in my backyard. How do

918
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:14.280
I get rid of that doveweed?
There is a there's a cinnamon type of

919
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:17.519
product you can sprinkle down that does
a pretty good job on it, and

920
01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:24.039
I am trying to remember the other
herbicide that I'm Charles, I'm gonna have

921
01:05:24.199 --> 01:05:28.000
to come back and talk about that
in a minute. It is not coming

922
01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:31.039
to my head off just the top
of my head. Doveweed is in the

923
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:36.440
same kind of group as like wandering
jew weeds, and they're they're kind of

924
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:41.239
caught. They're not grasses really,
and they're not broad leaves really, and

925
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:44.920
they're caught in between, and it
makes it kind of a challenge. Number

926
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:46.800
One, the wetter you keep the
area, the happier the doveweed is.

927
01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:51.880
So when you water a good soaking
but then letting it dry out considerably before

928
01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:56.599
you water again, your grass does
well under that regiment. The doveweed is

929
01:05:56.639 --> 01:06:00.119
not as happy as when it's being
kept wet all the time. So that

930
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:01.960
would be a cultural thing. But
Charles, I'm gonna have to come back

931
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.079
to you on the other ingredient.
I know there's a cinnamon type product that

932
01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:10.320
you can sprinkle on it, and
the other one is just escaping me.

933
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:14.159
So I guess we'll have to have
to come back on that one. Okay,

934
01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:16.079
Okay, I'll listen to your program
and find out all right, thank

935
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:20.840
you. I apologize my brain has
drawn a blank on that one. So

936
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:25.760
let's see. Let's head out to
the hobby area right now. And is

937
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:33.159
it Phinisee is? Actually is fannis
name Phis? Okay? I like to

938
01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:39.480
find out who would you recommend for
trying to grow watermelons next year? So

939
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:44.440
I want to prepare whatever it is
for next year. Okay. So what

940
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.280
you want to do is you want
to get a good, well drained soil

941
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.000
area. So if that means bringing
a soil in, creating a raised bed

942
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:55.960
and whatnot, it needs to be
well drained, but it needs it needs

943
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:00.360
to be able to hold adequate moisture. Most watermelons are in sandy soil and

944
01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:05.119
they water them a lot to keep
to keep them moist they need full sun.

945
01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:09.960
You need good sun, So find
a spot that's going to get at

946
01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:15.920
least six hours of sun, preferably
more than that to have good success with

947
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.719
the watermelons. And then finally,
just plant them at the right time.

948
01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:21.719
So once we get into about you
know, April, you can begin planting

949
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:27.920
your watermelons and they'll they'll do just
fine. Here, all right, sir,

950
01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:32.440
I do have my backyard that it
gets at least ten hours of sun

951
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:36.400
there you go. All right,
Well sounds like it sounds like you're well

952
01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:42.440
on your way to having success with
those. Well, I probably would need

953
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:45.800
to raise the bed. Maybe it
put a place bed, but I mean

954
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:49.880
it's rained pretty well back there.
But yeah, it's probably better because of

955
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:54.800
our neighbors. You know, they're
I don't know what they're but I mean,

956
01:07:54.840 --> 01:08:00.440
really we've never had any water the
spaces they're back in the back yard.

957
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:03.000
Who really brains towards the front of
the house. Let's get along the

958
01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:06.159
site. But yeah, yeah,
I'll wait it either way. Yeah,

959
01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:11.239
appreciate. Yeah. The one thing
the watermelons don't want is a heavy clay

960
01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:15.440
soil that stays saggy wet after a
good hard rain. They just don't want,

961
01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:17.319
all right, So you keep them
out of that area and they'll do

962
01:08:17.399 --> 01:08:21.119
good for you, all right,
sir, appreciate your help. Thank you,

963
01:08:21.159 --> 01:08:25.960
sir. I appreciate that call.
Hey, if you're thinking about retiring

964
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:30.640
and looking for a place for gardeners
at want an active lifestyle, that would

965
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.279
be the dellweb community in full Shure. Why do I say that, because

966
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:38.520
the fullshre delweb community that's going in
has a community garden that I am assisting

967
01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:41.720
them with. And so not only
do you get the beautiful dell Web homes,

968
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:45.720
the beautiful dell Weeb community, the
lifestyle programs built around you. You

969
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:48.600
get the chance to gather together with
friends and enjoy a garden without having to

970
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:53.520
dig up your own black forty and
so I think that's just a win win.

971
01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:57.560
You can go to dellweb dot com
slash Houston to get more info or

972
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:02.880
give them a call two eight one
four five nine zero six zero nine.

973
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:09.039
If you are thinking about a move
to a nice, beautiful community, that

974
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:12.680
would be a great idea. Oh
my goodness, we got a lot of

975
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:16.520
things we're visiting about today. One
of the challenges this time of year,

976
01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:19.600
of course, is the heat.
But despite the fact that it's hot,

977
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:24.720
you gotta remember fall is coming,
and therefore we have to take care of

978
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.399
our plants to get ready for fall. And we have to do the things

979
01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:31.159
now that we need for fall.
For example, you're gonna plant maybe broccoli

980
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:35.359
or start putting in some cool season
flowers coming up. You got to get

981
01:09:35.399 --> 01:09:39.399
the soil ready. Now's the time
to do that. Early in the morning,

982
01:09:39.479 --> 01:09:42.199
it's cool. Let's get those beds
made. Let's get it ready to

983
01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:46.039
go. Our turf grasses. We
are coming into the fall season. Once

984
01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:50.119
we get to about October, all
the cool season weeds are germinating. What

985
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:55.319
can you do now to make that
turf as dense as possible? And that

986
01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.600
would include things like fertilizing, mowing
regularly, watering deeply but infrequently. So

987
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:03.079
see what I'm talking about. I
mean, I can go on and on

988
01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:08.840
with the list. Now's the time
to begin getting ready our phone number seven

989
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:13.039
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four, and we'll be right back.

990
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:20.640
The Devil dance Daddy, he'd have
a ball in line. We're the

991
01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:28.560
nine Good Ground, the DNDS band
in will group that Raisin lou man A

992
01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:34.640
three B two one dance for the
night. Well, good morning. You

993
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:39.479
are listening to guard Line on a
beautiful Saturday morning, and we're here to

994
01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:43.479
answer gardening questions. So if you're
interested, give us a call. Seven

995
01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:47.760
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

996
01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:53.640
fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna
hit out now to Tumball and talk to

997
01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:59.079
Ken Ken. Thanks for hanging on
sure, M appreciate you taking my call

998
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:04.800
was wouldn't to ask you. I've
got a colony of leaf cutter ants that

999
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:11.159
have moved in and I was wondering
if you have a suggection on how to

1000
01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:17.239
get rid of them. There is
a there is a product called amdro ant

1001
01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:24.920
block that is pretty effective against leaf
cutters. The problem with the you know,

1002
01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:28.479
the regular some of the regular products
that we would use for ants,

1003
01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:33.079
they just don't work well, including
regular ambro just the standard old amdro is

1004
01:11:33.159 --> 01:11:38.800
not But andro Ant block it's got
the ingredients in it are a little more

1005
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:42.439
effective. The problem of the leaf
cutters is they cut the leaves off your

1006
01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:45.159
plants and then they haul them down
and stick them in a cave underground and

1007
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:48.840
grow fungus on them to eat the
fungus. So it kind of makes it

1008
01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:53.079
hard to you know, get the
pesticide to the ant. But the andro

1009
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:57.840
ant block is a bait that should
do a pretty good job for you.

1010
01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:03.039
Okay, I'll give shot still as
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you

1011
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:09.520
know you're up in the in the
tom ball, are you might? I

1012
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:14.920
would try, I would, I
would try. Um, I think you're

1013
01:12:14.920 --> 01:12:18.399
gonna find it at Arbergate. I
believe that they have it there for if

1014
01:12:18.479 --> 01:12:20.520
not, you did call them,
you know, call them first for you

1015
01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:24.039
run out. But I think they
would have it there. A. D

1016
01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:27.640
and D might have it out there
too. I can't remember seeing it there.

1017
01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:30.800
It might be there though, but
you know, just just kind of

1018
01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:33.439
check around. I just off the
top of my head, don't don't know

1019
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:38.960
all the all the places it might
carry that specific product. All right,

1020
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:42.520
Well, thank you. Yeah you're
what what part of which direction from tom

1021
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:45.000
Ball? Are you? North?
South, east, west west? Just

1022
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:48.119
west, like about two and a
half. Okay, so well those two

1023
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:53.319
places I mentioned or just kind of
in your backyard, Yeah, I would

1024
01:12:53.359 --> 01:12:57.119
start there then that that's probably gonna
be your best bet. All right,

1025
01:12:57.319 --> 01:13:00.159
good luck with those man I had. I had those things on a farm

1026
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:03.720
that we had up in Willis,
and I had a peach orchard and I

1027
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:10.840
went out and overnight three peach trees
that had full leaf canopy the next morning

1028
01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:14.880
had no leaves on the I've never
seen things like it. They did that

1029
01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:17.880
to our red buds. It took
every within the spring and they took every

1030
01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:20.800
bud that we had. Yea,
took all the color off of them.

1031
01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:25.960
Yeah. I don't know if you've
seen Caddyshack, but I was Bill Murray

1032
01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:29.680
and the ants were that gopher.
I was stuffing stuff down the hole.

1033
01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:32.119
I was ready to put dynamite down
there and blow them up. I mean,

1034
01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:35.239
that would have been the movie.
It would have been the movie.

1035
01:13:36.239 --> 01:13:40.239
All right, all right, thank
you very much, bad take care Ken,

1036
01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:44.640
Thanks for the call. I appreciate
that. I appreciate that. Well,

1037
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:46.840
you know, your lawn is still
growing and it still needs nutrition,

1038
01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:50.760
and now would be a good time
to put out some microlife fertilizer. And

1039
01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:55.199
we're talking about the green bag.
That is like that's kind of like the

1040
01:13:55.319 --> 01:13:59.119
universal of the microlives. I mean
it is you can pretty much use it

1041
01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:02.319
on everything. I mean, we
know we have products were fruit trees and

1042
01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:06.479
roses and azaleas and all kinds of
different things. But the green bag is

1043
01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:10.920
just kind of like an all around
great product. I mean, if you're

1044
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.079
in a vegetable gardener or an herb
gardener or whatever, you're going to use

1045
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:16.079
it. Well for the lawn.
That's a six two four the three one

1046
01:14:16.119 --> 01:14:19.960
two ratio. It's going to release
as the microbes get ahold of it and

1047
01:14:20.079 --> 01:14:25.199
start to break those nutrients out.
Now we say the three numbers six,

1048
01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:29.680
two, four. But what's in
a bag of microlife fertilizer is all kinds

1049
01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:38.039
of beneficial microbes plus over sixty three
minerals that are part of that whole group

1050
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:41.199
of things that plants need. You
know, plants don't just need the big

1051
01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:45.039
three. They need that, but
they also need the second group of three,

1052
01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:47.680
the secondary nutrients, and then they
need the micronutrients. I mean,

1053
01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:53.079
you get down to things like molybdenum
and zinc. Do you know that if

1054
01:14:53.079 --> 01:14:56.960
you could take all the molybdenum out
of the soil, you could not grow

1055
01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.640
a grass or any plant because they
have to have molebdu Well, you can't

1056
01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:03.439
take it all out. But my
point is that plants need more than the

1057
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:08.399
big three, and that's what the
microlife provides. If you'll top that off

1058
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:13.640
with the humates plus, which is
the purple bag that's concentrated compost in a

1059
01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:17.079
bag, there we are talking about
all the things that are benefits of composts

1060
01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:21.560
with the humic acids and the things
that prepare that soil. You know,

1061
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:26.079
when you're fertilizing with microlife, you
are putting on nutrients, but what you're

1062
01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:30.880
trying to do is you're trying to
build that soil so the grass just thrives.

1063
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:34.319
And that includes more than nutrients.
That's microbes, that's everything else that's

1064
01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:40.960
involved in good healthy soil. Microlife's
sixty four and that's a green bag and

1065
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:45.520
the purple bag humates. Plus we're
about to put another another hour in the

1066
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:49.560
books here, man, that time
flu this morning, that that's kind of

1067
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:54.760
going fast. I'm going to be
heading out to Obapalooza, which what is

1068
01:15:54.760 --> 01:16:00.359
Obapalooza. It's the OBA event that's
going on at the United Way Building on

1069
01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:05.520
WA Drive here in the Houston area
and Oba Paluza. What is OBA,

1070
01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:11.159
by the way, OBA is the
Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance and there's a group

1071
01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:16.560
of folks gotten together to promote the
benefits of organic horticulture, both the benefits

1072
01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:20.600
of healthy eating, healthy loving.
And the Oba Paluza today is going to

1073
01:16:20.680 --> 01:16:24.760
have a whole bunch of speakers.
In fact, they are already rolling over

1074
01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:28.560
there. I'll be joining them after
the show today. I actually given a

1075
01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:31.000
talk today at two thirty and my
talk is going to be on two of

1076
01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:34.399
the things that make the phone ring. That's trees and turf. Why is

1077
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:39.079
my tree dying? Why is my
grass dying? And how do we take

1078
01:16:39.119 --> 01:16:41.720
care of that? And what I'm
wanna do is I'm gonna give a look

1079
01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:45.880
at it from the standpoint of why
did we get here? How did we

1080
01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:50.279
get here? You know? So
what we there's different ways of approaching problems.

1081
01:16:50.279 --> 01:16:55.319
And when you call garden Line,
you know you're you're hearing me talk

1082
01:16:55.359 --> 01:17:00.159
about answers to specific problems like I
have fiance, how do I kill them?

1083
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:01.279
Or I have this disease? How
do I prevented? Or how do

1084
01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:04.520
I kill it? And I'm going
to take a step back from that,

1085
01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:10.960
and we should You've heard me talk
before about the importance of cultural practices,

1086
01:17:11.319 --> 01:17:14.840
picking the right plant, doing all
the things right. Remember how when you

1087
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:17.399
walk away, you're eighty percent of
the way to success or failure. What

1088
01:17:17.479 --> 01:17:20.800
are the things we do that predispose
a plant? You know, maybe your

1089
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:26.439
tree died of hypoxilan canker, but
your tree died of hypoxillan because it had

1090
01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:30.600
stresses that led to hypoxillin coming in. And we're going to take a step

1091
01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:34.600
back and look at what does nature
do to keep plants healthy? You know,

1092
01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:39.720
think about the beautiful forests around the
world that just live without us running

1093
01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:44.279
through there with fertilizers and rhoto tillers
and exercise and pestis. How do they

1094
01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:45.760
do that? What's going on there? We're gonna look at some of those

1095
01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:48.960
principles that I had two thirty and
I'll be talking about them as I am

1096
01:17:49.079 --> 01:17:53.800
right now on the air as well. Hey, it is about time to

1097
01:17:53.880 --> 01:17:59.039
take our next news break. But
I do want to give your phone number.

1098
01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:03.039
It's seven one two one two five
eight seven four. If you would

1099
01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:05.760
like to be on. Maybe you
have a gardening question, give Josh a

1100
01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:11.000
call and let him get you on
the boards. We'll be happy to visit

1101
01:18:11.039 --> 01:18:15.399
with you about the things that might
be of interest to you. We always

1102
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:19.239
try to, you know, point
you to the kinds of answers, the

1103
01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:25.000
kinds of resources that are helpful.
If you've never checked out the Aggy Horticulture

1104
01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:32.880
website, it's Agge hyphen horticulture dot
TAMU, dot e du, or just

1105
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:38.720
go online whether you use Google or
whatever your search engine and type in Aggie

1106
01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:41.920
and horticulture. When you get there, you're gonna find a lot of good

1107
01:18:41.960 --> 01:18:45.560
stuff. There's a section on vegetables, where there's a little free fact sheet,

1108
01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.600
full color multi page that you can
look at on line or download on

1109
01:18:48.680 --> 01:18:53.359
every vegetable that you can imagine.
You go to the fruit section and there's

1110
01:18:53.439 --> 01:18:57.000
everything from avocado to I don't know
what's a fruit that begins with Z.

1111
01:18:57.960 --> 01:19:00.880
There's everything from A to Z when
it comes to fruit that's also available.

1112
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:04.439
It's all free. It's a resource
that's available for you that can be very

1113
01:19:04.520 --> 01:19:09.920
very helpful. We have our fall
season coming up and we'll be doing some

1114
01:19:09.960 --> 01:19:14.359
fertilizing, So if you haven't had
your soil tested, I would recommend going

1115
01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:17.239
ahead and getting that done now so
that you have time to get the soil

1116
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:24.119
right before we go into fall planting. So that would be soil testing dot

1117
01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:31.359
TAMU dot edu, soil testing dot
TAMU, dot DU. Let's get that

1118
01:19:31.439 --> 01:19:40.880
right so when we fertilize, we
fertilize accordingly. KTRH Garden Line does not

1119
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:45.840
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

1120
01:19:46.000 --> 01:20:09.960
KTRH Garden Line with Scip Director.
It's just watch good morning. You are

1121
01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:15.119
listening to garden Line on a beautiful
Saturday morning. I'm your host. Skip

1122
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.760
Richter, and we are here to
answer your gardening calls our phone number seven

1123
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:24.119
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

1124
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:29.199
fifty eight seventy four. Now,
if you live in the Houston area or

1125
01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:32.000
have lived here for very long,
especially if you've driven downtown down some of

1126
01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:35.760
the streets, you know that we
have soil that shrinks and swells. What

1127
01:20:35.800 --> 01:20:39.479
does that mean, Well, when
it gets wet, it expands, When

1128
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:43.800
it gets dry, it contracts.
Our foundations have a heck of a time

1129
01:20:43.840 --> 01:20:46.600
with it. Have you noticed maybe
that your doors are sticking, Maybe there's

1130
01:20:46.600 --> 01:20:49.680
a crack in the brick outside or
even the sheet rock inside. You see

1131
01:20:49.680 --> 01:20:55.039
a crack forming in that you may
need foundation repair and you need to not

1132
01:20:55.199 --> 01:21:00.800
delay, catch it early on and
have Tie Stricklin. And he's the owner

1133
01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:04.920
of Fix my Slab Foundation Repair.
Tie has been doing this a long time,

1134
01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:09.119
twenty three years here in the area. He knows what he's doing.

1135
01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:12.159
And if you're a garden line listener, if you tell them you're a garden

1136
01:21:12.199 --> 01:21:15.399
line listener, they actually give you
a free estimate. The thing I like

1137
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:20.079
about Fix my Slab and you know
this tiees Hoole approach to this is they're

1138
01:21:20.119 --> 01:21:24.680
committed to a fair price and they
show up on time and when they do

1139
01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:28.319
it, it's fixed. It's done. You know they're going to do a

1140
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:30.199
good job of doing it. And
that's the kind of folks that we like

1141
01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:33.640
to talk about on garden Line because
we want you to have success. We

1142
01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:38.439
want you to have the issues that
you need taking care of taken care of.

1143
01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:42.960
And that's exactly what you're going to
get with Fix my Slab Foundation Repair.

1144
01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:45.640
You can go to fix myslab dot
com, fix myslab dot com or

1145
01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:50.600
give him a call two eight one
two five five forty nine forty nine.

1146
01:21:50.640 --> 01:21:55.359
By the way, they'll do crack
driveways, they'll do crack sidewalks as well.

1147
01:21:56.079 --> 01:21:59.079
They know how to do it all. They are experienced and they do

1148
01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:03.520
quality work. It fixed my slab. You're listening to garden Line our phone

1149
01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:08.720
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four and we're going to

1150
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:12.720
head right on up to north Shore
and talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,

1151
01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:16.680
Hi, Hi, how can we
help? I have I have a

1152
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:20.840
yesterday, today and tomorrow in my
yard and it's in the finn it's on

1153
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:28.800
the south side and it's not happy
on that side. Okay, so I

1154
01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:34.159
was, and it's just not well. I used to have there used to

1155
01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:38.680
be a magnolia in the front yard, and it gave it partial shade and

1156
01:22:38.760 --> 01:22:43.439
it was happier. But now I'm
not happy at all. Is it too

1157
01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:45.920
late for me to dig it up? I wouldn't do it to it now

1158
01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:49.840
because the demands are so high and
you're gonna lose the vast majority of the

1159
01:22:49.960 --> 01:22:54.159
roots system when you dig it up. I would wait and do that in

1160
01:22:54.199 --> 01:22:57.479
the fall. Let's let it cool
off a little bit, get into later

1161
01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:00.039
October, November or something, and
go ahead and move it now. And

1162
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:03.359
I know in the meantime, if
you want to put some kind of a

1163
01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:06.600
little shady kind of cover of whatever
you can do to kind of block some

1164
01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:11.520
of the sun over it, that
would be fine. But oh okay,

1165
01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:15.359
they just kind of keep it moist. Yeah, yesterday to day and tomorrow.

1166
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:17.920
Brun Felsi is a beautiful old plant. In fact, doesn't that name?

1167
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:24.000
Do you know who Aban Costello is? Sharon? You remember? Yes?

1168
01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:29.199
Yes, I'm not that young.
All right, Well, I was

1169
01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:33.239
no assumptions here. I'm just saying
you remember the who's on first routine.

1170
01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:35.880
They should have had a yesterday,
today and tomorrow. You know, the

1171
01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:42.960
picture's name was yesterday. Never mind
anyway, Yeah, that's it. That's

1172
01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.399
it. That'd be a good one. Yeah. Just keep keep it as

1173
01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:48.000
happy as you can for now.
Uh. It is kind of an understory

1174
01:23:48.119 --> 01:23:51.760
type of plan. It likes light, it needs some light, but just

1175
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:56.920
the blazing too much blazing Sun's kind
of hard on them. Okay, because

1176
01:23:56.960 --> 01:23:59.279
I was going to ask you what
kind of light does it need? Because

1177
01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:02.840
it was my mother's and I can't
find them anywhere in the nurseries. And

1178
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:06.840
I think it's blue, pink and
white. It makes all the colors.

1179
01:24:06.960 --> 01:24:12.239
Yeah, it'smell beautiful and it's getting
very scraggly. It's not happy it is.

1180
01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.760
I'm trying to Wars North Shore get
up here. I'm on the east

1181
01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:21.920
side off of Ubaldi and okay,
on the on the sam Houson Toe Breach

1182
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:27.119
over there. Yeah, okay,
oh boy, trying to think of you.

1183
01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:30.039
You ought to be able to find
them too locally. There are a

1184
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:32.399
few. I haven't found one long
time, okay, yeah, because it's

1185
01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:36.199
really sad. Yeah, yeah,
well, let's keep this one alive.

1186
01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:40.640
And I don't think that'll be that
hard to do. I just just give

1187
01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:43.359
it a little bit of a break
and make sure the soil stays moist without

1188
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:45.760
being saggy. That's the key,
all right, Okay, and then it

1189
01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:48.800
just likes partial sign is that what
it like. A little morning sun would

1190
01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:53.119
be good, or a very bright
dappled shade through the day would be good.

1191
01:24:53.520 --> 01:24:56.760
I've seen them growing in more sun, so maybe there's something else going

1192
01:24:56.800 --> 01:25:00.319
on in terms of dry soil or
saggy soil or something else. But check

1193
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:03.640
for those things to be sure.
Okay, all right, well, thank

1194
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:10.439
you. I appreciate that call.
Sharon. You are when you have a

1195
01:25:10.479 --> 01:25:13.359
really wonderful plant that I love those
plants. It's it's kind of an old

1196
01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:15.359
fashioned plant. It kind of went
out a fashion for a while and then

1197
01:25:15.359 --> 01:25:19.399
it kind of came back and it's
really really popular. You might have you

1198
01:25:19.439 --> 01:25:23.840
might consider I was thinking about places
you get these. I'm pretty sure they

1199
01:25:23.840 --> 01:25:27.560
would have those up in Kingwood at
Kingwood Garden and Warren's Garden. I know

1200
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:30.079
it's a bit of a drive for
you, but as a drive well worth

1201
01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:35.600
it. Kingwood Garden Center and warren
Southern Garden Center are really really cool places.

1202
01:25:36.079 --> 01:25:40.399
They have the plants you need,
They the products you need. Yeah,

1203
01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:43.039
I was bragging on tree hugger sprinkle
while ago. They got those up

1204
01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:45.840
there. I've always been bragging on
the Cajun hibiscus. I just think that's

1205
01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:50.039
one of the prettiest hibiscus there is. And in fact, over let's see,

1206
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:54.600
it's at Kingwood Garden Center. The
Kingwood Center, they have the one

1207
01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:59.399
gallon Cajun hibiscus on sale. It's
only today and tomorrow, well actually started

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01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:03.000
winds bit as far as you're listening
now today from two to five pm or

1209
01:26:03.159 --> 01:26:08.920
tomorrow Sunday from two to five pm, while supplies last. You can get

1210
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:12.079
one of the Cajun hibiscus. And
when you go see them, you'll know

1211
01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:16.000
what I'm talking about. They are
gorgeous that it's called their Hibiscus Happy Hour.

1212
01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:19.880
Only at the Kingwood Garden Center.
They also have Mandevilla's there. In

1213
01:26:19.880 --> 01:26:25.199
fact, you can get Mandevilla's both
Kingwood and Southern Warren. Southern Gardens they've

1214
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:30.279
got Caliandra's, the pink powder puff, Oh my gosh, beautiful little wispy

1215
01:26:30.319 --> 01:26:33.479
blooms, very very unique. Maybe
you have a shady area and you need

1216
01:26:33.520 --> 01:26:39.239
something beautiful for that. How about
a Kirkuma ginger. They do really well

1217
01:26:39.319 --> 01:26:44.279
in a bright shade. Super super
plants just excellent at Kingwood and at Warren's

1218
01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:45.520
Garden Center by the way, coming
up, write this down. It's two

1219
01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:49.800
weeks from now, August nineteenth,
from nine to ten am, Warren Southern

1220
01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:55.079
Gardens is going to have their cultivate
a harvest of abundance. They are going

1221
01:26:55.159 --> 01:26:59.760
to be talking about fall garden prep
from nine to ten am. It's free

1222
01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:04.399
Warren's Garden Center August nineteen. You
need to go ahead and register because space

1223
01:27:04.520 --> 01:27:08.199
is limited, and so you want
to make sure and get in there for

1224
01:27:08.279 --> 01:27:12.000
it. That will be the one
thing you learn that is the most helpful

1225
01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:16.800
thing in all of your gardening endeavors
is getting that fall garden prep ready to

1226
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:23.199
go. Really really important. I
just can't sing praises about that enough.

1227
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:26.600
Well, we're about to take a
little break here. Heard up. You

1228
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:29.000
will be first up when we come
back. If you would like to be

1229
01:27:29.079 --> 01:27:32.159
on garden line and ask questions talk
about gardening seven one three, two one

1230
01:27:32.279 --> 01:27:36.000
two fifty eight seventy four. Just
give Josh a call and he will get

1231
01:27:36.039 --> 01:27:56.039
you on the board. All right, We're giving away a free bag of

1232
01:27:56.079 --> 01:27:59.439
fire ants and nutgrass. Where anybody
who can tell me who about that song?

1233
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:03.720
That's the mystery question of the day. You're listening to garden Line.

1234
01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:08.319
I'm your host, Skip Richter our
phone number seven one three two one two

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01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:14.560
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:18.439
If you have heard me talk about
Dellweb, then you know exactly the kind

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01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:24.199
of quality program or quality community that
they put together wherever they build, and

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01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:28.359
they've been doing this for seventy years. They design their programs, they design

1239
01:28:28.399 --> 01:28:32.640
their communities around active living adults age
fifty five and better, folks that are

1240
01:28:32.640 --> 01:28:35.840
out there and enjoying the best time
of their life. And part of the

1241
01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:39.800
best time of your life is enjoying
a garden. And they have a community

1242
01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:45.439
garden in the new facility. The
new community going in near fulsher On FM

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01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:49.039
three fifty nine. It's about two
miles from downtown fullsher On three fifty nine.

1244
01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:55.359
Give them a call at two eight
one four five nine zero six zero

1245
01:28:55.479 --> 01:29:00.199
nine to find out more information,
or go to dellweb dot com for word

1246
01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:04.039
slash Houston and find out about that
Dell web difference that I've been talking about

1247
01:29:04.399 --> 01:29:10.399
for yourself. We're gonna head out
now to spring Break or spring Break Spring

1248
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:15.039
Branch and talk to Herda. Hello, Herda, Oh, good morning,

1249
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:21.479
Skip. Thank you for being there
for us. My questions about Rosemary.

1250
01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:29.119
I want to bring a plant in
the house. How much sun would it

1251
01:29:29.319 --> 01:29:35.600
need like on windowsill? And is
there such a thing as a dwarf Rosemary

1252
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:42.359
whether I don't know of any true
dwarf Rosemary? And I tell you you

1253
01:29:42.439 --> 01:29:45.600
might if you've got one heck of
a sunny windowsill, you could probably keep

1254
01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:51.479
one going. But Rosemary needs a
lot of sun and moday my just you

1255
01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:55.119
know, being the bearer of bad
news, I don't think you're gonna be

1256
01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:58.880
happy with Rosemary and a windowsill.
Just the perform right, all right,

1257
01:29:59.039 --> 01:30:09.159
you will. This doesn't face east
or west, so yeah, there would

1258
01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:14.119
be more shade than I probably would
need. Yeah, well, thank you

1259
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:17.319
very much. All right, you
have a good day. All right,

1260
01:30:17.319 --> 01:30:19.600
Well, thank you for the call. You take care out there in Spring

1261
01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:27.359
Branch. Well, let's see we've
been we've been talking about things getting ready

1262
01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:31.880
for fall this summer, and now's
the time I realize, you know,

1263
01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:36.640
we listen to the weather and it's
discouraging to hear the temperatures and stuff like

1264
01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:41.439
that, But hey, you do
it now. If you wait until it's

1265
01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:45.119
cool enough outside where you want to
go out and just play around all day

1266
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:47.319
in the garden, it's too late
for doing a lot of the things we

1267
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:50.880
need to do now. Getting the
sore ready is important to get that done

1268
01:30:50.920 --> 01:30:54.840
now. Taking care of your lawn, getting it ready, you got to

1269
01:30:54.880 --> 01:30:58.800
get that lawn as dense as you
can because come October, the hen bit

1270
01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:04.600
and chickweed and carpetweed also call cleavers
the what am I forgetting annual bluegrass?

1271
01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:11.159
All kinds of winter weeds are going
to be coming up in October that will

1272
01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:15.199
sit there all through the winter and
then give you headaches in the spring when

1273
01:31:15.279 --> 01:31:18.720
they take off like our blue bonnets
do and bloom and set seed. And

1274
01:31:18.960 --> 01:31:25.479
so if you have a dense lawn
going into October, it greatly reduces the

1275
01:31:25.600 --> 01:31:28.840
number of weed problems you have.
So making sure you take care of your

1276
01:31:28.880 --> 01:31:31.840
lawn. One way we do that
is with product by Nitrofoss called Superturf.

1277
01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:38.560
Nitrofoss is nineteen four ten. Silver
bag. It's easy to remember Silver bag

1278
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:43.199
superturf is gradually releasing. It's going
to release over a period of several months

1279
01:31:43.439 --> 01:31:46.399
as a matter of fact, so
it's gradual. So the issues with like

1280
01:31:47.039 --> 01:31:50.520
brown patch are the large patch circles
that we get in the cool season are

1281
01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:55.880
going to get reduced. The issues
with these late season chinch bug problems that

1282
01:31:55.960 --> 01:32:00.479
we have are going to be reduced. The grass is going to read root

1283
01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:03.960
deeper because when it gets too much
nitrogen at one time, you end up

1284
01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:09.039
with top growth at the expensive root
growth. Nitro file Super Turf has that

1285
01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:12.680
covered. That's a nineteen four ten. And where do you get nitro files

1286
01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:16.720
everywhere? Garden centers all over the
place that we talked about have nitrofiles.

1287
01:32:16.960 --> 01:32:20.439
Ace hardware stores what are They're thirty
nine of them all over the Greater Houston

1288
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:26.239
area they have nit nitro fis products. And our wonderful feed stores that we

1289
01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:30.560
brag on all over the Greater Houston
area are also going to carry that product

1290
01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:33.720
for you as well. Let's head
out now to north Shore and we're gonna

1291
01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:39.520
talk to Donnie. Hello, Donnie, Hello, that skipper, what's up?

1292
01:32:40.439 --> 01:32:45.479
I had email you about a week
ago at your request of take some

1293
01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:51.039
pictures of my yard some brown spots
up close a little far away, and

1294
01:32:51.680 --> 01:32:58.039
also some recommendation on some planting of
some flowers, but look color for this

1295
01:32:58.279 --> 01:33:02.159
time a year and I hadn't heard
back from ye. All right, I'm

1296
01:33:02.199 --> 01:33:06.720
sitting here flipping through my emails.
I must have missed yours. There it

1297
01:33:06.840 --> 01:33:10.520
is. I found it good,
all right, we got it here.

1298
01:33:10.600 --> 01:33:15.720
So you got a sprinkler system and
you're watering either after nine pm or seven

1299
01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:20.199
am, and you what you're basically
looking for? What some advice on what's

1300
01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:25.359
going on with that lawn right right? Well, parts of it looked like

1301
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:29.479
drought, but parts of it looked
like chinch bugs to me. I don't

1302
01:33:29.560 --> 01:33:33.960
know if you're familiar with chinch bugs, but they typically start next to a

1303
01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:40.239
curb or a walk sidewalk or a
driveway, and then they work their way

1304
01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:44.560
out in the lawn. It looks
like the lawn needs watering, and they

1305
01:33:44.720 --> 01:33:47.640
eat, They suck all the juices
out of the lawn and what they lay

1306
01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:50.920
behind, and I can see this
in one of your pictures. That's that's

1307
01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:55.560
some fall aster. By the way, they leave behind certain kinds of weeds

1308
01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:58.439
that they don't like at all.
So you got these big blue green weeds

1309
01:33:58.520 --> 01:34:01.079
right in the middle of your dying
lawn. But that really looks like chinch

1310
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:04.319
bugs if it's not, or if
it's something in addition to that, it

1311
01:34:04.399 --> 01:34:09.000
could also be take all root rot. So you got your hands full there.

1312
01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:13.079
I would probably grab some bugout Max
from nitrofoss and I would just go

1313
01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:15.880
ahead and treat that area and try
to shut them down because they've already done

1314
01:34:15.880 --> 01:34:19.920
a considerable amount of damage. And
let's go ahead and and shut them down

1315
01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:25.079
now. But the bugout Max is
a bifethern product that can be drenched down

1316
01:34:25.119 --> 01:34:28.960
into the soil. And because the
chinch bugs, they just flat kill kill

1317
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:33.319
grass as you can seem. Okay, okay, okay. So now if

1318
01:34:33.359 --> 01:34:39.800
it would you recommend for plant any
colorful flowers at this time of year,

1319
01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:42.840
you know, when we get to
towards up your yards a little bit.

1320
01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:45.600
Yeah, when we get towards the
end of summer, I start thinking about

1321
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:50.680
some of the warm seasons that do
what warm season flowers that do well in

1322
01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:56.119
early fall, Angelonia would do real
well. Right now, let's see the

1323
01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.760
little compact types as any as little
budding plant types, as any as will

1324
01:34:59.800 --> 01:35:02.359
do well, now, I will
often plant marigolds, the big old pom

1325
01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:05.640
pom type, not the little flowers
the size of a quarter. But I'm

1326
01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:09.960
talking about the things that are size
of a tennis ball. Uh. Those

1327
01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:15.439
orange and yellow beautiful. When it
goes into fall, the spider might populations

1328
01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:19.239
go down and they just glow.
They look really good. They'll carry you

1329
01:35:19.239 --> 01:35:21.640
all the way up to the first
frost. They cannot take frost, but

1330
01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:25.880
they'll take you to there. That
would do good. Petunias would be a

1331
01:35:25.920 --> 01:35:30.680
good one for the summer. You
just need to get uh oh, you

1332
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:33.760
know about shrubs too. Azalia is
not so much in the fall, but

1333
01:35:33.960 --> 01:35:39.720
getting those planted this fall for coming
out and having a beautiful spring bloom,

1334
01:35:39.800 --> 01:35:42.319
that would be. That would be
a good choice for that. Now,

1335
01:35:42.359 --> 01:35:45.279
if you just want if you're thinking
more in a shrub type terms, you

1336
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:48.600
know, bougun vs look good this
time of year. The hibiscos I've been

1337
01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:54.520
you know, I was bragging on
the the Cajun hibiscus that they have up

1338
01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:58.800
at Kingwood Garden Center or war in
Southern Gardens. And let's see where are

1339
01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:01.319
you calling. I'm you're up in
North Shore. Okay, sure, yeah,

1340
01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:04.680
So you're not too far away.
Uh, those will all be good

1341
01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:08.319
options. There's just a lot of
good things out there. I don't know

1342
01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:12.560
if you have a preference for a
certain size of plant or color of flower

1343
01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:16.279
or whatever, there's a lot of
options. Yeah, if you see my

1344
01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:23.680
flower bed, I've kind of cut
out in that email. Okay, oh

1345
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:29.720
yeah, that's that's the kind of
format that I want to kind of put

1346
01:36:29.800 --> 01:36:32.640
something in there. Yeah, go
to the contour of that, I would.

1347
01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.279
I would go with something a little
smaller stature. Then that's an awful

1348
01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:40.960
lot of sun and which is good. You can get good blooms in the

1349
01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:44.439
sun. There's some good salvias.
I think the Angelonia would be one you're

1350
01:36:44.479 --> 01:36:46.920
gonna really like. I would.
It's also called summer snap dragon. It's

1351
01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:49.920
not a snap dragon, but that
would be one you might want to consider

1352
01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:58.359
too. Yeah, because the sun
rives in the last Yeah. Yeah,

1353
01:36:58.520 --> 01:37:00.359
if you got a favorite gardens or
you like to go to, they're gonna

1354
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:08.119
have They're gonna have a beautiful,
beautiful color options right now. Okay them

1355
01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:12.039
chink bugs you thank god? Me. I think it's chinch bugs mostly,

1356
01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:15.000
you know, And I'm looking at
a picture, but just the fact that

1357
01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:19.039
it's often starting next to your your
masonry. Uh, I think that's what

1358
01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:21.720
it is there. There could be
some takeall root right in there as well,

1359
01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:26.319
but I would first make sure and
get that chinch bug thing under control.

1360
01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.439
And again the bugout Max had probably
probably would be a good quick quick

1361
01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:33.359
choice for that from nitrophile. That's
a Is that a granular law? Yes,

1362
01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:36.560
yes, it's a granule. Follow
the label. You're gonna put it

1363
01:37:36.600 --> 01:37:42.640
down, You're gonna water it in
and it'll do the trick, all right,

1364
01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:45.880
all right, thank you, yes, sir, you take care appreciate

1365
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:51.039
that call. Uh you know the
the um whenever it does rain, and

1366
01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:56.239
it will it does rain or run
here mosquite has become such a problem,

1367
01:37:56.399 --> 01:37:59.439
especially with standing water. It doesn't
take them long. What do they say,

1368
01:37:59.560 --> 01:38:04.439
like a thumbleful or a bottle capful
of water is enough for mosquitoes to

1369
01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:10.199
lay an egg and grow some larva
and to hatch out and become adult mosquitoes.

1370
01:38:10.239 --> 01:38:13.760
Again, that's why we need to
dump out all those little water things

1371
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:16.439
underneath the underneath the catch basins on
the pot. If you've got a sagging

1372
01:38:16.479 --> 01:38:21.359
gutter, oh, that's mosquito heaven
organic matter decomposing in water that isn't moving.

1373
01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:26.680
That is what mosquito heaven is.
Well. Mosquito dunks can be thrown

1374
01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:30.600
into any body of water and they
will float along and for about a month

1375
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:33.600
they will kill mosquitoes naturally. Now
it's not a poison that's gonna hurt birds

1376
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:36.760
or wildlife or your family pet if
they drink out of it, or maybe

1377
01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:41.560
it's a coypon you got fishing.
It's not gonna hurt that, but it

1378
01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:45.720
will work well against mosquitoes. Each
dunk covers about one hundred square feet of

1379
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:48.359
water unless, as I said,
about a month. So anytime you have

1380
01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:51.359
standing water and you can't fix it
or you don't want to fix it,

1381
01:38:53.000 --> 01:38:58.079
then mosquito dunks would be the way
to go. Mosquito dunks as simple product,

1382
01:38:58.520 --> 01:39:00.960
and they're everywhere ever lace you hear
me talk about, from garden center,

1383
01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:04.199
stays, hardware storees to feed stores, you're going to find mosquito dunks.

1384
01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:09.439
We're gonna head over to Deer Park
and talk to Stephen. Hello,

1385
01:39:09.560 --> 01:39:12.880
Stephen, Hey, good morning,
Skip. How you doing any morning?

1386
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:19.199
I'm doing well. I've got a
Schumart reddo and it's probably about three years

1387
01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:24.439
old, maybe four years old.
It's a pretty good sized tree, been

1388
01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:30.560
a super great tree. It grows
real dip leaves. But my front yard

1389
01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:35.560
right now looks like late August.
I mean it started shedding leaves, and

1390
01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:42.920
uh my thought is that it's because
I haven't probably watered it enough and this

1391
01:39:43.159 --> 01:39:47.279
heat is making it shuts oars or
something and it's grown off leaves. Yeah,

1392
01:39:47.479 --> 01:39:50.760
that's probably I'd feel better if you
told me that probably all it is.

1393
01:39:51.000 --> 01:39:56.439
Yeah, yeah, if it's if
it's just dropping some leaves, and

1394
01:39:56.600 --> 01:39:59.880
especially if you're noticing like the tips
and margins of the leaves or brown,

1395
01:40:00.039 --> 01:40:01.920
but the rest of the leaf is
green for a while before it turns brown.

1396
01:40:02.239 --> 01:40:04.880
That sounds like water. Tell me, I'm about out a time.

1397
01:40:04.920 --> 01:40:09.960
But how long has it been in
the ground, So it's probably been in

1398
01:40:10.039 --> 01:40:15.960
the ground a good four years alto
sometimes you use about four or five years.

1399
01:40:16.119 --> 01:40:18.840
Yeah. I talk about the tree
huggers a lot, but it's because

1400
01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:21.760
I believe in them. Because you
put that around the base of your tree,

1401
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.119
you turn it on, you can
water the whole area beneath and beyond

1402
01:40:26.199 --> 01:40:29.600
the branch bread and give it a
good soaking. You may take two or

1403
01:40:29.680 --> 01:40:33.039
three waterings during a day. To
get that soil soaked well, you need

1404
01:40:33.119 --> 01:40:36.079
at least an inch of water for
it to do good. And I'm gonna

1405
01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:40.119
have to run. But that kind
of water, whether you use a tree

1406
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:43.039
hugger or not, that kind of
watering is what it's going to take to

1407
01:40:43.159 --> 01:40:47.239
get that tree back. Okay,
all right, thanks, yes, sir,

1408
01:40:47.399 --> 01:40:51.960
you take care. All right,
Here we go our phone number seven

1409
01:40:53.039 --> 01:40:57.880
one three two one two five eight
seven four. We're gonna quit talking plants

1410
01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:04.119
and we're gonna go to news with
Nikki. I get it one piece of

1411
01:41:04.199 --> 01:41:10.079
the time, and it wouldn't cost
me a time. You lords me when

1412
01:41:10.159 --> 01:41:15.159
I got through your town, I'm
gonna ride around in style. I'm gonna

1413
01:41:15.239 --> 01:41:23.159
drive everybody wild. Boz will have
the only one larious round. So the

1414
01:41:23.359 --> 01:41:27.039
very next day when I punched in
was my big lunch box. Let's helping

1415
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:30.880
my friend. I left that day
Johnny cash one piece at a time.

1416
01:41:31.319 --> 01:41:35.600
I didn't cost me a dime.
Our phone number seven one three two one

1417
01:41:35.680 --> 01:41:41.079
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two k t r H.

1418
01:41:41.199 --> 01:41:43.520
Give Josh a call, who gets
you on the board and we will

1419
01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:47.199
talk about whatever you are interested in
you know, I have I have folks

1420
01:41:48.039 --> 01:41:53.079
often ask me about, you know, what is the best way to create

1421
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:55.560
a garden? You know, what
do I plow it up to put on

1422
01:41:55.680 --> 01:41:59.039
compost first? Whatever. There's a
lot of waste skin account and when it

1423
01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:01.159
comes to creating a garden, there's
a lot of ways to do that too.

1424
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:04.960
But I don't know a better way
than to just do an above ground

1425
01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:09.920
raised bed, you know, because
really the plant doesn't care what it's growing

1426
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:15.239
in. I mean, it doesn't
care if you've got you remodeled your house

1427
01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:17.159
and you've got an old toilet out
at the street now you're waiting for somebody.

1428
01:42:17.239 --> 01:42:23.439
Halloway, that's a planner. Okay, I'm serious. Plant doesn't care.

1429
01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:26.520
As long as it has enough soil. That's number one. It's got

1430
01:42:26.640 --> 01:42:30.199
to have enough soil because when it's
one hundred degrees and that plant is pumping

1431
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:32.960
just as much water as it can
to stay alive, if it doesn't have

1432
01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:36.199
a huge soil volume, it's not
going to do well. And so I

1433
01:42:36.399 --> 01:42:41.560
like, my favorite type of garden
would be to put a bed box on

1434
01:42:41.720 --> 01:42:45.359
the ground so that the roots can
go down in the ground. But you've

1435
01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:47.800
got a quality mid up mix up
in the bed box, and that is

1436
01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:54.000
exactly what a Vego garden is.
Now you can go online to vegogarden dot

1437
01:42:54.039 --> 01:42:58.720
com, v egogarden dot com and
you can find out what I'm talking about.

1438
01:42:58.800 --> 01:43:03.359
There are metal beds that have been
treated with a material to prevent corrosion

1439
01:43:03.399 --> 01:43:06.880
and rusting, and then on top
of that they put a USDA approved quality

1440
01:43:06.960 --> 01:43:12.760
paint. By the way, that
corrosion treatment is one that was certified or

1441
01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:16.560
tested at Texas A and M University. And now the paints are beautiful.

1442
01:43:16.640 --> 01:43:20.039
I mean, the colors are beautiful. Vego is modular. So do you

1443
01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:25.479
want an oval? Do you want
a C shaped bed? You know?

1444
01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:27.720
Do you how big do you want
it? How why do you want it?

1445
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.479
You put it together like you want
and it is excellent. There.

1446
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:34.760
It's a Houston company. Is this
is our own hometown company. It's one

1447
01:43:34.840 --> 01:43:39.119
of the I think it's the oldest
metal bed company here in the US.

1448
01:43:39.199 --> 01:43:42.039
And boy are there ever some fakes
out there on the market. There's a

1449
01:43:42.159 --> 01:43:47.279
lot of pretenders, but nothing the
quality of a Vego Garden bed. And

1450
01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:51.439
also a nice local company that does
well. If you're an organic gardener,

1451
01:43:53.199 --> 01:43:55.840
you don't want to use treated lumber, you don't want to use your aerotize,

1452
01:43:55.920 --> 01:43:59.199
Well, here's your bed, Vego
garden. But even if you're not

1453
01:43:59.279 --> 01:44:02.880
an organic gardener, I cannot think
of a better product to go in to

1454
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:06.239
be instantly into a garden. You
take a Vego bed and you put a

1455
01:44:06.359 --> 01:44:11.920
quality mix into it, and you're
gardening tomorrow. And they're not many ways

1456
01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:15.039
you can you can go about creating
a garden where you're gardening the day after

1457
01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:18.279
you decide to do it, and
that is Vego Garden. I can't brag

1458
01:44:18.319 --> 01:44:21.760
about those things enough. We're gonna
go out to Rochera now and we're gonna

1459
01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:28.960
talk to Brenda. How's Brenda today? I'm awesome, good. How are

1460
01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:31.239
you? I'm well, thank you. I can tell I can tell.

1461
01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:35.960
Listen. I've got some trees that
we had one of those tree farms come

1462
01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:41.439
out and plant. We bought about
nine of them, and two of them

1463
01:44:41.560 --> 01:44:45.239
have what I think is a fungus. It was lea leaking sap. They're

1464
01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:53.079
nettles, nettle oaks. They're leaking
sap. Had butterflies and everything attracted to

1465
01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:57.680
it, and so the tree farm
told us to spread it with knee moil

1466
01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:01.359
and that didn't seem to be working
right, So um, I read doctor

1467
01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:04.760
Google. Doctor Google said that there's
nothing that can be done. You need

1468
01:45:04.800 --> 01:45:08.520
to dig him up. What do
you say, Yeah, well, doctor

1469
01:45:08.600 --> 01:45:12.560
Google, he goes outside and he
asks his neighbor, and some of his

1470
01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:15.359
neighbors don't know what they're talking about. Okay, so let me just tell

1471
01:45:15.359 --> 01:45:19.680
you about that. So yeah,
there's the best and the worst answers in

1472
01:45:19.720 --> 01:45:24.760
the world on on Google. What
that is is it's called slime flux or

1473
01:45:24.880 --> 01:45:29.600
bacterial wet wood and the trees they
get maybe a stress crack in them.

1474
01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:32.239
It can come from like a physical
injury. It can come from just the

1475
01:45:32.359 --> 01:45:36.399
bending and a cracking, you know, cold freeze, cracks, A lot

1476
01:45:36.439 --> 01:45:42.520
of things can cause it. But
the sap is full of sugars, carbohydrates

1477
01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:45.840
that the leaves are making. And
when you get any kind of sugary water

1478
01:45:46.199 --> 01:45:51.199
and you introduce microbes, you end
up with alcohol you and up. You

1479
01:45:51.239 --> 01:45:54.640
know. That's how we That's how
we make beer, that's how we make

1480
01:45:54.680 --> 01:45:58.720
wine, whiskey. I mean,
it's all a fermented you need to tap

1481
01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:00.600
it. It's basically, I'm just
a little sign. You know. It

1482
01:46:00.680 --> 01:46:04.920
can be Brenda's beer joint right there
and all free. All the wasps and

1483
01:46:05.000 --> 01:46:11.880
the butterflies of the neighborhood will come
over there. But there's no that's it.

1484
01:46:12.159 --> 01:46:15.000
It's a speakeasy. No, there's
no there's no fix in it.

1485
01:46:15.079 --> 01:46:17.560
There's no spray in it. You
just want your tree to get vigor so

1486
01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:20.840
that it can create the callous and
close that area over. That's that is

1487
01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:26.600
the long term fix. And so
water, proper watering, adequate fertilizing,

1488
01:46:26.720 --> 01:46:30.039
get the grass away so it's not
competing with the lawn and everything. Let

1489
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:33.319
it, let it get on its
feet. That's the solution to back trial

1490
01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:41.159
wet way and slime flux both okay, okay. Fertilizer any particular. Should

1491
01:46:41.159 --> 01:46:46.279
I check the website you guys have
for the tree? You know, I'll

1492
01:46:46.319 --> 01:46:49.720
tell you this. There are some
really good tree fertilizers out there. I

1493
01:46:49.800 --> 01:46:54.960
know nitro Foss has one that is
excellent for trees. I know Nelson's has

1494
01:46:55.039 --> 01:46:58.520
some that are excellent for trees.
I mean they're they're they're good fertilizers.

1495
01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.399
In my house, I often because
I buy bags for the lawn, I

1496
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:04.439
often will just use that on the
trees too, and there's nothing wrong with

1497
01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:09.800
that. So if you go no, I wouldn't do that. I'd do

1498
01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:15.399
look for one with a three one
two ratio of nutrients. So you know,

1499
01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:18.920
like microlife has a six two four. I just talked about the nitrophos

1500
01:47:19.199 --> 01:47:24.359
is nineteen four tien. I believe
it was, uh, you know Nelson's

1501
01:47:24.399 --> 01:47:28.159
has there's a um slow and easy. It's a twenty two two ten.

1502
01:47:28.319 --> 01:47:30.239
I'm throwing up. I'm messing up
on those last numbers a little bit.

1503
01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:36.359
But anyway, it doesn't it nitrogen. That's the vigor. That's the vigor

1504
01:47:36.479 --> 01:47:40.079
nutrient, and so that's the main
one you need. Yeah, it's not

1505
01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:44.039
for lack of phosphorus or really even
a lack of potassium that the trees are

1506
01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:47.840
not growing more. But the main
reason right now is it's so blazing hot

1507
01:47:48.239 --> 01:47:53.279
that it's just hard for any plants
to do anything other than survive. And

1508
01:47:53.439 --> 01:47:57.560
that's when we summertime is when we
see this problem most. But it'll be

1509
01:47:57.640 --> 01:48:00.680
okay. Just just take care of
the trees, get them growing, keep

1510
01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:04.560
them healthy, and they will close
that off and be fine. Thank you

1511
01:48:04.680 --> 01:48:11.119
so much, Thank you so much
for your tips. Six to Yep,

1512
01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:15.279
you got it all. Right,
Brenda, thank you for them. I

1513
01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:21.079
appreciate that very much. Yeah,
the little Butterfly bear joints that we have

1514
01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:25.640
several calls this year on those,
so I guess that's that's popping up a

1515
01:48:25.680 --> 01:48:29.640
lot out there. If you live
in the north central part of Houston,

1516
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:33.600
your hometown feed stores Quality Feed and
Garden Supply. Now, Kenn and Chris

1517
01:48:34.039 --> 01:48:38.479
have been operating Quality Feed for I
guess thirty two years now. I mean

1518
01:48:38.720 --> 01:48:42.600
Quality Feed goes back to nineteen twenty
eight. How many businesses do you know

1519
01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:46.960
that are Houston traditions since nineteen twenty
eight. Quality Feed it's well named because

1520
01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:50.439
they do have quality feeds. In
fact, if you have like backyard chickens,

1521
01:48:50.680 --> 01:48:56.239
this is your place. They not
only carry a wide variety of options

1522
01:48:56.319 --> 01:48:59.880
for your chickens, they even make
their own Grandy's laying mix for example.

1523
01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:03.640
They're at Quality Feed now. They
also get chickens in about every two weeks.

1524
01:49:03.680 --> 01:49:08.319
So if you thought about this backyard
chicken thing, Quality Feed is the

1525
01:49:08.439 --> 01:49:11.239
place you need to go. I
don't care where you live. You can

1526
01:49:11.279 --> 01:49:15.600
go online to Quality feed coo dot
com. Quality feedco dot com. They

1527
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:21.119
are on Luzon Street, which is
near the intersection of equipment and alesion right

1528
01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:25.520
down there, and let's just say
north central Houston if you think about it

1529
01:49:25.640 --> 01:49:29.840
that way. Monday through Friday nine
to six, today, nine to four

1530
01:49:29.960 --> 01:49:34.199
pm, and Tomorrow eleven thirty to
four pm. If we recommend a fertilizer,

1531
01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:38.359
they have it at Quality Feed.
If you need a pasticide, herb

1532
01:49:38.399 --> 01:49:42.880
aside, fungicide, you know,
bags of soil and compost, they've got

1533
01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:48.640
it all there at Quality Feed on
Lozon Street in North central Houston. Quality

1534
01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:53.119
feedco dot com. Hey, let's
take a break. It's time for one.

1535
01:49:53.359 --> 01:49:57.319
Our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

1536
01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:14.439
The scene somewhere my love stands on. Nobody called in to tell me who's

1537
01:50:14.479 --> 01:50:16.000
sang? Or who wrote that thing? You do? Who can tell me

1538
01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:23.920
who's sang that? Beyond the sea
you're listening to garden Line. I'm your

1539
01:50:23.960 --> 01:50:29.199
host, Skip Ricter our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight

1540
01:50:29.439 --> 01:50:34.399
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

1541
01:50:34.439 --> 01:50:39.520
we got a lot of a lot
of topics we've been covered today. Keep

1542
01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:44.199
trying to come back to the fact
that even though it's hot outside, now's

1543
01:50:44.279 --> 01:50:47.079
the time to get ready for fall. If you for example, if I

1544
01:50:47.199 --> 01:50:50.920
mentioned earlier, but if you want
to grow broccoli in your fall garden,

1545
01:50:51.399 --> 01:50:55.640
now's the time you would start seeds
and little cell packs to get going.

1546
01:50:55.760 --> 01:51:00.399
So you have a transplant to put
out come September, maybe even October gives

1547
01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:02.119
you plenty of time to get that
done. There's just a lot of things.

1548
01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:05.680
Time to get your lawn dench you're
lawn healthy. If you start to

1549
01:51:05.760 --> 01:51:10.039
see chinch bug damage. If you
start to see your lawn dying in areas

1550
01:51:10.079 --> 01:51:14.319
and you're watering it and it's not
perking up, that's probably chinch bugs could

1551
01:51:14.319 --> 01:51:16.920
be a little take all root rot
as well, but jump on it early.

1552
01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:20.199
Do not delay. Don't wait until
the weather cools off it's too light,

1553
01:51:20.640 --> 01:51:26.279
and take all in chinch bugs both
kill grass. Now we have things

1554
01:51:26.359 --> 01:51:29.640
that don't kill grass. Gray leaf
spot looks horrible. That doesn't kill the

1555
01:51:29.680 --> 01:51:33.560
grass. The large patch we used
to call it brown patch. Large patch

1556
01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:38.319
makes a big brown circles in the
cool season, looks horrible, doesn't kill

1557
01:51:38.399 --> 01:51:42.960
the grass. Chinch Bugs and take
all root rot. Now there you're losing

1558
01:51:43.039 --> 01:51:45.439
lawn, and so you don't delay. You get on it right away,

1559
01:51:45.600 --> 01:51:47.840
find out what it is, get
on it right away, and take care

1560
01:51:47.880 --> 01:51:50.880
of it. Even though it's hot
outside, Get out there and get that

1561
01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:57.720
done, because just the cost of
delay is significant. Let's head out to

1562
01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:01.319
Katie and we're gonna talk to John
this morning. Hello, John, see

1563
01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:08.720
this journ I'm on schedule to be
fertilized in my yard in August. Okay,

1564
01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:12.800
and it's what the capri as hot
as they are. I was wondering

1565
01:52:12.840 --> 01:52:17.479
if I should go ahead and fertilize
or wait. You can go ahead and

1566
01:52:17.520 --> 01:52:24.039
fertilize if you follow the instructions and
don't overapply it. Can I ask why

1567
01:52:24.199 --> 01:52:29.079
you are fertilizing in August just specifically? Is it just got a little bit

1568
01:52:29.199 --> 01:52:33.439
lighter start than normal? Okay,
all right, so that's why I would

1569
01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:36.319
be in August. Yeah, I
you know, take a look at your

1570
01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:40.319
lawn, see what it looks like. The reason I ask is we've got

1571
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:44.800
the fall fertilization coming up, you
know, down not too far from now,

1572
01:52:45.159 --> 01:52:46.319
So if you're going to do in
August, I would go a little

1573
01:52:46.359 --> 01:52:50.119
bit light on it, don't you
know. Normally we put a pound of

1574
01:52:50.279 --> 01:52:57.680
nitrogen per thousand square feet, so
whatever is there a particular fertilizer you'd like

1575
01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:01.720
to use. I've got the super
curve supertur Okay, okay, well,

1576
01:53:02.000 --> 01:53:08.039
now that's a that is a nineteen
percent, So five pounds of that per

1577
01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:12.399
thousand square feet is a pound of
nitrogen. I might go a little bit

1578
01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:15.079
lighter than that. And I know
it's gonna be hard to put down less

1579
01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:19.920
than five pounds per thousand because that
that's already not a lot. But I

1580
01:53:20.039 --> 01:53:23.640
might go a little bit lighter than
that because you're gonna want to put on

1581
01:53:23.800 --> 01:53:28.960
your your winterizers, your fall fertilizers
coming up here. You may also want

1582
01:53:29.000 --> 01:53:34.319
to consider just going with, you
know, not a slow release in some

1583
01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:39.159
time here in August, in a
very light application, not much, just

1584
01:53:39.319 --> 01:53:43.760
a light application, uh, just
to kind of keep it going because when

1585
01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:45.880
the fall comes, that's when we
want to get that that product down,

1586
01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:50.159
uh, you know, for going
into wintertime, getting our grass ready to

1587
01:53:50.359 --> 01:53:56.279
strengthen itself before we go into winter
so it comes out better in the spring.

1588
01:53:57.800 --> 01:54:00.720
Okay, all right, sounds good. Yeah, if you got the

1589
01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:02.439
If you got the silver bag around, go ahead and use it. If

1590
01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:06.960
not, Nitrofus has a red bag
that's also pretty good, Yeah, excellent,

1591
01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:11.439
Okay, super, thank you,
all right, thank you. I

1592
01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:17.399
appreciate that call very much. If
you live up in the let's say Lake

1593
01:54:17.439 --> 01:54:21.880
Conro area or the Montgomery area,
your hometown garden center is A and A

1594
01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:26.119
Plants. Now, if you haven't
been to Ana Plants, you gotta get

1595
01:54:26.159 --> 01:54:29.560
by there. It's on the east
side of Montgomery. And you know,

1596
01:54:29.840 --> 01:54:34.000
it's probably been at least ten years
that I've been going to Ana Plants off

1597
01:54:34.039 --> 01:54:39.079
and on through the time, and
it's it's watching it grow and change and

1598
01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:42.960
develop and expand it's just been really
cool. You know, they got three

1599
01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:45.920
acres. I mean, it's what
kind of plant do you need? Do

1600
01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:46.680
you want a citrust? Do you
want a shade tree? Do you want

1601
01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:49.720
flowers? You want vegetables? You
on, herbs, on or on.

1602
01:54:49.880 --> 01:54:53.479
They've got it all. Do you
need stuff to kind of, really,

1603
01:54:54.159 --> 01:54:57.359
I don't know, add a little
bling to the landscape. Maybe it's some

1604
01:54:57.560 --> 01:55:01.760
outdoor furniture. Maybe it's a kind
of a gazebo like cover or an archway,

1605
01:55:01.920 --> 01:55:05.000
or maybe a chiminea from the for
the patio. They've got all of

1606
01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:12.880
that and lots lots more concrete statuary
for example. So everyone out in Walden

1607
01:55:13.000 --> 01:55:17.680
Bentwater Lake Conro De Lago in Montgomery, in conro that whole region. A

1608
01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:21.760
and A plants on Highway one oh
five. That is the place you need

1609
01:55:21.840 --> 01:55:25.520
to go. Check them out.
They got some really good color right now.

1610
01:55:25.560 --> 01:55:28.079
So I'm going to Colin earlier.
What are some color plants we can

1611
01:55:28.159 --> 01:55:30.840
plant? Well, A and A
plant. Drive up, take a look

1612
01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:33.199
at it. See what you're talking
See what I'm talking about. There.

1613
01:55:33.479 --> 01:55:38.239
You need some nice hanging baskets.
They've got some excellent, beautiful ones.

1614
01:55:38.399 --> 01:55:41.479
And that's the way. Maybe you've
got a garden party, your friends coming

1615
01:55:41.520 --> 01:55:44.199
over, you know, in the
next day or two, grab some hanging

1616
01:55:44.239 --> 01:55:46.840
baskets, hang them up, and
I mean instantly, the place just looks

1617
01:55:46.960 --> 01:55:51.680
better. It's just really cool.
And A plants. I'm gonna head out

1618
01:55:51.800 --> 01:55:56.159
now, I think to Spring and
we're gonna talk to Garrett. Hello,

1619
01:55:56.399 --> 01:56:00.279
Garrett. Yes, hey, thank
you very much for taking my call.

1620
01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:06.239
How can we help? All right? So my issue is we just finished

1621
01:56:06.239 --> 01:56:11.439
the house about a month ago.
Um, this is a acre lot.

1622
01:56:12.000 --> 01:56:18.600
I currently don't have any grass um
and I'm coming up um to a point

1623
01:56:18.640 --> 01:56:23.359
where I want to but we have
mandatory water restrictions, So I don't think

1624
01:56:23.399 --> 01:56:27.279
it's probably wise to do, you
know, just given the amount of water

1625
01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:31.520
that we have to put on new
grass. And I'm contemplating either sotting it

1626
01:56:31.760 --> 01:56:41.000
with Saint Augustine or hydro sating,
and I don't know if you know you've

1627
01:56:41.039 --> 01:56:45.720
had experience with either or Definitely there's
pros and cons of each, but yeah,

1628
01:56:45.920 --> 01:56:49.199
definitely do the side. It's just
gonna be easier. There's chance of

1629
01:56:49.319 --> 01:56:53.880
success is just gonna be better.
Uh. And you get it down and

1630
01:56:54.079 --> 01:56:57.720
you you don't need a lot of
water on it. When you put on

1631
01:56:57.920 --> 01:57:00.359
side, you just need a little
bit of water because it doesn't have a

1632
01:57:00.439 --> 01:57:02.600
root system. I mean, the
root system is a half inch long when

1633
01:57:02.640 --> 01:57:05.640
it comes in the side, and
so you just need like a little bit

1634
01:57:05.680 --> 01:57:10.520
of a quarter inch or so,
just a little bit each day, and

1635
01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:13.600
then you move it to every other
day, and by the time you get

1636
01:57:13.600 --> 01:57:15.640
about three weeks into it, you're
only water in a couple times a week.

1637
01:57:16.479 --> 01:57:20.479
So I would use the side.
It's not a quantity thing, but

1638
01:57:20.600 --> 01:57:26.279
it is frequent. And normally we're
weaning our lawn to where we give it

1639
01:57:26.359 --> 01:57:30.319
a good soaking once a week and
that's it. But in the absence of

1640
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:32.680
rain. But for the early on
for the side, just remember a little

1641
01:57:32.720 --> 01:57:39.760
small amounts, not much water the
soil. Water the soil before you put

1642
01:57:39.880 --> 01:57:43.159
down the side too, okay,
And that way, when the roots go

1643
01:57:43.319 --> 01:57:45.840
down, there's already moist soil down
there. Garrett, I appreciate your call

1644
01:57:45.880 --> 01:57:49.199
and fortune. I might have to
run, but hopefully get it off to

1645
01:57:49.279 --> 01:57:54.720
a good star. Okay, thank
you very much. People often call me

1646
01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:56.800
and say, you know, where
can I get this? Or where can

1647
01:57:56.880 --> 01:57:59.600
I get that? Or we're gonna
find that fertilizer you're talking about. Well,

1648
01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:04.039
the inch every question that I just
said is Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer

1649
01:58:04.600 --> 01:58:09.119
is the place to go. You
can find them at Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

1650
01:58:09.399 --> 01:58:14.239
They're down there on the corner of
Bissonette and Renwick in southwest Houston.

1651
01:58:14.960 --> 01:58:19.319
Do you need a herbicide, in
secticide, fertilizer, tools, everything.

1652
01:58:19.520 --> 01:58:23.760
Bob and his team down there they
have got it all. You got a

1653
01:58:23.840 --> 01:58:27.359
question, take them a sample,
take them a picture. They will solve

1654
01:58:27.439 --> 01:58:30.359
it and they will point you to
a product that works. Also, if

1655
01:58:30.399 --> 01:58:32.520
you need to do small testing,
they have a loner soil probe. You

1656
01:58:32.560 --> 01:58:35.920
give give them something to you know
as a deposit, so you bring it

1657
01:58:36.039 --> 01:58:41.399
back and they've got those and that
wonderful kneeling bench. Should I keep bragging

1658
01:58:41.479 --> 01:58:45.359
on. They've got that as well
too. If you are past forty,

1659
01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:47.680
you can't live in garden without a
kneeling bench. I'll brag on that a

1660
01:58:47.720 --> 01:58:53.000
little bit when we come back from
break. You are listening to garden Line.

1661
01:58:53.039 --> 01:58:57.880
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

1662
01:58:58.479 --> 01:59:01.159
We've got one hour left today and
after that I'm going to be heading

1663
01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:08.479
over to Obapalooza, which is an
organic fair going on over at the United

1664
01:59:08.560 --> 01:59:11.119
Way on Law Drive. I'll be
given a talk at the end of the

1665
01:59:11.199 --> 01:59:14.840
deal today. They got talks going
on right now. I've been going this

1666
01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:18.000
morning. Lots more to come.
If you happen to have a chance to

1667
01:59:18.039 --> 01:59:20.119
get out and about today, you
might want to check that out. But

1668
01:59:20.159 --> 01:59:24.760
don't delay. You're missing You're missing
some of it, so don't take any

1669
01:59:24.800 --> 01:59:27.520
more any more time to lay in
than you need to. I'll be talking

1670
01:59:27.560 --> 01:59:39.079
about some cool things regarding how do
we help avoid plant problems today KTRH garden

1671
01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:43.079
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1672
01:59:44.920 --> 02:00:03.920
Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with skip
rictor so please just watching a anything

1673
02:00:11.960 --> 02:00:23.560
clubs Well. Good Saturday morning,
on a beautiful morning out there. This

1674
02:00:23.720 --> 02:00:25.800
is a good day to get out, get a little work done in the

1675
02:00:25.880 --> 02:00:29.760
morning, and maybe do a little
bit of shopping in the afternoon. Because

1676
02:00:29.880 --> 02:00:33.279
there are a lot of great nurseries
in our area. I'm telling you,

1677
02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:38.520
if you know, if you've lived
here a long time, maybe you just

1678
02:00:38.640 --> 02:00:42.399
don't maybe take it for granted,
just how many great nurseries you have.

1679
02:00:42.439 --> 02:00:45.439
I was talking to somebody the other
day about it, somebody that travels all

1680
02:00:45.479 --> 02:00:47.399
over the state looking at a lot
of the big cities and and you know,

1681
02:00:47.520 --> 02:00:51.159
selling products in different cities and things. And they were just saying,

1682
02:00:51.239 --> 02:00:56.359
how I won't even name the towns, but they don't have any kind of

1683
02:00:56.399 --> 02:00:59.079
garden centers like we do in Houston. Well, that is true, they

1684
02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:03.279
don't. This place is unique.
I mean north southeast West Central there is

1685
02:01:03.439 --> 02:01:10.079
an outstanding garden center worth traveling from
outside the area. And do you know

1686
02:01:10.199 --> 02:01:13.119
people from Austin drive over here for
garden centers? Do you know people from

1687
02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:16.800
college station. Drive down here for
garden centers. I mean people come sometimes

1688
02:01:16.840 --> 02:01:19.560
even greater links. Talk somebody the
other day from Tier that was down here

1689
02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:24.880
shopping at a garden center in the
Houston area. An example of that kind

1690
02:01:24.920 --> 02:01:29.359
of garden center is Enchanted Forest.
Chanted Forest is down there toward a Richmond

1691
02:01:29.520 --> 02:01:32.159
Richmond Rosenberg. So if you're at
Richmond and you head up toward sugar Land

1692
02:01:32.800 --> 02:01:39.199
to the right, to the south
of fifty nine is Enchanted Forest nursery and

1693
02:01:39.319 --> 02:01:44.920
enchanted Forest has an incredible supply of
things. One of the plants that they

1694
02:01:45.000 --> 02:01:46.520
have gotten in that is just outstanding
it. Now, I would say if

1695
02:01:46.560 --> 02:01:51.079
I were to pick like five plants
that are just amazing, like check every

1696
02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:56.920
box just about you can check one
of them to be Thriallis. Thriallis has

1697
02:01:56.960 --> 02:02:00.399
beautiful yellow flowers. Every terminal,
every shoot ends at a cluster of yellow

1698
02:02:00.399 --> 02:02:04.960
flowers. So every time you shear
Thryallis, it just gets denser and more

1699
02:02:05.479 --> 02:02:11.359
floriferous. There's your word for the
day. Thriallis is tough. Deer do

1700
02:02:11.560 --> 02:02:15.159
not like to eat Thriallis. Now, I wouldn't say anything as deerproof.

1701
02:02:15.279 --> 02:02:17.800
Deer will eat a filing cabinet.
And in fact, one time they came

1702
02:02:17.840 --> 02:02:23.239
into my office and they rummage through
the filing cabinet and found my dear proof

1703
02:02:23.319 --> 02:02:27.840
list and they ate that. But
they don't eat Thryallis. Thriallis is a

1704
02:02:27.880 --> 02:02:30.479
wonderful plant. And that's what they
have there. You know, I add

1705
02:02:30.520 --> 02:02:32.479
an enchanted for us. They got
beautiful trees, So shopping on a day

1706
02:02:32.560 --> 02:02:35.920
like today, no problem, you're
walking through the shade. It's just wonderful.

1707
02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:41.000
Their old garden shed has been turned
into a fairy house. What is

1708
02:02:41.000 --> 02:02:43.960
a fairy house. Well, if
you've never seen a fairy garden, if

1709
02:02:44.039 --> 02:02:47.439
you think you don't have room for
garden, if you've got room for what

1710
02:02:47.720 --> 02:02:51.079
a washtub on the ground, you've
got room for a fairy garden. And

1711
02:02:51.199 --> 02:02:56.359
what is that Well, it's a
little garden designed as a miniature scene and

1712
02:02:56.600 --> 02:02:59.319
it's really cool and they got all
the bling that you put with it.

1713
02:02:59.439 --> 02:03:03.239
There. Just one of the cool
things that they have out at Enchanted Forest.

1714
02:03:03.640 --> 02:03:09.960
If you need pollinators plants that you're
not going to do better than Enchanted

1715
02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:14.520
Forest, incredible. If you want
butterfly, larval, food sources or things

1716
02:03:14.560 --> 02:03:18.399
that attract adult butterflies. They've got
it all there. They have an incredible

1717
02:03:18.479 --> 02:03:24.000
succulent selection too. And by the
way, is this ever weather for succulent

1718
02:03:24.119 --> 02:03:28.479
plants? I mean blazing heat,
they store their own water, they survive.

1719
02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:30.119
You're not going to do better in
succulents. And boy that they're one

1720
02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:34.640
of those hot item plants right now. Again, Enchanted Forest has got that.

1721
02:03:35.159 --> 02:03:39.560
Go to my inchanted dot com you
can find out more. They're on

1722
02:03:39.680 --> 02:03:45.520
twenty seven fifty nine FM twenty seven
fifty nine. As like I said,

1723
02:03:45.560 --> 02:03:48.960
your head not a Richmond heading up
toward Sugarland way, head out twenty seven

1724
02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:53.199
fifty nine. You get right to
Enchanted Forest and you'll get when you drive

1725
02:03:53.279 --> 02:03:56.239
up, you just go, oh
my gosh, this place is beautiful and

1726
02:03:56.359 --> 02:04:00.640
it is fun to shop. All
right. I got quit hagon on them.

1727
02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:03.399
Let's see, let's go out to
Roe, Sharon and talk to Steve.

1728
02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:05.520
I can I mean just Steve.
I can just brag on these garden

1729
02:04:05.560 --> 02:04:09.159
centers all day because every time I
go to one, I'm amazed. But

1730
02:04:09.640 --> 02:04:13.159
anyway, you didn't call to talk
about that. How can we help today?

1731
02:04:13.920 --> 02:04:15.239
Well, I may need to go
to Enchanted Garden. There you go,

1732
02:04:16.319 --> 02:04:19.239
Yeah, both in Chenny gardens and
Enchended forest out there are good.

1733
02:04:20.520 --> 02:04:25.039
Yeah. I've had a two part
question about a crape myrtle. Okay,

1734
02:04:25.119 --> 02:04:30.199
well, my first question is I
have two crape myrtles that are probably fifteen

1735
02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:33.199
twenty feet apart, and at the
base of one of the crape myrtles,

1736
02:04:33.279 --> 02:04:39.800
I have a a bind that grows
around the base and on the ground kind

1737
02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:43.520
of like a crab grass, but
it's but thorns on it, and it's

1738
02:04:43.560 --> 02:04:47.800
a five leaf I had an old
plant that comes off of it or whatever,

1739
02:04:49.880 --> 02:04:53.720
and I'm trying to figure out what
it is so that i can get

1740
02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:56.199
rid of it. It's only a
round of one crape myrtle, and not

1741
02:04:56.319 --> 02:05:01.920
around the second. It has five
leaves on the vine, yes, sir,

1742
02:05:02.680 --> 02:05:06.199
like in different spots, like excuse
me, along the vine itself.

1743
02:05:06.680 --> 02:05:13.039
You know, may have like twenty
of these five leaves pods. Okay,

1744
02:05:13.159 --> 02:05:15.640
but it's it's got it's kind of
a reddish in color, and it's got

1745
02:05:15.760 --> 02:05:21.479
like sticker like you know, like
almost like a mini rose bush thorn that

1746
02:05:21.640 --> 02:05:28.039
sounds like a it sounds like a
cat claw mimosa in a sensitive bra When

1747
02:05:28.079 --> 02:05:30.840
you touch the leaves, do they
fold up. Have you ever tried that?

1748
02:05:30.039 --> 02:05:32.640
Touch? Just touch the leaves and
do they fold up when you touch

1749
02:05:32.720 --> 02:05:36.239
them? I never tried it.
I'm wasn't sure what it was. Okay,

1750
02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:40.760
let's or what Yeah, let's do
this, Steve. I want to

1751
02:05:40.800 --> 02:05:43.960
get you an accurate answer, not
just my best guess. I'm gonna put

1752
02:05:44.039 --> 02:05:48.680
you on hold. Will you talk
to um Josh and he'll tell you how

1753
02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:53.119
to send me a picture and get
up real close, take a picture in

1754
02:05:53.199 --> 02:05:55.720
good sharp focus, and I can
tell you what it is, and then

1755
02:05:55.960 --> 02:05:58.520
I'll reply with the answer what to
do about it? How about that?

1756
02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:01.119
Okay? It sounds great? And
then can I ask you a second question

1757
02:06:01.159 --> 02:06:04.840
about them too? Sure? Go
ahead. So I saw a video where

1758
02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:10.760
we can take clippings of the crape
hurdle and put them in some soil and

1759
02:06:11.159 --> 02:06:17.319
basically start rerooting them. Okay to
transplant. My question is what soil?

1760
02:06:17.399 --> 02:06:21.039
Would you put that in? Just
a regular potting soil or you can you

1761
02:06:21.119 --> 02:06:24.840
can use the potting soil. I
just want to make sure it drains really

1762
02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:27.960
well. You want to have it
in bright light but not direct sun.

1763
02:06:28.760 --> 02:06:31.159
So I usually put a plastic cover
over a clip cover so it can get

1764
02:06:31.199 --> 02:06:34.680
some light in there, but no
sun shining on it. Crape's not the

1765
02:06:34.760 --> 02:06:39.600
easiest thing in the world. So
you're gonna need some rooting hormone and you

1766
02:06:39.680 --> 02:06:44.039
can get that at your local garden
centers as well. Okay, okay,

1767
02:06:44.680 --> 02:06:46.479
all right, great, thank you. I appreciate the answer. All right,

1768
02:06:46.680 --> 02:06:50.439
I appreciate that call. Well let's
see here, uh, you know

1769
02:06:50.560 --> 02:06:55.479
we I was talking earlier about the
nitro file superturf, the nineteen four ten.

1770
02:06:56.720 --> 02:07:00.119
It is just one of those fertilizers. The chemistry of it, the

1771
02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:04.119
design of it is a gradual release, and that is what you want.

1772
02:07:04.279 --> 02:07:09.600
You do not want flushes of growth
on your Saint Augustine lawn. You want

1773
02:07:09.640 --> 02:07:14.079
it to gradually be fed, and
you're not gonna you're not going to have

1774
02:07:14.159 --> 02:07:16.479
the problem with a quick release with
nitrofile superturf. That's a silver bag,

1775
02:07:16.600 --> 02:07:20.279
by the way, and so by
cutting down on that, you're gonna cut

1776
02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:24.880
down on issues like the chinch bug
issues. Some of the brown patch are

1777
02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:30.239
large patch in the fall issues.
Those are really aggravated by extra moisture,

1778
02:07:30.560 --> 02:07:33.520
excuse me, extra moisture, extra
nitrogen at one time. And so by

1779
02:07:33.600 --> 02:07:39.279
gradually feeding with a silver bag nitrofisle
superturf. You can avoid that and you

1780
02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:42.680
can get nitrofiss all over the place. All the ace hardwares have it are

1781
02:07:42.960 --> 02:07:45.760
our home, mom and pop,
garden centers, our feed stores. They're

1782
02:07:45.760 --> 02:07:47.560
all going to carry the nitrofiles.
We're gonna take a break right now,

1783
02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:51.720
Bill and k you will be first
up. Our phone number if you'd like

1784
02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:56.720
to get on the board is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1785
02:07:56.760 --> 02:08:00.920
four. My Pabby said, son, you're gonna driving me to drinking if

1786
02:08:00.920 --> 02:08:11.720
you don't stop driving out hot rod
Lincoln. Have you heard the stories the

1787
02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:15.239
hot rod race was the Fords and
the Lencas was set in the face.

1788
02:08:15.359 --> 02:08:18.600
Set story is true. I'm here
to say I was driving out in my

1789
02:08:18.840 --> 02:08:22.520
legs. All righty, you're listening
to garden Line. Our phone number is

1790
02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.399
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four, and we're gonna head

1791
02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:31.159
right out to pair Land and talk
to Bill. Hello, Bill, Hello.

1792
02:08:31.880 --> 02:08:35.880
My question is on fertilization. I
have you know, it's so hot

1793
02:08:37.000 --> 02:08:39.680
right now, and I try to
keep things, you know, going,

1794
02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:43.399
I do a lot of hand water. And what my question is is I

1795
02:08:43.479 --> 02:08:46.920
would think that this kind of hate
and stress. Something I've heard. Iron

1796
02:08:48.720 --> 02:08:52.039
helps this time of year, if
you know what I'm saying, if you're

1797
02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:56.319
just putting it maybe around the plant
water, and it is good and am

1798
02:08:56.359 --> 02:09:00.840
I anywhere close to you know,
correct there as far as you know,

1799
02:09:01.840 --> 02:09:03.680
Well, that's a that's a that's
a good question, Bill. Actually,

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02:09:03.720 --> 02:09:09.640
iron is not especially needed at this
time of year, but iron is needed

1801
02:09:09.760 --> 02:09:11.640
every day of the year. I
mean, the plant roots take up iron

1802
02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:16.800
at the tip of the root,
and so they constantly need a supply of

1803
02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:20.399
iron to be healthful. So if
your iron levels are low in the soil,

1804
02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:24.239
it's always a good time to add
iron. If that wouldn't be able

1805
02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:28.079
to take YEA, yeah, yeah, if not, I would. If

1806
02:09:28.119 --> 02:09:31.159
you're looking at your grass and if
you pick a grass blade and hold it

1807
02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:35.399
up to the light and it's green
and yellow striped up and down the length

1808
02:09:35.479 --> 02:09:37.920
of the blade, that's an iron
deficiency. That would be your que to

1809
02:09:37.960 --> 02:09:41.439
add iron. If not, I
wouldn't worry about it. Just just do

1810
02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:46.960
the regular like my granulated slow release
that I have for my plant material.

1811
02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:50.560
Just keep up with that. In
other words, the iron just kind of

1812
02:09:50.640 --> 02:09:52.560
don't worry about it. I don't
don't worry about it if you're not seeing

1813
02:09:52.600 --> 02:09:56.800
a symptom right now. Now,
there are olderalizers that have iron in them.

1814
02:09:56.880 --> 02:10:01.960
Also, you know the NPK got
some micros like iron. But uh

1815
02:10:01.079 --> 02:10:05.119
yeah, yes, yes, okay, thank you, yes, sir,

1816
02:10:05.319 --> 02:10:07.800
thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. Now we're gonna we're just

1817
02:10:07.880 --> 02:10:11.159
gonna hang out in Parallen for a
while. We're gonna go talk to k

1818
02:10:11.399 --> 02:10:15.199
now. Hello, okay, good
morning. Thank you for taking my call.

1819
02:10:15.680 --> 02:10:20.199
Bet. I have a question on
this monster ivy that I've had for

1820
02:10:20.359 --> 02:10:24.720
years and years and it's starting.
It's been going down the past few months,

1821
02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:26.960
and I know it needs to be
repotted. It's in a smaller pot

1822
02:10:28.039 --> 02:10:31.479
and it's huge. And what I
want to do is just to cut off

1823
02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:37.960
the good parts and put them in
water, let them root and then repot

1824
02:10:37.079 --> 02:10:43.399
them. Um, you can I
put roots stimulator in the water. Maybe

1825
02:10:43.960 --> 02:10:50.119
I've got two pots. They're probably
through four gallon pots to put put the

1826
02:10:50.239 --> 02:10:56.039
stems in. But I put like
a tablespoon of no stimulator. Don't You

1827
02:10:56.119 --> 02:10:58.119
don't need to do that. In
fact, I wouldn't do that. Okay,

1828
02:10:58.119 --> 02:11:01.000
So you got a couple of options. You can cut things off and

1829
02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:05.439
put them in water and root them. The kinds of roots that form and

1830
02:11:05.640 --> 02:11:09.000
water are a little different than the
roots that they need in soil. You

1831
02:11:09.079 --> 02:11:13.039
may have noticed this before, but
in the soil you got these fat,

1832
02:11:13.199 --> 02:11:16.560
fleshy roots, white roots, and
you get them in water and they kind

1833
02:11:16.560 --> 02:11:18.920
of get long and stringy. It's
a different kind of root. It's it's

1834
02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:24.159
still okay, it's just you know, if it were mine, if there

1835
02:11:24.319 --> 02:11:26.960
was any way if that like you
could take a vine down and dip it

1836
02:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.560
into a pot and then back out
of the pot. So in other words,

1837
02:11:31.600 --> 02:11:33.159
like the vine goes into the soil
and comes back out of the soil.

1838
02:11:33.199 --> 02:11:35.760
And when I say a pot,
it could be a little four inch

1839
02:11:35.880 --> 02:11:39.600
pot. Oh kind of self rooting, and it would just root. If

1840
02:11:39.640 --> 02:11:43.880
it's a node on the mind,
I think you said monstero was what you

1841
02:11:43.960 --> 02:11:46.960
had. If it's a nod,
oh, it's a pothos Oh okay,

1842
02:11:48.680 --> 02:11:52.159
well then that just you just say
the word root and root starts popping out

1843
02:11:52.199 --> 02:11:54.800
of those things. So yeah,
wherever you got a node though, where

1844
02:11:54.840 --> 02:11:58.720
the leaf attaches to the vine,
that's a node. And you may have

1845
02:11:58.840 --> 02:12:01.880
some little bumps there that are the
starter roots. Oh, I've got a

1846
02:12:01.920 --> 02:12:05.520
bunch now. And I've also Pathos
is so easy. I've even taken and

1847
02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:11.000
cutting it up into about twenty little
pieces, you know, like one pathos

1848
02:12:11.159 --> 02:12:13.199
vine, and just stick them all
in the pot. And maybe they don't

1849
02:12:13.239 --> 02:12:16.880
all root, but so many of
them do. Used to have a beautiful

1850
02:12:16.920 --> 02:12:20.720
plant. Okay, Well, I've
had this for years and years, and

1851
02:12:20.039 --> 02:12:26.399
it's it's in a big a.
I live in a senior subdivision and they

1852
02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:33.079
have this huge jetted bathtub, which
I don't use. I thought I could

1853
02:12:33.119 --> 02:12:35.720
drown in that thing and nobody would
even know, you know, so I

1854
02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:39.600
put I let the thing grow in
there, and I mean it just filled

1855
02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:45.560
that bathtub. It was huge.
But it starts. I know. It's

1856
02:12:45.600 --> 02:12:48.760
because it's not in a good pot. It's not big enough. It needs

1857
02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:52.840
nutrition and it needs a new home. Oh my god. So that's what

1858
02:12:52.960 --> 02:12:56.680
I want to do. Okay.
I've heard about people pampering their plants,

1859
02:12:56.760 --> 02:13:00.079
but I've never heard of anybody getting
them a jacuzzi for their plant. So

1860
02:13:00.880 --> 02:13:03.239
you better be careful. They're gonna
start asking you to bring them peanut color.

1861
02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:09.439
I might be in trouble. Okay, Well, thank you so much.

1862
02:13:09.520 --> 02:13:13.720
Skip enjoy your show so much.
Thank you appreciate that call. You

1863
02:13:13.800 --> 02:13:16.439
know, it's blazing hot outside and
I was out of my yard the other

1864
02:13:16.520 --> 02:13:20.439
day looking at my feeders, taking
care of my bird feeders and stuff.

1865
02:13:20.560 --> 02:13:24.600
I bought a new little bird water. I got it at Wilbirds Unlimited.

1866
02:13:24.000 --> 02:13:28.359
Uh, and it's a It's just
a tray that hangs underneath the eaves of

1867
02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:31.000
our little patio area that we have. I've also got a bird bath,

1868
02:13:31.159 --> 02:13:35.680
just just got one to those the
other day as well. But because it

1869
02:13:35.840 --> 02:13:37.439
is so blazing hot, birds have
got to have water. I mean,

1870
02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:41.279
they really do need water. And
it doesn't matter what kind of bird it

1871
02:13:41.399 --> 02:13:46.119
is, they got to have something
to drink and mine. During the heat

1872
02:13:46.159 --> 02:13:48.680
of the day they come around,
but not as much, but boy,

1873
02:13:48.920 --> 02:13:52.600
early and late in the day they
are there getting their baths and getting watered.

1874
02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:56.319
Wah Birds has all that. Wilbirds
has anything you need for a bird.

1875
02:13:56.520 --> 02:14:00.079
I mean it. Every time I
go in there, I get in

1876
02:14:00.159 --> 02:14:03.119
trouble because I can't go in there
and come without coming out with something.

1877
02:14:03.560 --> 02:14:09.359
I've got. Their squirrelproof feeder is
really really first class thing. If you've

1878
02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:13.119
never heard squirrels cuss out loud.
You need to get a wild birds birdproof

1879
02:14:13.199 --> 02:14:18.920
feeder and hang out because they will
give it their best. It makes them

1880
02:14:18.000 --> 02:14:22.680
mad, which makes me happy.
They also have the nesting super Blend,

1881
02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:26.760
which is important for summer feeding.
Our birds are molting right now. They're

1882
02:14:26.800 --> 02:14:31.720
shedding feathers, getting the new fresh
feather plumage and stuff. They need to

1883
02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:35.039
be in top condition, so all
the way through August, that nesting super

1884
02:14:35.079 --> 02:14:39.680
Blend is very important. Go to
WBU dot com forward slash Houston. Why

1885
02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:43.359
well, you can find every wild
bird store. There's seven of me here.

1886
02:14:43.520 --> 02:14:48.119
There's one in Katie Kingwood, Cypress, bear Land, bel Air,

1887
02:14:48.239 --> 02:14:54.119
West Houston went out the spring to
one in clear Lake as well. WBU

1888
02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:58.119
dot Com Forward slash Houston. Find
out what I'm talking about. Maybe you

1889
02:14:58.199 --> 02:15:01.319
know it's hummingbird season and now I
was an important time to be getting your

1890
02:15:01.439 --> 02:15:07.079
hummingbird feeders out because they are arriving
in our area. Wahbirds can get you

1891
02:15:07.199 --> 02:15:11.319
fixed up on that Wilbirds Unlimited.
If you love birds like I do,

1892
02:15:11.079 --> 02:15:18.199
Wilbirds is exactly what you need.
Really love going out there and just love.

1893
02:15:18.479 --> 02:15:22.560
I don't know, I'm kind of
a I'm a bird junkie. I

1894
02:15:22.600 --> 02:15:28.720
guess Speaking of hummingbirds, Buchanans Native
Plants in the Heights has got an excellent

1895
02:15:30.399 --> 02:15:33.439
set of information on their website and
they sent this out in their newsletter too

1896
02:15:33.720 --> 02:15:37.199
on hummingbirds. What are the plants
that are track hummingbirds? Do you know

1897
02:15:37.319 --> 02:15:41.880
that there's a lot of plants that
you can grow here. Sure you want

1898
02:15:41.920 --> 02:15:45.000
to put out a hummingbird feeder,
but what about the plants in your yard?

1899
02:15:45.159 --> 02:15:48.520
Some of the red tubular flowers,
the lantanas and the lobelia is lots

1900
02:15:48.560 --> 02:15:52.159
of plants that are track hummingbirds.
One of my favorite is a salvia.

1901
02:15:54.279 --> 02:15:58.680
There as a Salvia garanitica that just
absolutely great. Well, Buchanans has that,

1902
02:16:00.039 --> 02:16:01.560
but you know, Buchanans has a
lot of other stuff. One of

1903
02:16:01.600 --> 02:16:09.119
the cool things they've gotten in is
is some of the insectivorous plants carnivorous plants,

1904
02:16:09.239 --> 02:16:13.439
plants that eat insects. That would
be like a picture plant or a

1905
02:16:13.600 --> 02:16:18.239
sundew or a venus flytrap and some
others. They have these plants that you

1906
02:16:18.319 --> 02:16:20.960
grow inside. They have some that
are hardy that actually grow outside that are

1907
02:16:22.039 --> 02:16:24.960
insectivorus and that is cool. Hey, if you got a kiddo. Can

1908
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:28.439
you imagine a little venus fly trap
plant? And they can get a housefly

1909
02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:33.799
and turn it loosen there and watch
what goes on. Buchanans Plants dot Com.

1910
02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:37.559
They're at eleventh Street in the Height
and they have all kinds of good

1911
02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:41.399
things. I mean, you know, shade plants, houseplant They got some

1912
02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:45.319
really cool houseplants. By the way, I saw that they had, oh

1913
02:16:45.479 --> 02:16:48.719
the aeroid, the gosh, I
can't even say the name of it.

1914
02:16:50.399 --> 02:16:54.760
A morphophallus, morphophallus microphallus. They
have some of those blooming. They're amazing.

1915
02:16:54.920 --> 02:16:58.520
If you're a collector of plants and
you need something unusual that you don't

1916
02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:03.159
have yet, get you a pickup
in a trailer, because Buchanons has enough

1917
02:17:03.200 --> 02:17:07.799
plants to fill them both up that
fit just that. Bill Love Love going

1918
02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:13.040
by there. You're listening to Garden
Line. Our phone number is seven one

1919
02:17:13.319 --> 02:17:22.239
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1920
02:17:22.319 --> 02:17:26.000
eight seventy four. I mentioned that
birds need water. Our lawns need water

1921
02:17:26.120 --> 02:17:31.319
two by the way, of course, but most people miss water their lawn.

1922
02:17:31.760 --> 02:17:35.840
In my new lawn care schedule that
I'm about to put up online.

1923
02:17:35.920 --> 02:17:39.799
It's just almost done. I'm waiting
on a little website work being done.

1924
02:17:41.520 --> 02:17:43.639
But once that's up, it's going
to tell you how to water properly,

1925
02:17:43.639 --> 02:17:48.159
because people don't water properly. If
you want to know when does your lawn

1926
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:52.319
need water, I'm going to give
you a simple freeway to know, and

1927
02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:58.479
that is my wall. Excuse me, water my yard dot org. Water

1928
02:17:58.879 --> 02:18:03.159
my yard one dot org. You
can find the app on the Apple App

1929
02:18:03.200 --> 02:18:05.079
Store and Google Play, or you
can just go to that website, water

1930
02:18:05.159 --> 02:18:09.000
my yard dot org. You put
in your dress, you sign up.

1931
02:18:09.120 --> 02:18:13.399
It's free, cost nothing. A
local weather station will take the data from

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02:18:13.479 --> 02:18:18.760
your community, the sunlight, the
humidity, the wind speeds, you know

1933
02:18:20.000 --> 02:18:22.200
all of that stuff, the temperature, of course, and it'll tell you

1934
02:18:22.319 --> 02:18:26.600
how much to use. I do
water my yard myself. It's free.

1935
02:18:26.239 --> 02:18:31.200
Last week I heard I need point
four eight inches of water in my lawn

1936
02:18:31.399 --> 02:18:33.959
because that's how much according to weather
data, my lawn is used. How

1937
02:18:35.000 --> 02:18:41.280
can you get easier than water my
yard dot org makes it really really simple,

1938
02:18:41.520 --> 02:18:43.760
absolutely simple, super easy. Well, we're going to head out to

1939
02:18:43.959 --> 02:18:48.520
Pasadena now and talk to Mary.
Mary. I've got about a minute left

1940
02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:54.879
can we get it done? I
believe we can circod morning, saycho crete

1941
02:18:54.959 --> 02:19:01.440
myrtle tree cut down supposedly the roots
grind year and a half ago. I'm

1942
02:19:01.520 --> 02:19:05.120
fanned in. We have a terrible
problem with great myrtles coming up. Just

1943
02:19:05.040 --> 02:19:09.040
were around, all right. I
can give you that goes out there and

1944
02:19:09.120 --> 02:19:13.520
tries to shop, but forget it. I know that's no fun. Here's

1945
02:19:13.520 --> 02:19:18.120
what you need. Got a pen
or pencil, handy I do t r

1946
02:19:18.319 --> 02:19:24.639
I c l O p y R. T R I c l O p

1947
02:19:24.959 --> 02:19:30.639
y r. You'll find it and
stuff called poison ivy killer, poison ivy

1948
02:19:30.719 --> 02:19:33.239
killer, poison oak killer. All
you need to do is just mix it

1949
02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:37.559
up strong the strongest rate, and
dab it onto the stems of those suckers

1950
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:41.520
coming up. Put a little bit
of vegetable oil from your kitchen in it.

1951
02:19:41.040 --> 02:19:45.680
That makes it stick. That makes
it stick to the stems, and

1952
02:19:45.840 --> 02:19:48.639
it soaks right in and it'll kill
them. And if it was a big

1953
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:50.520
tree and you got a lot of
energy and suckers coming out, you have

1954
02:19:50.600 --> 02:19:54.040
to do it more than once,
but it'll work. And you yeah,

1955
02:19:54.000 --> 02:19:58.799
okay, can you spell that one
more time? Huh? Tr I is

1956
02:19:58.840 --> 02:20:07.799
in tricycle tr I C l O
P y R tril. That's what you

1957
02:20:07.920 --> 02:20:11.520
made and that'll fix it. And
just be careful, don't get it on

1958
02:20:11.639 --> 02:20:13.479
other things. But when you dab
it on like that, there is no

1959
02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:18.440
simpler, faster, easier way to
do it. Hey, thank you so

1960
02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:22.600
much. I appreciate that call very
much. We're gonna take time for news.

1961
02:20:22.959 --> 02:20:30.559
The Nicky News Network is next.
That's four ends, riding along my

1962
02:20:30.639 --> 02:20:37.000
automo, be my baby beside me
at the I stole a kiss at the

1963
02:20:37.079 --> 02:20:48.040
turn of mind, my curiosity running, why bruising and playing the radio with

1964
02:20:48.280 --> 02:20:50.799
no particular place to go. Well, we got a particular place to go

1965
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.799
today, and that is to the
radio to listen to Garden Line. I

1966
02:20:54.000 --> 02:21:00.520
was that for a transition, Oh
my gosh. Oh seven one three two

1967
02:21:00.600 --> 02:21:05.440
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1968
02:21:05.520 --> 02:21:11.319
four. Speaking of particular places to
go, Arbourgate in Tomball, you know

1969
02:21:11.559 --> 02:21:16.840
it's it's one of those garden centers
that people drive from all over the place

1970
02:21:16.000 --> 02:21:18.719
to get to Houston to go to. And I'm telling you I know what

1971
02:21:18.760 --> 02:21:22.680
I'm talking about. I've talked to
customers out there before they came a great

1972
02:21:22.760 --> 02:21:26.479
long distance. That's not an unusual
thing for our garden centers here, but

1973
02:21:26.600 --> 02:21:30.239
for any other place. I mean, for crying out loud, who drives

1974
02:21:30.239 --> 02:21:33.600
halfway across the state to get to
a garden center, Well, welcome to

1975
02:21:33.719 --> 02:21:37.319
Houston. We got him here.
And Arburgate is just that kind of place.

1976
02:21:37.520 --> 02:21:41.280
You can go online to Arbourgate dot
com and find out what I'm talking

1977
02:21:41.319 --> 02:21:46.959
about. They're out there just west
of Tomball on twenty nine twenty just about

1978
02:21:46.000 --> 02:21:50.639
a mile and a half west of
two forty nine. When you're out there,

1979
02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:52.840
you're going to see all their plants, You're going to see the beautiful

1980
02:21:52.879 --> 02:21:56.920
gift shops. You're gonna see all
of the yard things that you could be

1981
02:21:58.079 --> 02:22:01.760
beautiful, really attractive things to put
out in the yard just to beautify the

1982
02:22:01.879 --> 02:22:05.719
place. But I want you to
also take time to check out their one

1983
02:22:05.760 --> 02:22:13.399
two three completely easy system. Arbigate
has a three point system, a food,

1984
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:16.159
a soil, and a compost.
Now, the food is an organic

1985
02:22:16.399 --> 02:22:22.959
food. It's a four four three
plus temper sent calcium organic food that will

1986
02:22:22.000 --> 02:22:24.680
feed anything that has roots. I
mean, if you are going to put

1987
02:22:24.760 --> 02:22:30.200
in some vegetables and flowers and trees
and shrubs, just the whole nine yards.

1988
02:22:30.760 --> 02:22:35.520
It is exactly the kind of gradual
release with the kinds of nutrients and

1989
02:22:35.639 --> 02:22:39.639
materials that you need for success with
your plants. The next step is the

1990
02:22:39.879 --> 02:22:46.760
soil, the organic soil complete.
Now this soil has compost, expanded shale,

1991
02:22:46.840 --> 02:22:50.079
and a very large particle sand all
mixed together into it, and that

1992
02:22:50.520 --> 02:22:56.120
makes for a very quality mix.
You make roots happy, You're going to

1993
02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:58.680
make the plants happy, and the
plants are going to make you happy.

1994
02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:03.239
That's how that works. Third part
is the organic compost complete. Two different

1995
02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:07.920
kinds of composts blended together. Lots
of microbial diversity in this super super good

1996
02:23:09.000 --> 02:23:13.040
and it's got the macro and the
micronutrients that are balanced in it as well.

1997
02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:16.760
And then it has expanded shale,
as did that organic soil complete.

1998
02:23:18.040 --> 02:23:22.239
Expanded shale keeps our heavy clay soils
apart. It keeps them open and you

1999
02:23:22.360 --> 02:23:26.000
need a lot of it. You
can't just put a line a few sprinklings

2000
02:23:26.040 --> 02:23:28.760
of shale here and there. You
need to put a quantity of it out

2001
02:23:28.120 --> 02:23:33.719
down. But when you use something
like arbergates compost organic compost complete, that

2002
02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:39.319
is going to provide over time more
and more and more of the organic matter

2003
02:23:39.639 --> 02:23:43.840
and also the shale that will make
that soil easy to grow things in.

2004
02:23:45.120 --> 02:23:48.280
And that's what we're trying to do. You create the spot and then you

2005
02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:52.760
put the plants in, and then
you have success. That's the order.

2006
02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:56.120
Not plants. Then oh my gosh, they're dyeing. How do I fix

2007
02:23:56.239 --> 02:24:00.639
it? First? Soil this one
two three, organic food or goa soil

2008
02:24:00.680 --> 02:24:03.399
or gonna compost and then when you
put the plants in, it makes it

2009
02:24:03.520 --> 02:24:07.799
look like you have a green thumb
because you do. You're listening to garden

2010
02:24:07.840 --> 02:24:11.719
Line and we're going to head out
to the phones now and go to North

2011
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:16.879
Shore and talk to Janet. Hello, Janet, Hi, good morning,

2012
02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:24.040
Good morning. My question is I
have azalias that should bloom three or four

2013
02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:28.159
times a year. They're on the
west side of my house, but I

2014
02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:31.520
have not seen blooms in over six
months. So I want to know what

2015
02:24:31.639 --> 02:24:35.840
type of fertilize or soil should I
be using. Yeah, accumulate the blooms.

2016
02:24:37.399 --> 02:24:41.639
There's lots of good things out there
to help your azalias. Certainly they

2017
02:24:41.719 --> 02:24:43.120
need to soil with a lot of
composts in it, A lot of you

2018
02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:46.760
know, you can use pemas,
you can use compost, whatever kind of

2019
02:24:46.799 --> 02:24:50.879
the organic matter. Make sure the
drainage is good. You're you're essentially planning

2020
02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:52.879
them in a little bit of a
raised area, so the excess drains away

2021
02:24:54.040 --> 02:24:58.479
a good ascidifying soil. You know, a lot of our good local fertilizer

2022
02:24:58.559 --> 02:25:03.920
manufact lectures have an acidic version of
what they're doing. I don't know if

2023
02:25:03.959 --> 02:25:07.040
there's a particular brand you normally go
with or not, but it's it.

2024
02:25:07.399 --> 02:25:11.479
You know, each one has its
own soil for acid loving plants, and

2025
02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:15.719
those are going to do really well. You know. For example, uh,

2026
02:25:15.840 --> 02:25:20.799
you know we were talking about the
Microlife product earlier. They have an

2027
02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:24.600
acid loving plant version. I believe
it's in a pink or red bag.

2028
02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:26.559
I can't remember which of the colors
it is. Anyway, I'll look for

2029
02:25:26.680 --> 02:25:33.079
it something like that. But let
me tell you the reblooming azelias, they

2030
02:25:33.200 --> 02:25:37.319
aren't quite what we want them to
be down here. They will do some

2031
02:25:37.479 --> 02:25:41.399
reblooming, but it's not like you
just have like normally in spring when Azelia's

2032
02:25:41.399 --> 02:25:45.840
are just beautiful and blooming up a
storm that it just keeps doing that.

2033
02:25:46.280 --> 02:25:50.159
They for us, they don't quite
perform that way, so a little bit

2034
02:25:50.319 --> 02:25:54.639
of hey, it isn't doing so
good, is not surprising that they should

2035
02:25:54.680 --> 02:25:58.600
come back in the spring and look
good again for you. Okay, I'll

2036
02:25:58.639 --> 02:26:01.440
try that. Thank you, Janet. I appreciate your call very much.

2037
02:26:01.520 --> 02:26:07.399
Thank you. We're going to head
out now to Pasadena and talk to Mary.

2038
02:26:07.559 --> 02:26:11.479
Hello, Mary, good morning again. Really quickly. I don't think

2039
02:26:11.520 --> 02:26:16.639
I have an issue, but I
want to prevent the little white moths.

2040
02:26:16.719 --> 02:26:20.239
When we were mowing recently and when
I was walking through the front yard,

2041
02:26:20.760 --> 02:26:24.479
I saw a couple and I just
I don't think I have an issue yet.

2042
02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:28.719
Maybe I do and don't know it, but I'm just wondering if there's

2043
02:26:28.760 --> 02:26:33.319
something that I could go on and
do to possibly prevent pack. Yeah,

2044
02:26:33.399 --> 02:26:37.559
yeah, there probably is. So
it takes a lot of them to be

2045
02:26:37.639 --> 02:26:39.479
a real problem, you know.
Oh, yes, I agree. There

2046
02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:43.559
are so many moths out in nature
that when someone says, mas, I

2047
02:26:43.639 --> 02:26:46.639
don't know that you're talking about sideweb
worms, you may be. But if

2048
02:26:46.719 --> 02:26:50.879
you walk through the yard and it's
just like as you walk, they're just

2049
02:26:50.040 --> 02:26:54.799
flying up and they go a little
bit land back down in the grass,

2050
02:26:54.040 --> 02:27:00.239
that sounds like a sideweb worm.
Well, these are very very tiny and

2051
02:27:00.319 --> 02:27:03.760
they're white, and I do know
what I do know the difference. I

2052
02:27:03.879 --> 02:27:07.920
believe because we did have them one
time many years ago. So okay,

2053
02:27:07.200 --> 02:27:11.920
we didn't have them really really bad, but we were able to prevent it,

2054
02:27:11.000 --> 02:27:13.959
and I can't remember what we did. You have a lot of options.

2055
02:27:15.159 --> 02:27:18.200
You have a lot of options.
There is there's a product from Nitrofis

2056
02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:22.040
called bug Mac bug Out Max,
and it will control them. If you

2057
02:27:22.159 --> 02:27:30.120
wanted to go in an organic direction. Products that contain spinosid, SPI,

2058
02:27:30.600 --> 02:27:37.200
n O, sad spine no said
will control them. BT products will control

2059
02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:39.120
them, but they don't laugh.
Thet doesn't last but a day or two,

2060
02:27:39.479 --> 02:27:41.920
so you have to do it and
then maybe later in the week do

2061
02:27:43.000 --> 02:27:46.040
it again, and then there or
four days again do it again. But

2062
02:27:46.200 --> 02:27:48.680
also because these moths are dropping eggs
and maybe you treat today, but the

2063
02:27:48.719 --> 02:27:52.639
eggs don't hatch out until tomorrow,
so you know, you got to be

2064
02:27:52.760 --> 02:27:54.799
ready. But if you want to
be okay, if you want to be

2065
02:27:54.920 --> 02:28:01.239
real, sure, get a tablespoon
of dish soap like pomel it, you

2066
02:28:01.319 --> 02:28:05.040
know, whatever dish, and especially
if it's a lemon scented one actually,

2067
02:28:05.239 --> 02:28:09.440
but put it in a gallon of
water and a watering can and just drench

2068
02:28:09.559 --> 02:28:13.639
it over an area of the lawn
where you think they may be and watch,

2069
02:28:13.879 --> 02:28:18.520
and that irritates bugs and they come
crawling right up out of there onto

2070
02:28:18.520 --> 02:28:20.680
the grass blades where you can see
them. And in this case you're looking

2071
02:28:20.760 --> 02:28:24.600
for caterpillars, a little bit of
caterpillars. They'll be green, greenish colored

2072
02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:30.239
because they've been eating grass, and
that tells you, okay, they're there.

2073
02:28:30.360 --> 02:28:33.200
I need to treat right now.
So okay, if you want to

2074
02:28:33.280 --> 02:28:35.280
time in a little bit better,
you can use a little soapy water trick.

2075
02:28:37.680 --> 02:28:39.920
Okay, what about the bug out
you said, Max? Is that

2076
02:28:41.040 --> 02:28:43.520
the granular it's a granular bifenther and
high. You put it down, you

2077
02:28:43.639 --> 02:28:48.280
watered in right, I got it? Okay, thank you so much.

2078
02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:52.680
All right, thank you. I
appreciate your call. Hey, we're gonna

2079
02:28:52.719 --> 02:28:56.399
take a break. Terry your first
up when we come back, if you'd

2080
02:28:56.440 --> 02:28:58.879
like to get on the board.
Seven one, three, two and two

2081
02:28:58.200 --> 02:29:13.799
fifty eight seventy four. Well,
good morning on a beautiful saturday, and

2082
02:29:15.319 --> 02:29:18.879
as always a good day for gardening. You're listening to garden Line. I'm

2083
02:29:18.920 --> 02:29:20.920
your host, Skip Richter and our
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2084
02:29:22.040 --> 02:29:26.440
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2085
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you would like to find a nice, beautiful home in a wonderful setting for

2086
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folks that are interested in maintaining an
active lifestyle. You know, we're not

2087
02:29:35.680 --> 02:29:39.159
talking about going into pasture here,
We're talking about continuing to live out the

2088
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Fulshure, about two miles out of
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2092
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That particular community happens to have a
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2093
02:30:00.479 --> 02:30:05.319
with them on. You can go
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or five nine zero six zero nine
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2096
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community, but also a wonderful community
garden right there for you to enjoy as

2097
02:30:18.000 --> 02:30:22.319
well. Let's head out to Lagrange
and we're gonna talk to Terry well,

2098
02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:26.360
hello, Terry, how are you
today doing? Fancer? And yourself?

2099
02:30:26.440 --> 02:30:31.239
I hope I'm just as well.
Yes, sir, good I got a

2100
02:30:31.280 --> 02:30:35.760
little bit of a head scratcher here. We've got a bunch of old post

2101
02:30:35.879 --> 02:30:41.520
oak trees and they get like a
white powder on the bark, okay,

2102
02:30:41.719 --> 02:30:46.719
and it kills them and then it
turns black. I mean we have it

2103
02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:50.000
here in the yard, didn't I
also have some out in the woods that

2104
02:30:50.479 --> 02:30:54.360
has killed a bunch of them also, Yes, sir, I just wondered

2105
02:30:54.799 --> 02:30:58.559
what it is and the way is
there any way to provent it or anything

2106
02:30:58.639 --> 02:31:01.520
we can do about it. I
tried to all the extension agent but they're

2107
02:31:01.600 --> 02:31:07.159
never around, so okay. Well, so you your post oak trees.

2108
02:31:07.280 --> 02:31:13.760
It sounds from the description like you're
talking about hypoxylon canker, and that's a

2109
02:31:13.920 --> 02:31:18.440
disease terry that's out there already in
oak trees all over the place. But

2110
02:31:18.559 --> 02:31:22.200
when the tree gets weak, it's
like their defense mechanism that holds back the

2111
02:31:22.280 --> 02:31:28.840
hypoxylon is compromised and the hypoxilum moves
in and it kills the tree. So

2112
02:31:28.280 --> 02:31:31.760
we blame the hypoxilon for killing the
tree, but really it was his tree

2113
02:31:31.840 --> 02:31:35.680
stress to kill the tree. And
so when it's out in a pasture,

2114
02:31:35.879 --> 02:31:39.639
there's just not much that you can
do because you know, I mean,

2115
02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:45.520
you can't run out there and water
giant trees all over a pasture. But

2116
02:31:45.840 --> 02:31:48.520
if you, if you go into
drought like you guys are having and the

2117
02:31:48.600 --> 02:31:54.120
temperatures you're having, you just have
to occasionally give them a good soaking.

2118
02:31:54.600 --> 02:31:58.079
If not, then it's outside of
your control. And up all the way

2119
02:31:58.280 --> 02:32:01.120
through the postal belt, you know, you go up from you up toward

2120
02:32:01.200 --> 02:32:05.520
College Station, it's the same kind
of thing. They're postal trees. They're

2121
02:32:05.559 --> 02:32:09.680
just dying a lot, and other
than it being in the yard where you

2122
02:32:09.719 --> 02:32:15.040
can do something, it's just part
of that what happens in nature. And

2123
02:32:15.200 --> 02:32:22.200
unfortunately we lose some good trees.
But yes, sir, I understand,

2124
02:32:22.280 --> 02:32:26.760
well the ones we have that I
can get water two will start soaking them

2125
02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:31.319
down a little bit. And uh
so, so here's here's what you want

2126
02:32:31.319 --> 02:32:33.680
to do, Terry though. You
want to water the entire area beneath the

2127
02:32:33.799 --> 02:32:39.680
branch spread of the tree. So
just imagine this big circle all around the

2128
02:32:39.799 --> 02:32:43.639
tree that goes out as wide as
the branches do. And you want to

2129
02:32:43.680 --> 02:32:48.280
apply it at least an inch of
water is your is your soil sandy out

2130
02:32:48.319 --> 02:32:52.520
there or clay or what it's sandy? And then the goods to clay.

2131
02:32:52.639 --> 02:32:54.719
But okay, it's sandy right on
top. Yeah, well, an inch

2132
02:32:54.760 --> 02:32:58.319
of water will do it. But
you gotta get it all down on the

2133
02:32:58.399 --> 02:33:03.520
soil soap deep. But you only
need to do that about once ever week

2134
02:33:03.680 --> 02:33:07.200
or two and maybe even two weeks
if you can give a good soaking.

2135
02:33:07.239 --> 02:33:09.399
When you do, you're not trying
to supply the tree what it needs every

2136
02:33:09.479 --> 02:33:13.879
day. You're just trying to get
it through this emergency with a couple of

2137
02:33:13.959 --> 02:33:18.079
rescue waterings. I see, Okay, good deal. Well, I sure

2138
02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:20.719
do appreciate it. Yeah, I'm
sure the trees appreciate it too. Well.

2139
02:33:22.079 --> 02:33:24.840
Yeah, and just know that,
you know, even though a tree

2140
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:28.280
may look okay right now, it
could be at that advanced stage of stress

2141
02:33:28.319 --> 02:33:31.600
where even if you water, you
may not pull it out. But but

2142
02:33:31.920 --> 02:33:33.719
you're doing at least you're doing what
you can, all right, sir?

2143
02:33:35.200 --> 02:33:37.079
Right, all right, Well,
so thank you so very much, you

2144
02:33:37.280 --> 02:33:41.360
bet, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Hey,

2145
02:33:41.399 --> 02:33:43.840
if you're planning on doing any transplanting, and I hope you are.

2146
02:33:43.319 --> 02:33:48.360
This is a good time still.
We can still be planning beautiful salvias.

2147
02:33:48.399 --> 02:33:52.200
We can be pulling perennial herbs,
you know, false coming big planning season

2148
02:33:52.280 --> 02:33:56.399
there. Go ahead and get you
some hash to grow six twelve six six

2149
02:33:56.760 --> 02:34:01.920
twelve six. That's a liquid.
It comes in court, you mix it

2150
02:34:01.040 --> 02:34:05.079
in water, and then you drench
your plants with It's I mean, there's

2151
02:34:05.079 --> 02:34:07.959
different ways to use it. You
can use a fuller feed too, but

2152
02:34:09.159 --> 02:34:13.159
hast grow six twelve six has that
high phosphorus content which is important for roots.

2153
02:34:13.440 --> 02:34:18.879
It also has biological activity from microbes, and it's got humic acid in

2154
02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:24.360
it, and it's got seaweed extracts
in it. So that combo product has

2155
02:34:24.520 --> 02:34:28.719
all the things that that plant root
system needs to thrive to get going.

2156
02:34:28.799 --> 02:34:33.479
Take up nutrients, stimulate fruiting,
stimulate blooming. Whatever kind of plants you

2157
02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:37.000
have, whether it's a vegetable garden
or flower beds or even just planting.

2158
02:34:37.239 --> 02:34:41.399
You know, some rosebushes in when
you water them in with that, follow

2159
02:34:41.719 --> 02:34:46.000
five days later with another good soaking
with it, and then five days after

2160
02:34:46.319 --> 02:34:50.719
another good soaking, and if it's
seven days that's fine. I mean the

2161
02:34:50.840 --> 02:34:54.120
idea is at planting and twice more
about a week apart, you want to

2162
02:34:54.159 --> 02:34:58.840
give a good soaking with Hastra grow, that plant will be on its way

2163
02:34:58.879 --> 02:35:01.959
to success. And that's the important
thing. You know. You spend money,

2164
02:35:03.000 --> 02:35:05.120
you spend time, You have your
hopes up putting plants in. You

2165
02:35:05.360 --> 02:35:09.840
want them to not just survive,
but to thrive and to give you the

2166
02:35:11.000 --> 02:35:15.200
fruit, the produce, the vegetables, the flowers, whatever you planted it

2167
02:35:15.319 --> 02:35:18.440
for. That's why we use the
Haspergrow six twelve six and it's just a

2168
02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:24.680
good combination lots of good stuff going
on in one product. Well, you've

2169
02:35:24.719 --> 02:35:28.079
been listening to garden Line all day
today and we are about to wind up

2170
02:35:28.079 --> 02:35:31.639
a show getting towards the end of
it. We'll be back tomorrow. By

2171
02:35:31.639 --> 02:35:35.120
the way, from six am to
ten am every Saturday, every Sunday,

2172
02:35:35.520 --> 02:35:39.719
six am to ten am. Tell
your friends and your neighbors about garden Line.

2173
02:35:39.799 --> 02:35:43.840
Let them know. You can listen
to pass shows by podcast. If

2174
02:35:43.879 --> 02:35:48.000
you've got an iHeartRadio podcast app or
whatever you use to listen to your podcasts,

2175
02:35:48.120 --> 02:35:52.280
you can find garden Line on there. There's actually a couple of garden

2176
02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:54.440
lines in the USA. One of
them as a lady somewhere else. It

2177
02:35:54.559 --> 02:36:00.760
does a show call that you want
the one here in Houston, and you

2178
02:36:00.840 --> 02:36:05.000
can listen to pass shows to hear
things we've talked about on that I would

2179
02:36:05.079 --> 02:36:07.799
ask even if you've got family and
friends that live in other areas, I

2180
02:36:07.879 --> 02:36:11.479
have people that call from out of
state that just love listening to plant information,

2181
02:36:11.719 --> 02:36:16.479
and we try to give the best
most entertaining show we can here for

2182
02:36:16.639 --> 02:36:20.959
you on it tell them about Garden
Line as well. In the meantime,

2183
02:36:22.159 --> 02:36:26.079
it's getting close to the end of
our time. You be gonna head out,

2184
02:36:26.159 --> 02:36:30.719
I hope today and go visit some
of our garden centers and get some

2185
02:36:30.840 --> 02:36:33.799
of the plants that we've been talking
about, get some things go and get

2186
02:36:33.920 --> 02:36:39.000
ready for fall. Get your soil
purchased products, soil products purchased and ready

2187
02:36:39.079 --> 02:36:43.760
to go as well. No matter
where you drive, you're gonna drive past

2188
02:36:43.760 --> 02:36:48.000
an A's Hardware and when you go
into ace, you're gonna find our fertilizers.

2189
02:36:48.120 --> 02:36:50.680
You're going to find the soils we
talk about. You're going to find

2190
02:36:50.280 --> 02:36:56.440
one of the best selections on insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, both synthetic and

2191
02:36:56.600 --> 02:37:01.079
organic that you're gonna find around town
that thirty nine hardware stores. Just go

2192
02:37:01.200 --> 02:37:03.840
to ACE Hardware dot com and find
one near you. By the way,

2193
02:37:03.879 --> 02:37:07.760
it's a good day for barbecue and
good weekend for getting out and doing some

2194
02:37:07.840 --> 02:37:11.479
barbecue in ACE Hardwork and fix you
up on that too. I mean they'll

2195
02:37:11.520 --> 02:37:13.159
trick you out all the way up
to the top of the line stuff you

2196
02:37:13.239 --> 02:37:18.200
know, like Trager and Big Green
egg and and on. Im. I'm

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personally a webber guy, but when
I grow up, I want to have

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a Big Green Eggs. That's where
I want to go with that. But

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they've got all of that. And
then you want to beautify your outdoor area,

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ACE will fix you up on that
too. Just kind of cool having

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places so everywhere so nearby that you
can get ready to go. You want

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to make sure and get those products
purchased because fall is coming and we want

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to have a beautiful lawn and a
beautiful landscape. If you've got some plants

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that aren't looking so good, go
ahead and cut them back. Now is

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a good time to cut plants back, fertilize them, watered in real good

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and get them growing. So our
rose show the next big rose show in

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our land escapes. I'm not talking
about the official bringing your flowers rose show

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in your landscape's gonna be in the
fall. Late August is when I cut

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my roses back by about a third. I fertilize them. These are shrub

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roses. Fertilize them, watered in
really well, get vigorous new growth.

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Every time a rose produces a new
shoot, you can have a bloom on

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the end of that shoot. They
bloom on the terminals. Same thing with

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your salvias. Do you have salvia
greggy I cherry sage called sometimes it's called

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greg sage. It's a subshrub,
and it always has blooms on it,

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but it eventually just becomes kind of
a witty nuts so pretty shrub. Cut

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it back, head it back in
August and get it fresh, new growth

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coming out again. It will look
great in the spring. I cut mine

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back three times a year at the
end of winter. I cut it back

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in May for summer, and then
I cut it back in August again.

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Do you have cast iron plants that
are looking horrible right now just the ravages

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of summer. End of August is
a good time to cut all that growth

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back to the ground, and it
comes back fresh with a good fresh watering,

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and it'll look beautiful again. I'll
even prune my little rioty back sometimes

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at the end of summer because spider
mites and leaf spots just get it looking

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ragged. Cut it back to the
ground, give it some water, give

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it a little fertilizer, and it
just comes back looking better. Hey,

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thanks for listening to Guardline. We'll
be back at six am tomorrow. I

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hope you'll be listening