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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. Just watch him

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as up a sign. Good morning
on a great Saturday morning to get out

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and do a little bit of gardening. Maybe certainly to start off, listen

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to a garden radio show, and
I know one that I would recommend.

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Welcome to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Rictor. We're here to

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answer your gardening questions. Here's the
phone number. If you'll write this down,

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and while you're writing, by the
way, keep a pen and paper

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handy, because as we go through
the shows, inevitably i'll give out a

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name of a product, maybe an
ingredient that you need to go looking for,

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or perhaps a website or something like
that, and you want to be

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able to jot it right down so
you'll have it. If you don't happen

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to catch something, you can always
catch us on a podcast after the fact,

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kind of go back and listen to
what was that he said on that

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time. Well, there's your chance. You do it with your iHeartMedia or

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any other podcast at app that you
have. You find our gardening show,

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garden line. There's a couple of
garden lines on there by the way,

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one somewhere else across the country,
strangely enough, but anyway, this is

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the one you want to listen to. I wouldn't recommend getting gardening advice from

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New Jersey or Oregon or Kansas or
something like that. If you've lived here

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very long, you know this is
a unique place. And I guess,

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to be honest, every place is
a unique place in its own way.

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Our heat, our humidity, the
kinds of winter fluctuations and temperatures that we

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often have, just a lot of
factors. Certainly soil is a big factor

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down here. And when it comes
to timing. I was in my work

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as an extension horticulturist. I would
often get calls from someone that said,

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I, you know, it was
like some time in May, and they

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would say, well, is it
time to plant tomatoes now? And because

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they had moved here from some farther
northern place where May it was a good

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time to put tomatas in And yeah, definitely not. Now's the time to

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harvest a tomato and wait for fall
if you want tomatoes again, because in

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the heat of summer they just don't
set well. The heat affects that.

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There's a physiological effect, and maybe
I'll talk about that a little bit more

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today. There are some interesting things
to understand when it comes to wire Plants

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function the way they do, and
when you when you start understand some of

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the basics, a lot of things
start to make sense. Instead of just

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do this because I said so,
it's kind of like, oh, okay,

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I get why that why that is
the case. And I think that

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helps a little bit till what We're
gonna go ahead and start off by going

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right to the calls again the number
seven one three, two, one,

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two fifty eight seventy four. We're
going to head out to clear Lake and

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talk to Brady this morning. Good
morning, Brady, do we have Brady?

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Good morning? Hey, good morning. Last week you had announced a

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Pudmari a society. Yes, I
think meeting, a show, seminar or

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whatever. When is that. I'm
gonna hunt that down for you. I

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don't have that note in front of
me. Let me just one second and

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we'll be able to tell you that. Do you have plumarius already? We

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do? Good? Good, well, um, They're a wonderful plant to

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grow I think that it's amazing,
you know, how beautiful the flowers are

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and a lot of fun to grow. Okay, here's the deal. The

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Pomaria Society of America. Their show
and sale is June tenth. Hey,

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I know a June tenth. That's
today, nine am to one pm at

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the clear Lake Bay Area Community Center
on Nasa Road in Seabrook, Texas.

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So you set out Nasa Road and
when you start seeing the water on the

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right hand side, just a little
bit past that on the right, it'll

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be it'll be the Bay Area Community
I believe it's on the right bay Area

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Community Center, right. Okay,
thank you so much. All right,

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thank you for the call. Appreciate
it. Yeah, we had to someone

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from the Plumaria sidey on and just
really had a good time talking about Plumarius.

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That they're some of those hours that
just look they they almost look fake,

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but because they're they're so perfect.
And you know, there's that's almost

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like a wax sea you know,
uh, nice satin finish kind of beauty

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that is really cool. Hey,
I'm gonna be going today out to the

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wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood. That's
from eleven thirty to one thirty after the

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show. But if you are interested
in birds at all, you need to

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check out a birds store. I
hope you'll come out and see me in

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Kingwood today. But if you live
somewhere the else intown, there's there's Wildbirds

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stores all over the place. You
can go to WBU dot com forward slash

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Houston WBU as in Wildbirds Unlimited dot
com forward slash Houston and find a wall

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Birds wild Birds near you at Katie, Kingwood, Cypress, parlamb bel Air,

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West Houston, clear Lake, all
wild Birds Unlimited locations. I will

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be at the Kingwood store today.
They're gonna be given away some cool stuff

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too, by the way they are
today out in Kingwood. They're going to

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be given away a free eliminator.
This is a squirrel eliminator and a free

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twenty pound bag of their quality seed. And they do have a seed,

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a quality type of seed that they
sell there. And I don't mean they

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have a quality. The seed they
sell there is quality seed. It can

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be directed to our specific types of
birds. But it's also that trash free

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stuff, so that if you've ever
bought cheap bird seed, you know what

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I'm talking about. You put it
in the feeder and you come out later,

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it looks like half a visit on
the ground. The birds or they

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ignore those little red babies in the
seed. They don't care about those.

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And so buy a quality seed so
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purchase in terms of something that the
birds are interested in coming in and eating.

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But again i'll talk about later.
But Saturday to June tenth, today

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eleven thirty to one thirty, I'll
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One of my one of my go
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the places I love to visit,
the place I enjoy just talking to the

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folks. That is RCW Nurseries.
You can go online find RCW Nurseries dot

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com. They're the one there.
It's where tom Ball Parkway comes into Beltway

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eight, so you're going kind of
flying over the overpasses and it's down below

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you there. But RCW Nurseries dot
com they have really really cool stuff.

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One of my favorite things that they
have at RCW Nurseries right now is their

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Cajun hibiscus. And you may have
seen hibiscus before that was colorful and beautiful,

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but you have not seen anything until
you've seen at Cajun Hibiscus I have.

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The colors are just all over the
place, a beautiful, beautiful color.

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If you like multicolor, they got
that. If you like single colors

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but different hues and shades, they've
got that. They also have Brugmancia's which

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is the angel's trumpet right now and
this is a good time. They like

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warm weather and they're going to bloom
a lot in late summer and fall.

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So you need to get those in
now, get them growing, get them

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healthy, so you have the best
bloom that you can on them. But

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check out our CW nurseries. They
are a source of many things beyond what

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I just mentioned, and you will
you will not be disappointed when you visit.

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Well, we're gonna take a break
right now. Let me give you

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the number again and call Josh.
Get on the board seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Good morning on a great day to talk

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about gardener can get out in garden
to go visit a garden center. This

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is here's your inspiration this morning.
We're gonna be talking about all kinds of

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things related to the garden, talking
about talking to you about things that you're

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interested in. If you'd like to
give us a call, the number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. In the meantime,

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if you look next door and the
lights are off, go bang on the

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door. Tell your neighbors are missing
garden line. They will rise up and

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call you blessed and thank you.
It may take a while start to become

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a listener, but hey, it's
worth a try. Right, We're gonna

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head out to League City and talk
to herman next Good morning, Herman,

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good morning. How can we help
today? I'm well, thank you?

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Okay, Well we'll build all right, so flower bed and it's about eighteen

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inches high and maybe sixteen inches wide. And I needed to know how much

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soil does the flower bed League like? How deep? Can you be?

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All right? Do you have a
pen or pencil handy? Yes? Okay?

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I want you to write down airloom
soil soils of Texas dot com airloom

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hi r loom soils with it soils
with an US on the end of Texas

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dot Com. And when you get
there, right at the top of the

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page is something called a calculator and
you can go in there and you put

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the length, the width, the
depth. It'll tell you the area and

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square feet that you need of a
loot cubic yard, the area that you

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have in square feet, and then
it'll tell you the qubyards you need to

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buy. So if you're buying one
pound bags, it'll tell you how many

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need to buy. If you're buying
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one cubic footbags, two cubic footbags, how many wheelbarrows, how many five

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gallon buckets, whatever, it'll tell
you exactly what you need for that area,

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and then you can go get your
soil and you're good to go.

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Okay, what do we require like
regular pout soil or no. I would.

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I would definitely put a quality soil
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lot better for your plants. Top
soil. You know, I know plants

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grow in soil, but when we're
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want the best quality soil that we
have at drains well and so on,

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and so I would what are you
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Plants? Yeah? Okay, well, I mean you could use you

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could use a rose soil. You
could you know, there's soils if you

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go to a if you get from
Heirloom you know, they sell in different

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garden centers and things. But or
you can just order bulk, which if

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it's a larger area, it's better
at order bulk. If it's just a

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smaller area kind of like you described, it's fine to just get the bags.

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But I would they have a rose
and veggie mix. They are not

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not roseen veggie, veggie and herb
mix. Well my brain didn't click in

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this morning. But a rose soil
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one would work work fine for the
flower beds that you're doing. Don't don't

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let the word rose throw you off. That's just a good all purpose Okay,

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alrighty well, thanks for your advice. I appreciate it. Yeah,

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and have fun because that I'm telling
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cool area there. Yep. Should
appreciate it. Thank you, Herman.

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Appreciate the call. You take care. Yeah, we you know, we

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talked about Heirloom Soils a lot,
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and stuff that they have is unbelievable. That calculator is worth a visit in

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and of itself. But you know, they have a lot of different things.

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I mean I mentioned the Veggian herb
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they have they have indoor potting soil
mixes. They've got you know, if

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you've got outdoor containers, they got
blends for that. They have a fruit

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berry and citrus soil. They'll sell
your leaf mold compost. I mean I

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could sit here really just all day
talking about the different kind of materials that

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they have. I like their potting
soil called the Works. It's a it's

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a really good overall potting soil for
just quality results. And it all begins

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with the soil. You know,
you you really have to do it right

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when it comes to the soil.
That's the foundation. I mean, you

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know, just as an analogy,
I mean, would you build a house

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just on a sandy foundation, or
would you not put a good solid foundation

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to hold your house through the decades
to come. It's kind of like that

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when you're dealing with plants. If
you put plants, let's just say you

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use just a top soil. And
by the way, when you when we

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say the word top soil, we're
thinking something nice and special. But that's

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not always what you get. When
when someone sells you a top soil.

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Often it's just it's not top soil. Topsail is a very very thin layer

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up at the top of the ground. After that you get into subsoil.

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And sometimes we start getting that kind
of material when we're purchasing something supposed to

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be called top soil. But when
you just put a plan into that,

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the array ability, the drainage ability
is not there. And we're not just

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trying to keep applying alive, we're
trying to have it grow. I mean,

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if you're planning flowers, you want
flowers. If you're planning vegetables,

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you want produce. Right, if
you're planning roses, what do you want,

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well, roses? Not a living
bush, but a blooming bush.

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And quality soil is the beginning.
I've said it before, say it again.

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Seventy five to eighty percent of your
success is determined. After you plant

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a plant, you are already essentially
set for seventy to eighty percent of success

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or failure. And here's what I
mean. Here's what I mean. When

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you put the plant in the ground, you either put it in an optimum

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quality soil where it can thrive,
or you haven't. And it is very

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hard to change soil after you've already
got plants in the ground. Let's say

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it's roses. You know, what
are you going to do? Dig up

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the rosebush and rework the bed.
Well, it can be done, but

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oh my gosh, you're determined.
You've already chosen a sun or a shady

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spot, and any plant you put
in the grounds is going to have a

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very strong opinion about sun or shade. The area either drain, swell or

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it doesn't. That's why I always
recommend raised beds because you know, welcome

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to the Houston area. When it
rains, it pours, and you can

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always add water, but you can't
take it away. And so that's already

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been determined. You've picked the variety
in the species you're going to plant.

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You see what I'm saying, All
that stuff ahead of time, beginning with

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the soil. That's how we get
to success. If you happen to live

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down in the League City area and
you haven't been to League City feed,

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you need to check it out.
The Thunderbergs have a wonderful place there.

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It's an old time feed store.
You know, carry the bags out for

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you. They carry all the stuff
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fertilizers and soils. Like I was
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airloom soil there, as well as
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They have premium pet food. If
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need are gonna be right there now. Wes and his sister Madison have really

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done a great job making that place
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They're open Monday through Saturday, nine
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But check out League City Feed.
It's on Highway three, just a

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few blocks south of Highway ninety six. So those of you in l Camino

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Real and Lamarck and San Leone and
Dickinson, it's your feed store. Go

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check them out. You will.
You will really enjoy it. I love

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going to a great feed store.
The the I don't know, there's just

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something that that's kind of unique.
I guess it's because growing up, you

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know, I would go to feed
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there's a there's a fragrance in there, and it's the fragrance of the feed

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I know. But it's just a
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me, I love I love doing
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have a good, a good,
beautiful place. Right. The feed stores

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we talk about carry the things that
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if you, I know most of
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You can do a good job.
But if you ever looked at your landscape

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and thought it just needs more,
I'm that way. I'm great at plants.

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I love a thousand million different kinds
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it comes to putting them out and
it being just right, I'm still a

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big time learner in that. But
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come in and it's your one stop
shop and you may need a small job

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done. You may need a total
complete landscape build or landscape restoration and renovation

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done. Maybe a new garden or
a hardscape or a rock border. Maybe

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have drainage problems. Welcome to the
southeast Texas area where it rains and we

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have a lot of clay soils.
Drainage is an issue. They can fix

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that for you. Peerscapes has the
designers that have the eye and the unders

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standing that when they get through It's
like, yes, that that is what

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I wanted. That I couldn't have
known that. It's like me trying to

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draw. You can give me rem
Brands canvas and rim Brands paint, and

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when I get through, it's going
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finger paint got through right, I'm
not rem brand there. They're the Rembrandts

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of the landscape. They can create
that kind of beauty. You can call

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them at two eight one three seven
zero five zero six zero RC. Go

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to Pierce Scapes dot com to find
out more. I love to see the

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work that they do, and by
the way, you will too if you

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need to take it up that extra
notch. Talking about the soils, while

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ago I mentioned you know how important
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creating that kind of quality soil,
you've got a couple of options. You

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can take an amendment like compost or
a rose soil or whatever and mix it

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in. Maybe it's leakmo com mix
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have. That's option one. Option
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just grow in that. And when
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I'll do is I'll lay a couple
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the new mix down and I'll mix
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of it. So the roots are
going down and they're going through the special

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new mix. It's wonderful. Then
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they get into the regular soil and
they'll go down into the regular soil below

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if it's an open bottom bed.
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from perfect composte, potting, soiled
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hard clay. Roots have a hard
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called a perched water table, where
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hits the clay. That's called a
farm pond by the way. They're lined

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with clay, and that's what happens. The water hits it and it just

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stops going down and the water holes
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little bit for it to be doing
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when I talk about transition zones,
I think about the transition we do every

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every half hour music for this.
It's always a fun way to try to

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how do I transition into Nikki giving
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Nikki, I still get these emails
and stuff, or phone callers will call

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in and they'll say hi to Nikki, or you have a fan club out

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there. Oh well, thank you
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of the news. And I have
to tell you something. I'm going to

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bring in my laptop um and show
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me. But we'll do that in
another transition. That scares the heck out

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of me. I have no idea
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a great, great Saturday morning.
Look outside. The sun is starting to

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peek through, and they're going to
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I hope somebody you'll come see me
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We look forward to seeing you.
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plant sample you want to bring in, put it in a zip lock or

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some kind of closed bag and bring
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have some photos on your phone,
that's another good way. Make sure they're

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in good sharp focus. Show me
what the whole area you're asking about looks

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like. Show me what the close
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the bug or whatever you got,
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see if we can help get you
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you live up in the Tomball area, you need to check out D D

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Feed. D and D Feed is
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nine. It's on the left as
you're going out that direction, and the

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Dover family had been in business since
nineteen eighty nine. This summer they did

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an expansion. They got a lot
more areas. If they didn't already have

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tons of great product, now they
got room for even more. And it's

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filled up too. By the way. You're going to find the fertilizers and

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the soils that we talk about there. They also carry plants, and they

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carry the kinds of products that you
need to take care of your pleasure insecticide

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or or a fun decide maybe you've
got to deal with pests and rodents you

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know that are bother They can fix
that too. They carry the mosquito dunks,

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and they carry a pool cleaners.
If you've got a pool and need

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some of those supplies, you're going
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D Feed, And that is again
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forty nine. Just look for it
on the left as you're heading out that

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direction. You need a really good
quality dog food, and they're going to

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have that. The high end line
stuff like Origin, Diamond, victor Starpro

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all of that's available out there at
the D and D feed. I was

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talking earlier about the idea of plant, how plants function and how certain kinds

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of problems happen in them, And
I mean, that's like a fifty show

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description, but just to give kind
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When it gets hot, a lot
of plants don't do well. And

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you think about, well, why
why do some plants do well when it's

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hot and some plants don't well?
As things get hotter, For most plants,

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they're not able to carry on the
physiological functions. I'm nerden out here.

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I know, bear with me,
the physiological functions that it takes to

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keep a plant healthy. So take
a tomato for example. Now, tomatoes,

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the plants will grow in hot weather, but when it gets up well

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into the nineties, they some of
the processes start to break down. They

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don't they don't go forward like they're
supposed to. Photosynthesis would be an example,

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and tomatoes are taken in sunlight and
they're making carbohydrates, and then they're

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also respiring or giving off the gases
that the oxygen is one that comes off.

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That's we talk about plants providing us
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time in the day where they do
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but they're taking in oxygen and giving
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times are really really hot, rather
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stone mates where moisture can go out
opening up during the day, they close

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up. And when the stoemates close
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for the tomato. They'd like to
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close down to whole moisture you know, during the day, but it messes

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that process up, and so it's
almost like a factory and you shut the

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doors and nothing can get enter out. And when that happens, we see

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a breakdown. We see not good
production. We see the plants struggling and

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they just don't do well. And
for plants that aren't set up genetically to

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handle that, they don't grow here. That's why we don't grow a lot

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of the plants that do so well
further north, they just can't take it

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down here. But even the plants
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tomato plant for example, they even
struggle when it hits those kinds of stressful

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conditions. So that's when we want
to make sure that they don't lack for

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water, for example, because they're
pumping a ton of water out of the

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leaves just to maintain their temperature.
I mean, think about it. Why

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don't plants get as hot as the
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it's because they're evaporatively cooling themselves by
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that's what we're trying to do.
We're trying to get, you know,

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the plant what it needs in order
to be able to function and do really,

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really well. And speaking of that, there is a program called water

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my Yard. Water my Yard is
it's actually it's an app. You can

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go online and you can download it
and it's free. It's on Apple Store

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and it's also on Google Play.
But go to water my yard dot org.

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Can't get simpler than that water my
yard dot org. And here's what

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happens. When you download the app
or when you go to the website and

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you use this really cool technological tool. They have weather stations all over the

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place. They measure solar intensity,
they measure humidity, they measure temperature,

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they measure wind speed. You see
what I'm talking about. So they can

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tell you how much water does your
Saint Augustine grass use based on all those

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factors, and they go through the
day measuring that. So they can tell

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you at the end of the week
your lawn has used eight tenths of an

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inch of water and you know how
to replace ship. It keeps you from

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overwatering, keeps you from wasting water, but it also keeps you from not

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watering enough. And it's free.
You can sign up to get an email

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from them. Water my Yard is
a really really cool thing. When we

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overwater, we insite disease problems.
For example, when we underwater, we

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know the problems with that. But
it's really easy to get signed up water

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my yard dot org. I think
everybody ought to do that. I mean

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it's like it's like, if you
want the email, it's a free email

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reminder of Hey, this is how
much water your plant us you need to

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water this much, and so you
are watering with the latest technology scientifically rather

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than you know, we say your
lawn needs an inch of water a week.

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Well that's a good average, but
it's almost always a little off,

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right, because the weather is always
changing. Water my own. Hey,

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we're going to go out to East
Houston and talk to Paul. Good morning,

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Paul, good morning. How are
you? I'm well, thank you.

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I had a question about systemic fertilizer. Is there such a thing as

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a systemic fertilizer that doesn't harm pollinators? There are no fertilizer fertilizer will harm

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pollinators. Those are just the plant
is only taking up the nutrients that it

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needs and it has pardon, I
was gonna say, you know, the

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ones like you can get like fertile
home fertilizer. Was systemic insecticide? Okay,

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now we're talking about it. Insecticide, yes, right, And the

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systemic insecticides that there's more than one
type, and they've studied them a long

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time and they have found that there
is some of that insecticide that moves into

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either pollen or nectar, and it
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it's at a very low rate,
so it's not like a bee drinks from

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the flour and just croaks right there
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bees, you can weaken the hive. And when you weaken the hive,

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you know, you start all kinds
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So you'd rather, I would rather
not use a systemic insecticide on plants that

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bloom when you know, at a
time when they can pick it up and

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then they have the blooms with that
in it. If you do it seasonally,

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like let's say you you know you've
got something that's flowering in the fall,

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but you do this product in the
early spring, that's different. But

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other than that, I would avoid
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peak times when you should not use
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you have blooms on the plant,
or anytime you're gonna have blooms on the

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plant in the next few months,
that that's probably the case. All right,

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Hey, Paul, thank you so
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bet you two. Yeah, those
products can stick around for a while.

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Hey, we're gonna take a break. Our phone number seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four,
big happy, good, good morning,

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speaking of feeling good. It's a
good day to feel good. My goodness,

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I am really impressed. We got
some storms that are coming up here.

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I was just looking at the weathers
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an interesting evening, I believe.
But for now, it's good time to

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get outside, good time to enjoy
the weather. You're listening to garden Line

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and our phone number if you'd like
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four. Have you found your little
dream piece of property? Maybe you're living

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on it now. We're talking about
you know, the little five acres ten

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acres even more. I mean it
could be a huge place. You need

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to check out the landsdown Moody,
Texas edition could boat twenty five o one.

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That's the L twenty five oh one. It is a Cadillac. It

407
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is cool. I grew up with
tractors that you ground the gears. This

408
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one's got a hydrostatic transmission. It's
got the package. Like I say,

409
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I like to trick them out with
things like a front end loader. Boy,

410
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.960
those are great for moving all kinds
of things, from feed sacks to

411
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:27.119
soil around the place, landscaping box
played or rotary cutter for doing some of

412
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that, you know, mow in
depth things down The Lansdowne Moody, the

413
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.559
L twenty five O one, I
can't even say the numbers on it from

414
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Lansdowne Moody is the tractor you're looking
for. And this is the time.

415
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And here's why. Zero down,
no money down, no interest for eighty

416
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:51.279
four months, seven years, no
interest. Now it's only gonna last till

417
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.279
June thirtieth, that deal. But
go to l M tractor dot com.

418
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LM tractor dot com found find the
Lansdowne Moody near you, but at least

419
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go buying check out this tractor.
I think that you will enjoy it very

420
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.559
much. I think when I had
my midlife crisis, I need to get

421
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.599
to get two or three of these. They are a lot of fun to

422
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.519
drive. Every time I'm on one
of those kind of tractors, I just

423
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:21.000
feel like, where was this when
I was a kid trying to get by?

424
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:24.880
Oh my gosh, super super cool. And we're talking about gardening things

425
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:30.839
and physiological things. This morning,
I was discussing the fact that when the

426
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temperatures get high it shuts processes down
in the plant and it becomes critical.

427
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.799
It hits a point where you can
actually start to see plants decline and die.

428
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.920
I mean, if they can't move
water through their leaves because it's so

429
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:50.920
hot, the stone mates are closing
up and the evenings are also hot,

430
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.640
and they're not able to go through
those processes. They just go downhill.

431
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:57.759
And that's the why, that's the
why. I mean, you know what

432
00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:00.319
it looks like when a plant wilts. You know what it looks like when

433
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.160
to makes quit producing well in the
summer. That's for whole other reasons.

434
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.119
The way the pollen clumps and doesn't
pall beneath the flower, right, But

435
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:13.559
that's the why behind it. If
you if you don't have a garden,

436
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maybe have access to a community garden. And if you do, you should

437
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take advantage of that. Community gardens
are a great way to have a little

438
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.480
piece, you know, a little
piece of property where you can grow the

439
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:28.079
things that you want to grow,
because not everybody has a room for the

440
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.960
size of garden that they would like
to have. Well, the folks at

441
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.200
dell Web, they're put by the
way they're putting in a new community out

442
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.400
in full Shore about two miles from
downtown Fullshore on FM three fifty nine.

443
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:43.880
And they are also adding a community
garden. They've contacted me and I'm going

444
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to be assisting them getting this garden
set up for the residents. So you

445
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know, dell Web has been building
these quality communities with innovative designs for active

446
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:58.960
adults age fifty five and better for
over seventy years, and so all the

447
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:04.559
things you would expect from Delleweb in
terms of quality building and the lifestyle programs

448
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.519
that are designed around you. You
know, beautiful greenways to walk through and

449
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:12.719
bike through and enjoy. Now in
addition to that, as a gardener,

450
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you have a community garden where you
don't have to dig up your backyard.

451
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.480
You can go there and you can
do all the gardening that the produce,

452
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:23.239
growing and herbs and things like that
that you want. Go to dellweb dot

453
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com slash Houston for more information or
give them a call to eight one four

454
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to five nine zero six zero nine. You need to discover this Dellweb difference

455
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:38.480
for yourself. You're listening to garden
Line. If you want to get on

456
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.119
the boards Wi Josh, give us
a call seven one three two one two,

457
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.400
five, eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy

458
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.639
four. I'm going to move over
to the boards now and we are going

459
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to talk to Judy. Good morning, Judy, good morning. I have

460
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:02.519
two questions about watering. Okay,
I recently planted a peach tree. How

461
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.000
much water does that need? Well, it depends on the weather. A

462
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:12.079
mature peach tree in summer can pump
forty gallons a day through out through the

463
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:16.400
roots and up out its leaves.
So that's that's what Yeah, okay,

464
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:22.800
I'm just saying. So the temperatures
and you know, and and the age

465
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of the tree and the size of
the tree, that's all going to affect

466
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:28.760
it. In this first summer,
I would put a little burm around the

467
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.360
tree, or even better yet,
I would get me one of the uh

468
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:38.480
sprinklers goes around the tree that waters
the tree right where the root zone is.

469
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:42.760
But if you if you do the
burn version, you want to fill

470
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:49.840
it up with water and put about
maybe a gallon or two every let's say,

471
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.079
three times a week for the first
month or so of summer, and

472
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:58.519
then you can move back to twice
a week and then move back to once

473
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:02.599
a week, but you're gradually weaning
it back early on. It needs to

474
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:09.039
get the water right at that spot, and putting it at that spot is

475
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:13.960
important. That's why I mentioned the
tree hugger sprinkler because it's an easy way.

476
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.039
You just turn it on real gradually, so it just waters that little

477
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:19.880
area and then you turn it on
more, and then you turn it on

478
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.440
more, and as that root grows, it's always got good moistle. You

479
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:27.760
never want it to get drought stressed
because your goal, h Judy, in

480
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:36.239
this first year is to grow the
biggest, fastest tree you can's okay,

481
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:43.320
oh okay, And I just planted
some knockout roses. How much water do

482
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.920
they need? The same thing,
exactly the same thing I just described.

483
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.559
All the all the roots are in
that cylinder, and you just do the

484
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:54.400
same thing I just said, take
care of them, gradually help them,

485
00:36:54.400 --> 00:37:00.199
all right? Can I trim them
now? You can trim them a little

486
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.400
bit, but for a while,
just let them grow for a little bit,

487
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.400
and because they need those leaves,
they need the leaves are needed to

488
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:09.280
do the roots. All right.
Oh okay, all right, well,

489
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.199
thank you you bet. I appreciate
that call. If you happen to live

490
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.239
up in the Montgomery area. You
know, we're talking about the whole Lake

491
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:22.599
Conro region. You need to know
about your back yard. A nursery and

492
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.679
that's A and A Plants and Produce. They're right there in your backyard.

493
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.239
They've got everything we talk about in
terms of products. They have all the

494
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.679
kinds of plants you want, seven
days a week, nine to five.

495
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:37.039
They're open. They are the place
where you get all the additional things,

496
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:42.000
the talavera and the terra cotta and
the chimineas and on and on and on.

497
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:44.559
Just go buy and check it out. It's just on the east side

498
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.559
of Montgomery on one oh five.
A and A Plants in Produce, really

499
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:53.159
really fun place to visit. Well, we're heading to break. We'll be

500
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:55.960
right back if you want to give
us a call. Seven one three two,

501
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.880
one two five eight seven four is
a number. Seven one, three,

502
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.519
two and two. Katrh Joshu gets
you on the board and you'll be

503
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.639
first up when we come back from
the break. I hope you're enjoying the

504
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.320
day so far, got that cup
of coffee in hand, perhaps, just

505
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.079
want to remind you eleven thirty two, one thirty two day I'll be at

506
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.639
Wahlbird's Unlimited in Kingwood. So any
of you up in that part of the

507
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.599
world, Yeah, I don't care. If you're maybe down in the opposite

508
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.000
part of the world. You want
to drive over, We'd love to meet

509
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:28.199
you. I'd love to see what's
going on. And it's I always say

510
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.360
this about the appearances. That's a
spot where we can sit eye to eye

511
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.440
and really talk. I take the
time to go back and forth, answer

512
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:40.360
your questions and just help get you
off to a good start. My goal

513
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:46.440
is for the listeners to have success. Everyone should enjoy gardening and everyone should

514
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:53.000
feel like they know how to do
it. Katrh Garden Line does not necessarily

515
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:59.880
endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy

516
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:17.400
our h Garden Line with Skip Rictor. So just watch him as so many

517
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.480
Good morning. We are here talking
about gardening. You're listening to Garden lin.

518
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:32.360
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and our phone number is seven one

519
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:37.039
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Give us a call. We

520
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:40.920
will visit about whatever you're interested in
regarding gardening and see if we can help

521
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.639
you have a more beautiful garden.
And a bountiful landscape. That's why we're

522
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:50.280
here. We're gonna start off going
out to Willis and visiting with Stephen this

523
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:54.960
morning. Good morning, Stephen,
good morning. UM. My question is

524
00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:59.800
I just killed three ant hills in
my yard. There were those little thinking

525
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.119
super ants with little black ants.
Okay, Now, can I just rake

526
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.760
those mounds away? Or do I
need to put some kind of nutrient down

527
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:13.400
where those mountains are act because you
know it leaves a bare spot. Uh

528
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:17.519
yeah, no, no nutrients needed. They have not changed the nutrient content

529
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.559
of your soil in any way that
would require you to fertilize. Okay,

530
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.360
So I can just rake those mountains
away and kind of spread it out,

531
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.880
all the mounted out a little bit, right, then it'll be fine.

532
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.360
Yeah, that'll be fine. What
are you going to grow there? Grass?

533
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.800
It's on my it's my saint Augustine
law, okay, all right,

534
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.960
and I have an absolutely gorgeous lawn
except for these got these little ant hills

535
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.840
that start popping up. So I
want to get rid of them. All

536
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.960
right, Well, very very good. Then, yeah, that that should

537
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:52.559
do it. It should crawl right
back in just fine, excellent, Thank

538
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.440
you very much. I appreciate you
hope all right, thank you for the

539
00:40:55.519 --> 00:41:01.280
call. Appreciate that we uh.
You know, ants, there are different

540
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.960
kinds of ants out there in the
environment, and most of them don't bother

541
00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:10.320
our plants sometimes just you know,
they just create their space like that.

542
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.079
But most of the time they don't. They don't rebother our ants that much,

543
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:19.079
and they'll be just fine. If
you're looking for a quality tree,

544
00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.719
you need to check out Verdant Tree
Farm and you get it's really easy to

545
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.320
get to them because they got three
locations. There's the original location which is

546
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:31.440
in West Houston on Barker, Cyprus. They now have the Parland location not

547
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.159
it's really easy to get to too. It's on West Broadway done in Parland

548
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.679
and then up on Yale Street where
it comes into I ten. The Verdant

549
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:43.840
Tree Farm and the heights is up
there and they do the turnkey service.

550
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:45.400
You pick out your tree, you
tag it, they install it, they

551
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.320
plant it right though. Trees all
the way up to seven hundred gallons.

552
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:53.559
If you want the instant pizzaz that
will do it. I mean, it's

553
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:58.840
really it's really the way to go
if you want to make sure that you

554
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.760
got a quality tree, a quality
species and it's planted right And by the

555
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.719
way, tomorrow I'm gonna have Patrick
from Verdan on for a little interview.

556
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:10.159
We're gonna talk about palm trees.
So if you are interested in any way,

557
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.880
shape or form about palm trees,
maybe you got one, maybe you

558
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.280
want one, you need to tune
in tomorrow on the show, and I'm

559
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:21.960
gonna spend a little time visiting with
Patrick about some of the secrets of success,

560
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.079
you know, for those of you
who have a palm tree. Let's

561
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:30.079
head out to Missouri City and visit
with Lauren next. Good morning, Lauren,

562
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.039
Hey, good morning, Skip.
How are you. I'm well,

563
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:38.159
thank you. I have probably a
dumb question you answered many times, but

564
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:43.920
I haven't hurt. I got a
great patch of tomatoes, and right when

565
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:50.440
I start turning red, something will
eat a minute. It looks like I've

566
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.519
seen a combination of little snails,
you know, the worms, the tomato

567
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:59.800
worms, caterpillars. The garden place
that I go to out here said try

568
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:07.079
and seven dust. I've tried that, and I've only gotten two ripe tomatoes

569
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:12.480
out of quite a few. Lauren, can you describe to me what the

570
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.840
feeding damage looks like, where is
it on the tomato? Is it a

571
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.400
hole that goes into the tomato?
What are you seeing? Well, combo

572
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.599
from the top, I'll see.
Yesterday I pulled off a couple that it

573
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:30.679
was from the bottom. And you
know, at first I thought maybe it

574
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:34.760
was birds, because we have a
lot of birds, and so they poke

575
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:39.079
a hole in it and then the
boats come. But I keep seeing I've

576
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:45.280
pulled off quite a view of the
black fuzzy worms. I don't know if

577
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.960
they're tomato worms, are okay a
future butterfly air wood? You know,

578
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.000
if they're black and fuzzy, they
shouldn't be feeding on the fruit of the

579
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:59.320
tomato. Perhaps on the leaves.
I can't think of one that feeds on

580
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:01.559
the leaves. But there's not one
that feeds on the fruit that I know

581
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.519
of that's black and fuzzy. Oh
good, that makes sense because that's where

582
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:07.679
I'll find them, is on the
leaves, and I get rid of them.

583
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.880
But they're not the ones eating the
brute huh, No, they're not.

584
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.400
I doubt that it's slugs or snails. Besides, you'd see their slimy

585
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:21.559
dried trails the next day from their
evening feeding. It's probably a caterpillar,

586
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.119
you know, without seeing a photo
to be sure, you know, I

587
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.960
a bird pack is just a gash
out of the tomato. You know,

588
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:36.199
it's ragged. It tends to be
kind of deep and and irregular. When

589
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:39.440
tomatoes caterpillars are feeding, they eat
more of a hole. It may be

590
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:44.119
a little round hole and that's all
there is because they're drilling straight down,

591
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.280
or they may be feeding around the
surface a little bit. But either way,

592
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:51.920
you know, if you want to
go with something, probably the least

593
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:58.239
toxicity would be a BT Bacillus thringiensis. That's the sprays just asked for BT

594
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.719
where you shop for gardening stuff.
Uh, but you're gonna have to spray

595
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.559
that about ever three days for a
while, just because BT doesn't last and

596
00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:08.400
you want to make sure it's out
there. So if it feed, they

597
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:13.800
feed, it's going to kill them. Uh. The the alternative that would

598
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.199
be going a direction like you went
with seven that'll kill just about anything,

599
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:22.320
but it also kills the things that
eat spider mites, and tomatoes get spider

600
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.960
mites, and so seven dust can
cause a spider mite outbreak on your tomatoes.

601
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:32.360
So I generally don't don't recommend that
unintended consequence. Yeah, that's okay,

602
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:38.480
sot boy thomasot BT. It's a
caterpillar disease. It won't affect any

603
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:44.559
other insect. It's a caterpillar disease, the one soul for caterpillars. All

604
00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:46.639
right, well, I'm always to
the point now where just you know,

605
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.840
I'm part of the ecosystem and letting
the caterpillars turn into butterflies and other store.

606
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:57.800
There you go, there you go. All right, Well I have

607
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.880
fun though. Tomato groans a blast, so enjoy it. Thank you,

608
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.400
Lauren, appreciate that call very much. Hey, do you ever have trouble

609
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:14.920
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you. I've myself to use that
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620
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and things like that well worth checking
into. Hey, we are hitting

621
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.679
on a hard break, so our
number is seven one three two one two

622
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:13.519
fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh
a call and get on the boards.

623
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:16.000
And David and Adolph I see you. You will be the first two up.

624
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:29.599
So good taking it easy? Would
I got some good that lived down,

625
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:38.000
got a good mama, Don give
a small time. It is a

626
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.840
good barn, now I got You
are listening to the garden line and we

627
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.239
are here to talk about garden all. Any kind of questions you might have,

628
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:50.480
give Josh a call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

629
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.960
We'll get you on the board.
If you've not done your summer fertilization

630
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:58.079
yet, you need to get that
done on the lawns. That's the one

631
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:01.239
we put down that we hope to
carry us through summer. That fertilizer,

632
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:07.440
along with the clippings, which contribute
heavily to returning recycling nutrients in the ground,

633
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.480
is critical and one of the fertilizers
that I would consider a go to

634
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.400
for the Houston area, and that
would be the Microlife green bag, the

635
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.880
six two four. Now the combination
of the green and the purple. I

636
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.000
love the colored bags because it makes
it easy to say which is which.

637
00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:29.159
But green six two four purple that's
humates plus humates plus. Think of it

638
00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:34.880
as concentrated compost in a bag.
These will improve your soil. They will

639
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.159
help loosen the soil. They will
provide beneficial microbes. And not just the

640
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:40.559
three numbers on the bag, the
six, the two, and the four.

641
00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:47.760
They have sixty three essential minerals to
push naturally moderate growth rate, good

642
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:52.079
root growth, and to provide all
the things that your grass is going to

643
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:55.840
need. Grass needs more than nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. You can

644
00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:01.360
go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and
find out exactly where you can find Microlife

645
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:04.880
in town. By the way,
it's not hard to find. It's everywhere,

646
00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:07.360
But go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com
and find out where you can get

647
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:12.000
some. I want to head out
to southwest Houston now and we're gonna talk

648
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.920
to David. Hello, David,
good morning, Thanks for taking my call.

649
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:20.320
Yes, sir, So, what
I've got is a pretty good size

650
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.599
in my front yard that's trying to
take over our Actually it's taken over to

651
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:31.199
Saint Augustine my friends. Itself was
fertilizer. They said it's some type of

652
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:37.920
bermuda, and it's the size of
about twenty to twenty five feet long and

653
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:44.159
about ten feet fifteen feet wide.
What I did I killed it off about

654
00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:47.559
two weeks ago, but it's starting
to green. Cormuda is starting to come

655
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.960
back through, okay. And I
got out there with the tiller and I

656
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.079
tilled it all up. But the
roots are they go so far down?

657
00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:00.760
What do I need to do before
trying to resought? And then it taken

658
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.239
over my resaw it? Okay,
very good question. David. Can you

659
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.039
remember what product you used to killed
it? To kill it? Well,

660
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:13.559
I didn't you use round up.
I use m I use a mixture of

661
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.559
vine like vinegar, salt and dishri
turget. Okay, there we go,

662
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:22.599
and that killed it for about two
weeks. That I'm starting to see even

663
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:27.719
after I killed it, some of
it started BURNU. The brain is starting

664
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:30.559
to show up. Absolutely, you
didn't kill it. You burned the top

665
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.639
with those products. That's what that
did. Okay, So uh yeah,

666
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:38.719
would you rather not use round Up? Am I hearing that in your statements?

667
00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:44.079
No? I can't. I just
I use it when it's not windy

668
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:46.159
or anything like that. Oh yeah, because anything gets on it's gonna kill.

669
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:52.559
So yeah. Always when you use
any pesticide, you want a course

670
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:58.440
herbicide. Do you want a course
droplet spray, not high pump, high

671
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:04.440
pressure fine mistressing everywhere, so watch
for that. So round up would would

672
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.039
translocate down and kill it if you'd
rather not use that. There are a

673
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.559
couple of grass killers. They kill
grass, not broad leaves, and so

674
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:15.239
that would be things that if you
go in talk to Bob and the folks

675
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:20.280
there, I'm rather than reading out
the long ingredient names over the air,

676
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.239
just say I need a grass only
killer, and they have. I was

677
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:25.480
in there the other day visit with
Bob. I think they have two or

678
00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:31.480
three different grass killer products, maybe
more. I mean they Selfwest Fertilizer carries

679
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:37.480
a lot of everything you probably have
noticed that. But get a grass only

680
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.159
killer and let it sprout up so
you have something to spray the product on,

681
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.599
because you don't spray it on the
so you have to get it on

682
00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:46.880
the leaves of the grass. But
put a surfactant with it just to be

683
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:51.719
sure, just to be sure that
it sticks well to the leaves, and

684
00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:55.239
then kill it again. And I
would wait because here's the thing. You're

685
00:51:55.519 --> 00:52:00.119
you're giving up a big section of
your yard to fix this problem, and

686
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.840
so to just spray it, even
with these good quality, translocated products,

687
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.840
it's still going to be a few
sprigs that it didn't quite get to and

688
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.039
they come back up. And so
if you hit it twice with these grass

689
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:16.000
killers, maybe two three weeks apart, just kind of watch how they grow.

690
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:22.320
The rototilling just chops up the runners, so now you have more runners

691
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:25.039
to sprout and come up. So
there's nothing wrong with the rohado telling,

692
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:30.360
but don't do that again. And
then just but give it time because you

693
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:34.760
want to make sure. You want
it to get moist and wet and it's

694
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.639
nice and warm. You want all
that bermuda grass to sprout, so when

695
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.719
it sticks its head up there's your
chance to send something all the way down

696
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:46.320
to kill the whole plant, and
then that's what I would recommend. Okay,

697
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.159
Well, I haven't edged and probably
a month because I was going to

698
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:57.960
use the runners along with solid it's
so expensive nowadays. In fact, well

699
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:04.119
with home Depot they didn't even have
any. Okay, so my neighbors are

700
00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:07.119
all asking me when you're going to
edge, when you kind of imagine now

701
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:13.920
now it sounds like I need to
wait another month to edge. Well,

702
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:17.440
yeah, because I was going to
use I've got over like ten inches to

703
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:23.920
a foot long, saying Augustine runners
that are running over the h the sidewalk

704
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:29.239
and the curb. Us going to
use those after killed all this stuff off,

705
00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:31.840
get some good top soil to kind
of level it off, and then

706
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:36.159
put these plugs in there and okay, give it, you know, six

707
00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.559
months, seven months to kind of
take it all over. Okay, Well,

708
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:43.239
I mean, if you want to
go that route, you could cut

709
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:47.079
them off and then take them and
just put them somewhere. These are just

710
00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:52.400
Saint Augustine, right right, Put
them somewhere where you have a garden flower

711
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.719
bed whatever I mean. Saint Augustly's
not going to invade and be a problem

712
00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.360
and just let them grow there for
a few weeks and get the root down

713
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:04.519
while you're waiting to then pull them
up and take them over to put in

714
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:07.320
those bare areas. So you could
also do it that way. Hello.

715
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:10.880
All right, well, I appreciate
it. Last week you two, thank

716
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:15.719
you for the for that call.
You know, Southwest Fertilizer. I was

717
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:19.400
out visiting the fact yesterday. I
was out there talking to Bob looking at

718
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.599
the products, because they just have
one of everything. I mean, if

719
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:25.519
you're an organic gardener, you're going
to find more organic options there than any

720
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:29.639
place I can think of. I
mean, they have a huge eighty foot

721
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:34.360
wall of tools, lots of and
the quality kinds of tools that you need.

722
00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:37.639
They're going to carry all the fertilizers
we talk about and then some.

723
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:42.320
I mean they've got composts and mulches
and soil amendments and everything, and they

724
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.119
know what they're talking about. I
was listening to one of the employees out

725
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.599
there on the aisle over while I
was out there talking to a customer,

726
00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.000
and I mean they were they were
nailing the problem right on the head.

727
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:53.400
They're not going to steer you wrong. They're not going to say something you

728
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:59.840
don't need. Southwest Fertilizer has been
a Houston tradition since nineteen fifty five.

729
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.159
If you don't know where they are, there at the corner of Bissonette and

730
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:07.920
Renwick, or you can just go
to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. It's a

731
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.079
kind of place it's worth driving.
If you don't live in that region,

732
00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:15.519
it's it's worth driving too, because
they all the reasons. I just said,

733
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.039
Well, let's head to Manville and
we're gonna talk to Adolf. Hello,

734
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:25.079
aid Off, hire you this morning? All right? Aid Off?

735
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:30.519
Are you there fertilizer? All right, we're gonna get off. I need

736
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:35.840
you to turn your radio off and
I'll come back to you in just a

737
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:40.239
second. Here, let's go to
John and Willis. Good morning, John,

738
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:45.280
Good morning, Skip. Uh.
I want to pray Exprace some we'd

739
00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:52.119
killer some bonn eyed for Southern Land
or we'd beat her Southern Land. Okay,

740
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:53.880
But it's supposed to rain tonight and
I'm not sure, and I can't

741
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:59.519
find anything on the label. How
long is before it's waterproof? But should

742
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:02.440
I'll wait till it's more. You
know, there's nothing on the label there's

743
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:06.639
not. I'm surprised it should be
on the label, and it is on

744
00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:09.639
a lot of products. I was
gonna say my wild guests would be if

745
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:14.760
you didn't have at least three hours, you shouldn't spray. But I want

746
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.400
to tell you something. Those products, now, they're good products, but

747
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:22.960
when we get up into the nineties, you're they're hard on the grass,

748
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:27.440
and when you wake Saint Augustine,
you invite a lot of problems. There

749
00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:31.960
is a product. There is a
product called Celsius, and you just buy

750
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:37.239
a little packet of it makes a
couple of gallons. But Celsius you can

751
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:39.440
move into hotter weather. And I'm
not talking about ninety eight degrees, but

752
00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:44.280
you can move into hotter weather with
Celsius. And I would switch over to

753
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:49.480
that and it'll do a good job
on broad leaf weeds as well. Celsius

754
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:53.320
like the temper. Okay, that's
it, That's what I would do.

755
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.679
I mean you might get away with
it. You know, we get a

756
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.719
little upper eighties and stuff, but
even upper eighties is it's kind of pushing

757
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.760
it when you read the label on
these products. Yeah, I always understood

758
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:07.960
that this we'd be there for southern
lawns. You could do it in the

759
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.760
summertime, but maybe it's too late, you know, I don't know.

760
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:15.039
I'll try to see if I can
find a salesius well in Willis somewhere.

761
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:20.079
Yeah, you can go to uh
go to Ace Hardware dot com, Ace

762
00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:23.719
Hardware dot com and they're there.
You can find the store near you.

763
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:29.760
There's a store locator up at the
top of the screen. Right, yeah,

764
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:34.119
thirty pardon there's warning Willis. Okay, Well, there's thirty nine I'm

765
00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:36.880
in the Greater Houston area that are
part of the Houston Area Group, and

766
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:39.039
they're gonna have a kind of product
you can imagine, and they are going

767
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:40.719
to have that kind of thing.
And if they don't have it, they

768
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:44.320
can probably order it for you too. So that's a kind of thing.

769
00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:49.360
All right, thanks skip you bet, thank you. Yeah, we want

770
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.760
to be we want to be careful
with these uh with these products at this

771
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.559
time. Uh, but you know, it's it's always an easy thing to

772
00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:00.639
say, you know, go to
Ace Hardware because no, where's some ice

773
00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:02.960
calling from thirty nine stores in a
Greater Usecenaria. There's gonna be an Ace

774
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:07.199
Hardware and I know Ace is going
to carry the fertilizers that we talk about,

775
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.840
you know, the soul bags,
we talk about, the products.

776
00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:15.920
Plus I mean, when you're in
there, you're going to find household items.

777
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:21.960
You're going to find all kinds of
wonderful barbecue equipment and products and everything

778
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.760
you need for barbecue and being the
grill master of the neighborhood. And it

779
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:29.320
is barbecue season, by the way, as well as everything else should get

780
00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:32.320
from an ACE hardware, but you
should always always look for an ACE hardware

781
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.039
near you. Let's head out to
let's see, We're gonna go now to

782
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:43.800
South Houston and talk to Louise.
Hello, Louise, Hello, good morning,

783
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:47.119
good morning. Oh hey, how
are you doing. I'm doing well.

784
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:52.599
I'm doing well. How can we
help? Quick question? All right,

785
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.360
so we just did a major remodel
on home and then we're looking at

786
00:58:55.800 --> 00:59:00.880
redoing the backyard and I'm looking at
putting black bam boo as a barrier around

787
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:06.559
the perimeter. What do you think
about that? Black bamboo is the kind

788
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:13.880
you chose, a clumping or running
type of bamboo. The well as far

789
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:17.960
as like seeds I want to plant, like have bamboo grow. That's what

790
00:59:19.079 --> 00:59:22.760
I'm talking about. Well, you
have to start the bamboo from plants rather

791
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:28.559
than seeds. But I mean I
would just German like I was looking at,

792
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:34.000
uh this black bamboo, just planning
it and just letting it grow along

793
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:37.079
the fence line. Okay, And
well here here's the thing on bamboo.

794
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:43.639
They're basically two types, clumping and
running bamboo. And if you get a

795
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:50.599
running type of bamboo, you and
the neighbors will regret it forever. Clumping

796
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.079
spreads, you know, just like
grasses bermuda grass, it runs everywhere,

797
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:59.440
and then we have the clumping grasses, the maiden grass and pampas grass.

798
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.400
They stay in one spot in the
spot just gets bigger and bigger, but

799
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:07.480
it's more controlled. And so you
need to check with the kind of bamboo

800
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:10.960
you're looking at and make sure it's
a clumping type. But also you want

801
01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:13.840
to make sure that it's going to
do well. Here a lot of the

802
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:19.039
clumpers are not super coldhearty, and
so we get those certain kinds of winners

803
01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:21.800
and you can lose them. So
that would be the only other thing I

804
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.159
would add, Louise, So do
you think you should build I'll put it

805
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:28.159
like a planner, a box along
the line. I mean I could,

806
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:30.239
yeah, build a low level I'll
tell you what that would be best.

807
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.400
I'm gonna have to go to a
break. If you want to hang on,

808
01:00:32.559 --> 01:00:37.000
I'll pick you back up right after
break. Lewis our phone number if

809
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:40.440
you would like to give a skull
seven one three two one two fifty eight

810
01:00:40.719 --> 01:01:01.800
seventy four. We're listening to garden
Line. We're here to answer your gardening

811
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:07.199
questions, and we're going to go
back to Lewis and talk about this bamboo.

812
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:09.239
Lewis, we're talking about black bamboo. And by the way, that

813
01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:13.679
is a runner. The black bamboo
you're talking about as a runner, And

814
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:19.159
you know, I just emphasize for
anybody just tuning in running, bamboos should

815
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:22.360
only be planted if they can be
contained, because once they get a step

816
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:27.920
or a headache, Okay, okay, so make sure I'll put it in

817
01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:30.679
some kind of plantuff. I'll go
that route. Okay. Yeah, And

818
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.559
you can go it maybe for sale
loca. I know, you can go

819
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:38.320
online and there's people that just do
bamboo barriers and it's going to be something

820
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:42.840
that's like sixty mill I mean,
this is a really thick, tough plastic

821
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:45.639
and you need to go buy it
about twenty four inches in width, so

822
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:51.880
that deep, and you're basically going
to create this trench and only let it

823
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:57.079
be there in the trench. Oh
okay, all right, god dumay,

824
01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:01.440
are you saying put a barrier first, nam, Well, you could plant

825
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:05.239
the bamboo. You got time to
put a barrier in the first year you

826
01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.519
plant the bamboo is just gonna sit
there. The second year it's going to

827
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:10.639
grow a little bit, and then
the third year you're gonna get the long,

828
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:15.159
tall shoots that you were waiting on
all along showing up. So you

829
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:22.079
have some time. But just make
sure that it is one hundred percent encircled

830
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:27.199
whatever shape you want to use,
completely surrounded by a barrier that prevents it

831
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.159
from getting getting away. Oh perfect, perfect, all right, appreciate you,

832
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.920
buddy, You guys so much,
Thank you. I appreciate. I

833
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:38.559
appreciate your call as well. If
you live down in the Rose Sharon area,

834
01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:45.159
down in the Sienna Plantation, river
Stone, Quell Valley, Pomona,

835
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:47.239
you know you get the idea.
We're talking south and lest a little bit

836
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:53.519
west, but mostly south of Houston. Sienna Mulch is your source for everything

837
01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:58.360
when it comes to mulch when it
comes to beautiful stone, when it comes

838
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:01.960
to river rock, and eight hundred
thousand other kinds of stone type materials.

839
01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:07.360
I mean, their selection is unbelievable. They also when you're there, you

840
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:09.800
can buy all the fertilizers we talk
about here. You can buy mulch,

841
01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:14.960
soil, compost, in bulking,
buy it in bags. They've got it

842
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:19.880
all and CNA Mulch is open from
seven thirty to five thirty Monday through Friday,

843
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:24.280
Saturday's today seven thirty to two thirty. Close Tomorrow and Sundays. But

844
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:30.000
it's on FM five twenty one near
Highway six and two eighty eight near that

845
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.440
area. Go to Sienna mulch dot
com and you'll see what I'm talking about.

846
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:40.800
Quality products, absolutely quality products,
and they will deliver within a twenty

847
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:45.400
mile area. Of course, with
any kind of a bulk delivery, there's

848
01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:47.480
a little charge for that. But
if you don't have a vehicle that can

849
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:51.679
haul at home, they'll take care
of that for you. Let's head out

850
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:57.360
to talk to Jim. Now.
Good morning Jim, Good morning Skip.

851
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:04.320
I've got a mature quite myrtle.
It's a twilight color but it has not

852
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:10.159
ten pups coming off the roots.
Now, I might like to keep one

853
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:15.719
or two, but it has three
trunks to it. All of them are

854
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:20.880
at least a half inch in diameter. Okay, but should I get rid

855
01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:27.239
of most of those pups are not? I took some pictures, but I

856
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:31.360
didn't know if you needed to see
it or not. Yeah, I don't

857
01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:35.000
know what are you? And you're
not gonna be anywhere You're kingwood this afternoon?

858
01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:38.239
Are you? No, sir?
I'm down, I'm down close to

859
01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:44.920
okay. You know, I've never
tried taking a pup off. I mean

860
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:49.320
taking a shoot off of a crape
myrtle. We wouldn't technically call those pups

861
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.800
like we do on a sago palm
or something coming out of the side or

862
01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.639
a bromeliad um. I don't know
that you could get roots to go with

863
01:04:57.800 --> 01:05:00.679
that. Usually those are coming right
off of the trunk at the base,

864
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:04.719
even below the sword a little bit. But there. I don't think you're

865
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:09.760
gonna be able to get roots to
go with it. Well, I'm really

866
01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:14.960
you misunderstood a little bit. I'm
not really interested in trying to get roots.

867
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.440
I'm interested in trying to let them
go ahead and grow one or two

868
01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:25.719
of them, But I'm concerned about
whether or not I need to get rid

869
01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:29.519
of the rest of them. Do
I just I got full of dirt around

870
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.039
it and then cut them. Yeah, I would. I would get rid

871
01:05:32.079 --> 01:05:35.039
of the rest of them. When
you cut them, cut them back as

872
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:41.119
far against where they're coming out as
you can. Even gouging out a little

873
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:43.519
bit helps because right at the base
of a shooter or a whole bunch of

874
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:45.239
buds. So if you cut it
off and leave a little one inch stub,

875
01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:47.760
you're just gonna have a whole bunch
more coming in. So try to

876
01:05:47.880 --> 01:05:54.760
do that. There is a sucker
stopper type product if you if wherever you

877
01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.360
go and shopping, if you it's
a quality place, Uh, they're gonna

878
01:05:58.440 --> 01:06:00.519
place like you know, Southwest would
definitely have it. But something that's like

879
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.320
a hormone that tells the plant not
to send up a sucker right there,

880
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:08.440
and so I would probably cut them
and then put that on them. But

881
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:12.119
yes, you think you can do
that? All right? Thank you,

882
01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:16.440
Thank you. I appreciate that call. Jim. Let's see we're gonna head

883
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:23.440
out to Pasadena. Good morning,
Danielle. I couldn't even say Danielle how

884
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:29.000
are you this morning? I'm fine, okay, but my angel trumpets are

885
01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:32.920
not. The neighbors had a big
mulberry tree and they had the web worms

886
01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:41.159
in it, and they have decimated
my angel trumpets. A web worm eight

887
01:06:42.519 --> 01:06:47.440
an angel's trumpet. Yeah there.
I went out yesterday with my nephew and

888
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:51.039
he said, well, they're all
over. My eyesight is not as good

889
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:59.440
as okay. So you're seeing webbing
and you're seeing caterpillars. Yes, okay,

890
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:01.760
Well, then I would get a
product called BT, or a product

891
01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:10.320
that has spinosaid in it, Spio
SAD, either one of those. Just

892
01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:14.039
just tear off the webs, you
know, your gloved hand or whatever you

893
01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:19.119
want to use, and then they're
just on the plant? Are they they're

894
01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:24.400
eating the leaves though? Right exactly? It looks like when the tomato worms

895
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:28.199
just leave a little bit of lace
on it. Oh okay, well in

896
01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:30.800
that case, probably not a web
worm. I would just spray them with

897
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:35.239
BT or spinosaid. If it's BT, you use spram again. Three days

898
01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:40.199
later. I think it is the
web worm because we've got them on the

899
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.800
patio, call them up the wall. Okay, Well, if it's a

900
01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:47.599
caterpillar, BT or a spinosaid or
your two options that are the least toxic.

901
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:53.320
Well, thank you, you back, Good luck with that. Appreciate

902
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:57.400
that very much. You know,
I've talked about del Web before, but

903
01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:00.440
if you're familiar with dee web,
you know that they're community for active adults

904
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:05.320
fifty five and better. They're designs. The lifestyle programs that come with a

905
01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:11.559
Dellweb community are unmatched. Now there's
a new community done in full Shure.

906
01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:15.399
It's about two miles from downtown full
Shure on FM three fifty nine. I'm

907
01:08:15.520 --> 01:08:18.960
especially excited about this one because they're
putting in a community garden that I am

908
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:24.520
assisting them with. So if you're
a gardener and you're looking for that lifestyle

909
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:28.760
that Dellweb offers, go to Dellweb
Houston dot com for more info, or

910
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:33.439
you can call them to eight one
four five nine zero six zero nine and

911
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:40.760
discover that Dellweb difference for yourself.
Really really cool. Can I remember Gosha

912
01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:45.239
years ago going to a Dellweb community
out in Arizona and they really know what

913
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.960
they're doing. Hey, you're listening
to garden line seven one three two one

914
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:53.680
two five eight seven four. Give
Josh a Colt. When we come back

915
01:08:53.720 --> 01:09:00.760
from this break, you'll be first
up zone today. And don't forget the

916
01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:11.640
pot all right, you're listening to
Garden Line. We are here to answer

917
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:15.239
your gardening questions. The number is
seven one three, two one two five

918
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:19.079
eight seven four. Give us a
call and we will look forward to visiting

919
01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:24.159
with you about whatever is of interest
to you. Hey, if you live

920
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:29.920
in the north central part of the
Houston area, you need to know about

921
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.279
Quality Feed and Garden Supply. I've
been going to Quality Feed and Garden Supply

922
01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:35.840
for many years now. The first
time I went, they were in their

923
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:40.439
old location. They moved just down
the road a little bit there now at

924
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.760
Luzon Street eighteen thirteen l u z
O N. Street. That's near the

925
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:48.439
intersection Equipment, Equipment and Allusion.
Now, Quality Feed and Garden is going

926
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:51.359
to have all the feed things you're
talking about. It's a feed store,

927
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:56.600
right, but they're going to have
an incredible selection of the products we talk

928
01:09:56.640 --> 01:09:59.520
about here, the fertilizers, we
talk about, the soils we talked about

929
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:02.079
earlier, was talking about, you
know, heirloom veggie mix or heirloom rossel.

930
01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:06.960
They got that and many many more
options. They have also got that

931
01:10:08.119 --> 01:10:10.560
antique seed rack. If you like
the old time, you know, you

932
01:10:10.680 --> 01:10:14.159
go into an old hardware store,
I mean a feed store and you see

933
01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:16.279
one of those old seed racks on
the wall. They've got one from nineteen

934
01:10:16.439 --> 01:10:21.039
twenty eight stocked with heirloom seeds.
If you're into backyard chickens, oh my

935
01:10:21.119 --> 01:10:25.920
goodness, it's the place to go. They get regular shipments of chickens in

936
01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:28.840
I think about ever two weeks.
I'm not sure right now how many,

937
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:31.199
how often, but something like that. They've got all the supplies. Uni

938
01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:35.840
they've had of a house special.
It's a Grandies laying mix that's really cool

939
01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:40.960
that you will enjoy. When you
go to Quality Feed, say hello to

940
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:44.800
Ken and Chris. I mean they've
been doing this for a very very long

941
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:47.239
time, thirty two years. In
fact. They know what they're talking about.

942
01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:51.560
They've got the products that you need. You can go online quality feed

943
01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:59.319
co dot com and find out more
information you know about Quality Feed. When

944
01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:02.640
we're starting, if they show today, I was talking about some physiological things

945
01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:06.119
that go on with plants and why
they perform well, why they don't.

946
01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:10.479
Well, we'll try to throw a
little bit of that nerdy stuff in over

947
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:13.520
now, and then I think it
just helps. Number one's kind of fun

948
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:16.239
to learn, but number two,
it kind of helps you think through things.

949
01:11:16.319 --> 01:11:20.159
And you know, when I go
on social media, it drives me

950
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:26.039
nuts. You know, I think
Pinterest is crack for gardeners. They just

951
01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:30.359
say, no, gardening friends,
don't let gardening friends get their gardening information

952
01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:35.279
from social media alone, because you
know, people can say anything, and

953
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:39.279
I'm looking at it, going,
okay, but that's not how a plant

954
01:11:39.359 --> 01:11:44.159
works. What you just said is
bologny or yeah, there's one tenth truth

955
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.439
in that, but the way you've
you've presented it, it is absolutely false.

956
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:51.039
You know, that's the way you
know you sell something that's not true.

957
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:55.520
It's put a kernel of truth in
it. But anyway, when you

958
01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:59.199
understand more about how plants work,
it helps you. It helps you to

959
01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:02.880
do that. And for example,
I'm gonna talk about nitro File. I'm

960
01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:06.720
gonna talk about their Summer Essentials program. Now, this, the nitro File

961
01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:15.479
Summer Essentials Program is designed with the
super turf in mind to provide nutrients gradually.

962
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:20.640
Now, the chemistry of the product
is that it is going to gradually

963
01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:25.560
release that nutrient over time, So
why not just dump all your fertilizer out

964
01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:28.000
there and that takes care of it
for the year. That's like a dairy

965
01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:30.479
farmer going out and figuring out how
much feed the cows need and putting it

966
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.039
all in a big poll and say
and see you next year at this time.

967
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:38.680
Of course, that's ridiculous. When
you gradually release nutrients, you cut

968
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:43.359
down on your mowing because you don't
have that crazy flush or growth. You

969
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:50.039
cut down on disease problems because the
grass is not weakened and growing so succulently

970
01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:54.640
the diseases and by the way,
things like chinch bugs just love your lawn.

971
01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:59.840
That gradual release is how plants need
to be fed in the summertime.

972
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:03.800
And with that, you know,
release of nutrients like we're talking about,

973
01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:10.359
you're also going to get a healthier
grass with a deeper root system. When

974
01:13:10.399 --> 01:13:15.359
you over fertilize a turf with nitrogen, when you overdo it, you end

975
01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:18.920
up with top growth in the expense
of root growth. And we want to

976
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:25.520
balance. And that's exactly the science
behind nitro foss and they're nitrofoss superturf.

977
01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:29.279
That's a silver bag. You're gonna
find it everywhere. I mean nitro foss

978
01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:32.039
is sold everywhere. But if you're
out in Channa Forest or in Chana Garden

979
01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:34.840
down in the Richmond area, if
you're over in Katie at the Full Sure

980
01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:40.479
Ace or the Acid Synco Ranch or
the Katie Hardware Ace, or you kind

981
01:13:40.479 --> 01:13:43.560
of get in the idea. All
the aceres, really ace stores are going

982
01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:46.239
to carry those nitro FoST products,
and so check them out. I think

983
01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:51.520
you will find that they're well well
worth it. Let's go to Katie.

984
01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:55.680
Speaking of Katie, and we're gonna
talk to Mitchell. Hello, Mitchell,

985
01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:59.359
how are you this morning? Yeah, I do, it's here. Well,

986
01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:02.520
thank you called you guys, just
want to call him and thanks for

987
01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:08.840
the advice he gave me earlier this
year. On my lawn. It's it's

988
01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:14.760
very pleas and green, and I
mean but it's actually a neighbor we compete

989
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:19.680
with the lawns. So yeah,
we had a few people stuff there the

990
01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:25.600
neighborhood and actually congratulates on their lawns. Well, good good. I'm glad

991
01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:28.359
to hear it. I'm glad to
hear it work. That's that's always good

992
01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:30.800
to hear. Thank you, all
right, thank you, all right,

993
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:36.239
you take care, take care.
Match. I appreciate that. I want

994
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:42.960
to if if you are out in
the lawn and you're noticing a problem,

995
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.640
like the lawn grass is sort of
like the they're curling up their spots on

996
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:50.880
it. They're just overall kind of
a i'll say browning, but the green

997
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:55.720
is there, but there's a lot
of specially brown in it. That's probably

998
01:14:55.800 --> 01:15:00.960
a disease called gray leaf spot.
Gray leaf spot love is it when you

999
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:04.079
over fertilize, when you put too
much nitrogen down, create that lush growth.

1000
01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:10.479
Great spot loves warm temperatures, and
gray leaf spot loves wet conditions,

1001
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.000
humid conditions. And here we are, you're in the Houston area in summer.

1002
01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:18.239
You got all the above except for
the over fertilized, and that one's

1003
01:15:18.279 --> 01:15:21.600
on you. Well, when you
look down at the grass plant and you

1004
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:27.079
see on the grass the green grass
blades spots that are brown, maybe some

1005
01:15:27.279 --> 01:15:30.439
yellowing around them, that's probably the
disease gray leaf spot. And once you

1006
01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:33.199
hit that point, you're gonna have
to treat it with a fungicide shut it

1007
01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:41.079
down. But you create a gray
leaf spot problem by creating the conditions that

1008
01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:45.119
it wants. And I just mentioned
those so if you don't know what gray

1009
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.039
leaf spot is and you want to
learn, take a piece of plywood,

1010
01:15:47.319 --> 01:15:51.399
lay it on your grass and leave
it there for maybe four or five days,

1011
01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:55.920
and then pick it up and look
under the plywood. You'll see gray

1012
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:00.359
leaf spot. Now what happened,
Well, you created a very sucked in,

1013
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:02.960
humid, moist dark condition. Oh, by the way, it loves

1014
01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:05.079
shade too. It doesn't have to
have shade, but it love shade.

1015
01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:11.439
And you created that that humidity,
that moisture, and you predispose the lawn

1016
01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:15.079
to gray leaf spot. So,
yes, you can control it with a

1017
01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:20.560
fungicide, but why not do the
cultural things first that help avoid the problem.

1018
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:25.520
And that's why we that's why we're
talking about that kind of thing.

1019
01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:30.720
A little bit earlier, I was
talking about the nitrofoss the super turf,

1020
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:35.439
and it's a wonderful product, really
really good. It does well. But

1021
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:42.560
there's also a nitrofos Bugout Max that
is the best consumer choice in Texas for

1022
01:16:42.720 --> 01:16:46.479
insect problems. It includes the ingredients
that control insects. So if you're looking

1023
01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:51.000
at things like perhaps coming up,
we're gonna have some a what is it

1024
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:54.920
side web worm problems? This summer. Don't know. It's kind of a

1025
01:16:55.039 --> 01:16:58.199
roll of the dice on those.
But Bugout Max would be a product that

1026
01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:00.520
would help work with that. It's
an advanced form it because all kinds of

1027
01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:04.199
insects, So you're going to have
things, even fire ants that are crawling

1028
01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:08.600
around in there, and it's going
to get those. The chinch bugs when

1029
01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:11.640
they show up, it's going to
get those. They also have the nitrofoss

1030
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:15.840
fire ant killer. It works very
quick. It kills the queen and the

1031
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:18.880
colony, and so that's what you
want to do. You don't want to

1032
01:17:18.920 --> 01:17:23.840
play whack a mole with fireants,
just you know, dumping something on them

1033
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:27.279
that kills part of the mound,
but you don't get the queen. They

1034
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:30.840
move over and they just keep going. You want something that gets the queen,

1035
01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:34.800
and that would be the nitrofoss fire
ant killer will do just that.

1036
01:17:38.079 --> 01:17:42.159
I talking about diseases, you know, like the gray leaf spot and the

1037
01:17:42.319 --> 01:17:45.399
insects that attack our lawns and things. You know, lawns or they are

1038
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:48.680
a very popular thing and they have
their detractors. I mean, there are

1039
01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:53.279
people who don't want to have lawns. They don't want to go through all

1040
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:56.520
that, and that's fine. It's
your yard. That's a nice thing about

1041
01:17:56.560 --> 01:18:00.159
your yard. If you can get
away with it with the homeowners association or

1042
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:01.640
your spouse, you can kind of
do what you want in the yard.

1043
01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:05.760
But there are people that like to
have a beautiful lawn, and they go

1044
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:10.279
for a beautiful lawn. And that's
why we talk about these kind of products.

1045
01:18:10.359 --> 01:18:13.760
That's we talk about cultural practices.
And I need to talk a little

1046
01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.159
bit more maybe today or tomorrow about
some of the cultural practices that help a

1047
01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:23.760
lawn be just as beautiful as it
can be. If you have not been

1048
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:28.479
by the way recently to Buchanans Native
Plants, you need to check them out.

1049
01:18:28.520 --> 01:18:31.279
They're on Eleventh Street and the Height
Heights. If you want more information,

1050
01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:38.000
go to Buchanons Plants dot com and
make sure and sign up for their

1051
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:44.279
a newsletter. You'll get in your
email box newsletters that talk about educational events

1052
01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:47.319
going on at Buchanans Plants. You'll
find out about the plants that they just

1053
01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:51.520
got in they're restocked on. You're
gonna find a great supply of herbs at

1054
01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:55.920
Buchanans. You're going to find all
the products we talk about the fertilizers,

1055
01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:00.479
the soil products, they're all there
at Buchanans, so definitely need to check

1056
01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:06.239
them out. If you need native
plants. The native plants selection is wonderful.

1057
01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:12.039
Maybe they feature they focus on native
plants, and they also focus on

1058
01:19:12.600 --> 01:19:15.239
the native plants that do best here
in the Houston area. Where're listening to

1059
01:19:15.319 --> 01:19:19.439
garden Line. I just want to
remind you that today at eleven thirty I

1060
01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:25.000
will be at the wild Birds Unlimited
in Kingwood. That's one of the seven

1061
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:29.520
wild Birds stores here in the Greater
Houston area. There's always the wild Birds

1062
01:19:29.560 --> 01:19:32.159
near you. If you can get
out there to Kingwood today, I'd love

1063
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:36.319
to meet you. If you've got
any bugs, diseases, plants, samples

1064
01:19:36.399 --> 01:19:39.479
you want to bring in, bring
them in, let's take a look at

1065
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:43.319
them, we'll talk about it.
If you've got photos of things going on

1066
01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.319
in the art or maybe it's just
you know, here's a flower bed,

1067
01:19:46.119 --> 01:19:49.119
you had any ideas on what I
could do to make this more beautiful,

1068
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:54.079
or a shrubbed, you know what
I'm talking about. Bring those photos.

1069
01:19:54.279 --> 01:19:59.119
Any photo you can bring that is
of anything to diagnose or identify. Get

1070
01:19:59.199 --> 01:20:03.920
up really blows. Give me several
good, well focused photos so that I

1071
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:11.239
can do an accurate diagnosis or do
an accurate identification for them. But that's

1072
01:20:11.239 --> 01:20:15.760
at the Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited story. You can go to WBU dot com

1073
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:21.960
forward slash Houston to find it.
Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

1074
01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:29.359
any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden

1075
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:56.920
Line with skip Rictord. So just
watch him as woolnys Well. Good morning,

1076
01:20:57.319 --> 01:21:00.039
what the sun has come for.
It is a beautiful day outside.

1077
01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:05.399
I hope you are planning on taking
advantage of that today. Good time to

1078
01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:10.000
get out and get some of your
yard care done. Maybe plants some plants,

1079
01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:13.760
or go get some plants. I'm
going to be stopping buy a nursery

1080
01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:16.159
much later today. I've got several
things going on before then, one of

1081
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:20.439
which is going out to Kingwood to
the wall Birds Unlimited from eleven thirty to

1082
01:21:20.600 --> 01:21:25.520
one thirty. By the way,
when we're out there, they're going to

1083
01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:30.600
be given away some cool stuff.
There is a squirrel excluder that they're going

1084
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:34.119
to be giving away and also a
twenty pound bag of their high quality bird

1085
01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:38.079
food. When I say high quality, I mean you know that you can

1086
01:21:38.199 --> 01:21:41.920
choose your bird blends depending on the
kinds of birds you want to bring in.

1087
01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:44.840
Not all birds eat the same thing, you know, finches don't eat

1088
01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:48.239
the same thing. It's certain other
species for example. But also high quality

1089
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:54.000
in that the bag you're buying is
one percent stuff the birds are going to

1090
01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:57.720
eat. You buy a cheap bird
feed, and I've done this before and

1091
01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:00.279
they just kick it out or you
look at it a few days later,

1092
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:02.479
there's still seed there, but now
it's all those little red babies that most

1093
01:22:02.479 --> 01:22:04.960
of the birds don't want to eat, you know, the babies being the

1094
01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:10.600
I guess it'd be a sorghum kind
of seed in there. But anyway,

1095
01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:14.760
high quality feed, that's what our
birds seed. That's what you'd expect from

1096
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:17.880
all birds, and limited that's exactly
exactly what you what you get. I

1097
01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:20.359
want to head out now. We're
gonna go ahead and get started on the

1098
01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:25.119
phone here and we're gonna head out
to Spring and talk to Rich. Hello,

1099
01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:29.039
Rich, good morning, Skip.
I'm trying to help a neighbor with

1100
01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:35.560
his Saint Augustine lawn and unfortunately he
hasn't treated and has Virginia button weed.

1101
01:22:35.760 --> 01:22:44.119
Some kalinga and doveweed, and I
know I have some MSM turf blindside and

1102
01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:49.600
celsius. I know celsius is probably
better in the warmer temperatures, but now

1103
01:22:49.760 --> 01:22:54.920
is it even getting too warm to
use celsius? It is not too warm

1104
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:59.720
to use celsius. That's a that
is an interesting mix of weeds. Kalna

1105
01:22:59.880 --> 01:23:03.239
is going to be a sedge type
weed that is going to require something kind

1106
01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:09.119
of specific for that, just like
nutsedge would require something specific. And then

1107
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:14.279
the doveweed is another challenge. I'm
going to need some time to go look

1108
01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:20.399
and make sure that the range of
what celsius controls how many of those it's

1109
01:23:20.439 --> 01:23:25.680
going to hit. You may have
to have a separate application of something else

1110
01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.479
on the Yeah, I have some
pro sedge that I could put on the

1111
01:23:29.560 --> 01:23:32.600
kalinga. Okay, good, well, that that would work. I just,

1112
01:23:32.920 --> 01:23:36.399
you know, rather than sitting here
and doing a Google search on the

1113
01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:41.880
air to some of the sites I
use for that kind of information, like

1114
01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:45.600
pulling up a label on celsius,
I just I'm not sure if it does

1115
01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:49.880
the doveweed. It may. It
may, But doveweed and basket grass,

1116
01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:55.239
they're a little bit kind of unique
in what we used to go after those.

1117
01:23:56.760 --> 01:24:00.119
Yeah. The only thing I found
for basket grass is grass killer.

1118
01:24:01.039 --> 01:24:05.600
Is what kind of grass killer?
The agra lawn, the with the cinnamon

1119
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:09.439
in it? Oh yeah, and
that that does work? That does work

1120
01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:14.119
on that well. Um, I
gosh, I wish I could think of

1121
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.159
the ones I'll find out and I'll
say it on the air today. Great

1122
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:21.199
a thank Yeah. I know.
I know some people just use they target

1123
01:24:21.279 --> 01:24:25.359
the doveweed with just an all killer, you know, a glave state type

1124
01:24:25.399 --> 01:24:29.279
all killer. But then you got
those dead spots, and I think there's

1125
01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:33.760
probably something that we could we could
get a hold of that would do a

1126
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:39.319
better job. But it's just not
coming to mind right now. All righty,

1127
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:42.600
thank you, good, thank you, sir. I And I will

1128
01:24:42.680 --> 01:24:46.079
mention it as we go forward.
Uh, this is a season, you

1129
01:24:46.119 --> 01:24:50.359
know, once we get into June
and now we're we're looking at the start

1130
01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:56.159
as we go forward into hurricane season, and when the storms come through,

1131
01:24:56.239 --> 01:24:59.159
maybe you don't have a full fledge
hurricane, but maybe you just have a

1132
01:24:59.239 --> 01:25:02.720
tropical storm. It's got some good, strong, gusty winds. Our trees

1133
01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:08.199
are definitely going to be a concern
for us at that time, and now's

1134
01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:12.279
the time to get trees prepared for
that. You know, do you need

1135
01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:15.319
some limbs removed? Is there a
deadlimb up there? Is there a limb

1136
01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:17.800
that's it looks like it's starting to
split, or it's hanging over a roof,

1137
01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:23.279
or its hanging over the power drop
or the lines that come into your

1138
01:25:23.319 --> 01:25:28.239
house to supply the power. Maybe
you've got a dead tree that you need

1139
01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:30.960
taking care of, or something hanging
over your neighbors that you definitely don't want

1140
01:25:31.000 --> 01:25:34.640
to fall over. There. You
need to give Affordable Tree Service a call.

1141
01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:42.199
That's Affordable Tree. Go to the
website aff Tree Service dot com.

1142
01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:45.720
You can give him a call seven
one three, six nine nine twenty six

1143
01:25:46.199 --> 01:25:51.000
sixty three. Either Martin or Joe
his wife will answer. And if those

1144
01:25:51.079 --> 01:25:56.680
don't answer, hang up. You've
called the wrong company with affordable in the

1145
01:25:56.840 --> 01:26:00.479
name. Seven one three six ninety
nine two six six three. They know

1146
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.880
what they're doing. They're honest.
When they tell you they're going to show

1147
01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:08.560
up, they show up. Boy, don't you wish more service type companies

1148
01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:13.319
would would do that. They can
do everything from deep root feeding to the

1149
01:26:13.479 --> 01:26:16.600
pruning. Maybe you're going to do
some construction. Haven't come out and take

1150
01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:23.319
a look and advise you that is
money well spent construction injuries. Once it's

1151
01:26:23.399 --> 01:26:27.520
done, you can undo it.
And a tree that's worth thousands of dollars

1152
01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:31.159
to your home could be ruined by
not starting with the professional coming out and

1153
01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:35.000
telling you you know what you need
to do, what you need to get

1154
01:26:35.039 --> 01:26:42.960
done out there our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1155
01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:47.520
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I was talking

1156
01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:51.760
about some fertilizers earlier on Medina has
a has to Grow. It's a liquid

1157
01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:57.039
fertilizer. You it's a twelve for
eight. That's a good ratio. That

1158
01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:01.159
is a four let's you know a
three one two ratio four one two three

1159
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:04.640
one two. Those kind of ratios
are really good for your lawn. Now,

1160
01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:09.119
Hastra Grow is going to give you
a nice quick green up. It's

1161
01:27:09.319 --> 01:27:11.720
you hook it up to a garden
hose. It takes about ten minutes,

1162
01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:15.119
spray your lawn and it comes in
about a quark size. Works for well.

1163
01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:17.680
I did it from a lawn the
spring. Just tried it out on

1164
01:27:17.800 --> 01:27:21.199
a section of my lawn and I
was impressed. I always like to experiment

1165
01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:24.920
with these things because before I talk
about them, I need to know that

1166
01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:28.600
they're going to work. Be last
thing on Earth I'd want to do is

1167
01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:33.119
send you someplace or to a product
that I don't believe firmly in my heart

1168
01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:35.600
that it is. It is a
good product and it's going to work for

1169
01:27:35.720 --> 01:27:41.600
you. Hastra grows. That way, you can do light feedings several times

1170
01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:44.199
a year. You know, you
do four times through the growing season.

1171
01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:48.640
But just just keep in mind that
it's going to give you not just the

1172
01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:53.239
nutrients the twelve four eighth that we
talked about, but it's going to have

1173
01:27:53.279 --> 01:27:56.600
the Medina soil activator. It's got
the humor eight liquids humus in it,

1174
01:27:57.000 --> 01:28:00.640
so you're going to get a lot
of the micros as well in that process.

1175
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:02.720
But you ought to check out the
Hastra grow. If you want something

1176
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:05.119
quick, you need to get out
there. You want to get something down

1177
01:28:05.239 --> 01:28:10.119
on it and see a response.
Maybe your lawn has died back. Someone

1178
01:28:10.239 --> 01:28:13.840
called earlier and they were going to
be plugging some grass in and trying to

1179
01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:16.479
get it to fill back in.
That would be a good a good application

1180
01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:23.039
for a Medina soil hastra grow has
to grow. My gosh, I'm having

1181
01:28:23.079 --> 01:28:27.359
trouble saying words this morning. Well, we're hitting up on our first break

1182
01:28:27.399 --> 01:28:30.960
of this hour. Our phone number
seven one three, two one two five

1183
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:33.560
eight seven four or two one two
KTRH. You give Josh a call,

1184
01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:41.680
let him get you on the board
and you'll be first up. I will

1185
01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:49.560
wait for you, and I will
wait. I will wait for you.

1186
01:28:56.560 --> 01:29:00.000
All right, you are listening to
garden Line this morning. We're here about

1187
01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:05.119
talk about whatever you're interested in.
When it comes to gardening. We always

1188
01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:10.720
love to visit with folks. And
I tell you one thing, I realize

1189
01:29:10.760 --> 01:29:15.800
this, most people who listen don't
want to call in that just like it's

1190
01:29:15.840 --> 01:29:17.680
like a public speaking thing, you
know, if you're a public speaking I

1191
01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:19.640
don't want to be on the radio. All those people are gonna hear me.

1192
01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:24.720
I'm gonna ask a stupid question.
I wish that I could just promise

1193
01:29:24.760 --> 01:29:28.479
you not to worry about that.
You give me a call, we will

1194
01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:33.199
we will respectfully answer whatever kinds of
questions you have. We'll help walk you

1195
01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:36.680
through it. And other people will
have the same kind of question. And

1196
01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:40.399
even if you feel like it's going
to be a stupid question. Don't worry

1197
01:29:40.399 --> 01:29:43.840
about that. There aren't stupid questions. And I know what you're thinking,

1198
01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:46.760
well, yeah, i've heard stupid
quick. Well that is not the way

1199
01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:49.399
to look at it. The way
to look at it is like worry about

1200
01:29:49.439 --> 01:29:55.600
stupid answers. That's on me.
Okay, it may be to you,

1201
01:29:55.920 --> 01:29:58.479
it may sound like, well that's
a stupid question, but it's not going

1202
01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:03.319
to be to other people people.
We've got listeners that are very experienced,

1203
01:30:03.479 --> 01:30:09.920
educated gardeners. We have listeners who've
never gardened before. They've been thinking about

1204
01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:12.800
it or they like to hear about
it because it's a dream, you know.

1205
01:30:12.840 --> 01:30:15.640
It's kind of like someday I want
to have this garden. We've got

1206
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:17.880
the wide range, and we're here
to help everyone from one end of the

1207
01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.359
range to the other end of the
range. So I invite you to give

1208
01:30:20.439 --> 01:30:26.439
us a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

1209
01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:31.479
you had have not been out too
Enchanted Forest now, enchanted Forest is if

1210
01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:35.279
you're in Richmond and you're going to
head up sugar Land Way, but just

1211
01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:42.039
south of fifty nine, that's where
enchanted Forest is. I encourage you by

1212
01:30:42.039 --> 01:30:45.760
the way, go on Facebook and
find their Facebook page. Lots of really

1213
01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:49.560
good information. You can sign up
for more information from them as well.

1214
01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:54.520
You know, to talk about everything
in enchanted forest carries would take us ten

1215
01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:57.319
days to do that. I just
want to pick out a couple of things

1216
01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:02.279
here. Here is something that it's
a plant that is not planted nearly enough

1217
01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:10.399
because they are stunning. And that
is the proven winner's line of Salvia nemerosa.

1218
01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:14.560
Salvia nemerosa is a plant. You
may think, what in the heck

1219
01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:18.239
is Salvia nemerosa? Well, Salvia
nemerosa is a woodland sage. It's what

1220
01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:23.239
it's called. But it stays down
low to the ground, so you know,

1221
01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.000
I don't know. The plants are
going to be about eight inches high,

1222
01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:30.159
and then the spikes of flowers that
cover them will come up maybe even

1223
01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:33.920
up to almost eighteen two feet,
you know, high, depending on the

1224
01:31:34.039 --> 01:31:40.039
conditioner. Growing in unbelievable colors.
They have a violet riot, and that

1225
01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:43.239
is a good name for it because
that's exactly what it is. A riot

1226
01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:46.800
of violet color, pink, dawn, beautiful light, pink, snow kiss

1227
01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:51.279
all white. And then one of
my favorites is I like blues. Blues

1228
01:31:51.279 --> 01:31:55.880
are a hard color to come by
in the summer. Endo Globe Girl is

1229
01:31:55.960 --> 01:31:59.560
a blue version. When you see
these, you will know what I'm talking

1230
01:31:59.600 --> 01:32:01.119
about. You put them in a
pot. They look awesome in a pot.

1231
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:05.800
They're very their stature fits container growing
very well. You can use them

1232
01:32:05.880 --> 01:32:11.319
to line a walkway and I'm telling
you it'll it'll be the show stopper.

1233
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:14.720
You can put a bunch of pink
flamingos behind them and you won't notice the

1234
01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:21.439
pink flamingos because the Salvia Namrosa,
the meadow Sages, Woodland Sage say that

1235
01:32:21.520 --> 01:32:28.600
Woodland Sage, they they it just
does does, does so absolutely well.

1236
01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:32.119
I love I love Woodland Sage,
and they've got them out there along with

1237
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:39.199
a bazillion other things at Enchanted for
us. We're gonna head out now to

1238
01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:44.399
pair Land and we're gonna talk to
Don. Good morning Don, Good morning,

1239
01:32:44.439 --> 01:32:46.199
Skip. How are you doing.
I'm well, thank you. Good

1240
01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:54.199
look. I was going to put
awesome line on some liquid that's gonna be

1241
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:57.199
poured in my yard and out then
it's gonna be smelling. I was one

1242
01:32:57.319 --> 01:33:01.479
with a line killed a smell.
And also when I put the lime I'll

1243
01:33:01.520 --> 01:33:06.079
do. I watered it in.
So you're talking about a smelly liquid going

1244
01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:11.199
into the yard and then you're gonna
fall the lime. Yes, Um.

1245
01:33:13.439 --> 01:33:16.600
The concern I have about lime as
it raises the pH and down in your

1246
01:33:16.680 --> 01:33:20.279
area. Some of the phs can
be a little bit high to begin with,

1247
01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:26.119
and so I'd worry about doing too
much of that. A light application

1248
01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:30.199
would be fine you. I would. I would lightly water it it in,

1249
01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:32.439
just lightly. If you're going to
do that, I'm just, uh,

1250
01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:36.960
you know, without drilling down to
find out the source of the odor,

1251
01:33:38.399 --> 01:33:41.880
you know what what is going down
and and how long is that going

1252
01:33:41.920 --> 01:33:45.000
to stink and stuff? I don't
know. I don't know that that would

1253
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:48.800
be my first choice, but I'd
need more information to be able to to

1254
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:56.680
really know for sure. But you
couldn't, sir, what could do it?

1255
01:33:56.760 --> 01:34:00.359
Do you suggest? Then? How
long do you think is liquid is

1256
01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:05.239
gonna stink? No? Well,
I wouldn't ignore one in a week or

1257
01:34:05.279 --> 01:34:14.119
so? Well, I don't know. I think if he reminded, I

1258
01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:17.880
probably just live with it for a
week h and go that route? Uh?

1259
01:34:18.640 --> 01:34:21.279
Is it something you could then just
put some more water on to wash

1260
01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:26.640
it down in the soil or not. That's one of the options that I'm

1261
01:34:26.680 --> 01:34:29.880
looking at. Yeah, I think
that's probably what I would do. Again,

1262
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:31.560
you know, I don't know exactly
what you're trying to accomplish with it

1263
01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:35.680
and everything, but I would I'd
probably water it in really well, if

1264
01:34:35.720 --> 01:34:41.920
that wouldn't prevent it doing whatever you're
wanting it to do. Okay, Okay,

1265
01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.880
that makes a lot of sense and
it's safe. All right, thank

1266
01:34:45.920 --> 01:34:48.159
you, So all right, don
thank you for the call. I appreciate

1267
01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:54.439
that. Yeah, that's a that's
an interesting, very interesting question. Let's

1268
01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:58.159
see, We're gonna go to Northwest
Houston and talk to Ralph Fellow, Ralph

1269
01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:01.880
good More, And I sure appreciate
your program and you to find it.

1270
01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:06.800
I've ever had on here anyway.
I had a big old storm come through

1271
01:35:06.920 --> 01:35:13.119
here one bit of the year Friday
and he just wiped my pecan tree,

1272
01:35:13.680 --> 01:35:17.800
big old chunk of it off and
it all fell on my garden and uh

1273
01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:23.800
and it was a big miss.
I have a year large. I've been

1274
01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:29.279
here for years. But anyway,
well, what you said, I know

1275
01:35:29.760 --> 01:35:35.680
what one and only as I'm getting
I forget what should I do with that

1276
01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:40.359
tree? Yeah, because they got
a big split. He took a toll

1277
01:35:40.479 --> 01:35:45.800
limb big ye. And what should
I do to the tree that the marks

1278
01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:49.640
is off of it? Never think
a good question. You know, I'm

1279
01:35:49.680 --> 01:35:53.840
not gonna be able to fully describe
to you if you're doing yourself or what

1280
01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:56.520
to do to the tree, you
know, without seeing it and walking out

1281
01:35:56.520 --> 01:35:59.279
and pointing at this and pointing at
that. If ever me, I just

1282
01:35:59.359 --> 01:36:02.399
call it the sun Affordable tree.
Uh. That there, they know what

1283
01:36:02.560 --> 01:36:06.359
they're doing, they can come out
because when you do pruning cuts, you

1284
01:36:06.439 --> 01:36:12.439
need to make them properly, or
you you lead toward a long term problem.

1285
01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:15.760
You know, you get the decay
and the hollowing on the interior and

1286
01:36:15.439 --> 01:36:18.960
things like that. Yeah, Martin, get Martin a call at seven one

1287
01:36:19.199 --> 01:36:27.119
three six nine nine twenty six sixty
three. That's seven six nine nine twenty

1288
01:36:27.159 --> 01:36:30.319
six sixty Make sure and tell them
you're from or you you hurt them on

1289
01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:32.720
guarden Line because they put garden Line
listeners to the front of the line and

1290
01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:36.479
they so pretty busy. It's a
lot of tree services do. But tell

1291
01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:39.960
them you're from Guarden Line. That'll
make sure you get up there in the

1292
01:36:40.039 --> 01:36:44.560
line to get this. It's not
an emergency. Ralph. You know,

1293
01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:46.199
it's not like you got to get
them out next week. You got time.

1294
01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:51.000
But I definitely would would have them
look at it because they're gonna see

1295
01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:56.119
some things I can't picture right now
talking to you on the radio. Huh.

1296
01:36:57.199 --> 01:37:00.039
All right, appreciate you bet you, you bet. You take care.

1297
01:37:01.000 --> 01:37:06.199
Let's go to Garwood. We can
go to Garwood and talk to Esther.

1298
01:37:06.359 --> 01:37:11.760
Hello, Esther, Hello, good
morning, how you be. I'm

1299
01:37:11.800 --> 01:37:17.119
well, thank you. Look I
went out of my door that I can't

1300
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:20.199
thank you named this old tree.
But anyway, I planted years ago,

1301
01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:25.159
and when I walked out to do
and look from the you know, the

1302
01:37:25.279 --> 01:37:30.359
bottom of the ground own up that
tree do it looked like thousands of spiles

1303
01:37:30.439 --> 01:37:35.319
had covered all that truck. The
web. I know what it is.

1304
01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:41.960
I know what it is. That's
called bark lice. Now there are no

1305
01:37:42.319 --> 01:37:45.159
problem at all. Think of them
as little tiny vacuum cleaners, just chewing

1306
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:48.760
and sucking up all the debris on
the outside of the bark. That's all

1307
01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:53.640
they do. They make that web. They make it to protect themselves.

1308
01:37:53.720 --> 01:37:56.479
So you can do one or two
things. You can get a strong stream

1309
01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:59.119
of water and blast it away.
But there's no reason to do that.

1310
01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:02.479
I would get you some lighting on
the ground esther, I'd shine it up

1311
01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:05.760
in the trees, and I'd invite
the kids over for Halloween because it looks

1312
01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:11.000
like, you know, one of
those Halloween decorations. Loot. But guess

1313
01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:15.640
what, two or three days later, people go, yeah, well that's

1314
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:20.800
right there they come and go nothing
to worry about. Pretty interesting. I

1315
01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:26.119
never saw one like that. What
in the world is this? And I'll

1316
01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:30.600
wait then, looking kind of touch
the lead tiny bit there you go.

1317
01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:36.000
Well, it's just eating up in
the tree, just chewing on the like

1318
01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:41.479
the algae or lichens or junk on
the bark and stuff. They're not they're

1319
01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:45.199
not eating the tree. They're just
thinking. Think of him as low vacuum

1320
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.960
cleaners cleaning up things. Yeah,
yeah, thank you for that call ester.

1321
01:38:49.479 --> 01:38:55.399
Yeah, it's one of the cool
things about about nature that we deal

1322
01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:59.720
with. Listen, with the rain
we have had, the rain we're gonna

1323
01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:02.640
have. You need to be grabbing
some mosquito dunks. You need to always

1324
01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:06.520
have them online or on hand.
I would keep the little donut dunks on

1325
01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:10.880
hand. I would also keep some
of the little granules that they have the

1326
01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:15.199
donut dunks. You throw them in
water, they float, they slowly dissolve,

1327
01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:18.359
They last one month, one dunk
per hundred square feet of water,

1328
01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:25.199
and they release a disease of mosquito
larva. Is that cool or what I

1329
01:39:25.279 --> 01:39:27.760
mean? So if a bird gets
a drink, if your dog runs over

1330
01:39:27.840 --> 01:39:30.159
there and drinks that water perfectly,
okay, you put fish in the water,

1331
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:33.680
they're okay. It's very say,
very organic. You can find them

1332
01:39:33.720 --> 01:39:38.960
at all independent garden centers we talk
about here, all the feed stores we

1333
01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:42.319
talk about here, all the ace
hardware stores we talk about here. Mosquito

1334
01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:45.840
dunks is just a it's a it's
a quality product. We have the guy

1335
01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:50.439
on talking about them the other day
and really fascinating that world of mosquito dunks.

1336
01:39:54.920 --> 01:39:58.119
You know, the nature, the
world of nature that we live in.

1337
01:39:58.279 --> 01:40:02.640
There's just there's just a lot of
different organisms, and there's a lot

1338
01:40:02.720 --> 01:40:06.039
of critters and stuff, and not
everything has to be sprayed and killed.

1339
01:40:06.079 --> 01:40:11.960
In fact, the vast majority of
insects are not pests. They're either beneficial

1340
01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:15.600
or they have nothing to do.
Like if a housefly lands them your tomatoes,

1341
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:18.560
it's not a pestive tomatoes. It's
just resting for a minute before it

1342
01:40:18.640 --> 01:40:23.239
flies away. So don't We don't
need a panic with everything we see.

1343
01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:27.439
But it is kind of cool when
we see some of the unique things about

1344
01:40:27.560 --> 01:40:31.520
nature and by the way, and
any kind of a product like the mosquito

1345
01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:34.560
dunks and things we're talking about,
you know you can find them an ACE

1346
01:40:34.600 --> 01:40:38.840
Hardware. And you know you've got
an ACE Hardware near you go to ACE

1347
01:40:38.920 --> 01:40:44.479
Hardware dot com thirty nine stores,
it's easy to find them. Every fertilizer

1348
01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:47.680
I talk about. ACE Hardware has
said they will carry them when you need

1349
01:40:47.840 --> 01:40:51.640
soils, when you need any kind
of a pesticide product. Incredible line of

1350
01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:58.079
pesticide products that are available there,
just really really cool place. Plus when

1351
01:40:58.119 --> 01:41:00.479
you go in, you're going to
go wow, I didn't know a hardware

1352
01:41:00.520 --> 01:41:04.000
store could have this, because everything
you can imagine for your home is also

1353
01:41:04.079 --> 01:41:09.720
going to be available there in the
ACE Hardware. Hey, Nikki, I

1354
01:41:10.079 --> 01:41:14.479
was looking at those house plants that
you have, and I think we inspired

1355
01:41:14.520 --> 01:41:17.239
you to go buy a few house
plants. You were talking last week about

1356
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:23.239
all the varieties in the colors,
and I had this poor old aloe on

1357
01:41:23.359 --> 01:41:26.960
my back deck that had been neglected
that needed a friend, so I went

1358
01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:32.199
to the Cornelius on Voss and the
oh, the selection is amazing. That's

1359
01:41:32.279 --> 01:41:36.560
right. So now I have a
whole little neighborhood. I love I love

1360
01:41:36.600 --> 01:41:41.960
house plants, and you know,
at some point it is addictive. By

1361
01:41:41.960 --> 01:41:44.760
the way, I should warn you
that it's not quite light crack, but

1362
01:41:44.880 --> 01:41:47.399
it's close, and you just have
more and more, and then people are

1363
01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:50.159
going to start telling you you got
too many plants. And you need to

1364
01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:53.319
hear this. You need to get
those people out of your lives. You

1365
01:41:53.399 --> 01:41:56.640
don't need that kind of negativity.
There you go. I like the way

1366
01:41:56.720 --> 01:42:04.840
you think I ain't as good as
I want. Lolo, how the years

1367
01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:13.000
half flong? But there was a
town back in my friend when I could

1368
01:42:13.039 --> 01:42:19.720
read them on my own. If
you want to fight, to guess those

1369
01:42:19.800 --> 01:42:31.039
boys go a little colle times as
good as I want flow Tobe Kibei tracks

1370
01:42:31.199 --> 01:42:38.560
behind. What a Oh my god, what a character. Hey, you're

1371
01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:41.800
listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we're here

1372
01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:45.399
to answer your gardening questions. Give
Josh call seven one three two one two

1373
01:42:46.199 --> 01:42:51.520
five eight seven four that's two one
two k t r H. I was

1374
01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:55.199
visiting with a friend the other day
and they were talking to me about,

1375
01:42:55.640 --> 01:42:59.680
um, you know, gardening and
getting started in gardening and what's the best

1376
01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:01.319
way to do this and what's the
best way to do that. You know,

1377
01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:03.840
there are eight hundred billion ways to
garden. I mean, there is

1378
01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:06.359
definitely no one way to skin a
cat. When it comes to gardening,

1379
01:43:06.479 --> 01:43:09.640
you do a lot of things.
You got to your yard, and you

1380
01:43:09.720 --> 01:43:13.479
can bring in a quality mix,
put it down, mix it in the

1381
01:43:13.600 --> 01:43:16.079
soil, make beautiful raised beds.
I've gardened that way before. That's good.

1382
01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:21.039
You can get sender blocks and treated
lumber and stack them up and make

1383
01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:24.880
you a box and fill it with
soil. I've done that before too,

1384
01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:28.680
both of those as a matter of
fact. But I'm talking with a friend.

1385
01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:32.840
I just kind of realized that there
is one way to do a garden

1386
01:43:32.920 --> 01:43:39.000
bed if you're gonna grow flowers,
but especially vegetables and herbs. I mean,

1387
01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:41.920
you can put anything you want and
what I'm about to describe, but

1388
01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:46.800
primarily folks do this because of vegetable
derbs. And that is a metal raised

1389
01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:53.760
bed that is treated so that it
doesn't corrode. And you've heard me talk

1390
01:43:53.800 --> 01:43:59.600
about vego garden beds before online,
and it's the premiere. Vego was the

1391
01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:03.359
first in the United States to make
the metal codd raised garden business. When

1392
01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:05.960
I mean coded, I'm not talking
about metal that's just going to rust away.

1393
01:44:05.960 --> 01:44:09.239
You can do that with a piece
of tin. It's not gonna last.

1394
01:44:09.880 --> 01:44:13.279
But this metal isn't galvanized. It's
a it's a special treatment, a

1395
01:44:13.399 --> 01:44:17.399
dip in a combination of zinc,
alumium, aluminium, and magnesium that really

1396
01:44:17.479 --> 01:44:25.680
shuts down a corrosion on those exposed
surfaces. It then is spray or it's

1397
01:44:25.760 --> 01:44:30.680
painted with a USDA approved food safe
quality paint that's going to code it.

1398
01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:33.199
And you can get them in beautiful
colors. You know, you can get

1399
01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:36.079
them in a cream color or a
green color or gray. I mean,

1400
01:44:36.159 --> 01:44:41.920
there's different options out there. The
Vego beds are modular. That's another reason

1401
01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.960
I like them. So maybe you
don't want a big rectangle a bit like

1402
01:44:46.079 --> 01:44:49.520
a typical raised bed would be.
Maybe you want to curve around. Maybe

1403
01:44:49.520 --> 01:44:53.199
you want to make a C shaped
bed that you can walk into the middle

1404
01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:56.880
of, you know, even have
wheelchair access into like that. You can

1405
01:44:56.920 --> 01:45:00.279
get them in eleven inches. You
can go up to you know, higher

1406
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.960
and higher all the way up,
so that you have those options available to

1407
01:45:05.039 --> 01:45:09.239
you. So this is a bed
that's gonna last forever, and unlike cinder

1408
01:45:09.279 --> 01:45:13.039
blocks, it's not gonna take up
half the garden just for the bedsides themselves.

1409
01:45:13.359 --> 01:45:15.640
You know, one bed with cinder
blocks on each side, you just

1410
01:45:15.760 --> 01:45:19.760
lost sixteen inches of your limited garden
space to just those blocks. So the

1411
01:45:19.920 --> 01:45:28.479
vegobeds are so versatile that I would
say for anybody that you want to put

1412
01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:30.800
in a new garden, this would
be the way they do. And they

1413
01:45:30.960 --> 01:45:35.039
look good, they look pretty after
a while, that treated lumber is not

1414
01:45:35.159 --> 01:45:38.920
gonna look pretty. It's gonna be
twisting, it's gonna be buckling, and

1415
01:45:39.079 --> 01:45:43.960
eventually will decay too with that exposure
to the metal. Plus people have concerns

1416
01:45:44.000 --> 01:45:47.479
about the treated lumber. I just
don't know what else to say about vegobeds

1417
01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:55.800
except their website is vegogarden dot com. Vegogarden dot com. It is a

1418
01:45:56.000 --> 01:46:00.479
Houston company. If you're an organic
gardener, I can't think of any other

1419
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:04.880
option that works so well for a
contained raised bed than vego beds. But

1420
01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:12.000
for all gardeners, uh, super
super product. Let's all have to West

1421
01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:15.560
Columbia. Now we're gonna go ahead
and talk to David. Hey, David,

1422
01:46:15.640 --> 01:46:17.600
how are you this morning? Welcome
to Garden Line. Yes, sir,

1423
01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:23.520
I've got an avocado tree that like, every once in a while,

1424
01:46:24.039 --> 01:46:28.279
something starts to eating the leaves on
it. Okay, And I've been out

1425
01:46:28.279 --> 01:46:30.680
there at night, I've been out
there at day, and I can't never

1426
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:34.800
find nothing, huh u or the
leaves they have holes in them, or

1427
01:46:34.840 --> 01:46:40.319
do they chewed from the sides from
the side. Okay, Well, I'm

1428
01:46:40.359 --> 01:46:44.439
gonna guess that it's a caterpillar.
That's that's the most likely. Uh And

1429
01:46:45.359 --> 01:46:47.359
So you've got a couple of options. You could go first after it with

1430
01:46:47.479 --> 01:46:54.039
a caterpillar spray like BT. Since
we're not really sure, I would probably

1431
01:46:54.279 --> 01:47:00.960
use something containing spinosaid SPI n o
S a d spinosa that is an organic

1432
01:47:01.079 --> 01:47:05.319
product. It is a spray.
It is an organic product. The nice

1433
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:09.960
thing about spinosad from what we're talking
about, is anything that eats the leaves,

1434
01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:14.119
it's gonna get so it'll get beetles
and it'll get caterpillars both. Secondly,

1435
01:47:14.560 --> 01:47:18.199
it soaks into the leaf tissue,
so it doesn't just wash off with

1436
01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:21.680
the rain. Then you've got some
of the spinosad in the leaf. So

1437
01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:26.279
when something comes along and choose on
it, it's gonna get it. I

1438
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:31.239
think that's probably your best bet.
My My only thought though, in addition

1439
01:47:31.319 --> 01:47:35.359
to that, David, is look
at how much damage is being done.

1440
01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:39.520
You know, a few leaves here
and there with some chewing on them.

1441
01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:43.399
It's not worth spraying. It's not
going to in any way, shape or

1442
01:47:43.439 --> 01:47:45.560
form, take away from your production. Now, if you're losing a lot

1443
01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:48.960
of foliage, yes, then you
need to spray. So that would be

1444
01:47:49.039 --> 01:47:51.880
the only thing, and you'll have
to be the judge of that, yes,

1445
01:47:51.960 --> 01:47:58.239
sir, all right, thank you, all right. We're happy to

1446
01:47:58.399 --> 01:48:00.359
help. And the only thing you
gotta do is anytime you call for advice,

1447
01:48:00.439 --> 01:48:03.399
you have to bring half the produce
from the plant you ask about and

1448
01:48:03.560 --> 01:48:08.560
drop it off at KTR. That's
all I ask. All right, take

1449
01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:13.239
care, have a good have a
good day. That's funny. You know,

1450
01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:17.560
if you are interested in having a
beautiful lawn and taking care of your

1451
01:48:17.680 --> 01:48:23.159
lawn and you're concerned about some of
the bugs of summer, you need to

1452
01:48:23.239 --> 01:48:28.800
know about Nitrofoss Summer Essentials. Two
products, the bug Out max, which

1453
01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.960
is an insect control kills up to
one hundred and thirty different species of insects

1454
01:48:32.119 --> 01:48:36.439
in your lawn. And the nitrofoss
fire ant killer to the fire ant killer.

1455
01:48:38.079 --> 01:48:42.199
It works pretty quick, but it
does kill the whole colony to prevent

1456
01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:45.079
new mounds. You don't just play
whack a mole when you're using it.

1457
01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:48.880
It's going to be very very effective. Now you're going to find nitrofost products

1458
01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:55.479
like these and others at Ace Hardware
City and Memorial Area down in Kingwood at

1459
01:48:55.520 --> 01:48:59.119
the K and m Ace. You
know, you can go up to Porter

1460
01:48:59.560 --> 01:49:02.159
and the R J J and r
Ace Hardware up and Porter is going to

1461
01:49:02.199 --> 01:49:06.159
have them nitro rush products all over
the place. But check out some of

1462
01:49:06.239 --> 01:49:13.079
these summer insect control products for a
little bit extra success and protection for your

1463
01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:15.079
lawn. You're listening to garden line. I'm gonna take a break, and

1464
01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:18.479
when we come back, we will
be happy to visit with you. Seven

1465
01:49:18.560 --> 01:49:48.760
one three two one two five eight
seven four. Who's gonna let us play

1466
01:49:48.800 --> 01:50:01.239
for a sake? It's okay to
be game s all right. You're listening

1467
01:50:01.279 --> 01:50:05.319
to the garden line. By the
way, that was flattened scrugs. Anybody

1468
01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:10.960
who's ever heard of banjo definitely knows
who flattened shrugs are. We're here to

1469
01:50:11.000 --> 01:50:14.279
answer your gardening questions. Give Josh
you call seven one, three, two

1470
01:50:14.319 --> 01:50:17.039
and two fifty eight seventy four.
I'm going to head out to Nevasota and

1471
01:50:17.199 --> 01:50:21.000
talk to Ray. Hello. Ray, Well, good morning. How are

1472
01:50:21.000 --> 01:50:25.119
you this morning? I'm well this
morning. How are you doing? I'm

1473
01:50:25.479 --> 01:50:31.720
doing good except for our roses.
Oh, I've got like seven different types

1474
01:50:31.760 --> 01:50:36.000
of roses, and I noticed them. They're doing great because I used Neilson's

1475
01:50:36.520 --> 01:50:40.439
Rose food on them. There you
go. And I walked out this morning

1476
01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:44.520
and one of the rosebush all of
the buds and have been cut off of

1477
01:50:44.640 --> 01:50:48.239
it, just like somebody would have
taken every limb, snapped off every bud.

1478
01:50:49.680 --> 01:50:55.560
H. Well, that's interesting.
None of the leaves or any of

1479
01:50:55.600 --> 01:50:59.199
the shoots or anything or bothered.
Just the buds. No, just the

1480
01:50:59.399 --> 01:51:02.279
very top of all the buds,
like somebody would have taken some shears and

1481
01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:05.399
pop and shear them all. All
right. Well, I'm gonna need somebody

1482
01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:09.439
from the Roast Society call me up
here next hour and tell me what what

1483
01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:12.600
they think is going on. I
bet it's probably some kind of insect,

1484
01:51:12.680 --> 01:51:16.079
I guess, but I don't.
I don't want to send you out to

1485
01:51:16.119 --> 01:51:19.680
buy a product unless I know what
I'm going after. So let me see

1486
01:51:19.720 --> 01:51:23.520
if we can get some information on
that. I have heard of that before,

1487
01:51:23.600 --> 01:51:27.319
but I cannot remember what someone said
it was. I wanted to think

1488
01:51:27.359 --> 01:51:30.600
it was an insect. But that
is very very strange. Uh, you

1489
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:35.960
might ask go ahead, they didn't
just had one rose bush. You didn't

1490
01:51:36.000 --> 01:51:40.640
hurt any any of the other ones
or not. And then problem with no

1491
01:51:40.880 --> 01:51:45.800
name ben't touched that is that is
very unusual. Well, I'm gonna have

1492
01:51:45.840 --> 01:51:51.079
to leave that a mystery. Ray. I will um uh see what I

1493
01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:54.279
can find out, and I will
say it on the air when we do.

1494
01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:57.600
All Right, all righty okay,
I appreciate, all right, thank

1495
01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:00.359
you, sir, appreciate that.
H's head out to sugar Land. We're

1496
01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:08.079
gonna talk to Sam. Hello,
Sam, Skip, I got a fantastic

1497
01:52:09.279 --> 01:52:12.560
avocado tree. I guess it's about
a year and a half. We're going

1498
01:52:12.600 --> 01:52:17.800
into a year or two right now. And um, the leaves are turning

1499
01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:26.039
brown on some limbs and and falling
off, and some limbs even kind of

1500
01:52:26.079 --> 01:52:29.359
have a more of a yellowish rather
than than green looked to it. And

1501
01:52:29.479 --> 01:52:31.199
I'm, you know, wondering what's
going on. What I can do to

1502
01:52:31.279 --> 01:52:35.079
fix this? Yeah, I would
first of all, check those branches and

1503
01:52:35.199 --> 01:52:41.279
see if you see any damage to
the stems and the branches going out there.

1504
01:52:41.479 --> 01:52:44.680
You know, something that's chewing around
the branch, or holes in the

1505
01:52:44.720 --> 01:52:47.560
branch, or any kind of thing, a split in the branch. See

1506
01:52:47.560 --> 01:52:51.800
if you see that. I think
probably what we're looking at is a root

1507
01:52:51.880 --> 01:52:59.279
issue. Roots tend to feed certain
branches and leaves and typically on the same

1508
01:52:59.359 --> 01:53:01.439
side of a tree on a plant
that the trunk doesn't twist as it goes

1509
01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:08.279
up. But you you saggy wets, oil conditions can cause problems like that.

1510
01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:13.359
I'm assuming you didn't use a herbicide
around it that would have caused damage,

1511
01:53:13.439 --> 01:53:16.920
or that you didn't like dumb okay
oh in a container all right,

1512
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:20.119
well, then then we have the
issue of as a container draining well,

1513
01:53:20.239 --> 01:53:25.039
or the holes plugged up or sealed
up in some way, or could it

1514
01:53:25.119 --> 01:53:29.399
have gotten too dry, you know, once it heats up trying to grow

1515
01:53:29.479 --> 01:53:31.840
something that wants to be huge,
like an avocado, and a container it's

1516
01:53:31.880 --> 01:53:34.680
going to fill that container with roots, and you got to really work at

1517
01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:40.399
keeping it moist and also fertilizing it
well in that area. So maybe one

1518
01:53:40.439 --> 01:53:44.319
of those kind of things that what
you're describing does not sound like some leaf

1519
01:53:44.439 --> 01:53:48.319
disease you would spray for though,
right right, so focus on on the

1520
01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:55.119
route. It does seem to do
well. Right after a fertilizing order,

1521
01:53:55.119 --> 01:53:59.520
if by you know, throw like
a liquid fertilizer on it, it seems

1522
01:53:59.560 --> 01:54:02.600
to do well. And then yes, should I perhaps try to think about

1523
01:54:02.680 --> 01:54:05.439
moving it to a different location because
it is on the west side it does

1524
01:54:05.520 --> 01:54:09.159
get quite a bit of sun.
Well, yeah, I mean you want

1525
01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:12.239
a lot of sun to be able
to produce the fruit, of course,

1526
01:54:12.760 --> 01:54:15.800
so you don't want to in too
much shade, but least at least six

1527
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:20.439
hours preferably more than that of light. If it had morning rather than evening,

1528
01:54:20.600 --> 01:54:25.079
then that would you know, that
would be a good thing, you

1529
01:54:25.159 --> 01:54:29.079
know, because you want to you
want to make sure and get it in

1530
01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:31.359
a little bit milder temperature. You
know, the avocado itself can take it.

1531
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:35.479
It's just I don't care what size
container you have, an avocado tree

1532
01:54:35.600 --> 01:54:40.600
will fill it with roots. Where
you're having to water maybe twice a day

1533
01:54:40.800 --> 01:54:45.359
and the heat heat of summer,
and so that would just be the thing

1534
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:47.399
I would I would try to focus
on, maybe even consider putting a little

1535
01:54:47.479 --> 01:54:51.119
drip system in it. You can
have drips on timers that come on and

1536
01:54:51.439 --> 01:54:55.399
you know, go on for so
long and then go off. That would

1537
01:54:55.399 --> 01:54:58.680
be a good way to ensure you're
getting the water you need on the schedule.

1538
01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:00.119
You know, I have one of
those, it's a hose end and

1539
01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:04.640
I just said it to water harvormine
times, Harman days, whatever that you

1540
01:55:04.760 --> 01:55:09.359
want. So you think it's more
of a lack of water rather than too

1541
01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:13.079
much water. It could be either, yeah, it could be. I

1542
01:55:13.119 --> 01:55:16.359
mean when when when you a tree
or when a plant that's not made for

1543
01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:21.000
the swamps staves water logged roots can't
get oxygen and they die. And when

1544
01:55:21.119 --> 01:55:25.600
roots die, then you see the
same symptoms in many cases that you see

1545
01:55:25.640 --> 01:55:31.279
when it's too dry. You know
it's and so fluctuation of watering will cause

1546
01:55:31.399 --> 01:55:34.720
the yellowing two gets a little dry
and then it gets a good watering gets

1547
01:55:34.760 --> 01:55:38.880
a little dry and gets a good
water that that can also cause you see

1548
01:55:38.920 --> 01:55:41.119
that on your paphus ivy in the
house. You know, it gets a

1549
01:55:41.119 --> 01:55:44.439
little dry and water it and it
perks back up, but then the old

1550
01:55:44.520 --> 01:55:48.479
leaves turn yellow and fall off.
Okay, thank you all right, Sam,

1551
01:55:48.680 --> 01:55:53.399
thank you. I appreciate that call
very much. Let's head out to

1552
01:55:54.239 --> 01:55:59.640
Richmond and talk to Perry. Hello, Perry, Hello, Skip, got

1553
01:55:59.720 --> 01:56:03.399
too questions for you. One.
I've got crepe myrtles, my all my

1554
01:56:03.520 --> 01:56:09.119
crepe myrtle uh back in the past, I think they did uh, you

1555
01:56:09.199 --> 01:56:13.880
know, the old massacre, you
know, but I I trimmed it back

1556
01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:20.520
this year after I had some scale
issue and I've treated for that early.

1557
01:56:21.319 --> 01:56:27.520
But a couple of my um,
I guess arms on there, it's not

1558
01:56:28.399 --> 01:56:31.079
it's not growing or anything. So
do I just need to just cut it

1559
01:56:31.159 --> 01:56:35.479
all the way back to the blocks
to the knot to just cut it off.

1560
01:56:35.760 --> 01:56:39.920
Yeah, this beast December did a
number on our crepe myrtles. It

1561
01:56:40.000 --> 01:56:42.960
was kind of a freaky thing where
they weren't ready for the freeze they got.

1562
01:56:43.560 --> 01:56:45.359
Uh. And we've I've seen crepe
myrtles that almost the whole thing a

1563
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:48.960
top is killed back and it's got
suckers coming up. I've seen a lot

1564
01:56:49.079 --> 01:56:54.640
of them that certain limbs died are
died back, and there's there's nothing like

1565
01:56:54.760 --> 01:56:58.199
the whole shoot. The whole trunk
is bad. Uh. But you gotta

1566
01:56:58.279 --> 01:57:00.560
just let the crepe myrtle has told
you where it's alive and where it's not

1567
01:57:01.119 --> 01:57:06.119
come down from the dead until you
encounter a branch that has leaves green leaves

1568
01:57:06.159 --> 01:57:10.239
on it, and cut it off
right there. Do not leave a stub,

1569
01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:14.560
and don't make this long slanted cut
because you want it to heal fast.

1570
01:57:14.680 --> 01:57:18.079
So cut it perpendicular to the branch
you're cutting off, if that makes

1571
01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:23.520
sense, but cut it right where
it joins the other branch. Okay,

1572
01:57:23.680 --> 01:57:26.520
So if it's if one's dead all
the way back to the knot, just

1573
01:57:26.640 --> 01:57:31.159
cut it off right at the knot. Yes, that would be the case.

1574
01:57:31.439 --> 01:57:33.520
And the more you can kind of
thin them out, I mean,

1575
01:57:33.640 --> 01:57:36.720
the notch are always going to be
there, but you can get rid of

1576
01:57:36.800 --> 01:57:41.680
most of them and just let the
growth continue and it kind of makes them

1577
01:57:42.039 --> 01:57:45.920
go away a little bit. Okay. My second questions about how drange you.

1578
01:57:45.279 --> 01:57:49.600
My wife got a gift of one
that's beautiful. We've never had any

1579
01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:56.079
luck with one, and so look
into planet do I in this good old

1580
01:57:56.159 --> 01:58:00.359
clay soul. Do I dig out
a massive no area? No, go

1581
01:58:00.199 --> 01:58:03.680
go up, Yeah, don't go
down. You're you're right about what you

1582
01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:09.039
wanting to add. But go up, like spread some quality like a rose

1583
01:58:09.119 --> 01:58:12.680
soil or a good quality bed.
Mix mix it in with the soil you

1584
01:58:12.760 --> 01:58:15.960
got, add more or create a
raised bed. Keep it moist, keep

1585
01:58:16.000 --> 01:58:19.960
it moist, and give them some
They need some morning sunlight to do good,

1586
01:58:20.000 --> 01:58:23.119
but they don't want to be in
the full brunt of the sun all

1587
01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:27.159
day. All right, okay,
so build it up pretty high. That's

1588
01:58:27.199 --> 01:58:30.079
it. Well, yeah, I
get it up about a foot because it's

1589
01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:32.880
gonna settle down. Yeah, okay, all right, great, thank you,

1590
01:58:33.199 --> 01:58:36.079
yes sir, good luck, good
luck with that. Hey, if

1591
01:58:36.119 --> 01:58:43.720
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1592
01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:47.319
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1593
01:58:47.600 --> 01:58:54.000
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is also going to have a community garden

1594
01:58:54.079 --> 01:58:56.840
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1595
01:58:56.960 --> 01:59:00.439
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01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:05.159
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1597
01:59:06.479 --> 01:59:11.279
We're about to head do a break
again. Our phone number seven one three

1598
01:59:11.399 --> 01:59:15.560
two one two five eight seven four. Give Josh a call. Let him

1599
01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:17.760
get you on the board so we
can talk to you about whatever kind of

1600
01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:24.199
things you're interested in. Lawns,
trees, vegetables, flowers. We can

1601
01:59:24.319 --> 01:59:27.720
talk about house plans. Everybody's got
houseplants, right, don't you need to.

1602
01:59:28.640 --> 01:59:32.840
I'm gonna be out at wild Birds
Unlimited out in Kingwood. Wild Birds

1603
01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:38.079
Unlimited in Kingwood, and I hope
you'll come out to see me out there

1604
01:59:38.119 --> 01:59:43.399
today. I'll be there from eleven
thirty to one thirty, eleven thirty to

1605
01:59:43.520 --> 01:59:48.000
one thirty, be there to answer
your gardening questions. If you go to

1606
01:59:48.399 --> 01:59:53.039
a wild Birds Unlimited, you can
go online by the way to WBU dot

1607
01:59:53.119 --> 01:59:59.159
com slash Houston and it'll tell you
where those seven stores that we have in

1608
01:59:59.239 --> 02:00:02.039
the Houston area are. Now.
By the way, the Kingwood store is

1609
02:00:02.119 --> 02:00:09.680
on Kingwood Drive. It's forty five
twenty three Kingwood Drive. I hope you

1610
02:00:09.720 --> 02:00:15.640
will come out. Ktr H Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1611
02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:23.079
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with

1612
02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:39.439
scared dictor smell the crazy trip.
Just watch him as wood mood got us

1613
02:00:39.520 --> 02:00:57.039
so many crazy ticket s. Well, good morning. You're listening to garden

1614
02:00:57.079 --> 02:01:01.439
Line, and if you haven't looked
outside yet, wow, what a day.

1615
02:01:01.520 --> 02:01:04.680
I love days like this. I
mean, we need rain, we

1616
02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:11.520
get rain, but this is just
chamber of commerce weather outside. Good day

1617
02:01:11.560 --> 02:01:14.359
to get out and visit a garden
center for sure. Hey, let's go

1618
02:01:14.800 --> 02:01:17.800
to base City and we're going to
talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,

1619
02:01:18.840 --> 02:01:24.600
Hey, how you don't skip?
Hey, I have a question. It's

1620
02:01:24.680 --> 02:01:27.920
more a curiosity thing because it's all
gone. I'm not gonna bid do anything

1621
02:01:27.960 --> 02:01:30.279
about it now. But I had
some onions out here, Okay, I

1622
02:01:30.359 --> 02:01:34.119
had to give you a little scenario. I had four rolls onions, all

1623
02:01:34.199 --> 02:01:39.520
right, and they're all in the
same bed. And I had two rolls

1624
02:01:39.560 --> 02:01:44.640
of ten fifteens, one of Texas
Legend and one of Texas White in that

1625
02:01:44.880 --> 02:01:49.359
order. Every one of the Texas
Legends died on me and got mushy.

1626
02:01:49.840 --> 02:01:53.439
I have no idea what kind of
disease that was, or if I got

1627
02:01:53.479 --> 02:01:57.640
it because the batch of onions I
got, we're bad, or he couldn't

1628
02:01:57.640 --> 02:02:00.039
have been in the salty or all
in the same bed. I'm thinking you

1629
02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:04.640
got any expertise on that. It's
my curiosity as whether I should get those

1630
02:02:04.720 --> 02:02:11.520
onions in any Moore, those Texas
legends. But yeah, well ideas,

1631
02:02:11.800 --> 02:02:16.640
that's definitely in the category of things
that make you go hmm, you know,

1632
02:02:17.560 --> 02:02:20.319
so it was the same. So
we're gonna limonate that, Uh,

1633
02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:27.319
Texas legends a good onion. Uh, We're gonna elimonate that it has to

1634
02:02:27.439 --> 02:02:30.880
have been I don't know something that
came in. Our onions do have diseases,

1635
02:02:30.920 --> 02:02:35.880
They've got root diseases and other things. Uh, just unless there's some

1636
02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:42.840
other aspect that isn't you know,
you're not mentioning or not aware of.

1637
02:02:44.079 --> 02:02:46.960
You know. I can't think I
can grab it straws and say, well,

1638
02:02:47.039 --> 02:02:49.880
was it a matter there or was
it you know? But I think

1639
02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:55.039
the enter that's going to be no
R So I guess. And I'm at

1640
02:02:55.079 --> 02:02:58.359
a bloss too. I mean,
I can't. I'm tried in my mind,

1641
02:02:58.399 --> 02:03:00.279
and it's been a little while.
I just I kept thinking, oh,

1642
02:03:00.279 --> 02:03:03.760
I should call in see if he's
got any ideas other than some kind

1643
02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:08.680
of disease guided I guess what it
did they they started, you know,

1644
02:03:08.880 --> 02:03:13.119
gradually, like three or four and
it would be all down in one role.

1645
02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:15.520
So it was that onion okay,
and uh, and I had another

1646
02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:18.479
role on the other side, and
two on the other side. They all

1647
02:03:18.560 --> 02:03:23.560
did fine and this one role and
they gradually. But I kept thinking,

1648
02:03:23.600 --> 02:03:26.680
well, maybe if a few of
those got something and then the others old

1649
02:03:26.840 --> 02:03:30.439
pick up that whole role, just
one after another. When you said there's

1650
02:03:30.479 --> 02:03:33.239
others that find there weren't any Texas
legends that were fine though, right,

1651
02:03:33.840 --> 02:03:38.119
No, no, no textual Oh, I think I ended up with one

1652
02:03:38.199 --> 02:03:43.840
real small and will he wasn't even
good. Well, almost saw our onions

1653
02:03:43.880 --> 02:03:47.239
around here come from one place,
yeah, down in Crystal City, and

1654
02:03:47.399 --> 02:03:55.199
they grow good quality good the onions. I that that's all came from the

1655
02:03:55.279 --> 02:03:59.560
feed store. Well, but that's
where the feds kid, I'm kidding with.

1656
02:04:00.399 --> 02:04:03.199
So I just I guess that I'd
have to leave it at that,

1657
02:04:03.800 --> 02:04:08.399
that they came out of the disease. I have not run across that before.

1658
02:04:08.840 --> 02:04:11.560
You know, I'm trying to check. Yeah, I was trying to

1659
02:04:11.680 --> 02:04:14.199
check it to feed Stoor. I
went in to ask them about it.

1660
02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:17.239
Anybody else samething about this? You
know what else. They had no answer

1661
02:04:17.319 --> 02:04:20.520
for that. Well, we're gonna
put that in the category of things that

1662
02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:26.319
make you go hmmm. That's about
as far as I got. Okay,

1663
02:04:26.600 --> 02:04:29.840
I guess it's not helping anybody else
either, so I guess I'll get off

1664
02:04:29.880 --> 02:04:31.479
here. Appreciate. The only thing
would be next year, and you probably

1665
02:04:31.520 --> 02:04:34.079
don't spend the money on it,
but you grab it one when they're sharpened

1666
02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:38.720
to go downhill like that progressively,
you could send it into the plant disease

1667
02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:42.000
lab and they can tell you what
it was, so then at least maybe

1668
02:04:42.079 --> 02:04:44.680
you'd know. But I don't know
if that's worth the investment just for some

1669
02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:47.520
onion. Well sure, okay,
hey, appreciate it. Thank you,

1670
02:04:47.600 --> 02:04:53.760
Mike. I appreciate appreciate that call. If you are in on the east

1671
02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:57.840
Side a few snover in Mott Bellevue, U, you need to know about

1672
02:04:57.880 --> 02:05:00.600
Texas Feed Stop. Texas Feed Stop
is the old time feed store in that

1673
02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:05.479
area. It is a absolutely wonderful
feed store. I mean, all the

1674
02:05:05.560 --> 02:05:09.560
products we talked about are there.
You know, all the fertilizers and things.

1675
02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:13.239
They occasionally have some plants in front
as well. They've got all the

1676
02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:16.159
feed you would want, and you
know that service that you remember from days

1677
02:05:16.199 --> 02:05:20.600
of old, where people actually greeted
you and waited on you and carried the

1678
02:05:20.640 --> 02:05:24.800
feedsacks out with you and stuff.
That's the kind of feed store we like

1679
02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:27.640
to talk about on garden Line,
and that's the kind of feed store you'll

1680
02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.600
find in Texas Feedstop. It's on
Highway one forty six, just a few

1681
02:05:30.720 --> 02:05:33.680
minutes north of A ten. So, I mean, if you're down in

1682
02:05:33.720 --> 02:05:38.960
the Baytown area, this is your
feed store as well. Brian and Hope

1683
02:05:39.039 --> 02:05:43.159
Rhads have created a nice community place
and by the way, they're members of

1684
02:05:43.199 --> 02:05:45.760
the community. They support the community
out there. If you want to go

1685
02:05:46.000 --> 02:05:50.840
to a place where you walk in
and get treated like family, Texas Feedstop

1686
02:05:51.399 --> 02:05:56.600
on Highway one forty six and Mont
Bellevue. I want to head out to

1687
02:05:56.880 --> 02:06:00.800
Tumball and we're going to talk to
Danielle out and Tom Ball. How are

1688
02:06:00.840 --> 02:06:03.239
you doing, Danielle, I'm doing
well. How are you this morning?

1689
02:06:03.720 --> 02:06:12.960
Well? Thank you? Well.
I planted some zucchinis from seed in my

1690
02:06:13.119 --> 02:06:18.600
raised bed and it's been a while
and they're beautiful. The leaves are beautiful,

1691
02:06:18.760 --> 02:06:24.560
the bright yellow flowers are beautiful.
But I would have thought I would

1692
02:06:24.600 --> 02:06:27.680
have had some zucchini by now.
I've run them before, and I don't

1693
02:06:27.720 --> 02:06:30.439
know if I have enough pollinators in
my beds or in my yard. But

1694
02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:34.840
okay, there's just not yielding anything. And I just I do compost.

1695
02:06:34.960 --> 02:06:39.600
I add things. I have real
good soil. I don't know what.

1696
02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:43.720
They're beautiful, the leaves are you
think there'd be some zucchinis in there?

1697
02:06:44.880 --> 02:06:47.319
So flowers fall off and then there's
nothing. So, Danielle, have you

1698
02:06:47.439 --> 02:06:51.880
grown zucchini before I have? Okay? So are you familiar with the difference

1699
02:06:51.880 --> 02:06:57.760
between a male and a female bloom
on a zucchini? Somewhat? Okay,

1700
02:06:57.840 --> 02:07:00.800
Yes, I've never come across this, so I don't. Okay, Well,

1701
02:07:00.840 --> 02:07:03.680
here's the thing. Go out and
look at your plants and anything anything

1702
02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:10.840
in the cucurbet family, from watermelons
to cantelopes, to cucumbers to zucchini and

1703
02:07:10.920 --> 02:07:14.960
other squashes. The flowers are separate, male and female, and the male

1704
02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:17.640
flowers are on a little stalk on
a zucchini. It's going to be something

1705
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:21.079
about the size of a pencil,
and it's just this long stalk coming up,

1706
02:07:21.119 --> 02:07:25.720
and then the bloom on a female
bloom at the base, there's not

1707
02:07:25.840 --> 02:07:28.800
a stalk. There's a big,
fat green zucchini at the base of the

1708
02:07:28.880 --> 02:07:31.760
flower, and it's small because it's
at that stage. But if you look

1709
02:07:31.800 --> 02:07:35.439
at the base of the flowers,
a lot of times our squashes will produce

1710
02:07:35.520 --> 02:07:41.520
male blooms, especially initially for a
while before they start producing female blooms.

1711
02:07:42.720 --> 02:07:46.399
It varies with the variety, it
varies with the weather conditions even but especially

1712
02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:50.520
with the age of the plant.
Or you seeing any things that have a

1713
02:07:50.600 --> 02:07:54.640
baby zucchini at the bottom of the
bloom, or is it all those skinny

1714
02:07:54.720 --> 02:08:00.199
stalks. No, it's all the
skinny stocks. That's the problem. That's

1715
02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:05.640
the problem that you're not It just
hadn't started producing female There's nothing you can

1716
02:08:05.720 --> 02:08:09.000
do to make it produce female.
Usually time takes care of that. But

1717
02:08:09.119 --> 02:08:13.000
as we get into hot weather,
you know, they don't want to set

1718
02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:16.319
well, they don't want to pollinate. Well, you end up with either

1719
02:08:16.520 --> 02:08:20.560
not setting or you have misshapen fruit
as the weather gets hotter. But that

1720
02:08:20.720 --> 02:08:24.720
would be the thing to watch for
next time. You might want to try

1721
02:08:24.279 --> 02:08:28.479
maybe a different variety as well,
maybe more than one variety, and that

1722
02:08:28.720 --> 02:08:33.479
may kind of cue you to this
variety is not acceptable to me, you

1723
02:08:33.560 --> 02:08:39.640
know, it just doesn't. All
varieties should produce acchini, but sometimes they

1724
02:08:39.680 --> 02:08:43.680
don't all perform equally. Well okay, all right, yeah, all right,

1725
02:08:43.720 --> 02:08:46.880
I appreciate it, Thank you so
much. All right. Another thing

1726
02:08:46.960 --> 02:08:50.720
you could do is walk out there
and just get a jug around up and

1727
02:08:50.000 --> 02:08:54.960
show it to the plant and say, I'm coming back next week and I'm

1728
02:08:54.000 --> 02:08:56.600
going to use this if I don't
see some squash and you don't have to

1729
02:08:56.680 --> 02:09:01.880
spray it. But they say talking
to your plants help. So that's just

1730
02:09:01.000 --> 02:09:03.720
a tech. Hey, I do
with my indoor ones and it seems to

1731
02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:09.760
work great. I love about these
zucchinis. That compliance very good, Danielle.

1732
02:09:09.800 --> 02:09:13.199
Thank you. I appreciate that call. Hey, we're gonna go to

1733
02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:24.600
break seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four s. Don't much

1734
02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:39.359
about the front up. All right, you're listening to Guardline. Here is

1735
02:09:39.439 --> 02:09:43.199
a phone number to write down.
Give us a call. We are in

1736
02:09:43.319 --> 02:09:46.760
our last segment today, so this
is your chance. Don't wait till the

1737
02:09:46.880 --> 02:09:50.000
end of the segment. That's when
things pile up and may not be able

1738
02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:52.319
to get to all the calls at
that point. Seven one three, two,

1739
02:09:52.439 --> 02:09:58.000
one two, five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty

1740
02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:00.800
eight seventy four. Just want to
remind you that I'm going to be at

1741
02:10:00.840 --> 02:10:05.560
Wahbird's Unlimited out in clear or Kingwood
today. Clear Lake was a previous day.

1742
02:10:05.039 --> 02:10:09.319
Wabird's Unlimited on Kingwood. That's a
forty five twenty three Kingwood Drive.

1743
02:10:11.039 --> 02:10:13.479
You probably have been out in that
area before, but it's close to where

1744
02:10:13.560 --> 02:10:18.960
Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston Parkway
come together. There's a big heb on

1745
02:10:20.119 --> 02:10:24.039
West Houston Parkway and Wabbirds Unlimited is
sort of behind that. So I hope

1746
02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:28.000
you come out and see me hey
by the way, either before or after

1747
02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:33.159
you come over to see me at
Wabbird's Unlimited. I would hope that you

1748
02:10:33.199 --> 02:10:37.960
would stop by Kingwood Garden Center and
or Warren's Garden Center out there in the

1749
02:10:39.920 --> 02:10:46.640
Kingwood region. Warren's Garden Center is
on Northport Drive in Kingwood, and they

1750
02:10:46.760 --> 02:10:52.000
just got in a shipment, a
new shipment of citrus, and that is

1751
02:10:52.359 --> 02:10:54.800
that in and of itself, is
a good reason to go a lot of

1752
02:10:54.840 --> 02:10:58.119
other reasons to go to Warrens,
but they got a new shipment of centrius.

1753
02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:00.960
So if you would like a citrus
plant to put in a very large

1754
02:11:01.039 --> 02:11:03.840
container or to plant in your yard, here's your chance. While you're out

1755
02:11:03.880 --> 02:11:07.960
there, go ahead and check it
out, because they also have the fruit

1756
02:11:07.159 --> 02:11:13.640
berry and citrus mix from Heirloom Soils. The Heirloom Soils fruit berry and citrus

1757
02:11:13.760 --> 02:11:18.840
mix is perfect for that container or
for just putting on the ground and mixing

1758
02:11:18.920 --> 02:11:24.399
in to grow your citrus tree in. We're in the big summer season now

1759
02:11:24.560 --> 02:11:28.319
and citrus loves warm weather does very
well, and warm weather with good drainage

1760
02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:33.159
and good sunlight. And this would
be one more good reason to go out

1761
02:11:33.439 --> 02:11:37.439
to Warren's Garden Center. Way there
you can pick up all the products we

1762
02:11:37.520 --> 02:11:39.359
talk about. By the way,
if you have the Microlife or the Nelson

1763
02:11:39.439 --> 02:11:46.000
plant food jugs, you can refill
them there at Warren's Garden Center in Kingwood

1764
02:11:46.039 --> 02:11:48.560
Gardens. They have those refilling stations. Saves a little bit of money and

1765
02:11:48.840 --> 02:11:54.720
especially also it's going to save on
just more plastic out there in the environment.

1766
02:11:54.239 --> 02:11:58.479
We're going to go now over to
sugar Land and we're going to talk

1767
02:11:58.600 --> 02:12:05.039
to on Hello, don are you
doing skip? Got a eastment next to

1768
02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:09.960
my property and these guys mowing blow
all the Behala grass seed and that's a

1769
02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:16.760
nefarious weed. Well it's a grass, but anyway, I don't know if

1770
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:18.720
there's anything to control it. The
only thing I've been doing is getting my

1771
02:12:18.800 --> 02:12:24.079
hands and knees and pulling that stuff
out. But I thought about just clipping

1772
02:12:24.159 --> 02:12:28.000
the top off and putting it in
a bag and then taking some straight round

1773
02:12:28.159 --> 02:12:31.479
up and just dipping it in there
with some gloves on and see if that'll

1774
02:12:33.159 --> 02:12:35.840
take care of the stuff that's blowing
on here. I try to get those

1775
02:12:35.920 --> 02:12:39.079
guys to discharge it going the other
way, but you know the wind will

1776
02:12:39.159 --> 02:12:43.479
carry it too. Yeah, And
then I have a question about a citrus.

1777
02:12:45.199 --> 02:12:50.760
Yeah, yeah, that that is
a problem. Beha grass. You

1778
02:12:50.840 --> 02:12:56.640
know, it actually is used as
as wild lawn areas where you're gonna park

1779
02:12:56.760 --> 02:13:00.439
cars and stuff in a pasture and
whatnot. But blow when it gets in

1780
02:13:00.520 --> 02:13:03.800
law and it's a problem there.
There is a product, uh, and

1781
02:13:05.000 --> 02:13:09.720
the ingredient is met sulfur on methyl
but the brand name is Manner M A

1782
02:13:09.960 --> 02:13:13.199
N O R. And it will
kill Behea grass. Now when you you're

1783
02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:16.439
going to have to really hunt to
find Manner. It's not just in every

1784
02:13:16.479 --> 02:13:20.479
garden. Center for sure, but
manner will do it. You just want

1785
02:13:20.520 --> 02:13:24.640
to be real careful. Manner is
very hard on ornamental plants, so do

1786
02:13:24.880 --> 02:13:30.399
not overapply it. Just barely get
the behagrass wet. It is labeled for

1787
02:13:30.560 --> 02:13:33.199
use in lawns. Uh and it
works. It works well. Uh,

1788
02:13:33.439 --> 02:13:37.479
they won't kill the St. Augustine. They will not kill the Saint Augustine

1789
02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:41.840
if you don't mix it too strong. Okay, now you're talking about spraying

1790
02:13:41.920 --> 02:13:46.279
it on there or just or just
like touching the piece sign it comes up.

1791
02:13:46.880 --> 02:13:50.960
Well, no, not the not
the seed heads. You got to

1792
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:56.159
get it on the leaves for it
to work. Now there. Another option

1793
02:13:56.680 --> 02:14:01.960
is the grass only killer. And
if you just had spots of the behea,

1794
02:14:01.279 --> 02:14:05.640
you could dab it on those spots. You may kill a little bit

1795
02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:09.119
of Saint Augustine's. It's kind of
intermixed right at that spot, but it

1796
02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:13.359
just real carefully get it on mostly
the behea. You can use a grass

1797
02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:18.359
only killer and uh, there's a
number of products. One is called sethoxy

1798
02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:22.800
dem set h O x y d
I M and it'll kill the behala.

1799
02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:26.439
But they're you're spot treating, you're
gonna have some dead spots and the Saint

1800
02:14:26.479 --> 02:14:30.840
Augustine crawls back in. Well,
can't you just mix it up and then

1801
02:14:30.880 --> 02:14:33.279
take a brush and kind of brushing
on the behala whatever? Yeah, you

1802
02:14:33.359 --> 02:14:37.279
could. I have a little homemade
deal. It's got a sponge on a

1803
02:14:37.399 --> 02:14:41.359
stick and I just use that to
do it. I guess you could.

1804
02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:43.159
You know, if you can get
on your hands and knees, you can

1805
02:14:43.279 --> 02:14:46.960
use those little foam brushes that you
paint with, But they they dribble out

1806
02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:50.880
a liquid like a spray mix.
You know, they're made for paint that's

1807
02:14:50.960 --> 02:14:54.520
thick and viscous. They drip,
They drip all over the place if you

1808
02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:58.439
try to use them on on a
spray mix like that. So that's why

1809
02:14:58.479 --> 02:15:03.039
I would go more of a kitchen
sponge that's meant to whole water in and

1810
02:15:03.199 --> 02:15:07.800
not drip it out, and you
just get it moist it Is it going

1811
02:15:07.880 --> 02:15:11.680
to be bad around any kind of
citrus plants if I don't if you don't

1812
02:15:11.720 --> 02:15:15.479
get it on the citrus plant.
Yeah, if you don't get on the

1813
02:15:15.560 --> 02:15:18.159
citrus plant and you don't apply it
right before a rain, so it washes

1814
02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:24.600
into the soil and you don't over
apply it, so it drenches down okay,

1815
02:15:24.760 --> 02:15:31.840
and then on the citrus trees to
I'm getting those kind of the film

1816
02:15:31.920 --> 02:15:35.560
white film with the insect that just
you know, kind of makes the leaves

1817
02:15:35.640 --> 02:15:41.119
look bad. Is spino sat the
one to use or would you use?

1818
02:15:41.319 --> 02:15:46.439
Uh? I think Randy said you
alternate that was something else. Just spinosa.

1819
02:15:46.760 --> 02:15:48.199
Yeah, the spinosa will work.
And the good thing about it is

1820
02:15:48.319 --> 02:15:52.319
it soaks in. It's also an
organic product, and that's when you see

1821
02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:56.680
the little trails in the leaf.
Sometimes there's so many trails that it kind

1822
02:15:56.720 --> 02:16:00.119
of gets a silvery white look to
it. But if it's something that's on

1823
02:16:00.279 --> 02:16:03.439
the leaf that's silvery, that could
be there are different insects that create a

1824
02:16:03.520 --> 02:16:07.199
cottony like material and it could be
that that you're seeing too. But the

1825
02:16:07.239 --> 02:16:13.960
spinosa will work very well on centrist
just on the new growth when you have

1826
02:16:13.079 --> 02:16:18.279
flushes of new growth. In other
words, you don't just spray it because

1827
02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:20.279
you're spraying it. When you have
a flush of new growth. You protect

1828
02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:24.279
it once the growth, once the
leaves get older and a little leatherer leatherier

1829
02:16:24.920 --> 02:16:31.680
is that a word. More leathery
leaf miner is not going to bother them.

1830
02:16:31.280 --> 02:16:35.559
And also just keep in mind the
leaf miner is mostly an esthetic problem.

1831
02:16:35.840 --> 02:16:39.559
It's not going to kill your tree. Just a little here and there's

1832
02:16:39.600 --> 02:16:43.799
not going to significantly affect your production. I mean, if you have a

1833
02:16:43.879 --> 02:16:46.600
real young tree and almost all the
foliage is being affected, yes that's a

1834
02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:52.040
concern. But know that just kind
of tolerating them and living with them is

1835
02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:56.120
also one of the options. But
I would start with the spinosad. You

1836
02:16:56.200 --> 02:17:00.319
just don't want to overuse it.
Use it all the time and X can

1837
02:17:00.399 --> 02:17:05.639
build up resistance. Okay, all
right, very much, Thank you very

1838
02:17:05.719 --> 02:17:09.680
much for the call. I appreciate
that very much. Hey, if you're

1839
02:17:09.719 --> 02:17:13.239
looking for a quality lawn food that
will gradually release the nutrients over time,

1840
02:17:13.479 --> 02:17:18.479
you need to consider the Nelson plant
Food their turf Star line. That turf

1841
02:17:18.520 --> 02:17:22.440
Star line has I think like a
half dozen products in it neural good but

1842
02:17:22.040 --> 02:17:28.319
the slow and easy Slow and easy
twenty two two ten it's going to prevent

1843
02:17:28.559 --> 02:17:33.360
that. That's development that comes from
excessive nitrogen fertilization. I know that first

1844
02:17:33.440 --> 02:17:37.600
number is high, but you don't
use as much. If you want to

1845
02:17:37.639 --> 02:17:39.719
know how much of a fertilizer to
apply, divide the first number into one

1846
02:17:39.799 --> 02:17:45.120
hundred and that's how much you apply
per thousand square feet, So twenty two

1847
02:17:45.159 --> 02:17:48.559
two ten five pounds twenty goes into
a hundred five times, so five pounds.

1848
02:17:48.879 --> 02:17:52.799
Don't overdo it. Take it a
little bit easy, but it will

1849
02:17:52.879 --> 02:17:56.719
feed your lawn over time, for
a very long time. It's got the

1850
02:17:56.920 --> 02:18:01.040
nitrogen chemistries in it that gradually release. They'll cut down on your water consumption

1851
02:18:01.040 --> 02:18:07.239
because you have a deeper root system
in the process. I want to go

1852
02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:11.559
out here to College Station and we're
gonna talk to Jeff. Hello, Jeff,

1853
02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:15.840
Hey, Skip, I really appreciate
you take him a call. Yes,

1854
02:18:15.879 --> 02:18:18.879
sir, I heard a couple of
questions about avocados earlier and it got

1855
02:18:18.959 --> 02:18:24.319
me wondering. I've planted seeds,
you know that. I've wanted the grocery

1856
02:18:24.360 --> 02:18:28.280
store and got a nice tree,
but never kept it very long. Yep.

1857
02:18:28.719 --> 02:18:31.719
I always heard it took a long
time to grow avocado fruit. Yes,

1858
02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:35.159
here's my question. Is there a
difference between that seed a harvest from

1859
02:18:35.159 --> 02:18:39.719
the grocery store. Should I go
buy a plant at a garden store that

1860
02:18:39.360 --> 02:18:43.079
maybe we'll produce fruit? What difference? You should absolutely buy one from the

1861
02:18:43.159 --> 02:18:48.000
store that's a named variety that's a
Mexican avocado, not the bumpy black kind

1862
02:18:48.120 --> 02:18:52.000
that the seed came out of that
you planted. Those kind are very coal

1863
02:18:52.079 --> 02:18:56.200
tender. They won't grow here.
Plus, when you plant any fruit tree

1864
02:18:56.239 --> 02:18:58.559
from a seed, it takes.
It has to go through a long time

1865
02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:03.360
of grow with years to mature before
it starts bearing fruit. And with a

1866
02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:09.159
store bought grafted plant, it's already
got the mature wood on it and it'll

1867
02:19:09.200 --> 02:19:13.360
start bearing very quickly. Now the
college station that it's going to get a

1868
02:19:13.399 --> 02:19:16.120
little cold for avocado, so you
need to come up with a plan that's

1869
02:19:16.159 --> 02:19:20.120
going to include the pruning of it
to make more of a bush with a

1870
02:19:20.200 --> 02:19:24.239
bunch of trunks than a long tall
one, because avocados want to get real

1871
02:19:24.280 --> 02:19:28.559
tall and you can't cover a long
tall one, and then being able to

1872
02:19:28.040 --> 02:19:33.520
in the wintertime as needed, put
a structure over it with heat underneath it

1873
02:19:33.600 --> 02:19:37.479
because you're you're a little cold for
avocados. But you know how it is,

1874
02:19:37.600 --> 02:19:41.360
when we want to grow something,
we can find a way. Absolutely

1875
02:19:41.440 --> 02:19:45.959
absolutely appreciate that advice. Thank you
very much. All right, I appreciate

1876
02:19:46.200 --> 02:19:50.959
that call very much. That it's
a fun thing to be able to grow.

1877
02:19:50.799 --> 02:19:54.239
You know, if you're in the
Tomball area, you need to know

1878
02:19:54.479 --> 02:19:58.319
about Arburgate. You probably already do. I mean people everywhere know about Arburgate.

1879
02:19:58.799 --> 02:20:01.120
Arburgate dot COM's website to go on
there you can find out where to

1880
02:20:01.159 --> 02:20:07.479
find them. They're on twenty nine
two forty nine out I'm sorry, twenty

1881
02:20:07.559 --> 02:20:11.879
nine twenty west of two forty nine. There we go. I've only been

1882
02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:15.200
there ten million times. They've got
a one two three system. It's a

1883
02:20:15.239 --> 02:20:18.959
food that feeds anything with roots,
an organic plant food that is a four

1884
02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:24.120
four three plus ten percent calcium on
it. It's got microbial activity. You

1885
02:20:24.200 --> 02:20:28.799
know you're gonna get the microbes because
it's an organic product. There's going to

1886
02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:33.360
really release that nitrogen or slowly over
time. Plus all the other things.

1887
02:20:33.399 --> 02:20:37.239
It's got trace minerals in it as
well. That's the food. Then they

1888
02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:43.399
have a soil that's a quality soil
mix for any application that you come up

1889
02:20:43.440 --> 02:20:46.559
with. And then they've got the
compost that will approve any kind of soil.

1890
02:20:46.840 --> 02:20:50.559
Now I could go in detail about
all of them, trust me,

1891
02:20:50.680 --> 02:20:54.000
they're all three quality. It makes
it simple, it makes it easy.

1892
02:20:54.479 --> 02:21:01.120
Arbergates one two three very simple system
easy, easy to work with. And

1893
02:21:01.319 --> 02:21:05.440
when you're out there, you're gonna
find knowledgeable staff and you're gonna find every

1894
02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:07.000
kind of plant that you would want
to grow here. They do not sell

1895
02:21:07.079 --> 02:21:11.920
stuff that you should not plant here. I wish that all places that sell

1896
02:21:11.959 --> 02:21:13.559
plants were that way, but they're
not. But it is the truth.

1897
02:21:15.000 --> 02:21:18.399
With Arbi Gate, we are going
to be just a reminder at Wilbird's Unlimited

1898
02:21:18.520 --> 02:21:24.399
in Kingwood On at forty five twenty
three Kingwood Drive today from eleven thirty to

1899
02:21:24.520 --> 02:21:26.319
one thirty. I hope you come
out, bring me some samples. Let's

1900
02:21:26.319 --> 02:21:30.760
talk plants. Look forward to that. Right now, we're gonna talk news.

1901
02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:39.399
I got shaped for road. I
said shape. I said shape,

1902
02:21:41.399 --> 02:21:50.520
I said shape. But you're not
a do nothing say dog boys. There

1903
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:54.760
you go where those present. We're
not a dense at jitterbug that is that

1904
02:21:54.959 --> 02:22:00.319
is a lost art form. But
boich, it's sure fun to watch listening

1905
02:22:00.319 --> 02:22:03.719
to the garden line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter phone number seven one

1906
02:22:03.840 --> 02:22:09.000
three two one two five eight seven
four. Now, if you're going to

1907
02:22:09.079 --> 02:22:13.799
purchase and plant a tree or a
shrub especially, you need to have a

1908
02:22:13.879 --> 02:22:18.000
tree hugger sprinkler. Now why would
I say you need to have it?

1909
02:22:18.120 --> 02:22:20.719
Well, when you put a plant
in the ground, what do you ornamental

1910
02:22:20.760 --> 02:22:24.840
on the ground. That first summer
is the it's touching go. It's when

1911
02:22:24.879 --> 02:22:28.360
it's gonna make or break it.
Because here's why. A mature tree has

1912
02:22:28.440 --> 02:22:31.840
roots out two and a half times
a branch bread in all directions depending on

1913
02:22:31.959 --> 02:22:35.479
species in the soil. But that's
huge. They can draw from a lot

1914
02:22:35.520 --> 02:22:39.120
of water. When you put a
cylinder of soil that you pulled out of

1915
02:22:39.200 --> 02:22:43.520
that pot and you put it in
the ground, all the roots are still

1916
02:22:43.559 --> 02:22:46.959
in that cylinder and it takes a
while for them to venture out and to

1917
02:22:48.440 --> 02:22:52.280
reach enough of a volume of soil
that that becomes a resilient plant during drought.

1918
02:22:52.879 --> 02:22:56.959
With a tree hugger, they go
around your tree. You hook it

1919
02:22:56.040 --> 02:23:00.120
up to a water hose and you
can turn it on a little bit and

1920
02:23:00.200 --> 02:23:03.280
just water a real small area like
that where that cylinder is, and just

1921
02:23:03.440 --> 02:23:07.760
beyond that, as the tree grows, turn it on more. They have

1922
02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.719
us seven inch size, eleven in
size of fifteen, and each of those

1923
02:23:11.840 --> 02:23:16.879
can be done that way where you
have the ability to water a nice wide

1924
02:23:16.040 --> 02:23:20.360
area so that you can give it
a good soaking and keep that plant alive.

1925
02:23:20.680 --> 02:23:24.840
Tree Hugger sprinkler, It's not an
expense, it's an insurance policy that

1926
02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:28.280
will save you a lot more expense. If you don't know more about trigger

1927
02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:33.440
sprinklers, go online tree Hugger Sprinklers
dot Com and you can learn a whole

1928
02:23:33.799 --> 02:23:37.399
lot more. Let's head out now. I want to go down to southeast

1929
02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:43.200
Houston and we're gonna talk to Von. Hello, Yvon, do we got

1930
02:23:43.319 --> 02:23:46.440
it on there? Can you hear
me? I can now, thank you?

1931
02:23:48.479 --> 02:23:52.200
Okay, I have an issue with
weed in my flower bed. I've

1932
02:23:52.280 --> 02:24:00.120
tried putting down the barricade in February. I've tried it pended metal one.

1933
02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:07.239
It's yellow, it could be Uh. Nothing helps. I've got landscape fabric

1934
02:24:07.360 --> 02:24:11.200
down that helps for about a month
and then it's it's crazy. So I

1935
02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:15.680
don't know what to do to prevent
the weeds. I don't know what to

1936
02:24:15.799 --> 02:24:20.719
do to get rid of them.
I've got very shrubs in these flower beds.

1937
02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:24.680
Okay, do you know what kind
of weeds primarily you're dealing with?

1938
02:24:26.000 --> 02:24:30.840
They look like grass. I have
soyser grass in my fresh yard. Okay,

1939
02:24:31.200 --> 02:24:35.799
they don't look like soyser grass,
but they're thin blade weeds. They

1940
02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:39.559
look like thin bladed grass. Have
you tried digging digging up the weeds or

1941
02:24:39.639 --> 02:24:43.360
not? Oh? Oh god,
it's just constant non Yeah. So when

1942
02:24:43.399 --> 02:24:48.319
you try to dig one them,
do they have kind of like underground runners

1943
02:24:48.479 --> 02:24:52.159
going along underneath the ground. Um? Yes, yes, okay, I'm

1944
02:24:52.239 --> 02:24:56.079
ninety percent sure. You're dealing with
bermuda grass and that is a pain in

1945
02:24:56.159 --> 02:25:01.440
the neck to deal with. You
need a grass killer and that because when

1946
02:25:01.559 --> 02:25:07.079
you've got flowers around something that kills
everything like a round up type product would

1947
02:25:07.120 --> 02:25:11.760
do, you're gonna kill your your
good things too. But a grass only

1948
02:25:11.879 --> 02:25:15.680
killer kills grass, not broad leaves. And there's a couple of types out

1949
02:25:15.760 --> 02:25:20.079
there. I can name out the
long names of the ingredients. But if

1950
02:25:20.120 --> 02:25:24.239
you will just go to an ACE
hardware near you and ask for a grass

1951
02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:28.680
only killer and the label name will
say that, but it'll also have the

1952
02:25:28.959 --> 02:25:31.319
products on it that do that,
and then follow the label you can spray

1953
02:25:31.360 --> 02:25:35.799
it on the grasses that are coming
in. It's not going to kill broad

1954
02:25:35.879 --> 02:25:37.559
lea's. But the one year dealing
with, I think is bermuda grass.

1955
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:43.680
That's the grass from hell. And
so you just spray that on it and

1956
02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:46.079
it translocates down. You probably will
have to do it again because you know

1957
02:25:46.159 --> 02:25:50.000
there'll be underground runners that haven't sprout
it up to get sprayed yet. But

1958
02:25:50.200 --> 02:25:56.079
where do you What part of southeast
Houston are you in? Near forty five

1959
02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:03.079
South and Beltway Age, Like,
okay, well, yeah, we're really

1960
02:26:05.879 --> 02:26:09.520
nearby. Oh yeah, the M, M and D Beamer is on Beamer

1961
02:26:09.639 --> 02:26:13.399
Road right there, and that's the
closest one to you, so I would

1962
02:26:13.440 --> 02:26:18.479
go there. They will have more
than one product. One of those two

1963
02:26:18.559 --> 02:26:24.120
main ingredients. The name of the
chemical let me let me give you.

1964
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:28.440
I'm gonna give you one. It's
a foxy dim it's s E t h

1965
02:26:30.040 --> 02:26:33.399
o X y d I M.
If you just look for s E t

1966
02:26:33.879 --> 02:26:37.959
h o X that that you have
the right chemical. The other one,

1967
02:26:39.159 --> 02:26:43.440
the first few letters are it's a
longer word, but it's f l U

1968
02:26:43.000 --> 02:26:48.879
A Z flu as. If you
look for flu as of something, that's

1969
02:26:48.959 --> 02:26:52.440
going to be the other one.
Okay, okay, okay, thank you

1970
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:54.360
for your help. I appreciate you. Bet glad to help. And yeah,

1971
02:26:54.399 --> 02:26:58.120
when you go into an ice,
they're gonna they know what they're talking

1972
02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:03.639
about. It's not like some of
the big box stores where some of the

1973
02:27:03.719 --> 02:27:07.280
folks that hire don't know what they're
talking about. I want to if you

1974
02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:09.879
have a lawn and you've been struggling
with it, you can't get it dance.

1975
02:27:09.920 --> 02:27:13.079
You're trying to fertilize in things.
Maybe you have a heavy clay soil.

1976
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:16.600
Maybe it's a compacted area. We
know where foot traffic has made it

1977
02:27:16.719 --> 02:27:20.319
impossible for the law to grow.
Call the folks at green Pro. Now,

1978
02:27:20.440 --> 02:27:26.959
this is green Pro Texas dot com. Green Pro Texas dot Com.

1979
02:27:26.079 --> 02:27:31.520
It's a Houston company. Two eight
one three five one four seven three three.

1980
02:27:31.920 --> 02:27:35.280
What they're gonna do is they're gonna
come in. They're gonna aerate with

1981
02:27:35.360 --> 02:27:39.680
a deep tine aerator that pulls plugs
of soil out and leaves them on the

1982
02:27:39.760 --> 02:27:43.239
surface. It looked like you had
a small dog convention going on the previous

1983
02:27:43.319 --> 02:27:48.040
week in the lawn. But that
opens the soil up. Then they're gonna

1984
02:27:48.040 --> 02:27:52.760
throw a high quality, finely ground
leaf mold compost on it. It'll a

1985
02:27:52.840 --> 02:27:58.360
lot of it will fall down in
those holes and that aeration, that compost

1986
02:27:58.440 --> 02:28:01.719
top dressing, it'll revitalize your soil. You may want to do it more

1987
02:28:01.799 --> 02:28:05.600
than once over a period of time, because you know, each time you

1988
02:28:05.680 --> 02:28:09.079
do it, it just more and
more gets that organic matter down in,

1989
02:28:09.280 --> 02:28:11.719
gets the oxygen down in. Green
Pro knows what they're doing. They're the

1990
02:28:13.079 --> 02:28:18.520
experts. Green Pro Texas dot Com
two eight one three five one four seven

1991
02:28:18.959 --> 02:28:22.399
three three. I want to head
out now and we are going to go

1992
02:28:22.600 --> 02:28:26.239
to Richmond and talk to Michael.
Hello, Michael, Hello, Skip,

1993
02:28:26.440 --> 02:28:31.600
thanks for taking the call. I've
had a pretty good year in growing vegetables,

1994
02:28:31.920 --> 02:28:39.399
and I've got a cherry tomato plant
that's been doing really well. I

1995
02:28:39.600 --> 02:28:41.399
noticed, you know, a couple
of weeks ago, I started getting one

1996
02:28:41.520 --> 02:28:46.479
that had a split either, you
know, going vertically down the side of

1997
02:28:46.559 --> 02:28:52.079
it, and didn't worry too much
about it, just picked it off and

1998
02:28:52.760 --> 02:28:56.920
so forth. But I'm starting to
get more of those. Michael, My

1999
02:28:56.040 --> 02:29:00.239
bad. I took your call right
before I had to go to brake.

2000
02:29:00.879 --> 02:29:03.239
I want to Can you hold for
a little bit and let me come back

2001
02:29:03.319 --> 02:29:05.879
to you all right, Thank you
very much, if you'd like to get

2002
02:29:05.879 --> 02:29:13.879
on the board seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. But

2003
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I'm a gone bus. I'm a
going working all summer, just to try

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to urge time a gold baby,
try to get a dangeas, no diet

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Son. You gotta work late sometime. I'm a garden to you, but

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there ain't no cue all the summer
time. Well, good morning, and

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you're listening to garden Line. We're
here to answer your gardening questions, and

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we're gonna get right to it in
just one second. I did want to

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remind you that I'm gonna be out
at Wahberg in Kingwood that's on Kingwood Drive

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forty five twenty three, kind of
behind the U HB. That's out there

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02:30:01.799 --> 02:30:07.200
where Kingwood Drive and Westyke Houston come
together. Well, if you are interested

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in a community where you can be
a gardener and have a seriously prime community

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02:30:13.920 --> 02:30:18.079
to live in, the Dell Web
folks are putting a new community out in

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Full Sure. They have been building
up a community out there on FM three

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fifty nine, two miles from downtown
Full Sure. The thing that excites me

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about this community is well, first
of all, it's a Dell Weeb,

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so you've got inspired designs, you've
got all the lifestyle programs at Dellweb brings

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to a community for active adults age
fifty five and better. The thing it

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decites me as a community garden.
I'm working with them. I'm putting a

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02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:43.520
community garden in so in addition to
that, you don't have to plow up

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the backyard have a garden. You
can have a community garden right there where

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you live. Go to dellweb dot
com slush Houston or call two eight one,

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four, five, nine six nine. Now we're gonna go out and

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talk to Michael. Sorry about that. Up Ending to the start of the

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02:31:01.639 --> 02:31:05.680
call, Michael, The splitting of
the fruit is due to getting a lot

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02:31:05.719 --> 02:31:09.079
of moisture when it went through a
little bit of a dry period. What

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02:31:09.280 --> 02:31:15.120
happens is when tomatoes go through a
dry period, the cells are still dividing

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inside, but they're not getting bigger
because they're not moisture. Then you get

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02:31:18.559 --> 02:31:22.399
moisture and those cells fill up.
Think of a whole bunch of balloons inside

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02:31:22.440 --> 02:31:28.079
a cellophane package and you start to
blow them all up, and it pups

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02:31:28.200 --> 02:31:33.360
that outer covering, and that's the
skin on the tomato that doesn't expand fast

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02:31:33.520 --> 02:31:37.440
enough, and that's how you get
That happens to cherries quite a bit,

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02:31:37.559 --> 02:31:41.680
especially when we get into kind of
hot weather. Okay, so could it

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be like the recent rain we had. Oh, oh yeah, it could

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02:31:45.680 --> 02:31:50.680
be that. It could be it
could be irrigation. If they're in containers,

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02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:56.040
it's often even worse because container moisture
levels can fluctuate even more so than

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02:31:56.120 --> 02:32:01.200
the soil moisture levels would. Yeah, it's a container. It seems to

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02:32:01.200 --> 02:32:05.559
be growing great. I've gotten a
lot of you know, branches of fruit

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02:32:05.600 --> 02:32:09.639
coming off of it. Yeah.
But yeah, so that's it. So

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02:32:09.479 --> 02:32:15.159
just you know, whatever it takes
to get that moisture level moderated and consistent.

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02:32:15.399 --> 02:32:18.639
That would be the secret to get
in ahead of that. So one

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02:32:18.680 --> 02:32:26.680
final question, how often do you
feed fertilize what I'm using as microlife products?

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02:32:26.680 --> 02:32:30.479
Well, on a microlife product,
on a tomato like that, I

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02:32:30.520 --> 02:32:35.600
would probably put it down about every
couple of months. Now, starting from

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02:32:35.639 --> 02:32:39.239
the beginning. Those products are will
last longer, but you they're going to

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02:32:39.319 --> 02:32:46.159
gradually decompose as you get you know, time and moisture, and so you

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02:32:46.280 --> 02:32:52.159
want to keep a boost of growth
growing and microlife will feed gradually. But

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02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:56.079
the secret to a tomato, these
modern tomatoes are they're racehorses. And I

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02:32:56.159 --> 02:32:58.200
mean for a racehorse to perform you
got to feed it. Well, right,

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02:32:58.600 --> 02:33:03.479
it's not just keeping the horse alive, it is it's getting the productivity

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02:33:03.520 --> 02:33:07.319
you're looking for. And that is
why I recommend about ever a couple months

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02:33:07.399 --> 02:33:11.639
putting some more microlife down in that
soil. Okay, well, thank you,

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02:33:11.159 --> 02:33:15.639
all right, thank you. I
appreciate that call very much. Good

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02:33:15.719 --> 02:33:18.639
to talk to you. Hey,
have you ever been to Plants for All

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02:33:18.719 --> 02:33:22.520
Seasons? They're up there on two
forty nine where lou Attack comes in.

2056
02:33:22.120 --> 02:33:26.159
Now, if you're a green thumb
folks, I mean, you gotta go

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02:33:26.239 --> 02:33:28.120
to Plants for All Seasons because they're
going to have all the stuff you need.

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02:33:28.319 --> 02:33:31.840
I mean to have success, the
right plants, the right products,

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02:33:33.239 --> 02:33:35.760
all the stuff you hear is talking
about here. You can give him a

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02:33:35.799 --> 02:33:39.600
call to eight one three seven six
sixteen forty six, or just go to

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02:33:39.719 --> 02:33:43.559
Plants for All Seasons dot com.
If you're on Facebook, you need to

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02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:46.600
follow them. They have a lot
of a lot of good stuff, good

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02:33:46.680 --> 02:33:50.719
information going there. I know they
have an excellent supply right now of plants

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02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:56.440
for pollinators, wide variety of plants
for pollinators. You know that we're in

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02:33:56.520 --> 02:34:00.600
lantana season. You know, for
example, that's a good one, but

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02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:03.440
they're out a lot, a lot
more. When you go to Plants for

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02:34:03.520 --> 02:34:05.000
All Seasons, you're going to find
people that know what they're talking about.

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02:34:05.079 --> 02:34:11.319
This is a family operated business.
The dad, victor several family, some

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02:34:11.399 --> 02:34:15.280
of the kids, family members,
now even grandkids are involved in the operation

2070
02:34:15.799 --> 02:34:18.120
of Plants for All Seasons. They
know what they're talking about. You know,

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02:34:18.200 --> 02:34:22.559
you're going to get accurate information,
accurate diagnosis. He bring in a

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02:34:22.639 --> 02:34:26.079
picture or a sample and they're going
to point you to the product you need.

2073
02:34:26.159 --> 02:34:30.760
And they're not going to say stuff
you don't need. So good education,

2074
02:34:31.159 --> 02:34:35.239
good selection, they'll deliver information on
you know, anything you need for

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02:34:35.399 --> 02:34:39.639
plants and that selection Plants for All
Seasons dot com you need to check those

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02:34:39.719 --> 02:34:43.360
out. Well, let's head up
speaking to Plants for All Season. Let's

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02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:46.840
head out to Cyprus and talk to
Sandy. You're not too far away from

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02:34:46.879 --> 02:34:54.319
Plants for All Seasons. Hire,
good morning, Good morning, good morning.

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I wanted to ask you. I
had put down the wheat beater.

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02:35:01.559 --> 02:35:03.520
Okay, I got that aceh it
wasn't a green bat. Okay, play

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02:35:03.559 --> 02:35:09.440
about I can't remember exactly when,
maybe maybe five six weeks ago. Okay,

2082
02:35:09.879 --> 02:35:16.479
um, but the weeds that they
the same. Augustine is going back

2083
02:35:16.559 --> 02:35:20.920
through it, but there's still so
many. Can I put it out again?

2084
02:35:20.680 --> 02:35:24.799
Or is it too you said about
six weeks five or six weeks ago?

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02:35:26.200 --> 02:35:31.280
Yeah, okay, I can't remember. You shouldn't have to that fast.

2086
02:35:31.760 --> 02:35:39.120
Um, And they're going into my
I have, um, not the

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02:35:39.440 --> 02:35:45.079
palms that bush from the ground,
but the ones that are more fucking palm

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02:35:45.159 --> 02:35:48.760
trees. Okay, are they the
sago palms? It could be a sago

2089
02:35:48.840 --> 02:35:52.760
palm. I have two of those
on each side of my flower bed in

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02:35:52.799 --> 02:35:56.159
the backyard. But those wheats are
going into day or two, even though

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02:35:56.200 --> 02:36:05.760
I put soil and compost down,
all right, so yeah, oh yeah,

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02:36:05.879 --> 02:36:09.000
good, Well they've if you've used
some of the best stuff that you

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02:36:09.079 --> 02:36:13.360
can get, if you got that
stuff from marbar Gate that well, here's

2094
02:36:13.440 --> 02:36:16.799
two options. Number one, if
if you're looking for a little bit of

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02:36:16.159 --> 02:36:20.840
a galivant and you come out to
Kingwood and wild Bird's unlimited, bring me

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02:36:20.000 --> 02:36:24.280
a baggy full of all the weeds
you can find, and let me identify

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02:36:24.360 --> 02:36:26.760
them and talk about it. May
be when I see the weed, I

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02:36:26.879 --> 02:36:28.559
go, yeah, we need to
use this different product for that weed.

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02:36:28.719 --> 02:36:33.639
You know, that what you used
wouldn't work on this weed, or if

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02:36:33.680 --> 02:36:37.120
you want, I can put you
on hold. Let Josh give you some

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02:36:37.280 --> 02:36:41.280
information so you can send me some
pictures, but they need to be close

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02:36:41.399 --> 02:36:45.479
up and then really sharp focus and
I'll try to identify them if you would

2103
02:36:46.000 --> 02:36:48.120
in that email. You know,
we did with a lot of calls each

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02:36:48.200 --> 02:36:52.920
day, so remind me of what
it exactly you use. You mentioned weed

2105
02:36:54.000 --> 02:36:56.639
beater, if you can find the
label as to which one there's a weed

2106
02:36:56.680 --> 02:36:58.680
beater for southern lawns, there's a
weed beater altar and whatever. Just put

2107
02:36:58.719 --> 02:37:01.920
all that in there so when I
look at the pictures, i'll kind of

2108
02:37:01.959 --> 02:37:07.840
have that background. Okay, all
right, Yeah, I'll talk to Josh.

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02:37:07.200 --> 02:37:11.239
Yeah, let's get you the right
one, because you know, I

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02:37:11.319 --> 02:37:15.840
can send you out for some generics, but right now it's getting kind of

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02:37:16.440 --> 02:37:18.719
hot to be putting out some of
these products. If they're in a Saint

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02:37:18.719 --> 02:37:22.520
Augustine lawn, if they're in a
flower bed, that's a little different thing.

2113
02:37:22.600 --> 02:37:28.719
But also include that in the information. Alrighty, okay, thank you,

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02:37:28.200 --> 02:37:31.680
well, thank you very much.
I appreciate the call very much.

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02:37:31.719 --> 02:37:37.959
Sandy. Yeah, weeds are Yeah, they're a problem. We're always dealing

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02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:41.600
with weeds. I like to put
it this way. Wherever sunlight hits the

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02:37:41.680 --> 02:37:45.959
soil, nature plants of weed.
That's just how it works. Nature does

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02:37:46.120 --> 02:37:50.200
not like to leave a scar on
the land because a scar on the land

2119
02:37:50.280 --> 02:37:52.440
means the soil is going to get
erotored away, It's going to get crusted

2120
02:37:54.159 --> 02:37:56.680
and nature grow stuff there. So
if you won't grow something there, nature

2121
02:37:56.719 --> 02:38:00.319
will. But it may not be
what you like. And that's called a

2122
02:38:00.399 --> 02:38:05.000
weed. You know, weed is
a relative term. It's not like some

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02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:09.600
plants or good plants, and some
plants or weeds. You know, if

2124
02:38:09.680 --> 02:38:13.040
you've got I don't know, you
have a peach orchard and you got Saint

2125
02:38:13.079 --> 02:38:16.920
Augustine growing in it, well that
Saint Augustine's a weed underneath your peaches.

2126
02:38:16.000 --> 02:38:20.079
You don't want that under your peaches. You get the idea. I mean,

2127
02:38:20.399 --> 02:38:22.760
I guess you could have enough broccoli
plants growing in a flower bed that

2128
02:38:22.879 --> 02:38:26.719
the broccoli would be a weed.
We don't have to worry about them coming

2129
02:38:26.799 --> 02:38:30.079
up like that. But you get
the idea. That's that is the thing

2130
02:38:30.200 --> 02:38:35.000
weeds are. I guess a weed
is. In our opinion, it is

2131
02:38:35.120 --> 02:38:37.920
a weed. I like us saying
I heard one time it says if you

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02:38:37.000 --> 02:38:41.319
don't know if something is a desirable
plant or a weed, pull it up.

2133
02:38:41.840 --> 02:38:46.399
If it comes back it was a
weed. Oh gosh, we are

2134
02:38:46.440 --> 02:38:50.639
going to be out in wild Birds
Unlimited in Kingwood. We're about to head

2135
02:38:50.760 --> 02:38:54.479
out of town here right now,
at least out of the Houston town That

2136
02:38:54.719 --> 02:38:58.639
is forty five twenty three Kingwood Drive. I hope you'll come out there and

2137
02:38:58.719 --> 02:39:01.840
see me today. While you're out
there, we'll take a look at what

2138
02:39:01.959 --> 02:39:03.559
you got. We can point you
to a product if you need one,

2139
02:39:05.120 --> 02:39:07.840
but maybe I want to get to
meet you. I always love to talk

2140
02:39:07.920 --> 02:39:11.319
to people who listen to the show. And bring me some photos, bring

2141
02:39:11.399 --> 02:39:16.440
me some samples. Will help in
every way that we can. Oh,

2142
02:39:16.520 --> 02:39:18.680
it's good to get out and meet
some of the folks. By the way,

2143
02:39:18.680 --> 02:39:22.479
I'm going to be back again tomorrow. Oh. I forgot to mention

2144
02:39:22.559 --> 02:39:24.559
this. While you're out there at
the Kingwood event, they're going to be

2145
02:39:24.639 --> 02:39:30.799
giving away a free squirrel eliminator,
which is a very body product. Also,

2146
02:39:30.920 --> 02:39:33.639
they're going to be giving away a
twenty pound bag of bird seed.

2147
02:39:35.000 --> 02:39:37.639
Now you can pick one what kind
of bird you want to bring in when

2148
02:39:37.719 --> 02:39:43.200
you buy your bird seed from a
wild Birds Unlimited, you know that you're

2149
02:39:43.239 --> 02:39:46.360
going to get a seed that doesn't
have waste, and that we don't want

2150
02:39:46.440 --> 02:39:50.360
to waste our money. We want
the birds to eat at all