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Katie r h. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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

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Richter's crazy Just watch him as many
teas the spotsy not a sign. Good

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morning, s good morning on a
good day for gardening. It's always a

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good day for gardening. And we're
glad you're listening to garden Line this morning.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer gardening questions.

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So what are we going to talk
about today? Well, I'm gonna

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talk about a number of different things. By the way, I I uh,

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somehow faulted on my host duties and
did not wish you last week a

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happy weed Appreciation Day? Did you
know there was actually a weed appreciation Day?

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A day to hug your weeds?
Perhaps they say, well, we'll

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really talk about that in a little
bit, but I want to tell you

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something. Weeds or the bane of
our gardening existence, and at the same

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time they serve a purpose because do
you know, the designation weed is just

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something we come up with. The
definition I like most is a plant out

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of place. That's a good definition. Therefore, Saint Augustine growing in your

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rose bed is a weed. Roses
growing in your vegetable garden, I guess

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could be called a weed. I
don't know. That's kind of unfair,

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but we just as a plan out
of place, and they serve a lot

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of purposes. Now I realize when
you want this beautiful lawn or landscape or

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garden bed, you don't want weeds
in it because you have a goal for

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that, and that's our goal.
You know. In gardening and horticulture,

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we create the palette of we use
the different plants that we have to paint

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the picture that we want painted,
and weeds get in the way of that.

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But don't forget weeds serve purposes.
Many weeds are excellent pollinators. Excellent

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pollinators, by the way, Other
weeds are edible. Do you know there

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are weeds that are edible? Yep? I would like to put it this

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way. If you can't beat them, eat them. Maybe we'll talk about

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weeds a little bit more. But
now, why don't we get to the

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real stuff. We're going to go
out to Parland and talk to Don this

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morning. Hello, Don, Old
Skip, how you doing it? I'm

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good, sir? What's up?
I have roses and I have black spots

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on them. And so what I
did? I use the broad Advance or

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insect disease in my control and I've
added raystick or too, and I sprayed

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them wround by four o'clock. Did
I do the right procedure? Do you

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have that bottle in front of you? Oh? Okay, okay, it's

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fine to spray them. You just
want to get good coverage when you do

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that particular product for disease control,
if you have to get it thoroughly covering

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over the leaves so that it can
move into the tissue there and be present

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to fight the disease in this case
black spot that you might have just as

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a thought done. It's convenient to
have a product that has many things in

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one. I generally prefer to get
a product that's just disease control or just

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insect control, just because every time
you spray, you don't need to be

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applying all of those kinds of activities, you know what I'm saying. The

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fungicide, the insect side side,
you know, on and on on and

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so when we use fungicides and we
don't need to. In your case,

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you needed to. That was the
product you needed but when you just use

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it. Let's say there's a fungicide
and a product, and you use it

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every time you're fighting a f or
spider, mites or something else. We

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can build up resistances by spraying unnecessarily, and so just going forward, I

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would aim for separating those products out
to the best thing for mites. In

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the case of roses, maybe something
for cappillar or something for for a fits

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too great. I have some follow
up questions about the roses. Okay,

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I staked them because the wind and
the rain that we had helped would push

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them and lean them over. So
I staked them. And I was wondering,

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should I put some more rose saws
around the rose stem, the strengthen

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it where it won't be bending over
and such? How long have they been

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in the ground. I put them
in the ground less year. You shouldn't

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have them leaning over. They should
have a root system that holds themselves.

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I don't think propping the stem with
some soil would would be helpful, but

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you can just give them a little
more time to root in. I am

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curious though, as to why they
have and already established enough strength to where

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a wind doesn't doesn't bother them.
Yeah, so am I because they do

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have a good root system. Yeah, you can't they won't be old.

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You can't pull them up. Yeah, And I just went with the rain

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and everything. It seemed like the
water get in and make it soften it

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being well, that's true, and
I've got roses. I have an old

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blush that leaned over like that,
and it'll just turn grow the canes up

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upward. You know, after it
leans you new growth will come up.

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You really won't know you have a
leaning bush, so that you can kind

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of not worry too much about that. All right, all right, all

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right, Donald, thank you sir. Good luck with those with those roses,

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and thank you for the call.
If you are wanting to prevent weeds,

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prevent weeds in your lawn, barricade
by nitrophossis product, it'll do that.

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What barricade does is it's a pre
emergent herbicide, meaning before the weeds

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come up. You put it down
before the seeds have sprouted, prevents them

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from sprouting. Got a watered in
about a half inch of water, and

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when you do that, it forms
that barricade over the soil. So if

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you've got broad leaf weeds or grassy
weeds or things like that that are going

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to sprout from seed. Well it
stops it. You're it's a night fuss

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product. That means it's widely available. And you're going to be able to

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find barricade in places like Bearings Hardware
on Missing It and down on West Timer

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as well. You're going to find
a plantation ace out there and Katie,

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they carry it hiding and feed carries
in on Stuben or Airline. Easy to

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find barricade and other night or foss
products. I want, you know,

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I want to head out. Let's
go to northwest Houston. We're going to

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talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, good morning there. I got a

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problem with some kind of animal that's
bored a hole in my plain or the

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thing went down and we got another
tunne will come out of it? Yeah,

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I won't know something that didn't get
it in my guard knocking all my

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new cliet there. Now, what
did I do about that? How big

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is a hole? Ralph? That's
the mount of it is about six inches

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around. Oh a big hole?
Yeah? I did six inches? Yeah,

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I mean then you got it.
I did this the other day.

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I know that it's totally coming around
and another about three feet away. Another

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thing, and I don't know what
world that is. Yeah, I don't

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know what would do that. Armadillas
will dig a big hole when they're making

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their down, but they're not popping
up in other places from the same tunnel.

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No, this is Yeah, it's
not a big hole around Yeah,

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well, I don't know other than
send me a picture of it. Uh.

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If it's six inches about the only
thing that can be is maybe an

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armadillo trying to dig down in there. No, not that big, not

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big big of it, like a
routin. My son walked by there and

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he sat to shoot across the sid
Very strange. I don't know. You

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got me on that one. You
got me on that one. Try to

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maybe put a live trap around there
and bait it with some things I didn't

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couldn't catch anything. I would fill
it in and see see if it tries

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to redig it. I kind of
doubt that it will. But yeah,

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okay, it so strange to me. It is. It's strange to me

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too. Sorry I couldn't help you
with that one today, but I appreciate

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appreciate you giving us a call.
Thank you, sir. You've got a

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great program. Thank you for being
I'm gonna have to run to break here.

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If you'd like to give us call
seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four let the back of
the garden line. Good to have you

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with us today. What are we
going to talk about on gardening? I

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got a few things. Start off
talking about weeds, I thought was exciting,

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Right, you want to know all
about weeds? You know, weeds

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again are just a perspective, uh, from from our part. You know,

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is something a weed? Is it
not a weed? Is it growing

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where you want it to grow?
If not, it's probably a weed,

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or that least that's what we're going
to designate it. So the finest plants

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on earth can be a weed when
they're growing where we don't want them to

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grow. And then they're the noxious
weeds, the ones you can't get rid

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of, the ones that invade and
take over and just cause you to say

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things that expand the children's vocabulary in
ways you don't want them to expand.

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So they are those kinds of things
too. And we deal with weeds we

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all kinds of ways and proaches and
products and stuff to it. But I

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think the thing to remember is nature
has a way of dealing with unwanted plants

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in certain places. Take a forest, for example. Trees hate grass.

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They hate grass. When we try
to make them get along in the landscape,

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well, they cooperate, but they
don't like it. They don't like

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it at all. Grass hates trees
too. Trees take all the sunlight away.

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But what does a tree do to
prevent competition weeds? If you will

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around it, it drops leaves on
them a year after year after year,

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and the forest floor becomes this thick
mat of fallen leaves and decomposing organic matter

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That makes the soil awesome for tree
growth, but it also makes it difficult

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for plants because it is essentially mulching
itself. Over time, we learned from

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that and we bring that practice into
our gardens. With mulching nature's way of

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controlling weeds one of the ways.
Let's go out to Beaumont and talk to

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Will. Hello. Will, Hello, how you doing, sir? I'm

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good, sir. How can we
help today? I am saying those choice

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words that those young children do not
want to hear. Okay, I have

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a sticker problem. Now. I
don't mind some weeds in the York,

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but when they become painful. I
have a problem there now. Drought from

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last year really really didn't help things
around here, especially if I didn't water

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like I just I just couldn't water
everything. But the sticker where the bare

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ground is is just taking over.
Now I missed the opportunity for the predomain

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the barricade product. Yeah I did. Now I heard you advertising the nitrophos

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A great product. Great product,
but you have to catch that ground stole

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temperature below fifty seven degrees here in
southeast Texas or that product will not work.

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It's designed to catch the weed before
it germinates. Well, I wouldn't

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say the product doesn't work. What
happens is it at each weed has soil

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temperatures at which that weed can begin
to germinate the seeds, and you know

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for crabgrass it's about fifty five degrees. We start wanting, we want to

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get that pre emergent down ahead of
time. It'll work. I mean if

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you could go out, not that
you're gonna be able to do this,

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but if you could go out and
hoe out all the stickers and then put

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that barricade down watered in any more
sticker seeds would not be able to get

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established. But but you you have
to get ahead of them. And that's

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the thing about soul Tampa is once
it starts warming up, a lot of

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the seeds have germinated. What what
product? What product do you suggest without

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just destroying the bermuda and the Saint
Augustine mixed throughout three acres of yard here?

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Well, what product you suggest to
to kill them? Right now?

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They haven't they haven't flowered, and
they haven't made the sticker yet, right

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and they're very very very green right
now. So they're really young. But

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uh, yeah, that root base
is tough, Yeah it is. I've

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been shoveling them out, you know, the best I can, but it's

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just it's just almost impossible. How
big How big are the grassperd plants right

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now? Oh? They're just scattered
everywhere across the back of the yard.

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I mean, but are we talking
about one inch high plants or two inches

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high? Oh? Yeah, they're
about they're out one, one, one

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and a half. Yeah, some
of the some of the pre merged have

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a little bit of post kickback activity. I don't know on those grass burds.

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At that point, if it would
work, you know, it might

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be worth a try. There's some
stuff I don't like to to suggest because

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of secondary damages and things like that
that it can cause. You might talk

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to your local you've got some ice
hardware out there, talk to them and

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say, what do you carry as
a pre emergent that has what we call

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kickback activity? What do they have
on the shelf. In other words,

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you didn't catch them before they emerged, but you caught them pretty much right

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after, and that you might get
if they're not too far along, you

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may get some benefit from that.
Generally, the problem is killing a grass,

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and a grass is hard I mean
without killing. Try a product called

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celsius and then yeah, Celsia shouldn't
work on them. Yeah, and I'll

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tell you what, round up,
don't hardly work on them. Well,

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you know, other than if they're
very thick, you're up a creek.

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If you got them here and there, you could really carefully do some spot

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spraying or dab the grass plants with
something that translocates down and you have some

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little brown spots in your lawn.
But at least you have to have your

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lawn and you've you've gotten ahead of
them, and then next year, just

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know that you've got to get in
there and get after them. Yeah.

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When do you suggest in Southeast Texas
to get that that bear take down?

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I would get yep, I'd get
it down in mid February. Yeah,

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I'm almost I've been monitoring that ground
temperature because there's a couple of websites you

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can go to, and of course
I have the thermometers here. Yeah,

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but that ground temperature, you know, it heats up. You know maybe

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in January. Well can but it's
a matter of how much and how long

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if you get your pre emergency down
if you can get them to if you

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need to go to early February,
you can. That's fine. Those products

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are going to last about forty five
days working really well, maybe sixty.

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But you could go a little earlier
if you're having trouble with stuff sprouting earlier.

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Graspbur is not the first thing to
sprout in the spring. So but

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I would say if you if you
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where you are, then go a
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to have to redo it because they
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it needs the half inch to an
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product does. Yeah, got to
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between, you know last year in
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they will. I'm gonna have to
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luck with that for your Hell,
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I appreciate your call very much.
For those of you up in Montgomery,

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you know your hometown garden center,
right, it's A and A Plants and

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produce Ana Plants has been around for
many years now and they always have.

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number one, the plants, of
course, awesome, awesome selection, whether

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it's roses or gardena's or whatever you're
looking for. I mean, they're going

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to have all kinds of wonderful plants
for you. They also have wonderful bling

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for the landscape, really cool stuff
to decorate the landscape, just to make

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it fun, make it more enjoyable, you know. I talk about their

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chimeneas and things like that you would
enjoy out on a patiodor in the cooler

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weather. They have things for all
year round that you can enjoy. They

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carry the fertilizers I talk about on
Guardline, you're going to find the nitrofoss

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and the Nelson and the microlife.
You're going to find airloom souls in Nature's

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Way leaf mo Com They're going to
have all that there. They got a

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landscape crew that can come out.
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somewhere around Lake Conrad, they've had
a landscape crew. They'll come out and

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do some cleanup of the beds and
stuff, kind of turn your place into

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a really beautiful little spot. Ana
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Montgomery on one oh five, easy
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places where it's kind of hard to
catch them when they're not open. I

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mean, Anna plants and produce seven
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knowledgeable staff that makes it worthwhile because you

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know the information you're getting is going
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mentioned that they had the Microlife products
microlaf It is time now to get your

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Microlife sixty four out there. If
you're fertilizing your lawn. Actually I use

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sixty four on a lot of things, not just lawn fertilizing, because it

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works well it's a green bag.
That's Microlife's green bag. If you're one

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to build your lawn soil over time, as you add the sixty four,

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as you grow a healthy grass plant, the soil gets better and better and

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you can take get up a notch
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compost in a bag that's Microlife Humates
plus. That's the purple bag. So

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imagine compost that's been taken to its
kind of final state. UH. That

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is a product that is excellent for
building soil structure. It's also excellent UH

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in support of beneficial UH critters,
the microbes, the bacteria to my seat

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specifically, to the fungi and all
the things that are down there in the

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soil helping that soil. If you
will come alive and and make it an

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ideal place for plant roots. Go
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That's where

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you're going to find a lot of
information and where to find those products because

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you want to be able to locate
them. Microlife is widely available to it's

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easy, easy, easy to find. But don't delay. It's time to

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get that done. It's time to
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I had a good time at Ciena
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for us Saturday event. They're spring
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folks at Senna for having us out. Had a good times out there with

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a number of different product reps from
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you hear us talk about here on
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was out there as well. It
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So thank you. If you haven't
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of Houston, Ciena Maltch is a
place you need to know about now.

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They they're the name says Multch,
but it's it's also Sienna bed mixed,

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Sienna composts, Sienna rock and landscape
stone. It's Sienna everything. They have

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stuff bulk, they have stuff by
the bags. They'll deliver within about all

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twenty miles or so of Cienamultch for
a small delivery fee. They are located

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near six and two eighty eight,
just north of Row Sharon, specifically on

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FM five point twenty one. Do
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Ciena Multch dot com. There You're
going to everything. And you always hear

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me on Guardline say brown stuff before
green stuff. Brown stuff. Fix the

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soil, make the soil a wonderful
place for plant roots, and you will

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have wonderful plants. You have productive
gardens, you have beautiful landscapes. Things

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will be bountiful everywhere from blooms to
produce. Fix the soil first. Ciena

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Moltch is the place where you get
all the brown stuff. They have every

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fertilizer I talk about on Garden Line. They have quality soil products. When

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you put the quality products they have
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You add the nutrients that plants need. You are set up for success

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and Ciena Molts is a place to
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You're fortunate if you live down in
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ways Sienna Ciena Molts roads sharing that
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You get the idea. I was
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Speaking of going out today. Later
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the Ace Hardware, M and d
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be M and d Ace and clear
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show, I'll head over there.
I'll probably get there about little before eleven

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thirty, and I'll be there till
one thirty. I'm going to be giving

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away some Nitrofoss superturf. About every
thirty minutes, We're gonna give away a

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bag of Nitrofoss super turf. So
come on by. It love to meet

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you. You got pictures, you
got samples of plants you want to identified

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or diagnosed, bring them by.
It's always good to visit with folks that

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listen to garden Line, So come
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M and D clear Lake on April
the sixth, which is today today today,

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that's it be there or be square, Nikki. So we've got the

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eclipse, and I was reading something
in a news story that plants when everything

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goes dark in the middle of their
day and they go what they do.

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I've actually said, if you're quiet, you can hear them. That's actually

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each other. They actually have more
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what they're saying. Okay, then
let's all go outside and listen to the

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plant, sir. That's what we
say too, is like wait what what?

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Oh? Well, here we turn
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We'll be right back seven one three
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Welcome back to the garden line.
Hey, good to have you.

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We're taking care of business today.
I think as bto is that Bachman Turner

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overdrive. I'll plan that. I'm
not a I'm not a music expert,

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but I have heard songs before,
and I slept at a holiday in last

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night, so that that that right
there qualifies me. Hey, if you

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live out in Richmond, you're fortunate
because you've got in Chenna Gardens, I

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mean right there in your backyard.
You know, if you're if you're in

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Richmond, head up toward Katie direction. Katie foolsher way, and you're going

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to get right there too. In
Chenni Gardens on three fifty nine, three

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fifty nine. They have pretty much
everything you can imagine that you might want

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for your gardens. I mean,
number one, the most important thing at

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a garden center is knowledgeable staff.
That's right. They have that. Second,

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plants that want to grow where you
live, they have that for sure

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too. Like for example, summer, here comes summer heat. Now I

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know right now we're enjoying it,
but anybody who's lived here more than a

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year knows that it's going to be
infernally hot when summer arrives. Why not

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plant things that laugh at the summer
sun, like vinka. They have excellent,

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excellent supply of venka on hand,
just got a whole bunch in not

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too long ago. They've got the
upright irregular types of inca, the trailing

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types. If you want something coming
over a pod or a hanging basket,

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it never gets too hot for vinca. And they carry the types and the

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colors that just will really provide a
showplace for you. And that's just an

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example of the many things that they
carry there in China Gardens in Richmond.

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You're gonna be able to get your
soil products. You're going to be able

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to get the fertilizers that I recommend
on garden line. You're going to be

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able to get inspiration and advice.
For example, I just watched a video

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while where they were creating a beautiful
giant hanging basket for shade areas in an

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a little wire container where burlap and
everything. Oh my gosh, it was

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gorgeous. See you watch something like
that, or you go talk to the

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staff there and they can tell you
how to make one of those for your

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house, or I mean they have
ones they built you can you can go

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buy a hanging basket. You can
buy combo planners from them in Chenna Gardens

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Richmond dot com. Enchented Gardens Richmond
dot com Monday through Saturday eight to five

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on Sundays ten am to four pm. Easy, easy to find again on

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the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond FM
three fifty nine. I was working finishing

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up some projects at the house this
week and the big elephant in the room

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has been putting in turf areas.
I've I've kind of got an experiment going

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on four different kinds of turf and
or it's going to watch how they do

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under certain kinds of conditions and things. And I just find to finish that

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up. And next is a flagstone
patio that I'm doing. I'm really looking

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forward to having that because we love
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and so we're we're getting all that
set up. Plus I love building stuff

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and playing in the garden. Of
course, my vegetable garden is screaming for

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help. It's doing fine, but
there are a couple of beds that I

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just haven't gotten into reworking the soil
and getting them planted. And we are

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now entering Okra's season. That's right, Okra season. There ought to be

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a parade in town just because it's
Okra season, because it's one of the

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best vegetables areas. Now, I
know what some of you are thinking,

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Oh yeah, I grew up eating
okre. I love Okra. And then

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most of you, though, are
thinking that stuff is slimy. Well,

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shame on you for talking like that. It is not slimy. The term

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we use is mucilaginous. Okra's mucilaginous, but so are a lot of things

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that we enjoy. And then we
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In fact, why don't I sing
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talk about okra for a little bit. Okra is an incredibly heat and humidity

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tolerant plant. If you get into
the brutal heat of a Houston area summer

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and it's hot and it's humid and
everything's sweltering, people are running screaming for

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an air conditioned room. Okre's out
there laughing, just having the time of

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its life. That's a good plant
for summer. Okra has two different kinds

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of fibers. It has the non
soluble fibers that help with your digestive system,

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keep everything going right in there.
You know, fibers healthy in our

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diet. And it also has a
soluble type of fiber that helps with a

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lot of our heart heart issues and
things like that. Ocre's good for that.

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You can cook it a million ways. I mean, everybody knows about

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gumbo. Most Southerners know about fried
okra. Not the healthiest way to cook

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okra, but a delicious way to
cook cocra. And I like to grill

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it. If you've never done this, try it. Trust me on this

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one gets you a grill when you're
out cooking a burger whatever this year.

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Take okra and brush brush the pods
with a little olive oil, sprinkle a

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little sea salt on them, and
then just put them on the grill two

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minutes on one side, flip them
over two minutes on that side. You're

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ready to go. And that will
be very non mucilaginous if you will that.

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When okra comes into contact with water. That's when we start to get

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that mucilage and stuff. We love
it. Every time we cook, we're

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going to use a grill. You
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works really well. You can pickle
okra, you can lack no ferment okra.

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They're just a lot of ways to
use it. Have I convinced you

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yet, Well, I'm trying.
I'm trying. But it is okra season

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and that's what's going to get planted
at my house over the next couple of

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weeks out in the vegetable garden using
some of those additional beds. If you

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live done in League City area,
League City feed is your hometown feed store.

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They're really easy to get to.
They're on Highway three, just a

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few blocks south of Highway ninety six
in League City. Just head south.

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They'll be on the left hand side
there going south. If you're in Santa

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Fe or elkam Into Reale, Clear
Lake City, Webster Bay, Cliff,

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San Leone, Lamark, all of
those communities and more, League City Feeds

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your hometown feed store. They carry
the fertilizers I recommend on garden Line.

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You're going to find those brands you're
going to find things like nitrofoss. You're

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going to find things like Nelson plant
food. You're going to find airloom soils,

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in microlife and azemite for example.
They're all there. Premium pet food,

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quality food. I mean, they
are a feed store. If you

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got backyard chickens, they got you
covered for that too. One of those

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old time feed stores that carries things
out for you to the car. I

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just love going in there. And
then all the things you need to control

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pests and weeds and diseases all there
at League City feed Monday through Saturday.

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That would be today nine am to
six pm. Closed on Sunday, but

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nine to six. Just swing by
there after work two eight one three three

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two sixteen twelve two eight one three
three two sixteen twelve. There at League

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City. You need to get trees
planted if you're going to get them done.

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The sooner you get a tree planted, the more time it has to

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get some roots down before the most
brutal heat of summer arrives. Now,

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you can plant a tree in the
middle of the hottest summer day, but

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you got to really take care of
it carefully. It's more touch and go.

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The sooner you get it done,
the better. And when you plant

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a tree, you definitely need to
stabilize it so that it doesn't wiggle around

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in the wind and bend over and
wallow out that root ball which it hadn't

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gotten roots in yet. So you
stabilize it for a few months just to

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00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.559
let it get some roots out there. And tree stabilizer, the three sixty

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00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.039
tree stabilizer works great for that.
It is like just think of it as

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a stiff arm that grabs a post
and grabs your tree. You got a

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soft rubber strap around the tree that
you can leave a little loose. You

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should leave a little loose to allow
a little bit of movement that helps strengthen

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the trunk. Where do you get
them. Southwest Fertilizer has them. Go

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down south of Houston to Jorges Gardens, Hidden Gardens in Alvin. They've got

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them there, Arborgate, RCW,
Buchanans plants for all seasons. These are

416
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all places where you can get your
three sixty tree stabilizer. They last a

417
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:25.079
long time, so it's an investment
that will just you just use it for

418
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a long time. Loan it to
your neighbor when they plant a tree.

419
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You can use one to hold a
tree. You can put two on at

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right angles to each other, and
that way north south, east west,

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no matter where the wind blows.
Tree stabilizer is stabilizing that tree. And

422
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when you plant it right and you
use a tree stabilizer, within about six

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months, you probably do not need
to leave that on any longer. Definitely

424
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not more than a year, because
they do the job right. We're going

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to go now over to northwest Houston
and we're going to talk to Ralph.

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Hello, Ralph, Hello Orgain.
Okay, I got trouble with my finding

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00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:06.359
my butter bean seeds. Why is
that? Uh they're not coming up?

428
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.640
Yeah, well I told you I
had that roading out. There's something that

429
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would be a stelf up. But
no, they they they're not coming up.

430
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:18.480
No, I don't know. I
don't know, Ralph. It they

431
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ought to be coming up. Everything's
perfect. Water beans right now, Take

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ten seeds, Take ten extra seeds, put them in a in a in

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00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.640
a. I did that. I
called you the other day. That's what

434
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I did. Where do where the
best place about my old or seeds?

435
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.519
Uh? You're over there in northwest
Houston. Uh, yeah, I don't

436
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.680
know how Northwest. Here you got
a bunch of great garden centers. There's

437
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.200
uh, but they don't they don't
have them. So what kind of seeds

438
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.559
they like? Butter bean seeds?
Yeah, just playing old butter beans A

439
00:31:52.799 --> 00:32:00.359
one years always kinded well. Plants
for all seasons. On Louetta and Tomball

440
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.119
Parkway. See if they have them, they should have them there. Oh

441
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:07.039
see if you go, you're not
close to it, but I know Southwest

442
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.799
Fertilizer definitely has butter beans there.
Down on Bissinett and Runwick, Southwest Houston,

443
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.319
they've got an old time feed cabinet
with lots of stuff in it.

444
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:21.480
It kind of depends on exactly where
you are. You're up tom Ball Away,

445
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.680
there's some places that'll have But that's
about the best suggestion I can have

446
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.440
for you. I've hit another hard
break, but thank you, sir.

447
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.279
I do appreciate your call. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

448
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:36.279
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome
back to the garden Line. Good to

449
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.279
have you with us today. Hey, it's still dark outside, but that

450
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.200
doesn't mean we can't be talking about
gardening. Because it is going to be

451
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.519
a good day. We need to
be doing our gardening exercise this morning.

452
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.480
We could go through that stand up, touch your toes, turn, twist,

453
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:52.400
you know, get ready to go. You don't want to pull a

454
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.880
muscle out there working in the garden. We you know. I was talking

455
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.799
to Ralph a minute ago about finding
seeds for things, and Dandi Feed up

456
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.319
and Tomballs probably not too far away
from Ralph up there. They have a

457
00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:07.519
good selection of seeds. They have
the little bulk seeds too, and the

458
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.839
old time garden seeds, you know, stuff that like butter beans that are

459
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.240
real common parts of the country where
they don't know what a butter bean is,

460
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.839
but down here it's very popular,
very popular. They might call them

461
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.960
what lima beans or something, Well, we'll call them butter beans. Dandy

462
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:29.480
Feed's got feed of every kind for
every kind of animal you want, and

463
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:34.039
quality feeds, quality feed for your
pets, quality feed for your livestock and

464
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.039
whatnot. They have plants, have
the nice plant selection. One of the

465
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:43.319
amazing things about D and D is
the select the amount of pullets that they

466
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.119
get in young, young baby chicks
and things. That includes geese that too,

467
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:52.519
and ducks and turkeys. Just yesterday
they got in I don't know.

468
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:58.599
I know it was over a dozen
different kinds of chicken and it's everything.

469
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.200
And if you were a backyard in
person or want to be, you got

470
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:05.319
to go by D and d F. Don't wait because they do sell out.

471
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:09.519
People know that's where you go to
get that stuff and they I love

472
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:13.280
going in there and just seeing what
the lace chicks that have come in.

473
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.599
It's just kind of cool. WESTE
have chickens at our house. If you

474
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.000
want to get McCall two eight,
one, three five, one seventy one

475
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.960
forty four. They are on twenty
nine to twenty just west of Tumbul,

476
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.599
just a little west of tumble stop
by there. Check out the plants they

477
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.960
have out front too. That is
pretty cool. If you're trying to stop

478
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:35.920
your weeds from coming up, you
don't have the seeds up yet, but

479
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.199
they're going to be coming up on
the well. One way to do that

480
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:44.920
is Nelson's turf Star Weedonator now.
Nelson turf Star is a line of quality

481
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:50.760
fertilizers for your lawn. Weedinator specifically
has ingredients in it that helped prevent the

482
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:55.039
weeds from establishing from coming up.
It is a slow release fertilizer so if

483
00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:59.679
you're going to fertilize, now's a
good time to start your summer fertilization.

484
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:05.599
And Nelson Weedenator is that kind of
fertilizer. It gradually releases over time.

485
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.199
Not all the nitrogen is available.
It's going to take it two or three

486
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:13.199
months to get all that nitrogen released
and out of there. Weedenator is a

487
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:17.119
quality product because it has the pre
emergent in it. What you're going to

488
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.639
want to do is put it down
and watered in about a half inch of

489
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:28.480
water. That moves both the nutrients
and the actual preventative pre emergent weed preventative

490
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:34.800
product down into the soil so you
can have success with that. Lots of

491
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:40.760
good quality products from the folks at
Nelson Fertilizer. In my garden, I

492
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.039
was talking about doing some things in
the vegetable patch. I just finished up

493
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:51.320
with the lawn activities. Next comes
planting of flowers. I've got a bunch

494
00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:53.239
of flowers, you know. I
go see these plants at a garden center,

495
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:55.880
I grab my brig them home and
they sit in the pot while I

496
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.400
run around doing the radio and other
things and trying to get back home to

497
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:04.599
get them planted. And I have
several things I'm gonna do. Be bomb.

498
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.719
I have some b bomb this year
that we're putting in. Boy is

499
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.719
that ever attract for pollinators? But
when you look when you think about pollinators,

500
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:20.760
do you think about Buchanan's native plants, because they absolutely have outstanding selections

501
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:23.800
for pollinators. Do you want native
pollinators? Maybe you want to put in

502
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:28.840
turk's cap or purple cone flower or
frog fruit, which is an excellent groundcover.

503
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.840
By the way, Pink skull cap
a brass is penstemen. That's a

504
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:35.480
plant I ought to talk about more
and on and on down the line.

505
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:38.920
Maybe it's a non native pollinator.
Do you know Cosmos makes an excellent pollinator?

506
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:45.320
Pentus is another good one pollinator plant, bulban and salvias and whatnot.

507
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.920
They have all of that. They've
got the herbs that attract pollinators, and

508
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.039
that is one of the best ways
to attract pollinators as herbs. I mean

509
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:55.639
it really is. I've sat in
little herb patches before, just taking pictures

510
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.119
of the pollinators and the beneficial insects
in general, the ones that help us

511
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.440
with our pasts that come by.
Buchanans is in the heights. It's on

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00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.360
Eleventh Street there. You've probably been
there before. Bucanonsplants dot Com. That's

513
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:13.239
the website. When you go there, check out some of the educational material

514
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.960
they have on the website. And
also when you go to Buchanans Plants,

515
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:22.400
make sure and subscribe to their newsletter. It is a wealth of information,

516
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.119
very helpful. You're going to find
all the fertilizers I talk about here on

517
00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:30.079
Guardline there at Buchanans Native Plants,
as well as other things to get that

518
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:35.840
brown stuff right to make the plants
happy. That would include things like Nature's

519
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:40.519
Way and airloom, soil Landscaper's Pride
resources to create a beautiful, beautiful soil

520
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.199
so your plants will be very very
happy. If you build it, they

521
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:49.000
will be happy, and they will
grow, they will produce, and they

522
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:53.039
will give you the bounty that you're
looking for out there. Speaking of pollinators,

523
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:59.039
you know, honeybees are perhaps one
of the more famous pollinators that we

524
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have. Have you ever thought about
bee keeping in your backyard? You know

525
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:05.239
you can do that, Yes you
can. It is you are allowed to

526
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.119
do that. A beehive in your
backyard. Number one, the bees don't

527
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:12.559
come flying out of the hive after
you. They want to leave you alone.

528
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.719
They want to be left alone.
Don't mess, you know, swatting

529
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:17.599
at them and things. They'll be
fine. I used to have bees at

530
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:23.199
my place, just very docile,
you know. I think that one of

531
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:27.800
the cool thing about bees is learning
about them. And the bees supply out

532
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:31.599
in Dayton, thebes Supply, by
the way, the website is thebesupply dot

533
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:35.880
com. They have classes out there
where you can learn about them. They

534
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:37.840
have something called a honey tour for
people that don't want to keep bees,

535
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:43.239
they just want to learn about it. And it's really trust me on this,

536
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.320
take my word on this. It
is well worth the trip out to

537
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.519
be part of one of their honey
tours. It's all around you. They

538
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.440
teach you inside, they take you
outside, you get to taste honey.

539
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.639
Really cool. But they have classes
for bee keepers also, lots of really

540
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:01.800
good quality classes. Talked to a
lot of b supply places, be supply

541
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.800
tight places, not necessarily that brand. And I've talked to a lot of

542
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:10.480
bee keepers and I've never known anyone
that's as knowledgeable and as helpful as the

543
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:15.000
b Supply. They take. Time
you go home, you have a question,

544
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.599
something they said, and you didn't
remember it. Call them back.

545
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.639
Let them help you have success.
That's what makes them happy. They love

546
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:28.360
to help you have success. Now
there are classes going on April thirteenth,

547
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.159
and April twenty seventh, and May
eleventh and May twenty fifth. There's only

548
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:36.559
a few more of the spring class
dates there, but these are beginning bee

549
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.559
keeper classes. And even if you
don't decide to keep bees, you will

550
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.519
be fascinated. But I'll tell you
this, once you learn about how cool

551
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.880
it is and you get to hands
on work with them a little bit,

552
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:52.760
you'll definitely want to do that.
Vbsupply dot com. Vbsupply dot com.

553
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:59.159
So this past week, you know
I mentioned the lawns and stuff. I

554
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:02.320
also got some containers out and we're
doing some repotting of things at the house.

555
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.679
I've got some patio containers that are
waiting on me now. They had

556
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:10.760
stuff in them last year, and
the soil is kind of sunk down.

557
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:15.239
I need to spruce it up a
little bit. And whether you're starting with

558
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:19.039
an empty container wanting to fill it
with a quality soil, or if you're

559
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.360
doing like I'm going to be doing
on most of my containers, this year

560
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.280
and just adding some soil to them
to bring that level back up and mix

561
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:30.440
it in. Jungle Land distributed by
nitrofoss is an excellent soil. I choose

562
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:36.280
the one that says flour and vegetable
planting soil. Jungle l and flour and

563
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:42.079
vegetable planting soil. That's an outdoor
planting soil. Now there's a jungle Land

564
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.159
for indoors. It's called water,
sabor, potting salt. It's got those

565
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.519
crystals that absorb water. And even
as the soil is drying out, those

566
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.159
crystals still have water in them.
And your plant roots are growing through the

567
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:57.119
soil and they'll find a crystal and
know that is a good source. They

568
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:01.519
absorb the water from it, and
that helps it be I like to say

569
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:05.760
a little more forgiving. If you
forget to water your plants, it kind

570
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.880
of helps it go a lot further
before you have some plant problems because you've

571
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:13.440
got the water. That's the indoor
one. Outdoors flour and vegetable. It's

572
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:17.360
got four different sources of aged organic
matter, and it's got microhizel fungi,

573
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:22.440
Canadian bloon pete. It's just a
quality mix and using something like you know,

574
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:28.599
as I'm getting and doing this work
and getting the flower pots ready to

575
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:31.599
go for another round, it's time
for that for some of the warm season

576
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:37.320
things. Jungle Land is that kind
of quality soil that you would need for

577
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:42.000
that. It's found everywhere you find
Nitrofoss products. Where do you find Nitrofoss

578
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.920
products? Well, do you live
out in Brenham, go to Plants and

579
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.320
Things. You can find it there
northwest. You know Highway two forty nine.

580
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Plants for all seasons. You can
find Nitrofoss's distributed jungle Land at that

581
00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.880
place as well an allspas ace.
If you're up in the woodlands on carcodil,

582
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.360
they've got that easy easy to find
them. Speaking of plants for all

583
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seasons, have you been to Plants
for All Seasons lately? They always have

584
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:15.320
a stock and a supply that is
amazing. The staff there, their knowledge

585
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.880
level, their ability to explain,
to help, to teach, to guide,

586
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.760
to diagnose is incredible. Plants for
all Seasons dot Com here's the number

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two eight, one, three,
seven, six, sixteen forty six.

588
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.880
Go by their talk to Sherry,
other members of the Flowery family and their

589
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:37.639
staff there you're going to find there's
a reason that that place has theenrend since

590
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:40.760
nineteen seventy three and just gets more
popular every year. By the way,

591
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.760
they're just an north of Luetta on
Highway to forty nine. Love to go

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00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.719
by. There, always something new
going on, always new plants coming in.

593
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Well even listening to the Guardenline.
We're about to put an hour in

594
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:57.719
the books. If you would like
to give us a call, gif joshuacall

595
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.400
get on the board. We'll be
ready to go when we come back from

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00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:05.159
our news break seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Don't

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00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:09.079
forget today eleven thirty, after Guarden
Line is over, I'm going to be

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00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:15.599
line over to M and D clearlay
Ace Hardware and we're going to be spending

599
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.840
two hours there answering your gardening questions
and giving away some ncrofoss fertilizes. Katie

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r h. Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

601
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:30.840
advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip

602
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:47.239
Rictor. It's crazy. Just watch
him as so many good things to see

603
00:43:47.360 --> 00:44:00.000
that crazy business again, not a
sad good morning, Good morning on a

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00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:05.079
great day. For gardening. There's
a glow in the sky. Look outside,

605
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.039
it is a beautiful sky. It's
going to be an awesome day.

606
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.159
Need to get out there and get
some things done in the landscape. Go

607
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.800
buy a garden center. It gets
you some good quality products so you can

608
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:22.039
have success and enjoy enjoy a day
outside. You know, there is a

609
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.239
therapy in many way shapes and forms, ways, shapes and forms that comes

610
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.599
when we're outside engaging with nature.
There's the physical activity, there's breathing good

611
00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:37.599
air, there's soaking in some sunshine, there's just the sounds of nature,

612
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:42.760
every aspect about it. Getting your
hands in the dirt. I think it's

613
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:46.119
Calvin and Hobbs comic strip that said
at the end of the day, well

614
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:50.400
your knees should be green or something
like that from you know, being out

615
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.760
and kneeling down in the grass and
enjoying, enjoying being outside of nature.

616
00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:00.119
And I would hope you would take
part in that today. It is a

617
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.119
antidepressant. Do you know that there
is actually a connection that science is made

618
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:10.440
between microbes and the soil and the
release of serotonin in our bodies. Isn't

619
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:15.280
that amazing? I mean, it's
like nature's own antidepressant. To get out

620
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:20.079
there and enjoy that. Well,
I tell you I sure do enjoy it.

621
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.760
By the way, It's time right
now I can make my words come

622
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:30.199
out of my mouth to begin to
get that summer fertilization done. It's time

623
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:35.119
to get the nutrients that your soil
needs so that your plant can have them

624
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:37.400
when it needs them, to get
them down there in the bank account.

625
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:43.360
And azemite is one of those products
that we talk about because asmide is a

626
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.280
trace mineral supplement. Now, the
three numbers on the bag, the three

627
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:52.239
big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Your soil needs a lot of that.

628
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:54.840
It needs them on a regular basis. We need to be supplying that.

629
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:59.519
That's why every fertilizer has US three. Pretty much everyone has those three

630
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.599
numbers on it. Asmite is trace
minerals. They are essential, they are

631
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:07.880
absolutely essential. But if you ever
thought about combining azamite with some other things

632
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:13.519
that help enhance your soil. You
can blend and combine it with compost and

633
00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:17.639
a potting mix. You can blend
and combine it with various things that are

634
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:22.360
part of helping your soil do well. You go make sure that when you

635
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:27.280
put the standard types of fertilizer in
your soil, why not put some microlife

636
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:30.360
in the soil as well. You
can do it in containers. You can

637
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.400
do it when you're creating a new
flower bed. That'd be a very good

638
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.039
time to do it, because you're
working the soil. Get those nutrients in

639
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.840
there. When you do that with
asmite, you are creating the bank account

640
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:45.360
that when that plant needs that little
minuscule amount, that essential minuscule amount of

641
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:50.679
manganese or zinc or lubdanum or whatever
the nutrients are, the roots need to

642
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.880
have access to all of them,
and azemite helps build that bank account down

643
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:58.239
in the soil. Let's head over
to Spring and we're going to talk to

644
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.679
Peggy this morning. Good morning,
Peggy, Good morning. We just bought

645
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:07.320
a bag of asimite at Ace Hardware
up Spring. Okay, good good timing

646
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.920
there. Anyway, what I called
about a few weeks ago on the here,

647
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:14.599
you mentioned a new rake that's out
and you could just sort of pull

648
00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:17.639
it alot of your beds and it'll
get the little bitty weeds out. Where

649
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:22.480
can I buy that? I talked
about a rake to get the weeds out.

650
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:30.280
That's what I thought you said,
Maybe I'm is this recently or has

651
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:32.079
this been a while? Do you
know it's been a while? Oh?

652
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:37.440
Okay? Well, so rakes.
You know, there's the I grew up

653
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.639
calling them bamboo rakes because they were
made out of bamboo back in the day.

654
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.440
But the metal rakes for leaves,
there's a leaf rakes, and then

655
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:49.440
there's the soil rakes that have the
very stiff fingers that are for moving raking

656
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:54.519
and loosening soil. I think what
I may have talked about along the lines

657
00:47:54.519 --> 00:48:00.199
of what you're saying is is a
hoe that's called a diamond hoe. Now

658
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:06.199
there's several specialty hose out there that
do well. The hula hoe has its

659
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.679
or the stirrup hoe, they have
it their benefits what they can do.

660
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:15.559
The diamond hoe. Imagine a long, skinny pointed sideways diamond. Okay,

661
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:22.840
diamond shape uh, and then go
ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

662
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:29.400
All four all four sides are sharp
and the points are very pointed and sharp,

663
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:32.880
and it's set at an angle so
that you stand upright, you don't

664
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:37.920
stoop, and it's like you're mopping
the floor, you know, that motion

665
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:43.440
pushing back and forth and You're just
going just like a half inch below the

666
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:46.000
surface, just slicing under, and
it just cuts the weed roots. And

667
00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:50.360
when the weeds are really young,
that takes them out. Now, if

668
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.199
you wait until weeds are huge,
I have strength to them. A diamond

669
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:57.599
hoe won't do it. It is
not a chopping hoe, it is it

670
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:00.239
is just a sliding under the surface. I've seen those at a lot of

671
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:05.320
places. You mentioned Ace Hardware.
I've seen them at Ace Hardware's before.

672
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.400
You would have to kind of look
around, you know, each area.

673
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:15.039
Each Ace Harder stores independently owned,
so you won't find exactly the same thing

674
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:19.079
in every store. But I think
that would be where I would start and

675
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.159
just say, hey, can you
get it in if they don't have it.

676
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:24.920
What about the two big nurseries we
have out here that you mentioned regularly?

677
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:30.119
We use both of them. Barbaragate, plants, frel Season. Do

678
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:34.920
they carry something like that. I'm
trying to remember, Peggy, if I've

679
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:39.519
seen them there before, well I'll
look for it. I haven't seen that

680
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:46.480
at Arburgate, but then they might
could get it again. With plants Fell

681
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:50.920
Seasons. You just seem to ask
them. I'm sorry, I just don't

682
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.800
I just don't know for sure.
Yeah, well that's that's good. Well,

683
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:55.760
thank you. That's what I'm what
I need because I get these little

684
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.559
critters that I've always I would just
bend over, yeah, you know,

685
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:02.800
pull out, and I'd like to
have something. Well easy. What you

686
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:08.079
should do is go online and do
a search for diamond Hoe and that will

687
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.840
show you what you're looking for.
And that way you'll know it when you

688
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.320
see it. Yeah, thank you
for the information, and I've enjoyed your

689
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:19.280
program. You're very knowledgeable. Well, thank you, Peggy. My father

690
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.400
was the national president of the Men's
Garden Clubs of America. Oh wow,

691
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:28.199
okay, he's been dead twenty years, but for a long time he in

692
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:34.360
our yard was fabulous. I bet. Well that's that's and I'm married a

693
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:37.039
tech sentent, so I've lived here
for the rest of my life. Well,

694
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.360
welcome to Texas. We're glad to
have you here for the rest of

695
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:43.440
your time. Yeah, thank you, Peggy. I appreciate that. Come,

696
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.000
thank you, bye bye bye.
I'm very kind of you to say

697
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:49.719
that. Oh my, well,
hey, we're going to take a little

698
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:52.400
breaks. Time for another break.
Our phone number is seven one three two

699
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:57.280
one two five. Eight seven,
four, seven, one, three fifty

700
00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.960
eight seventy four. Give Josh a
call. Let's get you on the board

701
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:04.199
so we can talk about the things
you are interested in. Welcome back to

702
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:06.679
Guarden Line. Good to have you
with us today. Hey, a public

703
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:10.719
service announcement for those of you up
in the Grimes County area. Grimes County

704
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:14.760
Feed and Farm, they've got this. If you've been there before, you've

705
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:20.639
seen it. It's that antique like
flatbed truck and they've really renovated just in

706
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:23.360
wonderful shape. There's going to be
a car show up there in Carlos,

707
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:28.840
Texas. It's going on from eight
am to two pm today at the Yankees

708
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:32.000
Tavern on FM two forty four up
in Carlos, just three miles down the

709
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.039
road from Grimes County Feed. Well, they're going to be out there with

710
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.000
the flatbed. They're going to have
that in the show and they're going to

711
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:43.639
be doing giveaways, so that you
have to show up over there at their

712
00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:47.079
feed store truck the flatbed from ten
am to two pm. That's when they'll

713
00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:51.559
be doing the giveaways. They're going
to give away. You can get a

714
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:53.559
chance to win a four pound jar
on Nelson's Plant Food, you get to

715
00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:58.039
pick which one you want of their
four pound jars. They're going to have

716
00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:00.960
a bag of turf Star Bruce's Bruce
that's another Nilson product. They're going to

717
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:06.599
have a full sized bag of turf
Star Slow and Easy that is their slow

718
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:12.119
release product. They're going to have
a bag of Nitrofoss Imperial and Nitrofoss Super

719
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:14.840
Turf. They're going to be given
each of those away. So if you

720
00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:19.519
live anywhere up there, you know
Brian College Station area now over in the

721
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.760
Navsota area, or any of the
little small communities out there around Carlos,

722
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:28.159
Texas, swing over there to the
Yankees Tavern two forty four in Carlos today

723
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:30.960
and say hi to the folks from
Grimes County feet and hey, you might

724
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:35.239
get a chance to win one of
those cool products. Speaking of that,

725
00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:40.880
Imperial Imperial is Nitrofoss's fifteen five to
ten product that is a standard three to

726
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:45.039
one to two ratio, the ratio
that turf research throughout the South for years

727
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.719
now has shown to be the best
nutrient ratio for turf grass coming up.

728
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.000
It's a fast release, You put
it down, you water it, it

729
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:58.119
dissolves away and the nutrients that same
day are down there at the roots and

730
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:00.320
the plant's able to start taking them
up. Now, you can use it

731
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.800
for your lawn. That's what it's
made for. But I use it a

732
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:07.199
lot of other things. It's a
it's a quality mix a lot of things.

733
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.679
Greens in my garden I'll put I'll
put a fifteen five to ten like

734
00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:15.159
an Imperial right there for that.
But primarily it's a lawn fertilizer for a

735
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:19.039
real quick early green up. And
it's a nitrofoss product, so you know

736
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:22.280
that means it's going to be easy
to find, right. Nitrofost products are

737
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:28.480
easy to find out an enchanted forest. They carry these products growers outlet up

738
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:31.960
in Willis RCW Nursery on Taball Parkway
two forty nine, right where Beltway eight

739
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:37.039
come together. They've got the Imperial
from Nitrofoss. Or maybe you know,

740
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.480
head up to Grim's County feed to
that car show and Carlos, maybe you

741
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:46.159
can win you one right there.
We're going to go now out to Jason

742
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:51.079
in West Houston. Hello, Jason, Hey, how's you go on?

743
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:55.280
Oh? Well, how can we
help? Sorry? Water steps outside?

744
00:53:55.400 --> 00:54:00.440
All right? So I've been a
chair out the shrubs in front of my

745
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:06.280
house two times now because I can't
seem to find a shrub that can handle

746
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.079
mostly shade. During the summer,
I'll get four hours of stone in the

747
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:14.920
front of the house, but the
shoes typically shade over there, and so

748
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:16.639
I need to get some kind of
idea of what I can put in over

749
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:20.320
there. It's not going to die
on me every two or three years.

750
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:25.119
Okay, well then, I mean
there are a number. As far as

751
00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:30.679
they're dying on you, that's probably
more of a function of water too much,

752
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:36.320
not enough, some other issue going
on. But a number of shrubs

753
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:39.559
will grow in the shade depending on
how deep the shade is. So for

754
00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:45.880
example, the yo pond will grow
in some shade but not in too deep

755
00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:49.679
of shade, as alias will grow
in shade, but they're a little more

756
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:52.599
persnakeable. Kind of got to make
sure they get the right amount of water

757
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.440
and have an acidic soil of that
grains really well for them to do well.

758
00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:01.599
There's things called fatsia f A T
s I A, and there's another

759
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:06.480
one called a cuba A U c
U b A. There are a big

760
00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:12.119
broad leaf shrub like plant that is
fairly hardy here, and that might be

761
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.760
good if the shade is pretty dense, they will do better and in a

762
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:19.719
denser shade than a lot of the
other plants will. But those are just

763
00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:23.239
a few examples. I think I
think I would give the yopods a shock.

764
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:27.320
And it's more like silfered shade to
a pecan tree and a large water

765
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:30.440
road. Okay, so it's kind
of sultered, kind of silky shade.

766
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:32.760
So I think the yopon might be
ready to do. Yeah, I tried

767
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.280
some. I tried some pineapple blama. That didn't work. I wouldn't say

768
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:38.480
they die, but they look really
sicky. How about that? Yeah,

769
00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:42.559
they they need a little They do
need a little more light. There's a

770
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.239
couple of hollies that put up with
a surprising amount of shade. Well,

771
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:50.280
yopon is a holly, but uh, there's a one called a Chinese holly

772
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:54.360
that has horribly poky leaves, very
stiff, very big thorns on them,

773
00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:58.519
so you know no one's going to
go wandering through it. But it can

774
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:00.880
grow on quite a bit of shade
that stay small. It grows very slow,

775
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:06.119
so that that would be another option. I just think in shade,

776
00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:09.960
always remember that anything that brightens the
shade is helpful, you know. So

777
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.599
some of the darkerly plants, they're
there, they're growing, but you don't

778
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:20.599
renoice them because it's already dark over
there. Right, Okay, all right,

779
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:22.960
sir, I appreciate it. Thank
you you've got Jason, thanks for

780
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:29.840
the call. Appreciate that very much. I saying earlier, if you're going

781
00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:31.159
to get a tree planted, you
need to get it done now. We're

782
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:37.840
talking about that three sixty tree stabilizer
for helping a tree hold still enough to

783
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.719
get its roots established, and then
you pull those things away. Well,

784
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.639
now's the time to do a lot
of different kinds of work for your trees.

785
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:47.480
If you need any kind of pruning
done, you can still get that

786
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:52.119
done now if someone knows what they're
talking about, and by that I'm talking

787
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:55.280
about affordable tree service. Martin spoon
Moore has been doing this a long time.

788
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:58.920
He knows how to do the job
right, and you can call him.

789
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:02.880
He'll come out hundred and fifty dollars
for the consultation if you choose him

790
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:07.280
to hire him to do the work. That one fifty goes into the cost

791
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:09.599
of the job, so it makes
it real easy. The one fifty is

792
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:13.079
just you know, hey, are
you very serious about this, because he

793
00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:16.159
can't drive all over town people that
just had tree questions. But if he

794
00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:20.320
comes out to do a consultation,
he'll see what's going on. He'll advise

795
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.760
you on any next steps. He
may say tree spine doesn't need anything.

796
00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:25.480
He may say no, there's some
branches there we need to work on,

797
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:30.159
or he may say something else,
depending on what he sees. Don't just

798
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:34.000
trust whoever you're your lawn guy or
somebody that puts a business card in your

799
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:38.320
mailbox or in your door to do
tree work. You need somebody that knows

800
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.519
what they're talking about. Hurricane season
will be here for you know it,

801
00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:49.760
and proper pruning is essential to helping
minimize storm damage. Affordable Tree Services the

802
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:53.320
name of the company the phone number
seven one three six nine nine twenty six

803
00:57:53.639 --> 00:58:01.920
sixty three seven one three six nine
nine two six aff Tree Service dot Com

804
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:07.559
a fftree service dot Com. We're
going to go now to the woodlands and

805
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:14.440
talk to Trey morning tray. Thanks
get good morning, first time color,

806
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:22.239
good welcome, sir, So I
planted a Michelia banana shrub in my yard,

807
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.559
my backyard. It's full sun in
the summer, actually full sun right

808
00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:31.119
now. It's thriving pretty well,
but I'm not seeing too many blooms.

809
00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:37.719
I bought it for the fragrant kind
of banana. Now in later snow,

810
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.079
yeah, and I'm seeing a few, but wondering when it's gonna kind of

811
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.320
bloom out, and when do I
need to fertilize it. Just give it

812
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:49.079
a little more time. You can
fertilize it anytime you want. Do it

813
00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:52.159
moderately through the year. That's fine. If you want to stimulate a little

814
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:58.599
more growth, just a small amount
of fertilizer periodically would be helpful. Water

815
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:02.400
is the most important thing, meaning
not meanings keep it soggy, but meaning

816
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:08.480
keep it moist in order to spur
good, healthy new growth those shrubs.

817
00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:14.239
The blooming is seasonal, and so
as it gets established, it should bloom

818
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:17.280
better. I tell you. Though. It also is related to light levels

819
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:22.199
and then their sun and then their
shade, and then there's deep shade,

820
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:25.039
and so if you get too far
into the shade, the blooming on the

821
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:31.599
banana shrub can decrease a little bit. Okay, if they do take shad.

822
00:59:32.679 --> 00:59:37.000
Okay, okay, yeah, I
would just do that and watch it.

823
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:39.199
You know, they're not The blooms
are small as you know, they're

824
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:44.119
about what size of a quarter or
a little bigger, a little bigger in

825
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:50.280
the quarter. But they sure are
fragrant, yes, sir, real quick,

826
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:52.880
skip on up. I missed it. But the slow release for the

827
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.039
lawn, can we throw that out
yet? It is time? Yes,

828
00:59:57.079 --> 01:00:01.440
it is time time. That is
the the one called super turf, the

829
01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:07.400
Nitrofuss Superturf. It's a silver bag
nineteen four ten. Yes, if you

830
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:14.000
go to my schedule online at Gardening
with Skip dot com, you'll see that

831
01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:19.199
superturf on there. And we we
basically, you know, say about the

832
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.239
time that we get to April,
let's go ahead and start with the summer

833
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:30.239
fertilizing. And we're there. It's
good. It's great. Yeah, good

834
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:32.920
product too. By the way,
I'm going to be given away a bag

835
01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:37.920
of super turf every thirty minutes down
at M and D in clear Lake.

836
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.519
Now, I realize that's a little
bit of a trot down the road for

837
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.559
you to get to. But if
you want your chance at about every thirty

838
01:00:44.559 --> 01:00:49.400
minutes from get my bag of that
super turf. So but I'm kind of

839
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:51.719
joking with you there, trade,
but thank you for the call. I

840
01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:53.599
appreciate it, no word. Thank
you. Have a good one, all

841
01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:59.519
right, BOBBYE. Yeah. Superturf
is a nice, very nice slow release

842
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:04.199
fertilized provides that gradual release of nutrients. And you think about that. I

843
01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:09.000
mean, all plants they take out
nutrients every day in small amounts every day.

844
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:15.519
So when you put fertilizers on the
soil, having especially the nitrogen that's

845
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.400
the one that's so volatile, it
washes away, it goes off as a

846
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.800
gas even I mean it gets tied
up or in the microbes in the soil

847
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:29.400
and then re released and a very
here and there and moving around nutrient,

848
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:34.039
if you will. And a slow
release is really important for that because if

849
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:38.039
you just dump a whole bunch of
fast release at one time, too much

850
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.719
from now, it's not going to
read be as much of it they're doing

851
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:45.000
much of anything. And that's why
we like to do to go with the

852
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.760
slow especially for the nitrogen end of
things. By the way, you can

853
01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:54.400
find a super turf where you find
other good quality nitrophoss products. Katie Hardware,

854
01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:00.800
Ace they've got it out there.
Ace Hardware Immemorial Memorial Drive, they've

855
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:02.280
got it there as well. And
uh, you know, in fact,

856
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:07.039
go down to Angleton on Velasco Street, there's a Lake Hardware Angleton. Excuse

857
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:12.199
me, Stanton Shopping Center on North
Taylor. I'm giving you the wrong Uh.

858
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:15.639
No, No, I was right. Lake Hardwar Angleton on Velasko Street.

859
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:17.280
They've got it. By the way, Alvin Stanton Shopping Center has it

860
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:22.079
too easy to find. And that
is important. You know, when you've

861
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:23.840
got a product you like, you
need to be able to grab it.

862
01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:28.480
And it comes to nitrofost products.
Ace Hardware is a pretty good guess.

863
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:31.840
They're they're gonna they're gonna carry them, by and large. If you're listening

864
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:37.800
to Garden Line, our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

865
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:44.639
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh.

866
01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:47.440
Talking to the folks out at Warren's
Garden Center, Warrens and Kingwood Garden

867
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:52.960
Center out there in Kingwood. Uh, they've got a bunch of Venca in

868
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:57.519
in stock, both the upright types
and the trailing types. And I was

869
01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:02.559
mentioning Venka earlier because it is just
one of those heat humidity tolerant plants,

870
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:06.880
and it just blooms and blooms and
blooms through the summer. Likes good sunny

871
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:09.320
spots. A little bit of shades, okay, but good sign, full

872
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:13.880
sign. It just laughs at the
heat and humidity. Excellent. They've got

873
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:17.599
the Boodleia Butterfly candy series. Do
you know bo Another name for Boodley is

874
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:22.000
butterfly bush. What does that tell
you? Well, it really is a

875
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.280
butterfly bush. No, Old Boodley
has got really big, you know,

876
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:27.920
six feet and they're still around.
You can get the big ones up there.

877
01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:32.840
Candy series, the Butterfly candy series. They're like three foot shrubs,

878
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:37.840
just nice little neat shrubs and these
spikes of blooms, ones called raspberry,

879
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:43.440
ones called coconut, one's called grape, and those names described the color of

880
01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:47.079
the blooms. They do well.
Out at Warren's you got native milkweed available.

881
01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:52.960
You got the encore and the bloomethon
azaleas. They've restocked those. They've

882
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:57.679
got the Hollywood hibiscus that have come
in and listen to this. At Warren's

883
01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:00.440
Garden Center, there's called the Eclipse
Sale that's a good name for it.

884
01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:08.440
Three gallon Eclipse hydrangeas five dollars off. Three gallon Eclipse hydrangeas five dollars off

885
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:11.840
at Warren's Garden Center. Check out
Warren's and King With Garden Center when you're

886
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:15.159
out in that area. Lots of
good quality products. I always love to

887
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.039
go visit. Oh and hydranges are
gorseous. They are beautiful. Yeah,

888
01:04:19.079 --> 01:04:24.440
they absolutely are beautiful. So when
you plant a hydrange, how long does

889
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:28.039
it take for the roots to really
set where it gets to good blossom.

890
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:30.920
If it's got moist soil in warm
weather like we're having none, that thing

891
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:35.239
ought to be established within about a
month. Really, it's doing its own

892
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.760
growth. Actually, within a couple
of weeks you're getting roots already growing in.

893
01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:44.719
But within a month it ought to
be a good size root system.

894
01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:48.280
Going where's this Warren's Garden Center?
Wow, yeah, you got to run

895
01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:51.559
out there. I think so too
far. All right, it's time for

896
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:56.239
me to pass the microphone over to
Nikki and the news. If you would

897
01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:58.719
like to give us a call,
get on the board, so your first

898
01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:02.159
we are yeah first, when we
come back. That would be seven one

899
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:08.599
three two one two five eight seven
four. Welcome back to Guarden Line.

900
01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:12.440
What are we going to talk about
today? Well, I got some things

901
01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:15.639
I'd like to talk about. But
how about you give us a call and

902
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:17.679
we'll talk about what you are interested
in. If you've got to question,

903
01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:21.440
somebody else has that question, So
feel free to give us a call if

904
01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:26.760
you like. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

905
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:31.719
seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Went outside

906
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:36.519
yesterday morning and was taking care of
some stuff out on the patio, and

907
01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:45.000
I'm we have got a humming humming
bird, a mockingbird that is just crazy.

908
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.480
I mean that he's louder or she
is louder than any mocking bird i've

909
01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:53.840
heard. I don't know why.
Maybe it's just closer to me and it

910
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.400
just seems to be. It's like
it got up at about four am and

911
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.320
started drinking coffee, and by the
time we got to about five or six,

912
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:04.280
it was wound up and wired and
ready to go. It was going

913
01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:08.599
after it. Maybe it was griping
at me because I need to refill the

914
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:14.239
feeder. If you have a bird
feeder and you're looking for quality food to

915
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:18.119
really provide birds what they need.
Now, the folks at Wilbirds Unlimited have

916
01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:23.920
something called Nesting super Blend. Nesting
super Blend is a unique food and here's

917
01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:30.199
why. It's designed for birds at
a time when they need a super high

918
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:34.000
quality, high protein plenty of fats
and protein and whatnot in it. That

919
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:38.400
when they need that food because they're
raising young. Do you know right now

920
01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:42.559
that you're birds that we're talking about
everything from bluebirds, you name it.

921
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:46.400
The birds out there, they've got
little nests full of young, the little

922
01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:50.920
fledglings, and they need high quality
feed when those babies are born. That's

923
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:54.440
what Nesting super Blend does. I
mean, it's good for all the birds,

924
01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:58.159
but especially this time of year.
It's got dried mealworms and peanuts and

925
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:02.760
sunflower chips and sideflower tree nuts and
bark butter. It's super high quality.

926
01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:05.840
And with wild bird food, you
don't get junk, you don't get trish,

927
01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:09.360
you don't get stuff birds kick on
the ground because they don't want to

928
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:15.119
eat it. Cheap bird feed is
not inexpensive bird feed. It's cheap most

929
01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:19.559
of in some cases over half the
bird seed in it and stuff birds don't

930
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.079
like to eat. So how much
money you just say you got buy twice

931
01:07:23.079 --> 01:07:26.280
as over twice as much to have
the same amount of food, so you

932
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:30.079
get the idea right. Nesting super
Blend is one of those examples of quality

933
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:35.320
wildbird's food. Now, this is
also the place where anything you need for

934
01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:39.880
birds is there. Do you need
feeders, do you need bird bests?

935
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:43.159
Do you need things that keep the
water in a bird bath moving so the

936
01:07:43.199 --> 01:07:45.840
mosquitoes don't want legs in there?
Do you need little things that's spurt water

937
01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.679
for birds to get out and take
their little bath in. They've got all

938
01:07:48.719 --> 01:07:54.000
of that kind of stuff bird houses. I have their scroll proof feeder,

939
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.280
which I just love. My favorite
feeder that I've ever had is the squirrel

940
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:02.920
proof feeder from Walbird. Squirrels are
smart. They haven't figured out how to

941
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:06.000
get into my squirrel food feeder yet, at least my birds, my squirrels

942
01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:11.360
haven't. They get frustrated. They
use language that I'd rather they not use

943
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:14.320
in front of the family, but
they you know, they don't like it,

944
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:17.960
but I like it a lot.
Wild Birds Unlimited six stores around the

945
01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:26.279
Houston area, WBU dot com,
Forward Slash Houston, WBU dot Com Forward

946
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:29.600
Slash Houston let's go to Montgomery.
Now we're going to talk to Jim.

947
01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:32.319
Hello, Jim, Hey, how's
it gone, good, sir? What's

948
01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:38.399
up? Well? I got these
seeds from somebody that's called the ice plant,

949
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:43.359
okay, and I was wondering about
it because I don't know anything about

950
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:46.439
them. And at first I thought
you had to grow them in the wintertime

951
01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:50.800
because it's ice plant. But from
what I understand, that's not the case.

952
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:56.199
Now there are succulents. There's actually
two different plants called ice plant.

953
01:08:56.720 --> 01:09:00.079
But either way, you just want
to get them started, get them good.

954
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:04.159
They like warm growing conditions. They
do their best and warm growing conditions.

955
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:09.720
Probably you have something of the type
that's going to be very succulent,

956
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:14.600
very thick, fleshy leaves, but
there are other there's more than one kind

957
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:16.920
of them. They need lots of
sun, put up with a little shape,

958
01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:20.680
not too much. They need well
drained soil, but they prefer some

959
01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:26.439
soil moisture, especially during the time
you're trying to get them established. Once

960
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:30.560
they're an established plant, they're not
going to need the little pampering with water.

961
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:34.119
Well, these are supposedly not a
groundcover. They're a little bit taller,

962
01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:40.119
not much, but the bigger ones. Okay, where'd you get to

963
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:45.119
see? Jim a friend of mine
and gave them Timmy and didn't tell me

964
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:47.960
anything about them, And I just
thought i'd try them and see what happens,

965
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:54.680
because I'm kind of an experimental new
plant. Yeah. But I'd also

966
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:59.079
like to make a comment that some
people haven't heard this, but if they're

967
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:05.279
looking for a shape plant that blooms
a juga, yeah that is a it's

968
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:11.520
a good groundcover, it is.
I had some here and they got lost

969
01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:17.960
in the yopond farm, but they
did real well for years. Okay,

970
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:20.640
well good. Yeah. I just
thought i'd throw that out there because I

971
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:24.840
hadn't heard y'all talk about it.
Because when somebody calls and wants to something

972
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:29.520
that blooms in the shade, yeah, those seem to be very good at

973
01:10:29.520 --> 01:10:31.920
that, very hearty. Yeah,
it's a good suggestion. It spreads out

974
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:34.800
and makes a nice little mat on
the ground. Hey, Jim, thank

975
01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:38.840
you for that info, and good
luck, good luck with those seeds.

976
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:43.960
Hope they turn on will Okay,
thank you, take care, bye bye.

977
01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:48.720
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978
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979
01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.319
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981
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982
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983
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.319
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984
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:19.520
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985
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:26.840
organic certified soil, Gardener's Magic soil, and rosemex We all know about rosemexes,

986
01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:30.600
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987
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:33.720
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988
01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:40.680
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989
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990
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.319
We're going to now head over to
Paarland and talk to Trevor. Hello,

991
01:11:47.359 --> 01:11:55.039
Trevor, Hey, how's it going? Good service? Tell well, my

992
01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:58.399
brother calls me up and he tells
me, man, you got to errorate

993
01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:01.960
your yard and put down hum can
you tell me anything about that. Yes,

994
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:05.359
I tried looking up videos online and
stuff, and I saw that it

995
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:11.039
was like predominantly dominated by like a
bunch of bermuda grass. So I have

996
01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:14.840
Saint Augustine in my yard. So
I was just trying to call to get

997
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:17.479
some clarification on that. Yeah,
what was that? Put its air rate

998
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:23.159
and put down what was the product? Humature? Oh okay, okay,

999
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:28.479
Yeah, yeah, biochar huh okay. So it doesn't matter the kind of

1000
01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.840
grass when you especially when you have
a compacted soil like clays, will be

1001
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:38.680
Uh that aeration really helps. Periodically
you air rate, it opens up,

1002
01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:45.039
it brings oxygen down into that tight, tight soil. I biochar is fine,

1003
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:49.600
there's no problem with using biochart has
its benefits. I think more importantly

1004
01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:57.079
if you're gonna air rate would be
to use a screened quality compost, a

1005
01:12:57.159 --> 01:13:00.479
leaf mold, a screen quality compost. It falls down in the holes and

1006
01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:04.199
it gets that organic matter down in
there and it just enhances the root system.

1007
01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:06.960
And the better your root system,
the better your lawn's going to be.

1008
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:14.199
A screen quality compost, yes,
is that by the bag or well

1009
01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:17.079
you prefer, Yeah, you can
buy it by the bag. The thing

1010
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:21.319
is when you when you purchase by
the bag, you got buy a lot

1011
01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:25.520
of bags to cover over a lawn
area. You can also buy a bull.

1012
01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:30.640
Now, a simple way would be
to call Daniel green Pro and just

1013
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.600
have them come out and do it. They cover I think they cover your

1014
01:13:33.640 --> 01:13:40.439
area. Depends on exactly where you're
located out there, but they stayed pretty

1015
01:13:40.479 --> 01:13:45.039
much forty five miles from Magnolia in
any direction, so you should be within

1016
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:49.520
the range. Greenpro is greenpro dot
net. That's their website. But they

1017
01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:55.199
have a very good core errator machine
that reaches down in the soil and it

1018
01:13:55.279 --> 01:13:59.079
pops a plug of soil out and
leaves it on the surface, and then

1019
01:13:59.119 --> 01:14:03.000
they have a machine that spreads the
compost really smoothly out. And I mean

1020
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:05.960
it's a lot of work to get
it done, and you know it's it's

1021
01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:11.119
dusty and a mess. Uh So
that's why people like to use green Pro.

1022
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:13.199
By the way, if you want
it, if you want to get

1023
01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:15.720
the call the numbers two eight,
one, three, five, one forty

1024
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:20.479
seven thirty three. Whether you do
it yourself or whether you hire them to

1025
01:14:20.520 --> 01:14:25.600
do it, just make sure you
get a core arrator that pulls the plugs

1026
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:29.960
out of the ground and then use
a finely screened compost. Not something that's

1027
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.119
woody and chunky and all that.
But you want something that's almost a potting

1028
01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:38.359
soil, like a texture that'll get
right down in the soil. Okay,

1029
01:14:38.439 --> 01:14:42.439
yeah, that makes sense. Okay, perfect, Thank you very much,

1030
01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:45.159
you bet Trevor. Good luck,
Yeah, good luck with good luck with

1031
01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:47.359
that. I might have to run
to a break here. When we come

1032
01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:50.399
back, Gary, you'll be the
first up our phone number seven one three

1033
01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:56.239
two one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to

1034
01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:58.720
have you with us. What are
we going to talk about today, Well,

1035
01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:00.600
you you tell me. I want
to talk about one thing, and

1036
01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:04.520
it's been a while since I've mentioned
this. Sweet Green. Sweet Green is

1037
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:10.279
a fertilizer from Nitross and sweet Green
is a very unique fertilizer. It is

1038
01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:16.800
a molasses based, microbially built I'll
use the term built for that fertilizer that

1039
01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:24.319
is one of the highest levels of
nitrogen of any organic type product. Sweet

1040
01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:30.600
Green reacts with the water and releases
down into the soil and really stimulates microbial

1041
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:34.479
activity. That's what any kind of
a sugar based carbohydrate based product like that

1042
01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:40.039
is going to do. It's a
really rich environment. The microbes are going

1043
01:15:40.079 --> 01:15:43.039
to be happy, your plants are
going to be happy, and you're going

1044
01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:45.920
to be surprised. It's just how
we're well. Sweet Green works on your

1045
01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:50.600
lawn. Eleven percent I believe it's
eleven percent nitrogen in that particular product.

1046
01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:54.760
Now being a nitrous product, you
know it's going to be easy to find.

1047
01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:58.960
The available a lot of different places. For example, if you go

1048
01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:01.560
up to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware
there on Kingwood Drive, they've got it,

1049
01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:05.960
Arborgate up and Tumbles got it.
Or maybe South Houston out there genera

1050
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:11.159
Red Bluff, there's a shades of
Texas. It carries Sweet Green products out

1051
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:14.960
there as well. First thing you
got do is when you open it up,

1052
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:18.720
just smell it. It smells wonderful. I mean imagine sweet molasses.

1053
01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:24.640
Smell that's it sweet, great,
really pleasant. Enjoy bringing it home in

1054
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:27.920
the car. May just make an
extra trip around the block because it smells

1055
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:30.359
so good. All right, We're
gonna go to West easton down and talk

1056
01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:34.279
to Gary. Hello, Gary,
good morning. Skip. So I think

1057
01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:41.079
I have a really simple question.
I have the Mondo monkey grass and in

1058
01:16:41.199 --> 01:16:45.720
years past, it's really been flourishing. It's kind of slow to grow.

1059
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:49.319
Is there a fertilizer or maybe a
soil amendment I need to use? Well,

1060
01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.840
No, I mean, you know, it's hard to do an amendment

1061
01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:57.039
once you have it in. It
likes a real compost d you know,

1062
01:16:57.279 --> 01:17:01.479
organic soil, high organic matter,
so there's not a lot of fixing that

1063
01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:06.039
later. I mean you could make
some holes in around it and sprinkle a

1064
01:17:06.039 --> 01:17:12.439
little fine, fine textured compost in
there, kind of wash it in maybe

1065
01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:15.640
a little bit, but I don't
know. I've never known anybody to worry

1066
01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:18.279
about that and go to that measure
on it. As far as nutrients,

1067
01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:23.760
just a good quality lawn fertilizer is
what I would use on it. That's

1068
01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:27.039
about all it is. It is
a slow growing plant, though, so

1069
01:17:27.279 --> 01:17:31.920
trying to speed it up you're kind
of fighting against its genetics. So I

1070
01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:38.640
have a half a bag of nitrophoss
imperial hand, sprinkle that in there and

1071
01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:45.159
water it. Yeah, I would
probably put let's see imperial nineteen say five

1072
01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:55.520
about a cup per hundred square feet
of that imperial and then so that's not

1073
01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:58.439
much. It doesn't take much.
You can go a little higher than that

1074
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:02.640
good two cups per hundred, but
sprinkle it in and then just water it

1075
01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:06.880
in really good and that'll that'll okay, Yeah, yeah, it's not horrible.

1076
01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:11.319
There's some box was in there that
wouldn't harm that with it, No,

1077
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:13.840
not at all. They'd be very
happy. They have green leaves,

1078
01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:15.800
and that's a product for green leaf
plants. That's why we put it on

1079
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:19.880
on. Gotcha. Well, I
sure appreciate the show, and thanks for

1080
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:23.479
taking my call. Have a great
day you too, sir. Good luck

1081
01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:29.159
with that monkey grass. What do
we head over to Frank in spring?

1082
01:18:29.239 --> 01:18:31.279
Hello? Frank, Yeah, good
morning. How are you doing. I'm

1083
01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:34.560
well, sir. How can we
help today? Well? I have I

1084
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:39.000
just my wife and I just moved
here from Illinois, and we have two

1085
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:42.640
hundred kalladiums that we'd like to plant, and I would like to do it.

1086
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:47.760
I'd like to do it correctly.
I'm thinking about getting twelve inch pots

1087
01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:51.920
and spreading them out across the front
of the house in pots. I don't

1088
01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:57.399
know if that's a good idea.
I'd like to know the proper soil fertilizer

1089
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:03.039
to start with. Okay, well, if you'm doing pots, that's good.

1090
01:19:03.079 --> 01:19:08.840
The bigger the pot. Down here
down south, our summers are so

1091
01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:13.199
brutally hot, and even our night
times are extra warm, and so it

1092
01:19:13.279 --> 01:19:16.479
takes a lot of moisture to keep
the plants happy. So with pots we

1093
01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:18.960
try to make sure they have as
much soil as we can give them.

1094
01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:23.039
So small pots not so good unless
you can water them twice a day.

1095
01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:27.359
Larger pots is better. As far
as the soil, you might want to

1096
01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:31.439
try the jungle land by nitrofoss jungle
land. Do the one. It's called

1097
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:36.119
flour and vegetable. I know your
plant and kalladiums, but flower and vegetable

1098
01:19:36.199 --> 01:19:42.159
is there outdoor soil. You're going
to find jungle land all over the place.

1099
01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:45.199
You know you're up there, you
know in the spring area. So

1100
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.079
there's gonna be a number of places
that carry it up around you. R

1101
01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:54.359
CW Nursery on Tomoi Parkway is going
to have it hiding and feed on Stubener

1102
01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:57.239
airlines going to have It's gonna be
easy to find, but I would use

1103
01:19:57.279 --> 01:20:01.680
the jungle by microfol jungle Land is
distributed by night flash right, and it's

1104
01:20:01.680 --> 01:20:08.319
called flour and vegetable potting soil.
Uh If if there's an ace hardware near

1105
01:20:08.359 --> 01:20:11.000
you, which there is. Uh, they're gonna they're gonna probably have the

1106
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:14.279
jungle land there. Make sure you
get a good sized pot and then keep

1107
01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:17.039
them moist, Frank, that's that's
the most important thing. They want to

1108
01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:20.319
be in shade. Now there are
so we have we have the shade.

1109
01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:26.000
Yeah. My thought was to put
maybe four of the tubers in a twelve

1110
01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:30.000
each pot. Is that too much? Is that crowding them? You could

1111
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:32.680
do I might the size one.
Yeah, I probably would do three,

1112
01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:36.880
you know in a pot tubers?
Yeah, I like I like odd numbers

1113
01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:42.279
anyway on plants. But that ought
to that ought to do it for you.

1114
01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:45.760
Just uh it's warm enough now where
they ought to be happy and ready

1115
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:50.720
to grow. Okay. Uh another
couple of questions. These things are I

1116
01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:55.560
would call it in my world,
relatively expensive. And I've seen how to

1117
01:20:55.600 --> 01:21:00.159
propagate by spreading the tube tubers off, but I think that only leads on

1118
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:03.520
stem, does it not? Well? People will do and depending on where

1119
01:21:03.560 --> 01:21:08.560
you bought them, the little corms
that are used to plan them, they

1120
01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:13.239
will take the main bud out of
it. They'll like gouge out that one

1121
01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:17.319
main shoot and that causes a lot
of small buds to form the trade office.

1122
01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:20.279
Instead of getting a really big leaf, you get a bunch of smaller

1123
01:21:20.359 --> 01:21:24.560
leaves, but it makes a fuller
plant. Now, I don't know the

1124
01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:27.600
ones you bought, if that had
already been done or not, but that

1125
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:30.039
is that is a factor. Frank, I'm going to have to go here

1126
01:21:30.359 --> 01:21:34.399
for a break, but did you
let me try one more quick question and

1127
01:21:34.439 --> 01:21:38.640
then we may have to hold you
until after break. Well, that's fine.

1128
01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:40.760
Thank you so much for your help, Thanks for calling. Hey,

1129
01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:43.479
welcome to Texas. Glad to have
you done. Thank you, thank you.

1130
01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:45.840
Sir, Yes, sir, you
bet. Have you been to RCW

1131
01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:49.760
Nursery. If you're thinking about planning
roses this spring, you need to get

1132
01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:55.000
out there because they still have that
ten percent off sale on roses. Now

1133
01:21:55.079 --> 01:21:58.640
you can go to their go to
their page, go to the website RCW

1134
01:21:58.760 --> 01:22:02.399
nurseres dot com. Find the rose
list. I mean it is a huge

1135
01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:06.119
rose list. If you want to
just give them a call two eight one

1136
01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:12.520
four four zero fifty one sixty one. This is in order to make sure

1137
01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:15.000
they have the rose you want in
stock. Then people come and buy things,

1138
01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:18.399
so they have the list of what
they carry, but call two eight

1139
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:25.720
one, four four zero fifty one
sixty one. It's the largest selection of

1140
01:22:25.840 --> 01:22:30.319
roses in Houston at RCW Nurseries.
Easy, easy to find RCW nursries dot

1141
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:35.159
com. They're located where belt Way
eight comes in to Tomball Parkway, which

1142
01:22:35.199 --> 01:22:40.199
is Highway two forty nine, so
it's really easy to get to RCW Nursery.

1143
01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:43.960
Now I talk about roses, everything
you need from a nursery standpoint,

1144
01:22:44.039 --> 01:22:48.159
including soils, the fertilizers. I
recommend they're all there at RCW Nurseries,

1145
01:22:48.159 --> 01:22:54.920
including things like microlife for example,
microlife fertilizer. The standard microlife is the

1146
01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:59.079
green bag. That's the turf fertilizer, which don't tell anybody, but I

1147
01:22:59.159 --> 01:23:01.000
use it on everything. I mean, I'll put it on vegetables or even

1148
01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:05.000
on flowers and things. Yeah,
you can do that. Plants can't read.

1149
01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:08.840
They look at the bag and they
can't see that. You know,

1150
01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:14.279
they can't read. But that's okay. But seriously, joking aside, it's

1151
01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:16.479
time to get the microlife down on
your lawn. It's also a good time

1152
01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:20.680
to put down the humans plus.
The purple bag. Humans plus has four

1153
01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:26.079
percent potassium, but you're putting it
down for the humus, for the concentrated

1154
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:29.840
compost in a bag that over time, as you do this, you're just

1155
01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:33.119
making the soil better and better and
better. And it's all about the soil,

1156
01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:38.520
brown stuff before green stuff. The
way we fertilize, the compost we

1157
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:42.319
put in soil, the way we
airrate the compost, top dressings, the

1158
01:23:42.399 --> 01:23:45.880
returning clippings, it's all about the
soil. And microlife is all about the

1159
01:23:46.159 --> 01:23:50.840
microlife. Fertilizer dot Com feeling a
little more about it. Well, wow,

1160
01:23:51.439 --> 01:23:55.840
that aur went fast. Here we
are, We're already done. I'm

1161
01:23:55.840 --> 01:23:59.640
going to be today going over to
the Ace hardware, the M and d

1162
01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:04.960
Ace and clearly M d Ace hardware
and clearly and I'm going to be I

1163
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:10.960
don't know, answering your gardening questions, identifying plants, diagnosing plant problems.

1164
01:24:11.159 --> 01:24:15.840
Just bring me pictures, bring me
plants in. Like the Ama Lazareuth poem,

1165
01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:18.319
I feel like the statue of liberty. You're tired, you're weary,

1166
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:25.720
uh masses yearning that I'm messing up
the poem, yearning to breathe free.

1167
01:24:25.920 --> 01:24:28.640
We'll take a look at all those, We'll see if we can help them.

1168
01:24:28.680 --> 01:24:30.760
By the way, for those of
you done in Wharton today, Wharton

1169
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:35.079
feed and Ace Hardware's grand opening yesterday
and today. You need to get over

1170
01:24:35.159 --> 01:24:42.880
there. It's on North Richmond Road
in Wharton. Kat r H Garden Line

1171
01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:47.439
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

1172
01:24:47.479 --> 01:24:59.720
Welcome to kt r H Garden Lines
with Scape Richt. It's so trim.

1173
01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:20.279
You just watching as so many it
takes. They're not a side. Hey,

1174
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:25.760
welcome to guard Line. Oh my
goodness, the sun is shining on

1175
01:25:26.039 --> 01:25:30.399
a beautiful sky, beautiful day,
good day for gardening. The temperature is

1176
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:34.159
going to be just right today.
I hope you have plants to get outside

1177
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:39.399
and get some things done in the
garden and landscape. Remember remember remember the

1178
01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:44.920
rule on Guardline brown stuff before green
stuff, right, Get you some quality

1179
01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:47.359
soil or if you've got a bed
where plants I've been doing well, consider

1180
01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:53.840
renovating it. Bring in a quality
soil mix and get it going Nature's way

1181
01:25:53.880 --> 01:25:57.319
resources. That's what that's what they're
all about. I mean, they are

1182
01:25:57.479 --> 01:26:02.439
all about the brown stuff. They
ad alertly have got the top quality when

1183
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:06.399
it comes to things like rosso when
it comes to things like a leaf mall

1184
01:26:06.520 --> 01:26:10.800
compost. When it comes to things
like all kinds really, all kinds of

1185
01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:15.079
the fungal Fridays is what they call
it when they do fungal based composts.

1186
01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:18.359
Do you know that fungi are one
of the number one decomposers in the whole

1187
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:25.520
universe. Here they turn tree trunks
into soil. That fungi are the heavy

1188
01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:28.680
lifters. They can do things other
things can't. Well, when it comes

1189
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:32.720
to the microbs, fungal composts.
Every Friday Fungal Friday. Ten percent off

1190
01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:35.880
of the bag product, twenty percent
off of the book product. They got

1191
01:26:35.920 --> 01:26:39.880
plenty of it on hand. You
can have them deliver it. You can

1192
01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:41.760
buy it by the bag. You
can go pick it up there. You

1193
01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:44.239
can take a trailer, have them
dump it on the trailer if you like.

1194
01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:47.000
However you want to go about it, Nature's Way Resources on Interstate forty

1195
01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:51.279
five north, so you head north
out of Houston. If you're coming from

1196
01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:55.279
this way, it'll be on the
right hand side. Bup, we're fourteen

1197
01:26:55.319 --> 01:27:00.199
eighty eight, which goes off to
the left to Magnolia comes in with the

1198
01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:04.600
railroad tracks. You are at Nature's
Way Resources. They have a nice fine

1199
01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:10.439
leaf. More compost if you want
to do some compost top dressing. They've

1200
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:14.439
got you set up there at Nature's
Way Resources. Very important product to use,

1201
01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:17.399
by the way, high quality.
Here's a phone number nine three six

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three two one sixty nine ninety nine
three six three two one six nine nine

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zero. You are listening to garden
Line and we are normally a call in

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show, so if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

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01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:40.960
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. I always like to go
out to Moss Nursery and Seabrook because you

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never know what they're going to have
next. I mean, you always know

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01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:53.640
they're going to have house plants like
you've never seen before. Trust me on

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01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:58.079
this one. Succulents, cacti like
you haven't seen before. You know they're

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going to have annuals and perennials.
They're gonna have hanging baskets and shrubs and

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trees and roses, all kinds of
they're gonna have all of that. They

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just got in a brand new shipment
of roses. They have some really combination

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containers too. How about bonesye have
you ever thought about that as a hobby.

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Bones eye. They have bones eye
there. The hanging baskets are beautiful.

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Do you have some shady areas where
you would like some azelias, for

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example, or other shrubs sun or
shade. They've got those. Their selection

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of herbs is outstanding, and now
I think everybody on a plant herbs.

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01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:36.159
I use them as ornamental plants.
The different kinds of herbs serve different functions.

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Or reagano makes a groundcover, chives
make a clumping plant. You get

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the idea. There's herbs that attract
beneficial insects and pollinators and so on.

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They have hibiscuits. They have boogainvillion. When you're in the South and the

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summertime along the Gulf coast here where
we live, hibiscus and Boogainvillia. That

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just tells you it's summertime here.
They got native plants. If you're into

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natives, they can get you fixed
up butterflies. Do you want to attract

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01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:05.920
butterflies? Do you want a little
bird bath or a little fountain? Moss

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01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:12.000
has everything. Eight acres you wander
through, you see everything you possibly could

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want because they carry everything. They're
out there in Seabrook easy to find Moss

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01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:23.000
Nursery dot com. Moss has two
as maas Nursery dot com. We're going

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01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:27.840
to go now over to Tomball Woodlands
area and talk to John. Hello John,

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01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:30.960
you're born and how are you?
I'm well, sir? What's up?

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Good? I planted last year three
of those. I think they're Mexican

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01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:42.079
white oaks. They're probably twelve fifteen
foot tall. Nows planted them last year.

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01:29:42.199 --> 01:29:45.880
The two of the three great.
During we had a pretty bad drought,

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01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:48.720
as you're aware, last year.
We did our best to keep them

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01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:54.439
watered. One of them though,
and it's the best looking one, of

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01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:58.600
course, from the middle of it. Fifty percent of the top is brown

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01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:01.560
as can be, look looks dead. Bottom of it is green flourishing,

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01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:06.960
looks great. The other two fantastic. No problems. Can I take that

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01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:11.960
and cut it in half? Or
is that what can I do to remedy

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01:30:12.039 --> 01:30:14.800
that? Or am I pretty much
the lost carls? Well? You can,

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01:30:14.960 --> 01:30:17.760
and you know it has a beautiful
upright form, especially when it's young.

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01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:21.760
It spreads out as it gets older. If you cut off the dead,

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01:30:21.840 --> 01:30:26.520
if you can figure out a way
to kind of train something to sort

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01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:29.399
of become the main trunk. Again, it's going to be a little bit

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01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:31.439
of a challenge, but you can
do it that way. You try to

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01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:40.000
maintain somewhat of the natural form to
that tree. Right, Okay, that's

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01:30:40.039 --> 01:30:43.399
what I was concerned with. I'll
think, if I cut that thing in

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01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:45.000
half, is it going to die
on me? But no, it's not

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01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:48.880
going to die from cutting it because
you're cutting away dead. So that's not

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01:30:49.199 --> 01:30:53.800
a stimulating process at all. It
just cuts away the dead. Just make

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01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:56.840
sure you cut back, you know, get the dead out of there,

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01:30:56.840 --> 01:30:59.920
because of course not going to come
back to life, and the sinny do

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01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:02.920
the better. We are in the
best season of the year for wound healing

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01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:08.640
on trees. Spring is the fastest
time of wound healing, so go ahead

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01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:11.880
and get it done. Then in
the months to come you can get that

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01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:15.960
callous starting to form and hopefully within
a year or so you're back in business.

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01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:18.199
Perfect. Well, it's a beautiful
day. That's what we're doing today.

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01:31:18.199 --> 01:31:20.520
So I appreciate your show. Well, good thank you, Sarah,

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01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:24.960
and good luck with that. Appreciate
you taking care of that out there.

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01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:30.600
If you are wanting to give your
lawn a nice quick boost, I mean

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to really get it going and looking
good. Maybe you get some areas that

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01:31:33.880 --> 01:31:39.479
just aren't doing so great. Medina
has a product called has to Grow twelve

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01:31:39.560 --> 01:31:44.479
four to eight lawn Food Plus.
It's like a lawn care kit in a

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01:31:44.520 --> 01:31:47.119
bottle. Really. You attach it
to a garden hose. It's got the

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01:31:47.239 --> 01:31:53.520
natural lawn food supplements and it plus
it has Medina soil activator and humate liquid

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01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:56.319
humus and so you just go over
your lawn with it. Makes it real

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01:31:56.359 --> 01:31:58.560
easy touch it to a garden hose, I mean, how easy can you

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01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:02.319
get. They also have sizes gallon
sizes and so on. But basically it's

1269
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going to stimulate the natural soil organisms. Because of the compounds in it,

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01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:10.960
you're going to get a really good
nutrient uptake. Not going to waste any

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01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:14.319
fertilizer on this. Now, if
you're going to remove your clippings, you're

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01:32:14.319 --> 01:32:16.399
going to want to do this every
month during the growing season. I highly

1273
01:32:16.439 --> 01:32:20.239
recommend you do not remove your clippings. You recycle them, which is what

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01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:25.920
nature does with clippings. Now,
if you leave them on about four times

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01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:30.760
during the growing season, just get
your hash to grow twelve four eight.

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01:32:30.119 --> 01:32:35.880
That's a four one two four one
two ratio product perfect product ratio and you

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01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:39.840
just work over your lawn with it
at the end of a garden hose and

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01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:43.119
you'll see the results. I've used
it on my own lawn. I'm very

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01:32:43.159 --> 01:32:45.000
pleased with the way that it has
worked. Take a little break here.

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01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:47.880
When we come back, Cheryl,
you'll be the first up for the rest

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01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:53.000
of you. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Ah,

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01:32:53.079 --> 01:32:55.840
it's a good morning to listen to
George Straight. Hey, welcome back

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01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:58.920
to Guardline. Good to have you
with us today. If you would like

1284
01:32:58.920 --> 01:33:02.119
to give us a call seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:06.000
I want to remind you that it
is going to be mosquito season,

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01:33:06.079 --> 01:33:09.640
and in fact, they have arrived. Someone has told me the other day

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01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:13.239
they were working on some shrubs around
the house during the day, and you

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01:33:13.279 --> 01:33:15.640
know that's where mosquitoes like to hang
out in the heat of the day,

1289
01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:19.000
and the mosquitoes were just coming out
and eating them up. Well, there's

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01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:23.960
a nifty low product called a mosquito
dunk. It just is a win win

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01:33:24.079 --> 01:33:27.760
win as far as I'm concerned.
And here's why. It's a disease of

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01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:32.600
mosquitoes. It's a type of bet
doesn't kill caterpillars like regular bete kills mosquito

1293
01:33:32.680 --> 01:33:36.560
larva, and so you're not going
to hurt a ladybug or a bird that

1294
01:33:36.640 --> 01:33:40.359
drinks out of the bird bath,
or your pets the drink out of the

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01:33:40.359 --> 01:33:45.159
bird bath, or anything else other
than mosquito larva. The mosquito dunk she

1296
01:33:45.279 --> 01:33:47.720
toss them into the water wherever you
have standing water, maybe it's a bird

1297
01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:53.800
bath, maybe it's a little pond
out there, just toss one little dunks

1298
01:33:53.840 --> 01:33:56.760
out in it. They also have
a granular form too, by the way

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01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:00.319
that you can scatter around. It
gets in the water and mosquito larma can't

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01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:02.560
make it, and it is a
natural, easy way to do it.

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01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:06.199
They're easy to find. You're going
to find them. Almost all independent nurseries

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and feed stores and certainly ace hardware
stores are going to carry mosquito dunks.

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01:34:12.640 --> 01:34:15.439
And it is mosquito season. You
should always have dunks on hand because you

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01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:18.640
never know when you're going to need
to toss them out there and do that.

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01:34:19.079 --> 01:34:27.439
It works works super super well.
Let's go to Cheryl in adding Keema.

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Good morning, Cheryl, how can
we help today? Hello, good

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01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:35.720
morning, okay, things I barely
heard. One is which Ace hardware in

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01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:41.880
clear Lake? Are you going to
be today? Yeah, I'm glad you

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01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:48.840
ask. I'm going to be at
the M and D Supply Hammond am as

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01:34:48.920 --> 01:34:55.119
in Mary and Das and Dan M
and D A M and D Yes and

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01:34:55.279 --> 01:34:58.680
D Supply. Yeah. Where is
that? Where is it? Please?

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01:34:59.359 --> 01:35:02.159
Okay? Hang on? Let me
okay, trying to get okay down in

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01:35:02.279 --> 01:35:05.800
chemo. Let me. I'm trying
to zoom in to give you the actual

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01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:10.720
street number. I should have that
in my head right here. Let me

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01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:13.359
see, here we go. It's
okay, I can look it up to

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01:35:13.479 --> 01:35:15.119
I just no, it's okay,
give me, just give me one second.

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01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:19.079
I'm trying to pull the the site
up. I can't believe. Here

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01:35:19.159 --> 01:35:24.359
we go. My computer is on
the glitch right now and it's decided that

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01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:28.560
it doesn't want to cooperate with me. So give me one second. I'll

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01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:30.600
find it for you. Did you
have a question to by the way,

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01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:40.319
Yes, okay. You talk about
heavy feeders, flowers fertilizer, and I

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01:35:40.439 --> 01:35:44.560
have these irises and I think that
it will fit for irises, but I

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01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:49.880
can't remember what it is you you
you you talk about it for Boogun vign

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01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:54.920
use some other flower, Yeah,
you could use You could use a boom

1325
01:35:55.039 --> 01:35:58.560
Via fertilizer. You use a Plumari
fertilizer too, on irises. Those will

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01:35:58.600 --> 01:36:02.880
both work just fine. Okay,
okay, So no no specific brand or

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01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:05.520
anything. Oh well, there's a
lot of good brands out there, and

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01:36:05.600 --> 01:36:11.399
I trusts Booga and Villia they make
fertilizer does really well with that. In

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01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:15.640
fact, they they're actually their hibiscus
fertilizer wouldn't be a bad Yes, that's

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01:36:15.680 --> 01:36:19.039
what she said. For your what
did you call it? I trust?

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01:36:20.720 --> 01:36:27.399
What's the name hibiscus? Now you
said something about I trust fertilizer, but

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01:36:27.560 --> 01:36:32.119
I couldn't understand it. I'm sorry. Oh so fast, oh nitro fas.

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01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:35.159
Oh yeah, okay, let me
let me go back to the aces,

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01:36:35.199 --> 01:36:39.039
because I don't want to leave you
hanging and forget that. It's in

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01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:43.279
clear Lake. In clear Lake,
Oh, that's where I'm at today.

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01:36:43.560 --> 01:36:45.159
I know where I know, Yes, yes, I know I know that

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01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:51.840
one. And then the third thing
is my law looks great and I've done

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01:36:51.840 --> 01:36:56.239
a lot to it the last several
years. Do I need to put can't

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01:36:56.319 --> 01:36:58.880
I just not put anything at all? On it right now, just leave

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01:36:58.880 --> 01:37:01.800
it alone. You can't. I've
had years, right and fertilize and it's

1341
01:37:01.880 --> 01:37:08.479
okay, Okay. The thing about
it is fertilizer drives growth, and growth

1342
01:37:08.960 --> 01:37:13.359
creates density, and density chokes out
weeds and it makes it look pretty.

1343
01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:19.399
So to the degree you don't fertilize, your lawn goes from pretty green to

1344
01:37:19.520 --> 01:37:24.119
more of a charture's green. Your
density goes down a little bit, and

1345
01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:27.520
so sunlight begins to hit the soil
nature plants of weed and so on.

1346
01:37:28.520 --> 01:37:33.159
So that's why we on an ongoing
basis want to fertilizer lawns. Okay.

1347
01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:40.159
And one more thing about leaves.
I really got into collecting leaves from my

1348
01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:44.199
neighbors that have big lots that I
know they don't do a lot of fertilizing

1349
01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:47.640
or anything is fall off of their
trees. Yeah, And is it possible

1350
01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:53.439
to overdo it on the leaves,
Well, I guess you can overdo anything.

1351
01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:58.199
I would only mulch about four to
five inches thick at the most.

1352
01:37:58.680 --> 01:38:01.720
You could go less than that.
If you're are you talking about mowing them

1353
01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:05.359
into the lawn or are you talking
about mowing them in? And just how

1354
01:38:05.439 --> 01:38:08.920
often to put them down. I
didn't have that many that had got that

1355
01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:13.039
thick. It was just a sprinkling
of them on top of the lawn about

1356
01:38:13.079 --> 01:38:15.119
every week or two. Yeah.
Well, if you've got a really good

1357
01:38:16.520 --> 01:38:20.439
mower that really chops them up.
Finally, you can take an inch or

1358
01:38:20.520 --> 01:38:26.079
two of leaves and most turf grasses, especially Saint Augustine, and chop them

1359
01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:30.439
up and they'll fall down the end
of the turf. We don't apply them

1360
01:38:30.479 --> 01:38:32.000
to the turf on purpose, but
if you got them on the turf,

1361
01:38:32.079 --> 01:38:35.439
you can just mulch them into the
surface. I've done that before. It's

1362
01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:41.079
okay, works fine. But I
wouldn't just purposefully throw our leaves on the

1363
01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:45.159
turf because that's how trees kill turf
is smothering it with leaves and shade.

1364
01:38:45.640 --> 01:38:49.520
Oh okay, No, I didn't
do any smothering. I just wondered how

1365
01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:55.359
often, because all I did was
bring the bags and then sprinkle them and

1366
01:38:55.439 --> 01:38:59.399
then let the yard guy mow them
with his mower. Okay, all right,

1367
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:01.640
we'll save me the multing your flower
beds and all other kinds of things.

1368
01:39:01.880 --> 01:39:04.319
Hey, Cheryl, thanks, I
appreciate that. Good luck with you,

1369
01:39:04.399 --> 01:39:08.359
Iris and I hope you'll be out
there at M and D Clare Lake

1370
01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:11.960
Bay Area Boulevards. The street you
said you know where it is, but

1371
01:39:12.039 --> 01:39:15.359
other than yes, yes, I
know, I know that's Space Center Houston

1372
01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:17.279
out there. Oh yeah, yeah, I know right, I know right

1373
01:39:17.319 --> 01:39:20.520
where it is. Alrighty oh,
okay, thank you so much. You

1374
01:39:20.640 --> 01:39:26.039
bet, Bobby. Yeah, I'll
be up there today, so don't forget

1375
01:39:26.079 --> 01:39:30.840
about that. Also, I wanted
to mention to you that the Arburgate Nursery

1376
01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:32.520
up in Tumbo has a brand new
parking lot. I say brand new.

1377
01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:36.520
It's been around a few months now, but basically it is the coolest thing

1378
01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:41.079
that I've seen because you don't have
to park on the road out there.

1379
01:39:41.479 --> 01:39:44.239
I mean, Arburgate' is a popular
place. People love to go there,

1380
01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:47.039
and when you go, you'll see
why they've it's just an amazing place.

1381
01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:51.279
But now you just turn down Trishel
Road. It's it's a loop that goes

1382
01:39:51.319 --> 01:39:57.560
around behind Arburgate. So whether you
turn before Arbrogate or after Arburgate, same

1383
01:39:57.640 --> 01:40:01.000
thing. You turn toward the south
down Try Road and come around behind it

1384
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:04.359
park back there. It makes it
really really easy, and you know,

1385
01:40:04.479 --> 01:40:09.479
when you go to Arburgate. You're
going to find one of the widest variety

1386
01:40:09.520 --> 01:40:13.520
of plants you will see anywhere.
I mean the annuals perennials, herb shrubs,

1387
01:40:13.600 --> 01:40:17.079
houseplants, trees, fruit, the
fruit year around there when it comes

1388
01:40:17.119 --> 01:40:23.560
to shrubs, the outstanding new selections
by Monrovia and others. It's just always

1389
01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:25.920
a good time to be out at
the Arborgate. By the way, for

1390
01:40:26.039 --> 01:40:28.760
those of you who have been living
under a rock and don't know where it

1391
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:31.880
is, well, you just head
west from Tomball from two forty nine,

1392
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:35.920
head west on twenty nine to twenty
not very far out there, and you

1393
01:40:36.000 --> 01:40:40.600
will be You'll find Arbrogate right there
on the left hand side, easy to

1394
01:40:40.640 --> 01:40:45.079
get to. Good, very trained, very knowledgeable staff Beverly and Kennon and

1395
01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:48.560
the whole group out there at Arburgate. They will point you in the right

1396
01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:53.199
direction and put a plant in your
hand with the instructions you need to have

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01:40:53.439 --> 01:40:57.319
success. I want to head out
now to see We're going to go to

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01:40:57.439 --> 01:41:02.600
Sugarland and talk to Ross. Hello, ros Hey Skip, good morning morning.

1399
01:41:03.239 --> 01:41:09.479
Hey. I got a question about
sulfur. I I've got some Indian

1400
01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:13.680
hawthornes that I planned with last year
and they I'm sure of the heat got

1401
01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:17.399
to them or whatever, but they're
just not as green as the UH.

1402
01:41:18.199 --> 01:41:24.039
I went after one of the independent
nurseries and they're just as green as those.

1403
01:41:25.039 --> 01:41:28.239
And the guy out there told me
I should use soil sulfur. So

1404
01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:31.159
I bought a four pound bag and
get home and there's no directions on it.

1405
01:41:32.119 --> 01:41:34.640
And I got to thinking, do
I you know I've always used iron

1406
01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:40.720
eye, you know, in the
yard green things up. Do I do

1407
01:41:40.840 --> 01:41:44.159
I need that? Or how do
I use it? I guess well,

1408
01:41:44.279 --> 01:41:49.600
question sulfur is okay when A you
have a sulfur deficiency or B your pH

1409
01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:54.920
is a little high in a light
textured soil like a sandy sandy long soil

1410
01:41:55.600 --> 01:42:00.279
in a clay. It's hard to
change pH with sulfur very much, but

1411
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:04.000
it has its place. But now
you've already got a growing plant, so

1412
01:42:04.159 --> 01:42:10.720
you can't rototil the sulfur down into
the soil. So I think rather than

1413
01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:14.560
just start to push things around with
sulfur, I would I think I would

1414
01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:19.079
hold off and let's take a different
root on this particular one. Again,

1415
01:42:19.199 --> 01:42:24.399
it kind of depends on the specifics
of what your pH is. If you

1416
01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:27.640
have had a soil test. That
would be a good start. It would

1417
01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:30.399
tell you if pH is what's wrong
or not. I doubt that it's pH

1418
01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:33.479
on an Indian hawthorn. I think
you probably just need to give them a

1419
01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:39.039
good I would use a lawn fertilizer
to be honest. Just apply a lawn

1420
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:43.079
fertilizer around them, watered and really
good. Make sure the soul drains adequately

1421
01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:45.159
well, and just watch out for
the leaf disease. It can be a

1422
01:42:45.239 --> 01:42:50.119
problem on indian hawthorn. It causes
the spots and then the leaves turn kind

1423
01:42:50.119 --> 01:42:56.880
of a yellow to orange and fall
off. Okay, I think you answer

1424
01:42:56.920 --> 01:43:00.760
my question. I'm probably gonna take
it back. I think I would in

1425
01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:03.479
this case. There are uses for
sulfur, but I think that's the long

1426
01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:08.840
shot right now. I agree.
Okay, appreciate you guys, all right,

1427
01:43:08.960 --> 01:43:12.279
Ross, good luck with that.
Appreciate the call. You know.

1428
01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:15.760
Whenever you need a product, I
don't care if is it a fertilizer,

1429
01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:20.039
is it a soul blend to improve
your soil a compost blend? For example?

1430
01:43:20.159 --> 01:43:25.199
Do you need pesticides, insecticides,
fungicides, herbicides, those kinds of

1431
01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:29.560
things. Ace Hardware store has always
got you covered. This is fiant season.

1432
01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:32.399
It's time to get out there and
do the two Texas two step.

1433
01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:36.319
That doesn't mean I stepped in a
mound so I start dancing everywhere, although

1434
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:41.880
I've done that before. What it
means is first to put on a bait,

1435
01:43:43.600 --> 01:43:46.359
very low application rate, follow the
label over the whole area, and

1436
01:43:46.560 --> 01:43:49.920
then any escape mounds. After a
couple of weeks, you're going to know

1437
01:43:50.039 --> 01:43:55.079
you miss something. Then you use
the mound treatment with that. That's step

1438
01:43:55.159 --> 01:43:59.319
two. First bait, then mound
treatment. Texas two step. Ace Hardware

1439
01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:00.840
they've got it. You go to
ACE. She said, I need a

1440
01:44:00.880 --> 01:44:06.000
hard I need a fire ant bait, I need a fi mound treatment.

1441
01:44:06.079 --> 01:44:10.439
They'll get you set up mosquitoes.
They have the repellents, but they also

1442
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:13.920
have those dunks I was just talking
about, So it's easy with ACE.

1443
01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:15.319
By the way, I'm going to
be at M and D ACE out on

1444
01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:19.960
Bay Area Boulevard down in clear Lake. Today had a eleven thirty, so

1445
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:24.520
I hope you will join me out
there. For those of you out in

1446
01:44:24.600 --> 01:44:29.920
the Wharton area too. By the
way, ACE Hardware it's called Wharton Feed

1447
01:44:30.119 --> 01:44:33.560
and ACE Hardware it's on North Richmond
Road in Wharton, Texas. Today,

1448
01:44:33.720 --> 01:44:38.199
yesterday and today's are grand opening,
so you need to go check them out

1449
01:44:38.600 --> 01:44:43.760
as well. I want to let's
see here. I wanted to mention I

1450
01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:48.560
talked about jungle Land as a soil
blend for putting in containers. Talks about

1451
01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:53.479
that a little bit earlier. Jungle
Land for indoor plants. That is the

1452
01:44:53.560 --> 01:44:57.439
one that has the water saving crystals. It is an excellent potting soil.

1453
01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:01.039
What makes a potting so excellent well
quality ingredients. Number One, It needs

1454
01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:05.079
to drain well, but it also
needs to hold moisture so that when you

1455
01:45:05.239 --> 01:45:11.239
go between waterings the plants do just
fine. That is jungle Land, jungle

1456
01:45:11.319 --> 01:45:15.439
Land water saving potting salt. That's
for your indoor plants and it works really

1457
01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:18.079
well. You can get an ACE
hardware out of sink or ranch. You

1458
01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:21.880
can get jungle land for the indoor
plants. A task Acida Ace is going

1459
01:45:21.920 --> 01:45:25.920
to have it and clear Lake in
clute. Im. We'll turn it over

1460
01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:29.640
to Nikki for the news. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to guarden

1461
01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:32.199
Line. Good to have you with
us today. We're talking about all kinds

1462
01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:35.199
of things gardening and boy, are
we ever in the big middle of gardening

1463
01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:40.399
season. If you are not interested
right now and getting outside and planting a

1464
01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:45.359
plant, planting a flower of vegetable, or you know, getting the lawn

1465
01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:48.279
in good shape, you need to
reach take your index and middle finger on

1466
01:45:48.319 --> 01:45:51.199
your right hand, or reach over
and touch your wrist on your left hand,

1467
01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:54.680
and just pause for a minute and
make sure you have a pulse,

1468
01:45:55.319 --> 01:46:00.279
because telling you if you have any
gardening blood left in you, absolutely the

1469
01:46:00.479 --> 01:46:02.680
best time to do that. You
know, when we get rain, our

1470
01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:10.520
Houston glasoils swell up, they literally
get bigger. When we get dry conditions,

1471
01:46:10.800 --> 01:46:14.399
they shrink. They literally pull apart
and create cracks in the ground.

1472
01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:19.520
And that movement rex havoc on sidewalks
and driveways and house foundations. Look at

1473
01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:23.279
the brick on the outside, do
you see cracks? Look at the sheet

1474
01:46:23.359 --> 01:46:26.880
rock on the inside, do you
see any cracks? There is a door

1475
01:46:27.000 --> 01:46:30.319
that used to move freely now sticking
at the top or bottom. Those are

1476
01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:33.640
all signs potential signs that you could
have a foundation problem. Now. Ty

1477
01:46:33.720 --> 01:46:39.920
Strickland from fix my Slab Foundation Repair
TI's been taking care of foundations for twenty

1478
01:46:39.960 --> 01:46:44.359
three years now. He understands what
causes it, and he understands how to

1479
01:46:44.439 --> 01:46:48.600
fix it. Tye prides himself on
being on time. He shows up what

1480
01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:55.319
he tells you will, on giving
you a fair price, and on fixing

1481
01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:59.560
it right, fix it once,
fix it right. That's Tie. He

1482
01:46:59.640 --> 01:47:04.039
adds absolutely has the experience necessary.
He knows he soils here. He sees

1483
01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:08.680
it every day. The same thing. You can go to fix myslab dot

1484
01:47:08.760 --> 01:47:13.399
com fix myslab dot com, or
call him two eight one two five five

1485
01:47:14.000 --> 01:47:15.680
forty nine forty nine. Tell him
you're a Guarden line listener. You get

1486
01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:19.439
a free estimate. And I was
visiting with ty and his wife the other

1487
01:47:19.520 --> 01:47:24.800
day, is a while back,
uh and just picking his brain about all

1488
01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:29.079
these foundation questions. And I'm telling
you, the guy knows his business.

1489
01:47:29.159 --> 01:47:31.840
I would not hesitate to call him
for any kind of a question I have

1490
01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:35.560
about my foundation, wanting to make
sure I get a fact, the truth,

1491
01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:40.199
and someone who knows what they're talking
about. We're going to go now

1492
01:47:40.319 --> 01:47:45.279
out to Katie and talk to Ray. Good morning, Ray, Good Morning's

1493
01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:47.520
Kip, good morning. I just
had a quick question. I got some

1494
01:47:47.720 --> 01:47:54.279
I got some vegetable. They're still
not producing tomatoes and egg plan all of

1495
01:47:54.359 --> 01:47:58.239
that. Okay, what can I
feed them? Because, yeah, they

1496
01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.239
look pretty, the clients look like
pretty, But I don't need them to

1497
01:48:01.319 --> 01:48:04.119
look pretty. I need them to
produce. Yeah, yeah, what can

1498
01:48:04.199 --> 01:48:09.159
I feed them to start? Seeing
those blooms in the tomatoes? Well,

1499
01:48:09.439 --> 01:48:13.279
if they're green and they're growing,
well, that I don't know that you

1500
01:48:13.399 --> 01:48:15.920
need to feed them. Normally I
would say, yeah, fertilizer, that

1501
01:48:16.039 --> 01:48:19.359
is a good thing to do.
But when you push a plant with too

1502
01:48:19.439 --> 01:48:26.920
much fertilizer, you actually can cause
it to grow shoots and leaves. Well,

1503
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.319
but at the expense of flowering fruiting. Are you seeing flowers on them

1504
01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:33.760
and the flowers just aren't setting or
have they not started to bloom yet?

1505
01:48:34.279 --> 01:48:38.840
No, not, no blooms at
all yet. Okay, Okay, well

1506
01:48:38.920 --> 01:48:41.600
in that case, I would hold
off on the fertilizing for right now.

1507
01:48:42.520 --> 01:48:45.800
I'm just assuming by the fact that
you say they look pretty that they're in

1508
01:48:45.920 --> 01:48:51.560
decent shape. Some tomatoes take longer
to reach harvest, and those you wouldn't

1509
01:48:51.560 --> 01:48:57.720
see blooming as early. Some tomatoes
can be eighty days before they go from

1510
01:48:57.840 --> 01:49:01.199
planting to blooming. Other tomatoes could
be like fifty days before planting. The

1511
01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:06.840
fifty five days because the stocks are
like they're really thick, like they they're

1512
01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:12.199
beautiful. They're beautiful plants. I
just need to start, yeah, turning

1513
01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:14.600
some stuff out. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, you can't. You

1514
01:49:14.640 --> 01:49:19.720
can't have a BLT sandwich if they
don't produce, right, So uh then

1515
01:49:19.800 --> 01:49:25.119
good stud You got them in a
lot of sunlight. Ray, Yes,

1516
01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:29.199
yes, sir, okay, well
sounds like you're doing everything right. Just

1517
01:49:29.239 --> 01:49:31.000
give them a little more time,
let them settle in, and I think

1518
01:49:31.039 --> 01:49:34.159
they'll be all right. Yes,
sir, thank you so much. Skip

1519
01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:38.359
you bet good luck with those tomatoes. All we ask is, if you

1520
01:49:38.399 --> 01:49:42.640
get fruit, bring half the tomatoes
to the station, drop them off here

1521
01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:45.800
for me, and we'll call it
even avice is free. But what I

1522
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:49.960
will be paid in produce. That's
just a joke for those of you out

1523
01:49:49.960 --> 01:49:54.000
there. Let's go to Fred and
sugar Land. Hey Fred, what's happening

1524
01:49:54.079 --> 01:49:58.479
in sugar Land? Good morning,
sir. We planted pinters in bed that

1525
01:49:58.600 --> 01:50:03.399
we've done that for years, unwell, and about nearly a week after they

1526
01:50:03.439 --> 01:50:08.479
were planted, they started about half
of them started just wilting. Okay,

1527
01:50:08.800 --> 01:50:12.520
during the daytime. At night they
seem to come back a little bit,

1528
01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:16.720
and but a few of them just
stay wilted. Interestingly, nine plants out

1529
01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:19.239
of the flats that we bought,
we put in pots and things, and

1530
01:50:19.279 --> 01:50:24.520
they're just fine. Try to figure
out what's going on. Okay, thieves

1531
01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:27.760
have big brown spots on them.
They're wilted and all shrivel up, but

1532
01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:31.640
they don't die any thought. You
said, penta right, tell yes,

1533
01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:38.159
sir. So when a plant wils
I mean this sounds obvious, but it's

1534
01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:42.520
not getting adequate water. The question
is why if the soil is dry,

1535
01:50:42.640 --> 01:50:45.760
well, that would be why.
If the soil is adequately moist, Okay,

1536
01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:50.119
eliminate that. If it's not getting
good drainage and it's staying soggy wet,

1537
01:50:50.479 --> 01:50:54.439
then that also can cause wilting,
believe it or not, because it

1538
01:50:54.520 --> 01:50:58.439
shuts down roots and roots can't take
up the water. It could be an

1539
01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:01.279
insect chewing on roots of certain plants, but not others. You wouldn't know

1540
01:51:01.319 --> 01:51:04.279
that until you dug it up and
looked. But there are things that can

1541
01:51:04.399 --> 01:51:09.920
chew on the roots. That is
unlikely but a possibility. And then finally,

1542
01:51:09.960 --> 01:51:14.319
it could be a root rot,
something causing decay there in the soil.

1543
01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:18.840
Sometimes plants come in and they're so
root bound the roots have just wadded

1544
01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:21.319
up in the pot, so the
outside of the pot is just like a

1545
01:51:21.479 --> 01:51:27.039
solid mass of roots. Those to
these, they were good, they were

1546
01:51:27.279 --> 01:51:31.399
okay, well really okay. I'm
beginning to lean, based on what you're

1547
01:51:31.399 --> 01:51:39.279
saying toward maybe a either a disease
of the roots. Maybe take the worst

1548
01:51:39.359 --> 01:51:42.039
plants you have, get a shovel
under it and lift it up, and

1549
01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:44.720
then just kind of look at the
roots. You should see white, healthy

1550
01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:47.600
roots. If what you see is
brown or water soaked, or we used

1551
01:51:47.640 --> 01:51:53.600
to say the looks like a cigarette
filter with that tar brown gray staining on

1552
01:51:53.720 --> 01:51:58.319
it. If it's that color,
then that is a root rot. And

1553
01:51:58.960 --> 01:52:02.720
there are fung just drenches you can
use, but usually we just say let

1554
01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:05.359
it dry out a little bit.
If it's not too far gone, the

1555
01:52:05.479 --> 01:52:09.560
plant may come back. If not, you may end up losing it and

1556
01:52:09.680 --> 01:52:14.880
having to replant it. I wondered
about that because we had pansies in there

1557
01:52:14.880 --> 01:52:17.159
before, and our pansies just really
went bad. So did they do that?

1558
01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:21.039
And I left the bed, you
know, to I turned the bed

1559
01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:25.960
and left it for about a week
dried out good and then plant it.

1560
01:52:26.199 --> 01:52:29.720
And so maybe we got a fungicide
going along. I would take I would

1561
01:52:29.760 --> 01:52:33.039
take a plant that's alive but wilted
and looking bad, the worst one maybe,

1562
01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:38.640
and kind of lift it up and
just kind of shake the soil gently

1563
01:52:38.720 --> 01:52:41.560
loose and take a look. I
think what you're going to see is the

1564
01:52:41.680 --> 01:52:45.720
roots of declining, which would be
a sign of a root rod. And

1565
01:52:45.039 --> 01:52:49.439
usually those are connected to wet conditions, but they don't have to be their

1566
01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:56.359
root rots that will do just fine
and moderately moist soil. Okay, So

1567
01:52:56.479 --> 01:52:59.439
we could use a funguside on and
if it looks like a root bro you

1568
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:02.960
could you can go you know,
go out to you're in the Sugarland area.

1569
01:53:03.199 --> 01:53:08.319
I mean sure you can find that
at uh at the in Chenna Gardens

1570
01:53:08.439 --> 01:53:11.880
Richmond, in Chenna the and Jenny
Forest out there is going to have it.

1571
01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:15.359
You got an ACE hardware out there
to plantation. Ace is right out

1572
01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:18.680
there in Richmond, and they're going
to have a pretty wide selection of products

1573
01:53:18.720 --> 01:53:23.439
and just a handy to funge your
side for root rot, for drenching U.

1574
01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:27.840
There's several several brands on the market. I was suspecting that probably a

1575
01:53:27.920 --> 01:53:30.039
root rot sort of thing, because
they don't just die. They just wheeled

1576
01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:34.399
down and they park back up.
But then and during the in the heat,

1577
01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:38.880
seems like they just wieled. It's
about half of them. Yeah,

1578
01:53:39.079 --> 01:53:42.039
that's how it goes well. I
hope, I hope it turns out good

1579
01:53:42.079 --> 01:53:45.159
for you. Good luck with those
and thank you for the call. Appreciate

1580
01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:50.439
that you to day. You bet
you know I mentioned enchanted Forest out there

1581
01:53:50.439 --> 01:53:55.159
in Richmond, and Jenny Forest always
has things going on. I mean there's

1582
01:53:55.279 --> 01:53:59.359
always a program going on on the
saturdays out there in the spring. In

1583
01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:02.119
fact, yeah, I'm going to
be out there April thirteenth, that's next

1584
01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:05.640
Saturday for doing a Q and A
out there. They're going to have the

1585
01:54:05.760 --> 01:54:11.000
Robs Mini Donuts food truck. I'll
tell you what, let me change that.

1586
01:54:11.279 --> 01:54:13.159
I won't be at the Q and
I. I'm going to be out

1587
01:54:13.199 --> 01:54:15.800
there eating many donuts at the food
truck. If you have a question,

1588
01:54:15.960 --> 01:54:23.720
come see me there. Seriously.
Inchended Forest Richmond has every kind of plant

1589
01:54:23.760 --> 01:54:27.720
you could need, from shrubs to
trees. You know, they I think

1590
01:54:28.079 --> 01:54:30.399
when I think of them, one
of the things that comes to mind is

1591
01:54:30.479 --> 01:54:35.119
butterflies. They know how to grow
butterflies. They have the plants and everything

1592
01:54:35.199 --> 01:54:40.039
you need to grow a wonderful population
of butterflies. Today. As a matter

1593
01:54:40.079 --> 01:54:43.600
of fact, out there April sixth
at ten am, they're going to have

1594
01:54:43.640 --> 01:54:46.760
a program called Beyond Butterflies, how
to create a pollinator Paradise, and they

1595
01:54:47.119 --> 01:54:51.960
have it out there. Do you
need pollinator something that blooms, that attracts

1596
01:54:53.000 --> 01:54:57.800
butterflies, something that feeds the larva
of butterflies, and jennif Forest has got

1597
01:54:57.840 --> 01:54:59.840
all that. Of course, when
you're out there, make sure you take

1598
01:54:59.840 --> 01:55:02.960
an empty car, because you're going
to find shrubs and trees and herbs and

1599
01:55:03.159 --> 01:55:08.800
vegetables and beautiful hanging baskets and house
plants and indoor bling. In the gift

1600
01:55:08.880 --> 01:55:14.359
shop, they got it all Enchanted
Forest out there in Richmond, by the

1601
01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:17.840
way, all the Easter de Chorse
forty percent off, and they really have

1602
01:55:17.960 --> 01:55:23.560
a lot a wonderful selection of books
for gardeners and pet lovers and other things

1603
01:55:23.680 --> 01:55:27.800
like that. They're on FM twenty
seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas twenty

1604
01:55:27.880 --> 01:55:31.399
seven to fifty nine. So if
you're in Richmond heading toward Sugar Lamb,

1605
01:55:31.439 --> 01:55:33.840
they're off to the right we're gonna
take a little break here. We'll be

1606
01:55:33.960 --> 01:55:38.960
back our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1607
01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:43.800
Welcome back to garden Line on a
beautiful sunny day. Ready to get outside?

1608
01:55:43.920 --> 01:55:45.720
I sure am. After the show
today, I'm going to be heading

1609
01:55:45.960 --> 01:55:50.000
over to M and D Ace Hardware
and Clear Lake. If you don't know

1610
01:55:50.039 --> 01:55:54.359
where that is, well have you
been to Space Center Houston. It's real

1611
01:55:54.439 --> 01:55:59.199
close to that's on Bay Area Boulevard, bay Area Boulevard, Ace Hardware Store.

1612
01:55:59.239 --> 01:56:01.600
Come see me, bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's just

1613
01:56:01.680 --> 01:56:05.560
meet and talk. I love to
meet the folks that listen to Garden Lines,

1614
01:56:05.640 --> 01:56:08.840
so come on out today. This
would be a great time to do

1615
01:56:08.960 --> 01:56:14.720
that. I'm going to be given
away a bag of Nitropos the super turf

1616
01:56:14.840 --> 01:56:17.800
that's the silver bag every thirty minutes, so we'll giveing away quite a few

1617
01:56:17.840 --> 01:56:21.800
of these days. Two hours.
I'll be there today. Nitrofoss Superturf fertilizer

1618
01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:26.720
that's the nineteen four to ten the
silver bag. That is a slow release.

1619
01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:30.760
It is an excellent blend of nutrients. The ratios are just right for

1620
01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:34.079
what turf needs to grow. The
chemistry of it is designed such that all

1621
01:56:34.159 --> 01:56:39.600
the nitrogen isn't released immediately. It
gradually feeds over time, which is how

1622
01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:44.880
your turf takes up nutrients every day. Think about this, every day you

1623
01:56:44.960 --> 01:56:47.000
look out at your lawn. While
you're looking at the lawn, it is

1624
01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:51.520
taking up all these nutrients that it
needs to make a good, strong turf

1625
01:56:51.640 --> 01:56:58.560
plant. When you put a slow
release fertilizer like Nitropos nineteen four ten Superturf

1626
01:56:58.800 --> 01:57:01.720
silver Bag, when you put that
out, your fertilizers are going to be

1627
01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:06.079
releasing over time to give the turf
the nutrients that it needs. Really works

1628
01:57:06.119 --> 01:57:11.199
well last two two or three months
out there in the garden or in the

1629
01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:13.920
garden in the lawn. You can
use it in a garden too, by

1630
01:57:13.960 --> 01:57:17.359
the way, but we primarily promote
it as a lawn fertilizer because it does

1631
01:57:17.479 --> 01:57:20.159
create a super turf. And where
do you get it, well, where

1632
01:57:20.199 --> 01:57:23.720
do you get nitrofosh products? I
don't know, wherever you live, is

1633
01:57:24.239 --> 01:57:28.479
the fast answer. Kingwood Ace Hardware
has them go up to Tomball the Arburgate

1634
01:57:28.600 --> 01:57:31.399
Nursery. They've got them out there. Shades of Texas down Genoa, Red

1635
01:57:31.479 --> 01:57:38.600
Bluff southeast part of town. They
carry Superturf another nitrofosh products as well.

1636
01:57:39.239 --> 01:57:42.119
If you would like to give us
call and ask a question today, our

1637
01:57:42.159 --> 01:57:46.399
phone number is seven to one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

1638
01:57:46.479 --> 01:57:51.560
one three two one two five eight
seven. For it's one of those unique

1639
01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:56.359
times we actually have a cleared board. I know some of you called,

1640
01:57:56.399 --> 01:57:58.840
and you happen to call when other
people are calling, so you can have

1641
01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.199
a little wait there right now,
you don't if you'd like to give a

1642
01:58:01.359 --> 01:58:06.800
quick question, don't hesitate because you've
got other folks listening that have fast fingers

1643
01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:11.840
and they can dial as well.
But give us a call. Heirloom Soils

1644
01:58:12.479 --> 01:58:18.199
has been making quality soil for a
long time. They Heirloom Soils has blends

1645
01:58:18.520 --> 01:58:24.560
that pretty much fit every situation.
Do you need a fungal like a leaf

1646
01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:28.560
mold based let's say composts. Do
you need a rose soil? Do you

1647
01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:31.600
need a vegetable and herb mix type
soil? Do you want a soil for

1648
01:58:31.680 --> 01:58:36.279
fruits and vegetables? And they have
soils for all of those blends. They

1649
01:58:36.399 --> 01:58:41.720
have things like the expanded shale that's
mixed into some of their products that also

1650
01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:45.760
helps hold the soil open. Now
right now, the veggie and urb mix

1651
01:58:45.880 --> 01:58:49.520
is one hundred and nineteen dollars per
yard cubic yard in bulk. And they

1652
01:58:49.520 --> 01:58:54.840
also they'll deliver you can go pick
it up there up in porter at the

1653
01:58:54.920 --> 01:59:00.479
location. You can have them deliver
a supersac or dump some well in your

1654
01:59:00.560 --> 01:59:02.960
driveway, which whichever we want to
go about it. They can get you

1655
01:59:03.079 --> 01:59:08.560
fixed up. Airloom soils wide,
wide variety of products, and their bag

1656
01:59:08.680 --> 01:59:14.439
products are found everywhere. I know. I was talking about allspas Ace hardware

1657
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.600
up in the Woodlands. They now
have the fruit berry and citrus mix from

1658
01:59:16.640 --> 01:59:20.920
heirloom soils that they keep in stock
up there. So real easy to find,

1659
01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:26.439
good quality mixes and they work.
I can say that because I use

1660
01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:30.520
them. I tried them. I've
grown things that I'm trying containers tried in

1661
01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:33.720
the soil. The ground just filled
up a veg of one of those Vego

1662
01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:39.720
raised rolling planters this year, grown
some flowers in that with an heirloom soil

1663
01:59:39.760 --> 01:59:46.600
mix. The stuff works. Heirloom
Soilsoftexas dot Com Heirloom Soils Offtexas dot Com

1664
01:59:47.279 --> 01:59:53.520
makes it easy, easy, easy, to find them. Gosh, you

1665
01:59:54.279 --> 01:59:58.880
talking about a lot of different things
today. One of the things that I've

1666
01:59:59.000 --> 02:00:05.880
not tried growing before is a plumerius. Excuse me, I couldn't think of

1667
02:00:05.920 --> 02:00:10.239
the word, but I know I've
had them before for a little while,

1668
02:00:10.279 --> 02:00:14.319
but I moved or I don't know. I just have not really gotten into

1669
02:00:14.359 --> 02:00:15.720
those and grown them, you know, and give me a break too.

1670
02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:19.520
There's only eight hundred thousand different plants
out there, so there's a lot others

1671
02:00:19.960 --> 02:00:24.880
that I haven't gotten around to.
But plumerius are so beautiful. If you

1672
02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:30.079
would like a plumeri if you likes
to try it, Plumeria, which is

1673
02:00:30.159 --> 02:00:32.199
the Hawaiian lay flower. You know, you get off the plane in Hawaii,

1674
02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:36.279
they throw a neck ring of flowers
over your neck. Well that is

1675
02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:41.000
that's what's going on here. I'm
sorry, I'm distracted. There's a crane

1676
02:00:41.119 --> 02:00:46.800
literally twenty feet from my window lowering
giant boxes of who knows what. That's

1677
02:00:46.880 --> 02:00:51.600
a distraction. But bluem area is
a beautiful, easy, easy to grow.

1678
02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:54.479
I mean, you know, you
forget to water them. They're okay,

1679
02:00:54.640 --> 02:00:58.800
they're tough, they they're not cold, hardy, but you can literally

1680
02:00:58.880 --> 02:01:00.479
dig them up and hang them up
so down in the garage and get through

1681
02:01:00.520 --> 02:01:03.159
winter and put them back in the
ground. That's what I'd like to try.

1682
02:01:03.199 --> 02:01:05.520
A lot of our garden centers happen. Now's the time to get them

1683
02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:09.640
too. By the way, I
know that Nitrophosh, for example, has

1684
02:01:09.680 --> 02:01:13.960
a really good plumeria food that they
specialize in. And you go to all

1685
02:01:14.000 --> 02:01:16.720
the places you get Nitrofosh, you're
gonna find that plumeria food. So that's

1686
02:01:16.840 --> 02:01:19.720
that's one of the new flowers I
need to get going. Maybe I need

1687
02:01:19.800 --> 02:01:23.960
to grab somebody from the Plumeria Society
and say, hey, what would you

1688
02:01:24.359 --> 02:01:27.800
what would you recommend? How do
I get started here? Again? I've

1689
02:01:28.199 --> 02:01:30.000
known people that had them, been
around them and stuff, but just never

1690
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:34.720
brewined one myself. We'll go out
to Jersey Village now and let's talk to

1691
02:01:34.840 --> 02:01:42.880
Joe. Hello, Joe Hotei.
I called last year out replace my grass

1692
02:01:42.960 --> 02:01:47.119
after the grout and between the drought
and the freeze. I guess what I

1693
02:01:47.199 --> 02:01:51.399
put in just didn't work? Is
installation era? I'm sure, but I

1694
02:01:51.560 --> 02:01:57.399
got a traded area that I need
to replace the grass, the turff and

1695
02:01:58.079 --> 02:02:04.800
so with zoi or palmetto be a
better august pal a better choice. Yeah,

1696
02:02:05.119 --> 02:02:09.840
palmetto for Saint Augustine is gonna be
one of your better choices looking at

1697
02:02:09.960 --> 02:02:13.560
just the factor of shade specifically,
that that would be one of the better

1698
02:02:13.640 --> 02:02:18.079
ones. Uh. There are zoysias. Zoysia in general is fairly shade tolerant,

1699
02:02:18.199 --> 02:02:21.239
usually not quite as much as Saint
Augustine. But there is a zoysia

1700
02:02:21.359 --> 02:02:25.960
that, in fact, I just
put some in my backyard called Xeon zeo

1701
02:02:26.159 --> 02:02:30.800
in that's a very fine texture.
Now this is a different creature, you

1702
02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:38.000
know, Saint Augustine, big fat
leaves, open growth habit Xeon almost I

1703
02:02:38.119 --> 02:02:41.319
want to say, golf course green, real dense, dense, dense grass,

1704
02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:44.199
and so you're gonna mow it a
little lower for it to look at

1705
02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:47.840
best. But it is very shade
tolerant. So that, yes, the

1706
02:02:47.920 --> 02:02:51.159
palmetto would be the easy one,
easier to find. You're gonna have to

1707
02:02:51.239 --> 02:02:58.119
hunt around for when we start getting
into specific cultivars of turf, you may

1708
02:02:58.159 --> 02:03:00.039
have to do a little looking to
find the one that you're looking for.

1709
02:03:01.520 --> 02:03:08.079
Is this a high demand right down
and in low supply because of the fright

1710
02:03:08.199 --> 02:03:12.520
trees and the drought that is in
general true. The turf is out there

1711
02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:15.880
and it's getting planted all the time. Right now we're in we're in the

1712
02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:18.600
beginning of the big turf planting season. You know. Once it warms up,

1713
02:03:18.760 --> 02:03:25.880
turf wants to grow and people are
planting it. Uh so the A

1714
02:03:26.840 --> 02:03:30.880
is going to be the best person. It's one of the best. Yeah,

1715
02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:33.359
I would, I would. I
wouldn't hesitate to try the palmetto.

1716
02:03:34.640 --> 02:03:39.199
Okay, let answer that, thanks
so much. All right, all right,

1717
02:03:39.279 --> 02:03:45.079
thank you appreciate the call very much. I said that now's a good

1718
02:03:45.119 --> 02:03:47.319
time to get those trees planted.
Well, Verdant Tree Farm can get you

1719
02:03:47.399 --> 02:03:50.560
set up. You know. Verden's
easy to find. If you're down south,

1720
02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:57.399
go to the Verdant that's over there
south in Pearland. It's on a

1721
02:03:57.520 --> 02:04:00.079
Broadway Street. If you're in the
central go up to the one at it

1722
02:04:00.479 --> 02:04:04.000
and Yale Street in the Heights.
If you're out west, go to the

1723
02:04:04.039 --> 02:04:09.680
one on Barker Cyprus. They have
a wide variety of trees. They credible

1724
02:04:09.760 --> 02:04:14.319
selection of palms as well, and
their turnkey service. You walk in.

1725
02:04:14.640 --> 02:04:15.520
You can even bring them a picture
and say, hey, what do you

1726
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:18.439
think would do well right here?
What would be you know, and they'll

1727
02:04:18.479 --> 02:04:21.039
help you with that. You pick
out your tree, they bring it,

1728
02:04:21.159 --> 02:04:25.039
they plant it, they guarantee it
for a year. Because they planted it,

1729
02:04:25.239 --> 02:04:29.840
they did it right, and it's
easy to do Verdant treefarm dot com

1730
02:04:30.119 --> 02:04:34.319
v er d a n T treefarm
dot com. That makes it simple to

1731
02:04:34.439 --> 02:04:39.640
be able to go about it that
way. Let's go now to Parland and

1732
02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:44.399
talk to Henry. Hello, Henry, good morning. I had a question

1733
02:04:44.680 --> 02:04:49.840
regarding dwarf crape myrtles. First of
all, is there really such a thing,

1734
02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:58.119
because I've purchased what I thought was
a dwarf myrtle before and it ends

1735
02:04:58.199 --> 02:05:02.920
up being you know, larger,
larger species, And I'm just wondering do

1736
02:05:03.000 --> 02:05:08.479
they are they really out there?
And what's the trick to keeping them looking

1737
02:05:08.600 --> 02:05:14.079
at smallish, smaller, dainty type
of size because I have a perfect spot

1738
02:05:14.199 --> 02:05:17.239
for it and I love crape myrtles, And yes, yes there are.

1739
02:05:18.000 --> 02:05:21.359
I'm going to give you you got
a piner pencil handy. Yes, if

1740
02:05:21.399 --> 02:05:28.479
you will do a web search for
crape myrtle and skip Richter my name r

1741
02:05:28.560 --> 02:05:32.720
I c ht er, you'll get
a chart that goes from three feet crape

1742
02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:38.199
myrtles to thirty feet crepe myrtles.
It shows you the flower colors. Now

1743
02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:43.479
that is not an extensive chart,
meaning they're new ones every year, so

1744
02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:45.600
there's gonna be ones that aren't on
the list. But when you see the

1745
02:05:45.680 --> 02:05:48.840
list, you'll see that, yes, you can get a crape myrtle that

1746
02:05:48.920 --> 02:05:54.319
only gets five to seven feet also, or one that gets seven to twelve

1747
02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:58.399
feet for example. But you shouldn't
have to buy a saw when you buy

1748
02:05:58.439 --> 02:06:00.680
a crate murtle. You should buy
one that gets the size you want,

1749
02:06:00.720 --> 02:06:03.560
which is exactly what Henry you're trying
to do. But if you go to

1750
02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:09.439
a quality nursery, those what they're
talking about. They only should sell you

1751
02:06:09.600 --> 02:06:12.880
something that they can tell you how
big it gets, and it should be

1752
02:06:12.960 --> 02:06:15.760
the truth. It shouldn't be I
bob a small one and it got big.

1753
02:06:15.119 --> 02:06:19.199
Shame on that one. About Thank
you all right, Henry, you

1754
02:06:19.319 --> 02:06:25.239
take care. Thank you appreciate appreciate
that call very much. Where you're listening

1755
02:06:25.279 --> 02:06:30.159
to garden Line. I'm going to
be today at M and d Ace Hardware

1756
02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:34.359
out in clear Lake on Bay Area
Bay Area Boulevard. I hope you'll come

1757
02:06:34.399 --> 02:06:36.920
and see me. I'm going to
be giving away a bag of Nitro five

1758
02:06:38.000 --> 02:06:40.840
super turn for ever thirty minutes.
While I'm out there, I'll be answering

1759
02:06:40.880 --> 02:06:44.560
your gardening questions. Bring me some
samples in a bag, bring me some

1760
02:06:44.640 --> 02:06:48.600
photos on your phone. Let's help
you have a more bountiful garden and a

1761
02:06:48.680 --> 02:06:53.439
more beautiful landscape. I love to
visit the viewers. Hope you'll come out

1762
02:06:53.479 --> 02:06:57.399
to M and Dace. I'll be
there from eleven thirty to one thirty today

1763
02:06:57.479 --> 02:07:01.399
at clear Lake. Katrh Garden does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1764
02:07:01.399 --> 02:07:08.800
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to kt r H Garden Line with Skip

1765
02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:20.760
Rict. It's crazy. Just watch
him as Hey, we're going to jump

1766
02:07:20.840 --> 02:07:24.920
on into this hour. We've got
a lot to talk about, so we

1767
02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:28.920
don't want to delay. If you
are doing any kind of transplanting, if

1768
02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:31.600
you're moving houseplants from one pop to
a bigger pot, which we have to

1769
02:07:31.680 --> 02:07:34.359
do from time to time. I
just did some this week. Uh.

1770
02:07:34.560 --> 02:07:40.560
If you are outdoors and you are
planting, let's say flowers, moving them

1771
02:07:40.560 --> 02:07:42.720
out. You bought some flowers,
you brought them home, you're putting them

1772
02:07:42.760 --> 02:07:45.960
in a container, putting them in
a bed, a garden bed. Nutri

1773
02:07:45.039 --> 02:07:49.920
Star Genesis transplant Mix, vegetables,
flowers, herbs, whatever you got.

1774
02:07:50.279 --> 02:07:56.239
It works. It's a six one
three natural fertilizer. It's got the indo

1775
02:07:56.479 --> 02:08:01.359
and actemech microhisol funge. Those are
fungi that grow in association with the plant

1776
02:08:01.479 --> 02:08:03.479
root to make the root more efficient, in other words, make the plant

1777
02:08:03.560 --> 02:08:09.359
happier. If you are looking for
beneficial bacteria. Yes, that's also in

1778
02:08:09.479 --> 02:08:13.359
Genesis transplant mix. It's got a
lot of things to enhance the biology of

1779
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:18.000
the soil when I've used it.
I used it this spring on some pepper

1780
02:08:18.039 --> 02:08:22.199
plants I was growing. The results
were amazing. It really works well.

1781
02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.359
Nutri Shar Genesis comes in little plastic
jars like other products from Nelson's, can

1782
02:08:26.439 --> 02:08:31.159
be purchased and it just works super
well. I encourage you to mix it

1783
02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:35.760
into the potting mix that you're about
to transplant into or the soil bed that

1784
02:08:35.800 --> 02:08:39.479
you're about to transplant into. Then
set your plant in the ground and water

1785
02:08:39.560 --> 02:08:43.960
it in well and you will see
the success. It works. It does

1786
02:08:43.119 --> 02:08:48.720
work really well, and I say
that because I've used it. When was

1787
02:08:48.720 --> 02:08:52.479
the last time you were out at
the antique rosing forium. There's always things

1788
02:08:52.680 --> 02:08:54.920
happening out there. You know,
the place has been around since nineteen eighty

1789
02:08:56.039 --> 02:08:58.880
three. If you want to go
to the website first, I would just

1790
02:08:58.239 --> 02:09:07.000
suggest you start there Antique Roseemporium dot
com Antique rosanporim Emporium dot com. Next

1791
02:09:07.119 --> 02:09:13.399
Saturday, they're going to have a
nice Native Plant partner program bringing a tent

1792
02:09:13.680 --> 02:09:16.560
to the display gardens. You'll want
to check it out. It's a collaboration

1793
02:09:16.640 --> 02:09:20.479
between the Native Plant Society and local
nurseries around the state to offer native plants

1794
02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:24.800
that do well for the environment.
They'll have that They're going to have the

1795
02:09:24.880 --> 02:09:28.119
Tinker Garden. I love that name. It's the newest children's in the Garden

1796
02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:33.279
program Venture. It's an outdoor,
play based educational curriculum for children aged two

1797
02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:37.840
to eight years old. What a
better deal for kids to get to be

1798
02:09:37.960 --> 02:09:41.720
part of. It's a six week
curriculum starts April nineteenth and twentieth at one

1799
02:09:41.840 --> 02:09:46.199
pm, runs through mid May.
It'll be a ticketed event with payment details,

1800
02:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.800
registration openings, and more information coming
soon. So not only follow the

1801
02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:56.039
website Antiqrosimporum dot com, but say
with them on social media as well.

1802
02:09:56.359 --> 02:10:00.920
They've got other programs on beekeeping on
April twentieth and so on. Hey,

1803
02:10:01.279 --> 02:10:03.520
but they're about plants. Do you
need house plants? Herbs? Do you

1804
02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:09.800
need roses? Of course they're about
roses, but so much more bluebonet or

1805
02:10:09.840 --> 02:10:13.560
blooming. You're not gonna find a
better time to visit the Rosenporim than now

1806
02:10:13.000 --> 02:10:16.560
up in Independence, Texas. Plan
it outing and take some friends with you,

1807
02:10:16.640 --> 02:10:20.680
because really, this is a destination. It's not just like going to

1808
02:10:20.760 --> 02:10:24.520
some place that sells plants. I
mean, this is a place where you

1809
02:10:24.680 --> 02:10:28.760
need to go and plan on stay
in a while, because it truly is

1810
02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:31.920
a blast. I want to head
out now to Missouri City and we're gonna

1811
02:10:31.920 --> 02:10:39.760
talk to Lauren. Hello, Lauren, good morning morning. Every year we

1812
02:10:39.920 --> 02:10:46.239
have the same problem with one tree
in our yard. Okay, it's webworms.

1813
02:10:46.319 --> 02:10:48.960
And this year my wife has been
getting out there with the hose and

1814
02:10:50.119 --> 02:10:54.039
her wand and spraying the heck out
of them. The webs go away,

1815
02:10:54.600 --> 02:11:01.039
and she did that yesterday, and
this morning they're back with a vengeance.

1816
02:11:01.119 --> 02:11:05.000
It seems to be pissing them up
more than Okay, is she using just

1817
02:11:05.119 --> 02:11:09.920
water or is she using a pesticide? Yeah, that's the question. It's

1818
02:11:11.039 --> 02:11:13.439
just water. So what pesticide should
we use? Well, first of all,

1819
02:11:15.359 --> 02:11:20.159
doing it in the morning with just
water is not a bad idea because

1820
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:24.720
you break the webs open, and
the number one predator of webworms is paper

1821
02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:30.439
wasps. Paper wasp will get in
there and they'll be hauling them away because

1822
02:11:30.479 --> 02:11:35.600
that's what they like to eat as
caterpillars. And so by overnight they rebuild

1823
02:11:35.640 --> 02:11:37.439
the web around and the paper wasp
can't get to them, so you have

1824
02:11:37.520 --> 02:11:41.520
to break it open again. But
anyway, that's the safest, simplest thing.

1825
02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:43.920
It doesn't eradicate them, but it
keeps them in check. If you're

1826
02:11:43.960 --> 02:11:48.680
going to use the spray and blast
them open, any kind of an insecticide

1827
02:11:48.840 --> 02:11:54.279
put in there is going to kill
them. If you use something with spinosid

1828
02:11:54.800 --> 02:12:01.439
or BT spinosid or BT in the
spray, it'll get on the leaves because

1829
02:12:01.520 --> 02:12:05.760
the blast has broken the webs open, and when it gets inside on the

1830
02:12:05.880 --> 02:12:09.560
leaves and they eat those leaves,
it kills the webworms also. But you

1831
02:12:09.680 --> 02:12:15.520
have to get it on leaves they're
eating within a day or two. Gotcha?

1832
02:12:15.640 --> 02:12:22.439
Okay? The question next question is
application is there this BT or splenosa?

1833
02:12:24.319 --> 02:12:26.159
Is that something you hook up to
the hose and spray or do you

1834
02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:30.119
use it in a sprayer. You
can put it in a hose in sprayer.

1835
02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:33.960
You just have to figure out the
formulation as you're reading the label and

1836
02:12:35.079 --> 02:12:39.560
looking at the setting on the sprayer. But if it'll form a strong stream

1837
02:12:39.800 --> 02:12:43.439
to break through those webs, it'll
work. BT lasts about a day,

1838
02:12:45.520 --> 02:12:48.600
so I would get it out there, you know, and you could put

1839
02:12:48.640 --> 02:12:50.880
it on late in the day or
early in the day, it doesn't matter.

1840
02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:54.119
Lasts about a day, but when
they eat it, they get six

1841
02:12:54.199 --> 02:12:58.039
spinosa. It lasts a little bit. Monger, gotcha. Okay, we'll

1842
02:12:58.079 --> 02:13:01.279
go that route. Thank you so
much. Yeah, good luck with that.

1843
02:13:03.199 --> 02:13:05.079
If you had been dealing with weeds
in your lawn, and I bet

1844
02:13:05.239 --> 02:13:09.920
after last summer, with the lawns
struggling in heat and drought, they've gotten

1845
02:13:09.000 --> 02:13:13.560
thin and wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed. Well barricade.

1846
02:13:15.119 --> 02:13:18.399
Barricade by nitroposs is a pre emergent
herbicide. You put it out,

1847
02:13:18.760 --> 02:13:24.199
follow the label rate. Trust me
on this one. More is not better.

1848
02:13:24.600 --> 02:13:28.520
Follow the label rate. Watered in
with a half inch of water and

1849
02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:31.600
it goes in and forms a barricade
over the sole surface where you will get

1850
02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:37.880
forty five sixty days a protection against
weed seeds sprouting. And you're going to

1851
02:13:37.960 --> 02:13:41.560
find barricade at a task to see
to ace hardware up on tenver forests and

1852
02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:45.079
a task a sea. You're going
to find it at Lake Hardware. Don't

1853
02:13:45.079 --> 02:13:50.520
include You're going to find it at
Gem's Hardware in Montgomery on Liberty FM fourteen

1854
02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:56.439
ninety seven. It's easy to find
and it works. Let's go to now

1855
02:13:56.600 --> 02:13:58.720
we're going to head to Magnolia and
talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy,

1856
02:14:00.960 --> 02:14:03.600
nice, Kip, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. We

1857
02:14:03.720 --> 02:14:05.000
got a short time, but let's
see we can get the question. Then

1858
02:14:05.039 --> 02:14:11.479
I'll come back and answer. Okay, it's a shafta daisy. I've purchased

1859
02:14:11.520 --> 02:14:15.600
it from loads over at to save
me shelf. They look about two of

1860
02:14:15.640 --> 02:14:18.359
them, looked like they were really
wilted. I brought them home, watered

1861
02:14:18.439 --> 02:14:24.079
them. They never picked back up. I'm assuming that they need to go

1862
02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:28.319
into a bigger pot, and I'm
guessing that they're possibly root bound. What

1863
02:14:28.560 --> 02:14:31.960
do I need to do to besides
putting them in a bigger pot? Do

1864
02:14:33.039 --> 02:14:35.840
I need to loosen those roots.
Do I need to cut some of those

1865
02:14:35.920 --> 02:14:39.840
roots down? What do I need
to do with that? Well, initially

1866
02:14:39.119 --> 02:14:43.760
just keeping the sol moist. If
they don't perk up, there's been significant

1867
02:14:43.880 --> 02:14:46.880
damage and you may not be able
to bring them back. But I wouldn't

1868
02:14:48.039 --> 02:14:50.039
go messing with roots right now.
I'd try to first get them to perk

1869
02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:54.079
up, then kind of loosen the
roots up if it does that, and

1870
02:14:54.159 --> 02:14:58.199
get them planted. But I think
they may have gone a little too far.

1871
02:14:58.319 --> 02:15:01.720
There's a reason they're on that shelf. And uh, okay, yeah,

1872
02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:05.479
they've they've they've lived. I've had
them for probably about a week and

1873
02:15:05.520 --> 02:15:09.520
a half and out water them.
They've continued to live. They haven't died,

1874
02:15:09.600 --> 02:15:11.039
but they just never picked back up. All right, Well, let's

1875
02:15:11.239 --> 02:15:13.600
I'm gonna go to break here.
Hang on, I'm gonna put you on

1876
02:15:13.680 --> 02:15:18.760
hold. We'll come back and we'll
continue this discussion. Our phone number is

1877
02:15:18.800 --> 02:15:22.720
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Let's give you a

1878
02:15:22.760 --> 02:15:24.880
little bit. I know you're just
a bugging out there on cutting a rug.

1879
02:15:26.319 --> 02:15:28.359
Hey, welcome back to the Guardenline. Good to have you with us

1880
02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:31.159
today. Uh listen, if you
are looking for a place to get these

1881
02:15:31.239 --> 02:15:35.840
products I'm talking about today. We're
talking about the fertilizers, we're talking about

1882
02:15:35.840 --> 02:15:41.319
the pesticides, we're talking about soil
based products and more. Ace Hardware is

1883
02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:43.479
it. It is fire ant season. You need to have fire ant bait

1884
02:15:43.600 --> 02:15:46.039
on hand. That is the best
way to go. Don't start with a

1885
02:15:46.119 --> 02:15:50.039
mound treatment. That's playing whack a
mole. You'd knock out one mound and

1886
02:15:50.119 --> 02:15:54.840
another one pops up somewhere else.
When you use a bait treatment, it

1887
02:15:54.000 --> 02:15:58.920
gets all the mounds with foraging workers, which is all the mounds, and

1888
02:15:58.039 --> 02:16:01.079
if you escape, you always have
a few escape. Nothing's one hundred percent.

1889
02:16:01.479 --> 02:16:05.840
That's when you go to an individual
treatment that's called the Texas two step.

1890
02:16:05.119 --> 02:16:09.359
There is the bait and then there's
the individual mound treatment. ACE Hardware

1891
02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:13.640
has both of those. Just go
in, do you need mosquito dunks or

1892
02:16:13.720 --> 02:16:18.720
other products for mosquitoes. Ace Hardware's
got you covered. Go to the store

1893
02:16:18.800 --> 02:16:22.960
locator. If you go to acehardware
dot com and find the store locator,

1894
02:16:24.239 --> 02:16:26.239
it'll find the stor's near shoe.
There's forty of them in the Houston area.

1895
02:16:26.439 --> 02:16:31.039
Makes it really easy to do.
But ACE is the police where you

1896
02:16:31.119 --> 02:16:33.879
can find all of that and much
of course, much much more. We're

1897
02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:39.000
going to go now, let's see, I'm going to go to Cindy and

1898
02:16:39.200 --> 02:16:43.239
Magnolia. We were talking about Chestadai'sy's
right, Cindy, Yes, sir,

1899
02:16:43.559 --> 02:16:46.319
all right. I think what you
need to get is something called medina has

1900
02:16:46.399 --> 02:16:52.760
to grow six twelve six. So
it's got it's got a good phosphorus load

1901
02:16:52.799 --> 02:16:58.239
in there to help with the root
development. It has, it's loaded with

1902
02:16:58.360 --> 02:17:01.879
microbial activity that is going to help
the root system. Apparently your plant is

1903
02:17:01.959 --> 02:17:09.600
hanging on in the ICU unit of
of your garden where it's being kept alive,

1904
02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:13.040
but it just can't quite turn the
corner. And I would get the

1905
02:17:13.120 --> 02:17:16.120
medina has to grow six twelve six, mix it according to the label,

1906
02:17:16.200 --> 02:17:18.399
drencher over it and if anything is
going to be able to help it get

1907
02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.760
back on its feed or in this
case of the roots, that would be

1908
02:17:22.840 --> 02:17:24.040
the one that would do it.
And it's gonna be a little touch and

1909
02:17:24.120 --> 02:17:28.600
go here, because like I said, there's a reason those things get put

1910
02:17:28.680 --> 02:17:33.559
on that shelf. Okay, you
say it's the medina, what is it

1911
02:17:33.959 --> 02:17:43.280
has to grow six has to grow
six twelve six. Any a hardware store

1912
02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:48.159
is going to have it. That
probably the you let's see where are you.

1913
02:17:48.360 --> 02:17:50.639
You're up in the Magnolia era.
I'm close to arbor Gate, oh,

1914
02:17:50.799 --> 02:17:54.200
Arburgate, they may well have that. You would just I would just

1915
02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:58.200
go in and ask Beverly one of
the folks there if they've got it.

1916
02:18:00.000 --> 02:18:01.760
And if they don't, you're probably
going to need to run over to a

1917
02:18:03.559 --> 02:18:07.120
local ace hardware store or something along
those lines. But I would check Arbrogate.

1918
02:18:07.239 --> 02:18:11.079
I think there's a good chance they
would have it. Okay, now,

1919
02:18:11.280 --> 02:18:13.559
Charvin, well, thank you so
much for your time. I appreciate

1920
02:18:13.639 --> 02:18:16.239
it. You bet, thank you. I appreciate that call a lot.

1921
02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:20.760
You know, Nature's Way Resources is, they're the ones that have the Fungal

1922
02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:24.760
Fridays where fungal based composts or ten
percent off if you want to buy it

1923
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.520
by the bag, or twenty percent
off if you want to buy it by

1924
02:18:28.559 --> 02:18:33.319
the bulk. John Ferguson at Nature's
Way he has been making composts for a

1925
02:18:33.399 --> 02:18:37.479
long time. He's a soil scientist. He understands when we're talking about things

1926
02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:41.479
like roast soil and we're talking about
things like leaf mold, compost. He's

1927
02:18:41.559 --> 02:18:46.159
got that. He has a wide
variety of products for whatever the situation is.

1928
02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:48.360
You just go in and tell them
what you're wanting to grow and that

1929
02:18:50.200 --> 02:18:52.399
they'll give you the options. You
can bring a trader over there and get

1930
02:18:52.440 --> 02:18:56.399
it. You can load up bags
in your car, you can drive around.

1931
02:18:56.440 --> 02:19:00.280
Some of the garden centers will carry
Nature's Way Resources as well, or

1932
02:19:00.360 --> 02:19:03.040
you can just call them and say, hey, deliver it. Deliver it

1933
02:19:03.120 --> 02:19:07.399
to where I live. Go to
the website Nature'sway Resources dot com or call

1934
02:19:07.520 --> 02:19:13.559
them at nine three six two seven
three twelve hundred nine three six two seven

1935
02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:18.680
three twelve hundred. Let's go over
to Spring. Now we're going to talk

1936
02:19:18.719 --> 02:19:22.120
to Kevin. Hello, Kevin,
Yeah, good morning, Good Morningney.

1937
02:19:24.840 --> 02:19:30.600
I'm briefly earlier I heard you talking
to someone about Zoie's Grasp. Yes,

1938
02:19:30.760 --> 02:19:33.920
and I've been looking at it.
I've seen it on and off over the

1939
02:19:33.040 --> 02:19:41.479
years, you know, magazines of
that type of thing, So I'm looking

1940
02:19:41.559 --> 02:19:45.719
for something a little. The only
that bothers me the most is if,

1941
02:19:45.920 --> 02:19:48.680
first off, is it good for
this client? And secondly, how long

1942
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:54.280
does it take to fill in?
Got some large bare spots? Yeah,

1943
02:19:54.680 --> 02:19:58.559
three hundred and fifty square foot.
The those eyes were a little bit slow

1944
02:19:58.639 --> 02:20:03.520
moving. Some of the new ones
move pretty fast compared to Saint Augustine.

1945
02:20:03.559 --> 02:20:09.239
Probably not as fast, but close. I I've I've got two different kinds

1946
02:20:09.280 --> 02:20:13.840
of Zuisia in different areas of my
property, and I think they both are

1947
02:20:13.920 --> 02:20:18.959
going to do super super well.
They're recently planted, but I've seen zoysias

1948
02:20:18.000 --> 02:20:22.959
through the years that just look super
They look really well. Palisades is one

1949
02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:26.120
of the kinds that has a little
bit of a broader leaf for zoysia.

1950
02:20:26.559 --> 02:20:30.719
If you're comparing it to Saint Augustine, the leaf blader are about a third

1951
02:20:30.920 --> 02:20:33.600
is wide as Saint Augustine, and
then there's some very fine texture ones.

1952
02:20:33.639 --> 02:20:39.719
Most people go with the broader leaf
type of it's called palisades. Palisade is

1953
02:20:39.799 --> 02:20:46.120
one variety. There's a number of
them. Does a matter if it's full

1954
02:20:46.239 --> 02:20:50.840
sound shade. It will take quite
a bit of shade, not quite as

1955
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.680
shade tolerant as Saint Augustine, but
it will put up. I've seen it

1956
02:20:54.159 --> 02:21:00.440
sassa mountain tomball under some real tall
oak trees. It's almost solid shade covered

1957
02:21:00.520 --> 02:21:05.840
the yard, but it's very bright
shade and it was looking Awesomelises is fun.

1958
02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:09.799
Don't don't get hung up though on
just having to find Palisades. I

1959
02:21:09.879 --> 02:21:13.879
mean, there's there's Jammer, Uh, there's al Toro. There's a lot

1960
02:21:13.959 --> 02:21:18.680
of cultivars out there. Palisades is
the one, uh that that I chose

1961
02:21:18.760 --> 02:21:22.520
to go with in my yard.
But but it's not it's like you have

1962
02:21:22.040 --> 02:21:26.680
that one and this I was gonna
order. If I did, I was

1963
02:21:26.680 --> 02:21:28.040
going to order the three inch plugs. Is that how you do it with

1964
02:21:28.120 --> 02:21:31.719
plugs? Well, you could do
that. That's quitty slow, that's pretty

1965
02:21:31.760 --> 02:21:37.920
slow. I would Uh can you
can? Oh? Yeah, you can

1966
02:21:37.959 --> 02:21:41.200
buy sod. That's the fast way
to go. Of course costs more to

1967
02:21:41.639 --> 02:21:43.760
wall. The wall said it,
Uh, if you wanted to kind of

1968
02:21:43.799 --> 02:21:48.280
do something in between. I have
bought grass pieces before, like sod pieces,

1969
02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:54.319
and taking them at chete and chop
them up into strips and plant them

1970
02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:58.639
about with you had probably been about
ten inches apart something like that. Begin

1971
02:21:58.760 --> 02:22:03.680
watering and fertilizing it to get it
to close over. You're gonna have little

1972
02:22:03.680 --> 02:22:07.959
weed issues to deal with in those
beare spots. But that that would be

1973
02:22:07.040 --> 02:22:11.760
one way to go. And if
I went, if I went the whole

1974
02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:13.799
sod. Do you know what it
costs per square foot? Roughly? I

1975
02:22:13.959 --> 02:22:20.399
do not, And it's going to
vary between cultivars and the sources quite a

1976
02:22:20.440 --> 02:22:26.159
bit. Yeah, okay. And
then the other thing, let's go real

1977
02:22:26.239 --> 02:22:31.920
quick quick so I can The other
thing is this particular at of the zois

1978
02:22:31.959 --> 02:22:35.799
at farms. It's there in Maryland. I mean you can buy it locally.

1979
02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:39.200
I understand from what you're saying.
Don't mail order plugs. That is

1980
02:22:39.319 --> 02:22:43.360
the most expensive per square foot you're
going to have. Don't do that.

1981
02:22:43.879 --> 02:22:48.799
Go local, find a good soil, find a sod supplier here and follow

1982
02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:50.680
that. Let me give you one
more website that I want you to go

1983
02:22:50.840 --> 02:22:58.079
to before you go out shopping.
It's Aggie Turf Aggie Turf dot t a

1984
02:22:58.360 --> 02:23:05.440
m U Texas A and M University
dot e d U Aggie Turf dot Tamou

1985
02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:09.520
dot e d U. Look under
Texas turf Grasses. It's gonna be on

1986
02:23:09.559 --> 02:23:13.879
the bottom left. And go to
Zotzia and read about it, learn about

1987
02:23:13.920 --> 02:23:16.959
the types and they they'll have a
list of varieties on that website that will

1988
02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:20.760
be helpful for you. Okay,
okay, and spell our game real quick.

1989
02:23:20.840 --> 02:23:28.799
T uh aggie a g g I
E turf at dot t a m

1990
02:23:30.399 --> 02:23:35.399
u m tamou dot e d u. All right, all right, Kevin,

1991
02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:39.079
thank you sir, Yes, sir, good luck with that. Hey,

1992
02:23:39.200 --> 02:23:43.760
when was the last time you're RCW
Nursery. I told you earlier.

1993
02:23:43.879 --> 02:23:48.959
They have got still got ten percent
off on their roses and they have the

1994
02:23:48.040 --> 02:23:52.159
selection like none other. Go to
the website r CW Nurseries dot com,

1995
02:23:52.719 --> 02:23:56.280
take a look at the list of
roses and then give them a call.

1996
02:23:56.639 --> 02:23:58.079
Make sure they've got it in because
you know there are other people, a

1997
02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:03.680
lot of people that are rose enthusiast
shop at RCW because they know the quality

1998
02:24:03.680 --> 02:24:05.440
of what they have. You want
to give them a call, want to

1999
02:24:05.440 --> 02:24:09.360
make sure they've got what it is
that you're looking for. So they probably

2000
02:24:09.479 --> 02:24:13.559
still do, but I would just
be sure. I would give them call

2001
02:24:13.719 --> 02:24:16.879
just so you're absolutely sure. Now
are you there? You're going to see

2002
02:24:16.920 --> 02:24:20.520
shrubs, You're going to see trees. I mean, they have excellent selection

2003
02:24:20.799 --> 02:24:24.639
on all kinds of things, including
the products. The fertilizers that I talk

2004
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:28.399
about on guardline and the root stimulators
are things you might want to buy.

2005
02:24:28.479 --> 02:24:31.120
When you buy a woody ornamental like
a shrub. The phone number two eight

2006
02:24:31.200 --> 02:24:39.239
one four four zero fifty one sixty
one two eight one four four zero five

2007
02:24:39.280 --> 02:24:43.079
to one six' one makes it really
easy RCW. By the way, they

2008
02:24:43.159 --> 02:24:48.479
are where Tombo Parkway Highway two forty
nine comes into belt Wag eight, so

2009
02:24:48.559 --> 02:24:56.000
it makes it really easy to find
them and to get to them. You've

2010
02:24:56.000 --> 02:25:00.799
heard me talk about Southwest Fertilizer before. They're on corner of Busin and Runwick

2011
02:25:01.239 --> 02:25:07.600
and Southwest Fertilizer is the place to
go for anything that you need to enhance

2012
02:25:07.920 --> 02:25:13.959
your plant growth, to control the
things that attack your plants, for the

2013
02:25:13.120 --> 02:25:16.920
tools you need. They even have
a little repair shop in the back for

2014
02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:20.719
small engine. It's everything, and
when I say that, I mean it.

2015
02:25:20.799 --> 02:25:24.959
You need to go there to see
it. Every fertilizer I talk about,

2016
02:25:24.040 --> 02:25:30.600
and more, every soil product.
We're talking about insecticides to control pathts.

2017
02:25:30.639 --> 02:25:33.799
We're talking about fungicides to control disease. We're talking about herbicides to manage

2018
02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:39.799
weeds, pre emergent post emergent solid
liquid. We're talking about the spreaders to

2019
02:25:39.840 --> 02:25:43.680
put out fertilizer. We're talking about
seeds. We're talking about eighty foot wall

2020
02:25:43.760 --> 02:25:48.440
of tools everything. If Southwest Fertilizer
doesn't have it, you don't need it,

2021
02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:52.040
go to the website or just go
buy there. They're on the corner

2022
02:25:52.399 --> 02:25:56.799
of this and that and Runwick.
The website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

2023
02:25:56.360 --> 02:26:00.879
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. I can
guarantee you this. If you hear me

2024
02:26:01.000 --> 02:26:05.840
talk about a product on guardline.
Southwest Fertilizer already has it. They already

2025
02:26:05.879 --> 02:26:07.760
have it. And if they don't
have something, I don't think that's ever

2026
02:26:07.840 --> 02:26:11.040
happened. But if they don't have
something, they can sure find it and

2027
02:26:11.159 --> 02:26:13.920
get it for you. That's pretty
important. For example, Sweet Green,

2028
02:26:15.200 --> 02:26:18.959
you know the fertilizer by Nitroposs I've
been talking about today. Eleven percent nitrogen

2029
02:26:20.040 --> 02:26:24.200
for an organic fertilizer. That's an
incredible amount and it smells wonderful. It's

2030
02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:28.879
made from a molasses base with microbial
activity turning it into a good plant food.

2031
02:26:28.319 --> 02:26:31.200
Now Sweet Green, you put in
the back of the car and drive

2032
02:26:31.239 --> 02:26:35.399
around, you just want to keep
driving because it smells a good back there

2033
02:26:35.760 --> 02:26:39.000
with that molassa's base. Where do
you get Sweet Green? Well, you

2034
02:26:39.040 --> 02:26:41.920
can go to D and D Feed
up there in Tomball, they're going to

2035
02:26:41.000 --> 02:26:46.440
fix you up with Sweet Green Lake
Hardware. In Angleton and Velasco, they're

2036
02:26:46.520 --> 02:26:48.959
going to have it. Fisher's Hardware. Over in Baytown they're going to have

2037
02:26:50.040 --> 02:26:52.879
Sweet Green as well. Easy to
find and you will like the way this

2038
02:26:54.040 --> 02:26:58.239
one works. It is a high
quality fertilizer with a good nitrogen boost,

2039
02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:05.319
which is what our turf needs to
have success. I am gonna take a

2040
02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:07.520
little break here and we're gonna turn
it over to Nicky and the News.

2041
02:27:09.120 --> 02:27:11.920
I want to remind you our phone
number is seven one three two one two

2042
02:27:13.479 --> 02:27:18.000
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

2043
02:27:18.079 --> 02:27:20.079
You can give us a call,
Josh, we'll get you on the board.

2044
02:27:20.159 --> 02:27:24.200
Don't forget that. I'm gonna be
at M and D Ace Hardware on

2045
02:27:24.360 --> 02:27:30.000
Bay Area Boulevard today. That's M
and D Clear Lake on Bay and A

2046
02:27:30.639 --> 02:27:35.920
Bay and A Bay Area Boulevard today. I'll be there from eleven thirty to

2047
02:27:35.120 --> 02:27:37.879
one thirty answering your gardening questions.
Come on and see me. Hey,

2048
02:27:37.879 --> 02:27:41.680
I'm gonna be giving away free bags
of nine to five super turf while we're

2049
02:27:41.719 --> 02:27:46.120
there. Welcome back to the garden
line. What do we want to talk

2050
02:27:46.120 --> 02:27:48.000
about today? Hey, this is
our last hour of the morning. I'll

2051
02:27:48.040 --> 02:27:52.239
be back tomorrow morning six am to
ten am. But if you got any

2052
02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:56.280
questions now, it's time to call
seven to one three two one two five

2053
02:27:56.520 --> 02:28:01.600
eight seven four listen to If you
are looking at a landscape that took a

2054
02:28:01.760 --> 02:28:05.959
beating last year, or if you're
just looking at landscape going, you know

2055
02:28:05.879 --> 02:28:09.680
it looks a little blah and I
would like it to pop, Well,

2056
02:28:09.159 --> 02:28:15.239
call Jason at Peerscapes. I mean
Pierscapes. They have been doing this for

2057
02:28:15.319 --> 02:28:18.399
a long time. They've got designers
on staff. I mean, you want

2058
02:28:18.399 --> 02:28:20.840
to go all out and really transform
the place. Nobody can do it like

2059
02:28:20.920 --> 02:28:26.680
they can. It is unbelievable the
work that they do. Just trust me

2060
02:28:26.760 --> 02:28:28.879
on this, but go look at
pierscapes dot com. Go to the website

2061
02:28:28.959 --> 02:28:33.760
peerscapes dot com. You will be
stunned at the work that they can do.

2062
02:28:33.520 --> 02:28:39.840
Rock gardens, pathway, garden pathways, hardescapes, water feature, the

2063
02:28:41.200 --> 02:28:43.399
drainage issues. Do you have drainage
issues where then they can fix that.

2064
02:28:45.159 --> 02:28:48.799
Do you have an irrigation system.
I've been working on my irrigation system fixing

2065
02:28:48.920 --> 02:28:54.559
head head after head this last week
misaligned night the right head. Whoever installed

2066
02:28:54.600 --> 02:28:58.280
it did it wrong. Piercescapes can
do all that for you. And summer's

2067
02:28:58.360 --> 02:29:00.639
coming, you need to be ready
to go. But listen, you need

2068
02:29:00.680 --> 02:29:03.879
to ask about their quarterly maintenance for
beds. They come out every quarter.

2069
02:29:03.959 --> 02:29:07.639
You sign up with a I want
you to come out every quarter, they'll

2070
02:29:07.680 --> 02:29:11.680
come out. They'll do trimming and
weeding and fertilizing. They'll check the irrigation

2071
02:29:11.879 --> 02:29:13.959
system. Now, if repairs are
needed, that's extra, but they'll look

2072
02:29:15.000 --> 02:29:18.319
it over, make sure things are
working right. They can do aeration and

2073
02:29:18.399 --> 02:29:22.520
seasonal color changes. Do you want
to see twice a year change in your

2074
02:29:22.600 --> 02:29:26.159
landscape color? Do you want it
to be more quarterly change in your landscape

2075
02:29:26.200 --> 02:29:30.000
color. They'll do mulching of the
beds, making sure the mulch is maintained

2076
02:29:30.040 --> 02:29:33.920
so weed problems are less. Listen, they can do it all purescapes dot

2077
02:29:35.040 --> 02:29:39.719
com or write this phone number down
give them a call two eight one three

2078
02:29:39.920 --> 02:29:43.159
seven zero five zero six zero.
And you need to understand this. A

2079
02:29:43.319 --> 02:29:48.680
good landscaper, someone who knows what
they're doing, is going to be busy

2080
02:29:48.799 --> 02:29:52.559
right now, very busy, so
it may be weeks, if not months

2081
02:29:52.600 --> 02:29:56.360
in advance, and some of these
folks are booking out. Do not wait

2082
02:29:56.440 --> 02:29:58.840
around, get on the phone,
make a call. Depending on the size

2083
02:29:58.840 --> 02:30:01.760
of you, your job and everything, you know they're going to get to

2084
02:30:01.920 --> 02:30:05.600
it. But you want to get
on the books so that you can get

2085
02:30:05.719 --> 02:30:11.000
that work done because you're asking someone
who's a professional pierscapes to come on site

2086
02:30:11.360 --> 02:30:15.159
and really transform the place, and
that's what they specialize in. We're going

2087
02:30:15.200 --> 02:30:20.159
to head now to Terry and Montgomery. Hello Terry, Hi, Randy.

2088
02:30:20.319 --> 02:30:26.680
I have see la gust from bushes
that surround my house. They're like twenty

2089
02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:30.319
years old and they took a beating
last year. But this year I noticed

2090
02:30:30.399 --> 02:30:35.280
the new growth is curling. Why
are the leaves curling? Tell me the

2091
02:30:35.399 --> 02:30:41.280
name of the plan again. It's
like the wax leaf. Yeah, yeah,

2092
02:30:41.440 --> 02:30:45.680
Is it the old leaves that are
curling or the new leaves? The

2093
02:30:45.799 --> 02:30:50.479
new leaves? Okay, first of
all, thanks for the compliment calling me

2094
02:30:50.639 --> 02:30:56.319
Randy. I take that as a
company. The leaves when they're new growth

2095
02:30:56.479 --> 02:31:00.440
curling on a shrub, it could
be doesn't have to be. It could

2096
02:31:00.520 --> 02:31:05.440
be due to a broad leaf post
emergent herbicide being used around the shrub,

2097
02:31:05.000 --> 02:31:09.319
or a sprayer being used on the
shrub that once had one of those in

2098
02:31:09.440 --> 02:31:11.719
it. I'm saying that's the long
shot, but I want to throw it

2099
02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:16.959
out there as a possibility. Wax
leafs will do some leaf curling. It's

2100
02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:20.120
just kind of a stress related response. I've seen it. Usually when that's

2101
02:31:20.200 --> 02:31:24.079
the case, they just pull out
of it and they seem to be fine

2102
02:31:24.360 --> 02:31:26.479
and not worried about it. What
I'm gonna do, Terry, is as

2103
02:31:26.559 --> 02:31:28.920
we finish you, i'm gonna put
you on hold, and if you'll send

2104
02:31:30.000 --> 02:31:35.280
me some close up pictures showing me
what you're seeing, I'll comment on it

2105
02:31:35.440 --> 02:31:39.280
further because maybe there's something I'm imagining
that is not exactly what's happening right there.

2106
02:31:41.840 --> 02:31:43.399
Okay, Okay, so they had
brown spot and I had to fix

2107
02:31:43.479 --> 02:31:46.399
that, and then now this.
It just seems like I'm destined to lose

2108
02:31:46.440 --> 02:31:50.680
all of the I'm gonna lost about
Fulty bushes. Oh wow, Okay,

2109
02:31:50.799 --> 02:31:54.399
well it's not. It's not on
my top ten list of shrubs. For

2110
02:31:54.520 --> 02:31:58.399
sure. They'll waxually forgets. Okay, it has issues, and so but

2111
02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:01.920
let me take a look at it
show me the whole shrub group from a

2112
02:32:01.959 --> 02:32:05.360
distance, but then especially the close
ups, and I'll be happy to comment.

2113
02:32:05.760 --> 02:32:09.440
I'm gonna put you can I have
you because there's something I can just

2114
02:32:09.479 --> 02:32:15.319
like email them to you. That's
what I'm going to put you on hold.

2115
02:32:15.399 --> 02:32:18.399
Josh is going to give you an
email that to send them to Just

2116
02:32:18.479 --> 02:32:22.920
hang on all right, Yeah,
I appreciate that call. We're going to

2117
02:32:22.959 --> 02:32:26.920
go to St. Leone and talk
to Rick. Hello, Rick, honey,

2118
02:32:26.399 --> 02:32:31.120
honey, I know the problem.
I've been fighting these vines for ten

2119
02:32:31.200 --> 02:32:33.760
years and I'm now I'm trying to
figure out how to kill them. Okay,

2120
02:32:35.399 --> 02:32:37.799
do you know what goes on?
Uh? No? But they put

2121
02:32:37.879 --> 02:32:43.520
it like a white flower out okay, and they just keep They're taking over

2122
02:32:43.639 --> 02:32:48.079
my trees. And I pulled five
inches stick of vines out of my backyard

2123
02:32:50.520 --> 02:32:54.000
to try to get rid of them
when I first moved in. Now they're

2124
02:32:54.799 --> 02:32:56.239
just coming all back. So I
was wondering, as they're kind of poison

2125
02:32:56.319 --> 02:33:01.360
or anything I kill them with?
Well, yeah, us, I kind

2126
02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:03.239
of like to figure out what they
are. It would be helpful. But

2127
02:33:05.000 --> 02:33:07.440
let me ask this. Does the
vine kind of stay like a woody part

2128
02:33:07.520 --> 02:33:11.920
in the tree and then relief each
spring or does it die of the ground,

2129
02:33:11.000 --> 02:33:15.280
have to start all over from the
ground. O Oh no, it

2130
02:33:15.559 --> 02:33:20.079
grows all year round. Okay,
what you need to get as a product

2131
02:33:20.120 --> 02:33:30.079
that contains trimech t r I m
E C trime mech. It may on

2132
02:33:30.239 --> 02:33:35.040
a home garden market. It may
be called you know, brush killer or

2133
02:33:35.120 --> 02:33:41.159
poison ivy killer or something like that, but it kills brushy broad leaf weeds.

2134
02:33:41.959 --> 02:33:45.879
You don't want to get it on
desirable plants because it can kill those

2135
02:33:46.000 --> 02:33:48.799
two. But you just need to
get on the lad So if it's if

2136
02:33:48.799 --> 02:33:52.200
it's like sometimes people will call and
they've got like a poison ivy going up

2137
02:33:52.200 --> 02:33:56.520
a tree trunk, and you just
cut it there. You can just cut

2138
02:33:56.600 --> 02:34:01.879
the section of the of the ivy
vine off and dab the cut surface with

2139
02:34:01.040 --> 02:34:05.760
the trimac and that'll do it.
Or you can mix it up and spray

2140
02:34:05.799 --> 02:34:07.680
it on the foliage. But that's
where you get into the danger of getting

2141
02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:13.159
it on something you don't want to
kill. Well, it's so thick.

2142
02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:16.319
I don't have any grass anymore,
so I'm trying to get rid of bry

2143
02:34:16.360 --> 02:34:20.920
and grow grass again. Let's do
this, rick I just want to make

2144
02:34:20.920 --> 02:34:24.559
sure I got the right kind of
idea here, because I'm trying to picture

2145
02:34:24.600 --> 02:34:26.639
what you have. Can I put
you on a hold and have Josh give

2146
02:34:26.719 --> 02:34:31.719
you my email address, and would
you send me some pictures of the whole

2147
02:34:31.760 --> 02:34:35.760
area and something really close and sharp
focus so I can see the leaves and

2148
02:34:35.799 --> 02:34:39.600
the flowers on this plant, and
I may adjust my advice just a bit

2149
02:34:39.959 --> 02:34:43.319
based on CNA. See what's said
is the neighbor put a twenty five foot

2150
02:34:43.399 --> 02:34:48.639
tall fence up and now it's grown
all up the fence, all the way

2151
02:34:48.719 --> 02:34:52.239
down mine through my yard. I
can't stop it. It's trying to grow

2152
02:34:52.239 --> 02:34:56.799
in the houses. Well, sounds
like you got a little shop of horrors

2153
02:34:56.879 --> 02:35:01.479
going on over there. I do. I just need to hate them all

2154
02:35:01.559 --> 02:35:03.799
right. Well, for me to
help you the best, let me send

2155
02:35:03.840 --> 02:35:07.600
me some pictures. I'll put you
on hold right now and we'll take it.

2156
02:35:07.040 --> 02:35:11.399
You bet, Thank you very much. That is that is unusual?

2157
02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:13.760
Uh? You know, I'm going
to be giving away super turf. That

2158
02:35:15.000 --> 02:35:18.120
is the Nitrofoss product. It's a
silver bag. It's a nineteen four to

2159
02:35:18.200 --> 02:35:24.200
ten. I'm giving away one every
thirty minutes today. I'm going to be

2160
02:35:24.239 --> 02:35:28.000
out there at the uh Ace Hardware
store. It is called M and D

2161
02:35:28.559 --> 02:35:33.879
clear Lake Ace Hardware. The M
and D Ace Hardware in clear Lake,

2162
02:35:33.959 --> 02:35:37.840
Texas. It's on Bay Area Boulevard, real close to NASA there. Come

2163
02:35:37.879 --> 02:35:39.319
out and see me. We're going
to be ever thirty minutes giving a bag

2164
02:35:39.399 --> 02:35:41.559
of that a way. If you
aren't able to come out, or if

2165
02:35:41.559 --> 02:35:45.879
you don't win one, you need
to buy one. That is an excellent

2166
02:35:46.000 --> 02:35:50.840
slow release gradual turf fertilizer to build
turf density. When you feed your lawn

2167
02:35:52.520 --> 02:35:56.639
properly, when you more regularly,
when you water it adequately, you build

2168
02:35:56.680 --> 02:36:01.520
density and your weed problems go downhill
faster and faster by you creating a turf.

2169
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:05.879
They just can't survive in very few
weeds. There are a few,

2170
02:36:05.079 --> 02:36:09.360
but very few that survive and thrive
in a dense healthy Saint Augustine turf.

2171
02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:15.719
And super turf will create a super
turf, a dense healthy Saint Augustine terf.

2172
02:36:16.000 --> 02:36:18.559
Night Fuss products available all over the
place, not hard to find those.

2173
02:36:18.600 --> 02:36:22.760
You can go a lot of different
places up in Montgomery. Jim's Hardware

2174
02:36:22.040 --> 02:36:24.920
they've got it up there. You
can find it at a Task Sea to

2175
02:36:26.000 --> 02:36:28.559
ace. You can find it a
growers outlet up in Willis or shades of

2176
02:36:28.680 --> 02:36:33.680
Green or shades of Texas, excuse
me, up in the woodlands. Easy

2177
02:36:33.719 --> 02:36:37.719
to find them. Let's take a
little break here. When I come back,

2178
02:36:37.840 --> 02:36:39.520
Charles, you will be the first
up. We're running out of time

2179
02:36:39.559 --> 02:36:43.120
today, so if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

2180
02:36:43.200 --> 02:36:46.520
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have

2181
02:36:46.680 --> 02:36:50.399
you with us today. Happy to
talk about any kind of gardening questions you

2182
02:36:50.520 --> 02:36:54.799
might have. We're going to start
off by going to Spring, Texas and

2183
02:36:54.959 --> 02:36:58.680
talking to Charles. Hello, Charles, good morning you if you hear me,

2184
02:36:58.760 --> 02:37:03.239
okay, I can thank you,
I can thank you. Good good.

2185
02:37:03.479 --> 02:37:05.200
Let's appreciate saying the call. I
just had a quick question. I've

2186
02:37:05.280 --> 02:37:09.239
had some what I was told or
called ferry circles and my grant in my

2187
02:37:09.399 --> 02:37:13.319
yard. They're about four feet diameter, about twelve inches wide, and they

2188
02:37:13.399 --> 02:37:18.280
just make the almost perfect circle.
They popped up about a week or so

2189
02:37:18.399 --> 02:37:22.440
ago, and I got four or
five of them. Okay, wondering what

2190
02:37:22.639 --> 02:37:26.280
you might suggest. You're talking about
little white mushroom, A little white mushroom,

2191
02:37:26.559 --> 02:37:28.200
Hey, well, I haven't seen
it. Yes, sir, I

2192
02:37:28.280 --> 02:37:33.040
need to turn out radio down in
that round, okay, or maybe you're

2193
02:37:33.079 --> 02:37:37.680
on speakerphone that may be it.
Well, I'm actually in the car.

2194
02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:39.879
Oh okay, okay, let me
let me get hold on, let me

2195
02:37:39.959 --> 02:37:43.879
just get you off here a second. I'm sorry. Okay, Okay,

2196
02:37:43.959 --> 02:37:48.600
they're better. That's better. So
are they mushrooms that you're saying, Well,

2197
02:37:48.959 --> 02:37:52.799
I haven't seen any blooms yet of
any kind. It's just it's just

2198
02:37:52.840 --> 02:37:56.600
a little brown patch. It's just
circular. I think someone makes they could

2199
02:37:56.600 --> 02:38:01.280
be mushrooms with some combat. I
don't know. Well, we get fairy

2200
02:38:01.360 --> 02:38:07.920
rings, which are a it's a
fungus decomposing the thatch. So it's it's

2201
02:38:07.000 --> 02:38:11.680
not a bad organism, it's a
good organism. But it makes you get

2202
02:38:11.799 --> 02:38:15.479
green circles that then little white mushrooms
pop up in them in the yard.

2203
02:38:15.920 --> 02:38:20.840
That's one thing. If you're seeing
brown circles, that's a disease called large

2204
02:38:20.959 --> 02:38:24.879
patch. Most people still call it
brown patch, the old name, uh,

2205
02:38:26.079 --> 02:38:30.120
And that is one that you can
put a fungicide down to prevent it.

2206
02:38:30.719 --> 02:38:33.000
You know, once we hit this
point in the season, it's going

2207
02:38:33.040 --> 02:38:37.200
to be warming up and the large
patch is going to be going away on

2208
02:38:37.319 --> 02:38:43.040
its own. Fungicide doesn't make brown
grass green, it just prevents further infection,

2209
02:38:43.879 --> 02:38:46.159
so you kind of I don't know
that it's worth doing a treatment for

2210
02:38:46.319 --> 02:38:50.520
it at this point. You certainly
can't. But it's one that we deal

2211
02:38:50.559 --> 02:38:54.520
with. If you go online,
have two schedules online that are free to

2212
02:38:54.639 --> 02:39:01.079
download. It's at gardening with Skip
dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com.

2213
02:39:01.520 --> 02:39:05.280
There's the lock care schedule, which
is fertilizing, mowing, watering your

2214
02:39:05.319 --> 02:39:09.040
lawn, and then there's everything that
goes wrong with your lawn schedule. That's

2215
02:39:09.159 --> 02:39:13.360
the lawn pest disease and weed management. If you look on the disease line,

2216
02:39:13.840 --> 02:39:18.920
it tells you when to treat for
large patch or brown patch, and

2217
02:39:18.079 --> 02:39:24.239
we're kind of passed that time right
now. But in the fall October is

2218
02:39:24.360 --> 02:39:28.760
when you're probably going to see it
resurface, if indeed that's the disease that

2219
02:39:28.879 --> 02:39:33.959
it is. Okay, okay,
very good. Next, real quick question.

2220
02:39:33.959 --> 02:39:35.920
I know you got to go about
three four weeks ago, I put

2221
02:39:35.959 --> 02:39:39.200
some weed and feed in my yard, okay, and it had done a

2222
02:39:39.239 --> 02:39:45.319
whole lot. You mentioned something about
super turf for some kind of stuff.

2223
02:39:45.639 --> 02:39:48.000
Yeah, wull be okay to put
something like that on there now, Yeah,

2224
02:39:48.079 --> 02:39:50.959
sure, it absolutely would be.
That's a nineteen four to ten.

2225
02:39:50.440 --> 02:39:56.159
It's a silver bag by Nitroposs and
you absolutely can't put it on now,

2226
02:39:56.280 --> 02:39:58.239
and that should give you a release
of nutrients for the next two or three

2227
02:39:58.319 --> 02:40:01.879
months. Okay, that makes it
very good. I enjoy your show.

2228
02:40:03.000 --> 02:40:05.559
Thank you so much. Well,
thank you, I appreciate I appreciate it

2229
02:40:05.639 --> 02:40:09.479
very much. Are you saying that
we have a good day, Yes,

2230
02:40:09.520 --> 02:40:11.520
sir, you as well. Hey
have you been out to Nelson Watergarden?

2231
02:40:13.399 --> 02:40:16.239
Have you? Watergarden and Nursery?
Actually, I should say that's out in

2232
02:40:16.360 --> 02:40:18.600
Katie, Texas. Just think of
it as your West Houston nursery. That's

2233
02:40:18.639 --> 02:40:24.319
an easy way. They have one
of a kind plants. They've got unbelievable

2234
02:40:24.399 --> 02:40:26.680
selection of some of the most beautiful
containers I've ever seen. I really mean

2235
02:40:26.760 --> 02:40:31.799
that. They have fish, they
have fountains. They specialize in helping you

2236
02:40:31.959 --> 02:40:35.159
create a beautiful space, so you
can you can go online sign up,

2237
02:40:35.239 --> 02:40:37.760
or you can go by there and
talk to them. First, you need

2238
02:40:37.840 --> 02:40:41.159
to go by because it's a show
place, walk through and look at all

2239
02:40:41.239 --> 02:40:43.639
the kinds of work they can do. It's all there on site. You

2240
02:40:43.799 --> 02:40:50.639
just like wandering through water wonderland when
you go through that place. Nelsonwatergardens dot

2241
02:40:50.799 --> 02:40:54.719
com. That's the website. The
location, Katie Fort Benroad. Head out

2242
02:40:54.760 --> 02:40:58.600
to Katie, turn right on Katie
Fort Ben Road. If you're coming from

2243
02:40:58.639 --> 02:41:05.000
Houston, it's just a stone's throw
away up the street there and you can

2244
02:41:05.079 --> 02:41:07.600
really see. You can start small. They're a little container watergarden. It's

2245
02:41:07.639 --> 02:41:11.760
an easy way to start. Go
look, go look at them. You'll

2246
02:41:11.760 --> 02:41:15.200
see what I'm talking about. They're
beautiful. Do you want to create some

2247
02:41:15.319 --> 02:41:18.319
aquatic plants in a water garden?
Maybe a waterfall? Do you want to

2248
02:41:18.319 --> 02:41:22.639
put some koi or goldfish or shabunka, all kinds of different things out there.

2249
02:41:24.719 --> 02:41:28.120
Just go and look and you'll see
what I'm talking about. You can

2250
02:41:28.879 --> 02:41:31.600
do it yourself, you can hire
them to come out and do it.

2251
02:41:31.239 --> 02:41:35.559
They are experts. They're internationally known
experts. Really, I mean these people

2252
02:41:35.680 --> 02:41:41.200
have been they've been setting the stage
just really the standard for water gardening for

2253
02:41:41.280 --> 02:41:48.399
a very very long time. The
creators of that disappearing large container fountains that

2254
02:41:48.799 --> 02:41:54.760
just man, they're cool. They're
really nice. Nelsonwatergarden dot com out and

2255
02:41:54.879 --> 02:41:58.079
Katie go check them out. You'll
see what I'm talking about. We're going

2256
02:41:58.159 --> 02:42:01.879
to go now to Spring and talk
to Jamie. Hello Jamie. Hi,

2257
02:42:01.040 --> 02:42:07.040
Skip, Hey, I have my
front lawn. I know I've got some

2258
02:42:07.239 --> 02:42:11.399
areas that have thatch, and then
there's some areas where I'm not sure if

2259
02:42:11.440 --> 02:42:13.680
I just need to replace the sad. I want to see if I can

2260
02:42:13.719 --> 02:42:18.239
send you some pictures. Yes,
you sure can. I'm going to put

2261
02:42:18.239 --> 02:42:22.079
you on hole while we're done talking, but we'll take a look at it.

2262
02:42:22.479 --> 02:42:24.319
If you go out there and you
walk on your lawn and it feels

2263
02:42:24.399 --> 02:42:30.159
spongy because you're walking on a stack
of runners that are cross crossing back and

2264
02:42:30.319 --> 02:42:33.280
forth underneath the lawn, that's thatch, and that's a sign you got to

2265
02:42:33.319 --> 02:42:37.639
do something about it. That's sponginess
to it. That's one of the things.

2266
02:42:37.760 --> 02:42:41.520
But take some pictures, get up
close. Let me see some good,

2267
02:42:41.600 --> 02:42:45.239
sharp focused pictures, and we will
be happy to take a look.

2268
02:42:46.319 --> 02:42:48.920
Okay, love the show, Skip, thank you, Thank you, Jamie.

2269
02:42:48.920 --> 02:42:50.239
I' putting you on hole right now. Josh, we'll pick it up.

2270
02:42:50.319 --> 02:42:54.000
So just hang on. We're going
to go now to spring branch and

2271
02:42:54.079 --> 02:43:00.799
talk to Herda. Hello, Herda. Let me try that again. It

2272
02:43:00.879 --> 02:43:03.440
helps if I click on the right
button. How are you doing today?

2273
02:43:03.440 --> 02:43:09.319
Good morning, Skip, Good to
talk to you. I have well.

2274
02:43:09.520 --> 02:43:16.200
My alo vera died. I don't
know if it was the drought or what.

2275
02:43:16.719 --> 02:43:22.639
But anyway, a friend gave me
another one. But it was in

2276
02:43:22.799 --> 02:43:26.760
a little biggie pot and it didn't
hand me drainage. It had one of

2277
02:43:26.840 --> 02:43:33.040
those faster things clipped to the bottom
of the pot. But anyway I transplanted

2278
02:43:33.280 --> 02:43:39.120
it. The roots were all circled
around. I pulled them out. I

2279
02:43:39.280 --> 02:43:46.600
eat it. I got some advice
from Southwest Fertilizer. But anyway, do

2280
02:43:46.840 --> 02:43:52.559
i've I've transplanted it into a much
larger pot with lots of drainings at the

2281
02:43:52.639 --> 02:43:58.479
bottom. Do I feed it or
do I just let it take hold first,

2282
02:43:58.559 --> 02:44:01.920
let it kind of go, give
it a few weeks to just get

2283
02:44:01.000 --> 02:44:03.520
going. But there's no problem.
If you want to go ahead and fertilize

2284
02:44:03.559 --> 02:44:07.239
it. You could use a liquid
product, or you can put little granule.

2285
02:44:07.680 --> 02:44:11.000
Just to be real careful because if
it's a salt based synthetic fertilizer,

2286
02:44:11.120 --> 02:44:15.559
you don't want to dump a bunch
of it in a pot, so you

2287
02:44:15.680 --> 02:44:20.000
sure would go with something that's a
slower release. And Bob's got about five

2288
02:44:20.159 --> 02:44:22.159
or ten different kinds of slow release
fertilizer there. He can tell you that

2289
02:44:22.719 --> 02:44:26.440
that will gradually feed it over time. Alivera is not one that we have

2290
02:44:26.559 --> 02:44:31.680
to worry about fertilizing a lot,
but it I love mine. Yeah,

2291
02:44:31.719 --> 02:44:35.479
it benefits from having adequate nutrients like
any plant. But yes, sir,

2292
02:44:35.719 --> 02:44:39.159
well, thank you so much for
all your help. All right, heard

2293
02:44:39.360 --> 02:44:46.000
you take care appreciate it too.
God BITEU. We have an alivera in

2294
02:44:46.040 --> 02:44:50.680
a pot ourselves, and I tell
you one thing it doesn't like is to

2295
02:44:50.760 --> 02:44:54.120
be kept too wet. And it's
easy, you know, you think you're

2296
02:44:54.200 --> 02:44:58.559
water and enough or whatever, but
you just got it. You got to

2297
02:44:58.559 --> 02:45:01.680
get on there and feel the soil. That's the way to tell. We

2298
02:45:01.799 --> 02:45:05.600
had a string of arrows plant that
my wife's plant, actually, and I

2299
02:45:05.719 --> 02:45:09.360
go through and rescue plants when I
think they need rescuing. Well, apparently

2300
02:45:09.799 --> 02:45:15.280
she'd been watering it and I watered
it also, and that created a little

2301
02:45:15.280 --> 02:45:18.120
bit of a problem that plant.
She just did surgery on it and took

2302
02:45:18.200 --> 02:45:22.680
some cuttings to try to root them, and we're trying to bring the other

2303
02:45:22.760 --> 02:45:26.319
one back. But anything that's a
succulent, anything that is able to survive

2304
02:45:26.440 --> 02:45:30.639
without a lot of water, you
definitely don't want to put it in a

2305
02:45:30.680 --> 02:45:33.159
swamp and a pot that doesn't drain. You heard hers talking about putting it

2306
02:45:33.159 --> 02:45:37.239
in a pot with lots of drainage. Something else just to think about is

2307
02:45:37.280 --> 02:45:43.000
when a pot sits on the ground, oftentimes it'll almost like seal to the

2308
02:45:43.079 --> 02:45:48.200
clay soil underneath it, So it
has a hole, but it's essentially like

2309
02:45:48.600 --> 02:45:50.760
it's sat there so long it's killed
whatever was under it, and now the

2310
02:45:52.799 --> 02:45:56.639
clay of the ground is sealing the
whole. So make sure that it drains

2311
02:45:56.719 --> 02:45:58.600
well. Any kind of a container
if you want to have success. We're

2312
02:45:58.600 --> 02:46:01.520
going to go out of Matt in
Spring, Texas. Hey Matt, we're

2313
02:46:01.520 --> 02:46:05.639
about out a time. But let's
see if we can do it. Try

2314
02:46:05.760 --> 02:46:07.959
real quick. Just every year I
have a battle with Virginia button weed,

2315
02:46:09.000 --> 02:46:11.799
and I I when it gets too
hot. You can't put the ryside down

2316
02:46:11.840 --> 02:46:13.040
to kill it. Is there something
you can do to prevent it from coming

2317
02:46:13.159 --> 02:46:18.879
up? Well, you can the
seeds. What's coming up from seeds.

2318
02:46:18.959 --> 02:46:22.760
Barricade that we talked about here from
NITROFOSSI will help with that, help prevent

2319
02:46:24.040 --> 02:46:26.520
new seeds from coming up. But
what you need, what you're going to

2320
02:46:26.600 --> 02:46:31.159
need to get, you've got existing
button weed in your lawn. You need

2321
02:46:31.239 --> 02:46:35.959
to get a product called celsius,
like the temperature celsius. Okay, and

2322
02:46:37.159 --> 02:46:41.079
you don't want to apply it when
it's one hundred degrees, but unlike other

2323
02:46:41.200 --> 02:46:46.200
products that we quit using when it
hits about eighty upper eighties, Celsius you

2324
02:46:46.280 --> 02:46:48.760
can go into the low nineties and
they'll be just fine. Or apply it

2325
02:46:48.840 --> 02:46:52.360
early in the morning. You want
to do it now, right away.

2326
02:46:52.879 --> 02:46:56.840
You want to watch it because it's
going to take several applications over time to

2327
02:46:56.959 --> 02:47:01.719
knock that button weed out. Celsia
is as good of a product as you're

2328
02:47:01.760 --> 02:47:03.879
going to be able to get to
do that, but it is going to

2329
02:47:03.959 --> 02:47:11.079
take typically you don't get it all
the first time. Okay, super,

2330
02:47:11.200 --> 02:47:13.319
maybe we can prevent it from growing
this year. Yeah, and it's you

2331
02:47:13.399 --> 02:47:16.719
know wherever you live. I mean, you're up in Spring area. You've

2332
02:47:16.760 --> 02:47:22.000
got you've got some ace hardware stores
that probably will have it if you ask

2333
02:47:22.079 --> 02:47:24.639
them. To see if they have
it. If not, I know you

2334
02:47:24.680 --> 02:47:28.520
can get it down a Southwest fertilizer
down on Bismuth and rom Awesome. Yeah,

2335
02:47:28.239 --> 02:47:33.920
you bet. Good luck with that
all right way. Virginia button wheet

2336
02:47:33.280 --> 02:47:39.920
Virginia button weeds. That's off the
phone here, but I hope you're still

2337
02:47:39.959 --> 02:47:45.760
listening. Virginia button weed and dollar
weed are two weeds that tell you the

2338
02:47:45.959 --> 02:47:48.959
area is staying wetter than it needs
to be. It may not be you

2339
02:47:50.079 --> 02:47:54.280
water, It may be the runoff
or frequent rainfall, but it also may

2340
02:47:54.319 --> 02:47:58.159
be we're watering a lot too much. So that doesn't you know, cutting

2341
02:47:58.200 --> 02:48:03.040
back on water doesn't kill virgin button
we but overwatering makes it proliferate, and

2342
02:48:03.159 --> 02:48:07.079
it's like making it even harder for
you to have success. Well, I'm

2343
02:48:07.159 --> 02:48:11.520
about to head out here. We're
going to go to M and DA's Hardware

2344
02:48:11.920 --> 02:48:15.959
in clear Lake on Barria Boulevard.
I hope you'll come out and see me.

2345
02:48:16.040 --> 02:48:18.559
I'll start at eleven thirty am giving
away Nitroposford lunch