Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip
Richter's crazy Just watch him as many teas the spotsy not a sign. Good
morning, s good morning on a good day for gardening. It's always a
good day for gardening. And we're glad you're listening to garden Line this morning.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions.
So what are we going to talk about today? Well, I'm gonna
talk about a number of different things. By the way, I I uh,
somehow faulted on my host duties and did not wish you last week a
happy weed Appreciation Day? Did you know there was actually a weed appreciation Day?
A day to hug your weeds? Perhaps they say, well, we'll
really talk about that in a little bit, but I want to tell you
something. Weeds or the bane of our gardening existence, and at the same
time they serve a purpose because do you know, the designation weed is just
something we come up with. The definition I like most is a plant out
of place. That's a good definition. Therefore, Saint Augustine growing in your
rose bed is a weed. Roses growing in your vegetable garden, I guess
could be called a weed. I don't know. That's kind of unfair,
but we just as a plan out of place, and they serve a lot
of purposes. Now I realize when you want this beautiful lawn or landscape or
garden bed, you don't want weeds in it because you have a goal for
that, and that's our goal. You know. In gardening and horticulture,
we create the palette of we use the different plants that we have to paint
the picture that we want painted, and weeds get in the way of that.
But don't forget weeds serve purposes. Many weeds are excellent pollinators. Excellent
pollinators, by the way, Other weeds are edible. Do you know there
are weeds that are edible? Yep? I would like to put it this
way. If you can't beat them, eat them. Maybe we'll talk about
weeds a little bit more. But now, why don't we get to the
real stuff. We're going to go out to Parland and talk to Don this
morning. Hello, Don, Old Skip, how you doing it? I'm
good, sir? What's up? I have roses and I have black spots
on them. And so what I did? I use the broad Advance or
insect disease in my control and I've added raystick or too, and I sprayed
them wround by four o'clock. Did I do the right procedure? Do you
have that bottle in front of you? Oh? Okay, okay, it's
fine to spray them. You just want to get good coverage when you do
that particular product for disease control, if you have to get it thoroughly covering
over the leaves so that it can move into the tissue there and be present
to fight the disease in this case black spot that you might have just as
a thought done. It's convenient to have a product that has many things in
one. I generally prefer to get a product that's just disease control or just
insect control, just because every time you spray, you don't need to be
applying all of those kinds of activities, you know what I'm saying. The
fungicide, the insect side side, you know, on and on on and
so when we use fungicides and we don't need to. In your case,
you needed to. That was the product you needed but when you just use
it. Let's say there's a fungicide and a product, and you use it
every time you're fighting a f or spider, mites or something else. We
can build up resistances by spraying unnecessarily, and so just going forward, I
would aim for separating those products out to the best thing for mites. In
the case of roses, maybe something for cappillar or something for for a fits
too great. I have some follow up questions about the roses. Okay,
I staked them because the wind and the rain that we had helped would push
them and lean them over. So I staked them. And I was wondering,
should I put some more rose saws around the rose stem, the strengthen
it where it won't be bending over and such? How long have they been
in the ground. I put them in the ground less year. You shouldn't
have them leaning over. They should have a root system that holds themselves.
I don't think propping the stem with some soil would would be helpful, but
you can just give them a little more time to root in. I am
curious though, as to why they have and already established enough strength to where
a wind doesn't doesn't bother them. Yeah, so am I because they do
have a good root system. Yeah, you can't they won't be old.
You can't pull them up. Yeah, And I just went with the rain
and everything. It seemed like the water get in and make it soften it
being well, that's true, and I've got roses. I have an old
blush that leaned over like that, and it'll just turn grow the canes up
upward. You know, after it leans you new growth will come up.
You really won't know you have a leaning bush, so that you can kind
of not worry too much about that. All right, all right, all
right, Donald, thank you sir. Good luck with those with those roses,
and thank you for the call. If you are wanting to prevent weeds,
prevent weeds in your lawn, barricade by nitrophossis product, it'll do that.
What barricade does is it's a pre emergent herbicide, meaning before the weeds
come up. You put it down before the seeds have sprouted, prevents them
from sprouting. Got a watered in about a half inch of water, and
when you do that, it forms that barricade over the soil. So if
you've got broad leaf weeds or grassy weeds or things like that that are going
to sprout from seed. Well it stops it. You're it's a night fuss
product. That means it's widely available. And you're going to be able to
find barricade in places like Bearings Hardware on Missing It and down on West Timer
as well. You're going to find a plantation ace out there and Katie,
they carry it hiding and feed carries in on Stuben or Airline. Easy to
find barricade and other night or foss products. I want, you know,
I want to head out. Let's go to northwest Houston. We're going to
talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, good morning there. I got a
problem with some kind of animal that's bored a hole in my plain or the
thing went down and we got another tunne will come out of it? Yeah,
I won't know something that didn't get it in my guard knocking all my
new cliet there. Now, what did I do about that? How big
is a hole? Ralph? That's the mount of it is about six inches
around. Oh a big hole? Yeah? I did six inches? Yeah,
I mean then you got it. I did this the other day.
I know that it's totally coming around and another about three feet away. Another
thing, and I don't know what world that is. Yeah, I don't
know what would do that. Armadillas will dig a big hole when they're making
their down, but they're not popping up in other places from the same tunnel.
No, this is Yeah, it's not a big hole around Yeah,
well, I don't know other than send me a picture of it. Uh.
If it's six inches about the only thing that can be is maybe an
armadillo trying to dig down in there. No, not that big, not
big big of it, like a routin. My son walked by there and
he sat to shoot across the sid Very strange. I don't know. You
got me on that one. You got me on that one. Try to
maybe put a live trap around there and bait it with some things I didn't
couldn't catch anything. I would fill it in and see see if it tries
to redig it. I kind of doubt that it will. But yeah,
okay, it so strange to me. It is. It's strange to me
too. Sorry I couldn't help you with that one today, but I appreciate
appreciate you giving us a call. Thank you, sir. You've got a
great program. Thank you for being I'm gonna have to run to break here.
If you'd like to give us call seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four let the back of the garden line. Good to have you
with us today. What are we going to talk about on gardening? I
got a few things. Start off talking about weeds, I thought was exciting,
Right, you want to know all about weeds? You know, weeds
again are just a perspective, uh, from from our part. You know,
is something a weed? Is it not a weed? Is it growing
where you want it to grow? If not, it's probably a weed,
or that least that's what we're going to designate it. So the finest plants
on earth can be a weed when they're growing where we don't want them to
grow. And then they're the noxious weeds, the ones you can't get rid
of, the ones that invade and take over and just cause you to say
things that expand the children's vocabulary in ways you don't want them to expand.
So they are those kinds of things too. And we deal with weeds we
all kinds of ways and proaches and products and stuff to it. But I
think the thing to remember is nature has a way of dealing with unwanted plants
in certain places. Take a forest, for example. Trees hate grass.
They hate grass. When we try to make them get along in the landscape,
well, they cooperate, but they don't like it. They don't like
it at all. Grass hates trees too. Trees take all the sunlight away.
But what does a tree do to prevent competition weeds? If you will
around it, it drops leaves on them a year after year after year,
and the forest floor becomes this thick mat of fallen leaves and decomposing organic matter
That makes the soil awesome for tree growth, but it also makes it difficult
for plants because it is essentially mulching itself. Over time, we learned from
that and we bring that practice into our gardens. With mulching nature's way of
controlling weeds one of the ways. Let's go out to Beaumont and talk to
Will. Hello. Will, Hello, how you doing, sir? I'm
good, sir. How can we help today? I am saying those choice
words that those young children do not want to hear. Okay, I have
a sticker problem. Now. I don't mind some weeds in the York,
but when they become painful. I have a problem there now. Drought from
last year really really didn't help things around here, especially if I didn't water
like I just I just couldn't water everything. But the sticker where the bare
ground is is just taking over. Now I missed the opportunity for the predomain
the barricade product. Yeah I did. Now I heard you advertising the nitrophos
A great product. Great product, but you have to catch that ground stole
temperature below fifty seven degrees here in southeast Texas or that product will not work.
It's designed to catch the weed before it germinates. Well, I wouldn't
say the product doesn't work. What happens is it at each weed has soil
temperatures at which that weed can begin to germinate the seeds, and you know
for crabgrass it's about fifty five degrees. We start wanting, we want to
get that pre emergent down ahead of time. It'll work. I mean if
you could go out, not that you're gonna be able to do this,
but if you could go out and hoe out all the stickers and then put
that barricade down watered in any more sticker seeds would not be able to get
established. But but you you have to get ahead of them. And that's
the thing about soul Tampa is once it starts warming up, a lot of
the seeds have germinated. What what product? What product do you suggest without
just destroying the bermuda and the Saint Augustine mixed throughout three acres of yard here?
Well, what product you suggest to to kill them? Right now?
They haven't they haven't flowered, and they haven't made the sticker yet, right
and they're very very very green right now. So they're really young. But
uh, yeah, that root base is tough, Yeah it is. I've
been shoveling them out, you know, the best I can, but it's
just it's just almost impossible. How big How big are the grassperd plants right
now? Oh? They're just scattered everywhere across the back of the yard.
I mean, but are we talking about one inch high plants or two inches
high? Oh? Yeah, they're about they're out one, one, one
and a half. Yeah, some of the some of the pre merged have
a little bit of post kickback activity. I don't know on those grass burds.
At that point, if it would work, you know, it might
be worth a try. There's some stuff I don't like to to suggest because
of secondary damages and things like that that it can cause. You might talk
to your local you've got some ice hardware out there, talk to them and
say, what do you carry as a pre emergent that has what we call
kickback activity? What do they have on the shelf. In other words,
you didn't catch them before they emerged, but you caught them pretty much right
after, and that you might get if they're not too far along, you
may get some benefit from that. Generally, the problem is killing a grass,
and a grass is hard I mean without killing. Try a product called
celsius and then yeah, Celsia shouldn't work on them. Yeah, and I'll
tell you what, round up, don't hardly work on them. Well,
you know, other than if they're very thick, you're up a creek.
If you got them here and there, you could really carefully do some spot
spraying or dab the grass plants with something that translocates down and you have some
little brown spots in your lawn. But at least you have to have your
lawn and you've you've gotten ahead of them, and then next year, just
know that you've got to get in there and get after them. Yeah.
When do you suggest in Southeast Texas to get that that bear take down?
I would get yep, I'd get it down in mid February. Yeah,
I'm almost I've been monitoring that ground temperature because there's a couple of websites you
can go to, and of course I have the thermometers here. Yeah,
but that ground temperature, you know, it heats up. You know maybe
in January. Well can but it's a matter of how much and how long
if you get your pre emergency down if you can get them to if you
need to go to early February, you can. That's fine. Those products
are going to last about forty five days working really well, maybe sixty.
But you could go a little earlier if you're having trouble with stuff sprouting earlier.
Graspbur is not the first thing to sprout in the spring. So but
I would say if you if you feel like mid February is too late for
where you are, then go a little earlier. It just means you're going
to have to redo it because they will continue to sprout on through the summer.
Yeah, because we were it needs that, it needs like you said,
it needs the half inch to an inch of rain. Yeah, the
product does. Yeah, got to move down. That was far and few
between, you know last year in the fall, right you know, yeah
they will. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to run though. Good
luck with that for your Hell, yes, sir, I appreciate it.
I appreciate your call very much. For those of you up in Montgomery,
you know your hometown garden center, right, it's A and A Plants and
produce Ana Plants has been around for many years now and they always have.
They do a couple things that you need to go by there. For a
number one, the plants, of course, awesome, awesome selection, whether
it's roses or gardena's or whatever you're looking for. I mean, they're going
to have all kinds of wonderful plants for you. They also have wonderful bling
for the landscape, really cool stuff to decorate the landscape, just to make
it fun, make it more enjoyable, you know. I talk about their
chimeneas and things like that you would enjoy out on a patiodor in the cooler
weather. They have things for all year round that you can enjoy. They
carry the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline, you're going to find the nitrofoss
and the Nelson and the microlife. You're going to find airloom souls in Nature's
Way leaf mo Com They're going to have all that there. They got a
landscape crew that can come out. You live out there by the lake,
somewhere around Lake Conrad, they've had a landscape crew. They'll come out and
do some cleanup of the beds and stuff, kind of turn your place into
a really beautiful little spot. Ana plants and produce on the east side of
Montgomery on one oh five, easy to find. They are one of those
places where it's kind of hard to catch them when they're not open. I
mean, Anna plants and produce seven days a week from nine to five.
And then of course you get the knowledgeable staff that makes it worthwhile because you
know the information you're getting is going to work in your home landscape. I
mentioned that they had the Microlife products microlaf It is time now to get your
Microlife sixty four out there. If you're fertilizing your lawn. Actually I use
sixty four on a lot of things, not just lawn fertilizing, because it
works well it's a green bag. That's Microlife's green bag. If you're one
to build your lawn soil over time, as you add the sixty four,
as you grow a healthy grass plant, the soil gets better and better and
you can take get up a notch by putting what they call their com concentrated
compost in a bag that's Microlife Humates plus. That's the purple bag. So
imagine compost that's been taken to its kind of final state. UH. That
is a product that is excellent for building soil structure. It's also excellent UH
in support of beneficial UH critters, the microbes, the bacteria to my seat
specifically, to the fungi and all the things that are down there in the
soil helping that soil. If you will come alive and and make it an
ideal place for plant roots. Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That's where
you're going to find a lot of information and where to find those products because
you want to be able to locate them. Microlife is widely available to it's
easy, easy, easy to find. But don't delay. It's time to
get that done. It's time to start our spring fertilizations. That's for sure.
I had a good time at Ciena malts Uh. We were out there
for us Saturday event. They're spring Fling, and I want to thank the
folks at Senna for having us out. Had a good times out there with
a number of different product reps from the companies. A lot of the companies
you hear us talk about here on Guarden Line. Jay from Texas Gardner Magazine
was out there as well. It was just a good time to visit,
So thank you. If you haven't been to Sienna and you live down south
of Houston, Ciena Maltch is a place you need to know about now.
They they're the name says Multch, but it's it's also Sienna bed mixed,
Sienna composts, Sienna rock and landscape stone. It's Sienna everything. They have
stuff bulk, they have stuff by the bags. They'll deliver within about all
twenty miles or so of Cienamultch for a small delivery fee. They are located
near six and two eighty eight, just north of Row Sharon, specifically on
FM five point twenty one. Do this go to the website Cienamultch dot com
Ciena Multch dot com. There You're going to everything. And you always hear
me on Guardline say brown stuff before green stuff. Brown stuff. Fix the
soil, make the soil a wonderful place for plant roots, and you will
have wonderful plants. You have productive gardens, you have beautiful landscapes. Things
will be bountiful everywhere from blooms to produce. Fix the soil first. Ciena
Moltch is the place where you get all the brown stuff. They have every
fertilizer I talk about on Garden Line. They have quality soil products. When
you put the quality products they have into your soil, they mix it in.
You add the nutrients that plants need. You are set up for success
and Ciena Molts is a place to go to get all of that accomplished.
You're fortunate if you live down in that road sharing area and not too four
ways Sienna Ciena Molts roads sharing that whole area, ris Is Spends Day Park.
You get the idea. I was like going to Hey by the way.
Speaking of going out today. Later today, I'm going to be at
the Ace Hardware, M and d Ace and clear Lake. That's where I'll
be M and d Ace and clear Lake. When we get through it the
show, I'll head over there. I'll probably get there about little before eleven
thirty, and I'll be there till one thirty. I'm going to be giving
away some Nitrofoss superturf. About every thirty minutes, We're gonna give away a
bag of Nitrofoss super turf. So come on by. It love to meet
you. You got pictures, you got samples of plants you want to identified
or diagnosed, bring them by. It's always good to visit with folks that
listen to garden Line, So come on over and stop you on again.
M and D clear Lake on April the sixth, which is today today today,
that's it be there or be square, Nikki. So we've got the
eclipse, and I was reading something in a news story that plants when everything
goes dark in the middle of their day and they go what they do.
I've actually said, if you're quiet, you can hear them. That's actually
each other. They actually have more words than just what that That's pretty much
what they're saying. Okay, then let's all go outside and listen to the
plant, sir. That's what we say too, is like wait what what?
Oh? Well, here we turn it over to Nikki in the news.
We'll be right back seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Welcome back to the garden line. Hey, good to have you.
We're taking care of business today. I think as bto is that Bachman Turner
overdrive. I'll plan that. I'm not a I'm not a music expert,
but I have heard songs before, and I slept at a holiday in last
night, so that that that right there qualifies me. Hey, if you
live out in Richmond, you're fortunate because you've got in Chenna Gardens, I
mean right there in your backyard. You know, if you're if you're in
Richmond, head up toward Katie direction. Katie foolsher way, and you're going
to get right there too. In Chenni Gardens on three fifty nine, three
fifty nine. They have pretty much everything you can imagine that you might want
for your gardens. I mean, number one, the most important thing at
a garden center is knowledgeable staff. That's right. They have that. Second,
plants that want to grow where you live, they have that for sure
too. Like for example, summer, here comes summer heat. Now I
know right now we're enjoying it, but anybody who's lived here more than a
year knows that it's going to be infernally hot when summer arrives. Why not
plant things that laugh at the summer sun, like vinka. They have excellent,
excellent supply of venka on hand, just got a whole bunch in not
too long ago. They've got the upright irregular types of inca, the trailing
types. If you want something coming over a pod or a hanging basket,
it never gets too hot for vinca. And they carry the types and the
colors that just will really provide a showplace for you. And that's just an
example of the many things that they carry there in China Gardens in Richmond.
You're gonna be able to get your soil products. You're going to be able
to get the fertilizers that I recommend on garden line. You're going to be
able to get inspiration and advice. For example, I just watched a video
while where they were creating a beautiful giant hanging basket for shade areas in an
a little wire container where burlap and everything. Oh my gosh, it was
gorgeous. See you watch something like that, or you go talk to the
staff there and they can tell you how to make one of those for your
house, or I mean they have ones they built you can you can go
buy a hanging basket. You can buy combo planners from them in Chenna Gardens
Richmond dot com. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com Monday through Saturday eight to five
on Sundays ten am to four pm. Easy, easy to find again on
the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond FM three fifty nine. I was working finishing
up some projects at the house this week and the big elephant in the room
has been putting in turf areas. I've I've kind of got an experiment going
on four different kinds of turf and or it's going to watch how they do
under certain kinds of conditions and things. And I just find to finish that
up. And next is a flagstone patio that I'm doing. I'm really looking
forward to having that because we love to be outside as much as possible,
and so we're we're getting all that set up. Plus I love building stuff
and playing in the garden. Of course, my vegetable garden is screaming for
help. It's doing fine, but there are a couple of beds that I
just haven't gotten into reworking the soil and getting them planted. And we are
now entering Okra's season. That's right, Okra season. There ought to be
a parade in town just because it's Okra season, because it's one of the
best vegetables areas. Now, I know what some of you are thinking,
Oh yeah, I grew up eating okre. I love Okra. And then
most of you, though, are thinking that stuff is slimy. Well,
shame on you for talking like that. It is not slimy. The term
we use is mucilaginous. Okra's mucilaginous, but so are a lot of things
that we enjoy. And then we put things like thickener into soups and dishes.
Well, okra does that for you. It absolutely does that for it.
In fact, why don't I sing the praises of Okra today that we'll
talk about okra for a little bit. Okra is an incredibly heat and humidity
tolerant plant. If you get into the brutal heat of a Houston area summer
and it's hot and it's humid and everything's sweltering, people are running screaming for
an air conditioned room. Okre's out there laughing, just having the time of
its life. That's a good plant for summer. Okra has two different kinds
of fibers. It has the non soluble fibers that help with your digestive system,
keep everything going right in there. You know, fibers healthy in our
diet. And it also has a soluble type of fiber that helps with a
lot of our heart heart issues and things like that. Ocre's good for that.
You can cook it a million ways. I mean, everybody knows about
gumbo. Most Southerners know about fried okra. Not the healthiest way to cook
okra, but a delicious way to cook cocra. And I like to grill
it. If you've never done this, try it. Trust me on this
one gets you a grill when you're out cooking a burger whatever this year.
Take okra and brush brush the pods with a little olive oil, sprinkle a
little sea salt on them, and then just put them on the grill two
minutes on one side, flip them over two minutes on that side. You're
ready to go. And that will be very non mucilaginous if you will that.
When okra comes into contact with water. That's when we start to get
that mucilage and stuff. We love it. Every time we cook, we're
going to use a grill. You gotta have some ochre on it and it
works really well. You can pickle okra, you can lack no ferment okra.
They're just a lot of ways to use it. Have I convinced you
yet, Well, I'm trying. I'm trying. But it is okra season
and that's what's going to get planted at my house over the next couple of
weeks out in the vegetable garden using some of those additional beds. If you
live done in League City area, League City feed is your hometown feed store.
They're really easy to get to. They're on Highway three, just a
few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City. Just head south.
They'll be on the left hand side there going south. If you're in Santa
Fe or elkam Into Reale, Clear Lake City, Webster Bay, Cliff,
San Leone, Lamark, all of those communities and more, League City Feeds
your hometown feed store. They carry the fertilizers I recommend on garden Line.
You're going to find those brands you're going to find things like nitrofoss. You're
going to find things like Nelson plant food. You're going to find airloom soils,
in microlife and azemite for example. They're all there. Premium pet food,
quality food. I mean, they are a feed store. If you
got backyard chickens, they got you covered for that too. One of those
old time feed stores that carries things out for you to the car. I
just love going in there. And then all the things you need to control
pests and weeds and diseases all there at League City feed Monday through Saturday.
That would be today nine am to six pm. Closed on Sunday, but
nine to six. Just swing by there after work two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. There at League
City. You need to get trees planted if you're going to get them done.
The sooner you get a tree planted, the more time it has to
get some roots down before the most brutal heat of summer arrives. Now,
you can plant a tree in the middle of the hottest summer day, but
you got to really take care of it carefully. It's more touch and go.
The sooner you get it done, the better. And when you plant
a tree, you definitely need to stabilize it so that it doesn't wiggle around
in the wind and bend over and wallow out that root ball which it hadn't
gotten roots in yet. So you stabilize it for a few months just to
let it get some roots out there. And tree stabilizer, the three sixty
tree stabilizer works great for that. It is like just think of it as
a stiff arm that grabs a post and grabs your tree. You got a
soft rubber strap around the tree that you can leave a little loose. You
should leave a little loose to allow a little bit of movement that helps strengthen
the trunk. Where do you get them. Southwest Fertilizer has them. Go
down south of Houston to Jorges Gardens, Hidden Gardens in Alvin. They've got
them there, Arborgate, RCW, Buchanans plants for all seasons. These are
all places where you can get your three sixty tree stabilizer. They last a
long time, so it's an investment that will just you just use it for
a long time. Loan it to your neighbor when they plant a tree.
You can use one to hold a tree. You can put two on at
right angles to each other, and that way north south, east west,
no matter where the wind blows. Tree stabilizer is stabilizing that tree. And
when you plant it right and you use a tree stabilizer, within about six
months, you probably do not need to leave that on any longer. Definitely
not more than a year, because they do the job right. We're going
to go now over to northwest Houston and we're going to talk to Ralph.
Hello, Ralph, Hello Orgain. Okay, I got trouble with my finding
my butter bean seeds. Why is that? Uh they're not coming up?
Yeah, well I told you I had that roading out. There's something that
would be a stelf up. But no, they they they're not coming up.
No, I don't know. I don't know, Ralph. It they
ought to be coming up. Everything's perfect. Water beans right now, Take
ten seeds, Take ten extra seeds, put them in a in a in
a. I did that. I called you the other day. That's what
I did. Where do where the best place about my old or seeds?
Uh? You're over there in northwest Houston. Uh, yeah, I don't
know how Northwest. Here you got a bunch of great garden centers. There's
uh, but they don't they don't have them. So what kind of seeds
they like? Butter bean seeds? Yeah, just playing old butter beans A
one years always kinded well. Plants for all seasons. On Louetta and Tomball
Parkway. See if they have them, they should have them there. Oh
see if you go, you're not close to it, but I know Southwest
Fertilizer definitely has butter beans there. Down on Bissinett and Runwick, Southwest Houston,
they've got an old time feed cabinet with lots of stuff in it.
It kind of depends on exactly where you are. You're up tom Ball Away,
there's some places that'll have But that's about the best suggestion I can have
for you. I've hit another hard break, but thank you, sir.
I do appreciate your call. Our phone number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. Hey, it's still dark outside, but that
doesn't mean we can't be talking about gardening. Because it is going to be
a good day. We need to be doing our gardening exercise this morning.
We could go through that stand up, touch your toes, turn, twist,
you know, get ready to go. You don't want to pull a
muscle out there working in the garden. We you know. I was talking
to Ralph a minute ago about finding seeds for things, and Dandi Feed up
and Tomballs probably not too far away from Ralph up there. They have a
good selection of seeds. They have the little bulk seeds too, and the
old time garden seeds, you know, stuff that like butter beans that are
real common parts of the country where they don't know what a butter bean is,
but down here it's very popular, very popular. They might call them
what lima beans or something, Well, we'll call them butter beans. Dandy
Feed's got feed of every kind for every kind of animal you want, and
quality feeds, quality feed for your pets, quality feed for your livestock and
whatnot. They have plants, have the nice plant selection. One of the
amazing things about D and D is the select the amount of pullets that they
get in young, young baby chicks and things. That includes geese that too,
and ducks and turkeys. Just yesterday they got in I don't know.
I know it was over a dozen different kinds of chicken and it's everything.
And if you were a backyard in person or want to be, you got
to go by D and d F. Don't wait because they do sell out.
People know that's where you go to get that stuff and they I love
going in there and just seeing what the lace chicks that have come in.
It's just kind of cool. WESTE have chickens at our house. If you
want to get McCall two eight, one, three five, one seventy one
forty four. They are on twenty nine to twenty just west of Tumbul,
just a little west of tumble stop by there. Check out the plants they
have out front too. That is pretty cool. If you're trying to stop
your weeds from coming up, you don't have the seeds up yet, but
they're going to be coming up on the well. One way to do that
is Nelson's turf Star Weedonator now. Nelson turf Star is a line of quality
fertilizers for your lawn. Weedinator specifically has ingredients in it that helped prevent the
weeds from establishing from coming up. It is a slow release fertilizer so if
you're going to fertilize, now's a good time to start your summer fertilization.
And Nelson Weedenator is that kind of fertilizer. It gradually releases over time.
Not all the nitrogen is available. It's going to take it two or three
months to get all that nitrogen released and out of there. Weedenator is a
quality product because it has the pre emergent in it. What you're going to
want to do is put it down and watered in about a half inch of
water. That moves both the nutrients and the actual preventative pre emergent weed preventative
product down into the soil so you can have success with that. Lots of
good quality products from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. In my garden, I
was talking about doing some things in the vegetable patch. I just finished up
with the lawn activities. Next comes planting of flowers. I've got a bunch
of flowers, you know. I go see these plants at a garden center,
I grab my brig them home and they sit in the pot while I
run around doing the radio and other things and trying to get back home to
get them planted. And I have several things I'm gonna do. Be bomb.
I have some b bomb this year that we're putting in. Boy is
that ever attract for pollinators? But when you look when you think about pollinators,
do you think about Buchanan's native plants, because they absolutely have outstanding selections
for pollinators. Do you want native pollinators? Maybe you want to put in
turk's cap or purple cone flower or frog fruit, which is an excellent groundcover.
By the way, Pink skull cap a brass is penstemen. That's a
plant I ought to talk about more and on and on down the line.
Maybe it's a non native pollinator. Do you know Cosmos makes an excellent pollinator?
Pentus is another good one pollinator plant, bulban and salvias and whatnot.
They have all of that. They've got the herbs that attract pollinators, and
that is one of the best ways to attract pollinators as herbs. I mean
it really is. I've sat in little herb patches before, just taking pictures
of the pollinators and the beneficial insects in general, the ones that help us
with our pasts that come by. Buchanans is in the heights. It's on
Eleventh Street there. You've probably been there before. Bucanonsplants dot Com. That's
the website. When you go there, check out some of the educational material
they have on the website. And also when you go to Buchanans Plants,
make sure and subscribe to their newsletter. It is a wealth of information,
very helpful. You're going to find all the fertilizers I talk about here on
Guardline there at Buchanans Native Plants, as well as other things to get that
brown stuff right to make the plants happy. That would include things like Nature's
Way and airloom, soil Landscaper's Pride resources to create a beautiful, beautiful soil
so your plants will be very very happy. If you build it, they
will be happy, and they will grow, they will produce, and they
will give you the bounty that you're looking for out there. Speaking of pollinators,
you know, honeybees are perhaps one of the more famous pollinators that we
have. Have you ever thought about bee keeping in your backyard? You know
you can do that, Yes you can. It is you are allowed to
do that. A beehive in your backyard. Number one, the bees don't
come flying out of the hive after you. They want to leave you alone.
They want to be left alone. Don't mess, you know, swatting
at them and things. They'll be fine. I used to have bees at
my place, just very docile, you know. I think that one of
the cool thing about bees is learning about them. And the bees supply out
in Dayton, thebes Supply, by the way, the website is thebesupply dot
com. They have classes out there where you can learn about them. They
have something called a honey tour for people that don't want to keep bees,
they just want to learn about it. And it's really trust me on this,
take my word on this. It is well worth the trip out to
be part of one of their honey tours. It's all around you. They
teach you inside, they take you outside, you get to taste honey.
Really cool. But they have classes for bee keepers also, lots of really
good quality classes. Talked to a lot of b supply places, be supply
tight places, not necessarily that brand. And I've talked to a lot of
bee keepers and I've never known anyone that's as knowledgeable and as helpful as the
b Supply. They take. Time you go home, you have a question,
something they said, and you didn't remember it. Call them back.
Let them help you have success. That's what makes them happy. They love
to help you have success. Now there are classes going on April thirteenth,
and April twenty seventh, and May eleventh and May twenty fifth. There's only
a few more of the spring class dates there, but these are beginning bee
keeper classes. And even if you don't decide to keep bees, you will
be fascinated. But I'll tell you this, once you learn about how cool
it is and you get to hands on work with them a little bit,
you'll definitely want to do that. Vbsupply dot com. Vbsupply dot com.
So this past week, you know I mentioned the lawns and stuff. I
also got some containers out and we're doing some repotting of things at the house.
I've got some patio containers that are waiting on me now. They had
stuff in them last year, and the soil is kind of sunk down.
I need to spruce it up a little bit. And whether you're starting with
an empty container wanting to fill it with a quality soil, or if you're
doing like I'm going to be doing on most of my containers, this year
and just adding some soil to them to bring that level back up and mix
it in. Jungle Land distributed by nitrofoss is an excellent soil. I choose
the one that says flour and vegetable planting soil. Jungle l and flour and
vegetable planting soil. That's an outdoor planting soil. Now there's a jungle Land
for indoors. It's called water, sabor, potting salt. It's got those
crystals that absorb water. And even as the soil is drying out, those
crystals still have water in them. And your plant roots are growing through the
soil and they'll find a crystal and know that is a good source. They
absorb the water from it, and that helps it be I like to say
a little more forgiving. If you forget to water your plants, it kind
of helps it go a lot further before you have some plant problems because you've
got the water. That's the indoor one. Outdoors flour and vegetable. It's
got four different sources of aged organic matter, and it's got microhizel fungi,
Canadian bloon pete. It's just a quality mix and using something like you know,
as I'm getting and doing this work and getting the flower pots ready to
go for another round, it's time for that for some of the warm season
things. Jungle Land is that kind of quality soil that you would need for
that. It's found everywhere you find Nitrofoss products. Where do you find Nitrofoss
products? Well, do you live out in Brenham, go to Plants and
Things. You can find it there northwest. You know Highway two forty nine.
Plants for all seasons. You can find Nitrofoss's distributed jungle Land at that
place as well an allspas ace. If you're up in the woodlands on carcodil,
they've got that easy easy to find them. Speaking of plants for all
seasons, have you been to Plants for All Seasons lately? They always have
a stock and a supply that is amazing. The staff there, their knowledge
level, their ability to explain, to help, to teach, to guide,
to diagnose is incredible. Plants for all Seasons dot Com here's the number
two eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six.
Go by their talk to Sherry, other members of the Flowery family and their
staff there you're going to find there's a reason that that place has theenrend since
nineteen seventy three and just gets more popular every year. By the way,
they're just an north of Luetta on Highway to forty nine. Love to go
by. There, always something new going on, always new plants coming in.
Well even listening to the Guardenline. We're about to put an hour in
the books. If you would like to give us a call, gif joshuacall
get on the board. We'll be ready to go when we come back from
our news break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Don't
forget today eleven thirty, after Guarden Line is over, I'm going to be
line over to M and D clearlay Ace Hardware and we're going to be spending
two hours there answering your gardening questions and giving away some ncrofoss fertilizes. Katie
r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip
Rictor. It's crazy. Just watch him as so many good things to see
that crazy business again, not a sad good morning, Good morning on a
great day. For gardening. There's a glow in the sky. Look outside,
it is a beautiful sky. It's going to be an awesome day.
Need to get out there and get some things done in the landscape. Go
buy a garden center. It gets you some good quality products so you can
have success and enjoy enjoy a day outside. You know, there is a
therapy in many way shapes and forms, ways, shapes and forms that comes
when we're outside engaging with nature. There's the physical activity, there's breathing good
air, there's soaking in some sunshine, there's just the sounds of nature,
every aspect about it. Getting your hands in the dirt. I think it's
Calvin and Hobbs comic strip that said at the end of the day, well
your knees should be green or something like that from you know, being out
and kneeling down in the grass and enjoying, enjoying being outside of nature.
And I would hope you would take part in that today. It is a
antidepressant. Do you know that there is actually a connection that science is made
between microbes and the soil and the release of serotonin in our bodies. Isn't
that amazing? I mean, it's like nature's own antidepressant. To get out
there and enjoy that. Well, I tell you I sure do enjoy it.
By the way, It's time right now I can make my words come
out of my mouth to begin to get that summer fertilization done. It's time
to get the nutrients that your soil needs so that your plant can have them
when it needs them, to get them down there in the bank account.
And azemite is one of those products that we talk about because asmide is a
trace mineral supplement. Now, the three numbers on the bag, the three
big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Your soil needs a lot of that.
It needs them on a regular basis. We need to be supplying that.
That's why every fertilizer has US three. Pretty much everyone has those three
numbers on it. Asmite is trace minerals. They are essential, they are
absolutely essential. But if you ever thought about combining azamite with some other things
that help enhance your soil. You can blend and combine it with compost and
a potting mix. You can blend and combine it with various things that are
part of helping your soil do well. You go make sure that when you
put the standard types of fertilizer in your soil, why not put some microlife
in the soil as well. You can do it in containers. You can
do it when you're creating a new flower bed. That'd be a very good
time to do it, because you're working the soil. Get those nutrients in
there. When you do that with asmite, you are creating the bank account
that when that plant needs that little minuscule amount, that essential minuscule amount of
manganese or zinc or lubdanum or whatever the nutrients are, the roots need to
have access to all of them, and azemite helps build that bank account down
in the soil. Let's head over to Spring and we're going to talk to
Peggy this morning. Good morning, Peggy, Good morning. We just bought
a bag of asimite at Ace Hardware up Spring. Okay, good good timing
there. Anyway, what I called about a few weeks ago on the here,
you mentioned a new rake that's out and you could just sort of pull
it alot of your beds and it'll get the little bitty weeds out. Where
can I buy that? I talked about a rake to get the weeds out.
That's what I thought you said, Maybe I'm is this recently or has
this been a while? Do you know it's been a while? Oh?
Okay? Well, so rakes. You know, there's the I grew up
calling them bamboo rakes because they were made out of bamboo back in the day.
But the metal rakes for leaves, there's a leaf rakes, and then
there's the soil rakes that have the very stiff fingers that are for moving raking
and loosening soil. I think what I may have talked about along the lines
of what you're saying is is a hoe that's called a diamond hoe. Now
there's several specialty hose out there that do well. The hula hoe has its
or the stirrup hoe, they have it their benefits what they can do.
The diamond hoe. Imagine a long, skinny pointed sideways diamond. Okay,
diamond shape uh, and then go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
All four all four sides are sharp and the points are very pointed and sharp,
and it's set at an angle so that you stand upright, you don't
stoop, and it's like you're mopping the floor, you know, that motion
pushing back and forth and You're just going just like a half inch below the
surface, just slicing under, and it just cuts the weed roots. And
when the weeds are really young, that takes them out. Now, if
you wait until weeds are huge, I have strength to them. A diamond
hoe won't do it. It is not a chopping hoe, it is it
is just a sliding under the surface. I've seen those at a lot of
places. You mentioned Ace Hardware. I've seen them at Ace Hardware's before.
You would have to kind of look around, you know, each area.
Each Ace Harder stores independently owned, so you won't find exactly the same thing
in every store. But I think that would be where I would start and
just say, hey, can you get it in if they don't have it.
What about the two big nurseries we have out here that you mentioned regularly?
We use both of them. Barbaragate, plants, frel Season. Do
they carry something like that. I'm trying to remember, Peggy, if I've
seen them there before, well I'll look for it. I haven't seen that
at Arburgate, but then they might could get it again. With plants Fell
Seasons. You just seem to ask them. I'm sorry, I just don't
I just don't know for sure. Yeah, well that's that's good. Well,
thank you. That's what I'm what I need because I get these little
critters that I've always I would just bend over, yeah, you know,
pull out, and I'd like to have something. Well easy. What you
should do is go online and do a search for diamond Hoe and that will
show you what you're looking for. And that way you'll know it when you
see it. Yeah, thank you for the information, and I've enjoyed your
program. You're very knowledgeable. Well, thank you, Peggy. My father
was the national president of the Men's Garden Clubs of America. Oh wow,
okay, he's been dead twenty years, but for a long time he in
our yard was fabulous. I bet. Well that's that's and I'm married a
tech sentent, so I've lived here for the rest of my life. Well,
welcome to Texas. We're glad to have you here for the rest of
your time. Yeah, thank you, Peggy. I appreciate that. Come,
thank you, bye bye bye. I'm very kind of you to say
that. Oh my, well, hey, we're going to take a little
breaks. Time for another break. Our phone number is seven one three two
one two five. Eight seven, four, seven, one, three fifty
eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. Let's get you on the board
so we can talk about the things you are interested in. Welcome back to
Guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, a public
service announcement for those of you up in the Grimes County area. Grimes County
Feed and Farm, they've got this. If you've been there before, you've
seen it. It's that antique like flatbed truck and they've really renovated just in
wonderful shape. There's going to be a car show up there in Carlos,
Texas. It's going on from eight am to two pm today at the Yankees
Tavern on FM two forty four up in Carlos, just three miles down the
road from Grimes County Feed. Well, they're going to be out there with
the flatbed. They're going to have that in the show and they're going to
be doing giveaways, so that you have to show up over there at their
feed store truck the flatbed from ten am to two pm. That's when they'll
be doing the giveaways. They're going to give away. You can get a
chance to win a four pound jar on Nelson's Plant Food, you get to
pick which one you want of their four pound jars. They're going to have
a bag of turf Star Bruce's Bruce that's another Nilson product. They're going to
have a full sized bag of turf Star Slow and Easy that is their slow
release product. They're going to have a bag of Nitrofoss Imperial and Nitrofoss Super
Turf. They're going to be given each of those away. So if you
live anywhere up there, you know Brian College Station area now over in the
Navsota area, or any of the little small communities out there around Carlos,
Texas, swing over there to the Yankees Tavern two forty four in Carlos today
and say hi to the folks from Grimes County feet and hey, you might
get a chance to win one of those cool products. Speaking of that,
Imperial Imperial is Nitrofoss's fifteen five to ten product that is a standard three to
one to two ratio, the ratio that turf research throughout the South for years
now has shown to be the best nutrient ratio for turf grass coming up.
It's a fast release, You put it down, you water it, it
dissolves away and the nutrients that same day are down there at the roots and
the plant's able to start taking them up. Now, you can use it
for your lawn. That's what it's made for. But I use it a
lot of other things. It's a it's a quality mix a lot of things.
Greens in my garden I'll put I'll put a fifteen five to ten like
an Imperial right there for that. But primarily it's a lawn fertilizer for a
real quick early green up. And it's a nitrofoss product, so you know
that means it's going to be easy to find, right. Nitrofost products are
easy to find out an enchanted forest. They carry these products growers outlet up
in Willis RCW Nursery on Taball Parkway two forty nine, right where Beltway eight
come together. They've got the Imperial from Nitrofoss. Or maybe you know,
head up to Grim's County feed to that car show and Carlos, maybe you
can win you one right there. We're going to go now out to Jason
in West Houston. Hello, Jason, Hey, how's you go on?
Oh? Well, how can we help? Sorry? Water steps outside?
All right? So I've been a chair out the shrubs in front of my
house two times now because I can't seem to find a shrub that can handle
mostly shade. During the summer, I'll get four hours of stone in the
front of the house, but the shoes typically shade over there, and so
I need to get some kind of idea of what I can put in over
there. It's not going to die on me every two or three years.
Okay, well then, I mean there are a number. As far as
they're dying on you, that's probably more of a function of water too much,
not enough, some other issue going on. But a number of shrubs
will grow in the shade depending on how deep the shade is. So for
example, the yo pond will grow in some shade but not in too deep
of shade, as alias will grow in shade, but they're a little more
persnakeable. Kind of got to make sure they get the right amount of water
and have an acidic soil of that grains really well for them to do well.
There's things called fatsia f A T s I A, and there's another
one called a cuba A U c U b A. There are a big
broad leaf shrub like plant that is fairly hardy here, and that might be
good if the shade is pretty dense, they will do better and in a
denser shade than a lot of the other plants will. But those are just
a few examples. I think I think I would give the yopods a shock.
And it's more like silfered shade to a pecan tree and a large water
road. Okay, so it's kind of sultered, kind of silky shade.
So I think the yopon might be ready to do. Yeah, I tried
some. I tried some pineapple blama. That didn't work. I wouldn't say
they die, but they look really sicky. How about that? Yeah,
they they need a little They do need a little more light. There's a
couple of hollies that put up with a surprising amount of shade. Well,
yopon is a holly, but uh, there's a one called a Chinese holly
that has horribly poky leaves, very stiff, very big thorns on them,
so you know no one's going to go wandering through it. But it can
grow on quite a bit of shade that stay small. It grows very slow,
so that that would be another option. I just think in shade,
always remember that anything that brightens the shade is helpful, you know. So
some of the darkerly plants, they're there, they're growing, but you don't
renoice them because it's already dark over there. Right, Okay, all right,
sir, I appreciate it. Thank you you've got Jason, thanks for
the call. Appreciate that very much. I saying earlier, if you're going
to get a tree planted, you need to get it done now. We're
talking about that three sixty tree stabilizer for helping a tree hold still enough to
get its roots established, and then you pull those things away. Well,
now's the time to do a lot of different kinds of work for your trees.
If you need any kind of pruning done, you can still get that
done now if someone knows what they're talking about, and by that I'm talking
about affordable tree service. Martin spoon Moore has been doing this a long time.
He knows how to do the job right, and you can call him.
He'll come out hundred and fifty dollars for the consultation if you choose him
to hire him to do the work. That one fifty goes into the cost
of the job, so it makes it real easy. The one fifty is
just you know, hey, are you very serious about this, because he
can't drive all over town people that just had tree questions. But if he
comes out to do a consultation, he'll see what's going on. He'll advise
you on any next steps. He may say tree spine doesn't need anything.
He may say no, there's some branches there we need to work on,
or he may say something else, depending on what he sees. Don't just
trust whoever you're your lawn guy or somebody that puts a business card in your
mailbox or in your door to do tree work. You need somebody that knows
what they're talking about. Hurricane season will be here for you know it,
and proper pruning is essential to helping minimize storm damage. Affordable Tree Services the
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a fftree service dot Com. We're going to go now to the woodlands and
talk to Trey morning tray. Thanks get good morning, first time color,
good welcome, sir, So I planted a Michelia banana shrub in my yard,
my backyard. It's full sun in the summer, actually full sun right
now. It's thriving pretty well, but I'm not seeing too many blooms.
I bought it for the fragrant kind of banana. Now in later snow,
yeah, and I'm seeing a few, but wondering when it's gonna kind of
bloom out, and when do I need to fertilize it. Just give it
a little more time. You can fertilize it anytime you want. Do it
moderately through the year. That's fine. If you want to stimulate a little
more growth, just a small amount of fertilizer periodically would be helpful. Water
is the most important thing, meaning not meanings keep it soggy, but meaning
keep it moist in order to spur good, healthy new growth those shrubs.
The blooming is seasonal, and so as it gets established, it should bloom
better. I tell you. Though. It also is related to light levels
and then their sun and then their shade, and then there's deep shade,
and so if you get too far into the shade, the blooming on the
banana shrub can decrease a little bit. Okay, if they do take shad.
Okay, okay, yeah, I would just do that and watch it.
You know, they're not The blooms are small as you know, they're
about what size of a quarter or a little bigger, a little bigger in
the quarter. But they sure are fragrant, yes, sir, real quick,
skip on up. I missed it. But the slow release for the
lawn, can we throw that out yet? It is time? Yes,
it is time time. That is the the one called super turf, the
Nitrofuss Superturf. It's a silver bag nineteen four ten. Yes, if you
go to my schedule online at Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see that
superturf on there. And we we basically, you know, say about the
time that we get to April, let's go ahead and start with the summer
fertilizing. And we're there. It's good. It's great. Yeah, good
product too. By the way, I'm going to be given away a bag
of super turf every thirty minutes down at M and D in clear Lake.
Now, I realize that's a little bit of a trot down the road for
you to get to. But if you want your chance at about every thirty
minutes from get my bag of that super turf. So but I'm kind of
joking with you there, trade, but thank you for the call. I
appreciate it, no word. Thank you. Have a good one, all
right, BOBBYE. Yeah. Superturf is a nice, very nice slow release
fertilized provides that gradual release of nutrients. And you think about that. I
mean, all plants they take out nutrients every day in small amounts every day.
So when you put fertilizers on the soil, having especially the nitrogen that's
the one that's so volatile, it washes away, it goes off as a
gas even I mean it gets tied up or in the microbes in the soil
and then re released and a very here and there and moving around nutrient,
if you will. And a slow release is really important for that because if
you just dump a whole bunch of fast release at one time, too much
from now, it's not going to read be as much of it they're doing
much of anything. And that's why we like to do to go with the
slow especially for the nitrogen end of things. By the way, you can
find a super turf where you find other good quality nitrophoss products. Katie Hardware,
Ace they've got it out there. Ace Hardware Immemorial Memorial Drive, they've
got it there as well. And uh, you know, in fact,
go down to Angleton on Velasco Street, there's a Lake Hardware Angleton. Excuse
me, Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor. I'm giving you the wrong Uh.
No, No, I was right. Lake Hardwar Angleton on Velasko Street.
They've got it. By the way, Alvin Stanton Shopping Center has it
too easy to find. And that is important. You know, when you've
got a product you like, you need to be able to grab it.
And it comes to nitrofost products. Ace Hardware is a pretty good guess.
They're they're gonna they're gonna carry them, by and large. If you're listening
to Garden Line, our phone number is seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh.
Talking to the folks out at Warren's Garden Center, Warrens and Kingwood Garden
Center out there in Kingwood. Uh, they've got a bunch of Venca in
in stock, both the upright types and the trailing types. And I was
mentioning Venka earlier because it is just one of those heat humidity tolerant plants,
and it just blooms and blooms and blooms through the summer. Likes good sunny
spots. A little bit of shades, okay, but good sign, full
sign. It just laughs at the heat and humidity. Excellent. They've got
the Boodleia Butterfly candy series. Do you know bo Another name for Boodley is
butterfly bush. What does that tell you? Well, it really is a
butterfly bush. No, Old Boodley has got really big, you know,
six feet and they're still around. You can get the big ones up there.
Candy series, the Butterfly candy series. They're like three foot shrubs,
just nice little neat shrubs and these spikes of blooms, ones called raspberry,
ones called coconut, one's called grape, and those names described the color of
the blooms. They do well. Out at Warren's you got native milkweed available.
You got the encore and the bloomethon azaleas. They've restocked those. They've
got the Hollywood hibiscus that have come in and listen to this. At Warren's
Garden Center, there's called the Eclipse Sale that's a good name for it.
Three gallon Eclipse hydrangeas five dollars off. Three gallon Eclipse hydrangeas five dollars off
at Warren's Garden Center. Check out Warren's and King With Garden Center when you're
out in that area. Lots of good quality products. I always love to
go visit. Oh and hydranges are gorseous. They are beautiful. Yeah,
they absolutely are beautiful. So when you plant a hydrange, how long does
it take for the roots to really set where it gets to good blossom.
If it's got moist soil in warm weather like we're having none, that thing
ought to be established within about a month. Really, it's doing its own
growth. Actually, within a couple of weeks you're getting roots already growing in.
But within a month it ought to be a good size root system.
Going where's this Warren's Garden Center? Wow, yeah, you got to run
out there. I think so too far. All right, it's time for
me to pass the microphone over to Nikki and the news. If you would
like to give us a call, get on the board, so your first
we are yeah first, when we come back. That would be seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to Guarden Line.
What are we going to talk about today? Well, I got some things
I'd like to talk about. But how about you give us a call and
we'll talk about what you are interested in. If you've got to question,
somebody else has that question, So feel free to give us a call if
you like. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Went outside
yesterday morning and was taking care of some stuff out on the patio, and
I'm we have got a humming humming bird, a mockingbird that is just crazy.
I mean that he's louder or she is louder than any mocking bird i've
heard. I don't know why. Maybe it's just closer to me and it
just seems to be. It's like it got up at about four am and
started drinking coffee, and by the time we got to about five or six,
it was wound up and wired and ready to go. It was going
after it. Maybe it was griping at me because I need to refill the
feeder. If you have a bird feeder and you're looking for quality food to
really provide birds what they need. Now, the folks at Wilbirds Unlimited have
something called Nesting super Blend. Nesting super Blend is a unique food and here's
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when they need that food because they're raising young. Do you know right now
that you're birds that we're talking about everything from bluebirds, you name it.
The birds out there, they've got little nests full of young, the little
fledglings, and they need high quality feed when those babies are born. That's
what Nesting super Blend does. I mean, it's good for all the birds,
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And with wild bird food, you don't get junk, you don't get trish,
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which I just love. My favorite feeder that I've ever had is the squirrel
proof feeder from Walbird. Squirrels are smart. They haven't figured out how to
get into my squirrel food feeder yet, at least my birds, my squirrels
haven't. They get frustrated. They use language that I'd rather they not use
in front of the family, but they you know, they don't like it,
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Houston area, WBU dot com, Forward Slash Houston, WBU dot Com Forward
Slash Houston let's go to Montgomery. Now we're going to talk to Jim.
Hello, Jim, Hey, how's it gone, good, sir? What's
up? Well? I got these seeds from somebody that's called the ice plant,
okay, and I was wondering about it because I don't know anything about
them. And at first I thought you had to grow them in the wintertime
because it's ice plant. But from what I understand, that's not the case.
Now there are succulents. There's actually two different plants called ice plant.
But either way, you just want to get them started, get them good.
They like warm growing conditions. They do their best and warm growing conditions.
Probably you have something of the type that's going to be very succulent,
very thick, fleshy leaves, but there are other there's more than one kind
of them. They need lots of sun, put up with a little shape,
not too much. They need well drained soil, but they prefer some
soil moisture, especially during the time you're trying to get them established. Once
they're an established plant, they're not going to need the little pampering with water.
Well, these are supposedly not a groundcover. They're a little bit taller,
not much, but the bigger ones. Okay, where'd you get to
see? Jim a friend of mine and gave them Timmy and didn't tell me
anything about them, And I just thought i'd try them and see what happens,
because I'm kind of an experimental new plant. Yeah. But I'd also
like to make a comment that some people haven't heard this, but if they're
looking for a shape plant that blooms a juga, yeah that is a it's
a good groundcover, it is. I had some here and they got lost
in the yopond farm, but they did real well for years. Okay,
well good. Yeah. I just thought i'd throw that out there because I
hadn't heard y'all talk about it. Because when somebody calls and wants to something
that blooms in the shade, yeah, those seem to be very good at
that, very hearty. Yeah, it's a good suggestion. It spreads out
and makes a nice little mat on the ground. Hey, Jim, thank
you for that info, and good luck, good luck with those seeds.
Hope they turn on will Okay, thank you, take care, bye bye.
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We're going to now head over to Paarland and talk to Trevor. Hello,
Trevor, Hey, how's it going? Good service? Tell well, my
brother calls me up and he tells me, man, you got to errorate
your yard and put down hum can you tell me anything about that. Yes,
I tried looking up videos online and stuff, and I saw that it
was like predominantly dominated by like a bunch of bermuda grass. So I have
Saint Augustine in my yard. So I was just trying to call to get
some clarification on that. Yeah, what was that? Put its air rate
and put down what was the product? Humature? Oh okay, okay,
Yeah, yeah, biochar huh okay. So it doesn't matter the kind of
grass when you especially when you have a compacted soil like clays, will be
Uh that aeration really helps. Periodically you air rate, it opens up,
it brings oxygen down into that tight, tight soil. I biochar is fine,
there's no problem with using biochart has its benefits. I think more importantly
if you're gonna air rate would be to use a screened quality compost, a
leaf mold, a screen quality compost. It falls down in the holes and
it gets that organic matter down in there and it just enhances the root system.
And the better your root system, the better your lawn's going to be.
A screen quality compost, yes, is that by the bag or well
you prefer, Yeah, you can buy it by the bag. The thing
is when you when you purchase by the bag, you got buy a lot
of bags to cover over a lawn area. You can also buy a bull.
Now, a simple way would be to call Daniel green Pro and just
have them come out and do it. They cover I think they cover your
area. Depends on exactly where you're located out there, but they stayed pretty
much forty five miles from Magnolia in any direction, so you should be within
the range. Greenpro is greenpro dot net. That's their website. But they
have a very good core errator machine that reaches down in the soil and it
pops a plug of soil out and leaves it on the surface, and then
they have a machine that spreads the compost really smoothly out. And I mean
it's a lot of work to get it done, and you know it's it's
dusty and a mess. Uh So that's why people like to use green Pro.
By the way, if you want it, if you want to get
the call the numbers two eight, one, three, five, one forty
seven thirty three. Whether you do it yourself or whether you hire them to
do it, just make sure you get a core arrator that pulls the plugs
out of the ground and then use a finely screened compost. Not something that's
woody and chunky and all that. But you want something that's almost a potting
soil, like a texture that'll get right down in the soil. Okay,
yeah, that makes sense. Okay, perfect, Thank you very much,
you bet Trevor. Good luck, Yeah, good luck with good luck with
that. I might have to run to a break here. When we come
back, Gary, you'll be the first up our phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us. What are we going to talk about today, Well,
you you tell me. I want to talk about one thing, and
it's been a while since I've mentioned this. Sweet Green. Sweet Green is
a fertilizer from Nitross and sweet Green is a very unique fertilizer. It is
a molasses based, microbially built I'll use the term built for that fertilizer that
is one of the highest levels of nitrogen of any organic type product. Sweet
Green reacts with the water and releases down into the soil and really stimulates microbial
activity. That's what any kind of a sugar based carbohydrate based product like that
is going to do. It's a really rich environment. The microbes are going
to be happy, your plants are going to be happy, and you're going
to be surprised. It's just how we're well. Sweet Green works on your
lawn. Eleven percent I believe it's eleven percent nitrogen in that particular product.
Now being a nitrous product, you know it's going to be easy to find.
The available a lot of different places. For example, if you go
up to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware there on Kingwood Drive, they've got it,
Arborgate up and Tumbles got it. Or maybe South Houston out there genera
Red Bluff, there's a shades of Texas. It carries Sweet Green products out
there as well. First thing you got do is when you open it up,
just smell it. It smells wonderful. I mean imagine sweet molasses.
Smell that's it sweet, great, really pleasant. Enjoy bringing it home in
the car. May just make an extra trip around the block because it smells
so good. All right, We're gonna go to West easton down and talk
to Gary. Hello, Gary, good morning. Skip. So I think
I have a really simple question. I have the Mondo monkey grass and in
years past, it's really been flourishing. It's kind of slow to grow.
Is there a fertilizer or maybe a soil amendment I need to use? Well,
No, I mean, you know, it's hard to do an amendment
once you have it in. It likes a real compost d you know,
organic soil, high organic matter, so there's not a lot of fixing that
later. I mean you could make some holes in around it and sprinkle a
little fine, fine textured compost in there, kind of wash it in maybe
a little bit, but I don't know. I've never known anybody to worry
about that and go to that measure on it. As far as nutrients,
just a good quality lawn fertilizer is what I would use on it. That's
about all it is. It is a slow growing plant, though, so
trying to speed it up you're kind of fighting against its genetics. So I
have a half a bag of nitrophoss imperial hand, sprinkle that in there and
water it. Yeah, I would probably put let's see imperial nineteen say five
about a cup per hundred square feet of that imperial and then so that's not
much. It doesn't take much. You can go a little higher than that
good two cups per hundred, but sprinkle it in and then just water it
in really good and that'll that'll okay, Yeah, yeah, it's not horrible.
There's some box was in there that wouldn't harm that with it, No,
not at all. They'd be very happy. They have green leaves,
and that's a product for green leaf plants. That's why we put it on
on. Gotcha. Well, I sure appreciate the show, and thanks for
taking my call. Have a great day you too, sir. Good luck
with that monkey grass. What do we head over to Frank in spring?
Hello? Frank, Yeah, good morning. How are you doing. I'm
well, sir. How can we help today? Well? I have I
just my wife and I just moved here from Illinois, and we have two
hundred kalladiums that we'd like to plant, and I would like to do it.
I'd like to do it correctly. I'm thinking about getting twelve inch pots
and spreading them out across the front of the house in pots. I don't
know if that's a good idea. I'd like to know the proper soil fertilizer
to start with. Okay, well, if you'm doing pots, that's good.
The bigger the pot. Down here down south, our summers are so
brutally hot, and even our night times are extra warm, and so it
takes a lot of moisture to keep the plants happy. So with pots we
try to make sure they have as much soil as we can give them.
So small pots not so good unless you can water them twice a day.
Larger pots is better. As far as the soil, you might want to
try the jungle land by nitrofoss jungle land. Do the one. It's called
flour and vegetable. I know your plant and kalladiums, but flower and vegetable
is there outdoor soil. You're going to find jungle land all over the place.
You know you're up there, you know in the spring area. So
there's gonna be a number of places that carry it up around you. R
CW Nursery on Tomoi Parkway is going to have it hiding and feed on Stubener
airlines going to have It's gonna be easy to find, but I would use
the jungle by microfol jungle Land is distributed by night flash right, and it's
called flour and vegetable potting soil. Uh If if there's an ace hardware near
you, which there is. Uh, they're gonna they're gonna probably have the
jungle land there. Make sure you get a good sized pot and then keep
them moist, Frank, that's that's the most important thing. They want to
be in shade. Now there are so we have we have the shade.
Yeah. My thought was to put maybe four of the tubers in a twelve
each pot. Is that too much? Is that crowding them? You could
do I might the size one. Yeah, I probably would do three,
you know in a pot tubers? Yeah, I like I like odd numbers
anyway on plants. But that ought to that ought to do it for you.
Just uh it's warm enough now where they ought to be happy and ready
to grow. Okay. Uh another couple of questions. These things are I
would call it in my world, relatively expensive. And I've seen how to
propagate by spreading the tube tubers off, but I think that only leads on
stem, does it not? Well? People will do and depending on where
you bought them, the little corms that are used to plan them, they
will take the main bud out of it. They'll like gouge out that one
main shoot and that causes a lot of small buds to form the trade office.
Instead of getting a really big leaf, you get a bunch of smaller
leaves, but it makes a fuller plant. Now, I don't know the
ones you bought, if that had already been done or not, but that
is that is a factor. Frank, I'm going to have to go here
for a break, but did you let me try one more quick question and
then we may have to hold you until after break. Well, that's fine.
Thank you so much for your help, Thanks for calling. Hey,
welcome to Texas. Glad to have you done. Thank you, thank you.
Sir, Yes, sir, you bet. Have you been to RCW
Nursery. If you're thinking about planning roses this spring, you need to get
out there because they still have that ten percent off sale on roses. Now
you can go to their go to their page, go to the website RCW
nurseres dot com. Find the rose list. I mean it is a huge
rose list. If you want to just give them a call two eight one
four four zero fifty one sixty one. This is in order to make sure
they have the rose you want in stock. Then people come and buy things,
so they have the list of what they carry, but call two eight
one, four four zero fifty one sixty one. It's the largest selection of
roses in Houston at RCW Nurseries. Easy, easy to find RCW nursries dot
com. They're located where belt Way eight comes in to Tomball Parkway, which
is Highway two forty nine, so it's really easy to get to RCW Nursery.
Now I talk about roses, everything you need from a nursery standpoint,
including soils, the fertilizers. I recommend they're all there at RCW Nurseries,
including things like microlife for example, microlife fertilizer. The standard microlife is the
green bag. That's the turf fertilizer, which don't tell anybody, but I
use it on everything. I mean, I'll put it on vegetables or even
on flowers and things. Yeah, you can do that. Plants can't read.
They look at the bag and they can't see that. You know,
they can't read. But that's okay. But seriously, joking aside, it's
time to get the microlife down on your lawn. It's also a good time
to put down the humans plus. The purple bag. Humans plus has four
percent potassium, but you're putting it down for the humus, for the concentrated
compost in a bag that over time, as you do this, you're just
making the soil better and better and better. And it's all about the soil,
brown stuff before green stuff. The way we fertilize, the compost we
put in soil, the way we airrate the compost, top dressings, the
returning clippings, it's all about the soil. And microlife is all about the
microlife. Fertilizer dot Com feeling a little more about it. Well, wow,
that aur went fast. Here we are, We're already done. I'm
going to be today going over to the Ace hardware, the M and d
Ace and clearly M d Ace hardware and clearly and I'm going to be I
don't know, answering your gardening questions, identifying plants, diagnosing plant problems.
Just bring me pictures, bring me plants in. Like the Ama Lazareuth poem,
I feel like the statue of liberty. You're tired, you're weary,
uh masses yearning that I'm messing up the poem, yearning to breathe free.
We'll take a look at all those, We'll see if we can help them.
By the way, for those of you done in Wharton today, Wharton
feed and Ace Hardware's grand opening yesterday and today. You need to get over
there. It's on North Richmond Road in Wharton. Kat r H Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to kt r H Garden Lines with Scape Richt. It's so trim.
You just watching as so many it takes. They're not a side. Hey,
welcome to guard Line. Oh my goodness, the sun is shining on
a beautiful sky, beautiful day, good day for gardening. The temperature is
going to be just right today. I hope you have plants to get outside
and get some things done in the garden and landscape. Remember remember remember the
rule on Guardline brown stuff before green stuff, right, Get you some quality
soil or if you've got a bed where plants I've been doing well, consider
renovating it. Bring in a quality soil mix and get it going Nature's way
resources. That's what that's what they're all about. I mean, they are
all about the brown stuff. They ad alertly have got the top quality when
it comes to things like rosso when it comes to things like a leaf mall
compost. When it comes to things like all kinds really, all kinds of
the fungal Fridays is what they call it when they do fungal based composts.
Do you know that fungi are one of the number one decomposers in the whole
universe. Here they turn tree trunks into soil. That fungi are the heavy
lifters. They can do things other things can't. Well, when it comes
to the microbs, fungal composts. Every Friday Fungal Friday. Ten percent off
of the bag product, twenty percent off of the book product. They got
plenty of it on hand. You can have them deliver it. You can
buy it by the bag. You can go pick it up there. You
can take a trailer, have them dump it on the trailer if you like.
However you want to go about it, Nature's Way Resources on Interstate forty
five north, so you head north out of Houston. If you're coming from
this way, it'll be on the right hand side. Bup, we're fourteen
eighty eight, which goes off to the left to Magnolia comes in with the
railroad tracks. You are at Nature's Way Resources. They have a nice fine
leaf. More compost if you want to do some compost top dressing. They've
got you set up there at Nature's Way Resources. Very important product to use,
by the way, high quality. Here's a phone number nine three six
three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one six nine nine
zero. You are listening to garden Line and we are normally a call in
show, so if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I always like to go out to Moss Nursery and Seabrook because you
never know what they're going to have next. I mean, you always know
they're going to have house plants like you've never seen before. Trust me on
this one. Succulents, cacti like you haven't seen before. You know they're
going to have annuals and perennials. They're gonna have hanging baskets and shrubs and
trees and roses, all kinds of they're gonna have all of that. They
just got in a brand new shipment of roses. They have some really combination
containers too. How about bonesye have you ever thought about that as a hobby.
Bones eye. They have bones eye there. The hanging baskets are beautiful.
Do you have some shady areas where you would like some azelias, for
example, or other shrubs sun or shade. They've got those. Their selection
of herbs is outstanding, and now I think everybody on a plant herbs.
I use them as ornamental plants. The different kinds of herbs serve different functions.
Or reagano makes a groundcover, chives make a clumping plant. You get
the idea. There's herbs that attract beneficial insects and pollinators and so on.
They have hibiscuits. They have boogainvillion. When you're in the South and the
summertime along the Gulf coast here where we live, hibiscus and Boogainvillia. That
just tells you it's summertime here. They got native plants. If you're into
natives, they can get you fixed up butterflies. Do you want to attract
butterflies? Do you want a little bird bath or a little fountain? Moss
has everything. Eight acres you wander through, you see everything you possibly could
want because they carry everything. They're out there in Seabrook easy to find Moss
Nursery dot com. Moss has two as maas Nursery dot com. We're going
to go now over to Tomball Woodlands area and talk to John. Hello John,
you're born and how are you? I'm well, sir? What's up?
Good? I planted last year three of those. I think they're Mexican
white oaks. They're probably twelve fifteen foot tall. Nows planted them last year.
The two of the three great. During we had a pretty bad drought,
as you're aware, last year. We did our best to keep them
watered. One of them though, and it's the best looking one, of
course, from the middle of it. Fifty percent of the top is brown
as can be, look looks dead. Bottom of it is green flourishing,
looks great. The other two fantastic. No problems. Can I take that
and cut it in half? Or is that what can I do to remedy
that? Or am I pretty much the lost carls? Well? You can,
and you know it has a beautiful upright form, especially when it's young.
It spreads out as it gets older. If you cut off the dead,
if you can figure out a way to kind of train something to sort
of become the main trunk. Again, it's going to be a little bit
of a challenge, but you can do it that way. You try to
maintain somewhat of the natural form to that tree. Right, Okay, that's
what I was concerned with. I'll think, if I cut that thing in
half, is it going to die on me? But no, it's not
going to die from cutting it because you're cutting away dead. So that's not
a stimulating process at all. It just cuts away the dead. Just make
sure you cut back, you know, get the dead out of there,
because of course not going to come back to life, and the sinny do
the better. We are in the best season of the year for wound healing
on trees. Spring is the fastest time of wound healing, so go ahead
and get it done. Then in the months to come you can get that
callous starting to form and hopefully within a year or so you're back in business.
Perfect. Well, it's a beautiful day. That's what we're doing today.
So I appreciate your show. Well, good thank you, Sarah,
and good luck with that. Appreciate you taking care of that out there.
If you are wanting to give your lawn a nice quick boost, I mean
to really get it going and looking good. Maybe you get some areas that
just aren't doing so great. Medina has a product called has to Grow twelve
four to eight lawn Food Plus. It's like a lawn care kit in a
bottle. Really. You attach it to a garden hose. It's got the
natural lawn food supplements and it plus it has Medina soil activator and humate liquid
humus and so you just go over your lawn with it. Makes it real
easy touch it to a garden hose, I mean, how easy can you
get. They also have sizes gallon sizes and so on. But basically it's
going to stimulate the natural soil organisms. Because of the compounds in it,
you're going to get a really good nutrient uptake. Not going to waste any
fertilizer on this. Now, if you're going to remove your clippings, you're
going to want to do this every month during the growing season. I highly
recommend you do not remove your clippings. You recycle them, which is what
nature does with clippings. Now, if you leave them on about four times
during the growing season, just get your hash to grow twelve four eight.
That's a four one two four one two ratio product perfect product ratio and you
just work over your lawn with it at the end of a garden hose and
you'll see the results. I've used it on my own lawn. I'm very
pleased with the way that it has worked. Take a little break here.
When we come back, Cheryl, you'll be the first up for the rest
of you. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Ah,
it's a good morning to listen to George Straight. Hey, welcome back
to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. If you would like
to give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I want to remind you that it is going to be mosquito season,
and in fact, they have arrived. Someone has told me the other day
they were working on some shrubs around the house during the day, and you
know that's where mosquitoes like to hang out in the heat of the day,
and the mosquitoes were just coming out and eating them up. Well, there's
a nifty low product called a mosquito dunk. It just is a win win
win as far as I'm concerned. And here's why. It's a disease of
mosquitoes. It's a type of bet doesn't kill caterpillars like regular bete kills mosquito
larva, and so you're not going to hurt a ladybug or a bird that
drinks out of the bird bath, or your pets the drink out of the
bird bath, or anything else other than mosquito larva. The mosquito dunk she
toss them into the water wherever you have standing water, maybe it's a bird
bath, maybe it's a little pond out there, just toss one little dunks
out in it. They also have a granular form too, by the way
that you can scatter around. It gets in the water and mosquito larma can't
make it, and it is a natural, easy way to do it.
They're easy to find. You're going to find them. Almost all independent nurseries
and feed stores and certainly ace hardware stores are going to carry mosquito dunks.
And it is mosquito season. You should always have dunks on hand because you
never know when you're going to need to toss them out there and do that.
It works works super super well. Let's go to Cheryl in adding Keema.
Good morning, Cheryl, how can we help today? Hello, good
morning, okay, things I barely heard. One is which Ace hardware in
clear Lake? Are you going to be today? Yeah, I'm glad you
ask. I'm going to be at the M and D Supply Hammond am as
in Mary and Das and Dan M and D A M and D Yes and
D Supply. Yeah. Where is that? Where is it? Please?
Okay? Hang on? Let me okay, trying to get okay down in
chemo. Let me. I'm trying to zoom in to give you the actual
street number. I should have that in my head right here. Let me
see, here we go. It's okay, I can look it up to
I just no, it's okay, give me, just give me one second.
I'm trying to pull the the site up. I can't believe. Here
we go. My computer is on the glitch right now and it's decided that
it doesn't want to cooperate with me. So give me one second. I'll
find it for you. Did you have a question to by the way,
Yes, okay. You talk about heavy feeders, flowers fertilizer, and I
have these irises and I think that it will fit for irises, but I
can't remember what it is you you you you talk about it for Boogun vign
use some other flower, Yeah, you could use You could use a boom
Via fertilizer. You use a Plumari fertilizer too, on irises. Those will
both work just fine. Okay, okay, So no no specific brand or
anything. Oh well, there's a lot of good brands out there, and
I trusts Booga and Villia they make fertilizer does really well with that. In
fact, they they're actually their hibiscus fertilizer wouldn't be a bad Yes, that's
what she said. For your what did you call it? I trust?
What's the name hibiscus? Now you said something about I trust fertilizer, but
I couldn't understand it. I'm sorry. Oh so fast, oh nitro fas.
Oh yeah, okay, let me let me go back to the aces,
because I don't want to leave you hanging and forget that. It's in
clear Lake. In clear Lake, Oh, that's where I'm at today.
I know where I know, Yes, yes, I know I know that
one. And then the third thing is my law looks great and I've done
a lot to it the last several years. Do I need to put can't
I just not put anything at all? On it right now, just leave
it alone. You can't. I've had years, right and fertilize and it's
okay, Okay. The thing about it is fertilizer drives growth, and growth
creates density, and density chokes out weeds and it makes it look pretty.
So to the degree you don't fertilize, your lawn goes from pretty green to
more of a charture's green. Your density goes down a little bit, and
so sunlight begins to hit the soil nature plants of weed and so on.
So that's why we on an ongoing basis want to fertilizer lawns. Okay.
And one more thing about leaves. I really got into collecting leaves from my
neighbors that have big lots that I know they don't do a lot of fertilizing
or anything is fall off of their trees. Yeah, And is it possible
to overdo it on the leaves, Well, I guess you can overdo anything.
I would only mulch about four to five inches thick at the most.
You could go less than that. If you're are you talking about mowing them
into the lawn or are you talking about mowing them in? And just how
often to put them down. I didn't have that many that had got that
thick. It was just a sprinkling of them on top of the lawn about
every week or two. Yeah. Well, if you've got a really good
mower that really chops them up. Finally, you can take an inch or
two of leaves and most turf grasses, especially Saint Augustine, and chop them
up and they'll fall down the end of the turf. We don't apply them
to the turf on purpose, but if you got them on the turf,
you can just mulch them into the surface. I've done that before. It's
okay, works fine. But I wouldn't just purposefully throw our leaves on the
turf because that's how trees kill turf is smothering it with leaves and shade.
Oh okay, No, I didn't do any smothering. I just wondered how
often, because all I did was bring the bags and then sprinkle them and
then let the yard guy mow them with his mower. Okay, all right,
we'll save me the multing your flower beds and all other kinds of things.
Hey, Cheryl, thanks, I appreciate that. Good luck with you,
Iris and I hope you'll be out there at M and D Clare Lake
Bay Area Boulevards. The street you said you know where it is, but
other than yes, yes, I know, I know that's Space Center Houston
out there. Oh yeah, yeah, I know right, I know right
where it is. Alrighty oh, okay, thank you so much. You
bet, Bobby. Yeah, I'll be up there today, so don't forget
about that. Also, I wanted to mention to you that the Arburgate Nursery
up in Tumbo has a brand new parking lot. I say brand new.
It's been around a few months now, but basically it is the coolest thing
that I've seen because you don't have to park on the road out there.
I mean, Arburgate' is a popular place. People love to go there,
and when you go, you'll see why they've it's just an amazing place.
But now you just turn down Trishel Road. It's it's a loop that goes
around behind Arburgate. So whether you turn before Arbrogate or after Arburgate, same
thing. You turn toward the south down Try Road and come around behind it
park back there. It makes it really really easy, and you know,
when you go to Arburgate. You're going to find one of the widest variety
of plants you will see anywhere. I mean the annuals perennials, herb shrubs,
houseplants, trees, fruit, the fruit year around there when it comes
to shrubs, the outstanding new selections by Monrovia and others. It's just always
a good time to be out at the Arborgate. By the way, for
those of you who have been living under a rock and don't know where it
is, well, you just head west from Tomball from two forty nine,
head west on twenty nine to twenty not very far out there, and you
will be You'll find Arbrogate right there on the left hand side, easy to
get to. Good, very trained, very knowledgeable staff Beverly and Kennon and
the whole group out there at Arburgate. They will point you in the right
direction and put a plant in your hand with the instructions you need to have
success. I want to head out now to see We're going to go to
Sugarland and talk to Ross. Hello, ros Hey Skip, good morning morning.
Hey. I got a question about sulfur. I I've got some Indian
hawthornes that I planned with last year and they I'm sure of the heat got
to them or whatever, but they're just not as green as the UH.
I went after one of the independent nurseries and they're just as green as those.
And the guy out there told me I should use soil sulfur. So
I bought a four pound bag and get home and there's no directions on it.
And I got to thinking, do I you know I've always used iron
eye, you know, in the yard green things up. Do I do
I need that? Or how do I use it? I guess well,
question sulfur is okay when A you have a sulfur deficiency or B your pH
is a little high in a light textured soil like a sandy sandy long soil
in a clay. It's hard to change pH with sulfur very much, but
it has its place. But now you've already got a growing plant, so
you can't rototil the sulfur down into the soil. So I think rather than
just start to push things around with sulfur, I would I think I would
hold off and let's take a different root on this particular one. Again,
it kind of depends on the specifics of what your pH is. If you
have had a soil test. That would be a good start. It would
tell you if pH is what's wrong or not. I doubt that it's pH
on an Indian hawthorn. I think you probably just need to give them a
good I would use a lawn fertilizer to be honest. Just apply a lawn
fertilizer around them, watered and really good. Make sure the soul drains adequately
well, and just watch out for the leaf disease. It can be a
problem on indian hawthorn. It causes the spots and then the leaves turn kind
of a yellow to orange and fall off. Okay, I think you answer
my question. I'm probably gonna take it back. I think I would in
this case. There are uses for sulfur, but I think that's the long
shot right now. I agree. Okay, appreciate you guys, all right,
Ross, good luck with that. Appreciate the call. You know.
Whenever you need a product, I don't care if is it a fertilizer,
is it a soul blend to improve your soil a compost blend? For example?
Do you need pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, those kinds of
things. Ace Hardware store has always got you covered. This is fiant season.
It's time to get out there and do the two Texas two step.
That doesn't mean I stepped in a mound so I start dancing everywhere, although
I've done that before. What it means is first to put on a bait,
very low application rate, follow the label over the whole area, and
then any escape mounds. After a couple of weeks, you're going to know
you miss something. Then you use the mound treatment with that. That's step
two. First bait, then mound treatment. Texas two step. Ace Hardware
they've got it. You go to ACE. She said, I need a
hard I need a fire ant bait, I need a fi mound treatment.
They'll get you set up mosquitoes. They have the repellents, but they also
have those dunks I was just talking about, So it's easy with ACE.
By the way, I'm going to be at M and D ACE out on
Bay Area Boulevard down in clear Lake. Today had a eleven thirty, so
I hope you will join me out there. For those of you out in
the Wharton area too. By the way, ACE Hardware it's called Wharton Feed
and ACE Hardware it's on North Richmond Road in Wharton, Texas. Today,
yesterday and today's are grand opening, so you need to go check them out
as well. I want to let's see here. I wanted to mention I
talked about jungle Land as a soil blend for putting in containers. Talks about
that a little bit earlier. Jungle Land for indoor plants. That is the
one that has the water saving crystals. It is an excellent potting soil.
What makes a potting so excellent well quality ingredients. Number One, It needs
to drain well, but it also needs to hold moisture so that when you
go between waterings the plants do just fine. That is jungle Land, jungle
Land water saving potting salt. That's for your indoor plants and it works really
well. You can get an ACE hardware out of sink or ranch. You
can get jungle land for the indoor plants. A task Acida Ace is going
to have it and clear Lake in clute. Im. We'll turn it over
to Nikki for the news. We'll be right back. Welcome back to guarden
Line. Good to have you with us today. We're talking about all kinds
of things gardening and boy, are we ever in the big middle of gardening
season. If you are not interested right now and getting outside and planting a
plant, planting a flower of vegetable, or you know, getting the lawn
in good shape, you need to reach take your index and middle finger on
your right hand, or reach over and touch your wrist on your left hand,
and just pause for a minute and make sure you have a pulse,
because telling you if you have any gardening blood left in you, absolutely the
best time to do that. You know, when we get rain, our
Houston glasoils swell up, they literally get bigger. When we get dry conditions,
they shrink. They literally pull apart and create cracks in the ground.
And that movement rex havoc on sidewalks and driveways and house foundations. Look at
the brick on the outside, do you see cracks? Look at the sheet
rock on the inside, do you see any cracks? There is a door
that used to move freely now sticking at the top or bottom. Those are
all signs potential signs that you could have a foundation problem. Now. Ty
Strickland from fix my Slab Foundation Repair TI's been taking care of foundations for twenty
three years now. He understands what causes it, and he understands how to
fix it. Tye prides himself on being on time. He shows up what
he tells you will, on giving you a fair price, and on fixing
it right, fix it once, fix it right. That's Tie. He
adds absolutely has the experience necessary. He knows he soils here. He sees
it every day. The same thing. You can go to fix myslab dot
com fix myslab dot com, or call him two eight one two five five
forty nine forty nine. Tell him you're a Guarden line listener. You get
a free estimate. And I was visiting with ty and his wife the other
day, is a while back, uh and just picking his brain about all
these foundation questions. And I'm telling you, the guy knows his business.
I would not hesitate to call him for any kind of a question I have
about my foundation, wanting to make sure I get a fact, the truth,
and someone who knows what they're talking about. We're going to go now
out to Katie and talk to Ray. Good morning, Ray, Good Morning's
Kip, good morning. I just had a quick question. I got some
I got some vegetable. They're still not producing tomatoes and egg plan all of
that. Okay, what can I feed them? Because, yeah, they
look pretty, the clients look like pretty, But I don't need them to
look pretty. I need them to produce. Yeah, yeah, what can
I feed them to start? Seeing those blooms in the tomatoes? Well,
if they're green and they're growing, well, that I don't know that you
need to feed them. Normally I would say, yeah, fertilizer, that
is a good thing to do. But when you push a plant with too
much fertilizer, you actually can cause it to grow shoots and leaves. Well,
but at the expense of flowering fruiting. Are you seeing flowers on them
and the flowers just aren't setting or have they not started to bloom yet?
No, not, no blooms at all yet. Okay, Okay, well
in that case, I would hold off on the fertilizing for right now.
I'm just assuming by the fact that you say they look pretty that they're in
decent shape. Some tomatoes take longer to reach harvest, and those you wouldn't
see blooming as early. Some tomatoes can be eighty days before they go from
planting to blooming. Other tomatoes could be like fifty days before planting. The
fifty five days because the stocks are like they're really thick, like they they're
beautiful. They're beautiful plants. I just need to start, yeah, turning
some stuff out. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't. You
can't have a BLT sandwich if they don't produce, right, So uh then
good stud You got them in a lot of sunlight. Ray, Yes,
yes, sir, okay, well sounds like you're doing everything right. Just
give them a little more time, let them settle in, and I think
they'll be all right. Yes, sir, thank you so much. Skip
you bet good luck with those tomatoes. All we ask is, if you
get fruit, bring half the tomatoes to the station, drop them off here
for me, and we'll call it even avice is free. But what I
will be paid in produce. That's just a joke for those of you out
there. Let's go to Fred and sugar Land. Hey Fred, what's happening
in sugar Land? Good morning, sir. We planted pinters in bed that
we've done that for years, unwell, and about nearly a week after they
were planted, they started about half of them started just wilting. Okay,
during the daytime. At night they seem to come back a little bit,
and but a few of them just stay wilted. Interestingly, nine plants out
of the flats that we bought, we put in pots and things, and
they're just fine. Try to figure out what's going on. Okay, thieves
have big brown spots on them. They're wilted and all shrivel up, but
they don't die any thought. You said, penta right, tell yes,
sir. So when a plant wils I mean this sounds obvious, but it's
not getting adequate water. The question is why if the soil is dry,
well, that would be why. If the soil is adequately moist, Okay,
eliminate that. If it's not getting good drainage and it's staying soggy wet,
then that also can cause wilting, believe it or not, because it
shuts down roots and roots can't take up the water. It could be an
insect chewing on roots of certain plants, but not others. You wouldn't know
that until you dug it up and looked. But there are things that can
chew on the roots. That is unlikely but a possibility. And then finally,
it could be a root rot, something causing decay there in the soil.
Sometimes plants come in and they're so root bound the roots have just wadded
up in the pot, so the outside of the pot is just like a
solid mass of roots. Those to these, they were good, they were
okay, well really okay. I'm beginning to lean, based on what you're
saying toward maybe a either a disease of the roots. Maybe take the worst
plants you have, get a shovel under it and lift it up, and
then just kind of look at the roots. You should see white, healthy
roots. If what you see is brown or water soaked, or we used
to say the looks like a cigarette filter with that tar brown gray staining on
it. If it's that color, then that is a root rot. And
there are fung just drenches you can use, but usually we just say let
it dry out a little bit. If it's not too far gone, the
plant may come back. If not, you may end up losing it and
having to replant it. I wondered about that because we had pansies in there
before, and our pansies just really went bad. So did they do that?
And I left the bed, you know, to I turned the bed
and left it for about a week dried out good and then plant it.
And so maybe we got a fungicide going along. I would take I would
take a plant that's alive but wilted and looking bad, the worst one maybe,
and kind of lift it up and just kind of shake the soil gently
loose and take a look. I think what you're going to see is the
roots of declining, which would be a sign of a root rod. And
usually those are connected to wet conditions, but they don't have to be their
root rots that will do just fine and moderately moist soil. Okay, So
we could use a funguside on and if it looks like a root bro you
could you can go you know, go out to you're in the Sugarland area.
I mean sure you can find that at uh at the in Chenna Gardens
Richmond, in Chenna the and Jenny Forest out there is going to have it.
You got an ACE hardware out there to plantation. Ace is right out
there in Richmond, and they're going to have a pretty wide selection of products
and just a handy to funge your side for root rot, for drenching U.
There's several several brands on the market. I was suspecting that probably a
root rot sort of thing, because they don't just die. They just wheeled
down and they park back up. But then and during the in the heat,
seems like they just wieled. It's about half of them. Yeah,
that's how it goes well. I hope, I hope it turns out good
for you. Good luck with those and thank you for the call. Appreciate
that you to day. You bet you know I mentioned enchanted Forest out there
in Richmond, and Jenny Forest always has things going on. I mean there's
always a program going on on the saturdays out there in the spring. In
fact, yeah, I'm going to be out there April thirteenth, that's next
Saturday for doing a Q and A out there. They're going to have the
Robs Mini Donuts food truck. I'll tell you what, let me change that.
I won't be at the Q and I. I'm going to be out
there eating many donuts at the food truck. If you have a question,
come see me there. Seriously. Inchended Forest Richmond has every kind of plant
you could need, from shrubs to trees. You know, they I think
when I think of them, one of the things that comes to mind is
butterflies. They know how to grow butterflies. They have the plants and everything
you need to grow a wonderful population of butterflies. Today. As a matter
of fact, out there April sixth at ten am, they're going to have
a program called Beyond Butterflies, how to create a pollinator Paradise, and they
have it out there. Do you need pollinator something that blooms, that attracts
butterflies, something that feeds the larva of butterflies, and jennif Forest has got
all that. Of course, when you're out there, make sure you take
an empty car, because you're going to find shrubs and trees and herbs and
vegetables and beautiful hanging baskets and house plants and indoor bling. In the gift
shop, they got it all Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond, by the
way, all the Easter de Chorse forty percent off, and they really have
a lot a wonderful selection of books for gardeners and pet lovers and other things
like that. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas twenty
seven to fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond heading toward Sugar Lamb,
they're off to the right we're gonna take a little break here. We'll be
back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Welcome back to garden Line on a beautiful sunny day. Ready to get outside?
I sure am. After the show today, I'm going to be heading
over to M and D Ace Hardware and Clear Lake. If you don't know
where that is, well have you been to Space Center Houston. It's real
close to that's on Bay Area Boulevard, bay Area Boulevard, Ace Hardware Store.
Come see me, bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's just
meet and talk. I love to meet the folks that listen to Garden Lines,
so come on out today. This would be a great time to do
that. I'm going to be given away a bag of Nitropos the super turf
that's the silver bag every thirty minutes, so we'll giveing away quite a few
of these days. Two hours. I'll be there today. Nitrofoss Superturf fertilizer
that's the nineteen four to ten the silver bag. That is a slow release.
It is an excellent blend of nutrients. The ratios are just right for
what turf needs to grow. The chemistry of it is designed such that all
the nitrogen isn't released immediately. It gradually feeds over time, which is how
your turf takes up nutrients every day. Think about this, every day you
look out at your lawn. While you're looking at the lawn, it is
taking up all these nutrients that it needs to make a good, strong turf
plant. When you put a slow release fertilizer like Nitropos nineteen four ten Superturf
silver Bag, when you put that out, your fertilizers are going to be
releasing over time to give the turf the nutrients that it needs. Really works
well last two two or three months out there in the garden or in the
garden in the lawn. You can use it in a garden too, by
the way, but we primarily promote it as a lawn fertilizer because it does
create a super turf. And where do you get it, well, where
do you get nitrofosh products? I don't know, wherever you live, is
the fast answer. Kingwood Ace Hardware has them go up to Tomball the Arburgate
Nursery. They've got them out there. Shades of Texas down Genoa, Red
Bluff southeast part of town. They carry Superturf another nitrofosh products as well.
If you would like to give us call and ask a question today, our
phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven. For it's one of those unique
times we actually have a cleared board. I know some of you called,
and you happen to call when other people are calling, so you can have
a little wait there right now, you don't if you'd like to give a
quick question, don't hesitate because you've got other folks listening that have fast fingers
and they can dial as well. But give us a call. Heirloom Soils
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makes it easy, easy, easy, to find them. Gosh, you
talking about a lot of different things today. One of the things that I've
not tried growing before is a plumerius. Excuse me, I couldn't think of
the word, but I know I've had them before for a little while,
but I moved or I don't know. I just have not really gotten into
those and grown them, you know, and give me a break too.
There's only eight hundred thousand different plants out there, so there's a lot others
that I haven't gotten around to. But plumerius are so beautiful. If you
would like a plumeri if you likes to try it, Plumeria, which is
the Hawaiian lay flower. You know, you get off the plane in Hawaii,
they throw a neck ring of flowers over your neck. Well that is
that's what's going on here. I'm sorry, I'm distracted. There's a crane
literally twenty feet from my window lowering giant boxes of who knows what. That's
a distraction. But bluem area is a beautiful, easy, easy to grow.
I mean, you know, you forget to water them. They're okay,
they're tough, they they're not cold, hardy, but you can literally
dig them up and hang them up so down in the garage and get through
winter and put them back in the ground. That's what I'd like to try.
A lot of our garden centers happen. Now's the time to get them
too. By the way, I know that Nitrophosh, for example, has
a really good plumeria food that they specialize in. And you go to all
the places you get Nitrofosh, you're gonna find that plumeria food. So that's
that's one of the new flowers I need to get going. Maybe I need
to grab somebody from the Plumeria Society and say, hey, what would you
what would you recommend? How do I get started here? Again? I've
known people that had them, been around them and stuff, but just never
brewined one myself. We'll go out to Jersey Village now and let's talk to
Joe. Hello, Joe Hotei. I called last year out replace my grass
after the grout and between the drought and the freeze. I guess what I
put in just didn't work? Is installation era? I'm sure, but I
got a traded area that I need to replace the grass, the turff and
so with zoi or palmetto be a better august pal a better choice. Yeah,
palmetto for Saint Augustine is gonna be one of your better choices looking at
just the factor of shade specifically, that that would be one of the better
ones. Uh. There are zoysias. Zoysia in general is fairly shade tolerant,
usually not quite as much as Saint Augustine. But there is a zoysia
that, in fact, I just put some in my backyard called Xeon zeo
in that's a very fine texture. Now this is a different creature, you
know, Saint Augustine, big fat leaves, open growth habit Xeon almost I
want to say, golf course green, real dense, dense, dense grass,
and so you're gonna mow it a little lower for it to look at
best. But it is very shade tolerant. So that, yes, the
palmetto would be the easy one, easier to find. You're gonna have to
hunt around for when we start getting into specific cultivars of turf, you may
have to do a little looking to find the one that you're looking for.
Is this a high demand right down and in low supply because of the fright
trees and the drought that is in general true. The turf is out there
and it's getting planted all the time. Right now we're in we're in the
beginning of the big turf planting season. You know. Once it warms up,
turf wants to grow and people are planting it. Uh so the A
is going to be the best person. It's one of the best. Yeah,
I would, I would. I wouldn't hesitate to try the palmetto.
Okay, let answer that, thanks so much. All right, all right,
thank you appreciate the call very much. I said that now's a good
time to get those trees planted. Well, Verdant Tree Farm can get you
set up. You know. Verden's easy to find. If you're down south,
go to the Verdant that's over there south in Pearland. It's on a
Broadway Street. If you're in the central go up to the one at it
and Yale Street in the Heights. If you're out west, go to the
one on Barker Cyprus. They have a wide variety of trees. They credible
selection of palms as well, and their turnkey service. You walk in.
You can even bring them a picture and say, hey, what do you
think would do well right here? What would be you know, and they'll
help you with that. You pick out your tree, they bring it,
they plant it, they guarantee it for a year. Because they planted it,
they did it right, and it's easy to do Verdant treefarm dot com
v er d a n T treefarm dot com. That makes it simple to
be able to go about it that way. Let's go now to Parland and
talk to Henry. Hello, Henry, good morning. I had a question
regarding dwarf crape myrtles. First of all, is there really such a thing,
because I've purchased what I thought was a dwarf myrtle before and it ends
up being you know, larger, larger species, And I'm just wondering do
they are they really out there? And what's the trick to keeping them looking
at smallish, smaller, dainty type of size because I have a perfect spot
for it and I love crape myrtles, And yes, yes there are.
I'm going to give you you got a piner pencil handy. Yes, if
you will do a web search for crape myrtle and skip Richter my name r
I c ht er, you'll get a chart that goes from three feet crape
myrtles to thirty feet crepe myrtles. It shows you the flower colors. Now
that is not an extensive chart, meaning they're new ones every year, so
there's gonna be ones that aren't on the list. But when you see the
list, you'll see that, yes, you can get a crape myrtle that
only gets five to seven feet also, or one that gets seven to twelve
feet for example. But you shouldn't have to buy a saw when you buy
a crate murtle. You should buy one that gets the size you want,
which is exactly what Henry you're trying to do. But if you go to
a quality nursery, those what they're talking about. They only should sell you
something that they can tell you how big it gets, and it should be
the truth. It shouldn't be I bob a small one and it got big.
Shame on that one. About Thank you all right, Henry, you
take care. Thank you appreciate appreciate that call very much. Where you're listening
to garden Line. I'm going to be today at M and d Ace Hardware
out in clear Lake on Bay Area Bay Area Boulevard. I hope you'll come
and see me. I'm going to be giving away a bag of Nitro five
super turn for ever thirty minutes. While I'm out there, I'll be answering
your gardening questions. Bring me some samples in a bag, bring me some
photos on your phone. Let's help you have a more bountiful garden and a
more beautiful landscape. I love to visit the viewers. Hope you'll come out
to M and Dace. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty today
at clear Lake. Katrh Garden does not necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip
Rict. It's crazy. Just watch him as Hey, we're going to jump
on into this hour. We've got a lot to talk about, so we
don't want to delay. If you are doing any kind of transplanting, if
you're moving houseplants from one pop to a bigger pot, which we have to
do from time to time. I just did some this week. Uh.
If you are outdoors and you are planting, let's say flowers, moving them
out. You bought some flowers, you brought them home, you're putting them
in a container, putting them in a bed, a garden bed. Nutri
Star Genesis transplant Mix, vegetables, flowers, herbs, whatever you got.
It works. It's a six one three natural fertilizer. It's got the indo
and actemech microhisol funge. Those are fungi that grow in association with the plant
root to make the root more efficient, in other words, make the plant
happier. If you are looking for beneficial bacteria. Yes, that's also in
Genesis transplant mix. It's got a lot of things to enhance the biology of
the soil when I've used it. I used it this spring on some pepper
plants I was growing. The results were amazing. It really works well.
Nutri Shar Genesis comes in little plastic jars like other products from Nelson's, can
be purchased and it just works super well. I encourage you to mix it
into the potting mix that you're about to transplant into or the soil bed that
you're about to transplant into. Then set your plant in the ground and water
it in well and you will see the success. It works. It does
work really well, and I say that because I've used it. When was
the last time you were out at the antique rosing forium. There's always things
happening out there. You know, the place has been around since nineteen eighty
three. If you want to go to the website first, I would just
suggest you start there Antique Roseemporium dot com Antique rosanporim Emporium dot com. Next
Saturday, they're going to have a nice Native Plant partner program bringing a tent
to the display gardens. You'll want to check it out. It's a collaboration
between the Native Plant Society and local nurseries around the state to offer native plants
that do well for the environment. They'll have that They're going to have the
Tinker Garden. I love that name. It's the newest children's in the Garden
program Venture. It's an outdoor, play based educational curriculum for children aged two
to eight years old. What a better deal for kids to get to be
part of. It's a six week curriculum starts April nineteenth and twentieth at one
pm, runs through mid May. It'll be a ticketed event with payment details,
registration openings, and more information coming soon. So not only follow the
website Antiqrosimporum dot com, but say with them on social media as well.
They've got other programs on beekeeping on April twentieth and so on. Hey,
but they're about plants. Do you need house plants? Herbs? Do you
need roses? Of course they're about roses, but so much more bluebonet or
blooming. You're not gonna find a better time to visit the Rosenporim than now
up in Independence, Texas. Plan it outing and take some friends with you,
because really, this is a destination. It's not just like going to
some place that sells plants. I mean, this is a place where you
need to go and plan on stay in a while, because it truly is
a blast. I want to head out now to Missouri City and we're gonna
talk to Lauren. Hello, Lauren, good morning morning. Every year we
have the same problem with one tree in our yard. Okay, it's webworms.
And this year my wife has been getting out there with the hose and
her wand and spraying the heck out of them. The webs go away,
and she did that yesterday, and this morning they're back with a vengeance.
It seems to be pissing them up more than Okay, is she using just
water or is she using a pesticide? Yeah, that's the question. It's
just water. So what pesticide should we use? Well, first of all,
doing it in the morning with just water is not a bad idea because
you break the webs open, and the number one predator of webworms is paper
wasps. Paper wasp will get in there and they'll be hauling them away because
that's what they like to eat as caterpillars. And so by overnight they rebuild
the web around and the paper wasp can't get to them, so you have
to break it open again. But anyway, that's the safest, simplest thing.
It doesn't eradicate them, but it keeps them in check. If you're
going to use the spray and blast them open, any kind of an insecticide
put in there is going to kill them. If you use something with spinosid
or BT spinosid or BT in the spray, it'll get on the leaves because
the blast has broken the webs open, and when it gets inside on the
leaves and they eat those leaves, it kills the webworms also. But you
have to get it on leaves they're eating within a day or two. Gotcha?
Okay? The question next question is application is there this BT or splenosa?
Is that something you hook up to the hose and spray or do you
use it in a sprayer. You can put it in a hose in sprayer.
You just have to figure out the formulation as you're reading the label and
looking at the setting on the sprayer. But if it'll form a strong stream
to break through those webs, it'll work. BT lasts about a day,
so I would get it out there, you know, and you could put
it on late in the day or early in the day, it doesn't matter.
Lasts about a day, but when they eat it, they get six
spinosa. It lasts a little bit. Monger, gotcha. Okay, we'll
go that route. Thank you so much. Yeah, good luck with that.
If you had been dealing with weeds in your lawn, and I bet
after last summer, with the lawns struggling in heat and drought, they've gotten
thin and wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed. Well barricade.
Barricade by nitroposs is a pre emergent herbicide. You put it out,
follow the label rate. Trust me on this one. More is not better.
Follow the label rate. Watered in with a half inch of water and
it goes in and forms a barricade over the sole surface where you will get
forty five sixty days a protection against weed seeds sprouting. And you're going to
find barricade at a task to see to ace hardware up on tenver forests and
a task a sea. You're going to find it at Lake Hardware. Don't
include You're going to find it at Gem's Hardware in Montgomery on Liberty FM fourteen
ninety seven. It's easy to find and it works. Let's go to now
we're going to head to Magnolia and talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy,
nice, Kip, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. We
got a short time, but let's see we can get the question. Then
I'll come back and answer. Okay, it's a shafta daisy. I've purchased
it from loads over at to save me shelf. They look about two of
them, looked like they were really wilted. I brought them home, watered
them. They never picked back up. I'm assuming that they need to go
into a bigger pot, and I'm guessing that they're possibly root bound. What
do I need to do to besides putting them in a bigger pot? Do
I need to loosen those roots. Do I need to cut some of those
roots down? What do I need to do with that? Well, initially
just keeping the sol moist. If they don't perk up, there's been significant
damage and you may not be able to bring them back. But I wouldn't
go messing with roots right now. I'd try to first get them to perk
up, then kind of loosen the roots up if it does that, and
get them planted. But I think they may have gone a little too far.
There's a reason they're on that shelf. And uh, okay, yeah,
they've they've they've lived. I've had them for probably about a week and
a half and out water them. They've continued to live. They haven't died,
but they just never picked back up. All right, Well, let's
I'm gonna go to break here. Hang on, I'm gonna put you on
hold. We'll come back and we'll continue this discussion. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's give you a
little bit. I know you're just a bugging out there on cutting a rug.
Hey, welcome back to the Guardenline. Good to have you with us
today. Uh listen, if you are looking for a place to get these
products I'm talking about today. We're talking about the fertilizers, we're talking about
the pesticides, we're talking about soil based products and more. Ace Hardware is
it. It is fire ant season. You need to have fire ant bait
on hand. That is the best way to go. Don't start with a
mound treatment. That's playing whack a mole. You'd knock out one mound and
another one pops up somewhere else. When you use a bait treatment, it
gets all the mounds with foraging workers, which is all the mounds, and
if you escape, you always have a few escape. Nothing's one hundred percent.
That's when you go to an individual treatment that's called the Texas two step.
There is the bait and then there's the individual mound treatment. ACE Hardware
has both of those. Just go in, do you need mosquito dunks or
other products for mosquitoes. Ace Hardware's got you covered. Go to the store
locator. If you go to acehardware dot com and find the store locator,
it'll find the stor's near shoe. There's forty of them in the Houston area.
Makes it really easy to do. But ACE is the police where you
can find all of that and much of course, much much more. We're
going to go now, let's see, I'm going to go to Cindy and
Magnolia. We were talking about Chestadai'sy's right, Cindy, Yes, sir,
all right. I think what you need to get is something called medina has
to grow six twelve six. So it's got it's got a good phosphorus load
in there to help with the root development. It has, it's loaded with
microbial activity that is going to help the root system. Apparently your plant is
hanging on in the ICU unit of of your garden where it's being kept alive,
but it just can't quite turn the corner. And I would get the
medina has to grow six twelve six, mix it according to the label,
drencher over it and if anything is going to be able to help it get
back on its feed or in this case of the roots, that would be
the one that would do it. And it's gonna be a little touch and
go here, because like I said, there's a reason those things get put
on that shelf. Okay, you say it's the medina, what is it
has to grow six has to grow six twelve six. Any a hardware store
is going to have it. That probably the you let's see where are you.
You're up in the Magnolia era. I'm close to arbor Gate, oh,
Arburgate, they may well have that. You would just I would just
go in and ask Beverly one of the folks there if they've got it.
And if they don't, you're probably going to need to run over to a
local ace hardware store or something along those lines. But I would check Arbrogate.
I think there's a good chance they would have it. Okay, now,
Charvin, well, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate
it. You bet, thank you. I appreciate that call a lot.
You know, Nature's Way Resources is, they're the ones that have the Fungal
Fridays where fungal based composts or ten percent off if you want to buy it
by the bag, or twenty percent off if you want to buy it by
the bulk. John Ferguson at Nature's Way he has been making composts for a
long time. He's a soil scientist. He understands when we're talking about things
like roast soil and we're talking about things like leaf mold, compost. He's
got that. He has a wide variety of products for whatever the situation is.
You just go in and tell them what you're wanting to grow and that
they'll give you the options. You can bring a trader over there and get
it. You can load up bags in your car, you can drive around.
Some of the garden centers will carry Nature's Way Resources as well, or
you can just call them and say, hey, deliver it. Deliver it
to where I live. Go to the website Nature'sway Resources dot com or call
them at nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven
three twelve hundred. Let's go over to Spring. Now we're going to talk
to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Yeah, good morning, Good Morningney.
I'm briefly earlier I heard you talking to someone about Zoie's Grasp. Yes,
and I've been looking at it. I've seen it on and off over the
years, you know, magazines of that type of thing, So I'm looking
for something a little. The only that bothers me the most is if,
first off, is it good for this client? And secondly, how long
does it take to fill in? Got some large bare spots? Yeah,
three hundred and fifty square foot. The those eyes were a little bit slow
moving. Some of the new ones move pretty fast compared to Saint Augustine.
Probably not as fast, but close. I I've I've got two different kinds
of Zuisia in different areas of my property, and I think they both are
going to do super super well. They're recently planted, but I've seen zoysias
through the years that just look super They look really well. Palisades is one
of the kinds that has a little bit of a broader leaf for zoysia.
If you're comparing it to Saint Augustine, the leaf blader are about a third
is wide as Saint Augustine, and then there's some very fine texture ones.
Most people go with the broader leaf type of it's called palisades. Palisade is
one variety. There's a number of them. Does a matter if it's full
sound shade. It will take quite a bit of shade, not quite as
shade tolerant as Saint Augustine, but it will put up. I've seen it
sassa mountain tomball under some real tall oak trees. It's almost solid shade covered
the yard, but it's very bright shade and it was looking Awesomelises is fun.
Don't don't get hung up though on just having to find Palisades. I
mean, there's there's Jammer, Uh, there's al Toro. There's a lot
of cultivars out there. Palisades is the one, uh that that I chose
to go with in my yard. But but it's not it's like you have
that one and this I was gonna order. If I did, I was
going to order the three inch plugs. Is that how you do it with
plugs? Well, you could do that. That's quitty slow, that's pretty
slow. I would Uh can you can? Oh? Yeah, you can
buy sod. That's the fast way to go. Of course costs more to
wall. The wall said it, Uh, if you wanted to kind of
do something in between. I have bought grass pieces before, like sod pieces,
and taking them at chete and chop them up into strips and plant them
about with you had probably been about ten inches apart something like that. Begin
watering and fertilizing it to get it to close over. You're gonna have little
weed issues to deal with in those beare spots. But that that would be
one way to go. And if I went, if I went the whole
sod. Do you know what it costs per square foot? Roughly? I
do not, And it's going to vary between cultivars and the sources quite a
bit. Yeah, okay. And then the other thing, let's go real
quick quick so I can The other thing is this particular at of the zois
at farms. It's there in Maryland. I mean you can buy it locally.
I understand from what you're saying. Don't mail order plugs. That is
the most expensive per square foot you're going to have. Don't do that.
Go local, find a good soil, find a sod supplier here and follow
that. Let me give you one more website that I want you to go
to before you go out shopping. It's Aggie Turf Aggie Turf dot t a
m U Texas A and M University dot e d U Aggie Turf dot Tamou
dot e d U. Look under Texas turf Grasses. It's gonna be on
the bottom left. And go to Zotzia and read about it, learn about
the types and they they'll have a list of varieties on that website that will
be helpful for you. Okay, okay, and spell our game real quick.
T uh aggie a g g I E turf at dot t a m
u m tamou dot e d u. All right, all right, Kevin,
thank you sir, Yes, sir, good luck with that. Hey,
when was the last time you're RCW Nursery. I told you earlier.
They have got still got ten percent off on their roses and they have the
selection like none other. Go to the website r CW Nurseries dot com,
take a look at the list of roses and then give them a call.
Make sure they've got it in because you know there are other people, a
lot of people that are rose enthusiast shop at RCW because they know the quality
of what they have. You want to give them a call, want to
make sure they've got what it is that you're looking for. So they probably
still do, but I would just be sure. I would give them call
just so you're absolutely sure. Now are you there? You're going to see
shrubs, You're going to see trees. I mean, they have excellent selection
on all kinds of things, including the products. The fertilizers that I talk
about on guardline and the root stimulators are things you might want to buy.
When you buy a woody ornamental like a shrub. The phone number two eight
one four four zero fifty one sixty one two eight one four four zero five
to one six' one makes it really easy RCW. By the way, they
are where Tombo Parkway Highway two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight, so
it makes it really easy to find them and to get to them. You've
heard me talk about Southwest Fertilizer before. They're on corner of Busin and Runwick
and Southwest Fertilizer is the place to go for anything that you need to enhance
your plant growth, to control the things that attack your plants, for the
tools you need. They even have a little repair shop in the back for
small engine. It's everything, and when I say that, I mean it.
You need to go there to see it. Every fertilizer I talk about,
and more, every soil product. We're talking about insecticides to control pathts.
We're talking about fungicides to control disease. We're talking about herbicides to manage
weeds, pre emergent post emergent solid liquid. We're talking about the spreaders to
put out fertilizer. We're talking about seeds. We're talking about eighty foot wall
of tools everything. If Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have it, you don't need it,
go to the website or just go buy there. They're on the corner
of this and that and Runwick. The website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. I can guarantee you this. If you hear me
talk about a product on guardline. Southwest Fertilizer already has it. They already
have it. And if they don't have something, I don't think that's ever
happened. But if they don't have something, they can sure find it and
get it for you. That's pretty important. For example, Sweet Green,
you know the fertilizer by Nitroposs I've been talking about today. Eleven percent nitrogen
for an organic fertilizer. That's an incredible amount and it smells wonderful. It's
made from a molasses base with microbial activity turning it into a good plant food.
Now Sweet Green, you put in the back of the car and drive
around, you just want to keep driving because it smells a good back there
with that molassa's base. Where do you get Sweet Green? Well, you
can go to D and D Feed up there in Tomball, they're going to
fix you up with Sweet Green Lake Hardware. In Angleton and Velasco, they're
going to have it. Fisher's Hardware. Over in Baytown they're going to have
Sweet Green as well. Easy to find and you will like the way this
one works. It is a high quality fertilizer with a good nitrogen boost,
which is what our turf needs to have success. I am gonna take a
little break here and we're gonna turn it over to Nicky and the News.
I want to remind you our phone number is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
You can give us a call, Josh, we'll get you on the board.
Don't forget that. I'm gonna be at M and D Ace Hardware on
Bay Area Boulevard today. That's M and D Clear Lake on Bay and A
Bay and A Bay Area Boulevard today. I'll be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty answering your gardening questions. Come on and see me. Hey,
I'm gonna be giving away free bags of nine to five super turf while we're
there. Welcome back to the garden line. What do we want to talk
about today? Hey, this is our last hour of the morning. I'll
be back tomorrow morning six am to ten am. But if you got any
questions now, it's time to call seven to one three two one two five
eight seven four listen to If you are looking at a landscape that took a
beating last year, or if you're just looking at landscape going, you know
it looks a little blah and I would like it to pop, Well,
call Jason at Peerscapes. I mean Pierscapes. They have been doing this for
a long time. They've got designers on staff. I mean, you want
to go all out and really transform the place. Nobody can do it like
they can. It is unbelievable the work that they do. Just trust me
on this, but go look at pierscapes dot com. Go to the website
peerscapes dot com. You will be stunned at the work that they can do.
Rock gardens, pathway, garden pathways, hardescapes, water feature, the
drainage issues. Do you have drainage issues where then they can fix that.
Do you have an irrigation system. I've been working on my irrigation system fixing
head head after head this last week misaligned night the right head. Whoever installed
it did it wrong. Piercescapes can do all that for you. And summer's
coming, you need to be ready to go. But listen, you need
to ask about their quarterly maintenance for beds. They come out every quarter.
You sign up with a I want you to come out every quarter, they'll
come out. They'll do trimming and weeding and fertilizing. They'll check the irrigation
system. Now, if repairs are needed, that's extra, but they'll look
it over, make sure things are working right. They can do aeration and
seasonal color changes. Do you want to see twice a year change in your
landscape color? Do you want it to be more quarterly change in your landscape
color. They'll do mulching of the beds, making sure the mulch is maintained
so weed problems are less. Listen, they can do it all purescapes dot
com or write this phone number down give them a call two eight one three
seven zero five zero six zero. And you need to understand this. A
good landscaper, someone who knows what they're doing, is going to be busy
right now, very busy, so it may be weeks, if not months
in advance, and some of these folks are booking out. Do not wait
around, get on the phone, make a call. Depending on the size
of you, your job and everything, you know they're going to get to
it. But you want to get on the books so that you can get
that work done because you're asking someone who's a professional pierscapes to come on site
and really transform the place, and that's what they specialize in. We're going
to head now to Terry and Montgomery. Hello Terry, Hi, Randy.
I have see la gust from bushes that surround my house. They're like twenty
years old and they took a beating last year. But this year I noticed
the new growth is curling. Why are the leaves curling? Tell me the
name of the plan again. It's like the wax leaf. Yeah, yeah,
Is it the old leaves that are curling or the new leaves? The
new leaves? Okay, first of all, thanks for the compliment calling me
Randy. I take that as a company. The leaves when they're new growth
curling on a shrub, it could be doesn't have to be. It could
be due to a broad leaf post emergent herbicide being used around the shrub,
or a sprayer being used on the shrub that once had one of those in
it. I'm saying that's the long shot, but I want to throw it
out there as a possibility. Wax leafs will do some leaf curling. It's
just kind of a stress related response. I've seen it. Usually when that's
the case, they just pull out of it and they seem to be fine
and not worried about it. What I'm gonna do, Terry, is as
we finish you, i'm gonna put you on hold, and if you'll send
me some close up pictures showing me what you're seeing, I'll comment on it
further because maybe there's something I'm imagining that is not exactly what's happening right there.
Okay, Okay, so they had brown spot and I had to fix
that, and then now this. It just seems like I'm destined to lose
all of the I'm gonna lost about Fulty bushes. Oh wow, Okay,
well it's not. It's not on my top ten list of shrubs. For
sure. They'll waxually forgets. Okay, it has issues, and so but
let me take a look at it show me the whole shrub group from a
distance, but then especially the close ups, and I'll be happy to comment.
I'm gonna put you can I have you because there's something I can just
like email them to you. That's what I'm going to put you on hold.
Josh is going to give you an email that to send them to Just
hang on all right, Yeah, I appreciate that call. We're going to
go to St. Leone and talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, honey,
honey, I know the problem. I've been fighting these vines for ten
years and I'm now I'm trying to figure out how to kill them. Okay,
do you know what goes on? Uh? No? But they put
it like a white flower out okay, and they just keep They're taking over
my trees. And I pulled five inches stick of vines out of my backyard
to try to get rid of them when I first moved in. Now they're
just coming all back. So I was wondering, as they're kind of poison
or anything I kill them with? Well, yeah, us, I kind
of like to figure out what they are. It would be helpful. But
let me ask this. Does the vine kind of stay like a woody part
in the tree and then relief each spring or does it die of the ground,
have to start all over from the ground. O Oh no, it
grows all year round. Okay, what you need to get as a product
that contains trimech t r I m E C trime mech. It may on
a home garden market. It may be called you know, brush killer or
poison ivy killer or something like that, but it kills brushy broad leaf weeds.
You don't want to get it on desirable plants because it can kill those
two. But you just need to get on the lad So if it's if
it's like sometimes people will call and they've got like a poison ivy going up
a tree trunk, and you just cut it there. You can just cut
the section of the of the ivy vine off and dab the cut surface with
the trimac and that'll do it. Or you can mix it up and spray
it on the foliage. But that's where you get into the danger of getting
it on something you don't want to kill. Well, it's so thick.
I don't have any grass anymore, so I'm trying to get rid of bry
and grow grass again. Let's do this, rick I just want to make
sure I got the right kind of idea here, because I'm trying to picture
what you have. Can I put you on a hold and have Josh give
you my email address, and would you send me some pictures of the whole
area and something really close and sharp focus so I can see the leaves and
the flowers on this plant, and I may adjust my advice just a bit
based on CNA. See what's said is the neighbor put a twenty five foot
tall fence up and now it's grown all up the fence, all the way
down mine through my yard. I can't stop it. It's trying to grow
in the houses. Well, sounds like you got a little shop of horrors
going on over there. I do. I just need to hate them all
right. Well, for me to help you the best, let me send
me some pictures. I'll put you on hold right now and we'll take it.
You bet, Thank you very much. That is that is unusual?
Uh? You know, I'm going to be giving away super turf. That
is the Nitrofoss product. It's a silver bag. It's a nineteen four to
ten. I'm giving away one every thirty minutes today. I'm going to be
out there at the uh Ace Hardware store. It is called M and D
clear Lake Ace Hardware. The M and D Ace Hardware in clear Lake,
Texas. It's on Bay Area Boulevard, real close to NASA there. Come
out and see me. We're going to be ever thirty minutes giving a bag
of that a way. If you aren't able to come out, or if
you don't win one, you need to buy one. That is an excellent
slow release gradual turf fertilizer to build turf density. When you feed your lawn
properly, when you more regularly, when you water it adequately, you build
density and your weed problems go downhill faster and faster by you creating a turf.
They just can't survive in very few weeds. There are a few,
but very few that survive and thrive in a dense healthy Saint Augustine turf.
And super turf will create a super turf, a dense healthy Saint Augustine terf.
Night Fuss products available all over the place, not hard to find those.
You can go a lot of different places up in Montgomery. Jim's Hardware
they've got it up there. You can find it at a Task Sea to
ace. You can find it a growers outlet up in Willis or shades of
Green or shades of Texas, excuse me, up in the woodlands. Easy
to find them. Let's take a little break here. When I come back,
Charles, you will be the first up. We're running out of time
today, so if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have
you with us today. Happy to talk about any kind of gardening questions you
might have. We're going to start off by going to Spring, Texas and
talking to Charles. Hello, Charles, good morning you if you hear me,
okay, I can thank you, I can thank you. Good good.
Let's appreciate saying the call. I just had a quick question. I've
had some what I was told or called ferry circles and my grant in my
yard. They're about four feet diameter, about twelve inches wide, and they
just make the almost perfect circle. They popped up about a week or so
ago, and I got four or five of them. Okay, wondering what
you might suggest. You're talking about little white mushroom, A little white mushroom,
Hey, well, I haven't seen it. Yes, sir, I
need to turn out radio down in that round, okay, or maybe you're
on speakerphone that may be it. Well, I'm actually in the car.
Oh okay, okay, let me let me get hold on, let me
just get you off here a second. I'm sorry. Okay, Okay,
they're better. That's better. So are they mushrooms that you're saying, Well,
I haven't seen any blooms yet of any kind. It's just it's just
a little brown patch. It's just circular. I think someone makes they could
be mushrooms with some combat. I don't know. Well, we get fairy
rings, which are a it's a fungus decomposing the thatch. So it's it's
not a bad organism, it's a good organism. But it makes you get
green circles that then little white mushrooms pop up in them in the yard.
That's one thing. If you're seeing brown circles, that's a disease called large
patch. Most people still call it brown patch, the old name, uh,
And that is one that you can put a fungicide down to prevent it.
You know, once we hit this point in the season, it's going
to be warming up and the large patch is going to be going away on
its own. Fungicide doesn't make brown grass green, it just prevents further infection,
so you kind of I don't know that it's worth doing a treatment for
it at this point. You certainly can't. But it's one that we deal
with. If you go online, have two schedules online that are free to
download. It's at gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com.
There's the lock care schedule, which is fertilizing, mowing, watering your
lawn, and then there's everything that goes wrong with your lawn schedule. That's
the lawn pest disease and weed management. If you look on the disease line,
it tells you when to treat for large patch or brown patch, and
we're kind of passed that time right now. But in the fall October is
when you're probably going to see it resurface, if indeed that's the disease that
it is. Okay, okay, very good. Next, real quick question.
I know you got to go about three four weeks ago, I put
some weed and feed in my yard, okay, and it had done a
whole lot. You mentioned something about super turf for some kind of stuff.
Yeah, wull be okay to put something like that on there now, Yeah,
sure, it absolutely would be. That's a nineteen four to ten.
It's a silver bag by Nitroposs and you absolutely can't put it on now,
and that should give you a release of nutrients for the next two or three
months. Okay, that makes it very good. I enjoy your show.
Thank you so much. Well, thank you, I appreciate I appreciate it
very much. Are you saying that we have a good day, Yes,
sir, you as well. Hey have you been out to Nelson Watergarden?
Have you? Watergarden and Nursery? Actually, I should say that's out in
Katie, Texas. Just think of it as your West Houston nursery. That's
an easy way. They have one of a kind plants. They've got unbelievable
selection of some of the most beautiful containers I've ever seen. I really mean
that. They have fish, they have fountains. They specialize in helping you
create a beautiful space, so you can you can go online sign up,
or you can go by there and talk to them. First, you need
to go by because it's a show place, walk through and look at all
the kinds of work they can do. It's all there on site. You
just like wandering through water wonderland when you go through that place. Nelsonwatergardens dot
com. That's the website. The location, Katie Fort Benroad. Head out
to Katie, turn right on Katie Fort Ben Road. If you're coming from
Houston, it's just a stone's throw away up the street there and you can
really see. You can start small. They're a little container watergarden. It's
an easy way to start. Go look, go look at them. You'll
see what I'm talking about. They're beautiful. Do you want to create some
aquatic plants in a water garden? Maybe a waterfall? Do you want to
put some koi or goldfish or shabunka, all kinds of different things out there.
Just go and look and you'll see what I'm talking about. You can
do it yourself, you can hire them to come out and do it.
They are experts. They're internationally known experts. Really, I mean these people
have been they've been setting the stage just really the standard for water gardening for
a very very long time. The creators of that disappearing large container fountains that
just man, they're cool. They're really nice. Nelsonwatergarden dot com out and
Katie go check them out. You'll see what I'm talking about. We're going
to go now to Spring and talk to Jamie. Hello Jamie. Hi,
Skip, Hey, I have my front lawn. I know I've got some
areas that have thatch, and then there's some areas where I'm not sure if
I just need to replace the sad. I want to see if I can
send you some pictures. Yes, you sure can. I'm going to put
you on hole while we're done talking, but we'll take a look at it.
If you go out there and you walk on your lawn and it feels
spongy because you're walking on a stack of runners that are cross crossing back and
forth underneath the lawn, that's thatch, and that's a sign you got to
do something about it. That's sponginess to it. That's one of the things.
But take some pictures, get up close. Let me see some good,
sharp focused pictures, and we will be happy to take a look.
Okay, love the show, Skip, thank you, Thank you, Jamie.
I' putting you on hole right now. Josh, we'll pick it up.
So just hang on. We're going to go now to spring branch and
talk to Herda. Hello, Herda. Let me try that again. It
helps if I click on the right button. How are you doing today?
Good morning, Skip, Good to talk to you. I have well.
My alo vera died. I don't know if it was the drought or what.
But anyway, a friend gave me another one. But it was in
a little biggie pot and it didn't hand me drainage. It had one of
those faster things clipped to the bottom of the pot. But anyway I transplanted
it. The roots were all circled around. I pulled them out. I
eat it. I got some advice from Southwest Fertilizer. But anyway, do
i've I've transplanted it into a much larger pot with lots of drainings at the
bottom. Do I feed it or do I just let it take hold first,
let it kind of go, give it a few weeks to just get
going. But there's no problem. If you want to go ahead and fertilize
it. You could use a liquid product, or you can put little granule.
Just to be real careful because if it's a salt based synthetic fertilizer,
you don't want to dump a bunch of it in a pot, so you
sure would go with something that's a slower release. And Bob's got about five
or ten different kinds of slow release fertilizer there. He can tell you that
that will gradually feed it over time. Alivera is not one that we have
to worry about fertilizing a lot, but it I love mine. Yeah,
it benefits from having adequate nutrients like any plant. But yes, sir,
well, thank you so much for all your help. All right, heard
you take care appreciate it too. God BITEU. We have an alivera in
a pot ourselves, and I tell you one thing it doesn't like is to
be kept too wet. And it's easy, you know, you think you're
water and enough or whatever, but you just got it. You got to
get on there and feel the soil. That's the way to tell. We
had a string of arrows plant that my wife's plant, actually, and I
go through and rescue plants when I think they need rescuing. Well, apparently
she'd been watering it and I watered it also, and that created a little
bit of a problem that plant. She just did surgery on it and took
some cuttings to try to root them, and we're trying to bring the other
one back. But anything that's a succulent, anything that is able to survive
without a lot of water, you definitely don't want to put it in a
swamp and a pot that doesn't drain. You heard hers talking about putting it
in a pot with lots of drainage. Something else just to think about is
when a pot sits on the ground, oftentimes it'll almost like seal to the
clay soil underneath it, So it has a hole, but it's essentially like
it's sat there so long it's killed whatever was under it, and now the
clay of the ground is sealing the whole. So make sure that it drains
well. Any kind of a container if you want to have success. We're
going to go out of Matt in Spring, Texas. Hey Matt, we're
about out a time. But let's see if we can do it. Try
real quick. Just every year I have a battle with Virginia button weed,
and I I when it gets too hot. You can't put the ryside down
to kill it. Is there something you can do to prevent it from coming
up? Well, you can the seeds. What's coming up from seeds.
Barricade that we talked about here from NITROFOSSI will help with that, help prevent
new seeds from coming up. But what you need, what you're going to
need to get, you've got existing button weed in your lawn. You need
to get a product called celsius, like the temperature celsius. Okay, and
you don't want to apply it when it's one hundred degrees, but unlike other
products that we quit using when it hits about eighty upper eighties, Celsius you
can go into the low nineties and they'll be just fine. Or apply it
early in the morning. You want to do it now, right away.
You want to watch it because it's going to take several applications over time to
knock that button weed out. Celsia is as good of a product as you're
going to be able to get to do that, but it is going to
take typically you don't get it all the first time. Okay, super,
maybe we can prevent it from growing this year. Yeah, and it's you
know wherever you live. I mean, you're up in Spring area. You've
got you've got some ace hardware stores that probably will have it if you ask
them. To see if they have it. If not, I know you
can get it down a Southwest fertilizer down on Bismuth and rom Awesome. Yeah,
you bet. Good luck with that all right way. Virginia button wheet
Virginia button weeds. That's off the phone here, but I hope you're still
listening. Virginia button weed and dollar weed are two weeds that tell you the
area is staying wetter than it needs to be. It may not be you
water, It may be the runoff or frequent rainfall, but it also may
be we're watering a lot too much. So that doesn't you know, cutting
back on water doesn't kill virgin button we but overwatering makes it proliferate, and
it's like making it even harder for you to have success. Well, I'm
about to head out here. We're going to go to M and DA's Hardware
in clear Lake on Barria Boulevard. I hope you'll come out and see me.
I'll start at eleven thirty am giving away Nitroposford lunch