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K t r H Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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

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rictor It's shop. Just watch him
as so many good things to seas not

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a sun. Good morning, good
Saturday morning. Glad you're joining us today.

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We are looking forward to visiting with
you about the things that are of

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interest to you. What kind of
questions do you have? What's what are

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you struggling with right now out there
in the lawn and garden, or maybe

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you're planning on putting in something new
and would like to visit about that.

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I always encourage people to try something
different, try something different. If you've

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never grown vegetables before, don't have
room for a garden, that's okay.

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How about in containers we can help
you with that. Have you never grown

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a cut flower garden? Now there's
a fun thing to do. We my

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wife and I put one in about
a week ago. Some more flowers and

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things for enjoying indoors. Why not
try that aout? How about herbs?

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Herbs are a thing that a lot
of people have not tried. If you

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tell me, well, I don't
have room for an herb garden. Yeah,

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you do. You got containers.
If you have vegetables, you put

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herbs at the end of the vegetable
rows. You can have used herbs in

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the landscape. There's some herds that
are quite herbs that are quite ornamental as

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a matter of fact. Well,
if you'd like to visit about any of

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those things or other things, give
us a call. It's seven one three

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two one two ktr H seven one
three two one two k t r H.

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We're going to go out here and
talk to our early bird of the

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day, Mel and Tomball. Hey, Mel, Hey, good morning,

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ship morning. I have a problem
with molds for years here, and we

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tried all kinds of stuff. I
mean, I didn't make this gas stuff

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that you can put in area,
which is expensive, and the even little

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guillotine that you can use to kill
them. Right, most of most of

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their products are dealing with just moving
them out, including a castor oyle treatment,

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which I haven't tried yet. Uh. Is there anything out there that

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I just assumed kill them instead of
just move them away? Yeah, well

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you've got to. It's a challenge
to control them because they let me just

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make sure we're talking about moles.
Rather than gophers. They don't have the

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big mounds of dirt above the ground, right, No, it's the mold.

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It's those little ridges you know that
they pop up. And I tried

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a lot of stuff, but just
like I said, I don't want to

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move them around. I want to
kill the little raffle because they have dig

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enough. We have through the root
of the flowers and all that stuff.

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Yeah, we're right there and tumble. If you go out to the folks

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at D and D feed which is
on twenty nine to twenty west. Uh,

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they have got they've got various things
that you can use for that.

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You may have tried some of the
things they have, but maybe not all.

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Let me, do you have a
pen or pencil handy? I got

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it ready. Let me let me
give you something to write down. Agra

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Life Learn. That's a g R
I Agra life l A F E learn

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l E A r N and then
put dot t a m U as in

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Texas and m University dot e d
U, so it's Agralife learn dot TAMU

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dot e d U. If you
will type the word moles in to that

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search, that's the bookstore. And
there is a free publication managing mold damage

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you you they email you the or
they send you the link to the pdf.

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You can print it out, you
can read it on your computer,

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and it goes into great depth.
I am not a wildlife expert, but

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they are, and the folks that
wrote this will give you the ins and

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outs of dealing with moles and way
more information and not give you on a

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quick phone call. But between that
and running by D and D and grabbing

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some of the product that they have
there, you're you are going to end

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up with basically your options or traps. And there are some poisons out there.

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There are also uh you know,
sometimes people can exclude them by putting

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in an underground fence around a small
garden area, but most most folks don't

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have the either the area protecting is
too big, or just the wherewithal to

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do that. All right, we'll
we'll give it a thirty five. Well,

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good luck with that. I appreciate
it. Yes, sir, thank

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you, you've et you take care. Good to have you with us today

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our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

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you've not done your summer fertilization yet, or if you did, an immediate

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release fertilizer one of those that dissolves
away whenever water hits it. You probably

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want to go ahead and do a
summer slow release fertilization and Nitropos superturf.

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That's their sober bag. The silver
bag is the nineteen percent nitrogen. Half

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of that is slow release nitrogen.
It's a nineteen four to ten number.

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That's the numbers on the bag,
and a Nitropos Superturff will gradually feed your

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turf over the summer season. That
is how you want turf to receive.

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It's especially nitrogen. You don't want
it all to get it at once.

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You want to gradually feed it over
time. That creates a good root system

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and it just ensures success. Now
you're going to find Nitrofoss Superturf at places

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like Bearing's Hardware both on Bissonette and
on Westheimer Plantation Ace. They're in the

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Richmond Rosenberg area as well as Hiding
and Feed on Stubner Airline in the Memorial

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area. Easy to find as all
night Foss products are night Fass Superturf silver

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bag sixteen four to ten for a
gradual feed on through the summertime with answers

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still hopping out there at the Bee
Supply and Dayton. You hear me talk

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about them from time to time.
They're always coming up with some really new

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cool things. You know. They
recently announced they're doing this b rental program.

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If you've got five to twenty acres
you live within fifty miles a Dayton,

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they will come out and put bees
on your property. They will walk

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you through the process of how you
go about getting an ag exemption because bee

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that is an agricultural production enterprise,
and they'll walk you through that process.

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They bring the bees out, they
set them up, they take care of

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them, and so it makes it
very easy to go about doing that.

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But go to the website to find
out more. Theb supply dot Com,

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the bsupply dot com, the b
Supply out there in Dayton, Texas.

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They at beginning beekeeping classes. Those
are awesome ways to find out how to

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get started or even if beekeeping is
for you. You will find those classes

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to be very very informative. They
have any other classes. I'll tell you

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about more as we get closer to
them in time. They also now have

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the leaf cutter bee purchases that you
can make where you have these bees that

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come and they live in little holes
in wood or in paper tubes. Actually

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that make it easier to clean.
And you just hang them in your garden

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and they are very very efficient pollinators, excellent pollinators. But give them a

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call at nine three six seven seven
six seven three nine, or just go

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to the website where you'll also find
the phone number thebesupply dot com. Bees

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are a fascinating thing. And by
the way, they have a live highve

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there too, indoors, so you
can walk in and see bees working behind

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plexiglass. You know, they come
in through this long tube from outdoors into

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the into the the living indoor beehive, and it's just cool. When I

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was a kid, you could go
to a place called is it Nickerson Farms

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or Stuckies that used to have the
bee bees indoors and you'd walk up to

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the glass and see them. Those
are so cool. Driving across the country,

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those have been replaced by BUCkies now
everywhere our Texas company. Maybe BUCkies

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needs to get some bees in the
wall. That would be that would be

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interesting. Let's take a little break, We'll be back for your calls.

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Seven one three two one two kt
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line. Good to have you with
us, looking forward to talking to you

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about whatever's a ventry to you our
phone number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four seven one three
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I should say instead of whatever is
of interest to you, I say whatever

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horticulturally is of interest? How about
that? With there are a lot of

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topics that are definitely way out of
my league. When's the last time you

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went to Plants for All Seasons?
Up on Tomball Parkway two forty nine,

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that's the road that goes up to
Tumble. You just head north like you're

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going to Tombull and when you exit
for Luetta crossover Luetta and that's right there

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on the right hand side. Front
door just faces right on to forty nine.

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Really easy to find, easy to
get in and out of. And

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they always have good plants there.
They always good have good information there.

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And that's you know, that is
one of the best reasons to go to

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a quality, equality, independent garden
center like Plants for All Seasons. They've

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been doing this since nineteen seventy three. And if you think you got a

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brown thumb, you just go in
there and start talking to them and they're

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gonna turn it green. They're gonna
put the right plant in your hand.

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They are going to give you the
advice on how to grow that plant,

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and then when you have questions,
they're there to help you. It's not

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just like one of these places where
nobody knows what they're talking about. And

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well, I won't go on on
that, but you know what I mean.

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Now, they they are there to
help you. You can bring a

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sample in, you can bring a
picture in. Uh, you know,

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you can go, hey, this
has happening in my yard. What what

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are my options? What could I
do? And they know what to tell

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you, they know the right answers
and they're willing to do it. So

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Plants for All Seasons just think of
them as that full service place to get

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your green on as we'd like to
put it. Plants for All Seasons dot

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Com. Plants for All Seasons dot
Com. You can call them at two

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one six four six Plants for All
Seasons dot Com. Check them out today.

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It's a good time to be planting
some of these warm season cool excuse

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me color plants that we want I
was in there the other day at Plant

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froll Seas living all the shade loving
plants, lots of beautiful shade color options.

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Those of you who live in a
neighborhood maybe where you have a little

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bit of trees and not quite enough
sun for some of the flowers that love

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sun well plants fall seas. I'll
get you fixed up on that. We

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can't go out now to Liberty and
talk to Tracy. Hey, Tracy,

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morning Skip. I've got a question
about a peace lily that I received as

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a gift. It was on the
front porch. The front porch faces the

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western sun. It was getting too
much sun. I repotted it in some

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quality rose sola and brought it,
brought it inside. It's facing in a

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trying to The window is a north
window, so it gets a little bit

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of light, but it's it's just
like it's melted. It gets watered about

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once a week or so, okay, kind of when it's dry. Now.

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This morning, when I left for
work, I put a grow light

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on it to see if some supplemental
light might perk it up. And I

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just wanted to see if you had
any suggestions. Yeah, we'll getting it

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out of direct souns good supplemental light
could be helpful. You know, peace

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lily Chinese evergreen they call it.
It is a very low light tolerant plant.

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But if you want to get it
to grow, you know, grower

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superducos. Don't grow them in super
low light. They grow them in plenty

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of light to get the most energy
in the plant and the most health growth

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and things like that. So yeah, you can do that. Just be

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careful with overwatering. If you pot
it up and it's in let's just say

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it has a lot of soil.
For the amount of greenery sticking up above

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the ground, it's really easy to
keep it too wet, and they hate

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that. They don't want to go
cry go dry. But you kill a

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lot more of those by overwatering than
by underwatering. And then in our house

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the temperature is so miles compared to
outdoors that the water use rate is very

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low as well. So just be
real careful on that watering. Uh,

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And that I've pretty much saturated it, and then it's got to opening at

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the bottom and I drain off all
the water. So is that possibly why

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it's all wilted down looking? Probably
a little too much. Yeah, Usually

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I would recommend potting those in a
pretty chunky material, you know, just

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to make sure that the water drains
through really well. Roast soil is a

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good mix, a good blend,
and it should be. Okay, I

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just would I would just be careful
with the water. I think that's the

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main The main thing is riot right, Okay, I will cut back on

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the water and the you don't think
the grow light's gonna have a negative effect

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on it, So I'll try that
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just as you know, as long
as you know within reason. I mean,

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I don't know whether you just have
an inexpensive grow light or some of

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these are just about create almost date
full sun levels of light. And I'm

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sure that's not what you're putting on
it. But just yes, supplemental light

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is always good for plants that you
want to get them to grow indoors.

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Okay, Well, I appreciate your
time and I enjoy the show. You

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have a great weeking. Thanks for
being listener, Tracy, appreciate that.

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Glad we could be of some assistance
to you if you'd like to give us

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a call. Talk Gardening seven one
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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four uh visiting with ian id

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IT Nature's Way Resources yesterday and they
are, boy, they are having one

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heck of a summer sail out there. You know, they have native plants,

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lots of native things and now those
that are not native. But they

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have an excellent, huge selection of
Texas natives and pollinator plants in general,

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just plants that will bring in the
pollinators, which is always a good thing

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to add garden. Now, they
are having thirty percent off of most of

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their plants going through July first,
so we got about a month, a

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little over a month of this opportunity. Thirty percent off is a huge good

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sale. Now that excludes native sun
perennials. That just the native sun perennials,

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but the rest are all part of
that deal, a huge selection of

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those natives and the pollinators. For
example, they also have a twenty percent

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discount on all the composts, all
the malts, and all the soil blends.

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Do you hear that right? Twenty
percent all composts, all malts,

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and all soil blends. But to
get that a lot of times I'll say

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something and people don't listen to everything
I say, so, please listen to

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everything on this one. You got
to mention Garden Line. Say you heard

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about this on Garden Line. When
you go into Nature's Way Resources, talk

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to Ian, talk to any of
the staff there, say I heard about

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a twenty percent discount you guys have
on compost molts and soil blends. Now

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that includes both the bag product and
the bulk product. So haul your trailer

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in there. Bulk's always a better
deal, right, buy bulk. You

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don't have to bag each a little
bit of it, or take your trunk

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in there and your car, open
it up, take your trailer, take

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your pickup either way, bagged or
bulk. The twenty percent off both of

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them, and again that is that
is an excellent, excellent opportunity. Just

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remember when you go in there to
get this deal, you need to tell

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them you heard about it on Guardline
and you'll be well on your way.

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Nature's Way, By the way,
where is it? If you don't know,

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you need to go up there anyway, because it was one of our

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original outstanding soil yards that we've had
here in the Greater Houston area. On

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Interstate forty five going north forward Conroe, We're fourteen eighty eight. The road,

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the highway that goes to Magnolia,
where it comes in from the left,

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you turn right and go across the
tracture just south of Conro just a

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little bit, and that's where Nature's
Way is. Sherwood Sherbrook. Excuse me,

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I always want to say Sherwood.
I guess I'm thinking of Robin hood

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Brook Circle, Conroad, Texas,
one on one, sure circle. If

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you want the website Nature's Way Resources
dot com, take advantage of that.

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This is a a really good opportunity. This past week I began preparing a

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flower bed. Now, if you
listen to garden line, what is the

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most important thing? I hope you
know this. What is the most important

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thing you do to have success with
plants? The answer is you're right.

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You prepare the soil first. And
how do we say it? Brown stuff

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before green stuff. Well, you've
heard people say do as I say,

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not as I do. Well,
this is actually one I did this.

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I have a soil in the front
flower bed that is the stickiest, nastiest,

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poorest drain clay on earth. I
mean, it is horrible, and

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we excavated some of it out to
do a drain a French drain along the

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driveway there to get that out of
the bed. That helps a lot,

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uh. And so I'm hauling that
soil to a spot where I just need

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some fill in a back corner,
a little low spot in there that I

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need to basically plug a hole with. We'll we're getting it out of the

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bed. And so what am I
going to do. I'm bringing in already

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got some different kinds of organic materials, decomposed organic matter from compost to bed

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mixes. I've got some rose soil, I've got some veggie and herbmic I've

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got different kinds of things that I'm
putting in there and just building that soil

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and building that soil up and creating
a nice, well drained soil. Before

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I do that, I'm putting in
expanded shale. And probably don't talk about

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expanded shale enough. A lot of
our you can buy it. Our soil

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providers will provide you with expanded shale
also. But what it is the easy

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way to think about it is imagine
kitty litter that has been fired super hot.

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I'm talking about the old gray clay
based type kitty litter. That's sort

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of what expanded shal looks like although
it comes in different particle sizes, but

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it's been fired super super hot,
so it's a very hard particle that is

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expanded and pitted with holes like the
lava rock on a barbecue pit, but

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on a microscopic level. And I'm
putting expanded shale in. Some studies done

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by Texas A and m Agrolife up
in the Dallas area many years ago found

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that when you put about three inches
of expanded shale into the worst clay soils,

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that old black clay that they have
up there that we have along the

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Gulf coast, to when you put
about three inches of it in and build

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it up, that's enough to where
you significantly improve the internal drainage of that

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soil and it lasts a long time. Compost is a wonderful thing, all

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the decomposed organic matter thing. That's
great. We should be using them all

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the time, but they decompose away. They don't stay as composts. They

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go toward humis and they decompose away. Expanded shale has that structural integrity where

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it stays like that. So the
first thing I'm going to do in that

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flower bit is put out a lot
of expanded shale and work it into the

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soil. Then I'll add some compost
on bed mixes to the top and work

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it into the soil. And when
I'm done, I've got a bed that

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drains well, and then when I
put my plants in it, I'll have

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success. If I'm not going to
do that, I'm going to have to

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stick something that likes a swamp,
like a Louisiana iris or button bush or

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something that can take soggy conditions.
But we try to avoid that. If

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you have not been to ACE Hardware
recently, you really need to go in

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and check them out. You know. ACE is a place for whatever we

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need. During the holiday season,
they were the place for Christmas lighting.

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During the spring, when we're starting
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the place where you get every fertilizer
I talk about on garden line. We

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just went through a horrible time of
weather where they were the place that helped

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you with dehumidifiers, with bleach,
to clean things up with sandbags and all

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kinds of They're always the place.
I don't care whether you're going for traditional

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hardware items or whether you're trying to
turn your outdoor setting into something really beautiful.

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ACE is a place for that,
and you're going to find it.

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Pest control, disease control, weed
control for your lawns. I like to

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do some of the nice outdoor things, from their barbecue pits to the strings

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of lights to create that ambience.
To mosquito control. Oh yes, they

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have all the products for that as
well. Go to ACE Hardware dot com

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and find the store locator to find
one of forty stores near you. And

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now here's Nikky with the news.
Welcome back to Guardline. Hey, let's

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talk gardening today. If you'd like
to do that, here is the number

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for you to know. Seven one
three two one two k t r H

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seven one three two one two kt
r H. Simple as that. If

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you've not done your fertilization in your
lawn summer, now's the time to do

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it now. Folks at Nelson Plant
Food have created the Turf Star line,

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which is now standing line of fertilizers
for our turf, designed for our conditions

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here, for our soils here in
the Southeast Texas area. First of all,

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they have Bruce's Brew. Bruces Brew
is one we think of as an

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immediate release fertilizer because it does release
most of its nutrient early on, which

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is good for a quick green up. But it also has two different types

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of slow release in it, so
it continues to extend release. So let's

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just think its front forward. In
other words, you're going to get the

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majority of your release early on,
but it's going to continue to feed over

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time a good while. In fact, over time it's good for quick green

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up. It's good when you have
new turf, you're trying to get in

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some fast growth, trying to give
a lawn a boost that really needs to

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get going. It just provides all
the things that your lawn's going to need

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in the right ratio. By the
way, Slow and Easy Nelson's very slow

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release fertilizer. Now it has some
nutrient release early on, so you don't

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have to wait six months for fertilizer
to show up. No, it'll release

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some right away, but it will
extend release even four months or more out

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into the season. So if you
do Slow and Easy by Nelson in the

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Turf Star line Slow and Easy,
if you do that now, you will

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not need to fertilize your lawn again
until fall. It will fertilize your lawn

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between now and fall. It will
continue to release a little bit over time.

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It helps acidify the soil. It's
got that moderate growth rate release,

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which is so important. You get
too much nitrogen at one time, you

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get a lot of top growth at
the expense of root growth. And let

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me make something kind of clear here. When people see a number on the

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bag that's really high, let's say
that first numbers are really high nitrogen number,

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Well, that doesn't mean that you're
putting a lot of nitrogen on.

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It depends on how much you put
down. So if you just put a

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little bit of it on, you're
not putting much nitrogen on. If you

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put a lot of a number that's
very low in nitrogen, you just really

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dump a lot on, then you're
adding a lot of You see what I'm

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saying. It's a percentage game.
So when you use something like slow and

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easy, even though the first number
is high, that first number is like

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being released over several fertilizations through the
course of the next few months. So

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at each fertilization, essentially you're not
putting too much on. So don't let

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the big numbers fool you on there. It's how much you apply it's the

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concentration and how much you apply.
I don't want that to be confusing,

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but I do want it to be
clear when you follow the schedules that I

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put online at gardening with Skip dot
com, when you apply fertilizer at the

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proper rate, you're gonna have good
results and slow and easy and outstanding product

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by Nelson Plant Food that'll do just
that. I hope that provide a little

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bit of clarity there, because I
know people sometimes get confused about that.

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The real thing we're looking at on
these lawn fertilizers is the ratio of nutrients.

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You know that over time, when
you fertilize with the right ratios,

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you're gonna build the right nutrients into
the soil and not have excessive of things

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that eventually we'll catch up with you. You know, years ago here on

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guard Line, there were years where
you know, triple thirteen was the fertilizer

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to apply, ten twenty ten even
was put on lawns. And that middle

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number does not need to be that
high. It doesn't for the long term,

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doesn't hurt if you do it once
twice or two years of it,

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three years of it, But long
term, you want to stay with a

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three one two four win two.
And that's why these fertilizers you hear me

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talk about are design like that,
and that is the best way to do

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it. If you're seeing some a
little bit of yellowing on your grass,

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that is typically due to an iron
deficiency. Now there are different reasons we

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have iron deficiency. For example,
lack of iron in the soil. That

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would be one to have an iron
deficiency. But sometimes you have iron but

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your pH is so high that the
plants can't take it up. For example,

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take an azalea and plant it in
a high pH soil and you will

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see iron deficiency because the nutrients aren't
available to that acid living plant. Now,

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also sometimes iron can't be taken up
because the pH is high, but

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also phosphorus is very high that midtal
number, and when the middle number gets

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really high, the iron in the
soil is changed into a form that's unavailable

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to the plant, and so it's
there, but the plant can't get it.

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Like driving a bunch of nails into
the soil around your plant, there's

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a lot of iron in those nails
not available to the plant, not in

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that form. So the goal is
to keep the phosphorus in a lower range

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in our soils, and over time
it builds up because nitrogen washes away,

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it volatilizes away, potassium even will
leach away. The third number on the

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bag that phosphorus. It sticks to
the soil particles. They hold it very

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tightly, and you can have phosphorus
leaching, but in general it builds up

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over time. So year after year
after year, fertilizing with high phosphorus can

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end up creating a problem because once
you have that problem, you can't go

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and take the phosphorus out of the
soil. It's there. So that's a

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whole other issue. But just remember
that when you see iron deficiency, it

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could be due to a lack of
iron, it could be due to the

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high pH and it can be due
to very high phosphorus levels. And the

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fourth thing, actually there's four and
five. In the spring, when the

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soil is cool and we're real rainy, we often have a little temporary iron

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deficiency in the lawn and that just
sort of goes away, and that's due

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to the cool, cool, wet
soil conditions that can cause that. The

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fifth, gosh, five different reasons. Iron efficiency probably more is root disease.

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Take all root rot. Roots,
as the name tells, you take

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all root rot. And when you
don't have growing root tips, you can't

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take up iron. Iron is taken
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So when you stop root growth,
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that is another reason that we often
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Is a little bit of take all
root rot involved. So though that's

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kind of in a nutshell iron in
the soil. But when you see yellow,

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Saint Augustine, it's probably an iron
deficiency. That's the ninety five percent

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of the time. That's probably what
you're seeing. And if you don't know

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for sure, grab a leaf blade
that's yellow and pull it off and hold

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it up to the light. And
if you see streaks of yellow and green

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going down that leaf blade, that's
a sign of iron deficiency. It's called

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intravenal chleurosis. That's the fancy word
for the day. But anyway, you

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like to give us a call on
garden line seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Hey Jorges Hidden gardens done in Alvin
Have you been down there yet, those

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of you who live down in that
area. It's on Elizabeth Street in ALBN

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twelfth seven twenty one Elizabeth Street,
just south of Highway six. So folks

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in Santa Fe and Dickinson, of
course, Alvin a'l Gooa Arcadia, Alta

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Loma Hillcrest. This is a little
hometown garden center you got going on down

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there. Hoy's always got a good
selection of things. I mean he's had

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roses, including some nice Peggy Martin
roses for a good while. Now.

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He got in some citrus a while
back. That is just outstanding selection of

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options. You'll find things like vegetable
plants. You'll find things like of course

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I mentioned the fruit trees and other
types of fruit trees as well. Horay

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carries the three sixty tree stabilizer for
when you're going to plant a new tree.

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Now, he's open on weekends on
Friday from eight am to four pm,

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on Saturday from eight am to four
pm, and on Sunday from eight

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am to four pm. Friday,
Saturday and Sunday unless he's changed those times.

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I need check with make sure that's
still going. And I think he's

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open some during the week as well, so just give you know, go

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buy there and check it out.
This is a this is a garden center

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that just keeps getting better when you
go. They just keep expanding and adding

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to it and making it a better
and better place. And if you're in

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anywhere around the Alvin area, this
definitely is a place you need to swing

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by. They carry the kind of
plants that do well there and they'll get

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them planted for you, get them
established, or they'll sell them to you

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to plant. They also have us
some services for taking care of, you

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know, planting and things like that. But Jorges Hidden Gardens in Alvin is

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one you need to visit again on
Elizabeth Street in outn south of Highway six.

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We're going to take a little break
again for some news, of course,

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and when we come back, we'll
take your calls if you'd like to

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go ahead and get on the board
with the producer. Seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Is it still over? We still drew

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since my pole still ain't bringing nice
soon. Welcome back to the guarden line.

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Good to have you with us.
We are here to answer your gardening

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questions. It's seven one three two
two fifty eight seventy four. Those of

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you out in the Kingwood area,
when was the last time you went by

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Warrens Kingwood Garden Center. You know, you got two great places out there.

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I was out at Warrens not too
long ago, just visiting and picking

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up some things for some color planting
we did. We did a little color

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color bed. I got some nice
flowers to uh, really set things off

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for summer. Some pentas Egyptian starflower. Butterflies love it. And there's the

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clusters a little five pedal flowers.
That's what it's called star flower. Uh.

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And it just beautiful plants, excellent
plants. We got some angelonia and

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several other things. As a matter
of fact, while we're out there,

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you know, it's easy to find
things you're looking for, and it's easy

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to find the whole complete set member
brown stuff before green stuff. When you

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go out to Warrens, you're gonna
find the airloom soils products. You're going

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to find the mulches that you need, everything by the bag, the fertilizers

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that you need you hear me talk
about on garden Line. They're there.

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They even have the little filling station
for the jugs. And you're all set

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up. Then you bring the plants
home with it and you can have beauty.

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And they very knowledgeable staff. I
always enjoy going out and visiting with

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Michael and the team out there at
Warren's Garden Center, you know the place.

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It looks beautiful. In fact,
when I walked in, I was

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really surprised at just how much color
they had. It was like, Wow,

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that's great, and it always looks
that way. They take care of

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it. They know how to put
things together. They have wonderful combination planners.

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They'll help you. You know,
if you say I want one of

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the I want to be a big
planner, just full of color and stuff

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00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.319
draping over the side, they'll tell
you, well, grab some of this,

448
00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:57.720
grab some of that, grab some
of that, and they'll help you

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00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:00.640
put that. In terms of choosing
shop, put that thing together to take

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home and put together. Warren's Garden
Center and Kingwood Garden Center out there in

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the Kingwood area definitely worth a trip, no matter where you live. We're

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going to run out now to Montgomery
and talk to Brett. Hello, Brett,

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how are you this morning? I'm
good, sir. How can we

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help? Well, I've lived out
here. A couple of years finally got

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the yard turned around. We have
a really hard clay soil out here,

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and I have my front yard is
basically a hill. It's pretty steep.

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Okay. Anyway, the question is
watering, Yeah, and frequency, and

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you know, quantity. I guess
I've read a lot about it, and

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I'm not really sure how to water
this yard. Yeah, that's good.

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00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.599
On my schedule, the lawn care
schedule, I talk about watering and how

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much water typically in an average year
we would have each month, how much

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to put on our goal? In
general in the sun, is this Saint

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Augustine? You said, yes,
it's saying Augustine. And the front yard

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faces west, so it gets a
lot of eating the afternoon. Okay,

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in general, about one inch of
water a week. Now, if it

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rains, that could be your water, if it especially a slow rain.

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If not, you want to irrigate. If you can get it to where

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you're irrigating once a week, that's
best, No more than twice a week,

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because you want when you water,
you want to wet the soil deeply,

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and it takes about an inch to
wet the soil deeply in a clay

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soil especially now, if you have
a slope and if you have a clay

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and the water's going to run off
before you apply an inch, which it

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will, it'll run off. You
want to do what's called cycle and soak.

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That means a sprinkler comes on for
however long it can and when it's

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about to run off, that's how
long that cycle should be set and then

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let it go off for about forty
five minutes and then come back on again.

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So on a given morning, you
may water two or three times during

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that morning. Early early morning.
That's the best time to get that good

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soaking. And once you do that, then don't water again for a while

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as long as you can wait,
because that allows oxygen to come back into

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the soil and the plant develops a
good, deeper, resilient root system.

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And as you do that, over
time, you build a grass plant that

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doesn't have to be squirted every day
to keep it alive. Yeah, that

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makes sense. I currently have it
watering, you know, one day,

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but I have it watering at three
o'clock in the morning at nine o'clock at

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night. Yeah, but maybe I'll
tighten those up and do it all in

487
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the morning. Definitely do it all
in the morning. You keep it wet

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all night, and you're gonna have
more gray leaf spot, You're gonna have

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some other in the fall, you
have more brown patch, large patch kind

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of thing. So get it down
in the morning so when the sun comes

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out it dries up and O.
But yeah, if you put all your

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water on I'm going to say in
one watering, that could be a split

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watering, you know, forty five
minutes apart. If you do that,

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you get your what the money you
spend on water in the ground as a

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bank account. That will help.
When you do a little squirt every day,

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you wet the foliage and that evaporates
and you lost all that water and

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then you just end up not wetting
deep enough to build the root system that

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can be resilient, and that's what
you need when summer comes. Well,

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00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:24.760
it makes sense. I appreciate your
help. Thank you, Brett. Good

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luck with that. Thank you you
take care. Sweet Green is a fertilizer

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00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:37.360
by nitrophiles, a natural fertilizers based
on a molasses type base that microbes have

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00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:43.000
worked on and created a really quality
fertilizers. Eleven percent nitrogen, one of

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00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.840
the highest nitrogen levels of any organic
furtizer. You're going to find sweet green

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is the kind of thing that you
enjoy putting out because the smells so good.

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I jokingly say, yeah, when
you buy it, you're going to

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want to make another trip around the
Loop in Houston just so you can enjoy

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00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:00.679
the smell on the back of the
car. Anyway, the sweet Green fertilizer

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00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.559
will release into the soil because it's
molasses space, the microbes gun nuts.

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That's why organic gardeners put down molasses
in their soil for that same benefit to

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the microbes, creating that rich environment
and when the microbes are happy, your

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plants are going to be happy,
in this case your lawn. You're going

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to find sweet green in a lot
of different places. It's wide, widely

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00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:27.400
available, like nitrofosh products are.
For example RCW Nursery up on Tombaill Parkway,

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00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.400
but Way eight they have it.
Growers Outlets outlet up in Willis has

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it. If you go out to
enchanted forest in the Richmond Rosenberg area,

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they're going to have sweet green out
there as well. The storms that we

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had that came through and just did
their number on a lot of our communities

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00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:52.519
around here, a lot of homes
too. They took a hit on Buchanans

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00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.880
native plants and the Heights and they
had some tree issues that came down and

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00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:01.519
stuff, and they cleaned up from
that reallyzingly fast. And the place is

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just they were in full swing last
weekend already. But Buchanans in the Heights

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they're on Eleventh Street, is one
of those places that's like you found a

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gem somewhere hidden away in Houston.
You're going down Eleventh Street and you look

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up and you see Buchanans and you
just want to wander in and you should,

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absolutely should. They have every kind
of plant you could possibly want,

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from house plants to the best selection
of natives in this whole region. I

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mean, they have natives that are
just native in the Houston area. They

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have natives that are Texas natives,
excellent selection, and they have things you

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00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:42.320
wouldn't expect, like maringa for example. I was just out in my garden

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this week looking at my maringa plants
were finally waking up from the They kills

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them back to the ground in winter
where I live and down in most of

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this area as well. But anyway, the maringa plants were coming back up.

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00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.119
I was just thinking about though.
They are very healthy, nutrient A

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00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.000
rich leaves, all kinds of it's
basically maringas a superfood. It's a tree.

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But here again it goes back to
the ground typically, or you cut

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it back to the ground. High
vitamin D at a fungal, antemiicrobial,

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I mean, just any kind of
thing. But they have those at Buchanans,

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so you can put it in.
It's a little bit of an ornamental

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00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.840
like mini tree or shrub, and
then you can just enjoy the leaves.

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It's not something you find anywhere.
How about plants that mosquitoes don't like to

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sit in because of their aromatic foliage, like the cinitronella and the rosemary and

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00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:36.199
lavender and some of the basils,
for example. They have those. They

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even have combinate. You can put
a combination of those together. Really cool.

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All of Buchanans Plants eleven Street in
the Heights. Go to Buchanans Plants

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dot com. Buchanansplants dot com.
You've been listening to garden Line. We

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are going to take a break for
the top of the hour in the news

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and we'll be back if you'd like
to get on the board and be the

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first up when we come back seven
one three two one two five I have

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eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I

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want to mention, by the way, while we're talking, on the fifteenth

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of June. I know that's a
little ways out, but put that on

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your calendar. Fifteenth of June,
I'm going to be at Wabird's Unlimited in

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bel Air, Texas, one of
the Wilbirds stores here in the Houston area.

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00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.480
Wabird's Unlimited in bel Air from eleven
am to one pm. Put on

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your calendar, come out and see. Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily

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endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to kt

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RH Garden Line with scip Rictor's just
watch him as the world gold so many

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pay Welcome back to garden Line.
Good to have you with us. We

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are here to answer your gardening questions
at seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I

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want to tell you about an event
tomorrow that this Memorial Day weekend, there

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is a patriotic concert out in Sugarland
honoring our fallen heroes. Now, this

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is the special event is free and
it's open to the public. It is

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called a Night to Remember, honoring
our fallen Heroes. It is tomorrow night,

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Sunday night, at seven o five
pm seven oh five pm at the

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Sugarland Town Square in Sugarland, Texas, right in front of the City Hall

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facade. If you want more information
about it, you can dial seven one

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three eight two four sixty one twenty
six seven one three eight two four sixty

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one twenty six. They've got a
lot of talent there, the Houston Tidelanders,

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the Fort Ben Brass Band, the
dancers from Ballet Grace under the direction

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of Cookie Joe and Grammy Awards songwriters
singers Bill and Kim Nash all there.

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Part of that tribute to those who
have fallen in their service to our country

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certainly something we all benefit from.
And while we're talking about that, one

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of the reasons we have Memorial Weekend, just taking time to recognize that the

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piece, the comfort, just the
security that we live in here came at

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a price. I'm paying the ultimate
price for it. So if you're interested

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in this patriotic concert, it's thirty
member chorus, brass band, dancers,

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Grammy winning singers all there. It's
going to be at again the Fort Bend

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County excuse me, the Sugarland Town
Square down in Fort ben County tomorrow night,

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seven o five pm. I hope
you can make it free. It

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can't beat that. By the way, bring some canned food for donation.

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They're going to be taking donations of
can food for the East Fort beIN Human

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Needs Ministry, other a good reason
to be part of this great event.

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We're going to go now to Magnolia
and talk to Chuck. Hello, Chuck,

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Hey, how you doing. I'm
well, sir. How can we

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help? Uh? What are your
opinions on liquid aeration? What is the

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00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.159
what kind of product is it?
What is being injected? What liquid is

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being injected in the ground. I
don't know all the compounds. I just

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I know it's called liquid aeration.
Okay, well, let me let me

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comment on it then a little bit. Sometimes a soil doesn't take in water

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because it seals up and it doesn't
allow water to percolate in very well.

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And there are some surfactant types of
things that can help break that surface tension

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a little bit and help improve the
infiltration a little bit. There are sometimes

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I've run across people that were injecting
kind of a slurry of humate type product.

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And anytime you get humates in the
ground, you you're benefiting the soil,

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improving soil structure and therefore helping a
little bit. But for the ultimate

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00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.199
aeration, you want to be able
to take a core out of the soil,

598
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:15.920
pop it out onto the top of
the surface, and then have some

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00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.199
composts top dressing to fall down in
those holes, and that over time is

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really going to do the most good
building the you know, the internal drainage

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on the soil. So it could
the liquid aeration could give some benefits depending

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on the conditions of your soil and
the product you're using, but in general

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00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:44.400
I would depend most on the core
aeration for the benefits. Okay, all

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right, thanks, all right,
I hope that helps. Yeah, there's

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00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:50.840
there's always a lot of new products
coming out, a lot of new things

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00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.039
and claims and stuff, and I
just need it. I need to see

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00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.719
some evidence, and I also need
or personally try it and see how it

608
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:04.559
works. Mostly just some proof that
it's actually working. Doesn't mean something new

609
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.320
doesn't work, doesn't mean it does. I keep an open mind on all

610
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.000
these things, but in general,
I got to understand how that's working.

611
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:17.239
And a lot of times things claims
are made that don't that don't hold water.

612
00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:21.440
Oh that was a pun. Oh
my gosh, I didn't even know

613
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.480
I was making that. That's funny. Hey. Nitrofoss has a product called

614
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:30.599
bug out Max that is an insect
control product, and this stuff works fast.

615
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:32.480
Within forty eight hours, it's going
to kill up one hundred and sixty

616
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:37.360
different kinds of insects. It also
lasts a long time. Nitrofoss bug out

617
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:42.960
Max will if you apply it,
it will basically protect your lawn over the

618
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:47.480
coming couple of months against bugs that
may show up. For example, chinchbug

619
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.000
season starts. It can start as
early as June, typically comes a little

620
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.639
bit later, a little bit further
into the summer. We typically if we're

621
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.920
going to have a webworm sod webworm
season, we will start to see it

622
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:01.800
at that time. Hopefully we won't
have one this year, but you never

623
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.559
know. It's kind of a roll
of the dice, it seems. Bug

624
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:09.199
out Max is very very effective for
managing those kinds of pests that you might

625
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:14.039
be dealing with and you're gonna find
bug Out Max places like plants and things

626
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.079
up in Brenham. You're gonna find
it at Plants for All Seasons on two

627
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:22.400
forty nine. You're going to find
it at Aspa's Ace up in the woodlands,

628
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.480
all places where you can find nitro
foss products. We're going to now

629
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:32.320
go to Dickinson and talk to Linda. Hello, Linda, Hi. I

630
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:39.639
have a crape mark Mountain Long and
the looks very healthy. The leaves on

631
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:54.199
it are curling, not like real
tight like a girl's pair, but not

632
00:46:54.679 --> 00:47:00.920
a normally very interesting when leaves curl
on those kinds of plants, not specifically

633
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.480
Mountain Laurel, butle plants in general, there are a couple of options.

634
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:09.960
If it's the newer growth that's doing
the curling, sometimes a hormone type herbicide

635
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.760
the drift from it can cause that
kind of damage, or accidentally getting some

636
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.599
on the foliage of the plant,
and a very low dose can cause that

637
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.119
kind of damage. There's another thing
that can cause it, and that is

638
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:28.679
certain kinds of piercing sucking insects that
feed on the foliage as it's trying to

639
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:34.480
expand, and it just sort of
gets twisted up from the chemicals in their

640
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.440
mouth parts as they feed. So
it's going to be one of those two

641
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.280
things. If you wanted to send
me a photo of it up close in

642
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:45.000
good sharp focus, as well as
a photo of the plant in its setting,

643
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:46.960
I'd be happy to take a look
and see if I see anything other

644
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:53.199
than that. Okay, what is
there a treatment for? Well, it

645
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:58.639
depends on what you find. If
it was a hormone herbicide damage, such

646
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.840
as a broadly weed killer apply to
the lawn, then you just wait it

647
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.480
out. It's going to have to
in time resume normal growth. If it

648
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:12.480
is an insect, you could use
certainly an insecticide, but I hate to

649
00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:15.880
send you out to buy and spray
a product when we don't really know what

650
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:19.599
we're dealing with there. But send
me a picture. Turn some leaves over,

651
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:21.599
if you can take a picture of
the bottom of the leaves, look

652
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:23.840
for any insects you see. And
I'm going to put you on hold,

653
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:29.079
Linda, and if you will,
the producer will give you my email address

654
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:34.800
and then you can just attach your
photos to that. And it replied,

655
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:39.079
don't don't embed them in the photo, I mean in the email, but

656
00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:45.039
attach them. Okay, okay,
thank you, all right, all right,

657
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:49.320
there we go. I just just
sent you. All right, Linda,

658
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:53.079
here we go, put on hold. There we go talking about Texas

659
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:58.639
moun Laurel trees. Now is the
time to get some trees planted. We

660
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:00.840
still haven't hit summer yet. I
know it's coming, but with proper care,

661
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.840
you can plant a tree any month
of the year. And Verdant Tree

662
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.880
Farm has a wide variety. They
have an awesome website. You need to

663
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:14.360
write this down and go check it
out Verdanttreefarm dot com. There you will

664
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:17.199
see a listing of trees as you
scroll across the page and it'll give you

665
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:21.440
a nice write up, like what's
the difference between the Montezuma cypress and a

666
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:24.559
regular cypress that's on there. Each
one is described that they sell. They

667
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.800
also have their palm trees the same
kind of way. Their an outstanding source

668
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:32.480
of palms. Verdon has trees.
If you're looking for a quick shade tree,

669
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:37.039
they have trees even up to like
seven hundred gallons in size. An

670
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.760
excellent source of trees. You can
find them in West Houston on Barker Cypress.

671
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:44.119
Down in Paarland on Broadway, Street. You can find them in the

672
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:49.480
Heights area where Itin and Yale come
together. They have free in office design

673
00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.360
consultation. Take some pictures, sit
down with them, let them help find

674
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.599
the right tree for you. They'll
bring it out, they'll plant it.

675
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:00.679
When they plant it, they give
you a one year warranty on that installation

676
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:05.480
because they know how to plant it
right. Verdant Tree Farm ten percent discount

677
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:13.199
for military and first responders. And
Patrick himself is has been military and we

678
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.800
do appreciate him doing that as well
as a service at Patrick at Verdon has

679
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:22.400
provided for our country as well.
We're going to now go up to let's

680
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.760
see you. No, I'm I'm
already passing a break. Oh my gosh,

681
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.360
I gotta take a break here.
I'll be right back seven one three

682
00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:32.119
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Cause you know, I'm all of

683
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:38.480
ba dabas ba daves No shob no
mallum ba daves By Daves Now shovel,

684
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:43.679
I'm allum ba daves By Davis.
Now, welcome back. Good to have

685
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:47.280
you with us on garden line.
We're all about that green stuff, the

686
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:51.440
plans, the flowers, the vegetables. That's what we want to talk about.

687
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:55.079
Here's our number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven

688
00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:00.000
one three two one two five eight
seven four. Hey, Wildbird's unlimited.

689
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:05.880
The place to get all of your
wild bird supplies. That's where you get

690
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:08.280
quality feed. Now you'll find cheap
bird seed, and I mean cheap.

691
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:12.519
I don't mean inexpensive. I mean
cheap. If I'm cheap, birds seed

692
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:14.719
a lot of places, and if
you look at it, it's filled with

693
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.000
those little red bebes. Birds don't
like to eat that, at least most

694
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:22.400
birds don't kick them on the ground, and you end up not getting you

695
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:23.880
know't buy a pound of bird seed, you don't get a pound of bird

696
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:28.840
food. You get about a half
pound or less. In some cases.

697
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.280
Some of them is almost all that
red stuff. Anyway, wildbirds has quality

698
00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:36.559
stuff like the nesting super blend.
Very important to be putting that out now.

699
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.840
We got some barn swallows at our
house. We enjoy those things.

700
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.800
They are antics every year and they
are raising a nest right now. But

701
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.679
a lot of birds are nesting.
Super blend from Wallbirds is excellent. Now

702
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:52.280
you're going to find wildbirds in six
different locations around the Houston area go to

703
00:51:52.599 --> 00:52:01.599
WBU dot com forward slash Houston WBU
as in Wildbirds Unlimited dot com forward slash

704
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.159
Houston. You can find all of
them there, as well as quality feeders,

705
00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:10.760
quality bird houses, quality books,
and most of all, quality advice

706
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:15.719
and help so you can have success
and enjoy the birds out in your landscape.

707
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:19.960
By the way, don't forget next
No, on the fifteenth of June.

708
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:22.960
I know it's a little far out, but on the fifteenth of June,

709
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.599
I'm going to be at the Wallbirds
Unlimited in bell Air. So those

710
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.079
of you down southwest are really anywhere, come see me there at the Wallbirds.

711
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:32.159
See what I'm talking about when I
brag about these stores. We'll answer

712
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.119
your gardening question from eleven am to
one pm at the Wallbirds Unlimited out in

713
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.159
bell Air. We're going to go
now to Gary and West Houston. Hello

714
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.679
Gary, Hello, Skip, Good
morning morning. I've got a couple quick,

715
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:52.559
couple quick questions about a seven week
old Zoisa patch that I put on.

716
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:59.320
It's rooted well, it's taken in
very well, and the residual fertilizer

717
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.480
I'm sure is go on. They
said to wait four to six weeks and

718
00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:06.119
early on I had bought a bag
of imperial, which I still had,

719
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:07.559
Yes, and I was fixed.
I was going to go and put that

720
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.880
down and then maybe in some certain
amount of time follow it up with the

721
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:20.119
nineteen four. Yeah. Ten,
is that okay? Yes? If you're

722
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.599
gonna do imperial, do you have
a pin or pencil handy? Yeah?

723
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:28.000
You would normally put imperial out at
seven pounds per thousand square feet. I

724
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:30.280
would do it at about three and
a half, about half of that,

725
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:32.440
And I know that's a very low
rate, but do it about half of

726
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:36.400
that, and then about a month
later, do it about half of that

727
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:44.239
again, and then after another month
or so, then do your imperial.

728
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:47.280
Okay, because what we're gonna do
is rather than right now, with the

729
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:52.199
rain and the nice warm temperatures at
grass gloves, it's gonna grow a lot

730
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.679
crazy. And I wouldn't want to
overdo the imperial in one application right now.

731
00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:59.480
So we're gonna make a slow release
out of it by splitting it in

732
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.400
half, and then then the silver
bag will carry you all the way to

733
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.960
the fall fertilization easy enough. Now, I've got a big nuts edge problem

734
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.559
in my backyard. I've had it
for a while I've used sedge hammer in

735
00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:15.199
the past it works, but I'm
concerned there's a you know, some of

736
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:21.639
it is in the zoysia, and
I'm concerned about but treating it with sedge

737
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:24.920
hammer plus and any effects on the
zoizia. I wanted to get your thoughts

738
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:29.639
on that. Yeah, as far
as maybe spot treating or something, there

739
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:34.360
are several products that are labeled for
use in turf for nutsedge you just have

740
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:39.639
to read the label on whatever whatever
you apply. I applied to product I'm

741
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:44.719
trying to remember the name of it
now with Halo's sulfur on Halo like the

742
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:49.599
Little Angel Halo Love your Head,
Halo sulfur on and it was labeled for

743
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:52.000
zoysia and so but just read the
label on them. It'll tell you yeah,

744
00:54:54.079 --> 00:55:00.039
yeah, so that that should be
okay. But again, when it

745
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:05.760
comes to chemicals and things, one
formulation of the same chemical versus another,

746
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:08.079
they're not always the same and they're
not always labeled for the same So just

747
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:13.440
just check that to be extra sure. And I would definitely do spot treating.

748
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.480
You know, you don't need to
hit the hole on with it,

749
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:21.719
and you're gonna have to stay at
it because nuts edge is persistent, and

750
00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:24.679
even stuff that kills it doesn't kill
it, meaning you may have it pop

751
00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.400
back. You may have some nuts
that haven't popped up yet that show up

752
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:32.039
later. So just the thing is
to be ruthless. When it gets about

753
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:37.559
five leaves on it, you need
to spray it. So just as a

754
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:39.760
general guy, don't spray it when
it first pops out of the ground.

755
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:43.360
Let it get some leaves so you
can get a lot of that product on

756
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:46.079
the leaves of the nut's edge,
and always add a spread er sticker just

757
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:51.800
to be sure to make sure it
sticks to that glossy nuts sedge leaf.

758
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:58.639
Yep, we'll do. And I
had a bag of Heritage G should I

759
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:02.360
put that out as a preventative or
wait for some sort of symptoms? Because

760
00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:06.920
I don't have any symptoms of any
I would not put Heritage G out.

761
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:10.800
Now that's a very good product.
The next you can use it against the

762
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:15.280
number of things. It's one of
the best products for take all root rot

763
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.639
and that's something we typically If you
look at my schedule at gardening with Skip

764
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.280
dot com, the schedule I have
in October and November two applications for take

765
00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:27.800
all root rot. If you have
that problem in your lawn, and Heritage

766
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:31.320
g is an excellent one to use
at that time. All right, Gardeningskip

767
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:36.599
dot com. Yeah, there's two
schedules and they're both free and makes it

768
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:40.320
easy to find fertilizers and pest control
products if you need them. All right,

769
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.320
And while I've got you to your
knowledge, do those little stick in

770
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:50.320
pH readers work? And what is
our pH level here? Typically it varies

771
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:52.880
a lot, typically kind of higher
on the on the Gulf Coast clays.

772
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:57.039
As you get into the East Texas
piny woods, which we also have in

773
00:56:57.119 --> 00:57:01.440
this listening area here, then you're
you're looking at a more acidic type of

774
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:06.280
level. But the stick in meters
not that great. Uh, you know,

775
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.360
they're they're reasonably close, but there
are things that can throw them off

776
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.960
a lot. I would it's not
that expensive to have a soil test done.

777
00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:16.159
And if you know, if you've
got a lawn and you do a

778
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:21.679
good random soul test or if you
have a garden or flower bed, that

779
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:24.400
tells you really what's in there,
and you don't have the soil test every

780
00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:29.239
year, so that that's right,
Okay, all right, excellent, thanks

781
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:32.960
for you, bet you Bet,
take care, good visit with you.

782
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.440
Let's see, we're going to go
now to Sandy in southwest Houston. Hello,

783
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:45.639
Sandy, Hi, Hi. I
have some tit some kind of tit

784
00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:52.760
caterpillar that's on my apple tree.
Okay, and you know they've just wrapped

785
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:57.679
them filter on all the leaves and
uh do I cut off the branch and

786
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.440
then spray the rest of the tree. Yeah, what's what's the best thing

787
00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:04.440
to do? Now? Don't need
to cut it off. The leaves will

788
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:09.639
regrow from those ten caterpillars. You
can if they've got the webbing around them

789
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:13.679
and helps to break it up a
little bit. And then just spray with

790
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:20.360
a product that contains B t be
as in boy teas in tom and spray

791
00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.239
it and they will eat it and
that will kill them. It's an organic

792
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:29.519
natural disease of caterpillars. And it's
really fine. You're in southwest Houston,

793
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:32.920
you should just run over to Southwest
Fertilizer at the corner Abyssina and runwick.

794
00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.480
Bob's got bet there. He also
has something called Spinosaid, which is good

795
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:43.440
for caterpillars there as well, and
both either of those you just but you

796
00:58:43.519 --> 00:58:46.039
got to squirt the leaves because you
want them to eat the leaves, and

797
00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:50.519
the webbing keeps the spray from getting
on the leaves. So that's why we

798
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:52.039
break it up. You know,
just stay wellle coat hanger or something up

799
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:55.079
there and kind of or maybe a
broom and just kind of knock the webbing

800
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:59.239
down a little bit and then and
then spray them and be ready to do

801
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:00.360
it again. You may have to
do it again, you know, a

802
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:04.480
week later, do it again a
week after that, because it'll always be

803
00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:07.800
a few more that hatch out.
But they're really easy to control, and

804
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:13.599
that stuff is almost as low tox
as you can get. So is the

805
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:17.239
be Is there a preference for the
BT versus the Spini set? They both

806
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:22.960
work well, Spinner said, lasts
a little bit longer than BT does,

807
00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:28.960
but they're both good. I don't
like to over use anyone pesticide because we

808
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:35.360
tend to see resistance build up sometimes. Uh. And so if you either

809
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:37.960
way, you're gonna you're gonna do
fine. Just know that BT, after

810
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:40.840
about a day it's not working.
It breaks down in the sunlight. But

811
00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:45.400
that's nice. It's natural, it's
not toxic. It breaks down. Those

812
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:49.159
are all good things. So all
right, okay, yeah, just just

813
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:52.679
go overbut you bet I appreciate that. Yeah, Bob is on Bisinet at

814
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:58.280
the corner the corner of Bissinet and
Renwick. Uh. And you know,

815
00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:01.400
Southwest Fertilizer has every thing. I
mean, if ever i'm talking about a

816
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:06.360
fertilizer, he's got it. If
ever i'm talking about a pest control,

817
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.360
disease control, we control by pass
all of that. But it's not just

818
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:14.039
product in there. I mean he's
got an eighty foot wall of tools.

819
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:19.400
It's excellent quality tools. They got
a little motor repair shop in the back

820
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:23.440
for that as well. It's just
the place to go for anything you're gonna

821
01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:27.360
need to take care of your lawn
and garden and make it beautiful. Southwest

822
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:30.639
Fertilizer dot Com is the website.
He also has Azamite. You know.

823
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:35.239
Azimite's the product we put down about
once a year. It's a product that

824
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:39.320
has a lot of the trace mineral
in it, the ones, not the

825
01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:44.440
three numbers on a fertilizer bag,
but the essential minerals that are needed in

826
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.920
tiny, tiny amounts. You can
go to Azamite Texas dot com and whenever

827
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:52.440
you're i usually would say do it
when you're fertilizing, because you're thinking about

828
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.000
it, then don't put it in
the hopper with your fertilizer. Just fertilize

829
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:59.239
and then put your asmite down and
put it down over the lawn. It

830
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:04.039
works very well. And again yeah, Bob has that at Southwest Fertilizer.

831
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:07.159
We are hitting a break here where
I got a head to Nicky in the

832
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:09.480
news. I see I got a
bunch of folks out there, y'all.

833
01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:12.639
Hang on, We're going to get
to each one of you. We'll be

834
01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:24.320
right back. She's mad all missus
Zimbs, welcome back to Guarden Line.

835
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:28.840
Good to have you with us today. So if you have not done your

836
01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:35.119
summer fertilization, it is time and
a good slow release fertilizer like Nitrofoss Superturf

837
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:39.320
that's the nineteen four to ten fertilizer
nineteen four ten, the silver bag that's

838
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:43.320
the easy each Saint halfway across the
store and looking for the wall of fertilizers,

839
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:46.880
look for the silver bag Superturf nineteen
four ten by Nitrofoss. Half That

840
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:51.239
nitrogen is going to be in a
slow release form, so it's going to

841
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.679
feed for three or four months going
forward. It's a nice long, gradual

842
01:01:54.760 --> 01:02:00.079
feed that helps reduce mowing up to
twenty five percent. And it also so

843
01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:05.719
we'll provide a good root system for
your lawn by not overdoing the nitrogen in

844
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:09.840
any one point in time. It's
designed for our hot and humid southern climate.

845
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:14.400
It does well in our soils here
in the southeast Texas area. And

846
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:16.880
nitrofoss is easy fine, and that's
an important thing. You're going to be

847
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:22.159
able to go to Ace Hardware City
a Memorial Drive and find this product.

848
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:24.960
You can go to Katie Ace Hardware
out in Katie and find this product.

849
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:29.960
You can go to Stanton Shopping Center
and Alvin. They also carry the Nitrofosh

850
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:36.639
products like this super turf the slow
release for summertime. Let's see, we

851
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:40.800
are now going to go to Dan
and excuse me, Bob and fullsher Bob,

852
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:44.760
thank you for waiting. How can
we help, Yes, sir,

853
01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:49.880
thanks for checking my call. I
have an issue with webs forming over the

854
01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:54.039
leaves and limbs of my red buds, and they've got hundreds of tiny little

855
01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:59.159
white worms on the leaves and sucking
the lives out of my weeds, I

856
01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:01.719
mean out of these and I've never
seen them on the red buds before.

857
01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:07.000
I've had them on the cons huh. So I was just hoping to find

858
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:12.119
out a good insecticide or some kind
of way to control that or get rid

859
01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:16.280
of it. Actually, yeah,
well the simplest, easiest, safest stuff

860
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:22.519
is Bacillus thuringensis, which we just
call BT. BT is okay. I

861
01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:25.599
heard that a minute ago. I
was afraid you already answered my question,

862
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:29.960
and I yeah, that's okay.
That's a different plan on anyway. Yeah,

863
01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:32.440
it's a different planet, different worms, no problem, because they're they're

864
01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:36.400
outbreaking now and a lot of people
are going to have that same question.

865
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:39.079
You can go to your full sha
Ace hardware store on FM three fifty nine

866
01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:43.519
there and they're going to have BT
that are also going to have something called

867
01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:49.320
spendo said s P I no s
A D. But with both of them,

868
01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:52.000
the caterpillars need to eat them,
so if you have to break up

869
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:55.039
the web a little bit to get
it on the foliage that they're feeding on.

870
01:03:55.159 --> 01:03:59.599
That's why they put that web,
is to protect themselves. Break up

871
01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:01.559
the web so you can spray the
leaves they're eating, you know, if

872
01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:03.800
they're on one side of the tree
and you spray the other side, it's

873
01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:06.079
not going to do any good.
You have to put it on the leaves

874
01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:10.760
and then within twenty four hours they
need to be chomping on those leaves to

875
01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:14.280
get the most effect. I see, okay, I see. And the

876
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:17.079
younger they are, the more effective
these are. When they're just about to

877
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:21.119
pupate and become a moth, these
products aren't going to be as effective.

878
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.400
I gotcha. I got so.
Yeah, they're pretty young. I assume

879
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:29.800
they look pretty young. It's all
pretty fresh in the last couple of few

880
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:31.719
days. Yeah, yeah, Well
it's okay. You can knock them out

881
01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:36.440
real quick and that tree will releaf
wherever you lost some leaves. Okay,

882
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:39.920
great, great, all right,
Sarah, thank you very much. Hey,

883
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.360
thanks for the call. Appreciate that, Bob a lot. We're going

884
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:48.280
to go now to Hurta in Spring
Branch. Hello, Herta, good morning.

885
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:57.119
Big problem. When they turk down
my trees that they had to after

886
01:04:57.280 --> 01:05:05.960
the tornado. They use big tractor
equipment, okay, and they have killed

887
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:12.559
I mean there's no grass. Yeah. My yard is one hundred feet wide

888
01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:19.880
and I have maybe three feet left
of grass. Okay, Yeah, what's

889
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:26.840
the best thing to do. Well, if you've got enough sunlight, which

890
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.039
if you lost the tree, I
bet you got a lot of sun then

891
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:33.280
any kind of a turf grass,
well you can put it back in there,

892
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:35.920
Saint Augustine, if that's what you
had, you can put that back

893
01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:41.400
in. Uh. And you just
need the fastest way. The easiest thing

894
01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:45.960
is to solid side it. That's
also the most expensive. Or you can

895
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:47.920
put some plugs in there, but
then you're going to be fighting weeds in

896
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:53.480
the bare spots between the plugs until
that grass fills in. So that's the

897
01:05:53.599 --> 01:06:01.400
trade off money versus hassle and time. Well, now if I saw the

898
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:12.679
squares, is it okay to maybe
a skip for foot? And will they

899
01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:16.239
grow together? Or do they will? They will? Oh? They will?

900
01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:19.239
Yeah, if you buy the squares, if you buy those little side

901
01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:24.840
pieces, you can or you just
hire somebody to do this. But you

902
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:30.880
can even take a like a machetti
and chop them into maybe three or four

903
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.599
strips, you know, So think
of them as a doormat and you're cutting

904
01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:39.440
the doormat, cutting the longside and
you know, three three or four strips.

905
01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:43.119
Put those strips about a foot apart
and get them into the soil and

906
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:45.440
water them in. You got to
water them every day, a couple times

907
01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:49.880
a day lightly the first week,
and then about once a day for another

908
01:06:49.960 --> 01:06:54.719
week to get them established. And
by the end of the summer season they're

909
01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:58.559
going to have filled in. But
that's the way to get the most out

910
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:01.000
of your dollar. It is.
You're trading it for work and labor.

911
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:05.960
All right, okay, all right, thank you very much, Thank you

912
01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:10.840
heard. I appreciate the call.
You take care. Moss Nursery done in

913
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:15.000
Seabrook awesome, awesome place. If
you have not been there, I don't

914
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:17.840
care. If you're listening to me
in Huntsville, Texas, you need to

915
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:24.440
drive down and see Moss Nursery.
It is an amazing place. Eight acres

916
01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:29.840
to wander through, and it's like
you've gone into another time, almost in

917
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:31.840
the jungle or whatever. I mean. You you know, you're walking around,

918
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:35.199
it's just beautiful. Every time you
turn a corner, there's some unusual

919
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:39.840
thing going on. They have a
great selection of plants. I was looking

920
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:44.840
at some of the elephanteers, the
tarot and the allocacia and colocasia. Those

921
01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:46.760
are the two most people would look
at either one and call it an elephant.

922
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:51.920
Ere they do. They have an
excellent supply of succulents, beautiful cactus,

923
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.920
many of them which are actually blooming
right now. But at Moss you're

924
01:07:56.920 --> 01:08:00.840
gonna find everything you're looking for.
It is not just an the garden center.

925
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:05.599
This store is a seventy year old
family owned operation where you wander through

926
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:11.360
eight acres into the beautiful houseplant greenhouse. What do you need? Do you

927
01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:14.800
need herbs? They got him.
Do you need flower? Of course they

928
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:18.479
got them. Do you need maybe
a beautiful staghorn fern hanging from a giant

929
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:21.800
old tree in the backyard. They
got that, They got pottery, they

930
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:27.239
got everything. You just have to
go and allow time because you're gonna want

931
01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:30.119
to wander at Moss because it is
that unique kind of place. Down in

932
01:08:30.199 --> 01:08:35.880
Seabrook, Texas on Toddville Road,
Seabrook, Texas, Moss Nursery. Stop

933
01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:42.560
in there and check it out.
Here's the website Maas Nursery dot com.

934
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:46.000
We're gonna now go to Dan in
Beaumont. Hello, Dan, thanks for

935
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:53.479
waiting. Hey, I enjoy this
show because I learn aff a lot of

936
01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:59.680
stuff that I just wouldn't normally pick
up on. And I appreciate what you're

937
01:08:59.720 --> 01:09:05.159
doing. I've got a question about
a least footed bug. I've got them

938
01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:10.279
all over my tomato plants and they're
sucking the life out of those things,

939
01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:14.199
and I'm trying to get rid of
them. Other than trying to vacuum them

940
01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:19.840
off and app them and all that
stuff, there's just is there any easy

941
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:27.640
way of doing it? Not an
easy way. The real in a nutshell

942
01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:33.079
fast answer on the leaf footed bugs
is that the leaf footed bugs are easiest

943
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:36.600
to manage when they're young, and
as they get older and get wings and

944
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:43.159
are flying around, it takes a
pretty stout insecticide labeled for the plants or

945
01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:47.319
spraying them on to kill them.
And there are some synthetic perithroid insecticides that

946
01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:50.560
will kill them, but they're all
over the place, so it's kind of

947
01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:54.600
like your sprain everything. Trying to
hunt down a bug sprain in the morning

948
01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:57.600
is helpful. They're a little more
sluggish, but if you can catch them

949
01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:01.359
when they hatch out they look like
little red with black legs critters that are

950
01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:05.359
hanging together in a herd, you
can. It's as easy as swatting them

951
01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:09.479
into a pail of knocking them off
into a pail of soapy water, because

952
01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:13.760
they can't fly away or spray in
them at that stage. They're very susceptible

953
01:10:13.880 --> 01:10:16.720
at that stage. But once they're
adults, you gotta you gott to move

954
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:23.039
to probably a synthetic perihid to knock
them down. I was thinking about attacking

955
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:28.319
them with the assassin bug and getting
some some assassin eggs. Yeah, and

956
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:32.199
trying it that way. The assassin
bugs won't eat leaf footed bugs. They

957
01:10:32.319 --> 01:10:36.039
just they just don't now, not
not really now, they won't. It

958
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:44.039
won't be a solution that you are
accept you find acceptable, right, Okay,

959
01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:47.079
all right? What about next,
say next year? Is there anything

960
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:51.119
I can do now to prevent them
from Yeah, not do now, but

961
01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:55.720
go online and look at what their
eggs look like. They look like little

962
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:58.960
flat shingles, and you may see
them like if they're in your tomatoes.

963
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:01.000
You'll see them on a tomato.
When you know what the eggs look like.

964
01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:04.520
When you're in the garden, just
always be checking your plants out and

965
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:09.920
you'll see these unusual looking eggs and
go ah, you'd take your prunters and

966
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.920
you'll prune that off. And you'll
never see a dozen of those bugs that

967
01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:16.039
were all laid together like shingles.
So that's step one. Number two is

968
01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:19.199
learn what the nymphs look like,
and again I said, it was reddish

969
01:11:19.239 --> 01:11:24.720
orange with black legs. And if
you're checking, then it's easy to control

970
01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:29.159
them because the earlier you control,
the better your effect is going to be

971
01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:32.560
and the safer your options are going
to be for controlling them. So getting

972
01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:36.640
educated is how I would prepare for
next year, and then I think you'll

973
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:42.840
find it a little bit easier to
do, right, Okay, all right,

974
01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:47.039
well I appreciate your guys, thank
you appreciate the call out. There.

975
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:51.520
By the way, B and B
turf Pros is our go to place

976
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:59.359
for doing core aeration and compost top
dressing in the South Houston South and West

977
01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:03.359
area. They cover that area,
so if you live in Sugarland or Missouri

978
01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:08.479
City or as far east as Pearland
or down south like Fresno, Sienna,

979
01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:13.840
Iowa, Colony, Manville or Cola, that's their area. They do fertilizing

980
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.880
as well for you. But they
come out and they do a quality product

981
01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:20.880
of quality leaf more composts. They
get it from Cena Molt so you know

982
01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:28.039
it's first, first class stop.
Now go to the website bb Turfpros dot

983
01:12:28.159 --> 01:12:31.279
com. Bb Turfpros dot com.
Here's a phone number. Always listen to

984
01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:35.920
guardline with a pen in your hand. Seven to one three two one or

985
01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:40.960
two three four fifty five ninety eight. I'll do that again. Seven to

986
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:46.119
one three two three four fifty five
ninety eight. Their number one goal is

987
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.560
customer satisfaction. They do high quality
work. I've seen their work. I've

988
01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:55.680
talked to these folks. It is
all about making a personal connection and that

989
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.880
is why they are so highly rated
and people who have hired them to do

990
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.560
work are so satisfied with bnbachur Pro. And there's very little that you can

991
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:09.079
do to make such a great impact
on a lawn is to do a deep

992
01:13:09.199 --> 01:13:14.960
core aeration, especially in these clay
soils and with compaction especially uh. Then

993
01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:20.319
a deep core oration followed by a
quality compost top dressing that enhances the grassroot

994
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:26.239
system and it will just help that
loan to recover. We're gonna move now

995
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:30.279
out to belve up. I'm sorry
I've gone over break. Chris, your

996
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:31.800
first up. When we come back, we're gonna take a quick break I'll

997
01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:42.079
be right back. Welcome back to
guard Line. Good to have you with

998
01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:45.800
us today. We're going to run
straight out to Belleville, Texas and talk

999
01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:48.880
to Chris. Chris, thanks for
being so patient. Hey, good morning.

1000
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:54.479
Quick question. I've got my wife
a bunch of rose bushes, and

1001
01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:58.399
our grasshoppers are coming out of this
coastal field next to us. Oh boy,

1002
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:03.079
yeah, oh boy. What can
I do? Well? I mean,

1003
01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:06.199
you can spray the roses things that
will kill the grasshoppers, but they

1004
01:14:06.239 --> 01:14:10.439
eat it, and meaning they eat
some of the roses to get the poisoned

1005
01:14:10.760 --> 01:14:15.000
to die when they're coming out of
a grass field nearby. It's a challenge

1006
01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:17.479
to do it. I've talked to
people that tried roe cover fabrics over the

1007
01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:23.359
roses, you know, to get
through that grasshopper onslaught. But I've had

1008
01:14:23.399 --> 01:14:27.520
other people tell me that grasshoppers will
eat through the row cover fabric to get

1009
01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:30.479
to to get to the roses.
So about all that you're left with,

1010
01:14:31.079 --> 01:14:36.720
you know, would be doing just
a spray like a seven S v I

1011
01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:44.840
N spray over the roses or some
other synthetic perrethroid labeled for use on roses

1012
01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:48.359
by fenthering kinds of products. There's
probably not a by fenther and it's gonna

1013
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:53.840
be a different synthetic perithroid, but
getting it on the rose foliage, so

1014
01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:57.119
when they try to chew on it, it takes them down pretty quickly.

1015
01:14:57.960 --> 01:15:00.279
It it'd be nice if you could
go out and treat that fear yield,

1016
01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:03.760
but that's not practical, of course, to go out and do. But

1017
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:06.880
this happens all the time, and
they come in like, you know,

1018
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:15.680
a biblical horde coming into your property
from that field height. Wow, you

1019
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:20.319
know I would I would try the
row cover fabric even just to see if

1020
01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:25.239
it'll hold them off a little bit. Maybe even spray the fabric with with

1021
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:28.279
the product. Then there's an idea, I've never never thought of that one

1022
01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:30.079
before, but spray the fabric as
they try to eat through it. But

1023
01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:33.640
yeah, they're just they're just not
away. They're coming in. They're flying

1024
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:36.840
in, and so your first shot
at them is when they're already on your

1025
01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:41.720
roses eating. Uh. And it's
it's just not different. And if you

1026
01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:45.359
owned a grassy area you know nearby, you could go out there and do

1027
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:48.880
one of the baits that are spread
out on the ground because then when they're

1028
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:54.199
nymphs before they get wings, they
eat that bait and it shuts them down.

1029
01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:58.119
They never make it to the wing
stage. But I just say that

1030
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.880
for people that are listening that might
have at sess to a field. But

1031
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:05.640
yeah, well it's a pretty good
ways between me and the hayfield, probably

1032
01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:10.840
half an acre. And yeah,
I mean I still have I could,

1033
01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:14.800
I could put some out there,
I guess yeah, yeah, but the

1034
01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.800
bait has to be done before their
wings and flying around there. The bait's

1035
01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:23.560
not going to work when they're flying
everywhere. But that that's the best I

1036
01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:26.600
can I can tell you on that. You know, the the Native Americans

1037
01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:29.399
used to dig a pit in the
ground in the great high planes and they

1038
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.319
would get in a big circle with
sticks and beat the grass, walking toward

1039
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:35.000
the center, and all the grasshoppers
would go in the pit and they would

1040
01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:40.319
eat them. You know, you
can eat oh wow. Yeah, I've

1041
01:16:40.399 --> 01:16:44.600
never had a grasshoppers, but I
don't think you are are likely to try

1042
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:46.880
that. Yeah, yeah, I
understand. I understand the problem. I

1043
01:16:47.039 --> 01:16:50.840
just wish we had a better solution. Thank you very much, Yes,

1044
01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:55.359
sir, thank you for the call. Appreciate that if you're outing in Chanted

1045
01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:59.520
Gardens. Channy Gardens is out in
Richmond, Texas, and Katie Fullsher's had

1046
01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:03.600
a Richmond. It is on Highway
or It's FM farm to Market three fifty

1047
01:17:03.720 --> 01:17:06.680
nine, easy to get to.
Real nice. The Londenmann family has been

1048
01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:11.720
in that community since nineteen ninety five. And in Chanted Gardens you're going to

1049
01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:15.640
find every kind of plant that you
might be interested in. I mean,

1050
01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:18.760
they carry the wide variety. It
is a nice, beautiful spread out place

1051
01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:21.680
people love to go just to walk
through and look at it. But they're

1052
01:17:21.720 --> 01:17:25.319
going to have every kind of thing
you can imagine. Do you need summer

1053
01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:30.359
color, mean, I'm talking about
color that absolutely laughs at the summer sun

1054
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:33.920
in Southeast Texas. They got it. Do you need vegetables, do you

1055
01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:38.560
need shrubs and trees? Do you
want to create a beautiful container planting?

1056
01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:41.399
They specialize in that. Oh my
god, you got to go by and

1057
01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:47.279
just see the combo containers they put
together. Enchanted Gardensrichmond dot com. That's

1058
01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:53.079
the website. They're open Monday through
Saturday eight to five, Sunday ten to

1059
01:17:53.199 --> 01:17:57.199
four pm. And when you're out
there, grab some microlife fertilizer. They

1060
01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:00.760
carry all the fertilizers we talked about
here on guard Line. They have Microlife.

1061
01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:03.640
They have that the Microlife green bag, the six two four, that's

1062
01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:06.760
the one that's a standard for low
and fertilizing. You can use it for

1063
01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:12.199
anything. Microlife also, by the
way, has humts plus. That's a

1064
01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:15.840
zero zero four purple bag, purple
bag, green bag. The purple bag

1065
01:18:16.359 --> 01:18:21.159
is concentrated compost in a bag.
It's like taking a big poly compost and

1066
01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:27.199
bringing it down to the final stage
of humus with all the benefits that humus

1067
01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:30.800
has. Humic acid and fulvic acid
are very helpful for the soil. Humus

1068
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:38.840
helps open up a clay soil.
It is a consistent presence that microbes benefit

1069
01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:44.119
from, that roots benefit from.
It's what nature does long term to fix

1070
01:18:44.199 --> 01:18:49.159
and improve soil. Nature does.
Humus humates plus by Microlife is that concentrated

1071
01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:53.880
compost in a bag to do just
that. We're going to now head to

1072
01:18:54.439 --> 01:19:00.199
West University and talk to Jonas.
Hello Jonas, good morning, Skips for

1073
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:04.880
getting my call. I appreciated yesterday
I sent you a little email on a

1074
01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:10.319
plant to scoring a back lawn that
I think is cut Sue. So I

1075
01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:15.439
would like to know how I can
eliminate it and how in the world did

1076
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.439
it come to my lawn. Yes, I saw that, and that is

1077
01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:23.239
not cutsu. That's the good news. It's not cuts that is that is

1078
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:29.319
not kut zu. Fortunately. The
bad news is you still got a invading,

1079
01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:33.119
very fast fining weed. And there
are several different things that could be

1080
01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:36.119
from a distance in those pictures,
you know, looking at the foliage,

1081
01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:41.680
I can't make out specifically which one
it is, but I can tell you

1082
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:45.359
what you can do about it,
and that is a broad leaf weed control

1083
01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:51.119
product for post emergent control. Now
is is it? Is there any of

1084
01:19:51.159 --> 01:19:56.479
it in areas where you don't have
desirable plants or is it everything? If

1085
01:19:56.479 --> 01:20:00.560
you're covering, Yeah, okay,
you're gonna have to just clip those vines

1086
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:05.479
away from the azaleas to get the
azaleas sunlight. That that would be one

1087
01:20:05.880 --> 01:20:11.800
one very important. I just you
don't have them uprooted or just the time

1088
01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:17.319
by the vine the weed vine.
Yeah, yes, but that's a lot

1089
01:20:17.399 --> 01:20:20.760
of digging. Good luck, I
mean, but that would be that would

1090
01:20:20.760 --> 01:20:25.119
be an option. The other option
would be to cut them off the azaleas

1091
01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:29.840
and then spray the leaves of the
vine with a post emergent product using a

1092
01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:32.800
very coarse droplet at a low pressure. Don't pump up the sprayer a lot

1093
01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:38.439
so that you don't have a mist
going onto desirable plants like your azaleas and

1094
01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:42.560
over, and then spray that product
on it and stay with it to keep

1095
01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:45.600
keep working its way back. I'm
going to keep working on I've got a

1096
01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:48.960
it's kind of a maple leaf looking
leaf, and I need to take a

1097
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:55.119
closer look to to try to nail
that down. I had an idea last

1098
01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:58.439
night and I can't remember now off
the top of my head what. But

1099
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:00.640
it doesn't matter what the name of
it is is it's a broad leaf weed

1100
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:05.760
and it's got to be sprayed with
something that will translocate back in. Some

1101
01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:11.119
people use glacys say it or round
up type products for that. A wiper

1102
01:21:11.239 --> 01:21:15.479
applicator, something that isn't a spray
but that literally like a sponge, wipes

1103
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:19.079
it onto leaves. Those applicators are
hard to find, but that that would

1104
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:26.159
be another option to increase the safety
to desirable plants nearby. You don't believe

1105
01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:30.760
this is something that might be poisonous
to the touchboard to handle, right?

1106
01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:38.079
No? Yeah, no dermally toxic
plan I know of has that kind of

1107
01:21:38.199 --> 01:21:43.199
leave. I don't think so,
now any kind of Some people are allergic

1108
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.359
to strawberry foliage, you know,
they get another their forearms and it makes

1109
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:49.479
them break out. So there's a
lot of possibilities. But as far as

1110
01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:53.560
it being like a poison ivy or
a poison oak or a poison sumac,

1111
01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:56.560
No, it's not like that.
Okay, okay, good, that's good,

1112
01:21:56.960 --> 01:21:59.199
all right, sir. And that's
just another rule. Brief question.

1113
01:21:59.239 --> 01:22:01.359
I've noticed crepe berdles, beautiful crepe
murdles. Yeah, not yet, blue

1114
01:22:01.439 --> 01:22:04.840
me. It's it a little bit
late in the season, a little late,

1115
01:22:04.880 --> 01:22:08.600
but summer slow to come on.
By the way the music started,

1116
01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:11.039
I'm about to lose you, all
right, sir. Give it a little

1117
01:22:11.079 --> 01:22:13.319
more time, be a little more
patient, and call me back if they

1118
01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:16.960
don't. All right, there we
are another break. That hour went by

1119
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:24.520
fast. We'll be back. Kt
r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

1120
01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:29.600
any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to kt r

1121
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:46.000
H Garden Line with Skip Richard Crazy
just watch him as Welcome back to guard

1122
01:22:46.119 --> 01:22:49.399
Line. Good to have you with
us. What are we going to talk

1123
01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:54.640
about today? You tell me seven
one three, two one two five eight

1124
01:22:55.000 --> 01:23:01.279
seven four. Sweet Green. Sweet
Green is a product by Nitrofhos. It

1125
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:05.760
is a natural product. It's made
with a molasses base, so it has

1126
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:12.920
a wonderful fresh fragrance. It actually
smells really good. Eleven percent nitrogen put

1127
01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:16.359
it down in the ground. It
waters in and the bacteria that are beneficial,

1128
01:23:16.439 --> 01:23:21.399
the microbes that help plants to thrive, really love any kind of a

1129
01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:27.960
molasses type substance of sugars down in
the soil. Those carbohydrates very important for

1130
01:23:28.079 --> 01:23:31.880
them, and so you stimulate the
soil microbial activity. You also release that

1131
01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:35.960
eleven percent nitrogen down into the root
system. So if you're looking for a

1132
01:23:36.039 --> 01:23:41.880
natural based product from Nitrophos, well, there you go Sweet Green. They're

1133
01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:45.600
the ones that have it, and
it's widely available. kDas Hardware. You're

1134
01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:49.600
gonna find Sweet Green at kDa Hardware, Ace Hardware City Immemorial. They'll have

1135
01:23:49.680 --> 01:23:57.560
it down there. Stanton Shopping Center
down in Alveston, Alvaston, Galveston.

1136
01:23:57.960 --> 01:24:01.199
It's closed. It's on the way
to Galvazton stand Chopping Centered down in Alvin.

1137
01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:04.960
There you go. Has got it
as well as Fisher's Hardware, both

1138
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:09.520
the one in Southeastern and Southomore and
the one in the port out there on

1139
01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:14.279
Broadway Street. Gold places that you
can get a sweet Green fertilizer. I'm

1140
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:18.039
inventing new towns right as we go
here, Let's go to the Heights and

1141
01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:25.600
talk to Nancy next. Hello,
Nancy, Hi, Hi, I'm good,

1142
01:24:25.640 --> 01:24:28.880
I'm good. What can we do? Well? I had a question

1143
01:24:29.000 --> 01:24:32.239
about Chinese friend r. Laura Headlam, but my husband wanted me to ask

1144
01:24:32.319 --> 01:24:39.800
you something else instead. Okay,
And you talked about feeding trees. What

1145
01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:44.520
are they adding exactly to the soil
to feed the trees and can that be

1146
01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:49.039
done any any time of year?
Well, what's added to the soil or

1147
01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:55.720
just nutrients in general? Basically,
lawn food is a good blend for feeding

1148
01:24:55.800 --> 01:25:00.159
trees. So if you're fertilizing your
lawn, you are benefiting the tree that

1149
01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:02.000
already have an extensive root system.
Now, if it's a brand new tree

1150
01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:04.720
you just put in the ground the
last couple of years, you want to

1151
01:25:04.760 --> 01:25:09.680
focus the fertilization on that area around
the tree. We talk about a new

1152
01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:13.600
tree or an established tree. No, it's probably about three hundred years old.

1153
01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:15.680
Old. We're gonna go ahead and
go out on a lemon and say

1154
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:19.399
that one's established. I think by
three hundred years it's o to be.

1155
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:28.560
Wow, that is incredible valuable tree. However, how you said, yes,

1156
01:25:28.760 --> 01:25:31.520
yes it is. It saved our
house pretty much from extensive damage.

1157
01:25:32.079 --> 01:25:39.720
But it got damage severely damaged in
the storm. And so they want to

1158
01:25:40.880 --> 01:25:45.039
do some trimming and cutting to kind
of balance it out. Okay, And

1159
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:51.199
so he said the tree ARBORA said
that it may need some mile it's n

1160
01:25:51.399 --> 01:25:58.239
y C O R R I Z
P A. I guess, Mike Horizon,

1161
01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:03.119
Mike Eriza, is are things in
the soil that help with the tree.

1162
01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:08.680
If that tree has been established that
long, it's got if it's going

1163
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:11.720
to have, Mike Riza, it's
got those already on the root system.

1164
01:26:12.159 --> 01:26:15.000
Now adding them won't hurt anything,
but it may or may not be beneficial

1165
01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:20.000
in the case of that particular tree. Okay, he was saying. It

1166
01:26:20.159 --> 01:26:27.399
wasn't for like the older established routs. It's more for the newer baby ones

1167
01:26:27.560 --> 01:26:30.479
that would be coming. Well,
it won't hurt anything to Adam, like

1168
01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:33.680
I said, though those are a
tree that's been established has probably got a

1169
01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:39.439
network of my celia that's already connected
to it. But that's that as far

1170
01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:43.680
as fertilizing. Modern amounts of fertilizer
the most. Once a tree gets that

1171
01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:47.880
age, it's kind of hit the
stage where it's gotten as big as it

1172
01:26:48.039 --> 01:26:53.319
needs to get considering our rainfall,
our soils and everything. You know,

1173
01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:56.840
climates vary across the country. You
go up to New England and you see

1174
01:26:57.079 --> 01:27:00.960
giant trees and they don't get that
big here because it's a differ. But

1175
01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:03.600
once it's in the stage, if
this is about as big as that species

1176
01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:08.239
is going to get here, well, fertilizing to try to make it bigger

1177
01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:12.960
is not helping the tree. Really. We fertilize to get the tree growing

1178
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:15.399
and to get it up to a
good size, and then perhaps some maintenance

1179
01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:20.600
at times, but in general go
ahead. Well, I was gonna say,

1180
01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:24.479
it's really not to get it bigger. We're just worried about the health

1181
01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:29.039
of the tree after the damage,
okay, And we're going to be doing

1182
01:27:29.079 --> 01:27:31.520
some canopy trimming too. Yeah,
and so when you do that, you're

1183
01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:38.000
going to have you're gonna somewhat imbalance
the amount of roots with the top because

1184
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:41.920
you know, it was balanced before
you lost some of the top. But

1185
01:27:42.079 --> 01:27:45.159
it'll recover from that and it'll be
okay. Just provide. The main thing

1186
01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:48.920
it's going to need is as we
get into a long, hot, dry

1187
01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:54.159
summer drought, if we hit one
of those this year, a rescue treatment

1188
01:27:54.359 --> 01:27:58.279
of a good soaking on a very
infrequent basis, you know, once every

1189
01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:02.000
two very frequent. Yeah. You
don't want to make a dependent root system

1190
01:28:02.079 --> 01:28:05.760
up at the surface for squirting it
with water. You want to just when

1191
01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:10.640
it's like we've gone three weeks and
it's one hundred degrees and it hadn't rained,

1192
01:28:11.039 --> 01:28:12.920
it would be a good time to
get out there and give it one

1193
01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:16.199
good soaking to kind of rescue it. That's that's the main thing in your

1194
01:28:16.279 --> 01:28:20.359
control. Okay, Oh, great
one. I hate to do this one.

1195
01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:25.920
What kind of year would be the
best time to trim the oak?

1196
01:28:27.079 --> 01:28:29.760
Well, the best time. The
best time to prune a tree is at

1197
01:28:29.800 --> 01:28:33.920
the end of winter, right before
new growth begins. You can do minor

1198
01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:41.960
pruning any time of the year in
areas where there is oak wilt. We

1199
01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:45.079
try to avoid pruning except in the
hottest months of the year and the coldest

1200
01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:48.640
months of the year. But I
think you know, in your area where

1201
01:28:48.640 --> 01:28:53.880
you're calling from. I don't know
if any active oak wilt centers, so

1202
01:28:54.039 --> 01:28:56.600
it's not as big of a deal
as it would be if you were in

1203
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:01.079
the hill country, for example.
Okay, all right, thank you so

1204
01:29:01.319 --> 01:29:04.560
very much. I appreciate it.
You bet, thanks, thank you.

1205
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:12.840
I appreciate that very much. Heirloom
Soils is a source of a wide variety

1206
01:29:13.159 --> 01:29:17.359
of quality soil products. Airloom Soils
of Texas has got composted cocoa core.

1207
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:20.960
They have fruit berry and citrus mix
for your fruit trees or citrus trees.

1208
01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:25.720
They've got things. Yeah, like
we used to call it the rose soil.

1209
01:29:25.800 --> 01:29:30.199
They call it the roses and bloomers
blend. Roses and bloomers blend.

1210
01:29:30.239 --> 01:29:32.520
They've got that I was talking earlier
about. We need expanded shale and a

1211
01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:36.279
heavy clay. They've got bags of
just expanded shell. They have expanded shell

1212
01:29:36.399 --> 01:29:41.079
mixed with composts. They have a
veggie and herb mix, which also works

1213
01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:43.560
for flowers, by the way.
They have a cactus and succular mix.

1214
01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:46.279
They have a potting soil. All
this is available by the bag, widely

1215
01:29:46.359 --> 01:29:51.199
available all across the Greater Houston area. And far beyond really and they also

1216
01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:56.439
have the bulk. You can find
the bulk soils out in the Porter,

1217
01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:59.680
Texas area. You can go get
them yourself. You can call up Airloom

1218
01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:01.880
Salce and say hey, can you
deliver them? Just do this. Go

1219
01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:11.199
to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. There you'll find a calculator to tell

1220
01:30:11.239 --> 01:30:14.640
you how much soil you need to
fill in a bed. You'll also find

1221
01:30:14.720 --> 01:30:18.840
all the contact information and more information
about all of these really high quality You're

1222
01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:24.039
not gonna find a better soil mix
than you can find with Heirlooms Soils of

1223
01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:28.399
Texas. And remember you've heard it
here on Guardenline a million times, brown

1224
01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:32.119
stuff before green stuff. Get the
soil right with heirloom soils, and then

1225
01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:36.479
those beautiful plants you put in are
gonna make you happy because they're going to

1226
01:30:36.560 --> 01:30:41.359
be happy. That's how that works. We are going to take a little

1227
01:30:41.399 --> 01:30:44.479
break here. It's time for a
break. When we come back, Jim

1228
01:30:44.600 --> 01:30:54.159
and Greg, you'll be our first
two up. We free mass. Welcome

1229
01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:57.399
back to Guardenline. Good have you
with us. You know we love feed

1230
01:30:57.479 --> 01:31:00.680
stores here on guard Line, and
we have some awesome feed sourcer in the

1231
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:05.199
Greater Houston area. You live up
north direction in Magnolia, for example,

1232
01:31:05.560 --> 01:31:12.000
Spring Creek Feed is really conveniently located
right there on FM twenty nine seventy eight.

1233
01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:15.039
It's just minutes away from Highway two
forty nine Grand Parkway. They're going

1234
01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:18.079
to carry the fertilizers that I talk
about on garden Line. If I talk

1235
01:31:18.079 --> 01:31:21.800
about a fertilizer, they've got it
at Spring Creek Feed. They've got supplies

1236
01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:26.680
for your garden and your lawn and
your pond. That includes things like weed

1237
01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:32.680
killing, preventing diseases or controlling diseases, and pesticides to control insects. Really

1238
01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:35.800
friendly, courteous staff there. It's
always a pleasure to go in. When

1239
01:31:35.840 --> 01:31:39.319
you walk in the store to stop
for a minute and look around. It

1240
01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:43.479
is amazing beautiful, lots of cool
bling for the home too, by the

1241
01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:46.079
way, when you're in there,
they've expanded their garden section and it just

1242
01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:50.560
keeps getting better there at Spring Creek
Feed. They do special orders if you

1243
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:56.199
need them to, and they have
discounts for senior citizens, for military again

1244
01:31:56.319 --> 01:32:00.880
here we are a World Day weekend
and for FFA and for that are out

1245
01:32:00.920 --> 01:32:05.079
there raising projects at Spring Creek feed
in Magnolia. On FM twenty nine seventy

1246
01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:10.079
eight. We're going to now go
to Jim and Montgomery. Hello, Jim,

1247
01:32:11.479 --> 01:32:15.560
how you doing. I'm good,
sir. I got these bees that

1248
01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:21.000
seem to love my humming bird feeder
and they there's millions of them, and

1249
01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:24.960
they and they buzz around it.
And I've reached up there, got my

1250
01:32:25.079 --> 01:32:27.520
hand right close to them and stuff. They don't even sting it. But

1251
01:32:27.600 --> 01:32:31.560
they they look kind of like a
They're striped with a spike sticking out of

1252
01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:34.720
the back end of them, and
they're little, and they make a lot

1253
01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:39.439
of noise, and there's millions of
them, and they they're crowding out my

1254
01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:45.439
humming birds. Spikes sticking out rid
of a spike sticking out the back end.

1255
01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:48.680
It sounds like a wasp. Could
it be a wasp? Yeah,

1256
01:32:49.640 --> 01:32:54.199
that could be. They don't they
never sting me. I've reached up right

1257
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:57.239
there and waved them out, try
to get rid of them, and I've

1258
01:32:57.319 --> 01:33:00.800
used the shop back one time and
sucked them all up, but they just

1259
01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:04.239
keep coming back, and uh,
well, humming birds can't get to the

1260
01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:10.399
feeders because there's all these laws for
b Okay, I tell you what we

1261
01:33:10.439 --> 01:33:12.560
can do A couple of things.
You can send me a picture if you

1262
01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:15.079
want to get close, since they're
not bothering you, and get close and

1263
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:17.640
take a good picture that's in sharp
focus see what they are. But I

1264
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:21.800
tell you what would be better if
you'll call a Wallbird's Unlimited store. They

1265
01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:26.119
have dealt with us before and they
can tell you what to do. That

1266
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:29.760
would be the best answer because they
are the experts on this. Uh.

1267
01:33:29.960 --> 01:33:34.359
You can find if you go online
to w b U dot com, Wallbirds

1268
01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:40.159
Unlimited dot com, w b U
dot com Forward slash Houston, UH that

1269
01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:44.279
you're going to be able to find
the Wallbirds stores that are that are closest

1270
01:33:44.399 --> 01:33:46.720
to you. I bet the Woodlands
is the closest one. Yeah, just

1271
01:33:46.960 --> 01:33:53.840
call uh, Well, I don't
off the top of my head, hang

1272
01:33:53.880 --> 01:33:59.039
on just one second. I'll see
if I can find find out. Actually,

1273
01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:01.319
I don't have the Woodland store.
They're not part of our Wilbirds Houston

1274
01:34:01.399 --> 01:34:06.039
group, so you would just have
to hunt that one down. But if

1275
01:34:06.079 --> 01:34:11.399
you go to WBU dot com slash
Houston, there's six stores right there.

1276
01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:13.600
You can call any of them.
Doesn't matter which one you call, they'll

1277
01:34:13.640 --> 01:34:15.800
tell you what's going on. There's
one one up in Cyprus. It's not

1278
01:34:16.279 --> 01:34:20.720
too terribly far away from you.
But they all know what they're talking about.

1279
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:26.520
All right, let them let's see
what they have to say about that.

1280
01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.079
All right, I'll do that.
All right. You take care,

1281
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:33.319
Thanks for the call. Appreciate that
very much. Ana Plants and Produce is

1282
01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:39.239
up there in Montgomery, speaking of
Jim and Montgomery. Ana Plants and Produce

1283
01:34:39.479 --> 01:34:44.159
has a supply of anything that you're
gonna need to have success with your plants.

1284
01:34:44.199 --> 01:34:46.239
By the way, Memorial Day weekend, that's this weekend, thirty percent

1285
01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:50.760
off all their plants. That's trees, that's shrubs, that's their cacti,

1286
01:34:51.000 --> 01:34:58.279
that's their succulence. And it starts
yesterday. It started yesterday, and you'll

1287
01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:00.159
go all the way to Monday through
the weekend and the Memorial Day weekend.

1288
01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:03.880
Ana Plants and Produce are on Highway
one oh five in Montgomery, Texas.

1289
01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:08.439
And when you go to Ana,
you're always going to find every fertilizer that

1290
01:35:08.520 --> 01:35:11.640
I talk about, and I mean
every fertilizer they got, all the nitrofis,

1291
01:35:11.720 --> 01:35:15.199
all the nelsons that especially that turf
star line. You heard me talk

1292
01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:18.720
about microlife, organic fertilizers, all
the airline, soils, Nature's Way,

1293
01:35:18.920 --> 01:35:23.520
composts, like their leaf mol composts. They have it all there. So

1294
01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:27.119
if you're looking for example to get
you your microlife, the green bag the

1295
01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:30.680
fertilizer, they're going to have it
at Ana Plants and Produce, And that's

1296
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:35.000
an awesome fertilizer for your lawn.
It's a six two four slow released organic.

1297
01:35:35.279 --> 01:35:40.359
When something is organic, microbes have
to break it down and to release

1298
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.680
those nutrients out, so that gives
you a little bit of an extension of

1299
01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:46.399
the release time of it. And
they'll also at Ana they're going to have

1300
01:35:46.520 --> 01:35:51.960
the microlife humates plus that is the
purple bag, the zero zero four.

1301
01:35:53.159 --> 01:35:57.520
As you add that to the soil
time and again, do it once a

1302
01:35:57.640 --> 01:36:00.640
year each year, and you're just
going to continue to build the soil.

1303
01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:01.680
I mean, you can do it
more. You're not going to hurt soil

1304
01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:05.439
with too much. It's not like
a salt thing that's going to burn your

1305
01:36:05.479 --> 01:36:08.760
plan. You put a lot of
it on there if you want, But

1306
01:36:08.880 --> 01:36:11.720
if you just do it once a
year, follow the label rate, you're

1307
01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:15.279
going to find that over time you're
building a higher quality root zone for your

1308
01:36:15.359 --> 01:36:19.920
plants, and that's important. And
the Microlife green bag the six two four

1309
01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:25.520
is just it. It's probably one
of the top selling organic fertilizers that there

1310
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:28.880
is see the whole region. It's
it's a quality product, been around,

1311
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:31.560
well known and widely available. Yeah, so go out and visit Ana,

1312
01:36:31.680 --> 01:36:35.119
grab you some Microlife, head out
with it. But remember this weekend thirty

1313
01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:40.640
percent off all of the plants,
including tree shrubs, cacti, and succulents

1314
01:36:41.000 --> 01:36:45.119
out there at Ana Plants and Produce. We're now going to head up or

1315
01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:48.640
down to sugar Land and talk to
Greg. Hello, Greg, Hi,

1316
01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:56.359
skip enchanted forest. They planted my
trees yesterday, my two trees yesterday.

1317
01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:03.520
And as far as they're about the
size of a twelve ounce water bottle the

1318
01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:09.720
diameter, and as far as watering
those trees, being that they were just

1319
01:37:11.479 --> 01:37:15.000
put in the dirt, how do
I go with the water and schedule As

1320
01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:18.199
far as alive, Yeah, that's
a good question. Are you a clay

1321
01:37:18.279 --> 01:37:26.000
soil there, Gregon combination? Yeah, clay. So what you need to

1322
01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:29.520
think about is imagine that they didn't
take the tree out of the pot,

1323
01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:31.479
and they just left it in the
pot and put the pot in the ground.

1324
01:37:32.399 --> 01:37:34.960
That is how your root system is
going to be for a while.

1325
01:37:36.319 --> 01:37:40.720
In other words, the soil all
around it can be wet. But we're

1326
01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:44.479
going into some really hot weather here
the next few days hot for the season,

1327
01:37:44.600 --> 01:37:47.520
that is when, and that tree's
gonna be pumping water. So if

1328
01:37:47.600 --> 01:37:49.920
it was still sitting in a pot
on the ground, you'd go out and

1329
01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:53.920
watered every day, just a little
bit, just to wet that soil right

1330
01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:58.000
there. And so you need to
treat it like that, and then gradually

1331
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:01.880
over the coming three or four months, you can wean it back where you're

1332
01:38:01.920 --> 01:38:05.920
not water every day, but you're
you're just kind of watching it and seeing

1333
01:38:05.960 --> 01:38:10.840
how it's doing, and it's getting
its roots into the soil around the pot,

1334
01:38:11.359 --> 01:38:14.960
and you know, then you're weaning
it off. But just the key

1335
01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:17.600
thing is to picture underground, all
the roots are still right where they were,

1336
01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:20.800
and they're not going to just in
a week all of a sudden be

1337
01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:25.960
way out past the branches. It's
going to take time, so small amounts

1338
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:29.359
of water applied to that area.
Now, if we go into heat and

1339
01:38:29.479 --> 01:38:33.279
drought, and the soil itself is
getting dry around the whole area around your

1340
01:38:33.399 --> 01:38:39.880
yard. Then a good soaking to
at least as wide as the branch spread

1341
01:38:40.319 --> 01:38:44.039
of the tree. I'll set up
a sprinkler and I'll wet the whole area

1342
01:38:44.239 --> 01:38:47.279
out to the branch as far as
the branches going a little beyond that,

1343
01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:50.600
and I'll focus my watering on that. So as the tree gets bigger,

1344
01:38:50.640 --> 01:39:00.399
your watering area gets bigger, exactly. So yeah, so start warring today

1345
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:06.039
this morning, and then also Sunday. So you're saying every day, yeah,

1346
01:39:06.119 --> 01:39:14.720
well every day a little bit and
really really, you know, sometimes

1347
01:39:14.760 --> 01:39:17.000
we get into June. You can
probably go every other day really, but

1348
01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:21.159
it depends on you know, if
we have cloudy days, then you don't

1349
01:39:21.159 --> 01:39:25.479
even need to water that day.
It's not using enough water to worry about.

1350
01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:28.680
If the soil around it is very
moist some is going to wike in

1351
01:39:28.840 --> 01:39:32.840
toward it and things. But just
remember that just because it's in the ground

1352
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.479
doesn't mean it's getting the ground moisture
because the roots aren't out there to get

1353
01:39:36.520 --> 01:39:42.079
it exactly. All right, Okay, I got it, Thank you so

1354
01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:44.760
much. You bet, just don't
keep it water logged. You create an

1355
01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:47.439
underground bathtub full of water and it'll
kill that treat if you do that.

1356
01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:50.680
Okay, small, all right,
thank you, all right, thank you

1357
01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:55.199
very much. I appreciate that call. Hey, we just went through storms

1358
01:39:55.359 --> 01:40:00.199
and one thing we learned is when
storms come the power goes out, some

1359
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:03.199
people are still getting their power.
A good job was. I don't know

1360
01:40:03.279 --> 01:40:08.359
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1361
01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:12.840
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1365
01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:31.079
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1366
01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:35.119
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01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:57.159
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1387
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Tracy. Hello, Tracy, Hi, I just want to ask one little

1388
01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:17.880
simple thing, If it's simple.
I have all these crape myrtle trees with

1389
01:42:18.319 --> 01:42:23.680
very few blooms on them. Question
i'd put on them to make them pop.

1390
01:42:23.960 --> 01:42:27.840
There's nothing you can put on them. But some crpe myrtle varieties they

1391
01:42:27.960 --> 01:42:32.520
tend to bloom earlier, are a
little better than others. But in general,

1392
01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:36.359
if you just give them time and
sunlight. If they are in the

1393
01:42:36.479 --> 01:42:40.199
more shade they're in, the less
they're gonna bloom. If they're in good

1394
01:42:40.279 --> 01:42:45.199
sun then that's good keeping the plant
healthy. Does it when it needs water,

1395
01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:47.560
water in it, a little bit
of fertilizer to give it some vigor

1396
01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:50.760
because the blooms are at the end
of shoots, So the more shoots you

1397
01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:55.680
have growing, the more crape myrtle
blooms you can have. So don't overfertilize

1398
01:42:55.720 --> 01:42:58.800
it. Just just keep it growing
and give it a little bit of time.

1399
01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:01.119
And that pretty much is with what
is within your power. Tracehre.

1400
01:43:01.119 --> 01:43:03.600
I wish I could go tell you
to spray it with such and such and

1401
01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:08.800
blooms would pop up the next morning. But it's not that easy. Okay,

1402
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:12.319
all right, thank you so much, you bet, thank you for

1403
01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:15.079
the call. Hey, it's time
for a break. When we come back,

1404
01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:18.399
let's see Roy and Richmond and Gabe
and Friendswood. You'll be our first

1405
01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:28.840
two. Up. It's time for
Nicky in the news, Houston one day.

1406
01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:30.039
Welcome back to the Guardline. Good
to have you with us. Hey,

1407
01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:35.479
I want to remind you this weekend, Memorial weekend is a special tax

1408
01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:40.600
holiday if you will. It's an
opportunity. If you want more information,

1409
01:43:40.680 --> 01:43:44.920
by the way, go to the
Texas Comptroller's office. But it's water efficient

1410
01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:48.640
products sales tax holiday this Memorial Day
weekend. So what does that mean?

1411
01:43:49.079 --> 01:43:54.159
That means when you buy a soacer
hose drip irrigation hos or put in a

1412
01:43:54.239 --> 01:44:00.199
components of a of a sprinkler drip
irrigation system. If you need mulch that

1413
01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:04.079
counts as well, soil and compost, a rain barrel, maybe a water

1414
01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:10.119
collection device. That's that's something we
all need anyway. It rains so much

1415
01:44:10.279 --> 01:44:14.680
here that boys save in the water
saves the best water for plants that there

1416
01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:18.680
is. Do you need any kind
of a permeable groundcover surface to allow water

1417
01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:23.760
to soak in and reach in to
the soil. That's a water saving plants,

1418
01:44:23.960 --> 01:44:29.319
trees, grasses, water saving surfactants. Just a lot of opportunities out

1419
01:44:29.359 --> 01:44:33.159
there on this weekend. So get
out to your local garden centers, get

1420
01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:38.039
out to your ace hardware stores,
get out to your feed stores. Southwest

1421
01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:42.880
Ferlile. All those places are going
to have products that qualify for tax free

1422
01:44:42.880 --> 01:44:47.079
holiday this weekend. Don't let that
get by. For example, RCW Nursery.

1423
01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:51.560
Rcw's the garden center out there where
two forty nine Tombo Parkway comes into

1424
01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:55.840
belt Wag eight. Well, RCW
Nursery is going to have those kinds of

1425
01:44:55.880 --> 01:44:59.840
products available, many of them at
least. And they also are an ex

1426
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:02.079
the source of all the fertilizers that
I talk about here on Garden Line,

1427
01:45:02.119 --> 01:45:05.760
as well as the soil based products
which by the way, soil compost,

1428
01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:12.560
mulchis they all count. They also
have trees, wonderful selection of the best

1429
01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:15.760
tree species that you would want to
grow here at RCW Nurseries. They have

1430
01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:19.880
an outstanding selection of roses. It's
always a good time to go out and

1431
01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:24.479
visit RCWN. When you're out there, they will get you the products in

1432
01:45:24.560 --> 01:45:29.000
your hand to go along with that
tree, shrubber rose that you're planting to

1433
01:45:29.159 --> 01:45:34.439
make sure you have success. Here's
the website RCW nurseries dot com. RCW

1434
01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:40.479
nurseries dot com. Gohe and check
them out. We're going to now go

1435
01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:45.000
to Gabe and Friends with Hey,
Gabe, thanks for waiting. Good morning.

1436
01:45:45.039 --> 01:45:47.880
How are you today, sir?
I'm good, sir, good hey.

1437
01:45:47.920 --> 01:45:51.560
I'm just looking for some advice on
how to get rid of the dayflower.

1438
01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:58.680
Having a terrible time with it.
Yeah. The problem with dayflower is

1439
01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:01.479
it's kind of in between leaf and
grass, and so the grass killers don't

1440
01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:05.039
mess with it, the broad leaf
killers don't mess with it. Oh my

1441
01:46:05.159 --> 01:46:10.560
gosh. I'm trying to think of
what will be effective hand digging them up

1442
01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:13.359
when you can, when you've got
a big clump, that's that's a good

1443
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:17.359
fast way. It's not going to
and they seem to come back. Yeah,

1444
01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:21.039
I know, jeez. Let me
see. I've been done a bit

1445
01:46:21.079 --> 01:46:26.439
of a rabbit hole online. You
know, different people say different stuff like

1446
01:46:26.640 --> 01:46:32.079
my phosphate or I've heard bone eyed. Maybe we'd beater, I'm not quite

1447
01:46:32.159 --> 01:46:36.399
sure. Yeah, we'd better ultra. Uh. I have not checked that

1448
01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:44.319
label, man, I have not
checked the bone eyed labeled to see if

1449
01:46:44.359 --> 01:46:47.600
it's if it's labeled for that,
is it growing in your turf or is

1450
01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:54.680
it growing in what? So about
two or three years ago it came in

1451
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:57.640
a little we mulched the whole front
and backyard and it must have been in

1452
01:46:57.720 --> 01:47:03.319
the mulch and it's been here ever
since then. Okay, oh mands,

1453
01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:06.840
Yeah, Dave Flower, I'm trying
to let me see if I can find

1454
01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:13.880
a thing here that would give give
me an option for on that bonnight the

1455
01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:16.119
day fly. I just know,
Dave Flower is a tough one to deal

1456
01:47:16.199 --> 01:47:21.720
with. Yeah, let's see.
So things with two forty in combination,

1457
01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:29.239
So that'd be something like trimac would
be effective against it. Trimech t r

1458
01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:33.359
I mac. But when the temperatures
in the upper eighties and above, trimech

1459
01:47:33.479 --> 01:47:39.079
is very damaging to Saint Augustine,
for example, And so I would like,

1460
01:47:39.239 --> 01:47:42.560
right now, you better spray really
early in the morning so it drives

1461
01:47:42.600 --> 01:47:45.520
off before the temperature starts going up. That would work. There are some

1462
01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:49.840
other ingredients that are effective, but
a lot of them are pretty tough on

1463
01:47:50.039 --> 01:47:57.239
your lawn. Carpenter zone is pretty
effective, but just watch the temperature.

1464
01:47:57.479 --> 01:48:01.279
Carpenter zone is very effective for that. Please pull that one again. C

1465
01:48:01.439 --> 01:48:09.199
A R F E N T R
A z O n E carfentral It's an

1466
01:48:09.399 --> 01:48:14.880
ingredient. It's either in fertile on
weed tree zone or bone eye weed beater

1467
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:17.239
ultra. One of those has car
fenter zone it and I believe anyway,

1468
01:48:17.720 --> 01:48:23.199
but just know that the stuff that
will kill day flower is going to hurt

1469
01:48:23.239 --> 01:48:28.039
your Saint Augustine when it's when it's
about mid eighties and above. Yeah,

1470
01:48:28.119 --> 01:48:31.479
yeah, I can pretty much avoid
the grass where it is, or I

1471
01:48:31.560 --> 01:48:34.039
can't pull the ones that are along
in the front of the beds and maybe

1472
01:48:34.079 --> 01:48:38.319
spray the ones at the back,
and I worry about also killing the other

1473
01:48:38.399 --> 01:48:41.159
plants that are in the beds.
Yeah, you want to be extra careful

1474
01:48:41.199 --> 01:48:43.439
with that. I'm going to do
some real research on that, and if

1475
01:48:43.479 --> 01:48:45.960
I can find it for the end
of the show today, I'll mention it.

1476
01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:49.359
I appreciate you stick around. Yeah, thanks, lot appreciate that if

1477
01:48:49.359 --> 01:48:53.680
you're planting a tree. And remember
I was just talking about the fact that

1478
01:48:54.399 --> 01:48:58.840
lots of lots of tree planting can
still be done because what do we say,

1479
01:48:58.840 --> 01:49:01.319
the best time planet tree was forty
years ago. Second best time is

1480
01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:05.960
today. Three sixty tree stabilizer.
You need to get one of those to

1481
01:49:06.079 --> 01:49:10.159
stake your tree. Now you don't
have to put three stakes in the ground

1482
01:49:10.279 --> 01:49:14.279
and have the wires and the things
to protect the tree from the wires and

1483
01:49:14.359 --> 01:49:17.760
all of that. Just get you
a three sixty tree stabilizer or two and

1484
01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:21.880
one iron post one t post.
You hammer it in the ground about a

1485
01:49:21.920 --> 01:49:26.479
foot and a half from the tree, hook up the stabilizer and set the

1486
01:49:26.560 --> 01:49:30.560
strap around the tree just a little
loose so it allows movement. That's very

1487
01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:33.800
important. I just had a call
the other day about someone had a tree

1488
01:49:33.840 --> 01:49:36.760
that bent all the way to the
ground because the tree was too weak.

1489
01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:42.600
It had been kept staked in the
nursery and it been like a fishing pole.

1490
01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:45.520
So what we need is we need
to provide a little movement to strengthen

1491
01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:48.680
that trunk and tree stabilizer it does
that. You're going to find him itself

1492
01:49:48.760 --> 01:49:54.399
with fertilizer plants for all seasons.
Jorges Hidden Gardens down and out, then

1493
01:49:54.600 --> 01:49:59.600
Arburgate and Tomba, Buchanans and the
heights RCW Nursery where two forty nine comes

1494
01:49:59.600 --> 01:50:02.520
into it's easy to find them here
in town. They work well. If

1495
01:50:02.560 --> 01:50:06.600
you want extra stabilization, do two
of them, one kind of pointing north

1496
01:50:06.680 --> 01:50:11.319
south, one east west that way, whichever way the wind blows, you're

1497
01:50:11.399 --> 01:50:15.479
covered with the three sixty tree stabilizer. We're going to now go to Richmond,

1498
01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:19.159
Texas and talk to Roy. Hello, Roy, Hey, good morning

1499
01:50:19.159 --> 01:50:26.920
to skip morning. Hey, you
just noticed around the neighborhood these spider looking

1500
01:50:27.000 --> 01:50:32.600
web on tree and we have some
fruit trees and some other feed but we

1501
01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:38.720
haven't gotten it yet. Trying to
see if there's any prementous type. Yeah,

1502
01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:42.119
that we can put on our trees
before. Yeah, there are.

1503
01:50:42.520 --> 01:50:44.880
There are some products. If you
know they're coming, you can apply.

1504
01:50:45.079 --> 01:50:47.560
But if they're going to be you
know, you spram today a week from

1505
01:50:47.640 --> 01:50:50.880
now. A lot of those products
aren't doing anything, so I would wait

1506
01:50:51.000 --> 01:50:54.800
until you see the first sign of
a web. When you see the first

1507
01:50:54.840 --> 01:51:00.600
sign, get you either b T
sprays it's containing b T b as and

1508
01:51:00.680 --> 01:51:05.079
boy tea isn't tom or spindo said
s P I N O s A D.

1509
01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:10.920
Both of those are organic. They
will kill caterpillars when they're young,

1510
01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:14.600
especially, and if you get a
web, you may want to break it

1511
01:51:14.680 --> 01:51:16.000
up a little bit. But if
you're watching your trees, at the first

1512
01:51:16.039 --> 01:51:18.840
sign of a web, spray it
on the leaves. Because you get that

1513
01:51:18.960 --> 01:51:21.720
on the leaves, the caterpillars eat
the leaf, they get sick, and

1514
01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:27.159
they die. It's the fastest,
easiest way to shut them down. All

1515
01:51:27.239 --> 01:51:30.279
right, great, Yeah, because
they're starting to pump up everywhere. Yeah,

1516
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:34.079
we typically have an early summer outbreak
and then in the fall we have

1517
01:51:34.199 --> 01:51:38.640
a doozy of an outbreak in some
years. But just be watching for them.

1518
01:51:40.159 --> 01:51:42.880
That'll take care, Yes, sir, thank you for the call.

1519
01:51:43.000 --> 01:51:47.319
Appreciate that very much. Nitrophoss Super
Turf. Super Turf is the silver bag.

1520
01:51:47.520 --> 01:51:51.640
It is the slow release fertilizer from
Nitrophoss that if you apply it now,

1521
01:51:51.680 --> 01:51:56.079
it'll carry you two or three excuse
me, three or four months out

1522
01:51:56.199 --> 01:51:59.520
into the future before you're going to
need to fertilize again. It is a

1523
01:51:59.640 --> 01:52:02.880
nineteen four ten fertilizer. Half of
the nitrogen a slow release, so you

1524
01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:08.680
get a gradual release, which means
you don't mow so much and your lawn

1525
01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:13.119
develops a good deep root system.
Not excessive release of nitrogen all at once

1526
01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:17.159
cuts down on mowing up to twenty
five percent. It's easy to find nitropas

1527
01:52:17.279 --> 01:52:21.359
superturf because it's widely available throughout this
whole area. For example, you're gonna

1528
01:52:21.359 --> 01:52:26.439
find it at a Shantic Gardens down
in Richmond, Shades of Texas up in

1529
01:52:26.479 --> 01:52:30.159
the Woodlands area. And if you
go to Fisher's Hardware both the one on

1530
01:52:30.319 --> 01:52:33.319
Southmore on Broadway Street down to the
Port, well, you're going to find

1531
01:52:33.359 --> 01:52:35.920
it there as well. It's time
for us to take a break. When

1532
01:52:36.039 --> 01:52:41.640
we come back, we will be
getting to calls from Jonathan and John and

1533
01:52:41.800 --> 01:52:53.520
we'll be right back in just a
moment. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good

1534
01:52:53.560 --> 01:52:57.960
have you with us today? Hey? Have you been looking at that landscape

1535
01:52:58.039 --> 01:53:00.600
thinking it needs help? I need
to do something. I want to create

1536
01:53:00.640 --> 01:53:06.079
an outdoor, enjoyable outdoor sitting area, you know, with maybe some rock

1537
01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:11.720
stone, some hardescapes, with some
landscape lighting, all of that kind of

1538
01:53:11.720 --> 01:53:15.960
stuff, maybe a water feature.
Even pierscapes can do all that for you,

1539
01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:18.560
but they do a lot more.
Pierscapes does irrigation work. You need

1540
01:53:18.600 --> 01:53:21.399
a little work done in the system. Summer's coming and we're going to be

1541
01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:25.600
running those irrigation systems. Get them
out there to take a look at it,

1542
01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:27.920
do a quick check over it,
make sure things are in order,

1543
01:53:27.960 --> 01:53:32.199
and fix it if it's not.
Pier Scapes can do drainage work. Remember

1544
01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:36.000
the rain we had some of you
have a little pond water sticking there's so

1545
01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:41.199
long you're thinking about calling in a
fish hatchery to stock the things so you

1546
01:53:41.239 --> 01:53:44.399
can go fishing in the backyard.
Pierscapes can drain those areas for you.

1547
01:53:44.800 --> 01:53:48.880
Pierscapes can do a lot of different
things like that now. Pierscapes will also

1548
01:53:49.039 --> 01:53:53.359
do a quarterly maintenance if you like, just call them up. They'll come

1549
01:53:53.439 --> 01:53:58.239
in every quarter. They'll change the
seasonal color. They'll mult your flower beds,

1550
01:53:58.279 --> 01:54:01.199
they'll fertilize, they'll do weeding and
trimming. They'll even do an irrigation

1551
01:54:01.399 --> 01:54:05.119
inspection to see if any work needs
to be done, all from Piercescapes.

1552
01:54:05.439 --> 01:54:11.720
Piercecapes is an outstanding operation. If
you go online and look at their website

1553
01:54:11.720 --> 01:54:15.560
you will see the quality work they
do. Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot

1554
01:54:15.680 --> 01:54:19.119
com. Here's the number I always
listen to guard line with a pen in

1555
01:54:19.239 --> 01:54:26.079
hand. Two eight one three seven
O five zero six zero two eight one

1556
01:54:26.199 --> 01:54:30.159
three seven oh five zero six zero. We're going to go now to John

1557
01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:34.680
and Katie. Hello, John,
Hey, s GiB I appreciate you taking

1558
01:54:34.720 --> 01:54:40.560
my call. Yes, So,
question, how far do you recommend to

1559
01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:45.479
planning a peachtree from the utility,
like the power line and the gas line

1560
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:47.760
in the backyard. Well, the
power line doesn't really matter. Peaches don't

1561
01:54:47.800 --> 01:54:50.520
get big enough for that to be
a bother your peach trees. You're going

1562
01:54:50.560 --> 01:54:55.000
to keep those at about seven feet
ten feet somewhere in that range. No,

1563
01:54:55.239 --> 01:54:59.119
the underground of the underground underground,
we'll just remember when they come to

1564
01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:02.760
dig them up. If they're closer
than the branch spread of your tree,

1565
01:55:03.359 --> 01:55:06.680
you're going to probably lose a huge
section, if not all, the tree

1566
01:55:06.880 --> 01:55:10.920
in that process. If they have
to come in and do work. It's

1567
01:55:10.960 --> 01:55:14.079
not like the roots of the peaches
are going to invade a power line or

1568
01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:17.039
a gas line. It's just,
you know, if they were to have

1569
01:55:17.159 --> 01:55:19.800
to come in and do any work, that's the thing. So as far

1570
01:55:19.880 --> 01:55:24.720
as the gas line's concerned and the
power line and the peach tree is concerned,

1571
01:55:24.800 --> 01:55:28.840
they can all co exist. Okay, appreciate it all, right,

1572
01:55:29.800 --> 01:55:31.800
all right, thank you. But
is there a said distance you would recommend

1573
01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:35.520
planning away? You know, I
would just say the branch spread of the

1574
01:55:35.600 --> 01:55:40.279
tree would be my gauge. And
that's just you know, if you had

1575
01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:42.880
to go out there and do a
trench and it's at the outer branch bread,

1576
01:55:42.960 --> 01:55:45.640
that's not going to be much of
a damage to the tree. Okay,

1577
01:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.600
okay, appreciate it, all right, you bet take care? Ok

1578
01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:54.800
for the call. Wow the storms, did we ever lose some trees?

1579
01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:59.359
Just a reminder that we need to
make sure our trees are ready for the

1580
01:55:59.399 --> 01:56:02.359
storm seas and by the way,
hurricane season starts in June and we're right

1581
01:56:02.479 --> 01:56:08.359
there on the cusp of it.
Martin spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service. That's

1582
01:56:08.399 --> 01:56:11.520
what you need to know. Martin's
been doing this for a very long time.

1583
01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:15.319
He knows how to take care of
Houston trees. Have him come out

1584
01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:18.439
do some selective pruning, trimming out
dead areas, making sure your trees are

1585
01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:23.680
safer in heavy winds. And you
know the funny thing about trees is you

1586
01:56:23.800 --> 01:56:26.439
can have a heck of a storm
that comes through and your tree's fine,

1587
01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:30.079
and then another storm comes through and
you lose a limb and what's the difference.

1588
01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:32.680
Well, it's nature. I don't
know, but it happens that way.

1589
01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:36.079
So don't assume if you made it
through this last storm that you're not

1590
01:56:36.159 --> 01:56:40.760
going to have another problem as we
go on through the season. You don't

1591
01:56:40.760 --> 01:56:44.359
want these limbs to fall on anything
valuable like your home or your car,

1592
01:56:44.560 --> 01:56:47.800
or your fence or your neighbor's neighbor's
home. So I can't stress enough the

1593
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:55.000
importance of getting a proper treecare person
to come out prior to this upcoming storm

1594
01:56:55.079 --> 01:56:58.960
season. It doesn't even have to
be a hurricane. Martin Spoon Moore seven

1595
01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:04.439
to one three six twenty six sixty
three. That's seven one three six nine

1596
01:57:04.600 --> 01:57:13.119
nine twenty six sixty three. Or
go online aff tree Service dot com.

1597
01:57:13.239 --> 01:57:15.840
Tell them you're from calling from garden
Line or you heard it on guarden Line,

1598
01:57:16.159 --> 01:57:20.079
and make sure you get moved up
in that list because Martin stays busy

1599
01:57:20.239 --> 01:57:25.079
and he does give a priority to
his guarden Line customers. We're gonna now

1600
01:57:25.199 --> 01:57:30.800
go to Jonathan in Montgomery. Hey, Jonathan, good morning. I'm a

1601
01:57:30.920 --> 01:57:34.039
oak tree in my front yard that
has some lichen on the trunk and spread

1602
01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:39.319
to the branches. So you have
a gest so I want to do with

1603
01:57:39.399 --> 01:57:43.600
that. You know, there are
products like moss max and some others that

1604
01:57:43.760 --> 01:57:47.239
will kill lichen on branches, but
the lichen isn't a disease of the tree.

1605
01:57:47.279 --> 01:57:50.439
You see lichen growing on fence posts
and rocks, so it does.

1606
01:57:50.520 --> 01:57:56.279
It's not sucking the living juices out
of a tree or anything like a parasite

1607
01:57:56.319 --> 01:58:00.399
would. It's along for the ride. It usually is sign that the tree

1608
01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:05.079
is not vigorous. When a tree
starts to decline a little and the canopy

1609
01:58:05.199 --> 01:58:10.640
thins and more light gets through,
we always see a proliferation of lichen in

1610
01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:14.600
there. But the lichen isn't the
cause of the decline. It's the it's

1611
01:58:14.760 --> 01:58:18.920
the sign that something's wrong, something's
going down. So you could spray with

1612
01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:23.199
moss max. But my first question, you know, Jonathan, would be,

1613
01:58:23.439 --> 01:58:25.880
hey, what can we do to
get this tree vigorous? What does

1614
01:58:25.920 --> 01:58:29.159
it need? Does it need a
little fertilizer? Does it need? You

1615
01:58:29.279 --> 01:58:35.520
know, whatever is is the cause
of it lacking vigor? Okay, yess

1616
01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:39.840
on that route, Well, fertilizer's
always a good idea. What kind of

1617
01:58:39.880 --> 01:58:43.520
tree are we talking about? It's
an oak tree, oak tree. Okay,

1618
01:58:43.760 --> 01:58:47.359
And what's the trunk diameter about?
Chest tie? Oh we were talking

1619
01:58:47.399 --> 01:58:49.600
about a coke can. Are we
talking about a steering wheel or your car?

1620
01:58:50.479 --> 01:58:59.399
Oh, we're talking about at least
a small answer. Okay, Uh,

1621
01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:02.359
you know, probably a little bit
more. I mean, it's the

1622
01:59:02.479 --> 01:59:09.880
tree itself is about ten I probably
wouldn't worry about it. I would just

1623
01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:14.479
keep invigorating the tree if you want
to give it, one to two cups

1624
01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:18.479
of fertilizer for every inch of trunk
diameter. So let's just say let's just

1625
01:59:18.520 --> 01:59:23.520
say it was twelve inches, then
that would be you know, twelve cups

1626
01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:29.600
a fertilizer would be what six pints
three quarts a fertilizer, right, a

1627
01:59:29.680 --> 01:59:32.359
cup or two per inch of trunk
diameter. Spread it out as far as

1628
01:59:32.399 --> 01:59:35.680
the branch, spread evenly, all
underneath the tree, and watered in,

1629
01:59:35.960 --> 01:59:40.640
and make sure it's a good high
nitrogen fertilizer like a lawn fertilizer. But

1630
01:59:40.840 --> 01:59:45.199
don't use something that has weed control
in it. Just fertilizer, and that

1631
01:59:45.239 --> 01:59:49.560
would help with a vigor We just
find an interior. Like live oaks,

1632
01:59:49.640 --> 01:59:53.880
the interior branches tend to die from
lack of light. And then you get

1633
01:59:53.960 --> 01:59:58.239
lichens on those and people get alarmed
about it. But again, the lichen

1634
01:59:58.399 --> 02:00:01.960
isn't it isn't killing your Yeah,
I mean a tree does seem to be

1635
02:00:02.880 --> 02:00:10.399
dropping branches, yeah, lens not
anything big. Yeah, Well it's like

1636
02:00:10.560 --> 02:00:15.319
maybe the diameter of your Yeah,
that's kind of normal. Is it a

1637
02:00:15.399 --> 02:00:18.199
live, live oak or some other
kind of oak that I'm not sure?

1638
02:00:18.319 --> 02:00:21.640
Okay, Well, I still feel
confident in what I told you. So

1639
02:00:23.159 --> 02:00:26.439
that's the approach I would tell you, and I do appreciate you you calling

1640
02:00:26.560 --> 02:00:30.760
us this morning here on guard Line. Medina Products has a new product that

1641
02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:33.439
I am excited about. It is
super Grow Plus. Now it's one of

1642
02:00:33.479 --> 02:00:35.960
their has to grow line. You
know they have has to grow, They

1643
02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:42.319
have has to grow for lawns.
This is super Grow Plus. It's designed

1644
02:00:42.520 --> 02:00:45.520
as a lawn fertilizer. It's a
sixteen zero two. Remember my little diet

1645
02:00:45.600 --> 02:00:50.000
tribe earlier on too much phosphorus.
That middle number, well does not have

1646
02:00:50.079 --> 02:00:54.640
any of it, and that's okay. In fact, that's good. Sixteen

1647
02:00:54.840 --> 02:00:58.960
zero two is a hose end applicator. It takes you about ten minutes to

1648
02:00:59.079 --> 02:01:03.319
do your whole lawn. One quart
covers maybe four thousand square feet. Now,

1649
02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:10.119
it's got a portion of the nutrient
that's nitrogen in a slow release form,

1650
02:01:10.520 --> 02:01:14.800
So that's sixteen zero two sixteen percent
nitrogen and about a fifth of that

1651
02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:16.840
is in a slow release form.
So yes, it gives you a quick

1652
02:01:16.880 --> 02:01:20.720
release, but it also gradually feeds
over time. And you can do this

1653
02:01:20.920 --> 02:01:25.920
as a hose in spray periodically.
You know, you can apply it off

1654
02:01:25.920 --> 02:01:28.560
and on during the whole season if
you want, just whenever you feel like

1655
02:01:28.640 --> 02:01:31.640
your non lawn needs a little boost. It's got kelated iron. Again,

1656
02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:36.520
I talked about iron earlier today.
A kelated iron is a form of iron

1657
02:01:36.640 --> 02:01:41.279
that doesn't tie up so fast in
the soil. It's got seaweed extract,

1658
02:01:41.399 --> 02:01:45.399
it's got molasses, it's got humic
acids in it. It's just a good

1659
02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:48.680
concoction for your lawn. From Medina. And by the way, don't tell

1660
02:01:48.720 --> 02:01:54.600
anybody, but I've seen some beautiful
tomatoes that were sprayed and the soil drenched

1661
02:01:54.840 --> 02:01:58.640
with that supergroup plus as well.
So don't don't just think if it's for

1662
02:01:58.880 --> 02:02:00.479
being for lawns, anything you want
to give a boost to, it's going

1663
02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:04.039
to do good on super Grow Plus
from Medina. Look for it. You're

1664
02:02:04.039 --> 02:02:08.880
gonna find in a lot of places
widely available here in the Greater Houston area.

1665
02:02:09.560 --> 02:02:14.760
Have you been down to Enchanted Forest. Enchanted Forest Garden Center one of

1666
02:02:14.840 --> 02:02:18.520
my favorite garden centers here in the
Greater Houston area. Enchanted Forest is always

1667
02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:24.640
let's put this way, it's always
an enchanting place to go. It's beautiful,

1668
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:28.800
it's fun to walk around. They
have so many beautiful plants. Just

1669
02:02:29.039 --> 02:02:33.600
looks great out there all the time. Enchanted Forest is going to provide you

1670
02:02:33.760 --> 02:02:38.039
with every kind of plant you can
imagine. Remember this is the lawn and

1671
02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:43.840
garden holiday tax holiday, Memorial Day
weekend. You're gonna save on plants.

1672
02:02:43.880 --> 02:02:47.760
You're gonna save on products like composts
and soils and anything that saves water.

1673
02:02:48.239 --> 02:02:54.159
Also, guess what's happening today out
there destin Note Texas garden guy is going

1674
02:02:54.239 --> 02:02:57.520
to be out there at ten am. So the minute we finished talking at

1675
02:02:57.600 --> 02:03:02.520
garden Line, Duston's going to show
up and havoc out there at Enchanted Forest

1676
02:03:02.640 --> 02:03:08.640
Nursery. They are on FM twenty
seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas.

1677
02:03:08.880 --> 02:03:14.039
Here's the website Enchanted Forest Richmond dot
com. Why you there, grab me

1678
02:03:14.119 --> 02:03:17.119
some Italian ice from the Jello food
truck. They always have fun out in

1679
02:03:17.279 --> 02:03:19.920
enchanted forest, and you're gonna have
fun. Go out and see Destined today.

1680
02:03:20.279 --> 02:03:26.159
He's a blast. Well. Another
hour in the books today is flying

1681
02:03:26.279 --> 02:03:30.239
by time. Flies when you're having
fun. Except for Kermit the Frog.

1682
02:03:30.520 --> 02:03:35.359
He says times fun when you're having
flies. I'llbe it. Wabirds Unlimited on

1683
02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:42.199
June fifteenth from eleven am to one
pm. Wabirds Unlimited in bel Air,

1684
02:03:43.039 --> 02:03:48.319
Southwest part of Houston. Wabird's Unlimited
in bel Air next in June on the

1685
02:03:48.399 --> 02:03:53.239
fifteenth on Saturday, eleven am to
one pm. Put that on your calendar.

1686
02:03:53.600 --> 02:03:57.000
Come out and see me mainly stick
around. We're gonna be right back.

1687
02:03:58.159 --> 02:04:01.640
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

1688
02:04:01.680 --> 02:04:08.159
on this program. Welcome to kat
r H Garden Line with skimp Richt.

1689
02:04:08.319 --> 02:04:38.800
It's just watching as so many things
not a sorry, Welcome back to garden

1690
02:04:38.920 --> 02:04:41.960
Line. Good to have you with
us today. I'm your host, Skip

1691
02:04:42.039 --> 02:04:46.279
Richter, and we are here to
talk about the things that interest you regarding

1692
02:04:46.359 --> 02:04:50.600
gardening. What would be of interest
to you. Maybe you have questioned about

1693
02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:56.880
turf or a tree or a fruit, trees or herbs or flowers or house

1694
02:04:57.000 --> 02:05:00.760
plants. Lots of things we can
talk about when it comes to horticulture and

1695
02:05:00.840 --> 02:05:05.239
gardening, pest control, disease control, we control. You know that nature

1696
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:13.319
is an interesting thing because we talk
about the balance of nature, and there

1697
02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:17.640
is, in a macro sense a
balance of nature. There are things that

1698
02:05:17.800 --> 02:05:23.239
keep other things in control and so
on. But in another sense, nature

1699
02:05:23.399 --> 02:05:28.039
is forever imbalanced. For example,
I grew up in South Texas, and

1700
02:05:28.760 --> 02:05:31.399
I can remember a year after year
driving through the roads, the country's roads

1701
02:05:31.479 --> 02:05:35.960
up between ranches and things out there. There were years where there were rabbits

1702
02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:41.079
everywhere, and then there'd be years
where there weren't many rabbits, and so

1703
02:05:41.279 --> 02:05:45.399
was it coyotes, was it some
disease rabbits? Who knows, but they

1704
02:05:45.439 --> 02:05:49.079
had fluctuated. There was always an
imbalance going on. Same thing is true

1705
02:05:49.119 --> 02:05:55.000
with aphids and lady beetles. For
example, you got a lot of aphids

1706
02:05:55.039 --> 02:05:57.720
on your plants, when lady beetles
find them, you're about to have a

1707
02:05:57.760 --> 02:06:00.119
lot of lady beetles because you may
you can is a nice crop of lady

1708
02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:04.920
beetles on a big fat group of
aphids. And then when there's no aphids

1709
02:06:04.960 --> 02:06:09.319
to eat, well, the lady
beetles don't hang around in starve. They

1710
02:06:09.359 --> 02:06:13.000
go somewhere else. So there's a
there's a forever imbalance. It's a forever

1711
02:06:13.159 --> 02:06:15.520
rebalancing. And that's kind of the
cool thing about nature. It's true with

1712
02:06:15.800 --> 02:06:20.039
with weeds. It's true with disease
and other things as well. But I

1713
02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:25.079
know when it comes to weeds,
wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants

1714
02:06:25.159 --> 02:06:28.960
a weed. That's just how it
works. Nature does not like bear dirt

1715
02:06:29.000 --> 02:06:31.479
because you know what happens to bear
dirt. It erodes away, it crusts,

1716
02:06:32.439 --> 02:06:38.800
and it is just not a it's
not a healthy environment. What is

1717
02:06:38.840 --> 02:06:43.079
a healthy environment is an environment covered
with plants. It's an environment where the

1718
02:06:43.159 --> 02:06:45.399
soil is covered with organic material.
We call that mault in a garden,

1719
02:06:45.479 --> 02:06:50.880
but in nature it's called the forest
floor, for example. And so nature

1720
02:06:50.960 --> 02:06:55.760
has a way of fixing problems.
You get a scar on the earth,

1721
02:06:55.840 --> 02:07:00.000
it creates bear dirt, and nature
puts weed seeds in it and makes sure

1722
02:07:00.039 --> 02:07:02.800
sure that it gets covered back up
again. So although we don't like weeds

1723
02:07:03.239 --> 02:07:09.600
from an ecological standpoint, They're just
all part of nature taking care of things.

1724
02:07:10.159 --> 02:07:12.439
So we have to figure out what
to do. So we can have

1725
02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:15.319
a lawn or a flower bed,
and there's ways we do that. There's

1726
02:07:15.399 --> 02:07:17.680
lots of ways we can manage that. But it's just interesting to think about

1727
02:07:17.720 --> 02:07:24.399
that. So I'll leave you with
that thought. The imbalanced, forever rebalancing

1728
02:07:24.840 --> 02:07:29.439
nature. I find that kind of
interesting. We're going to go let's see

1729
02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:30.359
here. First of all, I
wanted to talk about it. We're talking

1730
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:36.640
about nature and stuff. When you
look at the soil, microbes like carbon.

1731
02:07:36.800 --> 02:07:42.000
They need carbon. They don't have
a way of making their own carbon.

1732
02:07:42.079 --> 02:07:45.319
They have to eat it from somewhere, and so they get it from

1733
02:07:45.399 --> 02:07:48.479
soil organic matter. But they also
get it from things like a molasses type

1734
02:07:48.520 --> 02:07:54.119
product. That's why organically you often
see gardeners putting molasses in the soil.

1735
02:07:54.319 --> 02:07:59.600
Is a stimulant to microbial activity.
Sweet green is a fertilizer by nitrofoss that's

1736
02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:03.159
eleven percent nitrogen. It's a base
on a molasses type base, and it

1737
02:08:03.239 --> 02:08:09.239
smells wonderful and it stimulates the microbial
activity and the soil, creating that rich

1738
02:08:09.399 --> 02:08:15.439
environment to promote optimum health and optimum
performance of your turf. At eleven percent

1739
02:08:15.640 --> 02:08:18.479
nitrogen, sweet Green can be applied. It will dissolve away and go into

1740
02:08:18.560 --> 02:08:24.800
the soil and provide that gradual feeding
over time. As what happens is it

1741
02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:30.239
finds its way into the body of
microbes, the microbes de the nutrients released

1742
02:08:30.239 --> 02:08:33.439
again, and then it's back in
the soil soup for plants to take up.

1743
02:08:33.520 --> 02:08:35.720
It's just that cycle of nature.
Now, sweet Green, where do

1744
02:08:35.800 --> 02:08:39.920
you find it? Well, Shades
of Texas has it. They're done up

1745
02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:43.079
in the woodlands actually Woodlands area.
If you go, for example, to

1746
02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:48.960
Fisher's Hardware and Laport in South euston
Southomore and Broadway, they're going to have

1747
02:08:48.039 --> 02:08:52.119
it. You're going to find it
at Shades of Texas which is on Genoa

1748
02:08:52.239 --> 02:08:56.800
Red Bluff Road. Kingwood Ace Hardware
also carries the Sweet Green and other nitropos

1749
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:03.000
types of products, so it's easy, easy to find. Let's go ahead

1750
02:09:03.039 --> 02:09:07.920
and run out to who's been waiting
here, Glinda in Parland. Hello,

1751
02:09:07.039 --> 02:09:13.039
Glinda, good morning, Skip.
I enjoy your show. I'll say that

1752
02:09:13.239 --> 02:09:16.359
first, well, thank you.
I wondered who out there it was that

1753
02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:20.520
enjoys it, and now I found
her. So welcome. Oh yeah,

1754
02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:24.680
anyway, I have an oak tree
my front yard is that obvious seen grass

1755
02:09:24.880 --> 02:09:31.720
oak trees. I get them trimmed
every two years, and I've had them

1756
02:09:31.800 --> 02:09:39.119
deep fed and everything else from Lesbie's
tree service. I don't understand the bark

1757
02:09:39.399 --> 02:09:43.039
on one tree, the right side, the left side, the bark died

1758
02:09:43.760 --> 02:09:50.239
and new bark is coming on.
Okay, underneath that where the bark is

1759
02:09:50.319 --> 02:09:54.279
gone. Yeah, And I don't
know if it's squirrels. I don't know

1760
02:09:54.359 --> 02:10:00.119
if it's ants. And when I
had left, he's out here. He

1761
02:10:00.359 --> 02:10:05.800
just I sprayed it with that black
or feel spry for trees. He said,

1762
02:10:05.840 --> 02:10:09.760
I didn't help it, I didn't
hurt it. Okay, that's true.

1763
02:10:09.720 --> 02:10:13.119
But so I mean, do you
know what that is? Yeah,

1764
02:10:13.319 --> 02:10:18.239
I need you to turn your radio
down in the background. What happens is

1765
02:10:18.319 --> 02:10:20.920
something killed the bark. It could
have been one of the freezes we've had

1766
02:10:20.960 --> 02:10:26.039
in past winners killed some of the
tissue. It could be a stress crack.

1767
02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:30.119
It could be a lot of different
things. But it doesn't matter what

1768
02:10:30.399 --> 02:10:35.079
originally killed it. What matters is
that it's trying to regrow bark in that

1769
02:10:35.239 --> 02:10:39.680
area by putting in callous tissue.
That's a good thing. Any bugs underneath

1770
02:10:39.720 --> 02:10:43.640
the bark, it's just a place
for them to hide. They're not those

1771
02:10:43.720 --> 02:10:48.479
ants and things aren't hurting your tree, your ear. I haven't seen anything.

1772
02:10:48.680 --> 02:10:54.560
Yeah. Well anyway, well,
I thank you so much. Yeah,

1773
02:10:54.600 --> 02:10:56.199
the good news is you don't have
to worry about it. Well,

1774
02:10:56.319 --> 02:11:00.600
I'm going to go in college.
Can get him this in Indie ounce so

1775
02:11:00.760 --> 02:11:03.880
he can beat feed all the roots. Okay. Ah, well, I

1776
02:11:05.000 --> 02:11:07.920
thank you for listening to me.
And by the way, I didn't have

1777
02:11:07.159 --> 02:11:11.479
I don't have my radio on.
Okay, okay, Well, God bless

1778
02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:16.439
you. That's interesting. I'm hearing
an echo of myself. So I don't

1779
02:11:16.439 --> 02:11:18.239
know if the producer can fix that
or what. But thank you Glenda for

1780
02:11:18.319 --> 02:11:24.479
letting me know. Oh God bless
you, by bye. Very interesting.

1781
02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:26.840
Hadn't heard that happen before. Have
you been out at the arbrogate lately?

1782
02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:33.000
Oh my gosh, Beverly and the
crew out there have got a load of

1783
02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:35.520
beautiful plants. I'm talking about shrubs
and trees and color. You know,

1784
02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:39.199
they sell fruit trees. You're around, so it's always a good time to

1785
02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:41.800
go buy a fruit tree out there. Beautiful selection of roses out at the

1786
02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:46.920
arbor Gate. When you're out there, remember brown stuff before green stuff.

1787
02:11:46.039 --> 02:11:50.560
So when you go home with all
those wonderful plants, the green stuff also

1788
02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:56.079
go home with their one two three
completely easy system. That is a food,

1789
02:11:56.199 --> 02:12:00.720
an organic food that feeds anything with
roots. No matter what it is,

1790
02:12:01.359 --> 02:12:05.399
it works. It's called the organic
food Complete. The Organic Soil Complete

1791
02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:11.119
is a product that is a quality
soil blended with expanded shail. And the

1792
02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:16.760
Organic Compost Complete. That's the three
of the one two three that is a

1793
02:12:16.920 --> 02:12:20.680
quality, high quality compost that also
includes expanded shales. So see when you

1794
02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:24.960
take those three home and you get
the ground right, and then you take

1795
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:28.279
those Arborgate plants home, you're going
to have success. It's as easy as

1796
02:12:28.359 --> 02:12:33.960
that knowledgeable staff quality plants. You're
not going to go wrong with. The

1797
02:12:33.119 --> 02:12:37.319
Arborgate one of my absolute favorite garden
centers out there in the whole world.

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I mean, I travel all over
the country and always love to come home

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02:12:41.920 --> 02:12:43.720
to Houston. We've got the best
garden centers in the world right here,

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and Arborgate certainly a destination place out
there. On twenty nine to twenty,

1801
02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:54.880
remember the parking lot and back off
Trishel Road, easy safe access to the

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02:12:54.039 --> 02:12:58.159
arbor gate. Let's see, it's
time for us to take a little break

1803
02:12:58.399 --> 02:13:00.840
and we're going to do that.
When we come back Scott and Live,

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02:13:00.920 --> 02:13:11.560
you'll be the first two up.
Welcome back to garden Line. Hey,

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02:13:11.640 --> 02:13:16.399
good to have you with us today
on this Memorial Day weekend. By the

1806
02:13:16.439 --> 02:13:18.720
way, that reminds me if you
want to put this on your calard Tomorrow

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02:13:18.840 --> 02:13:22.960
night, Sunday May twenty six,
Tomorrow night, at seven o five pm

1808
02:13:24.199 --> 02:13:28.199
in Sugarland at the town Square right
in front of the City Hall facade,

1809
02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:35.960
the Exchange Club Sugarland is presenting a
Night to Remember, honoring our fallen heroes.

1810
02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:39.680
This event is free, it's open
to the public. There's going to

1811
02:13:39.720 --> 02:13:43.000
be a thirty member of chorus,
a brass band, There'll be dancers and

1812
02:13:43.119 --> 02:13:50.359
Grammy winning singers lead the town Square
tribute. It's just a wonderful event,

1813
02:13:50.920 --> 02:13:54.279
really enjoyable to be part of.
You're going to have a lot of good

1814
02:13:54.359 --> 02:13:58.680
things going on and as a result, I also want you to remember to

1815
02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:03.439
bring some canned food with you when
you go, because the East Fort Bend

1816
02:14:03.680 --> 02:14:07.640
Human Needs Ministry is going to be
collecting canned food to help out folks in

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02:14:07.800 --> 02:14:11.359
need. If you want more information, give Scott a call seven to one

1818
02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:16.119
three two or A two four sixty
one twenty six. I'll give you that

1819
02:14:16.239 --> 02:14:22.319
number again seven one three A two
four sixty one twenty six again in Sugarland

1820
02:14:22.680 --> 02:14:28.319
on the town square in sugar Land, in front of the city Hall facade.

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02:14:28.800 --> 02:14:33.359
Tomorrow night, Sunday night, seven
o five pm, a night to

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02:14:33.439 --> 02:14:41.279
remember, honoring our honoring our fallen
heroes. I'm gonna go now to let's

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02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:43.880
see, We're gonna head out to
Montgomery and talk to Scott. Hello,

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02:14:43.960 --> 02:14:48.239
Scott, Hey, are you observed? Good up? And I'm calling about

1825
02:14:48.279 --> 02:14:52.239
my viral lementry. I've got habit
for about food. Ye're kind of our

1826
02:14:52.279 --> 02:14:58.119
recurrisimas gifts. And I'm getting baby
lemons producing off on the plant itself of

1827
02:14:58.279 --> 02:15:03.119
water bottom three day schedule. Get
that afternoon time for probably about two hours,

1828
02:15:03.840 --> 02:15:07.560
and I'm starting to drop those little
baby lemons. They're not producing and

1829
02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:11.640
growing in thighs. The idea is, yes, lemons want to be in

1830
02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:15.159
a lot more sun than that.
First of all, they need if you

1831
02:15:15.279 --> 02:15:18.279
could get it six hours of sun, that would be better. Okay,

1832
02:15:18.439 --> 02:15:22.800
I know how to do that.
Yeah, yeah, you give give it

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02:15:22.880 --> 02:15:26.439
more sun. Look at the container. The container and the top need to

1834
02:15:26.479 --> 02:15:31.960
be in somewhat of a balance.
And so if you have a little tiny

1835
02:15:31.039 --> 02:15:35.319
container and a big tree, it's
going to get stressed. Its probably I

1836
02:15:35.359 --> 02:15:41.479
would say maybe three four pot probably
saying it's about say putting the half ball

1837
02:15:41.800 --> 02:15:45.880
okay, pretty wide. Okay,
Well let's just assume that's that's there.

1838
02:15:45.960 --> 02:15:48.000
You got good soal make sure the
drain is oh yes, it's sitting on

1839
02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:50.880
the concrete, or is it's sitting
on the side, sitting on my table

1840
02:15:50.960 --> 02:15:56.000
and my back fat oh back fatty? Okay, wow, okay, well,

1841
02:15:56.760 --> 02:15:58.119
just keep it adequately moist. I
don't know how to tell you how

1842
02:15:58.239 --> 02:16:01.840
often you need to be water now
days, is what I've been around,

1843
02:16:01.880 --> 02:16:09.680
and water well in some soils and
and you know, a lot of sun

1844
02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:13.319
you end up made water more often
than that. But but if you're sticking

1845
02:16:13.359 --> 02:16:16.199
your finger in to feel it,
then that's a good gauge. Uh.

1846
02:16:16.399 --> 02:16:20.600
The other thing would be just get
it the most sun that you can and

1847
02:16:20.279 --> 02:16:24.560
maybe a little nutrient boost, not
a lot of nitrogen, but just a

1848
02:16:24.720 --> 02:16:31.520
moderate amount. Get your quality of
fertilizer blend that will cover the citrus and

1849
02:16:31.600 --> 02:16:33.639
things like that, and it doesn't
take much in there. In fact,

1850
02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:37.799
I would probably go with one of
the liquids, you know, the microlife

1851
02:16:39.239 --> 02:16:43.040
Microlife Products makes a number of liquids. They have one that's a seven one

1852
02:16:45.000 --> 02:16:48.479
four. I think it's a I
know it's it's a moat. It's an

1853
02:16:48.520 --> 02:16:52.879
orange label bottle and I've used it
for house plants. Mix it in water

1854
02:16:52.440 --> 02:16:56.399
and you just pour it right on
there and as you water, just a

1855
02:16:56.559 --> 02:17:00.399
dilute solution of that get it bigger. But I think sunlight is the is

1856
02:17:00.440 --> 02:17:03.760
the number one key to your solution. I got one of the quick courts.

1857
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:05.319
Then I'll let you go to another's
other people. Oh, I've just

1858
02:17:05.399 --> 02:17:11.639
gotten this stool terrarium. She used
it like portal plants where she starts her

1859
02:17:11.719 --> 02:17:16.719
ceilings from. Yeah, and I've
got a lot of little stuff come up.

1860
02:17:16.799 --> 02:17:20.360
Seeds that she's planted in one of
the pods. Well, that's because

1861
02:17:20.399 --> 02:17:24.280
they're probably about maybe eight a quarter
of an inch tall. Can only have

1862
02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:30.520
been in that pot longer to more
mature, or take them out and put

1863
02:17:30.520 --> 02:17:33.920
them in a larger container. It's
in a terrarium, you said, Yeah,

1864
02:17:33.920 --> 02:17:37.840
it's there's like a little light,
like a little forest of light,

1865
02:17:37.559 --> 02:17:41.000
probably about two foot long. And
then she just put her feet in the

1866
02:17:41.440 --> 02:17:46.600
pot. And well, you either
have to print it back to make it

1867
02:17:48.159 --> 02:17:52.239
where it can all get good lights
still, where it doesn't overgrow, overgrow

1868
02:17:52.319 --> 02:17:56.040
the little tiny space it's got,
or move it out, put it in

1869
02:17:56.120 --> 02:18:00.280
a bigger pot and put it outside
of that area. But well, I'm

1870
02:18:00.280 --> 02:18:03.120
going to goide on through the plant
this year. I mean that thing all

1871
02:18:03.200 --> 02:18:05.879
the time. That yeah, okay, Well, hey, put it on

1872
02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:09.760
a timer and just run it about
fourteen hours a day. That's all it's

1873
02:18:09.799 --> 02:18:15.959
gonna need. Uh. I wouldn't
go definitely, not over fifteen or sixteen

1874
02:18:16.040 --> 02:18:20.079
at the most, but fourteen hours
more than enough. Yeah. All right,

1875
02:18:20.079 --> 02:18:22.559
Hey you have a great more olday
sir, and thank you for all

1876
02:18:22.559 --> 02:18:28.719
your help do you get for the
community. Thank you and you as well,

1877
02:18:28.760 --> 02:18:31.040
Thank you. I appreciate that a
lot. Yeah. Microlife has that

1878
02:18:31.719 --> 02:18:35.280
that liquid, the orange label.
They've also got a seaweed extract. They

1879
02:18:35.360 --> 02:18:41.360
got a fish type fertilizer. It
just really quality products for Microlife. You

1880
02:18:41.360 --> 02:18:46.000
can find them everywhere. You go
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and when you

1881
02:18:46.120 --> 02:18:50.159
go there Microlife Fertilizer dot Com.
You're gonna find out about all these products,

1882
02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:52.079
many of which I never talk about
here. We just have time to

1883
02:18:52.200 --> 02:18:56.079
do it, but uh check them
out and then find out where you can

1884
02:18:56.079 --> 02:19:01.000
get them because they're very widely available. And when you're feeding small plant you

1885
02:19:01.040 --> 02:19:05.079
need, you don't want to buy
a big lawn fertilizer sack to feed a

1886
02:19:05.159 --> 02:19:09.399
little In this case, he had
a lemon tree in a pot that switch

1887
02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:13.799
over to those soluble products. And
Microlife is a good qualities producer of those

1888
02:19:13.879 --> 02:19:16.879
kinds of things. And you're going
to find Microlife everywhere. Like I said,

1889
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:22.040
for example, Ace Hardware stores they
carry Microlife products and you can find

1890
02:19:22.120 --> 02:19:28.000
Ace Hardware all over forty stores in
the Greater Houston area, so you don't

1891
02:19:28.040 --> 02:19:31.280
have a problem. They carry all
kinds of the fertilizer, all of the

1892
02:19:31.360 --> 02:19:35.040
fertilizers really that I talk about here
on Guarden Line. They've got him at

1893
02:19:35.040 --> 02:19:39.120
Ace and every Ace Hardware store is
independently owned, so everyone's a little different,

1894
02:19:39.680 --> 02:19:43.959
but everyone is a great place to
get everything you need for your lawn

1895
02:19:45.239 --> 02:19:48.840
and for your garden. If you
want to have a beautiful landscape and a

1896
02:19:48.959 --> 02:19:52.920
bountiful garden. ACE Hardware can get
you on the track to do just that.

1897
02:19:54.440 --> 02:19:58.479
If you need to control weeds and
diseases and pests, ACE Hardware is

1898
02:19:58.600 --> 02:20:03.520
the place to help you do just
that. And remember this weekend is that

1899
02:20:03.120 --> 02:20:09.600
tax saving weekend where those of the
you're probably hearing me talk about earlier.

1900
02:20:09.799 --> 02:20:16.319
If you're looking for water conserving products
like drip irrigation, mulches, rain barrels,

1901
02:20:16.440 --> 02:20:22.959
and ground covers that help water get
into the soil, soiled bags of

1902
02:20:22.079 --> 02:20:26.600
soil, and compost. It's also
a time when there's some other tax saving

1903
02:20:26.719 --> 02:20:31.719
things going on, but basically water
efficient products is the one we're focusing on

1904
02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:37.440
today, on that water efficient tax
holiday. It's available there. Ace Hardware

1905
02:20:37.440 --> 02:20:39.840
Store is a good place. Just
walk into ACE and say hey, what

1906
02:20:41.040 --> 02:20:43.600
products do you have that are part
of the tax holiday, and they can

1907
02:20:43.639 --> 02:20:48.399
get you all set up. This
Memorial Day weekend very good time to do

1908
02:20:48.520 --> 02:20:54.559
that. We're going to now go
to Rosenberg and talk to Live Hello,

1909
02:20:54.680 --> 02:21:01.920
Live Hire, Hi, what's up. Well, we have a twenty foot

1910
02:21:01.959 --> 02:21:07.079
percymon try. It's loaded with for
simmons. But my husband thinks they were

1911
02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:13.879
webworms or silkworms all over the tree
on the leaves. It looks white at

1912
02:21:13.920 --> 02:21:18.920
a distance's beautiful. But he sprayed
it with meme oil to try to get

1913
02:21:18.000 --> 02:21:22.120
rid of it, and I don't
know that that's working. It's also been

1914
02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:26.719
on several redbuds and he just cut
the limbs off. He trimmed out the

1915
02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:33.040
tree. They're not neither, and
it's on the leaves right. Yes,

1916
02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:39.719
the whole tree looks like it's in
boom kind of why. Okay, so

1917
02:21:39.879 --> 02:21:43.760
you need yeah, you need to
get You need to get a spray product

1918
02:21:45.000 --> 02:21:52.520
that contains either bt B as in
boy teas and tom or or spinosaid s

1919
02:21:52.719 --> 02:22:00.280
p I n O S A D
spin nose sad that either of those have

1920
02:22:00.360 --> 02:22:03.280
both of them, either of them. Put them in a sprayer. And

1921
02:22:03.440 --> 02:22:07.799
if it's a larger plant, like
a like a red bud type that's not

1922
02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:11.120
just a little plant, then you
might need to get a little sprayer where

1923
02:22:11.239 --> 02:22:15.879
you can set it to shoot a
stream out so you can kind of break

1924
02:22:15.920 --> 02:22:18.079
through the webs, because you got
to get those products on the leaves of

1925
02:22:18.159 --> 02:22:22.840
the tree, and when they engulf
the leaves and webbing, it's hard to

1926
02:22:22.879 --> 02:22:26.239
get the spray to the leaves.
And these are things that kill the bugs,

1927
02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:31.799
the caterpillars that are eating your leaves. So you get the leaves wet

1928
02:22:31.879 --> 02:22:33.840
with it, and then that evening, that that day, and that evening

1929
02:22:33.879 --> 02:22:37.879
the caterpillars can be feeding on the
leaves and it'll make them sick and he'll

1930
02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:43.799
kill them. It's very very very
low toxicity product. Okay, it's cover.

1931
02:22:43.040 --> 02:22:48.120
So is it too late to really
save them? No, they'll bounce

1932
02:22:48.200 --> 02:22:52.200
back. I mean, if you'd
lost all your foliage, it certainly isn't

1933
02:22:52.200 --> 02:22:54.399
doing them any good. But the
tree has enough energy to put out new

1934
02:22:54.399 --> 02:22:58.319
foliage. But you don't want the
new foliage to come out and then the

1935
02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:01.920
worms just keep going. You got
to get rid of it. Looks beautiful.

1936
02:23:03.360 --> 02:23:05.319
I thought it was an apple tree
in bloom, I said, I

1937
02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:07.959
said, no, that's the first
sin. Then. Okay, all right,

1938
02:23:09.120 --> 02:23:13.719
well that ought to get you out. Okay, all right, loub

1939
02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:18.239
well, good luck with that.
Thank you so much. Appreciate your program,

1940
02:23:18.559 --> 02:23:20.719
you bet, thank you. I
appreciate you listening. If you've got

1941
02:23:20.840 --> 02:23:26.200
insect problems in your lawn. For
example, Nitrofoss bug Out Max is a

1942
02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:31.120
product that'll do it control like one
hundred and thirty different kinds of insects and

1943
02:23:31.319 --> 02:23:33.600
you put it out and within forty
eight hours it has gotten rid of whatever

1944
02:23:33.840 --> 02:23:37.959
is eating on your lawn. So
coming up here, well, for example,

1945
02:23:37.040 --> 02:23:39.440
you got fire ants. They're not
eating your lawn, but you don't

1946
02:23:39.520 --> 02:23:43.239
like those. It controls ants.
It controls fleas, flee larva, get

1947
02:23:43.280 --> 02:23:46.959
in the thatch of our lawn.
When the pets run by and they go

1948
02:23:48.120 --> 02:23:50.680
through their life cycle, hop back
on the pet, the cat or the

1949
02:23:50.760 --> 02:23:54.840
dog, and they come back in
the house. Please and texts are controlled

1950
02:23:54.840 --> 02:24:00.360
by Nitrofoss bug Out Max. Chinchbug
season and then sodwebborm season is coming up.

1951
02:24:00.680 --> 02:24:03.520
This product lasts for a long time. When you put it down,

1952
02:24:03.719 --> 02:24:07.799
it's going to take care of it
for the entire summer season. Nitrofoss bug

1953
02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:11.639
Out Max. Where can you find
it, Well, it's important today.

1954
02:24:11.639 --> 02:24:15.760
Where you can find You can fight
it at Lake Hardware down Inclute. You

1955
02:24:15.840 --> 02:24:18.559
can fight it in Gym's Hardware up
in Montgomery. You can find it at

1956
02:24:18.600 --> 02:24:24.879
the Ace at Sinco Ranch. All
of those places carry Nitrofoss products like this

1957
02:24:24.239 --> 02:24:30.399
bug Out Max very affect. It's
always good to have products that work.

1958
02:24:30.920 --> 02:24:35.399
You know that that is that is
an important and important factor for sure.

1959
02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:39.840
If you live down south of town
and you're looking for a quality, quality

1960
02:24:41.200 --> 02:24:45.799
soil type product, Ciena Maltch has
got you covered. In fact, you

1961
02:24:45.920 --> 02:24:50.120
know brown stuff before green stuff.
Ciana Maltz specializes in brown stuff. Here's

1962
02:24:50.159 --> 02:24:54.440
what I mean. You go to
Cianamltch. You buy bags of their mulches,

1963
02:24:54.520 --> 02:24:58.760
you buy bags of their soil products. You buy bulk. You can

1964
02:24:58.840 --> 02:25:01.040
get it in your trailer. You
can they have them deliver it. They

1965
02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:05.920
deliver within twenty miles of the location. Their website. You need to go

1966
02:25:07.120 --> 02:25:11.399
write this down so you can find
the location specifically, cenamultz dot com.

1967
02:25:11.520 --> 02:25:16.639
They're on FM twenty one or five
twenty one FM five twenty one just north

1968
02:25:16.680 --> 02:25:20.840
of Roast Sharon cienamltch dot com that
they will also deliver like I said,

1969
02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:26.159
for a charge, within about twenty
miles of their area. They have the

1970
02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:30.520
fertilizers that I talk about on guardline. So what does that mean? That

1971
02:25:30.680 --> 02:25:33.040
means you get their soil products,
You get the fertilizers that are there,

1972
02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:39.520
you bring them home. You get
the soil ready brown stuff checkbox checked.

1973
02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:43.559
Now bring in your quality plants and
watch them thrive in the products that you

1974
02:25:43.639 --> 02:25:48.920
got at Cinmals quality quality products.
Love to go out there. I love

1975
02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:52.159
the things that they carry. They
know what they're doing and the product is

1976
02:25:52.239 --> 02:25:56.079
top notch. I can tell you
that firsthand, absolutely know it. Cnamultch

1977
02:25:56.639 --> 02:26:01.920
dot com down on FM. I've
twenty one just north of Roath sharing.

1978
02:26:03.319 --> 02:26:05.079
Well, Nicky showed up in the
room. That must mean it's time for

1979
02:26:05.200 --> 02:26:28.799
the news and here's NICKI. Some
people think that song came from Guardians of

1980
02:26:28.840 --> 02:26:31.440
the Galaxy. I think it was
around a little bit before that, but

1981
02:26:31.840 --> 02:26:37.559
it was good, good retro musical
movie. If you're listening to garden Line,

1982
02:26:37.600 --> 02:26:39.319
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardening

1983
02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:43.040
questions. Guess what. We got
some open lines here if you'd like to

1984
02:26:43.040 --> 02:26:46.120
give us a call. Boy.
We had some traffic gems today where people

1985
02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:48.840
are having to wait, but right
now got a little bit of opening.

1986
02:26:48.920 --> 02:26:52.520
So if you got a question and
you don't delay in dialing, you can

1987
02:26:52.559 --> 02:26:58.360
be right up and we'll help you
with answering that question. Nelson Water Gardens

1988
02:26:58.040 --> 02:27:03.319
is out in Katie and it think
of it as your h let's just say

1989
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:07.799
your West Houston Garden Center because that's
what it is. And Nelson Watering Gardens

1990
02:27:07.920 --> 02:27:13.639
is also, oh gosh, it
is a destination center. Trust me,

1991
02:27:15.639 --> 02:27:18.840
you're going to go there and you're
going to get inspired. They have beautiful

1992
02:27:18.920 --> 02:27:22.479
water gardens if you need them to
come out and do, for example,

1993
02:27:22.760 --> 02:27:28.559
a beautiful waterfall or install one of
the In fact, the things they invented

1994
02:27:28.639 --> 02:27:33.520
the big tall glazed pottery with water
coming out of the top, bubbling over

1995
02:27:33.559 --> 02:27:39.680
the sides and recirculating back up through
the container. Again, they've got those

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and they're gorgeous. There. It's
stunning. It's absolutely stunning. But remember

1997
02:27:45.600 --> 02:27:50.239
it's it is also a nursery and
they have some really cool plants stuff that

1998
02:27:50.440 --> 02:27:54.760
you don't just see everywhere. Rangoon
creeper, that's the one I'm gonna start

1999
02:27:54.760 --> 02:27:58.760
talking about more. Rangoon creeper is
a vine and it is stunning in its

2000
02:28:00.600 --> 02:28:03.639
just beautiful. And the color the
blooms change color from you know, there's

2001
02:28:03.639 --> 02:28:07.760
a red and white, a pink
and a white as it changes its colors.

2002
02:28:09.280 --> 02:28:13.440
Wonderful. This weekend, remember Memorial
Day tax free weekend. There is

2003
02:28:13.799 --> 02:28:18.440
a discount for eligible items which includes
plants and trees and grasses and mulch and

2004
02:28:18.520 --> 02:28:24.520
soil and composts and underlayment, groundcovers. It's all there. Plus they've got

2005
02:28:24.559 --> 02:28:28.280
twenty percent off all their plants and
ten percent off all their bag goods and

2006
02:28:28.319 --> 02:28:31.760
their fertilizers at at Nelson Water Garden
and Nursery auting Katie. So what do

2007
02:28:31.840 --> 02:28:35.520
you do? You head west on
it if you're in the Houston area,

2008
02:28:35.879 --> 02:28:39.360
you go out that way and when
you get to Katie Fort Benroad, you

2009
02:28:39.479 --> 02:28:41.559
turn right and it's just a hop, skipping or jump on the right.

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02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:45.680
In fact, you just about to
throw a rock to it from there.

2011
02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:52.799
Nelson Watergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens
dot com. Take the kids, they're

2012
02:28:52.879 --> 02:28:58.120
gonna love looking at the goldfish and
the koych a bunkin. They just have

2013
02:28:58.200 --> 02:29:03.719
a real cool selection of everything for
a water garden, but also an outstanding

2014
02:29:03.159 --> 02:29:07.280
nursery in and of its own.
We are going to now head out to

2015
02:29:07.360 --> 02:29:13.959
Kingwood and talk to Bill. Hello
Bill, Good morning Skip. I have

2016
02:29:15.200 --> 02:29:18.719
a raised bed here at my farm. It's a foot tall made out of

2017
02:29:18.799 --> 02:29:22.360
concrete blocks. It is full of
nature's way roadbed soil. I have a

2018
02:29:22.479 --> 02:29:28.799
drift irrigation system on it and I'm
trying to exclusively raise jalapenias. This year,

2019
02:29:28.200 --> 02:29:31.479
I like cannon jalopenas, so I've
got a bed full of halopenias.

2020
02:29:31.520 --> 02:29:39.639
But I ordered pepper seeds from about
a dozen or about a doffer different varieties

2021
02:29:39.680 --> 02:29:45.040
of pepper seeds. Man, you
were into it, yeah, big,

2022
02:29:45.159 --> 02:29:48.079
big time. So. But the
issue is is that if you've got there

2023
02:29:48.120 --> 02:29:52.079
to look at my bed, you'll
see that about a third of the plants

2024
02:29:52.120 --> 02:29:56.200
are just ridiculously big and tall and
just putting out peppers like it's going out

2025
02:29:56.239 --> 02:30:01.920
of style. But many of the
other varieties are kind of short and shrunken

2026
02:30:01.040 --> 02:30:05.040
and have yellow leaves, and they're
just not doing all that great. And

2027
02:30:05.239 --> 02:30:11.479
yet I have full signed, totally
consistent dirt, totally consistent watering, totally

2028
02:30:11.559 --> 02:30:16.200
consistent fertilization, and yet some do
well and some don't do well. So

2029
02:30:16.120 --> 02:30:20.760
I was thinking that maybe you're an
authority on pepper varieties toward the Houston area,

2030
02:30:22.000 --> 02:30:24.479
and you could give me a listing
of them. And many of these,

2031
02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:30.159
by the way, are New Mexico
Pepper Institute peppers, and they supposedly

2032
02:30:30.239 --> 02:30:35.200
are the kings of peppers and do
very well. Some of their peppers aren't

2033
02:30:35.280 --> 02:30:37.440
doing good. Yeah, is it
just telapenias or is it some of their

2034
02:30:37.479 --> 02:30:41.600
others because they okay, no,
no, no alopedias only. Yeah,

2035
02:30:41.680 --> 02:30:48.159
I don't get off it. I've
raised all of those Trinidad scorpions and Trinidad

2036
02:30:48.280 --> 02:30:52.520
bread seven pots and all that other
stuff. They're so good for assassinations,

2037
02:30:52.760 --> 02:30:56.239
that's true. And there's so hot
you got to spray your malt twenty four

2038
02:30:56.239 --> 02:31:00.559
to seven to keep it from catching
on fire, so exactly. So yeah,

2039
02:31:01.600 --> 02:31:07.200
I've never grown a halopeno that didn't
grow, So why are some do?

2040
02:31:07.600 --> 02:31:11.280
I understand some doing better than others, But what you're describing is strange,

2041
02:31:11.399 --> 02:31:13.040
Bill. I'd really like to see
a picture of it. If you

2042
02:31:13.079 --> 02:31:18.120
can show me the whole bed and
then maybe show close up some of the

2043
02:31:18.200 --> 02:31:22.040
symptoms so I can look at maybe
I'll see something in the photo. There

2044
02:31:22.120 --> 02:31:24.959
are some pests that can cause the
leaves to twist up. When you see

2045
02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:33.520
yellowing leaves, usually we think of
either soggy wet soil conditions widely fluctuating moisture.

2046
02:31:33.559 --> 02:31:35.399
Of course, they were all subject
to the same thing as you described,

2047
02:31:37.479 --> 02:31:41.559
and possibly a root rot involved in
those plants. But I really need

2048
02:31:41.639 --> 02:31:46.040
to look at some pictures close up
attach them to an email rather than embed

2049
02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:50.399
them, attach them so I can
zoom in and I'll be glad. I'll

2050
02:31:50.440 --> 02:31:54.280
have to do that another time.
I'll think, Okay, okay, well

2051
02:31:54.280 --> 02:31:58.479
here's what I'm gonna do. Go
ahead. One thing I thought of,

2052
02:31:58.680 --> 02:32:03.680
how is is that when I built
this bed two or three years ago,

2053
02:32:03.760 --> 02:32:09.959
I put down a thick layer of
cardboard on the ground to prohibit plants from

2054
02:32:09.000 --> 02:32:13.399
coming up from the bottom. Yeah, and I'm not sure that that cardboard

2055
02:32:13.479 --> 02:32:18.040
has yet to degrade completely. And
consequently, it could be that some of

2056
02:32:18.079 --> 02:32:22.360
these peppers are more sensitive to moisture. Yeah, well they get lower down

2057
02:32:22.440 --> 02:32:24.799
there. It could be, but
don't worry about it. If you did

2058
02:32:24.840 --> 02:32:28.159
it that long ago, that cardboard's
basically gone. It's not holding any water

2059
02:32:28.559 --> 02:32:33.440
at least, it's the microbes have
taken care of it underneath. So I

2060
02:32:33.520 --> 02:32:35.520
think you're gould. Hey, I'm
going to put you on hold. Would

2061
02:32:35.520 --> 02:32:39.879
you get my email and then when
you can send me those pictures and let

2062
02:32:39.959 --> 02:32:41.319
me try to help you better than
what I'm doing right now. Thank you.

2063
02:32:41.760 --> 02:32:46.000
I appreciate that call. If you
have not done your long fertilization,

2064
02:32:46.159 --> 02:32:48.680
by the way, folks, it
is time to get out there and get

2065
02:32:48.760 --> 02:32:54.120
you some Nelson's plant food Slow and
Easy. It's part of their turf Star

2066
02:32:54.680 --> 02:32:58.920
line of products. Slow and Easy
gradually feeds your lawn through the summer season.

2067
02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:03.120
And when I say gradually, I
mean for a long time. You

2068
02:33:03.280 --> 02:33:07.639
put down Slow and Easy. Now
you do not need to fertilize your long

2069
02:33:07.719 --> 02:33:11.760
again until fall. It carries you
through that far, that slow release,

2070
02:33:11.959 --> 02:33:18.040
that slight acidifying of soil, that
gradual release creates the healthiest grass plant,

2071
02:33:18.280 --> 02:33:22.120
the deepest rooted, most resilient grass
plant that you're going to have, and

2072
02:33:22.200 --> 02:33:26.920
that is important. Slow and Easy
by Nelson's look for it. You're not

2073
02:33:26.000 --> 02:33:31.079
going to find a higher quality product
than Slow and Easy by Nelson in the

2074
02:33:31.159 --> 02:33:35.719
turf Star line of Nelson products.
We are now going to head to Let's

2075
02:33:35.719 --> 02:33:39.760
see goodness, boy I said,
call and you did so here we go,

2076
02:33:41.280 --> 02:33:45.559
uh Hockily and Ruthie. Hello,
Ruthie, Hey Skip. I've got

2077
02:33:45.600 --> 02:33:50.159
a quick question. Like everybody else, I'm having trol with caterpillars feasting on

2078
02:33:50.280 --> 02:33:54.799
my plants. I have spen notad
How long will it last when I spray

2079
02:33:54.840 --> 02:33:56.559
it on the lead. You know, Spinosa is going to give you a

2080
02:33:56.600 --> 02:34:01.719
few days of control. It's into
the tissue of the leaf right, unlike

2081
02:34:01.799 --> 02:34:05.760
BT, and so it's going to
be present for a while. I've never

2082
02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:09.440
seen something that says it's three days, five days, two days, you

2083
02:34:09.520 --> 02:34:11.520
know, I know it's over two
though. It's gonna give you a little

2084
02:34:11.559 --> 02:34:13.959
bit of a control. Yeah.
So if you did it, and I

2085
02:34:15.040 --> 02:34:18.159
would wait a week before I did
it again, just just because you know

2086
02:34:18.360 --> 02:34:22.600
it, it's going to give you
some control and then you'll know within a

2087
02:34:22.680 --> 02:34:26.760
week if what it missed, and
then then you can reach spray. Okay,

2088
02:34:26.639 --> 02:34:28.879
perfect, that's one I need to
know. Thank you, Thank you,

2089
02:34:30.040 --> 02:34:33.360
Ruthie. I appreciate that call very
much. Okay, bye bye,

2090
02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:37.680
bye bye. Are you looking for
a quality product, equality product for your

2091
02:34:37.799 --> 02:34:41.200
soil? The brown stuff? Landscaper's
Pride, That's who you need to look

2092
02:34:41.239 --> 02:34:46.159
for Landscaperspride dot Com. Just go
there because they're like twenty seven different products

2093
02:34:46.159 --> 02:34:50.440
that they have. You're gonna find
garden Magic Soil. Gardeners Magic Soil is

2094
02:34:50.479 --> 02:34:54.680
a pine based blends got humus,
got composted rice holes, a chicken pellet

2095
02:34:54.760 --> 02:34:58.760
fertilizer that'll give you three months up
to three months of feeding. They've got

2096
02:35:00.200 --> 02:35:03.840
bark molts, the most popular one
decomposed it slowly and people love it for

2097
02:35:03.920 --> 02:35:09.000
that. Hardwood malts from true ground
up hardwood, black velvet, the naturally

2098
02:35:09.159 --> 02:35:15.920
black malts all from Landscaper's Pride.
Just go to Landscaperspride dot com and find

2099
02:35:16.000 --> 02:35:20.280
these quality products to get your lawn
ready, get your landscape ready for the

2100
02:35:20.319 --> 02:35:24.680
summer season, whether it's a garden
or flower bed or shrubbed, you got

2101
02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:28.200
to get the soil malts. Landscaper's
Pride can do it. And if you

2102
02:35:28.280 --> 02:35:31.799
go to the website Landscaperspride dot com
you can find out where to get all

2103
02:35:31.840 --> 02:35:35.040
those quality products. Time for a
correct break. When we come back,

2104
02:35:35.120 --> 02:35:48.280
we'll go right back to the calls. Welcome back to Guardline. Good hey

2105
02:35:48.399 --> 02:35:52.239
with us today. Hey, if
you're looking for a quality garden center that's

2106
02:35:52.319 --> 02:35:56.000
gonna have the products you need,
don't forget. By the way, this

2107
02:35:56.200 --> 02:36:01.760
is the Memorial Day tax free weekend
where you can get discount or get tax

2108
02:36:01.879 --> 02:36:05.319
free rather excuse me, tax free
on products that help conserve water, for

2109
02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:11.639
example, like a quality soil,
quality compost materials, A lot of plants

2110
02:36:11.719 --> 02:36:15.680
and trees and grasses and mulches and
things. They that's all a tax free

2111
02:36:15.719 --> 02:36:18.399
weekend. This is a weekend to
get it done. RCW Nurseries can get

2112
02:36:18.440 --> 02:36:24.040
you set up on that. RCW
Nurseries is a leader when it comes to

2113
02:36:24.680 --> 02:36:28.920
quality plants and quality products. They
know how to make sure you have success.

2114
02:36:30.000 --> 02:36:33.120
They grow their own trees up in
Plantersville. So do you want to

2115
02:36:33.159 --> 02:36:37.440
put out a nice quality tree,
one that is a species that grows here,

2116
02:36:37.840 --> 02:36:41.760
a plant that has been grown properly
so that it establishes well and does

2117
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:45.280
well for you. Go to RCW
Nursery and talk to them about it.

2118
02:36:45.360 --> 02:36:48.040
They have all the products you need
to go with that tree. By the

2119
02:36:48.079 --> 02:36:50.959
way, while you're there, pick
up some roadses, pick up their herbs,

2120
02:36:50.040 --> 02:36:54.159
pick up all kinds of beautiful plants. How about some color like a

2121
02:36:54.319 --> 02:37:03.079
viscus and the boogainvillea is oh my
gosh outstand at RCW Nursery. RCW nurseries

2122
02:37:03.120 --> 02:37:07.040
dot com is their website. The
location it's on Tomball Parkway where it comes

2123
02:37:07.079 --> 02:37:11.799
into Beltway eight. Easy access getting
in and out of there. And if

2124
02:37:11.840 --> 02:37:13.600
they don't have something, well there's
a reason we call them to get it.

2125
02:37:13.680 --> 02:37:16.040
Got it Nursery. If they don't
have it, they're going to be

2126
02:37:16.079 --> 02:37:18.959
able to find it. I'll bet
you if it's available in the market,

2127
02:37:20.040 --> 02:37:24.879
they can get it for you and
bring it in RCW nurseries. We're going

2128
02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:30.040
to head now out to Ken and
West Houston. Hello Ken, Hello Skip.

2129
02:37:30.280 --> 02:37:33.479
I've got a quick question. I've
got three great myrtle trees in my

2130
02:37:33.559 --> 02:37:37.639
front yard, one of which is
just loaded with ball moss. Okay,

2131
02:37:37.760 --> 02:37:41.200
and I tripped off what I could
by cutting the smaller branches that seem to

2132
02:37:41.280 --> 02:37:45.520
be more loaded. Yes, the
other girls don't have any at all.

2133
02:37:46.159 --> 02:37:50.360
And I don't know if the ball
moss harms the tree are where it just

2134
02:37:50.479 --> 02:37:54.000
looks bad. But is there anything
special I need to do? It only

2135
02:37:54.040 --> 02:37:58.000
harms the tree by shading the lower
portions. You get enough ball moss in

2136
02:37:58.079 --> 02:38:01.639
a tree, and it literally is
blocking light just because it's there. It's

2137
02:38:01.799 --> 02:38:05.159
not a parasite. I've seen it
growing on power lines, for example.

2138
02:38:05.239 --> 02:38:09.719
If it was a parasite, it
couldn't live on a power line. But

2139
02:38:09.200 --> 02:38:13.079
when a tree gets a little bit
weaker and you start to get light through,

2140
02:38:13.239 --> 02:38:16.319
you see a proliferation of ball moss. In some parts of town are

2141
02:38:16.360 --> 02:38:22.000
worse than others. It does attach
to crape myrtles very well. I would

2142
02:38:22.120 --> 02:38:24.840
physically remove as much as you could, even if that matt going up on

2143
02:38:24.920 --> 02:38:28.520
a ladder. Now, if you
got a thirty foot crepe myrtle, well

2144
02:38:28.559 --> 02:38:31.319
that all bets are off. But
whatever, you can just physically with a

2145
02:38:31.399 --> 02:38:35.719
glove on your hand just pull off. I just stripped my hand down a

2146
02:38:35.799 --> 02:38:39.120
branch and it just rips right off. Get rid of it that way.

2147
02:38:39.200 --> 02:38:43.159
In the spring, before the foliage
comes on. You can spray a copper

2148
02:38:43.280 --> 02:38:48.799
based product on the ball moss where
you have access to get the spray on

2149
02:38:48.959 --> 02:38:52.280
it, and it will die and
then eventually it just sort of rots and

2150
02:38:52.399 --> 02:38:56.120
falls out. So dead ball moss
looks a lot like living ball moss,

2151
02:38:56.639 --> 02:39:01.440
but with that copper spray, it's
gonna and it's gonna fall out, but

2152
02:39:01.559 --> 02:39:07.559
it's done in the spring before the
new growth appears. In coside kocide is

2153
02:39:07.719 --> 02:39:11.079
one product that can be used for
that. For the ball moss, it's

2154
02:39:11.120 --> 02:39:16.959
too high to just physically rip out. All right, Okay, very good,

2155
02:39:16.159 --> 02:39:18.719
thank you, Yes, sir,
good luck with that. I understand

2156
02:39:18.760 --> 02:39:24.040
the concern about that if you're dealing
with pests in the lawn or you're gonna

2157
02:39:24.079 --> 02:39:28.280
be and you may be because here
comes past season in the lawn. Nitrofoss

2158
02:39:28.319 --> 02:39:35.040
Bugout Max is a product that lasts, it's got a it's got it insecticide

2159
02:39:35.159 --> 02:39:37.799
in it that will control over one
hundred and thirty different kinds of insects.

2160
02:39:39.280 --> 02:39:43.440
And so whether you're dealing with fire
ants or whether the larva of fleas.

2161
02:39:43.680 --> 02:39:46.719
If you got pets and they're going
in and out, you're gonna have flee

2162
02:39:46.799 --> 02:39:50.360
larva in the lawn. It will
control those ticks, also, chinch bugs

2163
02:39:50.399 --> 02:39:54.680
and side webworms, which they're coming
up. By the way, go to

2164
02:39:54.799 --> 02:40:00.479
my website Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com, the

2165
02:40:00.840 --> 02:40:05.280
lawn Care Guide and the lawn Pests, Disease and Weed Management Schedules. Both

2166
02:40:05.319 --> 02:40:09.040
of those schedules are on there and
you can see exactly when each pest may

2167
02:40:09.120 --> 02:40:13.360
appear in your lawn. Nitrofoss Bugout
Max, when you apply it, it's

2168
02:40:13.440 --> 02:40:18.120
going to give you the whole summer
long of pest control in the lawn.

2169
02:40:18.239 --> 02:40:20.479
So you do it now. It
takes care of what shows up then works

2170
02:40:20.719 --> 02:40:26.159
very very well from Nitrofoss, and
those products are widely available. You're going

2171
02:40:26.239 --> 02:40:31.440
to find Nitrovoss Bugout Max at a
task asda ace up in a task ASDA

2172
02:40:31.719 --> 02:40:35.239
at Lake Hardware Inclute, for example, or Gem's Hardware up in Montgomery.

2173
02:40:37.840 --> 02:40:43.280
We're going to go now to deb
in the woodlands. Hello, Deb high

2174
02:40:43.319 --> 02:40:46.840
skip. Can you hear me?
Yes? I can, okay, because

2175
02:40:46.840 --> 02:40:50.399
I was having a hard time here
and your producer there first couple of times.

2176
02:40:50.840 --> 02:40:58.200
So our grass has like a lighter
color green on it along with the

2177
02:40:58.319 --> 02:41:03.280
darker color green. And we let
the grass grow a little bit longer and

2178
02:41:05.200 --> 02:41:09.440
than most people around our neighborhoods.
Most people have long services and they cut

2179
02:41:09.479 --> 02:41:15.079
it down real short. We don't
do that. I'm wondering why, if

2180
02:41:15.120 --> 02:41:20.000
we've been following the schedule and stuff, why this is occurring. I've never

2181
02:41:20.159 --> 02:41:24.680
seen this this early before. Describe
to me again what in detail kind of

2182
02:41:24.719 --> 02:41:28.360
what it is you're seeing in the
grass. Well, the grass it's growing,

2183
02:41:30.000 --> 02:41:33.520
but the grass, say, some
of it is lighter colored green.

2184
02:41:33.920 --> 02:41:39.360
I don't want to say yellow.
It's just a lighter color green mixed in

2185
02:41:39.600 --> 02:41:43.040
with the darker color green. And
we've been struggling with this. Somebody ran

2186
02:41:43.120 --> 02:41:46.639
over our grass. We had big
old patch we had to put in.

2187
02:41:46.879 --> 02:41:54.600
It's just it's been brutal the last
year. So these areas, are they

2188
02:41:54.680 --> 02:41:56.840
kind of splotchy here and there,
or is the whole lawn just kind of

2189
02:41:56.959 --> 02:42:01.079
uniformly lacking green? Or what are
you? You know, as I'm looking

2190
02:42:01.159 --> 02:42:05.760
at it, part of it,
one side of the driveway is kind of

2191
02:42:05.799 --> 02:42:09.200
squashy, on the other side seems
to be like the whole thing. And

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I walked around the neighborhood this morning, I only saw like one or two

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other yards that had a similar situation. And again they're letting their grass grow

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longer than most people. Okay,
well, so here, here's what I

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would do. Go out to some
of the lighter colored grass, pick a

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grass blade and hold it up where
you can see the light through it and

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see if it's there's some striping of
green and maybe a chartreuse to yellowish color

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in the leaf itself. That's an
iron deficiency, and it can be brought

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on by a lack of iron.
It can be brought on by high pH

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and hyphosphorus levels in the soil.
You would need to use a keylated iron

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product for that. A lot of
times I found following wet weather, especially

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02:42:56.239 --> 02:43:00.479
cooler weather, but wet weather,
that you go through a little bit of

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02:43:00.520 --> 02:43:05.440
an iron chlorosis like that, and
then it bounces back as microbial activity,

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02:43:05.559 --> 02:43:11.799
decomposes organic matter and releases nutrients into
the soil. If you do find it,

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go ahead, go ahead. Have
you already fertilized this summer? We

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Yeah, I think my husband said
he's done everything. We put the imperial

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02:43:20.040 --> 02:43:24.200
I think it was you suggested back
in March. We put that on towards

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02:43:24.239 --> 02:43:26.280
the end of March. Yeah,
and then he followed up, like I

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think in April with the regular fertilizer. Okaycause I asked him yesterday, I

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said, are we up today because
we're getting ready to leave for a couple

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02:43:33.760 --> 02:43:37.040
of weeks and I want to make
sure we're not going to come back to

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a dead lawn. Yeah. Well, you know, different things can cause

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02:43:41.760 --> 02:43:46.040
that symptom, so we're kind of
going to work our way through the possibilities.

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02:43:46.079 --> 02:43:50.159
One is the iron. You can
do a keylated form of iron application

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02:43:50.319 --> 02:43:54.280
to the lawn and that helps get
the iron in the plant. If indeed

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02:43:54.360 --> 02:43:58.000
it's the iron, If you'd like
to send me a picture of it and

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02:43:58.159 --> 02:44:01.680
then maybe of the lawn so I
can kind of see the pattern and then

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02:44:03.360 --> 02:44:05.879
go up to one of these light
areas and really close, like you know,

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02:44:07.399 --> 02:44:11.120
five inches away. Take a picture
of the grass or grass blades and

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02:44:11.200 --> 02:44:15.280
let me look at that. I'll
see if I see anything that helps me

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02:44:15.799 --> 02:44:20.600
maybe narrow it down a little more. Okay, okay, would we be

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02:44:20.719 --> 02:44:26.959
doing any damage to it if we
put any of that suggested tops, top

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02:44:26.040 --> 02:44:33.799
soil, top dressing, compost top
dressing, that's what I'm talking about.

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02:44:33.920 --> 02:44:35.799
Yeah, and Devin, I'm sorry, I got to run. We're running

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02:44:35.799 --> 02:44:39.000
out of time. I got a
couple more folks here I'm trying to get

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02:44:39.040 --> 02:44:41.520
to. But good luck with that. I'm gonna put you on hold if

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02:44:41.559 --> 02:44:43.399
you want to get the email for
that, go ahead and do that.

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Let's see, we're gonna go to
Mario here in spring. Hey, Mario,

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02:44:46.959 --> 02:44:50.200
can we do this kind of quick? Yes, good morning. I'm

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02:44:50.280 --> 02:44:54.559
just having trouble with the crabgrass and
nut search. Okay, it's coming up

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02:44:54.600 --> 02:44:58.879
in the lawn now and it's like
getting kind of bad. And I did

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02:44:58.000 --> 02:45:03.719
the l realization and I did the
barricade. Okay, all right, so

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02:45:03.639 --> 02:45:07.799
the crab grass the barricade would do
that. You got to get it down

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02:45:07.840 --> 02:45:11.520
early enough. If you go to
my schedule online I have an early to

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02:45:11.680 --> 02:45:16.879
mid February application of that in your
area. Probably mid February would be fine

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02:45:18.639 --> 02:45:22.559
to prevent it. You may have
to reapply it about sixty to ninety days

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02:45:22.639 --> 02:45:26.719
later to extend the preventative. Now
that you've got crab grass, just mow

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02:45:26.799 --> 02:45:30.840
it. That's about all you can
do with it. Try to keep the

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02:45:30.879 --> 02:45:35.840
seedheads from farming the nuts set.
Will we see in Augustine take over?

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Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah it will. It

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02:45:37.959 --> 02:45:41.760
will if you mow water infertilize,
which is also on my schedule. As

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02:45:41.799 --> 02:45:43.440
far as enough, I did it, and if I just fertilize, should

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02:45:43.440 --> 02:45:46.360
I do it again? I mean, and I just didn't. Well,

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02:45:46.479 --> 02:45:52.079
March you could do a yeah,
you could do your your slow release fertilizer

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02:45:52.200 --> 02:45:58.920
now March just was it a slower
a fast release? That was the Just

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02:46:00.040 --> 02:46:05.879
put the slowter on the like repulse. Okay, then then you don't need

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02:46:05.959 --> 02:46:07.479
to do it again. Now you're
good. As far as the nutsedge,

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02:46:07.959 --> 02:46:11.680
you need to find a product with
nutsedge control for lawns. Go to ACE

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02:46:11.760 --> 02:46:15.920
Hardware near you and they'll have it. Sorry, what we do for a

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lot of times