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

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with Scared Rictor It's smell the Crazy,

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just watching as wos so many Well, good morning, you are listening

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to garden Line and oh my gosh, just hearing there's rain in the area

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just reminds us that this summer is
coming to an end. Fall. We

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are on the doorstep of fall,
and it is time. It is time

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to start getting ready. It is
time to renew our hope. Well,

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I tell you, this summer tested
our hope, didn't it hundred degrees over

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and over, no rain inside.
Oh my gosh, that was tough.

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That that has been a tough one
for sure. But fall is coming and

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we know it's coming. We know
the temperature is going to go down,

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we know that the rainfall will return, and we know this that we got

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to get ready now and do things
now for fall. Just see, it

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may be hot. Let's just say
today it was not raining and that it

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was one hundred degrees outside. That
doesn't change the fact that now is the

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time to be planting things for fall. And if we wait until we feel

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like fall to start planting. Well, we've missed the boat and it's significantly

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going to affect how things. Do
you know you're planning your warm season vegetables

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in the warm season garden, we
still have a warm season vegetable harvest to

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be enjoyed. We also have cool
season that's just coming around the corner,

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and we need to get those things
in pretty soon. So it's time to

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be thinking about that. It's time
to be getting ready, and I'll talk

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about some getting readies as we go
through the day. Hey, if you'd

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like to give us a call seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four, let's talk about

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the questions that you have regarding gardening. I do want to remind you this

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morning that after the show today from
eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm going

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to be out at Plantation Ace Hardware, En Richmond, and I hope you

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will come out. If you've got
some plants that are concerning you, bring

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me a sample, let's take a
look at them. If you've got some

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photos you can take of them in
good close sharp focus, make sure take

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a look at them for you for
you to take them and come make sure

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they're in sharp focus. Take another
one if it's not, because sharp focus

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is really important and close up is
really important to being able to diagnose something

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off a little picture on a phone. But we can do that. We

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can also identify plants if you'd like
to do that. If you just want

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to bring some pictures of your landscape
and say, hey, what can we

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do here? What would work here? Let's talk and Plantation Ace Hardware in

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Richmond. So if you're in Richmond, Rosenberg, if you're in sugar Land,

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if you're up in Katie or I
mean, we're close to all those

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areas and then some I hope you'll
come out. We're gonna have a good

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time out at Plantation Ace. They're
gonna have a little shindeg going on out

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there. I'll talk about it more
as we go through the morning today,

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but let's go. I always like
to meet the folks that listen to the

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show. It's kind of cool.
Just you know, it's I'm sitting here

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right now, looking outside, it's
dark, talking into a microphone, and

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I can't see your face. I'd
love too, So come on buy and

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let's visit and get to know each
other a little bit. Well, I

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had a question coming this week,
and I'm just gonna start off with it

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right off the bat. Here someone
asked about with the drought and were restrictions

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in many areas on no watering,
should we not mow? Someone said,

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if you don't mow, the roots
will go deeper. Well, that's a

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half truth. So let's talk about
it. When you mow short. Let's

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say you have a Saint Augustine lawn. If you mow it like it's a

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you know, golf course green,
well it's gonna have very shallow roots and

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number one socle last at that height. But if you mow it at a

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higher height, it'll have deeper roots
because there's a balance in most plants between

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the top of the plant and the
bottom of the plant, and so as

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you have more top, you can
have more bottom, and vice versa.

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There are other things that affect rooting
depth and amount of roots and so on,

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but in general, we like to
mower lawns at a taller height.

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Now, the most important to the
lawn is to not mow it too irregularly,

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because you get real tall and then
you cut it back and real tall

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cut it back. That's very stressful
to the grass. I mean, imagine

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a shrub in your front yard if
you were too in the winter cut it

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off at knee high and then let
it grow all year and then cut it

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off at knee high. That's a
very shocking pruning job to that shrub.

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So we can we can do we
can do the similar kind of mistake with

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our lawns. So I wouldn't say
don't mow your lawn. I mean,

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it's okay not to mow for a
while, but as it gets really tall,

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then you just don't want to cut
it back so far. So just

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kind of try to avoid the severe
pruning of your lawn with the lawnmower.

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How's that for a way to say
it. Speaking of lawns, you know,

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our lawns are really struggling and suffering
right now, and we need to

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take care of them. It doesn't
mean they need a whole lot of fertilizer

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right at this moment. No,
that's if you fertilized in the last couple

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of months, you're okay for right
now. We're about to put on our

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fall fertilization. Just a few weeks
we'll begin doing that. In fact,

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some people are going to start it
at the end of the month, but

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for now we need to make sure
they have adequate moisture. And for all

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your plants, any kind of a
rejuvenation is good, any kind of supplement

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of the different ingredients that they are
part of grass growth. Of course,

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we've got the nitrogen, phosphorus,
potassium, we were just talking about that.

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But what about things like providing humates
because of the biological activity, because

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of the many benefits that come to
the soil and therefore to the plant when

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you apply humates well, Microlife purple
bag humates plus it's a concentrated compost in

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a bag. That's important for your
other plants that are out there. We

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often you've heard me talk about the
Ocean Harvest that's their blue label fish based

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sprayable product. You've got a rosebush
that's struggling, and I know a lot

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of you do. You've got other
plants that are struggling. You can do

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a fullier application with that. You
can also drench it on the soil as

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actually providing nutrients to the soil.
But also consider those fullier applications because there's

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a lot going on inside the plant
and when roots are struggling to take up

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nutrients. A fullier spray can help
temporarily to hold that plant, to rejuvenate

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that plant. And I would repeat
those about once a week right now,

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actually just getting things going. And
when you see the normal growth resuming,

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then you know that the plant is
getting its feet under it, if you

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will, and it is on its
way to recovery. That's what we're looking

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for. We want those plants stimulators
that come in a lot of the different

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kind of products that Microlife makes,
including the Ocean Harvest Blue label, And

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so I would encourage you to do
that. Microlife products will not burn,

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they help build the soil, they
help build a plant, and it is

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always a good time to apply one
or another of the mini products by Microlife.

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Can go online to Microlife for leiser
dot com find out where to buy

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Microlife in the area. They're widely
available, easy to find that one,

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and also find out more about these
products that I'm talking about. I think

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that you will be very interested in
that. So again that question that came

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in at about the mowing, that's
something that I want to come back to

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after we go to break here.
We're about to take a little break.

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Our phone number is seven one,
three, two to fifty eight seventy four.

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Good morning, you're listening to garden
Line on a beautiful day to be

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That's right, that's right. Some
of you folks are getting rain out there.

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It's coming through the Houston area giving
us a good drenching the rain in

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some areas. For the rest of
you, it's coming. I mean,

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I was looking at the weather and
let me tell you what. If you

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are a gardener, this is the
time to get absolutely excited about gardening.

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We are not. I mean,
we're talking about ninety five degrees this week,

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and I feel like that's an air
conditioner running. After the summer we've

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been through nighttimes dropping down, you
know, seventy seven degrees. That is

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wonderful. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, you're supposed to rain. Hey,

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don't delay. I'm telling you.
Fall is coming. Now's the time to

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get ready it. We get that
little preview of a little break from the

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heat, and then there's more good
stuff to come as we go along.

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Talking about mowing the lawn, taking
care of the lawns. Our lawns are

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really struggling a lot, and it's
been hard to water enough and a lot

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of people miss water by watering too
little too often. Some people, just

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for flat costs and expense, have
had to cut back on water. Some

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people the water supply companies are saying, you have to cut back on water.

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We can't keep up. And whatever
it is. We want to build

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good, deep drought resilient turf.
And when you mow along a little bit

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higher, you get a deeper root
system. It's a little bit more resilient

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grass plant, and that is important. Now each grass has its own mowing

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height. You know, Saint Augustine
we mow hired than anything. We can

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go up to three and a half
four inches even if you wanted to on

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Saint Augustine when we do have adequate
rainfall, looks best at about maybe three

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inches high in my opinion. But
mode on a regular basis, it's not

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that hard to keep it going if
the weather just cooperates. But we're able

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to water in some situations. Let's
go ahead and get that done with a

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good soaking. That is important to
do when it comes to all of our

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plant I talk all the time about
how important soil is, and the soil

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is the foundation. So it's the
foundation you're building your house on when it

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comes to a garden, for example, if you want to plant vegetables,

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if you want to plant flowers,
if you want to plant a rosebush or

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shrub, you know, in a
bed, getting the soil right at the

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beginning is so important. We can
always add a low compost later, but

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you want to build that with a
quality soil mix, one that is going

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to last, and one that is
going to provide oxygen that's going to meet

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by bringing oxygen down in the roots. One that's going to hold moisture but

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also drain with the excess of moisture
that we do get when it rains a

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lot around here, which it does
sometimes well. Heirloom Soils has got all

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of that. If you need a
rose blend, they've got it. If

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you want a landscape bed mix,
they've got it. If you need something

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that's for vegetables and herbs or cactus
and succulents. If you just want an

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amendment like an expanded shale or a
leaf mold composts, superquality compost there.

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If you need something for your potting
soils, they've got it. And you

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can find Mike. You can find
the Heirloom Soil all over town. It's

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really easy to find the great distribution
through there. And the bottom line is

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the soils work and when you set
the plant up that way. If you

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don't do anything right except one thing
and taking care of a plant, it's

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fixed the soil. It's prepare the
soil ahead of time, because once that

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rosebush is growing, it's a little
late to rototail a bunch of composts into

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the soil. Right well, airloom
soils can get you set up, and

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you can buy that bulk. You
can have them to deliver a supersack to

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your driveway, just a big sack, real, neat clean, one cubic

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yard and you're ready to go.
Now there you can go out and pick

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it up at their porter location.
You can also go any place around town.

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We have a lot of retailers that
are carrying heirloom soils and you can

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pick it up right. There so
many options to choose from, but I

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can guarantee you one thing, no
matter which one, you're going to get

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a quality product that was made right. And there is no single thing you

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can do for success in any kind
of plant growing than to have good soil

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to begin with. And most of
us don't start with good soil, but

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we can when we add a quality
earloom soil product to it. It's just

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as simple as that. With the
arrival of rain, a little bit of

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hope and parts of the area,
that is a really good rejuvenating thing.

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I was just thinking the other day
about the fact that it's hurricane season coming

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and looking at the weather data as
a bunch of storms, they're kind of

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warning, you know, may you
may have some limbs coming down when those

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storms set with forty mile nur winds. Well, that just reminds me of

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the importance of having your trees looked
after and prepared and taking care are properly.

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An affordable tree is the one to
do that. Martin spoon Moore has

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been doing this for many many years. He knows what he's doing. I

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have him come out, have him
look at your trees. If they need

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something, they'll tell you. If
they don't, he'll tell you. But

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right now, for those of you
who haven't gotten rain, those trees are

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really struggling and stressed, and that
can be alleviated with a deep root watering.

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They can put a good quantity of
water down in the soil to help

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that tree kind of a rescue treatment, if you will, from the rain.

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An important thing to do right now
having your trees trimmed so when a

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storm comes through, you don't have
dead limbs that are falling, or maybe

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a limb that's up there and there's
some rotting where it joins another branch,

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and Martin can spot that, he
can take it out. He can make

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sure that later you don't have a
big problem on your hands when that thing

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comes down. Now, affordable tree
is easy to reach. It's seven one

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three six nine nine twenty six sixty
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six sixty three. No matter what
you need done to a tree, affordable

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Tree can do it. It's always
a heartbreak. I was driving through a

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neighborhood a little while back and I
just saw a tree that's split right down

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the middle. I mean, it
was just that. That was the feature

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tree in the front yard, and
it was split right down the middle.

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It hadn't been pruned properly. It
had some very narrow branch angles, and

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when it splits, you see all
that black stuff in between the where the

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two limbs come together. That's just
non connected tissue that's decomposing, and it

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caused that split, and boy,
it sure makes sense to do it right

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from the start. And that means
even from planting. By the way,

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for those of you who are wanting
to plant some trees, plant them properly

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and prune them properly, train them
properly early in their life. That is

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so important. I we often get
into situations where we have to get it

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chains off there and fix something.
But I like to say I kind of

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overstate it a little bit, but
I like to say that the use of

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a saw is an emission of guilt. So what do I mean by that?

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Well, I mean that had you
trained the tree properly every step of

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the way, you don't need to
bring out big saws typically to remove larger

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limbs, to create larger wounds.
Unfortunately, a lot of us are in

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a situation where we got the tree
we got, and that's where you need

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someone that knows what they're doing to
come in and prune properly. But think

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about it that way. Emission use
of a saws emission of guilt. If

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you raise that tree from the beginning
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the number of times in situations where
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very very rare. It just doesn't
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a little bit of rain right now. It just reminds us again that,

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you know, we haven't had a
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dry and a little water for them
to survive in even if you aroundtown,

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but not like it can be here
in the Greater Houston area. But when

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it rains, those rain gutters hold
a little water. There's water in always

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under the catch basins, in your
pots, on the patio. There's a

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lot of places mosquitoes can breed.
Do you know that a thumbleful of water

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is enough water for a mosquito to
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and it turned into an adult mosquito. Those are the areas where you need

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to put mosquito dunks now. If
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quantity of water, a mosquito dunk
covers about one hundred square feet of water

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last thirty days. It's a natural
disease of mosquitoes. Won't hurt your fish,

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won't hurt your birds, won't hurt
your family pets. Drinking out of

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the water doesn't affect any of those. It only affects the mosquitoes, and

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it works really well. If you've
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a dunk up and use it,
or you can buy the low granules from

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mosquito dunks and use that. But
mosquito dunks are an organic product. It's

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the fast, easy, non toxifying
your landscape way to deal with mosquitoes,

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and it works works super super well. I would suggest don't wait until you

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know. Now you go out and
you see mosquitoes hatching out of your water

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surfaces, I would say go ahead
and buy them now, have them on

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hand, because you're always going to
need them through the year. Time and

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again you're gonna need especially if it
a little pond of water or something else.

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They love them, the stagnant water. That's where our rain gutters that

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don't drain well are such a happy
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those things. Well. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna
get some phone calls in here in just

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a minute. Invite you to give
us a call. Have Josh get you

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on the board. If you're out
and about today. I am going to

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be down in Richmond. I'll be
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to one thirty. I hope Peop
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would love to visit with you.
I'd love to help you identify your plants,

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help you identify your plant problems,
maybe identify an insect or is this

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a cause? Or show me a
picture of your lawn. What do I

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do? Well, we'll talk about
that. I suspect I'm going to get

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a lot of sad lawn pictures because
that's been going on a lot out there,

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and we can help you with all
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problem at all. I'll always love
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just get to visit with the folks. That's kind of fun. That's one

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of my favorite things, as a
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visit with gardeners. You got a
little piece of property and you would like

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maybe to have a tractor to take
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having had property myself, it is
a lot of fun to get out

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there on a quality tractor right around
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the old kind that you barely could
keep them running all the time. But

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to have a tractor that is first
rate like the Landsdown Moody's Cabota twenty five

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one, you can't do better than
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You need to. You need to
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over the area. Just go to
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me, LM tractor dot com.
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com and you can find out all
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they they're a sweet ride, they
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with you know, the front endloader, mowers behind them, all kinds of

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stuff and right now until the end
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Incredible deal, zero down, zero
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do better than that. And the
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like none other. You can go
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We'll give you more information. But
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one that is one sweet right well
here comes Nikki. We're gonna do some

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Nicki News Network stuff next, I
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at the top of the hour,
seven o'clock. I'm going to do the

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college football rundown. What to expect
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tell you what I expect. Yes, I expect a win over at Miami

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on the Aggie part. Now,
yes, can you arrange that? Well,

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I'll see what I can do.
Okay, thank you, I appreciate

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it. Well, good morning.
You are listening to garden Line and we

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are looking forward to visiting with you
about whatever you're interested in. When it

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comes to gardening. We are entering
the fall season. This is a time

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of hope and expectation and it will
be realized and it will be good.

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I promise you that. You know, we go through these times where it's

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too dry, too cold, too
hot. You know, there's always something

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going on out there in the natural
world, and we deal with it.

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It just reminds us the importance of
planting plants that are resilient. That is

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very, very important. I wrote
a piece up for the folks out at

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Enchanted Gardens on fall lawn care effect. They put it on their Facebook page

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and it goes into the you know, what do we do about our our

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lawn struggling with this unbelievably brutal summer
that we're doing. Uh, you know,

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we got to provide the nutrients available
in the sufficient supplies of microbial populations.

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Anything we do that optimizes those for
root and plant health is a good

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thing. And you know, providing
that stimulus because microbes and roots, they

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live in a symbiotic relationship where they
benefit each other, and it just makes

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everything better. It just does.
When you got a lawn that's stressed,

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you're likely to get diseases in it. Whenever you have a lawn that's stressed

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and gets thin the cool season,
weeds are coming. And so anywhere sunlight

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think of it this way. Anywhere
sunlight hits the soiled nature plants of wheat,

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that's kind of how it works.
And so our goal is to completely

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block light from hitting the soil.
And the way you do that is with

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a dense, healthy lawn. Now, compost top dressing helps a little bit,

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provides a little covering over not a
thick mulch, but a little bit

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of covering over the surface that can
help some. All of those are important,

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but The important thing is to remember
that when you build dense turf through

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through proper mowing, watering, and
fertilizing, that you can end up with

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cutting your weed problems down to just
a fraction of the time. I'm going

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to be talking about the fall land
lawncare schedule information as we go through a

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little bit more, but I just
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to go to the China Gardens Facebook
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the kind of things that I think
are important to keep in mind. You

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know, in Channa Gardens, one
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when and that's a long list,
by the way. I mean that is

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one incredible nursery out there in Richmond. For those of you that are in

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Richmond or up towards the Katie direction, that's where Enchanted is Janet Gardens.

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It's FM three fifty nine and you
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dot com find out more information.
One of things I really like is their

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signage. Their signs are awesome.
They tell you everything you need to know

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about growing that plan. And I
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just get your cell phone and if
you're going to buy a plant, take

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a picture of the sign and you
have it on your phone. Then so

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if you're wondering later, how big
does it get? You know what,

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how do I prine this thing?
Whatever you're wanting to know, Didier eat

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this thing? It's all on the
sign. It's all on the sign.

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So it makes it so easy you
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gardening book with you after you take
a bunch of pictures of signs and of

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the plants that you're purchasing. Really
really good helpful information. A lot of

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things are good and helpful out there. And enchanted gardens out in Richmond again,

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they're on FM three fifty nine just
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of Richmond. When it comes to
talking about gardening and things that we need

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to be doing right now, now's
the time to get out and plant vegetables.

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Are we're kind of getting close to
last call on our warm season vegetables

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here. Those of you who live
in the warmer parts of the area that

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would be inside Houston because of that
big city heat island effect. People that

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are living down Galveston direction, you
know, you've got a little more time.

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and even you know, all that
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Uh, then cool season comes a
little bit earlier up there, a little

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bit earlier. In fact, I've
been surprised as I've done research for our

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various lund care charts and other things
that I'm producing to put online, at

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how much difference there is in when
the first or last frost is or when

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the soul temperature hits a point where
certain weeds will germinate. There's a pretty

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big difference. And so getting on
the air and saying, well, now's

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the timing you need to do this, It's like, well, yeah it

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is, but it varies a little
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kind of interesting to do that as
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vegetable garden, Yes, get the
soil right first. I got to get

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the soil right first. Otherwise you're
shooting yourself in the foot when you plant

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a vegetable seed. This is true
of flowers as well, and are transplant

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and you walk away, you are
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way to success or failure already.
Why you've picked a spot that's sunny or

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not. The vegetables will have an
opinion about that, and the flowers will

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have an opinion about that. You've
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Definitely a big deal because when it
rains, it pours sometimes, and

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soggy conditions are not good for plants. You've also prepared the soil well or

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not. You've picked a species and
variety to put in the ground that may

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thrive and may not thrive. So
everything that happens up to getting the plant

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in the ground is the biggest part
of success. With your flower beds,

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your vegetable beds, your herbs,
you know what I'm talking about, the

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ground covers as well. There's there's
so much important things to do at that

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point. Well, we're gonna take
a minute here and we're gonna run out

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to Cyprus and talk to Sandy.
Hello, Sandy, Hi, good morning,

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skit, Good mornings. I have
a question. I know you just

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want over the blue level microlife.
Yes, this might be a dumb question,

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but I know it can be put
on flowers and plants. How about

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vegetables? All right, Well,
first of all, Sandy and everybody listening

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out there, there's no such thing
as a dumb question. There's dumb answers,

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and I'll worry about that because I'm
the one given the answers. So

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don't worry about asking a question other
people. We'll have it. And I

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know you're thinking, well, yeah, there are dumb questions, but that's

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not how we dreat questions here.
So uh so tell me tell me again

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specifically, like what are you growing? And what are you what are you

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wanting to know about it? Well, all my vegetables are them containers and

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I have okra and tomatoes, felipinos
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see can I use that Microlife Ocean
for hospertilizer in the vegetables or is it

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just for flowers and plants? Okay, it's for everything. I mean,

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you could spray it on your lawn
if you wanted to it it really,

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it's for everything. But uh you
know it comes in a little court bottle.

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So typically we're using it on things
like rose bushes, tomato plants,

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you know, pansies and petunias.
We're using it on a wide variety of

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things. You can use it on
all of it. Now, if you

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fold your feed you're giving a quick, a very quick infusion of nutrient.

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And when anytime we FOLDI your feed, no matter what we're using, Folier

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feeding is temporary. It doesn't last
as long as putting nutrient in the ground.

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So we always want to build our
soil nutrients up to where the plant

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has everything it needs. And Microlife
has a lot of great fertilizers for that

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kind of thing as well. But
if you're trying to rescue a plant,

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if you're trying to spray some of
the things you know that provide all the

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things beyond just nutrients that are helpful
to plant growth, then you can FOLDI

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your feed with the ocean harvest.
And again you can fold your feed anything

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if you chose to. You could
mix it in a watering can and drench

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it on the soil on the roots, especially with young transplants to get going.

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But for long term feeding, I
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products and look at the ocean harvest
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stimulant, as a rescue when the
plant is already struggling. All right,

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Okay, thank you so much,
Skip, thank you for the question.

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I appreciate that hey, if you
want to get on the boards for a

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call. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Good morning,

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gardeners. We are talking gardening this
morning here on garden Line. There's

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no surprise there if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

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

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four. Fall is fireance season,
and I wanted to talk about that just

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a little bit. It is important
to do your fire at bait treatments and

411
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fall Now fire rants. There's two
ways we go after him. One way

412
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is the bait. They pick it
up, they take it back. It

413
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kills the whole mound if it's a
quality bait. And the second way is

414
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individual mound treatments where you put something
on, drench it into the soil.

415
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It kills that mound. Well,
just doing mound treatments is playing whack a

416
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mole with fireants, because there are
mounds, there are colonies that haven't if

417
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you will boil to the surface yet
with all the soil coming up where you

418
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go, oh, there's a fire
amount, but they're there and they're out

419
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feeding, and the baits get those. So rather than waiting for them to

420
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pop up, which I call the
whack a mole game. You do the

421
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baits. Now you can use the
individual mound treatments for the things that escape

422
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the baits. That's fine, but
baits are the key. And one of

423
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the best baits really out there is
Extinguished Plus. There's a lot of good

424
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ones, but Extinguished Plus. And
I know the folks at Plants for All

425
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:32.119
Seasons up on the Tomball Parkway at
Louetta, that's where they're located. I

426
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know they carry the Extinguished Plus and
Plants for All Seasons is the kind of

427
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place you go where you get expert
advice, you get quality prints plants,

428
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you get quality products, and they
direct you to things if you need to

429
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buy a product, it works.
That is an amazing thing about Plants for

430
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all seasons and it's why I brag
on our mom and pop garden centers in

431
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the Greater Houston area. We're so
fortunate here. And Plants for All Season

432
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just a prime example of that.
They got a lot of color in you

433
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know, they've got a lot of
petunias. Was checking the other day to

434
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get some nice foliage color warm season, and you know you can plant warm

435
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season now and it's going to carry
you way into the fall with color.

436
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.079
You don't have to wait until it's
cool enough to plant pansies to have color.

437
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:19.799
Do it right now and with this
promising break and the weather, get

438
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.839
them a good watering in and they'll
do just well. And you're not gonna

439
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.039
find a better supply of that than
they have there at Plants for All Seasons.

440
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.440
If you've got any questions, you
go in there. They will answer

441
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.839
them. They know what they're talking
about. Plants for All Seasons dot com.

442
00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:37.359
It's a website, or you can
give them a call at two eight

443
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one, three, seven six,
sixteen forty six. And again they're right

444
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.960
there on Tomball Parkway, just a
little north of where Louetta comes in.

445
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.039
We're going to head out to the
phones now and we're going to talk to

446
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Matt in Hempstead. Hello, Matt, are you there, Yes, sir,

447
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.240
Well, how can we help today? One of my trees in the

448
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.319
front yard, it's a Schumart red
oak, my only tree actually it's in

449
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:10.079
the front yard. It has what
I think it's what it has is called

450
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:17.119
slime flugs. Okay, it's leaking, sinking out of the trunk. Yes,

451
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.920
sir, And well, it's that
it's the hole from the trunk up

452
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:30.720
is turning black. Well of that
part the bark is turning black on a

453
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:37.400
Schumart, Yes, sir, oh
that that. I don't know what you're

454
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seeing there. Normally when we see
Black City kind of looking material, it's

455
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:47.240
because of insects that are secreting sugary
water, because they're feeding on the sap

456
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:52.319
and getting that sugary water. But
that I don't know. I'm gonna ask

457
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:57.559
the slime flux. All you can
do is try to get the tree healthy,

458
00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:00.359
adequate water, you know, get
it back on its feet. And

459
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.880
these drought stress and summer times when
we really see this lime flux coming out.

460
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.559
There's not a spray for it.
You don't need to do surgery on

461
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.519
the tree to try to cut it
out or anything. It's just a matter

462
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.799
of living with it and getting getting
some vigor back in the tree, which

463
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:17.799
will come with time. The true
will be able to put some callous in

464
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there and close that area back over. But on the other I'm gonna put

465
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.920
you on hold, and if you
would like hang on, we're gonna have

466
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:30.759
Josh get you an email to send
me some pictures of that, and some

467
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.240
kind of from a distance, but
something really up close, right, and

468
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.039
try to see what you're talking about
when you're referring to that black material.

469
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:43.079
All right, well, it won't
be until later on today because I'm actually

470
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.359
on my way to work. Oh
oh, that's fine, that's fine.

471
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.559
Whenever you get around. It could
be next week, doesn't matter. All

472
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.599
right, all right, thank you, and hang on just a minute.

473
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:59.599
Nature's Way Resources is one of those
places. And there are very few,

474
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:06.799
very few places around Texas where you
can get just outstanding quality soil products.

475
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We're talking about things like composts,
things like mulches. We're talking about the

476
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.960
micronutrient supplements that they produce and earth
that they have right there at Nature's Way.

477
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And they've been doing this a long
time. They were the originator of

478
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:27.000
rose soil and the originator of leaf
mold composts. They take time to make

479
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things right. It's really easy to
do. You can call Nature's Way at

480
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nine three six three two one sixty
nine ninety nine three six six two sixty

481
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nine ninety and by the way,
September thirtieth, they are having one heck

482
00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:45.960
of a shindig fall garden festival,
and I'm going to be there. I'll

483
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.679
be doing Q and A with all
of the folks that come out. They're

484
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.639
going to have food, music,
vendors, beverages. There's a kid's scavenger

485
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:58.280
hunt, fun for little gardeners.
I mean lots. I could go on

486
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and on. Lots of good stuff
there again nine three six three two one

487
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sixty nine ninety. Give them a
call it Nature's Way, go out and

488
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.000
visit. You can buy by the
bag, you can buy by bulk,

489
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:15.679
you can have them deliver. And
you know when you order something from Nature's

490
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.679
Way, you have got rocket fuel
for the soil that are going to make

491
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:24.039
your plants thrive. I want to
go now to ethol Out in Beaumont.

492
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:30.920
Hello Ethel, Good, good morning, good morning. What my question?

493
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.679
Well, I have two questions.
First one, we have a fifty euro

494
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:44.239
plus magnolia tree, which I'm sure
you've addressed many magnolia issues. Never never

495
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:50.719
had any issue with it. I
don't think it's gonna make it no green

496
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:58.119
leaves at all. We have put
microlife around the around the edges, water

497
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:06.719
them in and no avail. So
I guess my question is is this the

498
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:12.039
same with other people with the same
problem. And do you think we have

499
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.519
a chance to save it? Well, I think it's very slim. My

500
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:21.559
experience has been when an evergreen like
that, whether it's a holly plant,

501
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:25.360
hollybush or shrub, or whether it's
a magnolia tree, when it turns completely

502
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.360
brown, it is rare that they
would resprout and grow. Now you can

503
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.480
go out to the branches and just
take your thumbnail or a little knife and

504
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.280
scrape back. You ought to see
if it's healthy. You ought to see

505
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:43.199
creamy color or light green color underneath. If it looks like a paper sack

506
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:47.400
or a pecan brown, then it's
that's dead. And you could give it

507
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.880
a little time to make sure.
But I suspect this is going to have

508
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.639
been a watering issue from the heat
of the summer. If it's been in

509
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.880
the ground a short time, then
it has a very root system, has

510
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:02.400
been around a long time, it's
got a good root system. But this

511
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.519
has just been one of those summers
and we just really have to struggle along

512
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:13.639
with those things. Yeah, and
we have watered, you know, as

513
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.480
much as possible, and we're on
a whale, okay, but still we've

514
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:22.400
tried to conserve for certain reasons.
So okay, well we will do that

515
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:28.559
in hopefully some way, somehow they'll
be green. Thank you, Thank you

516
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:31.559
very much. I appreciate that call. Hey, if you're concerned about roofing

517
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with these storms coming, you need
to talk to Brinkman's Roofing. Jason Brinkman

518
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and the team out there have a
first Rate Better Business Bureau Winner program.

519
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They know how to put a quality
roof on and they do it with a

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guarantee for twenty five years of first
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We'll be right back our phone number
seven one three two one two five

523
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eight seven four give us a call. Also in the meantime, don't forget

524
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.880
today at eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm going to be a plantation Ace

525
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.320
Hardware out in Richmond and they are
going to have a little bit of a

526
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.840
shindig going on out there as well. They'll be doing some giveaways. I

527
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.800
know we're going to give away a
lot of Nitrofilees fertilizer. They're gonna they're

528
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:27.599
gonna put their whole Texas three step
program out there where you get a fall

529
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:31.599
fertilizer designed for fall, where you
get something that controls pests in your landscape,

530
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:37.639
something that controls brown patch in your
landscape. All being given away at

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Richmond. KTRH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

532
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:52.320
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Guarden Line with Skip Rictor. It's

533
00:38:52.360 --> 00:39:08.960
so well, good morning. You
are listening to garden Line. I'm your

534
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:14.400
host, Skip Richter, and we
are here to answer gardening questions. Our

535
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:20.000
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

536
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three two one two five eight seven
four. Now, with this little passing

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through of some rain with temperatures dropping
down in the mid nineties and even the

538
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:36.679
mid seventy seven degrees or so at
night this week, which is a nice

539
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:39.079
break, by the way from what
we've been having, we know that fall

540
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:44.079
is coming. And because fall is
coming, it is important to stock up

541
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.440
on the things that we are going
to need for all our planting this fall.

542
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.679
And one of the things that I
think is an important package that really

543
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:58.719
does it all is the arbor Gate
one two three completely easy system. What

544
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.559
does that mean, well, it
means, first of all, there is

545
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:06.840
an organic food for all plants.
This would be a four four three plus

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00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:14.159
calcium. Organic foods got microbial content
added into it, and it will absolutely

547
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.840
provide the nutrients your plants need to
thrive. You're going to be planting cool

548
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.239
season flowers and cool season vegetables.
You're gonna be putting a rosebush or a

549
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.039
shrub. There's a lot of things
that you will be planting and you will

550
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want to have this on hand.
They also have the Soil Complete. That's

551
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.880
the two of the one two three. The Organic Soil Complete is a mix

552
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:38.199
of soil and organic matter that is
outstanding. It's got a little bit of

553
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:43.280
the expanded shale in it, which
also helps a lot with the clay soils,

554
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as does the organic matter. And
the Organic Soil Complete is going to

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00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.719
be you could use it for flower
beds, you could use it in a

556
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.440
container if you want. You could
use it in a lot of different ways.

557
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.159
It is a mix that plant roots
will thrive in. And finally,

558
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.400
their organic Compost Complete, well,
it's compost, but it's two kinds of

559
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.679
compost and it also has expanded shale
in it, and so anytime you want

560
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.119
to amend your soil. You want
to improve your soil. Organic matter goes

561
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.000
away, so after keep adding it. Maybe you put composts down a year

562
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:15.280
ago. You need to put compost
down this fall again and the organic compost

563
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.719
complete would do just that. You
can find that at Arburgate. For those

564
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.239
of you who've been living under a
rock, I'll tell you that Arburgate is

565
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.440
about a mile and a half west
of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty

566
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.599
one of my favorite places to go
out and visit. You can go online

567
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:36.320
to Arborgate dot com and find them
and find out more about what's going on

568
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.519
at the Arbourgate. We're going to
go to Jersey Village now and talk to

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00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:44.599
Michelle. Good morning, Michelle good
Maran Skip, thank you so much for

570
00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:49.440
taking my call. Sure, I've
got a pine tree that's close to a

571
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:54.039
townhouse, and so because the roots
and it's already broken. The roots are

572
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:59.360
broken a pipe, I'm always careful. And this pine tree is about twenty

573
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.280
years old. It's pretty tall,
as all the other pine trees are.

574
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:08.320
They're already reached over the tops of
the houses. But I was starting to

575
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:15.320
take off some of the bottom branches
because I've got an area where it's causing

576
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.239
too much shade and the grass isn't
growing, and of course there's the pine

577
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:23.960
needles, and anyway, I was
cutting back, the taking out the limbs,

578
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.840
and my neighbors telling me that I
shouldn't do that because it's going to

579
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:34.360
make the pine tree go taller,
which I don't believe. I just confirmation

580
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:38.519
front. All trees grow taller over
time. But what makes the pine get

581
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:44.199
taller and skinny as being in a
pine forest with all the competition for light

582
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:47.719
and they are heading up to try
to get their their head up above their

583
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:53.280
neighbors so they can get better light. A pine tree growing without that shade

584
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:58.199
competition all around, it tends to
be broader. You'll see pines out in

585
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:02.320
a field that are just very wide, unusually wide for a pine. Well

586
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.480
that's because they don't have that competition. So that that's the deal with the

587
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:09.639
taller I mean, but yes,
it's going to get taller, but all

588
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:15.239
trees get taller over time. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're they're already

589
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.079
tall enough that I didn't I don't
see it as a problem. I mean,

590
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:24.000
every like the front of every neighborhood, they all raise those branches up

591
00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:32.519
that that's fine. He's always trying
to put fear into me or bother Okay,

592
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.079
radio, prove him wrong. Well, there you go, there you

593
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.119
go. If he's listening, that's
wrong. Don't do that. But there's

594
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:44.559
a lot of myth. There's a
lot of myths and misinformation out there,

595
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:49.760
and oftentimes it's based on a bit
of truth, but it's applied in a

596
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.639
way that's not true. And that's
absolutely the case with this pine question you're

597
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.800
asking. Okay, thank you so
much. Em a great day, all

598
00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.480
right, thank you. I appreciate
that call very much. You know,

599
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.760
speaking of trees, Verdant Tree Farm
is a source of trees of all sizes,

600
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:12.519
especially if you were wanting a very
large tree, like a really nice

601
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.800
big palm. They have smaller palms
too, if you're wanting a really nice

602
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:21.079
knot palm, and all the other
varieties of trees that do so so well

603
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.719
here. Verdant knows them, knows
what they are. They grow them and

604
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:27.639
they sell them, and they will
sell up to seven hundred gallons. I

605
00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:30.239
mean, this is a thing like
instant tree in the yard when you go

606
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.239
up that high. But they have
all sizes you don't have to pay for

607
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.079
that big of a tree. You
get one smaller. You get to pick

608
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:38.159
your own tree out, put a
tag on it, they'll bring it,

609
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.400
they'll plant it. They know how
to planet. That is so important.

610
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:46.199
A lot of trees that are sentenced
to death at planting by being misplanted.

611
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.400
Verdant Tree Farm, they know what
they're doing. It's Verdant Treefarm dot com

612
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:58.400
v r d a Nttreefarm dot com, Verdant Treefarm dot com. And there's

613
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.920
a location out in west here Euston
on Barker Cypress. That's the one that

614
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.119
I've always been around. Down in
Paralin on Broadway Street. There's a location

615
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.719
in the Heights where Yale Street comes
into I ten. There's a location.

616
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:13.559
They're not hard to find a burden
tree farm near you, And when you

617
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:16.360
get there, it's not hard to
find a tree that's going to thrive in

618
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:22.920
our soils and climate here. They
really are good about that well. Our

619
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.840
phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

620
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:35.400
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. The schedule that I just put

621
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:38.559
up a week or two ago on
my website. The website, by the

622
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:45.519
way, is Gardening with Skip dot
Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com talks

623
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:52.400
about fertilizing and we've got your organic
and synthetic options on there. We've got

624
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:57.199
the reminder for the mineral trace elements
that need to be put down for air

625
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:00.360
raiding the soil from proper mowing,
how to do it, and just some

626
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:05.719
things you may not know about mowing
or hadn't thought of, and then proper

627
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.920
watering throughout the year. And it's
all on that schedule. We've got another

628
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:12.480
one that I'm working on. It's
it's been a little bit more of a

629
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:16.239
challenge the lawn pest disease and weed
management. That'll be coming out a little

630
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.960
bit later, but right now,
when it comes to fertilizing especially, you're

631
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:23.639
going to find it right there online
at Gardening with Skip dot com. There

632
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:28.920
is a there's good information on how
to have a soul test done where you

633
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.360
go for that as well. That's
always really important. And the fall fertilization

634
00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:36.559
is coming up and I'm going to
talk about that when we come back from

635
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:39.920
break here in just a moment.
In the meantime, give Joshua call seven

636
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.960
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four and he'll get you on the

637
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.559
boards. Well, welcome to Garden
Line. Here we go again with a

638
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:52.519
new hour. It's been doing this
hour for a little bit, but we've

639
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.039
got all the way up until ten
o'clock today to talk about gardening. So

640
00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:59.519
I hope you will give us a
call seven one three two one two fifty

641
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.880
eight four if you have any kind
of gardening questions. I've been talking a

642
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:07.480
lot about soil today because soil is
where it all is, and Nature's creation

643
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:15.079
makes an organic compost that is basically
what you need when you're talking about building

644
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:20.239
and improving your soil. Now,
nature knows this right, I mean,

645
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.960
think about it. Leaves and limbs
fall on the forest floor, plants die

646
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:29.840
and whatever environment they're in and they
hit the ground, they become decomposing.

647
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.920
The leaves fall to the ground,
microbes get busy, fungi bacteria they turn

648
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.760
them back into the richest stuff on
the planet for plants. And that's exactly

649
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:45.639
the basis for Nature's creation. Organic
compost with microrhizal fungi, native recycled trees

650
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:52.159
and shrubs compost it aerobically where the
microbes get good oxygen, so they do

651
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.880
the job right. You don't get
off smells, none of that kind of

652
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:00.400
stuff. No other chemicals are added. They add seven different strains excuse me,

653
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:05.159
eleven different strains of micro rhizal fungi
both the indo and the ecto,

654
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:07.960
the inside and the outside of the
route. Those kind of fungi that help

655
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:14.679
plants by increasing their drought tolerance,
helping with water and nutrient uct tape uptake,

656
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.000
even with disease resistance. Microbes are
amazing done in the soil. Of

657
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:23.960
the things that they do for the
route we have long for many many decades

658
00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:29.039
we fail to give them their just
due, but that is changing now.

659
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:34.840
You know Nature's creation organic compost can
use as its top dressing for your lawn,

660
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:37.159
to enrich your garden soil, to
use it as a multure un trees

661
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:43.000
to help protect the soil, to
help keep the soil temperature down, to

662
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:47.400
help add that rich microbe material back
into the soil. There's no peat,

663
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.760
there's no biosolids, and Nature's creations
organic composts and you can get it at

664
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:57.840
Grows Outlet and Willis Moss Nursery RCW
on Highway two forty nine, Wabash Feed

665
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.840
and Garden in all Houston Garden centers
carry the Nature's Creation organic compost. Let's

666
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:07.079
go to the phones. Now,
We're going to go to Friendswood and talk

667
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:13.400
to Tom. Hello, Tom,
what is her? My question involves some

668
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:17.760
wax leaf lugustrum has been in the
ground maybe twenty twenty five years, and

669
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:23.280
don't mind to collecting this drought.
It looks like they've suffered quite a bit.

670
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:30.440
Stum have no leaves even after watering
as of two weeks ago, and

671
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.440
the summer are very poor. So
I'm wondering due I give them a chance

672
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.880
next season or cut them down now
and just pull them out in the winter.

673
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.920
Well I would. I would get
out there with my thumbnail or a

674
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:47.920
little knife and scratch the bark back. Start out at the ends of the

675
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:53.800
branches. You're looking for creamy white
or a light green color underneath that outer,

676
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:59.519
thin, outer bark. And if
you see paper zach brown, pecan

677
00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:02.800
brown, that limb's dead. And
you just work your way back and until

678
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.760
you see the healthy underneath the branch. When you scrape it back, that

679
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:13.400
kind of that is the signal of
where you prune back to. After you

680
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.239
do that, you may go you
know what this whole thing's gone, or

681
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.400
it's so far gone that it's so
misfigured. I don't want to keep it.

682
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.079
And there's a second part to the
question. One of them was clearly

683
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.079
dead. I cut it back to
about a foot from the ground last year,

684
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:34.079
and that wood is hard, and
I'm thinking I'm gonna have a little

685
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:36.880
trouble pulling this out of the ground. Maybe out I'll just burn it out.

686
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:42.800
Any thoughts, you shouldn't have to
worry about that. I've taken those

687
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:44.960
out before. It is tough.
I mean, it's a it's a woody

688
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.519
plant. But I've taken them out
before using you know, a grubbing hoe

689
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.920
maybe a foot or so out from
the plant in all directions where you're not

690
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:59.000
dealing with this really thick base roots. But they're starting to thin out a

691
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:05.280
little bit. Chopping like that too, and then you kind of pull on

692
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.800
it one way, put on it
in another way. See what's still holding

693
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.840
on. I've gotten them out that
way. I've even used I've even used

694
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:16.440
my car car hitch, a bumper
hitch and a little chain or something like

695
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:20.320
that to drag them out a little
bit too. That works pretty good.

696
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.280
Well, that's kind of where I'm
at, because they're twenty twenty five years

697
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:30.880
old and probably probably three to four
inches in diameter at the base. Yeah,

698
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:31.719
well, I mean you can,
I don't know, if you get

699
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.199
a vehicle close enough. It's got
the right kind of bumper to do that.

700
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:38.000
But you're not You're not just dragging
the whole thing out. You're just

701
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:42.480
putting pressure on it with that,
and then as you cut then it leans

702
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:45.320
a little more and put a little
more pressure. Just be careful. You

703
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:49.360
don't want that chain something popping and
coming loose and doing damage to a vehicle

704
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.679
or your house or something else.
But that that would be a technique that

705
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:57.880
I would use on it, you
know. It just it just kind of

706
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.320
depends on how what access you have
there and what kind of tools you have.

707
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:06.039
There's a little device it's a it's
a spading fork, but it's what

708
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:09.119
is it called. It's got the
teeth on the on the edges are sharp

709
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:14.199
and so instead of just like a
slick sided shovel around the edge, it's

710
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.679
it's got these big, jagged teeth
and when you put it, yeah,

711
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.440
very serrated, huge, like the
serrations as big as your thumb. And

712
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:27.119
when you when you push it down
beside a root. It literally cuts through

713
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.840
that root incredibly. Well. Yeah, think of the name of the product.

714
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:32.840
But anyway, those are out there
too, and I will use those

715
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.360
a lot because they also have a
V and the tip that's sharp, so

716
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:40.119
you can raise it up and slam
it down to the ground and it'll just

717
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:45.760
cut right through roots really well.
So that's just another Uh. Sometimes there's

718
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.800
not room to swing a grubbinhope,
but you can always do that. Okay,

719
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:52.000
thank you, all right, if
I think of that, I'll say

720
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.400
it on the air here a little
bit. Appreciate that, Tom, thank

721
00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:59.960
you very much our phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven

722
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.199
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Now, Ana

723
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.280
Plants they're the nursery I've talked about
a lot. They're up in Montgomery.

724
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:14.000
They are in the Lake Conro area. So if you live Walden Bentwater,

725
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:17.519
Grand harbored A Lago April Sound,
you get the idea. If you live

726
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:22.679
in Conra, if you live in
Montgomery, they are a very nice local

727
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.760
garden center. It's got everything you're
gonna need. Three acres, lots of

728
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.760
plants of every type. You can
find your products there that we talk about

729
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:36.199
here are the fertilizers, the soil
products that I've been bragging on today and

730
00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:40.079
more are all there at Ana Plants. They are loaded up with plants.

731
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:44.760
If you want to get your last
planting a warm season, whether the vegetables

732
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:49.480
or flowers in you can do that
there today at Ana Plants and Produce.

733
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.639
They're open seven days a week from
nine to five. Knowledgeable staff and while

734
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:57.480
you're there, you're gonna fall in
love with a lot of the yard bling

735
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:01.480
that they have. You know that
things like terra cotta, chimeneias, or

736
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:07.599
maybe metal arches or trellises, or
topiaries or furniture or whimsical yard art all

737
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.800
at Ana Plants and Produce. Now, if you haven't been there before,

738
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.800
they are on the east side of
Montgomery as you're going toward Conro, just

739
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.719
on the edge of town, on
the north side of one oh five.

740
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:23.760
Real easy to find. You can't
miss them. Just driving by. You'll

741
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:28.159
find Ana Plants in Produce. And
when you go inside, you're going to

742
00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:32.159
find the kind of plants and the
information and good help that you need.

743
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:39.599
As well. I mentioned earlier we
were talking about fertilizing in the fall,

744
00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:46.079
and in the fall we put on
a fertilizer that where the nitrogen is lower

745
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:52.400
and the last number the potassium is
a little higher, because in the fall

746
00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:57.599
we don't want to push our lawn
to grow luxuriously. You know, you

747
00:54:57.639 --> 00:55:00.480
get in the fall, the weather
cools off, you start getting rain,

748
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:04.280
and you throw a whole bunch of
nitrogen on your lawn, and you're going

749
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.239
to make large patch or brown patch, very very happy. No, what

750
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:13.199
we go after in the fall is
one that has mostly the potassium in it.

751
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.239
It needs nitrogen. Potessium and nitrogen
are taken up by the plant together,

752
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:22.199
and so you can't just have potassium, but potassium nitrogen combination in these

753
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:27.760
fertilizers is excellent. Generally, I
recommend those to apply in October. You

754
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:30.960
want to get them on while the
plant is still has some growth going on

755
00:55:31.079 --> 00:55:35.119
and the active route take up and
whatnot. You don't want to get them

756
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.239
on super super early. I could
see applying them, you know, maybe

757
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:40.400
at the end of September if you're
way up in the northern part of the

758
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.440
listening area. But in general,
October is a big time. But now

759
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:45.920
is the time to pick it up
because a lot of these products, they

760
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:51.719
get sold out. They're a popular
product. And just think about this that

761
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.000
sometime from now, especially by the
end of September, you should have that

762
00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:59.920
product in hand so you are ready
to go for your lawn. I'll talk

763
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.159
more as we get a little closer
to that, but I think you will

764
00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:07.320
find that that will make a huge
difference in your lawn. And the reason

765
00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:14.000
is because going into winter, we
need the potassium with a little nitrogen to

766
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:20.159
essentially create anna freeze in the soil
I mean in the grass plant, so

767
00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:24.400
that cold heartiness is increased. But
more important than that, the carbohydrate production

768
00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:30.440
that occurs in that season, primarily
the month of October, but it's happening

769
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:37.000
now as well, is going to
help that grass come out stronger in the

770
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:40.880
spring. When grass comes out in
the spring, it is not the fertilizer

771
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.000
on the ground right at that time
that it begins to wake up that makes

772
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:51.440
the huge difference. It's what went
into the plant going into fall. It

773
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:55.519
has the stored energy to take off
growing and to produce fresh new roots,

774
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.239
which is what's happening in the spring
season. Fall fertilization very very important.

775
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:04.119
Let's go out to Richmond, and
we're gonna talk to Alex. Hello,

776
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:09.599
Alex, Hi, syep hey,
my dad's house. The yard looks pretty

777
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:15.159
dead. There's like one or two
pockets that look kind of green. But

778
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.519
when do you think you should decide
to do that kill till and fill?

779
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:23.760
Yeah, you know, is it? Saint Augustine? Sir? Yeah,

780
00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:27.320
I get on your hands and knees. And if you see brown runners,

781
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.360
it's dead sometimes, you know,
we'll look at our lawn. It turns

782
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:32.639
brown. You think it's dead,
But all of a sudden, here it

783
00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:37.559
starts sprouting out here and there.
And if you get enough sprouts, you

784
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:40.920
know, like let's say even every
one foot you have a sprout, then

785
00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:45.119
it is able to fill back in
over time. So it comes down to

786
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.559
do you want to spend money on
a new lawn or do you want to

787
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:52.800
wait and work at it to get
it back. But if it's truly dead

788
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:55.320
and large areas, you are going
to have to do the kill, till

789
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:59.760
and fill. I mean with Saint
Augustine. It's easy because basically you scrape

790
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:01.280
it all off at the ground and
it's dead. You know, It's not

791
00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:05.400
like bermuda that comes back up out
of the soil if you scrape the top

792
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:07.719
off, so it's easy to get
rid of Saint Augustine and do a reside.

793
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:12.519
And if you're gonna do that,
I would do at Asaph. It's

794
00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:15.840
better, you know, once we
get into later October November, it's a

795
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:22.000
little late to be laying side for
the best success. So make that decision

796
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:30.599
pretty quick. Here, is there
someone you recommend for what the service of

797
00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:35.760
killtill and fill? You know,
I don't have. I don't have a

798
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:43.599
lawn renovation person that I recommend at
this time. A lot of good landscapers

799
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:45.920
are going to be able to put
a new lawn down for you. That's

800
00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:49.079
not a really big deal. You
know. Out there in the Richmond are

801
00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:51.599
you're gonna have plenty. If I
were you, I would give a call,

802
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:57.559
you know, call the one of
the enchanted, enchanted, enchanted gardener,

803
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:00.679
enchanted forest and ask them who they
recommend, and they're going to have

804
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:04.639
a good local person that they depend
on. All right, Yes, sir,

805
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:07.159
thank you so much, you bet, thank you for the call.

806
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:09.719
Hey, if you live up in
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight,

807
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:15.840
Spring Creek Feed is your hometown feed
store. They carry the fertilizers. We

808
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:19.559
recommend they carry everything you need for
your law and whether it's weed control,

809
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:23.360
past control, disease control, friendly
courteous staff. If they don't have it,

810
00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:30.199
they probably can special order it and
they even deliver again. Magnolia FM

811
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:34.599
twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes
away from Graham Parkway and Highway two forty

812
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:39.760
nine Spring Creek Feed. Well,
good morning. It is a good day

813
00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:43.480
for gardening. I know some of
your looking out there going it's raining.

814
00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:45.840
For crying out loud, what It's
a good day to get inside and take

815
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:49.880
your house plant. It's a good
day to start your seedlings, to grow

816
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.840
some transplants, abroccoli, let us
and other things like that. Do you

817
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:55.519
see what I mean. It's a
good day for gardening. It's always a

818
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:58.880
good day for gardening. Plus,
I like, you know, headn't rain

819
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:00.960
in so long. I think I
would just like to go outside and just

820
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:06.239
work in the rain, just to
enjoy getting rained on a little bit.

821
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.039
For those of you in Houston and
especially the East of Houston, you are

822
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:12.960
enjoying that. The rest of us
are about to get to enjoy that.

823
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:15.920
And I'm going to tell you something. It has been dry, and what

824
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.440
happens when it is dry, our
clay soil shrinks and that is hard for

825
01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.599
foundations. And then what happens when
it rains, like some of your getting

826
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:28.559
today, It swells up and that
is hard on foundations. That's why we

827
01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:32.920
like to recommend fix my Slab foundation
repair. Tye Strickland has been doing this

828
01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:37.440
for twenty three years. He knows
what he's doing. He's a local,

829
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:40.480
he's got the small business service,
he's got the experience that you want.

830
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:44.960
And you know when Tie does it, it'll be on time, the price

831
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.760
will be fair, and it'll be
fixed right. You can go to fix

832
01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:52.360
my slab dot com to find out
more information two eight one two five forty

833
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.480
nine forty nine. Hey, if
your doors are starting to stick, if

834
01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:59.480
you see cracks in the sheet rock
or cracks in the brick outside, done

835
01:00:59.480 --> 01:01:01.400
not lay. It's not gonna get
better, It's only gonna get worse.

836
01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:07.239
Give Tie call two eight one two
five five forty nine forty five or just

837
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:12.199
go to fix myslab dot com.
Easy to get a hold of them.

838
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.760
And although we don't want to talk
about having foundation problems, it's a reality

839
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:19.480
and you don't want to mess around
with it, and you don't want to

840
01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.880
delay. We're gonna go out to
Laporte now and we're gonna talk to David.

841
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:29.480
Hello, David, good morning.
Skip new to the guarding line.

842
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:32.360
And this is my first phone call
and appreciate you taking my call. Well,

843
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:36.159
thank you for calling. How can
we help? Yes, yes,

844
01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:39.599
sir. So. I moved into
my new home last year in July over

845
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:45.960
here in laport Seabrook area, and
they put down some Saint Augustine sad and

846
01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:51.480
I watered it regularly the first couple
of weeks and it took on great.

847
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.920
You know, it really caught on. It was green. Oh. I

848
01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:01.800
even did a fall treatment some time
around September. September, excuse me.

849
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:08.079
And uh even after the freeze,
everybody's lawn was dying and dry, and

850
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:12.039
mine stayed green. And I mean
I was really proud of it. It

851
01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:19.119
was doing good. And uh so
during this drought. Uh, you know,

852
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.320
my lawn stayed green. It was
It's been good. I've been watering

853
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:24.239
it, not too much, just
right according to you know, some of

854
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:34.000
the experts. And I believe my
neighbor had some chinch bugs and and I

855
01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:37.800
noticed an infestation on near my sidewalks. Like I came home from work one

856
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:44.039
day and they were crawling all over
the sidewalks by my driveway and I was

857
01:02:44.079 --> 01:02:49.000
like, Holy moly. So I
went and I put one of those granular.

858
01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:51.639
I went to one of the local
stores. I'm you know, I

859
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:55.239
fed the granular and then after that
I hit it with some of the liquid

860
01:02:55.559 --> 01:03:00.320
uh you know, uh medicine for
the for the bugs or the you know,

861
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:04.639
the treatment right and uh. And
I think we've got them all,

862
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:10.039
you know, but you know,
my grasp is in a lot of areas,

863
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:14.599
there's still some green spots that a
lot of the areas are green.

864
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:20.800
I'm calling to see what you recommend, because I've considered just you know,

865
01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:23.559
tearing that out and putting some new
saw the previous color kind of hit on

866
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:27.639
it a little bit. You know. You said, if you're going to

867
01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:30.960
do it, do it now.
Does that change anything in my situation?

868
01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:35.840
And yeah, I would just look
look at your lawn and you may have

869
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:37.599
to kind of get out there,
even on hands and knees a little bit

870
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:43.519
and checking around and seeing where the
life is if you've got if you've got

871
01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:45.719
some sprigs, you know, not
more than the foot apart, and you

872
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:50.480
know some areas where there's life that
it can regrow. From Saint Augustine,

873
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:52.599
it's not gonna do a lot of
growing this fall. It'll do a little,

874
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.519
but especially next year, it'll cover
over pretty quick. Now, the

875
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:00.159
challenge when you're waiting on that to
happen as you're going to have more weed

876
01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:05.119
problems because sunlight is going to be
able to get to the soil as until

877
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:10.119
the grass covers over well. Again, So that's just a trade off of

878
01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:14.360
doing it. The alternative is to
take huge sections and just put down fresh

879
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:18.199
side, press it to the soil, watered in well, and take care

880
01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:20.960
of it. If you won't do
that, you remember to water it daily

881
01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:25.960
with a light application after you lay
it for about a week, and then

882
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.519
every other day for about a week, and by three weeks it'll be it'll

883
01:04:29.559 --> 01:04:32.440
be rooted in. But again,
get that done soon because as we go

884
01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:36.599
further into fall, the amount of
rooting the grass is doing is very minimal.

885
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:44.559
Okay, follow up question on that. Let's say I do go that

886
01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:48.639
route, which I'm leaning towards that
route the new SOD, should I still

887
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:53.960
do a fall treatment on the new
SAD or should I give that. No,

888
01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:57.239
yeah, absolutely no. Yeah,
you don't need to do the high

889
01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:00.440
nitrogen fertilizer like we do all through
the year. You just need to get

890
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:04.719
it number one, get it watered
in. There's enough nutrient there. You

891
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:08.159
don't have to fertilize it the minute
you lay it in. Fact, you

892
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:11.239
don't want to get it watered in. And after a couple of weeks of

893
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:16.280
that, then you can begin to
put down your fall fertilizers and you can

894
01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:23.440
go to gardening with Skip Gardening with
skip dot com. There's a schedule there.

895
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:26.239
It's multi colored printed out and it'll
give you a list of all the

896
01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:31.000
organic and synthetic fertilizers that you can
use in October or late September. Awesome,

897
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:33.920
Yes, sir, I just downloaded
that PDA for a few minutes ago

898
01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:39.039
when I was on hold. Well
then it's the color coding makes it really

899
01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:41.760
easy to trace it down to the
bottom of the page and see what your

900
01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.480
options are. Yes, yes,
sir. One thing I might have gone

901
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:50.000
over. I just skipped and I
don't know if this is if it matters

902
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:57.320
at all, but I did do
a nitro false late June, and I

903
01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:01.400
guess that according to a schedule that
I saw, Yes, and maybe that

904
01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:06.320
maybe up a little bit too much. Could that have been our chinch bugs

905
01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:13.199
attracted to putting too much of that
stuff? Well, they like succulent lawn

906
01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.719
grass, but that it's not like
there's chinch bugs across the street and they

907
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:21.199
smell that lawn over there and they
run across the street to get to it.

908
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:24.920
You know. It's not like that. But they're going to be present.

909
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:27.159
They're present in the la la lawns. I got chinch bugs in my

910
01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:30.280
lawn here and there, but I
would the nitrofruss product is going to really

911
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:35.199
slowly over time. You probably use
the silver bag, yes, and that's

912
01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:40.280
you're not going to burn your plants
with it. And uh, it's fine

913
01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:45.280
back in June, but you're still
gonna need the fall fertilizer application in October.

914
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.519
But get the get the sooner.
You get the grass in and get

915
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:53.559
it rooted in. Then it has
time to get ready for winter. We

916
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:57.000
can put down the nutrients and help
it get ready for winter. U.

917
01:06:57.159 --> 01:07:00.360
And so I guess sooner rather than
later, yes, sir, okay,

918
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:04.000
we skip. I appreciate your your
call. I'll be listening all right,

919
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.679
Yes, sir, we'll keep listening. Tell your neighbors about garden Line.

920
01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.800
Tell your neighbor that had all the
dead gum chinch bugs. He used to

921
01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:17.159
be listening. Yeah, he's he's
on the he's on my bad list right

922
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:20.960
now. Okay, all right,
you take care, Thank you very much.

923
01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:24.639
Hey, we're gonna take a break
right now. It is a phone

924
01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:29.119
number you want to write down seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

925
01:07:29.119 --> 01:07:30.440
four. Give josh akall who gets
you on the board. Don you'll be

926
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:35.079
first up when we come back.
Well, good morning. You're listening to

927
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:39.840
guard Line and we're here to talk
all kinds of things about gardening. And

928
01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.920
we got a lot to talk about. You know, we've been through this

929
01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:46.000
incredibly brutal summer, and believe it
or not, fall is on the way.

930
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:49.719
We are going to be seeing rain
and cooling temperatures, and plants are

931
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.519
going to get happy and get growing
and we won't be ready for that.

932
01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:59.239
It is important that when you take
care of a plant properly, you help

933
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:02.519
it not only to survive but to
thrive. And for example, take a

934
01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:05.760
tree. You plan a brand new
tree out there, you want it.

935
01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:09.880
I guess the way I like to
put it is you want to hang a

936
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:13.360
hammock in it as soon as possible. Well, that doesn't mean just keep

937
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:16.479
it alive. That means get it
going. And one of the best tools

938
01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:19.199
for that is the tree hugger sprinkler. When you put a new tree in

939
01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:25.399
the ground, this little hinged sprinkler
goes right around the trunk. You hook

940
01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.520
it up to the garden hose and
you turn it on. You can water

941
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.560
a small area, or you can
crank it up and water are large areas.

942
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:32.960
So I don't care if a tree
has been the ground ten years.

943
01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:36.399
You still got a lot of growth
to get going on a ten year old

944
01:08:36.399 --> 01:08:42.439
tree even and tree hugger sprinkler gets
you through those hot, dry summer temperatures.

945
01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:45.239
Now, maybe we don't have as
brutal of a drought as we did

946
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:49.520
this summer. We just have a
moderate drought occurs every summer. Well,

947
01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:55.279
tree hugger sprinkler is the difference between
that tree just sitting there and that tree

948
01:08:55.560 --> 01:09:00.720
continuing to grow and grow fast.
So it saves your tree in a critical

949
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.479
time of establishment during the critical first
summer. But it also just helps your

950
01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:09.239
tree continue to grow, so you
get more out of it faster. The

951
01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:12.600
value of your home goes up is
that tree gets bigger and bigger. It's

952
01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:15.119
really true. One of the biggest
differences you can make to a landscape is

953
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:20.000
a good quality tree and quality landscaping. We're gonna go out to Montgomery now

954
01:09:20.039 --> 01:09:24.680
and talk to Don. Good morning, Don, Good morning, sir.

955
01:09:26.039 --> 01:09:30.880
I got a building a house out
of Montgomery. In the soil here is

956
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.840
extremely scene. Do you think tree
seem to go road just finding it?

957
01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:39.319
But I don't think my grass is. So my question is do you have

958
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:45.359
a place where I can buy bolt
probably like leop mold compost or some type

959
01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:48.359
of compost to them in the soil. Yeah. Absolutely. The closest place

960
01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:53.479
to you is going to be Nature's
Way And they are on Interstate forty five

961
01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:59.159
just south of Conrow where fourteen eighty
eight comes in, and so they will

962
01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:02.279
drive into le uh and they they
are going to carry You're not gonna find

963
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:06.960
a better product than Nature's Way,
okay. And they originated the leaf mold

964
01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:14.119
compost that you mentioned. They created
that idea, okay. And do you

965
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:17.039
is that what you would recommend as
a leaf mold or is there something tell

966
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.720
me in addition to tell me again
where all you want to use it for?

967
01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:30.760
The basically have just that needs to
be amended. Probably close to an

968
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:35.560
acre, Okay, that's a lot. Yeah. And this soil is sandy,

969
01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:43.119
I mean it is, it's white
powder sand. You know that's gonna

970
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:45.720
cost is gonna be a factor.
And that kind of thing, and amending

971
01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:53.880
a whole laker is a lot of
compost. You might want to go they

972
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:58.039
make Everything they make is good quality. You might talk to them about that.

973
01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:01.560
And putting down that's expensive. Compost
is still gonna be a good one

974
01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:06.880
over that area is gonna still accomplish
the I need to add organic matter to

975
01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:11.800
the soil thing. Uh. And
it's it's gonna do a little more economically,

976
01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:14.920
I think than the leaf mold over
that that quantity. Now, if

977
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:16.520
money is not an object, you're
not going to do better than a leaf

978
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:20.960
quality leaf mode compost. But give
him a call out there in nature's way

979
01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:25.439
and they can they can tell you, you know, what, what products

980
01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:28.239
they have, what it costs to
get it out there, and you can

981
01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:32.359
make your decision based on that.
Okay, So it's nature's way, all

982
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:38.239
right, Yeah, yeah, out
of nature's way, And I I let

983
01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:40.760
me. See, I get you, grab you a number. I've got

984
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:45.279
one right here, just a second. Uh nine three six three two one

985
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:51.439
sixty nine ninety nine three six six
two or three two one sixty nine ninety

986
01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:55.960
all right, all right, sir, thank you very much, you bet,

987
01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.279
you bet, thank you for the
call. I appreciate that. You

988
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:05.079
know. It's always it's encouraging to
me when I hear about people improving their

989
01:12:05.079 --> 01:12:08.399
soil, because I know what the
results of that are going to be.

990
01:12:09.359 --> 01:12:14.640
And it when you add organic matter
to the soil, what you're doing is

991
01:12:14.680 --> 01:12:20.479
you are basically circumventing decades of nature
at work. If you let's think about

992
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:27.399
this tropical rainforests down in the jungles
of South America or something. The soil

993
01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:30.399
is so rich, and when they
strip out the trees to try to farm

994
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:34.720
that area, they get incredible yields
for a while, and then all the

995
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:41.159
rainfall they get down there, and
not adding additional material, the yields begin

996
01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:45.680
to drop after a few years and
get lower and lower. Because nature makes

997
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:50.039
soil better and makes plants happier.
When we don't add that back, we

998
01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:55.800
go the other way. That's what
happens, and so compost decomposes a way,

999
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.319
but there's nothing you can do better
than putting a lot of composts into

1000
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:03.680
the soil. And nature takes time
to do that. It takes decades to

1001
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:09.399
do that, but you can do
it overnight by getting a good quality compost

1002
01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.880
and mixing it down deep. And
you got your head start there, and

1003
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.479
you're gonna add compost a little bit
here and there over time, but basically

1004
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:19.880
that gets you where you need to
be, you know. Or Buchanan's Plants

1005
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:25.279
is one of those garden centers that
you just want to take family and friends

1006
01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:28.239
too when they visit from out of
town. It's a garden center that you

1007
01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:31.680
want to go to yourself because it's
a beautiful place. I mean it is.

1008
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:36.119
It is a place that giant trees
make shopping pleasant no matter what the

1009
01:13:36.159 --> 01:13:43.720
temperature is outside. This Saturday,
September well coming up, actually it's September

1010
01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:47.199
thirtieth, from nine to noon,
the Native Plant Society is going to be

1011
01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:50.720
out there and they're gonna be talking
about natives to help customers while they shop,

1012
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:56.279
because I tell you, Buchanans is
all about native plants. I mean,

1013
01:13:56.359 --> 01:14:00.439
they have the best selection native plants
that I've ever seen, including they

1014
01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:04.199
even have a table that's natives just
from the Houston area for example. Now

1015
01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:08.199
they have way more than natives.
They got there into summer sale going on

1016
01:14:08.520 --> 01:14:12.479
select plants or fifty to seventy percent
off. You're not going to do better

1017
01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:15.640
than that. They've got the first
shipment of Mum's has come in, and

1018
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:19.479
the cool seedanuels, dianthus and snap
dragon, and then those warm seasons that

1019
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:25.000
we still need to be planning now
petunias and marigolds, miracles planted. Now

1020
01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:30.279
the spider might populations are going to
be declining, and they just are unbelievable,

1021
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.479
as well as all the fall of
veggies all there at Buchanan's Plants,

1022
01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:41.600
six to eleven East eleventh Street in
the Heights. It's you know, it's

1023
01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:44.680
just always fun to go shop at
a garden center. And I do it

1024
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:46.720
all the time. I mean,
I'm well number one because I do this

1025
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:49.199
show. I want to be out
there seeing what are the new plants that

1026
01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:53.680
they have, what's going on here? And I learned something every time I

1027
01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:58.119
go to a garden center. There's
oh, that's a fun thing about horticulture.

1028
01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:01.479
You never get through learning it is. I think it's the best hobby

1029
01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:04.119
of all time. Of course I'm
biased, but that didn't mean I'm wrong.

1030
01:15:05.399 --> 01:15:10.720
Just because you're biased doesn't mean you're
wrong. So I would highly recommend

1031
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.560
it to anybody. You're listening to
Guardenline today and we are here to answer

1032
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:19.239
your gardening questions. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

1033
01:15:19.479 --> 01:15:25.680
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

1034
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:29.279
you give Josh a call, he
will get you on the board and we

1035
01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:32.920
will talk to you when we come
back. Josh, I know, excuse

1036
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:35.960
me, garden you're out there on
hold. I'm not going to go to

1037
01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:40.520
you just yet because we have essentially
no time left, but you will be

1038
01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:44.680
first when we come back from our
break. I just want to remind you

1039
01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.479
that I will be today after the
show. I'm going to make a bee

1040
01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:54.640
line for Plantation Ace Hardware Enrichmond.
Plantation Ace Hardware in Richmond. I'll be

1041
01:15:54.720 --> 01:15:58.840
there from eleven thirty to one thirty, and I'll be answering all kinds of

1042
01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:02.880
gardening questions. Bring me samples of
the plants that you're dealing with. By

1043
01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:04.880
the way, they're going to have
a heck of a shindeg they got,

1044
01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:09.359
they got food trucks, they got
food samples, and a lot more.

1045
01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:16.800
I'm going to be giving away the
Texas three step for nitrofoskins at nitrofust Fertilizers.

1046
01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:21.319
That is a fertilizer that is a
pest control and a disease control.

1047
01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:26.720
It's all the three things you might
do in your fall landscape. That We'll

1048
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:30.760
be doing a number of those sets
of three as we go through the two

1049
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.399
hours that I'm there, so there's
plenty forever one there. They'll also be

1050
01:16:34.479 --> 01:16:43.319
giving away a Webber grittle, a
smaller Weber grittle for that barbecue and hey,

1051
01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:45.800
it's football season. You know you
got to have a little grill to

1052
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:49.199
do some burgers out there for the
game weekends. They it's just a fun

1053
01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:55.079
place to go and a lot of
quality products out there at Plantation Ace Hardware

1054
01:16:55.279 --> 01:17:02.560
in Richmond. Hey, I hope
that we will see you there. KATRH

1055
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:06.600
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

1056
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:30.960
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line
with Skip Rictor it's just watching as well.

1057
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.960
Good morning, and welcome to garden
Line. We are here to answer

1058
01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:39.039
gardening questions. We don't even allow
a little bit of bragging on you.

1059
01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:43.039
If you were one of the folks
that managed to keep your law and healthy

1060
01:17:43.079 --> 01:17:45.640
and happy hope all summer long.
First of all, hats to you for

1061
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:50.159
that, because it has been a
brutal summer. The good news is the

1062
01:17:50.159 --> 01:17:54.880
temperatures already dropping. We are and
you're gonna be down in the mid nineties

1063
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:58.359
this week. That is a welcome
refrain. People from other parts of the

1064
01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:00.319
country, think one on Earth.
If you're happy to be in the mid

1065
01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:03.920
nineties. Oh yes we are,
Oh yes, oh yes we are.

1066
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:09.840
And it cooler evenings too, which
is really important for our plants. They

1067
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:15.039
need a little break in the evening
time. So if you're interested in getting

1068
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:16.840
out and getting some plants, there
is a good Now it's a good time

1069
01:18:16.920 --> 01:18:19.720
to do it. You know,
it's time to plant. It's time to

1070
01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:24.079
plant some of our summer vegetables,
time to plant some of the warm season

1071
01:18:24.159 --> 01:18:26.600
flowers. You know, you still
put kolias in out there, you still

1072
01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:30.159
put miracle I like miracles in the
in the you know, late late late

1073
01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:33.000
summer, which we're gonna call now
late late summer. The way it's been

1074
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:38.399
going you plant them, the spider
mites populations go down. They just do

1075
01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:42.920
so well out there. The you're
gonna find petunias doing really well out there

1076
01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:46.319
too. And our CW Nursery is
just an example of one of those great

1077
01:18:46.399 --> 01:18:50.119
nurseries that we have in the community
here in the Greater Houston community. You

1078
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:56.000
can go to OURCW Nurseries dot com
and find out more information about them.

1079
01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:59.560
They're on Tambo Parkway where it comes
into Beltway eight. You've probably been by

1080
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:03.119
there before or the whims And family
has opened it up in what in nineteen

1081
01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:09.279
seventy nine and they still run the
place, and it is the kind of

1082
01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:13.159
place that is known as get it, Got it? What does that mean?

1083
01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:15.680
Well, they don't have it,
they'll do their best to find it.

1084
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:18.079
They're going to carry all the fertilizers
that I talk about here. If

1085
01:19:18.119 --> 01:19:21.520
you're looking for a rose, and
by the way, fall is a best

1086
01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:24.760
time of the year to plan a
rose. You can plan a rose any

1087
01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:27.359
time of the year, but fall
you can't beat that. They got one

1088
01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:30.760
of the biggest selections of roses that
you will find anywhere. I'm talking about

1089
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:33.439
four pages worth. Go to the
website see what I'm talking about. Look

1090
01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:38.600
at their list of roses, it
is incredibly long. They grow their own

1091
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:44.720
trees up in Madisonville. Out in
Madisonville, up near the festival grounds.

1092
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:48.760
Gosh, I can't even say the
name of the town. Oh well,

1093
01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:51.960
we'll keep going on it. They
grow their own trees fifteen gallons up to

1094
01:19:53.159 --> 01:19:57.920
two hundred gallon trees, from ornamentals
to shade trees. They've got it all

1095
01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:00.800
up there in Plannersville. That's the
what I was looking for. Now.

1096
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:06.159
They are going to be open and
available for you to come in and load

1097
01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:12.039
up Monday through Saturday eight am to
five pm. On Sundays from ten am

1098
01:20:12.079 --> 01:20:15.800
to five pm. Again, it's
RCW nurseries dot com. You need to

1099
01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:16.880
go by there and check it out. By the way, they are having

1100
01:20:17.199 --> 01:20:21.119
some really good specials going on right
now. I believe they got fifteen percent

1101
01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:26.840
off select tree shrubs and perennials,
and they also have a new selection of

1102
01:20:26.880 --> 01:20:31.399
annuals. And if you're looking for
a cool fall festival type bling, you

1103
01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:35.800
know, like a metal pumpkin,
you know, that kind of Halloween stuff,

1104
01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:40.119
but also just fall harvest stuff,
all that kind of stuff put out

1105
01:20:40.159 --> 01:20:45.439
in the yards seasonally they have got
an unbelievably cool selection of really attractive stuff

1106
01:20:45.720 --> 01:20:49.079
out oft OURCW for that as well. We're gonna go out now to the

1107
01:20:49.159 --> 01:20:56.359
cloverleaf and we're gonna talk to Gordon. Are you there, Gordon? How

1108
01:20:56.359 --> 01:20:59.079
are you doing today? I'm good? If you can turn that radio down,

1109
01:20:59.439 --> 01:21:04.640
how can we help turn it off? All right? I want I

1110
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:09.479
want to first thank you for answer
my question on my desert rose plans.

1111
01:21:09.560 --> 01:21:14.399
Last week my office turn a radio
on and there you were, all right,

1112
01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:18.000
So like to thank you on that. So my question is I have

1113
01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:24.439
every weed known a man in my
yard right now? So when does because

1114
01:21:24.479 --> 01:21:28.520
I would look for celsius all summer
and I could not find celsius anywhere,

1115
01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:32.960
as I guess because the pros bottom. But what one of these things going

1116
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:41.560
to die in the cold? Well, something like Virginia buttonweed. Okay,

1117
01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:46.560
Virginia button weed is a tough one
at this point in the season. I

1118
01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:50.840
don't know that Sprain, It's gonna
be a whole lot of good. You

1119
01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:55.479
definitely got a lot of little seeds
along those runners. And I know you

1120
01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:57.800
don't want to hear this, but
getting out there and pulling them off,

1121
01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:00.680
even if they're breaking off. At
least you're getting the seeds out of the

1122
01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:03.840
yard to kind of cut down on
it when we get back into next spring,

1123
01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:06.800
and you could treat it now if
you want it, but I think

1124
01:22:08.119 --> 01:22:11.800
the amount of good you're doing is
more minimal. When it gets into next

1125
01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:15.439
spring and you start to see it, that would be the time to pull

1126
01:22:15.439 --> 01:22:20.560
out a product like the Celsius as
an example. There are some other good

1127
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:25.680
products out that'll work on Virginia buttonweed, but you want to get on it

1128
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:29.520
early before it gets too hot and
be ready to do two, maybe even

1129
01:22:29.640 --> 01:22:33.560
three treatments with a post emergent because
that is a very difficult weed to control.

1130
01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:39.159
But catching it early before it gets
mature enough to start setting seed is

1131
01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:42.479
going to be pretty important. You
know, Bonide makes a weed beat or

1132
01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:47.079
Ultra Furtilone makes a weed free zone. Those are all gonna do a decent

1133
01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:51.239
job on Virginia buttonweed, but you
just have to watch the temperature when when

1134
01:22:51.279 --> 01:22:58.880
you're applying them. You want it
to be preferably a plan on using the

1135
01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:02.600
carbo load Nelson's fourtililes of this year. I've thought about it last year and

1136
01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:06.000
I blew it off, and I
regret it every day, but I plan

1137
01:23:06.079 --> 01:23:10.079
on doing it. And you said
in October, right, yes, definitely,

1138
01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:12.920
October is the best time to plan
it. I meant to use it.

1139
01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:14.600
I mean, it's not going to
be hard to use anytime, but

1140
01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:18.720
that's when we catch our lawns where
they're still in an active state of growth

1141
01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:23.239
and we can get the nutrients in
them. And with the carbo loads,

1142
01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:26.319
you're not going to spur a bunch
of fresh new growth, which you wouldn't

1143
01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:29.159
want to do at that time,
but you are going to get your plants

1144
01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:33.079
ready ready for the next spring for
sure. Well I replace my entire not

1145
01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:36.399
my entire, but I replace a
large amount of grass last year inside,

1146
01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:41.680
so I couldn't use things like pre
emergence. They said it would affect the

1147
01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:46.600
side. It affects reading the pre
emergence. Most of them kill the weeds

1148
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:50.840
by inhibiting the root formation. When
the weed tries to germinate, that just

1149
01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:57.680
kills it. But if you overdo
them, you can also inhibit the rooting

1150
01:23:57.800 --> 01:24:00.920
from the Saint Augustine runner trying to
go down into the ground with roots.

1151
01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:05.600
It'll also affect that when you overdo
them. And that's why we always say,

1152
01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:12.399
follow the label carefully. Pre Emergent
products they have their place and they

1153
01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:15.119
do their work, and it's easier
to prevent a weed than it is to

1154
01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:19.199
kill a weed are already growing.
But just with any chemical we use,

1155
01:24:19.199 --> 01:24:21.880
it doesn't matter what it is,
just always follow them. If I go,

1156
01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:28.000
if I go with the carbo load
plus or pre emergent, would that

1157
01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:33.760
be too much? The carbo load
has got a pre emergent in it,

1158
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:36.600
and I need to go. I
need to pull that label up, and

1159
01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:40.640
I can't remember which one it is, but I think if you do the

1160
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:44.960
carbo load, that is gonna be
your pre emergent. And I just need

1161
01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:48.720
a little time here to check check
my products to be able, I'll say

1162
01:24:48.720 --> 01:24:53.600
something, well, I'll just use
I'll just use the one then. But

1163
01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:58.199
one thing too, is what would
you recommend garden spredderby? I got this

1164
01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:03.600
Scots thing I had for like three
decades. Yes, yes, so it's

1165
01:25:03.640 --> 01:25:08.079
fine. I mean there's a lot
of spreaders and droppers out there that that

1166
01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:13.159
work. Just find the key is
operating them correctly, and go a little.

1167
01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:16.880
I usually go a little light on
the application. Usually the fertilizer products

1168
01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:20.680
will tell you the spreader settings you
need to use, but I'll go a

1169
01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:24.800
little bit light because I can always
come back over it, you know.

1170
01:25:24.880 --> 01:25:28.079
But once if you go too heavy, then you run out of fertilizer before

1171
01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:30.920
you've applied reached the whole yard.
Okay, hey, I'm gonna have to

1172
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:33.039
take up break, Gordon. If
you want to hang on that, you

1173
01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:35.800
welcome to do that, but I'm
gonna have to go to a break right

1174
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:41.359
here. Appreciate your call our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

1175
01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:45.039
eight seventy four. Well, good
morning. We are glad you're listening to

1176
01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:48.239
garden Line this morning, and here
to answer your gardening questions. By the

1177
01:25:48.279 --> 01:25:50.800
way, Gordon, you just called
in a minute ago and I had to

1178
01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:55.640
go check that to make sure before
I said something on the label. But

1179
01:25:55.960 --> 01:26:00.960
Nelson's, their carbo load product contains
prodyming, which is the same ingredient that

1180
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:03.800
you would find in barricade. So
yes, when you put the carbo load

1181
01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:09.159
down, you're also putting down that
pre emergent at the same time, and

1182
01:26:09.600 --> 01:26:13.920
that should and again that's another reason
why we do this in October, because

1183
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:19.319
that's when our cool season weeds begin
to germinate and grow October November is a

1184
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:25.359
big month. So since you're you're
doing the carbo load for your fall fertilizer,

1185
01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:29.279
I would do it early in October
just to get that product down.

1186
01:26:29.359 --> 01:26:31.960
You never know with the weather exactly
when weeds are going to germinate. We

1187
01:26:32.039 --> 01:26:35.079
know in general, but not exactly. But I would do that one early

1188
01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:40.439
on, just so you know.
It doesn't matter when you put the carbo

1189
01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:43.960
load fertilizer down, but does mend
or when you get that ingredient pro I

1190
01:26:43.960 --> 01:26:47.680
mean in it down to prevent the
wheeds. We are wanting to make sure

1191
01:26:47.720 --> 01:26:53.439
we're real clear about that so that
you have success and always follow the label

1192
01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:57.039
and do it at the right amount. You know, September is the peak

1193
01:26:57.119 --> 01:26:59.960
month for hummingbirds. I don't know
if you've got them at your house.

1194
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.760
If you've got a feeder, you
are going to see some beautiful hummingbirds coming

1195
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:06.319
through their hardy here and they're getting
ready for their trip across the Gulf of

1196
01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:14.199
Mexico. The wild Birds Unlimited stores
carry a high perch feeder. It's the

1197
01:27:14.199 --> 01:27:16.720
one I use. Actually have several
hummingbird feeders, it's my favorite one.

1198
01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:21.119
The high perch feeder from Wild birds
unlimited, four different sizes of it.

1199
01:27:21.119 --> 01:27:25.680
It's really easy. They even sell
a little cleaning brushes for cleaning it out.

1200
01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:30.560
They sell something called Nectar Defender which
extends the next nectar from one to

1201
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:34.039
two days in this heat to ten
days. Now. If you've ever put

1202
01:27:34.119 --> 01:27:38.000
sugar water out, you know it
gets bad and that's not healthy for the

1203
01:27:38.039 --> 01:27:41.720
hummingbirds. You can make your own
nectar recipe or you can buy it if

1204
01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:45.159
you want to make your own.
Four parts water, one part white table

1205
01:27:45.199 --> 01:27:49.520
sugar. Simple as that, four
parts water, one part white table shooter

1206
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:54.159
sugar. Go to a wild Birds
near you. You know, we have

1207
01:27:54.359 --> 01:27:58.880
we have fortunate to have a number
of wild birds throughout this Greater Houston area,

1208
01:27:59.159 --> 01:28:00.760
I mean, and so it's not
hard to find one in your area.

1209
01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:06.840
You can go to w b U
let's see WU dot com forward slash

1210
01:28:06.920 --> 01:28:14.159
Houston to find out more about wilbirds
near you and the hummingbird feeders and all

1211
01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:16.439
of the other things that you might
need for your birds. It is the

1212
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:21.960
one of my favorite places to go
into just because there is there's just so

1213
01:28:23.079 --> 01:28:27.920
much in there. And if you
don't think you're a bird person, go

1214
01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:31.399
into a wild birds and you suddenly
will find that you are a bird person.

1215
01:28:31.479 --> 01:28:36.680
And again WBU dot com forward slash
Houston to find your local wilbirds so

1216
01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:43.359
you can be ready for this hummingbird
season and even make more of their antics

1217
01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:45.880
available at your property than you already
have. I love to watch the hummingbirds.

1218
01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:49.600
We're gonna go out to Ronnie now
in Cyprus. Ronnie, how can

1219
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.640
we help today? Well, I
was listening to your show, great show

1220
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:59.359
all the way, and I've got
I love my banana trees in my backyard

1221
01:28:59.399 --> 01:29:03.159
there and I'm just taking it for
granted that you know, every winter I

1222
01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:06.319
cut them down and then they just
keep coming back up. I was wondering,

1223
01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:12.880
what's hope of fertilizah? How can
I feed them and make sure they

1224
01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:17.000
got the right nutrients. You know, bananas are pretty flexible when it comes

1225
01:29:17.000 --> 01:29:21.960
to fertilizers. I've used different kinds
of things on bananas from the traditional lawn

1226
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:26.880
foods too. You could use this
fall fertilizer that we're talking about. It's

1227
01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:30.640
got a lot of potassium in it
and that is always helpful for the bananas.

1228
01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:35.239
The key is, though we're going
into the winter time, probably don't

1229
01:29:35.279 --> 01:29:40.079
want to fertilize them late in the
season like this, but you once they

1230
01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:43.039
come out and wake up in the
spring, you can begin fertilizing them.

1231
01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:45.800
I would do it in small amounts
over time, watered in really well,

1232
01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:48.840
and they will do well. You
know. Occasionally we have such a mild

1233
01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:53.880
winter that our branana stalks will make
it through and you actually get a load

1234
01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:58.000
of fruit the following year. People
go to great lacks sometimes to cover them

1235
01:29:58.079 --> 01:30:03.520
up to try to accomplish that too. So what about the composting, would

1236
01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:09.359
that be good as well? Absolutely? Compost is our nature feeds the soil,

1237
01:30:09.760 --> 01:30:14.319
and so when you have compost,
you've got decomposing nutrients that were once

1238
01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:17.199
in the plants the compost was made
from, and they're going to be available.

1239
01:30:17.239 --> 01:30:19.680
So I would always keep a you
know, an inch or so a

1240
01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:25.880
compost around the bananas, spread out
in as wide areas you as you you

1241
01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:31.279
know, can esthetically accept. But
yeah, that's good, All right,

1242
01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:34.199
well I appreciate it. Thank you, you bet, thank you, Ronnie.

1243
01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:40.039
Good luck with those out there in
Cyprus. Fall is for planting,

1244
01:30:40.199 --> 01:30:44.760
and fall is for setting out our
transplants. I don't care if it's a

1245
01:30:44.880 --> 01:30:48.319
vegetable transplant, if it's a flower
transplant, if it's an herb transplant,

1246
01:30:48.359 --> 01:30:54.439
if it's a rosebush or a shrub. Has to Grow six twelve six is

1247
01:30:54.479 --> 01:30:58.399
an excellent way to get them off
to a running start. You just take

1248
01:30:58.439 --> 01:31:01.359
the has to Grow six twelve six, mix it into water, set your

1249
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:05.520
transplant, and water them in thoroughly, a good, deep, thorough soaking

1250
01:31:05.560 --> 01:31:11.479
with Hastra Grow six to six mixed
in water according to the label directions.

1251
01:31:11.800 --> 01:31:15.800
Now it's a very very low salt
formulation. You're just not going to get

1252
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:17.159
a lot of leaf burn if you
want to spray it on the plants.

1253
01:31:17.159 --> 01:31:21.640
It's got the Medina soil activator,
it's got hum humate, humic acid,

1254
01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:27.479
it's got the seaweed extracts, all
things that are stimulating for the plant.

1255
01:31:28.039 --> 01:31:32.520
Hasta Grow six twelve six. Don't
put a transplant in the ground without having

1256
01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:36.960
Hasta Grow six twelve six on hand
to give it that early boost. Fertilize

1257
01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:41.920
it at planting, fertilize it a
week later with the hashtagrow six to six.

1258
01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:44.359
And when I say fertilized, I
mean you're watering it in with the

1259
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:47.880
product. And then one more time
a week after that and you will see

1260
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:53.079
really good results as I have.
I want to go to rich now in

1261
01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:58.680
spring. How are things going,
rich doing well? Thank you? How

1262
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:03.840
can I show Regarding Scott's pro Vista
Saint Augustine, Yes, are you familiar

1263
01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:08.199
with the product? I am familiar
with the product? Yeah, what's your

1264
01:32:08.199 --> 01:32:15.239
opinion? Well? Uh it,
I mean it isn't pro Vista the one

1265
01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:19.640
that's designed to be round up ready, it's it's immune too quite full,

1266
01:32:19.720 --> 01:32:24.439
say exactly. Yeah. Well,
the reason they developed it is because when

1267
01:32:24.479 --> 01:32:27.159
you have that, then you can
just splay round up on your lawn and

1268
01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.279
kill all the weeds and not kill
the grass. I'm just not favor of

1269
01:32:30.279 --> 01:32:34.159
that approach to weeds and things.
As far as a grass, I'm sure

1270
01:32:34.279 --> 01:32:39.159
it is a decent grass. We
have a lot of other good varieties have

1271
01:32:39.199 --> 01:32:44.039
been developed in the area or the
southern region and have done really well.

1272
01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:49.000
But you know, if if that's
the route you want to go, that's

1273
01:32:49.039 --> 01:32:53.840
why they developed it. I just
I would rather choose. There's a new

1274
01:32:53.840 --> 01:32:58.000
one coming out from Texas, A
and M and I gotta find the name

1275
01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:00.119
of it. It's actually starting to
get out next year, it'll really be

1276
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:05.159
out and it is the most most
drought resistant Saint Augustine that's been developed ever.

1277
01:33:05.960 --> 01:33:10.960
It is, it's it's like as
drought resistant as Bermuda grass. It's

1278
01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:14.800
it's really a good one. And
that is the one I would go with

1279
01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:20.680
if I were gonna if I were
gonna plant a Saint Augustine grass. Okay,

1280
01:33:21.079 --> 01:33:26.920
and speaking of drought your opinion on
any product hydrotane, I don't know

1281
01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:31.279
hydrogen what's in it? Uh?
You mactans. It's not a wedding agent,

1282
01:33:31.640 --> 01:33:40.079
and you know allegedly, you know, it draws moisture from the ground,

1283
01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:44.600
circles around the roots of the grass, and gets more water that way,

1284
01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:46.560
is what they're selling. Yeah,
I don't know if it's snake oil

1285
01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:50.600
or if it's working, you know. Yeah, poh boy, I don't

1286
01:33:50.600 --> 01:33:59.760
know. That's m hmm. That's
a little bit sounds fishy to me.

1287
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:03.119
But not knowing the product or using
the product, I don't want to I

1288
01:34:03.159 --> 01:34:08.840
don't want to say it won't work. I just uh that I'd like to

1289
01:34:08.840 --> 01:34:11.800
know a little more about it.
Maybe maybe it has some of those uh

1290
01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:16.399
polymer crystals that draw water in I
don't know what else, what the mechanism

1291
01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:19.039
is. I really need to look
at the label to know for sure.

1292
01:34:19.079 --> 01:34:21.359
So I don't want to I don't
want to speak when I don't know,

1293
01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:28.079
and I don't know. I have
applied it. I applied it about a

1294
01:34:28.079 --> 01:34:30.800
week ago, so you know,
not much of data to go buy.

1295
01:34:30.039 --> 01:34:32.760
Yeah, all I know is it
didn't it didn't kill the grass yet.

1296
01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:36.840
And with the water restrictions we're under
here in spring, we only get to

1297
01:34:36.880 --> 01:34:44.680
water twice a week, and my
grass is totally green. Well, you

1298
01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:46.279
know, I mean it, if
it works, it works. So if

1299
01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:49.920
you're having good luck with it,
then I don't see right why you wouldn't

1300
01:34:50.239 --> 01:34:55.159
why you wouldn't do that as well. I think that that new saying Augustine,

1301
01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:59.640
by the way, is called Cobalt
Cooba lt. Like the Well,

1302
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:02.079
okay, and I'll look into that
app it's gonna be it's gonna be a

1303
01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:04.399
little hard to find, but it'll
be worth well worth looking for. We

1304
01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:06.960
got a lot of the good grasses
out there too as well. All right,

1305
01:35:08.520 --> 01:35:12.000
that was great, thank you.
You bet you take care, You

1306
01:35:12.079 --> 01:35:14.520
take care. You know, if
you're looking for a place that has ever

1307
01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:16.680
product you need, that is ACE
hardware. I mean, it's as simple

1308
01:35:16.720 --> 01:35:20.720
as that. I'm just talking to
one of my kids this week that lives

1309
01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:26.000
up in the DC area and they
love going to their Ace Hardware and they

1310
01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:28.960
were telling me, you know,
you can buy jewelry there and kinds of

1311
01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.359
stuff. Ace Hardware has everything you
need for your lawn, your garden,

1312
01:35:32.439 --> 01:35:38.399
your landscape for the lawn. All
the fertilizers, the quality fertilizers you recommend,

1313
01:35:38.560 --> 01:35:42.640
every product you put on the lawn
to control weeds, to control diseases,

1314
01:35:42.680 --> 01:35:45.159
to control insects, is going to
be an Ace Hardware Plus. ACE

1315
01:35:45.239 --> 01:35:48.800
Hardware is a hardware store. They
have everything you would expect from a hardware

1316
01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:54.159
store, and like an old time
hardware store, they have staff that knows

1317
01:35:54.199 --> 01:35:58.439
what they're talking about, that friendly
staff that greets you and help you find

1318
01:35:58.520 --> 01:36:01.399
what you need. You can go
to Ace Hardware dot com and look for

1319
01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:06.600
their store locator to find one of
the thirty nine Ace Hardware's near you are.

1320
01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:12.880
Just join me today a plantation Ace
Hardware out in Richmond between eleven thirty

1321
01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:15.560
and one thirty. I'll be there
answering questions and giving away some free nitro

1322
01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:21.159
phost fertilizer as well. Let's see, we're gonna we're gonna go, Uh,

1323
01:36:21.800 --> 01:36:25.680
Paula, we are running out of
time here. I'm gonna have to

1324
01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:30.920
hold you over and come to you
during the next hour after we get through

1325
01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:35.399
with the news break here. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

1326
01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:42.279
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

1327
01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:45.520
And I do want to mention you
again, just as I have earlier

1328
01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:48.399
today, that the new lawncare schedule
is out and you can find it at

1329
01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:56.000
Skip Richter. It's actually gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot

1330
01:36:56.039 --> 01:36:59.840
com the fertilizers you need and when
to apply them, how to mow,

1331
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.439
how to water, how to fertilize, how to aerate, window, apply

1332
01:37:02.520 --> 01:37:06.039
the trades mental all there on that
schedule. We'll be right back, but

1333
01:37:06.119 --> 01:37:10.600
now we're going to turn it over
the NICKI News Network. Well, good

1334
01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:14.039
morning, and a good day for
gardening. Yes, I know a training

1335
01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:16.359
in some places, it's always a
good day for gardening. You can garden

1336
01:37:16.439 --> 01:37:19.560
inside. You can start your fall
transplants. By the way, it's a

1337
01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:24.560
time now. If you're going to
grow your own transplants from seed, you

1338
01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:28.399
can do that right now. Getting
ready for the cool season. Garden broccoli,

1339
01:37:28.479 --> 01:37:30.680
cabbage, cauliflower, cale, robbie, all that kind of stuff.

1340
01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:34.960
You can even begin pretty soon here
we can begin planting things like spinach and

1341
01:37:35.039 --> 01:37:41.640
lettuce for transplanting outside. It is
always a good day for gardening no matter

1342
01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:45.119
where you are. You know,
speaking of a good day for gardening.

1343
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:47.800
If you live out in the Kingwood
area, you know you are rich with

1344
01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:51.760
garden centers out there. You've got
Warrens and you've got Kingwood Garden Center for

1345
01:37:51.800 --> 01:37:56.479
example, you're not. You just
it's always a pleasure to go this.

1346
01:37:56.680 --> 01:38:02.840
I love walking around because every time
i'm I'm really just so pleasantly surprised by

1347
01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:08.680
the amount of color, the amount
of trees and plants and everything you could

1348
01:38:08.680 --> 01:38:12.720
need. When we're talking about pottery, maybe you're talking about, you know,

1349
01:38:12.760 --> 01:38:16.800
a specific kind of vegetable or flour
or product that you need. They

1350
01:38:16.920 --> 01:38:21.359
carry the products that we are looking
for when we're going out to have success

1351
01:38:21.399 --> 01:38:26.199
with our landscape out there. They're
starting to get in some of the cooler

1352
01:38:26.239 --> 01:38:29.439
season. I see a little dianthus
going on out there, but plenty of

1353
01:38:29.479 --> 01:38:33.000
the good warm season things that we
can continue to plan out at Kingwood Garden

1354
01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:36.840
Center. Out at Warren's Garden Center
makes it really easy to shop. I

1355
01:38:36.840 --> 01:38:41.079
know, the good selection of colius. Always a good time to put some

1356
01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:45.279
colius in during the warm season because
they make such a great great color.

1357
01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:48.680
You know, there's two ways to
have color. One is blooms, which

1358
01:38:49.239 --> 01:38:53.720
are a more challenging way you have
to change in through the seasons. The

1359
01:38:53.760 --> 01:38:58.880
other's foliage. Summertime and foliage really
go together well. Out at Kingwood,

1360
01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:02.800
they've got some really new combo plantings
that are the very nice out there.

1361
01:39:03.079 --> 01:39:08.079
You're going to find things like a
coolius and little firecracker plant, and some

1362
01:39:08.359 --> 01:39:12.960
linear foliage like we like to add
in our compost plantings, some of the

1363
01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:16.359
house plants. Their garden seed rack. It's worth going to Kingwood Garden Center

1364
01:39:16.439 --> 01:39:21.760
just to see the garden seed rack. Unbelievable selection of seed and now's the

1365
01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:26.399
time to get them because we're going
to be planning all kinds of cool season

1366
01:39:26.760 --> 01:39:30.600
both flowers and vegetables for a good
while. Speaking of vegetables, they got

1367
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:34.880
a really good selection of vegetables all
out there at the Kingwood Garden Center and

1368
01:39:34.960 --> 01:39:40.560
of course over at the Warren's Garden
Center as well. Don't forget at Kingwood

1369
01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:44.840
they are going to have their Garden
to Glass Mixology, which is the fall

1370
01:39:44.920 --> 01:39:49.680
end to Prosecco event. That's on
September twenty feet at six pm. September

1371
01:39:49.720 --> 01:39:55.520
twenty first, at six pm,
you will learn how to craft exquisite cocktails

1372
01:39:55.600 --> 01:40:00.720
with prosecco using fresh herbs harvested straight
from the garden. So they're gonna teach

1373
01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:01.680
you how to grow the herbs,
how to harvest them, and how to

1374
01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:06.319
infuse those spirits. It's their gartending
class, as they say. Now,

1375
01:40:06.399 --> 01:40:13.920
just go to Kingwood Garden Center dot
com or give McCall and make sure you

1376
01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:16.600
get signed up for that class.
It sounds like a lot of fun.

1377
01:40:18.119 --> 01:40:23.000
Let's head out to Northwest Houston now
and we're gonna talk to Paula. Hey,

1378
01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:29.399
Paula, good morning. I've had
fastbike plants for years and I can

1379
01:40:29.439 --> 01:40:32.239
always tell when it's time for the
hummingbirds to come because it's starts blooming.

1380
01:40:32.399 --> 01:40:35.479
Yeah. I mean it may be
bloom earlier or maybe in bloomed later,

1381
01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:42.640
but it always blooms until this year. Boy, I don't see any buds

1382
01:40:42.680 --> 01:40:47.399
on it. Nothing. I've never
happened to me before. And I and

1383
01:40:48.279 --> 01:40:56.840
I was fertilized with microlife ever spring, so its head continuous feeding through the

1384
01:40:56.920 --> 01:41:00.199
years. Yeah, but I don't
know if we had I don't know if

1385
01:41:00.199 --> 01:41:03.279
you remember, we're some years back. I don't remember what year it was

1386
01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:08.680
that the temperatures got up to like
one hundred and seven. Yes, and

1387
01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:13.840
but it still blooms in this is
so I don't know if it is.

1388
01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:16.600
I'm doubtful as the heat. Do
you have any ideas well, that's a

1389
01:41:16.600 --> 01:41:23.079
good question. I do not have
that problem ever with fire spikes, as

1390
01:41:23.159 --> 01:41:27.840
you haven't. This is a new
thing now when a planet don't bloom.

1391
01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:30.600
The natural things we go through is
okay, it was stressed, not just

1392
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:34.159
the heat, but maybe drought something
held it back a little bit. Or

1393
01:41:34.199 --> 01:41:39.239
the more common thing is it's not
getting enough sunlights. It takes light to

1394
01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:44.520
mente. But fire spike is a
very shade tolerant plant. So right,

1395
01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:47.479
I'm saying that the things I normally
would go to and hey, my plant

1396
01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:51.800
isn't blooming, situation is not really
going to apply here. I'm assuming you

1397
01:41:51.880 --> 01:41:57.039
can now have four of them,
so so it's not dislike one plant.

1398
01:41:57.279 --> 01:42:01.159
And also I cut some rootings for
my neighbor, so my neighbor has a

1399
01:42:01.199 --> 01:42:05.079
fire spike and hers is not blooming
either, So well, maybe that's where

1400
01:42:05.079 --> 01:42:08.439
all live. I don't know.
Well, I don't know. That's that

1401
01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:13.560
is very unusual. I mean,
it's gonna be. It's gonna somehow be

1402
01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:19.439
climate weather invade related. I know
they can take heat. I know they

1403
01:42:19.439 --> 01:42:23.600
can take some shade, but they
need a bright shade to do really well.

1404
01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:26.800
They don't need a deep, deep, deep shade. Uh. And

1405
01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.560
they need adequate moisture. One thing
that happened to my plants this year is

1406
01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:36.600
it was so hot and that they
were having trouble pumping water fast enough.

1407
01:42:36.640 --> 01:42:41.520
They would wilt during the day and
then they would recover in the day when

1408
01:42:41.520 --> 01:42:44.920
they were able to get a job. Yeah, might have been wilting.

1409
01:42:45.000 --> 01:42:47.279
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
I don't know, Paula that that's my

1410
01:42:47.319 --> 01:42:50.840
best shot. Probably that's my best
shot that I can just tell you that

1411
01:42:51.279 --> 01:42:56.560
this is not a normal fire fire
spike problem, as you know. As

1412
01:42:56.600 --> 01:43:00.520
you know, good luck, be
patient with them. If hummingbird shut up,

1413
01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:02.039
make sure they have a feeder and
say the fire spikes are on hole,

1414
01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:09.600
they'll become shortly. I've got seven
figures up on now. Love to

1415
01:43:09.600 --> 01:43:12.079
go out and listen to them fuss
at each other. Hey, thank you

1416
01:43:12.119 --> 01:43:15.800
for that. I approach by you. Take care bye bye bye bye.

1417
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:19.760
If you live down south of town, you know how I talk about you

1418
01:43:19.800 --> 01:43:25.479
gotta take care of your soil.
Snamultch is your place. Snamultch is near

1419
01:43:25.560 --> 01:43:29.359
Highway six and two eighty eight north
of Roe Shar and it's on FM five

1420
01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:32.319
twenty one. So all you folks
out in first Colony and pair Land and

1421
01:43:32.600 --> 01:43:38.119
now near Brasspin State Park or maybe
Sandy Point are cola. I will call

1422
01:43:38.159 --> 01:43:42.000
them. They're your local and you
are fortunate to have them. By the

1423
01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:45.640
way, that'd be What place worth
driving to is CNA Maltch because they're quality

1424
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:50.720
mulch, quality soil products. This
could be composts, this could be blends,

1425
01:43:50.720 --> 01:43:55.880
either bulk or by the bag.
If I talk about a fertilizer here,

1426
01:43:56.159 --> 01:44:00.159
they are going to have them all
in stock there at sea in a

1427
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:01.920
Malch. It's a one stop shop
for all of that. They're open Monday

1428
01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:06.119
through Friday, seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed

1429
01:44:06.119 --> 01:44:11.399
Sunday, So today'd be a good
day to get out there. Sienna Mulch

1430
01:44:11.720 --> 01:44:16.079
dot com. Just remember that Sienna
Mulch dot com. You'll be very impressed.

1431
01:44:16.119 --> 01:44:18.640
And oh, by the way,
be careful because if you look over

1432
01:44:18.680 --> 01:44:24.439
and see all the flagstones and rock
products, you will be inventing new patios

1433
01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:28.119
because you just have to have that
stone in your yard. It's that gorgeous.

1434
01:44:28.159 --> 01:44:31.640
I've had those same thoughts myself being
out there. Let's go to Pasadena

1435
01:44:31.720 --> 01:44:35.199
and we're gonna talk to Greg.
Hello. Greg, Yes, sir,

1436
01:44:36.600 --> 01:44:43.279
got to get some advice and your
expertise on ground preparations for laying down U

1437
01:44:43.399 --> 01:44:45.760
sad, I'm pretty much down to
bare ground, filled up all the old

1438
01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:51.520
grass weeds along with it, had
long service, kind of overseated build my

1439
01:44:51.640 --> 01:44:57.520
Santa I'm seen, had some kind
of other grass growing in its place,

1440
01:44:57.720 --> 01:45:02.479
and just ugly ugly. Yeah,
I got it awful bare ground right now

1441
01:45:03.159 --> 01:45:10.880
thinking of killing. Somebody said sand
and dirt mixed combination. But then somebody

1442
01:45:10.920 --> 01:45:14.039
said, no'll just sand as you're
at bare ground right now with a little

1443
01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:17.239
chilling. So yeah, I wouldn't
say yep, I wouldn't say you need

1444
01:45:17.319 --> 01:45:19.520
sand, you know, I don't. I'm not there, you know,

1445
01:45:19.600 --> 01:45:24.720
reaching down and grabbing a handful of
your soil or anything. But in general,

1446
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:27.840
we don't add sam before we plant
side. It won't hurt, but

1447
01:45:27.920 --> 01:45:31.159
it's probably not worth it to mess
with that. I would mix up the

1448
01:45:31.199 --> 01:45:34.399
soil. I'd mix a little bit
of compost and if you can. Often

1449
01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:38.800
there's too many tree ridge to do
that. But if you mix a little

1450
01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:42.479
bit of compost into the surface,
loosen it up. Before you lay the

1451
01:45:42.520 --> 01:45:45.399
side, you want to water it
well about two days before to get that

1452
01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:49.680
moisture down in the soil because when
the roots grow down, we want them

1453
01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:55.119
to help moist soil, not dry
soil. Then lay level it out where

1454
01:45:55.119 --> 01:45:59.399
it's nice and smooth and level buy
your side, lay it down, press

1455
01:45:59.439 --> 01:46:01.199
it down to the soil, watered
about once a day for a week,

1456
01:46:01.399 --> 01:46:05.199
very lightly, and then every other
day for another week, and then it'll

1457
01:46:05.239 --> 01:46:08.800
be in good shape. By about
three weeks. You're ready to go ahead

1458
01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:12.960
and fertilize. So get that done
sooner rather than later, because we're running

1459
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:16.079
out of time. Eventually, it's
going to be late October and November and

1460
01:46:16.119 --> 01:46:18.920
the root growth is slowing down,
and you want to get all this done

1461
01:46:18.960 --> 01:46:24.079
ahead of time. Yeah. I
kind of held up on it a little

1462
01:46:24.119 --> 01:46:26.800
bit because of the extreme meat.
We were at. Yeah, back,

1463
01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:30.920
you know its ideal between seventy five
and ninety degree. Yeah, you're right,

1464
01:46:30.079 --> 01:46:32.239
You're right. Hey, Greg,
I'm gonna have to run to a

1465
01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.680
break here. I appreciate your call
very much. Thank you. Our phone

1466
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:41.079
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

1467
01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:45.520
good morning, welcome to garden Line. Well I'm excited right now. I

1468
01:46:45.520 --> 01:46:49.079
mean, I do you feel like
I do? This has been a summer

1469
01:46:49.399 --> 01:46:55.760
that I would love to forget,
so hot, so dry, incredibly incredibly

1470
01:46:55.800 --> 01:46:59.199
miserable weather out there, and it
is changing. We can already feel a

1471
01:46:59.239 --> 01:47:01.640
walk outside right now, see what
you feel? It is different. And

1472
01:47:01.720 --> 01:47:08.800
this is just the beginning. Rain
will return, cooled temperatures will return,

1473
01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:13.439
will regain that hope we have as
gardeners to get fresh new growth in the

1474
01:47:13.479 --> 01:47:18.399
ground, vegetables and flowers and herbs
and lawns and trees and shrubs. It's

1475
01:47:18.600 --> 01:47:24.640
all ready to come back. This
is what we would call this what the

1476
01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:30.680
precipice of wonderfulness coming up in the
gardening world. EBB so lutly. Hey,

1477
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:32.600
by the way, when we're taking
care of our lawns, I always

1478
01:47:32.600 --> 01:47:38.239
talk about now the fall fertilization,
the importance of putting down a higher potassium

1479
01:47:38.279 --> 01:47:43.600
fertilizer for the fall season. But
another thing that our plants need is the

1480
01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:47.640
micro's, the trace elements. Even
though they're needed in tiny, tiny amounts,

1481
01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:54.279
they are absolutely essential on the plants
can't grow without every single nutrient that

1482
01:47:54.399 --> 01:47:59.279
is considered an essential nutrient, and
there's about twenty of those things that are

1483
01:47:59.399 --> 01:48:02.760
essential, and a product like azamite
does just that. If you'll learn more

1484
01:48:02.760 --> 01:48:06.359
about it, go to Azamite Texas
dot com, A z O M I

1485
01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:11.680
te Texas dot com and you can
find about their products. I would put

1486
01:48:11.720 --> 01:48:14.159
them on in the launch. If
you haven't done it this year, go

1487
01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:16.399
ahead. Now's a good time to
get that out. You don't have to

1488
01:48:16.439 --> 01:48:19.680
put it out at exactly the same
time you've fertilize, or you can do

1489
01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:23.960
the azamite and then right away just
put the fertilizer out. It's up to

1490
01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:27.439
you which way you want to go. But consider using that azamite. And

1491
01:48:27.479 --> 01:48:30.560
if you've got a food garden where
you're consuming the food out of the garden,

1492
01:48:30.880 --> 01:48:35.920
you definitely want all those micros available
for optimum health in the kind of

1493
01:48:35.920 --> 01:48:41.279
produce that you're producing for your family
to consume. Well, we're gonna go

1494
01:48:41.319 --> 01:48:45.000
out now to Beaumont and talk to
Donna. Hello, Donna, I skip.

1495
01:48:46.159 --> 01:48:49.159
I was been listening a couple of
weeks ago, and I heard something

1496
01:48:49.239 --> 01:48:56.800
about a product that I could put
on quite myrtle trees to kill them.

1497
01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:00.319
My friend up in Holtham City has
a swimming pool in a new house that

1498
01:49:00.399 --> 01:49:03.239
she moved into, and for some
reason, they planted crape myrtles around the

1499
01:49:03.239 --> 01:49:10.199
swimming pool. And you can imagine
all the stuff that's constantly going into their

1500
01:49:10.199 --> 01:49:13.479
swimming pool. Okay, and so
she really needs to get rid of them,

1501
01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:15.399
and I just wondered what you recommend. All right. I got two

1502
01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:19.560
suggestions. First of all, I
hate to kill crape myrtles or beautiful trees.

1503
01:49:20.279 --> 01:49:26.479
So one option would be to wait
until about late October early November,

1504
01:49:27.159 --> 01:49:30.880
have somebody come in, dig those
things up and move them to another location

1505
01:49:30.039 --> 01:49:33.239
where they're not going to drop leaves
in the pool, so or give them

1506
01:49:33.239 --> 01:49:39.680
to somebody else to plant. If
they're not really large, that's doable.

1507
01:49:39.720 --> 01:49:43.000
If they're large crape myrtles, then
that's not practical. But I just throw

1508
01:49:43.079 --> 01:49:45.960
that out there, is you know
Hey, maybe you want to consider that.

1509
01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:48.079
If you want to flat kill them, you want to cut them off.

1510
01:49:49.319 --> 01:49:53.680
I would cut them off just a
foot or two above the ground because

1511
01:49:53.720 --> 01:49:56.880
you need something when you're trying to
pull that root out of there and you

1512
01:49:56.920 --> 01:49:59.960
know, grub it out or whatever
you're going to do, you need something

1513
01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:04.079
grab onto. But when you cut
them off immediately, not the next day,

1514
01:50:04.119 --> 01:50:09.960
but immediately on that fresh wound.
You want to paint a product that

1515
01:50:10.039 --> 01:50:16.560
contains triclopier t R I C l
O P y R. We're not spraying

1516
01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.880
it out everywhere. We're not putting
it all on the soil. We're just

1517
01:50:20.039 --> 01:50:25.840
taking those little fresh cut surfaces with
a little sponge. When of those little

1518
01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:30.279
sponge paintbrush things that are made out
of a sponge and using the straight tracolo

1519
01:50:30.319 --> 01:50:33.159
pier, just go straight on this
dabit right on there. It will go

1520
01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:36.600
down in the plant and it will
kill it. Now, with a very

1521
01:50:36.720 --> 01:50:41.560
large plant, you may have a
resprout that you have to also a retreat.

1522
01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:45.880
Sometimes one is not enough, but
in general, if you do lots

1523
01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:48.159
of cuts and get that triclopier down
in the plant by putting them on the

1524
01:50:48.199 --> 01:50:55.359
fresh cut, it'll take it out. Okay, Okay, I will pass

1525
01:50:55.399 --> 01:50:57.800
this on to her. Thank you
so much. All right, so you're

1526
01:50:57.840 --> 01:51:00.920
asking you really are asking for a
friend. Yes, yes, I was

1527
01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:04.600
up in her house a couple of
weeks ago when she was complaining about how

1528
01:51:04.680 --> 01:51:09.560
these things are always a new suit
star. Okay, thank you so much,

1529
01:51:09.680 --> 01:51:12.960
Kip you bet, thank you very
much. Hey, it is fall

1530
01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:16.640
fertilizing season just around the corner.
I mean when we get to late September

1531
01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:20.119
for those of you further up north, or the month of October for anywhere

1532
01:51:20.119 --> 01:51:25.119
in the listening area. You want
to put down your fall application of fertilizer,

1533
01:51:25.239 --> 01:51:29.479
and that is carbo Load from Nelson's
Plant Food. Carbo Load is at

1534
01:51:29.560 --> 01:51:34.640
ten ten twenties. It's got that
high amount of potassium compared to phosphorus.

1535
01:51:34.640 --> 01:51:38.479
Normally we're the other way around.
Through the year. We're doing three one

1536
01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:42.359
two kinds of ratio. When it
comes to fall, you want the potassium

1537
01:51:42.399 --> 01:51:45.640
to come up, the nitrogen to
go down. Carbo Load does all that.

1538
01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:49.039
And the Nitrofists has the color Star
line of fertilizers, the Nutrostar line

1539
01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:54.800
of fertilizers, and their organic line, the Nature Star fertilizers all available,

1540
01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:59.760
I said, nitrofis I'm at Nelson's. Excuse me, Nelson Fertilizer's available a

1541
01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:03.159
lot of places here in the Greater
Houston area. You can find them in

1542
01:52:03.239 --> 01:52:10.319
home in garden centers. It's not
that difficult to find the nitro. Excuse

1543
01:52:10.359 --> 01:52:15.039
me, Nelson plant food, Josh, I think I need a fresh coke

1544
01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:19.159
or some caffeine in here to get
my brain restarted again. Oh my gosh,

1545
01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:26.960
carbo load from Nelson's outstanding fertilizer for
fall application. Go ahead and buy

1546
01:52:27.000 --> 01:52:30.279
some, get it on hand,
because you're gonna need it and you're gonna

1547
01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:32.159
want to apply it. When you
do that, it's like and a freeze

1548
01:52:32.159 --> 01:52:38.199
for your plant to have success.
Let's see, we're gonna go out now

1549
01:52:38.279 --> 01:52:42.000
to Oh. I'm gonna running out
of time here, Fred, I'm gonna

1550
01:52:42.039 --> 01:52:45.039
have to put you off until the
next hour. But just hang on.

1551
01:52:45.800 --> 01:52:48.520
Hey, if you haven't been out
to the Antique Rosenpourium, you gotta go.

1552
01:52:48.680 --> 01:52:53.520
They're up there in the Branhamry just
north of Branham up in Independence,

1553
01:52:53.560 --> 01:52:58.560
Texas. Antique Rose Emporium dot Com
is a website. The phone number nine

1554
01:52:58.720 --> 01:53:02.600
seven nine eight, three, fifty
five, forty eight. Now they specialize

1555
01:53:02.600 --> 01:53:08.880
in antique roses, unbelievable selection of
those. You can come out and see

1556
01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:13.640
them anytime. They're open on the
weekends. They are roses and so much

1557
01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:18.800
more quality, drought tolerant, perennials, native plants, herbs, a wonderful

1558
01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:24.039
gift shop. It's always a good
time to go out to the Antique Rose

1559
01:53:24.119 --> 01:53:29.640
Impourim again. Call them three seven, excuse me nine seven nine eight,

1560
01:53:29.760 --> 01:53:34.159
three six five five four eight,
or just visit them at the Antique Rose

1561
01:53:34.359 --> 01:53:39.560
Emporium dot com. They have a
Fall Festival of Roses coming up at the

1562
01:53:39.640 --> 01:53:43.720
Antique and Rose Impourim. They'll be
this I guess later this month, the

1563
01:53:43.800 --> 01:53:46.880
Fall Festival of Roses, and it
is a wonderful time. There are a

1564
01:53:46.880 --> 01:53:50.720
lot of good speakers, a lot
of good speakers that you can go to

1565
01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:57.479
go there and hear just a lot
of wonderful things going on during that fall

1566
01:53:57.520 --> 01:54:00.039
festival time. You definitely want to
go out and check them out. It's

1567
01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:04.319
always a good time to go out
to the Antique Rows Emporium. But yeah,

1568
01:54:04.479 --> 01:54:08.079
that fall fest was a great time
to get out there and enjoy it

1569
01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:10.720
and do that. Hey, you're
listening to Guardline. We're gonna take a

1570
01:54:10.760 --> 01:54:14.560
little break and we will be back. Fred your first up if you want

1571
01:54:14.560 --> 01:54:19.079
to give us a call. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1572
01:54:19.079 --> 01:54:23.520
four. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Just another

1573
01:54:23.560 --> 01:54:27.680
reminder. I'm going to be a
plantation ace Hardware today from eleven thirty to

1574
01:54:27.760 --> 01:54:30.439
one thirty, and I'll be answering
your gardening questions. I hope you come

1575
01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:34.159
out, love to meet you.
Bring me some samples of plants to identify

1576
01:54:34.319 --> 01:54:39.319
or to diagnose problems. Maybe a
bug and a bag would be another thing

1577
01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:41.720
you could bring in. We'll take
a look at it, or some photos

1578
01:54:41.720 --> 01:54:45.520
of your landscape of flat questions.
Just make sure when you get a photo

1579
01:54:45.640 --> 01:54:50.119
up in good close up and a
good sharp focus. That is most important

1580
01:54:50.159 --> 01:54:53.960
for us to be able to help
you. I'm will be giving away the

1581
01:54:54.159 --> 01:55:00.279
Texas three Steps set of fertilizer,
disease control and pest control from Nitroposts several

1582
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:04.079
times during my two hours out there. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

1583
01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:11.079
any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden

1584
01:55:11.159 --> 01:55:27.840
line with skip rictor. It's crazy
just watching as a wood loading. Well.

1585
01:55:28.000 --> 01:55:32.640
Good morning, good morning, this
is a great day to get out

1586
01:55:32.680 --> 01:55:36.359
in garden, walk outside, feel
the air. There's a difference. Fall

1587
01:55:36.399 --> 01:55:40.159
has become here. We go,
let's have fun. Hey, by the

1588
01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:42.880
way, while I go, we're
talking about the Anti gros Poim and the

1589
01:55:42.880 --> 01:55:45.039
Fall Festival Roses. I didn't give
you a date for that. That is

1590
01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:50.720
November third, fourth and fifth,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November third,

1591
01:55:50.880 --> 01:55:55.840
fourth and fifth. Go to the
Anti Crosenpoim dot com website and you

1592
01:55:55.880 --> 01:55:59.399
will find out more about that.
And it is always a blast when they

1593
01:55:59.399 --> 01:56:03.199
have at one of the shinn't eggs
out of the Antique rose Emporium. You

1594
01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:09.199
know, we talk about our great
nurseries. We brag on our great nurseries

1595
01:56:09.199 --> 01:56:14.239
all the time. And the Enchanted
Forest down in the Richmond area is one

1596
01:56:14.279 --> 01:56:16.760
of those places you got to go
to. It's absolutely enchanting to go out

1597
01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:20.840
there, big beautiful trees. Fun
to go out and shop in the shade

1598
01:56:20.880 --> 01:56:27.359
and enjoy that they carry all kinds
of plants that the kinds of things you're

1599
01:56:27.399 --> 01:56:30.960
looking for, everything for vegetables to
flowers to herbs to some house plants.

1600
01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:33.560
They've got great trees and shrubs.
In fact, they've just got a new

1601
01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:39.119
shipment of shrubs and trees and fall
flowers in the other day, and so

1602
01:56:39.239 --> 01:56:43.079
this is a good time to get
those kinds of things purchased and ready to

1603
01:56:43.119 --> 01:56:45.159
go out in the garden. They've
got good fall to core and there's more

1604
01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:48.399
coming, by the way, lots
of you need to check back about every

1605
01:56:48.399 --> 01:56:53.560
week because there's always something new coming
in out there. This fallen Enchanted for

1606
01:56:53.760 --> 01:56:57.000
us. Now we're a couple of
weeks away from the arrival of the pumpkins.

1607
01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:00.159
That's always fun. Of course,
there's moms and more cool season vegetables

1608
01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:04.800
coming in. Danny and Clay and
the whole team out there and Enchanted.

1609
01:57:04.840 --> 01:57:09.359
They know what they're talking about.
They guide you, they help you.

1610
01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:12.359
If you need someone to take you
over and show you a plant, hell

1611
01:57:12.399 --> 01:57:15.000
you out a planet, they take
time to do that. Knowledgeable staff,

1612
01:57:15.159 --> 01:57:19.039
they know what they're talking about.
They are there to serve the customer.

1613
01:57:19.199 --> 01:57:24.359
And when you go that's exactly the
experience you're gonna have now, Enchanted Forest.

1614
01:57:24.479 --> 01:57:28.479
If you're in Richmond, you're heading
up toward Sugarland direction. They're off

1615
01:57:28.479 --> 01:57:30.960
to the right, to the south
of fifty nine. Not hard to find

1616
01:57:31.039 --> 01:57:36.720
at all, but definitely well worth
the trump. We are now going to

1617
01:57:36.800 --> 01:57:44.319
go talk to Fred in Sugarland.
Hello, Fred, Hello, Fredd.

1618
01:57:44.319 --> 01:57:47.920
Are you there all right? I'm
gonna put Fred on hold. Fred will

1619
01:57:47.920 --> 01:57:50.479
come back to you, Josh.
We can figure out how we get him

1620
01:57:50.479 --> 01:57:56.079
back. Now we're going to go
to Frank in northwest Houston. Good morning,

1621
01:57:56.119 --> 01:58:00.600
Frank, Good morning Skip. I
have a from a fifteen hundred square

1622
01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:08.960
foot back yard I laid resought in
the early spring. Okay, I don't

1623
01:58:08.960 --> 01:58:13.960
know if the graph is uh,
it looks dead, okay, and I

1624
01:58:14.039 --> 01:58:18.079
need a turnkey company's come in and
resought the whole area about fifteen hundred square

1625
01:58:18.079 --> 01:58:26.039
feet. Yeah, yeah, do
you is it Saint Augustine? Yes?

1626
01:58:27.079 --> 01:58:30.159
Well, if I were you,
you may have already done this, but

1627
01:58:30.199 --> 01:58:31.399
I'd get out there on my hands
and knees. Look around a little bit.

1628
01:58:31.479 --> 01:58:34.960
Make sure those runners are dead,
not just the leaves burned back.

1629
01:58:35.680 --> 01:58:39.359
If you've got some green left in
it, and he gets some water and

1630
01:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.399
a little furlizer, it's gonna it's
gonna bounce back. But if it is

1631
01:58:42.439 --> 01:58:45.680
dead, and you do need the
turnkey as you're talking about, then I

1632
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:50.000
would recommend you you just call the
folks at Peer Scapes and see see what

1633
01:58:50.039 --> 01:58:53.640
they can do for you out there. I believe they do that kind of

1634
01:58:53.640 --> 01:58:56.760
work as well. You know,
they're into designing and things, but I

1635
01:58:56.800 --> 01:59:00.039
believe they may do some installations like
that, So I would I would give

1636
01:59:00.079 --> 01:59:04.920
them a shot and just just see
because I definitely think, you know,

1637
01:59:05.079 --> 01:59:10.600
I need to just scrape it all
up, bring in new fawd and relay,

1638
01:59:10.680 --> 01:59:14.479
I mean new dirt and relays.
Okay, well, if that's what

1639
01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:16.279
you want to do, then I
would That's exactly what I would do.

1640
01:59:16.319 --> 01:59:20.279
I would get out there and I
would get all of the you know,

1641
01:59:20.319 --> 01:59:24.439
the old dead grass out of the
way, do any kind of a prep

1642
01:59:24.479 --> 01:59:27.439
of the soil you might need to
do to get ready to go for planting,

1643
01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:31.119
and then get it planting. But
don't don't delay on that because when

1644
01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:35.760
you delay, we're going to hit
the season where the root growth is just

1645
01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:39.000
not what it used to be.
You know, once we get into late

1646
01:59:39.039 --> 01:59:43.079
October and November. It's better to
get all this done well ahead of time.

1647
01:59:43.399 --> 01:59:45.680
Now, pier Escapes, let me
give you a phone number for them.

1648
01:59:45.720 --> 01:59:51.279
They are two eight one three seven
zero five zero six zero two eight

1649
01:59:51.359 --> 01:59:59.439
one three seven zero five zero six
zero. They do all kinds of landscape

1650
01:59:59.479 --> 02:00:02.640
stuff. But they'll take all the
dead grats out and put more thought in

1651
02:00:02.720 --> 02:00:05.880
there and then lay that's I mean, the more dirt and then put the

1652
02:00:05.880 --> 02:00:10.359
fog down. Yeah, you may
or may not need more dirt, just

1653
02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:12.760
you know, if you need to
fill in a few holes or level it

1654
02:00:12.760 --> 02:00:15.560
out a little bit or something like
that. Yes, but I would talk

1655
02:00:15.600 --> 02:00:20.720
to them. I'm not positive on
them doing the grass installations, but no,

1656
02:00:20.840 --> 02:00:24.399
I don't think it did. I
did well. I'm before on some

1657
02:00:24.600 --> 02:00:30.079
landscape with mainly you hardstone. Yeah, yeah, okay, Well I don't

1658
02:00:30.119 --> 02:00:33.600
have a company in mind that,
you know, just specializing in the laying

1659
02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:36.920
of the turf. But you know
what, I still would call them because

1660
02:00:36.920 --> 02:00:41.680
they can tell you who to call. They have some people because they work

1661
02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:45.039
in that industry, and they're gonna
know some good people to come in and

1662
02:00:45.079 --> 02:00:47.319
do that that layout for you.
Okay, thank you, yes, sir,

1663
02:00:47.439 --> 02:00:50.560
thank you very much. I appreciate
that. Yeah. Peerscapes they've been

1664
02:00:50.600 --> 02:00:56.079
around since nineteen eighty eight, and
well this summer has been brutal, you

1665
02:00:56.119 --> 02:01:00.960
know, I mean Freds just talking
about wiping out as grass. Well,

1666
02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:04.119
look at the plants and the trees
that have struggled through this summer. You

1667
02:01:04.159 --> 02:01:08.479
may be looking at it going man, I just give up on guarding.

1668
02:01:08.600 --> 02:01:12.560
Don't give up on gardening. You
can have a beautiful place. In fact,

1669
02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:16.640
the easiest, simplest way to get
first class beauty and quality would be

1670
02:01:16.640 --> 02:01:21.880
to half Peerscapes come in and transform
the landscape, get it looking beautiful again.

1671
02:01:23.079 --> 02:01:27.079
They can do that. Fall is
the best time to get this done.

1672
02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.119
So you need to call them now
because you need time to get in

1673
02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:32.239
there. Talk with them about what
you want, what they can do,

1674
02:01:32.359 --> 02:01:38.039
get a design put together, and
tell them please include some of the more

1675
02:01:38.119 --> 02:01:42.279
drought tolerant plants. I don't if
we go through this again, I want

1676
02:01:42.319 --> 02:01:45.119
some plants that are as tough as
they can be to survive it. Peerscapes

1677
02:01:45.159 --> 02:01:48.920
can do that. They can design
a landscape that is more resilient. There's

1678
02:01:48.960 --> 02:01:53.920
different ways to do that. There's
choosing the good plants, preparing the soil

1679
02:01:54.039 --> 02:01:59.760
right that's important for drought tolerance,
Putting in a quality irrigation system that operates

1680
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:04.680
efficiently, that does efficient irrigation.
And while they're there, hardscapes, walkways,

1681
02:02:04.800 --> 02:02:09.560
you know, lighting, maltzing,
all the other kinds of things.

1682
02:02:09.840 --> 02:02:14.800
Piercecapes dot com or just to eat
one three seven, zero fifty sixty.

1683
02:02:14.880 --> 02:02:19.079
Uh. They they can turn what
is brown and discouraging into something that is

1684
02:02:19.520 --> 02:02:24.800
beautiful and bountiful. Let's go out
to North Houston. Now we're gonna talk

1685
02:02:24.800 --> 02:02:29.119
to Robert. Hello, Robert,
Hello, Skip. I want you to

1686
02:02:29.199 --> 02:02:31.720
help him with a problem. I've
got a cousin from East Texas and he

1687
02:02:31.760 --> 02:02:36.239
says he's been eating at poke salad, poke weed always laughs. Yeah.

1688
02:02:36.279 --> 02:02:39.840
And I got a hold of culture
books, I got garden books, and

1689
02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:43.159
every one of them says it's all
parts of poisonous. Do not eat poke

1690
02:02:43.239 --> 02:02:46.560
salad, do not. And I've
got a gardener, a guy that mos

1691
02:02:46.640 --> 02:02:50.560
my grass up and New Waverley born
and raised New Waverley. He said he's

1692
02:02:50.560 --> 02:02:54.720
been he's eighty eight years old.
He's been eating folk salad always laughs.

1693
02:02:55.119 --> 02:02:57.960
So what is the deal. He
got his master's degree and ate it from

1694
02:02:57.960 --> 02:03:01.439
A and M Austrey. Yeah,
we'll see from the A or the M

1695
02:03:01.560 --> 02:03:05.800
side. You know, we got
we got engineers and we got agriculture,

1696
02:03:05.800 --> 02:03:11.319
and we got everything else up there. I'll cut to the chase on poke.

1697
02:03:11.720 --> 02:03:16.479
Poke weed is poisonous. But when
you take the fresh tender growth and

1698
02:03:16.600 --> 02:03:18.720
you boil it and pour off the
water, I don't know if you have

1699
02:03:18.800 --> 02:03:21.520
to pour it off twice. I
think it wouldn't hurt to pour it off

1700
02:03:21.520 --> 02:03:26.479
twice, but at least at least
once. For sure, it gets rid

1701
02:03:26.520 --> 02:03:29.520
of all the things that would have
hurt you in it. And that's how

1702
02:03:29.560 --> 02:03:33.720
these old Southerners have eaten pork poke
salad for years. It is a big

1703
02:03:33.720 --> 02:03:38.760
old weed. The birds eat the
berries and planted everywhere when they do their

1704
02:03:38.840 --> 02:03:43.560
droppings. But yeah, you can
do it, you sure can, all

1705
02:03:43.640 --> 02:03:45.399
right, Okay, Well that's sols
a mystery. Thank you. I appreciate

1706
02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:48.279
you. Bet. There you go. Hey, we're gonna take a little

1707
02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:53.279
break here seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be

1708
02:03:53.439 --> 02:03:56.960
right back to your calls. Well, good morning. You are listening to

1709
02:03:57.000 --> 02:04:00.319
garden Line. We're here to talk
gardening. Of course, if you haven't

1710
02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:04.319
been out to the bee supply,
you need to go. I brag on

1711
02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:09.640
it all the time. If you
are a beekeeper, if you want to

1712
02:04:09.680 --> 02:04:13.119
be a beekeeper. They have beginning
classes once a month out there that are

1713
02:04:13.199 --> 02:04:18.399
just outstanding. Not only classroom,
they do a six hour class with lunch

1714
02:04:18.399 --> 02:04:21.399
included, by the way, but
you also get out in the bar to

1715
02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:25.640
actually see and handle the bees that
are out there. You can go to

1716
02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:30.039
the b Supply dot Com find out
more. There's also the free hunty tours

1717
02:04:30.079 --> 02:04:31.560
for all the rest of you who
knows you may decide to keep bees,

1718
02:04:31.680 --> 02:04:35.359
especially if you're a gardener. Free
honey tours are out there about once a

1719
02:04:35.359 --> 02:04:42.079
month as well, no cost obviously. But they now have their new observation

1720
02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:45.319
high back Up and going. I
used to brag on it all the time.

1721
02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:48.920
This one is really pretty impressive.
They've got a video of it getting

1722
02:04:49.000 --> 02:04:54.039
filled and installed on their Facebook page. You can see what it looks like.

1723
02:04:54.079 --> 02:04:58.439
But take the kids out there.
This is a big old indoor plexiglass

1724
02:04:58.520 --> 02:05:03.359
area where you can see the bees
in action inside the store. Pretty cool

1725
02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:09.800
at the Bee Supply dot Com out
in Dayton area. I'm gonna go to

1726
02:05:09.840 --> 02:05:12.560
the phones now and we're gonna talk
to Arthur. Hello, Arthur, how

1727
02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:15.239
are you this morning? How are
you doing there? Skip? I'm good?

1728
02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:19.479
What's up? Well? I heard
you talking about pro Vista, and

1729
02:05:19.680 --> 02:05:25.039
I've actually been working with Scott's and
A and M. By the way,

1730
02:05:25.079 --> 02:05:29.199
that's a joint release from both A
and M and the Scots company. And

1731
02:05:29.920 --> 02:05:33.000
uh, we started working on it
back in the late nineteen ninety seven,

1732
02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:36.359
ninety eight, so it took a
while to get here. Wow, that

1733
02:05:36.520 --> 02:05:41.479
is a long time coming. Well, and so tell me tell me a

1734
02:05:41.520 --> 02:05:45.119
little bit more about it. Well, number one, I heard the gentleman

1735
02:05:45.199 --> 02:05:50.239
asking. I heard your response,
and I do apologize for we probably should

1736
02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:56.279
have gotten better information out to the
public. But just like the other new

1737
02:05:56.319 --> 02:05:59.239
release from A and M Cobalt,
this is a new release. It's probably

1738
02:05:59.279 --> 02:06:03.600
a the years ahead in the market. We've got eleven growers all over the

1739
02:06:03.600 --> 02:06:08.880
state of Texas, top growers and
and you're one of your sponsors. King

1740
02:06:09.000 --> 02:06:13.199
Ranch is one of them. And
by the way, we're Milburger turf grass.

1741
02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:17.039
We grow about eighteen different varieties down
here, so we see varieties come

1742
02:06:17.039 --> 02:06:20.239
and go, just like you have. Yes, yes, you have,

1743
02:06:20.760 --> 02:06:24.680
you have art. And for those
of you who are listening that don't know,

1744
02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:29.119
art is a legend in the turf
grass world. I believe you've grown

1745
02:06:29.159 --> 02:06:32.279
a few thousand acres worth the turf
grass harvesting over the over the time,

1746
02:06:32.359 --> 02:06:36.359
right, yes, or we have. We've been in business over seventy five

1747
02:06:36.479 --> 02:06:40.920
years and wow, so uh you
know. But but all I can tell

1748
02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:44.680
you we've made all the mistakes.
And that's the only reason I know what

1749
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:47.520
I know today. Uh, And
that's the truth. But you know what

1750
02:06:47.720 --> 02:06:53.760
one important thing about any new turf
grass, uh number one, we do

1751
02:06:53.840 --> 02:07:00.319
have the credentials dislike you know A
and M breeder up in Dallas and Vicats

1752
02:07:00.439 --> 02:07:04.079
worked on this thing. Uh it
was in uh six different I guess it's

1753
02:07:04.079 --> 02:07:08.720
been up there six seven years now
with the winners. So you know,

1754
02:07:08.840 --> 02:07:12.520
once we can grow grass in Dallas, especially Saint Augustine, that says a

1755
02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:16.199
lot for it from a host point
of cold heat. So you know,

1756
02:07:16.760 --> 02:07:25.720
these grasses all have the good traits. But the provista we the reason it's

1757
02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:32.000
more the reason we we even talk
about Clytha sate tolerance or resistance is that's

1758
02:07:32.039 --> 02:07:36.640
because that's good for the farmer because
we put so much chemical on grass because

1759
02:07:36.640 --> 02:07:42.279
we're always growing grass on bare ground
and harvested, so we're not like a

1760
02:07:42.279 --> 02:07:45.439
homeowner that's got that nice line and
doesn't have weed invasion. So that's a

1761
02:07:45.560 --> 02:07:50.000
very important characteristic for the farmer,
not so much the homeowner. We hope

1762
02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:54.840
you we sell the treat without any
weeds in it, so it's not the

1763
02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:59.720
clate. The most important thing about
Provista, in my opinion, besides having

1764
02:07:59.760 --> 02:08:07.239
all these great traits, is it's
it's fifty percent less mowing the vertical growth,

1765
02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:09.800
not the horrid lenlgoth. The vertical
growth is fifty percent less. And

1766
02:08:09.960 --> 02:08:13.920
that's the reason because I pounded on
Scott's for years. I said, look,

1767
02:08:15.239 --> 02:08:18.720
if you release a graft based on
glap of sate, well that's really

1768
02:08:18.720 --> 02:08:22.439
not a big deal for the home
I mean it is, right, but

1769
02:08:22.640 --> 02:08:26.119
it's really a big deal for the
farmer because right now in our fields we're

1770
02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:31.319
not using all these chemicals that we
had to use because round up, I

1771
02:08:31.640 --> 02:08:37.760
say, is a pretty sublime,
very easy. Uh. It's easy on

1772
02:08:37.800 --> 02:08:41.479
the environment. It's not like all
these career modes and post emergence. So

1773
02:08:43.319 --> 02:08:46.520
that's for the farmer, But the
homeowner, if you want to go away

1774
02:08:46.560 --> 02:08:48.600
for three weeks, four weeks,
you don't have to mow that. So

1775
02:08:48.800 --> 02:08:52.640
we got yes. Yeah, So
what you're saying basically is If you don't

1776
02:08:52.640 --> 02:08:56.880
want to spray the glave sate on
your yard, that's fine. But this

1777
02:08:56.880 --> 02:09:00.000
this is the one of the peak
advantages. And number it's got the cold

1778
02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:03.840
hardiness. Number two, that vertical
growth and not mowing so often. Boy,

1779
02:09:03.920 --> 02:09:07.960
that I can see why people would
be interested in that. That's the

1780
02:09:07.039 --> 02:09:11.119
deal right there, because I mean, if you and I mean, and

1781
02:09:11.159 --> 02:09:13.399
you know we like to say we
grow, we're supermarket down here for grass

1782
02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:18.319
h palisades, for instance. It's
a great grasp. You're gonna be mowing

1783
02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:22.880
it every five to seven days if
you're irrigating it, just like sund up.

1784
02:09:22.199 --> 02:09:26.920
Now, I'm not saying people won't
mow pro vast every week, because

1785
02:09:26.960 --> 02:09:30.479
you know what people do on a
weekend. People like to get out there

1786
02:09:30.520 --> 02:09:33.319
and getting there, like to fertilize
it, they like to mow it,

1787
02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:35.960
they like to do all these I'm
just saying it doesn't take all these inputs

1788
02:09:35.960 --> 02:09:41.680
from us from side grower. We
barely mow this thing all year and then

1789
02:09:41.720 --> 02:09:43.439
we harvest it and we don't have
to put the chemicals. I mean,

1790
02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:48.319
it's the same thing like they've done
with all the crops. They've just put

1791
02:09:48.359 --> 02:09:52.520
this one gene. But I'll talk
Scots into doing one important thing. Give

1792
02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:58.279
give a home on or a trait
a significant difference over brolly palmetto all these

1793
02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:03.359
graphs something right, they can they
can, you know, go to the

1794
02:10:03.399 --> 02:10:05.079
bank with well, as you know, we we like to mow about a

1795
02:10:05.119 --> 02:10:09.319
third of the leaf blade off to
avoid the big you know, major mow

1796
02:10:09.399 --> 02:10:13.079
bag. You know, let it
get ankle high and then try to mow

1797
02:10:13.079 --> 02:10:16.680
it down to the normal height.
Uh Instead, Now, even if you

1798
02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:20.960
mow every week, you're just doing
a light trimming and you're probably gonna have

1799
02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:24.039
better density as a result of that. Excellent. And the color is a

1800
02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:28.680
whole other shade of any other uh
sat augustine turf grass on the market to

1801
02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:35.159
go bluish or what's there? We're
from? Green? Is the shade a

1802
02:10:35.279 --> 02:10:37.000
green? Or green green? Or
green green? Okay? You know you've

1803
02:10:37.039 --> 02:10:43.800
got all sorts of shades of green. I mean all these and I and

1804
02:10:43.840 --> 02:10:48.079
I don't particularly uh you know,
I like them all. I like all

1805
02:10:48.119 --> 02:10:52.399
the shades of green. But this
one has that I mean, it really

1806
02:10:52.520 --> 02:10:54.840
takes your breath away when you look
at it compared to it some of the

1807
02:10:56.039 --> 02:11:00.199
augustine and you know the number one
thing that sells in my business, it

1808
02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:05.359
what's heller? Oh color? Yeah, yeah, that's that's well. I

1809
02:11:05.399 --> 02:11:07.399
believe a few people, a few
people are going to be buying grass after

1810
02:11:07.439 --> 02:11:13.000
this summer. So that's all good
information. I know they're will By the

1811
02:11:13.000 --> 02:11:18.039
way, I want to really uh
compliment you. You know, Randy and

1812
02:11:18.079 --> 02:11:22.520
I were friends for years and we
made video turf videos together. But in

1813
02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:28.199
so many garden shows, uh,
they said, I mean, it's constantly

1814
02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:33.600
vegetables and trees, vegetables, this
or that. But you have really carrying

1815
02:11:33.640 --> 02:11:39.399
on tradition because of I can tell
just because of your consideration for lawns,

1816
02:11:39.479 --> 02:11:46.680
because a lot of times lawns get
ignored in the whole landscape and they're taking

1817
02:11:46.720 --> 02:11:52.239
for granting. But I really appreciate
you stepping in there and really emphasizing that

1818
02:11:52.319 --> 02:11:58.239
lawn. And I've listened to the
show and you give excellent, excellent advice.

1819
02:11:58.399 --> 02:12:00.319
Well, thank you. I appreciate
that. You know, in four

1820
02:12:00.399 --> 02:12:03.680
years of doing a county extension horticulture
work, two things make the phone ring.

1821
02:12:03.840 --> 02:12:07.600
It's trees and turf. And that's
true on garden line as well,

1822
02:12:07.960 --> 02:12:11.199
and so we do need to spend
time talking about those two. All right,

1823
02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:15.199
thank you so much for the call. I appreciate that. It's good

1824
02:12:15.239 --> 02:12:16.359
to hear your voice and talk to
you. We'll have to go out there

1825
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:22.520
and do some videos. Sounds like
thank you. I appreciate you giving us

1826
02:12:22.520 --> 02:12:26.119
a call very much. You know, talking about your lawns. When we're

1827
02:12:26.119 --> 02:12:31.000
trying to get our lawn out of
the funk that we've been through this summer,

1828
02:12:31.439 --> 02:12:35.119
a good quality fertilization is important.
And Microlife products they have a number

1829
02:12:35.159 --> 02:12:39.239
of different Microlife fertilizers that you can
use. They are all excellent. They

1830
02:12:39.279 --> 02:12:43.560
all work for the purposes that they
were designed to do. You know,

1831
02:12:43.640 --> 02:12:46.840
the six two four is the one
we use all summer long when it comes

1832
02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:50.479
to fertilizing our lawns. It's at
three one two race. You've got a

1833
02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:54.560
lot of nitrogen, very little phosphorus, and medium amount of potassium. Now

1834
02:12:54.640 --> 02:12:58.800
we're switching and to the fall season
and the microlif brown patch is going to

1835
02:12:58.840 --> 02:13:03.039
be the one that we talk about
then because it drops the nitrogen gets that

1836
02:13:03.359 --> 02:13:07.760
keeps that potassium up there, which
is what we need to do going into

1837
02:13:07.800 --> 02:13:13.039
fall. Now. Microlife has a
number of different products. I talk about

1838
02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:18.600
their seaweed, fish based product Ocean
Harvest. It's the blue labeled product.

1839
02:13:20.159 --> 02:13:24.840
Good for a rejuvenation. It's got
the nutrients in it. It's got a

1840
02:13:24.920 --> 02:13:28.720
lot of other substances that come with
fish. There's hormone substances, there's all

1841
02:13:28.800 --> 02:13:35.520
kinds of plant stimulator substances and so
on. Definitely stimulating microbial activity and microbes

1842
02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:39.840
and plants leave hands hand in hand. It is very important to have both

1843
02:13:41.079 --> 02:13:43.119
and to take care of both.
And that's what you do with Microlife.

1844
02:13:43.159 --> 02:13:48.359
You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com find out more information and find out

1845
02:13:48.359 --> 02:13:52.079
how to have success with your garden, your lawn, your trees, your

1846
02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:56.800
shrubs, your vegetables, everything you
want to grow. There's Microlife product for

1847
02:13:56.920 --> 02:13:58.800
that. Let's go to Sugarland.
Now we're going to talk to James.

1848
02:14:00.000 --> 02:14:03.359
Hello, James, Hey, good
morning. How are you. I'm well

1849
02:14:03.439 --> 02:14:07.279
this morning. What's up? I
have a massive oak tree out in my

1850
02:14:07.359 --> 02:14:13.199
pasture in Austin County and it's got
a slight crack an old looks like an

1851
02:14:13.199 --> 02:14:16.520
old wound, ye and I've got
sawdust coming out of it. Okay,

1852
02:14:16.760 --> 02:14:20.720
I don't I don't see any ants, so I'm assuming it's some kind of

1853
02:14:20.760 --> 02:14:26.960
bore. But how high on the
trunk is this? Uh? Four feet?

1854
02:14:26.920 --> 02:14:31.399
Half feet? And are you seeing
any kind of leakage of liquid or

1855
02:14:31.479 --> 02:14:33.520
sap? Nope, just the saughtup
Okay, nope, just the sup.

1856
02:14:35.159 --> 02:14:37.520
So that's a borer of some type. We don't know which one based on

1857
02:14:37.680 --> 02:14:43.600
just the sawdust it. There are
boars that bore into the the living cambium

1858
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:46.720
tissues and the flow and zylm in
that area. Those are a problem.

1859
02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:50.800
They kill trees. There are boars
that are opportunists that want that interior wood

1860
02:14:50.840 --> 02:14:54.760
to do their work in and they're
not going to kill the tree, but

1861
02:14:54.840 --> 02:15:00.000
they're just are assigned that that tree
bark was moved apart where they could get

1862
02:15:00.199 --> 02:15:03.680
into the interior wood. So I
would I would probably wait and watch.

1863
02:15:03.720 --> 02:15:09.119
There are not many products to control
boards because they're in there inside the tree,

1864
02:15:09.039 --> 02:15:13.000
and you can't use systemics on the
ones that are working in the wood

1865
02:15:13.039 --> 02:15:16.920
because the juices aren't flowing into that
inner wood to carry the systemic to it.

1866
02:15:18.359 --> 02:15:22.079
I would probably wait and watch.
It's not a good sign, but

1867
02:15:22.159 --> 02:15:26.920
there's not a really good product.
You could you could continually spray something that

1868
02:15:26.960 --> 02:15:30.600
the boars would have to crawl through
as they finish their life cycle and come

1869
02:15:30.600 --> 02:15:33.960
out. But I just think that's
going to be a lot of tedium and

1870
02:15:33.359 --> 02:15:37.479
you may not get the job done. Okay, So there's nothing you can

1871
02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:41.199
spray up in the crack to,
you know, like kill on contact.

1872
02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:45.199
Well, I mean you could,
you could try that, but if they're

1873
02:15:45.239 --> 02:15:48.920
down in a tunnel around inside the
wood, the product's not going to reach

1874
02:15:48.960 --> 02:15:50.720
them. But if you if you
want to just try something, a product

1875
02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:56.560
that has bipentthin in it as a
pretty persistent product. They're readily available,

1876
02:15:56.600 --> 02:16:00.680
lots of forms of it. You
might try that, but it's generally not

1877
02:16:00.840 --> 02:16:03.560
you know, it's not a big
bif it's not a big borer recommendation.

1878
02:16:03.720 --> 02:16:09.079
Okay, okay, but that won't
hurt the tree. Oh no, it

1879
02:16:09.079 --> 02:16:11.399
won't hurt the tree at all.
No, okay, right? And it

1880
02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:16.079
is it too hot to put six
two four out around trees? Oh yeah,

1881
02:16:16.239 --> 02:16:18.159
yeah, you can still do that
if you want to do that.

1882
02:16:18.199 --> 02:16:22.079
I got about ten seconds. I
will wrap this up quick. But yeah,

1883
02:16:20.640 --> 02:16:24.279
and any kind of a good lawn
fertilizer is great for use to run

1884
02:16:24.359 --> 02:16:30.119
trees as well. All right,
thank you, sir, appreciate that call.

1885
02:16:30.399 --> 02:16:33.879
It is time for the Nikki News
Network and then we'll be back at

1886
02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:37.799
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Well, good morning,

1887
02:16:37.920 --> 02:16:41.879
good Saturday morning, and welcome to
garden Line. Walk outside, feel

1888
02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:46.399
the air. It is the promise
of fall. It's our little down payment

1889
02:16:46.600 --> 02:16:52.159
on the wonderful weather and gardening times
to come this fall. Thank goodness to

1890
02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:56.639
get this break in the intense,
intense heat. Well, you know,

1891
02:16:58.000 --> 02:17:03.399
when when I think about taking care
of the garden, taking care of the

1892
02:17:03.440 --> 02:17:05.879
plants that we have, I mean
we always start with the soil. There's

1893
02:17:05.920 --> 02:17:09.000
a lot of products though that we
have to do. I mean, sometimes

1894
02:17:09.040 --> 02:17:13.040
you're putting a fertilizer down, maybe
you're fighting a pest or disease. Maybe

1895
02:17:13.040 --> 02:17:16.840
you're dealing with weed problems and things
like that. Maybe you need a certain

1896
02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:20.959
kind of tool to get the job
done. Well, all of that and

1897
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:24.520
a lot lot more you're going to
find it Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer has

1898
02:17:24.559 --> 02:17:28.959
been a Houston tradition here since what
nineteen fifty five. They're on the corner

1899
02:17:30.000 --> 02:17:35.799
of Bissonette and Runwick in Southwest Houston, and they carry everything you're not going

1900
02:17:35.879 --> 02:17:39.559
to find a better selection of anything
that you need for your lawn and garden

1901
02:17:39.559 --> 02:17:43.600
than you do it Southwest Fertilizer.
I like to say, if they don't

1902
02:17:43.600 --> 02:17:46.239
have it, you don't need it, because that's pretty much the case.

1903
02:17:46.440 --> 02:17:48.399
If they don't have it, you
don't need it. Eighty foot wall of

1904
02:17:48.440 --> 02:17:52.079
tools. Do you need to get
your more blade sharpened? It makes your

1905
02:17:52.079 --> 02:17:54.959
grass look better when you have a
sharp mower blade. They can do that.

1906
02:17:54.440 --> 02:17:56.959
They have a little repair shop in
the back where they can do some

1907
02:17:58.040 --> 02:18:01.120
engine work and take care of things
like that. They have quality products,

1908
02:18:01.159 --> 02:18:07.719
they have expert advice, and best
of all, old fashioned service. They

1909
02:18:07.840 --> 02:18:11.079
know what they're talking about. They
don't sell you something you don't need.

1910
02:18:11.319 --> 02:18:15.760
They listen to your question and they
point you towards the product that will get

1911
02:18:15.799 --> 02:18:20.319
the job done right. Bob Patterson
and his team can diagnose the problem and

1912
02:18:20.440 --> 02:18:24.280
head to you in the right direction. Go online to Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

1913
02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:28.440
You'll see what I'm talking about Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. Hey, by

1914
02:18:28.440 --> 02:18:31.120
the way, when you're out there, you know my favorite new gardening tool

1915
02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:35.520
I guess if you will call it
a tool, is the kneeling bench.

1916
02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:37.920
The thing that makes it easy to
get up and down in the gardener to

1917
02:18:37.959 --> 02:18:43.159
sit on when you're working on something
down low in the garden. Your caropractor

1918
02:18:43.200 --> 02:18:46.879
will be disappointed if you buy a
kneeling bench, but you won't. Bob's

1919
02:18:46.920 --> 02:18:48.840
got a whole bunch of them there
in stock. Go by and ask him

1920
02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:52.520
about him. Let's go to sugar
Land. Now we're going to talk to

1921
02:18:52.559 --> 02:18:56.440
Fred. Well. Hello, Fred. Hi. My question was that I

1922
02:18:56.520 --> 02:19:01.239
have I think of fro the grubs
where the grass was detached, okay,

1923
02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:05.159
and some patches of thatch that are
left and grass starting to grow back in.

1924
02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.200
Is it better to remove that thatch
and maybe use some composts or is

1925
02:19:09.239 --> 02:19:11.280
it better just to leave it go
and see if the grass will go dry?

1926
02:19:11.680 --> 02:19:15.520
This is Saint Augustine you're talking.
Yes, it is Sat Augustine.

1927
02:19:15.520 --> 02:19:18.639
I'm sorry, so are you putting
new grass on top of Nosa. It's

1928
02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:22.959
just the grass from the margins is
coming back in all of a sudden it's

1929
02:19:22.959 --> 02:19:26.920
started to grow. Well, I
mean you can take it out if it's

1930
02:19:26.959 --> 02:19:31.200
not too difficult. The problem with
Saint Augustine being all above ground and all

1931
02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:35.159
the de thatching that they do on
northern turf grasses is a little more difficult

1932
02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:37.559
with Saint Augustine without doing a whole
lot of damage to it. So I

1933
02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:41.520
would just be careful if you're going
to remove some of the old out Otherwise,

1934
02:19:41.600 --> 02:19:46.719
I think your best bet would be
to spread some quality leaf mold compost

1935
02:19:46.799 --> 02:19:50.600
over the area. That will help
those runners to decompose. They are slow

1936
02:19:50.639 --> 02:19:54.920
to decompose, but it will help
speed that process of getting all that organic

1937
02:19:54.959 --> 02:20:00.399
matter in the runners turned back into
good quality saw material. We're just goin

1938
02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:03.239
to leave the FATCHI and us compost
with it, little compo, little light

1939
02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:07.319
compost, stop dressing over the top
of it. I think you'd be fine.

1940
02:20:07.760 --> 02:20:09.520
Yeah, okay, well, thank
you very much, you bet Fred,

1941
02:20:09.520 --> 02:20:13.799
thank you. I appreciate that call. Appreciate that very very much.

1942
02:20:15.639 --> 02:20:20.120
You know, we're in the season
when here come the storms and we get

1943
02:20:20.159 --> 02:20:22.840
our power outages. And when you
get a power outage, you got a

1944
02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:26.520
lot of a lot of valuable food
and the freezer and the refrigerator. What

1945
02:20:26.559 --> 02:20:30.000
if you're away from town, what
do you do? Well, what you

1946
02:20:30.079 --> 02:20:33.280
do is you go to Quality Home
Products of Texas and you get you a

1947
02:20:33.399 --> 02:20:41.000
Genderac generator. You know Genderacs Automatic
standby generators. That is the coolest thing.

1948
02:20:41.120 --> 02:20:46.920
Generac automatic standby. What happens there
is maybe you're gone and the power

1949
02:20:46.959 --> 02:20:50.239
goes out, the generator just comes
on and it does what it needs to

1950
02:20:50.280 --> 02:20:54.239
do. I mean, this is
one smart cookie here. It's exactly what

1951
02:20:54.360 --> 02:21:01.360
you need. They have ten kilowatte
up to twenty six kilarote generatic generatic generact

1952
02:21:01.399 --> 02:21:05.239
generators. They're very quiet, very
quiet, consumed less wool, run on

1953
02:21:05.360 --> 02:21:09.360
natural gas or liquid propane. They
sit outside, just like having a central

1954
02:21:09.399 --> 02:21:13.680
area unit. You never renotice it, but boy, when you need it,

1955
02:21:13.680 --> 02:21:16.360
it is on hand and ready.
You know, it's not just a

1956
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.399
hurricane that shuts down our power.
The grid is unreliable and you don't have

1957
02:21:20.479 --> 02:21:24.799
to wait for a storm for the
power to go out. Get ahead of

1958
02:21:24.840 --> 02:21:30.639
the game with a GENERAC generator from
Quality Home Products of Texas. You can

1959
02:21:30.680 --> 02:21:37.040
go to QUALITYTX dot com or give
him a call seven one three Quality that

1960
02:21:37.079 --> 02:21:43.600
will get you on the road to
having your house protected and to help not

1961
02:21:43.680 --> 02:21:48.559
just the inconvenience, but in many
cases the financial loss and damage that can

1962
02:21:48.600 --> 02:21:54.959
occur when we do lose power.
I can't remember how many time we always

1963
02:21:54.959 --> 02:22:00.159
have a bunch of candles sitting in
a drawer that we would fumble our our

1964
02:22:00.200 --> 02:22:03.120
way in the dark through to try
to light up when the power went out.

1965
02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:09.319
Oh boy, but these modern generators
they are some then special, very

1966
02:22:09.559 --> 02:22:15.799
very helpful, very very helpful.
I was bragging on Nelson's their plant food

1967
02:22:16.159 --> 02:22:20.639
earlier and the carbo load specifically.
You know, they have like what six

1968
02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:24.840
I believe different parts of the turf
star line from Bruce's brew, which is

1969
02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:30.360
an immediate relation using anytime of the
year you want. They've got the of

1970
02:22:30.360 --> 02:22:33.440
a feather light, which is a
made out of one third feather meal,

1971
02:22:33.639 --> 02:22:37.920
very kind of more of an organic
ingredient there in that food. They've got

1972
02:22:37.920 --> 02:22:41.120
this low and easy we use all
summer when we want a long, gradual

1973
02:22:41.200 --> 02:22:45.479
release. The carbo loads the fall
one, and we're gonna be putting that

1974
02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:48.639
down in October. For those of
you further up north, you can do

1975
02:22:48.680 --> 02:22:52.760
it late September if you want.
I focus on the October time for carbo

1976
02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:54.840
load, But carbo load, because
it's got that pre emergent in it as

1977
02:22:54.879 --> 02:23:00.319
well, you want to get it
down early in that fall feeding time because

1978
02:23:00.479 --> 02:23:05.520
our winter weeds are going to start
germinating in October again depending on the temperatures,

1979
02:23:05.559 --> 02:23:07.959
the season we have and where you
live. And we want to get

1980
02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.600
the pre you have to get the
pre emergent down and watered in before you

1981
02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:16.879
prevent in order to prevent those weeds. Carver Load will do just that.

1982
02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:20.760
It's a ten ten twenty product.
Nelson Plat Foods available and a lot of

1983
02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:26.280
places. Is not hard to find
super quality fertilizer from Nelson's. We're gonna

1984
02:23:26.319 --> 02:23:28.280
take a break. It is time
for that. We will be back our

1985
02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:33.479
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh

1986
02:23:33.520 --> 02:23:37.360
a call. He'll get you on
the boards. That should be the that

1987
02:23:37.399 --> 02:23:41.959
should be the bumper music for this
show. Call me by bla Blondie.

1988
02:23:41.079 --> 02:23:46.879
You can call me at seven one
three two one two fifty fifty eight seventy

1989
02:23:46.879 --> 02:23:52.799
four seven one three two and two
five eight seven four to answer your gardening

1990
02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:58.680
questions, speaking of which I will
be out at plantation as today I've been

1991
02:23:58.719 --> 02:24:01.680
talking about this morning. I watch
come out and see me. Bring me.

1992
02:24:01.799 --> 02:24:07.360
You're tired, You're weary, your
disease and insect infested masses yearning to

1993
02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:11.559
be cured. We will answer that, we will answer to diagnose them and

1994
02:24:11.680 --> 02:24:15.120
direct you to a product that'll fix
it. That's why we're out there to

1995
02:24:15.159 --> 02:24:18.520
meet you. I'd love to meet
Gardenline listeners. It's gonna be there.

1996
02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:20.479
I'll be there from a eleven thirty
to one thirty. They got quite a

1997
02:24:20.559 --> 02:24:26.440
shindig planned. They're gonna be doing
giving away a Weber Grettel and there will

1998
02:24:26.479 --> 02:24:30.879
be food trucks out there. They've
got some food samples. I'm gonna be

1999
02:24:30.959 --> 02:24:35.040
given away. Nitro FoST fertilizer.
They have a fall three step program.

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02:24:35.120 --> 02:24:39.559
It is a fertilizer that is appropriate
for fall application. The fall. We

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call them winterizer, but fall fertilizers. They're gonna have that nitro Foss product

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for that. They're gonna have night
Foss product for insect control and night Foss

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product for good disease control. And
they'll be providing those to give away in

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sets of three and we're gonna be
doing it all through that two hour period.

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So another good reason to get out
there and enjoy us. Enjoy yourself

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with us out at Plantation Hardware in
Richmond, Texas. Not hard to find,

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02:25:07.760 --> 02:25:11.920
and while you're there, it is
a great place to shop. You

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know, I was sitting outside in
the heat and just my wife and I

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02:25:18.000 --> 02:25:22.200
just kind of quit using the back
patio because it is just so blazing hot.

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You go out there at eight o'clock
and you're breaking a sweat. Still,

2011
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Well, that is changing, and
that is important because ACE Hardware stores

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are a wonderful place to turn your
outdoor living areas into a beautiful escape.

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I think of it as they help
make your They help make your backyard part

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02:25:45.639 --> 02:25:48.520
of your home. So do you
need a grill? Do you need outdoor

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02:25:48.520 --> 02:25:52.440
furniture decor or lighting, or outdoor
power equipment even in outdoor games, and

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02:25:52.840 --> 02:25:56.159
so much more? It's available at
ACE Hardware. There's thirty nine of them

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02:25:56.159 --> 02:26:01.159
in the Houston area. Ace hardware
dot com do their store locator find the

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one nearest to you. It's really
simple, and when you're there, you're

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02:26:05.920 --> 02:26:07.719
definitely gonna want to pick up all
the products you need for your lawn,

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for your garden. So these lawn
fertilizers we talk about are holidays, the

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products that control pests, that control
disease, They control weeds, Holidays and

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along with a lot lot more.
Trust me, when you go into ACE,

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I know you're going in there to
buy back a fertilizer or something along

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those lines. You're going to find
a whole lot of other stuff that you

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02:26:28.959 --> 02:26:33.879
didn't know they carried, but now
you do. So check out Ace Hardware

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dot com find the store nearest you
are. Just for a real quick one.

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Join me today eleven thirty out at
Plantation ACE in Richmond. We're going

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to head out to talk to Stephen. Now, Hello, Stephen, Hey,

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02:26:46.559 --> 02:26:50.159
Skip, how are you doing.
I'm fine? How are you today?

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02:26:50.120 --> 02:26:54.200
Good? Good? Just a minute
ago, you had a caller from

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02:26:54.200 --> 02:26:58.280
Austin County with the powder coming out
of an oak tree and his pasture.

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02:26:58.440 --> 02:27:03.319
Yeah, the boars a huh uh, And then you started with asking is

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02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:07.079
it weeping or is it dry?
Powdery? And has with dry pottery.

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02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:09.840
Okay. In the last week,
I've had an oak tree do the exact

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02:27:09.879 --> 02:27:16.000
same thing that you were referring to. It's just copious amount of wheat,

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02:27:16.120 --> 02:27:22.559
just fluid coming down the trunk of
this tree. Okay. So what it

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02:27:22.600 --> 02:27:26.399
looks like. It's right in the
area where I had trimmed off a couple

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02:27:26.399 --> 02:27:31.120
of lambs last year, lower lambs. Yeah, and I've got just all

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02:27:31.200 --> 02:27:33.879
kinds of stuff coming out of it. Okay, Well, it could be

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02:27:33.200 --> 02:27:39.639
that from the wound disease organism,
a canker type organism has moved in there

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02:27:39.920 --> 02:27:43.639
and is continuing to infect and prevent
adequate healing of that area, and so

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02:27:43.719 --> 02:27:48.239
you're getting the weeping from that.
By any chance? Is it white and

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02:27:48.479 --> 02:27:52.280
frothy weeping? Yes, exactly white
where the wound it was? Yeah?

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02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:58.079
Are you seeing any like wasps or
butterflies on it? On the froth?

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02:28:00.000 --> 02:28:03.760
I haven't a skip. Actually this
just started. I think we noticed it

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02:28:03.360 --> 02:28:07.360
Saturday or Sunday. Okay, what
past weekend? Well, what you've got

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is is not a borer. What
it is is a disease called slime flux.

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02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:18.360
There's other names for it. There's
a bacterial wet wood that's another version,

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02:28:18.840 --> 02:28:22.319
but slime flux basically, what happens
is you create a wound and inside

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02:28:22.360 --> 02:28:26.200
the tree that sap is sugary.
It's carbohydrates that the leaves made right,

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02:28:26.319 --> 02:28:31.680
and so it ferments just like any
sugary substance wood out in nature, and

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02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:37.319
it happens under the bark. They
get back in there under the bark,

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02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:41.399
so they build up pressure from that
fermentation, and that's why you get the

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02:28:41.440 --> 02:28:46.000
white, frothy material. That's just
showing that it's a fermentation product. Because

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02:28:46.040 --> 02:28:52.120
it's a fermentation product, wasps and
some butterflies love it and they'll get right

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02:28:52.200 --> 02:28:56.159
on it. I mean it's like
a little insect beer joint right there on

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02:28:56.200 --> 02:28:58.799
the property. They don't get dropped
or anything. Uh, you know they

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02:28:58.799 --> 02:29:03.719
probab do They probably do. But
you do need to charge admission, at

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02:29:03.799 --> 02:29:07.000
least a cover charge to get into
this tree because it's a valuable product for

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02:29:07.040 --> 02:29:11.120
them. Well what do we do
about it? Well, the real danger

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02:29:11.200 --> 02:29:13.639
of it is the pressure builds up
and kind of lifts the bark up away

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02:29:13.680 --> 02:29:18.760
from the wood, and that's kind
of another bit of a wound. There's

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nothing to spray on it. There's
no back tier, side use scored in

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02:29:22.639 --> 02:29:26.079
there anything. There's no way to
kill that. You just want your tree

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to be healthy, which requires adequate
moisture, which good luck without this summer

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02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:35.000
right, but adequate moisture, it'll
start to form a callous and it'll close

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02:29:35.079 --> 02:29:41.159
that wound back over in time.
It happens more on older trees and young

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trees. It happens in the summertime
more than any other time of the year,

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and it may take a while to
go away, but just realize it's

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just kind of a nagging wound,
not so much of a big thing to

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02:29:50.440 --> 02:29:54.159
be concerned about. Okay, well, this one does happen to be a

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younger tree. It's about a four
or five year old nut all that I

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02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:01.840
had planned the back yard. Oh
good. But everything else, everything else

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you said is perfect. I mean
I can't beat the price on the on

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02:30:07.399 --> 02:30:09.879
the fire. Yeah. No,
no, not at all, not at

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all. And you have fun things
to tell your friends too. You can

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02:30:11.239 --> 02:30:13.399
bring them out there when they come
visit. Say, let me take you

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02:30:13.440 --> 02:30:18.319
to my little joint. Yeah,
exactly right, that's it. Okay,

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02:30:18.360 --> 02:30:20.959
Skip, Thank you, Stephen.
I appreciate that call very much. And

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02:30:22.000 --> 02:30:24.799
it's good you got a nut all. That's a great tree, by the

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02:30:24.840 --> 02:30:28.479
way, a great redda probably my
favorite reddoape to plant in this area.

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02:30:28.559 --> 02:30:33.239
And being out and I mean skip, actually yeah, I purposely purposely picked

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02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:39.760
that. Along with shuemards. We
had we had water ropes. Yeah,

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02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:43.200
we lost every one of them due
to hot box one. Yeah, and

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02:30:43.280 --> 02:30:46.879
so yeah, I came to the
same assessment you did. It's a great

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02:30:46.920 --> 02:30:48.959
tree. It is really happy being
young. It's going to grow fast,

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02:30:50.079 --> 02:30:52.639
and that's that slime flux or back
trio wetwood, whatever it is is not

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02:30:52.719 --> 02:30:56.280
going to be an ongoing problem probably
for you. Just remember keep it,

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02:30:56.520 --> 02:31:01.719
keep it adequately moist, because the
whole key to the tree recovering and even

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02:31:01.760 --> 02:31:09.159
avoiding this kind of thing is good
vigor and so drought, lack of nutrients,

2091
02:31:09.280 --> 02:31:13.200
lack of water that that is what's
in your control. Ironically, of

2092
02:31:13.239 --> 02:31:16.040
the three that I've planned in the
last three or four years, this is

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02:31:16.079 --> 02:31:20.520
the most vigorous of the three,
okay, and it looks the best,

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02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:24.319
so but anyway, okay, well, I appreciate the info. All right,

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02:31:24.399 --> 02:31:28.399
sir, thank you, appreciate your
call. Appreciate that very much.

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02:31:28.799 --> 02:31:35.479
Just a reminder again that we have
got our my lawn care schedule online.

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02:31:35.600 --> 02:31:39.879
You go to gardening with skip dot
com. Really easy. Gardening was skip

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02:31:39.920 --> 02:31:43.799
dot com. I thought about putting
at skip Richter dot com, which I

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02:31:43.799 --> 02:31:46.479
also owned that that website, but
nobody knows how to spell Richter. So

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gardening with skip dot com. People
in California know how to spell Richter because

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02:31:52.280 --> 02:31:54.520
it's the same as the earthquake scale
out there. But you know what I

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mean. Gardening was skip dot com. Look for the lawn at Care schedule.

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02:31:58.440 --> 02:32:03.000
If you like synthetic products, if
you like organic products, they're both

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02:32:03.040 --> 02:32:07.840
available there on the schedule, including
when to apply them and the products the

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02:32:07.959 --> 02:32:13.000
quality products that are sold in our
area for both of those categories, organic

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02:32:13.079 --> 02:32:18.120
and synthetic. Information on mowing,
information on watering, information on air raiding

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02:32:18.239 --> 02:32:22.959
and applying trace minerals. Coming soon, We're going to get that lawn pest,

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02:32:22.040 --> 02:32:26.600
disease and weed management schedule out.
That one's a little bit more of

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02:32:26.639 --> 02:32:33.079
a Pandora's box. I'll be talking
about these things online as we get into

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our fall season for dealing with these
things, and that's going to be October

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November. When we're looking at pre
emergent herbsage, or we're looking at fungicide,

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we're looking at any kind of recovery
from a disease problem. We've got

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it all on there. It's going
to be coming out soon. I just

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got to work through a Pandora's box, and I'm trying to make it very

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02:32:54.639 --> 02:32:58.479
easy to understand, but yet thorough
enough to provide you all the information that

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02:32:58.520 --> 02:33:03.520
you need. Hey, we're putting
a garden line show in the books.

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We'll be back tomorrow morning from six
to ten AM. Ever Saturday six to

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ten you can listen to us by
podcast. If you miss the show,

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or if you have friends out in
tim Buck two and the signal doesn't reach

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them, they'dn't be pretty far out
for the signal not to reach them.

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02:33:18.440 --> 02:33:22.440
They can listen in either online live, or they can go to the podcast

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02:33:22.799 --> 02:33:28.000
whatever podcast supplier you have. Just
look for gardening line. Now, I'm

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02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:31.399
about to jump in a car and
make a b line to Plantation Ace Hardware

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02:33:31.559 --> 02:33:35.239
in Richmond, Texas, eleven thirty
to one thirty. I'll look forward to

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seeing you bring me your different kinds
of creatures that we need to identify