WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:12.320 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with skimp Rictor. It's trip. 2 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:37.679 Just watch him as well. Things the suprasy not a sign. Good morning, 3 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:44.159 Good Sunday morning. Glad to have you joining us bright and early until 4 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:50.119 bright outside. Glad to have you with us today. You are listening to 5 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.240 the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to 6 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.640 talk about plans. How do we have to help you have success with the 7 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.000 kind of plant should want to grow. One of the fun things about horticulture 8 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.959 is that you can grow all kinds of different things. There are people who 9 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.519 just care about flowers, just care about vegetables, just care about herbs, 10 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:14.040 really care about their lawn. You know, it just goes on and on. 11 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.719 Maybe you want to attract hummingbirds, Maybe you want to attract butterflies. 12 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.879 What are you interested in? How about house plants? You know. One 13 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.280 other nice thing about horticulture and gardening is that you never age out of it. 14 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.599 And I was visiting with some one the other day about you know, 15 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.560 they had been a very active gardener, just really active outside, and as 16 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:42.480 they got significantly older and a little less physically able, they just shifted over 17 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.359 to other things. Working with houseplants and other types of things that they could 18 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:52.760 do inside. I was in a senior living facility a few weeks ago where 19 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:59.120 they had a built table inside. It was beautiful. It was just imagine 20 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:04.760 a raised bed indoors, but a bet on wheels that was a pied like 21 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.520 wheelchair height, had lights over it and everything, all the grow lights, 22 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:13.039 and it was just a place where they would have gardening classes for the residents 23 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.240 to come down the hall and be able to grow herbs and flowers and all 24 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.400 kinds of things. It was really cool. I thought that was a good 25 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.080 idea. You know, gardening keeps you young. It does, and Thomas 26 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.000 Jefferson even do this, he said, though I am an old man, 27 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:30.719 I am a young gardener. And so anyway, just a little upbeat thing 28 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.039 to kick off show today. We're going to head first thing out to Port 29 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:39.120 Netches and we are going to talk to Eric. Hello Eric, good morning, 30 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:44.280 Skip, How are you sir? Well, thank you. I've got 31 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.560 an olive train I've had in the pot for about five years and it never 32 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:55.159 produced well. This year it produced a lot quite a bit. And what 33 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.039 I've noticed is after the rain, I have these these brown spots almost like 34 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:07.599 like a rot. It appears on ninety percent of the fruit use. The 35 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:14.000 only fertilize I use is the mark Life six two four water regularly, the 36 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.479 leaves look good, everything else looks good other than the fruit. And it 37 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:22.120 happened on with silver Nce. Interesting. Well. Olives are not a big 38 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.479 crop, especially in this part of the state. They've they've been working on 39 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:30.840 trying to grow them over further west from here. I am not familiar with 40 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:37.360 the specific fruit rots that would attack an olive. That it could be one 41 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.439 of the more common, uh, you know, fruits rots that we have. 42 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:46.280 We have brown rot on peaches and whatnot, and it may be something 43 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.879 like that. But as far as what to do about it, if it 44 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.520 truly is a rot, you're going to need to be able to put a 45 00:03:54.520 --> 00:04:00.319 fungicight on ahead of the rot arriving so that the surface of the fruit is 46 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:06.840 protected from a spore that would land and initiate that rot. Olives are happiest 47 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.000 in a more arid place, so whenever we're going to have a period of 48 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.680 rainy weather or if you have a sprinkler that happens to get them wet frequently, 49 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:20.439 that just kind of exacerbates the problem, makes it a little more common, 50 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.279 makes sense because if it didn't show, we had a heavy rain on 51 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.120 Thursday. Yeah, yeah, well, and actually, if we're just looking 52 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.959 back to Thursday, this had to have infected before then to already show up 53 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:42.040 as a as a yeah, show up as a rot right now. That 54 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:48.079 that's too fast to come from this rain. So I'm just trying to think. 55 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:55.120 I've never heard. We've got an olive specialist at Texas and M who 56 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.920 works with the industry, a couple of folks that work with the industry, 57 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.040 and I just don't No, I've never heard them talk about any kind of 58 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.600 a particular fruit route. I know they are there, and you'll find them 59 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:11.279 in other parts of the world where olives are grown more commercially. Yeah, 60 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.240 I might reach out to them because it was it was twenty four hours the 61 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.519 day before the fruit looked fine, okay, And it was like a twenty 62 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:24.199 four hour period in Bam Well, I'd say probably ninety percent of the fruit 63 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.000 and it might not be rotten. It might be something else. Yeah, 64 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.240 it may be. It may be something else. Could you take some pictures 65 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.079 of it up close? If you may. You may need to pick two 66 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.600 or three olives and bring them in, set them on a table where you 67 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:41.319 can really get as close as possible, good sharp focus, and send them 68 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:46.560 to me and I will run those by some folks then focus on olives to 69 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.360 see there may be something else going on there. I'm going to put you 70 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:55.079 on hold and my producer will get on the phone and give you an email 71 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.959 address that you can send them to. Okay, thank you so much, 72 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.519 skill you've met. Thanks, I appreciate that call very much. If you 73 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:08.560 haven't fertilized your lawn yet, sweet green from nitrofoss is an organic option. 74 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:15.639 It is a very pleasant smelling fertilizer. You don't usually say pleasant smelling and 75 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.199 fertilizer in the same sentence, but this one is. Because it's a molasses 76 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.519 based product. It's eleven percent nitrogen so and it dissolves quickly and moves down 77 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:30.279 into the soil. Microbes go nuts when you start adding carbohydrate sugar based substances. 78 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:35.120 The beneficial bacteria and whatnot. Love that now. Sweet green is widely 79 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:39.920 available. You can get it in a channing gardens down in the Richmond Rosenberg 80 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:44.120 area. Shades of Texas up in the woodlands also carries it, as do 81 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.959 the Fishers Hardwares in South Euston on South Moore and the one over in the 82 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:54.160 Port on Broadway Street. Good places. Stop in and get your sweet green. 83 00:06:55.079 --> 00:07:00.279 We're going to go now to Jason and Magnolia. Hello, Jason Skip 84 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.839 Harry this morning. I'm good, sir, awesome. Well, hey, 85 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:08.920 my question also regards a tree. We had a Japanese magnolia tree that was 86 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:13.680 planted by the previous summers and this is our third spring season with it. 87 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.800 First two years have produced, you know, tons of leaves and tons of 88 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:23.079 those beautiful pink flowers. This year though only like two of the it's kind 89 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:28.759 of like fifteen individual skinnier trunks, and only two of them actually produced any 90 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.160 leaves, and even then not much and we maybe got five flowers out of 91 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.279 it this year. So just trying to maybe ask what could have led to 92 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:39.439 that, and what can we do to encourage it to bounce back if at 93 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.879 all? All right, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm going 94 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.040 to take a break here. We gotta do a little quick news break. 95 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.439 When I come back, I will I will answer that, and it's gonna 96 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.480 be related mostly to cold weather. But i'll be I'll be right back. 97 00:07:53.079 --> 00:08:03.120 For those of you listening our phone number seven one three two kt r H, 98 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.040 welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. I'm going 99 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.480 to get back to Jason's question here about the Japanese magnolia. Jason, I 100 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:16.480 think this is one of the questions I would call a fuzzy question. And 101 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:22.439 what I mean is it's not just a black and white Okay, it's absolutely 102 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.759 this. This is the problem. Go do this and it fixes it. 103 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:30.199 It could be a number of different things. The amount of sunlight that a 104 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:35.759 plant gets affects its ability to create carbohydrates which make blooms and fruit ultimately on 105 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.080 fruiting plants. And it could be that where you have it planted, it's 106 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:46.679 not getting enough light. So while it bloomed initially, then now you're looking 107 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.720 at going through a season and not setting the bloom buds to actually provide bloom 108 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:58.360 again. That's one possibility. While Japanese maple is generally hearty enough for our 109 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.159 area, it is possible with sudden drops in cold to have cold damage. 110 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.720 To one. They're not super hardy here, I mean they're dependable here, 111 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.799 but we can have conditions that do that. We had crape myrtles, which 112 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.360 grow all the way up to Washington, d C. Get cold damage two 113 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.200 decembers ago for that exact same reason. The thing that puzzled me a little 114 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.240 bit was the lack of leaves coming out on those shoots, and either cold 115 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.519 damage or I did a quick check, because there's something called chilling hours where 116 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.519 a plant has to have so many hours in order for the buds of the 117 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.000 leaves and the buds of the blooms to open normally. Even if they did 118 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.240 you do have them, they don't open normally. That happens to peaches a 119 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.639 lot. When you plant a peach, it should be planted further north than 120 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.799 here. But I could not find anything indicating that on a Japanese maple. 121 00:09:50.000 --> 00:10:00.159 So I guess takes me back to fuzzy as a fuzzy answer. And at 122 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.960 this point that's all that I would know to tell you. Uh, tell 123 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.200 me again, how long you've had it in that spot? Yeah, I 124 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.399 couldn't take it along the Japanese. I know who has been there. It 125 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.480 was planted before us by the previous time owners. Okay, this is our 126 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.960 it's our third spring with it at this point, it's boom, it's almost 127 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.080 sudden. Yeah. Yeah, And it's on the southern most point of our 128 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.000 property. It's full somat exposure. So I would you know your point about 129 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.559 chilling hours makes more sense because this past winter we hardly we had one freeze 130 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.519 as maybe not even twenty four hours, so brief. Yeah, and but 131 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.559 but chilling hours are are not even freezing that it's like forty five degrees as 132 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:41.879 chilling hours. So I'm gonna have to say, I don't know. Is 133 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.440 the ultimate answer from me on that. I will look into it and see 134 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.759 if I can find anything else on it. If anybody else has had this 135 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.200 problem, that'd be interesting to hear about. But would there be anything we 136 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.519 can do to look at like the tips of the different branches to see like 137 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.279 maybe to break a few back and see I should be going on a side. 138 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.759 I would take my thumbnail on the little small branches that are out near 139 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.360 the ends and just scrape, scrape the bark back. It should be a 140 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:13.039 cream color to a light green color right underneath that thin bark. Uh. 141 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.000 And if it's paper sacked brown, pecan brown, or if it snaps real 142 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:22.000 easily, uh, and it's clearly dry and it's dead. Uh. But 143 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.919 you if you have to use a little pocket knife to scrape it, you 144 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:26.360 know, you don't have to whittle it away or anything, just just scrape 145 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:33.799 back the thin outer surface. Okay, all right, thank you very much. 146 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:39.679 I appreciate that. All right, let's see we are gonna go to 147 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.879 copper Field. No, I'm sorry, I'm trying to catch people in order. 148 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.840 Here. We're gonna go to Spring, Texas and talk to James or 149 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.120 Jacob. How you doing James, good morning. Uh. My father in 150 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:58.960 law grew beautiful roses and what is passing looking in the cabinet. The old 151 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.039 thing he has was miracle grow. My question is what are the dews and 152 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.480 don't with miracle grow? Well, miracle grows a product you mix up water 153 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.240 and the nutrients are then dissolved in water and you apply it to plants. 154 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:24.960 It's one that's quickly available. Roses they number one. What they need depends 155 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.840 on what your soil is. Okay, they do need nitrogen. We know 156 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.399 they're going to need nitrogen. But everybody's soil is a little different. That's 157 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.720 why soil test is a good way to know exactly what roses in your soil 158 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.480 at your property are going to do best with that said, there are a 159 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:45.720 lot of products out there that are for rose fertilizing. You know, the 160 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:52.240 Nelson plant food and nitroposs both make a product for blooming plants like roses, 161 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.759 for example, or a rose food specifically, and those would be the way 162 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.600 that I would go, in the absence of knowing exactly what it's already in 163 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.399 your soil. As a good show. Now, if you got something on 164 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.639 hand, good and use it, follow the labels mixing it up, don't 165 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.840 mix it too strong, good and use it up. But I would switch 166 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:16.200 over to something granular that you could work into the soil around the plants to 167 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.240 support good growth. They bloom on new shoots. So when you have when 168 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.960 you prin them and what was one shoot, now you got two or three 169 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.559 sprouting where it was. That means you have increased the number of potential blooms. 170 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.320 And so you need the vigor from nitrogen. You need really good sunlight 171 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.480 as much as possible, and then there's some occasional pruning to get the most 172 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:45.679 out of those roses. Well, I think he bought Miracle Girl every time 173 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.480 he passed the store. I probably got two to three years worth of it 174 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:54.440 sitting in the Okay, so the question is do I spray it on the 175 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.279 leaves? Do I spray it on the bottom? How often do you spray 176 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:05.080 how often do you fertilize any comments? Well, you can spray it on 177 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:11.120 foliage that just follow the label. There's gonna be a super low rate for 178 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.039 a folio type application. But I would mix it up, probably use a 179 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.519 watering can, drench it in around the roots until you've used that up. 180 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.279 All right, Well, I appreciate, thank you very much for your time. 181 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.639 God bless all right, thank you. Good luck with those with those 182 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.840 roses. That's a cool plant. I love love growing roses. Have you 183 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:37.519 been to enchanted gardens recently? They are stocked up on a lot of really 184 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.559 cool plants, which of course is nothing new. They're always stocked up on 185 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:45.159 things. Their bootleas are outstanding. If you haven't ever grown a bootlia, 186 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.679 you ought to try it. Boodlias have these giant spikes of flowers, typically 187 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.320 in a pink, purple, white, in that range, blue, in 188 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:58.919 that range of colors. They're fragrant and they are butterfly magnets. Butterfly bush 189 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:03.759 is one of the names Boodlia because they love they love this plant. The 190 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.360 more you share a Boudleia, the more ballooms you get, and they can 191 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.360 get you set up at in Chendi Gardens, you need to go by and 192 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.879 see those. They're really really pretty. They have a lot of different things 193 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:18.399 in stock right now. You can always depend on them to have the best 194 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.519 of plants. They're stocked up for Mother's Day, lots of wonderful gifts and 195 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.039 including the gift shop and everything else. There's some beautiful planters they put together, 196 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.440 some in white metal bucket containers, kind of a farmhouse. Look, 197 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.879 I think you're really attractive. Whatever your mom likes, you're going to find 198 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.519 it there and it's easy to get in, easy to get out. It's 199 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.399 on FM three fifty nine just north of Richmond Rosenberg. The website go ahead 200 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:48.759 and write this down Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open today from ten 201 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.360 am to four pm, normally Monday through Saturday. You're going to find them 202 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:56.519 open from eight to five and in Chenny Gardens on the Katie Folsher side of 203 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:02.799 Richmond on FM three fifty nine. We are going to now go to let's 204 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:07.159 see Kim in Copperfield. Hello Kim, Hi, Good morning, Skit, 205 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:14.240 Good morning. Yesterday I was doing some weeding in a bed that we are 206 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.679 redoing. Soil was soft after the rain, and it was a good time 207 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:22.279 to do that. I was noticing we have a lot of carolina snail seed 208 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.799 in that bed, and as I was pulling those out, I found many 209 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:32.200 of them were connected to deep roots that were quite thick. So I was 210 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:37.000 pulling out all of those roots the best that I could, and some of 211 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:40.440 the roots I could not pull out all the way. And I wanted to 212 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.879 ask you what is the best way to control that so that I don't have 213 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.480 to continue to pull these roots out year after year. And then secondarily, 214 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.320 I was finding a few little spots where carolina snail seed was popping up in 215 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:59.120 my yard, and so knowing how deep those roots are, I'm a little 216 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.720 concerned and so wondering what's the best way to control that. Yeah, yeah, 217 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:07.279 that's true. Well, you're going to need to go to a product 218 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:12.640 that's more aimed at controlling brush and poison ivy types of things than your typical 219 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:18.200 lawn weed control products. The ingredient that you should look for when you go 220 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.799 to a garden center or go to a Ace hardware store where wherever you're shopping 221 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.680 is tri Clo Peer t r I c l O p y R tri Clo 222 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.720 Peer. It may be called poison ivy killer. It may be called brush 223 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.359 begone. I mean, it's got a lot of different names. But the 224 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.640 ingredient's what you want. You need to If you can spray it on the 225 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:48.000 leaves, that's fine. You need a spreader sticker because those they're not totally 226 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:55.039 glossy, but there's a spray's rollof off of Carolina snail seed, and so 227 00:17:55.200 --> 00:18:00.960 a spreader sticker like Turbos an example of one of many, and you put 228 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.279 that in the mix and it makes the droplets spread out and stick to the 229 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:10.119 leaf. If you've got larger vines of it, you can take a little 230 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:17.279 paint a foam paintbrush like you would get at a hardware store for painting there 231 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.960 on little wooden stick you know the kind I'm talking about, just a little 232 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.720 one, and you dip that in your triclo paer and then you just sort 233 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.519 of paint it on the stems, the sides of the stems, and you 234 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:32.920 can do about a eight ten inch section like that. It will soak in 235 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.359 and move down. You're not going to get it all with one application because 236 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.200 there's a lot of storage root underground storage structure. But you go back and 237 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.599 do it again when you need to, and then just realize that there are 238 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.960 a lot of berries that those things produce, so you could have seedlings started 239 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.079 to pop up too. It's gonna be a little bit of an ongoing task, 240 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.160 I see. So can I also paint it on the roots that I 241 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:04.079 cut? I don't know, I've never you know, that's just not a 242 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:10.720 normal application for it because people generally don't you dig up a plant. But 243 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:14.960 if it's if it's anything above ground that you have cut, you can paint 244 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.960 it on the cut surfaces too. That works really well. Okay, alrighty, 245 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:22.160 looks like I'm going to have a longgoing project on this one. Yes, 246 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:27.039 and the birds or you're breaking their heart. They love those, they 247 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:30.359 love those, but I know they're breaking your heart too by plantinum everywhere. 248 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:37.519 Thank you, cam, I appreciate that. Thank youkiye bye bye. You 249 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.079 know. Ace Hardware is a place where you get all kinds of things like 250 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.599 that tricle pair I just talked about. For those of you dealing with water 251 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:47.039 issues. You know, they've got all of the things we do after a 252 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:51.599 flood, you know the things we need, fans and dehumidifiers and rubber boots 253 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.599 and gloves and definitely bleach and buckets and everything like that. You know, 254 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.599 the quick damn sandless sandbags. They've got those there. They've got bags of 255 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.359 tops well too. By the way, you use top soil as a sand 256 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.119 bag as well. UH utility knives. The damp Rid is a product that 257 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.799 dehumidifies. But that that tractor payer is talking about. Those are at ACE 258 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:21.960 Hardware. Forty of them are on the Houston area. Ace hardware dot com. 259 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.480 Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. You'd 260 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:27.319 like to give us a call our phone number. I'm going to write this 261 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:33.920 one down seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three 262 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:41.640 two one two k t r H. You hear me talk about Nitrofoss's Superturf 263 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:48.279 a lot because it is an outstanding fertilizer to provide a gradual feed two year 264 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.279 lawn through the summertime. If you haven't put down a slow release fertilizer yet 265 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:59.160 this year, now's the time to get that done, and superturf is uniquely 266 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.119 formulated because the nitrogen in it. By the way, it's a nineteen four 267 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.359 to ten fertilizer, nineteen percent nitrogen. That nitrogen half of it is in 268 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:12.319 a slow release form. So you apply it today, let's just say you're 269 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:17.599 essentially applying too much today for one point in time. If it were a 270 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.319 fast release, it would be too much. But it's not a fast release, 271 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.640 and so that fertilizer keeps releasing over the next three or four months to 272 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.960 your lawnch so you'd get a nice even feed. And that's how lawns take 273 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.680 up nutrients, and that is how you have success. When you overdo at 274 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.200 a single point in time the nitrogen to your lawn, you get a lot 275 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.640 of top growth. It grows fast, it grows big, it grows green, 276 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:45.839 and you mow mom. But that comes at the expense of root growth. 277 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:51.960 We don't want to over apply a quantity of nitrogen at one time, 278 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:55.680 but with a slow release, we overcome that, see, because it's releasing 279 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.400 slowly over time. So what happens is you get a balanced lawn. Balanced 280 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:02.799 meaning it's got good top growth, it's got good color, but it also 281 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:06.759 has good root growth, so when summer comes and it's dry, you're all 282 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.880 right. You got a good resilient root system there to do it. And 283 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.160 Superturf is designed to feed like that. It also has four percent iron, 284 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:19.680 which is usually when you look at your lawn and you see yellowish areas that 285 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:25.559 you usually iron deficiency. So Superturf's in a silver bag. It's really easy 286 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:29.119 to pick out when you go to the garden center. Just swing in there, 287 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.240 ask them for the silver bag, and that is Nitrofus super Turf, 288 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:34.640 And I say, go to the gardens. You can find it a day's 289 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.720 hardware stores all over the place. Southwest Fertilizer, I mean, the superturf 290 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:44.279 is widely, widely available, easy to find a lot of our feed stores 291 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:52.559 as well. Even we'll carry the Nitrofus Superturf. I am heading to do 292 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:57.640 some yardwork this week, and I have actually been gone. I was out 293 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.160 out of town all week this past week. And with the rain, I 294 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.920 tell you, I don't know if I really want to see my lawn or 295 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.759 not. I think lions and tigers and bears will come crawling out of that 296 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:12.559 thing. By now, it's got to be a jungle. But anyway I 297 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.640 got away from it, I mowed it right for a left though, But 298 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.119 when I get back, I'm gonna have to do some mowing. And so 299 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:26.480 what do you do when your lawn has grown significantly and now you got to 300 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:29.200 mow it? You know, I always say return the clippings. Return the 301 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:34.599 clippings. Well, the two times in the year when I are two situations 302 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:40.279 where I wouldn't return clippings. Number one, when you have winter weeds gone 303 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.640 to seed and the seeds are all there on the plants, or when summer 304 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:45.920 weeds have gone to seed the seeds are on the plants. Could you're just 305 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:48.759 returning those seeds to the grounds. Better to bag as many of them as 306 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.799 you can and get them out of there. The other time is when you 307 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.160 haven't mowed for a while and the grass has gotten really tall, and it's 308 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.519 hard. When you mow it, your yard looks like a hayfield rasley and 309 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:03.720 everywhere. A good multing more helps. But sometimes it's too much for that, 310 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.000 and that would be a time when I'd bag those clippings, don't throw 311 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:12.240 them away, use them, spread them lightly as a malt in your vegetable 312 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:17.440 gardens. And flower beds and things. They are packed with nutrients. All 313 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.279 the nutrients you put on your lawn are showing up in those clippings, and 314 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:25.440 you don't want to throw those away. But another thing I will often do 315 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:30.839 is mow twice. I will mow at a higher setting and then I'll drop 316 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:36.519 it down to the desired setting and mow again. And my mower mult is 317 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:38.880 but not well, And so that's a way that I can actually chop those 318 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.160 clippings up a little bit more. Remember, when the lawn is wet, 319 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.880 you don't want to be mowing it. Then that just makes a real mess. 320 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.599 They get stuck underneath the housing of the mower and whatnot. But whenever 321 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.359 it does quit raining around here and you get back to your lawn, if 322 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.000 it's getting a little ahead of you, those are just some thoughts to think 323 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:03.160 about to getting things back in hand. If you are about to do some 324 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.599 gardening beds, and that would either be creating a bed or renovating a bed 325 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.519 and improving it, you need to get a hold of some of the many 326 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:15.359 products from airloom soils. Airlom soils has a rose soil that does not just 327 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.359 roses, but pretty much any kind of shrub you're going to plant in a 328 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.519 bed will do well with that. They've got their veggie and herb mix. 329 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.559 They got it in bags. You find it all over town in bags. 330 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.759 You can have them deliver it. They can dump it on the driveway, 331 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.200 or they can bring a supersack, which is a cubic yard sack that they 332 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:34.599 set on your driveway. You can go get it, go out to porter 333 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:37.680 and grab it in your trailer or truck, bring it back if you want 334 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.640 to go that route. They have fruit berry and citrus mix. They've got 335 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:48.599 the compost top dressings, the leaf more compost top dressings, a lot of 336 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:56.640 quality things there. With airloom soils. Now, there are unfortunately too many 337 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:02.119 places that sell crummy soil. What's cremy soil, Well, it's rushed through 338 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.720 the composting process, not fully composted to the point it needs to be. 339 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.039 It's not screened well. You open the bag and it's like you got a 340 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:12.799 bag of wood chips in there. There's just a lot of things people do 341 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:18.039 to make a buck that are not good for your plants. Airloom soil is 342 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:22.319 quality. That is the bottom line. If you want a bundant yield, 343 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:26.000 if you want healthy plants that is the result of planning them and a quality 344 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.480 mix like an heirloom soil. You can go to Airloom Soils off Texas dot 345 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:34.640 com Airloom Soils of Texas to find out more, as well as to find 346 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:40.359 their really cool calculator online where you know you're looking at this area going well, 347 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:41.480 I got a flower bed, how much do I need? Well, 348 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:45.759 the calculator will tell you exactly how much you need. We're going to go 349 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:51.400 now to Row Sharon and talk to Dennis. Hello, Dennis. Hello, 350 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.279 I'm good, I'm good. What's up. I've got a question I've been 351 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.519 thinking about. I've got a yard full of a lot of weeds. Mode 352 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.519 and so I modeed and then I was gonna apply look wid weed killer on 353 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.880 it, and I said, you know, maybe that should go on before 354 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:11.519 and then let it sit you. Yes, yeah, that's right. Let 355 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:17.079 those weeds grow leaves so the weed spray you're putting down has something to soak 356 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:21.440 into. Do that and uh, and then do it spray early in the 357 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:23.640 morning. Some of these products, once it gets up in the upper eighties, 358 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.799 they're a little stressful to your grasp, but that as simple as that 359 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:32.359 go online to Gardening with Skip. That's my website, Gardening with Skip. 360 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.640 The guide is on there for pest disease and weed control. It's free and 361 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.599 it tells you what to apply and when to apply it. Awesome. I 362 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.880 had one other quick question. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to hold 363 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:48.240 you over break for that one. I gotta I gotta head to some commercials 364 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.960 here and I'll be right back, all right, phone number seven one three 365 00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:02.559 two one two K t r H. Welcome back to guarden Line. Good 366 00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:03.480 to have you with us today. Hey, what are we going to talk 367 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.160 about? Will you tell me when you call in at seven one three two 368 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:15.200 one two K t r H. Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights on Eleventh 369 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:22.880 Street is one of those awesome places to go and just experience. And I 370 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.400 really mean that. This isn't just a boring nursery with a bunch of things 371 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.839 sitting on tables and that's it. No, this is a you wander through. 372 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.440 You you see all the different kinds of plants that they have, and 373 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:37.839 wow, do they ever have a wide selection. If you're looking for something 374 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.200 for mom for Mother's Day, Oh well, the gift shop would be a 375 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:45.960 good place to start. Going into the house plant greenhouse. It's huge, 376 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.880 it's full of things that even if you're into house plants, there's a lot 377 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.920 in there that I guarantee you don't know the name of it. You've never 378 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.119 seen one of those before. That that is typical if you begin, it's 379 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.000 plants. Do you want a native plant? Number one place to go, 380 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:04.240 so I can think of Buchanans plots even down to the location of like I 381 00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:07.839 want native to Harris County specifically. Yes, they have that. They have 382 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:12.480 got them separated out for you there right now. Tropical color is the thing. 383 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:18.480 We're entering the blazing hot season and they've got some blazing hot color. 384 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:23.240 Bougainvillias and mandavillas. That vine, oh my gosh, mandavia, beautiful little 385 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.359 vine. You can put a little trellis pole, you can put it in 386 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:32.000 a container with something to climb on in there. Plumerius, jungle jack, 387 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:38.799 plumerius the Hawaiian lay flower. That's what plumerias are. They are outstanding plants, 388 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.480 and it's they're not hard to grow. Just a few simple, few 389 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:48.480 simple practices and you can have success with them. Your backyard can become a 390 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:55.839 tropical paradise in a place that is like entering into a whole nother little secluded 391 00:29:55.880 --> 00:30:00.160 nook that again, I love visiting. It's just fun to walk around there 392 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.559 and every time you turn a corner you find something else that you need to 393 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.599 take home with you. That's what I do at Least eleven Street in the 394 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.920 Heights. Buchanansplants dot com. You need go visit them, check them out. 395 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.519 We are now gonna go let's see here if i'd find the buttons, 396 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.200 We're gonna go back to Dennis and Road Sharon, Dennis, I think you 397 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.720 had a follow up, Yes, I did. My question is about wheat 398 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.160 killers that come in an apple hit or you just hook to your garden hose, 399 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:36.759 yes, and does that have surfactant in those? Typically not. I'm 400 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:38.680 not a big fan of those. I guess we would have to talk about 401 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:44.839 what weed are we going after. I prefer to use either a granular, 402 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.640 especially if you're doing a pre emergent with a granular, or to do a 403 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.920 spray, especially with the post emergent, to put a spray down where you 404 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.960 can direct it to the leaves themselves. With a garden hose, you're putting 405 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:02.920 out a lot of liquid, and so some of the products you don't want 406 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:07.000 to drench them down and have them go soap down deep into the soil and 407 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.599 affect tree roots or some other kind of thing. So I generally would say, 408 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.680 just get your product, mix it up in a sprayer, and go 409 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:18.759 through there and hit the weeds you need to hit with it. Great answer 410 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.000 my question. I appreciate you, all right, Dennis, Thank you for 411 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:27.079 the call. You take care those of you that are out there dealing with 412 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.519 the weather as it's been this past week and as it is today. You 413 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.880 got a band going through again today. I certainly do wish you well, 414 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.079 and our hearts go out to those of you who have suffered through some of 415 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:48.559 the flooding. And you know there's levels of concern that of course, first 416 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:52.160 is human life. Secondly is some of your very valuable property from your home 417 00:31:52.240 --> 00:32:00.680 to other things that we're concerned about. We are happy to entertain questions about 418 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.920 landscapes after flooding and things like that as well. It's a little early probably 419 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.680 for that, but I just want to mention that we can talk about those 420 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:14.599 kind of things. Also when we are dealing with storms, we have to 421 00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.920 remember that our trees are very susceptible to that. After these past few days 422 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.000 of storms, I mean, obviously we're in storm season. Hurricane season officially 423 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.039 starts June first and goes to the end of November. With it almost here, 424 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:34.279 now is the time to get your selective pruning done. And Martin Spoonmore 425 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.680 from Affordable Tree is the one to hire for that. Martin knows what he's 426 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.720 doing. He'll come out, he'll take a look at him do some selective 427 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.400 pruning. Maybe there's some dead areas, Maybe you have a plant that died, 428 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.839 a tree that died or has huge dead limbs. You got to get 429 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.920 those out of there. Those big ones they call widow makers for a good 430 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:54.440 reason. You never know when they're coming out of the tree, and you 431 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.440 better not be underneath them when they do. He can make your tree safe 432 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:02.960 for the heavy one, even the healthy green growth. Uh. Proper pruning 433 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.359 can help set up your trees for storm readiness. It's as simple as that. 434 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:12.000 And you don't want them falling on something valuable. I can't stress enough 435 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:17.359 the importance of getting proper tree pruning done as we get ready to head into 436 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:22.160 that storm season, even if it's not a hurricane I mean there's you know, 437 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:27.400 last week's storm came through high winds and we saw some huge limbs come 438 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.759 down on some trees in the area. Call Martin spoon Moore please seven one 439 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:37.319 three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Seven one three six nine nine 440 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.880 two six six three, or you can go to his website, which is 441 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.079 a fftree service dot com. When you call seven one three six nine twenty 442 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:51.880 six sixty three, either Martin or his wife are going to answer the phone. 443 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.359 The owners do answer their own phone. If you get something else, 444 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:57.920 you've called the wrong If you get someone else, you'd call the wrong place. 445 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:02.079 Hang up dial seven three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. But 446 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:07.960 don't delay. He stays busy and you you want to get this work done 447 00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:13.559 before instead of waiting until after. And now he's he's in cleanup mode and 448 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.960 a tree that's got broken limbs and that causes a whole different kind of damage, 449 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.159 So don't delay on that. You're listening to garden Line and I'm your 450 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:24.840 host, Skip Richter. We're here to answer your gardening questions this morning at 451 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.480 seven one three two one two kt R eight seven one three two one two 452 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.480 kt R H you may have heard me talk about a new product by Medina, 453 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.440 and this product I'm really excited about. It's called has to Grow. 454 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.880 Well, there's a number of has to Grows by Medina. This one is 455 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:47.039 has to Grow super Grow plus super Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two 456 00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:52.159 fertilizer. Now, of that sixteen percent nitrogen, about a fifth of it 457 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:57.320 is slow released, so you get an immediate and we're talking about hose en 458 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.159 spraying. This is a fertilizer you hook up to a garden hose. It 459 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.719 covers about four thousand square feet. The quart bottle you buy with the garden 460 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:08.840 hose attachment about four thousand square feet and it's going to give you the immediate 461 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:13.280 release with a little bit of slow release also in there. It's going to 462 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.639 give you iron and a chlated form, and that's important to keep that aren't 463 00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:22.159 available for the plant. It has seaweed extract and other things that are just 464 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.320 excellent like molasses and humic acid are in there to improve soil to feed the 465 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:30.079 microbes. I just think it's a complete package, and I like that ratio. 466 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.760 The sixteen zero two that is a that is a really good blend for 467 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.840 summer fertilizing. You can do it periodically, you can use it as a 468 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:42.440 as a spring greenop, you can use it in a lot of ways. 469 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.119 And I even have pictures that someone sent me of somebody that uses it on 470 00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:51.840 their tomatoes in the garden, and of course they're getting good results from that 471 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.880 as well. Remember fertilizers, I don't care what's on the label. They 472 00:35:54.920 --> 00:36:00.119 can't read. And so if it says if it says lawn fertilizer and you 473 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.840 want to put it on your herbs or flowers, I mean you can do 474 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:06.679 that. You know, it's nutrients, it's nutrients. We just kind of 475 00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:12.280 go for general ratios on these things. But supergril Plus is just many many 476 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:19.320 uses, but especially for your lawn. Another quality product from the folks they're 477 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.119 at Medina. Yesterday, I was talking to Jorge of Jorges Hidden Gardens on 478 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:28.840 the phone and just talking about what all they have down there. They've got 479 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.679 their Mother's Day sale on on roses going on right now, and I'll go 480 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:36.760 all the way up to Mother's Day. Three gallon Peggy Martin roses are also 481 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.920 included in the Mother's Day sales. So if you've been driving around admiring other 482 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.280 people's Peggy Martins, now's the chance to get you one yourself. They are 483 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:51.679 on Elizabeth Street and Alvin, just south of Highway six Jorges Hidden Gardens. 484 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.920 They also have citrus like Satsuma's one of the hardiest citrus we can plant here, 485 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:02.920 oranges and limes and lemons. So they have many other things from trees 486 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:08.679 and shrubs to vegetables and flowers and fruit and all kinds of things at Hoges 487 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:14.440 Hidden Gardens. They are open on the weekends also, by the way, 488 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.920 Friday from eight am to four, Saturday from eight am to four, Sunday 489 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.719 from eight am to four, and then during the week from nine am to 490 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:28.280 three pm. So Hoorges Hidden Gardens, Elizabeth Street and Alvin. Yep Oh. 491 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:32.119 He also has that three sixty tree stabilizer that's kind of cool. I've 492 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:39.320 talked about those all the time. It's a really cool new tool. I 493 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.199 want to mention the landscaper's prideline of products. You've heard me talk about them 494 00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:52.840 before, but this company local just quality products for your soil. It could 495 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.320 be black velvet malts not dyed, naturally beautiful velvety black malts for the top 496 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:04.280 of the soil hardwood mults, not ground up pellets. True hardwood multch for 497 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.159 the top of the soil or for pathways too. It's good to put on 498 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.760 your garden pathways as an all weather surface. Pine bark molt one of the 499 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:16.400 most popular slow decomposition right really beautiful pine chunks, and the garden Gardener's Magic 500 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.440 Soil. Gardener's Magic Soils, a pine based Blant's got Humus, green pine 501 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:27.159 compost risols and Chicken pillot fertilizer lasts up to three months. Landscapers Pride go 502 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.360 to Landscaperspride dot com. They're widely available through area. You can find out 503 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:37.000 all the sources and learn more about their products when you're there. Well, 504 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.639 I do want to mention that I got something for your calendar for next Saturday. 505 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:46.480 I will be at the Arbor Gate Saturday, May eleventh, next Saturday, 506 00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:52.280 from eleven thirty am to one thirty pm. Eleven thirty am to one 507 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.760 thirty pm next Saturday at the Arbor Gate. So you folks up there north 508 00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.800 and east are really wherever when I go to these appearances. As surprising me 509 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.400 sometimes people will drive a pretty good distance across town to go. So hey, 510 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.760 wherever you're listening to my voice. Uh, if you are out of 511 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:12.039 town and you've never been to the arbor gate, here's your excuse. I 512 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.840 mean, as if you needed more beautiful nursery, and we're gonna have a 513 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:23.079 good time there too. We'll be right back. Welcome to Katie r. 514 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:42.519 H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's crazy just watching as well. 515 00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:57.320 Give me things the ups again, you're not a sound Welcome back to garden 516 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:01.360 Line. Good to have you with us this morning. We are here to 517 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.719 answer your gardening questions, and so if you would like to ask a question, 518 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:12.000 here's the phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four 519 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:16.000 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. That auto make pretty 520 00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:23.519 easy. I enjoy visiting with gardeners because I just find a I don't know, 521 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:29.360 uh kind of a connection with people that are interested in growing plants and 522 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:34.119 doing better. I know that when you get involved in growing things, it 523 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.760 is good for us all in so many ways. Number One, there's an 524 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.719 exercise getting out there in the garden and walking around. I mean, you 525 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:49.920 know people I saw one of my daughters is interested in getting a walking pad 526 00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.000 that goes under your desk. So while you're at the desk, you know, 527 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.840 when you're caught all day in front of a computer and sitting at a 528 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.480 desk. Now we have the desk, we can stand up. Well, 529 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:00.800 now they have a low walking pads like a try underneath your desk. So 530 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.519 she's interested in one of those. And I was just thinking about you know, 531 00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.599 when you garden, when you go outside, you're walking all the time, 532 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:09.119 and they always say, after so many minutes, get up and walk 533 00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:14.639 around. Well, gardening is exercise, and it can be It can be 534 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:19.079 a mild amount of exercise, very low impact. It can be a heavier 535 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.639 amount of exercise. I mean if you get out and start turning swill with 536 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.039 a spading fork or shoveling compost, well, yeah, you're doing a little 537 00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.960 more work there. But it's enjoyable in that way. It's enjoyable in the 538 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:35.320 sense of accomplishment too. You know, even a task like weeding, which 539 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.679 we generally think, okay, that's not a pleasant thing to do. But 540 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:40.159 I can tell you this. When I go in and I've got a mess, 541 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:45.800 I've got to clean it up. At the end of a given amount 542 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:47.480 of time, you look back and you see the work you've done and you 543 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.079 see the difference you've made, and there's just something mentally rewarding about that. 544 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:55.280 A lot of our jobs we go and we you know, bang our head 545 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.519 against the computer all day, or push papers all over the place, or 546 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:00.440 deal with people, and at the end of the day you kind of go, 547 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:04.559 what did I accomplish today? Well, with gardening, you can see 548 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.039 what you accomplished today, and it's a rewarding kind of thing. The health 549 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:14.960 of getting outside and working in the garden and just being able to enjoy nature. 550 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.519 We are made to be connected with nature. That is just a fact. 551 00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.719 And piles of research studies have shown it in all kinds of ways, 552 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:30.360 benefiting children with the ADHD, older adults that are dealing with mobility issues, 553 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:37.159 things like dementia, even for example, the sense of well being. Just 554 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.760 studies of looking at what if we pull you off these meds and instead you 555 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.679 go garden and things. Yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing the benefits that 556 00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:50.719 are there. And many years ago they discovered a bacterium, a bacteria in 557 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:58.840 the soil that releases substances that cause our bodies to produce the serotonin effect. 558 00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:04.039 In other words, soil makes you happy. That's the bottom line on it. 559 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:09.400 There are bacterium in the soil that actually have that mental cognitive beneficial effect 560 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:15.519 on our bodies. That's just one of a million examples. Gardening is good 561 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.440 for us. We need to get out there and roll around in the dirt 562 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:22.719 and have some fun. That is a fact. If you haven't fertilized your 563 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:27.480 lawn yet and you're looking for a quality, slow release product, the Silver 564 00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:34.639 Bag by Nitrofoss Superturf nineteen four ten, that is example of what I'm talking 565 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.119 about. Superturf releases gradually over time. It gives even feeding to your soil. 566 00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:43.559 You fertilize once and you're done. It takes you all the way through 567 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.159 the summer pretty well, actually three or four months actually of a feeding out 568 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:51.199 of that. Now it's got iron in it as well, which helps green 569 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:57.599 up the garden or the lawn, because when we have various issues from certain 570 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.840 root diseases to highlight levels of pH or phosphorus in the soil, we start 571 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:07.880 to have iron deficiency and there is always a benefit when we can add a 572 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.119 little bit of iron to help get that grass a little bit greener. And 573 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:15.719 Superdurf does just that. Superderf's widely available like all nitropost products. You can 574 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:17.440 get it at Gem's Hardware up in Montgomery. You can go out to a 575 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.440 Tascasita to the ACE Hardware out there on Timber Forest Drive. They have it 576 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.639 out there as well as does the ACE at Sincle Ranch on Mason Road out 577 00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:32.159 there in the Kadi area. I'm gonna now go to let's see, we're 578 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:36.880 gonna go back and find the buttons. Today we're gonna go to Cypress and 579 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.599 talk to Sandy. Hey, Sandy, Hi, good morning, Skip morning. 580 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.880 I have a question about my egg black Beauty egg plant. When do 581 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:53.639 I know if when it's I'm ready to harvest, like, uh, well, 582 00:44:54.960 --> 00:45:00.280 it doesn't. It doesn't ripen in the sense of like a peach ripening 583 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:05.400 or something. So but we let it get about as big as it's going 584 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:09.639 to get. But but harvest it while the skin is still glossy. Once 585 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:16.039 the skin gets dull, uh it, it starts to lose quality significantly. 586 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:21.719 So as far as the size, don't worry so much about the size. 587 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:23.800 Just kind of get it up to close to the size that you would expect 588 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:29.760 Black Beauty to be. But look at watch that skin and don't let it 589 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:37.880 start to dull. Okay, And did you get my I didn't put my 590 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:46.199 name yesterday, but I as red flower weeds. Yes I did. I 591 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:52.639 actually replied to that a little bit earlier, replied to the photo of all 592 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.920 the different kinds of weeds and then also the red flowers. I'm working on 593 00:45:55.960 --> 00:46:00.199 the red flower still. It looks like a type of verbenu, but it's 594 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.599 not quite right for burbinas, so I'm trying to nail it down a little 595 00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.559 bit better. Okay. I don't know how you have that in your yard. 596 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:15.159 I've never seen such a beautiful weed in the yard. It looks like 597 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.519 a plant or a flower. And I said, I didn't plan it though, 598 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:30.599 but my my email is three slat low Gallire. Yeah, if you 599 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:32.480 got it yesterday, I sure did. And like I said, you have 600 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:36.840 an answer in your email box. So oh, okay, okay, we're 601 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:38.440 good. All right, Thank you so much. All right, thank you 602 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:42.679 had a great day. You too, you too, sir, Thank you. 603 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:47.039 I wish you well. RCW Nursery is one of those places where, 604 00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:52.079 for example, you can get night super turf. They carry that and a 605 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.400 lot of other products that you hear us talk about here on Garden Line. 606 00:46:54.880 --> 00:47:00.559 RCW makes it a point to carry what you are interested in and what will 607 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:04.360 help you have success. Do you want a planet a tree? They have 608 00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.360 all kinds of products to help you get that tree off to success. You 609 00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:13.039 know, they grow their own trees up in Plannersville and they bring them down 610 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:19.280 to the nursery and it is just it's I put it. It's like, 611 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:21.119 you know, when you go there and buy a tree, you're going to 612 00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.360 get a species that wants to grow here. You're also going to get it 613 00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:28.280 planted right. They'll go out and plant it for you too, and they'll 614 00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:30.760 do it right, or they'll give you the instructions on how to do it 615 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:35.159 yourself with the products you need in your hand to have success with that. 616 00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.599 It's Mother's Day coming up, and boy do they ever have a beautiful They 617 00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:42.920 have a nice stock of roses. They've got a nice stock of some of 618 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:49.039 the landscape art that mom might like and things like hibiscus, beautiful, beautiful 619 00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:53.239 hibiscus. It's just you got to go buy your and see it for yourself. 620 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:58.159 RCW Nursery is one of those places, fun to visit, easy to 621 00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:05.119 get to Palmbo Parkway and RCW Nurseries dot Com. RCW nurseries dot Com. 622 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.159 We're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right back and get back 623 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:19.119 to your questions. Well for back to the garden line. Good to have 624 00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:24.440 you with us as always if you're doing some container planting outdoors, and you 625 00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:29.920 should be. Containers are gorgeous. You buy a beautiful quality container and it's 626 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:31.480 with you for years and you put it wherever you want to put it. 627 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:36.880 You can move them around, you can grow vegetables, you can grow flowers. 628 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:42.440 It's just containers are awesome way to have I would say instant beauty, 629 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.960 almost instant beauty out there in the garden. But you need to have a 630 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.440 container that drains well and you need a quality potting mix to go in it. 631 00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:52.320 And Jungle End is that kind of mix. Jungle Land distributed by Nitropos 632 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:59.760 has a four different kinds actually of aged organic matter. It's got microhizal fungi 633 00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.519 as well, and it drains the excess water away, but it holds on 634 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.840 to the moisture that the plants are going to need. So it's kind of 635 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:09.920 the perfect thing of too. You know, you don't want something dries out 636 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:14.519 too fast. You don't want something to stays soggy and mucky like a swamp. 637 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.760 Jungle In does the best of both worlds. You can get jungle in 638 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.280 in a lot of different places. Dney Feed and Tomball has got jungle nd 639 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.800 Lake Hardware down in Angleton. They've got jungle in. You know it's you 640 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.800 find it pretty much. Any ace hardware store that you go to, like 641 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:34.760 Fisher's Hardware for example, is another one that has jungle land down in Baytown. 642 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:38.079 So check it out, get some and use it in your containers so 643 00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:44.320 that you have quality success. We are now going to go to Marty and 644 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:47.599 Fairfield. Hello Marty, Good, good morning. Step Hey. Yesterday you 645 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.719 talked to him about his little acorns growing into trees and his lawn, and 646 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:57.679 you said just to mow them. What about the acorns that have grown into 647 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:04.400 trees in your garden? What can I spray and up till now? I've 648 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:08.280 just been taking the weed eater and but they just for three years now, 649 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.960 I've had bumper crops of acorns. Yeah, and I just I want to 650 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:16.599 get rid of them right now. I don't have a whole lot, but 651 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:22.199 I do have lots of ferns and stuff underneath the trees. Yeah, so 652 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:24.760 is that what the acorn? What are the acorns growing? What are the 653 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:30.480 good plants that are growing with the acorns? Oh, I'm a cottage garden 654 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:37.400 person. I like whatever. I like whatever. I wander around and see 655 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.079 that I like, I just pick it up. Yeah, okay, put 656 00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:43.280 it in. Well, the problem with spraying the acorns is you're gonna have 657 00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:47.840 to use a potent stuff for woody brush type control, and you're going to 658 00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:52.920 hurt other plants when you get it on them. So there's not really a 659 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.960 good way, especially in a cottage like setting like that, where you're not 660 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.280 going to get it on the desire plants that you have around. There Actually 661 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:06.679 is a little device I can't remember what they're called, but you set it 662 00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.599 down around the stem and you pull back on the handle and it literally pulls 663 00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:13.760 the tree out of the ground. I mean, use it on trees up 664 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:19.760 the size of your thumb. I'm talking thousands of little trees in my garden. 665 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.760 Okay, there's no way I can know. Well, and I guess 666 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:27.159 I'm not going to talk into getting in your hands and knees with moist soil 667 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.159 and just pulling them up. That's what that's what I do in mind, 668 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.880 if they're if they're at that stage that many, I don't know a good 669 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.440 solution. You know, you spray, you're gonna kill good things. Uh, 670 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:42.960 they're just too many physically to remove. So that kind of leaves you 671 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.800 with Uh, I don't know. I just I'll just weed eat them and 672 00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:51.320 put some molt on them. I guess that's It's about the only thing I 673 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:55.400 can do. Then there there actually there's one other option. Uh. You 674 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:59.480 can take a product that would kill brush and you can put it in a 675 00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:05.880 wiper type applicator and like the sponge on the sponge on the end of your 676 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.159 clipper your grabber tool thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, one of those. 677 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:15.239 Okay, if you can rig that up, you could put put triclop peer 678 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.519 on it. And triclop peer is the ingredient. It's sold in many brands, 679 00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:22.280 many things. You know up there in Fairfield, you got some good 680 00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:27.360 Ace hardware stores nearby there, they're going to carry that that triclo peer for 681 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:31.440 you up. Uh. No, it's a tricl Peer is more like a 682 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:37.599 poison ivy killer. It's different. It's not the ingredient and roundup. Roundup 683 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.639 isn't as good on woody brush as triclo peers. Uh. And you do 684 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.800 the wiper and just dab it on the you know, squeeze the sponge on 685 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.280 the leaves of the acorns. Now again you said you have hundreds of them, 686 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:52.800 but are thousands? Uh, So you're gonna have to get out there 687 00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.760 do a little bit. And next Saturday morning, with a cup of coffee 688 00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:59.840 listening to the garden line, you can just speer it on some more. 689 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.079 Now you see what I'm saying. Just keep on it, and I think 690 00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:07.800 that would be a good option. Probably put a little bit of a spreader 691 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:13.400 sticker in the mix to help it stare to those slick oak leaves. All 692 00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:15.840 right, okay, all right, thank you, you've bet. Thanks Marty. 693 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:22.159 I appreciate your call. Piercecapes is the company you call for pretty much 694 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.039 anything you need around the landscape. And here's what I mean by that. 695 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.400 It's been raining. That's no news. Right When it rains as much, 696 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:34.719 you have standing water everywhere. And what do you read when you look at 697 00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:37.360 what a plant wants? Good drainage? Almost always I want good drainage. 698 00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:43.400 Piercecapes can turn a swamp into a well drained area. They can do that. 699 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:46.639 They can work on landscape lighting. They can help get your irrigation system 700 00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:51.920 in working order, and that is important. They can create hard scapes, 701 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:54.800 they can do all kinds of things. I mean, go online to the 702 00:53:54.800 --> 00:54:00.440 website and you'll see what I'm talking about. They do some really beautiful upper 703 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:06.159 end work. They can do a number of things at piercescapes dot com pierscapes 704 00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:09.400 dot com. They also have a quarterly maintenance for your beds. So here's 705 00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.039 what happens. You sign up with them and they come out quarterly, four 706 00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.559 times a year. They'll do trimming, weeding, fertilizing, they'll check your 707 00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:22.880 irrigation system. They'll do seasonal color changes. You can choose how many of 708 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.119 those you want to do in a given year. Two changes a year, 709 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:30.760 three or even four. And they'll replenish the multch keep it looking good and 710 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:35.760 blocking that light to whole weeds down. Quarterly maintenance for beds from Piercescapes just 711 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.679 another one of the mini services that they offer. Here's the phone number two 712 00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:44.679 eight one three seven to zero five zero six zero. We're going to go 713 00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:49.239 now to Northwest Houston and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, good morning, 714 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.800 Good to hear from you. You've got having a Saint Augustine grass and 715 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:58.440 doing like you said, leave it alone, but you got long runners and 716 00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:04.719 all on top instead of any dirt. Only should I put a for some 717 00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:09.480 dirt around all majority or something, cause they did not grab it on the 718 00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:14.639 Uh, they're going on top and the long runner. But I'm not gonna 719 00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:19.440 get out there and they're not rooting in. They're not rooting in. They're 720 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:24.039 going on top of the other. And it's okay, did like you said, 721 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:28.480 do I take care of that? Yeah? Compost top dressing can help 722 00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:31.480 with that. When you have runners on top of runners. Uh, then 723 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:36.880 you've got that thatch and it's keeping them from from pegging down to the ground 724 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.880 like you want to. If I'm understanding your question right right, And so 725 00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:44.559 when you put a little compost top dressing out there over the top, it 726 00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:52.199 helps to speed the decomposition of those runners. And and then you're you essentially 727 00:55:52.400 --> 00:56:00.360 are using nature to compost away the thatch that you're describing. Okay. Also, 728 00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:05.000 my boy, cajun hibisinus, it's not doing near as good as my 729 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:07.960 other hobbistiness. Oh really, Oh yes, Oh, I love that. 730 00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:12.159 I love Cajun hibiscus. I got some at home that is loading up with 731 00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:15.400 buds right now and can't wait till see it. I don't know i'd get, 732 00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:17.920 I'd get a good quality of hibiscus food. And uh, you know, 733 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:23.119 I know that Nitrofoss makes one that does well. Nelson's makes one called 734 00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:27.400 color Star. Color Star food you could use. Just keep them fed, 735 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.840 keep them vigorous, keep them in plenty of sunlight. The more the better, 736 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:35.800 don't let them completely dry out. Uh. And you they should kick 737 00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:39.960 in and do better for you. Okay, fine, thank you, all 738 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:45.519 right, sir, Thanks very much, Ralf appreciate your call. I it's 739 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:50.559 talking about Nelson's and you know, having the Color Star and things. Nelson's 740 00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:55.000 also has their turf Star line. That turf Star means for your lawn. 741 00:56:55.639 --> 00:57:00.639 Uh. They've got two products that both last to six months, but they're 742 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:07.079 different. One of them is Bruce's Brew. Bruces Brew is good for quick 743 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:12.599 green up in the spring because most of the nutrient releases pretty quickly, but 744 00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:15.119 there is some slow release. It'll go out about six months. Not the 745 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:17.559 bulk of the product but a little bit in there, so you could do 746 00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:22.320 Bruce's Brew now, you could do it again midsummer and that'll carry you all 747 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.639 the way to fall. Slow and Easy is a very slow release product. 748 00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:29.880 It gives you some feeding now, but you're going to have Slow and Easy 749 00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:31.480 going four months from that. In fact, if you do Slow and Easy 750 00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:36.159 on your lawn, you don't need to fertilize again until we hit fall. 751 00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:38.800 Just return the clippings. That's all you got to do. It's an acidifying 752 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:43.800 fertilizer, which is a good thing for a number of reasons. But both 753 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:49.159 Bruce's Brew and Slow and Easy available from Nelson Plant Food, and they are 754 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:54.760 quality products and you will have good results with those. Let's see here I 755 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:59.920 am what's good. I tell you I'm not going to be able to take 756 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.599 call. With just a few seconds left here, I think Nicky may want 757 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:06.840 to do the news instead of listening to me. Continue to talk to callers 758 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:08.920 through it. When I come back, Steve you will be the first up, 759 00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:13.320 and John you will be next. Our phone number is seven to one 760 00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:17.639 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 761 00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:22.559 eight seven four. You can give me a call here. Our producer will 762 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:27.199 get you on the line and ready to talk when we come back. I 763 00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.679 just want to remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be at Arburgate 764 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:34.079 from eleven thirty to one thirty. That's the eleventh Saturday, May eleventh, 765 00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:37.199 eleven thirty to one thirty. I hope you will come see me, and 766 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:40.159 I hope you'll come see Arborgate in fact, parking back that brand new parking 767 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:44.760 lot they've got that is just absolutely awesome. Hey, we're going to do 768 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:50.320 news. We'll be right back. I see you don't don't super Man's game, 769 00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:55.280 you don't speak with you, don't pull a mask on, hold on 770 00:58:55.559 --> 00:59:00.039 range around your tom Welcome back, Reguardline. Good to head with us this 771 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.800 morning. We're here to answer gardening questions. How can we help you have 772 00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:09.079 a bountiful garden and a beautiful, beautiful landscape. That is the goal. 773 00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:13.920 And listen, it is not that difficult. I know, you know, 774 00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:16.320 you may be one of these folks. It feels like I just have a 775 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:21.559 brown thumb. My grandma could just put something in the ground that grew and 776 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:23.280 looked good, and she just had a green thumb. Well, let me 777 00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:27.639 tell you something. There's no such thing as a brown thumb. What there 778 00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:32.079 is is an uninformed thumb. You learn a few simple principles of taking care 779 00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:36.880 of plants, let us help you along as we go, and suddenly it's 780 00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:38.719 like, maybe you don't have a brown maybe you do have a green thumb. 781 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:43.760 Because I'm telling you it is not rocket science. We can do it. 782 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:47.000 You just have to follow a few few basic guidelines as you're going along. 783 00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:53.400 And one of them rule number one. Soil first. Soil first. 784 00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:58.199 I know it's exciting to get buy a tomato plant and think about it, 785 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.760 even taste the tomatoes when you take the to made a plant home. I 786 01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:05.039 know it's fun to buy a rose bush. You can just imagine the fragrance 787 01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.280 of those roses in a bouquet or whatever. I get it. I understand 788 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:12.039 that those are great. I feel the same way. But soil first. 789 01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.880 Get excited about the soil and make the soil right, and then you will 790 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.280 be on your way to success. By the time you put a plant in 791 01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:22.599 the ground, you are eighty percent of the way to success or failure. 792 01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:25.760 You've picked a spot that's sunny or shady, and plants are going to have 793 01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:30.400 an opinion about that. You've picked a spot that drains well or drains poorly, 794 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:35.119 and plants are going to have an opinion about that. You've selected a 795 01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:38.960 species and or a variety, and there's some that do better than others. 796 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:43.760 So you've made a lot of decisions. But the most important decision is you've 797 01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:47.360 either improved the soil so the plant can thrive or you haven't. See anamalts 798 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:53.239 is about improving the soil. When you go into cianamalts, load up and 799 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:58.079 come home or have them delivered. They deliver within twenty miles of their location, 800 01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:04.400 which is down just north of Sharon on Highway five FM five twenty one. 801 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:07.119 When you come home from there, here's what you got. You got 802 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:13.239 compost, You've got rosesoil, you have leaf mow compost, you have bed 803 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.800 mixes, you have mulches, you have every fertilizer I talk about on guardenline. 804 01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:20.920 They have it there, including things like asimite. They have it there, 805 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:24.840 and you come home. You create that setting and then when you get 806 01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:29.000 a good quality plant take it home. You will have success. That's how 807 01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:32.679 that works, and Cienamultch can get you started. Sienna mulch dot com. 808 01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:37.719 That's that's what you need to know, Siena multch dot com. Go check 809 01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:40.679 them out and you'll see what I'm talking about. They will help you do 810 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.039 the first step, which is brown stuff, before step two, which is 811 01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:50.519 green stuff. I'm gonna go now to John in a Tascasita. Hello, 812 01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:57.840 John H. Scalp Hi. I've got got a pear tree in my front 813 01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:02.079 yard and it's got fired light. Had this before and I'd like to like 814 01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:07.960 to do something about it. Okay. Fire blight is a bacterial disease. 815 01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:13.800 It typically hits in the spring. As you probably notice, it likes to 816 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:16.519 enter through blooms. It also the tender new growth gets it in there. 817 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:20.760 For those who haven't had fire blight, I'm kind of explaining it. I 818 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:27.920 know you know some of this stuff. The bacteria causes complete and rapid collapse 819 01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.639 of the whole shoot, and it just ends up hanging their chocolate brown with 820 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:36.440 leaves still on it, chocolate brown. The way to deal with it is 821 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:40.280 the first step is sanitation. So you want to go to all those strikes, 822 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:46.079 all those burned ends of branches and things, follow them down until that 823 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:51.320 you get a healthy branch and cut it off just a little below there. 824 01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:58.800 So typically those things are about maybe eight inches a foot long. In severe 825 01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.239 cases it can be more. But you got to print it out because that 826 01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:06.440 is loaded with bacteria that when it rains, will splash onto healthy new growth, 827 01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.719 especially next spring, and you'll be right back where you are when you 828 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:15.639 prune. Have some lysol or some similar product on hand. Spray your printers 829 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.960 after each cut. That way, if you did happen to cut into the 830 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:23.199 bacterial infective part, you wouldn't just be spreading it with printers now, So 831 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:27.719 I spray them with lysol between cuts. That's a good practice in general. 832 01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:30.800 Get it all pruned out, get it out of the area, out of 833 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:32.440 don't drop it on the ground, just get it out of there. And 834 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:37.639 then on pairs I would I would almost say don't don't fertilize them. There 835 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:40.840 are situations where you need a little fertilizer. But if you push them with 836 01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:46.800 succulent new growth lots of nitrogen and water and things like that, fire blight 837 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:52.760 is much worse. And we're that's yeah, that's seculent new growth. You're 838 01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:57.599 just setting it up for fireblight. Now. The weather is a huge factor. 839 01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:00.400 Some years are worse than others. Variety as a huge factor. There 840 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:04.400 are some that are fairly tolerant of fireblight. There are some that just get 841 01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:10.039 toasted, and so those are all some of the concepts. There is a 842 01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:15.800 spray with streptomizin in it that you can buy in garden centers. Not all 843 01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:17.800 of them have it. You have to look around a little bit or go 844 01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:21.440 to your ace hardware store and ask them if they have it, and it 845 01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:26.400 is. It has streptomcin in and it's for fireblight. So basically you're using 846 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:30.719 an antibiotic type spray to control that. It's got to follow the label rule 847 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:33.119 carefully. Most people don't want to get out there and have to spray to 848 01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:38.199 try to stop it, so we use these cultural and sanitary techniques I just 849 01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:43.719 talked about. I think spraying would be an easier option for me than even 850 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:47.079 my tallest lad or I couldn't yet halfway up the tree. Well, just 851 01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:53.159 know that, you know, with the infected there, it's like spray is 852 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:58.320 not a complete panacea. So yeah, but those are your options for fireblight. 853 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.199 I'm about in the in the off season, when the can I spray 854 01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:10.760 the bear tree, it won't wit something no, it won't do any good. 855 01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:13.599 No, you got to get you got to get that done early on. 856 01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:16.440 It'd be like taking an antibiotic now, because you might get a cold 857 01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:21.760 in the fall. There's there's you see what I'm saying. Yes, yes, 858 01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:26.800 all right, well good luck, good luck with that tree. I 859 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.639 understand. I've I see your pain, and I've seen a lot of fire 860 01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:33.320 blight this spring. Okay, I'm going to get busy with that. All 861 01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:38.000 right. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Nelson Water Garden, 862 01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:41.519 boy, they had their little shindig out there yesterday evening. I was not 863 01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:45.440 able to go, but I bet it was a blast. Nelson Water Garden 864 01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:50.320 is a destination. It's and I should not say water gardens, it's Nelson 865 01:05:50.440 --> 01:05:58.039 Nursery and water Gardens. Although they've always been known nationally for their quality water 866 01:05:58.079 --> 01:05:59.880 gardens, they're a leader and a lot of things. You know, they 867 01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:08.639 invented you see these disappearing fountains where it's like a large glazed vase type container 868 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:12.920 that water's spilling over the sides and going down into a rock bed where it 869 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.840 disappears and then it gets pumped back up through the container. They invented that 870 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:18.519 that kind of thing, and those are so cool. And when you go 871 01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:24.239 to Nelson's number one, it's fun just to walk around. But Nelson Water 872 01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:29.880 Garden is inspirational. You'll see all kinds of different waterfalls and fish and water 873 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:32.920 plants. And then their garden center is just awesome. I mean they have 874 01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:38.360 a wide, wide selection of things. They're in Katie Katie Fort Ben Road. 875 01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:42.280 When you get there, just turn right on Katie Fort Ben just as 876 01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:45.960 stones throw up the street and you will enjoy it. I promise you you 877 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:51.119 will be very inspired. And whether you want to hire them to come out 878 01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:55.719 and put in a waterfall for you or a water garden of whatever type, 879 01:06:56.199 --> 01:06:59.320 or you want to do it yourself and have them advice you, they'll do 880 01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:03.880 that too. Uh. You know, it's certain tasks, certain jobs are 881 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:06.800 pretty involved. Then you're probably gonna want to hire it done. But for 882 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:11.440 do it yourselfers, they can help you with that too. Nelson Watergardens out 883 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:15.480 there and Katie, here's the here's the website Nelson Watergardens dot com. You 884 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:19.320 need to go check them out. You're listening to garden Line, I'm your 885 01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:23.360 host, skip rickor we're taking a break here, I will be right back 886 01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:26.360 if you want to get on the board for a call seven one three two 887 01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:35.199 one two kt r H. You can dance heavy, dance with the gardens. 888 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:42.239 You thee I let them hold you take you can smile. Welcome back 889 01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.039 here, garden line, good heavy with us today. What are we gonna 890 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:49.800 talk about? I think probably I'll do a little bit of talking about some 891 01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:55.800 of the things that we can be doing indoors as well. Your house plans 892 01:07:56.679 --> 01:08:00.000 need to be periodically bumped up to a bigger container. If you want to 893 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:02.920 have success with them. You need to check the light levels on things, 894 01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:06.360 see how they're doing. You know, there's a survival level of light and 895 01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:11.679 there's a thrive level of light, and those are very different. I often 896 01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:15.000 will move my houseplants to a brighter area gradually for the summertime. I got 897 01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:18.079 a little front ports. It's real, real, really really shady, but 898 01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:23.600 in much brighter than it is inside. That gives them a chance to make 899 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:27.039 some carbohydrates and rejuvenate. So you can do that. Check the watering on 900 01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:30.720 them, see how they're doing. Every now and then if you've been fertilizing, 901 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:33.039 just put them in the sink and drench them with water and wash all 902 01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:36.920 the excess salts and things out of there. Let them fully drain out, 903 01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:40.960 and then you're back in business again. A lot of these things we can 904 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:45.159 do for the plants. Try some new houseplants. There's a lot of cool 905 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.119 species out there. If you want a full proofast plant, we're just going 906 01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:53.359 to start on that end. Sansavaria mother in law's tongue. I didn't name 907 01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:58.239 it, mother in law if you're listening, but anyway, Sansavaria, that 908 01:08:58.279 --> 01:09:03.680 one shake deep, dark areas, bright areas. Let it get too dry, 909 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:06.600 forget to water it, and water it again. It survives it all. 910 01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:10.239 If you can't grow sens Ofvaria, I can't help you. I mean 911 01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:15.760 it is probably easier easier to have as a plant than silk and plastic plants 912 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:18.039 are. I mean it is a tough one. Another good one. ZZ 913 01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:23.079 plant that's been a popular one now for a while, fairly new as far 914 01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:28.000 as houseplants go on the list. ZZ plant again. It likes light, 915 01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:31.159 but it can take less. You can forget to water and it does just 916 01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:33.960 fine. You know, with most houseplants, the biggest problem we do is 917 01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:39.199 when we overwater them and roots stay soggy. And can't get oxygen start to 918 01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:42.640 rot. But Zzi is another easy one. And then there's some others. 919 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:46.000 I love Aglionima, also called Chinese evergreen. They come in so many colors. 920 01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:51.600 I'm kind of into colored foliage houseplants, so something like a Chinese evergreen, 921 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:56.760 a Moranta prayer plant, some of those types of things. I kind 922 01:09:56.760 --> 01:10:00.840 of like them because they bring a little color in as well. Your hometown 923 01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:05.359 feed store if you are up in the twenty nine seventy eight area in Magnolia, 924 01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:10.479 that's FM twenty nine seventy eight. It's Spring Creek Feed Center. They're 925 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:14.199 just minutes away from Graham Parkway high Way two forty nine. Spring Creek Feed 926 01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:17.279 carries all the fertilizers I recommend they're there. If I say this is a 927 01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:20.079 good one, you go there. They're going to have it. They have 928 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:25.600 supplies for your lawn and garden like pest control, disease control, weed control, 929 01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:29.199 and so on. Very friendly, courteous staff, and it's a beautiful, 930 01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:32.720 beautiful store. I mean just walk in and it's just fun to get 931 01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:36.560 in there and shop quality pet feed, quality livestock feed. Of course, 932 01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:41.640 if you are in four h or FFA, if you were in the military. 933 01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:44.800 If you're a senior citizen, there's discounts for all of you. And 934 01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:47.520 if they need a special order, they're more than happy to special order the 935 01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:50.600 particular things you were looking for. And they even have a delivery service. 936 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:57.439 Again Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Let's go 937 01:10:57.479 --> 01:11:01.319 to Cove, Texas and we're going to talk to RUFUS mornings. Yep, 938 01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:11.359 when do you start pulling up onions? Mustflying onions the harvest dry out and 939 01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:14.800 reap again. Yeah, anytime you want, Uh, you can leave them 940 01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:17.039 and not pull them up. You can pull them up once you at least 941 01:11:17.039 --> 01:11:23.079 want to get them to multiply and have shoots that are let's say, a 942 01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:28.239 good size for eating. But there's no particular time yet to do it. 943 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:31.479 Well, I noticed that some of them have died back to the to the 944 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:36.279 dirt line. And when I pulled up, I pulled up one row of 945 01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:41.199 my most flying and I noticed they were still there and they still were solid. 946 01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:44.640 Yeah, any way, well maybe they're still good. So I got 947 01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:46.720 them out there drying. That's the other thing I was asking, how I'm 948 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:50.640 going to leave them on the table to dry out, just just enough for 949 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:54.600 the outside to dry the roots. I don't know, I'm getting a feedback. 950 01:11:54.640 --> 01:12:00.279 Are you hearing that on your end? Rufous hell? That sound that's 951 01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:05.399 much better? Uh so okay we'll go off. Yeah the uh you just 952 01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:10.399 just enough to the tops dry. You don't want to put like green green 953 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:16.000 onion top or fleshy wet root materials, you know, into storage. It'll 954 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:21.479 just just decay right away. So just yeah it. Don't overthink multiplying onions. 955 01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:26.960 They're pretty durn simple. Yeah. I know people that forget about them 956 01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:30.039 for a while and then a year later they go in and divide them and 957 01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.720 get going again. Right right? How often do you have to cut the 958 01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:36.760 gentlemen? You have wall? Go with the fire blake? This tree is 959 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:42.399 really tall. I cut mine back about five years ago and got it down 960 01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:45.279 the badge wall, and it started to get up about twenty five foot. 961 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:49.319 Okay, what's a good what's a good height to? Just okay, what 962 01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:53.600 it gets here? I need to cut it back a third. Oh boy, 963 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:57.199 that varies on the person and the size of the ladder you have and 964 01:12:57.239 --> 01:13:00.359 the kind of tree you've got. Uh, there's not a good side. 965 01:13:00.439 --> 01:13:03.159 Just keeping it manageable. But here's the thing. When you prune a pair 966 01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:08.399 tree back severely, it takes off like a rocket and all the shoots go 967 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:12.479 straight to the sky real quickly. So you got to stay on it as 968 01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:16.319 much as possible. If you can lean shoots out to the side kind of 969 01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:21.720 forty five degree angle or so, that helps spread the growth from just the 970 01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:26.680 tips going straight up like a fishing pole or bamboo, you start to get 971 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:30.720 shoots occurring on the sides along along that stem that was shooting for the sky. 972 01:13:30.920 --> 01:13:35.000 So a lot of the people training they part of their training is to 973 01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:40.159 lean them out rather than trying to prune them into submission, because they they 974 01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:45.039 they don't respond well to being severely pruned. They just redo what you just 975 01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:47.600 try to prune out. Hey, Rich, I didn't shoot out as bad 976 01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:51.000 as when I put that black stuff on it. Yeah, yeah, I'm 977 01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:56.000 gonna have to run. But thank you for the question and good luck with 978 01:13:56.039 --> 01:14:00.359 that. I appreciate your call. The b Supply in Dayton, Texas is 979 01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:03.600 a really cool place to go. They've got an observation hive there. If 980 01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:08.920 you've got kiddo's or just you're curious and like stuff like that like I do. 981 01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:14.239 Go and do the honey tour. Learn about the different kinds of honey. 982 01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:15.560 You get to taste a bunch of different kinds. You learn about bees. 983 01:14:16.079 --> 01:14:20.399 You can watch the bees in the store inside an observation hive. It 984 01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:25.760 is super cool. If you have five to twenty acres and you're within fifty 985 01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:29.399 miles of the bee supply in Dayton, Texas, you can do their be 986 01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:32.600 rental program. Go to their website and they will explain how it works. 987 01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:35.840 Basically, they bring the bees, they set them up, they take care 988 01:14:35.880 --> 01:14:40.680 of them for you. And bees are something you can use in an egg 989 01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:44.439 exemption. You have to have the right amount. They understand how to do 990 01:14:44.479 --> 01:14:49.279 it. Just go to dbsupply dot com. Dbsupply dot com also check out 991 01:14:49.319 --> 01:14:56.520 their beginner bee keeping classes. Very helpful, good classroom and good hands on 992 01:14:56.600 --> 01:15:01.399 both in those classes. Love love to do that. Uh let's see, 993 01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:10.079 We're gonna go to Melvin in Parland. Hey Melvin, Hey nice used today 994 01:15:10.119 --> 01:15:14.439 morning? You know I brought in that little old stunted tomato plants. Yes, 995 01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:17.319 I told you previously the year four I had a lot of weeds and 996 01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:20.680 I sprayed it with spectrocide. I got to think that, you know, 997 01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:27.479 I was wrong about what I sprayed. I used that bear breast killers when 998 01:15:27.479 --> 01:15:30.920 I did so, I didn't know if there was any makeup and that you 999 01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:36.680 know, absolutely absolutely, Yeah, No, that that explains the symptoms you 1000 01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:42.199 had. Uh. It's a hormone type herbicide and that was damage from it. 1001 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:46.520 Uh. These tomatoes are probably goneers. Uh, but it's not like 1002 01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:49.720 it's in your soil now and you can't replant. You can pull them out 1003 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:54.079 and replant with something else if you want. But yeah, that does it. 1004 01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:58.279 Melvin. Hey, Melvin, Yeah, I've got to run, uh 1005 01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:00.760 if you thank you. Yeah, and it was good to see you in 1006 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:03.520 Paarland. By the way, I appreciate that. Yeah. And also I 1007 01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:08.439 did poketo pinto beans around her anyway. But yeah, I figured out what 1008 01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:11.039 it was. Yeah, that's it. I just want to make sure they 1009 01:16:12.079 --> 01:16:14.800 all right, you know, stay there all right. Thank you, thank 1010 01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:18.039 you for your help. N nice to meet you too. Hey. Arburgate 1011 01:16:18.199 --> 01:16:21.520 has a brand new parking lot you know about that up in Tomball twenty nine 1012 01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:26.920 to twenty just west, just west of Tombull Parkway out there on the edge 1013 01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:30.680 of town. The Arborgate has everything you need to have success, including staff 1014 01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:34.560 that knows what they're talking about that will guide you well while you're there. 1015 01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:39.439 And by the way, I'm going to be at Arburgate next Saturday, that's 1016 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:43.479 the eleventh of May. But while you're there, you got to pick up 1017 01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:47.079 some stuff for mom. They have wonderful gift shops, they have outstanding plants. 1018 01:16:47.319 --> 01:16:51.520 There are probably a thousand things that would make your mom really happy that 1019 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:55.079 you can find there at Arburgate. In fact, just bring her with you. 1020 01:16:55.600 --> 01:16:59.880 How about that? Bring her with you, bring her Saturday you get 1021 01:16:59.880 --> 01:17:02.840 to pick out our own. Yet, if you come out, you can 1022 01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:08.560 bring samples of plants. Put them in a zip lock bag or plastic bag, 1023 01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:12.960 close them up, bring me the plants, will identify them or we'll 1024 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:15.520 diagnose them. You've got a bug, put it in a bag and bring 1025 01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:17.199 it out there. I love to meet people that listen to garden Line, 1026 01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.319 so this is another opportunity. It's going to be this coming Saturday, eleven 1027 01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:26.960 thirty till one thirty, and I'll be there answering your gardening questions. We'll 1028 01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:30.079 talk about whatever you're interested in. You just want to come in and bring 1029 01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:32.159 me some pictures and say, hey, I've got this area. What plants 1030 01:17:32.239 --> 01:17:35.319 might do good there? What can I do to you know, enhance that. 1031 01:17:35.640 --> 01:17:39.279 We'll do all of that kind of stuff again at the Arbitate, which 1032 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:42.720 is in Tomball. Now, if you're going to drive out there, you 1033 01:17:42.760 --> 01:17:45.279 want to look for Trishel Road. It goes around behind Arborgate. You can 1034 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:48.079 get it on one end or the other. Drive in the back and there's 1035 01:17:48.119 --> 01:17:57.199 an awesome parking lot, easy easy access. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with 1036 01:17:57.399 --> 01:18:24.600 scamp Direct. It's just watch him as so many things beginning. Hey, 1037 01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:28.000 welcome back to the garden Line. I am your host, Skip Richter. 1038 01:18:28.399 --> 01:18:31.119 It's good to have you with us today. Got a question you'd like to 1039 01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:36.159 give us a call? Here is a phone number seven one three two one 1040 01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:42.960 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1041 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:46.239 Now I know it's gardeners. When we have rainy weather's kind of cooped 1042 01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:49.399 up and we don't do well with that, do we. I mean we 1043 01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:54.680 want to get outside enjoy it. I guess you could work in the rain. 1044 01:18:55.359 --> 01:18:59.760 There have been times when I have worked in the rain. How many 1045 01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.479 you all remember doctor Dolittle? I don't know. This just went through my 1046 01:19:01.560 --> 01:19:08.880 head. Doctor Dolittle the song if you remain out in the rain, you'll 1047 01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:13.920 think you're drinking pink champagne and you will spend your life praying for thunderstorms. 1048 01:19:14.359 --> 01:19:17.000 I don't know where that came from, but the past, long long time 1049 01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:20.720 ago. Yep. I enjoy getting outside. I don't mind it a little 1050 01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:24.439 wet, that's fine. I mean, I'm just gonna stand there because it's 1051 01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:27.239 rainy. But you know, it's good to get outside and do some stuff, 1052 01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:30.479 enjoy it. Now would be a good time to go ahead and get 1053 01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:35.439 your summer lawn fertilization, get the supplies you need to get that done. 1054 01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:42.479 And if you would like to have a high nitrogen level in an organic natural 1055 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:47.039 type product, Sweet Green by nitrofoss is that it's got eleven percent nitrogen. 1056 01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:51.399 It's a molasses based product. So number one, it smells good. That's 1057 01:19:51.439 --> 01:19:57.319 what it's called sweet green. And whenever you put molasses on the soil, 1058 01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:00.399 it is rocket fuel for a lot of the benefit. Microbes they love that, 1059 01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:03.920 and in this case, you put it on your sweet green water it 1060 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:08.560 in and the microbes take it from there and they get real happy about that 1061 01:20:09.199 --> 01:20:12.720 Sweet Green is a product you can put down. You put about Oh, 1062 01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.039 let's see, I'd do it at about a rate of ten pounds per thousand 1063 01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:19.840 square feet. For sweet Green it's eleven percent nitrogen, and uh, just 1064 01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:24.359 spread it evenly. Then, whenever you're spreading fertilizer, you should do it. 1065 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.079 Don't look at how much you're going to apply and try to put it 1066 01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:30.880 on at that rate. It always it never seems to work out right. 1067 01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:35.439 What I'll do is I'll do half that rate and go across the yard one 1068 01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:40.439 way, let's say east west, and then look at how much you have 1069 01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:44.000 left, and if you've used half of it, okay, good, then 1070 01:20:44.039 --> 01:20:46.600 you go the other way using the other half. If you've used two thirds 1071 01:20:46.640 --> 01:20:50.880 of it, then you go the other way using the other third. But 1072 01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:54.479 you know, you got to crank it down a little bit and move a 1073 01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:58.600 little faster or something like that, because you want to get a good even 1074 01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:01.520 application, so you have a good EVA lawn unless you like stripes. I've 1075 01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:04.359 got some picture I wish I could shaw you pictures on the radio. I've 1076 01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:11.159 got some interesting examples of not furtilingco and properly. But sweet Green put it 1077 01:21:11.159 --> 01:21:14.399 out evenly. Water it in and watch your plants jump by the ground, 1078 01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:17.680 your grass plants that is, and be very very happy going forward with it. 1079 01:21:17.680 --> 01:21:24.000 It is one of the many products that are on my lawn care schedule. 1080 01:21:24.159 --> 01:21:29.800 If you go to Gardening with Skip Gardening with Skip that's me dot Com, 1081 01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:33.399 you can find two schedules there. The lawn care schedule that's how do 1082 01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:39.199 you make your grass grow schedule and the lawn pest Disease and we'd management schedule 1083 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:43.960 that's the what's going wrong with my lawn schedule And it tells you when to 1084 01:21:43.960 --> 01:21:47.199 apply everything and what to apply, and it makes it really really easy. 1085 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:50.479 By the way, if you're looking for sweet green, you can go up 1086 01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:54.199 to D and D Feed and Tombole they're going to have it up there. 1087 01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:58.920 You can go to the Plants for All Seasons on Highway two forty nine. 1088 01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:01.159 They're going to have it there. You can go to Shades of Texas up 1089 01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:06.199 in the woodlands or Aspass up in the woodlands. Those are all places you 1090 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:11.359 want to go further north. How about Willis Growers Outlet another place carries our 1091 01:22:11.439 --> 01:22:15.119 night frost products. Makes it easy easy to find them and they are good 1092 01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:19.159 products to use as a result. Our phone number is seven one three two 1093 01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:24.920 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 1094 01:22:25.039 --> 01:22:27.319 four. I'd like to give us a call, Feel free to do so. 1095 01:22:27.399 --> 01:22:30.960 Actually have an open board right now. So, boy, yesterday got 1096 01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:33.760 crazy for a while and I always hate for people to have to sit online 1097 01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:38.239 very long. So now would be a good time if you want to give 1098 01:22:38.239 --> 01:22:45.279 a skull. Moss Nursery, Seabrook, Texas. Moss Nursery, seventy year 1099 01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:54.000 old, family operated grocery on eight acres of land. Allow yourself time to 1100 01:22:54.119 --> 01:22:59.359 wander. It is a not only is it a garden center with every time 1101 01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:01.279 you turn a corner there's plants. They may be on tables or the ground 1102 01:23:01.399 --> 01:23:08.520 or hanging from something or Not only is it that, but there's different kinds 1103 01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:12.079 of art in the garden. You know, maybe a carved kind of an 1104 01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:15.319 ethnic mask type of thing. And there's a carved canoe, a real one, 1105 01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:20.920 old old carved canoe out there. Lots of different cool sculpture type things, 1106 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:25.560 water feature type things that moss, but tropicals, that's the one I 1107 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:28.760 want to talk about right now. With moss, I'd be talking about anything, 1108 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:32.520 but oh my gosh, their tropicals are beautiful. We're talking about things 1109 01:23:32.640 --> 01:23:36.960 like elephant ears. Ten to twelve different kinds of elephant ears. Yeah, 1110 01:23:38.000 --> 01:23:41.920 you heard that right, five to six different varieties of bananas. There's a 1111 01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:45.760 cool tropical, the bird of Paradise, the orange and blue bird of Paradise. 1112 01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:48.920 They've got those there. The ligularia, the big lily pad looking foliage, 1113 01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:53.199 they have it. And now they have a lot of tropicals in combo 1114 01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:59.640 planters. So you may have a big bold, almost chocolate brown black elephant 1115 01:23:59.640 --> 01:24:02.159 early sticking out the top. You got colius around the sides, and you've 1116 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:05.560 got let's say a sweep a data charts, you sweep a data mine spilling 1117 01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:10.399 over the side, and many versions of that. So if you got an 1118 01:24:10.439 --> 01:24:13.880 area that's got some shade and you want to bring a lot of color into 1119 01:24:13.880 --> 01:24:16.600 it, maybe it's a very shady sitting area outside, these would be perfect 1120 01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:23.079 for it. Always something to see new at MOS Nursery in Seabrook, Texas. 1121 01:24:23.079 --> 01:24:25.600 Here is the website. You want to go there, sign up for 1122 01:24:25.640 --> 01:24:30.840 their newsletter. Where there Mos Nursery dot com, m a A S Nursery 1123 01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:38.399 dot com. On to Toddville Road there in Seabrook, Texas. Remember I 1124 01:24:38.439 --> 01:24:41.880 said allowed time, because when you go, it's not a run in and 1125 01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:45.000 run out. It's a experience, and a fun one at that. We're 1126 01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:48.600 going to go now to Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Robert. 1127 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:53.239 Hey, Robert, I'm starting to call here with about a minute before a 1128 01:24:53.239 --> 01:24:56.279 break. But let's let's get going and we'll hang on after break if we 1129 01:24:56.319 --> 01:25:02.119 need to. Ah ready, how can I help? Okay, so I've 1130 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:05.880 got in. All I can call him is big clover and small clover. 1131 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:13.319 I follow the schedule organic style, except I do use the uh, the 1132 01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:19.439 barricade okay for weeds. And out of all past two years, I'm covered 1133 01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:25.000 up with huge clover and the small clover. Okay, what do I do 1134 01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:28.359 about that? All right, well, let's uh, I'll dive into that 1135 01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:31.479 when we come right back. I think you're probably talking about a true coat 1136 01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:36.720 clover and probably about something called oxalis, which is a has a clover leaf 1137 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:41.239 to it. But we'll be right back in just a second and we'll dive 1138 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:45.239 right in into that question. The phone number seven one three K T R 1139 01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:56.359 H. I'll be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. Good 1140 01:25:56.359 --> 01:26:00.319 to have you with us today. We're going to head back out and late 1141 01:26:00.399 --> 01:26:04.960 Jackson and uh continue our conversation that we're having with Robert. Robert, you 1142 01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:09.239 said you had a big, a big and a small clover, and uh 1143 01:26:09.319 --> 01:26:12.479 you, I think you prefer to do things organically. Based on what I 1144 01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:15.600 was hearing you say, is I correct? Well, I followed the organic 1145 01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:20.920 fulization schedule, but I put out wheat beater complete and I do spot treat 1146 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:28.920 with all the various uh weat killers. Okay, and last last year I 1147 01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:38.039 wound up springing wheat beater ultra coming into spring on the clover, and it 1148 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:42.520 killed it, but it came back, okay. And I want to these 1149 01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.920 something out there that like kills it forever without hurting my I have some Saint 1150 01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:54.560 Augustine grass. Okay. Well, the the ultra, yeah, it should 1151 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:58.720 have killed it. If it's truly clover, it's it's it's a coming back 1152 01:26:58.720 --> 01:27:01.640 from seeds there. It's an annual. Well, so what I've done is 1153 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:06.520 I've dug down and actually pulled the I'm gonna call them nuts out of the 1154 01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:14.520 ground, and that's what I'm trying to do it. Okay, constantly coming 1155 01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:16.680 back, all right, so what what you have there is not clover, 1156 01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:24.600 that's ox salas uh ox salis, and it does have those storage organs underground 1157 01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:30.800 like a bulb type structure, and so it it is harder to kill h 1158 01:27:30.920 --> 01:27:34.319 and it does also recede and it casts the seed all over the place. 1159 01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:39.239 So you're dealing with both a pre emergent type thing for the seed coming up, 1160 01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:41.439 but you're dealing with the post emergent. You know, when it comes 1161 01:27:41.439 --> 01:27:45.680 to the bulbs. Uh, the Windpeter Ultra should have done a good job 1162 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:49.760 on those bulbs, but you may have to redo it if you're if you're 1163 01:27:49.800 --> 01:27:55.640 trying to uh. Typically one application is not going to do it. Now 1164 01:27:55.720 --> 01:28:00.840 you could switch to a different product on my chart there uh post emergent products 1165 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:06.199 uh And because each of the three things I have listed under post emergent herbicides 1166 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:13.199 have different combinations of ingredients and so that those they're not the same same product. 1167 01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:15.479 And you know, we only have a thousand different weeds we could have 1168 01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:19.119 in the yards. So just like with medicines and sickness, you know, 1169 01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:25.039 each medicine works best on certain things, but not everything. Uh And and 1170 01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:28.640 that certainly is the case for weed control. Too, so you might want 1171 01:28:28.680 --> 01:28:30.800 to try that. There are some organics you can sprinkle on the foliage. 1172 01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:35.880 It burns the foliage back. For oxalis, that's not gonna not going to 1173 01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:40.079 kill it. It'll burn it back, but it won't completely kill it. 1174 01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:45.279 So if you're if you're wanting to translocate down in there, the products that 1175 01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:46.960 are on the list of the ones that that you probably need to use, 1176 01:28:48.159 --> 01:28:53.000 very cool. I got go ahead. I just wanted to say if you're 1177 01:28:53.000 --> 01:28:55.479 if you're on that, if you're looking at the long pest disease, and 1178 01:28:55.520 --> 01:28:59.359 we'd management schedule that I put together down in the corner bottom right corner, 1179 01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:03.840 that's where you and you mentioned we'd beat LTRA those. But also there's two 1180 01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:11.119 organic products that are listed there that cover a wide variety of weeds. One 1181 01:29:11.159 --> 01:29:14.039 of them does really well on clover, burning it back, and then the 1182 01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:18.159 other one is listed for oxalis, but it's gonna bounce back. Yeah. 1183 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:24.439 Okay, I got one more question about lagustriums. Okay, I've got I've 1184 01:29:24.439 --> 01:29:29.479 got lots of lagustriums and all of a sudden this year they look good, 1185 01:29:29.479 --> 01:29:33.239 but they're losing a lot of leaves. Okay, are their leaves turning yellow, 1186 01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:38.119 Do they have brown spots on them? They do? Okay, that 1187 01:29:38.239 --> 01:29:43.600 is a disease that affects lagustrum. It's one of the reasons I'm not a 1188 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:49.560 fan of lagustrium. Whenever there's wet conditions, that proliferates. If you can 1189 01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:54.399 pick off infected leaves, eat if you look closely at one of those leaves 1190 01:29:54.399 --> 01:29:58.520 with the spots, you'll see little tiny black specks in the spot. Those 1191 01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:04.640 are like little tiny volcanoes blowing spores out everywhere. And that's why it just 1192 01:30:04.680 --> 01:30:09.119 reinfects and reinfects. So if you can pick up all the fallen leaves, 1193 01:30:09.239 --> 01:30:13.479 rake them all up, pick off leaves that have the spots on them, 1194 01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:17.159 and I realize that may leave your plant without any leaves. But and then 1195 01:30:17.319 --> 01:30:20.800 as it begins to regrow whenever we have a rain spell like we just had. 1196 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:26.479 Now you can follow that up with a fungicide spray to protect it from 1197 01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:30.680 infection. But it does no good to spray a leaf that's already got spots 1198 01:30:30.159 --> 01:30:35.239 because they're already there, you know. But so sanitation was my first suggestion 1199 01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:41.119 there. Picking up all the material that's producing spores that you can and then 1200 01:30:41.199 --> 01:30:44.399 number two. When we have a rain spray the foliage. We have rain 1201 01:30:44.439 --> 01:30:46.640 spray the foliage. You can alternate between a couple of types of fungicide. 1202 01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:51.319 But yep, that's a problem with lagustriums. Cool deal, Well, I 1203 01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:57.359 appreciate all right, you take care. Good to talk to you. If 1204 01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:00.840 you are planting a tree or planning on planting a tree, tree, the 1205 01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:04.680 three sixty tree stabilizer is the best product I know for staking them. Listen, 1206 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:09.880 I have bought the cable, the wires. I have cut up garden 1207 01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:15.119 hose and made that little you know, steak the tree down three different corners, 1208 01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:18.680 then trip over the wires when you try to walk by. It's just 1209 01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:23.720 it's time, it's money, it's hassle, it's all that kind of stuff. 1210 01:31:24.239 --> 01:31:28.199 Just get a three sixty tree stabilizer and I would get a T post 1211 01:31:28.399 --> 01:31:32.079 the standard iron post to hammer in the ground. This stabilizer comes in a 1212 01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:36.079 form that has a T post attachment and you attach it to the tea post, 1213 01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:40.199 attach it to the tree, and the T post is a vertical post 1214 01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:43.079 going in the ground just a little over a foot away from the tree, 1215 01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:45.920 and so it holds the tree very well. You can do two of them. 1216 01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:49.279 If you've got winds blowing north south east west, you want to do 1217 01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:53.960 two at a right angle to hold on to it. They're easy, easy 1218 01:31:53.960 --> 01:31:57.359 to come by. You can go to RCW or Buchanans or arbor Gate Plants 1219 01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:01.119 for All Seasons, Horrees, hidden Gardens Done and out. Southwest Fertilizer carries 1220 01:32:01.159 --> 01:32:04.640 them as well, of course they do. They carry everything. But the 1221 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:10.640 three sixty tree stabilizer is it's a quality product and it lasts and it works 1222 01:32:10.760 --> 01:32:13.760 right. And by that I mean it holds the tree well, but it 1223 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:16.840 allows a little bit of movement with the soft strap that goes around the tree, 1224 01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:21.960 so that you strengthen the trunk and root upper root system with a little 1225 01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:26.680 bit of movement. And that's important too when you're staking a tree down. 1226 01:32:27.600 --> 01:32:31.159 And those are just a really good quality product. Now I mentioned they had 1227 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:34.479 them at Plants for All Seasons. Plants Frail Seasons is on Highway to forty 1228 01:32:34.600 --> 01:32:40.760 nine. That's Tomball Parkway. If you're going north toward Tomball from Houston, 1229 01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:44.920 you exit Lueta crossover Luetta and it's right there on the right hand side, 1230 01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:48.960 right on two forty nine. Now, the folks at Plants for all seasons. 1231 01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:53.399 The Flowerty family, they've been doing this since nineteen seventy three. They 1232 01:32:53.520 --> 01:32:57.840 know the area and people in the area know them, and they have many, 1233 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:01.119 many loyal customers that come back and why because they have great plants. 1234 01:33:01.640 --> 01:33:04.880 They have great products. Ever fertilizer you hear me talk about, is it 1235 01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:11.479 plants for all seasons, and they have super advice to help guide you plants 1236 01:33:11.560 --> 01:33:15.680 for all seasons. Dot com is a website. The phone number if you'd 1237 01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:20.279 like to write it down two eight one three seven six, sixteen forty six. 1238 01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:23.920 You can go in there and you can find anything that you hear me 1239 01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.560 talk about, like Microlife. You know, they've got the green bag of 1240 01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:30.840 Microlife fertilizer. They've got the hum mats plus that's a zero zero four, 1241 01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:33.319 the Purple bag. That's kind of the lawn combo, by the way, 1242 01:33:33.399 --> 01:33:41.039 from Microlife for your summer, spring through fall really up to fall lawn fertilizations. 1243 01:33:41.119 --> 01:33:45.119 It's the green bag six two four and then the humants plus the Purple 1244 01:33:45.159 --> 01:33:48.479 bag, which is concentrated compost in a bag. You put it out and 1245 01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:54.600 over time when the organic system is that you work with nature to build soil 1246 01:33:54.640 --> 01:33:59.520 over time and you have better plant results because of that, and that is 1247 01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:02.000 what that combo would do for you. And both of them are excellent products 1248 01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:05.279 for use on your lawn from the folks at micro Life. You want to 1249 01:34:05.279 --> 01:34:08.640 go to micro Life Fertilisure dot com. You can find out where you can 1250 01:34:08.680 --> 01:34:11.960 buy it. It's pretty much everywhere. Uh, and you can also find 1251 01:34:11.960 --> 01:34:15.720 out more about their products there. Let's see here. I'm going to go 1252 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:19.439 to Patterson now and talk to Susan. Hello, Susan, Hey, good 1253 01:34:19.439 --> 01:34:21.600 morning, Skip. I hope you can hear me. I'm sitting in my 1254 01:34:21.640 --> 01:34:27.239 car outside of church and it is just pouring down rain. My question are 1255 01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:30.760 you are you? Am I keeping you from going to church? No? 1256 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:34.159 It doesn't start till nine, so I'm good. But I appreciate you asking. 1257 01:34:35.439 --> 01:34:40.479 How can I help? I like to plant kind of for wildlife when 1258 01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:43.840 I can. And I was looking at the honeysuckle and I was wondering from 1259 01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:48.760 there with one called Major Wheeler. Uh, it's kind of a red yeah, 1260 01:34:48.840 --> 01:34:53.560 red one wheelers. Honey, I am yes, but the major was 1261 01:34:53.560 --> 01:34:58.520 throwing me there. But anyway, so what you're wanting to know how it 1262 01:34:58.560 --> 01:35:02.159 does one place I read it set up to zone eight, and then a 1263 01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:05.399 couple other places said zone nine and one even said ten. So I never 1264 01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:09.239 know who to believe on that stuff. So I wanted to ask you, 1265 01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:15.039 what's your opinion. Oh boy, uh major wheeler honeysuckle. The I'm trying 1266 01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:20.079 to think you like better. No, I like it. It's it's a 1267 01:35:20.159 --> 01:35:25.600 type of coral honeysuckle. It's not the it's not the kind that's invasive, 1268 01:35:25.800 --> 01:35:29.239 you know, So that's that's a good thing. I don't see why it 1269 01:35:29.239 --> 01:35:33.239 wouldn't grow here. I don't I've never heard of it. Only going to 1270 01:35:33.359 --> 01:35:38.279 zone eight. We we have coral honeysuckle that does well here. It's just 1271 01:35:38.359 --> 01:35:43.880 a cultivar, yeah, just a cultivar of that plant. So yeah, 1272 01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:46.279 I like it. It's tame. It doesn't take over the world. I 1273 01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:49.159 used to have some kind of on a lamp post out in the front yard. 1274 01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:53.359 We had a little lamp gas lamp post out there and we just trained 1275 01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:56.720 it to that. I've seen it train to you know, portray lns and 1276 01:35:56.800 --> 01:35:59.880 other things because it is tame and you want to get it up close fairly, 1277 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:01.720 because you want to watch the hummingbirds. They love it. Yeah. 1278 01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:05.159 Yeah, we have a little spot right off the front porch that I want. 1279 01:36:05.279 --> 01:36:09.359 I wanted to fit something there, so okay, yeah, I had 1280 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:12.079 seen it called Major Wheeler, and then another place it was just Wheeler, 1281 01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:15.239 so I guess nobody's really sure what the name is. But well, all 1282 01:36:15.359 --> 01:36:17.760 right, well good good luck with it, and thanks for the call, 1283 01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:24.079 yes or thank you you take care by bye. We're going to go now 1284 01:36:24.119 --> 01:36:28.920 to Paul in Keema. Hello, Paul, Hey, how's it going. 1285 01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:33.159 I'm good for you, Thank you, sir. I have an outside storage 1286 01:36:33.199 --> 01:36:40.800 area that's surrounded by chain link fence and I want some like a privacy screen 1287 01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:44.159 or something so that people on the outside I can't really see what's on the 1288 01:36:44.159 --> 01:36:47.520 inside. And I've used tarps. Didn't like those. I used that messed 1289 01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:53.039 up. Didn't like those. Last year, Bend we took over my chain 1290 01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:56.520 link fence, and I love the way it looked. I may not be 1291 01:36:56.600 --> 01:36:59.880 calling this the right thing, but it's I did an image search on Google 1292 01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:03.279 and that's what I came up with. It's a flowering vine and it climbs 1293 01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:06.760 right up the fence and then just kind of spreads and completely takes over. 1294 01:37:08.119 --> 01:37:12.159 Okay, it's like it's kind of like a morning glory. I believe it's 1295 01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:15.000 somewhere that looks to that. Yes it is. Yeah, what can I 1296 01:37:15.079 --> 01:37:18.840 do? What can I do to make that grow faster and wider? Because 1297 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:23.399 I want to get my chain link fence covered up a little good well, 1298 01:37:23.560 --> 01:37:27.159 just you know, water and fertilizer. The proper name on it is bind 1299 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:31.560 weed, bind weed. It is detested by farmers. It's a it's a 1300 01:37:32.239 --> 01:37:36.760 mess and pastures and I mean and farms and stuff. But it is in 1301 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:41.720 the honeysuckle family. That's another good one. There's another one called Alamo vine 1302 01:37:42.279 --> 01:37:45.079 that is in that similar family, and it has a different looking leaf, 1303 01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:50.720 but a similar morning glory looking bloom to it. But it's just a matter 1304 01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:56.800 of you know, getting adequate water and fertilized little fertilizer to it. Doesn't 1305 01:37:56.800 --> 01:37:59.319 take much. I mean, it grows. It grows wild just out in 1306 01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:01.159 the pasture. I'm you know, yeah, pasture but also a farm. 1307 01:38:01.239 --> 01:38:06.239 So so is it gonna help me if I pull up pieces from areas that 1308 01:38:06.279 --> 01:38:09.680 I don't want it in and stick it in the ground near where I do 1309 01:38:09.720 --> 01:38:12.520 want it, Well, you could, but you know, you're you're putting 1310 01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:15.479 me on the spider. I feel like someone's asking me if they can transplant 1311 01:38:15.560 --> 01:38:20.600 nutgrass, because that's that's a problem. We also it's not evergreen, I 1312 01:38:20.600 --> 01:38:26.039 don't believe, so you might want to try something like a coral honeysuckle on 1313 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:30.199 there. There are several nice evergreen vines that also bloom for you real pretty. 1314 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:32.920 You may want to try one of those as well. But yeah, 1315 01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:38.800 yeah, obviously it's willing to volunteer. Okay, all right, well thanks, 1316 01:38:39.600 --> 01:38:42.880 all right, thank you, Paul, appreciate that, appreciate that question. 1317 01:38:43.359 --> 01:38:45.319 Uh, well, time for the news, So I'm gonna pass the 1318 01:38:45.319 --> 01:38:48.680 baton to Nikki. Seven one three two one two k t r H is 1319 01:38:48.680 --> 01:38:59.119 a number if you'd like to give us a call back the pine trees running 1320 01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:05.239 the wine in rule. I've got to be welcome back. Good to have 1321 01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:10.840 you with us. We are going to be talking plants for the next hour 1322 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:13.600 and a half this morning. We're going all the way to ten am, 1323 01:39:13.840 --> 01:39:15.319 So if you'd like to give us a call and ask a question, our 1324 01:39:15.359 --> 01:39:19.600 phone number is seven to one three two one two KTRH. Seven one three 1325 01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:24.840 two one two KTRH. One of the most important things you can do to 1326 01:39:25.159 --> 01:39:30.359 enhance your lawn to help it grow better is to do a cororation followed by 1327 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:36.079 a compost top dressing. Now, soils around here often are clay, and 1328 01:39:36.119 --> 01:39:41.760 they often are compacted, and when you have that combination, the root system 1329 01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:46.119 has trouble thriving deep down into the soil because there's not good oxygen levels down 1330 01:39:46.119 --> 01:39:50.000 there. And as a result, when you do a core aeration that means 1331 01:39:50.039 --> 01:39:54.560 popping a plug out of the ground and leaving it on top of the ground 1332 01:39:54.640 --> 01:39:59.720 surface, you help get oxygen down in the soil. The compost top dressing 1333 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:02.920 that post finely screen goes down in the swad Those are important, uh. 1334 01:40:02.960 --> 01:40:08.840 And it's not an inexpensive process because it's it's it's special equipment and it's it's 1335 01:40:09.079 --> 01:40:14.640 bulky bringing in mults wherever, wherever they're you're coming to, they're coming to 1336 01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:18.520 to do it for you. But it is a very very helpful, very 1337 01:40:18.600 --> 01:40:23.239 excellent way to enhance. You got an area that the grass just don't want 1338 01:40:23.239 --> 01:40:27.359 to thrive. You've watered it, you fertilize, it's just not working. 1339 01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:33.560 Tri compost top dressing followed following a good aeration. Now BnB turf pros if 1340 01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:38.720 you live down south and to the west, they are the ones that you 1341 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:45.199 need to call b B Turfpros dot com. 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In fact, they use the one from 1351 01:41:21.159 --> 01:41:26.880 Cienamulch, which you know, I have no qualms at all about saying way 1352 01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:30.199 to go. That's that is a good way to go. They do the 1353 01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:32.880 aeration and the compost stop dressing. They do have to schedule, so they 1354 01:41:32.880 --> 01:41:35.680 need to give them a call, but they really go above and beyond to 1355 01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:42.319 make a personal contact with their client and to ensure your satisfaction. So where 1356 01:41:42.319 --> 01:41:44.960 did they serve? Well, if you can go as far west to sugar 1357 01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:49.039 Land up in Missouri City as far east as Pearland. If you're going to 1358 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:53.840 be down on along Highway six, well up up in Fresno, down in 1359 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:58.720 Siena or Cola, Iowa, Colony, Manuville. That all through that area 1360 01:41:58.840 --> 01:42:01.359 right there is their service area, So just give them a call again. 1361 01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:09.239 Bbturfpros dot Com seven one three two three four fifty ninety eight. I'm gonna 1362 01:42:09.279 --> 01:42:13.600 go now to Crosby and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, Hi, 1363 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:15.600 how are you. I'm well, I'm well, how are you? Thanks? 1364 01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:20.119 Great? Thanks. I have a willow tree that I planted three and 1365 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:25.479 a half years ago and it had been doing great and this year the leaves 1366 01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:30.000 you know, butted on it, and then probably a few weeks after that, 1367 01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:33.000 all the leaves started to drop off and it's completely barren right now. 1368 01:42:33.479 --> 01:42:36.880 And I checked the leaves. There was no you know, spots on them 1369 01:42:36.960 --> 01:42:42.800 or anything. So I'm not sure what happened. And I know that they're 1370 01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:47.159 you know, heavy water, you know drinker. And it did well through 1371 01:42:47.199 --> 01:42:53.960 the drought last last summer, the only and I used nitrofoss fertilizer on my 1372 01:42:54.159 --> 01:42:58.319 on my grass, and this year I tried the weed and the nitrosoft boss 1373 01:42:58.359 --> 01:43:00.520 we didn't feed. That was the only thing I did different. But I 1374 01:43:00.520 --> 01:43:05.159 can't imagine that that would do something to him. You know, I can't 1375 01:43:05.159 --> 01:43:09.479 tell you just the symptom being the leaf fell off. I mean, because 1376 01:43:09.479 --> 01:43:12.159 it could be a lot of things. This year has been moist enough to 1377 01:43:12.199 --> 01:43:17.079 where I would certainly rule drought out all the way along. The willows are 1378 01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:23.199 not super resilient long lived trees. Sometimes you get older ones, they just 1379 01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:25.760 you kind of get lucky, and that happens. But there's things that can 1380 01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:29.479 happen to them along the way. There are some root rots that can affect 1381 01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:32.560 a willow, and with what you're describing, it almost sounds like a collapse 1382 01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:38.720 with the root system. I would watch it go out and scratch your thumbnail 1383 01:43:38.800 --> 01:43:44.239 on some of the small twigs branches. See if there's still some creamy color, 1384 01:43:44.359 --> 01:43:48.399 green color underneath the outer thin bark, and that's an indication that it's 1385 01:43:48.439 --> 01:43:51.680 probably still alive, at least for now. If you see, if you 1386 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:57.880 see paper sacked brown pecan brown color, that twig's dead. Just keep em 1387 01:43:57.960 --> 01:44:00.239 and you to switch over to little pocket knife work in your way back down 1388 01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:04.960 a branch until you find green and try to determine if it's if it's still 1389 01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:09.479 alive. There's nothing to put on it. There's no magic cures for any 1390 01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:12.680 of this. At this point, you just kind of wait and see. 1391 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:15.520 I wouldn't give up on it too quick. But once you can't find green 1392 01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:21.239 or a pretty creamy color underneath the bark, that section is dead. It's 1393 01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:26.800 not going. What about a fertilizer would that help it at that point? 1394 01:44:27.039 --> 01:44:30.239 Not if it's a root rot or if it's a sole moisture issue or whatever. 1395 01:44:32.359 --> 01:44:36.159 It's not dropping leaves because it's lacking nutrients. There's more than enough nutrients. 1396 01:44:36.159 --> 01:44:41.880 If you'd never fertilize that soil, ever, then there'd still be enough 1397 01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:46.960 nutrients for that tree to at least survive, may thrive and grow. But 1398 01:44:47.039 --> 01:44:50.960 this is something else. Something's gone wrong, and I'm going to put it 1399 01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:55.399 this way. And the plumbing of the plant, you know, getting moisture 1400 01:44:55.439 --> 01:45:00.159 and nutrients out there to the leaves and what happened. I don't know the 1401 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:05.039 description, but time, okay, I'll just watch it. Yeah, check 1402 01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:10.439 and wait, check the stems and wait. Okay, all right, thanks 1403 01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:15.119 much, all right, thank you appreciate that call. I talk about fertilizing 1404 01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:18.960 your lawn. You know, azamite is a mineral supplement. It is a 1405 01:45:19.199 --> 01:45:25.239 trace mineral supplement mind and utah up in Utah comes right out of the ground, 1406 01:45:25.840 --> 01:45:30.479 and it provides those nutrients that are needed in tiny amounts that are essential 1407 01:45:30.479 --> 01:45:35.159 to plants, but they're needed in tiny amounts, and so I always encourage 1408 01:45:35.159 --> 01:45:39.119 people to have a soul test and see what your soul needs. That you 1409 01:45:39.159 --> 01:45:43.359 know, a sew tests the best way to fertilize period, because your soul 1410 01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:46.279 may be different than your neighbors because how they or you have fertilized over the 1411 01:45:46.359 --> 01:45:53.119 years maybe different, and so what's built up what's depleted could change. But 1412 01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:58.199 as a general guide, putting as mite down once a year would be a 1413 01:45:58.199 --> 01:46:02.159 good place to start, just to make sure you're getting those micros applied to 1414 01:46:02.239 --> 01:46:04.800 the soil. Follow the label. It goes a long way. Remember these 1415 01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:10.000 are micros. These aren't nutrients you need in the levels, the amounts, 1416 01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:15.079 the quantities that you do regular fertilizer. These are micros. So like a 1417 01:46:15.119 --> 01:46:18.680 forty four pound bag of azmite will cover six to twelve thousand square feet. 1418 01:46:18.920 --> 01:46:26.479 You can go to Azomite Texas, Azo Mitetexas dot com find out more about 1419 01:46:26.479 --> 01:46:30.359 as might if you'd like to learn a little bit more about it. You're 1420 01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:34.399 listening to Guardline. I am your host and we are here to answer gardening 1421 01:46:34.479 --> 01:46:38.279 questions. If you would like to ask a question, We're about to take 1422 01:46:38.279 --> 01:46:41.520 a little break here, but you can go ahead and give the producer a 1423 01:46:41.560 --> 01:46:44.319 call. We will get you on the boards and you can be first up 1424 01:46:44.600 --> 01:46:47.119 when we come back from our break. I just want to remind all of 1425 01:46:47.159 --> 01:46:51.039 you that next Saturday, I'm going to be at Arburgate in Tomble. Here's 1426 01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:56.039 your official Do you need an excuse to go to Arbrogate? I don't think 1427 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:59.399 so, but here's your official invitation. How about that to head up to 1428 01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:03.079 Arbrogate now Saturday, that's May eleventh, eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll 1429 01:47:03.079 --> 01:47:08.239 be there answering your gardening questions. I can identify plants, I can do 1430 01:47:08.319 --> 01:47:12.359 plant diagnosis, any kinds of questions you might have like that, bring me 1431 01:47:12.399 --> 01:47:15.840 photos on your phone. Mainly, just come and meet me and shop one 1432 01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:19.920 of the coolest nurseries you're going to find anywhere. Uh and by the way, 1433 01:47:20.159 --> 01:47:25.439 just a hint, Mother's Days coming up right Okay, so here's your 1434 01:47:25.640 --> 01:47:30.199 here's your official opportunity to bring mom out there with you and get her something 1435 01:47:30.359 --> 01:47:33.439 really cool, because Arburg has got plenty of that. Believe me. We'll 1436 01:47:33.439 --> 01:47:45.399 be right back. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have 1437 01:47:45.479 --> 01:47:47.560 you, Good to have you with us today. We're talking about all kinds 1438 01:47:47.560 --> 01:47:54.560 of things related to gardening, talking about some of the products and the places 1439 01:47:54.600 --> 01:47:59.199 and things like that where you would get these quality supplies too. For example, 1440 01:47:59.279 --> 01:48:02.359 Ana Plants produce up in Montgomery. A and A is your hometown garden 1441 01:48:02.399 --> 01:48:06.399 center. If you're up there in the Lake Conroe area, especially lots of 1442 01:48:06.399 --> 01:48:10.840 beautiful neighborhoods up there. Do you need somebody to come out and do some 1443 01:48:10.880 --> 01:48:14.920 work. Call A and A and have their landscape crew, their expert landscape 1444 01:48:14.920 --> 01:48:17.479 crew come out and visit with them about what you need done, what they 1445 01:48:17.520 --> 01:48:20.000 can do up there. You know, A and A is going to be 1446 01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:23.920 a place where you're always going to find color. You're always going to find 1447 01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:28.880 quality plants. No matter whether you want trees or shrubs, or vegetables or 1448 01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:34.399 herbs or flowers. There's always stuff. Beautiful, beautiful containers, beautiful hanging 1449 01:48:34.439 --> 01:48:40.479 baskets. Ana Plants and Produce also carries all the fertilizers that we talk about 1450 01:48:40.479 --> 01:48:42.960 here on gardening, and I mean all of them, and soil tests too. 1451 01:48:43.000 --> 01:48:45.119 By the way. For example, you're going to find Nitrofoss and Nelson 1452 01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:49.039 plant food, including the turf Star line that we're talking about a little bit 1453 01:48:49.079 --> 01:48:54.119 earlier. You're going to find microlife products there. You're going to find heirloom 1454 01:48:54.199 --> 01:48:59.239 soils. You're going to find Nature's Way resources like the leaf mold compost for 1455 01:48:59.279 --> 01:49:01.439 example. They've got it makes it really easy to do. They keep my 1456 01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:04.680 schedules there at the counter. Most of the time they haven't given them all 1457 01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:09.840 out on a particular day. But Ana Plants and Produce is the place you 1458 01:49:09.880 --> 01:49:12.439 need to go. You need check out. You've probably driven by it one 1459 01:49:12.479 --> 01:49:15.560 hundred times if you going up and down one oh five. They're on the 1460 01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:19.399 east side of Montgomery. On the east side of Montgomery. You can follow 1461 01:49:19.439 --> 01:49:24.840 them on social media and know this seven days a week from nine to five, 1462 01:49:25.239 --> 01:49:29.560 knowledgeable staff, seven days a week, nine to five, easy easy 1463 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:31.840 to get. Buy Ana Plants and Produce, find them open and find the 1464 01:49:31.880 --> 01:49:39.239 stuff that you're looking for inside, like this Imperial Nitrofoss Imperial. That's another 1465 01:49:39.279 --> 01:49:45.000 good example of what they carry. Nitrofoss Imperial is the one we used in 1466 01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:48.960 the spring. That's the red bag. But now we're talking about Nitrofoss's Superturf 1467 01:49:48.960 --> 01:49:53.920 fertilizer, the silver bag. They have that too. They carry all these 1468 01:49:53.920 --> 01:49:57.600 products, the Sweet Green eleven zero four as well. Well. Let me 1469 01:49:57.600 --> 01:50:00.880 tell you about the Superturf a little bit more though, that I like that 1470 01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:04.439 because it puts half the nitrogen in a slow release form, so you fertilize 1471 01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:10.520 now, but it is fertilizing for you when you get to the month of 1472 01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:13.520 June and the month of July, and even into the month of August, 1473 01:50:13.640 --> 01:50:18.039 it is still fertilizing for you because it's gradually releasing those nutrients. So you 1474 01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:23.039 get a gully washer rain. If you put an immediate release down, just 1475 01:50:23.039 --> 01:50:26.479 think about it's putting salt or sugar and then spraying it with water hose. 1476 01:50:26.520 --> 01:50:30.000 It dissolves and it goes it goes away in a heavy rain. Now, 1477 01:50:30.239 --> 01:50:32.319 with the slow release, you're not going to get that. You're going to 1478 01:50:32.319 --> 01:50:36.640 get a gradual release over time. Just another reason why you might want to 1479 01:50:36.720 --> 01:50:42.800 use a slow release in the summer. Four percent iron promotes a nice uniform 1480 01:50:42.880 --> 01:50:45.359 green color to your grass. And where do you get it? Well, 1481 01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:49.560 I just told you just go right up there to ana plants and produce, 1482 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:53.560 and you can find it there. Of course, wherever you live. You 1483 01:50:53.600 --> 01:50:56.840 know, maybe you live somewhere where there's an ace hardware store, or a 1484 01:50:56.880 --> 01:51:00.960 feed store or a nice garden center. Just widely available one of the many 1485 01:51:01.119 --> 01:51:05.399 widely available products. We're gonna got a friends with now and talk to Francis. 1486 01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:11.520 Hello, Francis high skill. I have a problem with my Saint Augustine 1487 01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:15.720 grass. The runners are standing above the ground, looping in an arc. 1488 01:51:15.880 --> 01:51:23.439 They're not connecting. Yeah, yeah, usually, Francis, that happens when 1489 01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:30.399 we get a lot of growth on our Saint Augustine lawns. The Saint Augustine 1490 01:51:30.399 --> 01:51:32.600 lives on top of the ground. In other words, it doesn't have underground 1491 01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:36.520 rhizomes. It just has the runners on top. And as you get a 1492 01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:41.439 lot of them forming, then when a new runner forms, it tends to 1493 01:51:41.520 --> 01:51:44.880 crawl over the top of the old runners, and so it can't touch the 1494 01:51:44.920 --> 01:51:48.359 ground to get a root down in there, and that can happen. That 1495 01:51:48.520 --> 01:51:53.920 is the equivalent of what we would call thatch in a Saint Augustine lawn. 1496 01:51:54.880 --> 01:51:58.720 The ways to deal with it are number one, look at your fertilizing schedule. 1497 01:51:58.800 --> 01:52:01.439 And if you're overdoing the fertilizer, you're going to get a lot of 1498 01:52:01.479 --> 01:52:05.840 growth and you're going to build into a thatchy kind of situation faster. So 1499 01:52:05.960 --> 01:52:12.600 you want to avoid that. The grass is not thick underneath it. We've 1500 01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:18.319 hit some diabeg from last year. Oh okay, so the runners could touch 1501 01:52:18.359 --> 01:52:27.560 the ground. They could. The other thing that can happen is when you 1502 01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:32.880 use a lot of a pre emergent herbicide. Most of the pre emergent ingredients 1503 01:52:32.920 --> 01:52:40.000 that are out there work by preventing the roots of a seed that's a weed 1504 01:52:40.239 --> 01:52:43.960 from being able to grow. The root comes out and it stops it, 1505 01:52:43.960 --> 01:52:47.119 it can't grow. That can happen to your Saint Augustine too, especially when 1506 01:52:47.119 --> 01:52:50.960 you overapply it, apply too much, apply it too often, and the 1507 01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:55.560 Saint Augustine makes roots. At each node you know you got a runner, 1508 01:52:55.720 --> 01:52:59.319 and then you have a spot where there's a node with leaves and woofs and 1509 01:52:59.319 --> 01:53:02.000 then part of the runner each of those nodes. If you lift up your 1510 01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:05.600 runners, look for the roots coming out of them. And if you see 1511 01:53:05.640 --> 01:53:10.960 little roots maybe a quarter inch long and they're stubbed at the end, we 1512 01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:16.000 call those club roots like a k Man club those. That is because of 1513 01:53:16.039 --> 01:53:20.199 the pre emergent doing that. Okay, so time is the solution to that. 1514 01:53:20.680 --> 01:53:27.399 Okay, well it'll wear down all products like you're going to break down. 1515 01:53:27.880 --> 01:53:30.079 But they work a while. So it's just another reminder that when we 1516 01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:34.199 use those, we want to use them at the label rate, not too 1517 01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:39.119 much and not too often. Okay, well, thank you so much. 1518 01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:42.720 Skip. I enjoy your program. Thank you, Francis. Appreciate your call 1519 01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:47.199 very much. You know me and soil right round stuff before green stuff. 1520 01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:54.159 Nature's Way Resources has been providing quality brown stuff for a very long time. 1521 01:53:54.239 --> 01:53:59.199 John Ferguson at Nature's Way and now Sonny i In who's working there with them. 1522 01:53:59.800 --> 01:54:03.119 They have created a beautiful place. I mean it's the garden center they 1523 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.760 have there, the plants and ate lots of good quality native plants. It's 1524 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:10.760 just nice to go. If you want to drive up to Nature's Way, 1525 01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:15.239 you go up Interstate forty five and where fourteen eighty eight comes in, just 1526 01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:18.000 south of Conro, fourteen eighty eight comes in from magnolia into forty five. 1527 01:54:18.359 --> 01:54:23.399 You turn right across the tracks in your Nature's Way, Now Nature's way, 1528 01:54:23.439 --> 01:54:27.359 What are you gonna get there? Well, you're gonna get fungal leaf compost. 1529 01:54:27.399 --> 01:54:30.960 Every Friday is fungal Friday. Ten percent off bags, twenty percent off 1530 01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:34.800 bulk. You're not gonna beat that. You're gonna get leaf mold compost that 1531 01:54:34.840 --> 01:54:39.119 we talk about for top dressing. By the way, a finely screened fungal 1532 01:54:39.159 --> 01:54:44.279 compost is also great for top dressing. Just a communication with Liam the other 1533 01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:47.479 day. He did a little side by side in his yard with the leaf 1534 01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:53.760 mold compost and the fungal based compost that had been finally screened, and they 1535 01:54:53.760 --> 01:54:58.680 both looked great, did a good job. You're gonna find roast soil there. 1536 01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:02.880 You're gonna find soils for other types of plants, specially blended for uh, 1537 01:55:02.920 --> 01:55:06.560 you know, fruit plants, or for some other other use. They're 1538 01:55:06.800 --> 01:55:12.920 each each type of blend that they've created is ideal for those kinds of plants. 1539 01:55:13.199 --> 01:55:15.159 So what do you do well? Number one? I would suggest you 1540 01:55:15.159 --> 01:55:19.760 go to the website, the Nature's Way website. I would also suggest you 1541 01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:24.439 just give them a call by the way. The website is Nature's Way Resources 1542 01:55:24.640 --> 01:55:30.880 dot com. The phone number nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety 1543 01:55:31.039 --> 01:55:35.560 nine three six three two one six nine nine zero. Whether you go there 1544 01:55:35.560 --> 01:55:39.720 and pick it up bag or book, or whether you have them deliver it. 1545 01:55:40.439 --> 01:55:45.439 Check out the fine products that John and Liam now have up there at 1546 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:47.840 Nature's Way Resources. We're gonna now, let's see here. We're gonna go 1547 01:55:47.920 --> 01:55:55.720 real quick to Marsino and Cyprus. Hello Marsino, good morning, ched morning. 1548 01:55:57.039 --> 01:56:00.399 I sent a picture to you, okay, of my newly planted crape 1549 01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:04.159 myrtle. Three months ago, planted a crepe myrtle, had it professionally planted, 1550 01:56:04.319 --> 01:56:06.960 okay, And this morning I noticed that the bark is peeling off at 1551 01:56:06.960 --> 01:56:13.800 the bottom. I see that that is natural exfoliation. Nothing to worry about. 1552 01:56:14.359 --> 01:56:17.520 Crepe myrtle bark pops off in little papery slivers like that, and that 1553 01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:20.880 is perfectly okay. What's happening is the tree's growing and the dead outer bark 1554 01:56:21.000 --> 01:56:25.279 is just coming loose, kind of unique. A few plants to do that. 1555 01:56:25.319 --> 01:56:28.720 Crape myrtle is definitely one, so hey, good news. You don't 1556 01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:31.520 have to worry about that. That is great news. Thank you so much 1557 01:56:31.560 --> 01:56:35.199 for and thank you for your humor. You really are as funny character. 1558 01:56:35.319 --> 01:56:38.680 Oh my gosh, Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that, 1559 01:56:38.720 --> 01:56:42.880 Mercina, and thank you for the call. Shape that very much. Wow. 1560 01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:46.039 Another hour in the books. Time flies, you know, time flies 1561 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.479 like an arrow. They say. Kermit the frog says, let's see, 1562 01:56:50.520 --> 01:56:57.439 time's fun when you're having flies. I think that's what he says. All 1563 01:56:57.560 --> 01:57:00.840 right, one more time joke. Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies 1564 01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:06.359 like bananas. I love that one. I'll leave you with that one. 1565 01:57:06.439 --> 01:57:11.640 We'll be back seven one three two one two k t R H seven one 1566 01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:14.359 three two one two k t R. Give the producers a call and let's 1567 01:57:14.359 --> 01:57:16.520 get you on the board. We will talk to you when we come back 1568 01:57:16.520 --> 01:57:21.640 from break. Don't forget next Saturday. I'll be at Arburgate nayth eleventh, 1569 01:57:23.039 --> 01:57:26.600 eleven thirty one thirty. So right after the show, I'm going to be 1570 01:57:26.680 --> 01:57:29.960 line over there. I hope you will be lining too and join me over 1571 01:57:29.960 --> 01:57:31.840 there. You know, we got some Mothers Day shopping to do, don't 1572 01:57:31.840 --> 01:57:35.439 we. Arburgates got you set up on that. Bring me samples of plants, 1573 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:40.479 bring me things to identify, to diagnose, or just pictures to Hey, 1574 01:57:40.560 --> 01:57:43.000 what can I do with this area here? I'll be happy to help 1575 01:57:43.039 --> 01:57:45.920 you with that. I always love going out to Arburgate. It is always 1576 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:57.079 a blast to be out there. Welcome to KTRH Guarded Line with scamp Ricker. 1577 01:57:57.239 --> 01:58:21.680 It's so trim, just watch as so many good things to a s. 1578 01:58:24.359 --> 01:58:27.880 Hey, welcome to garden Line. Good to have you back, good 1579 01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:33.520 to be by. You live out in the Kingwood area, Well you're fortunate. 1580 01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:36.880 You got Kingwood Garden Center and you've got Warren's Garden Center. These are 1581 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:42.159 both quality places. You're gonna find everything you're looking for when it comes to 1582 01:58:42.199 --> 01:58:45.000 plants, of course, you're going to find people that know what they're talking 1583 01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:47.399 about when it comes to help, and you're going to find really, really 1584 01:58:47.479 --> 01:58:54.039 excellent prices. I'm telling you the warranted Earlier this year visiting they they've dropped 1585 01:58:54.079 --> 01:59:00.399 prices significantly on things and just this extra special deal. Really, I mean. 1586 01:59:00.479 --> 01:59:02.800 And when I go to Warrens, I'm always impressed just with the layout 1587 01:59:02.840 --> 01:59:05.760 and the beauty. It makes you want to run in and go, oh 1588 01:59:05.760 --> 01:59:09.000 my gosh, I can see this in my patty, I can see this 1589 01:59:09.039 --> 01:59:12.439 in that flower bed, and no matter what kind of plants you want, 1590 01:59:12.479 --> 01:59:15.079 they're going to have it. They also have a good stock of all the 1591 01:59:15.079 --> 01:59:18.880 fertilizers I talk about, and things like heirloom soils. Lots of quality bag 1592 01:59:19.000 --> 01:59:26.479 products from heirloom soils there at Warren's Garden Center in Kingwood. Not difficult at 1593 01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:29.560 all to get to. For those of you up in the northeast kind of 1594 01:59:29.600 --> 01:59:33.319 direction of Kingwood, You're fortunate. It is a really really cool play. 1595 01:59:33.359 --> 01:59:35.800 I hope you go by there and pick it up. They got lots of 1596 01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:43.000 good lots of good heat tolerant color too, including some really attractive color combo 1597 01:59:43.079 --> 01:59:45.800 planters. That is just the fast way. You know. You got a 1598 01:59:45.800 --> 01:59:48.560 party to night, run out, grab a planter, bring it home and 1599 01:59:48.640 --> 01:59:54.279 everything looks good instantly. You can't you can't get faster than that. I'm 1600 01:59:54.279 --> 01:59:57.680 going to run now out to friends Wood and talk to Andy. Hello, 1601 01:59:57.720 --> 02:00:02.479 Andy, they skip Good morning morning. I've got I've got a question, 1602 02:00:02.920 --> 02:00:06.560 a problem with my myra lemon that's in the pot. The leaves are curling 1603 02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:14.039 on the underside of the leave or trails. It's dropping foliage. I know 1604 02:00:14.119 --> 02:00:19.680 it's got something. What do I spray myra lemon with because it's it's set 1605 02:00:19.800 --> 02:00:25.399 some fruit. What's the best path? All right? What you got is 1606 02:00:25.960 --> 02:00:31.079 something called the citrus leaf miner. Leaf miner as in coal minor. The 1607 02:00:31.239 --> 02:00:35.279 little fly lays an egg and the leaf and the larva crawls in between the 1608 02:00:35.359 --> 02:00:42.439 upper and lower surfaces, leaving trails and causing curling and silvering coloring of the 1609 02:00:42.520 --> 02:00:45.279 leaves. Uh. First of all, it's not a citrus killer. Now, 1610 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:48.720 if you have a young plant, it's gonna set them back because they're 1611 02:00:48.720 --> 02:00:54.680 losing leaf area. But in general some people just ignore it and go on 1612 02:00:55.439 --> 02:00:59.239 despite it. If you want to control them, you need to spray when 1613 02:00:59.279 --> 02:01:02.880 you're getting a new flush of growth. Leaf minor doesn't attack old, dark 1614 02:01:02.880 --> 02:01:08.000 green, leathery leaves. It attacks fresh new growth. And so you would 1615 02:01:08.000 --> 02:01:12.760 spray with a product called spin No said, And I'll spell that here for 1616 02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:16.000 you if you have a pin or pencil hand I have yeah, S P 1617 02:01:16.359 --> 02:01:26.079 I N spin O S A D. Spin No said, And that that 1618 02:01:26.199 --> 02:01:28.479 is not the brand name. Well, I guess it could be, but 1619 02:01:28.760 --> 02:01:31.359 there are a lot of brands of Spino said. Uh. And just find 1620 02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:34.800 that you want to cover the foliage, especially the new growth. You don't 1621 02:01:34.800 --> 02:01:39.079 have to wet all the foliage of all the leaves. Uh. And then 1622 02:01:39.159 --> 02:01:42.119 when leaf minor tries to chew in, it shuts them down right there, 1623 02:01:43.000 --> 02:01:46.560 it stops it. All right, all right, well, thank you very 1624 02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:49.279 much. All right, you take care, good luck with that. Good 1625 02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:53.399 luck. Yep. Leaf minor is something we have to deal with here, 1626 02:01:54.079 --> 02:01:57.800 that is for sure. Ace Hardware, those of you who are dealing with 1627 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:01.079 water problems, I just want to remind you is the place for even that 1628 02:02:01.359 --> 02:02:05.560 as well. I remember back in Harvey when we were cleaning out houses down 1629 02:02:05.680 --> 02:02:11.640 streets, just kind of helping people that have just been wiped out. What 1630 02:02:11.680 --> 02:02:14.920 do you need? What you need fans, You need dehumidifiers, you need 1631 02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:18.359 some rubber boots and gloves and buckets, and you certainly need bleach because when 1632 02:02:18.399 --> 02:02:21.920 it gets wet, black mold is coming right around the corner. You're gonna 1633 02:02:21.920 --> 02:02:27.760 need that. Utility knives. They even have something called the quick damn sandless 1634 02:02:27.920 --> 02:02:30.680 sand bags. By the way, you can take top soil bags, bags 1635 02:02:30.680 --> 02:02:35.640 of top soil, not floaty mulch, but top soil, and punch some 1636 02:02:35.680 --> 02:02:40.119 holes in them just to kind of, you know, allow air to escape, 1637 02:02:40.159 --> 02:02:45.760 so that they weigh down even better and use those as a sandbag and 1638 02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:48.479 then use them in your garden or in your yard, filling in holes and 1639 02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:53.399 things. When you're done, it works really well. Ace Hardware's got all 1640 02:02:53.439 --> 02:02:59.760 of that. They've got things like fire ants, bait and direct individual mound 1641 02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:02.319 tree and listen, after this flood, you're going to see firet mounts popping 1642 02:03:02.399 --> 02:03:06.000 up all over the place. Uh, they'll get their mounds up out of 1643 02:03:06.000 --> 02:03:10.079 the wet, wet soil. Ace Hardware has got you set up on that 1644 02:03:10.119 --> 02:03:15.079 to forty different stores in this scenario, forty stores. Acehardware dot Com is 1645 02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:17.279 the website, use the store locator. You're going to see a lot of 1646 02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:20.760 red dots on the map when you go there and you find the ones, 1647 02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:26.039 there'll be more than one near you. That makes it really easy easy. 1648 02:03:26.680 --> 02:03:30.279 Uh. Let's go to Ken in Beaumont. Hello, Ken, Hey, 1649 02:03:30.399 --> 02:03:35.479 Hey, Kim, Hey, I'm calling on the half a mom. Thanks 1650 02:03:35.560 --> 02:03:40.640 wife. Okay, I'm trying to get her to call you before. But 1651 02:03:41.199 --> 02:03:45.199 she has these outcroppings of Johnson grass in her yard. Okay, what can 1652 02:03:45.960 --> 02:03:53.119 rid this? Johnson grass has got a lot of underground rhizomes and it's you 1653 02:03:53.159 --> 02:03:56.600 don't it's not just real easy to get rid of as you know. Uh, 1654 02:03:56.920 --> 02:04:00.319 other than han digging, which is quite a job. You can spray 1655 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:04.600 them with a product like people talk about round up all the time. It 1656 02:04:04.680 --> 02:04:08.319 kills just about everything you can do that. Now, if you get the 1657 02:04:08.359 --> 02:04:11.720 round up on something good, it's going to kill that good plant too. 1658 02:04:12.640 --> 02:04:17.159 So some people use wiper applicators. It's where you would put a product in 1659 02:04:17.319 --> 02:04:21.359 and you can just you rub it over the plant and it wipes it on. 1660 02:04:21.680 --> 02:04:26.159 Think of a sponge, I guess, and it wipes it onto the 1661 02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:30.359 leaves and then translocates down. And the nice thing about a wiper is the 1662 02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:33.800 Johncon grass could be coming out of a bed full of roses and flowers and 1663 02:04:33.840 --> 02:04:39.239 you're wiping it up above that and not killing the good stuff down below. 1664 02:04:40.720 --> 02:04:45.720 Okay, this wiper you're talking about, that's the buyer. Well, there 1665 02:04:45.760 --> 02:04:49.800 are some on the market. What I usually tell people and if you've got 1666 02:04:49.840 --> 02:04:54.079 a lot of Johnson grass, this is a little tedious, but you can 1667 02:04:54.159 --> 02:04:57.319 use one of those grabber tools that you get a jar off a shelf with. 1668 02:04:57.920 --> 02:05:01.439 They're about three feet long, and instead of having grabbers suction cups, 1669 02:05:01.800 --> 02:05:05.239 just figure out a way to bolt a couple of sponges on there. I'll 1670 02:05:05.319 --> 02:05:10.479 use a little metal plate like the ones with the holes in them they use 1671 02:05:10.560 --> 02:05:15.359 to attach to two by fours together or something as you're framing, and and 1672 02:05:15.840 --> 02:05:18.760 that then put the sponge in front of that, and then a little boat 1673 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:23.199 with a washer to hold a sponge on, and then you can just squirt 1674 02:05:23.359 --> 02:05:28.039 that sponge and go through there wiping any kind of weeds that you have. 1675 02:05:28.119 --> 02:05:30.000 You can reach under a rose bush and wipe nuts edge if you want. 1676 02:05:30.039 --> 02:05:34.199 I mean, it's it's a very versatile tool. Uh. There are wipers 1677 02:05:34.239 --> 02:05:40.239 you can buy. Just last night, I was doing some searches and I'm 1678 02:05:40.279 --> 02:05:44.520 not real happy with the stuff on the market, but I've seen people do 1679 02:05:44.680 --> 02:05:53.119 home own homemade versions of all kinds of things. To apply a contact killer 1680 02:05:53.359 --> 02:06:00.199 like that to a weed. I'm sure you can. I'll bet you can. 1681 02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:04.840 All right, all right, thanks, appreciate you too. Take care. 1682 02:06:05.319 --> 02:06:09.119 Yeah, uh, I need to put I'm gonna put that online. 1683 02:06:09.119 --> 02:06:11.840 I'm just telling you right now, I'm gonna put plans for building one of 1684 02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:14.680 those online. I just got to get around to it and get it up 1685 02:06:14.680 --> 02:06:17.199 there and done. It's time for a break. Our phone number seven one 1686 02:06:17.239 --> 02:06:21.119 three two one two kt r H. Katie and Katie will be with you 1687 02:06:21.239 --> 02:06:32.840 first when we come back. Welcome back to the garden line. Good to 1688 02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:39.880 have you with us today. If you are putting a container out on the 1689 02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:44.960 patio, you need to know about jungle and flour and vegetable planting mix. 1690 02:06:45.640 --> 02:06:48.159 It has the qualities that you need in a mix. Number one. It's 1691 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:55.119 got like four different sources of organic decomposed organic matter in it, which is 1692 02:06:55.159 --> 02:06:57.800 good. It's got mic rhiz of fungi in it, it is good. 1693 02:06:58.279 --> 02:07:01.479 It drains away excess water, but it onto water enough for the plants to 1694 02:07:01.640 --> 02:07:05.760 survive. It is not a drought prone type of mix like some can be. 1695 02:07:06.399 --> 02:07:11.119 And now jungle lands available widely. I mean you're going to find it 1696 02:07:11.159 --> 02:07:15.199 in places like Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin. You're going to find it at 1697 02:07:15.199 --> 02:07:17.640 the Arbor Gate up in Tomball where I'm going to be next Saturday from eleven 1698 02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:20.399 to one. By the way, You're going to find it at the ice 1699 02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:25.479 Hard Restaurant in Kingwood, for example. Lots of places you can get jungle 1700 02:07:25.560 --> 02:07:31.680 in. You can get quality products from the folks at nitrofoss. I want 1701 02:07:31.680 --> 02:07:34.760 to head over. Now, let's see who's next one. Look Katie and 1702 02:07:34.880 --> 02:07:39.800 Katie. Hello Katie, how are you? I'm good? How are you? 1703 02:07:40.159 --> 02:07:44.720 I'm good? What's up today? Well, yesterday I noticed I have 1704 02:07:44.840 --> 02:07:48.720 three high biscus plants in pots on my patio, and I noticed that a 1705 02:07:48.760 --> 02:07:54.359 couple of the high biscus blooms had these perfect little circles through them. And 1706 02:07:54.520 --> 02:07:58.760 when I went to look, it had this little it was a little green 1707 02:07:59.399 --> 02:08:03.840 caterpillar. Okay, I guess the little green caterpillar. And even one of 1708 02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:07.720 the blooms that hadn't opened up yet. I pulled off of the high biscus 1709 02:08:07.760 --> 02:08:09.319 to kind of open up and see what was going on, and that's when 1710 02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:16.000 I saw the green caterpillars. Yeah, it's on two out of the three 1711 02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:18.920 plants, and I want to know what I can do to get rid of 1712 02:08:18.920 --> 02:08:22.319 them, and what can I do to prevent it from getting to the third 1713 02:08:22.319 --> 02:08:28.199 plant. Okay, Well, the simplest, safest, most targeted thing you 1714 02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:33.159 can use is BT. Thesylothuringiensis is the fancy name we just call it BT. 1715 02:08:33.560 --> 02:08:37.840 If you go into a garden center hardware store, feed store, we're 1716 02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:41.960 ACE hardware. For example, you're going to find just need some BT and 1717 02:08:41.000 --> 02:08:43.960 they'll get you fixed up. You got a couple of nice ACE hardware stores 1718 02:08:45.000 --> 02:08:48.479 out there in the KD area, like the KD Ace Hardware for example. 1719 02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:54.359 A Signal ranch another good one. But anyway, the BT you sprayed it, 1720 02:08:54.359 --> 02:08:56.920 it's only going to last a day or two out there in the environment. 1721 02:08:58.479 --> 02:09:01.199 But the caterpillar eats BT. So you spray it all over the plant, 1722 02:09:01.319 --> 02:09:05.239 and then it eats it and it gets sick. That doesn't make good 1723 02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:11.479 bugs sick. It doesn't even make beetles and grasshoppers sick. It just kills 1724 02:09:11.479 --> 02:09:16.399 caterpillars. The next step would be something like spinosid, which will also work 1725 02:09:16.600 --> 02:09:20.319 lasts a little longer out there in the environment. But I think I'd start 1726 02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:24.439 with the BT. And is that safe for pets and other animals that are 1727 02:09:24.479 --> 02:09:30.720 outside. Absolutely yes, yeah, it is a disease. Only a caterpillar 1728 02:09:30.800 --> 02:09:37.840 has the intestinal tract that is right for BT doing its killing work. Anything 1729 02:09:37.880 --> 02:09:41.359 else, it's not going to kill them. I need to spray the third 1730 02:09:41.399 --> 02:09:46.840 plant to prevent the caterpillars. I would I would spray it and then I'd 1731 02:09:46.840 --> 02:09:50.479 get out, you know, three days later, look over the plants and 1732 02:09:50.560 --> 02:09:54.479 if you see any new damage or anything, spray them again. But usually 1733 02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:58.960 one or two BT sprays will get you through that cycle with a caterpillar. 1734 02:10:00.199 --> 02:10:03.359 And you know, maybe that three weeks from now something shows up and you'd 1735 02:10:03.359 --> 02:10:05.479 have to do it again. But I like to start with the safest thing 1736 02:10:05.560 --> 02:10:11.479 that has the least environmental damage and BT is that okay? All right? 1737 02:10:11.560 --> 02:10:13.600 Well, thank you, you bet, thank you. I appreciate your call 1738 02:10:15.039 --> 02:10:20.880 very much. So when was the last time you went out to enchanted forest 1739 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:26.560 out in the Richmond Rosenberg area enchanted forests is I love going there. I 1740 02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:31.680 just love the setting. It is fun to shop there, and great staff 1741 02:10:31.760 --> 02:10:35.960 to help you. And selection is incredible. Their selection on herbs, on 1742 02:10:37.119 --> 02:10:39.800 vegetables, on flowers, and on and on down the line. It is 1743 02:10:41.000 --> 02:10:46.760 just amazing out there and enchanted forest. Now you're going to find all the 1744 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.680 perennial plants that you would want to plant. You're going to find things that 1745 02:10:50.720 --> 02:10:54.720 are not so common. You know, the little one that I referred to 1746 02:10:54.760 --> 02:10:58.399 as frog fruit because that's its name. It is a native groundcover that has 1747 02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:03.720 little time any white flowers that are attractive to beneficial insects. They have it 1748 02:11:03.760 --> 02:11:07.199 there. You can buy that there the Jumping Jack's plumerias. If this is 1749 02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:11.439 your gateway drug into plumerius, Okay, go buy there, get one and 1750 02:11:11.560 --> 02:11:15.479 get it started. Find out how easy it is to grow a plumeria, 1751 02:11:16.000 --> 02:11:18.319 and you will just enjoy those beautiful flowers you can make. You can make 1752 02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:24.199 lay flower necklaces for everybody that shows up at the house. I can kind 1753 02:11:24.199 --> 02:11:28.319 of do a little Honolulu stuff going on there. That's the plumeria. They 1754 02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:33.000 also have a great selection of plants for butterflies, things like pentas that are 1755 02:11:33.199 --> 02:11:37.279 just a butterfly crack. When it comes to bringing in things like the some 1756 02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:41.359 of the swallowtails, for example, Uh, they're gonna have plants like passion 1757 02:11:41.439 --> 02:11:48.000 vine to go fridlary caterpillar, like the oh gosh, pipe vine swallowtail, 1758 02:11:48.039 --> 02:11:50.840 the pipe vine vines, and then they're gonna of course, there are things 1759 02:11:50.880 --> 02:11:54.239 that attract the adults. There's strings that feed their larvae, and you want 1760 02:11:54.279 --> 02:11:58.720 both, and they have both. In fact, chances are when you go 1761 02:11:58.760 --> 02:12:03.760 buy a larval food so enchanted forest, they're going to give you a larva 1762 02:12:03.880 --> 02:12:05.920 or two to take home if you want it. I mean, they got 1763 02:12:05.960 --> 02:12:09.359 plenty butterflies. Know the place they hang out there. I mean it's it's 1764 02:12:09.399 --> 02:12:11.760 on all the social media for butterflies like you got to go here, and 1765 02:12:13.079 --> 02:12:16.399 it's because they have so many cool plants like that. I love to go 1766 02:12:16.439 --> 02:12:18.000 there. Now, where is it? Well, it's on FM twenty seven 1767 02:12:18.000 --> 02:12:24.000 to fifty nine outside of Richmond head towards sugar Land fifty nine. It's off 1768 02:12:24.039 --> 02:12:28.520 to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. Just go down there. Here's 1769 02:12:28.520 --> 02:12:35.840 the website, enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Just go go 1770 02:12:35.000 --> 02:12:37.640 check it out. Sign up for the newsletter too. By the way, 1771 02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:41.600 great website as well. We're going to go out to Westbury now and talk 1772 02:12:41.640 --> 02:12:46.640 to Anthony. Hello Anthony, how are you going, sir? I remember 1773 02:12:46.680 --> 02:12:50.640 you from my Sugarbille days and you were working with John. Oh yeah, 1774 02:12:50.760 --> 02:12:58.840 John Drumgal. Yes, oh man, that goes back a while. I'm 1775 02:12:58.880 --> 02:13:03.560 sixty five years I'm sorry anyway, Okay, Well I'm only twenty seven. 1776 02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:11.000 So well, I know I've got shirts that are twenty seven years old. 1777 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:16.199 Go ahead, how can I help? All right? At worked there were 1778 02:13:16.239 --> 02:13:18.760 given away these roses and I got to a point where they were begging us 1779 02:13:18.760 --> 02:13:22.560 to take them so anywhere. I got two uh, they are. The 1780 02:13:22.600 --> 02:13:31.399 little card on it called them Tiffany Rose hybrid tea. And one really did 1781 02:13:31.479 --> 02:13:37.439 well. It got blooms and the it opened up and they were very very 1782 02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:41.880 fragrant, like I said on the card. But the second one, the 1783 02:13:41.880 --> 02:13:48.520 the bloom never opened up and just kind of dried up. And I cut 1784 02:13:48.720 --> 02:13:52.479 a couple of them over, dissected them and said they were bugs. I 1785 02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:56.960 couldn't find any kind of insects, so I don't know why the second one 1786 02:13:56.000 --> 02:14:05.399 didn't do well. I used the Nelson rose feed good and some puzzled now 1787 02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:09.319 described to me that the blooms formed but didn't open. Right. That's correct, 1788 02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:16.840 Yes, sir, did you notice them having brown around them or green? 1789 02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:20.600 Was it just normal? Green? Just never opened? No, there 1790 02:14:20.920 --> 02:14:24.399 is brown. Okay. So whenever we have rainy weather, we can get 1791 02:14:24.439 --> 02:14:30.720 petal blights. It's a fungus that infects and kills the petal tissues. And 1792 02:14:30.760 --> 02:14:35.920 when that petal dyes, that soft supple rose petal that's around the bud, 1793 02:14:35.319 --> 02:14:41.720 when it dies, it gets hard and it's like putting a plastic wrap around 1794 02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:46.439 the rosebud. It cannot open it physically, isn't able to unfurl. And 1795 02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:52.479 that is probably what's going on those during rainy period. You could use a 1796 02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:58.199 fungicide to spray those to prevent that from happening, or you can just kind 1797 02:14:58.199 --> 02:15:01.399 of consider it like, well, it's it goes with the weather here and 1798 02:15:01.439 --> 02:15:03.439 there, and I'm gonna overall, I'm going to cut them off when they're 1799 02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:07.039 like that, but I don't worry about spraining all the time for them. 1800 02:15:07.119 --> 02:15:11.520 But those are your two options, Anthony, okay, and then dad headed, 1801 02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:16.640 how do you recommend I've done two different things. Just experiment because it's 1802 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:22.840 what I do about a quarter of an inch below each bloom and then on 1803 02:15:24.399 --> 02:15:26.439 different stems. I've got a lot of stems. I went down to the 1804 02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:33.239 fifth plant, on fifth leaf, you know, okay, and cut about 1805 02:15:33.239 --> 02:15:37.279 a quarter of an inch above that. What's the best thing for me to 1806 02:15:37.319 --> 02:15:41.640 do? In general, what we recommend for roses is start at the bloom 1807 02:15:41.680 --> 02:15:45.880 and work your way down. You're gonna find leaflets, leaves that have three 1808 02:15:45.960 --> 02:15:48.800 leaflets. And then you go down low further and you see leaves that have 1809 02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:52.279 five leaflets, and go down to the first five leaflet and cut it off. 1810 02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:56.119 There. You can go a little further below if you're trying to kind 1811 02:15:56.159 --> 02:16:00.680 of cut the bush back and invigorate more branching and things. But just above 1812 02:16:00.760 --> 02:16:03.199 that leaflet quarter inch above it is fine. There's a bud at the base 1813 02:16:03.239 --> 02:16:07.680 of that leaflet that will take off and grow. Broo. All right, 1814 02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:13.640 thank you sir, all right, good luck you bet take care. Microlife 1815 02:16:13.680 --> 02:16:22.520 fertilizers are natural fertilizer products that are chalk full of biological activity and the nutrients 1816 02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:26.199 that you need for your plants, whether you're using the green bag sixty four 1817 02:16:26.520 --> 02:16:31.479 to fertilize your lawn, whether you're using the pink bag for acid loving plants. 1818 02:16:31.720 --> 02:16:35.360 Yesterday I was out at by the way, thanks to the folks at 1819 02:16:35.360 --> 02:16:39.760 wild Birds Unlimited down there in Pairland for hosting me. We had a great 1820 02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:41.319 time and thanks to all of you that came out. But I was talking 1821 02:16:41.319 --> 02:16:45.600 to more than one person and the topic came up. But they needed an 1822 02:16:45.639 --> 02:16:48.639 acid fertilizer. It may have been for blueberries or azalias or something. Micro 1823 02:16:48.680 --> 02:16:52.239 Life has a pink bag for that. It's more it's got self for in 1824 02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:58.959 it, which is an acidifying compound that helps out with that sort of thing. 1825 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:01.440 Then they got the humane plus the purple bag. Lots of options for 1826 02:17:01.559 --> 02:17:05.760 Microlife. Now where do you get it? Well, it's widely available, 1827 02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:09.600 but I'll tell you you can get it. And then one place is Southwest 1828 02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:15.440 Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer. They basically are the place that has everything they do. 1829 02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:18.159 If something new comes out, I guarantee you Bob is going to get 1830 02:17:18.200 --> 02:17:22.000 it. We talk all the time about some new thing here, how do 1831 02:17:22.040 --> 02:17:26.520 we deal with that over there or whatever. He's always trying out new things 1832 02:17:26.559 --> 02:17:28.520 and bringing him into the store. So if I talk about a fertilizer, 1833 02:17:28.799 --> 02:17:33.559 I guarantee you Bob has it there, like Microlife for example, and many 1834 02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:37.719 many others. If you need a pests disease or weed control, he has 1835 02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:41.520 several options for everything. Knowledgeable staff, they know what they're talking about. 1836 02:17:41.520 --> 02:17:43.799 You can bring them a sample, you can bring them a picture. They'll 1837 02:17:43.840 --> 02:17:48.799 diagnose it, they'll identify it. They'll put you in contact with the product 1838 02:17:48.920 --> 02:17:54.719 that works. That is very important. You don't want to just buy stuff 1839 02:17:54.719 --> 02:17:56.760 and spray it because someone who doesn't know what they're talking about told you to 1840 02:17:56.879 --> 02:18:01.440 use it. You want to purchase once, and you want to purchase correctly, 1841 02:18:01.520 --> 02:18:03.719 and you want to know how to use it. And they can do 1842 02:18:03.760 --> 02:18:09.040 all that for you. Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Nut and Renwick in Southwest 1843 02:18:09.079 --> 02:18:11.319 Houston. Corner of bus Nut and Renwick, Southwest Houston, if you want 1844 02:18:11.319 --> 02:18:16.959 to go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. 1845 02:18:18.159 --> 02:18:22.920 Well, we're coming up here on a break, so got a few folks 1846 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:26.319 to get to out there. We're going to start off with Jeff down at 1847 02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:28.680 Ale and I'll be going let's see, we're going to talk to Biff, 1848 02:18:28.760 --> 02:18:33.399 Henry and Mark after that. Hang on, guys, we'll be right with 1849 02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:43.000 you. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good to have you back. Let's 1850 02:18:43.200 --> 02:18:46.239 keep going here. We got about a half hour left today. I want 1851 02:18:46.280 --> 02:18:50.280 to make sure you get to as many of these calls as we can. 1852 02:18:50.079 --> 02:18:54.000 I do want to mention to you though, if you are looking to purchase 1853 02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:56.559 a tree, Burden Tree Farm makes it easy for First of all, they're 1854 02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:01.719 in three locations around Houston. There's a there's a location up where Yale Street 1855 02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:07.719 comes into it, kind of North Central Heights sort of area. Out west 1856 02:19:07.799 --> 02:19:11.799 on Barker Cypress there's a location, and then down south in Parland there's also 1857 02:19:11.799 --> 02:19:16.840 a location for Verdant Tree Farm. The website is Verdant Treefarm dot com. 1858 02:19:16.840 --> 02:19:20.760 You need to go there because they have you can look at the various trees 1859 02:19:20.799 --> 02:19:24.280 they have and there's information on each one, very helpful. Like what is 1860 02:19:24.920 --> 02:19:28.959 information on a cypress versus a month a Zuma cypress. It's all there. 1861 02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:33.000 All the palm trees, there's information on that. They have very hearty palm 1862 02:19:33.000 --> 02:19:35.399 trees. They can direct you to. In fact, you can go sit 1863 02:19:35.440 --> 02:19:37.719 down with them and say, hey, look here's what I want. Here's 1864 02:19:37.719 --> 02:19:41.079 what I'm out of a tree. Here's a picture of the right yard where 1865 02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:43.600 I want to put it, and they can direct you the right one. 1866 02:19:43.799 --> 02:19:46.920 They'll sell to you. You go out and pick the tree out you want, 1867 02:19:46.959 --> 02:19:48.719 They tag it, they bring it home to your house. They bring 1868 02:19:48.760 --> 02:19:52.399 it not home, they bring it to your home, they plant it, 1869 02:19:52.760 --> 02:19:58.239 and you're ready to go. You've successfully been set up for success by Verdant 1870 02:19:58.239 --> 02:20:01.479 Tree Farm. Easy easy, and they know what they're doing. The largest 1871 02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:07.120 tree farm in the Houston area, the largest independently owned tree farm here in 1872 02:20:07.159 --> 02:20:11.680 the Houston area. We're going to go now to Jeff and Ileve Galveston. 1873 02:20:11.719 --> 02:20:16.040 Hey, Jeff, okay, sir, how are you today, I'm good. 1874 02:20:16.079 --> 02:20:20.760 Thanks for waiting, no problem. I was on the listening to you 1875 02:20:20.840 --> 02:20:24.680 earlier and I couldn't get to my pen fast and I fast enough to write 1876 02:20:24.719 --> 02:20:28.760 down the product that you suggested a lady use on her augustine grass that is 1877 02:20:28.799 --> 02:20:33.600 getting kind of spongey with a lot of thrush under it. What was that 1878 02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:39.479 product called? I was talking about using like a leaf mold compost top dressing. 1879 02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:45.719 So of the Saint Augustine grass plant, you've got roots, you've got 1880 02:20:45.799 --> 02:20:50.040 nodes and runners and then grass blades. Grass blades right fast. They decompose 1881 02:20:50.200 --> 02:20:54.520 fast. That's why we return our clippings. When you fertilize a lot, 1882 02:20:56.040 --> 02:20:58.399 you can end up with a lot more runner. And runner is slower to 1883 02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:03.000 break down. It's not like wood, but it's halfway between grass blades and 1884 02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:07.440 wood in terms of its resistance to rotting. And so when you put a 1885 02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:09.280 compost hop dressing over it, you keep it moist. You got a lot 1886 02:21:09.319 --> 02:21:15.360 of microbial activity there and it just speeds up the process of turning all those 1887 02:21:15.440 --> 02:21:20.280 runners back into organic material in the soil. And that that is what I 1888 02:21:20.319 --> 02:21:24.680 had suggested for her, But then we found out she really didn't have a 1889 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:30.200 thatch, so well I've got the thatch. It's almost like walking on tundering 1890 02:21:30.280 --> 02:21:33.239 parts of my yard of yeah, yeah, you don't touch any solid surface. 1891 02:21:35.399 --> 02:21:39.559 Yeah, so a I'd back off on the lawn fertilizing amount. It's 1892 02:21:39.559 --> 02:21:45.639 still important to fertilize, but the more you push runner growth, the more 1893 02:21:45.440 --> 02:21:48.440 they're going to start crawling on each other. And you end up with that 1894 02:21:48.799 --> 02:21:52.040 so so moderate that a little bit return the clipping. Still, it's still 1895 02:21:52.040 --> 02:21:56.079 a good idea. That's part of adding, you know, some high nitrogen 1896 02:21:56.120 --> 02:22:01.280 material down there in the thatch to help decomposition speed up. Is there a 1897 02:22:01.319 --> 02:22:05.399 specific brand of sab dressing or whatever? I look at it. I prefer 1898 02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:11.239 leaf mold compost by either nature's way. You can get it from airlom soils 1899 02:22:11.280 --> 02:22:16.559 delivered. Both of those are a long ways from you. Down Closer to 1900 02:22:16.639 --> 02:22:20.399 you is Siena Multch, which is down south of Houston in the Siena area. 1901 02:22:22.000 --> 02:22:26.559 They probably, well, I don't think they. I'm pretty sure they 1902 02:22:26.600 --> 02:22:30.079 don't deliver as far away as you are, but you can find a way 1903 02:22:30.120 --> 02:22:33.520 to get it there and use that as a top dress. They do have 1904 02:22:33.600 --> 02:22:37.719 leaf mold compost at Sienna. All right, sir, I appreciate the help, 1905 02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:41.159 and you have a wonderful day you too, Thanks a lot. Appreciate 1906 02:22:41.559 --> 02:22:46.840 appreciate that call a lot. Let's see now we're going to go to Beff 1907 02:22:46.840 --> 02:22:50.040 in Houston. Hey, Beff, Hello, thanks for taking my call. 1908 02:22:50.079 --> 02:22:58.159 I appreciate it. Sure. Last summer really killed my yard. All I 1909 02:22:58.200 --> 02:23:03.520 had was weeds, had it scraped by a landscaper and new sod put in 1910 02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:09.639 and it looks great. They tell me to water every day for the first 1911 02:23:09.719 --> 02:23:13.040 month, but now it's looking great. I'm through the first month. So 1912 02:23:13.120 --> 02:23:18.239 my question is how do I you know, how do I cut back my 1913 02:23:18.360 --> 02:23:22.959 water schedule? And what fertilizer or we control shit I put on it? 1914 02:23:24.000 --> 02:23:26.159 Now? Okay with this new sod. All right, well, since this 1915 02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:30.479 is going out on the airways, I just want to want to qualify something 1916 02:23:30.520 --> 02:23:33.959 that they said, you do not need to water every day for a month. 1917 02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:37.520 If you can water, I usually will water twice a day, morning 1918 02:23:37.559 --> 02:23:41.159 and evening because the plant has zero almost zero roots. When you get the 1919 02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:46.280 grass sod for the first week and then once a day for a week, 1920 02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.319 and after that, you bet you start to back off. That's plenty, 1921 02:23:48.360 --> 02:23:52.399 but how do you do it? I think your grass is going to be 1922 02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:56.040 very, very wet, probably got a little bit of rain and all this 1923 02:23:56.079 --> 02:24:00.959 stuff we've been through here, and so you you probably probably won't need to 1924 02:24:01.000 --> 02:24:07.479 water for at least I'd say three or four days after this rain dries up 1925 02:24:07.520 --> 02:24:11.760 and quits, and then I would go to a twice a week schedule. 1926 02:24:11.799 --> 02:24:13.840 I think at this point, if it's been in a month, you have 1927 02:24:15.000 --> 02:24:20.280 got very well established rooted grass. And I would on my lawns, I 1928 02:24:20.360 --> 02:24:22.559 try to water once a week with a good soaking and let it dry out 1929 02:24:22.600 --> 02:24:26.680 in between waterings. So that is a schedule a lot aim toward. But 1930 02:24:26.719 --> 02:24:31.200 i'd start with every other twice a week. I would start with twice a 1931 02:24:31.280 --> 02:24:35.399 week, and then i'd go to once a week after two or three weeks, 1932 02:24:35.840 --> 02:24:39.600 or even two weeks isn't enough, okay? And then what about fertilizers. 1933 02:24:39.760 --> 02:24:41.680 Okay, well, it's been in a month, so you can start 1934 02:24:41.719 --> 02:24:46.799 fertilizing it. I would at this point, I would get me a slow 1935 02:24:46.799 --> 02:24:50.319 release fertilizer, something to gradually release over the next few months. I would 1936 02:24:50.440 --> 02:24:54.719 always return the grass clippings back into the lawn. They'll decompose also and help 1937 02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.840 feed it. But it already is well established enough where you can begin to 1938 02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:03.440 fertilize it. It probably looks pretty good. And even without fertilizer, right 1939 02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:07.920 he does, it looks great. What slower release would you recommend you got? 1940 02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:13.799 You got several good options. Uh. The Nelson's makes one called Slow 1941 02:25:13.840 --> 02:25:20.040 and Easy. Nitroposs makes one called It's the Silver Bag, it's super turf. 1942 02:25:20.280 --> 02:25:24.319 Those are going to be widely available. I don't know what area you're 1943 02:25:24.360 --> 02:25:28.760 in, but I'm over by Southwest Fertilizer. Walk in the door. They 1944 02:25:28.879 --> 02:25:33.479 Southwest even has their own proprietary slow reliefs, So yeah, walk in, 1945 02:25:33.600 --> 02:25:37.959 talk to them. They'll they'll show you what they got and uh, you're 1946 02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.680 not going to go wrong with any of those. All right, great, 1947 02:25:41.799 --> 02:25:43.360 all right, Beth, Well, I appreciate very much. That helps. 1948 02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:48.000 All right, sir, thanks appreciate that. Appreciate that call a lot. 1949 02:25:48.520 --> 02:25:50.280 Let's see, now we're going to go to Crosby and talk to Mark. 1950 02:25:50.319 --> 02:25:56.239 Hello. Mark, Hello, I got a question. Uh, how can 1951 02:25:56.239 --> 02:25:58.719 I get rid of poison going up oak tree without digging the roots up? 1952 02:25:58.799 --> 02:26:03.360 Is the solution? Absolutely? Yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut to the 1953 02:26:03.399 --> 02:26:07.040 chase because I'm short on time. You need to find something with trimech in 1954 02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:13.680 it tr i MC that could be a poison ivy killer. Maybe what you 1955 02:26:13.719 --> 02:26:18.399 see on the label it may say brush be gone or something trimech tr imec. 1956 02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.120 You want to cut that vine off where it's attached to the tree, 1957 02:26:24.120 --> 02:26:30.040 take a section out with a saw, and then immediately take a spongebrush like 1958 02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:33.840 for painting on a little wooden handle, and dab the trimec right onto that 1959 02:26:33.879 --> 02:26:37.799 fresh cut right away. Just dab it right onto that fresh cut. It'll 1960 02:26:37.799 --> 02:26:41.840 translocate down and kill it. Sometimes, if it's a big strong bind, 1961 02:26:41.879 --> 02:26:46.079 you may have to do another application at some point. But that is the 1962 02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:50.079 fastest, easiest, least toxic, least product way that you can do it, 1963 02:26:50.120 --> 02:26:52.920 and it works very well. And that'sing what happened to the tree. 1964 02:26:54.079 --> 02:26:56.440 No, not because you're dabbing it onto the fresh cut surface. That no 1965 02:26:56.559 --> 02:27:01.440 problem. Oh don't bine see thee Yeah yeah, Because you're saying, if 1966 02:27:01.440 --> 02:27:05.079 you got a buy and going up a tree, uh, then you you 1967 02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:07.399 can just dab it on them, but you gotta you gotta cut it. 1968 02:27:07.000 --> 02:27:11.559 Essentially, you're creating a little poison ivy stump and you're and you're dabbing that 1969 02:27:11.680 --> 02:27:16.959 stump with TriMet Okay, so putting it on the leaves and like they spend 1970 02:27:16.000 --> 02:27:20.399 it down the roots. I don't do the job. Well, it can 1971 02:27:20.479 --> 02:27:24.280 also do the job, but you get it in better this way, and 1972 02:27:24.680 --> 02:27:30.520 uh, you avoid the potential for the spray going onto something that you don't 1973 02:27:30.520 --> 02:27:33.079 want to kill. Well, I had I had a charrange, I was 1974 02:27:33.120 --> 02:27:37.040 going to dab it on the leaves. I would just do the trunk cut. 1975 02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:41.479 Trust me on this one. Yeah, Okay, it's like cutting artery 1976 02:27:41.520 --> 02:27:45.360 and trying to drop it down in there. Okay, I got you, 1977 02:27:46.479 --> 02:27:50.479 all right, Mark, all right, thank you very much. Good luck 1978 02:27:50.479 --> 02:27:52.479 with that. Hey, we got to take a break. Seven one three 1979 02:27:52.520 --> 02:27:56.280 two one two k t r H. When we come back, Henry Cyprus, 1980 02:27:56.280 --> 02:28:01.239 You'll be the first stop. You believe me say it? I love 1981 02:28:01.280 --> 02:28:05.559 you. When you know I've been a liar all my life. You've had 1982 02:28:05.600 --> 02:28:09.840 a reputation since you were a youth. I must have been and said the 1983 02:28:09.000 --> 02:28:13.799 thing you tell me the truth. Can you believe me when I said we'd 1984 02:28:13.840 --> 02:28:20.200 marry when you know I'd rather hang than have a Why I know I said 1985 02:28:20.479 --> 02:28:24.440 I'd make you mine. But who could know that I could go for that 1986 02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:28.280 olt? Right? I want you to hear a little bit Danny k remember 1987 02:28:28.319 --> 02:28:33.159 that boy? That was a long time ago. Uh, pretty silly song 1988 02:28:33.280 --> 02:28:37.319 too. All right, you're listening to the guard Line. I'm your host, 1989 02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:39.680 Skip Richter, where we play some weird stuff ever now and then just 1990 02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:43.959 for fun, we're going to head out to Cypress now and talk to Henry. 1991 02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:48.920 Hello, Henry, good morning, good soggy morning. Skip. Yeah, 1992 02:28:48.120 --> 02:28:52.280 no kidding. We'll take it. We'll wish we had it in July 1993 02:28:52.360 --> 02:28:56.360 and August. Really, I've got a thirteen or fourteen year old b I 1994 02:28:56.479 --> 02:29:03.239 repair big tree and this year, first year started in the spring. New 1995 02:29:03.319 --> 02:29:07.120 growth is on the ends of the limbs, and the like turns yellow, 1996 02:29:07.120 --> 02:29:11.520 turns brown and dies. The rest of the tree is fine, okay, 1997 02:29:11.559 --> 02:29:18.239 and it's not all the limbs, but it's enough so it's worse. Yes. 1998 02:29:18.520 --> 02:29:22.879 That is a disease called far blight. And when it dies, you 1999 02:29:22.959 --> 02:29:28.159 probably have brown, chocolate brown leaves still stuck through the dead branches. Far 2000 02:29:28.200 --> 02:29:31.200 Blight is a bacterial disease. In the spring, we get some rain splash 2001 02:29:31.239 --> 02:29:35.280 in bacteria around they land on a bloom they land on new tender shoots and 2002 02:29:35.319 --> 02:29:41.840 they infect it and kill it. That we call it a shepherd's crook effect 2003 02:29:41.920 --> 02:29:46.639 because typically the very succulent ends bend over like a shepherd's crook, like a 2004 02:29:46.680 --> 02:29:50.760 walking cane. And so what you need to do two things. First of 2005 02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:54.959 all, you need to back off on any kind of fertilizing you have been 2006 02:29:54.959 --> 02:30:01.600 doing. If you had been doing any every time we invigorate a pear tree, 2007 02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:05.280 we increase the incidence of fireblight. It loves lots of tender growth. 2008 02:30:05.719 --> 02:30:13.479 So fertilizing with nitrogen, a heavy pruning or pruning period, it just it 2009 02:30:13.000 --> 02:30:16.959 creates new vigor, and that's where we're in the problem. Second thing you 2010 02:30:16.959 --> 02:30:20.639 need to do is go in and take pruners and prune out all those dead 2011 02:30:20.799 --> 02:30:26.799 ends that you can get to. You will see that it's sunken in. 2012 02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:30.040 It has a canker in the wood, and it's sunken in. And then 2013 02:30:30.079 --> 02:30:33.399 you get down to a certain point where you're back to healthy wood. Prune 2014 02:30:33.440 --> 02:30:37.760 below the dead and then each time you prune a limb out, spray your 2015 02:30:37.760 --> 02:30:43.559 printers with lysol to kill anything on any microbes bacteria in this case, on 2016 02:30:43.680 --> 02:30:46.840 those prunter surfaces because you don't want to then make a new cut and spread 2017 02:30:46.879 --> 02:30:52.760 them to another spot. So spray in between cuts and then get those out 2018 02:30:52.760 --> 02:30:58.200 of there, and that will minimize it. So minimizing vigor as best you 2019 02:30:58.280 --> 02:31:03.479 can and send monetarily removing as much of it as you can, or your 2020 02:31:03.479 --> 02:31:09.959 two tricks of the trade. There are there is an antibiotic called streptomize, 2021 02:31:09.040 --> 02:31:13.959 and that's available for fire blight in some garden centers, and so if you 2022 02:31:15.159 --> 02:31:18.319 if you want to look for that, you can spray that in the spring 2023 02:31:18.360 --> 02:31:24.639 fall of the labels instructions. Most people don't go to that trouble, uh, 2024 02:31:24.040 --> 02:31:28.280 just because you're having to do it ahead of time. You're you're get 2025 02:31:28.319 --> 02:31:31.600 if you wait until you have everything's brown, it's a little late to treat, 2026 02:31:31.239 --> 02:31:33.319 and so you're having to do it in the spring, but during that 2027 02:31:33.319 --> 02:31:37.879 spring rainy period that the infection is starting. Okay, Now, much of 2028 02:31:37.879 --> 02:31:43.200 this tree is so tall that even with my handy dan the eight foot ladder, 2029 02:31:43.239 --> 02:31:46.479 I'm not going to be able and long handled cruiers, I'm not going 2030 02:31:46.520 --> 02:31:48.520 to be able to reach that high. Yeah, I know, I know, 2031 02:31:48.639 --> 02:31:52.000 it's a it's just the way it is. Uh. You know, 2032 02:31:54.719 --> 02:31:56.680 once you have a tree and it's big and you got fire blight, you 2033 02:31:56.799 --> 02:32:01.120 just do the best you can with it. With the name of the disease 2034 02:32:01.159 --> 02:32:05.920 again, so I can for the researches. You bet, fire blight of 2035 02:32:05.200 --> 02:32:13.559 pair F I R E B L I G H T. Okay, thank 2036 02:32:13.600 --> 02:32:16.639 you so much, Skip. I appreciate that you bet. Is this an 2037 02:32:16.760 --> 02:32:20.559 edible pair or an ornamental? This is a Bradford Bradford Yeah, I think 2038 02:32:20.559 --> 02:32:24.159 you said. In fact, this is the first issues we've had any real 2039 02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:28.879 blossoms. Frost has kill them every year in the four years we've lived here 2040 02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:31.000 except for this year. Finally we get some blossoms and then it's followed by 2041 02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:35.200 this blight. Yeah, it's one of the one of the issues with Bradford 2042 02:32:35.239 --> 02:32:37.399 pair. But uh anyway, yeah, go look at look it up. 2043 02:32:37.440 --> 02:32:41.479 You can learn a lot about it and hopefully that'll help. Thank you, 2044 02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:48.959 sir, much appreciate it. You bet, thank you it. A while 2045 02:32:48.959 --> 02:32:52.200 ago, who is that talking about. I was talking to Bef Bith and 2046 02:32:52.239 --> 02:32:56.120 we were talking about fertilizers for his new lawn, and I mentioned Nelson Slow 2047 02:32:56.120 --> 02:33:01.520 and Easy. Nelson's has a line of fertilizers called turf Star. There's a 2048 02:33:01.680 --> 02:33:05.280 number of them in the turf Star line. Two for this summer that you 2049 02:33:05.319 --> 02:33:09.120 need to know about are Slow and Easy and one called Bruce's Brew. Now, 2050 02:33:09.200 --> 02:33:15.120 Bruce's Brew puts a lot of the nitrogen as immediately available, but there 2051 02:33:15.200 --> 02:33:18.760 is some slow release that may take up to six months to fully release. 2052 02:33:20.000 --> 02:33:24.360 Slow and Easy is primarily a slow release. It does have some immediately available 2053 02:33:24.520 --> 02:33:28.079 nitrogen, of course, but it'll be releasing all the way the next time. 2054 02:33:28.120 --> 02:33:31.319 If you do Slow and Easy now, the next time you need to 2055 02:33:31.319 --> 02:33:35.680 fertilize is in fall. And if you get my launch schedule at gardening with 2056 02:33:35.200 --> 02:33:41.959 Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com, you can find out all 2057 02:33:41.000 --> 02:33:46.040 about when to fertilize and what to use. If you're organic, if you 2058 02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.079 like synthetic product, whatever you like, it's on the schedule there. It'll 2059 02:33:50.079 --> 02:33:52.440 guide you on that. Slow and Easy, though, is a great way 2060 02:33:52.479 --> 02:33:58.959 to provide slow, even growth. It's also a somewhat acidifying fertilizer, so 2061 02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:05.639 not only at releasing nutrients slowly, providing things that microbes too enjoy, but 2062 02:34:05.719 --> 02:34:09.520 it's also slightly acidifying the surface as you use it. And it's always good 2063 02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:13.840 to move our lines in that direction, especially in this part of the state 2064 02:34:13.879 --> 02:34:18.799 where we tend to have higher peach soils in the heavy clays often but anyway, 2065 02:34:20.000 --> 02:34:22.799 Slow and Easy is a great one to use, and Bruce's Brew is 2066 02:34:22.840 --> 02:34:26.399 another great one to use. They each have their own pluses and they each 2067 02:34:26.559 --> 02:34:33.879 are quality products from Nelson that you can find widely available. I wanted to 2068 02:34:33.920 --> 02:34:39.959 thank the folks out in Pairland at Paarland wild Birds Unlimited yesterday hosting me. 2069 02:34:39.280 --> 02:34:43.000 We had a great time out there. I think all of you came out. 2070 02:34:43.440 --> 02:34:48.319 I was impressed and the questions were awesome. Lots of samples out, 2071 02:34:48.360 --> 02:34:52.440 a box full of dead plants. I felt like the Statue of Liberty. 2072 02:34:52.520 --> 02:34:56.799 Remember the Amma Lazareth poem, bring me you're tired, you're weary, you're 2073 02:34:58.159 --> 02:35:01.680 huddled masses yearning. Well, well, I think people were bringing me they're 2074 02:35:01.760 --> 02:35:05.559 sick, they're dead, they're infected, and we just put them in a 2075 02:35:05.600 --> 02:35:09.440 box as we went through diagnosing. But thank you for having me out there. 2076 02:35:09.440 --> 02:35:13.959 It was a good time. And Mother's Day is a great time to 2077 02:35:13.079 --> 02:35:18.319 go to Wildbirds Unlimited. You know there's six wildbirds here in the Houston area 2078 02:35:18.440 --> 02:35:20.520 and If you want to find the ones near you, it's easy. Go 2079 02:35:20.559 --> 02:35:30.479 to here's the website wb U dot com forward slash Houston WBU as in wild 2080 02:35:30.559 --> 02:35:35.239 Birds Unlimited dot com forward slash Houston, and you can find them near you. 2081 02:35:35.280 --> 02:35:39.120 They're all over the place now. They have things like the ecotyp Classic 2082 02:35:39.159 --> 02:35:43.520 feeder. It looks like it made out of wood, but it is. 2083 02:35:43.760 --> 02:35:46.760 It's beautiful, but it is made out of milk jugs, believe it or 2084 02:35:46.799 --> 02:35:52.200 not, real cool recycled plastic milk jugs. They have the High Perch hummingbird 2085 02:35:52.200 --> 02:35:56.559 feeder, my favorite hummingbird feeder. It really works well. It has several 2086 02:35:56.600 --> 02:36:00.399 advantages. I'm time to go into all those right now, but it is 2087 02:36:00.440 --> 02:36:03.479 an excellent hummingbird feeder that make an excellent gift. And if you only go 2088 02:36:03.520 --> 02:36:07.520 to the Cadillac. My favorite feeder of all in my house is the Eliminator 2089 02:36:07.760 --> 02:36:11.600 squirrel proof feeder. You put your seeds in there. It does not allow 2090 02:36:11.680 --> 02:36:16.760 squirrels in. It is really well made and this is a lifetime warranty, 2091 02:36:16.799 --> 02:36:20.239 so something goes wrong on it, you can get the part. You can 2092 02:36:20.239 --> 02:36:22.879 fix the feeder. I mean, it's that kind of quality. There are 2093 02:36:22.920 --> 02:36:28.079 many other things the flying Bistro cylinder feeder. You put the little cylinders of 2094 02:36:28.799 --> 02:36:33.520 bird seed in there for that. They have a beautiful, wonderful book called 2095 02:36:33.520 --> 02:36:37.639 The Joy of Bird Feeding by the founder of wild Birds Unlimited. Really cool 2096 02:36:37.079 --> 02:36:43.920 wild Birds Unlimited. All right, I'll tell you what here. I'm gonna 2097 02:36:45.159 --> 02:36:48.360 Ashley, if you will hold on. As soon as we're done here, 2098 02:36:48.399 --> 02:36:50.319 I'm going to take your call. Okay, we just don't have enough time 2099 02:36:50.399 --> 02:36:54.600 right now, but I will take your call. I will be next Saturday 2100 02:36:54.840 --> 02:37:01.319 at Barbaragate Barbergate Garden Center in Tomball. If you've never been, I don't 2101 02:37:01.360 --> 02:37:05.200 know how that's possible, but you need to go. If you have been, 2102 02:37:05.239 --> 02:37:07.040 you know how cool it is. Drive around back on Dreshal Road. 2103 02:37:07.159 --> 02:37:13.280 See the brand new parking lot that I keep raving about on. You know 2104 02:37:13.280 --> 02:37:16.120 how much rain we've gotten here. I guarantee you right now you could drive 2105 02:37:16.159 --> 02:37:18.600 to Arbigate. You can drive across that parking lot because it absorbs the rain 2106 02:37:18.719 --> 02:37:22.079 down into the soil and it is all weather. It is so cool. 2107 02:37:22.399 --> 02:37:26.760 I'll be there from eleven to eleven thirty to one thirty. Come see me. 2108 02:37:26.040 --> 02:37:31.200 Look forward to seeing you next Saturday at the Arbor Day Hey, thanks 2109 02:37:31.200 --> 02:37:31.360 for listening to Garden Me