WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.679 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:20.359 this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor, so just watch 3 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:39.840 him as Golden Clubs back. Not a sid morning. Good Saturday morning. 4 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.920 You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we 5 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.240 are here today to talk about what you're interested in when it comes to gardening. 6 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.399 Our phone number. Write this down so you can give us a call. 7 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.200 In fact, you should just you know, write this down on the 8 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.679 refrigerator door so that you can see it anytime you need it, because we 9 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:02.439 are here every Saturday, and we're here every Sunday from six am to ten 10 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.799 am. But our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven 11 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:14.319 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. My purpose in 12 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.840 doing the visiting, the talking, everything we do is for you to have 13 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.560 a more beautiful garden and a more bountiful landscape and not waste your money on 14 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.239 products that are not going to work, but to actually get your money's worth 15 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.400 out of what you buy and make sure and one way we do that is 16 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.560 number one, making sure we are going after what we think we're going after. 17 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:44.079 For example, I was in a let's just say a national chain that 18 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:52.519 doesn't specialize in plants, garden center and listening to someone. The conversation basically 19 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.000 went like this. The customer says, you know, I've got these brown 20 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.640 spots in my yard, and the person selling products walked over and handed them 21 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:07.719 and insecticide. Well, insects can cause bronze spots in our yard. So 22 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:13.120 can not watering, so can diseases, so can certain other kind of cultural 23 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.360 things like I mean, there was not one question about describe it to me, 24 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.159 where is it? When did you first see it? You know, 25 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.280 anything like that, And it'd be like, imagine go into a doctor. 26 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.960 You go to your doctor, you're and you sit down and you say, 27 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.599 doc, I just have been feeling bad lately, and he says, hold 28 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.240 on, and he writes a prescription and hands it to you. What kind 29 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.360 of confidence would you have in a prescription like that? Right? I mean, 30 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.000 it's like, wait a minute, you don't even you haven't gone to 31 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:43.360 the first step of trying to diagnose why I don't feel good? Right, 32 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:47.599 well, doctor wouldn't do that, at least we hope not. But yet 33 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:54.360 it happens a lot of times in garden centers that basically that's just not their 34 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.199 business. They sell a lot of other things, you know, or maybe 35 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:04.520 they just are a huge chain that has their best job they can do is 36 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.800 to try to fill the spots for employees. Our mom and pop garden centers 37 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:13.680 here in the Greater Houston area are unique. And you can go to any 38 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:17.280 big city here in Texas and you can find that handful of garden centers, 39 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.360 not as many as we have here, but a handful of small handful of 40 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:25.520 garden centers that hire people that know what they're talking about because the owner is 41 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:30.439 passionate about it and they know what they're talking about, and they want their 42 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.800 customers to always have success. The goal is not to get the customer through 43 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:39.919 the cash register to get their money. The goal is for the customer to 44 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:44.280 have success because yes, you're they're going to go through the cash reister, 45 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.599 but they're gonna come back again because what you told them was right, and 46 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:52.360 what you told them worked. And I Harp and Harp on the importance of 47 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:57.400 independent garden centers, and we talk about a number of them here in the 48 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.719 Greater Houston area. And if you think you're saving money going someplace where you 49 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.039 think you may get a better price on something. Well, number one, 50 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.840 you don't know that you probably aren't going to get the better price. But 51 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.919 when you go home with the wrong product and you wasted a trip to the 52 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.839 store and now your yard is dead, drt than it was, that is 53 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.480 not saving money. When you buy a plant that doesn't do well here, 54 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:25.439 or you put it in a place where it doesn't do well sunshade, too 55 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:29.000 wet, too dry, etc. Because the person at the garden center couldn't 56 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.279 guide you on how to use that plant and where it would do well, 57 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.480 or maybe direct you to a better plant, that's waste of money. And 58 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.839 so you know, the way I look at it, it's the same way 59 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:45.600 as I do with pruners. For years, I would just grab a pair 60 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.759 of pruners. I had some good pruners, but I just grab some cheap 61 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.199 pair of pruners to go get a job done on something because I forgot to 62 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:55.959 bring mine. Every one of those ended up in a trash can. They 63 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:00.240 don't last, they don't keep an edge, they get sprung where they don't 64 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.079 make the cut right anymore. A quality pair of prunters is going to cost 65 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:10.000 you some more money. But I still have prunters that I had fifteen twenty 66 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.839 years ago because they're quality. And if blade needs to be replaced, you 67 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.279 can do it. If you need to sharpen it, you can do it 68 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.720 and it'll hold an edge. Do you get what I'm saying. So think 69 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.879 about that when you're out there shopping and we try to direct you to those 70 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.519 kinds of things. We try to help you with diagnosing things and getting you 71 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.079 to the right questions that you might have. But just something to think about 72 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:38.360 if you've been thinking about retiring and maybe moving and you know, finding a 73 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:43.079 community where you can just really enjoy retirement. Maybe you're an active adult, 74 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.879 you're fifty five or older, and you are just looking for that kind of 75 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.000 state of the art community, but a place where you can you really will 76 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.920 feel like you're thriving. That is a dell Weeb community. And dell Weeb 77 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:59.519 has a new community at Fullsher It's two miles from downtown Fullscher on FM three 78 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.959 fifteen nine. Del Weeb of course comes with all the lifestyle programs. It's 79 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.279 not dell Weeb's not just a house. It's it's it's a way of life, 80 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.879 and it's the lifestyle programs that are designed around you. The Fulsher community 81 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.240 has contact me to help them with their community garden. They're putting together a 82 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:20.079 community garden, and I cannot imagine a better situation than to move into one 83 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:26.160 of those first class, beautiful communities, but also have access to a place 84 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.199 where you can garden and where you can hang out and visit with the gardeners 85 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.279 that are your neighbors. That would be Dell Web. You can go online 86 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.439 to Dellweb dot com, Slice Houston for more info or just give him a 87 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:44.759 call two eight one four five nine zero six zero nine. Well let's head 88 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.199 out now. We're going to take a phone call here. We're gonna go 89 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:51.199 to Camp Logan and visit with Ron. Good morning Ron, Hey, good 90 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:55.839 morning Skip. Thank you for taking a call. Yes, sir, Yes, 91 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:02.800 And I've been following Landy fertilization your treatment schedule for three years now and 92 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:09.120 everything has worked real good except my battle with brown patch. Okay, and 93 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:14.120 the first couple of years I was air rating at compost top dressing, especially 94 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.839 areas where I've seen brown patch, and that really didn't seem to help. 95 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:25.079 Last year, I didn't do that, and I switched to start treating early 96 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:31.480 with the chemical and that felt a little bit, but I still had pretty 97 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:38.360 pretty bad brown patch. But I recall last last fall a caller called into 98 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:46.439 Randy and he said he had had luck switching between two different chemical treatments, 99 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.120 and he used the chemical name, so I didn't catch them. But again, 100 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:54.120 I'm just looking how can I beat back this brown patch. I've tried 101 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.800 most of the things. I'm going to cut in. We're about to take 102 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.519 a break, and when we come back, I will answer your question. 103 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.120 And I thank you so much for the call. We're going to take a 104 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.480 break right now. If you'd like to call in and get on the boards, 105 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:22.680 it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Good Saturday 106 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.399 morning. You are listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. 107 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.199 If you look outside and your neighbor's house looks dark, no lights on, 108 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.120 please go bang on the door tell them they're missing garden Line. They 109 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.639 will rise up and call you. Bless it. I am in a conversation 110 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.279 here with Ron. By the way, our phone number if you'd like to 111 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.440 call us seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, 112 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.279 Ron, let's come back and get down to the nitty gritty. Let 113 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.000 me just ask a question first, and that is, are you seeing this 114 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.080 as the large circles in the fall or winter or springtime? Yeah? Yes, 115 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.200 I am. I think last year the earliest I saw was late August, 116 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:09.320 but again late September to mid October when they really Okay, well, 117 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:16.440 um, if you're not recalling what you've tried on the fungicides, let me 118 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.639 let me just kind of make a point. Not all fungicides label for a 119 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.039 large patch. By the way, we call it large patch. Now. 120 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.679 They have to change things all the time, and that's one of the latest 121 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.799 changes. But a large patch, not all fungicides are equally effective against it, 122 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.720 even ones that are labeled for it. I think probably the best combination. 123 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.159 If you were if you were talking about you'd talk to someone who used 124 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.519 two different things. If I were doing a single thing, I would probably 125 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:54.120 use an ingredient called a zaxy strobin and it you'll find it in a product 126 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.519 called Heritage. That's that's a common brand. Uh. There weather several products 127 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.279 out there. Let we spell the azoxystrob and I'd rather send you out for 128 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.200 the ingredient because that way, whatever brand you see on the shelf, you 129 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.799 know what you're looking for. It's a zo x y a zox and then 130 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:16.519 strobein str bi N. That's a systemic and it works very well when you 131 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:26.159 combine it with a product containing propiconazole p r O p I c n A 132 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.679 z o L that's pro piconazole. Just like you would say it, those 133 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.639 two combined are excellent against it. I would expect the azoxystrobe and alone to 134 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:43.000 be enough, but when you combine the two, I think you'll have good 135 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.320 results. And there are a lot of other products that worked pretty well. 136 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.759 You have to get in there ahead of it, though. Once you start 137 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.559 to see the yellowing, well, the disease is already rotting the leaves off 138 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.799 the runners, and so even if you sprayed it with a good product, 139 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.320 it would be too late because the process would already be under way. So 140 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.840 that would mean you know, look, think about the time when you normally 141 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.600 see it. Typically it's when the weather we get a little coal front, 142 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.120 the weather breaks a little bit, we get some rain. That's when it 143 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:15.879 really flares up, you know, October being a key time. But just 144 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.799 this year. If it's an ongoing problem, then get ahead of it with 145 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:24.480 a spray. Great, thank very much, I appreciate it. Yeah, 146 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:31.759 let me add a couple of things. Run because my approach to things is 147 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.759 not just to be, you know, on a chemical treadmill to fix everything, 148 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:41.240 and so the things you do before you spray that help make it not 149 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.799 so much of a problem is Number one, don't over water. We can't 150 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:48.639 control rainfall, but we can't control the sprinkler. The more often you water 151 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.279 and keep it wet, especially heading into that season, the worst it's going 152 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.720 to be. And over fertilizing too much nitrogen. We want enough to keep 153 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:01.000 the grass healthy and green, but if you over do the fertilizer, large 154 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:07.799 patches a lot worse. Okay, all right, great, thank you very 155 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:09.559 much, gift. All right, sir, thank you for the call. 156 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:16.919 Appreciate that we are, you know, far from large patch season. And 157 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.120 for those of you who like me, who've called it brown patch your whole 158 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.600 life, I still catch myself doing that. But brown patches actually, now 159 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.720 it's a it's a different it's more of a summer type of disease, very 160 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.759 closely related to large patch, but we don't typically see a lot of problems 161 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:37.559 with it here. We can have some, but not it's not like the 162 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:43.240 large patch. It really gets your attention when the big giant circles start farming 163 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.159 as we move into that fall season. So yeah, prevent it, number 164 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.279 one, don't encourage it. Number two. If you've got an ongoing problem, 165 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.639 then here's what you do. Something else for those of you who've dealt 166 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.960 with those circles before, is having your your turf mowing a little bit higher 167 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:09.840 helps. It helps with the evaporation of water. A real densely mowed turf, 168 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.759 like think of a golf course screen that would be the ultimate and dense 169 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:18.639 turf. Well, that is so dense that moisture underneath there tends to stay 170 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.960 underneath there. Whereas you think about a Saint Augustine. If you're mowing it 171 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.559 up at about let's say three inches, that's pretty high, but at least 172 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:30.759 two and a half, then you're you still have a nice lawn. But 173 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.039 it just seems to help. That's that's what the turf specialist and the plant 174 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:41.759 pathologists that deal in turf tell me is that that changes the cultural situation down 175 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.799 there at the surface, and cultural controls are our first step. You know, 176 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.440 even if you're not an organic gardener, then you would at least want 177 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.480 to not have to spray when you don't have to spray, right, and 178 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.120 so we try to do the things to avoid sprays. That's why when it 179 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.159 comes to weeds, you know, we talk about herbists that prevent weeds, 180 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:05.519 herbicides at kill weeds, but the number one weed control is a dense, 181 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.039 healthy lawn. That's number one. If you're not doing that and you've got 182 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.759 bare spots and the sunlight hits the soil. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, 183 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:18.480 nature plants a weed. And so if you if you're not taking care of 184 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.080 your lawn and just depending on herbicides that you're on a treadmill, I mean, 185 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.799 you can do it. We have pre emergence, we have post emergence, 186 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:30.080 but work toward low density. And in the meantime, there's things we 187 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.679 use to help prevent weeds. And there's some weeds that will will thrive in 188 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.200 a dense Saint Augustine, Virginia buttonweed, dollar weed. You know, those 189 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:46.360 kinds of things, they're gonna you're not gonna prevent them. But for crying 190 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.399 out loud, you know, make it easy on yourself by starting with healthy 191 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:56.480 plants and good good cultural measures. Plants for all seasons. I'm talking about 192 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.480 the Plants for All Seasons on FM two forty nine. It's the Tambo Parkway 193 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.480 right a little bit north of where Louetta comes in. That is the place 194 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.000 that green thumb gardeners go, and they know they're going to get top quality 195 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.559 plants, top quality products, top quality advice. Because the folks at Plants 196 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.440 for All Seasons the family owned a Flaherty family since what nineteen seventeen three. 197 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:24.240 I believe they have been working in this area and helping people in this area 198 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.480 that whole time. They're experts, their true lawn and garden experts. Bring 199 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.759 them a picture, bring them a sample, show them what you want. 200 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.320 Here's my yard, what plants might go there? You will not be steered 201 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.799 wrong at Plants for All Seasons. If you're a brown thumb and you want 202 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.759 to turn your brown thumb green, you need to visit Plants for All Seasons. 203 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:48.799 They are just wonderful friendly. I mean the service you get is unmatched. 204 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.600 I mean it absolute excellent service. You can give a call to eight 205 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.279 one three, seven six, sixteen forty six, or you can go online 206 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:03.399 to Plants for All Seasons dot com Plants for All Seasons dot com and learn 207 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.840 more about them. You ought to follow them on their their social media pages. 208 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.159 I always love to check out what our different garden centers are doing. 209 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.480 I know Plants for All Seasons has some awesome, awesome houseplants. And by 210 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.799 the way, this is houseplants season. When we run inside for the air 211 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:26.279 conditioning, we can still garden with our houseplants indoors. And and if you 212 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.360 want some just stunning examples of beautiful houseplants, they absolutely have that. They 213 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.440 also have some really cool combo planners too, by the way, Potted arrangements 214 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:40.200 you know where you have a multiple series of you know, different kinds of 215 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:44.080 plants all put together. Those are so much fun. Now if you just 216 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:45.919 want to buy one and take it home, you know you got you got 217 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.480 a party to night, people are coming over. I mean you can just 218 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.480 take that whole thing home and set it there and you look like the greenest 219 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.759 thumb gardener in the world. Or you can make your own if you like 220 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:57.600 doing that, and they can guide you. You can say, hey, 221 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.440 I want to make one of these. You know how to I do that, 222 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.879 and they'll take well, use this plant in the center, use these 223 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.000 around the side. Uh. You know, just another example of our independent 224 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:14.480 garden centers and going way above and beyond that just make gardening in Houston so 225 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:21.200 much much more successful. I've been kind of talking about some different things regarding 226 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:26.160 diseases and whatnot. This morning we are we're in the big middle of summer, 227 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.599 and in the big middle of summer, we end up with a couple 228 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:34.359 of common lawn issues, actually more than a couple. Number one is water 229 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:41.039 watering. Most people overwater they're Saint Augustine. That is just it just it's 230 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.480 the way it is. Last week we had a doctor, Guy phips On 231 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:51.079 with the Water my Yard app that is so easy and makes everything so easy. 232 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:56.200 You don't waste water, you don't promote disease by overwatering, and and 233 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.960 you don't underwater either. A little little squirt every day does nothing. It's 234 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.799 a good soaking and then let it dry out. A good soaking and then 235 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:10.279 let it dry out. That brings the oxygen back into the soil to just 236 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.240 keep the soil saturated. You're going to have root issues on a number of 237 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.599 plants, but it doesn't do your lawn any good anyway. So watering is 238 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.759 the big issue of summer. The other thing is the chinch bugs. Chinch 239 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:27.200 bugs as we get especially toward the mid to end of summer, going in 240 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.039 just the beginning of early fall, we see a lot of chinch bug issues 241 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:36.839 pop up in our lawns. And they typically start at a sidewalk, driveway 242 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.880 some other masonry structure, and it's kind of like, you have this spot 243 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.880 we're going out from the concrete or whatever masonry you have. It just starts 244 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.759 looking like it needs watering, and then it gradually bleeds out into the lawn 245 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.599 and goes further and further until the old just dies, even though you're water 246 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.279 in it all the time. And that's that is a typical for chinch bugs. 247 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:03.599 By the way, also in sun The other issue that we deal with 248 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:10.319 in summertime insect wise, in our lawns is the side web worm, and 249 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.720 those are head and miss. We never know is this going to be a 250 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.000 bad year or not. Hopefully it won't be a bad year, but when 251 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.160 it is, they can turn a lawn brown really quickly. We'll talk about 252 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.000 those as we get a little further along into the season here. But for 253 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:27.000 now we're gonna get ready to take a break, and I wish you would 254 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:33.279 give us a call if you will put down this number seven one three two 255 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:40.440 one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight 256 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:45.720 seventy four. By the way, I was just I was just thinking about 257 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.759 the ACE Hardware stores that are here in our area, and who was visiting 258 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.279 one the other day and it was for the fourth of July. Looking at 259 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.200 all the stuff they had going on. If you go to ACE Hardware dot 260 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.799 com. Ace Hardware dot Com, you can find go to this store locator. 261 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.279 You can find the thirty nine locally owned and operated ACE stores here and 262 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.559 they carry everything that we talk about, all the fertilizers that we talk about, 263 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.519 all if you need pest control issues, for diseases, for insects, 264 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:17.400 for weeds, They're going to have all the products that you need there at 265 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.119 the ACE Hardware. I always brag on their grilling section. I mean, 266 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:25.000 whatever kind of grill, whatever kind of bling to go with your grill you 267 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.200 need, they're going to have it. Go to ACE Hardware and sign up 268 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:32.960 for the ACE Hardware Rewards program to any earn some money back on your purposes 269 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.079 purchases. I think I need to go work on Peter Piper pick to peck 270 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.759 mate. In the meantime, I'm going to hand the microphone to you while 271 00:20:40.759 --> 00:21:12.799 I go wash my mouth out. It always a surprise with the music on 272 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.319 garden Line. You're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Rictor 273 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:22.799 and our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four R 274 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.400 seven one three two one two K t r H. If you like the 275 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:30.119 doll bother letters. Makes it easy to remember. We are visiting about things 276 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:36.799 this morning, regarding all kinds of I'll say, horticultural principles. You know, 277 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.079 we talk about when it comes to diseases, it's not just like, 278 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:41.440 well, here's the spray that kills it. It's okay, how do we 279 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.920 get here in the first place? How do we avoid that in the future. 280 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:47.680 But when we have to spray, what do we use and what's effective, 281 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.359 what's best? And when it comes to weeds, build a dense lawn. 282 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:55.799 And then we can talk about the pre emergence or the post emergence you 283 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.839 might need. But let's clear out as much of the problem as we can 284 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.359 with our cultural practices before we jump in and just start spraying, Because why 285 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.960 do you garden? I mean you garden for produce, you garden for beauty. 286 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:14.640 The flowers. You don't garden so that you can spend your weekends mixing 287 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.119 up a spray tank and spraying it around the place. I guess some of 288 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.960 you might, but I, yeah, I sure don't. That's not my 289 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.960 idea of a good saturday. But I'll do what I need to do to 290 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.039 protect plants from insects, from diseases, from from uh, you know, 291 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.160 the weed issues that come in. But that that's not my main reason for 292 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:38.839 gardening. So let's figure out how to get you busy with more of the 293 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.839 fun stuff that you like and less of the problems. Dealing with problems. 294 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.599 It always kind of makes me sad to hear someone who's saying, you know, 295 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:49.119 I tried this, and I tried that, and I did this and 296 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.839 I did that, and everything's dying and you know, and it's just okay, 297 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.599 we got to fix this because you are not having fun. And gardening 298 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:03.480 is for having fun. It is your palette to paint. When you walk 299 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.039 out and you look at your landscape, think of it like a blank canvas, 300 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:10.480 and what do you want to paint it with, what colors do you 301 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:15.000 like, what seasons do you want color in? And a lot of people, 302 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.279 you know, they go to the garden center and they buy what'sever in 303 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:22.519 flower at that time. Garden centers can attest to this, but it's sometimes 304 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.000 hard to sell a plant that doesn't have a flower on it because people want 305 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.680 to take home the flower. Well, trust me, it's great and since 306 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.240 some cases even better to buy the plants before they have flowers on them, 307 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:37.720 but bring them home and paint your landscape with them. That's the fun part 308 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:41.440 of gardening. And you know, I just can't imagine. I was thinking 309 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.960 about some gingers the other day. I love ginger, by the way. 310 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.480 There are several groups of gingers. One of my favorite of the hidiciums, 311 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.799 the butterfly ginger. Some of those the fragrances, oh my goodness, wonderful. 312 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:57.680 But I also love the hidden gingers. There's the kirkuma gingers, a 313 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:04.319 number of different circuma gingers like red chocolate and let's see, there's a new 314 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:08.279 ruby ginger that's a beautiful one. And a lot of these I noticed the 315 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:14.000 other day because I follow all these garden centers on social media. Buchanans Plants 316 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.519 has some of those beautiful circumas and they are absolutely stunning. You have a 317 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.200 shady area and you want to put something in it that also gives you some 318 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.839 color coming up in there. This is it. It also makes a great 319 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.160 cut flower. By the way, Buchanans you can go online Buchanans Plants dot 320 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.200 com to find them. They're at six to eleven East eleventh Street in the 321 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.279 Heights. And of course Buchanans is going to have all the products that we 322 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.079 talked about here are all the fertilizers and all the soils. In fact, 323 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.279 they have their own line of soil blended with composts and shale called Life Below, 324 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:51.680 which is a very high quality product. Their own Tropic Core. You 325 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.640 know, we used to just use peat moss in everything, and we still 326 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:57.839 do in most things, but we're moving away from pete and Tropic Core is 327 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:03.640 a peat free content hainter mix for your favorite tropicals and favorite indoor plants. 328 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.359 And of course when you're there, you gotta look at the pottery and all 329 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.039 the other stuff. I mean, it's a it's a complete deal. You 330 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:14.240 ought to be able to walk home with either something that's already instant beauty, 331 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.799 or with a group of plants and containers and soils and fertilizers to set you 332 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.519 up for creating that beautiful garden, a beautiful landscape, or maybe just a 333 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.359 beautiful container. But check out the check out the cocumas. When you're there, 334 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:33.279 let's run out and now to Beaudah and talk to Carol. Carol, 335 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:38.359 are you in Beauda over near Austin. I certainly am, yeah, I 336 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:41.839 am. Thanks for Colin. I used to live not too far from there. 337 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:51.880 Oh, Okaya, just out in the country. What's happening in beauty? 338 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.440 Well, I'm not out in the country. I'm actually in a waiting 339 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:02.440 neighborhood. But here's my problem. I move to the house several years ago, 340 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.240 and I just left the garden that's they're adjacent to that front of the 341 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.480 house. I just left it alone. But I went in recently or several 342 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.640 months ago, and I cut down all those shrubs and I'm cleaned it all 343 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:18.559 out. But I've been stunnied about planning anything since then. I had what 344 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.440 I fought were these little weeds that just kept coming up. They're real healthy. 345 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:30.720 But I finally figured out those are really attached to the seat around them. 346 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:36.720 Tree that's in the front yard, that's like maybe I think it's eighteen 347 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:41.319 feet from the house. And I think over the decades how they dealt with 348 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.559 that. They just weeded it there. So when I dig down, I 349 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.319 find roots and I've gone down the foot and I just can't go any more 350 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:55.680 than that. These roots there's anywhere from a pencil in diameter to a man's 351 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:00.039 thumb. And I cannot plant because I mean, I can cut them back, 352 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.720 yeah, but they're back in two weeks. I can cut I could 353 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.599 do that all the turney, But how am I going to plant? The 354 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.599 being is is there a big seed, a realm right there still or is 355 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.359 it a tree that you see? So it's still there and it's not in 356 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:17.440 real good shape, but it's still there. I think the freeze of them 357 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:21.160 the last phrase come again pack it is, but it's still there. So 358 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:25.839 more next thing is I googled and I just found all kinds of information. 359 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.480 I'm a low overwhelmed with it. Yeah, some of it sounds a little 360 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:33.759 dangerous as far as the chemicals go. Okay, so I need something that 361 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.359 I can I need it. I can plant a fall gardener, if you 362 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.519 can tell them what to do. Okay, so got about a minute here, 363 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.319 I'm gonna try to try to give you the quick answer on it. 364 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:48.920 If number one, elms are all bad about casting seed that grows a little 365 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:53.160 seedlings, and but you are to be sure that when you follow one of 366 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:57.119 these sprouts down, it is tied to a big route. It's not a 367 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:08.559 little The sprout has it own route there there, and they're to the right 368 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:14.279 there. I cannot pull, there's no pulling, there's just no pull. 369 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.920 And it still may be their own route. And here here's the difference. 370 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.400 If they're their own plant. There's one thing I will recommend, and we're 371 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:22.440 gonna take a break here. I can get to it. But if you 372 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.880 hang on just a little bit, if they're attached to the mother tree, 373 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.559 then we wouldn't want to use something that would translocate over and damage the mother 374 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.119 tree. And that's that's kind of why this is important. I don't think 375 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:41.440 of cedar elm as a big suckering tree issue, but it is definitely a 376 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:44.880 big seedling tree issue. We're gonna take a break right now and I will 377 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.880 be right back. Carol, hang on our phone number seven one three two 378 00:28:48.880 --> 00:29:07.079 one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good Saturday morning. You are 379 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.240 listening to garden Line and the sun is creeping over the horizon, and I 380 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.200 can tell you this can be a good day. I am looking forward to 381 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:18.039 after the show, getting out, enjoying kind of hanging out with gardeners and 382 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.640 plants. Today. Hey, we're going to go back to Beaudha and talk 383 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.799 to Carol again. Carol. So here's what I would recommend for those if 384 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:32.319 indeed they are their own route. There are a couple of options. There 385 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:37.160 are devices you can buy that attached to them. It's like you They squeeze 386 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.079 the base and you pull back on the handle and it pulls the long root 387 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.839 up of weeds. It's a I don't know how to describe it other than 388 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:49.960 that, but I heard in your question you don't really like to use chemicals 389 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.759 so much, so that would be the non chemical way of pulling up the 390 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:00.279 little tree seedlings that you find down there. And those are not you gonna 391 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.480 have to hunt down one of those devices, but it works pretty well if 392 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:10.039 the soil is moist. The chemical way, that's the least what least chemical 393 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.240 used would be to get a product. I hope you have a pen handy. 394 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:17.839 If not, grab one, I do get a product that contains triclopier 395 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.839 t r I c l O p y r t r I c l o 396 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.640 p y r. You'll find it in things like a poison ivy killer or 397 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:33.720 a brush killer or those kinds of products. And you can do one or 398 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.119 two things. If it's of any size at all, like let's say it's 399 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.240 the trunk is the size of your little finger or whatever, you can cut 400 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.279 it off and you dab the triclopier directly on that fresh cut. I use 401 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.799 a little foam like the paint brushes, a little bitty skinny paint brushes that 402 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.599 you just throw away and just dab it right on there. If if it's 403 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.839 smaller, you can wipe it along the sides. You can put a little 404 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:03.039 cooking oil in with the tricho pier to make it kind of stick better, 405 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:06.160 and it will soak in and it will go down and kill those. Now, 406 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.640 if they're all connected to the mother tree, and you just do a 407 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:12.640 whole lot of those, then you can have an effect on the mother tree. 408 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:17.000 And that that is the concern. And I'm not able to discern for 409 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:21.319 sure what all you're dealing with, but just in general, if you've got 410 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:25.799 a if you've got an elm, it has dropped seeds and they've come up 411 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:27.599 and people have chopped them off, and so now they're getting bigger, but 412 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:33.680 they're sprouting resprouting each one is kind of how you're describing it. And I 413 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.680 think that's that's the approach that I would take. But I do a little 414 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.599 bit first, just to watch and see if you notice any problems on the 415 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:44.480 on the mother tree. Okay, well that's going to work. And oh 416 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:47.799 I feel incouraged. Thank you so much. We'll take care. I have 417 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.359 fun out there in Budaud and I will. That's it. That's good. 418 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.720 I appreciate your call very much. Hey, our phone number seven one three 419 00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:01.200 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and two five eight 420 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.720 seven four. If you have not fertilized your lawn this summer, you need 421 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.559 to get that done. And you're not going to find a better option than 422 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:15.000 the regular nitrofoss what do we call it. It's our favorite nitro foss for 423 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:20.920 the summertime because it gradually releases the numbers on the bag nineteen four ten. 424 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.240 So what do you call that? You call that superturf because it creates a 425 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:30.079 superturf nitro foss superturf will gradually release those nutrients over time. You're not gonna 426 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.160 need to fertilize your lawn again until fall. By the way, you should 427 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:37.119 be returning your clippings along the way as you go because they're also releasing nutrients. 428 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.279 But you're gonna find super turf in the silver bag. It makes it 429 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.319 easy. You don't have to remember all the numbers in the names silver bag. 430 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:46.799 You're gonna find it at all these hardware stores that we talk about here, 431 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.960 you're gonna find it. I was talking about earlier plants for all seasons. 432 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.319 Up at Louetta, they are going to have the super turf as well. 433 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.480 If you head up to dnd Feed and Tomball, if you go to 434 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.920 Plant and things out in Branham, everywhere nitrofost is sold, you're going to 435 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.079 find their silver bag the super turf. And that is a good one for 436 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:12.519 the summer lawns. Our lawns, you know, as long as they get 437 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.079 a little bit of water. They are doing really good right now and they're 438 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.920 thriving I mean, it's too hot for us, but not for the lawn. 439 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:23.799 I was working out in my garden beds the other day and some of 440 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:30.160 my wooden beds that I had, that I've had screwed together are starting to 441 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:36.799 bow and come apart. They just they warp wood works. It happens, 442 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.039 And I was just thinking, you know, I'm almost at the point areas 443 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.400 like I'm gonna pull this stuff out and I'm just gonna get the Vego beds 444 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:46.680 that I've been wanting to get for so long. Anyway, Vego garden beds 445 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:51.039 are modular metal beds. They've been treated so they don't rust, they don't 446 00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:55.920 corrode. They've been painted with a safe paint, a USDA certified, and 447 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:02.599 it was also tested at Texas and m Universe. These beds are quality. 448 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:07.519 They last, They last a long long time. You'll go through more than 449 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.159 one set of wooden beds in the time that it takes to, you know, 450 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.360 for finally your vegobed and I you know, they say twenty years. 451 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:19.039 They wouldn't surprise me if it goes further than that. In fact, I 452 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.840 don't see why it wouldn't go further than that. But anyway, vegobeds. 453 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.559 You can build them their modular it's easy to put together. It's like just 454 00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:30.159 playing with tinker toys. It's well, let's go more modern. It's like 455 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:35.239 playing with Lego blocks. There's a good one. Anyway you put them together. 456 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:40.920 They hold the soil. They gradually over time that soil is gonna slink 457 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.400 down, which it does in any bed, and you just add more, 458 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:49.000 but the vegobed stays here after your They're beautiful, the colors are beautiful. 459 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:55.800 There's impostors out there. Vego only vegogarden dot com. Go to vegogarden dot 460 00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.159 com and you'll find vegos in some of our local guard centers. I've been 461 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.920 around. In fact, just the other day, I was out there at 462 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:08.320 Enchanted Forest, which is uh out in Fourban County. If you're like in 463 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:12.719 Richmond and you're heading up toward sugar Land, it's it's to the right kind 464 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.920 of south of fifty nine. The folks added Enchanted, by the way, 465 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.039 they have, they had some garden, some Vego beds out there, and 466 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:22.880 I, you know, I just was looking at them and thinking, this 467 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.719 is this is so easy and so simple. By the way, while I 468 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.599 was at it, Enchanted if you don't plant yarrow, you should. They 469 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.239 have a wonderful selection of yarrow multi colors, and it's just a fern like 470 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:42.360 plant with these little tiny bloom heads and an umbrella shape that attracts beneficial insects. 471 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:46.039 The little tiny wasp that lay eggs inside move the aphid so that it's 472 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.159 like the movie Alien. It's really cool. If you're an afid and you 473 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:53.639 go see a movie, Uh, it's it's because of this tiny wasp that 474 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:59.239 that does that to you. Anyway, yarrow beds super super cool. They 475 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:02.159 got plenty of those out there. Beautiful. Also some sun bekia, the 476 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:07.480 Luna sun beckia. It's type of rude beckia, giant, beautiful yellow composite 477 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:15.960 flowers with some rusty red and gold in the flower. Just outstanding out at 478 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:19.719 Enchanted Garden. You can go online find them. You can find a bike. 479 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.639 Like I said, I follow them on Facebook and I follow them on 480 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:30.039 Instagram, both of those available Chanted. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine 481 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.559 out there in that area. Well, let's see, we've we've been talking 482 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.880 about a lot of different things this summer. One thing I do want to 483 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.440 remind you is in your lawns if your lawn is needing aeration, if it's 484 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.880 any top dressing us. It's pretty much always from the time, oh, 485 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.159 let's say you've mowed twice until we get towards the end of the season. 486 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:52.360 It's a good time to do that kind of thing. If you have pest 487 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.960 control issues and you want somebody to come in and do that for you, 488 00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:00.159 well, I have a great idea and it's org lawn or org lawn dot 489 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.599 com. As an organic lawn. They can do a one organic care of 490 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:08.559 your lawn. They can do a hybrid of organic and other on your lawn, 491 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:15.880 and they just really really cool. The org lawn is something that I 492 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:20.760 like because they don't have long term contracts. Now they'll serve Katie Cypress, 493 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.960 Houston, Sugarland, Richmond area kind of the to the central, up to 494 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:29.199 the north and to the west is their area they focus in. And right 495 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:34.039 now they're having a deal where if you tell them you're a garden line customer, 496 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.280 twenty nine ninety nine plus tax will get you the first treatment of whatever 497 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.400 your lawn might need. Maybe it's fertilizer, maybe it is insect prevention. 498 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.000 Maybe you know the seaweed and the bug prevention that they're putting out now. 499 00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:52.920 Maybe it's one of those org lawn dot com eight three two three five one 500 00:37:53.719 --> 00:38:00.320 zero zero three two where you're listening to garden line and our phone. We're 501 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:01.559 gonna take a break here, but write this down. Give us a call, 502 00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:05.679 Joshua, get you on the board. Seven one three two one two 503 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:16.800 five eight seven four. Sitting here going through my notes, different kinds of 504 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.599 things I wanted to talk about today, and I had forgotten about the yarrow 505 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.320 that's all of us out there in Channia. Just I love that plan. 506 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.800 I mean, it's one of the ones that it kind of makes a groundcover, 507 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.119 and there's a lot of great groundcovers, and sometimes we get in a 508 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.159 mindset where we can only think about the few plants we see everywhere. You 509 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.840 know, like, what's a groundcover. Well it's lorioty, Well it's Asian 510 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.119 jasmine, monkey grass, you know, those kinds of things. But there's 511 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:49.880 so many other plants that we can use that we can mix in. I'm 512 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:53.599 doing an article for a Texas Gardener for an upcoming issue, talking about things 513 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:58.800 that are ornamental and that are edible. So think about a regano, a 514 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.760 regano makes a good groundcover. There's no reason why you couldn't use a reguno 515 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:07.400 as a groundcover. But anyway, we'll be back in just a bet talk 516 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:14.119 about some more of that. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 517 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:20.960 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with 518 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:50.039 scarre Rictor just watch him as so many ticket. Good morning, good Saturday 519 00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:53.280 morning, beautiful day out there and we are talking gardening. Good day to 520 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:58.480 be talking about gardening. There are so many things that we can do to 521 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.840 make our landscape apes more beautiful, our gardens more beautiful, our house plants 522 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.280 more beautiful. And that's what we're here about. That is why we're here 523 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.039 and why we're talking about that. By the way, if you if you 524 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:15.599 live in the north central part of the I'll say north central downtown that that's 525 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:17.880 kind of like three different things. But anyway, you know what I'm talking 526 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.440 about. You need to know about quality feed. Quality feed is over there 527 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.960 on Luzon Street. Now, they used to be into different location and I 528 00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:30.360 used to go to them in that old location too, but at eighteen thirteen, 529 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:36.119 Luzon Quality Feeds has that old time feed store field. You need to 530 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:37.800 check it out to see what I'm talking about. I mean, the can 531 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:43.079 and Cress have an outstanding operation going there and right now, you know, 532 00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.119 this is the time we're talking about insects in the lawn. If you need 533 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:49.639 products to control insects in your lawn, they're going to have them. They 534 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.480 carry the products we talk about here, whether it's fertilizers or whether it's best 535 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.800 control kinds of products, they've got them all right there. They have an 536 00:40:55.960 --> 00:41:01.880 outstanding supply of things for your backyard chicken project, including about over two weeks 537 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:06.159 I believe they get in a bunch of baby chicks. So if you've thought 538 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.199 about getting into backyard chickens and just haven't gotten around to it, go buy 539 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:13.840 there. They will not only provide the chicks that are coming in, but 540 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.840 they'll provide the feed that you need, any kind of equipment that you would 541 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.840 want to take care of your backyard chicks, feeders, waters, those kinds 542 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:25.920 of things. But they do have an excellent, excellent supply of products there 543 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:30.639 at a quality feed I love to love to go visit with them. It's 544 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:35.199 a good old fashioned feed store and you know it's just excellent. By the 545 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:38.920 way, if you are an organic gardener and you have a problem with fire 546 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:42.800 ants, when you go into quality feed, ask Ken or Chris say, 547 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.719 I need to see your come and get it. Come and get it. 548 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:52.960 That is a organic product. That's a bait for fire ants. That's spinosaid 549 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:57.079 based. Spinosad is the ingredient. There's a lot of other good things that 550 00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:00.519 will kill fire rants out there, but when it comes to u inech fire 551 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.880 ant bait, that's the only one that I'm currently aware of that's on the 552 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.199 markets for lums. Come and get it, but they carry it. They 553 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:10.800 do carry it there. They can get you set up so you can enjoy 554 00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.360 your yard without having to deal with the fire ants, which isn't any fun, 555 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.760 is it. We're gonna head out to Cypress and talk now to Sandy. 556 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.039 Good morning, Sandy, I skipped. Good morning. I have a 557 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:30.840 question about my tomato. I had a determinate, a determinate tomato and it 558 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:37.119 produced polly about thirty tomatoes. Okay, when I cut it down because it 559 00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:43.360 looked disease and I knew it was done producing. When we took it down, 560 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.840 there was a little baby tomato that was that came up. So I'm 561 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:53.519 watering it and it's growing. Is that normal for determinate tomatoes to lay babies? 562 00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:00.480 You did a tomato fall off and maybe the seed come up. Is 563 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:04.880 that what you're saying, Yeah, because it's a tomato. I don't know 564 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.480 if the tomato fellow. I know one day I went up there, there 565 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.360 was a tomato in the plant, but I took it out. Yeah, 566 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.920 well, who knows how the seed got there, But that came up from 567 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:21.039 a seed. So what you're describing is just a seed. Any tomato is 568 00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:23.519 going to have a seed that you can grow into a new tomato plant. 569 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:30.400 If it's a determinate tomato, chances are it's a hybrid tomato. And that 570 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.440 would mean that it had two parents that were not alike, but when they 571 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:39.000 combine them, they come up with an outstanding offspring. And so that's how 572 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:44.679 that's what a hybrid is. It's a it's a plant that is better than 573 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:51.480 either it's of its genetic parents. And so if you the analogy that works 574 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:53.480 for me is if you look at a family, Let's say there's six kids 575 00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:55.760 in a family. No two of those kids are going to be alike. 576 00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.599 That is for sure. You may see a family resemblance, but they're not 577 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:02.920 going to be a denticle. And that's true. When you pull seeds out 578 00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:07.360 of a hybrid tomato, you're gonna get a mix of the gene pool, 579 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:12.320 but it will not be like the tomato. Maybe it won't be determinant, 580 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:15.719 maybe it won't be as red, Maybe the size of the fruit will be 581 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.800 different, maybe it's disease resistance will be different. But that that is why 582 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:28.920 we generally don't recommend people planting seeds from a hybrid plant. Okay, do 583 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:34.559 you temper another question? Sure? Quick, one um my, okra um. 584 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:40.679 It's growing really good. But I had one you could see the green 585 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.159 part of the oquacomy. I don't know if it was the flower or what 586 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:50.920 happened. It was like a black, black, big black slug looking thing 587 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:55.079 that I know it wasn't a slug and it had like a web around it. 588 00:44:55.320 --> 00:45:00.239 Okay, so I cut that whole thing off. Un Did you do 589 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.239 anything else to it? Is this where the leaf attached to the stem that 590 00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:09.119 you saw this? Yes, and there was coming trying to come out, 591 00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:15.000 but it looked like in the future, just in the future. Just pull 592 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.679 those off, throw them on the ground. What happened was the bloom wilted 593 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:23.400 and a fungal infection got in the bloom. And it's not a disease of 594 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:28.000 okra. It's just you know, here was fleshy bloom tissue. It's hot 595 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:31.480 to humid and it and it grew this this black stuff that you're seeing. 596 00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:36.119 But that was just like mold. Think of it. It's just like mold 597 00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:38.760 on there. And if you pull it off, you'll be left the little 598 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.280 green nub of okra behind it. And you don't need to cut the okra 599 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:46.880 off, just grab it and it out a pull loose real easily. Okay, 600 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.960 all right, thank you today, Thank you, Janet. I appreciate 601 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:58.239 appreciate that call. You know, if we are if we're talking about I 602 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.199 was saying that it's in the summer times, so darn hot. It's a 603 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.360 good time for our gardening, at least in part to move indoors. And 604 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.280 I was taking care of some of my house plants the other day and the 605 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:12.039 product I use on my indoor house plants is the Microlife's Biomatrix. It's their 606 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:16.440 orange label. It's a seven one three blend, lots of beneficial microbes in 607 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:20.079 it, by the way. You just mix it in water and use it 608 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.519 on your house plants, and it works really really well. That high first 609 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:28.480 number, the high nitrogen provides good support for the foliage. That is why 610 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.960 we grow our house plants, at least most of them we do nowdoors. 611 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.960 They've got the Ocean Harvest blue label. The blue label is a four two 612 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:39.679 three mix. It's a fish based fertilizer. You can dilute it down and 613 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.159 use it as a foliar spray for a foliar feeding. It is not going 614 00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.599 to burn your plants, and it's just a great way to go out and 615 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:53.239 keep your Let's say you're potted plants on the patio just blooming well and looking 616 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:55.880 great. Now you could use it on a whole flower bed if you wanted 617 00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.000 to. But the idea here is with a liquid as you're typically you're going 618 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.679 to use that on putting in new transplants, or you're going to use it 619 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:07.800 on taking cara plants that are confined in a container. It's just real convenient 620 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:14.719 to do that. The orange label Biomatrix, the blue label Ocean Harvest boast 621 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:17.440 by Microlife, and you can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out more 622 00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:22.480 about them. There is a number of products that they have there and you 623 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.639 can learn more about these two products specifically, as well as where to get 624 00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.159 microlife products. We are going to take a break right now, Janet. 625 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.360 You'll be first up when we come back in the meantime, if you'd like 626 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:45.280 to call in seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, I 627 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:59.960 leave the city. Get Na good Saturday morning. You're listening to garden Line 628 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:01.559 and I'm your host, Skip Richter. Thanks for listening. 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I have to Rosa Linda, 646 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:21.559 Indian hotthorn trees and something is eating the leaves and they make a perfect 647 00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:27.039 little scalop around the edge and I haven't had any new growth on it in 648 00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:30.599 about two and a half months. Okay, I was wondering if you know 649 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.719 what that is? Is the scalop out size of the end of your little 650 00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:40.960 finger. Yeah, maybe half anch or so across. H Okay. That 651 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.760 is a bee. It's called a carpenter bee. And what they do is 652 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:49.679 they drill holes in wood. They like it just took a drill about the 653 00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:52.119 size of that scalop you saw, and they drill a hole in the wood 654 00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:59.119 and then they use those little cut pieces of leaves to line the hole and 655 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.639 they lay their eggs in there, and then they put up a little wall, 656 00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:06.000 and then they lay more eggs and put up so this little hole has 657 00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:08.280 a bunch of little chambers going out and the bees hatch out. They're a 658 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:13.719 great pollinator, very helpful pollinator. The negative of them is somewhere they're finding 659 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.480 some wood that they're drilling in, and you know, if that's the facial 660 00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:21.360 boards on your house or something, that's not a good thing. But you 661 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:24.800 know, people actually put blocks out for them to have to you know, 662 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:30.280 these little bee houses, if you will, for them. They're solitary bee. 663 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.079 They don't live in a in a like a bumble bee in a colony, 664 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.400 or like a paper wasps altogether. You know, they they're they're solitary. 665 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:43.079 So I guess as far as the pruning job they do, we don't 666 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.039 really worry about it. The amount of leaves that are lost or just not 667 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:51.079 worth trying to deal with. Okay, so do I don't have any new 668 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:54.239 growth? And it was to make a new leave construct, Well, that's 669 00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:58.760 going to be due to something else. If it's got a good mulch around 670 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.800 it, and it's not compete with weeds and lawn, that's good. If 671 00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:05.559 it is, you maybe want If it is competing, you want to move, 672 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.599 move the grass back, take it out and give it a little molesteria. 673 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.679 You want to fertilize, Get you a good quality fertilizer. In fact, 674 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.400 right now, I would say vigor. Vigor is what you're looking for. 675 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:21.280 So I would just use janet a lawn fertilizer for right now to get 676 00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.760 that thing vigorous and growing. Uh. And you know we've got and don't 677 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:29.719 worry about the leaves like uh doing a spright fertilizer on them there, No, 678 00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:31.079 no, no, no, don't do that. Just just put it 679 00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:35.679 on the put it on the ground, watered in. That's the best bang 680 00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:38.480 for your buck. But just get you a good quality lawn fertilizer. Uh. 681 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:43.199 You know you can. You can find those kind of things all over 682 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.639 the place. We talk about them here all the time. But I would 683 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.440 get one that's more of an immediate release, you know, for our lawns 684 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.800 in the summer we go slow release. I would just get like a fifteen 685 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.599 five ten that's an immediate release. Put it out at a moderate rate and 686 00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.440 watered in so you can get a faster response on that plan. Okay, 687 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:06.840 now this is in my landscaping beds to Okay, yeah, well so do 688 00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.440 the same same thing, yes, same thing, and just make sure it's 689 00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:16.280 getting enough water when we have rain and the soles moist If it's an established 690 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.159 shrub, you shouldn't have to water it a lot. It very seldom actually, 691 00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:25.280 because we shrub has a wide root system and we get rainfall pretty regularly. 692 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:30.920 Here. But okay, yeah, mine, nor the Indian hotthorn tree. 693 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:38.760 Okay, than thank treatments in hunt yes, okay, now one more 694 00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:45.280 question. I heard you talking about this after I had some of these planets. 695 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:52.280 I had six encore a Zalua bushes planet. Yes, I've lost four 696 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:57.199 of them. They're doing terrible and I heard you mentioned that a week after 697 00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.000 I had them. Planet. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but 698 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:05.519 they're doing well. You know that it could be a lot of things. 699 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:07.880 It could be so moisture, it could be pah, it could be a 700 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.760 you know, amount of light that they're getting. But in general, just 701 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.519 the encore is designed to be a reblooming azzelia, and that's what it does. 702 00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:21.840 I just find that overall, I like just a regular type of a 703 00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:24.559 zelia in terms of the bloom, you know, the amount of blooming and 704 00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:29.559 whatnot that you get. But I would not tell someone don't plan an encore 705 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.880 at all. I just I think that if you like the traditional zelia that 706 00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:37.079 blooms, when they bloom and looks good, I think you can you can 707 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:42.039 create some or you can find some really good choices. All right. Well, 708 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.000 hey, thank you, Janet. I appreciate that call very much. 709 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:49.800 You're listening to Gardenline. It is a phone number seven one three two one 710 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.559 two five eight seven four. That's how you get in touch with me so 711 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.400 we can visit about the things that are of interest to you. Hey, 712 00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:00.800 do you leave? Do you live out there in the Mountain Bellevue area, 713 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.119 maybe even around Baytown. Well, I want to tell you about your hometown 714 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.719 feed store, and that's Texas Feedstop. You know how always brag about all 715 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:12.199 the garden centers we have around Houston. We've got great feed stores around Houston, 716 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.039 North, southeast, West, Central. We got you covered. Texas 717 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:22.480 Feedstop is on North Hi. It's thirty four North Highway one forty six in 718 00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:25.000 Mont Bellevue. Let me make that easy. You're on I ten. You 719 00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:30.159 go north on Highway one forty six just a few minutes and they'll be there 720 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:37.920 on the right the roads. Brian and Hope have created a beautiful experience for 721 00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:39.679 customers. And what do I mean by that. I mean you're greeted. 722 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:43.880 I mean they take you to the product you need. They carry what you 723 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:46.360 buy out, you know, whether it's feed. When you go in there, 724 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:50.199 you're gonna find all the fertilizers that I talk about. You're gonna find 725 00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:52.000 the products that I talk about. Things like mosquito dunks, for example, 726 00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:57.840 are going to be there at the Texas Feedstop in Mont Bellevue. It is 727 00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:00.519 a place you need to get to know. If you're any we're out in 728 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.559 the Mount Bellevue or even it's just minutes away from Baytown, that's your hometown 729 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.920 feed store, the Texas Feed Stop. And I hope you'll check them out 730 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:13.000 because it's pretty cool. You know. They say the cobbler's kids go barefoot, 731 00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.840 and that is true when it comes to me in my yard sometime. 732 00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:20.679 I laughed and tell someone the other day that a boy if people could see 733 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.519 my yard at this moment, meaning actually it was in my yard. It 734 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:28.159 was this flower bed that I was looking at as I got to get in 735 00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.920 there and take care of that. And so I started doing some planting. 736 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.320 You know, I'm always picking up plants and bringing them home. And I 737 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.519 started planning the plants and getting them established. And I know it's summer, 738 00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:42.360 it's not the ideal time to plant, but we're going to plant all through 739 00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.079 the year because we can here. And I had some salvia as I was 740 00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.320 getting in the ground. I had some Mexican heather that I was getting in 741 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:52.719 the ground. And when you put a plan in, I think that you 742 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.760 should grab, grab a hole some hast grow has to grow six twelve six. 743 00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:02.000 The has to grow six twelve six from adina is an excellent product. 744 00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:07.840 It's got the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, six percent potassium. 745 00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:12.719 Plus, it has a lot of the humic acid, the humate humic acid. 746 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.280 It's got the seaweed extracts. It's got all the kinds of combinations that 747 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:22.519 just really help plants take off and grow. It is an excellent plant food 748 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:28.639 for watering in a plant. I put mine like in a watering can. 749 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:30.840 It just mix it according to the label and a watering can. That way, 750 00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:34.800 as I planted something I just watered in, I go down planning, 751 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.920 planning, I'll come back. I'll rewater each plant again to get a good 752 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:40.920 soaking of that. I'll follow it up a week later and do it again, 753 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.639 and then a third time one more week later. So at planting a 754 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:49.440 week later and a week after that, and that plant will be well on 755 00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:52.880 its way to fruiting and blooming and whatever that it is doing. The Hastrogro 756 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:58.639 six twelve six excellent product for just that purpose, as well as many others. 757 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.920 Gray for vegetables. Two. When you're putting those transplants in where you're 758 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:07.480 listening to garden Line, our phone number is seven one three two one two 759 00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:14.400 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 760 00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:16.440 We had some rain this week. That's kind of nice, wouldn't it to 761 00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:20.639 have some rain come through. We'll have some more. And you know when 762 00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:25.360 you have rain, that means mosquitoes will be about to proliferate. It just 763 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:30.320 takes a little bit of stagnant water than mosquitoes lay eggs in a very short 764 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:35.480 time. Now you have all these mosquitoes swarm in you, and when you 765 00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:39.840 think about diseases like westn al virus and others that mosquitoes carry, well, 766 00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:44.920 you don't want to mess around with that. Mosquito dunks is the best way 767 00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:47.880 I know to deal with mosquitoes. That is, of course, always empty 768 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:52.119 out all the stagnant water that you have. I mean, it goes back 769 00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:54.960 to what I said earlier, the cultural practice is being so important. Why 770 00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:59.039 just have stagnant water and have to treat the water? Dump it out. 771 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:04.000 But maybe you've got some areas, like there's a tree that has a hollow 772 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:07.360 spot that is, you know, holding water after a rain, mosquitoes are 773 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:12.119 gonna go crazy in there. Throw a mosquito dunk up in there. Or 774 00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.360 get some granules to put around your pop plant where you have the catch basin 775 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:20.960 that's holling water, or maybe in a little bird bath for example. The 776 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:22.840 granules work good for that. Hey, these are one hundred percent organic. 777 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:28.079 They're not going to hurt the things that you care about like people or pets, 778 00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:31.159 or fish or birds or wildlife. You can't go wrong. You'll find 779 00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:37.079 them everywhere. There's an ace hardware everywhere there's an independent garden center and everywhere 780 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:40.519 there's our feed stores. We talk about mosquito dunks, super super quality stuff. 781 00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.199 Yeah, don't don't make mosquitoes happy. Don't be a skeeter breeder either. 782 00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:51.920 That's another thing that you don't you don't need to do. If you 783 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:58.159 are looking for a summer plant food for your lawn, that would be Slow 784 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:00.960 and Easy from Nelson Plant Food. Their Turf Star line. Slow and Easy 785 00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:07.920 is one of those products that we love because it gradually releases the nutrients, 786 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:10.320 so you don't get the thatch build up, you don't get the increase in 787 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:16.159 water consumption due to a smaller roots system from overapplying. The nitrogen gradually feeds 788 00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:20.840 you over time. It does really well. It's like all the products the 789 00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:24.199 Turf Star line from Nelson's, the Color Star line, the nutri Star line, 790 00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:29.760 the Nature Star line, all quality products from Nelson Plant Food, and 791 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.239 for summertime, the Slow and Easy is one that I think you just need 792 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:36.480 to do. It's going to carry you all the way into fall. You 793 00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:39.440 don't have to worry about fertilizing again because you took care of it and always 794 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:44.840 return those clippings. They are free plant food in the process. Well, 795 00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:49.000 it's time for news break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 796 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:51.280 Call Josh, get on the board. We'll talk to you when we 797 00:59:51.360 --> 01:00:09.000 come back. Don't let me be misunderstood if I never mean to take it 798 01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:14.840 out. Good morning, beautiful, beautiful Saturday morning, and you're listening to 799 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.800 garden Line. You'd like to give us a call. Our phone number is 800 01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:22.679 seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two and 801 01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:29.000 two fifty eight seventy four. Let us see here. We're gonna head out 802 01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:34.800 where we're gonna go First, Now I can I spill coffee all over my 803 01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:39.119 desk? So I've got this interesting little situation going on here. We'll eventually 804 01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.840 get it taken care of. We are gonna go out to Full Share and 805 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.760 we're gonna talk to j D. First thing. Hey j D, how 806 01:00:46.760 --> 01:00:52.000 are you doing this morning? Pudy skip By? I'm doing great. How 807 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:54.760 are you well? I'm good Other than the coffee, I was looking forward 808 01:00:54.800 --> 01:01:00.880 to drinking being all over the place, now wrangling it all over yourself. 809 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:06.159 Well, hope it's not too hot. Well, long time sporadic at best 810 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:12.280 listener, Um, we got you and randy, but sporadic because only when 811 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.440 I'm in the vehicle do I on the weekends. But like I am now. 812 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.039 But uh, I got a comment and a question comment. I just 813 01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:23.719 want to say thank you. Um we purchased a house in Fulsher last October, 814 01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:27.880 so we've you know, the plants in the grass have all got about 815 01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:31.679 what eight months worth of eight or nine months worth of growth in them? 816 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:36.719 Okay, But the thank you was I had emailed you about putting in some 817 01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:43.599 different flowering plants for the front and I'm gonna be doing a water feature in 818 01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:45.840 the front. And my question is, so thank you for responding to me 819 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:51.039 a few months ago when I emailed him. My question is I want to 820 01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:54.639 move some of those plants around. I heard you just talking about transplanting and 821 01:01:54.719 --> 01:02:00.760 then using that that fast to grow or whatever it was called. But my 822 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:07.519 question is, what's the I'd like to do this water feature disappearing water fountain 823 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:13.079 in the front garden area. What is the best time a year for me 824 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:17.159 to try to transplant one of my great myrtles and possibly some other plants. 825 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.039 Should I wait till the it's cooler in the fall, or should I wait 826 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:23.920 till even the spring. Now, you definitely want to do it in the 827 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:29.039 fall. And the reason is the demands are very low on the plan. 828 01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:31.920 If you did it now, it would be very difficult to not at least 829 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:37.360 set them back significantly, if not kill them out right. So I would 830 01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:43.119 wait until probably early November even I mean, you depends on what the weather 831 01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:45.920 is doing. But you wanted to cool off where the demands are low, 832 01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:50.760 maybe in the leaves coming off, and at that point when you transplant them, 833 01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:52.480 get them in the ground, water men, get the soil settled in 834 01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:59.280 around the root system again so they're not air pockets underground, and then our 835 01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:02.800 winters are warm that roots will start growing over the winter time, and so 836 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.199 by the time we get to next summer you will have a much better root 837 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:09.400 system than a plant that you transplanted, let's say, in late winter. 838 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.880 Than I sure appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks a lot 839 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:19.559 for all you guys do well. Thank you. I appreciate that. JD 840 01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:23.679 appreciate that call very much. We're going to head now over to northwest Houston 841 01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:29.920 and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, good morning, good program. 842 01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:35.360 Yes, and I want to find out about I've had my tree for con 843 01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:42.119 tree trimmed up and it's looking good now. And I'll but um my sig 844 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:46.199 three there and somebody coming in there and picked all my feeds. That's that's 845 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:51.039 but I wanted to thank you for your program where it's quality to feed you 846 01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:54.519 to say where were they moved to? Yeah, quality feeds on Luzon Street 847 01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.559 there. That's near the section near the intersection where equipment an A lesion come 848 01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:05.360 together. So if you're you're north of downtown, but you're not you know, 849 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:11.239 as far north as the loop for example. If I don't know if 850 01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:15.760 that's making I'm saying, yeah, ye okay, it's been a rough year 851 01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:20.599 for everything this year, but all my tomatoes and all without the good rain, 852 01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:27.119 like will you see yet? But I guess I'm doing what I should. 853 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.199 But it's it's hard, okay, say yeah, yeah, that's that's 854 01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.079 you know, that's all we can do, especially when the weather is brutal 855 01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:40.760 to us like this. So um, just take care of yourself, watch 856 01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:45.519 out for that hot sunny conditions and that takes its toll on us. Okay, 857 01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:49.039 thanks A and M for you. All right, all right, thank 858 01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:55.719 you, Frank. I appreciate that call very much. We we do love 859 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.559 to talk about, you know, like our feed stores and our garden centers. 860 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:01.440 And if you're up in the Tomball area, I'm gonna tell about your 861 01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:05.320 hometown feed store. That is D and D Feed and Supply. Now it's 862 01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:12.039 just like three miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine, twenty and 863 01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:15.719 so if you haven't been there, we'll go check them out. I mean, 864 01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:16.920 if you have, you know what I'm talking about. They've expanded. 865 01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:20.599 It's a much bigger store now, lots of supplies. They already had a 866 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:25.480 lot, but now there's even more. Dover Family Gosh, they've been operating 867 01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:30.199 D and D since nineteen eighty nine, I believe it is. If I 868 01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:32.639 talk about a fertilizer here on garden Line, they're gonna have it at D 869 01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:36.760 and D Feed. They're gonna have also flats of vegetables, vegetable seeds, 870 01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:43.039 fruit trees, roses, all kinds of things you need. You want to 871 01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:46.039 high end dog food like Origin, Diamond, victor starprote they've got it. 872 01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:51.559 Quality livestock feed products to care for your horses. Rodent control, we always 873 01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:55.840 have to deal with that here, especially here in the Houston area. Do 874 01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:58.719 you have a pool you need some cleaner for it. They've got it D 875 01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:02.800 and D feed and Tomball is a great one stop and you will get treated 876 01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:08.079 right there and you will find the things you're looking for there too. You 877 01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:14.199 need to check them out for sure. Want to go over now to northwest 878 01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:17.239 Houston and we're gonna talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, good morning, 879 01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:24.920 Skip him. I want to put out this nitro files has to go instead 880 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:30.000 of the Grandulus. Would it be acceptable? Yes? Are you? Are 881 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:34.840 you talking about the one I was just mentioning before. Well, I did 882 01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:38.599 not hear that. But this is there has to go for lunch, which 883 01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:41.679 is a twelve four eight twelve four eight, No, that's a different one 884 01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:44.199 than I was talking about. That would be just fine. The twelve four 885 01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:48.159 eight has got that three one two ratio of nutrients that we're looking for in 886 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:53.320 turf, and yeah, it could be a higher nitrogen, but three four 887 01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:57.079 eight or three one two is a really good ratio. And the has to 888 01:06:57.159 --> 01:07:00.320 grow will be just fine. It'll work very well for that. Uh, 889 01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:03.559 it's gonna because it's an organic product, it's gonna release a little bit gradually, 890 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:06.039 you know, over time. I mean it's not. I kept to 891 01:07:06.119 --> 01:07:10.880 wait a long time on it. It'll be there. But it's a microbes 892 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:15.079 break it down and it stimulates them in the process and then they're releasing the 893 01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:21.360 nutrients to your plants. If I have the nitrofols um, I think it's 894 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:28.519 a nine poorteen and nan poort toy of okay grand okay and month spreader broke. 895 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.800 And that's the reason I decide to use this. Yeah, okay, 896 01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:36.519 Well, now you're talking about something that's on a hose end right. Yeah, 897 01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:41.519 you have a holeson sprayer. Yeah. I put some of that on 898 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:45.320 my lawn a section of my lawn this spring and was replaced with the results. 899 01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:49.559 It's easy in ten minutes. You can fertilize a pretty much most people's 900 01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:54.719 whole lawn in that amount of time. It's not it's fast and easy to 901 01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:58.239 do, so yeah, I would do it. You just know that it's 902 01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:02.320 gonna I was thinking you were talking about a granular that that one. You 903 01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:06.800 are gonna want to repeat it periodically. You know, it's not gonna be 904 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:13.400 like you mentioned the nitro fiss I think you're talking about the silver bag that's 905 01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:17.840 going to release gradually over like three or four months even, But this one 906 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:21.279 is going to be more of a provide you something now. It'll last a 907 01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:24.359 while. I mean, you don't have to do it every week at all, 908 01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:27.720 but you know every couple of months you probably want to redo that nitrofiss 909 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:30.640 that you're I mean, the has to grow that you're talking about. Okay, 910 01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:33.720 you want me to wait till they kind of grow up before I play, 911 01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:36.239 No, I'd go ahead and do it. Now's a good time. 912 01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:44.680 Get all right? Do I continue to feed peach trees? Frank let me. 913 01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:45.920 I'm gonna have to take a break. If you want to hang on, 914 01:08:46.359 --> 01:08:49.840 let's take on peaches when we come back. I appreciate your call very 915 01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:55.039 much. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and I'll 916 01:08:55.039 --> 01:09:21.199 be right back anyway. Conversation. Good morning, beautiful morning, beautiful Saturday 917 01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:25.520 morning. Yeah, a good day to get outside and get a little uh 918 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.319 gardening work done. Certainly need that. Also a good day to get outside 919 01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:32.680 and visit some of our garden centers that we talk about here and love so 920 01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:36.800 much, perhaps some of our feed stores or ash hardware stores where you can 921 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:43.199 get those products that really help you have a beautiful lawn, bountiful garden, 922 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:46.119 a beautiful landscape. We're going to head back out to northwest Houston now and 923 01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:54.159 talk to Frank. Frank, where were we by? Okay, tell me 924 01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:58.199 tell me again about the specific question that you have. I would like to 925 01:09:58.319 --> 01:10:03.239 know the feeding schedule. So peaches have a very extensive root system, and 926 01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:09.279 so we just kind of build up the nutrients in the overall area in the 927 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:13.840 soil and that they can draw from that and they'll do well. I typically 928 01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:18.079 will use lawn fertilizers on my peaches. Now I know they're fertilizers made for 929 01:10:18.199 --> 01:10:23.359 fruit and vegetables. There's fertilizers made for a lot of things, and it's 930 01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:26.920 not like there's only one thing that will work. But that three one two 931 01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:30.640 ratio works pretty good for the peaches. And because our number one goal on 932 01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:35.920 peaches is to manage the vigor, so we want them to grow and not 933 01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:40.039 just be sitting there. But we don't want them to grow too much. 934 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:44.119 And so if they're if you're not getting by this time of the year on 935 01:10:44.199 --> 01:10:47.880 a peach tree, at least eighteen inches of growth on the shoots as they've 936 01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:50.199 come out, and you can kind of follow them back and see where this 937 01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:55.079 year's growth is. If it's not at least eighteen inches, then I would 938 01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:58.600 probably give them a little bit of fertilizer, even in the summertime to get 939 01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:02.640 them going. I wouldn't fertilize past August though, Okay, sounds good, 940 01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:05.600 Rick, Thank you very much. Yeah, and in general, though, 941 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:10.199 just going historically here a year by year, I'll do most of my fertilizing 942 01:11:10.239 --> 01:11:13.680 in the springtime on them. But just watch them, especially a young tree. 943 01:11:13.720 --> 01:11:16.159 You're trying to get them to grow fast once they're established. Yeah, 944 01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:20.479 well three years old, it's just getting into its fruiting life, starting maybe 945 01:11:20.479 --> 01:11:25.760 a little this year next year, and so that you're still trying to grow 946 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:29.560 a good tree. So I would keep them moving with some fertilizer. Thanks 947 01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:32.119 for loderic, Thanks sir, appreciate that very much. Thanks for hanging on 948 01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:36.039 too. By the way, our phone number seven one three two one two 949 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:43.760 fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 950 01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:48.239 You know we are entering into the hurricane season. In fact, we 951 01:11:48.359 --> 01:11:53.079 are in the hurricane season, and those of you who lived here for any 952 01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:56.760 period of time know what that means. That means strong winds. That means 953 01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:01.000 the likelihood of hurricanes coming through this area each year. Do you have a 954 01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:04.800 limb that's dead on your tree? Is it may be something leaning over your 955 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:11.279 house or your neighbor's property. Maybe it's one over one of those powerline drops 956 01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:14.560 coming into your house. Well, you certainly don't want to have a limb 957 01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:16.920 fall on that. And now you're up a real creek right when we have 958 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:21.039 a storm. You need a quality tree company to come in and assess that. 959 01:12:21.319 --> 01:12:26.079 You need an honest tree company to come in and assess that. Not 960 01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:28.880 somebody that's just going to sell your product because they're trying to make a buck 961 01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:31.720 or sell your services in this case, trying to make a buck, but 962 01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:34.880 someone who looks at what do you need and then tells you and then knows 963 01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:38.399 how to do it right. So where do you get all of that in 964 01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:42.920 one package? It's Affordable tree Service. I mean they affordable tree Service. 965 01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:45.319 We've been talking about them, Randy's talking with them on garden Line for many 966 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:50.199 years. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife Joe, they really know what they're 967 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:53.920 talking about and they know how to give you service. And it starts with 968 01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:57.399 this the owners answer the phone. Martin and Joe answer the phone when you 969 01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:02.399 call seven one three six nine nine two six six three. It is worth 970 01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:09.800 calling a professional and affordable tree service. Is that affordable? Here's how, 971 01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:15.880 here's the website. Afftree Service dot com. Aff Tree Service dot com. 972 01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:20.199 And beyond just the you know, the trimming for hurricane season, we've got 973 01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:26.079 things like deeper feeding. We've got a tree removal, we've got a you 974 01:13:26.199 --> 01:13:30.960 know, advice on planting a tree. Maybe you're going to do construction around 975 01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:34.840 a tree, Oh my gosh, don't do anything regarding trenching or building around 976 01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:41.520 a tree without calling Affordable Tree Service to come out and advise you. Because 977 01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:45.680 if you wait until after in the tree's declining, there is very little that 978 01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:48.439 we can do at that point. But ahead of time, there's a whole 979 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:53.319 lot that we can do. Don't make that mistake. Don't make the mistake 980 01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:58.279 hiring somebody because they stuck a business card in your front door when they pass 981 01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:01.239 by one day. Two jerks on trains on a chainsaw. Tree service is 982 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:04.720 not what you need. You need someone that knows what they're talking about. 983 01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:10.119 Those trees are a long term investment, you know. I mean I I 984 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.479 think about the trees in my yard. I've got some cypress trees in my 985 01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:17.319 yard, and you just look at the beauty of them, and every year 986 01:14:17.399 --> 01:14:20.520 they get better and better. They add to the value of our homes. 987 01:14:24.119 --> 01:14:30.039 We I think sometimes forget about all the things that trees contribute. I mean, 988 01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:32.399 we know, you know, in an urban area, trees are catching 989 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:38.000 particulates out of the air and making the air a higher quality air for us. 990 01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:43.159 They're like any plant. They're they're exchanging. They're taking in chemicals that 991 01:14:43.279 --> 01:14:45.680 they take out of the air. Like any plant. They are taking in 992 01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:53.199 more carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The net change is a lot more oxygen 993 01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:58.840 for us in the area. Trees help protect against wind. They serve as 994 01:14:58.880 --> 01:15:01.720 a wind break, slow the wind down a little bit. They provide shade, 995 01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:06.560 a beautiful area to sit outside, and they provide also shade for your 996 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:11.600 house if you plant them at the right spot. As the sun bakes down 997 01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:14.560 on a western wall. I've got a brick wall on the west side of 998 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:17.359 my house. When the sun breaks bakes down on it, I'm telling you 999 01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:21.279 it is hot at the end of the day. I need a tree on 1000 01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:26.479 that side to get going trees serve a lot of things and they are valuable. 1001 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:29.880 We need to take care of them. If you, in fact, 1002 01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:33.439 if you are interested in learning more about trees, give us a call. 1003 01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:39.640 Let's talk about some of the questions that you might have specifically about that type 1004 01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:42.439 of thing. You know. The folks out at Warrens a Garden Center and 1005 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:45.520 Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood. They're open seven days a week and they are 1006 01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:49.119 going to have a supply of everything you need. If I talk about a 1007 01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:53.079 fertilizer here on guard Line, they're going to have it. They've got an 1008 01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:58.000 excellent selection of pest control products if you buy Microlife and Nelson plant food, 1009 01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:02.239 and the jugs, the plastic jugs. They have a refillable container where you 1010 01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:06.079 just you, I mean, you bring your container in and you refill it 1011 01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:12.800 there. It's it's less expensive and it's also better for the environment. Less 1012 01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:16.319 plastic that's going out there. Check out their color right now. Their combination 1013 01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:23.439 planners are absolutely gorgeous, and they occasionally even have workshops on you know, 1014 01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:26.079 how to do this or how to plant succulents. Is when they had a 1015 01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:30.199 while back, lots of good information. Do you need a tree Hugger sprinkler. 1016 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:33.319 Warrens has got that. Warrens and Kingwood Gardens Center both if you're in 1017 01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:39.039 Kingwood, you are so fortunate. Warrens is on North Park Drive, Kingwoods 1018 01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:43.199 on Stone Hollow Drive, and they they're unique in each in their own way, 1019 01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:49.439 but both. In both cases you've got a quality garden center with well 1020 01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:55.239 trained people that know what they're talking about, so they can direct you the 1021 01:16:55.439 --> 01:17:00.279 right way. You know, connect to them on Facebook, Instagram, find 1022 01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:02.640 out more about the garden center. Kind of be up to speed. You 1023 01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:06.119 know, maybe there's a sale coming up. They'll give you the sneak peek 1024 01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:10.640 on it and get you inside right now. They're they're talking about things we 1025 01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:14.079 went on in the greenhouse as well at Warren's. So I always love to 1026 01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:16.520 visit there. Just love visiting with the folks, love seeing the products that 1027 01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:20.479 they have. And I guess I don't know it's just me, but I'm 1028 01:17:20.600 --> 01:17:27.439 super impressed with the color containers that they have, just really nice blend of 1029 01:17:27.560 --> 01:17:30.960 things. But of course what they carry goes way way beyond. Their houseplant 1030 01:17:30.039 --> 01:17:34.600 selection is unbelievable as well. And boy are we ever in house plant season 1031 01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:40.680 right well, you're listening to garden Line. We're about to take a break. 1032 01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:45.359 We are gonna do a little bit of news and business and be back 1033 01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:48.199 pretty quick. Here if you want to write down the phone number seven one 1034 01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:56.039 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1035 01:17:56.119 --> 01:17:59.279 eight seventy four. Gift Josh you call, let him get you on the 1036 01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:02.239 board so we can talk to you about the things that you are interested in. 1037 01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:06.039 I can always come up with topics. You mean an Agrilife extension office. 1038 01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:10.119 I get calls and emails all the time, and I've been doing this 1039 01:18:10.319 --> 01:18:13.920 for decades since I kind of know what the questions are this time of year. 1040 01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:15.800 But I always love to hear from you what are you curious about? 1041 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:20.359 Because somebody else is going to be curious about that as well. If we 1042 01:18:21.720 --> 01:18:27.199 find that when gardeners get together, it just it just fun, fun visiting 1043 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:30.079 and fun talking. So let's do some of that fun when we come back 1044 01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:38.199 from breaking. Hey, thanks for listening. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily 1045 01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:44.600 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH 1046 01:18:44.760 --> 01:19:10.560 garden Line with Skip Ricord. Just watch him. Good morning on a beautiful 1047 01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:14.720 morning for gardening. You're listening to Garden Mine and I'm your host, Skip 1048 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:18.039 Richter. We're to talk about things you're interested in regarding gardening. Give us 1049 01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:23.600 a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four and we 1050 01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:30.720 will do just that. If you live up in the let's say Lake Conro 1051 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:34.239 area, the Montgomery area, anywhere around that area, that would be Walden 1052 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:39.520 and Bentwater De Lago April Sound. You know what I'm talking about. Your 1053 01:19:39.560 --> 01:19:43.800 hometown nursery is A and A Plants in produce. They've been there for thirty 1054 01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:47.079 years and they're right on the on the east side of Montgomery. You your 1055 01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:51.279 Montgomery head towards Conrow on Highway one oh five. They're just on the edge 1056 01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:56.560 of Montgomery there on the north side of one oh five. You've driven by 1057 01:19:56.600 --> 01:19:59.239 a hundred times. You've seen them, I mean, but what you don't 1058 01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:01.199 see is it every year it just keeps getting better and better. And how 1059 01:20:01.239 --> 01:20:06.159 they had three acres of shade trees and fruit trees and the vegetable and herb 1060 01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:12.039 plants, all kinds of perennials and annuals, palm trees, cactus, succulents, 1061 01:20:12.079 --> 01:20:15.760 bougainvilleas, rose, it's a garden center. It is a mom and 1062 01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:19.279 pop garden center that they know what they're talking about, good service, good 1063 01:20:19.399 --> 01:20:25.039 quality folks there, and lots of good products. When we talk about our 1064 01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:29.000 fertilizers we recommend here, they're gonna have them. You're gonna also be able 1065 01:20:29.039 --> 01:20:32.239 to find the pesticides, fungicides, herbicides that you might need for your garden. 1066 01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:39.760 They do delivery in that area and so they know all about what works 1067 01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:43.680 there, what does well there, and that's what they sell there. By 1068 01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:46.039 the way, you can also pick up some fresh homegrown produce, home grown 1069 01:20:46.159 --> 01:20:49.560 produce. I saw some organic eggs in there the other day too, from 1070 01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:54.760 some of the local forms A and A plants and produce on one oh five 1071 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:59.399 just east of Montgomery. You need to check that out and I think you 1072 01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:01.119 will find. By the way, make sure the back of your car or 1073 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:04.920 the back of your pickup is empty, because you're gonna find a lot of 1074 01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:09.600 good stuff. You need to fill it with before you head home. An 1075 01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:13.720 A love to love to stop buy and visit Kathy and the folks that are 1076 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:18.880 there at the Ana Garden Center. Let's head out to Spring now and we're 1077 01:21:18.920 --> 01:21:24.960 going to talk to Annie or is it Annie or an An? Well? 1078 01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:30.479 Hello Anne, No, I enjoy your programs so much. You're just so 1079 01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:34.039 much hemp. I need two questions about weeds. Something I can put out 1080 01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:40.960 to prevent weed. I have nutgrassed like overnight at Zoom, and I need 1081 01:21:42.479 --> 01:21:46.119 something to put out in the beds to prevent that. Okay, Um, 1082 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:50.600 so it's in it's in flower beds. Oh, yes, every bed I 1083 01:21:50.720 --> 01:21:56.439 have, I just spend so I can get huge bags of weeds just every 1084 01:21:56.560 --> 01:22:00.680 week. Yeah, I know how that goes. Well there, you know 1085 01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:03.680 you've got a wide variety of weeds, no doubt growing in there, and 1086 01:22:03.800 --> 01:22:10.640 anything coming from seed. You can prevent those by mulching with about three inches 1087 01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:15.239 of a good quality mulch that blocks the light from getting to the soil. 1088 01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:18.840 Two or three inches of mulch will do that, and so that takes out 1089 01:22:18.880 --> 01:22:21.640 a section of them. Now that's not gonna stop nutgrass. It'll push up 1090 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:28.159 through the mult I've seen nutgrass. They laid a fresh asphalt parking lot over 1091 01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:31.680 the Montgomery at the Montgomery County Extension Office one year, and they rolled it 1092 01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:36.960 out hot asphalt, and within a few weeks later, nuts edge was pushing 1093 01:22:38.239 --> 01:22:42.560 up through the asphalt because it was still soft hot asphalt. I mean that 1094 01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:45.359 tells you how yeah, yeah, a little multit and gonna stop nutsedge. 1095 01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:49.439 So for that, you need to switch to a product that's made for that. 1096 01:22:49.760 --> 01:22:55.319 And there's one there, Oh my gosh, the name is now escaping 1097 01:22:55.439 --> 01:23:00.800 me. There's one called sedge Hammer. There's another one called sedge Ender. 1098 01:23:01.279 --> 01:23:04.479 You just need to read the label, make sure that it's okay to use 1099 01:23:05.319 --> 01:23:09.039 in the spot you're using it, Like is it a vegetable better? Is 1100 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:11.640 that a flower? Better? Is that a lawn? The label will tell 1101 01:23:11.680 --> 01:23:14.319 you those kind of things, and so you want to watch for those. 1102 01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:18.079 But but that that's probably going to be the kind of thing you need to 1103 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:21.800 be looking at. Okay, I don't use the mult I use a lot 1104 01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:26.479 of pine needles. Okay, well they break down, you know, I 1105 01:23:26.600 --> 01:23:31.079 know that's probably and I do use some mulch, but and I have my 1106 01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:35.359 sprinkle system. Last summer was out and I was gone a lot, so 1107 01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:41.359 I lost a lot of my Saint Augustine. So I need to I have 1108 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.520 tried to dig out and I have just the bermuda has taken over, and 1109 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:48.319 you know, the roots they can go really deep and to try to dig 1110 01:23:48.399 --> 01:23:53.479 all that out it takes so much time. So I need to kill the 1111 01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:59.439 grass enough that I can then replace it. So what do I need to 1112 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:02.119 kill it with? Then? How long do I need to wait before the 1113 01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:06.479 bermuda? For the bermuda grass which is an invader? You want to use 1114 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:12.520 something that is a grass only weed killer, and there's a number of products 1115 01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:16.279 out there that do that, but it'll be just for grass. And so 1116 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:19.680 if you go Europe in the spring area, you know, if you go 1117 01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:24.680 to one of your local ace hardware stores there, if you go drive a 1118 01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:28.479 little distance to one of our great nurseries that we have, ask them for 1119 01:24:28.560 --> 01:24:32.840 a grass only killer. There's two different ingredients that can be used for making 1120 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:36.399 one of those products. But it doesn't kill your broad leaf weeds. So 1121 01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:40.920 if you had nuts sedge coming up in your petunias, you could spray it 1122 01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:46.600 on the nutsedge and it wouldn't hurt your petunias. Okay, so how long 1123 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:50.600 how long should I wait? It will tell me before a replant it. 1124 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:58.359 Yes, well, you shouldn't have to worry about when you can replant if 1125 01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:02.119 you're using a nuts sedge I mean, a grass only killer. That's gonna 1126 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:06.520 that's gonna do just fine. Great. Well, it's just I just spend 1127 01:25:06.600 --> 01:25:10.800 so much time and it's so hard to get all the roots. And I 1128 01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:15.720 have transplanted a lot of grass, and I see signs of the bumuda coming 1129 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:19.239 up, so and I think I put some extra dirt in there. And 1130 01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:25.239 it looks like it has some kind of little like little spinaly reeds coming up. 1131 01:25:25.279 --> 01:25:29.800 And I'm dealing with that too, But that's mine are compared to trying 1132 01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:32.039 to get rid of this bumuda because I just don't have can I have. 1133 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:38.359 I live on two lots, so it's not just an easy job to get 1134 01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:42.760 rid of the mess and then put the other grass in. So yeah, 1135 01:25:43.680 --> 01:25:47.079 I'll do this. I appreciate so much your hell good luck without appreciate that. 1136 01:25:47.279 --> 01:25:50.800 And by the way, if you're looking for the non edible beds, 1137 01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:55.760 the flower beds and things, just go look for a product called sedge hammer. 1138 01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.279 Sedge hammer. There's a sedge hammer plus that's even better. It's a 1139 01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:02.800 spot spray. You're going to spot spray it, just but always follow the 1140 01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:08.600 label very carefully that without avoids you doing damage to something. Great. Thank 1141 01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:12.039 you very much, all righty, thank you. I appreciate that call very 1142 01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:14.720 much. Well, we're going to head to a little break here. We'll 1143 01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:16.680 be right back in a moment. But if you'll give Josh a call at 1144 01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:20.680 seven one three two one two five eight seven four, we'll get you on 1145 01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:26.520 the air and we'll talk about whatever kinds of gardening things you are interested in. 1146 01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:41.560 You look good, look fine, look good to look. Good morning, 1147 01:26:42.039 --> 01:26:45.680 good Saturday morning, on a beautiful day for gardening. You're listening to 1148 01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:47.840 garden line. It's a beautiful day for listening to garden line too. That's 1149 01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:51.399 what we're here for is to answer your gardening questions. And we're gonna jump 1150 01:26:51.560 --> 01:26:57.159 right at it here and head out to you friends Wood to talk to Scott. 1151 01:26:57.279 --> 01:27:00.520 Hello, Scott, good morning, How are you well? Thank you? 1152 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:05.159 Okay, I gotta I cut down. Last year, I cut down 1153 01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:10.479 a three story oak tree in my front yard. Gave tremendous shay, but 1154 01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:15.319 it routed out. Now a year later, my lawn is devastated. I 1155 01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:23.720 have where grass grows, it's crab grass. I have big swats of dead 1156 01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:27.479 grass. It or just will not grow, and I don't know what to 1157 01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:32.720 do. I read that that it's mold underneath from the root system is leaking 1158 01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:40.119 out fertilizer and the nutrients. But I don't know what to do. Could 1159 01:27:40.159 --> 01:27:45.399 you give me advice? Yeah, it's interesting that the lawn was doing okay 1160 01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:47.720 when the tree was there, but but it's doing not so good after the 1161 01:27:47.840 --> 01:27:51.800 tree. Uh, that that's a little bit surprising. I tell you, 1162 01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:58.000 I would. I would just go to the basics, check your soil and 1163 01:27:58.239 --> 01:28:01.800 see if it seems like it's so compacted. And in that case, you 1164 01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:05.479 would get an aerator in there with some compost top dressing on it. If 1165 01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:09.359 you need to reside, go ahead and do that as soon as possible. 1166 01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:12.199 Maybe you've got an area, you know that's four feet across that's dead, 1167 01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:15.079 well, you don't want to weight on grass to grow in from the sides. 1168 01:28:15.159 --> 01:28:16.800 Go ahead and get some fresh side in there, get it watered in, 1169 01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:19.520 get it established, get some roots on it. That's gonna take a 1170 01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:24.960 couple of weeks to get that process done, uh, And then I would 1171 01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:30.239 begin to use the fertilizers we're talking about. If you've got soiled that's decent 1172 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:33.720 aeration, if you've got adequate moisture, if you have sunlight, and if 1173 01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:38.000 you have fertilizer. You ought to be able to grow grass? Was your 1174 01:28:38.199 --> 01:28:41.600 you said you're lawn or did you say if you're lawn to Saint Augustine or 1175 01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:45.800 something else. It's just possible, you know what, I don't know. 1176 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:49.800 Grass's regular, the regular carpet grass then is in everybody's front yard all across 1177 01:28:49.960 --> 01:28:54.239 Houston. All right, that's the Saint Augustine. And uh, yeah, 1178 01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:58.399 it ought to. It ought to come back for you. Um okay, 1179 01:28:58.640 --> 01:29:04.920 it just into devastated it. Yeah, I don't know exactly why. I 1180 01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:10.520 mean, I guess if if grass was in deep shade and suddenly you got 1181 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:15.159 just blazing sun on it, I would expect to see some Any plant moved 1182 01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:20.439 into blazing sun from shade may have suddenly may have a problem. But this 1183 01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:24.880 thing I ought to bounced back and get going for you. I mean you 1184 01:29:25.279 --> 01:29:28.319 you've done what should have made the grass happy, and let's give it sunlight, 1185 01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:33.239 right, Okay, But I would I would stick with that, trust 1186 01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:39.760 the schedule and uh and just you know, gradually over time, if any 1187 01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:43.920 unique things show up, give us call back. Will be willing to take 1188 01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:47.279 a second look if maybe something else is going. But unless you can think 1189 01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:51.520 of something that happened there. Other than the removal of the tree, I 1190 01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:56.279 think it's just given it time and giving it the conditions at needs, which 1191 01:29:56.399 --> 01:30:00.000 is water, light and fertilizer. You got it back all right, Thanks 1192 01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:04.560 Scott, appreciate that call. We're gonna now head over to Conrow and talk 1193 01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:13.560 to Bill. Hello, Bill Skip, Good morning. Another grass question. 1194 01:30:13.960 --> 01:30:19.520 I just put some new sawd in an area about fifteen by thirteen had been 1195 01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:26.319 just poor, really run over with Bernuda. You know, I live in 1196 01:30:26.359 --> 01:30:30.359 the subdivision where the common areas are Bernuda, but all the homes are Saint 1197 01:30:30.359 --> 01:30:32.680 Augustine. I don't know why they do thatage. It just drives me nuts 1198 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:38.800 anyway. So I took all that out and laid down some new Saint Augustine 1199 01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:44.960 and some of the basics. Again, keep it wet for what three weeks? 1200 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:49.359 Yeah? Well yeah, So when the grass comes to your house, 1201 01:30:49.560 --> 01:30:54.640 it's on this little thin layer of clay that it was dug out the fielded 1202 01:30:54.680 --> 01:30:58.720 with, and all the roots are right there. It has no roots below 1203 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:01.479 that, of course, And when you lay it down there's a period of 1204 01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:09.000 time where I'm always saying water deeply and infrequently. The exception to that is 1205 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:14.880 when you put grass down, you're watering lightly and frequently just to help hold 1206 01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:18.600 on keep it alive and well until it gets roots down. So for me 1207 01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:24.159 planting grass in the hot weather, I would water it every day with a 1208 01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:28.039 light application. Don't turn it into a soggy swamp. That's not doing it 1209 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:30.800 any good. Just keep that top and a little below that half inch of 1210 01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:35.159 soil it came in with a little below that. Wet every day for about 1211 01:31:35.199 --> 01:31:39.439 a week, and then I'd probably go to every other day and then every 1212 01:31:39.600 --> 01:31:43.119 three days until you finally get to a once a week schedule. But it's 1213 01:31:43.159 --> 01:31:47.880 going to take it about two weeks under good conditions to root in enough to 1214 01:31:48.000 --> 01:31:51.000 where if you were to reach down and grab one of those and pull on 1215 01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:54.800 it, you could see it was packed down really good. It doesn't just 1216 01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:59.840 lift up like a throw rug. Once we have that, then we begin 1217 01:31:59.880 --> 01:32:03.039 to fertilize, and then we begin to move toward that deep and frequent watering. 1218 01:32:04.159 --> 01:32:08.319 Okay, so even soil activator I should hold off on. Oh you 1219 01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.279 could use that. I mean, there's there's nothing wrong with that. That's 1220 01:32:12.359 --> 01:32:16.880 not necessarily like a dry or a salt based type fertilizer. I'm just that's 1221 01:32:16.960 --> 01:32:20.439 fine for it. Just it's like giving the little daily water and you're just 1222 01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:25.239 trying to help keep that grass happy right there. But when it comes to 1223 01:32:25.399 --> 01:32:30.359 the longer term nutrient building the soil of the fertilizer, I would give it 1224 01:32:30.399 --> 01:32:33.439 a couple of weeks before I started out. Then it has the roots to 1225 01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:40.039 take up the fertilizer you put out. Okay, that sounds great. One 1226 01:32:40.920 --> 01:32:46.239 actressine to kill bermuda is that effective. It makes it weak, it makes 1227 01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:54.760 it unhappy. It can be part of sometimes in certain situations, people will 1228 01:32:54.840 --> 01:33:00.079 recommend that to weaken, say the bermuda nsat Augustine lawn, to get of 1229 01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:04.079 the Saint Augustine a little bit of an upper hand. But it's not a 1230 01:33:04.199 --> 01:33:08.640 panacea. It doesn't just kill the bermuda and the Saint Augustine thrives, and 1231 01:33:08.760 --> 01:33:12.640 it's it's a little bit of a process. And atrazine has some other issues. 1232 01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.760 You know, it affectsh is bad and it'll get in the tree roots 1233 01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:19.720 and everywhere you've got lawn, you've got tree roots underneath that lawn. And 1234 01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:24.760 so that's why I know Randy got away from that, and I understand why. 1235 01:33:25.279 --> 01:33:30.119 And that's basically the reason. Okay, all right, great, thank 1236 01:33:30.159 --> 01:33:31.760 you very much for that. All right, thank you for the call. 1237 01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:36.279 I appreciate that very much. You're listening to guardline. I want to talk 1238 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:41.039 to you about a product that I have loved to brag on, and that 1239 01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:44.239 is the tree Hugger sprinkler. If you're putting in a new shrub, a 1240 01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:47.760 new tree, anytime of the year, tree Hugger sprinkler will help you have 1241 01:33:47.960 --> 01:33:53.000 success. And here's why. That plant that went in the ground has the 1242 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:56.920 entire root system in the cylinder of soil you pulled out of the pot and 1243 01:33:56.960 --> 01:34:00.359 put in the ground. It takes time to get those roots out in the 1244 01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:03.279 soil so it can be a resilient plant. With tree Hugger, you can 1245 01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:06.119 turn the sprinklers on. You attach them to a garden jose, a low 1246 01:34:06.199 --> 01:34:09.640 valve, and you haven't come on just as much as you want. Maybe 1247 01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:12.840 it's just squorting two inches high just to water right where that sprinkler is. 1248 01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:15.560 Maybe you turn it on a little bit more to water a larger root system, 1249 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:19.439 and then more to water a larger root system. Go to Treehugur Sprinklers 1250 01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:23.199 dot com. If you go to an Ace hardware store. If you go 1251 01:34:23.279 --> 01:34:26.560 to most of our independent garden centers and the feed stores we talk about, 1252 01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:30.119 you're going to find tree hugger sprinklers. It is a small investment in something 1253 01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:34.399 that is really a major investment. That would be the tree or the shrub 1254 01:34:34.720 --> 01:34:42.159 that you're dealing with. Let's go to see you want to go to Jeff 1255 01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:45.640 out in Tikui Island. How are you today, Jeff outstanding? How about 1256 01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:48.600 yourself, sir? I'm well, thank you. What's happening out there in 1257 01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:56.119 your tropical fruit paradise where I'm having difficulties with my boganvillia. I have quite 1258 01:34:56.159 --> 01:34:59.800 a few varying in age, but I can't keep the color on them. 1259 01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:02.319 I'm feeding them with the boganville of food. I've cut them back, but 1260 01:35:02.520 --> 01:35:05.840 I'm just not having any success. And see if you had anything that I 1261 01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:09.119 could try out. And they're all in the pots, nothing in the ground. 1262 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:12.279 That's a good question. So that you say the blooms are fading, 1263 01:35:12.479 --> 01:35:15.279 is that what's happening? They're just non existent right now. They I had 1264 01:35:15.279 --> 01:35:19.239 a little bit in the late spring, but right now I just have very 1265 01:35:19.319 --> 01:35:25.479 small clusters and that's in yeah, consistently feeding bogin villa is an interesting creature. 1266 01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:27.960 You know, you go down like let's say you go down to Mexico 1267 01:35:28.039 --> 01:35:30.439 and you see these things, you know, half the size of a house 1268 01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:32.560 that are growing out there on the street side. And obviously they're not being 1269 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:35.680 pampered and fed boogin villea food and all that kind of stuff, and they're 1270 01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:41.039 blooming like crazy. And for us here and in containers, letting them get 1271 01:35:41.039 --> 01:35:43.720 a little pot bound is a good idea, and they seem to bloom a 1272 01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:47.720 little bit better that way. The food is fine, just you know, 1273 01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:53.079 water enough to keep them adequately moist, feed them a little bit, and 1274 01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:57.119 give them good sun, and it's up to the plant after that to do 1275 01:35:57.239 --> 01:36:00.000 its best. I don't know another tip to suggest to you, just don't 1276 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:05.119 overdo the fertilizing, you know, with excessive amounts of nitrogen uh and and 1277 01:36:05.840 --> 01:36:09.439 don't be afraid to let them get a little bit thirsty at times too, 1278 01:36:09.560 --> 01:36:14.640 and certainly become pot bound. Okay, well, they're definitely pot bound because 1279 01:36:14.640 --> 01:36:17.199 they've been there for several years. I bring them in and out through the 1280 01:36:17.319 --> 01:36:23.159 freeze. But I've heard other people that you you you're trying be detrimental to 1281 01:36:23.239 --> 01:36:26.520 the root systems, or try and stress them to get them back into it. 1282 01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:30.000 But yeah, I didn't feel I was adequate. Well you know it 1283 01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:35.479 sounds like you're doing things right. Um, I just beyond what I'd said 1284 01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:39.439 before. I don't know where else to go on this one. Maybe we 1285 01:36:39.520 --> 01:36:43.239 have a boogainvillea expert. Do we have a boogin villa society here? Someone 1286 01:36:43.279 --> 01:36:48.439 could call in and and perhaps give another tip or two. But they they 1287 01:36:48.560 --> 01:36:53.600 do seem to do well. Uh, you know, if if we give 1288 01:36:53.680 --> 01:36:58.119 them adequate care, but but don't pamper them too much. Okay, well, 1289 01:36:58.319 --> 01:37:00.720 I'll keep trying. I'll keep you inform, all right, Thank you, 1290 01:37:00.800 --> 01:37:03.000 sir. I appreciate that. I appreciate the call. You know, 1291 01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:08.000 if you have a landscape and you look at your landscape and it's like, 1292 01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:12.600 well it's pretty, but it's nothing special, and I want it to be 1293 01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:15.159 special. You know, we are plant people, right. We love to 1294 01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:19.199 go buy plants. We love beautiful plants to put in the landscape. But 1295 01:37:19.520 --> 01:37:23.640 the way you lay it out and the way you arrange it, it makes 1296 01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:27.039 all the difference in the world. You know, Beautiful sweeping beds put in 1297 01:37:27.319 --> 01:37:30.439 nice places, the right kind of plants put in those beds and so on. 1298 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:33.159 Peerscapes is the one that can take care of it like that for you. 1299 01:37:33.920 --> 01:37:38.960 They have designers that know what they're talking about. They know how to 1300 01:37:39.199 --> 01:37:44.279 create artistic beauty in your landscape. Peerscapes does everything you need. I mean, 1301 01:37:44.359 --> 01:37:46.239 do you need you know, low repair on the irrigation, do you 1302 01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:50.399 need to improve the drainage most everybody does you want to put in a hardscape, 1303 01:37:50.439 --> 01:37:54.840 perhaps they can do it all there now you can call them two eight 1304 01:37:54.960 --> 01:38:01.279 one three seven zero five zero six zero or just going to Piercescapes dot com 1305 01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:10.239 p e a r ce scape s peerscapes dot com experience. They have professionally 1306 01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:15.000 trained employees. They will give you that quality landscape that show place that you're 1307 01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:19.279 looking for. And now's a good time to get in contact with Peerscapes because 1308 01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:24.520 the fall season is coming and we have a lot of preparations that we want 1309 01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:27.399 to be doing getting ready. We need time to design, time to get 1310 01:38:27.439 --> 01:38:31.039 it done. Now would be a great time to give a call and get 1311 01:38:31.079 --> 01:38:35.760 that process started. You're listening to garden Line and we're here to answer your 1312 01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:39.880 gardening questions. If you want to write our phone number down and give us 1313 01:38:39.920 --> 01:38:43.760 a call. You can be the second one up when we come back from 1314 01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:47.000 break. Our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four 1315 01:38:47.119 --> 01:39:10.680 and Carol will get to you first. Good morning, Good Saturday morning, 1316 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:13.239 on a great day for gardening. You know I say that all the time, 1317 01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:14.960 but every day is a good day for gardening. I mean, if 1318 01:39:14.960 --> 01:39:19.439 it was zero degrees outside and snowing four foot deep inside, you could take 1319 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:23.520 care of your house plants. You could start some transplants for the next time 1320 01:39:23.880 --> 01:39:27.159 you get a chance to go out there and have a gardening season. By 1321 01:39:27.159 --> 01:39:30.640 the way, I've never seen it snow four feet deep here, but anyway, 1322 01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:34.680 you get the idea. Well, I've talked about the Dell Web community 1323 01:39:34.720 --> 01:39:38.800 going on in full sure. 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Let's head out to West Houston and we're gonna talk to Carol. 1340 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:56.880 Hello Carol, Oh, Hello, Skip, good morning, go And I 1341 01:40:57.000 --> 01:41:02.560 have a question regarding a boogin v. It was it was huge and climbed 1342 01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:10.439 up this trellis and it was in a very large about three by three clay 1343 01:41:10.560 --> 01:41:15.760 pot. Anyhow, it died with the freeze and a couple of questions, 1344 01:41:16.159 --> 01:41:24.439 Um can I replant one now is the time appropriate right now? Absolutely? 1345 01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:31.479 Yes? Okay, okay. And then the soil I had in there would 1346 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:35.880 not drain properly. The when we had heavy rains, the water would collect 1347 01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:41.399 on top, okay, and I had to scoop it out with a little 1348 01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:45.800 bucket. So what type of potting soil do you recommend? Yeah, well, 1349 01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:50.079 you need you need a good chunky potting soil that has the grit and 1350 01:41:50.279 --> 01:41:56.560 whatnot necessary to drain well. And here's the thing about potting soils and and 1351 01:41:56.680 --> 01:42:01.199 bougainville is is you can put it in a quality soil, but over six 1352 01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:05.239 months, a year, two years, three years, that soil is oxidizing 1353 01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:09.880 or decomposing away, and instead of having big chunks, now it's kind of 1354 01:42:09.920 --> 01:42:14.039 getting mucky and it holds water too well, and so you're going to have 1355 01:42:14.079 --> 01:42:16.199 to pull them out, kind of repot them, get some fresh new soil 1356 01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:20.479 in there over time, because it's always going to end up kind of like 1357 01:42:20.600 --> 01:42:25.199 you're describing, over time. Because boog and veas are a long term plant, 1358 01:42:25.439 --> 01:42:29.520 or at least we want them to be, so we have a number 1359 01:42:29.600 --> 01:42:32.319 of good quality mixes. I know heirloom soil has a very good quality mix 1360 01:42:32.760 --> 01:42:36.720 that is available in a lot of different areas, including in your area. 1361 01:42:38.439 --> 01:42:41.439 You can go into you know, maybe an ACE Hardware or to a good 1362 01:42:41.560 --> 01:42:44.760 garden center. I don't know how far west you are, but if you're 1363 01:42:44.840 --> 01:42:48.199 far enough west, you head out to Emerald. Emerald Gardens is out there, 1364 01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:53.760 not too far. So well, I'm actually a West University. Oh 1365 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:57.720 okay, you're you're in town? Okay, well I would, I don't 1366 01:42:57.720 --> 01:43:00.079 know, probably you can. It's maybe one of the close or places to 1367 01:43:00.199 --> 01:43:04.720 you. And plus it's just fun to go there, right so yeah, 1368 01:43:08.279 --> 01:43:10.880 yeah, well good and tell them, tell them what you're looking for that 1369 01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:15.840 you're looking for something that drains especially well. Also, make sure your pot 1370 01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:18.079 has a good drainage hole. A lot of times those gets stopped up or 1371 01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:23.119 plugged up. Or if you set that kind of pot with holes on the 1372 01:43:23.239 --> 01:43:27.640 bottom on top of a clay soil and you know it kind of settles in 1373 01:43:27.800 --> 01:43:31.720 where it sort of seals up there, then that clay prevents drainage in the 1374 01:43:31.800 --> 01:43:36.159 pot. You see what I'm saying. It instead of water running out a 1375 01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:41.079 hole and then off to the side and off the patio or whatever, it 1376 01:43:41.359 --> 01:43:45.520 essentially you've you've formed a clay bowl around that pot at the bottom, so 1377 01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:48.840 that drainhole has nowhere to go. So you may want to lift the plant 1378 01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:51.159 up a little bit. There are little things you can set them on, 1379 01:43:51.359 --> 01:43:56.520 or just whatever, just to make sure that drain hole drains out into Let's 1380 01:43:56.560 --> 01:44:00.039 think of it this way. It drains out into airspace rather than sealing up 1381 01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:04.399 against it some bricks and other words. Well, yeah, it wouldn't even 1382 01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:06.720 have to be that high. I mean, just you know, even something 1383 01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:11.800 the height of a pencil to keep it off the ground. But just just 1384 01:44:11.960 --> 01:44:15.560 remember that, you know, as it SAIDs there whatever. Maybe it was 1385 01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:18.359 sitting on grass at one time and now it's just kind of sealed to the 1386 01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:21.479 soil surface. So just something else to think about. I'm kind of going 1387 01:44:21.560 --> 01:44:26.279 back to your issue with the drainage. Okay, yes, it's sitting on 1388 01:44:26.439 --> 01:44:29.720 pea gravel. Oh okay, well, pea gravel's perfect. That's not going 1389 01:44:29.760 --> 01:44:32.319 to be a problem. It will it will drain very well. Yeah. 1390 01:44:32.720 --> 01:44:39.920 And then should I feed it with anything in particular? Yeah, yeah, 1391 01:44:39.960 --> 01:44:44.800 a good quality, A good quality like a boogin villea food would be excellent 1392 01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:48.199 for that. And you're gonna find you're gonna find a wide variety of foods, 1393 01:44:48.279 --> 01:44:53.039 you know. And and Nelson line, they have a number of good 1394 01:44:53.119 --> 01:44:56.319 quality foods, one called color Star, but they also believe have a Bougainvillea 1395 01:44:56.399 --> 01:45:00.119 food in that line as well. I believe some of our other folks we 1396 01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:03.319 talk about here do also have a similar kind of food. So that would 1397 01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:05.920 be the easy one. You know, you're getting a little plastic container and 1398 01:45:06.880 --> 01:45:11.319 just small amounts. You don't need a fifty five pound bag of the stuff. 1399 01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:16.640 Okay, okay, well, thank you for all your advice. All 1400 01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:20.520 right, thank you for the call. Good luck out there in West Easton. 1401 01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:25.239 And if you end up going to you cantag today, have a good 1402 01:45:25.279 --> 01:45:29.720 time. I'm jealous. I always love, love going in there. If 1403 01:45:29.760 --> 01:45:32.079 you don't attract birds to your landscape, and if you don't garden for birds, 1404 01:45:32.119 --> 01:45:34.760 you need to try it. You need to start. And here's why. 1405 01:45:35.079 --> 01:45:43.199 Gardens are a multi sensory experience. And it goes beyond just pretty colors 1406 01:45:43.279 --> 01:45:46.680 that are icy. I see. It goes into things our noses smell, 1407 01:45:46.800 --> 01:45:51.760 and it goes into things our ears here and the song of birds. I 1408 01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:56.520 love going out in the morning cup of coffee to hear the song of birds 1409 01:45:56.680 --> 01:46:00.079 in the morning, and you can attract birds songbirds into your yard. And 1410 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:04.399 I would they say that without a question, the best place to go is 1411 01:46:04.800 --> 01:46:10.800 wild Birds Unlimited. Our student, Well, yeah, wild Birds Unlimited is 1412 01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:15.760 they have everything. They have the bird houses, the bird feeders, the 1413 01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:19.640 advice from knowledgeable staff, and they have quality bird feed And I'm not talking 1414 01:46:19.640 --> 01:46:23.880 about feed filled with those little red babies that the birds kick out because they 1415 01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:29.000 don't want to eat them, the little hard sorghum type seeds. I'm talking 1416 01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:31.520 about like a nesting super blend. You know that bluebirds, cardinals, chickens, 1417 01:46:31.560 --> 01:46:35.319 and wrens are all still nesting right now, and a nesting super blend 1418 01:46:35.439 --> 01:46:39.600 is perfect for feeding all through the summer. Your birds are going to start 1419 01:46:39.680 --> 01:46:43.600 molting as we get later into the summer. The birds have to replace their 1420 01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:47.680 old, damaged feathers with fresh new feathers, and that you want a quality 1421 01:46:47.720 --> 01:46:53.800 feed to keep those birds in top condition to have them beautiful now. Nesting 1422 01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:57.960 super blend all the way through August will support the birds as they begin to 1423 01:46:58.039 --> 01:47:01.199 do molting, and wild Birds Unlimited is a place where you get that kind 1424 01:47:01.239 --> 01:47:05.600 of quality feed and they also have the no mess formulations where uh, you 1425 01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:09.880 know, there's there's just nothing for them to crack and shell and drop on 1426 01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:15.960 the ground and lose. Go to WBU dot com Forward slash Houston for more 1427 01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:19.960 information. WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. We're gonna take a break our 1428 01:47:20.039 --> 01:47:45.520 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Joe Walsh there 1429 01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:50.199 to take us into our next segment, Dirty Laundry Boy Don Henley. Excuse 1430 01:47:50.279 --> 01:47:54.159 me, I got corrected there that Don Henley. I had the wrong guy. 1431 01:47:54.880 --> 01:47:58.079 You know, I love that song and it's too true as well. 1432 01:47:58.760 --> 01:48:01.720 If you think about it. You're listening to the garden Line and we are 1433 01:48:01.800 --> 01:48:04.800 here to answer your gardening questions. So feel free if you wish to give 1434 01:48:04.880 --> 01:48:10.640 us a call. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 1435 01:48:10.760 --> 01:48:17.000 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know RCW Nurseries When 1436 01:48:17.039 --> 01:48:21.119 I try to think, okay, what is a garden center that is always 1437 01:48:21.159 --> 01:48:26.039 going to have an impressive show of color going on? Well, r CW 1438 01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:30.439 Nurseries is just that kind of place. They're that nursery that's where Highway two 1439 01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:33.479 forty nine, Texas two Friday nine Tomball Parkway comes into Beltway eight. Just 1440 01:48:33.600 --> 01:48:39.319 go on line to r CW Nurseries dot com and you can find them and 1441 01:48:39.479 --> 01:48:43.960 find out more about them there as well. I know recently they just reposted 1442 01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:46.880 there twenty twenty three rows lists, which I think the last time I count 1443 01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:53.840 is like four pages of single space lines of all the roses they carry. 1444 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:57.880 Now, if you're looking for a rose and RCW doesn't have it, you 1445 01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:00.399 shouldn't grow it here. It doesn't grow here. I mean a great selection, 1446 01:49:00.560 --> 01:49:04.640 great selection of trees fifteen gallons up the two hundred gallons. They grow 1447 01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:09.520 them at a farm twenty acre from they got up in Plantersville, and they 1448 01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:12.039 will bring them out, they'll plant them for you if you're a harm to 1449 01:49:12.079 --> 01:49:15.000 come and do that. But if you're looking for a quality tree, this 1450 01:49:15.279 --> 01:49:18.199 is what we're talking about. This is what we're talking about. A tree 1451 01:49:18.560 --> 01:49:23.479 that is adapted to hear, that has grown well, and that is planted 1452 01:49:24.039 --> 01:49:29.159 right. RCW Nurseries is going to carry the things you're looking for when it 1453 01:49:29.199 --> 01:49:31.800 comes to fertilizers, and plus the wide range of plants. You know, 1454 01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:34.760 all I can do just talking about is mentioned a few kinds of plants, 1455 01:49:34.840 --> 01:49:42.000 but it goes way way beyond that RCW nurseries dot com. If they don't 1456 01:49:42.039 --> 01:49:45.359 have it, they will probably be able to get it for you. Just 1457 01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:49.000 ask, great family, great service, and as a result, you'll get 1458 01:49:49.079 --> 01:49:55.000 great results with what you purchase from our CW. There. Enjoy, enjoy 1459 01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:59.520 visiting with those folks. You know it is it is blazing hot, and 1460 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.199 we're about to today, you know, one of those days we get a 1461 01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:04.720 little bit of a break and we don't have to deal with quite as much 1462 01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:09.479 on it, but it's going to go right back up and be bumping one 1463 01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:14.199 hundred degrees again for a while. And I complained. I put in my 1464 01:50:14.359 --> 01:50:17.079 official complaint with the National Weather Service, but by the way, they haven't 1465 01:50:17.079 --> 01:50:24.680 written back yet asking why on earth in June are we dealing with weeks and 1466 01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:28.800 weeks and weeks and one hundred degree temperatures. Well, fortunately we got plants 1467 01:50:28.920 --> 01:50:30.800 that can take that. It's hard on them, I mean it's tough, 1468 01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:36.159 but they can take it. But remember this, when you've got a quality 1469 01:50:36.239 --> 01:50:42.600 plant that is able to survive in the heat, don't overwater it. And 1470 01:50:42.800 --> 01:50:49.159 overwatering means there's no oxygen in the soil. Okay, you can't You can't 1471 01:50:49.199 --> 01:50:55.039 have success in the heat when you prevent the roots from getting oxygen. And 1472 01:50:55.239 --> 01:51:00.199 here's why roots actually respire. If I can entropomorphize, breathe if you will, 1473 01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:03.680 and if you put them underwater, they can't breathe. And in that 1474 01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:10.399 situation, most plants have no mechanism for dealing with that, and they will 1475 01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:14.319 die faster in summer than at any time of the year. And it's weird 1476 01:51:14.399 --> 01:51:17.439 because you're looking at a plant and it's wilting, and it's one hundred degrees 1477 01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:21.760 outside and it's in standing water. How could that be? Well, if 1478 01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:27.680 the roots die, the plant cake get water and it dies too. It 1479 01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:30.279 brings in root rots, It brings in all kinds of stress. We want 1480 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:36.640 to water regularly enough to keep our soil moist. Evenly moist is the goal 1481 01:51:36.920 --> 01:51:43.479 in our watering, but not overwatering, So just be careful with that. 1482 01:51:43.680 --> 01:51:47.079 There's a tendency in the heat of summer to overwater and that just creates problems. 1483 01:51:47.119 --> 01:51:50.560 Another thing that we can do in the summertime for our plants is to 1484 01:51:50.800 --> 01:51:55.720 mulch. Well. When you provide a good, thick, deep mulch, 1485 01:51:56.399 --> 01:52:00.880 you hold moisture in the soil and you moderate soil temper. I mean that 1486 01:52:00.159 --> 01:52:04.600 soil surface can be like one hundred and twenty degrees or more when it's really 1487 01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:09.479 sun blazing down on it, but not when there's a mulch. So those 1488 01:52:09.560 --> 01:52:12.880 roots can grow up near the surface, near that mulch and do well. 1489 01:52:13.079 --> 01:52:14.800 And where are you going to get multch? Well, let me tell you 1490 01:52:14.800 --> 01:52:17.800 about Sienna Maltz, Cinnamal. It's a great place if you're down south of 1491 01:52:17.880 --> 01:52:21.840 Houston area like Riverstone, Manville, Sandy Point, or a Cola, Iowa 1492 01:52:21.880 --> 01:52:27.560 Colony, Sienna Plantation, you know, near Brassmin State Park, anywhere pair 1493 01:52:27.640 --> 01:52:31.079 Land down in that area, Pomona. They're your local mult supplier. Sienna 1494 01:52:31.159 --> 01:52:35.279 Mulch is on FM five twenty one. They're near Highway six and two eighty 1495 01:52:35.319 --> 01:52:41.000 eight. Go online Sienna Mulch dot com you can find out more. They 1496 01:52:41.079 --> 01:52:45.640 got bulk mulch, they got mulchen bags. They carry every fertilizer we talk 1497 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:49.039 about here, and a beautiful selection of ourtilize. They even have some some 1498 01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:54.319 handy tools for the kinds of stuff you would use and working with the soil 1499 01:52:54.439 --> 01:52:59.479 and mulches and things like that. Sienna Malch is just a great place to 1500 01:52:59.600 --> 01:53:02.800 visit. They do some local delivery, small charge for doing delivery. They 1501 01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:06.760 are open Monday through Friday from seven thirty to five pm this is summer hours, 1502 01:53:06.880 --> 01:53:11.800 and Saturday from seven thirty to two pm, So tell two pm today 1503 01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:15.279 you can get out there. The most important thing you do for a beautiful 1504 01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:19.479 garden at a bountiful landscape is to take care of your soil. That means 1505 01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:24.680 adding compost ahead of time before you plant, and then putting mulch on the 1506 01:53:24.800 --> 01:53:29.039 surface to protect the soil after you plant and deter weeds. That's another thing 1507 01:53:29.119 --> 01:53:32.720 it does. If you take care of that, and then by plants that 1508 01:53:32.840 --> 01:53:36.439 belong here, that grow here, you're going to have success. But don't 1509 01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:41.439 start with the plant, start with the soil. The soil is the key 1510 01:53:41.479 --> 01:53:45.520 to success of any plant. And CNA mulch. That's why I like them 1511 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:54.119 so much. Awesome, awesome job on that. I was visiting an ACE 1512 01:53:54.199 --> 01:53:59.359 hardware store the other day looking at I think actually I was in there it 1513 01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:03.000 was like I needed some electrical plumbing that kind of thing, some things to 1514 01:54:03.079 --> 01:54:06.239 fix up on the house. But when I was going through, I was 1515 01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:12.560 just so impressed with the outdoor living products that they have, you know, 1516 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:18.319 they carry all our fertilizers. They have unbelievable selection of fungicides and sexercise harbicides 1517 01:54:18.319 --> 01:54:20.359 and all of that. I mean, they've got all that nail down. 1518 01:54:21.239 --> 01:54:26.079 But just the out the beauty of the outdoor living. It was prior to 1519 01:54:26.199 --> 01:54:30.319 the Fourth of July weekend and they had all kinds of Fourth of July supplies 1520 01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:34.520 available. Just really turn your yard into a party place. But they have 1521 01:54:34.640 --> 01:54:38.760 that all the time. They've got stuff like that all the time, as 1522 01:54:38.880 --> 01:54:42.279 well as for indoors. Beautifying your indoors. You know, you like that 1523 01:54:42.439 --> 01:54:45.640 farmhouse. Look, you're going to find stuff there. At an ACE Hardware 1524 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.159 store. I mean I could talk all day on everything they carry in ACE 1525 01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:53.720 Hardware because they carry everything. Go to Ace Hardware dot com. Ace Hardware 1526 01:54:53.760 --> 01:54:59.399 dot com find one of the thirty nine locally owned and operated stores, and 1527 01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:04.000 very very impressed about that. I want to go up to Conro now and 1528 01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:08.159 talk to Dotty Dotty. I got about a minute or so. How can 1529 01:55:08.239 --> 01:55:14.079 we help. I just need to know where I can find dirt, all 1530 01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:18.760 of these things that they call potting mix and soil. It's nothing but very 1531 01:55:20.039 --> 01:55:24.600 you know much, and the water runs right. Truly. I know, 1532 01:55:25.680 --> 01:55:30.199 I know I can't tell you on the air the words I say. When 1533 01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:34.079 I find one of those bags of MULT from a big box store and you 1534 01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:38.079 open it up and it's got chunks of wood as big as your thumb in 1535 01:55:38.199 --> 01:55:41.279 it, and I'm thinking, I'm sorry, bags of malt, bags of 1536 01:55:41.359 --> 01:55:45.000 potting sail. Is supposed to be a potting sail and it looks more like 1537 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:47.159 a malt. Here's what you do. You are so close to Nature's Way 1538 01:55:47.239 --> 01:55:51.640 resources. Just drive down forty five when you get to the fourteen eighty eight 1539 01:55:51.720 --> 01:55:57.319 eggsit which is just on the south side of town. You just turn left 1540 01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:00.479 and go over forty five and right back there is is Nature's Way. They've 1541 01:56:00.520 --> 01:56:08.399 got bag products and you've been there, I've been there. They're wonderful, 1542 01:56:09.000 --> 01:56:13.199 excellent product. If you need something for a potting putting up a plant, 1543 01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.319 if you need something for building your soiled if you want a MULT to go 1544 01:56:15.399 --> 01:56:18.600 on top of it. Right now, they have Fungal Fridays where there's a 1545 01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:24.239 you know, there's a discount on purchasing MULT, both in bags and by 1546 01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:27.800 bulk. Uh and so it's a good time to check them out, especially 1547 01:56:27.840 --> 01:56:30.560 on a Friday. If you're looking for one of their fungal products. Well, 1548 01:56:30.600 --> 01:56:33.600 I have plenty of molts because I bought this stuff that they call. 1549 01:56:35.920 --> 01:56:40.039 Okay, I don't know if I don't know that that's even good molts. 1550 01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:43.239 I know what you're talking about them for a pottom, so I would go 1551 01:56:43.319 --> 01:56:46.720 there and get that. I mean that that's the closest to you. Yeah, 1552 01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:50.239 okay, Yeah, I'm not that far. Yeah, I say Conro 1553 01:56:50.439 --> 01:56:55.359 because that's our mailing aggress Thank you so much. Oh okay, okay, 1554 01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:58.720 Well which way from which way from Conro? Are you? Well? I 1555 01:56:58.880 --> 01:57:02.520 know where that place. I've been their work for something very unusual. It's 1556 01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:05.239 been a long time, but I do have a little bit of memory from 1557 01:57:05.319 --> 01:57:09.920 it. Very good, very good dotty luck. Yeah, that's good luck 1558 01:57:09.960 --> 01:57:14.640 with Yeah. That drives me nuts to have those. You know. I 1559 01:57:14.760 --> 01:57:18.199 talked earlier about what saves money and what doesn't save money. What doesn't save 1560 01:57:18.279 --> 01:57:25.840 money is to buy cheap potting soil or cheap mulch from some national chain sold 1561 01:57:25.840 --> 01:57:30.079 all over the country and it's not quality. And we've got stuff here that's 1562 01:57:30.239 --> 01:57:34.640 quality. You may pay a little more for the bag I would expect to, 1563 01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:39.840 but long term, the results are better. I mean, is your 1564 01:57:39.920 --> 01:57:45.439 goal in gardening to just not spend a penny or is your goal in gardening 1565 01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:51.159 to have a very high quality, economical product that performs. That's what we're 1566 01:57:51.199 --> 01:57:56.039 talking about. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give 1567 01:57:56.119 --> 01:58:01.279 us a call and Daniel, you'll be first. KTRH Garden Line does not 1568 01:58:01.399 --> 01:58:08.239 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 1569 01:58:08.479 --> 01:58:29.000 KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just watching Good morning, good Saturday morning. 1570 01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:31.600 On a great day for gardening and a great day for talking about gardening. 1571 01:58:31.680 --> 01:58:35.399 You're listening to Garden Line. Let's get you off to a good start here. 1572 01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:41.199 Give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1573 01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:44.079 A good start on a day where you're getting out there and taking care 1574 01:58:44.119 --> 01:58:46.680 of some of the things around the garden and around the landscape. You know, 1575 01:58:46.760 --> 01:58:50.680 we don't left the summer hamper our gardening too much. I mean, 1576 01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:55.279 there's a lot of things we can be doing just because it's hot outside and 1577 01:58:55.319 --> 01:58:59.399 it's a challenge. In fact, there's some things that love this weather. 1578 01:58:59.600 --> 01:59:02.159 We have plants, we have flowers, we have vegetables that thrive in this 1579 01:59:02.359 --> 01:59:06.000 kind of heat, and that's the kind we need to lean ourselves toward. 1580 01:59:06.319 --> 01:59:11.920 Hey, by the way, I wanted to mention our soils here in the 1581 01:59:12.000 --> 01:59:15.800 Houston area buying large are a heavy clay soil that moves around. I know 1582 01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:19.279 there's exceptions in different parts, but in general, those clay soils, when 1583 01:59:19.319 --> 01:59:23.520 they get wet, they swell, swell. When they get dry, they 1584 01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:27.920 shrink. And that's when you get the big, the big cracks in the 1585 01:59:27.960 --> 01:59:31.079 backyard that are so huge. You know, your little Yorky or whatever falls 1586 01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:35.239 down in them and you hear a muffle bark from down underneath somewhere. We're 1587 01:59:35.279 --> 01:59:40.640 talking about big cracks. And because of all that movement, it plays havoc 1588 01:59:40.800 --> 01:59:44.000 on our streets, you know, driving down some of the Houston streets, 1589 01:59:44.039 --> 01:59:47.079 all the bumping, breaking water lines. Your foundation on your house, your 1590 01:59:47.159 --> 01:59:53.079 driveway, your sidewalks are all cracking. Because of that. You need to 1591 01:59:53.159 --> 01:59:57.239 find somebody who knows what they're doing when it comes to fixing them, because, 1592 01:59:57.560 --> 02:00:01.079 especially on your home foundation, that can be a serious problem. Fix 1593 02:00:01.239 --> 02:00:08.600 my slab foundation repair Tie Strickland's company. They know what they're doing. You 1594 02:00:08.680 --> 02:00:12.359 can go online to fix my Slab dot com or give him a call two 1595 02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:16.560 eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. When you call fix my 1596 02:00:16.640 --> 02:00:20.399 Slab, when you call Ti Strickland, the you know you're going to get 1597 02:00:20.439 --> 02:00:24.600 a fair price. You know you're going to get someone who shows up on 1598 02:00:24.720 --> 02:00:28.159 time. Oh my gosh, how frustrated are you with people that say, 1599 02:00:28.199 --> 02:00:31.319 well, I'll be there on Friday sometime after two, and so you're sitting 1600 02:00:31.359 --> 02:00:35.039 there all day waiting on them to show up. Not with fix my Slab, 1601 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:39.560 they'll do the driveways, or do the sidewalks, or do the foundation. 1602 02:00:39.840 --> 02:00:43.439 Give him a call two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine, 1603 02:00:43.560 --> 02:00:47.800 or go to fix my slab dot com. It's always better to take 1604 02:00:47.880 --> 02:00:53.479 action sooner rather than later, so don't delay on that. Let's go out 1605 02:00:53.520 --> 02:00:57.399 to Cyprus and we're going to visit with Daniel this morning. Hello Daniel, 1606 02:00:58.560 --> 02:01:01.760 Good morning, Skip, good morning, Thanks for holding Yes, sir, 1607 02:01:01.960 --> 02:01:08.279 no problem. I have a I've been trying to find this product. It's 1608 02:01:08.319 --> 02:01:15.680 called Delta dust for like any side and you right in we pose you know, 1609 02:01:15.840 --> 02:01:18.399 on your house, yes, and I haven't been able to find it. 1610 02:01:19.800 --> 02:01:23.920 I know I can get it, you know, on Amazon or whatever. 1611 02:01:24.079 --> 02:01:26.720 But I really didn't want to do that, right, Do you know 1612 02:01:27.199 --> 02:01:30.640 of a place that I can get that? Well? I don't in my 1613 02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:33.479 mind have memorized, you know, like where each each kind of product might 1614 02:01:33.520 --> 02:01:38.159 be. But that delta dust is a synthetic perrethroid. It's called delta dust 1615 02:01:38.199 --> 02:01:41.960 because it's delta Metherin is the ingredient, and it is a dust. You 1616 02:01:42.039 --> 02:01:45.279 put it in cracks and crevices, and you know, cockroaches and all kinds 1617 02:01:45.319 --> 02:01:49.319 of things like that are affected. I would I would start which direction from 1618 02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:57.840 Cyprus? Are you north southeast west? I am on the west side of 1619 02:01:57.920 --> 02:02:05.319 two ninety like, uh, Greenhouse and Barker Cypress area twenty nine. Oh 1620 02:02:05.359 --> 02:02:10.560 okay, Well, uh, you've got a couple of ACE hardware. Is 1621 02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:15.319 that aren't too terribly far from you? I think the Langham Creek Ace Hardware 1622 02:02:15.560 --> 02:02:20.920 is actually on uh five twenty nine, f five twenty nine. Uh what 1623 02:02:21.000 --> 02:02:25.920 do they call that street? What's the street name of that thing? Anyway? 1624 02:02:26.319 --> 02:02:30.600 Uh? They're down where maybe Spencer, Yeah, five twenty night. 1625 02:02:30.640 --> 02:02:34.159 It's the same, okay, down on Langham. I would call the folks 1626 02:02:34.359 --> 02:02:40.399 at Langham Creek Hardware. It's an Ace hardware. The numbers two eight one, 1627 02:02:40.600 --> 02:02:45.159 eight five five sixty eight O one and ask them if they carry the 1628 02:02:45.239 --> 02:02:49.159 Delta dust. Now there are other they don't, don't. Okay, that's 1629 02:02:49.239 --> 02:02:53.960 my favorite, uh Ace Hardware. I go there all time. Yeah, 1630 02:02:54.039 --> 02:02:57.600 well and for good reason. Okay. The next thing, and now this 1631 02:02:57.760 --> 02:03:00.159 isn't super local, but it's worth the trip up, would be to call 1632 02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:06.479 Southwest Fertilizer. They are down kind of southwest of downtown. It's where Bissonette 1633 02:03:06.520 --> 02:03:11.560 and Renwick come together. I tell you, if Bob doesn't carry it, 1634 02:03:11.800 --> 02:03:15.960 it probably not for sale in Houston. I mean, he really has a 1635 02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:20.000 wide variety. I would call them. If you strike out there number one, 1636 02:03:20.079 --> 02:03:25.159 he's going to have another product that works as well, another synthetic parithrod 1637 02:03:25.199 --> 02:03:28.880 if he doesn't have that one. But if you're determined to get the Delta 1638 02:03:29.000 --> 02:03:31.399 dust, then you would have to shift over to one of the places that 1639 02:03:32.079 --> 02:03:35.279 you know sales products for people to do their on pest control kinds of things. 1640 02:03:35.600 --> 02:03:38.680 But I would give I would give Bob a call. I think I 1641 02:03:38.760 --> 02:03:42.960 think he's gonna have it's what's the number. Oh, I'm sorry, I 1642 02:03:43.000 --> 02:03:45.399 didn't even give you the number. You can go on line to Southwest Fertilizer 1643 02:03:45.479 --> 02:03:48.600 dot com. By the way, Southwest Fertilizer, let me see, I'm 1644 02:03:48.600 --> 02:03:51.159 gonna have to find I don't have the phone number right here in front of 1645 02:03:51.239 --> 02:03:56.239 me, Southwest Fertilizer. Let me go to see if I can find that 1646 02:03:56.319 --> 02:03:59.319 for you while we're talking. By the way, also, they are gonna 1647 02:03:59.439 --> 02:04:02.640 have, um, they're going to have a wide variety of other things that 1648 02:04:02.840 --> 02:04:09.159 you might need, so it doesn't it doesn't matter what you're looking for that 1649 02:04:09.720 --> 02:04:15.000 you know, fertilizers, pesticides, I mean, all kinds of products. 1650 02:04:15.199 --> 02:04:18.640 I'm always amazed when I go go down there as to you know, all 1651 02:04:18.680 --> 02:04:23.800 the different stuff that they have, good, good, good qualities of thinking. 1652 02:04:23.840 --> 02:04:28.960 Okay, ready to go seven one three six six six one seven four 1653 02:04:29.039 --> 02:04:32.119 four seven one three six six six one seven four four good bab a call 1654 02:04:32.159 --> 02:04:35.960 so you don't make that whole drive, just to be sure. Yeah, 1655 02:04:36.119 --> 02:04:40.399 thank you sir, all right, you take care, Thank you for the 1656 02:04:40.479 --> 02:04:45.399 call. Yeah, love love to go into Southwest Fertilizer. By the way. 1657 02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:47.079 You know, if you need tools, they've got them. If you 1658 02:04:47.199 --> 02:04:50.439 need to have a lawn mower blade sharp and maybe you know you've got some 1659 02:04:50.520 --> 02:04:54.640 small engine equipment you need repair. They got a little shop there they can 1660 02:04:54.720 --> 02:04:57.600 do it. Another good thing about it is if you don't know what you 1661 02:04:57.720 --> 02:05:00.159 need, you know something's killing this plant. Take a sample in, take 1662 02:05:00.199 --> 02:05:03.199 a photo in. Let Bob and his folks, as they say, get 1663 02:05:03.239 --> 02:05:06.479 a pair of eyes on it, and they can tell you what it is 1664 02:05:06.760 --> 02:05:11.279 and then take you to the right product if indeed you even need a product 1665 02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:15.760 for the situation. Love to have honest folks that give you an honest assessment 1666 02:05:15.000 --> 02:05:19.439 instead of just trying to sell you something. You're listening to Garden Line and 1667 02:05:19.880 --> 02:05:25.399 we are here to answer gardening questions from you. And that's a phone number 1668 02:05:25.439 --> 02:05:29.680 you want to write down. Seven one three two one two five eight seven 1669 02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:33.319 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, if 1670 02:05:33.439 --> 02:05:38.640 you are interested in a tree, you need to know about Verdant's Christmas in 1671 02:05:38.720 --> 02:05:42.800 July sell all three locations of Verdant Tree Farm. You can go to Verdant 1672 02:05:42.920 --> 02:05:46.399 Treefarm dot com to find out more. Ten to fifty percent off of the 1673 02:05:46.479 --> 02:05:50.279 trees when you purchase them with an install. Now they're not giving you that 1674 02:05:50.399 --> 02:05:55.039 off the install, but off the tree, but what a deal to make 1675 02:05:55.640 --> 02:05:59.680 Great locations you can find about at barker Cypress on the West Side, done 1676 02:05:59.720 --> 02:06:03.439 in air Land on Broadway Street. Are up in the Heights Yale Street at 1677 02:06:03.720 --> 02:06:09.119 ten all Verdant Tree Farms. You tag your tree. They've got a wide 1678 02:06:09.239 --> 02:06:13.720 selection, including some awesome palm trees. Check out Verdant Tree Farm. Take 1679 02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:36.840 advantage of the Christmas in July sale. There is an appropriate song that he 1680 02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:42.560 is on. Not yet outside, but it's going to get there, especially 1681 02:06:42.640 --> 02:06:45.239 as we go into this week. That's okay. We know how to work 1682 02:06:45.439 --> 02:06:47.920 in the mornings, get our work done late day, take care of things, 1683 02:06:48.000 --> 02:06:51.840 and take care of our plants. If you uh, well, let's 1684 02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:55.159 tell you what. Let's start off. We are going to head out and 1685 02:06:55.319 --> 02:07:01.079 talk to Marty. Good morning, Hey, how are you Marty? I'm 1686 02:07:01.159 --> 02:07:05.239 fine, Good morning. Hey. I pulled up all my tomato plants and 1687 02:07:06.319 --> 02:07:10.600 I know you said we could plant some seeds right now, and I've got 1688 02:07:12.279 --> 02:07:16.239 some of my okra. We're not in a full sun, so I have 1689 02:07:16.319 --> 02:07:20.880 a bunch of seeds. If I put those in and some green beans and 1690 02:07:21.000 --> 02:07:26.680 some corn in the full sun where my tomatoes were, is that okay? 1691 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:30.800 To do right now. Yeah, tomatoes, okra. You're wanting to plant 1692 02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:35.239 cocra and green beans, okra, green beans and some corn if possible. 1693 02:07:35.439 --> 02:07:40.760 Yeah, corn is pretty much a summer crop. You can give it a 1694 02:07:40.840 --> 02:07:43.359 try. We have a lot of problems with the corn ear worm when it 1695 02:07:43.439 --> 02:07:46.079 starts to heat up like this. But the green beans, I would wait 1696 02:07:46.119 --> 02:07:50.319 a little bit. They take about forty eight days fifty days or so, 1697 02:07:50.600 --> 02:07:56.760 sometimes fifty five to reach their harvest, and you need that to happen when 1698 02:07:56.840 --> 02:08:00.159 it's cooled off just a bit. So I would probably look at sometimes I'm 1699 02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:05.039 in August putting those in. As far as the okra, you can plant 1700 02:08:05.159 --> 02:08:07.720 that. Anytime it's hot. The okra will be so happy it'll be singing 1701 02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:16.720 to you as it the seed falls to the soil. I was really excited 1702 02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:20.119 because I had two pods, but they were in a little bit of shade 1703 02:08:20.680 --> 02:08:24.159 and they didn't quite make it. So one of my plans is in full 1704 02:08:24.239 --> 02:08:30.840 sun and it's still not making I don't know why, but anyway, whatever, 1705 02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:33.960 it's all it's all trowal and error, right, Yeah, that's it. 1706 02:08:35.319 --> 02:08:39.680 Trowel and error. Well that's a gardening dad joke. Sorry, I 1707 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:46.000 couldn't. I'm sorry I didn't hear it. Trowel, trowel and error, 1708 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:52.439 trowels by trowel and error, trowel and error. Okay, I'll get out 1709 02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:54.720 there and get them done. All right, Well, you have fund sounds 1710 02:08:54.760 --> 02:08:58.319 like you got good plans out there for the garden. Love. If you're 1711 02:08:58.359 --> 02:09:03.960 not gardening with edibles, if you're not growing things to eat, you need 1712 02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:07.239 to do that. Maybe you don't dig up the yard or put in a 1713 02:09:07.359 --> 02:09:09.159 nice raised bed. By the way, we've got great raised beds that just 1714 02:09:09.520 --> 02:09:13.720 or that to me is the only way to garden. But you can also 1715 02:09:13.800 --> 02:09:16.800 gardening containers that works really well. I mean a large container that holds a 1716 02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:20.239 good quality saw a mix and drains. Well, you can pretty much grow 1717 02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:26.359 anything in a container, vegetables that you can grow in the ground. The 1718 02:09:26.560 --> 02:09:30.119 possible exception to that would be sweet corn. But there's actually a sweet corn 1719 02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:35.760 called on deck, as in your outdoor deck that is very short and compacted, 1720 02:09:35.800 --> 02:09:39.399 and you put a few plants in a whiskey barrel sized thing and get 1721 02:09:39.439 --> 02:09:43.760 a little bit of sweet corn. I wouldn't bother with sweetcorn in a container, 1722 02:09:43.920 --> 02:09:46.920 but I just found it humorous that they actually tried to create a corn 1723 02:09:46.039 --> 02:09:50.800 for that. I would starve to death trying to grow corn in containers. 1724 02:09:50.840 --> 02:09:52.880 But everything else it's a vegetable. You can pretty much grow it in a 1725 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:58.560 container. If you like it, that's good. If you have not tried 1726 02:09:58.800 --> 02:10:05.840 the one, two three completely easy system of food, soil and compost that 1727 02:10:05.079 --> 02:10:09.800 Arbourgate offers, you need to now Arburgate. I know everybody knows about Arbogate. 1728 02:10:09.840 --> 02:10:13.199 They're up on Highway two forty nine. Or excuse me there west A 1729 02:10:13.279 --> 02:10:16.479 two forty nine on twenty nine twenty so I should get up into Tomball, 1730 02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:20.680 turn left, go west on two forty nine. They're right out there. 1731 02:10:20.199 --> 02:10:26.319 They have a three step system. One is a food that feeds anything with 1732 02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:31.399 roots. That would be an organic food. That's a four four three plus 1733 02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:35.359 ten percent calcium. It's a granular product. It gives you a slow release 1734 02:10:35.399 --> 02:10:39.000 of nitrogen, lots of trace minerals, plenty of organic matter, of course, 1735 02:10:39.560 --> 02:10:43.119 but that is an excellent product for all kinds of things that you would 1736 02:10:43.239 --> 02:10:50.000 use. The organic food complete now, also organic is their organic soil complete. 1737 02:10:50.039 --> 02:10:54.039 It's a blend of compost. It's large particle sand for improving drainage and 1738 02:10:54.439 --> 02:10:58.920 then expanded shail, which really improves the drainage. It gets that oxygen down 1739 02:11:00.159 --> 02:11:03.479 into the soil. As we go higher and higher in our expanded shale content 1740 02:11:03.640 --> 02:11:07.399 in a clay soil, it drains internally better and better. And then they 1741 02:11:07.479 --> 02:11:13.640 have the organic compost complete, which is two different types of composts blended together, 1742 02:11:13.079 --> 02:11:18.359 lots of microbial diversity, lots of different kinds of beneficial microbes. You 1743 02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:22.079 know, microbes rule the world, and when it comes to plant roots, 1744 02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:26.000 good microbactivity and content is very important. I mean, it helps them develop, 1745 02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:30.000 it helps some fight disease. Maybe I need to talk about that more 1746 02:11:30.119 --> 02:11:35.399 sometime, about the role that microbes play in that. But it also it's 1747 02:11:35.439 --> 02:11:39.560 got these two types of compost mix and it's got the macro and micronutrients in 1748 02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:43.560 it, but it also has the expanded shale. And every time you add 1749 02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:48.760 expanded shale to your clay soil, you're improving that internal drainage. And that 1750 02:11:48.920 --> 02:11:54.840 is a very important long term thing, and arbigate can provide you with just 1751 02:11:54.000 --> 02:11:56.159 that. Oh and by the way, you're not going to find a better 1752 02:11:56.239 --> 02:12:01.560 plant selection. They self root trees throughout the year. You know, herbs, 1753 02:12:01.720 --> 02:12:05.800 flowers, vegema everything. Just go you'll see what I'm talking about. 1754 02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:11.560 Great gift shops too. Always love going into their gift shops because I find 1755 02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:16.399 some really beautiful quality things for the home that make excellent gifts for friends and 1756 02:12:16.520 --> 02:12:22.039 family. At the arbor Gate, you're listening to garden Line. Our phone 1757 02:12:22.119 --> 02:12:26.880 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one 1758 02:12:26.079 --> 02:12:33.600 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was talking earlier bragging on 1759 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:39.319 Microlife's liquid plant foods, you know the seven one three, the orange label 1760 02:12:39.479 --> 02:12:41.600 and then the silver label, or though giving me the blue label, not 1761 02:12:41.720 --> 02:12:48.640 silver, the blue label. That is their ocean the fish based material Ocean 1762 02:12:48.760 --> 02:12:54.960 Harvest. Well, I want to brag on their fertilizers for your lawn are 1763 02:12:54.159 --> 02:12:58.680 Actually they're great for all kinds of plants. But that's the green bag, 1764 02:12:58.760 --> 02:13:01.800 in the purple bag, that's the combo. The sixty four is the three 1765 02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:07.920 one two ratio that's in the green bag. You're releasing a bazillion beneficial microbes. 1766 02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:13.960 You're providing sixty three essential minerals for humans and for plants. Important that 1767 02:13:15.039 --> 02:13:20.279 are part of this organic fertilizer as it microbially decomposes over time. That's the 1768 02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:24.880 sixty four. The Humates Plus is a purple bag. Always a good idea. 1769 02:13:24.159 --> 02:13:28.840 Think of Humates plus is concentrated compost in a bag. If you were 1770 02:13:28.880 --> 02:13:33.079 to take compost and concentrate it down into a granule you can put in your 1771 02:13:33.119 --> 02:13:35.840 fertilizer spreader. That is the Humates Plus. Hey, if you want to 1772 02:13:35.920 --> 02:13:39.000 learn more about any of these or where you can buy them, go to 1773 02:13:39.119 --> 02:13:41.960 Microlife Fertilizer dot com. First of all, it's not gonna be hard to 1774 02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:46.960 find them. All our good home garden centers are Mom and pops carry them. 1775 02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:50.159 You will find them at as hardware stores and all kinds of other places 1776 02:13:50.199 --> 02:13:54.319 are feed stores as well. But Microlife Fertilizer dot com to get more information 1777 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:58.159 on those kind of products. Put them out on my yard this spring and 1778 02:13:58.399 --> 02:14:03.000 really happy with the results, watching the way that things growing by. It's 1779 02:14:03.039 --> 02:14:07.279 about time to do that again with the summer fertilization on us. I'd like 1780 02:14:07.479 --> 02:14:11.960 to use those to carry through summer. If your lawn isn't very dense, 1781 02:14:11.039 --> 02:14:13.640 it's do guy good color. I'd do it now and I probably do it 1782 02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:18.479 again in a month or two, just to kind of start to build up 1783 02:14:18.760 --> 02:14:26.560 that content in the soil that will be releasing nutrients slowly over time. I 1784 02:14:26.920 --> 02:14:31.079 love to talk about feed stores, and we have so many good ones. 1785 02:14:31.600 --> 02:14:33.199 North, Southeast, West, Central, wherever you live, you've got a 1786 02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:35.880 hometown feed store. If you were down south and a little bit to the 1787 02:14:35.960 --> 02:14:41.079 east, your feed stores. League City Feed the Thunderbergs West and his sister 1788 02:14:41.199 --> 02:14:46.800 Madison operate the place. Just that old time feed store. You want, 1789 02:14:46.000 --> 02:14:48.520 you know, you want all the products we talk about. If I mentioned 1790 02:14:48.520 --> 02:14:52.439 a fertilizer, they're going to have it there. They're gonna have soil blends, 1791 02:14:52.439 --> 02:14:56.159 they've got what does feed store carry. Well, it carries livestock feed, 1792 02:14:56.199 --> 02:15:00.560 of course, but it also they carry a premium pet food that's always 1793 02:15:00.560 --> 02:15:05.520 available if you have backyard chickens. They have a very good selection of feed, 1794 02:15:05.640 --> 02:15:09.279 feeders, waterers, betting material, everything you need for your chickens. 1795 02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:11.600 If you want to pick up some local honey, they also have that there. 1796 02:15:11.880 --> 02:15:16.520 Now they're on Highway three, just a it's a few blocks south of 1797 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.800 Highway ninety six. So if you're in League City, Clear Lake City, 1798 02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:24.359 San Leone Bay, Cliff, Lamarc Webster, Santa fel Comino, Ria, 1799 02:15:24.439 --> 02:15:30.000 all those places. This is your hometown feed store, League City Feed. 1800 02:15:30.119 --> 02:15:33.399 They're open Monday through Saturday six or nine to US to US six and they're 1801 02:15:33.439 --> 02:15:37.880 closed on Sunday, So today would be the time to swing by and grab 1802 02:15:37.960 --> 02:15:43.960 you some quality product. They're from League City Feed. I think now we'll 1803 02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:46.640 head out and go to the phones again. By the way, our number 1804 02:15:46.720 --> 02:15:50.680 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna talk to 1805 02:15:52.000 --> 02:15:56.880 Donna out in Beaumont. Well, Hello, Donna, I skip. We 1806 02:15:56.039 --> 02:16:00.840 have a problem in our yard with a big oak tree that has been there 1807 02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:05.600 for many years, and for quite a few years we've had an issue with 1808 02:16:05.760 --> 02:16:11.399 it um not getting enough light, and I think that's part of the problem. 1809 02:16:11.479 --> 02:16:13.680 But then my neighbor's tree that was blocking it dies, so it is 1810 02:16:13.720 --> 02:16:18.279 getting a little more light. But around the bottom of it, in a 1811 02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:24.560 oh, probably about a ten foot diameter, all these little sprouts keep coming 1812 02:16:24.680 --> 02:16:30.119 up off the roots, and the roots are kind of near the surface, 1813 02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:35.079 and they're just everywhere. It's like hundreds and hundreds of them. Tree. 1814 02:16:35.399 --> 02:16:39.719 Yes, sir, okay, all right, go ahead, and we don't 1815 02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:45.959 know. It's just really bad. I mean, they just keep coming up 1816 02:16:46.040 --> 02:16:50.440 and so my husband keeps weed eating them down, and and is there anything 1817 02:16:50.520 --> 02:16:54.200 we can do to help our oak tree out so that maybe it doesn't do 1818 02:16:54.360 --> 02:16:58.719 this well, you're not going to stop the sprouting. You know, oaks. 1819 02:16:58.600 --> 02:17:03.159 In the big gene pool of live oaks. There's some live oak types 1820 02:17:03.280 --> 02:17:07.959 that are less prone to sprouting, and then there's some types that are very 1821 02:17:07.040 --> 02:17:11.440 prone to sprouting. That's why we have all the little live oak mots in 1822 02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:15.120 central Texas. When you're driving through the country's a little clusters of live oak 1823 02:17:15.159 --> 02:17:20.000 trunks out there in the field. Once you've got the sprouts started, by 1824 02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:22.600 the way, what stimulates them is extra moisture there. And if you disturb 1825 02:17:22.680 --> 02:17:26.840 the soil to put in a flower bed, that'll also do it. But 1826 02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:28.639 once they start, you just got to cut them back as low as you 1827 02:17:28.760 --> 02:17:33.079 can and either live with them and trim them back periodically, mow over them 1828 02:17:33.120 --> 02:17:39.920 and whatnot, or put a ground a very dense thick groundcloth fabric like you 1829 02:17:39.959 --> 02:17:43.120 see in a garden center they set the pots of plants on, put those 1830 02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:46.680 out there and then put a mult or something over the top of it, 1831 02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:48.600 and that way the sprouts try to push it up, but they can't. 1832 02:17:50.120 --> 02:17:52.559 And I know that's a little bit of trouble, and maybe esthetically that's not 1833 02:17:52.680 --> 02:17:56.920 what you're going for, But once the sprouts start, you just can't get 1834 02:17:56.959 --> 02:18:01.239 them to stop sprouting. There is a proble all sucker stopper. I don't 1835 02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:05.799 even know where you would get that now, but sucker stopper is a product 1836 02:18:05.840 --> 02:18:09.760 and you spray it and like crape myrtles like to send up suckers from the 1837 02:18:09.799 --> 02:18:11.760 bottom too, and you spray it on them and it kind of it's a 1838 02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:16.319 hormone and it gets them to not grow. It doesn't kill them, it 1839 02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:18.399 doesn't make it all go away and quit. It just sort of shuts them 1840 02:18:18.440 --> 02:18:22.760 down. But that's something you'd have to be doing over and over again. 1841 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:26.000 And so I don't think that's going to be the solution for you. Okay, 1842 02:18:26.280 --> 02:18:28.799 Well, I didn't know if it was just we were it wasn't getting 1843 02:18:28.920 --> 02:18:33.799 enough light, or it wasn't we weren't feeding it or anything like that that 1844 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:37.399 we needed to do. So it's just that type of oak tree is going 1845 02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:39.920 to do that. It's just going to do that. And once they get 1846 02:18:39.000 --> 02:18:41.840 started, then you cut them back. And now where you cut one shoot 1847 02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:45.760 back, now three buds come out and you got three shoots, it come 1848 02:18:45.799 --> 02:18:50.079 back, and it's just part of the problem and dealing with them. But 1849 02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:52.840 yeah, I would turn if it were mine, I would turn lemons and 1850 02:18:54.000 --> 02:18:56.680 lemonade and do something like, you know, plant a groundcover around them, 1851 02:18:56.799 --> 02:19:01.440 like a Asian jasmine or some other own car you just mow over the top 1852 02:19:01.479 --> 02:19:03.920 of it. Or I would use that landscape fabric and then throw a mulch 1853 02:19:05.000 --> 02:19:07.840 on. Okay, okay, all right, well, thank you so much. 1854 02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:11.920 All right, I appreciate that call. I appreciate Bye, yes, 1855 02:19:13.000 --> 02:19:16.920 sir, thank you, byebye. Donna. Well, if you're thinking about 1856 02:19:16.079 --> 02:19:20.159 retiring, you're looking for a place where you can have a beautiful home, 1857 02:19:20.280 --> 02:19:26.520 a beautiful community, and you want an active retired lifestyle. So Dellweb builds 1858 02:19:26.559 --> 02:19:31.079 communities for you, active adults age fifty five and better. Down at full 1859 02:19:31.079 --> 02:19:35.159 Share less than two miles from downtown fulsher On Highway three fifty nine is a 1860 02:19:35.239 --> 02:19:37.840 new Dellweb community. It has everything Dellweb has, which if you don't know 1861 02:19:37.879 --> 02:19:43.559 about Dellweb, go online dellweb dot com, slash Houston and get more information 1862 02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:46.040 on them. This community. I'm helping them put in a community garden. 1863 02:19:46.200 --> 02:19:50.520 So in addition to all the reasons you would want to live in a Dellweb 1864 02:19:50.600 --> 02:19:54.239 community, here's another one, especially for our garden Line listeners. Call two 1865 02:19:54.360 --> 02:20:00.120 eight one four to five nine zero six zero nine find out more information and 1866 02:20:00.360 --> 02:20:03.440 maybe schedule of time to go out and check out the new community. Well, 1867 02:20:03.520 --> 02:20:07.280 Nikki, it's time for news, and I just can't wait to hear 1868 02:20:07.399 --> 02:20:11.719 what's happened now in the greater Houston area. Coming up? All right, 1869 02:20:11.879 --> 02:20:35.319 any horticultural news. Hopefully it's all right to dance. In fact, if 1870 02:20:35.399 --> 02:20:41.079 your foot isn't tapping, I would check up there. I don't know how 1871 02:20:41.120 --> 02:20:43.600 that could happen. Hey, you're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, 1872 02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:48.079 Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven one three two one two 1873 02:20:48.280 --> 02:20:52.799 fifty eight seventy four. We are in the home stretch here of the last 1874 02:20:52.879 --> 02:20:56.920 hour of garden Line for today. We'll be back tomorrow, by the way, 1875 02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:01.479 from six am to ten am, So feel free to check us out 1876 02:21:01.520 --> 02:21:09.959 again tomorrow. You know, if you're if you're wanting a quality, successful, 1877 02:21:09.479 --> 02:21:13.120 beautiful, bountiful garden, whether it's a flower bed, whether it's a 1878 02:21:13.239 --> 02:21:20.479 vegetable bed, whether it is containers of vegetables or color. It all starts 1879 02:21:20.520 --> 02:21:26.760 with a soil, the soil. It is truly literally the foundation of success 1880 02:21:26.239 --> 02:21:31.680 because the soil determines drainage, internal drainage. The soil determines microbial content, 1881 02:21:33.159 --> 02:21:35.920 the nutrient content. Do you see what I'm saying? And we can take 1882 02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:41.559 whatever kind of soil you have and make it a great soil by adding the 1883 02:21:41.719 --> 02:21:46.520 right kind of product to that soil. And heirloom soils provides that kind of 1884 02:21:46.600 --> 02:21:50.479 product. Maybe you need a putting sulfur indoors, Maybe you need something you 1885 02:21:50.520 --> 02:21:54.120 know your plants on the patio. Maybe you want to build a bed. 1886 02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:58.000 Then you want to bring in a quality mix a roast soil for example, 1887 02:21:58.440 --> 02:22:01.239 that can do the job. They are going to have it for you. 1888 02:22:01.399 --> 02:22:05.639 Maybe you want to get compost and improve the soil you already have and turn 1889 02:22:05.719 --> 02:22:11.159 it into something where you can grow things. Heirloom Soils of Texas dot Com. 1890 02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:15.920 Heirloom Soils of Texas dot Com. They'll they can also in some areas 1891 02:22:16.040 --> 02:22:20.040 deliver a one cubic yard supersack. Imagine a cubic yard and a big giant 1892 02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:24.799 one of those little grocery bags that you know where you bring in you don't 1893 02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:26.879 have to get a throwaway back. Well, imagine something big enough set on 1894 02:22:26.959 --> 02:22:30.680 your driveway. There was a cubic yard. That's what a supersack is. 1895 02:22:30.920 --> 02:22:33.680 And for a lot of their products that are going to be available in the 1896 02:22:33.760 --> 02:22:37.040 supersack as well. If you want to figure out how much soil you need, 1897 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:43.319 they have one of the best cubic yard calculators I've ever seen online. 1898 02:22:43.719 --> 02:22:48.040 Go to Airloom Soils of Texas dot com. You just plug in your information 1899 02:22:48.239 --> 02:22:52.639 and you'll know exactly how much soil are malts or compost or whatever you need 1900 02:22:52.719 --> 02:22:58.159 to purchase. I'm going to head down to Galveston now and we are going 1901 02:22:58.239 --> 02:23:01.920 to talk to Bill this morning. Well, hello, Bill, Hi, 1902 02:23:03.000 --> 02:23:05.559 how are you? I'm well, thanks, Um, How do I get 1903 02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:09.120 some photos to you. I've got a I've got a grapefruit tree that that 1904 02:23:09.239 --> 02:23:11.440 once through the big freeze back, you know, a couple of years back 1905 02:23:11.479 --> 02:23:15.520 in February. We've been nursing, you know, we've been nursing it along. 1906 02:23:16.440 --> 02:23:18.920 I used to produce as money as uh, you know, a hundred 1907 02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.200 grapefruit that hasn't produced anything since that big freeze, you know, two years 1908 02:23:24.239 --> 02:23:26.479 back in foe in February. Okay, and uh, and now I've got 1909 02:23:28.079 --> 02:23:30.159 you know, we cut it back. We've done all the things we thought 1910 02:23:30.159 --> 02:23:33.760 about doing. I've got some some bark that's flaking off, I've got some 1911 02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:39.200 sap on it, and I've got one small, you know, branch that's 1912 02:23:39.680 --> 02:23:43.559 all of a sudden just turned brown. Okay, And I'm trying to figure 1913 02:23:43.559 --> 02:23:46.079 out what's causing this. Yeah, it's it seems like you probably have had, 1914 02:23:46.680 --> 02:23:50.399 as they say, insalt added to injury for that tree. Maybe a 1915 02:23:50.520 --> 02:23:54.760 canker disease or something has gotten into it. You can certainly send me photos, 1916 02:23:56.120 --> 02:24:01.520 um show me some of the branches it has. It become thornier than 1917 02:24:01.799 --> 02:24:05.840 it was before. Not really, not really. It's got some good leaves 1918 02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:09.520 on it still. But huh okay, Well, I'm trying to determine whether 1919 02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:13.799 it's the root stock that has come back or if you've actually got something from 1920 02:24:13.840 --> 02:24:18.600 above the graph that is growing the ground, way above the ground. Okay. 1921 02:24:20.559 --> 02:24:22.959 It ought to settle in and start fruiting for you. We're talking a 1922 02:24:24.000 --> 02:24:28.799 tree that's got that's about six inch trunk on it. Uh huh okay, 1923 02:24:28.719 --> 02:24:31.959 well, uh, it ought to settle in and start fruiting. If it's 1924 02:24:33.000 --> 02:24:37.280 got, you know, graftwood that's growing above the graph that that ought to 1925 02:24:37.360 --> 02:24:41.200 work. You could have something like a canker that's moved in that's given you 1926 02:24:41.280 --> 02:24:46.120 trouble, and so that that would be something we're not gonna be able to 1927 02:24:46.159 --> 02:24:48.399 deal with. There's not a spray you put on the trunk and the canker 1928 02:24:48.520 --> 02:24:54.159 goes away. So I think the assessment is is it worth trying to keep 1929 02:24:54.239 --> 02:24:58.159 this tree or not? And the photos may help me determine that. I'm 1930 02:24:58.200 --> 02:25:01.120 going to put you on hold, pardon, how do I get them to 1931 02:25:01.239 --> 02:25:05.079 you? I'm about to I'm gonna put you on hold and Josh you'll get 1932 02:25:05.120 --> 02:25:09.239 online with you and he'll tell you how to how to send me those photos. 1933 02:25:09.840 --> 02:25:11.440 Show me the whole tree and a big picture of it. Show me 1934 02:25:11.559 --> 02:25:16.879 the stump and anythings you see. You can send several photos that are in 1935 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:18.760 good sharp focus. Check them before you send them. Make sure they're will 1936 02:25:18.840 --> 02:25:24.159 focused. Get as close as you can to a situation so that I can 1937 02:25:24.239 --> 02:25:28.799 really discern better sometime from a distance I really can't tell. Okay, thank 1938 02:25:28.840 --> 02:25:33.559 you for that. Then I'll call you tomorrow. That's perfectly good yes, 1939 02:25:33.879 --> 02:25:37.799 and for anyone listening. The reason I don't just give out the emails for 1940 02:25:37.920 --> 02:25:43.280 everybody's email is I cannot get the emails answered during the week, just with 1941 02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:46.000 all the things going on, and so I kind of limit them to if 1942 02:25:46.040 --> 02:25:50.600 you're gonna ask a question on garden line, well get let's get a photo 1943 02:25:50.719 --> 02:25:52.520 in and then let's talk about it, or after, you know, vice 1944 02:25:52.639 --> 02:25:54.959 versa. If I've talked to you, send me a photo. But I 1945 02:25:56.079 --> 02:25:58.799 like to connect it to the calls and the show as much I can. 1946 02:25:58.120 --> 02:26:01.840 That way, at least I can manage the volume that's coming in. Thanks 1947 02:26:01.879 --> 02:26:05.959 a lot, Bill, I look forward to seeing those, and Josh will 1948 02:26:05.000 --> 02:26:09.559 get your information. Now let's go to Southwest Houston and talk to Gary. 1949 02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:16.440 Hello, Gary, Hi, thanks for taking the call. Yes, I 1950 02:26:16.639 --> 02:26:22.440 am dealing with the mimosa weed in my lawn. Okay, dealing with it 1951 02:26:22.639 --> 02:26:26.319 for years. I've tried lots of different wheat and feed products, and none 1952 02:26:26.360 --> 02:26:30.520 of them seem to really take care of it. We've tried bulling it and 1953 02:26:30.600 --> 02:26:33.920 that just seems to aggravate it. So and it's weird because some of my 1954 02:26:35.000 --> 02:26:39.319 neighbors have it, some don't. I've tried the same weed and feat products 1955 02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:41.719 they use. Yeah, and I just I'm at a loss. Gotcha, 1956 02:26:43.159 --> 02:26:45.920 let me. I need to drill down and make sure I know we're talking 1957 02:26:46.040 --> 02:26:50.600 the same weed. Is this weed one that kind of grows more upright or 1958 02:26:50.799 --> 02:26:54.000 is this one that trails along the ground and may even have some little like 1959 02:26:54.440 --> 02:27:01.360 catclaw hook thorns in it. It's weird. Some of the it's finy. 1960 02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:05.200 It grows kind of under the grass and then creeps up on top of it 1961 02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:13.319 and purple flour pretty um. If you touch the leaves, gary, do 1962 02:27:13.399 --> 02:27:20.520 they close up like a venus flytrap? It close up? It doesn't seem 1963 02:27:20.600 --> 02:27:26.719 to I know what you're talking about. This touch me not um sensitive easily, 1964 02:27:26.879 --> 02:27:30.760 don't seem to close up. Some of the vines are a little bit 1965 02:27:30.879 --> 02:27:33.520 thorny, but some are not. Okay, most of them are not. 1966 02:27:33.879 --> 02:27:35.719 I know what you got. Okay, So here here's what I do. 1967 02:27:35.840 --> 02:27:41.319 Don't bother with a weed and feed, don't don't okay. My recommendation is 1968 02:27:41.879 --> 02:27:46.120 when you need to fertilize, fertilize with the product you need at the time 1969 02:27:46.200 --> 02:27:48.200 you need to fertilize. When you need to control weeds, control weeds with 1970 02:27:48.280 --> 02:27:52.520 the right product at the right time that you need to do that, and 1971 02:27:52.680 --> 02:27:56.360 oftentimes the weed and the feed don't overlap really well. Plus in this case, 1972 02:27:56.399 --> 02:28:01.000 you're going after a very specific weed, and so we're gonna recommend a 1973 02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:05.200 very specific product. Anything that contains two four D in it, like a 1974 02:28:05.360 --> 02:28:11.680 trimech tr I MC would be one that I would try. Now that it's 1975 02:28:11.760 --> 02:28:16.239 hot, if you use those in your lawn, it's going to damage the 1976 02:28:16.360 --> 02:28:20.680 lawn. Once we get up above about eighty five degrees, some of those 1977 02:28:20.760 --> 02:28:24.920 products can cause a problem. So with the weed, either you can kind 1978 02:28:24.959 --> 02:28:26.680 of pull it up out of the grass, you know, with gloves on 1979 02:28:26.760 --> 02:28:31.639 your hand, and then dab a product onto it, which if you have 1980 02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:35.280 a few weeds that's easy. If you've got a lot, that's totally impractical. 1981 02:28:35.879 --> 02:28:39.840 Or wait until things go l off a little bit and do the treatment 1982 02:28:39.879 --> 02:28:41.959 at that time, be ready to come back and do it again next spring 1983 02:28:43.040 --> 02:28:46.840 as they begin to come out. There's also a product that can that contains 1984 02:28:46.959 --> 02:28:50.559 triclopeer that will work real well on it, but it's also hard on Saint 1985 02:28:50.559 --> 02:28:54.760 Augustine, so you want to use it as a spot spray. A dab 1986 02:28:54.840 --> 02:28:58.280 on a spot sprayer, okay, so that you don't you don't damage your 1987 02:28:58.399 --> 02:29:01.760 your grass too much. I'm gonna have to take a break, go to 1988 02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:05.600 a break here. If you need to hang on and keep keep going, 1989 02:29:05.159 --> 02:29:09.000 feel free to do that our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 1990 02:29:09.079 --> 02:29:35.600 eight seventy four. We'll be right back. All right, you're listening to 1991 02:29:35.719 --> 02:29:41.719 garden Line. We are back to answer your gardening questions system anyway we can. 1992 02:29:41.959 --> 02:29:45.120 I love the chance to get to talk to gardeners, and that is 1993 02:29:45.200 --> 02:29:48.399 exactly what we're up to today. Let's begin by heading out to Katie and 1994 02:29:48.479 --> 02:29:54.159 we're gonna talk to Doug. Hello, Doug. Hello. Well, I 1995 02:29:54.360 --> 02:30:01.120 was given some about five to six inch long pop up rose things and I've 1996 02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:05.079 I wrapped them in paper towels on the end, I cut them at a 1997 02:30:05.159 --> 02:30:13.159 forty five degree angle. I smeared ali vera gel over that and before I 1998 02:30:13.239 --> 02:30:18.399 wrapped them up, and I've got them in a little cup, you know, 1999 02:30:18.639 --> 02:30:24.639 just enough water to keep those the paper towels wet. And they've been 2000 02:30:24.719 --> 02:30:31.680 there like about I guess a month, am I just am I waiting for 2001 02:30:31.840 --> 02:30:35.520 nothing here? Oh? So they're still sitting in the paper towels in the 2002 02:30:35.680 --> 02:30:39.040 in this cup that you know, I keep the paper towels on the bottom 2003 02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:46.719 moist. They still have got to work. Did they have green leaves on 2004 02:30:46.799 --> 02:30:52.920 them? They did, but they all fell off like about after about a 2005 02:30:52.000 --> 02:30:56.520 week. I think probably not. And here's how you if you get a 2006 02:30:56.639 --> 02:31:01.120 chance to redo this, get your cut Get them early, early in the 2007 02:31:01.239 --> 02:31:05.040 morning, when it's as cool as it's going to be during the warm season. 2008 02:31:05.879 --> 02:31:11.879 And then when you take them, take cuttings that are about maybe four 2009 02:31:11.959 --> 02:31:16.680 inches long, take or five take the leaves off the bottom part. Dip 2010 02:31:16.760 --> 02:31:20.719 them into a hormone powder a garden center will provide you, or you know 2011 02:31:20.799 --> 02:31:26.120 Ace hardware store has the hormones for plants. Dip them in that and then 2012 02:31:26.239 --> 02:31:30.360 put them in a moist, well drained material. It could be parolite, 2013 02:31:30.399 --> 02:31:33.079 it could be a low potting mix. It just you want it to be 2014 02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:37.719 moist. Put a cover over them that's clear, and set them where they 2015 02:31:37.760 --> 02:31:43.559 can get light but not direct sun, and they will root in that condition. 2016 02:31:43.680 --> 02:31:46.520 I use that, you know two liter pot bottles that are clear. 2017 02:31:48.040 --> 02:31:50.399 You can go down and go about a third of the way up from the 2018 02:31:50.440 --> 02:31:54.600 bottom and cut them and almost all the way and just leave a little bit 2019 02:31:54.680 --> 02:31:58.159 of plastic hanging, so it's a hinge, and then you fill the bottom 2020 02:31:58.200 --> 02:32:01.280 with soil, put your cuttings in that and close the top over. That 2021 02:32:01.479 --> 02:32:07.280 is a perfect little greenhouse. For how long should that take? It depends 2022 02:32:07.840 --> 02:32:11.719 all not all roses rudy equally. Some are very difficult to route, some 2023 02:32:11.840 --> 02:32:15.600 are very easy. But I would say in two or three weeks you should 2024 02:32:15.639 --> 02:32:20.600 have a pretty good cutting if the temperatures are mild, and if it's getting 2025 02:32:20.840 --> 02:32:24.360 you know, a decent plenty of light. But again the cutting can't head 2026 02:32:24.360 --> 02:32:28.040 will be in the full sun. Yeah, well, I guess I'll have 2027 02:32:28.159 --> 02:32:31.239 to get some more. Try again, maybe y'all, yeah, give them 2028 02:32:31.280 --> 02:32:33.840 that shot. Sound like you were on your way to a good idea. 2029 02:32:33.959 --> 02:32:37.600 I use the paper to wrap around them, the wet paper, in order 2030 02:32:37.719 --> 02:32:43.000 to put them in a plastic bag and just get them home. I'll even 2031 02:32:43.040 --> 02:32:45.879 get them in an ice chest with just a little ice, just to be 2032 02:32:45.920 --> 02:32:46.920 cool. You don't even be frozen, but you want to kind of a 2033 02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:50.959 little bit of a refrigerated feeling there for him until you get them home, 2034 02:32:52.040 --> 02:32:54.639 so they don't will too much. That's another reason why I said take the 2035 02:32:54.719 --> 02:32:58.079 cuttings early in the day because and then and then you take off all the 2036 02:32:58.239 --> 02:33:01.840 leaves except for maybe just a couple at the top, Yeah, the top 2037 02:33:03.079 --> 02:33:05.639 top, one or two sets of leaves, leave them on. That allows 2038 02:33:05.680 --> 02:33:11.399 them to make those should always those shouldn't die, right, they shouldn't. 2039 02:33:11.479 --> 02:33:18.520 They shouldn't die. But if the rose can get that wound that you made 2040 02:33:18.719 --> 02:33:22.000 cutting it of forty five degree angles a good little idea. If it can 2041 02:33:22.040 --> 02:33:26.719 get that wound to start to form callous, that kind of whitish, creamy 2042 02:33:26.840 --> 02:33:33.000 material from that can come roots. Roots don't come directly from the cutting itself. 2043 02:33:33.079 --> 02:33:35.520 They come from the callous tissue that forms when you make the cutting, 2044 02:33:37.200 --> 02:33:39.959 and then they will form roots. And once you get to that stage, 2045 02:33:41.159 --> 02:33:43.600 you're good to go. You just keep taking care of them gradually. Then 2046 02:33:43.680 --> 02:33:48.280 you can take that clear off so that you can pot them up. And 2047 02:33:48.520 --> 02:33:52.159 I sometimes will throw a little bag over them when they're potted up, a 2048 02:33:52.159 --> 02:33:54.159 little clear plastic bag just to kind of keep it little. You know, 2049 02:33:54.200 --> 02:33:58.280 you don't want them to lose moisture. That's the problem until they've got a 2050 02:33:58.319 --> 02:34:01.479 good root system is they can't dry. You can't lose moisture. But that 2051 02:34:01.559 --> 02:34:05.040 ought to get you off to a good start. Okay, I'll give it 2052 02:34:05.120 --> 02:34:07.159 another try. Thank you, all right, you take care of Thank you 2053 02:34:07.200 --> 02:34:11.680 for the call. You know, I was talking about Nitrofos products earlier and 2054 02:34:11.879 --> 02:34:16.200 the fertilizers and things. But when it's summertime, we have insects that we 2055 02:34:16.319 --> 02:34:20.120 deal with in our lawns, and Nitropos has two products it work very well 2056 02:34:20.159 --> 02:34:26.680 against that. First of all is bugout Max. That is a wide spectrum 2057 02:34:26.079 --> 02:34:31.040 insecticide for turf problem. In fact, you'll kill a lot of different kinds 2058 02:34:31.040 --> 02:34:33.360 of it's I believe one hundred and thirty different kinds of species of insects that 2059 02:34:33.440 --> 02:34:37.920 it'll work on. It's an advanced formula. You can spread that on your 2060 02:34:37.040 --> 02:34:43.680 lawn. So when you have things like the sideweb worm coming along, you 2061 02:34:43.799 --> 02:34:46.680 want a product there that is going to help fight that. When you're dealing 2062 02:34:46.000 --> 02:34:50.360 with chinch bugs and the lawn, perfect product for dealing with that. They 2063 02:34:50.440 --> 02:34:56.000 also have the Nitropos fire ant killer. It works quick, it kills the 2064 02:34:56.120 --> 02:34:58.680 queen, doesn't allow them to escape, it kills the colony, prevents new 2065 02:34:58.760 --> 02:35:05.000 mount for coming up. So the bugout Max and the Nitropous Fiant Killer two 2066 02:35:05.040 --> 02:35:09.680 excellent products that are available everywhere nitroposles is sold, which includes places like Fisher's 2067 02:35:09.719 --> 02:35:16.680 Hardware down Southmore in Southeaston or on Broadway Street, Laport. Go out to 2068 02:35:16.200 --> 02:35:20.680 Lake Hardware in Angleton, or maybe you're in the Memorial City, the Ace 2069 02:35:20.799 --> 02:35:24.680 Hardware there, Memorial Drive, lots of lots of places where you can find 2070 02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:31.079 nitro foss. Let's head out now to Tanglewood and I believe this is gonna 2071 02:35:31.079 --> 02:35:33.319 be our last calf of the day. And here is Beverly. Hello, 2072 02:35:33.440 --> 02:35:37.920 Beverly, Hi darling. I know I need to be quick as you're running 2073 02:35:37.920 --> 02:35:43.520 out of time. I planted in the ground a Mira lemon tree about four 2074 02:35:43.600 --> 02:35:46.600 months ago and it looks great, even has two small little lemons. My 2075 02:35:46.799 --> 02:35:52.760 question for you is that there are saying several small limbs growing out below the 2076 02:35:52.920 --> 02:35:56.079 graft. Should I cut them off or just lets them leave them there to 2077 02:35:56.200 --> 02:36:00.639 grow? You definitely want to cut those off. That is route suckers, 2078 02:36:00.799 --> 02:36:05.440 and they don't amount to anything good. They are only there for your grafted 2079 02:36:05.520 --> 02:36:09.319 rose to have something to grow on, and so it's below the graph. 2080 02:36:09.440 --> 02:36:15.000 That's true. You know you're asking about roses, but I mean lemons rather. 2081 02:36:15.120 --> 02:36:16.680 But that's true. If it's a grafted rose, that's true. If 2082 02:36:16.680 --> 02:36:22.600 it's a grafted fruit tree, you never want those suckers to grow. Now, 2083 02:36:22.079 --> 02:36:26.319 some of these small they're all some small ms rise above where the graph 2084 02:36:26.440 --> 02:36:30.239 is coming motor. Okay, just leave them, let them grow. Yes, 2085 02:36:30.440 --> 02:36:35.319 that's my that's myer lemon, MYR lemon, and MYR lemon is a 2086 02:36:35.360 --> 02:36:37.440 good one. How big of a container do you have that thing in? 2087 02:36:37.920 --> 02:36:41.479 Playing in the ground? Oh okay, all right, well good, myr 2088 02:36:41.559 --> 02:36:43.680 lemon is a good one. You just have to take care of it when 2089 02:36:43.719 --> 02:36:46.719 we have a hard freeze. I know, I know, I lost one 2090 02:36:46.799 --> 02:36:50.840 in twenty twenty one. Okay, I had in the ground for years and 2091 02:36:52.000 --> 02:36:54.840 years, So you know, kind of members about playing this one in the 2092 02:36:54.920 --> 02:36:58.600 ground again, I understand. I'll give it a try. Thank you so 2093 02:36:58.760 --> 02:37:01.600 much for your heil, and thank you for the cab. Beverley, it's 2094 02:37:01.600 --> 02:37:05.920 good to visit with you. Well, we're wrapping up another garden Line. 2095 02:37:05.479 --> 02:37:09.520 We are going to be back tomorrow from six to ten. Remember we're also 2096 02:37:09.559 --> 02:37:16.239 available by podcast. So maybe you have friends who live listen outside the KTRS 2097 02:37:16.319 --> 02:37:18.760 listening area and they want to know about garden Line. Just tell them about 2098 02:37:18.799 --> 02:37:24.040 the podcast Garden Line with Skip Wrecter and they can listen to past shows as 2099 02:37:24.079 --> 02:37:28.799 well. You can also listen to us online to get to a computer and 2100 02:37:28.399 --> 02:37:31.799 want to come in that way, you can listen to the show as well. 2101 02:37:33.639 --> 02:37:37.239 But our goal is to help you have success. We want you to 2102 02:37:37.319 --> 02:37:41.559 have a more beautiful garden. Who wants you to have the more bountiful landscape? 2103 02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:46.520 And I know a lot of people Number one gardening is first of all, 2104 02:37:46.559 --> 02:37:48.399 gardening is the number one hobby in the country. It's it's a very 2105 02:37:48.520 --> 02:37:54.959 popular hobby, widespread all age groups gardening. That is one thing that is 2106 02:37:54.040 --> 02:38:00.479 unique about gardening is a hobby. But gardening is a hobby where you want 2107 02:38:00.479 --> 02:38:03.600 to have fun, you want to have success. We garden because we want 2108 02:38:03.719 --> 02:38:07.319 good, yummy, healthy, nutrient packed food. We garden because we like 2109 02:38:07.479 --> 02:38:11.760 the esthetics. Regarden for the exercise. We garden for the mental benefits of 2110 02:38:11.879 --> 02:38:15.879 gardening. We want you to have success and that's why we have Garden Line.