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watch him as wosis gas so many
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like gas baby can you did?
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gas can starting you did? Good
morning, Glad to have you with us

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this morning. Welcome to garden Line. We're looking forward to whatever things are

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of interest you. What are your
questions about gardening? What have you what

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would you like tried? Is there
something we can help you with in terms

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of diagnosing, identifying, or do
you just like to talk about gardening.

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I can certainly understand that one for
sure. If you would like to give

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us a call, our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

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

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am really I'm actually really enjoying the
weather that we've been having. I enjoy

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a mix of the weather, and
you know, we've got to have times

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where it rains, time where it
doesn't some sunshine. Of course, it's

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summer. We can gripe about the
heat, but it's summer. It's part

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of the deal. All we need
to do is focus on getting our work

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done in the early morning hours,
in the late afternoon hours or very late

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or I should say early evening actually
ours. Uh. Just always want to

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be safe, and I encourage you. I know, when I was a

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kiddo, I was pretty invincible.
Nothing would kill me. And then one

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day I don't know how I was, but it was up in the teens

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or early twenties, I ended up
with almost having a heat stroke from being

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out in the sun and just working
and work in those a time where we

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were doing a lot of physical work
and farm work and different kinds of things.

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I overloaded and as a result,
it almost knocked me down. Good.

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Heat stroke and heat exhaustion and all
those things are serious, and I

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encourage you to know and obey the
warning signs when you see someone or when

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you start feeling things, feeling flush. There's just a lot of symptoms of

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it. I'm not a doctor,
so I won't tell you what they all

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are. You can find those out
yourself. But when you start noticing things

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just aren't quite right, you need
to take care of it. But even

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before that, you need to plan
so that you don't get into that situation

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because a lot of those problems sneak
up on us. And that's what happened

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to me. I thought I was
fine. I mean, just gut up

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and go right, you can do
it. But well, I tell you

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what, it's life threatening, so
don't mess with it. Another thing we

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don't want to mess with is our
skin. Skin damage is cumulative, and

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the more you're out getting sun on
your skin. Number number one, it's

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there's the danger of long term skin
damage that has all kinds of issues that

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we have to deal with. But
there's also the fact that you know it,

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it's cooler to wear a long sleeved
cotton type shirt or something else that's

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got a good SPF factor because it's
it's actually your Your perspiration soaks into the

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materials and then evaporates away, cooling
you off. The sun doesn't actually hit

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your skin and heat it up that
way. Uh, And I've made that

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switch to over the years too.
What I'm going to get out, even

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though it's summer, long sleeve,
loose fitting shirt, it just works really

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really well SPF sunscreens, making sure
you wear a hat or something if you're

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if you have bare skin, you're
ears your head, your neck, all

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those things. Here, I am
lecturing you like your mom. Well I'm

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not really, I'm just saying from
one friend to another, Hey, let's

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take care of ourselves. We want
a garden for a really long time and

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enjoy it. And just something that's
kind of been in my mind lately as

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things have really heated up and the
weather is heated up, so drank plenty

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of water. That's another one.
It sneaks up on you. All right,

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Well you're listening to garden Line.
I'm gonna stop the advice that was

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unsolicited and we'll just start talking about
gardening. The fire beds that I have

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are I've been taking care of them, putting some nice quality multures down.

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Had a shredded mulch that I was
I have been using now for a while

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from Nature's Way Resources. Nature's Way
is a wonderful company that really was at

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the lead of quality soil care products. You know the mantra stuff before green

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stuff. Well, Nature's Way is
all about the brown stuff. They're up

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there almost a conro up I forty
five about where fourteen eighty eight comes in.

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They're on the east side, just
across the railroad tracks. Real easy

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to get to, and the quality
products they have, there's just so many.

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I mean, I could spend the
whole hour just naming and describing some

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of the mini products that they carry. If you're looking for specific mixes like

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for ctrus or for cactus or something
like that, they have it. If

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you want to grow blueberries or azaleas
or something that likes acid loving condition or

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acid conditions guardinias Headrangis, they've got
a blueberry mix that works great for that.

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They were the ones who actually created, in partnership with the Houston Roads

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Society, the premium rose soil blend
that's out there on the market, and

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it just goes on and on.
Anything you need you need some expanded shale

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mixed with composts to help create a
long term loose of that clay soil.

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Nature's Way has that they stay,
i would say, on the cutting edge

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of how things go in the soil
making, the compost making, the bed

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mix making industries. They take their
time to do it right, and when

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you get a product from Nature's Way, you know that you're going to improve

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your soil significantly, or in the
case of mulches, you can go on

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the surface that you're going to create
a high quality mulch, and that's that's

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some of the material that I've been
using this past week is some of their

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double aged double or native age double
ground mulch. That is an excellent,

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outstanding molts. They have many other
really high quality ones as well, but

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that's just one I've been using and
I think it works super super well.

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Nature's Way is open Monday through Friday
from eight to five and Saturday from eight

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am to two pm. They're closed
today, they'll be back open tomorrow as

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well. If you want to give
them a call, it's nine three six

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three two one sixty nine ninety three
six three two one sixty nine ninety.

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They have some outstanding opportunities to get
quality products at a very very good price

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right now. Tell them that you
heard about them on garden Line. This

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is important. Have your attention just
for a moment here because this is important.

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Tell them you heard about it on
garden Line, and you will get

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a huge discount on all kinds of
soil based products there at Nature's Way.

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And now's a good time to do
it. I realize it's hot outside,

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but little early morning work and stuff
fall planting is just around the corner.

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We're going to be planting starting planting
our vegetable gardens. Actually we kind of

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already have a way of tomatoes and
whatnot, but we'll be doing a lot

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of vegetable garden planning in September,
even late August. Flowers, same kinds

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of things. If you're going to
put any kind of a woody shrub or

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perennial or tree in the ground,
there's not a better time than fall.

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But now's the time to get your
soil red. Get the brown stuff first

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and then the green stuff. And
Nature's Way Resources can help you get super

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high quality brown stuff. And by
the way, that is also their website,

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Naturesway Resources dot com. You're listening
to the Garden Line. Our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two KTRH and we're gonna take a little

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break here and when we come back, we will go to Mike in Northwest

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Houston and kick things off on the
phones. Welcome back to guard Line.

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Hey, we're glad you're listening this
morning. I hope you have a cup

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of coffee or whatever it takes to
get those eyes open. And we got

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a lot to talk about because we
want you to have a beautiful, beautiful

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landscape. We want you to have
a bountiful garden, whether it's vegetables or

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flowers or herbs, and it all
is available to you. All it takes

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is some good information to get you
off on the right foot. Like I

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like to say, there's no brown
thumbs, there's uninformed thumbs. And we're

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here to inform your thumb. And
we're going to head straight out to the

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phones right now and talk to Mike
in northwest Houston. Well, good morning,

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Mike, and welcome to guard Line. Hello Mike or Texas State Guardsmen.

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Yeah, I'm here. Okay,
go ahead, can you hear me?

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Okay, yeah. Let me give
a quick shout out to all the

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state Texas State Guardsmen who are out
helping with the pass out supplies and water

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and ice to everybody that suffered from
the hurricane. The question is because they're

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doing good work. The question is, with all the rain and all the

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water on the ground right now,
is there anything we should do to try

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to take advantage of it or to
head off issues? Are we talking about

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the context of like a lawn or
what? Yeah? Like yeah, around

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the house? I mean, yeah, not mass We don't Yeah, I

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probably misled you with that. But
anyway, just when we get off you

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know, when we go off duty
and we go home with all this rain,

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is there something we should do to
take advantage of it or to make

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things better. Well, we got
a lot of water on the ground,

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right. We don't want to work
the soil when it's very very wet,

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especially clay soils that destroys the structure. And then when they dry out,

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we got little blocks of concrete in
the ground that are very hard to work

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with. But when it's moist,
you know, dry, it's hard and

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hard and you don't can't work it. Super wet, you don't want to

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work it. But in the middle
there's this sweet spot where it crumbles apart,

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and that would be a good time
to do any kind of soil preparation

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because you know, we could go
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and if anything you can do to
get your beds ready for fall or

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for any future planting, take advantage
whether they say make hay while the sunshines,

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well, this is a great time
to be able to do some soil

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improvement. As it begins to dry
out just to a little bit more so

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you would want to avoid that.
It's also an easier time when the soil

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is moist to pull up weeds when
you're you know, going to do some

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hand pulling, or if you've got
one of those little tools like Grandpa's weeder

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that just pulls the pop pops them
out of the ground, you never have

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to bend over. When the soil
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it's much less work. And then
it gets dry it's harder to do.

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This would be important time to stay
ahead on mowing because the number one thing

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making those that grass grow right now
is the water. As it gets dry,

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grass is going to slow down.
But boy, when it gets good

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rainfall, it's as if you fertilized
it. The grass really takes off growing.

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So stand ahead on that. Those
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I just wondered if there was like, you know, like hey, seize

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the moment. Yeah, those are
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think also more so than just the
fact that we had a bunch of rain,

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is where we are on the calendar. And you know that I've said

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earlier when I started the show talking
about vegetable plantings for fall, there's times

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when you need to get them in
so that you get your crop before the

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first frost hits or something like that. And so we want to be watching

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those and stand ahead of that.
But it's always a good time to build

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the soil. Mike, I appreciate
you call a sure, Yeah called before,

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I'll call again, all right,
look forward to it. Yeah,

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that you know, there's all these
adages out there. And someone told me

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the other day that I speak in
adages a lot, or speak in sayings

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a lot and stuff. But it's
a thing that comes to mind, like

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right then, you know that make
haywell, the sunshines. He who hesitates

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is lost. A stitch in time
will save nine. That they're true.

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There's a reason there's adages. They're
true. I say this about pest control

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a lot too. The sooner you
respond to a pest problem, the more

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options you have, and the more
least toxic options you have, and the

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more benefits you can do. So
let me give you an example. If

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you have caterpillars that are chomping on
your plants, if you jump in there

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early on with a square to bet
on the foliage, they eat it,

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they get sick, they die,
and it's very effective. The older,

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the caterpillars get BT becomes less effective. Plus with each molting they get bigger

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jaws and they eat more leaf area
per day. And so you can go

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from oh, there's a caterpillar on
my plant to oh, I don't have

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any leaves on my plant pretty quick, and so early response is important.

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And the caterpillar is just an example. That's true of many other pest issues.

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Stink bugs when they're young are much
more susceptible to a spray. By

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the time they get older, they
have wings flying around. It takes some

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pretty potent stuff, synthetic perithoids and
whatnot to truly knock them down and kill

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them. And they're everywhere, and
your sprays aren't as effective because you don't

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have a little cluster of them like
when they hatch out as babies don't hesitate

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on things. If you've got little
weeds popping up everywhere, just a slice

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of the hoe barely underneath the surface, and you just wipe them all out

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with almost no work. Once they're
established and got good root systems. Now

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you're hacking away at them, they're
already entangled with your plants, are taking

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water, they're taking nutrients. If
you pull them up, you may be

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damaging some of the plant roots around
them. You see what I'm saying,

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That principle of sooner rather than later, get it done now, and it's

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so much better if you're an organic
gardener. Especially, this is even more

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important because our options, in the
organic arsenal or the organic pest control options

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that we have are most effective when
the pests are very very young, and

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you can step in and take action
at that time. So that's just a

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little bit of a ti there to
think about. I see a lot of

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times, you know, I get
calls from people, a lot of times

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when the problem is already so far
along that it's kind of late to do

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anything. So the analogy or the
example that I always uses the guy that's

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coming home from work at five o'clock. You know, he's hammered from the

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day of work, and he's shuffling
along looking down, and he doesn't notice

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a problem in his trees up above
until he hears leaves rustling under his feet

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that he's shuffling through, and then
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Well, it's a little bit late
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right, Well, our phone number
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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Puerscapes is a It's

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an outstanding company when it comes to
anything to make your landscape more beautiful,

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more effective, make the work that
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And here's what I'm talking about.
You need a good design. They can

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do that. They can design the
whole landscape or they can just do some

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designs for parts of it. Do
you need work on your irrigation system so

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those hard earned dollars you're spending squirting
drinking water on your lawn and plants are

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more efficiently spent, most efficient.
Most irrigation systems are not designed efficiently and

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they become inefficient as heads get misaligned
and other issues happen. Peers Scapes can

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fix that. Would you like to
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landscape lighting. Do you have an
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a result, plants are not performing
there very well. Peers Scapes can fix

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that. They do all of that. Do you have landscape beds that are

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blaw and you want them to be
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Hire them as a quarterly maintenance service
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seasonal color changes, to do any
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area, gation, mulching, if
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and they keep them in tiptop shape. See Pierce Scapes does all of that

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and much more. Go to the
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examples of the work that they can
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give them a call two eight one
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three seven zero five zero six zero. Now it would be a great time

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to give Pierscapes a call. Fall
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to do major renovations in the landscape. Give them a call now, get

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on the boards with them. What
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just making sure you're scheduled out there
and have them come out and transform

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your place into something beautiful because when
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you're going to spend a lot more
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landscape. Our phone number is seven
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four seven one three two one two
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to give us a call. We'll
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interest to you. If you haven't
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get it done. You still can
do summer fertilization now. I would recommend

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a slow release product being my first
option, and the reason for that is

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grass takes up a little nitrogen every
day. It doesn't take up a year's

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worth of nitrogen in one week.
And sometimes people want to go out and

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just dump a bunch of immediately available
nitrogen down and feed the lawn for the

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summer, and it doesn't work that
way. Excessive amounts they wash away,

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they volatilize the way into the atmosphere. They cause a flush of grass top

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growth at the expent of root growth, and none of that is good.

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That's a less resilient grass plant to
grub, damage to droughts and other things.

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Nitrofoss Superturf is the fertilizer that is
a slow release. It's a silver

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bag by Nitroposs. It will feed
your lawn all the way through the coming

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weeks and months, all the way
up until it's time to do fall fertilization.

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Nitrofos Superturf is widely available. Like
all nitrofoss products. You're going to

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find it in many different places.
Ace Hardware Stores, the Plantation Ace out

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there in the Richmond area. You're
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on businest Runwick and many many other
locations. DND feed up and tom Ball

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carries it easy to find Nitropos Superturf
and now's the time to get that down.

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We're going to take a little break
now for the news and I will

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be right back. If you'd like
to get on the boards, give us

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a call seven one three two one
two KTRH. Fine. Thanks for tuning

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in this morning. We got plenty
of things we can talk about when it

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comes to gardens and taking care of
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all seasons. On two forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway is a long

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term nursery, a family operated nursery, one of our independent garden centers.

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That the kind we go to when
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quality plants, and we want service
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garden centers and plants for all seasons. Is that kind of garden center you

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know, they've been around since nineteen
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operating plants for all seasons. They
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that grow here, how to care
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and just helping you along the way. If you've got a brown thumb,

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walk in there and they'll turn it
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guidance. You can bring them samples, you can bring them pictures. Whatever

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you need, they will help you. Maybe it's a product that you need

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to manage a particular pest. Listen. They've been through decades of answering these

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same questions. They know what works, they know it doesn't work. Go

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to Plants for all seasons. From
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the fact that they do liver all
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six. We're going to go to
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to talk to Lee. Hello,
Lee, good morning. I want to

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RePOP my orchid, but it's in
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the particular names of the orchids carts, okay, but it has two shoes

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going through the plastic container. Can
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what do I need to buy to
RePOP my ipit? You can cut it

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off. Let me ask this question. Did you get it at like a

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grocery store? I got it your
home depot in Walmart. Okay, all

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right, so that tells me what
kind of orchid it is. You've got

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a moth orchid and those are the
easiest orchid to grow. And so what

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you want to do is you want
to take it out of the old container.

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If I don't quite follow the going
through the container, but cut it

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away however you need to do it
to get that orchid free. You want

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to cut off any dead roots,
and you can see they're shrunken down.

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They're not plump and healthy looking.
Usually those are lower down on the stem,

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the lowest roots, and as the
stem grows up, roots keep coming

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out of the stem higher and higher
on the stem, and save those roots.

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You want to pot it up in
a good orchid mix. And we've

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got some great garden centers that provide
some really quality mixes for growing orchids that

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are going to be very chunky,
like chunks of bark may They may have

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a little bit of charcoal in them. They could have some kind of an

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expanded shale or haydike kind of material, or clay dried clay balls in them,

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anything like that swagn of moss.
Those orchids need really good drainage.

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You want them to be able to
get moisture and hold a little bit in

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the mix. But they live on
the outside of a tree in the jungle.

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They cling to the barks. You
get wet when it rains and then

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they dry out. There's no soggy, wet soil for an orchid, So

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make sure you get a true quality
orchid mix for that. And being out

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there in the Humbul area, you
got some ace hardware stores that are going

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to have that kind of mix that
you can use. You're not too far

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away from Kingwood where there's worn in
southern gardens. Kingwood garden centers gonna have

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those kind of mixes as well,
and so that's important. You want to

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get a little bit larger pot.
You don't need a large large pot,

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but i'd bump it up to the
next size pot. And then once you

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get it potted up, water it
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solution, something that you know,
you mix in water to loote down.

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It can be organic or synthetic,
but a very dilute solution, and just

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as you water, do that and
it'll give it a little bit of a

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boost to get it growing. Make
sure you give it as much light as

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you can, whether it's in a
bright window where the sun doesn't hit it

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directly, or if you got it
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that is the key, and it'll
start growing and next thing you know it's

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going to be going through its bloom
cycle. Again. Well, thank you

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very much, because I'm in beginner
it is. I love orchids, but

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I've never tried to repot one,
but thank you. You pick the right

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one that is the probably the easiest
orchid to grow, and the more you

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work with it, the better you
get. And sometimes you know, you

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may have one that you lose,
but overall you're going to have success.

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And you may see them growing and
growing and or just they're alive and they're

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sitting there and they won't bloom,
and that's usually because of a lack of

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adequate sunlight or not getting They need
sunlight, they need indirect light. Excuse

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me, I shouldn't have said sunlight
in that sense. They need bright indirect

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light. They like. They don't
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If you want the top performance out
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light. They'll sit there, they'll
get darker green, but they're not going

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to bloom for you if they don't
get adequate light. Okay, okay,

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well, thank you very much.
All right, Lee, Thanks, I

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appreciate your call very much. Thanks
a lot. Star of Hope has been

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around for many, many years in
the Houston Areia, to be exact,

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they just celebrated their one hundred and
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They're one of the oldest and largest
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homeless people, a thousand homeless and
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day are helped by Star of Hope. They serve about six thousand meals a

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week. They have a van that
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with the excessive heat and things,
people that need help, but they don't

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just do handouts. They do that, but they don't just do handouts.

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They are about changing lives. They're
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turns lives, that turns families around, jobs, hope, freedom from substance

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abuse, help for the kids,
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for people that are willing to follow
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They change lives. I cannot think
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to put your compassion to work than
Star of Hope ministries. You can go

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and learn more, and I hope
you will sohmission dot org. There's ways

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you can volunteer, there's things you
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to donating, you know it doesn't
take much to provide it everything. Do

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you know that for two dollars and
eighty cents they can serve someone a meal

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two dollars and eighty cent donation?
I mean that is that is chicken feed

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for us, and yet it's huge
for someone else who doesn't have in needs

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and it's trying to make a difference
for them and their family. Star Hope

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Missions. I can't recommend it any
stronger. Let's go out now to Rose

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Sharon and we're going to talk to
the Dennis. Hello, Dennis, Hi,

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how are you doing? Hello?
Hello? Hello? Can you hear

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me? All right? I believe
we're going to take a break. Dennis,

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hang on if you're there. We're
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we get back from break. But
our phone number if you'd like to give

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us a call seven one three two
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ad Buck Sexton. Can you hop
about the guard line? Good to have

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you with us this morning. We
got a lot of things we can talk

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about. One thing I want to
talk about is trees that this storm that

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just went through was devastating. I
was talking to somebody yesterday and they were

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describing to me in their section of
Houston the trees that they have seen,

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the damage that they've seen, and
it just it's like a war zone.

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Whenever storm's hit, trees are at
risk and proper pruning and care. Proper

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begins with proper training, but it
even goes into as a tree is old

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or some selective pruning can be helpful
when storms come. Whether it's a hurricane

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and we're in the start now of
a very what's predicted to be a big,

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big, hurricane season, but it
could also be just regular storms that

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aren't attached to hurricanes, like the
one we had a while back that devastated

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so many trees. Affordable Tree Service
Martin Spoon Moore is a company that can

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come out and they can make sure
that everything that's possible that can be done

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for that tree is done so that
it has the best chance that we can

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provide it in getting through these storms
without serious damage. I can't stress enough

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the importance of proper tree care coming
in to the storm season that we are

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now already into. You can call
them at seven to one three six nine

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nine twenty six sixty three. That's
seven one three six nine nine two six

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six three, or go to the
website aff Tree Service dot com. Aff

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Tree Service dot com have Martin Spoon
Moore come out. Of course, he

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doesn't just do tree trimming. They
do deeper feeding, They do deeper watering

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during drought times. They can also
come out and advise you as you're doing

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any kind of a work around the
tree. It is so important to have

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a tree service person that knows what
they're talking about to guide you before you

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do damage that is not easily fixable, like putting a trench too close to

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the trunk and other things like that. Call Affordable Tree seven one three six

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nine nine two six six three.
I'm going to go to the phones now

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and we're going to head out to
Rose Sharon to talk to Dennis. Hey,

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Dennis, Welcome to garden Line.
Hello, Skip. I want to

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do a follow up question. Can
you hear me? Yes, sir,

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I wanted to I've talked to you
before about the assassin sting bus and you

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gave me good tips on how to
sweep them into a bucket of soapy water

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and try to get them off of
the tomatoes. I want to know if

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there's something I can do to prevent
them from coming to my garden. They've

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just moved. They've wiped out the
tomatoes, and then they moved onto the

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honey dews, and now they're moving
onto the watermelons, And is there anything

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I can do to prevent them and
make them go to somebody else's garden?

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Well, the fast answers know,
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For example, there are crops that
we call trap crops that they like,

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and if you can get those out
and get the stink bugs to those.

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You can spray them and control them
early on on those crops before then

407
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here comes your tomatoes and now they're
moving, oh there to your tomatoes.

408
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:56.079
So it helps to have a trap
crop. It's not a panacea for sure,

409
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but things like sunflowers, the little
sun they love sunflowers really, any

410
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kind of a grain like that.
Pearl millet is one we've used in the

411
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past as a trap crop, but
they come to them like the little sunflowers.

412
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Another one they like a cardoon,
the little blooms on cardoons, which

413
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is a thistle looking kind of an
artichoke looking plant. They love those.

414
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There are some other plants that you
can use as trap crops, but you

415
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just put them out there and get
them doing their thing early. The stink

416
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.920
bugs when they're coming along there's no
tomatoes to hit yet, or the other

417
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plants that peach, fruit and other
things that they like to feed on,

418
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.359
and then you just spray them on
those plants. So it's almost like a

419
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:45.240
bait station, if you will.
For those starbugs. Yeah, I haven't

420
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.160
had problem with these previously, but
the last two years they've come on me

421
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.880
hard and I have them. They're
a problem. Yeah, Well, they

422
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.440
I don't know how you've missed them
before, because they they're ubiquitous. They're

423
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all around. And I tell Gardner, learn what the eggs look like.

424
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.359
You go online google that, find
out what they look like. Learn what

425
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.200
the nymphs look like, because they
don't look the same when they're new hatched

426
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.960
as they do when they're adults.
And so once you know what you're looking

427
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.160
for. At those early stages,
they don't have wings, and they're easy

428
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:21.319
to just vacuum or swat into water
or however you want to go about it,

429
00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:24.119
or spray them. They're more susceptible
to sprays at that stage too.

430
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.720
Okay, I thank you for your
time, sir. All right, good

431
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:32.920
luck in that battle. I know
that's a formidable foe. You got your

432
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.440
your sights on there, Dennis.
Thank you, Thank you a lot for

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the call. Our phone number is
seven to one three two one two kt

434
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RH seven one three two one two
kt r H. Talking about bugs,

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Nitrophis has a product called bug out
Max. Bug Out Max is a granule

436
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that you put in your lawn and
then you put a little bit of water

437
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on it to wash the product off
the granule and into the thatch and lawn

438
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.720
surface area where it goes to work. Do you know if you have pets,

439
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they get fleas when they go out
in the yard. Those fleas can

440
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actually be dropping off into the thatch
of the grass where eggs are laid,

441
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where you can have nymphs that are
growing, and then they become adults and

442
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.400
the dog runs by or the cat
goes by and they hop up on them

443
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.480
and bring them back inside. So
part of breaking that cycle of fleas and

444
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:35.279
ticks is dealing with them not just
on your pet, but also outdoors in

445
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the thatch, and night Fuss bug
Out Max is very effective for that.

446
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Also, chinchbugs here they come.
We're about to enter chinchbug season, soid

447
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.359
webworm season, if we're going to
have one this year, is going to

448
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.920
be occurring. It could be occurring
starting now, but it typically comes a

449
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:52.640
little bit later, but it can
really occur anytime. And if you look

450
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at my garden line schedule, my
skip erchter, lawn care, pests,

451
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.640
disease and weed management schedule, you'll
see exactly when to do treatments for these

452
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:06.960
particular kinds of pests. Night Foss
Bugout Max is widely available, being a

453
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night foss product. You're going to
find it at RCW Nursery. You're going

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to find it at the Ace Hardware
Storing Kingwater a task Casita. You're going

455
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to find it at Stanton Shopping Center
down in alvin As well. Night foss

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bug out Max for what bugs You? That ought to be the slogan for

457
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what bugs You. You're listening to
Garden Line and our phone number is seven

458
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one three two one two kt rh
IL. You'd like to give us a

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00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:35.760
call, we will be happy to
visit with you about the things that are

460
00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:40.639
most of interest to you. A
couple of things I was wanting to visit

461
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:45.599
about out in my gardens. I'm
still doing planting in the vegetable garden.

462
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:47.880
I kind of have to do it
as I can get around to it,

463
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:51.480
because it seem to be run around
doing a lot of other things, like

464
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:57.960
sitting here doing the radio show,
and as I'm getting things planted. First

465
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.719
of all, in this he eat, it helps to have some sort of

466
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.800
a shade over the planting row.
You don't have to and I plan oakroh

467
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without shade over the row, for
example, but if you provide a little

468
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:14.760
bit of shade just to help those
soil temperatures. It helps the seeds get

469
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:20.360
going and get started. And when
you're planting, the most important watering that

470
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.039
you do is before you plant,
I want to just pause and let that

471
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:27.239
sink in. Well, there's no
plants, why would I water. Well,

472
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.000
here's why. When you give the
bed a good soaking, let's say

473
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.119
a day or two before you plant, that water soaks down inches below the

474
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.320
surface, down into the soil.
So then when you put your seed in,

475
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:43.320
yes, you're going to water it
again. But when it germinates and

476
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:46.679
sends that root down, it's not
dry soil down there, it's already a

477
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:52.960
bank account of nutrients. Because in
those first days, even the first week

478
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:57.079
or two, when that seedling is
getting started, if it dries out from

479
00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:59.639
the minute it starts to germinate,
if it dries out, it dies,

480
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:05.000
And so having that bank account down
in the soil is really important, especially

481
00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:09.119
in this heat. So preplant watering. Then when you plant a light watering.

482
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:13.559
For some types of tiny seeds,
you want to use a mist because

483
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.159
you don't want to dislodge them and
splash them all over the place. But

484
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.079
that is a secret to getting going. And then of course having a little

485
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:23.079
shade over the row. If there's
at all a question about it, or

486
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:28.280
we weigh above germination temperature, a
shade over the row will help them get

487
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.519
started. You can just leave it
on for a week or two and then

488
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:32.920
take it off. You don't need
to leave it there, but that's important

489
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.320
because if you measure the soil temperature
an inch below the surface, which that's

490
00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.519
where seeds are, right an inch
or less below the surface. If you

491
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.039
do that, you're going to find
that it is blazing hot. Just like

492
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:52.119
your sidewalk, and certainly just like
the asphalt. It gets blazing hot on

493
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.360
the soil surface, and that's where
your seeds are. Give them moisture,

494
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.840
give them a little bit of shade. That's a tip for success starting seeds

495
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.960
out in your summer garden. Well, here we are, I hear music.

496
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:07.480
That must mean it's time for the
top of the hour news. I

497
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want to remind you that you've heard
me talk about these schedules, the lawn

498
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:17.000
care schedule and my disease past week
management schedule. Those are on my website

499
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at Gardeningwithskip dot com Gardening with Skip
dot com. Go check them out,

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print them out, carry them with
you when you go shopping because you'll see

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exactly what your options are and you
show the folks this is the product I

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need, or put them in the
garage so next time you fertilize, you

503
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got them right there to help and
guide you. We'll be right back.

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This is used Radio seven forty kt
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any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to kt r

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H Garden Line with Skip rictor It's
shows Basy gas trip. Just watch him

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of Welcome to guard Line. Welcome
back to guard Line. Good to have

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you with us. If you'd like
to give us a call, ask a

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question about gardening. Let's help you
have a more bountiful garden, a more

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beautiful landscape. Well, here's the
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a long time. Landscaper's Pride,
you can think of it as a way

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of recycling nature back into wonderful things
for our plants. And right now with

552
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the sun blazing down, multch,
maultch. Maultch is so important. There

553
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.599
are very few products that the list
of benefits is as long as is the

554
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list for mulch. Because maltch helps
prevent crusting of the soil from rain drops

555
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crusting. It prevents erosion of the
soil. It takes the impact of that

556
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:05.039
rain and lets it percolate right down
into the soil. It moderates soil temperature.

557
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:08.039
I was talking about that earlier,
Very important because soil gets Take a

558
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.840
thermometer out when you have a warm, hot day, stick a thermometer down

559
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:16.159
in the soil. I'll put it
on two inches and just measure how hot

560
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.480
that really is down there. That
is too hot for roots, that's too

561
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hot for seedlings to germinate up in
the top, especially on the top inch.

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Most fixes that, most does other
things. It decomposes over time to

563
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feed the soil. Think about the
forest. Who fertilizes the forest? I

564
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.599
mean, I know there's you know, some parrot poop fallen around, but

565
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:43.199
what actually is providing nutrients for the
soil in the forest. The trees drop

566
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their leaves, then they drop more
leaves on them, They decompose away,

567
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they release their nutrients. Microbes are
certainly involved in the whole process, and

568
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it just gets better. And so
I could go on and on about the

569
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benefits of mulch, and landscaper's pride
has got some quality. Whence they've got

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It's not dyed maults it is,
but it is a very dark, beautiful

572
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malts. That's why we call it
black velvet. They have hardwood multes,

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shredded hardwood, not ground up palettes
like some cheap junk out there on the

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market. Is but true shredded hardwood
trees, organic hardwood based mult is ideal

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for walkways and flower beds recreational areas. Then they've got pine bark the most

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popular one. It's the slowest perhaps
in the decomposition rate, but a lot

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of people love pine bark. I
like the cedar malts, and I like

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the cypress moults too. For example, cedar malts that nice aroma that comes

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with fresh cedar, and then the
beautiful red streaking that is occurring there naturally

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within the product itself. And then
cypress molts and nice light color mults that

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really stays in place and doesn't tend
to wash away at all. Very durable,

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very very excellent. All of these
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to Landscaper's Pride landscapers Pride dot com
and there you'll find all the places where

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you can buy these and believe me, they are widely available throughout the greater

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Houston area. You can also learn
more about each of these products there at

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that website. Well, you're listening
to Guardline and we're here to help you

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have success in what you're trying to
do. So if you get any kinds

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of questions we can assist you with. We'd be more than happy to do

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that. I want to make a
I want to make a point about wasps.

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I know when I say the word
wasp, a lot of people cringe

591
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because the first thing we think of
are those paper wasp nests up under the

592
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eaves. But there's many kinds of
wasp. There's little, tiny, tiny

593
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:49.000
knat size parasitoid wasp, and this
is cool stuff. They lay eggs and

594
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in for example, one type lays
eggs inside an aphid, and the egg

595
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:59.519
hatches and consumes the interior body of
the aphid. The aphid swells up and

596
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:01.920
get troll luffy and big, and
then the wasp comes crawling out. It's

597
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:07.840
like watching the movie Alien on an
entomological level. Pretty cool stuff. There

598
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:12.360
are wasps that are predators, and
those paper wasps that we have are predators.

599
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.800
Do you know the number one food
of paper wasps is caterpillars, that's

600
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their number one food. And so
if you have a butterfly garden, yeah,

601
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.000
probably not so big of a fan
of paper wasps. But if you've

602
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:29.719
got cabbage and broccoli and you got
loopers on them, if you've got tomatoes

603
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.679
and you got hornworms on them,
if you've got anything. The caterpillars are

604
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.159
eating webworms. Those webworms we went
through earlier. By the way, I

605
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.519
expect another big return of those in
the next generation of the summer, So

606
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:45.639
just hang on, stay tuned for
that. But webworms, wasp pull those

607
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.480
back. They estimated I think it
was a group of entomologists in the Midwest

608
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:57.119
Langrene University entomologists. We're doing an
estimate and they figured about seven thousand caterpillars

609
00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.920
per season for a good sized paper
wasp nest. That is a lot of

610
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:05.039
caterpillar That's a lot of pest control
for you. Now, if they sting

611
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:07.719
you and you're allergic, well that's
life threatening and we don't want to Nobody

612
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.880
wants to get stung, even if
you're not allergic. But wasp nests,

613
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.159
they are out of the way.
Just know that's what they're doing. They're

614
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:16.920
working for you. So if you
get rid of the nest, I certainly

615
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:22.000
understand that in an area where it's
a threat to you, but consider areas

616
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:24.440
where they're not a threat. Just
leaving them alone because they're out there working

617
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.360
for you. That's what they do. So just a little bit of a

618
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:34.559
different glimpse inside of wasps, especially
those paper wasps. When I was a

619
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:38.519
kid growing up, every summer I
got stung by wasps, and I distinctly

620
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.880
remember one summer, probably because I
was crawling around in places I shouldn't be

621
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:49.079
doing things I shouldn't do, but
I distinctly remember one summer I had gone

622
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.920
through the whole summer and a school
was about to start and I had not

623
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:55.679
been stung, and it was just
like, yes, I did it.

624
00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:00.880
I did it. That day a
ball went underneath the bush, I reached

625
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.559
under to get it, and whammo, they got me. So I don't

626
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:08.360
know if I ever made it to
the summer not getting stung by wasps,

627
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:14.760
but uh, yeah, that was
my experience with them. But I appreciate

628
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.239
the work that they do now and
just stay out of their way. Stay

629
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:21.639
out of their way. Well,
if you'd like to give us a call,

630
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:24.679
our number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven

631
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:30.480
one three two one two five eight
seven four. You know. Sweet Green

632
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:37.239
is a product by Nitrofoss that is
an organic type fertilizer for your lawn.

633
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.440
It's it's very high in the first
number, eleven percent nitrogen. It's made

634
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:46.119
from a base of molasses, and
with microbial activity on the molasses, it's

635
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:52.119
turned in actually to a fertilizer.
Uh. And this fertilizer is very immediately

636
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.840
available, dissolves very quickly, smells
wonderful too. By the way that molasses

637
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:01.079
space. When you put a sugar
based substance of the soil, beneficial microbes

638
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:07.159
just thrive, especially the bacteria.
They love that carbon based material. That's

639
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:08.960
their food, and so they go
right to work on it. That's why

640
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:15.119
organic gardeners often will use molasses in
their gardening. Well, Sweet Green,

641
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.559
that product becomes available for your grass
very quickly, and I would recommend if

642
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:22.320
you're going to apply it, since
it's eleven percent nitrogen, you're going to

643
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:27.199
want to put about a total of
about ten pounds per thousand square feet.

644
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.800
Split it in half, but five
pounds now, and then six to eight

645
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:35.199
weeks from now, do another five
pounds, and by doing that you will

646
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:39.840
spread that nutrient release out over time
and have very very good results from sweet

647
00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:45.519
Green. Sweet Green from nitrofos,
and like all nitrofoss products, very widely

648
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.960
available. You go down to Laporte
to Fisher's Hardware on Broadway. They've got

649
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.599
it there. In Angleton Lake Hardware
and Angleton of Alasco. They have it

650
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:58.360
there are up in Montgomery Gym's Hardware
on Liberty another place where you can find

651
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:06.199
nitrofoss products such as this sweet green. I was doing some soul prep work

652
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:10.480
this past week, and a part
of part of the job and putting in

653
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:15.679
a new garden is number one.
Getting rid of any noxious perennial weeds that

654
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.159
are very difficult to control. You
know, if you've got a flower bed

655
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:24.480
that's already in and it is invaded
with nut grass and bermuda grass is probably

656
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:29.559
the two prime public enemies number one
in two, and I don't know which

657
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:34.280
is one and which is two,
but it's very difficult to get in there

658
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.519
and control those without hurting your flowers
and it's our If it's a vegetable garden,

659
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.000
spring things on stuff you're going to
eat, you don't do that,

660
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.800
But if you do it ahead of
time, you can do. There's a

661
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:46.159
lot you can do to control it, both from an organic and a synthetic

662
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:51.480
standpoint. For most weeds, nut's
edge is a little bit of a bigger

663
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:55.079
challenge. I don't know a great
organic solution for nutsedge other than hand digging

664
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:59.559
repeatedly. Every time it's stix,
it's head above soil. You dig down

665
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:02.920
and get that nut and pull it
out. But the bottom line is do

666
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:07.280
your preps ahead of time to get
rid of problems before you begin that soil

667
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:12.000
building process. And I'll talk about
that a little bit more in just a

668
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:14.280
moment. Right now, we're going
to take a break and I'll be right

669
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:22.559
back. Every hurricane season is different. It only takes one again. Low

670
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.639
where a friend, there is a
friend. Welcome back to Guardline. Good

671
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.039
to have you with us this morning. What do we want to talk about?

672
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:32.079
You tell me our phone number if
you'd like to give me a call

673
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:37.119
seven one three two one two kt
r H seven one three two one two

674
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:43.199
kt r H. So I was
talking about soul prep before we went to

675
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:47.440
break, and how it's important to
get rid of noxious weeds before you put

676
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:52.880
the plants in. It's much easier, Our options are better. Uh,

677
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.960
it's just better, better, better
in every way. If you've got a

678
00:50:55.079 --> 00:51:00.079
lawn full of weeds and you're about
to redo it and replant size, now's

679
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:04.960
your chance. You get out there. You water it to get those weeds

680
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.159
growing. Yes, that's right,
get the weeds growing, because then you're

681
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:09.559
going to kill it, whether you
scrape it up, whether you spray it,

682
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:13.239
well, however you're going to go
about it, you're going to get

683
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:17.239
rid of them. But most of
the sprays you use on weeds post emergent

684
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:22.840
to kill existing weeds work best,
if not only, when the weed is

685
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:28.920
actively growing. When the weed is
actively growing, so you want those weeds

686
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.360
to be happy and healthy and growing, and that's when the products do the

687
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:36.039
most work. If that weed is
stressed, drought stressed, or whatever,

688
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:39.239
the products just don't have the same
effect, believe it or not. And

689
00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:44.760
so get them going, get that
lawn, get all the stuff you're dealing

690
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.000
with under control before you put the
lawn grasp back in. Because once a

691
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:52.880
lawn is in, now we're having
a little bit of a challenge finding things

692
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.960
that we can put down on the
weeds is not going to hurt your lawn,

693
00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:00.159
and that is the whole idea is
to avoid damage to the lawn,

694
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:05.400
but to make sure that we're getting
things ready to go to put that new

695
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:09.039
lawn back in. That's kind of
what that what that amounts to. I

696
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:15.159
think that you will you will agree
that when it comes to having a beautiful

697
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:17.760
and a bountiful garden and whatnot.
You do want to have one that you're

698
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:22.840
not fighting. We nobody enjoys that, right I don't. In fact,

699
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.199
I don't like spray at all.
To be honest, my idea of a

700
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:30.199
great Saturday is not to mess,
mix up smelly water, to spray on

701
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:34.159
stuff. It's to enjoy plants.
It's to enjoy nature. To have success.

702
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:36.800
Well, there's times when we have
to step in and do things,

703
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:42.519
but let's minimize them. Minimize those
times by gardening smarter rather than harder.

704
00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.840
I guess you could say, uh, I've told you a lot about Nelson

705
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.519
Water Garden out in Katie, Nelson
Water Garden and nursery. Don't forget that

706
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.440
part. And nursery right now is
having their summer plant sale. They are

707
00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:59.679
having all kinds of fruit trees and
shrubs and citrus specifically for example, that

708
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:04.239
are on a very significant sale,
like fruit trees and shrubs normally forty bucks,

709
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:07.519
now twenty bucks. Citrus, she's
seventy five, now thirty five.

710
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.239
Your boy, there's not a better
time, and now's a great time to

711
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:16.880
put that citrus in. Just keep
it wet, keep it moist. When

712
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:20.000
you plant, we take it out
of the container, put it in the

713
00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:22.119
ground. Remember the roots are all
still in that cylinder you pulled out of

714
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:27.440
the container. So keep watering right
there and just beyond that and keep it

715
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:32.400
going and it will get well established. And at this opportunity to get a

716
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:36.960
deal like that, you're not going
to do better than that. That is

717
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:39.159
awesome. Any kind of products you
need, you know, they carry the

718
00:53:39.239 --> 00:53:44.480
microlife products. They carry asumite and
things like that out of Nilson Water Garden

719
00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:49.239
and nursery take advantage of it.
They have sales of roses going on.

720
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:53.239
There's a really good sale on roses
and on azaleas as well. And I

721
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:58.400
realize that it's hot outside, but
if you plant a plant properly, you

722
00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:02.519
can have very good excess, even
planting in the summertime. The key is

723
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:07.719
in your mind to remember where the
roots are. You can have moist soil,

724
00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:13.159
but that little roots cellular pumps dry
faster than the water can wick in

725
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:17.280
from the moist soil around it.
So keep the root cylinder moist, not

726
00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:23.239
soggy, not's oversaturated where roots can't
get oxygen, but just moist. And

727
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:28.639
that's going to require a little amount
of daily water right there to keep it

728
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:31.320
going cushing with the soil around it
moist as well, so that as the

729
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:36.039
roots expand they can get in.
But that's a secret to success on summer

730
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:40.400
planting, regular watering. I tell
people. The visual that seems to work

731
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.920
for me maybe it will for you, is imagine that you just took the

732
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:49.159
pot that you purchased with the plant, and you dug a hole and set

733
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.039
the pot down in the hole with
the plant inside. Where would you water?

734
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.880
Well, of course you water right
there in the pot because there's not

735
00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.599
roots outside the pot, because there's
a pot there to stop it that way,

736
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:04.320
and you'll water properly with the new
plants that you put in in the

737
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:10.599
summertime. Just always remember that excess
water. Excess water excludes oxygen in a

738
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:15.400
blazing summer heat, it's as bad
or worse than not having enough water.

739
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:20.480
So touch and go. But you
can do it. You can have success.

740
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:22.199
Nelson Water Garden, by the way, if you haven't been by there

741
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:28.239
there, you got to Katie on
Iten and you turn north on Katie Fort

742
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:30.719
Ben Road and they're just across the
tracks a little bit upstreet there on the

743
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:36.679
right hand side. Their water gardens
are outstanding and listen on a blazing summer

744
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:40.719
day, I think it was it's
like going to the park. You get

745
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:45.800
your friends, getting the cargo out
there and sit among all those are stroll

746
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.559
among all those water features, hearing
the beautiful sound of water, seeing the

747
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:53.920
beautiful features too. You're gonna want
to have that in your backyard. I

748
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:57.719
know I did when I first went
out there. That was the first thing

749
00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.679
I thought, is, Okay,
I gotta have this because it is so

750
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:02.679
therapeutic. And you know, when
you have the sound of water, it

751
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:07.559
brings birds in more also, and
the birds will find it, they will

752
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:09.480
show up and they'll be very grateful
for that. You can get all that

753
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:13.039
you have them come in and install
a feature, or you can just do

754
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.800
it yourself. They're more than happy
to give you the supplies and tell you

755
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:20.320
how to do it if you're do
it yourself. For that's another option that

756
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:23.320
you can take. All of this
is out there at Nelson Water Garden and

757
00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:30.039
Nursery out in Katie Oh. I
have not told you this about Nelson Water

758
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:32.840
Garden before, and every time I
think back on talking about them, I

759
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:37.280
thought, why did not tell them? You ought to see the indoor houseplants

760
00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:42.920
that they have in that store.
They are beautiful. If you want house

761
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:47.920
plants that aren't just green, that
offer patterns and structure and different texture in

762
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.559
the foliage and all kinds of things. They have a great selection right in

763
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:54.920
the big middle of the store when
you walk in, and they are beautiful,

764
00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:58.679
and I would encourage you to stop
by there because you know, summer

765
00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:01.000
is a great season to be taking
care of the house plants in our house,

766
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:07.320
and that's a way to bring nature
indoors. Check out the house plants

767
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:09.880
that they have. I'm telling you
that the selection is really really beautiful.

768
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:15.320
You're listening to Guardenline. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

769
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:21.880
kt r H. Seven one three
two one two kt r H. You'd

770
00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:24.159
like to give me a call,
let's do that. Perhaps you have a

771
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:30.639
sample or a symptom or something you
want identified or diagnosed. You can email

772
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:36.880
me and if you give us a
call in this or call our producer say

773
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.639
you want to send in a photo
and then call back. I'm not able

774
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:45.079
to hand type out responses to all
the emails I get. Occasionally in certain

775
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:47.840
situations where where that is needed I
do that, but what I ask is

776
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:51.519
send me the picture. You need
to send it ahead of time, then

777
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:54.360
call on a Saturday or Sunday morning
between six and ten and we will talk

778
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:59.960
about it. But it really helps
to have a picture. So many times

779
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.639
someone's describing something, and I tell
you, as an extension agent with texas

780
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:10.440
A and m Agrolife Extension for thirty
five years, innumerable times someone would describe

781
00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:15.079
something in a situation to me and
then I would either go to the site

782
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:16.559
and see what they were talking about, or then they would send me a

783
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:22.440
picture and it was like completely different
from what I had pictured. And maybe

784
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.800
it was me listening properly, maybe
it was them describing accurately. But I'm

785
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:30.920
telling you, a picture helps a
lot with a diagnosis. And if we're

786
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:34.719
going to suggest that you have to
go spend some money and do some work

787
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.599
to fix the situation, we do
not want you wasting your money in time.

788
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:40.960
We want to make sure we diagnose
it accurately and send you to the

789
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.079
right if it's a product, to
the right product that's going to work effectively

790
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:52.119
with what you're dealing with. We
have a flower bed. It's actually a

791
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:57.639
veggo garden bed, one of those
up above ground metal. They are coated

792
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:01.679
and painted and super high quality beds. Our Veggo garden bed is loaded with

793
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:06.320
flowers. This particular one is an
L shape, big L shaped bed that's

794
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:09.159
loaded with flowers on the patio.
So it kind of goes around a corner

795
00:59:09.239 --> 00:59:12.760
of the patio, so as you're
walking around, you just kind of walk

796
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:15.400
over there. And my wife loves
flowers, and boy, is it ever

797
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:21.159
looking good. We've got all kinds
of summer tolerant flowers in it, angelonias

798
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:27.679
and pentas. This sunbelievable sunflower which, by the way, pause them in

799
00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:32.559
it. I need your attention to
step for a second sun believable sunflower.

800
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:37.800
It's called Helianthus. That's a genus
of sunflowers that bogger just grows and they

801
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.719
say it produces a thousand blooms over
the course of a season. It's because

802
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.440
it blooms for so long. But
they're a little shiny, not shiny,

803
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:50.559
little bright, attractive sunflowers that are
just happy. I mean, you look

804
00:59:50.639 --> 00:59:52.400
at it and it just makes you
happy. If you like little deal of

805
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.320
tiny cut flowers, it would be
great for that. You can do that.

806
00:59:55.639 --> 01:00:00.280
But anyway, sunbelievable. We got
to keep looking good. Another one

807
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:05.800
that's looking good is pirates pearl little
tiny white flowers, beautiful. All right,

808
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:07.280
well I'm talking about flowers. We're
gonna take a little break here for

809
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:10.719
the news. We'll be right back. The number seven one three two one

810
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:15.079
two k t r H boards are
open if you'd like to get a good

811
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:22.599
head start. Welcome back, Welcome
back to guard Line. Good to have

812
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:25.760
you with us. What would you
like to talk about if you have a

813
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:30.920
question you would like to visit with
with me about uh seven one three two

814
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:37.039
one two k t r H.
Seven one three two one two k t

815
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:42.280
r H. You know, ACE
hardware stores are ubiquitous here in the Houston

816
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:45.199
area. And what I'm trying to
say is, no matter where you live,

817
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:47.199
there's going to be an ACE hardware
store somewhere near you, probably more

818
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:51.719
than one. There's forty of them
here in the greater Houston area. And

819
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:53.280
when you go into Ace, you
know you're going to find this stuff you

820
01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:57.920
hear me talk about on Guardline.
For example, fertilizers. They're going to

821
01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:00.920
carry them all. They've got a
wide variety fertilizers, excellent, excellent,

822
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.480
selection. You know you're going to
be able to find the tools that you

823
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:10.280
need, for example, hoses,
garden tools, do you need in any

824
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:15.679
kind of specific things like maybe a
mosquito foger, or maybe you want to

825
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:20.840
decorate the back patio with some beautiful
lights or other things. ACE just has

826
01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:23.079
it all. Ace is the place. That's the motto or the slogan for

827
01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:27.239
them. Ace is the place,
and ACE is a place for all the

828
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:29.840
things you need. ACE is a
place for your fire and control. ACE

829
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:34.320
is a place for your mosquito management, whether it's buying the mosquito dunks to

830
01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.039
put out in water and shut those
things down that way, or as I

831
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:42.119
mentioned, a fog or any other
kinds of things. ACE is the place

832
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:47.440
beautiful outdoors activities, the barbecues and
things. We just started using our pit

833
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:51.719
again a while back. We'd used
it and the kind of had gone through

834
01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:53.320
some time where we hadn't been using
it, and so here we are back

835
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:58.320
out again enjoying the outdoors and getting
the barbecue and done. And boy ACE

836
01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:01.199
can set you up with every aspect
of that that you might need. You

837
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:06.199
can find ACE hardware stores all over
the place by going to the website Acehardware

838
01:02:06.280 --> 01:02:12.280
dot com, Acehardware dot Com and
then find the store locator, tell it

839
01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:15.199
where you live, give it your
zip code or whatever, and it'll show

840
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:16.840
you all the stores that are close
to you. It makes it really easy.

841
01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:20.440
And when you know, when you
go into ACE, you're going to

842
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.880
be greeted with that old fashioned customer
service by people who know what they're talking

843
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:28.880
about and take you right too what
it is you're looking for so that you

844
01:02:29.039 --> 01:02:34.599
have success, whether you're fixing a
faucet or turning your outdoors into a beautiful,

845
01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:38.280
beautiful environment to enjoy. ACE Hardware
can help you with all of that.

846
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.360
We are doing some I was talking
about soil preparation well ago, and

847
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:50.639
I was mentioning the importance of getting
rid of noxious weeds before they start to

848
01:02:51.239 --> 01:02:54.440
invade to a point where it's hard
to control them in your plants. Well,

849
01:02:54.760 --> 01:03:00.039
another thing about soil prep is making
sure you build a swill up so

850
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:01.719
that when it drains, when it
rains a lot, it drains. Well,

851
01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:07.000
that's important. We can't control the
rainfall, we can't control our irrigation.

852
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:10.280
Most people over water, especially the
lawns, and miswater the lawns.

853
01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:15.679
But when you build up a raised
bed, it you always know that the

854
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:22.239
excess water is going to drain away. When you make soil that is improved

855
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:28.159
with organic matter and in some cases
expanded shale, you can have that good

856
01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.639
internal drainage to the soil. Plus
when you add organic matter, the microbes

857
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:36.119
go nuts because they get They love
to break that down and feed on it,

858
01:03:36.679 --> 01:03:42.480
and the whole root zone environment is
better. And I know you hear

859
01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:45.920
it's like a broken record, mixing
compost, mixing, compost, mixing,

860
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:49.719
compost, But it's true. It's
what nature does slowly over time. We

861
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:52.599
just want results now, like this
fall. I want beautiful flowers, so

862
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:59.599
I can't wait for nature over decades
to improve the soil. I'm going to

863
01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:03.719
get some quality composts, mix it
in and jumpstart the whole process. But

864
01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:06.360
why is that? And I just
want to talk about that just a little

865
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:09.880
bit. Number One, it keeps
the soil open. So if you have

866
01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:15.239
a sandy soil, decomposed organic matter
composts, those little particles act like a

867
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:19.920
little sponges that whole moisture and hold
nutrients sand it just runs straight through.

868
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:24.119
It's like broken glass. The water
and nutrients just wash right through it.

869
01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:27.760
But when you have organic matter and
it helps it hold. If you have

870
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:32.440
a clay soil on the other end
of the particle sized spectrum, clay soils

871
01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:35.320
become dense. I mean, you
can make a little bowl a lot of

872
01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:40.039
modeling clay and put water in it
and it just sits there like a little

873
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:43.400
pond. Right. It doesn't drain
well at all. In fact, you

874
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:46.639
know our Houston black clays, in
the absence of roots and organic matter,

875
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.760
just the clay, it takes in
water at about one eighth of an inch

876
01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:55.559
an hour. So if you want
to get an inch in the yard,

877
01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:59.920
you need it to rain one eighth
of an inch an hour for eight hours.

878
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:02.559
Now when does it do that?
But when you add organic matter to

879
01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:09.320
a clay, that mass, that
sticky gooey doesn't drain. No oxygen getting

880
01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:14.920
very far down in the soil suddenly
starts to become clumps and it becomes what

881
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.480
we call friable. It breaks apart
easy, and you're creating structure inside those

882
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:21.679
structure that you could see if you
looked under a microscope, for example,

883
01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:26.400
or a good handless you can see
that structure in the soil, and that

884
01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:30.440
brings oxygen in the soil. It
makes water drained through the soil, and

885
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:34.719
when you bring oxygen down you get
a deeper, more extensive root system and

886
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:40.880
you get more microbial activity. And
microbes are doing all kinds of things.

887
01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:45.559
Do you know There are microbes that
are releasing substances that are antibiotics that help

888
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:48.960
fight disease for the root. There's
microbes that can grab nitrogen out of the

889
01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:54.360
ox out of the soil. Air. Right now, when you're listening to

890
01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:58.559
me, you're breathing about seventy eight
percent nitrogen in the air you're breathing.

891
01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:01.440
Well, that nitrogen does plants no
good until it's in a form they can

892
01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:05.760
use. There are microbes that make
it in a form plants can use.

893
01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:11.079
Have you ever wondered how there could
be giant meadows across America? They're just

894
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:15.159
beautiful and no one's running through there
with a fertilizer spreader. Well, I

895
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:19.719
mean, they're not performing like a
lawn would perform. Mo momo and trapes

896
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:23.960
across it and all that kind of
stuff. But it's all being done by

897
01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:28.920
microbes and by nature in the soil, and so that is another thing that

898
01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:30.559
they can do. There are many
other things. There are microbes that fight

899
01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:35.599
insects. DT is a microbe.
It's a bacillis that attacks insects. There

900
01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:41.239
are microbes that fight diseases. There's
another one, And forgive me for the

901
01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:45.480
long word, but Basillis amila lico
facians. Isn't that a fun word how

902
01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:51.960
to impress friends and influence gardeners anyway? That one helps plants fight disease.

903
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:56.880
There And I mean, we could
just talk for days on all the things

904
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.400
microbes are doing. And you are
creating that environs and your soil when you

905
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:05.280
add organic matter, when you improve
aeration, when you improve the structure of

906
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:10.199
the soil. So just to say
mixing composts isn't just like we're putting a

907
01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:14.960
little fertilizer down. It's like we're
changing the root zone. And plants live

908
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.320
in their roots, and then roots
are happy and thriving. Your plant's going

909
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:21.039
to be happy and thriving. And
most of our plant problems are not just

910
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:26.519
diseases and insects above surface. They're
the things that are going on to stress

911
01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:32.480
the plant underground. Drought, compacted
soil, poor nutrient levels, poor moisture

912
01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.800
levels, too much, too little, and all that. And you can

913
01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:41.679
get all that done by just improving
your soil. Hardline goodhead with us.

914
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:45.880
As always, we love to talk
to gardeners, and I think that's what

915
01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:47.760
we're going to do here. We're
going to head straight out to full Sure

916
01:07:47.800 --> 01:07:51.800
Texas and talk to Clint. Good
morning Clint, and welcome to garden Line.

917
01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:56.119
Hey morning, Skip, I got
a good one for you, all

918
01:07:56.199 --> 01:08:00.679
right. So my neighbor has an
entire Permuta lawn. I have an entire

919
01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:05.440
Saint Augustine lawn and we have no
separation, no rocks, nothing to divide

920
01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:11.320
our lawns. He has gone one
hundred and ten percent this year and it's

921
01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:15.119
starting to encroach into my Saint Augustine. What or is there anything I can

922
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:20.640
do in your existing situation? There
is not a lot you can do.

923
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:26.039
Those two will exist together. There
are things that benefit Saint Augustine a little

924
01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:29.439
over Bermuda. There are things that
benefit Bermuda a little over Saint Augustine.

925
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:34.279
For example, shade. Saint Augustine
has the edge droughty condition stresses. Bermuda

926
01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:41.880
tends to have the edge that there's
not a spray that's available over the counter

927
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:45.600
where you can go in and kill
one grass without killing both of the grasses,

928
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:54.600
and that's a challenge. So you
know, I don't I don't know

929
01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:57.920
what to suggest to you on that
particular one, other than you know,

930
01:08:57.960 --> 01:09:04.239
there's always a possibility of killing the
line between you putting a vertical barrier in

931
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:09.039
and then trying that, but you
know the bermuda. You got to get

932
01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:12.800
the barrier down far enough the bermuda
doesn't go under it, and then you're

933
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.680
going to have the fact that those
are both crawling across the top of it,

934
01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:18.600
and so you're constantly edging. And
I just don't think there's a practical

935
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:24.279
solution. And your question is one
that has been asked a million times because

936
01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:30.439
this is an ongoing problem for folks. Yeah, it was an issue before,

937
01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:32.399
so I never really paid much attention
to it. And this year,

938
01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:35.119
like I said, he's really taking
some care of his lawn and it's looking

939
01:09:35.199 --> 01:09:39.520
great, but it's started to really
come over to mind. And he goes

940
01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:43.119
out there and pulls all the Saint
Augustine runners out of his yard because he

941
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:45.760
hates Saint Augustine. So we're both
kind of in the same position. I

942
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:49.840
consider the metallic or metal barrier to
separate and dig a little trench. But

943
01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:53.600
like you mentioned that, we have
to take care of the top and it

944
01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:58.319
goes under, so yeah, I
guess that's true. Yeah, I would

945
01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:02.079
take more than just that bit edging
material you'd have to get. I don't

946
01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:05.840
know. I've suggested at least eight
inches down in the ground to make sure

947
01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:10.840
you're getting underneath that bermuda. I
don't know how far how deep it can

948
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:14.359
go. I'm sure there's variations,
but yeah, that's it. If you

949
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:17.159
ever end up redoing your lawn,
call us back. There's some things you

950
01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:20.800
can do up front to kind of
help avoid that, but at this point

951
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:27.079
it's not not very well appreciate it
not very doable. I appreciate it.

952
01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.800
Thank you, all right, you
take care. Thanks thanks for the call.

953
01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:34.600
Yeah, we need a good silver
bullet on that. There there are

954
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:41.760
for people listening. There are things
that a garden, a quality garden,

955
01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:46.920
or lawn care full lawn care service
can do to help with that. There

956
01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:50.640
are some things that aren't available homeowners
that that can be done. They're very

957
01:10:50.680 --> 01:10:55.520
expensive and so you know, for
one person to try to do it,

958
01:10:55.880 --> 01:10:59.199
number one, you can't get hold
of it. Number two, it's just

959
01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:02.880
to prohibitive to try to do it. But long care, if you've got

960
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:08.199
a really good long care service,
not just somebody somebody that mows and blows

961
01:11:09.159 --> 01:11:12.560
there may be talk to them about
it. Maybe they can they can help

962
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:19.239
you with some other options there.
RCW Nursery is right there where Tomball Parkway,

963
01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.439
which is high Way to forty nine, right where it comes into belt

964
01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:27.279
Wagh eight. And you know RCW
has been around a long time. The

965
01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:30.920
Whimson family. Not only do they
have RCW, but they actually grow their

966
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.800
own trees up in Plantersville. And
so when you go to RCW to get

967
01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:40.520
a tree or shrub, a large
shrub, you're getting stuff that wants to

968
01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:43.680
live here. They know what to
plant. They don't they're not going to

969
01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:45.439
say you a blue spruce, for
example, for crying out loud. They

970
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:49.800
know what grows well here, and
so you can know that when you get

971
01:11:49.840 --> 01:11:54.359
plants from there, they're going to
be successful. They have an outstanding rose

972
01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:58.399
selection. And I tell you RCW
is always having things on sale. Right

973
01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:02.279
now, they've got Cajun Bess twenty
five percent off, fifteen percent off all

974
01:12:02.359 --> 01:12:05.439
of their trees. There's other great
deals there at RCW. If you've not

975
01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:09.760
seen Cajun hibiscus. You need to
go. You can go to their website

976
01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:15.159
and or their Facebook page and see
pictures of it. RCW Nursery's Facebook page.

977
01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:16.479
In fact, if you had a
garden line this morning, I posted

978
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:19.560
a picture of my Cajun hibiscus I've
got. You know. They come in

979
01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:26.279
many shapes and form or colors and
hues, and they're just beautiful, gorgeous,

980
01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:30.039
gaudy. I'll tell you, you
have a yard full of pink flamingos

981
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.279
and one Cajun hibiscus, and no
one's going even notice that you had pink

982
01:12:32.319 --> 01:12:36.880
flamingos. That's how gaudy these flowers
are. They are absolutely wonderful. I

983
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:40.880
love mine. Go go look at
the garden line facebook page right now and

984
01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:45.119
you'll see the one who just posted
is one that I have that I just

985
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:48.800
love it. And it's blooming and
blooming and blooming. Takes the heat like

986
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:51.479
nobody's business. I have mine and
a container, so I have to make

987
01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:56.039
sure and keep it watered. You
put them in the ground. But Cajun

988
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:01.920
is one of those beautiful types of
modern hibiscus are just so stunning. Let's

989
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:05.720
go back to the phones. We're
going to head out and talk to page.

990
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:13.720
Hello Page, Hi, Welcome to
Gardendline. Thank you, thank you.

991
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:20.880
I have snails everywhere, and so
I've tried the granules that you put

992
01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:26.279
around, and every time I put
them down, it rains, so that

993
01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:31.239
don't know. They're pot plants.
Mostly we don't have any other in the

994
01:13:31.319 --> 01:13:35.960
ground plants. They're all pot plants. Yeah, okay, well I would

995
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:40.760
You're going to need to use a
bait for them, and there's a couple

996
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:42.960
of them out there. You just
have to do it for it rains.

997
01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:47.000
But the baits. It's important to
get a fresh bait so the snails will

998
01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:50.520
be interested in eating it. It's
like if someone threw food out that was

999
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.199
spoiled in front of you, you
wouldn't want to eat it. So the

1000
01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:58.640
bait does no good if the snails
aren't interested. Uh. And so what

1001
01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:01.840
you do is you get a fresh
bait. There's one called slug O s

1002
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:08.960
l Ego. There's one called slug
O, plus there are other bait products

1003
01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:13.119
on the market, and you put
a fresh one out, sprinkle a little

1004
01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:15.920
bit on the surface of your pots, or you can put it in a

1005
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:17.239
little tray if you want to sell
a little tray in there to have them

1006
01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:20.079
crawl in. Just make sure they
can get into it to feed on it,

1007
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:27.000
and it works pretty good. And
just do enough to where you really

1008
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:31.239
get them. There's a thing with
snails page called bait shyness, And what

1009
01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:34.079
happens is they get in and they
eat a little bit of bait, but

1010
01:14:34.119 --> 01:14:39.119
they don't need enough to kill them. And then maybe the bait is older

1011
01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:42.760
and not as effective and they get
sick, and then after that, if

1012
01:14:42.920 --> 01:14:45.000
they recover, then they're not going
to go back and eat that bait anymore.

1013
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:48.239
They've kind of learned their lesson.
So you want to use a fresh

1014
01:14:48.279 --> 01:14:51.880
bait, get plenty of it out
there, and that is the best way

1015
01:14:51.960 --> 01:14:55.960
to manage them. There's cultural things, you know, the wetter you keep

1016
01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:59.520
it, the more mulch and organic
matter decomposing and things you have, the

1017
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:02.560
more kind of a problem with slugs
and snails you may have. But just

1018
01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:05.199
that in and of itself is not
going to get rid of the snails.

1019
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:11.319
You're going to have to do the
bait. Okay, So could you also

1020
01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:15.520
put it on the ground around the
pots. Yeah, that's what we're well

1021
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:18.840
wherever the snails are going to go
and If the snails aren't going out around

1022
01:15:18.920 --> 01:15:23.199
the pots, then the bait out
there is not going to do any good.

1023
01:15:24.039 --> 01:15:26.920
But wherever the snails are, that's
where you want to put it,

1024
01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:30.239
and you can just have a little
bait station. Sometimes I'll use like a

1025
01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:36.760
little tray like I don't know,
jar lid or something turned upside down and

1026
01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:41.600
sat down kind of low into the
soil so they can crawl right into it,

1027
01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.720
and that works pretty good. But
you can also just drink sprinkle the

1028
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:50.279
pellets right on the ground. They're
typically are pellets, and that that'll work

1029
01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:57.239
too well. Used there's a lot
sorry, go ahead, So I've used

1030
01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:04.239
slug I've used Slugo a lot,
and okay, you're getting it always rains

1031
01:16:04.359 --> 01:16:10.000
or something. So after rains and
Slugo is wet, how you're it going

1032
01:16:10.079 --> 01:16:13.960
to solve in the dirt? You
have to clean it out, you know,

1033
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:17.640
it'll just dissolve a That's one reason
I like the little trays because you

1034
01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:23.399
can set them in and take them
out and stuff. But Slugo is an

1035
01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:26.600
iron based product, so it doesn't
hurt for it to get down in the

1036
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:33.119
soil. There are other products that
have more of a poisoned pesticide type ingredient,

1037
01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:39.640
and that there's one called Deadline Deadline
that is a slug and snail bait,

1038
01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:43.520
so you can choose. You may
want to try switching to a different

1039
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:47.439
type of product. There is a
Slugo plus that not only is a bait

1040
01:16:47.600 --> 01:16:50.840
for snails and slugs, but it
controls certain other insects as well. You

1041
01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:56.119
might want to switch to that,
to Slugo plus and try it, or

1042
01:16:56.199 --> 01:17:00.239
just switch to something else, but
just stay with it. Remember fresh bait.

1043
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:02.000
Get it out there, get it
where they can get to it,

1044
01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:10.119
and that's your best bet. The
only is go ahead. Should you change

1045
01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:14.560
it every day? Not every day, but about every week. Okay,

1046
01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:16.840
all right, we'll be right back, folks. Thank you very much.

1047
01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:30.319
Welcome back to the garden Line.
Thanks for joining us today. I hope

1048
01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:34.279
you're enjoying this beautiful Sunday morning.
We're still the cool time of the day.

1049
01:17:34.439 --> 01:17:39.279
That's always a good thing to get
out enjoy that. A little bit.

1050
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:43.840
Just was talking to some of my
dogs. We've got a couple of

1051
01:17:43.920 --> 01:17:48.520
Golden Retrievers, and those things love
to hang out with you. It's almost

1052
01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:53.960
like having a built in stalker.
Everywhere you go. They're right with you.

1053
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:57.479
They love to go for a walk, get outside, play just but

1054
01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:00.399
mainly just hang out. They're also
garden dogs. Now. I don't know

1055
01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:04.399
if I've told you this before,
but our first one, Ellie, the

1056
01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:09.239
female, she helped me one time. In fact, I put I posted

1057
01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:13.039
this to my Instagram account. A
long while back. I went out and

1058
01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:17.439
planted some I think they were.
Yeah, it was purple cone flowers,

1059
01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:20.920
plants out in the garden. And
I went inside, got a drink of

1060
01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:25.319
water, and you know, just
freshen up, come back outside again.

1061
01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:28.479
And when I got opened the door, right there on the doorstep was my

1062
01:18:30.159 --> 01:18:34.039
echinacious, my purple cone flower.
Ellie had gone out and retrieved it because

1063
01:18:34.079 --> 01:18:38.520
that's in her name, so I
did not know that's what retriever meant.

1064
01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:42.640
I've tried to teach Ellie to retrieve
weeds, but she hasn't learned that yet.

1065
01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:45.560
She needs to, and that would
be very, very helpful. But

1066
01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:49.680
she's getting to an age an hour
where she's not so bad about retrieving the

1067
01:18:49.800 --> 01:18:56.039
things I don't want her to retrieve. Now. Her brother Tax is also

1068
01:18:56.159 --> 01:18:59.920
hanging out, and he's the more
enthusiastic one. We call him our affable

1069
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:03.399
affable knucklehead. That's the best way
I can describe tax. We love that

1070
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:09.960
guy, all right. Well,
hopefully it maybe someone out there who is

1071
01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:15.039
a dog enthusiast could develop a gardening
dog. Wouldn't that be a great idea

1072
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:17.560
where you go, hey, Rover, go right there. I need a

1073
01:19:17.640 --> 01:19:23.319
hole that's six inches wide and eight
inches deep. I've got some compost over

1074
01:19:23.399 --> 01:19:25.600
here. I need you to mix
about an inch of compost in the bottom

1075
01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:27.640
of the hole. You know that, wouldn't that be a great idea.

1076
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:30.920
I'd had a lot of money for
a dog like that. I don't know

1077
01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:35.720
about you, but that's that's the
way it goes. Anyway, welcome to

1078
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:39.680
Guardline. We'll drive to have you
with us. You know, soil is

1079
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:45.880
what it's all about. And if
you think about nature a minute, and

1080
01:19:45.039 --> 01:19:51.399
it kind of dawns on you that
nobody rakes the forest, nobody bags the

1081
01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:59.439
meadow, nobody fertilizes the forest.
How does nature take care of plants?

1082
01:19:59.560 --> 01:20:04.039
Nature take share plants by taking anything
that's organic and turning it back into soil.

1083
01:20:05.279 --> 01:20:09.960
You know, in the meadows,
it may be cowpies. In the

1084
01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:14.439
forest, it may be deer droppings
or whatever. It may be leaves that

1085
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:16.279
fall on the ground. It may
be branches that hit the ground, and

1086
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:19.800
they all just decompose away. Because
microbes are run in the world. I

1087
01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:23.680
don't know if you know this,
but microbes run the world. And when

1088
01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:29.520
it comes to microbes, an organic
fertilizer like microlife that's what it's That's what

1089
01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:36.680
microlife products are all about. Microlife
products help the microbial activity in this world.

1090
01:20:36.840 --> 01:20:41.560
They help I guess supercharge it would
be a good way to put it.

1091
01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:45.119
Number One, they're loaded with microbes
themselves. Microlife products have a huge,

1092
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:50.000
longline list of beneficial microbes in them, but they also have the ingredients

1093
01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:56.560
that is the product itself that helps
stimulate microbial activity. And we have a

1094
01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:00.039
lot of good microbes, good beneficial, good fungi, tenel mice seats that

1095
01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:03.119
are a good bacteria. They're out
there in the soil. And when you

1096
01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:06.680
do something like hu mats plus that's
a zero zero for the purple bag.

1097
01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:12.239
It's concentrated compost in a bag.
The granules go out in your soil,

1098
01:21:12.520 --> 01:21:15.319
they work their way down into the
soil and over time, whether you're using

1099
01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:19.199
microlife hu mates plus or they're green
bag. The six two four. You're

1100
01:21:19.239 --> 01:21:25.880
adding organic granules to the soil and
it just gets better and better over time

1101
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:30.079
at night. Nature does not fix
things overnight. It doesn't. It's not

1102
01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:35.119
a quick fix thing. Nature builds
and develops. You leave a forest alone

1103
01:21:35.319 --> 01:21:39.600
and nature will turn it into the
best soil on the planet. We go

1104
01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:43.359
in scrape away the trees and start
farming it, not taking care of it,

1105
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:46.680
and we can destroy what nature is
created, or on the other hand,

1106
01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:50.840
we can build and continue to build
toward that. And that's how microlife

1107
01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:56.439
products are based. You can go
to Microlife Fertilizer dot org, Microlife Fertilizer

1108
01:21:56.520 --> 01:21:59.000
dot org, see all their products, see where to get them, and

1109
01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:02.600
they're ubiquitous everywhere. You hear me
talk about garden centers and feed stores and

1110
01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:10.399
Southwest Fertilizer, ace hardware stores,
Microlife all of those stores you're going to

1111
01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:14.399
ease easy to find it and mini
products for acid loving plants, for your

1112
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:17.239
lawn, for house plants. Whatever
you want to do, there's a product

1113
01:22:17.279 --> 01:22:21.279
there for it. But it's based
on the concept that nature knows how to

1114
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:27.840
build soil and we can come alongside
nature and help enhance that process. With

1115
01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:32.159
microlife products. You are listening to
Garden Line. Our phone number is seven

1116
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:38.920
to one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one

1117
01:22:39.039 --> 01:22:45.039
two k t r H. I
was working out, and uh, yesterday,

1118
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:48.880
I said yesterday day before my wife. My wife was repotting some of

1119
01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:54.119
her strings and we were getting those
set up. I was also doing some

1120
01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:59.039
things with some other container plants that
I have. I've got I've got several

1121
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:00.880
that are in hold. I'm one
of these people I wouldn't tell you to

1122
01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:03.479
do this, but he's kind of
like, don't do as I do,

1123
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:06.800
do as I say, you know, kind of thing. But I see

1124
01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:10.520
plants I want, I buy them, I bring them home and they sit

1125
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:15.199
on my patio or my porch until
I get a round to it to put

1126
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:18.880
them in the ground. And I
find that sometimes well, let's just say

1127
01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:23.920
that if there was a Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants and these

1128
01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:28.720
potted plants have had a phone on
them, I would get reported because I

1129
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:31.319
forget to water or I get busy, and I do this well, trying

1130
01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:34.199
to get those things in the ground
so they'll be happy. And we've got

1131
01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:39.640
some beautiful gingers that are about to
go in the ground, some calalilies that

1132
01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:43.960
we need to move into the ground. And the first step though, one

1133
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:46.560
reason they're sitting there is because I
know you don't PLoP a plant into an

1134
01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:50.600
unprepared plot. I love saying it
that way. It's a tongue twister.

1135
01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:55.960
You build the soil first, and
that's what these guys are waiting on.

1136
01:23:56.039 --> 01:23:59.479
They're waiting on me to get off
the radio and go outside, dig,

1137
01:23:59.640 --> 01:24:01.640
dig some holt, and get the
soil ready to go so they can have

1138
01:24:01.800 --> 01:24:04.640
success. But that's the key to
it. I don't know if you're a

1139
01:24:04.680 --> 01:24:09.079
plant collector like me, but I
am. You can always tell a plant

1140
01:24:09.079 --> 01:24:13.119
collector. You know, some people
understand design and beauty and organization, and

1141
01:24:13.479 --> 01:24:18.319
that's called landscape design, and that's
that's wonderful. I'm very very supportive of

1142
01:24:18.399 --> 01:24:21.960
that. But for a lot of
us, it's kind of more about,

1143
01:24:23.199 --> 01:24:26.640
oh, I don't have that cajun
hibiscus, I need one of those,

1144
01:24:26.760 --> 01:24:30.439
or I don't have that such and
such tamato plant. So we're always looking

1145
01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:33.199
for something we don't have. And
when you put a landscape together that way,

1146
01:24:33.520 --> 01:24:36.960
it's like a bomb went off in
a garden center and everything rooted where

1147
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:43.399
it landed. Seriously, if if
you're guilty of this, you know what

1148
01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:45.960
I'm talking about. I'm talking about
me too. But anyway, just you

1149
01:24:46.039 --> 01:24:48.279
got to have a plant. So
you buy a plant, you get home,

1150
01:24:48.319 --> 01:24:50.079
and you go, Okay, now
where am I going to put this?

1151
01:24:51.399 --> 01:24:55.640
If you're that kind of gardener,
I feel your pain and I also

1152
01:24:55.760 --> 01:24:58.760
know your joy because that is a
lot of fun. But it does help

1153
01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:01.800
to get someone a little bit of
design a little forethought. Now's a good

1154
01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:05.560
time to do that. Fall planting
season is coming. Why not right now,

1155
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:10.600
go ahead and get things organized,
come up with a plan, get

1156
01:25:10.640 --> 01:25:14.079
some help with it if you need
to, and let's start redoing beds and

1157
01:25:14.159 --> 01:25:18.279
building beds and building that designed beauty
into things. You know, turn our

1158
01:25:19.039 --> 01:25:24.359
bomb went off in the garden Center
landscape into something that has a little bit

1159
01:25:24.439 --> 01:25:27.399
more organization and design. I think
it's something we can all do a little

1160
01:25:27.439 --> 01:25:29.920
bit better job of. All right, well, let's go out to the

1161
01:25:29.960 --> 01:25:32.640
phones. Now we're going to talk
to Donna in Beaumont. Hello, Donna,

1162
01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:40.039
welcome to guard Line. HIK.
My question is I've had a luna

1163
01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:45.680
rose plant. I think it's in
the high discus family and it's been in

1164
01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:50.239
the pot for like two years.
I thought it died in the freeze last

1165
01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:56.239
winter, but I just kept with
playing and watering it and it came back

1166
01:25:56.359 --> 01:26:00.199
and I was so happy. But
last week and we had lots of brain

1167
01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:06.640
I think it might have drowned.
It just looks like somebody sprayed weed killer

1168
01:26:06.760 --> 01:26:11.760
on it. It is just the
leaves have all shriveled up. It looks

1169
01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:15.680
terrible and I don't know if there's
any hope that maybe it will come back

1170
01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:20.079
again, or if I should cut
some of the branches the stands back.

1171
01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:23.920
Yeah, okay, Donald, I
tell you what. I have to go

1172
01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:26.399
to a break right now. I
didn't want to get your question, but

1173
01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:28.640
hang on. When we come back, we're going to tackle that one.

1174
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:31.279
That's a very very good question.
If you'd like to be on guard Line

1175
01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:35.560
dolls seven one three two one two
kt r H and we'll be right back

1176
01:26:35.640 --> 01:26:41.920
to take your call too. Gome
back to guard Line. Thanks for listening

1177
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:45.439
this morning. I hope you're having
a wonderful Sunday morning. Uh, this

1178
01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:48.439
is certainly going to be a good
day. Any day is a good day.

1179
01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:53.359
I think, do you enter it
the right way? When I was

1180
01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:57.520
outside a little bit of time.
A couple of days ago, I was

1181
01:26:57.560 --> 01:27:00.840
outside, just enjoying time outside,
just thinking about it. How good it

1182
01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:04.520
is to be able to be out
and enjoying nature, breathing good air,

1183
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:08.000
you know, even if it's kind
of warm in your sweating and stuff.

1184
01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:14.520
There's just a gratification to be able
to get out and turn your space into

1185
01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:17.239
a more beautiful space, a more
productive space. And I think that we

1186
01:27:17.479 --> 01:27:20.520
were meant to be in a garden. I just think that, you know,

1187
01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:25.920
for those of you who are gardeners
or horticulturists or whatever, you are

1188
01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:30.039
absolutely doing the kind of thing that
as human beings we were just designed to

1189
01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:33.720
do. And I know I'm biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

1190
01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:39.279
That does not be biased, does
not mean inherently that you're wrong. So

1191
01:27:40.039 --> 01:27:43.159
I think you will agree with that, at least those of you who are

1192
01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:45.600
gardeners, and I hope you enjoy
it. Let's go back out to the

1193
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:48.000
phones. We were talking to Donna
and Beaumont, and Donna, you mentioned

1194
01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:51.039
it was a kind of a hibiscus
family, some sort of roads. Could

1195
01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:59.399
you describe the leaf size and also
the blooms for me, please the bloom

1196
01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:03.720
is probably it's like a truly a
high discus bloom. If I stretch out

1197
01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:09.720
all the fingers of my hand,
the bloom is big fat, but the

1198
01:28:10.039 --> 01:28:16.920
plant don't stay small. It's like
maybe a football. Okay, oh wow,

1199
01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:23.399
okay. And so these these blooms
are probably either pink, red,

1200
01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:28.880
white, or a mix of those
colors deep pink. Okay, So you've

1201
01:28:28.920 --> 01:28:33.159
got a you've got a southern hibiscus. The perennial rose mallow is another name

1202
01:28:33.239 --> 01:28:39.600
for it. And those are excellent
plants. They like moist soil, and

1203
01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:43.520
so if it gets dry, they
can turn to toast pretty quick. If

1204
01:28:43.600 --> 01:28:47.359
you had significant root damage, you
would also see the same results as being

1205
01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:50.000
dry, and that if you don't
have root, you can't take up moisture,

1206
01:28:50.640 --> 01:28:56.159
and so that's a possibility. You
said that they turned brown pretty rapidly.

1207
01:28:56.439 --> 01:29:00.479
Is that correct? Well, I
was actually I was kind of in

1208
01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:04.159
and out all last week and it
was raining a lot here in Beaumont,

1209
01:29:04.359 --> 01:29:10.840
and I had I had put it
one of those little saucers underneath it because

1210
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:15.119
I was having to water it because
before that it was really really hot every

1211
01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:17.399
day and and it would kind of
get a little wilted. So I bought

1212
01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:20.840
one of those little saucers to put
underneath it. But then when it rained

1213
01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:25.840
and rained and rained, it just
sat in the rain. The roots and

1214
01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:29.319
everything it was in the rainy,
you know, standing and kind of standing

1215
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:34.479
in water. And then I noticed
that what I calmed down and finished with

1216
01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:39.079
my project I was working on.
Then I, uh, I noticed that

1217
01:29:39.159 --> 01:29:43.760
it just was wilting. The leaves
are withering up. It just it looks

1218
01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.399
like somebody took weed children and straight
on it. It looks very sad.

1219
01:29:47.399 --> 01:29:51.760
Yeah, so it's in a container. About how how why does that container

1220
01:29:53.279 --> 01:30:01.359
or tall wheel on your car?
It it's not that big. Let me,

1221
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:04.000
let me just take a look,
get it right quick. Let me

1222
01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:09.319
if it's not any bigger than the
steering wheel on your car. I think

1223
01:30:09.359 --> 01:30:15.399
the container is a little small to
sustain the southern rose mellow plant. It

1224
01:30:15.600 --> 01:30:21.439
was like, you know, the
top is about I'd say it's probably be

1225
01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:28.000
a foot across and it's probably about
foot deep. Okay, Well, something

1226
01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:30.319
has happened in the roots and who
knows. You know, both drought and

1227
01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:36.399
excessive water. Southern rose mellow is
pretty tolerant of wet feet, and so

1228
01:30:39.159 --> 01:30:43.720
I don't think that it's the saucer
you put underneath it. But I guess

1229
01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:46.640
it's always possible that some sort of
a root rod or whatever has gotten at

1230
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:50.880
alved. I think it would benefit
from being moved to a larger container,

1231
01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:57.279
just because the demands are so high
on these plants in summertime. They're pumping

1232
01:30:57.319 --> 01:31:00.319
a lot of water, and the
only place that plant can get water is

1233
01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:02.600
the soil and the container. So
if you have a cubic foot of soil

1234
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:08.000
versus two cubic feet of soil,
the plant that's in two cubic feed is

1235
01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:14.359
going to have a lot more moisture
bak account to draw from, So that

1236
01:31:14.520 --> 01:31:18.079
would be one thing I would do. Sometimes I've seen decay take those things

1237
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:21.640
down, and it usually when I
look into it, it's usually due to

1238
01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:26.399
some sort of a decay or a
wound or a root rot or something like

1239
01:31:26.520 --> 01:31:30.720
that at or below the ground level, So you might check around for that.

1240
01:31:30.840 --> 01:31:33.840
If you lean the pot over and
slid this out of the pot sideways,

1241
01:31:33.880 --> 01:31:38.079
don't try to pull it up,
just slide it out. Look at

1242
01:31:38.119 --> 01:31:41.720
the roots around the outside of the
container. They should be very nice,

1243
01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:47.000
plump, white roots. If what
you're seeing is shriveled or or looks like

1244
01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:53.159
a cigarette filter with the kind of
brown and black staining gray. That kind

1245
01:31:53.199 --> 01:31:57.000
of stuff. That's the sign of
a root rot. And what you would

1246
01:31:57.039 --> 01:32:00.199
do is take a I use like
an little butcher or something or a soil

1247
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.359
knife to just cut away the outsides
of the root ball, get back into

1248
01:32:03.439 --> 01:32:08.159
some living roots, and then pot
it back up again. Get it out

1249
01:32:08.239 --> 01:32:12.520
of the direct sun because it doesn't
have the roots needed to put up with

1250
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:15.520
the demands a full sun. But
give it good light but not direct sun,

1251
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:18.960
and try to get it in some
fresh saw mix and try to get

1252
01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:24.359
it going again, and then you
can move it back out into Okay,

1253
01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:28.119
okay, thank you, I will
try that. Thank you so much.

1254
01:32:28.159 --> 01:32:30.880
Good luck with that, all right, send me a picture if you get

1255
01:32:30.920 --> 01:32:34.239
it to recover. Okay, all
right, all right, thank you.

1256
01:32:34.479 --> 01:32:39.239
Bye. I love those spots.
I love Southern rose mallow. That's the

1257
01:32:39.279 --> 01:32:44.640
one I was talking about earlier.
The Cajun series, the Cajun hibiscus.

1258
01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:49.399
Oh gosh, those are so so
beautiful. I uh, there are a

1259
01:32:49.479 --> 01:32:55.399
lot of gorgeous types of biscus breeders
just keep doing things that is like we

1260
01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.840
hadn't seen that before and that when
it comes to hibiscus, and I think

1261
01:32:59.880 --> 01:33:02.760
it's exciting. You can't get a
gaudier, more beautiful, more heat tolerant

1262
01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:10.159
flower than a good quality tropical hibiscus
or the southern rose mello, the perennial

1263
01:33:10.199 --> 01:33:15.239
one that we were just talking about
there with Donna. Excellent choices. Remember

1264
01:33:15.359 --> 01:33:21.239
this about the hibiscus, especially that
tropical rose mellal. Each bloom lasts a

1265
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:25.680
day. So if you have one, or if you're thinking about getting one,

1266
01:33:25.960 --> 01:33:28.760
let me just give you a couple
of little tips here. Each they

1267
01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:31.960
produce a lot of buds, and
a bloom opens up, stays open through

1268
01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:34.199
the day, and then toward the
end of the day it sort of shrivels

1269
01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:39.720
up and it's done. One day, that's what you get. But there's

1270
01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:44.680
another bloom and another bloom. There's
all these blooms laying in wait for their

1271
01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:47.079
turn in the sun. And so
if you take care of a plant,

1272
01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.479
have lots of branches, you fertilize
it, it looks good. You're gonna

1273
01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:54.000
have a lot of blooms. You're
always gonna have blooms on that plant.

1274
01:33:54.319 --> 01:33:57.119
But each bloom just lasts a day. But if you have one of those

1275
01:33:57.159 --> 01:34:00.239
tropical hibiscuits. What you can do
is, let's say that you were going

1276
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:05.720
to have a garden party this evening
or any evening. Well, hibiscus balloons

1277
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:09.319
aren't going to look good at that
time of the day. But you could

1278
01:34:09.399 --> 01:34:15.319
pick them as they're starting to open
up and put them in the refrigerator and

1279
01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:17.239
leave them. That's right, not
in water. I'm talking about. Break

1280
01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:20.279
the bloom off. Stick it in
the refrigerator. You do not need to

1281
01:34:20.279 --> 01:34:23.800
put it in water. It's not
going to take up water anyway, and

1282
01:34:24.039 --> 01:34:28.520
it will be preserved. And then
that evening bring it out of the refrigerator

1283
01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:31.800
and use it as decoration. You
lay them around a table and they will

1284
01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:35.840
sit there looking just like they're on
a plant for a long time. They

1285
01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:39.119
don't just wilt immediately. I mean, I guess if you put them in

1286
01:34:39.159 --> 01:34:42.600
the sun, they would. But
I know people that will get like a

1287
01:34:42.680 --> 01:34:45.359
fish bowl, you know those old
fish bowl people goldfish in and they'll float

1288
01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:50.119
the bloom in there. Just for
a unique way to decorate with hibiscus blooms.

1289
01:34:50.159 --> 01:34:54.199
But remember, you can have a
hibiscus ballooms at night for decoration,

1290
01:34:54.600 --> 01:34:58.840
but you got to pick them put
them in the refrigerator early on, before

1291
01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:02.800
you know, they begin decline for
the day and you'll get several hours out

1292
01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:05.159
of those things when you pull them
out. I think it's a pretty cool

1293
01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:10.920
deal. Hopefully you do too.
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1297
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1315
01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:51.840
We're going to take a break now
for the news. I'll be right back

1316
01:36:56.279 --> 01:37:00.439
Houston's News, Why there were traffic
plus breaking news or seven. This is

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01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:15.600
used radio seven kt R H five
everywhere. Welcome back to the garden Line.

1318
01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:18.159
Good to have you with us,
Glad to be here, Glad to

1319
01:37:18.199 --> 01:37:21.680
be talking about gardening. Listen,
it's early in the morning, and one

1320
01:37:21.720 --> 01:37:27.079
of my favorite things to do early
in the morning is to enjoy the birds

1321
01:37:27.199 --> 01:37:30.920
that are in our backyard. Whether
I'm sitting inside looking out watching them,

1322
01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:32.479
and yeah, I can hear their
songs from inside the house. I mean

1323
01:37:32.520 --> 01:37:38.239
they really it's a cacophony of bird
noises when when it gets really really early

1324
01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:42.520
in the morning sun's about to come
up, or going outside and just enjoying

1325
01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:47.560
them there and Wallbirds Unlimited can help
you turn your landscape into that kind of

1326
01:37:47.800 --> 01:37:53.880
an enjoyable paradise where you get to
enjoy the music of the birds and the

1327
01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:56.560
antics of the birds and the beauty
of the birds. We have some little

1328
01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:00.880
finches that seem to be a specially
fond of our feeders. The little kind

1329
01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:03.760
of a reddish color to them.
Trying to think of the name of the

1330
01:38:03.800 --> 01:38:09.159
finch, but anyway, we really
enjoy that. And so you can too

1331
01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:13.079
go to wild Birds Unlimited and check
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offer. WPU dot com, Forward
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1334
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You may find a bird feeder that
you like. My favorite is still

1335
01:38:29.560 --> 01:38:33.039
that one that's the squirrel excluding feeder, but there's so many other excellments.

1336
01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:36.960
I use more than one kind of
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1337
01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:40.359
like the Super Blend. If you're
going to take any kind of a trip

1338
01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:44.000
and you need something that'll last out
there, get one of their seeds cylinders.

1339
01:38:44.119 --> 01:38:46.319
It's packed with seeds and it takes
the birds a little while to peck

1340
01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:48.520
on them, and when you come
back, you're still going to have some

1341
01:38:49.359 --> 01:38:54.720
available food for the birds still present
there because they don't just chomp it all

1342
01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:57.279
up. It also makes them hang
out a little bit longer to try to

1343
01:38:57.319 --> 01:39:00.520
get those seeds out, and you
get more time to watch them when they're

1344
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:03.720
out there. While Bird's unlimited for
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1345
01:39:03.800 --> 01:39:09.119
to bird houses, to bird seed, to good information to help guide you

1346
01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:12.520
on success with birds, and for
that matter, for those of you that

1347
01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:15.399
really love birds in the yard and
love to bring them in because you know

1348
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:19.560
that a lot of them help you
with your insect management around the property.

1349
01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:25.159
Well, for those of you you
need to know about the Merlin app M

1350
01:39:25.239 --> 01:39:29.920
E R l I N like Merlin
the Magician. It's from Cornell University,

1351
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:33.920
but it is the most amazing bird
app I've ever seen. I have my

1352
01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:36.840
Merlin app. I can walk outside
and I hear a bird singing and I'm

1353
01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:40.720
not a bird expert, and I
just turn on the app and say what

1354
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:43.560
is that? And it listens and
it tells me what bird it is.

1355
01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:45.239
It gives me a picture of the
bird, and it tells me more information.

1356
01:39:45.479 --> 01:39:48.640
Is that cool or what? Merlin
app can do a lot of other

1357
01:39:48.720 --> 01:39:53.119
things too, But if you're a
bird enthusiastic, got to get the Merlin

1358
01:39:53.159 --> 01:39:57.239
app. It's free, by the
way, believe it or not. All

1359
01:39:57.319 --> 01:40:00.960
right, you're listening to Guardline.
Our phone numbers one, three, two

1360
01:40:00.039 --> 01:40:03.199
and two k t r H.
We're going to head out now to Missouri

1361
01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:12.800
City and talk to Dan Dan Spring
in the garden line. I have a

1362
01:40:13.079 --> 01:40:19.159
crate myrtle that was cliented probably forty
one years ago, and uh, it's

1363
01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:24.640
it seems to be I didn't know
if they had a lifespan, but it

1364
01:40:24.760 --> 01:40:30.079
seems to be sending up shoots from
Uh. It looks like a crate myrtle

1365
01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:34.640
is coming up different places in my
flower bed. Does that? Do they

1366
01:40:34.680 --> 01:40:42.319
have a lifespan? Well, every
you know, every living thing essentially has

1367
01:40:42.439 --> 01:40:45.319
some sort of a lifespan. But
it's not like at a certain you know,

1368
01:40:45.600 --> 01:40:48.720
X number of years all CRP myrtle's
croak on you. Uh so I

1369
01:40:48.760 --> 01:40:53.680
would they they are quite long lived, and there are some beautiful specimens that

1370
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:56.560
have been a very very long They've
been around a very very long time,

1371
01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:01.239
so I wouldn't be thinking this is
a lifespan. Uh did it? Did

1372
01:41:01.319 --> 01:41:04.640
you used to not have the creat
myrtle shoots coming up and now you do?

1373
01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:08.640
Or has this been something? Yeah? Yeah, I didn't have them

1374
01:41:08.680 --> 01:41:11.279
coming up. Now I do.
And I thought it might have been that

1375
01:41:11.479 --> 01:41:14.680
drought year we had. Maybe it
was trying to say this, so I

1376
01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:18.079
don't know. Yeah, well the
drought year did it did damage, but

1377
01:41:18.359 --> 01:41:24.319
the coal spells that we had also
depending on your Missouri city, it depends

1378
01:41:24.359 --> 01:41:27.119
on what air part of the areas
you go further north, Especially, we

1379
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:31.920
had crepe myrtles that were killed to
the ground by an early hard December freeze

1380
01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:36.239
when they weren't ready for winter.
Creat myrtles were very hearty, but they

1381
01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:40.640
weren't ready for it. So it
could be a number of factors. But

1382
01:41:40.760 --> 01:41:45.119
when you look at the plant itself, does it look good still? Yeah,

1383
01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:48.239
it's still blooming and uh yeah.
So what I've done is I've just

1384
01:41:48.399 --> 01:41:55.520
tooken a taken a sharp shooter shovel
and pulled these out and then planted them

1385
01:41:55.560 --> 01:41:58.159
somewhere else. I don't know if
I don't know if they'll survive or not

1386
01:41:58.319 --> 01:42:02.159
a bit. They probably would if
they look Okay, if you do,

1387
01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:06.359
if you want them, really want
them to survive, I'd wait and do

1388
01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:13.359
that in early November, and you'll
have much better success with the transplant because

1389
01:42:13.359 --> 01:42:16.760
it has all winter winter to settle
in before it has to face the demands

1390
01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:21.119
of summer heat. Moving a man
can be done, but it's it's a

1391
01:42:21.239 --> 01:42:28.039
high risk. So these could be
you know, we always have to leave

1392
01:42:28.079 --> 01:42:30.479
them. It could be seedlings,
because great myrtles can produce viable seed,

1393
01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:34.800
and it could be that. But
it could also be boot sprouts. As

1394
01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:41.680
you're talking about. Forty one years
ago, I pruned it back and I

1395
01:42:41.800 --> 01:42:47.199
stuck one of the cuttings into some
soil and it came up six foot tall.

1396
01:42:47.279 --> 01:42:51.600
It's been blooming ever since. Wow, that's impressive and I have no

1397
01:42:53.159 --> 01:43:00.399
I have no experience doing that.
Well. I just think it has to

1398
01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:04.640
be attributed to clean living and fancy
horticulture techniques. That's the only thing I

1399
01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:10.000
can think of. Okay, Well, I forgive you credit for that.

1400
01:43:10.199 --> 01:43:15.640
Ran you get thanks for the call. Enjoy that CP myrtles are. They're

1401
01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:20.720
very, very tough plants. I'm
amazed really and how tough they are because

1402
01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.479
you look at them and I don't
know, you just wouldn't think that they're

1403
01:43:24.479 --> 01:43:29.159
going to be that amazingly resilient.
But they are pretty darn tough plants.

1404
01:43:29.600 --> 01:43:34.319
But any plant can succumb to any
kind of situation if the conditions are right.

1405
01:43:34.880 --> 01:43:39.319
Something that to be aware of the
worst thing that's happened to crape myrtles

1406
01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:44.560
around here is the crepe myrtle bark
scale. That is a critter that I

1407
01:43:44.640 --> 01:43:46.880
believe it came from Asia, which
is where the crape myrtle's from. Uh,

1408
01:43:47.279 --> 01:43:53.319
And it gets on crate myrtles.
You start to see black everywhere on

1409
01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:57.439
the leaves, on the trunk,
on things under the crate myrtle. And

1410
01:43:57.760 --> 01:44:04.159
it's because crep myrtle bark scale is
a soft scale that sucks the sugary juices

1411
01:44:04.199 --> 01:44:11.800
out of the plant's trunk and branches
and then it essentially pees out a sugary

1412
01:44:11.880 --> 01:44:14.359
water because it's not in it for
the sugar, it's in it for other

1413
01:44:14.479 --> 01:44:17.720
things in the sap. And when
that falls. We call that honeydew,

1414
01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:25.159
and it's just like if you mix
sugar water up and sprayed it on something,

1415
01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:29.079
you would see a city mold grow
on that sugary substance. And that's

1416
01:44:29.119 --> 01:44:31.479
what the black is all about.
So the black isn't the disease. It's

1417
01:44:31.680 --> 01:44:36.399
just the salt of the insect that
we're dealing with. They're hard to control.

1418
01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:41.720
They're very difficult to manage. They
generally don't kill crape myrtles, but

1419
01:44:41.880 --> 01:44:45.960
they sure make them look ugly,
and there are different ways to control them,

1420
01:44:46.079 --> 01:44:53.359
and there's not a good silver bullet
trying to manage them. Some people

1421
01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:57.640
will use a soapy brush, a
soft brush and wash the black off.

1422
01:44:58.319 --> 01:45:00.279
They'll spray oil on them, which
first you would think, well, oil

1423
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.760
would be a good control those brainsecticides
on them, but the scale are protected

1424
01:45:05.439 --> 01:45:11.880
and we have to go to some
pretty significant links to try to control them.

1425
01:45:12.199 --> 01:45:15.039
Just remember, they don't kill scrape
myrtle, So I've known people that

1426
01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:19.520
just leave them and ignore them.
Their number one enemy that I've seen is

1427
01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:24.640
the twice stabbed Lady beetle, and
I just took some pictures of some yesterday.

1428
01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:29.279
But the twice stabbed lady beetle is
a black lady beetle that has two

1429
01:45:29.359 --> 01:45:32.239
red spots on each side, hence
the name twice stabbed. They love creat

1430
01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.199
myrtle bark scale and if you're not
spraying all the time, they're going to

1431
01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:39.479
find it. They will not eradicate
it, but they will help keep it

1432
01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:42.600
under control. What it's time for
me to take a little break. We

1433
01:45:42.800 --> 01:45:45.319
will be right back our phone number
if you want to get on the boards.

1434
01:45:45.359 --> 01:45:46.319
We've got a wide open board right
now, so this would be a

1435
01:45:46.359 --> 01:45:51.600
good time. Seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. That's

1436
01:45:51.680 --> 01:46:06.600
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. It's a complicated I'll

1437
01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:19.520
tie up. I hate to see
waiting. Welcome back to garden Line.

1438
01:46:20.279 --> 01:46:24.159
Hey, we're glad to have you
with us today. Thanks for being part

1439
01:46:24.239 --> 01:46:30.359
of garden Line. This is a
ongoing conversation among friends, right we're talking

1440
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:33.800
about the things that are of interest
to us as gardeners and ways to have

1441
01:46:33.920 --> 01:46:38.560
better success. Uh. You know, we're talking about creameral bark scale coming

1442
01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:42.840
through and there are systemic products that
will go up in the plant and kill

1443
01:46:42.920 --> 01:46:45.239
the scale because the scale is sucking
juices out of the plant. So when

1444
01:46:45.279 --> 01:46:49.760
you put the poison in the plumbing, those scale or they have access to

1445
01:46:49.880 --> 01:46:53.399
it, and something crawling around on
the surface of the plant would not be

1446
01:46:53.479 --> 01:46:56.720
exposed to it, as opposed to
putting a spray on the outside of the

1447
01:46:56.760 --> 01:47:00.359
plant. So those drenches are an
option. The problem is that gets into

1448
01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:03.920
the nectar and can be a part
of the issue that bees have to struggle

1449
01:47:03.960 --> 01:47:08.520
with, So we hate to do
that when we don't have to try to

1450
01:47:08.560 --> 01:47:13.119
avoid that if possible. Just regular
treatments are available that you can use when

1451
01:47:13.159 --> 01:47:17.800
the scale are crawling around as babies
typically March April somewhere in there is when

1452
01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:21.279
you'll start to see that here in
the Houston area, and those could be

1453
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:25.359
used. Then when the scale don't
have the protective coating, they are the

1454
01:47:25.439 --> 01:47:29.800
babies crawling around fixing to set up
shop and put on a protective coating.

1455
01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:31.439
So that's an option and you can
get all those kind of products. For

1456
01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:38.000
example, at Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest
has everything that you could possibly need to

1457
01:47:38.119 --> 01:47:42.640
have success in your garden your landscape. They have the tools, they have

1458
01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:48.760
the supplies and secticide, fungicide,
herbicide. Certainly fertilizers wide variety of fertilizers.

1459
01:47:48.800 --> 01:47:54.279
There knowledgeable staff that can look at
your situation and listen, look at

1460
01:47:54.319 --> 01:47:57.159
a picture, look at a sample, talk to you, make sure they

1461
01:47:57.279 --> 01:48:01.119
know what to do that, what
is effect, what is happening on your

1462
01:48:01.199 --> 01:48:04.399
plant, and then select the product
that'll work against it. Is what I'm

1463
01:48:04.439 --> 01:48:08.520
trying to say. They're excellent at
that, and they do that and they

1464
01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:10.520
have it all. If Southwest doesn't
have it, you don't need it.

1465
01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:15.840
For example, new fairly new product
by Medina called has to Grow supergrow Plus.

1466
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:19.399
As to Grow supergrol Plus is a
sixteen zero two fertilizer in a quart

1467
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:25.319
bottle that attaches to a garden hose. It covers four thousand square feet and

1468
01:48:25.439 --> 01:48:28.560
you can do that in about ten
minutes. So you hook it up and

1469
01:48:28.720 --> 01:48:31.199
you just go to town and spray
your lawn. It's going to have the

1470
01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:36.439
sixteen zero two nutrient ratio that's an
excellent one for the summertime. It's going

1471
01:48:36.520 --> 01:48:40.479
to provide in addition to that,
by the way, part of the nitrogen,

1472
01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:43.720
about a fifth of it is in
a slow release form. It's going

1473
01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:47.039
to provide a keylated form of iron
to help those yellow spots green up.

1474
01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:51.760
It's going to provide molasses, which
we already talked about earlier today, how

1475
01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:57.039
molasses helps microbes in the soil.
It's going to provide humic acid, and

1476
01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:03.199
it's also it also contains the products
that help enhance growth, like seaweed extract

1477
01:49:03.520 --> 01:49:10.039
all By has to grow supergrow plus. Medina product has to grow supergrow plus.

1478
01:49:10.119 --> 01:49:14.760
And again you can find that at
many places, including Southwest Fertilizer,

1479
01:49:15.000 --> 01:49:17.600
which has everything. Let's go back
to the phones now. I'm going to

1480
01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:21.720
talk to Houston or talk to Justin
out here in Houston. Hey, Justin,

1481
01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:26.079
Hey, how you doing. I
got a little bit of a problem.

1482
01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:30.159
I keep being told that this weed
in my yard is like different names,

1483
01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:34.000
so it's hard to try to find
something to kill it. Everybody's seen

1484
01:49:34.039 --> 01:49:36.960
it if you live in Houston.
It looks kind of like sant Augustine,

1485
01:49:38.000 --> 01:49:42.439
but it grows faster, and it
has those stocks that come up that bend

1486
01:49:42.520 --> 01:49:46.399
over and have like a seed pod
and their little black seeds and you know,

1487
01:49:46.439 --> 01:49:49.640
I stick to your jeans and everything
when you walk past them. They're

1488
01:49:49.800 --> 01:49:54.640
kind of sticky, you know what
that is? And I kill it.

1489
01:49:55.680 --> 01:49:58.439
Yeah, I got your email,
and I just replied to it. It's

1490
01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:01.479
in that thing where it takes it
a minute to send, But if you

1491
01:50:01.600 --> 01:50:04.680
were, can you take some photos
of it and attach it and send them

1492
01:50:04.720 --> 01:50:08.960
to me. We've still got time
today and i'd be glad to talk about

1493
01:50:08.960 --> 01:50:13.960
it on the air. But it
could be one of two or three things,

1494
01:50:14.079 --> 01:50:16.319
and I don't just guess, so
let me. Could you get me

1495
01:50:16.399 --> 01:50:19.239
a picture and then let me give
you a better, more accurate answer,

1496
01:50:20.119 --> 01:50:24.279
Yes, sir, thank you?
All right, Well you will have a

1497
01:50:24.359 --> 01:50:27.680
reply already from me when you get
to your phone, hopefully or your computer

1498
01:50:27.800 --> 01:50:30.560
action. Actually, thanks. I
feel free to call back on or I

1499
01:50:30.680 --> 01:50:34.760
may just talk about it. Either
way sounds good. I'm here, all

1500
01:50:34.880 --> 01:50:39.039
right, you bet. I appreciate
that very much. Let's go back to

1501
01:50:39.479 --> 01:50:44.119
the phone's Baytown. We're going to
talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie Hello.

1502
01:50:44.760 --> 01:50:48.880
My question is about something to replace
some trees that we lost the storms.

1503
01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:54.880
There was a fast growing tree that
was advertised on the radio at some

1504
01:50:55.079 --> 01:50:58.199
point, but I didn't get the
name. I'm supposed to go about four

1505
01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:02.439
or five feet a year. They
do not reproduce no nuts or seeds,

1506
01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:08.680
and I'm looking for something like that. Do you any suggestion Okay, I

1507
01:51:08.760 --> 01:51:13.760
don't know which one that was,
but I do know this almost with that

1508
01:51:13.920 --> 01:51:18.560
exception, the phrase grow fast,
die young applies to trees. The things

1509
01:51:18.600 --> 01:51:27.039
that grow really quick tend to be
very weak wooded and also tend to not

1510
01:51:27.319 --> 01:51:30.880
live as long or start to fall
apart over time. And so I would

1511
01:51:31.359 --> 01:51:35.560
rather than looking for something that is
the fastest growing tree out there, I

1512
01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:41.439
would decide a couple things. Number
one, do you want it for shade

1513
01:51:41.640 --> 01:51:45.079
or do you want it for blooms? And then pick a plant that is

1514
01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:48.920
going to grow pretty darn fast,
but that really fits that bill really well.

1515
01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:57.359
So which of which are you looking
you're looking for shade? Okay,

1516
01:51:58.119 --> 01:52:02.640
all right, So one thing that
would be a good option for shade that's

1517
01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:06.479
going to be fast growing is a
red oak. Red oaks do very very

1518
01:52:06.560 --> 01:52:12.279
well here there. If you've got
a good deep soil, A shoe mard

1519
01:52:12.880 --> 01:52:16.520
type of red oak is good.
If you have an area that tends to

1520
01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:21.880
be a little bit poorly drained,
then the nut tall n u TTL nutall

1521
01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:28.399
type of red oak is going to
perform well in any kind of soil,

1522
01:52:28.439 --> 01:52:31.319
but including the saggi wet type.
So red oak would be a good fast

1523
01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:34.640
growing You fertilize them, you take
care of them, you make a big

1524
01:52:34.800 --> 01:52:39.800
mulched area around them where they're not
competing with grass, and they'll grow fast.

1525
01:52:40.119 --> 01:52:43.439
They'll grow fast, but they'll be
a long term tree. Another one

1526
01:52:43.479 --> 01:52:49.359
would be a Chinese elm. Chinese
elms have beautiful gray and rust colored exfoliating

1527
01:52:49.479 --> 01:52:54.000
bark, so they're very attractive.
I mean even in winter when there's no

1528
01:52:54.159 --> 01:52:57.399
leaves in the tree. It's an
attractive tree for that reason. And you'll

1529
01:52:57.399 --> 01:53:00.279
see these around town. If you
do a search on line for Chinese elm,

1530
01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:03.760
you kind of see what I'm talking
about. Those grew very fast and

1531
01:53:03.920 --> 01:53:09.479
they also are a good, longer
lived tree. Tho those are two examples.

1532
01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:13.880
There are others out there. There's
a green ash, not Arizona ash,

1533
01:53:14.079 --> 01:53:17.920
but a green ash or a Texas
ash. Those are both good trees

1534
01:53:18.119 --> 01:53:24.199
that grow pretty fast as well.
So there's three options for you. It

1535
01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:27.399
is Thank you, sir, and
have a good day, all right,

1536
01:53:27.479 --> 01:53:30.560
Ran, Thanks for call. Appreciate
that. Good luck getting that. You

1537
01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:32.039
know, the best time to plant
a tree is forty years ago. Have

1538
01:53:32.119 --> 01:53:35.399
youall ever heard that? You know
what the second best time is today?

1539
01:53:38.079 --> 01:53:41.079
That's right. You like to see
it that way because it makes a point,

1540
01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:45.399
you know another I'm just full oftenings
to another thing that I like here,

1541
01:53:45.960 --> 01:53:51.359
I've heard that I enjoy it is
a society is great When old men

1542
01:53:51.680 --> 01:53:58.000
plant trees under which shade they will
never say, in other words, I'm

1543
01:53:58.039 --> 01:54:01.359
doing this for the next generation.
And that's true, isn't it. I

1544
01:54:01.439 --> 01:54:06.119
mean, when you think about the
value of your home, remember the days

1545
01:54:06.159 --> 01:54:12.640
when Arizona ash was everywhere, and
after about twenty May eighty thirty years,

1546
01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:17.359
they just started falling apart and got
to start over. Can you imagine this

1547
01:54:17.600 --> 01:54:21.720
big, beautiful shade tree that someday, whether you or someone in your family

1548
01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:26.239
is selling the home, it's just
all the more valuable, and you've got

1549
01:54:26.319 --> 01:54:30.319
to enjoy it all along your way. It makes sense go for stuff that

1550
01:54:30.680 --> 01:54:41.399
lasts and that's quality, not just
fast. It's my Disney line I call

1551
01:54:44.560 --> 01:55:02.600
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line
with scip Ricker's just watch him as a

1552
01:55:02.760 --> 01:55:24.159
world us so many things to see, not a sign. Well, welcome

1553
01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.560
back to your garden line. Good
to have you back with us. As

1554
01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:35.800
we start our final hour of the
day, start, we're looking forward to

1555
01:55:35.840 --> 01:55:42.039
helping you and whatever way you need
to have a beautiful garden and a bountiful

1556
01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:45.199
garden certainly a beautiful landscape. All
you have to do is give us call

1557
01:55:45.359 --> 01:55:49.880
seven one three two one two k
t r H. Seven one three two

1558
01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:55.399
one two k t r H.
And we are going to head straight out

1559
01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:59.319
to the phones right now and talk
to Alan in sugar Land. Hello,

1560
01:55:59.439 --> 01:56:02.079
Alan, welcome them the garden line. Good morning, Skip, thanks for

1561
01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:06.920
taking my call. I have a
question regarding some vinca that have come up

1562
01:56:08.000 --> 01:56:15.079
from sea. Uh hav them planting
planting venca in a raised dead last year

1563
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:21.600
and then also some large pots and
now the u this year the siege from

1564
01:56:21.720 --> 01:56:27.640
last year's plants started sprouting. But
a lot of them just sprout up maybe

1565
01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:34.840
uh inch inch and a half and
then they just don't do anything. Is

1566
01:56:34.920 --> 01:56:41.039
it a soil issue or what would
you think it could be? Are they

1567
01:56:41.119 --> 01:56:45.640
turn it well? Are they turning
kind of a blackish color and dying?

1568
01:56:45.800 --> 01:56:53.039
You know the green? They're green? They're just stunted. Yeah. Well,

1569
01:56:53.359 --> 01:56:56.399
first I would get a little hand
trout, dig one up and uh

1570
01:56:56.640 --> 01:56:59.479
look at the roots, wash the
soil off, look at the roots and

1571
01:56:59.520 --> 01:57:03.159
are they normal little long, slender
roots, healthy going out in all directions,

1572
01:57:03.479 --> 01:57:08.319
or are they rotted? Or do
you see little bumps on the roots,

1573
01:57:08.479 --> 01:57:13.760
little knots, like a string of
pearls kind of thing that would indicate

1574
01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:18.399
nematodes. The bumps the rots would
indicate a root rot. And then if

1575
01:57:18.439 --> 01:57:25.520
everything looks normal, then we're looking
at either some moisture or possibly some kind

1576
01:57:25.520 --> 01:57:28.359
of nutrient. But when you had
the venka there before, it grew well,

1577
01:57:28.560 --> 01:57:32.680
right, yes, uh huh,
so I would I would tend to

1578
01:57:32.800 --> 01:57:36.520
not think it's a nutrient problem because
the old vinka was happy to be there,

1579
01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:42.600
so this one should not be that
stunted. Okay. And I had

1580
01:57:42.680 --> 01:57:48.399
put a thin layer of compost on
the raised bed, and now some of

1581
01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:54.079
them were doing good. They're going
well, I said. Others they just

1582
01:57:54.199 --> 01:58:00.800
kind of sit there dormant. Okay, Well, adequate soew moisture, adequate

1583
01:58:00.840 --> 01:58:05.000
sow moisture, A little boost of
fertilizer would be fine. There's no problem

1584
01:58:05.039 --> 01:58:12.000
with that. Just moderning. Oh, yeah, that'd be fine, that'd

1585
01:58:12.039 --> 01:58:15.800
be great. Scratch it, scratch
it into the soil service. Yeah,

1586
01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:17.600
sixty four is a good one.
Scratch it in a little bit into the

1587
01:58:17.680 --> 01:58:21.039
soil surface, throw some mulch over
the top. That's going to do two

1588
01:58:21.119 --> 01:58:25.159
things. Number one, that microlife
is going to break down or release nutrients

1589
01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:30.119
better because it'll stay moist that way. But also you'll be moderating the soil

1590
01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:35.640
temperature and the little tender seedlings dealing
with the full brunt of the sun in

1591
01:58:35.760 --> 01:58:41.199
the heat. That may be a
factor, but I I first would make

1592
01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:44.159
sure and dig that plant. Dig
a plant up, wash soil off,

1593
01:58:44.239 --> 01:58:46.279
look at it, uh, look
at the roots and if we can.

1594
01:58:46.600 --> 01:58:51.840
If you see nematodes, that's a
whole another monster. If you see like

1595
01:58:53.119 --> 01:58:57.560
bb size or something, or it
depends on the root size, but yeah,

1596
01:58:57.640 --> 01:59:00.560
they could be down starting off as
little as bebes. But as the

1597
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:04.119
roots get bigger, the nematodes get
bigger. Sometimes it just looks like a

1598
01:59:04.159 --> 01:59:09.119
little like a you know, if
I like a giant snake swallowed a rabbit

1599
01:59:09.199 --> 01:59:12.279
or an animal, it had that
bump in the middle of it going down

1600
01:59:12.319 --> 01:59:15.840
the snake. It's sort of like
that, but there'll be more than one

1601
01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:18.359
of them. But in bad cases
there's so many that they're just lined up

1602
01:59:18.399 --> 01:59:24.319
and the root looks like the Michelin
manned with all the lumps and everything else.

1603
01:59:24.920 --> 01:59:27.520
So just look and if you have
a question, you can take a

1604
01:59:27.560 --> 01:59:30.039
picture of it up close, good
sharp focus, send it to me and

1605
01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:32.119
I'll make an assessment of that.
I'll be happy to help you that.

1606
01:59:32.760 --> 01:59:38.600
One more quick question. I've got
some cana lily and some caterpillars got out

1607
01:59:38.600 --> 01:59:43.479
of there and I've been spraying them
with BT and it seemed to be doing

1608
01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:50.439
somewhat good. But how often do
I spray the BT only? ET only

1609
01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:55.479
lasts about a day or two where
it's effective and then it begins breaking down

1610
01:59:55.720 --> 02:00:00.600
being a natural product. So if
you spray BET, you got to get

1611
02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:03.399
it out there on the leaves.
Cann Of leaves tend to ball up water

1612
02:00:03.560 --> 02:00:08.239
and it runs off. If you
have your notice that about spraying them,

1613
02:00:08.720 --> 02:00:12.399
your spray doesn't stick to the leaf
really well. So you can get a

1614
02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:16.039
product called a spreader sticker. So
you know you're out there in the sugar

1615
02:00:16.119 --> 02:00:18.800
Land area, you were just a
hop, skipping or jump away from a

1616
02:00:18.960 --> 02:00:25.479
Southwest fertilizer Bob's got some there spreader
sticker type products. Ace hardware stores are

1617
02:00:25.479 --> 02:00:29.479
gonna have spreader sticker type products depending
on where you're located. Find the local

1618
02:00:29.520 --> 02:00:32.199
one and mix that in the water
and that helps it stick to the cann

1619
02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:38.319
of leaves. Spinosaid maybe a better
option for your cann of leaf roller.

1620
02:00:38.439 --> 02:00:42.399
That's the caterpillar you're dealing with.
They get inside the leaf and you can't

1621
02:00:42.399 --> 02:00:46.239
get a spray to them. Spinosid
soaks into the leaf tissue and so you

1622
02:00:46.359 --> 02:00:50.279
have to spray it regularly. But
it lasts longer than the BT. But

1623
02:00:50.399 --> 02:00:54.600
it also because it soaks in,
Like if you spray one side of a

1624
02:00:54.680 --> 02:00:58.359
leaf and the caterpillars feeding on the
other side or something, they're still going

1625
02:00:58.439 --> 02:01:02.960
to get that poison in them.
Could you sell that for me? Yes?

1626
02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:11.399
S p I N O S A
D. Spindosid. Now there's a

1627
02:01:11.600 --> 02:01:15.439
dozen other insecticides I could tell you
to spray that would kill the can of

1628
02:01:15.520 --> 02:01:20.119
leaf rollers, some systemic and others
spinosa and BT or two natural organic products

1629
02:01:20.359 --> 02:01:25.640
and very low talks. And so
we generally start with those those things.

1630
02:01:25.880 --> 02:01:28.840
Okay, all right, thank you
for your time, and I have a

1631
02:01:28.880 --> 02:01:33.079
big day. All right. You
take care too. You know, earlier,

1632
02:01:33.479 --> 02:01:36.399
earlier, folks, I was talking
about wasp. Remember I was saying

1633
02:01:36.439 --> 02:01:42.319
how paper wasp their number one food
sources caterpillars. Well, I was looking

1634
02:01:42.359 --> 02:01:45.319
at some cannons I used to have. I redid the bed and did something

1635
02:01:45.319 --> 02:01:48.319
else with it. But I had
some cannas and I was watching. I

1636
02:01:48.359 --> 02:01:51.199
could look at the patch and see
right where the leaf rollers were because there

1637
02:01:51.199 --> 02:01:56.439
weren't leaves. They'd eating them.
And I was watching paper wasp red wasp

1638
02:01:56.560 --> 02:01:59.199
in this case, going in to
the pack. I knew what they were

1639
02:01:59.239 --> 02:02:01.199
in there for, and I kind
of crawled around a little bit and found

1640
02:02:01.239 --> 02:02:04.279
them eating, and they had a
can of leaf rogram. They were chewing

1641
02:02:04.319 --> 02:02:08.520
them up. They were in there
as predators, hunting those little boogers down.

1642
02:02:08.800 --> 02:02:12.239
And when you see wasp flying around
your plants, they're there for one

1643
02:02:12.319 --> 02:02:15.600
or two reasons. They're looking for
food. Because they're predators. They're looking

1644
02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:19.039
for food, and that food is
primarily caterpillars. Or number two, they're

1645
02:02:19.079 --> 02:02:25.199
looking for extra floral nectaries. Extra
floral nectaries. Now, I'll tell you

1646
02:02:25.239 --> 02:02:29.239
about those when we come back from
break, So stay tuned our phone number

1647
02:02:29.319 --> 02:02:40.439
seven one three two one two kt
r H. Welcome back to Guardline.

1648
02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:44.600
Glad you're with us today, Very
glad you're with us listening if you'd like

1649
02:02:44.680 --> 02:02:47.279
to give us a call seven one
three, two one two five eight seven

1650
02:02:47.399 --> 02:02:49.920
four and a right for break.
I kind of gave you a little teaser

1651
02:02:50.000 --> 02:02:55.199
there that I was going to talk
about something a little bit different. We

1652
02:02:55.279 --> 02:02:59.079
were talking about the canna leaf rovers. Remember those can of lefros. I

1653
02:02:59.159 --> 02:03:01.600
was talking about wasp coming in and
they were hauling them away. Wasp or

1654
02:03:01.680 --> 02:03:05.439
predators. They're flying around your plants. One of the things they're doing is

1655
02:03:05.439 --> 02:03:09.760
they're looking for some to eat.
And something eat usually is a caterpillar.

1656
02:03:10.199 --> 02:03:13.760
When you're a paper wasp, a
red wasp or one of those yellow and

1657
02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:17.359
brown striped paper wasps, that's what
they're doing. But the other thing that

1658
02:03:17.399 --> 02:03:24.720
they're doing is they're looking for something
called extra floral nectaries. Extra floral nectaries.

1659
02:03:24.760 --> 02:03:27.880
Now, we all know that flowers
have nectar. Bees go for that

1660
02:03:28.119 --> 02:03:31.359
and butterflies go for that. But
do you know that plants have other spots

1661
02:03:31.479 --> 02:03:36.000
on the plant that produce nectar.
Most people don't know that these are called

1662
02:03:36.199 --> 02:03:42.119
extra floral nectaries. Outside the flowers, there's other places you will find a

1663
02:03:42.279 --> 02:03:45.159
little spots along a stem or maybe
we're a leaf at the base of a

1664
02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:48.760
leaf, like if you were a
look at a peach leaf, for example,

1665
02:03:49.640 --> 02:03:53.640
it has a little stalk that attaches
to the stem at the base.

1666
02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:57.600
But right at the base of the
leaf before it gets right to that stalk,

1667
02:03:58.000 --> 02:04:01.439
they're these little orbs, these little
bump those are extra floral nectaries.

1668
02:04:01.560 --> 02:04:04.319
You'll see them on black eyed peas, You'll see them on just lots of

1669
02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:12.199
different plants, and they bring in
They attract beneficial insects to feed on that.

1670
02:04:12.520 --> 02:04:15.359
That's one of the reasons the plant
is making them. And you'll see

1671
02:04:15.439 --> 02:04:18.600
wasps sitting on a stem and they're
kind of just walking around in that area,

1672
02:04:18.760 --> 02:04:21.479
just doing something. You're going and
what are they doing there? There's

1673
02:04:21.520 --> 02:04:25.920
no caterpillar there. That's what they're
doing there, And i'd attract them in.

1674
02:04:26.039 --> 02:04:29.520
And it's not just the big paper
wasps, it's little tiny beneficial wasps

1675
02:04:29.600 --> 02:04:32.560
of other types. So extra floal
nectaries kind of a cool fun fact.

1676
02:04:32.760 --> 02:04:36.880
I guess that's our cool fun fact
of the day. Well, you're listening

1677
02:04:36.920 --> 02:04:44.720
to Guardline and I you hear me
advocate for Star Hope Mission a lot,

1678
02:04:45.560 --> 02:04:47.720
and it's because I believe in Star
Hope Mission. Star of Hope has been

1679
02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:51.239
around for one hundred and seventeen years, My wife and I are supporters of

1680
02:04:51.319 --> 02:04:55.920
Star of Hope because we believe in
Star of Hope. I've seen the work

1681
02:04:56.000 --> 02:05:00.039
that they do. I've heard the
stories of lives that they've changed. You

1682
02:05:00.039 --> 02:05:03.119
know, there are christ centered community
dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men,

1683
02:05:03.640 --> 02:05:10.159
women and children. They're really their
goal is not just a handout,

1684
02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:14.800
but positive life change. They have
structured programs that focus on things like spiritual

1685
02:05:14.880 --> 02:05:18.079
growth or education, how to get
a job, life management, a lot

1686
02:05:18.119 --> 02:05:23.479
of life skills that people don't just
necessarily have or maybe they weren't taught as

1687
02:05:23.479 --> 02:05:28.439
they grew up. Recovery from substance
abuse another big part of what Star of

1688
02:05:28.520 --> 02:05:30.960
Hope does. You can get involved
certain you can donate. I can't think

1689
02:05:30.960 --> 02:05:38.479
of a better way to put your
compassion into action by providing donations for Star

1690
02:05:38.560 --> 02:05:43.520
of Hope missions. They have an
outreach called Love in Action. It's a

1691
02:05:43.640 --> 02:05:46.840
van goes out. It distributes things
to people like right now, water is

1692
02:05:46.920 --> 02:05:50.760
a huge thing to people that are
homeless on the street. Hygiene kits they

1693
02:05:50.880 --> 02:05:57.800
call them hope bags that contain the
option, you know, things like toothpaste

1694
02:05:57.840 --> 02:06:00.359
and little toothbrush and other things like
that. They're providing that. You can

1695
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:03.479
volunteer that way, be a ride
along on one of their Love and Action

1696
02:06:03.640 --> 02:06:08.199
vans. You can help assemble Hope
bags. You can be part of the

1697
02:06:08.319 --> 02:06:12.479
upcoming soon they'll be doing the back
to school events as well during the holidays,

1698
02:06:12.600 --> 02:06:15.880
food baskets. You can sponsor a
family. There are so many ways

1699
02:06:16.680 --> 02:06:21.800
to find out the way that best
fits you, but by all means,

1700
02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:30.399
do something. Star of Hope is
the place, soohmission dot org. Sohmission

1701
02:06:30.439 --> 02:06:34.279
dot org learn more about them,
hear the story. I think you will

1702
02:06:34.800 --> 02:06:40.520
like. I did find it to
be a very compelling and a great way

1703
02:06:40.680 --> 02:06:45.640
to put your your your love,
your mercy, your generosity into action with

1704
02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:50.920
Star Hope. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1705
02:06:51.279 --> 02:06:54.880
seventy four. If you would like
to give us a call, we'd be

1706
02:06:54.920 --> 02:06:59.680
happy to visit with you about the
things that you are interested in in your

1707
02:06:59.720 --> 02:07:05.399
guard in your landscape, what is
what are what issues are plaguing your landscape

1708
02:07:05.439 --> 02:07:10.239
that we could help with. We'd
be happy to do that. Nelson Plant

1709
02:07:10.319 --> 02:07:16.760
Food is a premier fertilizer company.
They have many, many types of products.

1710
02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:20.880
And when I say that, I'm
talking about lawn products. For example,

1711
02:07:21.279 --> 02:07:28.039
they're turf products, a turf Star
line outstanding, just outstanding products.

1712
02:07:28.079 --> 02:07:33.600
For example, if you are really
interested, for example, in a slow

1713
02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:39.800
release fertilizer, they've got the Slow
Relief turf Star Slow and easy and it'll

1714
02:07:39.800 --> 02:07:41.960
feed for three to four months.
You do it now, you're not con

1715
02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:45.640
fertilized again until spring. That's just
an example. They have many other products

1716
02:07:45.039 --> 02:07:48.119
in the turf Star line as well. They've got the Color Star line.

1717
02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:51.319
You know, when you're looking at
a color Star products, you're looking at

1718
02:07:51.359 --> 02:07:59.319
things that really make blooms pop.
Just outstanding blends for your flower beds to

1719
02:07:59.479 --> 02:08:03.319
just keep them looking good all the
time. And then they have specialty products

1720
02:08:03.359 --> 02:08:07.439
for azalia's boogavillias, citrus fruit,
avocados, crape myrtles, hibiscus, palms,

1721
02:08:07.520 --> 02:08:11.520
plumerias, roses, trees and shrubs, vegetables. You get the idea.

1722
02:08:13.039 --> 02:08:15.560
There is a Nelson product for anything
you're going to want to grow,

1723
02:08:15.960 --> 02:08:22.279
and their high quality. I like
the little Color Star and some of the

1724
02:08:22.399 --> 02:08:26.359
nutri Stars that come in the containers
because those containers are refillable. There are

1725
02:08:26.399 --> 02:08:33.079
several of our garden centers that will
provide a refill spot where you can take

1726
02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:37.039
your old plastic container in and get
a good deal on a refill because you're

1727
02:08:37.039 --> 02:08:41.119
not buying the whole bottle and more
plastic in the environment. That's one of

1728
02:08:41.159 --> 02:08:45.720
the things that Nelson does, and
so check them out. You can go

1729
02:08:45.760 --> 02:08:48.840
to Nelson Plantfood dot comf you want
to learn more about their products, but

1730
02:08:48.920 --> 02:08:52.000
you're going to find them all over
the place, widely available. For example,

1731
02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:56.319
ACE Hardware stores carry Nelson plant Food
products. Now you can go to

1732
02:08:56.359 --> 02:08:58.920
ACE. What forty Ace Hardware stores
around here? Not hard to find one

1733
02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:03.439
of those, So you know you're
going to find Nel some products near you

1734
02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:07.720
and again just widely available. ACE
Hardware is also going to be the place

1735
02:09:07.840 --> 02:09:11.680
where you get all the supplies that
you need for your garden, for your

1736
02:09:11.800 --> 02:09:16.439
lawn, for your flower beds,
your herb garden, your trees or shrub

1737
02:09:16.479 --> 02:09:20.640
your containers. Do you need a
potting saw mix, Do you need fertilizer?

1738
02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:24.880
Do you need something else to enhance
those plants, to protect them from

1739
02:09:26.000 --> 02:09:30.600
pastor diseases, to control weeds?
ACE has all of that. Are you

1740
02:09:30.640 --> 02:09:35.920
sitting outside trying to enjoy the cooler
evenings late in the day and the mosquitoes

1741
02:09:35.920 --> 02:09:39.399
are eating you alive. Go to
ACE. They've got the mosquito dunks that

1742
02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:43.199
you put in water to shut down
the larvae. They've got a foger machine.

1743
02:09:43.239 --> 02:09:48.079
They have all kinds of things to
help you make your outdoor space more

1744
02:09:48.359 --> 02:09:52.920
livable. Certainly anytime fire ants pop
up. In fact today, later today,

1745
02:09:52.319 --> 02:09:56.000
I hope to be able to get
out and do some fire ant baiting

1746
02:09:56.000 --> 02:09:58.000
because I saw two mounds on my
property. I can't believe that I was

1747
02:09:58.079 --> 02:10:01.840
so. I was so they would
show up on my property. But that's

1748
02:10:01.880 --> 02:10:05.800
allum. This rain brings them to
the surface, and a good quality bait

1749
02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:11.359
spread out over an area is a
great way to shut them down. ACE

1750
02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:13.720
is the place easy to find.
And I mentioned those mosquito dunks. You

1751
02:10:13.760 --> 02:10:20.479
know, mosquito dunks are a very
effective way to kill mosquito larvae. So

1752
02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:24.520
what you do is you put a
dunk it covers about ten one hundred square

1753
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:28.039
feet of water about a ten by
ten area. Or you can break them

1754
02:10:28.119 --> 02:10:31.680
up into granules and throw a little
bits in those catch basins under your pod

1755
02:10:31.880 --> 02:10:35.720
or in a maybe you got an
area yesterday someone called and they had a

1756
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:41.239
tree with a low cavity where water
was sitting inside the tree trunk. Throw

1757
02:10:41.319 --> 02:10:45.319
some mosquito dunks in there, because
that is mosquito breeding heaven in those little

1758
02:10:45.640 --> 02:10:48.960
hollow tree spaces up in the gutters
that don't drain, well, there's a

1759
02:10:48.000 --> 02:10:52.319
little sag. Mosquito dunks are a
very effective product, again, available at

1760
02:10:52.359 --> 02:10:56.760
ACE and many many places, easy, easy to find. Don't harm fish,

1761
02:10:56.279 --> 02:11:01.119
don't harm birds, don't harm beneficial
insect like bees, and certainly don't

1762
02:11:01.159 --> 02:11:05.800
harm your pets. So you can't
beat that for an effective product. Let's

1763
02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.680
head out to Richmond and we're going
to talk to Alan. Now. Hello,

1764
02:11:09.760 --> 02:11:13.159
Allen, Hey, good morning.
I got a couple of quick questions

1765
02:11:13.239 --> 02:11:16.960
for you. First one, I've
got a live oak that has just gotten

1766
02:11:18.079 --> 02:11:20.800
way too big for the plot of
land where I live, Like every other

1767
02:11:22.439 --> 02:11:24.800
house in our neighborhood, they should
have never they had us originally with two

1768
02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:28.760
live oaks, and anyway, I
want to get rid of that, but

1769
02:11:28.199 --> 02:11:31.920
we have to replace it with another
hardwood tree. Do you have one that

1770
02:11:33.039 --> 02:11:41.000
you like that doesn't get too tall
and too huge of a canopy? Well?

1771
02:11:41.119 --> 02:11:46.760
Are you? Can it be deciduous? Is that okay? As opposed

1772
02:11:46.760 --> 02:11:52.560
to evergreen like a live oak?
Yeah? Yes, Okay, I don't

1773
02:11:52.600 --> 02:12:00.760
know how large too large o's for
you. But the Chinese fringe tree,

1774
02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:05.760
as yeah, I was looking at
that was nice. Shaggy white blooms.

1775
02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:09.560
They do very well in the Houston
area. Shaggy white blooms. There's so

1776
02:12:09.680 --> 02:12:13.560
many of them that you actually get
a nice fragrance off the tree in the

1777
02:12:13.640 --> 02:12:16.600
spring when they bloom. They grow
a little on the slower side, but

1778
02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:20.920
again with fertilizer and care and keeping
the grass away and getting a big mulched

1779
02:12:20.960 --> 02:12:26.039
area, you can speed them up
considerably. But that's a beautiful tree.

1780
02:12:26.159 --> 02:12:28.880
I would say maybe twenty feet.
I've seen bigger ones. We used to

1781
02:12:28.880 --> 02:12:35.439
have a bigger one at the Bear
Creek Extension office in West Houston before the

1782
02:12:35.520 --> 02:12:39.479
floods came through and took out the
office. But that Chinese fringe would be

1783
02:12:39.520 --> 02:12:43.199
a nice tree for that. Crape
myrtles, there's some big, beautiful crape

1784
02:12:43.199 --> 02:12:46.920
myrtle Some get up to thirty five
feet tall, like Natchez with the white

1785
02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:52.800
blooms. That particular one has a
beautiful cinnamon colored bark. But there are

1786
02:12:52.840 --> 02:12:56.359
many other other types of crape myrtles
that will do really well. Okay,

1787
02:12:58.239 --> 02:13:01.079
yeah, yeah, I like that. I was reading about some other fringe

1788
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:05.960
trees, but I'll definitely check out
the Chinese fringe tree for sure. Yeah.

1789
02:13:05.560 --> 02:13:09.880
Well, if you like native plants, there's a native fringe It's also

1790
02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:15.079
commonly called grand Sea gray beard.
It's native to East Texas. It's not

1791
02:13:15.279 --> 02:13:18.279
as showy as Chinese fringe, but
it is a native tree, and it

1792
02:13:18.359 --> 02:13:22.640
does have pretty low blows. They're
not just quite as billowy and white as

1793
02:13:22.079 --> 02:13:26.560
is the Chinese French. But either
way, it's a good plan. Okay,

1794
02:13:26.640 --> 02:13:28.640
great. And my other question was, as far as I'm thinking about,

1795
02:13:28.720 --> 02:13:33.880
I've got a small area in my
backyard with we have the transformer box

1796
02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:37.720
that I just want to put some
I was thinking about putting up making a

1797
02:13:37.760 --> 02:13:43.239
little wildflower garden. Is now a
good time to even consider that or just

1798
02:13:43.640 --> 02:13:46.279
do I need to wait to the
spring or how would that work? No,

1799
02:13:46.399 --> 02:13:48.239
I would do it in the fall, for sure. In the fall,

1800
02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:50.399
I would I would hold off a
little bit. Now. I mean,

1801
02:13:50.439 --> 02:13:54.159
you could plant seeds now, like
blue bonnets cast their seed in the

1802
02:13:54.239 --> 02:13:56.039
spring and they're gonna come up in
the fall. They're just sitting there now.

1803
02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:00.039
But I would wait, probably until
we get into September, maybe a

1804
02:14:00.079 --> 02:14:03.279
little later in September, and do
the seeding then, because what you're going

1805
02:14:03.319 --> 02:14:07.279
to want to do is go in
and mow everything down really low, probably

1806
02:14:07.439 --> 02:14:11.039
rake the area out a little bit, just so you can get sunlight down

1807
02:14:11.079 --> 02:14:16.560
to the soil for those wildflower seeds
to germinate, and then sprinkle the seeds,

1808
02:14:18.279 --> 02:14:20.760
rake them in, scratch them in. Do you know any kind of

1809
02:14:20.800 --> 02:14:24.439
a scratching of the soil surface to
loosen it up so the seeds fall down

1810
02:14:24.520 --> 02:14:26.960
and contact the soil really well,
and water it in well. And if

1811
02:14:28.000 --> 02:14:31.159
you do that in late September,
they'll sprop pretty quick and they'll get up

1812
02:14:31.199 --> 02:14:35.680
and get going for you for sitting
through the winter and then coming out in

1813
02:14:35.720 --> 02:14:37.840
the spring. Perfect. That sounds
great. Well, thanks for your help.

1814
02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:41.439
I appreciate it. You bet.
I appreciate the call. Thanks a

1815
02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:46.760
lot. Yeah, I was just
just writing an article for Texas Gardener magazine,

1816
02:14:48.319 --> 02:14:50.079
which, by the way, if
you don't get Texas Gardener, you

1817
02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:54.359
should. It is an outstanding magazine. I'll tell you a little bit more

1818
02:14:54.359 --> 02:14:56.840
about it, and i'll tell you
about the article that I've got coming out

1819
02:14:56.880 --> 02:15:00.600
in there that I think you'll be
interested in. As well. For right

1820
02:15:00.680 --> 02:15:03.760
now we're gonna take a little break. It is time for the news.

1821
02:15:03.920 --> 02:15:05.760
If you'd like to give chrysal call
again. We got a good open board

1822
02:15:05.880 --> 02:15:09.880
right now. You could be first
up if you're the first to call seven

1823
02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:16.479
to one three two one two kt
r H seven one three two one two

1824
02:15:16.119 --> 02:15:22.079
kt r H and I will be
right back claiming welcome back to the garden

1825
02:15:22.159 --> 02:15:24.000
line. Hey, it is good
to have you with us. Are glad

1826
02:15:24.760 --> 02:15:28.720
look always look forward to talking to
folks about gardening. I can't think of

1827
02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:33.520
a better thing to do than to
visit with gardeners about gardening. I found,

1828
02:15:33.560 --> 02:15:37.720
by and large, gardeners are just
great folks to be around. I

1829
02:15:37.079 --> 02:15:41.680
enjoy visiting with gardeners. I always
find that I don't know, they're just

1830
02:15:43.960 --> 02:15:46.960
well, you know, how what
do people say that they're good people kind

1831
02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:50.319
of thing. It's like they're enjoyable. They they picked a hobby that they

1832
02:15:50.479 --> 02:15:54.760
enjoy and it's just a it's just
a pleasure to hang out. Of course,

1833
02:15:54.800 --> 02:15:58.319
you got to put up with bragging. You got to put up with

1834
02:15:58.399 --> 02:16:01.680
bragging. You know. You tell
them I tomato and it was wonderful.

1835
02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:03.720
Oh yeah, well mine was twice
that big in three weeks earlier. So

1836
02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:07.159
there, Well, we'll put up
with that. We'll allow a little bit

1837
02:16:07.199 --> 02:16:11.199
of bragging on guard line. Not
too much, it's a little bit.

1838
02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:15.680
We're on the phones right now and
head to Austin and talk to Anna.

1839
02:16:15.800 --> 02:16:22.960
Hello, Anna and Austin. Hi
on a high skip. I send an

1840
02:16:22.039 --> 02:16:31.680
email as Texas zombiing grounds, Travis
County. There you go. Okay,

1841
02:16:31.799 --> 02:16:35.719
all right, I did get your
I got your pictures, as a matter

1842
02:16:35.760 --> 02:16:41.280
of fact, I did. Yes. What do you think about that leaf

1843
02:16:41.879 --> 02:16:46.719
discoloration you know on those eagles and
hollis the little specking on the outsides.

1844
02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:54.959
It could be something nutritional that is
possible. So a good complete lawn food

1845
02:16:56.000 --> 02:16:58.959
that has micronutrients and things in it, that would not be a bad idea.

1846
02:17:00.799 --> 02:17:03.600
I think the fact that your holly
has dropped some leaves Holly's will do

1847
02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:09.520
that. Any kind of a stress
drought stress is one that we can often

1848
02:17:09.559 --> 02:17:11.479
get into. It hadn't been a
real drought a year like it was last

1849
02:17:11.559 --> 02:17:16.000
year. But when hollys don't get
water, they don't do well. And

1850
02:17:16.040 --> 02:17:20.159
I always tell people when you plan
a holly, count on handwatering it the

1851
02:17:20.239 --> 02:17:24.079
first three years That didn't mean you
can't have a sprinkler system. It just

1852
02:17:24.200 --> 02:17:28.600
means sometimes sprinklers get blocked. The
spray goes out and it hits leaves that

1853
02:17:28.760 --> 02:17:31.399
sort of block it, and then
there are certain parts of the root zone

1854
02:17:31.440 --> 02:17:35.680
that don't get that water that they
should be getting. That's why when you

1855
02:17:35.799 --> 02:17:39.799
handwater, you can purposefully go all
around it and do that. So that's

1856
02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.319
one. Again, it's not been
a super droughty year, but something that

1857
02:17:43.879 --> 02:17:50.840
could be contributing to the leaf drop
soggy conditions too. If on the opposite

1858
02:17:50.959 --> 02:17:52.959
is true. Let's say you've got
a heavy clay soil, it's not in

1859
02:17:54.079 --> 02:17:56.920
a good raised bed, good drainage, excess amount of water, and we've

1860
02:17:56.959 --> 02:18:01.600
had a couple of doozy rains this
year that can contribute as well as can

1861
02:18:01.680 --> 02:18:07.360
of course people just overwatering. But
I don't see a lot that concerns me

1862
02:18:07.680 --> 02:18:11.840
other than maybe a little nutrition and
make sure that the root zone has adequate

1863
02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:16.520
water but not too much. Okay, well that's good to hear. I

1864
02:18:16.680 --> 02:18:22.719
was worried about a fungus or something
like that, so okay, well it's

1865
02:18:22.760 --> 02:18:26.920
not This is definitely not a fungus. That's for sure, okay, good,

1866
02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:31.159
and the pH of the soil is
going to be okay. I was

1867
02:18:31.239 --> 02:18:35.879
reading something about adding vinegar to water
or whatever. If your pH is not

1868
02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:43.120
right. Yeah, so don't don't
do the vinegar. That's happen now,

1869
02:18:43.319 --> 02:18:46.559
that's what happens when people who think
they know stuff are turned loose online.

1870
02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:56.319
We get okay, well this three
yes, okay, Well, I'll continue

1871
02:18:56.399 --> 02:19:01.719
to watch the water and certainly do
the as you say nutrition. Okay,

1872
02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.639
well, thank you. I just
was worried that it was on its way

1873
02:19:03.719 --> 02:19:07.959
out, all right, man.
Let me let me add one thing to

1874
02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:13.440
it. I would get some microlife
their reddish bag. It's for acid loving

1875
02:19:13.520 --> 02:19:20.440
plants like blueberries, guardens azalias,
all those kinds of plants, and I

1876
02:19:20.479 --> 02:19:24.959
would start using that around your hollies. Hollies like a little more acidic environment.

1877
02:19:24.000 --> 02:19:26.680
They don't have to have that,
not to the degree of hydrandua or

1878
02:19:28.000 --> 02:19:33.559
blueberry, but it does help them. And microlife acidic fertilizer is going to

1879
02:19:33.639 --> 02:19:37.399
release slowly, So follow that abel, sprinkle it out around your holly's,

1880
02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:41.040
scratch it into the mulch, because
you want that fertilizer to say moist so

1881
02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:48.000
it decomposes more rapidly, and it
will feed and it will slowly acidify that

1882
02:19:48.200 --> 02:19:52.120
root zone over time as you continue
to use it. So I think that

1883
02:19:52.280 --> 02:19:56.799
would be good. Plus, the
microlife is going to have micro nutrients in

1884
02:19:56.879 --> 02:20:01.040
it because it comes from organic materials, so naturally has whatever nutrients we're in

1885
02:20:01.159 --> 02:20:05.440
that organic matter. And so if
you got a little bit of a shortage

1886
02:20:05.479 --> 02:20:09.000
of micros, you could do that. You could also put a little bit

1887
02:20:09.639 --> 02:20:13.520
of azamite out. I don't know
if you've ever used azmite before. Normally

1888
02:20:13.600 --> 02:20:16.680
we put it on a lawn,
but I would follow the label, don't

1889
02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:20.799
overdo it. Any nutrient you need
the right amount, not too much.

1890
02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:26.559
And that's true of micros as well. So the azamite, follow the label,

1891
02:20:26.680 --> 02:20:31.159
Sprinkle it around your hollies and water
it in really good between all of

1892
02:20:31.200 --> 02:20:35.479
that stuff. Hopefully they'll they'll bounce
back and you'll start to see better growth.

1893
02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:39.760
Okay, well, thank you very
much. I appreciate it. All

1894
02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:43.479
right, thank you, I appreciate
that. I appreciate you. You take

1895
02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:46.200
care, all right. It always
happens this way. At the end of

1896
02:20:46.280 --> 02:20:48.040
guard line, we get when it
rains, it poors. Here we go

1897
02:20:50.000 --> 02:20:52.000
garden. Let's see Karen in Houston. How can we help the day?

1898
02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:58.040
Karen, Welcome to garden Line.
Good morning. I planted a Myers lemon

1899
02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:01.760
in my yard last year. It
did find the first year, but the

1900
02:21:01.879 --> 02:21:09.239
new growth this year the leaves are
shrivelly and look unhealthy. And I'm not

1901
02:21:09.360 --> 02:21:15.040
sure. I've tried mem oil,
thinking it might be something microscopic that I

1902
02:21:15.159 --> 02:21:18.319
can't see, but that's not healthy. Karen, tell me the name of

1903
02:21:18.360 --> 02:21:24.200
the plant, Polae again. It's
a Myers lemon tree Myers. Okay,

1904
02:21:24.479 --> 02:21:33.479
yeah. Shrivellly is probably an insect
called citrus leaf miner. It's a little

1905
02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:37.440
fly. It lays an egg in
the leaf and the leaf tunnels in between

1906
02:21:37.479 --> 02:21:41.239
the upper and lower surfaces. And
as it makes all its little squiggly lined

1907
02:21:41.280 --> 02:21:43.639
tunnels, if you get up close
and look at them, you may see

1908
02:21:43.719 --> 02:21:50.040
some little skinny black thread like lines
going around back and forth, zigzagging around

1909
02:21:50.079 --> 02:21:54.079
through there. That's the leaf miner
and it will cause a crinkling of the

1910
02:21:54.159 --> 02:21:58.559
leaf as it's growing. It happens
primarily to the new tender shoots that are

1911
02:21:58.600 --> 02:22:03.799
growing. You can ignore them.
They're not going to kill the tree.

1912
02:22:03.840 --> 02:22:07.280
You can ignore them if you want
to shut them down. Then whenever you

1913
02:22:07.360 --> 02:22:11.280
have new growth, you spray it
with something containing spinosid. And I can

1914
02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:16.840
spell that for you while you're grabbing
a pen or pencil there. That spinosid

1915
02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:20.319
is an organic product that soaks in
the tissue and it'll kill the leaf miners.

1916
02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:22.200
But you want to spray the new
growth. No sense spraying the old

1917
02:22:22.600 --> 02:22:26.399
dark green, leathery leaves. They're
not going to get leaf miner or if

1918
02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:33.920
they had it, it's already gone. So the new growth SPI no sa

1919
02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:39.680
D spino sad and that'll do it. And if you want to be extra

1920
02:22:39.760 --> 02:22:41.840
sure that's what it is, grab
a sample, take it to a good

1921
02:22:41.959 --> 02:22:46.200
quality garden center like we talk about
on garden Line, show them what you

1922
02:22:46.280 --> 02:22:48.600
got, put it in a zip
lock bag and they'll tell you if that's

1923
02:22:48.639 --> 02:22:52.479
what it is. Okay, great, thank you so much. I appreciate

1924
02:22:52.559 --> 02:22:56.879
it. All right, you bet, thanks for a call. All right,

1925
02:22:56.959 --> 02:22:58.360
folks, we are going to have
to take a little break here at

1926
02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:03.120
the top. We got one little
segment left, and I'll thankful of calls.

1927
02:23:03.159 --> 02:23:05.399
So those of you on there hang
on. We'll get to you.

1928
02:23:05.959 --> 02:23:09.360
James, will you be first,
and then Greg, and then I think

1929
02:23:09.479 --> 02:23:11.639
James Another, James and Lee coming
up. We are gonna hop and jump

1930
02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:15.360
right out here and see how many
of these phone calls we can catch before

1931
02:23:15.399 --> 02:23:16.879
the end of the show. Today, we're going to go to Meadow's place

1932
02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:22.760
now and talk to James. Hello, James, Hello. Skip With all

1933
02:23:22.799 --> 02:23:26.680
the rain we had, I had
an outbreak of grass burrs in my Saint

1934
02:23:26.760 --> 02:23:33.200
Augustine. I treated everything with sedge
gender and have pretty well killed all those

1935
02:23:33.280 --> 02:23:37.719
spots. My question is to improve
the recovery of the area, I had

1936
02:23:37.799 --> 02:23:45.680
planned to use some leaf mo compost
and then water it in with soil activator.

1937
02:23:45.879 --> 02:23:50.639
Is there anything better that I could
apply to help growth recovery in these

1938
02:23:50.680 --> 02:23:56.079
areas? Those are all just fine. Leaf mo compost about a third half

1939
02:23:56.079 --> 02:24:00.440
an inch of it on the surface
is very helpful. If the soil as

1940
02:24:00.479 --> 02:24:03.319
compacted and that's part of the problem, you can do an aerration on it.

1941
02:24:03.479 --> 02:24:07.920
But if not, that's fine too. The watering it in as you

1942
02:24:07.040 --> 02:24:11.040
described is also a good idea.
Hopefully the grass will have time to fill

1943
02:24:11.120 --> 02:24:15.920
back in and do well. There
is a product from Medina called has to

1944
02:24:16.040 --> 02:24:20.000
Grow super Grow Plus. It's a
quart bottle that hooks to your garden hose

1945
02:24:20.040 --> 02:24:22.680
and it covers four thousand square feet. It's got a lot of other things

1946
02:24:22.760 --> 02:24:28.520
in it in addition to the sixteen
zero two fertilizer, and I would probably

1947
02:24:28.840 --> 02:24:31.319
use that on those areas and try
just to try to give it a boost.

1948
02:24:31.360 --> 02:24:35.479
If it's got any iron deficiency in
it, it'll help with that as

1949
02:24:35.559 --> 02:24:37.639
well. I think that'd be a
good way to go about it, or

1950
02:24:37.680 --> 02:24:39.559
a real quick thing, though,
Greg. I don't know if you've ever

1951
02:24:39.600 --> 02:24:45.440
seen my schedules online at my website, but there's a turf care schedule and

1952
02:24:45.559 --> 02:24:50.479
a disease, pest and weeds management
schedule. On the second one, you

1953
02:24:50.520 --> 02:24:58.600
will see exactly when to apply the
preventative herbicide a barricade to stop grassbirds.

1954
02:24:58.639 --> 02:25:01.319
And you're going to do that in
the probably let's see where you all right,

1955
02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:05.719
you would do that in your area. I would do it in mid

1956
02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:09.719
February or late February would be fine, and then I would do it again

1957
02:25:09.280 --> 02:25:13.319
about sixty days later to carry it
on through the season just to prevent the

1958
02:25:13.360 --> 02:25:20.840
grasspers from showing back up again next
year. Okay, what was that supergrowth

1959
02:25:20.360 --> 02:25:26.079
you recommend it? Also? Yeah, from Medina has to grow products there

1960
02:25:26.079 --> 02:25:31.920
are several has to grow products.
This one is called super grow Plus Super

1961
02:25:31.040 --> 02:25:35.200
Grow Plus. We'll go to an
ACE Hardware store. They're going to have

1962
02:25:35.360 --> 02:25:37.920
it. An ACE Hardware new you
is going to carry that. Okay,

1963
02:25:39.159 --> 02:25:43.360
appreciate all the information, Thank you, sir. All right, and download

1964
02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:48.360
that schedule from Gardening with Skip dot
com Gardening with sk I've got it.

1965
02:25:48.399 --> 02:25:52.079
I've been following it most of the
year. Okay, okay, good good,

1966
02:25:52.239 --> 02:25:54.479
glad to hear that. Take care, have a good rest of your

1967
02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:56.360
weekend. We're going to go now
to Conrad and talk to Greg. Hey,

1968
02:25:56.440 --> 02:26:03.760
Greg mor good morning, Good morning
to you. I'm done fine.

1969
02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:07.719
How can we help my daughter about
Father's Day? Brought me a couple of

1970
02:26:07.799 --> 02:26:15.040
those sacks and bechanal and sons,
lime and lemon trees. Yes, huh

1971
02:26:15.120 --> 02:26:22.879
they're potted trees from lose okay and
uh first office. And no, there's

1972
02:26:22.000 --> 02:26:28.120
no no directions on how to how
to care for it. No no uh

1973
02:26:28.200 --> 02:26:33.079
planning instructions, no fertilizing instructions.
I was wondering what I could use as

1974
02:26:33.079 --> 02:26:37.399
a lime tree and a lemon tree, and I was warrant there's any kind

1975
02:26:37.440 --> 02:26:46.959
of fertilizer you'd recommend for them.
I gotta right now, I gotta ref

1976
02:26:46.959 --> 02:26:50.680
bottom and something bigger and fertilizing.
There's a lot of things that you can

1977
02:26:50.799 --> 02:26:54.559
use that'll do well for citrus.
Uh. You know, it's not just

1978
02:26:54.040 --> 02:26:58.280
certain magic formulas that you have to
have. But I know Nelson Plant Food,

1979
02:26:58.280 --> 02:27:01.760
for example, has these little canisters, plastic canisters with a screw on

1980
02:27:01.879 --> 02:27:07.639
lid of a centrus type fertilizer.
And so you go to an Ace hardware

1981
02:27:07.680 --> 02:27:11.079
store, you're probably gonna find it
there. A lot of our garden centers

1982
02:27:11.479 --> 02:27:15.879
Europe in conro I bet they have
it out at A and A Plants on

1983
02:27:15.959 --> 02:27:20.280
the east side of Montgomery that that's
probably a place you call them to be

1984
02:27:20.360 --> 02:27:22.520
sure, but they're going to have
something like that, and just follow the

1985
02:27:22.600 --> 02:27:26.719
label. Just get your a little
tea spoon in there and sprinkle it around

1986
02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:30.280
and water it in really good to
get good growth. The most important thing

1987
02:27:30.479 --> 02:27:33.440
on those is to get them in
a bigger container than you bought them in.

1988
02:27:33.520 --> 02:27:35.200
They probably came in a gallon container
based on what you told me,

1989
02:27:35.319 --> 02:27:41.559
Yeah, and so you need them
to be in a much bigger container so

1990
02:27:41.760 --> 02:27:46.559
that they have soil, a quality
soil mix. Get your quality soil mix,

1991
02:27:46.680 --> 02:27:50.280
and then make sure you keep it
adequately moist. That's the biggest challenge

1992
02:27:50.319 --> 02:27:52.840
with growing centrus and a container is
in the summer, it's pumping a lot

1993
02:27:52.879 --> 02:27:56.200
of water, it's thirsty, it's
hot, and we just have to make

1994
02:27:56.239 --> 02:28:01.719
sure that the bank account of soil
in that container stays moist. Right,

1995
02:28:01.840 --> 02:28:05.399
But it can go in a container. It's got a picture of a of

1996
02:28:05.479 --> 02:28:07.760
a container. I guess you get
it's not gonna be very big. I

1997
02:28:07.840 --> 02:28:13.760
think I said it's gonna plant seven
feet apart and it'll get like seven feet

1998
02:28:13.879 --> 02:28:18.239
tall three feet wide. That'll be
I guess that's so I figured the container.

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Yeah, containers better because you can
wheel that container into the garage on

2000
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a freezing night. Both the limen
right to take a hard freeze. Uh.

2001
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So I would get, you know, I would get something probably The

2002
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next step could be something about five
gallons of soil about that size. You

2003
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can kind of figure it out what
you want to get a nice pretty container

2004
02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:43.959
for that. Uh and then eventually
you're gonna get almost up to a half

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02:28:43.000 --> 02:28:48.399
whiskey barrel size a container where you'll
need a little dolly to run it around

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the yard and into the garage,
right, Okay, but you don't have

2007
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to do Okay. My last question
is, like Karen said earlier about her

2008
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her lemon tree had like those those
bad leaves on the top of my line,

2009
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that same line plans doing the same
problem. And I've had them sitting

2010
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side beside, but it's only affecting
the line with those leaves greenfully on top.

2011
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Yeah, it's okay, that's just
where they happen to have landed.

2012
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They take they attack all types of
citrus, but that's a citrus leaf miner,

2013
02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:28.360
and I would get spinosid. And
anytime a new flesh of growth comes

2014
02:29:28.399 --> 02:29:31.719
out, tender new tissues that haven't
hardened off and gotten leathery, spray those

2015
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with spinocid. I just wanted to
I just wonder why gon't want and not

2016
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the other sitting side beside, because
I'm just I didn't replan them yet.

2017
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But okay, I I just don't
know the answer to that. But anyway,

2018
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that that that's what you do,
all right, Greg, Hey,

2019
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thanks thanks a lot for the call, much appreciated. We're going to go

2020
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now out to Lee and Tomball.
Hello, Lee, good morning, three

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02:30:03.239 --> 02:30:11.600
fig leaves, three fig trees to
growing good one is looking sickly, crinkly,

2022
02:30:11.719 --> 02:30:16.239
leaves looking yellow. I just showed
you talk to somebody about spinosa.

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02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:20.399
If I should put that on there? Uh, you said fig right,

2024
02:30:20.479 --> 02:30:22.719
I'm barely able to hear you.
You can get a little closer to the

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02:30:22.799 --> 02:30:26.959
phone. That would help, did
you say, fig Yeah, so that

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02:30:26.239 --> 02:30:31.959
spinosaid, you don't need that for
the figs. It could be different things.

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02:30:31.879 --> 02:30:35.079
You said, crinkly, the leaves
are crinkly. Yeah, leaves are

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02:30:35.120 --> 02:30:41.719
crankling like they're drying out or something. But the stems look green. They

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02:30:41.799 --> 02:30:48.040
get plenty of water. Water once
in water. Yeah, Well, different

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02:30:48.079 --> 02:30:52.360
things can affect figs. Figs get
nematodes which block the water movement through the

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02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:54.600
roots, and so even though they're
getting watered, the water and making it

2032
02:30:54.719 --> 02:30:58.920
up there and so you're getting the
equivalent of drought symptoms, which can be

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02:30:58.559 --> 02:31:01.639
yellow and of older leaves, browning
of older leaves, you know, the

2034
02:31:01.760 --> 02:31:05.440
drying up kind of thing. That
may be what's going on. Uh,

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02:31:07.159 --> 02:31:09.000
it could. It could also be
a disease called fig rust. Why don't

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02:31:09.040 --> 02:31:11.479
we do this. I'm gonna put
you on hold, and I want you

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02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:15.520
to send me some close up pictures
so I can see that, and then

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02:31:15.600 --> 02:31:18.879
let's talk about it next weekend and
we can we can figure that out.

2039
02:31:20.040 --> 02:31:22.719
Okay, but hang on, Chris
is going to take pick up your call

2040
02:31:22.840 --> 02:31:26.920
here as I hang it, hang
it out, all right. I'm gonna

2041
02:31:26.959 --> 02:31:31.040
go real quick, James, it's
already music playing. But can I give

2042
02:31:31.040 --> 02:31:33.879
you a quick answer. How can
we help? Yeah, this fall messed

2043
02:31:33.959 --> 02:31:37.920
up my old streets pretty bad.
How much limbs cannot cut off of it

2044
02:31:39.040 --> 02:31:43.239
without hurt them. Any limb that's
broken, damaged, whatever's got to come

2045
02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.280
off. So whether you want to
prune that much or not, it's kind

2046
02:31:46.280 --> 02:31:48.840
of beside the point. It's got
to come off so you can take care

2047
02:31:48.879 --> 02:31:52.360
of the tree. Go ahead and
do them on a pruning you need to

2048
02:31:52.440 --> 02:31:56.799
do at this point. If it's
a damaged limb, anything that can wait

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02:31:56.959 --> 02:32:01.360
until February. Wait until February.
All thank you very much. I will

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be back next week