WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.080 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:10.359 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skimp Richter's 3 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:34.039 trim. Just watch him as tell us so many things to see boys back 4 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:44.600 again not a sign. Well, good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line. 5 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.560 We are glad you're listening today. I hope you got a cup of 6 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.840 coffee or tea or something to kind of open one or preferably both eyes by 7 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.679 this time. We're here to do a little bit of garden talk with you 8 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.159 today. What are your questions, what are you interested in? What are 9 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:06.000 the topics that I guess that drive you when it comes to gardening. You 10 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:07.920 know, we have some gardeners that are into herbs, and gardeners that are 11 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.400 into flowers and trees and shrubs, and almost everybody, it seems like these 12 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.879 days, is a lawn ranger. You got to have that beautiful lawn turf, 13 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.239 Well, we can help you with that too, got issues with trees. 14 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:23.920 That's what we're here for. Basically, it's a call in show, 15 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.480 So I'll try to do my job. You do your seven one three two 16 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:33.120 one two K t R eight seven one three two one two k t r 17 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.120 H. So what are we gonna talk about? First of all, you 18 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.840 need to look out the door, look out the window or your neighbor's lights 19 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.519 on. If they're not, go bang on the door. Tell them they're 20 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.239 missing garden line. For crying out loud, get up, you're missing garden 21 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.760 line. They will rise up this morning and call you blessed. They may 22 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.560 call you something else this morning, but eventually they will be very grateful that 23 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.640 you turned them on the garden line. Oh boy, I can hear the 24 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.760 yelling from across town right now. All right, well, what are we 25 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.120 going to talk about? First? I want to talk a little bit about 26 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.879 turf some of the issues that we see in lawns this time of the year. 27 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.319 Now you've heard me talk about my schedules that are online. They are 28 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:15.000 free to download at gardeningwiskip dot com. One of them is the lawn Care 29 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:20.960 Schedule, and it tells you about mowing, watering, fertilizing, air raiding, 30 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.120 tells you what to do when Some of the products that I would suggest 31 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:30.319 you consider because they are top notch products. Whether you're gardening organically or synthetically, 32 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.400 there are options there on the schedule for you. The second schedule is 33 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.520 the lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule. So that's basically I call 34 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.879 that the what goes wrong schedule? When do chinchbugs show up? When do 35 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.599 grubs? When should we treat for grubs? When do we look for sod 36 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:53.240 webworms? If you've got large patch or brown patch or take all root rod 37 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.800 or gray leaf spot, when do you expect to see those? When do 38 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.800 you prevent weeds with a pre emergent? When do you kill that are already 39 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:04.439 up that you're having to deal with? And what are the examples of products 40 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.000 and timing and everything that's you use. It's all on there. It's really 41 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.680 makes it really easy to do. It's color coded. I suggest you print 42 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.919 one out and have it and when you go get fertilizer, just take it 43 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.080 with you and just point at the one you're looking for and the people at 44 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.800 the store can take you right to it. I think that's helpful. We 45 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.879 are on the cusp of the official summer month of June. Actually May, 46 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:30.759 in my book, starts the summer season. If you don't believe me, 47 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.439 just hang outside this week a little bit, and we're still in May, 48 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.840 but in June is when we begin to keep our eyes out for chinchbugs and 49 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.840 soid web worms. Now, it's early for chinchbugs to occur in June, 50 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:50.199 they can, though they can. Typically chinchbugs are worse as we get later 51 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.439 in the summer when we get into August, even early September, that we 52 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.639 can have some pretty serious chinchbug problems going on, and then they as we 53 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.639 get into September, they kind of paper off quite a bit. But just 54 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.800 because they're on the schedule doesn't mean you have to treat every year. You 55 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.599 just watch for them, learn what they look like. I'll have some stuff 56 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.479 online to help you with that help identify them. But I'm just kind of 57 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:17.000 heads up we're entering that season and sideweb worms typically come later in the summer. 58 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.199 But again, you know, nature does what nature wants to do, 59 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:25.560 so we just have to keep our eyes open for it. Grubs Grubs are 60 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.839 another issue. Now. Grubs we begin treating in June, and I'm going 61 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:33.079 to explain real briefly why that is. It's do you remember the things we 62 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:38.439 call jumbugs flying around by the back porch light. You see him flying around 63 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.920 in the evening June bugs, little brown beetles, brown black beetles, well, 64 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.319 those particular beetles are mating and they lay eggs and the eggs hatch out 65 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.439 into tiny little grubs, tiny grubs, and then the grubs go down below 66 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:56.680 the surface just a little bit and they feed there. And then as the 67 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.240 weather heats up and the grubs get bigger, they go through what's called in 68 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.519 stars. They become a bigger and a bigger and a bigger grub. As 69 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.079 they go down, they move down a little lower because they're so hot up 70 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.759 on top and there's good, dependable moisture down below, but they're feeding on 71 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.240 our roots. Well. Once they move down, it's harder to get a 72 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.480 pesticide to them because they're down in the soil deeper. So what we do 73 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.519 is we treat for them in June. June is the time to put out 74 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:27.560 your treatment for grubs, and that catches the young, small, more susceptible 75 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.279 grubs right there at the surface. It's the best time to catch them if 76 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.519 you've got an ongoing grub problem. And then later on, if you look 77 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:39.720 at my schedule, there's a treatment for July and August. It doesn't have 78 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.720 to be both months, but one of those months you can treat for older 79 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.639 grubs, but that's a different product. We use one that moves down in 80 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.639 the soil a little bit better to reach those that are down below. So 81 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.079 I'm just explaining to you what's on the schedule. Print it out and take 82 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:55.639 a look at it. It's a gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with 83 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.600 Skip dot Com. We're going to go to the phones now and we're going 84 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.360 to head to Friends would and talk to Kathy. Good morning, Kathy, 85 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:10.800 good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I have a citrus tree 86 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.120 and during the last freeze, I had protected it as best I could, 87 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.279 and it kind of froze, but it kind of didn't. It was grafted 88 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.240 originally, and now it's reverted back to two different plants. So the bottom 89 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:29.079 of this little tree, it now has one leaves and the top has different 90 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.079 leaves. Have you ever heard of that happening. What's happened is your rootstock 91 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:38.120 sprouted and you also got a sprout from above the graft. One of those 92 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:43.360 should be a lot thornier than the other. Have you noticed that I haven't 93 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.120 really. Okay, well, the bottom looks a little It just to me 94 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:53.120 looks like two different plants. Okay, Well, is the one that's originating 95 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:59.480 lower on the plant or the leaves much smaller on it? No, they're 96 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.879 that's the bushier part of it. Wow. Okay, we're gonna have to 97 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:08.120 take a look at these leaves because I'm I'm what you're saying is kind of 98 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:13.879 backwards from what should be happening. So I'm obviously not following exactly what you're 99 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:17.680 describing on the plant. Could I get you to send me some pictures of 100 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:23.480 what you're seeing, because sure, And just to briefly tell you, the 101 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:30.560 bottom leaves are more pointy and the top are more rounded. It's like two 102 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.279 different plants and the same plant. Okay, well, let me let me 103 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.680 see some pictures of them and take a look. And you are you out 104 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.759 there with the plant right now? I hear? Okay, yes, and 105 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:46.480 you don't notice thorniness on either either one? Let me see, okay, 106 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:56.199 well, yes there are there are, yes, yes, there are thorns 107 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:01.720 on okay, both of them. Okay, what kind of citrus was it 108 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:09.079 before? Oh gosh, I don't know. Okay, you're tying both arms 109 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.279 behind my back, Kathy and having me trying to box here, So let 110 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:18.360 me. That's good. I'm not gonna give you a hard time, but 111 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.480 I'm tempted to now seriously send me some pictures of it. Let me take 112 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.800 a look and I'll see what I can figure out from it. Also, 113 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.279 I'm want to see the bottom of the trunk where those shoots are coming out, 114 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.279 if you would, Okay, okay, thank you so much. You 115 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.440 bet. I'm gonna put you on hold, and we are, they're pretty 116 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.759 sure will pick up and give you my email address. All right, we'll 117 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:46.039 take it. We'll take it from there. Yeah. I I was thinking 118 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:52.159 that probably we had a rootstock that it sprouted, and you know, as 119 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.159 a result, we need to get rid of that because it's never going to 120 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.879 bear anything worth eating. Yeah, so anyway, we'll see see take a 121 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.559 look at those pictures. Pictures worth a thousand words. By the way, 122 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.360 regarding email and stuff, we've got how many million people here in the greater 123 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.159 Houston area, let's just say a lot, and so I can't just open 124 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.720 up wide open to answer all emails that would come in as it is, 125 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.080 with kind of restricting it down to callers. I stay pretty busy on the 126 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.399 emails, but I just physically just not a time wise not able to answer 127 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.919 all the emails. But if you have a question and want to send a 128 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.120 photo and then call on the show where we can talk on the show, 129 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.120 that's helpful because you know, on questions, I'm imagining what I see may 130 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.600 not be what you're seeing, and so a photo is very helpful. And 131 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.480 I don't mind if he's setting them sending them ahead of time. Just know 132 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:52.200 that I'll answer when I talk to you on the air, because just again, 133 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.279 time wise wish I could, but spent thirty six years doing that, 134 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.480 and right now I've just got too many irons in the fire. You're listening 135 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.159 to Gardenline, We're glad you are. By the way, our phone number 136 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.480 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three 137 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.559 two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you have turf, if you 138 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.679 have a lawn and you haven't put your summer fertilization down, it is time. 139 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.879 Let's get that done. When we get to summer, we usually like 140 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:26.120 to switch to a slow release fertilizer. And the reason is grass grows fast 141 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.720 in the summer with water. If you've got adequate moisture, don't have to 142 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.480 be soggy, but it has to be moist enough to grow. It'll grow 143 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.919 real fast, and we don't want a flush of growth where you're mowing, 144 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.080 mowing, mowing, and the other thing that happens when you overdo nitrogen at 145 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:43.240 one point in time, you end up with top growth at the expense of 146 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.600 root growth, and that's a problem. In the summer. The grass isn't 147 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.200 as resilient, it's not as drought tolerant, it's not as able to take 148 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.200 some grub damage to the roots because it has less roots to begin with. 149 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.960 When we do slow release, we get gradual feeding, and that is what 150 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.879 nitrophosts super turf is designed to do. Nitrovas superturf is a silver bag. 151 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:09.519 It's the nineteen four ten ratio for a product fertilizer. Nineteen percent nitrogen, 152 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.600 four percent phosphorus, ten percent potassium. That ratio, we say that was 153 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:20.799 about a four to one two or roughly that is kind of the ratio that 154 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.399 we aim for three one two four one two. When we're feeding our turf, 155 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:26.879 it'll gradually feed over time. In fact, it'll carry you for the 156 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.000 next three or four months. When you do a good application of Nitrofoss Superturf. 157 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.559 Now, the nitrofive Superturf product's widely available. You're going to find it 158 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.120 at a lot of different places. We find it often at our ACE hardware 159 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.960 stores. You know, almost every ACE hardware that I've ever been in, 160 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.679 to my knowledge, is carried Nitrofoss products, So they're very easy to find 161 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.600 and get it from your local ACE hardware store. Nitrofis superturf. Get it 162 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:54.679 down now, and you probably don't need to fertilize again until we get into 163 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:00.559 the spring season, unless you just have a very unusual situation where your lawn 164 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.720 is an extra need due to very poor soil or something along those lines. 165 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.120 Ace Hardware I mentioned, and ACE Hardware is a great place to get anything 166 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.559 you need to keep your lawn healthy and looking good, or your garden, 167 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.360 your vegetables, your herbs, your flowers, your shrubs, your trees. 168 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.879 Ace hardware stores carry all the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guarden Line. 169 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.879 They carry products to control pests, diseases, and weeds. When you 170 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.720 read my weed pest in Disease Lawn Schedule, well, you'll see a lot 171 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.480 of products listed on there for various issues and you're going to find them at 172 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.399 your ACE Hardware store. That is a nice thing. They also have everything 173 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.440 you need for that outdoor enjoyment. You know, we were sitting outside the 174 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.480 other day and here come the mosquitos, and I just remind me of think. 175 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.399 Go to ACE, get your mosquito dunks. Go to ACE, get 176 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.879 your fogging machine if you need one. I mean, whatever you're going to 177 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.639 do to make that outdoor enjoyable. How about a new barbecue pit or a 178 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.120 string of lights to you know, create that ambiance in the evenings out there 179 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.639 on the patio. ACE will get you set up with all that. And 180 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.879 with forty stores all over the Houston area, it's easy to find one near 181 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.279 you. Just go to Acehardware dot com and look for the store locator and 182 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.039 there you are. Makes it about as easy as you can make it. 183 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.320 Each Ace Hardware, by the way, too, is independently owned. I 184 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.759 like that because it each time you go into one, it's not just a 185 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.559 cookie cutter of the other store. Each one has its own personality, its 186 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.799 own kind of features and product, maybe some new product offerings that the owner 187 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.519 has gotten interested in. But I'll tell you this, when you go in, 188 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.600 you will look and say, this is not my grandfather's hardware store. 189 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.720 That is for sure. They have everything you expect from hardware, but oh 190 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:45.639 my gosh, so so much more. You are listening to Gardenline our phone 191 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.879 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going to 192 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:56.919 take a little break. We'll be right back salt. Don't you thank you 193 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.600 for so much? Thanks, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have 194 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:07.360 you with us this morning. We are talking gardening today. Got a lot 195 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.799 of things we need to talk about. One thing is incredibly hot weather coming 196 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.360 for this time of the year, really for anytime a year, but especially 197 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.840 for this early in the summer. That's okay. We can deal with that. 198 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.360 When you know, it reminds us the importance of picking plants that want 199 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:30.480 to grow here and parts of the world that are hot, sultry saunas are 200 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.000 typically a good place to get plants for the Houston area. You know, 201 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:37.840 there's a lot of parts of some parts of the Mid East, some parts 202 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:43.120 of Africa are all places where you pull a plant from over there. Something 203 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.480 like Okra, for example, Oka came from that part of the world, 204 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.480 and it's real happy here because this is home. I mean, you know, 205 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.840 hot, humid. Yeah, we can do that. When we pick 206 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.639 plants that are like that, you're more likely to have success. When you 207 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.440 get something wimpy that wants to be up north in an air conditioned house or 208 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.279 something you're not gonna you're gonna melt it down here. And our good garden 209 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.279 centers carry a lot of those kind of plants. And then you hear me 210 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.639 all the time talk about soil soil, so I got to prepare the soil. 211 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.440 When you get the soil right where it can hold water, but it 212 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.879 also drains well, because the worst thing in the world is a hot, 213 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.440 boiling, hot, sultry swamp for the roots, they do not like that. 214 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.960 But when you prepare the soil right and you put the right plants in, 215 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.240 well, they're just happy. They're happy here, and it makes you 216 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.639 look like a green thumb gardener because you're doing it right. We will go 217 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.279 out to Jersey Village now and talk to Michelle morning. Michelle, good morning, 218 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:39.600 thanks for taking my cold skiffs. You back. My two houses away 219 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.519 and I'm in townhouses, so it's you know, small property. The dab 220 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.279 has a giant cypress tree, and I was wondering, how far do cypress 221 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:56.120 tree roots grow? How far can they extend? Out far? I have 222 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:03.600 some that I have an I say, unfortunately, I have three cypress in 223 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.360 the house we purchased a while back, and their roots, their knees go 224 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.960 everywhere, and I find them all around the other side of the house from 225 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.360 where the tree is. They go around basically around the house. I've seen 226 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.960 cypress go two yards down the street and you know, you see a cypress 227 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:25.440 need coming up at a driveway and there's no cypress. The two neighbors down 228 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.759 has a cypress. So in other words, they can go pretty far. 229 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.679 Now, it's not normal that you're going to have a big root problem that 230 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.000 far away. I'm just saying that the capability is there for most trees. 231 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.440 About two and a half times the height of the tree is how far roots 232 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:45.039 can extend. That's a general trees. Yeah, this tree is well over 233 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:52.919 the two story homes. Yeah. Yeah. The knees are those roots where 234 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.320 they've grown upward. Yeah. It's like imagine a little spaghetti sized root going 235 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:00.519 a couple of inches under the ground, maybe three inches on the ground, 236 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.200 and then all of a sudden it starts to swell, and it's it starts 237 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.599 growing upward like a little knuckle or not on the root, and it pushes 238 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.720 up out of the soil. That's the knee. So if you want to 239 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.880 get rid of them, you just kind of picture what I just described. 240 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.319 And if you take a grubbing hoe and you swing down on the tree side 241 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.119 of the knee, and then you swing down on the away from the tree 242 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.599 side of the knee, you typically chop the root in both places and that 243 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.160 knee comes right up. Some people try to saw them off and do all 244 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.640 that kind of stuff, and that that's a lot more work than just a 245 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.200 good strong swing with a grubbing hoe on each side. I actually dug up 246 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:52.000 nine feet of it, you're my hero. That was worse. Will those 247 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.160 knees grow up into other trees? No? Like, what do you mean 248 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:00.079 grow up? And like I didn't know if like a secondary tree, you 249 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.640 would come out from it and start to grow up. No, no, 250 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.240 no, no, no, they're not able to do that. They're not 251 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.279 one of those species of trees that can that can root sprout like that. 252 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:12.000 But they could do a lot of foundations, you know, It's correct, 253 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:18.079 not so much that, yeah, they're they're the biggest thing with roots and 254 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:22.319 foundation damage. And this is a misconception because we see them lift sidewalks and 255 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.039 we see them live driveways, but the big foundation on your house, they're 256 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.240 not going to really lift it. What they do, though, is a 257 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.680 proliferator on the sides of the foundation, and they suck all the water out. 258 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.319 So when our clay soil is wet, it swells, and then when 259 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.039 it goes dry and roots make it grow dry much faster in the summer, 260 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.599 then it shrinks up. And that shifting of shrink and swell, wet and 261 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:51.319 dry is what causes the foundation problems for our plants. So tree roots are 262 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:55.880 causing it, or they're contributing to it, but it's not underneath the foundation 263 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.799 like a cypress knee is lifting your house up? Okay us questions? All 264 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:07.559 right? Randy used to promote the root wall pro and I have the honor 265 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.359 of speaking with Gary Anderson, who owned that company a long time ago. 266 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.519 But I haven't heard anything. I can't see no find them. Are you 267 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:18.319 familiar with them? I'm not, and I don't know if they're still around 268 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:23.880 or not. But there are underground, there are companies that will create an 269 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:30.400 underground wall for you to stop the root growth. And that's that's quite an 270 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.680 ordeal to put one in, but those can be very helpful. Well, 271 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.640 thank you so much for your time in answering the questions. All right, 272 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.160 good luck with that. Have fun with your cypress. There are great trees 273 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:48.279 in many regards. Yeah, and I can tell you how many cypress needles 274 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:55.799 for our leaves fall each spring because my golden retrievers bring each of them in 275 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:57.640 on their tail every time they go in and out of the house. And 276 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.240 the feathers or the feathers on the hind. Yeah, yeah, so you 277 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:06.279 can see I've been dealing with cyprus for a little while. You thanks for 278 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.240 the call, Michelle, Bye bye, take care. Warrens and Kingwood Garden 279 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:15.119 Center out in Kingwood are a great place to go and find color. I 280 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.559 was out there about a week ago and just amazed by the beauty that they 281 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:22.480 had. They have hibiscus that is just out of this world. I mean, 282 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:29.960 gorgeous, gorgeous plumerias jumping jacks and the plumerias are just beautiful that they 283 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.680 have out there. I was very impressed with some of the lantanas that they 284 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.480 had now I know you're probably familiar with the lantanas, but wow, they 285 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:42.359 had some outstanding color. We have a lot of new lantanas, the Lantana 286 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:48.319 Cameras, the Genus and and it's now a Texas Superstar Texas and m Agrilife 287 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.039 has designated it a Superstar. Those are plants that have performed all over the 288 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.319 state and done outstanding with little to no care, and Lantana fits into that 289 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.480 category. So if you're looking now with the new breeding, some that are 290 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.559 real short. They got them all out there Warren Southern Gardens. I mean, 291 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.480 I know we were. We were just out there shopping the other day. 292 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.960 Beautiful, beautiful place. Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center both out in Kingwood, 293 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.680 a great place to shop. It just really really will set your place 294 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:18.400 apart. There's no reason you shouldn't have color and beauty in the summer, 295 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.480 and you go out to Warrens in Kingwood Garden Center, you're gonna find it. 296 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.559 That is true. Well, we're hitting up on a break for Nicki 297 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:27.920 and the news. I know you've been waiting for me to shut up seeing 298 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.400 here Nicki in here telling the news again, So I'm going to do that. 299 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.680 Albert when we come back, you will be our first up. And 300 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:37.160 if you'd like to give us a call and get on the board seven one 301 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:41.720 three two one two kt r H. Well, I'm all right a little 302 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:48.480 let I'm mailing to Maligalty Jane yet us a jump a little record. I 303 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.960 want my jockey welcome back to garden Line. Good have you with us today? 304 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:53.839 We'll be too, man, I got it here. What do you 305 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:56.720 want to talk about? We got a lot of things we can cover today 306 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:03.480 on gardening. Are still in a primetime gardening season. A lot to get 307 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.519 done out there, a lot to enjoy out there in the garden. Sweet 308 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.920 Green is a product by Nitrophoss. It's a fertilizer that is based on a 309 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:17.079 molasses base with microbial activity, basically turning it into a fertilizer. This particular 310 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:19.559 product makes microbes very happy because they like molasses. You know. That's why 311 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:25.039 organic gardeners put molasses in the garden, because it stimulates all the beneficial microbes 312 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:29.680 that work with your roots to help keep the grass happy and healthy. It's 313 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.759 eleven percent nitrogen and it's widely available. You're going to find sweet Green, 314 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:38.240 for example, at places like enchanted forests, down in Richmond, Rosenberg Growers 315 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:45.039 Outlet up in Willis and RCW Nursery on I forty five North. Now would 316 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.720 be a great time to get some sweet green out. You can put a 317 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.960 light dose out now and then split split, have the second light dose coming 318 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.640 a little bit later for an even better slower feed. But remember it's not 319 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:57.279 just for lawns. You can use it in the garden or anywhere else you 320 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:00.599 choose to use it. We're gonna go to Montgomery now and talk to Albert. 321 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:06.400 Hello, Albert, hello, skip Happy Memorial Day, and do you 322 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:11.440 as well? Thank you, sir. What I got is I got a 323 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:18.759 shoe mar oak tree about fifteen feet twenty feet high. It's looking real good. 324 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.319 The leaves are real green. They're looking good. But at the bottom, 325 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:29.039 right where the trunk hits the dirt and all that, the bark is 326 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:33.599 turning like black or brown and peeling. Should I be concerned or I need 327 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:38.920 to do anything? I don't think so that there is some natural flaking of 328 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.079 bark on a shoe mart oak. What might be happening is maybe if you 329 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.160 bumped it with a lawnmower, or there was some sort of a physical damage 330 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:49.519 a weed eater. You could have lost some bark, and now it's peeling 331 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:53.440 back and exposing the inner wood, and there's nothing for you to do about 332 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:57.079 it other than don't do that again and just give it time for the callus 333 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.519 to form and to close back over that wound. It's one of the reasons 334 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.400 I like to keep mulch around trees is to keep lawnmowers and weed eaters away. 335 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:07.960 Now, if you didn't, if you didn't get up close to it 336 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.920 and bump it with something, then I just wouldn't worry about it. If 337 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:12.640 there's loose bark, go ahead and peel it out of the way, just 338 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:17.359 so that inner wood can dry out after it gets wet from a rain or 339 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:21.200 whatever. But it's just gonna take time and the plant healing to close it 340 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:25.640 over. Okay, good enough, all right, thank you, yes, 341 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:29.039 sir, Thank you very much. Appreciate that call. Yeah, I was 342 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:32.559 talking about that sweet green and being you can get at RCW Nursery. I 343 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:37.519 was out at RCW yesterday and just visiting with them out there, checking some 344 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:40.680 things out, a couple of things I needed to add to the garden. 345 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:44.839 So I always have to go buy our good Mom and Pops visit them periodically 346 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:47.359 to see what's going on. When I was out there, I was looking 347 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:49.839 at the sweet green that they had sitting around. And they have a number 348 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:53.839 of different products that are heard about here on garden Line. That's kind of 349 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:57.799 what they do. You're going to find a number of brands of fertilizer there. 350 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:00.680 You're gonna find a lot of products for planting plants, but you're going 351 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:06.079 to find a lot of great plants. Their selection on shrubs and roses and 352 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:11.720 trees is outstanding. Lots of beautiful perennials, lots of hibiscus. It's still 353 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.799 a good time to be out there at RCW Nursery. They are the get 354 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:18.200 it, got it nursery, meaning if they don't have it, they will 355 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:22.359 try to find it and probably can if it's available on the market, and 356 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.759 bring it in for you. You'll find a great selection of roses and because 357 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.920 they grow their own trees, they're growing types that belong here. Remember what 358 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.200 I said earlier about if it's happy in a sultry, hot sauna, it's 359 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.039 going to do well here. They know how to choose those cultivars, those 360 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.519 species of plants, and that's what they bring in and that's what the that's 361 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:42.920 what they grow, and that's what they sell to you. And they will 362 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:47.279 take them out and plant them for you can hire them come out and establish 363 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:49.680 that tree. And that is a good idea because when you plant it correctly, 364 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:56.119 you're setting the stage for success, whether it's shade or flowers or whatever 365 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:59.039 else you want out of that tree. They're located at two forty nine and 366 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:03.960 about way eight the website. Just write this down r CW nurseries dot com. 367 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.240 RCW nurseries dot com. Let's go up to Centerville. Now we're going 368 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.880 to talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Hey, don't skip. Got 369 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:19.160 a newly planted sawd Saint Augustine, not an acre? How soon can you 370 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.880 apply a fertilizer? And what God almost always when you get turf in and 371 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:30.000 plant it, that turf is coming with a charge of fertilizer that'll hold it 372 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:33.799 for at least a month, it'll be fine. And so I would say, 373 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:38.759 you know it unless it's just really not looking, it doesn't have any 374 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:41.799 good green color at all and stuff. I would wait a month before I 375 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:47.000 start to fertilize it, so that gives it time to put roots in the 376 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.200 ground. You know that brand new sad has about a three quarter inch root. 377 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:53.079 That's where they slice the clay off to bring to create the sawd pieces. 378 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.960 And there's no root to take up nutrients, so it needs time to 379 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.599 grow roots. And like I said, there's usually an adequate charge to get 380 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.960 you through at least a month. Okay, good deal, and then any 381 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:11.480 last minute recogndations for those that completely slack, and then plant the vestables in 382 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:14.400 town. Any give vestables to lots of good ones right now. Lots of 383 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.400 good ones. Yeah, talk to your Kenny Extension office or go to the 384 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:22.720 Aggie Horticulture website and there's a lot of lists of vegetables there in the home 385 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.720 gardening section. But you can plant things like okra, sweet potatoes, Southern 386 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:33.279 peas like black eye, purple whole crowder cream peas. Those can all be 387 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.960 planted now. And then there's some greens that aren't real common malabar and amaranth, 388 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:44.599 and some others that can take the heat very well. Even our storage 389 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.759 squash we call them winter squash, things like a spaghetti squash or a pumpkin 390 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.160 kind of things. We plant those in the summer because they takes them about 391 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.480 three months to develop. So those are a few of the things that could 392 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.359 go in right now. You could also plant eggplant. Okay, awesome that 393 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.119 I appreciate your help, all right, take care up there in Centerville. 394 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:08.039 Yeah, appreciate that call. You know. The three sixty tree stabilizer is 395 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.680 a product that I think really ought to be sold with every tree that's sold. 396 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:17.160 And it's because it is an ingenious design, a brand new design on 397 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:22.720 the market. That it's like a little stiff arm about two thirds of length 398 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.119 of your arm, and you put an iron post in the ground right beside 399 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.680 the tree attached the stabilizer, and it has a soft strap where you can 400 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:33.240 loosely attach it to the tree to hold the tree, but allows some movement. 401 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.039 That is how you successfully get a tree established. You can put a 402 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.359 couple of them one nor south, one east west if you want, but 403 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:44.720 forget all the wires and the tripping and the trouble. This is fast, 404 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:48.599 it's easy and it lasts a long long time. You can find them at 405 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.200 RCW. You can find them at Buchanans done in the Heights or Arborgate up 406 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.480 in Tomball. Plants for all seasons on two forty nine Hoorges hidden gardens down 407 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.599 in Alvin. Southwest Fertilizer down at Southwest Houston corner of Busin and Runwick. 408 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.599 It's easy to find them, but you need to get one and have it 409 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.160 on hand, because once you're done with that tree, you or a neighbor 410 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.640 or something's got a tree that needs stabilizing, that thing's gonna last. And 411 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.599 tree stabilizer is the best way I know of to successfully establish that tree. 412 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.200 And remember, our goal is how fast can I hang a hammock in this 413 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.079 thing? So we want everything going right and moving fast, and that'll help 414 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.119 you do that. We're going to take a little break here and I will 415 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.680 be back our phone number seven one three two one two kt r H. 416 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:41.599 Yeah that's not Simon and Garfuncle, but I had to play that this morning. 417 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:48.400 Just a memory of Randy Man is called the Lemonheads. I'm not making 418 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.799 that up, Missus Robinson. By the Lemonheads. We do miss Randy and 419 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.480 good friend and I know a lot of you have enjoyed him for a very 420 00:29:56.519 --> 00:30:02.519 long time here on KTR All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good to 421 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:07.319 have you with us today. Microlife Fertilizers and that was plural fertilizers are an 422 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.240 excellent way to feed the soil. And you know when you're gardening in an 423 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.640 organic system, when you're gardening with nature, the idea is you feed the 424 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.960 soil, you build that bank account, you improve the soil, and then 425 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.960 the plants naturally are going to thrive because the nutrients are going to be there. 426 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.599 The soil structure is going to be improved. Things like the humans plus 427 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.920 the purple bag zero zero four. That is something that helps with soil structure, 428 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.640 and you build it over time just like nature does. About once a 429 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.960 year. Put that down. The fertilizer. The prime fertilizer for your lawn 430 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.920 green bag six' two four Microlife six two four. I use that for 431 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.559 a lot of things other than the lawn, but that is the one I 432 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.119 would say is the number one thing people put on their lawns. They have 433 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.759 an acidic fertilizer, things like blueberries and azalias and acid living plants, and 434 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.880 they have many many others. Go to Microlife fertilizer dot com and you'll learn 435 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:02.000 about these fertilizers and the many places you can get them, and it's one 436 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:04.480 of the most widely available fertilizers. You're going to find throughout this whole region. 437 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:10.279 It's it's an excellent product. It works. I've used it myself and 438 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.680 I think you will be pleased with the results as well. We're going to 439 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.799 go now out to Cynthia in spring. Hello Cynthia. Hi. Hi. 440 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:29.519 So my question is I've bought a couple of bags of barricade and my gardener 441 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.920 did not want to put the barricade in the soil with mulch on top of 442 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:40.119 it where the flowers are. Okay, we kill flowers. Is that correct? 443 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:45.519 Because I have another area that I'm going to put some boxwood down and 444 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:49.559 some flowers well, and I want to control the weed desperately. Yeah. 445 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.599 On any kind of a herbicide, pesticide, whatever, you look at the 446 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.680 label and it'll tell you where you can use it. Now. Barricade is 447 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.680 a pre emergent means that it keeps the weed sea from getting established. So 448 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.039 if you put it in your flower garden and then you threw zinnias and sunflowers 449 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.640 and other seeds out there, they wouldn't come up because it does that. 450 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:14.599 But if you have existing plants, it's not going to kill them. It's 451 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:15.480 not going to kill them. It's not going to kill them, no, 452 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:21.039 because it doesn't. It's not a post emergent like you would spray something on 453 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.599 a plant to kill the growing plant. It prevents the seeds from germinating and 454 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:29.000 establishing. But check the label always on all these products. See what it's 455 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.559 labeled for. Are there some things you can use in an edible garden or 456 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.160 not used in an edible garden? You know? And the same is true 457 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.480 with flowers and herbs and lawns and every other area. Just always check the 458 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:44.680 label to be sure on things. But it's a pre emergent product. I 459 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.359 don't have a label in front of me on the barricade as to what any 460 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.960 restrictions might be in a flower garden. But that's where you go for any 461 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.640 kind of a question about use of a product like that barricade for sure. 462 00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:01.200 Okay, all right, well that's okay, Thank you so much, all 463 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:05.119 right, you bet, Cynthia, thank you for king. I appreciate that 464 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:10.839 Nature's Way Resources is an outstanding place to get mulch and composts and all the 465 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.200 bed mixes, all those kinds of things. It's also a good place to 466 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:19.759 get the native plants and many other types of plants. In fact, right 467 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:23.039 now through July first, so basically the whole month of June. Now through 468 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:28.400 the month of June, they are offering thirty percent off most of their plants. 469 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:32.279 Now it excludes the native sun perennials only, but the rest of them 470 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.279 huge. They have a huge selection of Texas native pollinator plants and all of 471 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.440 the thirty percent off except the native sun perennials. They have a twenty percent 472 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.480 discount on composts. Now this includes also mulches and soil blends. Not just 473 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.599 composts, but mulches and soil blends. But to get that twenty percent discount, 474 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:52.960 Okay, I need you to listen to me here. You have to 475 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.680 tell them that you heard about it on Garden Line. When you go in 476 00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:00.680 there and talk to one of the employees there, just say I heard on 477 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:05.599 Guardline you have a discount on compost and molt and soil, and whether you're 478 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.199 going to buy it by the bag or by the bulk, that twenty percent 479 00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:10.960 discount applies. But you got to tell them it's not just like they're given 480 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.880 everybody that discount. It's Gardenline listeners get that discount. So tell them that 481 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:21.199 when you go in Nature's Way Resources, and I forty five up north toward 482 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:25.760 Conra, almost to Conro where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnoia from your 483 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.239 left hand side when you're going north, you just turn right across the tracks 484 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.800 and you're there at Nature's Way Resources. That is where a lot of great 485 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:42.599 soil products were born, rose soil and leaf mold composts. How many times 486 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.480 have you heard Randy or me talk about those things? That is where they 487 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:52.880 were originally created Nature's Way Resources. If you're interested in keeping bees or you 488 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.320 would like to learn about bees, the bee Supply in Dayton is the best 489 00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:00.320 place that I've ever seen, and I mean that I've been. I've kept 490 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.440 bees myself in the past, and we had a little a piece of acreage, 491 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:06.880 and I've seen a lot of bee stores and a lot of places I've 492 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:14.440 never seen the knowledge and the just shopping options that you have at the be 493 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.719 Supply. That place is fun to walk through. But I'll tell you what, 494 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.960 if you're interested in learning about bees, they have bee keeping classes for 495 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.400 beginners and they're really cool. You learn. They'll blow your mind in the 496 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.119 classroom with all that they teach you, and then you go outside whether permitting 497 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.440 and you get to do some hive inspections, kind of a hands on you 498 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.039 know, you suit up and you go out there and do that. Classes 499 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.880 start at nine thirty, they go intil three thirty. It's an excellent They 500 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:39.559 got some other classes coming up. I'll tell you more about later. They 501 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:44.239 also have their be rental program. You got five to twenty acres and live 502 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:47.440 within fifty miles of the Bee Supply and Dayton. Fifty miles of Dayton, 503 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:51.760 they will come out and put bees on your property and you can use it 504 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:57.000 as an agricultural exemption that bees count as an agricultural product. Go to the 505 00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:00.199 website to find out more about that and how that works and what the detail 506 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:06.440 the bsupply dot com thebesupply dot com. In the meantime, if you've got 507 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:09.320 family, friends and definitely your kids and grandkids, take them out to the 508 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:14.440 Bee Supply and look at the observation hive indoors where you get to walk around 509 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:20.320 a little plexiglass box and watch the bees work. It is really really fun 510 00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.599 and cool. Great great outing, great educational outing too. By the way, 511 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:30.119 the Bee Supply, have you been to Buchanans and the Heights I was 512 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:37.559 actually by the day and I love Buchanans. Number one. I think the 513 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:43.000 Heights is just a fun area period here in Houston. But you're driving through 514 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.719 and you just all of a sudden, there it is on eleven Street. 515 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.639 As you're going down there, it's like whoa, it's just nestled right here 516 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.559 into the Heights. So many great plants, so much to see. By 517 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:58.559 the way, don't forget this weekend is tax exempt products for saving water. 518 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:04.679 That would include soakerhood that would god drip irrigation, water saving surfactants, purchases 519 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:12.639 of mult rainwater collection systems that saves water, turf grass purchases, drip irrigation 520 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.400 system plants, anything any product with a water sence logo. And that's this 521 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:21.280 weekend. It goes through Monday through tomorrow. But they've got that going on 522 00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.760 there at Buchanans, and it's just just a statewide thing that you can save 523 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:28.199 on. So this weekend, make sure and make those purchases. Why you're 524 00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:31.320 at Buchanans, check out the native plants. Best selection in the whole region 525 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.559 in native plants, hands down. It's amazing what all they carry there. 526 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:40.519 It's really really nice. I always love shopping there and it's stuff you wouldn't 527 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.920 expect. You know, you may be thinking about Buchanans Native Plants, that's 528 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:46.800 their name, but do you know they have one of the best house plants 529 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.639 selections you're going to find anywhere. They sell fruit, they sell vegetables, 530 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:54.960 herbs, flowers. If you have a shady area, what can I go 531 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.280 in the shade that will bring color and beauty? They've got an area for 532 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:04.519 that, beautiful gift shop. It's just a nice fun place to wander through 533 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.519 and enjoy. Buchanans Plants on eleven Street in the Heights. The websites Buchanansplants 534 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:15.119 dot com and you need to sign up for the newsletter very informative and on 535 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:20.320 the website there is a lot of good free information, both in video form 536 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:23.840 and stuff you can print out that will help you have more success with your 537 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:29.079 garden or learn about some plants that maybe you didn't know about that you now 538 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.320 can't live without. In that how it works with plants, so many plants, 539 00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:37.280 so little time, Well, I wish I felt that before you know, 540 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.280 I'm a I'm a plant collector. Let me tell you the difference between 541 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:46.719 a plant collector and a landscaped person. A landscaper starts with a design and 542 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.880 then finds plants to put in it. A plant collector is shopping and they 543 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.239 see plants they like, and they bring them home without a clue as to 544 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.239 where they're going to go. I know, true confessions, don't tell anybody's 545 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:05.440 just shoeing me. Listen anyway, But when you go to a plant collector's 546 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.840 yard, it looks like a bomb went off in a garden center and everything 547 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.679 rooted where it landed. It's just this, Oh, here's a plant. 548 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.960 I come home, I walk around, let's put it over there. Well, 549 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.320 actually it's not quite that bad. I do design and plan, but 550 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.159 it is fun being a plant collector. And that is why it is so 551 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:27.320 much fun to live in the Greater Houston area and have all these awesome garden 552 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:31.239 centers with plants from all over the world that you haven't heard of even And 553 00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:36.760 it's all so many plants, so little time. That's a little lament. 554 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:40.679 Well, the storms the other day reminded us that the power can go off, 555 00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:46.360 right to say, the least quality home products of Texas sells Genera generators 556 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:52.400 now Generaic generators, an awesome generator but the reason you get from Quality Home 557 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:57.360 is that it is an unbelievably awesome place. Quality Home. They are top 558 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.760 rated eight times. They won the Pinnacle Award for the Better Business Bureau's Customer 559 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:07.440 Service Unbelievable Quality TX dot Com Quality t X dot Com or column seven to 560 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.559 one to three quality. They walk you through it. Listen, you can 561 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:17.559 buy generators are a lot of places Generaic and the service they give you can't 562 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.599 get anywhere else. It is absolutely the best. From the time you walk 563 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:28.079 in to pick a generator out to the time they walk off having done all 564 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:30.440 the work and set it up and gotten the permits and everything for you. 565 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.920 And then twenty four hours, seven days a week, three sixty five customer 566 00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:42.440 service. You can't beat that Quality Home product. I'll be right back. 567 00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.719 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 568 00:40:52.760 --> 00:41:07.199 this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scamp Richter's so trim and just 569 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:27.480 watch him as so many good things to sid Welcome back to the garden Line. 570 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.239 Good morning, good Sunday morning. I hope you're having a good Sunday 571 00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:36.760 morning. We uh, we got a lot of things to cover today, 572 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.960 there's always something to cover regardening. You know, there's only ten bazillion plants 573 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.440 out there, and we try to grow them all right, and we especially 574 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.440 like to grow things that don't want to be here, isn't it always is? 575 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:51.480 Have you ever have you ever hauled a blue spruce tree back from a 576 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:55.440 Colorado summer vacation or one of those little blue columbines back there from The Society 577 00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:00.960 for the Prevention of Plant has now has established check centers at the border between 578 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:05.360 Texas and New Mexico that when you try to come across the border, they're 579 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.719 going to take it away from you, and they're gonna arrest you and they're 580 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:10.320 gonna throw you in jail. Not really, but if the plants had their 581 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:14.239 way, they would, because that plant's going to die a slow death. 582 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.679 Maybe you lived in the Midwest and you love Forcythia. I love Forcythia. 583 00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.920 It's beautiful. You can bring it all the way down here and kill it, 584 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.119 just along with the lilacs too, by the way, you can bring 585 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:25.960 them down here and kill or hostas. Hostas are kind of iffy. Some 586 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:30.119 people get by with them. We do, okay, we can make them 587 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:31.920 go, but you know what I'm saying. We always want to stretch a 588 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.599 plant out of its zone, and so when we do that, we run 589 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:39.719 into the kind of challenges. But hey, that's okay. We love growing 590 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.599 different kinds of things. And when we have plants, we always want to 591 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:49.679 make them. We're want to develop them into something they didn't originally start off 592 00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.199 to be. For example, a yellow African violet. There was a pursuit 593 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:57.480 for years. Can we come up with a yellow African violet? Its name 594 00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.079 is violet, its name is not yellow, it's not an African yellow, 595 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:05.039 it's an African violet. But people worked on it. And you know, 596 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.440 when we do things like that, we usually find some way to achieve them. 597 00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:12.360 But it comes at a cost in terms of the vigor and health and 598 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:14.920 stuff like that of the plant. But that's part of the fun of gardening 599 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.320 being able to do that. Part of the fun of gardening, too is 600 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:22.000 having good blooms. Nelson's has a number of different fertilizer products. They've got 601 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.679 their Turf Star line, which I talk about all the time on guard Line. 602 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:29.480 They also have the Nutris Star line, and this is think of it 603 00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:34.679 as for color plants. So the Nutristar Booginvilla food. If you have boom 604 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.880 villas, this is an outstanding food, but it also is good for other 605 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:43.480 flowering vines like mandavilla or maybe a cross vine, you know the tandruine, 606 00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:47.639 beauty crosswine, Virginia, creeper, things like wisteria, things like passion flower, 607 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.679 trumpet vine, honeysuckle, carolina, jussamine, all of it. Bougainvilla 608 00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.079 by nutri Star. Just when you see boog and villa, think vine and 609 00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.960 that is the good the things you can put it on, they really this 610 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:06.000 product really provides those nutrients to support good strong growth, and a good strong 611 00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:10.920 plant is more able to resist pests and diseases, and it just benefits in 612 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:15.559 many ways. There's a nutri Star Crpe myrtle. Someone was calling yesterday. 613 00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:19.079 In fact, I had two calls yesterday about my crate myrtle is not blooming 614 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.639 and things well. Good nutrition is a big part of that nutri Star Crpe 615 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:28.400 myrtle. It says Crpe myrtle on the label, but think flowering tree because 616 00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:30.559 it's good for all of those. There's not like a fertilizer that has to 617 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:35.480 just be used on crate myrtle Nutri star CRP myrtle is good for your Mexican 618 00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:37.639 plums, your mimosas, which by the way, are blooming now. They 619 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:40.800 look beautiful out there. For your red budge, your Texas Mountain Laurel, 620 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.239 your Vitex, your desert willow, all of those kinds of blooming plants. 621 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:52.039 Nutri star CRP myrtle. Buy Nelson plant Food one of many quality Nelson plant 622 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:53.800 food products out there to help you have success. You know, when we 623 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.880 plant these things, we want them to look good. We want them to 624 00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.639 bloom. That's why we bought them. Good care and good feeding is one 625 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:04.679 of the ways that we get there. Let's go out to the woodlands now 626 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:08.880 and talk to Dinna. Hello, Donna, is it Dina or Dinna Dina? 627 00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:15.559 Good morning, Good morning. I have some cannas and I noticed last 628 00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:20.960 night that I've had this once before and haven't had it for a while. 629 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:27.679 But the leaves just roll up and there's almost like if I unroll it, 630 00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:32.000 there's something inside, but I can't find an actual bug. Okay, that 631 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:38.840 is called the Kenna leaf roller. It's a little caterpillar and the mama butterfly 632 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.320 lays it on the plant and it grabs the leaves, and caterpillars have the 633 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:49.159 ability to produce silk. That's how we get silkworm silk stocking. And they 634 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:54.400 take the silk and before the leaf unfurls, it wraps it and ties it 635 00:45:54.440 --> 00:46:00.280 together with silk strands and so it never unfurls. And then they eat on 636 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.800 the inside. And when you see one of these leaves, it's not unfurling, 637 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.400 and you kind of break it open. You see the big old fat 638 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.679 caterpillar in there, and you see a lot of caterpillar poop from eating your 639 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.599 cann of leaves. And so to control them, you want to use BT 640 00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:22.280 sprays or spindosid sprays, but you need to do it pretty regularly to be 641 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:24.840 able to get ahead of those to shut them down, because once they're inside 642 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.639 rolled up like that, it's kind of hard to it's kind of hard to 643 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:30.800 get a spray down in there to control them. But that would be an 644 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.280 option. Okay, well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. 645 00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:39.800 And also DANAE or Dana. One other thing is you can when you see 646 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:44.800 a stalk like that that's all messed up, just cut it off down near 647 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.559 the ground and it'll put the cannons will put up new stalks, but get 648 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:52.800 that old material out of there in case there's any pupated larvae in there. 649 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.079 They're not just going to now turn into an adult and keep doing that to 650 00:46:55.119 --> 00:47:00.000 your cannons. Great, all right, thanks, thank you very much. 651 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:06.480 Yes, I appreciate the call very much. Pierscapes is our go to landscaper 652 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:07.840 here on garden Line, and there's a number of reasons for it. Number 653 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:12.639 one, they do just about everything. Go online to their website and you'll 654 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:17.360 see what I'm talking about. They are designers extraordinaiy beautiful, beautiful work. 655 00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:22.199 The website, by the way, is pierscapes dot com. But when you're 656 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.960 there, you'll notice they also do things like irrigation work. They do things 657 00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:31.320 like hardscapes, a water feature. They do things like landscape lighting. Maybe 658 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:35.159 you've got a saggy area, remember all that ring we just had. You 659 00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:37.280 got a little farm pond in the back that you didn't intend to have. 660 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.079 They can turn that area into an area that drains well. They have a 661 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.000 way they know how to do that. They also do quarterly maintenance. So 662 00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:50.159 maybe you don't want new creations and designs and beds. I hope you do, 663 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:53.320 but if you don't, harm for quarterly maintenance. Every quarter they come 664 00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.280 out. They change the color in your beds. It's called seasonal color changes. 665 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.079 They put in umulch, they weed, they fertilize, they check the 666 00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:07.599 irrigation system, do any trimming that's necessary. That's all part of their quarterly 667 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:12.559 maintenance program with Puerscapes peerscapes dot com. Here's the phone number two eight one 668 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:19.639 three seven O five zero six zero Puerscapes. We're gonna now head out to 669 00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:23.760 k in Paarland. Hello. Okay, good morning, Skip. Thank you 670 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:27.599 for taking my call. You bet. I have a quick question and I 671 00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:31.760 think the answer is yes. But I want to be sure that mosquito dunks 672 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:37.360 are safe for turtles as well as fish and other They are safe for everything. 673 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.960 They don't hurt any they don't hurt other insects even like a lady beetle 674 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.199 or a family cat or any and they're very safe. Yeah, it's a 675 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.599 disease of mosquito larvae. Yeah, that's what I thought. I just wanted 676 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:58.159 to be sure. I read everything two or three times on the labels, 677 00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:04.159 and yeah, I didn't say any things specifically right, actually about even dogs 678 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.559 and cats, you know, kind of general stuff. But I heard you 679 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.679 mentioned that it was safe, very safe. Day. Yeah, I thought 680 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:14.199 them in bird baths because the birds drink it doesn't hurt them at all. 681 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:15.840 Thanks for asking, though, that's a good question. I appreciate that. 682 00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.599 K. Yeah, mosquito dunks are widely available. They're little donuts. There's 683 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:25.800 also a granular product that they make, sum Responsible Solutions makes, But the 684 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.480 little donut just floats in water and it covers like one hundred square feet of 685 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.400 water surface, and it lasts about a month, and it releases a disease 686 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.400 of mosquito larvae in You can't get more organic, you can't get more safe 687 00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.639 than mosquito dunks, and you also can't get more effective. And you're going 688 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:44.760 to find them at you know, all our garden centers carry them, no 689 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:49.079 ares, hardware stores carry them, feed stores carry them. SOUTHUS Fertilizer carries 690 00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.800 them. Mosquito dunks. You just don't need to go through summer in Houston 691 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:54.679 without mosquito dunks. I'll tell you that for sure. Well, Hey, 692 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:58.840 we're gonna take a little break here and I will be right back. Our 693 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.320 phone number is seven one three two one two kt rh. Call up the 694 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:06.320 producer, get on the boards, and let's talk to you about your questions. 695 00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:13.519 Jerry and Fulscher you'll be our first up. You come on like a 696 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:25.360 dream, like your sixteen Oh yeah, hey, that song has a special 697 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:31.400 significance today. We just lost the fellow that wrote it, a couple of 698 00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:37.000 brothers, Sherman brothers. Richard Sherman passed away. I believe he was about 699 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.440 ninety five. He brought for a lot of you, especially those who are 700 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:46.000 a little bit older. Your childhood has made much much happier by the Sherman 701 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:52.440 brothers writing not only this song, but who remembers TDTD bang bang Remember that 702 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:59.000 one spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins, How about the Jungle Book? I 703 00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:01.960 want to be Like You? Who want to be like you? Yep? 704 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.599 They wrote that to Winnie the Pooh from It's a Small World, Oh my 705 00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:10.559 gosh, on and on and on, so many Disney songs and others. 706 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.840 Those guys put together a lot of happiness for kids through the years. So 707 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:22.400 just remembering Richard Sherman in the passing welcome back to garden line. Yeah, 708 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.360 in addition to gardening, we play around with music. This is a little 709 00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.280 bit here. I I hope you appreciate that. Landscaper's Pride is a company 710 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:36.880 that has put together a collection of products for the soil that will help your 711 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:42.119 plants thrive. That is an outstanding and widely available, which is very convenient, 712 00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:47.280 widely available collection. For example, they have things like mulches, pine 713 00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:52.239 bark multch, hardwood maltch, the black velvet malt. It's not dyed mult 714 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:57.199 it's naturally dark black velvety mult excellent when our plants need mults, and they 715 00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:00.960 need it now. Molt keeps weeds down and temperatures heat up. Mulch has 716 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:05.960 a huge effect on sol temperature, which has a huge effect on roots success 717 00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:09.920 and so Landscaper's Pride take your pick of the mulches. There's twenty seven different 718 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:15.840 Landscaper's Pride products, things like Gardener's Magic Soil. It's an organic pine based 719 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:21.159 blend contains humus, green pine, composted rice holes and a chicken pellet fertilizer 720 00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:24.480 in there that lasts up to three months feeding your plants. All at Landscaper's 721 00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:29.039 Pride. Go to Landscaperspride dot com to find out where to get them, 722 00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:32.679 and they are widely available, and learn more about these really awesome products. 723 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:37.599 Because remember on guardline, what do we say brown stuff before green stuff? 724 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.599 You get the soil fixed, right, and then the beautiful green vegetables, 725 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.079 herbs, flowers, lawns, whatever the plant is is going to thrive because 726 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.360 you took care of the brown stuff first. Let's go out to Jerry now 727 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:55.360 in full shre Hello, Jerry, ask you I have a watering problem because 728 00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.760 my yard has such a steep slope to it. It goes out about twenty 729 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:07.280 thirty feet and then it just takes a dive down toward the creek. Because 730 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:12.800 of that, the water runs off fast. And I've read your schedule about 731 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:21.599 cycle and sol process. But the issue there is the forty five minutes that 732 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:28.199 you mentioned to I guess cycle between yes, and I guess. The next 733 00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:32.280 question about all of that would be do I need a different type of sprink 734 00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:37.199 or sprayhead for that area? The type I have this is a rotating type 735 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:43.440 that shoots out a long ways and so it just doesn't get the water there 736 00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:47.199 in that area that it needs to. Okay, so can you clear me 737 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.960 up on that? Yeah, Now, the rotating tape you're talking about is 738 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.920 that a stream of water that kind of slowly drifts across the lawn. Okay, 739 00:53:55.119 --> 00:54:00.480 that's coold. Well yeah, it's it's not slow enough and it goes 740 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:05.360 out too far. You really, okay, it just property. Okay, 741 00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:08.199 Well you probably need you know, unless you're a real good to it yourself 742 00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:12.480 for you probably need an irrigation company to come in and take a look at 743 00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.400 that. But that's called a rotor, and it's better than the pop up 744 00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:19.960 spray heads. Pop up spray heads like you see people using flower beds and 745 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.400 stuff, they put out water really fast and so it runs off too darn 746 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.840 fast. The rotors put out water slower. But then there's another one called 747 00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:34.079 a multi stream rotor, and instead of one stream, imagine like little fingers 748 00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:37.760 of water. They're drifting across in the same way, and it's like they 749 00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:39.760 appear on the left hand side and they drift across, and on the right 750 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:44.880 hand side they just disappear. But the key is to get the sprinkler head 751 00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:49.239 set so that water's the right area and that that is something where an irrigation 752 00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:51.840 company should be able to come in and fix that, or maybe you can 753 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:55.119 just go replace the head and make it work. But yeah, the less 754 00:54:55.159 --> 00:55:00.039 you put on at one time, the longer you can run it before you 755 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:04.039 you have to cycle off and let it soak. Uh, And so yeah, 756 00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:07.079 you'd like to be on cycle and soak once or twice, you know, 757 00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:12.360 rather than five times trying to squirt a little bit and then wait and 758 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:16.280 squirt a little bit and then wait that that's not very efficient. Yeah, 759 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.679 well, ken again, like a running bird system, can it be set 760 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.480 to cycle like that or you just have to manually do that? Every every 761 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:31.400 system is different rainbird Netaphim Hunter. I'm trying to think of all the brands. 762 00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:36.039 There's a lot of brands out there, and if you if you spend 763 00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:38.559 a little more on the irrigation clock, you get a lot more features. 764 00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:44.880 Some of them will even water according to the amount of evaporation that's been occurring 765 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.400 out in the environment, you know, so they they kind of control it 766 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.400 for you. But any of them should be able to be set for multiple 767 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:58.280 run times in a day. Okay, uh, next question real quick. 768 00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:02.519 But that area that I'm talking about, I'll have the problem with water of 769 00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:07.320 course, now I know it needs probably residing in an area of say twenty 770 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:14.760 by twenty to reside that area with Saint Augustine. Do I need to first, 771 00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:16.880 I guess, clear all that area of whatever weeds are in there. 772 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:23.960 Yes, and then I need to put down a topsoil before start putting the 773 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:29.320 reside down. You don't have to put down a top soil, but you 774 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:35.239 do want to level it out so your your lawn level is acceptable and any 775 00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.639 holes are filled in. And we call that kill till and fill. Kill 776 00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:42.559 means if you got something in there you don't want to grow in in your 777 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.159 lawn, you better get rid of it now, like bermuda grass and Saint 778 00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:51.199 Augustine or some other nasty weed. First you get rid of those, and 779 00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:53.800 then you can loosen the soil up. You don't have to go very deep, 780 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:58.760 but just loosen it up a little, filling any low areas that you 781 00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:01.039 have, and then go ahead with your sodding. When you saw it, 782 00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:04.920 though, and I don't know if I put this on the schedule, I 783 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:08.119 probably probably need to do something else just for long planting. But you want 784 00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:13.480 to water it about twice a day for the first week, especially when we're 785 00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:17.159 getting in this hot weather. That little thin piece of sod has almost no 786 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:22.960 soil and no root on it, and so by the end I put it 787 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:27.159 in a lawn this spring, Jerry, and I was watering it before I 788 00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:29.280 finished lay in the whole lawn. I mean, in other words, I 789 00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.159 laid for about you know, twenty feet long, and then I turned the 790 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:36.519 water on over there while I kept laying. And because it dries out fast, 791 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:38.360 and so twice a day the first week, once a day the second 792 00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.360 week, and then back and on off. You got to get those roots 793 00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.079 down without stress. It's not that the grass will all die. It's just 794 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:50.800 that it'll set it back so far that it's it's a shame. Yeah, 795 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:52.719 okay, very good. Skip, Well, I appreciate that, and I'll 796 00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:57.840 follow through it. Your suggestions, all right, good, well, I 797 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:01.599 wish you, I wish you well. Just just stay with it and you're 798 00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:06.679 you're gonna find you know, you've got pretty good success. Don't don't don't 799 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:09.400 don't sweat it. It's not sometimes as hard as we make it. Uh, 800 00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:14.079 you know, we try to go for ideal, but it'll be fine 801 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:16.519 just even without that. Okay, I guess one last question. Do you 802 00:58:16.519 --> 00:58:21.760 put a little fertiliser on that new sad right away? Or you just no 803 00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:24.599 give it about a month. Give it about a month and then begin get 804 00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:28.800 you've got my schedule, go back to the schedule and that's where you go 805 00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:31.159 from there. Give it a month though, Yeah, all right, okay, 806 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.360 thanks so much, all right, Jerry, thanks a lot. I 807 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:38.159 appreciate your call. The arbor Gate in Tomball is a great place to visit. 808 00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:43.159 You are going to find everything you're looking for. You are, I 809 00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:46.840 mean herbs and year round fruit trees at the Arborgate. You can buy fruit 810 00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:52.880 trees year round at the Arborgate. Wonderful rose selection, outstanding, outstanding rose 811 00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:58.480 selection, shrubs and tree there's so much there it allow yourself some time. 812 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.000 You need to be able to wander through that wonderful gardens and look at all 813 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:06.239 the plants and the garden blaying I call it. That decorates our place. 814 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:10.000 Places. They have the beautiful gift shops you need to spend some time in, 815 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:15.280 but always go home with their one two three completely easy system. That's 816 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:20.239 a soil for anything with roots. That is a compost that you can mix 817 00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:24.840 in to the soil. And there is a food that's an organic food for 818 00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:30.199 anything with roots. So basically what you're buying is you're buying a quality food 819 00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:36.239 that's a fertilizer. You're buying a quality soil with some expanded shale in it, 820 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:39.519 which is important for clay soils. You're buying compost with expanded shale in 821 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:44.960 it. All one, two three bags, real simple. It's the brown 822 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.679 stuff, take it home when you take home the green stuff, the beautiful 823 00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:52.960 plants that Arbigate sells, and you're going to have success. Very knowledgeable staff, 824 00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:55.320 a fun place to shop. And don't forget that new parking lot on 825 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:59.920 the backside off Trisheal Road. It makes it so so easy to get. 826 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.840 Then we're gonna head out now to Spring Branch and talk to Herta. Hello, 827 01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:09.559 good morning, Thank you for being there. Foss. My questions about 828 01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:20.280 when they were removing the trees that had fallen. Uh, they used a 829 01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:28.199 big old tractor and they skin took a chunk of rock off of the bottom. 830 01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:31.320 Okay, do I need to paint that or protect that with something? 831 01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:36.199 No, no, it's it didn't do them any good. But that the 832 01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:38.960 tree will start to call us and close that over in time, but there's 833 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:44.679 no way to speed it up. Just just yeah, nothing for you to 834 01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:52.199 have to do on that, Okay, taken question. A giant oak was 835 01:00:52.440 --> 01:01:01.320 upreaded. Uh, but anyway, they left a big Okay, it's about 836 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:09.719 six deep, about at least two heat and diameter. Okay, uh like 837 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:22.920 some mouth break stump, no sink again, but for now, no I 838 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.360 heard. I've got about thirty seconds. So here's a quick answer. Don't 839 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:28.880 put anything organic in it. It'll rot and sink down. You want to 840 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:31.519 put soil in it, because that'll stay stable. You may have to mound 841 01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:35.519 it, mound it up a little bit, because it always settles when you 842 01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:37.400 fill a hole with soil. So make it a little higher, like a 843 01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.480 picture mound, and it'll settle down to the level. But don't put anything 844 01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:45.119 that will rot and shrink down even further. Thank you, Thank you for 845 01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:46.400 the cast s right to have to run, but we got to obey the 846 01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:51.360 clock around here too. All right, give us a call seven one three 847 01:01:51.440 --> 01:02:01.519 two one two K t R H. Will be right back. Welcome back 848 01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:07.119 to guard Line. Good to have you with us. We love feed stores 849 01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:12.280 here on Garden Line. And for those of you down in League City, 850 01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:15.440 you're fortunate because you have League City Feed down there. The Thunderbergs have been 851 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:20.599 running that store for over forty years now began down in an okra patch. 852 01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.760 Just you know. It's located on Highway three, just a few south, 853 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:29.079 a few blocks south of ninety six in League City. So for those of 854 01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:31.519 you that are in Baycliffe, for clear Lake City, El Comino, Real, 855 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:36.440 Webster, Dickenson, Santa Fe, San Leon, Lamark, all those 856 01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.400 areas, this is your hometown feed store. And they give you the old 857 01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:44.119 time service that you expect from an old time feed store. And we're talking 858 01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:46.639 about carrying the bags out for you and treating you right in there. They 859 01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:51.679 have all the fertilizers you hear me talk about on garden Line, and many 860 01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:57.119 many products for dealing with pests, dealing with weeds, dealing with diseases of 861 01:02:57.159 --> 01:03:00.519 your plants, quality pet food, quality horse supplies. You know, even 862 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:04.800 if you've got backyard chickens, they can get you set up with what you 863 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.880 need to take care of them as well. League City Feed will help you 864 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:13.440 have a beautiful lawn and a beautiful landscape, a beautiful garden, a productive 865 01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:16.320 garden. They're open money through Saturday, nine am to six pm, closed 866 01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:20.960 on Sunday, so any day during the week through Saturday you swing by after 867 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:22.840 work grab what you need. Here's a phone number you want to write it 868 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:30.639 down. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve League City Feed. I'm 869 01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:34.400 going to go to Jersey Village now and talk to Chris. Hello, Chris, 870 01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:37.239 Hey, how you doing. I'm good, sir, How are you? 871 01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:44.119 I'm fine? A quick question, actually two. First one, you 872 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:47.480 know a wheeding feed the front yard, that's fine, no problem. But 873 01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:53.360 the backyard. I've got two dogs and they tell me that the wheeding feed 874 01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:59.639 is oxic to them. Is there anything that I can put back there to 875 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.920 kill weeds that doesn't affect at all? Well? Yeah, I would prefer 876 01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:08.760 that you would use a law, a fertilizer for fertilizing, and then when 877 01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:12.880 you need to control weeds, you just use a specific product to control the 878 01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:15.960 specific weeds that are the problem. First of all, putting those combos together 879 01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:21.719 sometimes it works, but sometimes the particular product to control weeds in that fertilizer 880 01:04:23.079 --> 01:04:26.639 may not be the best product for the weed that you have. So so 881 01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:29.599 we we always want to start with what are what are the weeds that you're 882 01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:33.079 dealing with? Do you know offhand what they are? Just I got some 883 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:41.320 dollar weeds, I got some dandelions, okay, and I got some I 884 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:46.639 got some guys that are they're not thorns, but they're thorny like because I've 885 01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:50.320 stepped on them. Yeah, okay, all right, So those are all 886 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:56.679 existing weeds that are perennials. The thorny one could be an an annual, 887 01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.599 could be a perennial. So what you're going to want to do is get 888 01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:02.800 a product. There are a couple of products if you go online to my 889 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:09.679 schedule at gardening with Skip dot com on post emergent weed control, I've got 890 01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:13.880 three things listed there. One of them is celsius, like the temperature fahrenheit 891 01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.199 and celsius, but this one is celsius, not fahrenheit, but celsius. 892 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.599 And then there's a bone eye weed beater ultra and a fertil om weed free 893 01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:27.840 zone. Now the celsius warmer conditions within reason are not a problem to use 894 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:31.239 celsius, but the other two you need to use them very early in the 895 01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:34.079 morning when it's as cool as it's going to be for the day, so 896 01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:39.880 that they dry up before the weather gets up into the mid to upper eighties, 897 01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:44.599 because it can stress your lawn at that time. But you mix them 898 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:46.880 up in water according to the label and just spot spray. I mean, 899 01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:49.239 if you've got weeds all over the lawn, spray the whole lawn. But 900 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:55.599 as much as you can just spray the weeds saves a little bit and that 901 01:05:55.599 --> 01:06:00.559 that will not come back. I got one more quick question. Okay, 902 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:09.079 when I was a kid over in Garden Oaks, right, we had a 903 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:16.039 climbing vine that had coral colored little buds. Okay, do you know what 904 01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:23.320 that is, because I'd like to put it in that sounds like coral vine, 905 01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:29.639 which is a sweet potato type perennial underground in the summertime. It grows 906 01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:33.719 long, long, vigorous vines and they have clusters of coral shaped flowers that 907 01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:39.840 almost look like buds because they're little, almost roundish little flowers as opposed to 908 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:43.400 what you think of it. And that's called coral vine, and it's it's 909 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:47.320 available local garden centers and nurseries. You can get it. Just know that 910 01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:53.440 when it takes off running, it runs like a kindergartener on the first day 911 01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:58.599 of school. I mean it runs, damn. Okay, Okay, my 912 01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:02.920 neighbor it on my backyard. I put it on my back fence. Yeah, 913 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:08.000 they're Indian people, very sweet people. Yeah, and it was growing 914 01:07:08.119 --> 01:07:13.239 all over everywhere and I loved it. And for some reason, you know, 915 01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:17.400 they cut it out. Okay, all right, go get you, 916 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:21.239 go, get you some pope. Yeah, corabine pollinators love it. Hey, 917 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:24.320 Chris, thanks for the call and good luck with that. Yeah. 918 01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:28.440 I think you'll enjoy it. You bet appreciate it. Bye bye. And 919 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.880 the storm we just had told us another thing. In addition to power goes 920 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:35.760 out, we got to take care of our trees because we saw a lot 921 01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:40.840 of damage from the wind from trees. And hurricane season is arriving here in 922 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:45.119 June through November. You need to do the selective pruning, and you need 923 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:48.239 somebody that knows what they're doing. Don't trust your pruning to some guy that 924 01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:50.920 owns a pick up, a chainsaw and a business has a business card to 925 01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:56.800 stick in your door. Call Martin spoon Moore, Martin spoon More at Affordable 926 01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:00.800 Tree Service. It's seven to one three six nine twenty six sixty three. 927 01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:05.599 We'll say that again, seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 928 01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:12.280 I cannot stress enough the importance of proper tree care coming into a storm 929 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.119 season. These limbs maybe your your trees made it through the one we just 930 01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:18.960 had. Sometimes they do and then the next storm comes through and I don't 931 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.239 know why, but that's the one that takes the limbs out. They can 932 01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:27.680 damage homes, they can damage cars and other value of our property, and 933 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:30.920 then hurt people. You want to have somebody look through, get the dead 934 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:34.439 wood cleaned out, do any kind of a maintenance pruning that's needed. Martin 935 01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:38.399 will come out on a consultation. Charges one hundred and fifty bucks to come 936 01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:42.359 out. He tells you what he sees and what he suggests needs to be 937 01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:44.880 done. If you hire him to do it, that one fifty just goes 938 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:47.520 right into the price. So give him a call, have him come out 939 01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:49.880 and take a look. Listen, he stays busy. Tell him you're from 940 01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:53.560 garden Line. That helps you get up to the front of the line. 941 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:58.159 He takes care of his garden Line customers. And just call Martin. That's 942 01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.880 the bottom line. Don't delay. If you on a website, aff tree 943 01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:09.279 service dot com a ff tree service dot com. I was talking earlier about 944 01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:14.239 the importance of doing our summer fertilization now and nitroposs superturf. That's a silver 945 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:18.640 bag. That's an excellent product for summer fertilizing your lawn. It gradually releases 946 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:24.199 the nitrogen over time to create even growth, so you're not you know, 947 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:29.279 having just excessive amounts of mowing trying to keep up with the overfertilization and then 948 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.920 you know there's not food for later on. It gradually releases that over time. 949 01:09:33.399 --> 01:09:40.119 Nitrophssuperturf is a quality product designed specifically for our southern turf grasses like Saint 950 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.439 Augustine, a Bermuda and Suisa here in our hot and humid climate. You're 951 01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:46.359 going to find it at Ktace Hardware. You're going to find it at Ace 952 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:50.520 Hardware City, a Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at Stanton Shopping 953 01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:56.239 Center down in Alvin, and many other places. Nitrofossuperturf. Another place you're 954 01:09:56.279 --> 01:09:59.000 going to find it is in Channi Gardens. You know, in Channi Gardens 955 01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:03.479 is down there in the Kadiefoolscher area. It's on It's actually in Richmond, 956 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:09.319 but on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. I said that backwards in Channigardens. 957 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:13.159 Richmond dot com is a website. Now when you go if you've never 958 01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:15.760 been, go today. I mean, go see it. It is an 959 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:23.079 amazing place. Just I would say Acres seems like it when you walk through 960 01:10:23.079 --> 01:10:27.760 there because there's so many beautiful displays and pottery and everything. They carry all 961 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:30.920 the fertilizers and the soil products that we talk about on Guardenline. But what 962 01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:36.720 you're going to find down there is beautiful color for your plants, dependable shrubs, 963 01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:41.920 and knowledgeable staff that can you go describe what you have, take them 964 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:45.000 a picture, say what can I do for this bed? They will show 965 01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:47.600 you some of the best options to have success with it. That's the kind 966 01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:53.880 of service you get it in Chenni Gardens, Richmond in Chennigardens Richmond dot com 967 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:58.760 on FM three point fifty nine on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. We're 968 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:00.239 going to take a little break here and I will be right back if you'd 969 01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:04.800 like to get on the board seven one three two one two kat r h 970 01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:21.319 Gifts give us Welcome back to the garden Line, good to Heaven with us 971 01:11:21.359 --> 01:11:29.439 today. Kind of had to make that up to Paul Simon since I did 972 01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:33.520 a different Missus Robinson earlier today. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have 973 01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:36.560 you with us. Hey, D and D Feed and Tomball is your hometown 974 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:42.680 feed store. They're out there on the west side of Tomball on twenty nine 975 01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:45.119 to twenty. As you go out west and D and D Feed carries the 976 01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:49.399 fertilizers that you hear me talk about here on Guardline, you're gonna find things 977 01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:54.640 there like the age leaf mole composts. We talk about, the heirloom soils, 978 01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:59.119 rose soil, their fruit berry citrus soil, their veggie and herb mixed 979 01:11:59.159 --> 01:12:02.079 by the bag. They have plants out front that changed through the seasons. 980 01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:04.479 It's always a good time to go buy D and D Feed. You're going 981 01:12:04.520 --> 01:12:08.199 to go in there and find all the quality feeds that you need, but 982 01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:12.640 you're also going to find products to help control weeds, to help deal with 983 01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:15.920 diseases, to help deal with insects, both organic and synthetic products. They're 984 01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:21.039 at D and D Feed again west of Tomball. Just head out twenty nine 985 01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:24.760 to twenty. You'll see them on the left hand side. D and D 986 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:30.439 Feed is an outstanding place to shop. They continue to expand that shore store 987 01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:33.199 to add new content, new product and it's always a good place to go 988 01:12:33.359 --> 01:12:38.640 in. I always enjoy going to D and D Feed, one of our 989 01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:43.640 favorite hometown feed stores. Sit out to Pairland now and we're going to talk 990 01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:46.439 to David. Hello, David, good morning. How are you doing. 991 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:51.960 I'm well, thanks. I have a question on my front yard. There's 992 01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:59.239 a section that every year it starts getting these little lime green kind of marbling 993 01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:02.279 of sections. It's not the whole part that it just a part there. 994 01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:06.880 You had a collar yesterday that requested photos had the same thing. So I've 995 01:13:06.920 --> 01:13:12.680 sent you a photo of the long view and then a close up of the 996 01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:21.840 blade itself, and I've done leaf more compost on it and to usual fertilizing 997 01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:26.359 from the schedule and such. But each year I have that and it's currently 998 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:30.159 going on now. So I need some help. David, you sent me 999 01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:35.760 a photo I did. Oh boy, I'm not seeing it here. Uh 1000 01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:45.399 all right, describe for me one more time the what you're seeing in terms 1001 01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:50.279 of the color. Okay, yards, nice grain, but there are sections 1002 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:56.920 that it has lighter appearances, more of a lime color. Yeah, and 1003 01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:00.199 then you know it's not as I said, it's not the whole thing. 1004 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:05.000 Right. I pulled up a blade and did a enlargement and it has kind 1005 01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:09.520 of a streaking. Okay to it? Okay, I got you. Yeah, 1006 01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:13.279 that is iron deficiency and it's caused by one of several things. Number 1007 01:14:13.319 --> 01:14:15.960 One, it could be a lack of iron in the soil. That's unlikely 1008 01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:19.000 but possible. It could be that the iron that's there is tied up. 1009 01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:25.359 That's more likely due to high pH or high phosphorus levels. And it could 1010 01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:29.119 also be take all root rot, which kills roots, and when you lose 1011 01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:31.840 roots, you lose the ability to take up that iron, which can also 1012 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:36.359 show up as a yellowing. Initially, I would suggest you consider putting a 1013 01:14:36.439 --> 01:14:44.000 keylated iron product down on it. Thekelated iron is an iron that doesn't tie 1014 01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:47.680 up, is readily into the soil, and so that is the one reason 1015 01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.680 I like it. Another thing, have you fertilized? When was the last 1016 01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:59.159 time you put the fertilizer down? I would say late March, beginning of 1017 01:14:59.199 --> 01:15:03.039 April. And was it a slow release? Yes? It was the silver 1018 01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:05.960 bag, Oh, silper bag. Okay, Well, that has some iron 1019 01:15:06.039 --> 01:15:10.520 in it, about four percent iron. That's nitrofiss superturf. It's an excellent 1020 01:15:10.600 --> 01:15:14.560 product. I would go ahead and add some additional keylated iron to it. 1021 01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:18.880 You can find that, you know, wherever you do your gardening shopping in 1022 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:23.600 your area, it's ACE. Yeah, well you should be able to find 1023 01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:26.239 keylated iron at ACE. Just just go in and ask them for it. 1024 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:30.479 Be careful not keep any iron product off your sidewalks and driveway because iron stains 1025 01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:35.640 concrete rusty. That whether you leave a nail sitting on the driveway or whatever, 1026 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:40.119 it's going to turn rusty, right, and so iron products will do 1027 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:42.960 the same thing, So be careful with that. But I would try that. 1028 01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:46.319 And the other thing I would consider if the soil is really tight, 1029 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:51.079 heavy clay and doesn't have good aeration, doing some aerration can help with some 1030 01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:56.439 compost. Top dressing gets oxygen down in the soil, it gets organic matter 1031 01:15:56.520 --> 01:16:00.720 down in the soil, and that that will also help it in general. 1032 01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:04.439 A couple of go ahead. I've done a couple of applications of the leaf 1033 01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:11.039 mod compost. Sound sounds like you're on the right track. Yeah. I 1034 01:16:11.079 --> 01:16:13.479 would just say, you know, other than doing the keylated iron, I 1035 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:15.199 think you've kind of done what you can do. Other than just punching some 1036 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:20.000 good aeration holds in to pop a plug out onto the surface, You're you 1037 01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:25.720 know you're kind of in the area where BnB turf pros services down there, 1038 01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.920 and they they you know, that would be something to consider. I think 1039 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.479 you're on the eastern end of their area in pair Land there. So if 1040 01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:36.640 you want to do that as an investment, that certainly would be helpful. 1041 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:40.760 But I think it may grow itself out of it too, especially with a 1042 01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:49.880 little bit of an added iron product applied judiciously. With the same time that 1043 01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:56.199 when this turns yellowish, it dies off at the same time. Is that 1044 01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.880 now that's starting to sound like take take off root rot. That is starting 1045 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:04.239 to sound like take all root rot. If you pull a runner up and 1046 01:17:04.399 --> 01:17:10.319 you look at it and the rut, the roots are not of fresh, 1047 01:17:10.600 --> 01:17:14.720 creamy white, healthy color, but they're brown, even out toward the end 1048 01:17:14.760 --> 01:17:17.000 of the runner where it should have fresh new roots. Uh, then that's 1049 01:17:17.079 --> 01:17:21.399 take all root rot. Go to my schedule online. It's at gardening with 1050 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:27.359 Skip dot com. Look at take all root Rot on the disease line and 1051 01:17:27.479 --> 01:17:31.279 it'll tell you what to use and give you more information on that. Okay, 1052 01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:34.039 excellent, Okay, good luck with that. Thanks a lot, get 1053 01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:39.760 thank you appreciate your call very much. Yeah. Ace Hardware they do have 1054 01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:42.840 it. You're going to get kelated arm, You're going to get at Ace 1055 01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:45.119 Hardware pretty much everything you need. Their motto is ACE is a place. 1056 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:48.520 You know, when when we had floods, ACE was the place where you 1057 01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:53.840 go and you get bleach and you get dehumidifiers and fans and rubber gloves, 1058 01:17:53.920 --> 01:17:57.399 and when we have storm damage. ACE is a place where you're going to 1059 01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.239 get a generator, little gas power generator to get things going, or a 1060 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:03.840 chainsaw or things you need. Ace's place where you get your lawn in order, 1061 01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:06.760 where you get your gardens in order, where you fertilize, where you 1062 01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:12.279 control paths, where you beautify the patio. ACE is the place for all 1063 01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:16.479 of that. And just go to online to Acehardware dot com find the store 1064 01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:20.319 locator. There's forty stores in the greater Houston area. Pretty easy to find 1065 01:18:20.439 --> 01:18:24.560 one or two or three that are close to you, and they will get 1066 01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:28.600 you set up because they are committed to carry the fertilizers and products we talk 1067 01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:32.199 about here on garden Line. We are coming up close to a break here, 1068 01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:35.000 but I'm gonna v I'm gonna see if we can get some done here. 1069 01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:39.239 We may have to carry you across the other side of break. Okay. 1070 01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:45.760 When I had my dead pine tree cut down and they ground up the 1071 01:18:45.880 --> 01:18:50.159 stump, they left a little bit of this stuff. It's about five feet 1072 01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:58.039 around and maybe about four four or five inches deep. It's mostly dirt and 1073 01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:03.640 pines, right or I guess anyway, So I wanted to know what should 1074 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:08.560 I do with that? Should I box it up and throw it away, 1075 01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:12.840 or should I use it in a compost heap or what? That's good stuff? 1076 01:19:13.279 --> 01:19:15.159 You can you can, you know, if you had a way to 1077 01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:17.479 kind of screen it out a little bit, maybe just with a rate, 1078 01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:21.479 kind of pull out the chunks and stuff. That makes a good mulch for 1079 01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:26.880 your beds. You can use that as a mulch. The soil itself should 1080 01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:29.239 go back in the hole. But if you put a lot of that mix 1081 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.520 of soil and woodchips, it's going to rot, and that's going to sink 1082 01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:35.079 down. So what you thought was filled in and a level will all of 1083 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:39.880 a sudden become a depression out in the yard. So try to get as 1084 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:43.520 much of the woodchip out of there as you can. Okay, So just 1085 01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:45.000 leave it there and then I mean, you know, clean it up, 1086 01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:48.880 take out the woodchips, and yeah, leave it in place. You just 1087 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:53.479 want it to be level, right, yeah, yeah, And I would 1088 01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:57.079 suggest even mounding it up a little bit like a picture's mound, you know, 1089 01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:59.920 just a little bit of a rise, and that way when it sinks, 1090 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:02.039 it ends up level. Because I mean you go out in the yard, 1091 01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:04.359 you dig a hole, and you put the same soul right back in 1092 01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:08.840 and come back in a month or two and all of a sudden, now 1093 01:20:08.880 --> 01:20:12.119 you got a depression. Well what happened? I don't know. It just 1094 01:20:12.199 --> 01:20:15.039 the way it works. Oh well, okay, So I could just leave 1095 01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:19.399 it there and kind of leave it alone. Yeah, leave it alone. 1096 01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:23.319 Put a flower bed there, put a let your long grow back over it, 1097 01:20:23.439 --> 01:20:26.520 whatever you want to do. Oh okay, I'll leave it there. 1098 01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:30.479 Then it's you know, not bothering anything. Really scatter, scatter a little 1099 01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:34.520 high nitrogen lawn fertilizer on the area, mix it in, water it in 1100 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:40.560 really good, and that nitrogen will help speed up that wood decomposition. Oh 1101 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:43.920 okay, that sounds like a good idea. All right. I hope it 1102 01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:46.800 is. Well. Thanks a lot, because I've been worried about it, 1103 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:51.640 you know, maybe hurting the the front yard or something, So no problem. 1104 01:20:51.720 --> 01:20:57.359 Okay, thank you, thanks for colvee appreciate that very much. Hey, 1105 01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:00.279 we're going to take a little break here and we will come look forward 1106 01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:04.000 to visiting with you with your questions on the other side. Seven one three 1107 01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:09.479 two one two k t R H Greg and Teresa your first stop. Kt 1108 01:21:09.720 --> 01:21:13.720 r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 1109 01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:19.479 on this program. Welcome to kt R H Garden Line with Skip Richter's Shoes, 1110 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:45.720 crazy trim. Just watch him as many sun Welcome back to guard Lines. 1111 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:54.239 Got a nice little Sunday going on outside here. Sure appreciate those clouds. 1112 01:21:55.600 --> 01:21:58.600 Weather starts to heat up, it goind nice to have a few clouds 1113 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:04.720 in the sky, that is for sure. We are going to talk about 1114 01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:11.479 the things that interest you at seven one three two one two kt R seven 1115 01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:16.119 one and three two in two kt R eighteen was the last time you were 1116 01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:19.680 up at Plants for All Seasons? You know, that's the garden center that's 1117 01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:26.880 right where lu Weetta comes into Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine. Plants for 1118 01:22:26.920 --> 01:22:30.800 All Seasons has been around a long time since nineteen seventy three. The Flowerty 1119 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:36.560 Family has been in operation out or near that location since nineteen seventy three. 1120 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:43.439 That is amazing because in all those years they have built a reputation for being 1121 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:49.279 a place that has quality plants and quality advice and people love it. They 1122 01:22:49.359 --> 01:22:53.319 have a very strong following for a very good reason. You need to go 1123 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:56.760 by there and find out why. When you walk in there where you have 1124 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:59.560 a question, maybe you pull a bag out of your pocket with a leaf 1125 01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:01.960 in it or a bug in it, and you need help identifying if you 1126 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:05.720 want advice on the best plants, how to put things together. Maybe you 1127 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:09.760 want to create a beautiful mixed plant. Or they have gorgeous pottery. I've 1128 01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:14.399 got some of their pottery. It's just outstanding, beautiful pottery. They can 1129 01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:17.760 help you with that. They help turn brown thumbscreen, let's just put it 1130 01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:25.000 that way. And they do that by providing good quality, accurate, locally 1131 01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:30.760 accurate information plants for all seasons. Dot com that's the website, the phone 1132 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:34.800 number two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six. You 1133 01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:39.079 know, you get through shopping, you head back towards the register to get 1134 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:43.159 your business taken care of, and you load up on the fertilizers. All 1135 01:23:43.199 --> 01:23:46.279 the guardline fertilizers are there. You load up on the soil bags and products 1136 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:49.199 that you need, because you know, don't go home with plants without the 1137 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:54.399 stuff, the brown stuff as I like to call it, that makes the 1138 01:23:54.479 --> 01:24:00.520 green stuff thrive. Good information, good plants, good soil products equals success. 1139 01:24:00.680 --> 01:24:02.760 And that's what we're out for. And that's what they want you to 1140 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:05.760 be out for. They want you to have success, and that's why they 1141 01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:13.079 provide education and selection and advice and assistance in that way. We're going to 1142 01:24:13.159 --> 01:24:16.960 now head out to Rosenberg and talk to Teresa. Hello, Teresa, good 1143 01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:21.600 morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. And I want to 1144 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:27.840 say right off, I have enjoyed your so thoroughly well. Thank you, 1145 01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:30.680 folks. That's what a twenty dollars bill will buy you. I slipped her 1146 01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:33.520 a twenty dollar bill last week and she promised to speak speak that way. 1147 01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:40.720 My question is, Skip, I would like to have a yard, a 1148 01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:44.960 backyard where the grass is lush. Okay, you can sit on it, 1149 01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:47.920 children can play and they won't hurt themselves. There you go. What's a 1150 01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:54.680 good kind of grass? Well, Saint Augustine is the standard around. That's 1151 01:24:54.720 --> 01:24:58.319 what most people have. It's a nice soft grass and it does well. 1152 01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:01.520 It's very shade tolerant. So if you've got trees, it helps you have 1153 01:25:01.720 --> 01:25:06.000 turf in areas where bermuda grass, for example, wouldn't grow, I would 1154 01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:12.039 not do bermuda. Bermuda. No, it's a wonderful it's a wonderful grass. 1155 01:25:12.119 --> 01:25:15.720 It makes beautiful lawns. But when you talk about children rolling around in 1156 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:19.279 it, bermuda grass harbors chiggers. Do you remember chiggers as a kid rolling 1157 01:25:19.319 --> 01:25:25.399 around and you're itching and everything. Saint Augustine doesn't do that, and so 1158 01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:29.039 for the little kids rolling around in it, I wouldn't do the bermuda. 1159 01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:31.239 I mean it as far as what is the grass. It gives you the 1160 01:25:31.359 --> 01:25:35.720 densest, most beautiful lawn if you really mow it often and take care of 1161 01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:40.039 it. It's bermuda. Yes, that's why golfer screens or bermuda, not 1162 01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:45.520 Saint Augustine. But for most home lawn situations being able to go in the 1163 01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:49.119 shade and stuff, I would lean towards Saint Augustine or Sousia. There are 1164 01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:55.680 some really wonderful zuisias, as one called palisades, that is very soft leaved 1165 01:25:55.840 --> 01:26:00.880 zeusia. It is the if you haven't seen Zeluysia before. The Palisades is 1166 01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:04.520 about a third as wide as a Saint Augustine blade, so it's not as 1167 01:26:04.560 --> 01:26:10.960 skinny as Bermuda grass, but it's closer to Bermuda than Saint Augustine. Palisades 1168 01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:15.279 is very dependable. It's fairly shade tolerant, you know, not like Saint 1169 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:19.800 Augustine. I get plenty of sun back there. I don't okay. Palisades 1170 01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:24.840 is a good one. Saint Augustine's a good one. Palisades has got some 1171 01:26:25.119 --> 01:26:30.119 decent drought tolerance as well. But either way you're gonna do fine. And 1172 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:34.239 then just following my schedule, Theresa, that's mow water fertilized. The most 1173 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:39.960 important thing we do to have a beautiful density is mowing. The more often 1174 01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:45.079 you mow, the denser the grass. The fertilizing is very important for vigor 1175 01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:49.000 and density also, and then watering on a good soaking, not often, 1176 01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:54.119 but a good soaking. Those three put together, mow water, fertilizers really 1177 01:26:54.199 --> 01:26:58.840 the secret. It's no secret to a beautiful law. One more question, 1178 01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:04.359 skip, can I do this by seed? I would not. I would 1179 01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:10.039 do it. No, I wouldn't. There's no Saint Augustine's seed. Yeah, 1180 01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:14.000 yeah, that's right. No, there's no Saint Augustine's seeds. There 1181 01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:18.560 are some semi dwarf bermudas by seed, and I think there's some zouzias by 1182 01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:25.199 seed. It's hard to find the seed trying to get seedlings started, little 1183 01:27:25.279 --> 01:27:30.159 spinly seedling started with weeds and weed seeds and everything else around. It's more 1184 01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:34.920 of a challenge to do it. So you could do it with semidwarf bermudas 1185 01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:42.159 or I think some zoisias. If you go to the Aggie Turf website Aggie 1186 01:27:42.199 --> 01:27:46.920 Turf, and it will give you a listing of Zoisia varieties, and I'm 1187 01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:50.479 pretty sure there's a section in there of the seeded varieties that you could use. 1188 01:27:50.840 --> 01:27:57.000 I don't know anybody that does that, but technically, technically it could 1189 01:27:57.000 --> 01:27:59.800 be done. I would do sod even and if it was a cost, 1190 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:03.840 I would sod a certain section and then next year I would take the next 1191 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:08.840 section out, you know, just continue to build your lawn out a little 1192 01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:13.199 bit over time. That would be a good suggestion. Skips, thank you, 1193 01:28:13.560 --> 01:28:15.359 thank you, thank you, and have a wonderful day, all right, 1194 01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:18.439 Teresa, Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Bye bye you 1195 01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:28.880 bet bye bye. Microlife fertilizers are outstanding ways to provide an organic source of 1196 01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:32.199 nutrients to your lawn. But not just nutrients. It's the six two four 1197 01:28:32.279 --> 01:28:35.960 bag, the green bag that's six percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, four 1198 01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:41.760 percent potassium. It's not just that it's some microbial content that's also in them. 1199 01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:45.800 It's the fact that it is organic matter that you're putting out and so 1200 01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:50.399 think of it as a composed type material in that you're putting organic material out 1201 01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:56.720 there onto the soil that will decompose in time and release the nutrients. Microlife's 1202 01:28:56.800 --> 01:29:00.800 humts. Plus the purple bag that is concentrated IM posting a bag again chuck 1203 01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:06.319 full of all kinds of microbial activity. But it also is just helping with 1204 01:29:06.520 --> 01:29:11.680 the clay soil, helping loosen that clay soil gradually over time. You know, 1205 01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.840 the thicker and denser the turf grows, the better the root system, 1206 01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:18.119 the more the soil opens up, and it just gets better. And that's 1207 01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:21.880 the organic way. That is how nature works, and that is how microlife 1208 01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:27.439 fertilizers are designed to work as well. Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's the website 1209 01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:29.920 if you'd like to go there and learn more about it, find out where 1210 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:31.479 to get it. We're gonna take a little break here. Our phone number 1211 01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:35.159 is seven one three two one two kt r H. When we come back, 1212 01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:45.520 Greg and George and Charlie you'll be first up. I know you've heard 1213 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:51.439 that worn out lime that love. Welcome back to the line. Those were 1214 01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:57.079 good to have you with us. We're ready to go here we go all 1215 01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:00.720 right. If you want to make the brown stuff good, so the green 1216 01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:06.439 stuff is happening, we got to do that by putting down some quality, 1217 01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:11.239 organic better in the soil. That's what nature does slowly over time. You 1218 01:30:11.319 --> 01:30:14.479 walk out to a forest and you dig down in the soil and you're gonna 1219 01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:20.199 find very rich soil because years of leaves and parrot poop landing on the jungle 1220 01:30:20.239 --> 01:30:27.960 floor have created a nice organic, rich, rich material. Well, we 1221 01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:31.560 can save you the eighty years it takes to achieve that in nature by just 1222 01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:35.880 going out and getting you some quality airloom soil. Airloom soil comes in fruit 1223 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:40.199 berry and citrus mix. They've got their veggie and herb mix. They've got 1224 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:44.720 a mix for succulentce and cacti. They have a mix called the Works. 1225 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:47.079 It's a potting soil mix. They've got the roses and Bloomers blend. We 1226 01:30:47.159 --> 01:30:50.920 used to call it rose oil, now Roses and Bloomers blend. They've got 1227 01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:56.560 that as well there at Heirloom Soil Expanded shale, very important for our heavy 1228 01:30:56.560 --> 01:31:00.880 clays. They have that also right there at Airlom Soils. Makes it really 1229 01:31:01.039 --> 01:31:05.039 really easy to do. By the way, right now at Airloom Soils they 1230 01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:10.439 have fifty percent off clearance sale. It's an overstock it's going to go on 1231 01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:14.439 really from now all the way to June second, June second, So don't 1232 01:31:14.479 --> 01:31:16.560 put this off. You need to get done while supplies last. When they 1233 01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:19.960 run out, they run out. But you can get it at Airloom Soilst, 1234 01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:24.000 Warrens Rock and Most. It's out there in Porter on US fifty nine 1235 01:31:24.079 --> 01:31:27.640 on the right hand side, you're going up toward Porter and they've got the 1236 01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:32.119 cacti and second they've got the works seven dollars each for the half cubic foot 1237 01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:36.720 of the works and the cacti and succulent mix seven dollars each. While supplies 1238 01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:41.640 last, and then for you know, they have so many soils, it's 1239 01:31:41.720 --> 01:31:44.000 just kind of hard to know where to begin. If you go down to 1240 01:31:44.079 --> 01:31:46.199 the eight quartz size, that's a small size, which for most people. 1241 01:31:46.439 --> 01:31:49.800 For the works potting soil, that's a good size because I mean, you 1242 01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:54.600 just don't need that much potting soil typically at any one given time. Or 1243 01:31:54.680 --> 01:31:58.159 their cacti and succulent miss instead of spending ten bucks on them, you're gonna 1244 01:31:58.159 --> 01:32:01.359 spend five bucks on each of those bags. So fifty percent off of both 1245 01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:06.199 of those products are all those products, that's cacti and succulent and the works 1246 01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:11.199 putting soiled in different sized bags. So take advantage of that. Don't delay. 1247 01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:14.640 This is good stuff. When it's gone, it's gone. But as 1248 01:32:14.720 --> 01:32:17.199 long as it will hold up, this is going to go on until June 1249 01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:21.720 the second. In airloom soils, you can find those in most garden centers, 1250 01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:26.199 lots of places here in the greater Houston area. Let's go now to 1251 01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:29.520 Katie and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, thanks for patiently waiting, 1252 01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:35.680 Fie. Good morning, Skiff. I have some cobwebs in my trees. 1253 01:32:36.119 --> 01:32:40.800 For the trees is about thirty to forty feet in the air. I send 1254 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:43.439 some pictures. I don't know what they are, and I don't know what 1255 01:32:43.560 --> 01:32:46.800 I can do about them. Okay, I'm gonna pull your pictures up. 1256 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:51.199 Okay, I see that that is webworms. That is called the fall webworm, 1257 01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:57.279 and I know it's not fall. But they have a spring population most 1258 01:32:57.399 --> 01:33:00.079 years that's not too bad. And then when we get to late summer and 1259 01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:05.680 early fall, they have a heavy duty population that can totally to foliate a 1260 01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:11.640 tree in some years. At this point in time, if you want to 1261 01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:15.159 try to control them, you got a couple of options. Blasting water up 1262 01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:18.319 through the webs to tear up the webs as best you can. If you 1263 01:33:18.439 --> 01:33:23.039 have a device that will send that strong of a stream up that high, 1264 01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:29.479 that's helpful. Paper wasps or their number one predator, and paper wasp will 1265 01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:32.720 get in there and start hauling them out. The spray that controls them is 1266 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:42.159 either BT or spinosid spinosid s p I n osa d spin no said or 1267 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:46.640 BT, either of those ingredients. When you first have to break the webs 1268 01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:51.319 up with either a long stick or a strong blast of water, because the 1269 01:33:51.399 --> 01:33:56.680 web keeps the spray from getting inside where the worms are feeding. You spray 1270 01:33:56.760 --> 01:34:00.760 those products on the leaves, they eat it, and it's a disease of 1271 01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:04.520 webworm caterpillars that kills them. Doesn't hurt any of the good guys out there, 1272 01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:11.039 you know the beneficials that are helping you. Okay, these are about 1273 01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:14.680 thirty to forty feet in the air. I don't have a water stream that's 1274 01:34:14.720 --> 01:34:17.159 that strong or anything else. Is there someone that you can recommend they can 1275 01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:20.680 do that? You can talk to Affordable Tree Martin Spoon Moore. I don't 1276 01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:26.720 know, you know that with the storms and stuff we've had, I'm sure 1277 01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:30.279 he's pretty pretty booked up, but it'd be worth giving him a call, 1278 01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:34.880 Affordable Tree Service. Would you like his phone number? Yes? Please? 1279 01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:42.159 Huh seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. Just talk to him 1280 01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:45.399 and see if he's able to get out and do the spray, and if 1281 01:34:45.600 --> 01:34:48.479 whether he does or not at this point in time, or whether you do 1282 01:34:48.600 --> 01:34:51.680 anything about it or not. At this point in time, when we get 1283 01:34:51.720 --> 01:34:56.000 to late summer, be watching and at the first sign of those webs, 1284 01:34:56.560 --> 01:35:00.199 that's the time to get out there, because they can go from none to 1285 01:35:00.359 --> 01:35:04.640 a covered up tree pretty fast. Those caterpillars are hungry. Yeah, I've 1286 01:35:04.680 --> 01:35:09.720 got about fifteen webs already in the tree. Yeah. Yeah, Well, 1287 01:35:10.279 --> 01:35:13.560 you know they'll eat the leaves off. The trees will grow leaves back, 1288 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:16.159 so it's not going to kill your tree. It just will look horrible for 1289 01:35:16.279 --> 01:35:19.439 a while. And if they're bad enough, which, like I keep saying, 1290 01:35:19.520 --> 01:35:26.039 the fall, the late summer fall application or infestation is usually worse there. 1291 01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:30.079 You get enough defoliation that going into winter it kind of weakens the tree. 1292 01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:34.800 Okay, thank you, all right, good luck with that. Thank 1293 01:35:34.840 --> 01:35:40.399 you very much. I appreciate appreciate your call very much. And Chaney Forest 1294 01:35:40.800 --> 01:35:45.199 is a wonderful place to visit. It's down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. 1295 01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:48.039 It's on FM twenty seven to fifty nine Richmond, Texas. So if 1296 01:35:48.079 --> 01:35:51.640 you're in Richmond heading towards sugar Land direction, it's off to the right twenty 1297 01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:55.840 seven to fifty nine. They always have things going on there. By the 1298 01:35:55.880 --> 01:36:00.279 way, this weekend is that tax free weekend on water can serving products. 1299 01:36:00.359 --> 01:36:04.319 Now in Chenni Forest will not be open on Labor Day tomorrow, which is 1300 01:36:04.439 --> 01:36:09.640 part of that weekend tax free, So you need to get it done today. 1301 01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:14.079 Plants trees, grasses, soil, compost, mults. All of that 1302 01:36:14.600 --> 01:36:17.640 tax free this weekend. A soaker hose, a drip irrigation hose, a 1303 01:36:17.760 --> 01:36:23.079 moisture control for a sprinkler, an irrigation system, a rain barrel, an 1304 01:36:23.119 --> 01:36:28.319 alternative rain and moisture collection system, a permial ground cover that allows water to 1305 01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:32.920 go through and reach the underground basins and oxfords and whatnot, water saving surfactants. 1306 01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:35.199 All of that is tax free this weekend. But get out there and 1307 01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:40.079 do it today, because today's the last day out in Channy Forest where you're 1308 01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:42.680 gonna be able to do that. While you're out there, you're going to 1309 01:36:42.760 --> 01:36:47.000 find vegetables and herbs, and their collection of succulents is outstanding. If you're 1310 01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:53.600 into butterfly gardens like none other. Plants for the adult butterflies, plants for 1311 01:36:53.640 --> 01:36:57.239 the larval food sources. They are loaded up out there, and it is 1312 01:36:57.359 --> 01:37:00.279 such a pleasant place to stroll through and just enjoy. It is as the 1313 01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:04.000 name implies, it is an enchanting place to go in Chenny Gardens that in 1314 01:37:04.119 --> 01:37:08.239 Richmond. We're going to go to Jersey Village now and talk to George. 1315 01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:11.560 Hello, George, Yeah, good morning, Skip. I was pleased. 1316 01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:15.680 And surprise, here hear you on Sunday morning. So nice. So all 1317 01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:17.319 right, I was out at the plant for all seasons. Yes, say, 1318 01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:21.000 that's to become my nursery of choice, thanks to you. And I 1319 01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:25.239 was interested. I learned a couple of things. I was shopping for a 1320 01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:28.680 bog and v I learned how to pronounce it. There's one thing. And 1321 01:37:28.760 --> 01:37:31.359 then the lady said I was going to put in the ground. So he 1322 01:37:31.399 --> 01:37:35.840 says, they prefer to be root bound. So what do you say about 1323 01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:38.840 that? Is that true? Yeah, that's true. You know, you 1324 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:41.560 get them in a container, their rootbound, they just seem to perform better 1325 01:37:41.960 --> 01:37:44.840 in the ground. Their roots bred out, They get all happy, they 1326 01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:47.079 get luxurious, they grow all over the place, and you don't get the 1327 01:37:47.119 --> 01:37:50.239 same amount of blooming as you do. Okay, all right, Can I 1328 01:37:50.479 --> 01:37:54.439 use that you know, that little jar you pass out the people that come 1329 01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:58.439 to your presentation? Can I use that fertilizer form? Oh gosh, I 1330 01:37:58.520 --> 01:38:00.439 give a lot of different things away. There is a boom and Villia food 1331 01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:06.439 that Nelson makes. There's a boog and villion food that micro on micro ka 1332 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:12.800 macapas man. My real question for calling in was about my my sweet potatoes. 1333 01:38:12.840 --> 01:38:16.159 They put out runners going everywhere, right, and then h at wherever 1334 01:38:16.239 --> 01:38:23.199 those little joints when the leaves are popping up, that's where it's digs into 1335 01:38:23.239 --> 01:38:26.159 the ground and puts the roots down, right, Is that where it grows 1336 01:38:26.199 --> 01:38:30.000 sweet potatoes too? Down there from the very base of where the vines come 1337 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.000 out of the ground. All the sweet potatoes form up there around the base. 1338 01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:36.079 Okay, yeah, not out down the long route. Then there's suddenly 1339 01:38:36.119 --> 01:38:39.479 a sweet potato. It's all around that. They'll all be at the base 1340 01:38:39.560 --> 01:38:42.960 of the plant, not out where the runners are. Is that right, 1341 01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:46.520 correct? They will root out there and you will get some little finger sized 1342 01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:50.239 swollen roots, but not anything you're going to want to take home and try 1343 01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:55.239 to bake it. Okay, good to know, And you know, I 1344 01:38:55.279 --> 01:38:58.680 wish I had a pickup truck when I went out there. I'll see you 1345 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:00.760 because they always going to buy. Yeah, there's no room for my car 1346 01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:03.199 there. You go. All right, Well, good luck with that, 1347 01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:08.119 Good luck with the potadium. Yes, sir, you take care. Appreciate 1348 01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:11.880 that. Call. One of my favorite new products that's out on the market 1349 01:39:11.960 --> 01:39:15.880 right now, and it is brand new pretty much Medina supergrol Plus. Now 1350 01:39:15.039 --> 01:39:18.119 Medina makes a has to grow line, the regular has to grow, the 1351 01:39:18.199 --> 01:39:23.319 has to grow lawn. This is a has to grow super grow plus. 1352 01:39:23.640 --> 01:39:27.560 That's the name supergrow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a 1353 01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:30.800 little court bottle hooks up to your garden hose. It has got the sixteen 1354 01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:35.880 percent nitrogen two percent potassium in it. About a fifth of that nitrogen is 1355 01:39:35.920 --> 01:39:39.880 even slow release, so you get a little gradual feed. It's got iron 1356 01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:44.520 in a keylated form. Someone was calling earlier we were talking about, you 1357 01:39:44.600 --> 01:39:48.000 know, the lack of good color and talking about putting an iron keylate on. 1358 01:39:48.359 --> 01:39:51.119 I would try some of this supergrow Plus and see how that works on. 1359 01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:55.880 It is just a hose in covers about four thousand square feet, takes 1360 01:39:55.920 --> 01:39:59.640 you about ten minutes to do your lawn. It's got molasses in it, 1361 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:03.199 it's go humic acid in it. It just is something that is going to 1362 01:40:03.239 --> 01:40:08.640 make your microbes happy and therefore gonna make your plants really really happy. To 1363 01:40:08.800 --> 01:40:14.680 including seaweed extracts in this Medina has to Grow supergrow Plus sixteen oh two. 1364 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:16.199 You're gonna find it a lot of places they've got it out in the market 1365 01:40:16.279 --> 01:40:19.640 now and it's easy to find and I would highly recommend you use it. 1366 01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:23.159 And why you got it hooked up to the garden nose. If you run 1367 01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.359 out a lawn, go hit your tomatoes, go at your vegetable garden, 1368 01:40:26.359 --> 01:40:28.520 your flower beds. I mean, you can use it on a lot of 1369 01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:31.920 things and it works. It does work. We're going to now go to 1370 01:40:32.199 --> 01:40:39.560 Charlie at West University. Hello, Charlie, Hi, please recommend me of 1371 01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:47.319 grass for a shady area about eight percent shade. Oh, Saint Augustine's is 1372 01:40:47.359 --> 01:40:50.359 gonna be as close as you're going to get. It's not gonna be happy 1373 01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:55.520 in that much shade. If you can get it. Yeah, if you 1374 01:40:55.600 --> 01:41:00.159 can brighten the shade, If you can brighten it, then maybe you can 1375 01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:03.520 get by there. But I think what you're going to find is it's going 1376 01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:06.840 to be barely hanging on and you're not gonna have the density that you want. 1377 01:41:06.960 --> 01:41:12.119 Maybe you ought to consider a different groundcover, something like a jugo, 1378 01:41:12.279 --> 01:41:17.760 which is a groundcover for shady areas. Lorioty monkey grass. What do you 1379 01:41:17.840 --> 01:41:21.560 say a juka a juga? Yeah, it's a little it's called carpet bugle 1380 01:41:21.680 --> 01:41:26.800 or a juga. It's a it's a little groundcover. Broad leaf groundcover has 1381 01:41:27.079 --> 01:41:30.760 little tiny blooms on it. Mondo grass or monkey grass. There's a dwarf 1382 01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:33.399 type. Now you got to buy a lot of them because it doesn't spread 1383 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.720 fast, but it makes a really nice, low dense lan and it can 1384 01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:42.760 take more shade than just about anything. So I think you're gonna have to 1385 01:41:42.760 --> 01:41:48.039 come up with a different strategy in there, but Saint Augustine Palmetto, Saint 1386 01:41:48.079 --> 01:41:56.600 Augustine's about the best you're going to do. Okay, all right, thank 1387 01:41:56.640 --> 01:41:59.239 you, thank you, Thanks Charlie, appreciate the call very much. We 1388 01:41:59.319 --> 01:42:00.680 want to take a little b here for Nicky in the news and we'll be 1389 01:42:00.800 --> 01:42:05.000 right back at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's 1390 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:13.239 see Brian and Logan. You'll be the first two up. Heye, every 1391 01:42:13.439 --> 01:42:26.319 wine. Welcome back to the guarden line. Heavy good, heavy back. 1392 01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:30.319 We're gonna get right back on it here. Listen. If you're dealing with 1393 01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:34.840 pests in the lawn, Nitrofis has a product called bug Out. Bug Out 1394 01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:40.720 is very effective, works against over one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects. 1395 01:42:41.520 --> 01:42:45.119 So here we are on the verge of chinchbug season, not too far 1396 01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:49.079 behind that we're gonna be seeing possibly hopefully that won't happen this year, but 1397 01:42:49.399 --> 01:42:53.800 some years are horrible, and that is the sod web worms. Bug out 1398 01:42:53.840 --> 01:42:56.920 works on both of those. Bug out works on grubs. In June is 1399 01:42:57.000 --> 01:43:00.600 the time we do our first application for grubs out there in the lawn and 1400 01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:04.960 landscape, chinchbugs in your lawn. I mentioned, well, how about ants? 1401 01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:09.520 How about fleas and ticks? Do you know that fleas actually have larva 1402 01:43:09.600 --> 01:43:13.439 that're out in the thatch of your grass. That's why when the dogg or 1403 01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:16.039 cat goes out and comes back in, you're just you know, transferring their 1404 01:43:16.119 --> 01:43:19.079 hitching a ride. It's kind of like their little subway service in and out 1405 01:43:19.079 --> 01:43:21.680 of the house. You deal with them in the lawn, you deal with 1406 01:43:21.760 --> 01:43:25.239 them on the pet and that's how you get ahead of the filea problem. 1407 01:43:25.760 --> 01:43:29.880 Bug Out MAX by Nitrofoss. It's one of those products that is easy to 1408 01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:33.119 find because it's the Knight Foss products widely available. So for example, plans 1409 01:43:33.159 --> 01:43:38.960 Fell seasons on two forty nine Kingwood Ace hardware, a Taskeasita Ace Hardware, 1410 01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:43.279 the arbrogate up in Tomball, Dan Defeed up INtime. All those are places 1411 01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:45.279 where you're going to find nitrofoss, bug Out Max, where you're going to 1412 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:49.760 find night foss products. We're going to head out now to Richmond, Texas 1413 01:43:49.840 --> 01:43:54.239 and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, good morning, Skip. How 1414 01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:57.119 are you? I'm good, sir. How can we hey a question on 1415 01:43:57.239 --> 01:44:00.920 honeybees? I've always lived on land for my near neighbor was no more than 1416 01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:04.279 tourist three hundred yards away, or no closer than tourist three hundred yards Yes. 1417 01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:09.640 Uh, what would you say about Richmond? I love right on Richmond 1418 01:44:09.680 --> 01:44:13.960 Parkway, So my property butts up to the Parkway and I've only got a 1419 01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:18.159 quarter acer Like, can you have honey Bees? Is that what I mean? 1420 01:44:18.159 --> 01:44:20.560 I'm not actually in Richmond, I'm in four Been County, so, 1421 01:44:21.000 --> 01:44:25.640 but but the question is can you have run Honeybees in that location? Is 1422 01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:30.560 that what you're asking? Well, I'm asking if even if it's allowed? 1423 01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:33.920 Oh okay, yeah, am I too close? Yeah? Well here's what 1424 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:38.520 I would do. I would call the be supply out in Dayton and ask 1425 01:44:38.640 --> 01:44:42.319 them they stay up to date on all the rules, the short answer is 1426 01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:45.159 yes, you can have honey bees in town. Uh, but there are 1427 01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:49.479 certain regulations on how much or how close or whatever, and I don't keep 1428 01:44:49.680 --> 01:44:53.920 I don't keep up with all the details on that. But let me give 1429 01:44:53.960 --> 01:44:57.479 you. Let me give you a phone number and talk talk, talk to 1430 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:03.279 Paul or someone out at the b supply nine seven seven six o seven three 1431 01:45:03.439 --> 01:45:09.560 nine. I'll say that again, nine three six seven seven six o seven 1432 01:45:09.840 --> 01:45:15.000 three nine. Talk to them and they can direct you to the specifics of 1433 01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:17.760 what the law reads. And uh. Yeah. So the short answer is 1434 01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:21.279 probably yes. But the devil's always in the details. You know, if 1435 01:45:21.279 --> 01:45:25.960 you got bees piled a mile high and all wall to wall across the edges 1436 01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:28.760 of the property next to somebody's house, there's probably some issues there where you 1437 01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:30.880 can't. Oh, I don't want to one or two supers at the most. 1438 01:45:31.000 --> 01:45:35.039 Well, anyway, I'm going to bet a ninety eight percent chance that's 1439 01:45:35.119 --> 01:45:38.800 not gonna be a problem. But call the best pot talk to them. 1440 01:45:38.880 --> 01:45:43.399 They're the experts. Okay, Okay, one other question. Yes, so 1441 01:45:43.680 --> 01:45:45.880 my tomatoes, my cherries are doing great, but I've got German, Johnson's 1442 01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:50.439 and better Boys, and boy, they just aren't producing this year. Okay, 1443 01:45:50.520 --> 01:45:56.000 any thoughts, Well, we're not quite in hot weather yet, but 1444 01:45:56.319 --> 01:46:00.000 cherry set better in hot weather than the slicers do. So I would expect 1445 01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:02.520 this going into June and July and August, the cherries to be the ones 1446 01:46:02.560 --> 01:46:06.359 that's set. Uh. German johnsay, is a little slower to come in 1447 01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:11.720 to ripening. Uh, it's days to harvest, if you will. And 1448 01:46:11.840 --> 01:46:15.119 so sometimes with those as we get into the summer, but about the time 1449 01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:17.800 they start setting, it's starting to get a little bit warm. So did 1450 01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:21.880 you say celebrity was the other one? German John's no better? Better boy, 1451 01:46:21.960 --> 01:46:26.640 better boy? Okay, yeah, better boy. Again, it's a 1452 01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:30.359 good tomato. It had been around a long time. Uh are you getting 1453 01:46:30.439 --> 01:46:34.119 blooms and the blooms aren't setting or are they not even bright? And and 1454 01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:39.159 I've started pollinating them with a with a model paint brush. Okay, good, 1455 01:46:39.279 --> 01:46:44.880 good, Yeah. So the tomatoes pollinate not with bees carrying pollen from 1456 01:46:44.920 --> 01:46:47.279 one to the other, but by something shake in the bloom and the pollen 1457 01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:53.800 falls within the bloom and it pollinates itself. And so that's why, uh, 1458 01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:57.319 you know, honey bees buzzing them and things that buzzing does it in 1459 01:46:57.399 --> 01:47:00.439 a greenhouse. They'll have them on wires and they used to use like a 1460 01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:05.479 little electric toothbrush and just go and touch the clusters and just vibrate those clusters 1461 01:47:05.840 --> 01:47:10.000 and it would it would pollinate them, or hitting the wires and shaking them. 1462 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:15.000 Wind usually does it outside, but who knows, maybe weather conditions. 1463 01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.279 I don't know what all could have been involved, but something along the lines 1464 01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:23.359 of that. Those older varieties like Better Boy too, sometimes when you overdo 1465 01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:27.399 the nitrogen on them, they don't set as well on the blooms. So 1466 01:47:28.520 --> 01:47:30.600 we're sort of throwing a bunch of things out there. There are possibilities to 1467 01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:35.680 think about. But yeah, that that's what I would say. Something in 1468 01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:40.279 there is what's going on? If not more than one thing. Yeah, 1469 01:47:40.279 --> 01:47:43.000 I'm afraid I may have put out a little bit too much triple thirteen. 1470 01:47:43.079 --> 01:47:45.880 But oh well, okayleve and learn, all right. Well, thank you 1471 01:47:45.960 --> 01:47:48.239 Sirkay, you bet that's part of part of the garden. You know, 1472 01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:51.960 one year tomatoes thrive the next year. What the heck is going on? 1473 01:47:53.880 --> 01:47:57.520 But that's that is in the garden. Thank you, Thank you, Brian, 1474 01:47:57.560 --> 01:48:02.239 appreciate the call very much. Moss nursery is done in Richmond. It's 1475 01:48:02.279 --> 01:48:06.800 on it's in Richmond, it's in Seabrook. My head's still in Richmond right 1476 01:48:06.840 --> 01:48:12.359 now, Seabrook, Texas out on Toddville Road. You've not seen a nursery 1477 01:48:12.640 --> 01:48:15.800 like Moss Nursery. You haven't. I don't care where you've been. It 1478 01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:18.720 is so unique. First of all, it's been a family operated nursery. 1479 01:48:18.720 --> 01:48:24.680 It's seventy year old nursery. Can you imagine that eight acres to wander through. 1480 01:48:25.600 --> 01:48:29.680 It's tree filled and every time you turn a corner, it's like you're 1481 01:48:29.760 --> 01:48:32.560 walking through the jungle. You know, there'd be some ethnic wood carved mask 1482 01:48:33.439 --> 01:48:39.399 or some stone figure. You know, it's like you've walked into an inca 1483 01:48:39.640 --> 01:48:44.960 pyramid kind of setting or what. It's just always interesting there. And plants, 1484 01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:49.560 Oh my goodness, they are so loaded with plants, beautiful tropical plants, 1485 01:48:49.880 --> 01:48:56.079 gorgeous hanging baskets. If you're looking for everything from vegetables to flowers to 1486 01:48:56.199 --> 01:49:00.600 trees, to show up their houseplant greenhouse is outstanding. Worth the price admission 1487 01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:01.840 right there, just to go in and see that place. And there is 1488 01:49:01.920 --> 01:49:08.960 no price of admission, by the way, intelligent helpful, friendly staff. 1489 01:49:09.239 --> 01:49:13.439 You go in there and it's just you're talking to gardeners like yourself, people 1490 01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:15.600 that they've got their hands in the dirt and they know what they're talking about. 1491 01:49:16.000 --> 01:49:21.159 Moss Nursery, cactus and succulents. It's outstanding. In fact, I 1492 01:49:21.399 --> 01:49:26.079 just named the plant and they've got it at Moss and it looks good and 1493 01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:29.399 they got a good deal on it too. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook on 1494 01:49:29.520 --> 01:49:30.960 Toddville Road. You need to go by there and check it out. If 1495 01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:35.319 you haven't, it's well worth a trip down you. It's a place like 1496 01:49:35.399 --> 01:49:39.800 none other. That's just the best way I can describe it. I want 1497 01:49:39.840 --> 01:49:45.039 to go now out to Logan in Katie, Texas. Hey Logan, Hey, 1498 01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:46.279 how's it going. I'm well, sir. How can we help? 1499 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:55.000 I'm looking to get air rates now. I know everybody does core aeration. 1500 01:49:55.479 --> 01:50:00.279 I saw a new thing on TikTok liquid aeration. Have you heard anything about 1501 01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:04.000 it? Does it work? I've heard about it. It can help, 1502 01:50:04.600 --> 01:50:14.119 but it's not like cororation help liquideration. There are places that they use a 1503 01:50:14.239 --> 01:50:20.039 surfactant so that instead of water sort of getting caught up and not soaking in 1504 01:50:20.199 --> 01:50:27.039 really well. They say surfactants make water wetter, it likes it soaks in 1505 01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:30.720 better, and that can help. In some types of clay soil, it 1506 01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:34.680 can help a little bit. There's also sometimes there's some groups that will put 1507 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:40.960 a slurry of a humus type material out there and they will inject that down 1508 01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:45.239 into the soil to create space and to add that humus to the soil, 1509 01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:49.479 which helps over time. But I haven't seen the specific ad that you're seeing, 1510 01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:55.119 but i'd have to see exactly what their claim is as to whether I 1511 01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:59.920 believe it or not. Okay, And do you think it is too late 1512 01:51:00.199 --> 01:51:02.640 in the season to air rate or oh no, it's never too late. 1513 01:51:02.920 --> 01:51:08.600 No, you can air rate as often as you want, whenever you want. 1514 01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:14.880 Uh. But typically because true cor oration, it's an expensive process because 1515 01:51:14.920 --> 01:51:17.479 you're bringing out heavy equipment, quality quality mix. If it's a company that 1516 01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:23.439 knows what they're doing, and they're they're running that equipment out and they're you 1517 01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:27.279 know, putting all the top dressings on it and stuff. But it actually 1518 01:51:27.399 --> 01:51:30.760 physically creates the whole down into the soil and adds the compost on top, 1519 01:51:31.199 --> 01:51:34.920 and you get oxygen and you get root growth, and it basically is doing 1520 01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:39.760 what nature does by getting or gang matter down to the soil. But you're 1521 01:51:39.840 --> 01:51:45.560 cheating, you're doing it real fast. Yes, all right, all right, 1522 01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:47.279 well thank you, all right, thank you very much. Appreciate that. 1523 01:51:48.000 --> 01:51:51.359 You bet you take care. All right, We're gonna have to run 1524 01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:55.920 to a break for the news here seven one three two one two ktrh. 1525 01:51:56.039 --> 01:51:59.279 When we come back, Brett and Logan, you'll be the first two up. 1526 01:52:01.720 --> 01:52:17.560 And hey, where did we go? Welcome back, Welcome back to 1527 01:52:17.560 --> 01:52:23.760 the garden Line. That's a good summer song, Morrison. You need to 1528 01:52:24.760 --> 01:52:28.960 You need to enjoy yourself in the summertime out in the gardens. You need 1529 01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:31.279 to have some good music going on. Remember you can listen to the Garden 1530 01:52:31.319 --> 01:52:36.239 Line on your phone by using I Heartmedia. You out there getting work done. 1531 01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:41.520 While we're talking about getting work done here on the Garden Line. You 1532 01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:45.239 hear me brag about Southwest fertilizer all the time because Southwest fertilizer carries everything you 1533 01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:47.520 need. If they don't have it, you don't need it. It's as 1534 01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:50.880 simple as that. If I talk about a fertilizer, it's a Southwest fertilizer. 1535 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:55.840 If I talk about a soul product. If I talk about controlling weeds 1536 01:52:56.039 --> 01:53:00.520 or pests, or diseases or insects, they have it all the tools. 1537 01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:04.439 They have everything you need to make your garden a more beautiful and more bountiful 1538 01:53:04.520 --> 01:53:08.600 place. They've got it to Southwest Fertilizer. They're on the corner of bess 1539 01:53:08.720 --> 01:53:13.399 Nutt and Renwick in south West Houston. You can go to the website Southwest 1540 01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:17.560 Fertilizer dot com. When you go in there, talk to Bob, talk 1541 01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:21.760 to Aaron, any of the staff that's there, and ask him about the 1542 01:53:21.840 --> 01:53:26.000 kneeling bench that they have. That's one of my favorite new tools that I've 1543 01:53:26.039 --> 01:53:29.479 gotten in the last few years is a kneeling bench. It folds up so 1544 01:53:29.600 --> 01:53:31.800 you can carry it around easy, put it away easy. You can set 1545 01:53:31.840 --> 01:53:34.479 it up one way and sit on it. You can flip it over the 1546 01:53:34.560 --> 01:53:39.359 other way and kneel on it. But those legs that you were sitting on 1547 01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:42.239 now become handles so you can get up and down. I don't know, 1548 01:53:42.439 --> 01:53:45.479 but if you're north of forty years old, that is a really cool thing 1549 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:47.720 to have when you're up and down a bunch. They've got it. A 1550 01:53:47.800 --> 01:53:53.239 Southwest fertilize. They also have Nitrofis Superturf for example, that is a silver 1551 01:53:53.359 --> 01:54:00.000 bag Superturf. Superturf is the nineteen four ten fertilizer that has four percent eyes 1552 01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:03.439 that also helps with good green color. It's a slow release, so when 1553 01:54:03.479 --> 01:54:08.359 you put it down, it's going to give you several months of release and 1554 01:54:08.479 --> 01:54:13.319 a gradual feeding that gives even growth, so you're not going through crazy mowing 1555 01:54:13.520 --> 01:54:15.960 season, you know, just trying to keep up with the growing lawn and 1556 01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:20.000 you get a good lawn root system, which is important. And by giving 1557 01:54:20.079 --> 01:54:24.279 a slow release, you spread out the growth and you have a better root 1558 01:54:24.319 --> 01:54:28.920 system on your lawn by Nitrofoss, one of the many quality products available there 1559 01:54:28.960 --> 01:54:31.039 from Nitrofoss. We're going to go now to the heights. I had forgotten 1560 01:54:31.119 --> 01:54:34.199 Nancy. You're out there on waiting, on hold. We're going to come 1561 01:54:34.239 --> 01:54:39.520 to you first. I think you've waited the longest. Good morning, Come 1562 01:54:39.600 --> 01:54:44.359 in. I spoke it to yesterday. My question yesterday, and then my 1563 01:54:44.479 --> 01:54:47.079 husband wanted me to ask something else. But for yesterday it was about trimming 1564 01:54:47.159 --> 01:54:51.920 my lore peedlum or Chinese cringe. It's not a tree, it's more like 1565 01:54:53.039 --> 01:54:57.920 a hedge in the front, and it's getting real wild, and I want 1566 01:54:58.000 --> 01:55:01.000 to know whether or not I can him off the top of it and guide 1567 01:55:01.119 --> 01:55:03.880 of it and make it look a little neater. Yeah, you can, 1568 01:55:04.239 --> 01:55:10.199 you can. You can do the trimming. Sometimes I trim a little further 1569 01:55:10.319 --> 01:55:14.039 than you really want to trim because it's going to regrow, and that allows 1570 01:55:14.079 --> 01:55:15.840 you to shape it. You know, like if you want it exactly X 1571 01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:18.399 feet high and you cut it off there, well it's going to get higher 1572 01:55:18.439 --> 01:55:23.079 than that, you know, and so maybe come back a little further and 1573 01:55:23.159 --> 01:55:26.760 then as it fills back in, you can do some shaping and end up 1574 01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.000 with whatever the desired shape you're going for it is. But yes, that's 1575 01:55:30.039 --> 01:55:34.239 fine, find it, do that, Okay, great, So it's not 1576 01:55:34.479 --> 01:55:39.720 who I can do it in the summer. Now, it's not not going 1577 01:55:39.800 --> 01:55:42.079 to be a problem. No, it's not a problem. Typically we try 1578 01:55:42.119 --> 01:55:45.079 to do most of our pruning on plants in the toward the end of winter, 1579 01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.000 but this one, it is not a problem. Just do it, 1580 01:55:48.159 --> 01:55:50.000 spread it out over time. You know, if you're going to do a 1581 01:55:50.079 --> 01:55:54.000 lot of pruning, don't do it all at once, but spread it out 1582 01:55:54.000 --> 01:55:57.319 a little bit over time. Okay, all right, great, thanks so 1583 01:55:57.439 --> 01:56:00.880 much, thanks to the car. I appreciate, appreciate that a lot ana 1584 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:05.840 Plants and produce up there in Montgomery. That is your go to nursery if 1585 01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:10.079 you've up, if you're in Montgomery, Conro, even the Lake Conroe area, 1586 01:56:10.680 --> 01:56:15.119 this is your hometown garden center. And they carry an unbelievable selection of 1587 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:18.560 plants. They got knowledgeable staff. They usually keep my schedules there on the 1588 01:56:18.680 --> 01:56:21.359 counter for you just to pick up there. But I'd suggest you print one 1589 01:56:21.439 --> 01:56:24.800 up and take it with you because when you get there, you're going to 1590 01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:27.720 find every product I talk about. I'm talking about Nature's way, I'm talking 1591 01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:32.119 about airloom sols, microlife, Nelson's nitroposs for example. Out at Ana Plants 1592 01:56:32.119 --> 01:56:36.760 and Produce. By the way, their hours are also excellent, number one 1593 01:56:38.800 --> 01:56:41.800 seven days a week, but the hours nine to five, seven days a 1594 01:56:41.880 --> 01:56:45.640 week, knowledgeable staff. You just swing by there and it's all waiting for 1595 01:56:45.720 --> 01:56:47.479 you there. Take it back home. They have a landscape crew too that'll 1596 01:56:47.560 --> 01:56:51.279 come out and if you live out at the Lake Conroy area, they can 1597 01:56:51.319 --> 01:56:55.319 come out and do some really nice work for you if you need some assistance 1598 01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:59.399 with that. But They carry Nelson's, the Nelson's line, the Turf Star 1599 01:56:59.520 --> 01:57:02.399 line, Bruce's Brew which gives you a good quick green up but has two 1600 01:57:02.439 --> 01:57:06.760 different kinds of slow release that gradually add on to the end of that pretty 1601 01:57:06.800 --> 01:57:12.640 well. They carry the Slow and Easy, which is front forward with the 1602 01:57:12.720 --> 01:57:15.279 slow release. In other words, it will give you at least four months 1603 01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:19.319 of feeding out there a little bit now, but a gradual release over time 1604 01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:24.159 that will take you all the way up into the fall fertilization. That's two 1605 01:57:24.199 --> 01:57:28.640 of the excellent products in the turf Star line available from Nelson Plant Food, 1606 01:57:28.720 --> 01:57:31.039 and you can get a both out there at A and A Plants and Produce 1607 01:57:31.199 --> 01:57:34.880 in Montgomery. We're going to go now to Spring Branch and talk to Brett. 1608 01:57:35.079 --> 01:57:42.680 Hello Brett, Hello, good morning. So the big storm I lost 1609 01:57:42.720 --> 01:57:45.760 a couple of really big trees and I want to replace them. I was 1610 01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:50.039 thinking about a red oak, a couple of red oaks. I wanted something 1611 01:57:50.119 --> 01:57:56.039 that was fairly fast growing and low maintenance. What are your thoughts on that. 1612 01:57:56.960 --> 01:58:00.039 Red Oaks a pretty fast growing tree. You know the super fast trees 1613 01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:03.920 we say grow fast, die young, But red oak is one that gives 1614 01:58:03.960 --> 01:58:06.840 you a really good growth rate. And it is a very nice, long 1615 01:58:06.960 --> 01:58:10.880 lived tree if you train it right, take care of it, you know, 1616 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:15.399 create a good structure as you're building that. It is an excellent choice. 1617 01:58:15.000 --> 01:58:18.159 Is your area well drained or does it tend to stay a little soggy 1618 01:58:18.199 --> 01:58:21.960 wet after rains. No, it's pretty well drying. Okay. You could 1619 01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:26.960 probably use a Schumart oak or a nut tall oak. Either one would do 1620 01:58:27.079 --> 01:58:30.960 well in that area. Stumart, Schumard s h U M A r D. 1621 01:58:31.560 --> 01:58:35.479 If it's a good quality, well, very well drained soil, Schumart 1622 01:58:35.520 --> 01:58:40.279 will do well. Nutall will do well in that soil. But it'll also 1623 01:58:40.359 --> 01:58:43.479 do well in a little bit of a clay heavy clay, little on the 1624 01:58:43.600 --> 01:58:47.560 two wet side sometimes and you teach and you t t A L L. 1625 01:58:47.680 --> 01:58:53.000 I believe I'm trying to spell it. Okay, where would I where's a 1626 01:58:53.039 --> 01:58:56.640 good place to buy trees? I've not bought a tree. Well, I 1627 01:58:56.680 --> 01:59:00.159 would try Vertin tree Farm. They're not too far from you. There there's 1628 01:59:00.159 --> 01:59:03.359 a verdant tree farm. There's one out west Barker Cypress. There's one in 1629 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:10.640 the Heights where eleventh Street comes into it. Ten and not eleventh Yale. 1630 01:59:10.680 --> 01:59:14.680 I'm sorry, Yale comes into it ten north southeast. Would you recommend those 1631 01:59:14.720 --> 01:59:17.840 trees over the red oaks? Those are both red oaks, those are both 1632 01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:21.439 types of h wow. Yeah, I was just continuing what you were asking 1633 01:59:21.439 --> 01:59:25.239 about. Yeah, and Na, let me give you. Let me give 1634 01:59:25.239 --> 01:59:30.079 you a website for Verdant. It's Verdant Treefarm dot com Verdant v E R 1635 01:59:30.159 --> 01:59:33.079 D A N T as in green treefarm dot com. When you go there, 1636 01:59:33.279 --> 01:59:36.720 Brett, you're gonna be able to look up those trees and read about 1637 01:59:36.760 --> 01:59:41.279 each one. They've got a listing of palms and a listing of trees, 1638 01:59:41.439 --> 01:59:45.439 and I would start online by doing a little online learning and shopping, then 1639 01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:47.479 go in and sit down with them and show them the area and describe what 1640 01:59:47.560 --> 01:59:51.800 you're looking for. Sounds good, Okay, Well, thank you for your 1641 01:59:51.840 --> 01:59:54.920 help. I really appreciate it. Yeah, you bet, Brett. Good 1642 01:59:54.960 --> 01:59:58.880 luck with that good quality trees. After that storm, I'll tell you we 1643 01:59:59.239 --> 02:00:02.359 we lost a lot of trees in the Greater Houston area and it's a good 1644 02:00:02.399 --> 02:00:06.000 time to start preparing to get one out. You know. Verdon nice thing 1645 02:00:06.039 --> 02:00:10.960 about them is they offer that what we call true turnkey service. You go 1646 02:00:11.079 --> 02:00:14.039 out there, you pick that the actual tree you want. You walk through 1647 02:00:14.079 --> 02:00:17.159 all these red oaks and say I want that one, and they tag it 1648 02:00:17.199 --> 02:00:19.520 and they bring it and they install it for you, and you get a 1649 02:00:19.640 --> 02:00:24.079 one year warranty when they do the installation. And you need to have them 1650 02:00:24.159 --> 02:00:28.359 do that because they have some big trees that you know, unless you have 1651 02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:32.039 a lot of very very good equipment. They've got trees up to seven hundred 1652 02:00:32.039 --> 02:00:38.119 gallons in size, which is crazy. That's nice, but Verdin's always a 1653 02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:40.279 good place to get that kind of thing. By the way, I mentioned 1654 02:00:40.359 --> 02:00:44.920 the one in Barker Cypress and on at Yale in the Heights area. I 1655 02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:47.239 tend they also have one done in Perilant on Broadway Street for those of you 1656 02:00:47.359 --> 02:00:54.079 listening that are down in that area. Well, I'm just sitting there looking 1657 02:00:54.079 --> 02:00:56.520 at the clock, going, I don't know, it seems to be running 1658 02:00:56.560 --> 02:01:00.640 too fast today. Because here we are, here, we are another break. 1659 02:01:01.000 --> 02:01:04.319 We will be back. I wanted to talk about a couple of things. 1660 02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:10.000 One thing you need to put on your calendar for tonight. The Exchange 1661 02:01:10.039 --> 02:01:15.560 Club of Sugarland is presenting a Night to Remember honoring our fallen heroes. And 1662 02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:17.680 this is going to be quite an event. They're gonna have Grammy Award wringing 1663 02:01:17.840 --> 02:01:21.680 singers, a brass band, a thirty member chorus, and dancers. It's 1664 02:01:21.760 --> 02:01:27.760 just a big tribute to folks. It's a good good thing for Memorial Day, 1665 02:01:27.840 --> 02:01:30.760 right a night to our honor our fallen heroes. It's free, it's 1666 02:01:30.840 --> 02:01:34.199 open to the public. Bring some canned food and donate them because the East 1667 02:01:34.359 --> 02:01:39.720 Fort beIN County Human Needs Ministry is going to be collecting canned food as well. 1668 02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:45.960 That is tonight Sunday, seven five pm at the Sugarland Town Square right 1669 02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:58.399 in front of the City Hall facade. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 1670 02:01:58.439 --> 02:02:02.279 any of the products or services advertise on this program. Welcome to Katie r 1671 02:02:02.479 --> 02:02:15.800 H Guarden Line with Scamp Richter. It's crazy trip. Just watch him as 1672 02:02:19.880 --> 02:02:34.119 us many good thanks to septs. Not a sign welcome back, Welcome back 1673 02:02:34.159 --> 02:02:38.399 to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Well, we got another 1674 02:02:38.439 --> 02:02:43.920 hour to do today before we shut things down until next weekend. Get your 1675 02:02:44.039 --> 02:02:47.079 gardening advice in. Let us help as best we can, and the kinds 1676 02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:53.039 of questions you might have. For example, here's a till how about getting 1677 02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:57.439 a hold of some sweet Green, which is eleven percent nitrogen organic product from 1678 02:02:58.199 --> 02:03:04.439 Nitrofox. It is a the molasses based product between molasses with microbe activity working 1679 02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:10.319 on it. We have a very nice, fresh smelling, wonderfully smelling product 1680 02:03:10.359 --> 02:03:14.239 that will make your microbes very happy in the soil. They love sugar based 1681 02:03:14.359 --> 02:03:17.039 products. They need carbon, They need a source of carbon. Microbes don't 1682 02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:20.199 make their own carbon. Plants do that. They take carbon out of the 1683 02:03:20.239 --> 02:03:24.880 air and turn them into plant parts. Well, when it comes to microbes, 1684 02:03:25.000 --> 02:03:28.039 they need plant parts to feed on. But they also just need good 1685 02:03:28.159 --> 02:03:30.800 sources of carbon, and sweet green is one of those. Now, sweet 1686 02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:34.319 Green is being a nit fross product, is widely available. You're going to 1687 02:03:34.680 --> 02:03:41.000 not have trouble finding it in the Greater Houston area. Nitrofoss products like sweet 1688 02:03:41.079 --> 02:03:45.319 Green are widely widely available. You're going to find a bit our ace hardware 1689 02:03:45.399 --> 02:03:49.079 stores all over the Greater Houston area. That's just one example of the kinds 1690 02:03:49.119 --> 02:03:55.359 of places where you can find it. But Nitrofoss Sweet Green is a product 1691 02:03:55.399 --> 02:03:59.319 that is going to dissolve away into the soil again, make the microbes happy, 1692 02:03:59.359 --> 02:04:01.560 and make the soil happy, and make the turf happy. That's kind 1693 02:04:01.560 --> 02:04:06.960 of how that all works. Nitrofis sweet, green, good quality product. 1694 02:04:08.039 --> 02:04:12.039 Hey, have you been out to the Nelson Water Garden and Nursery that is 1695 02:04:12.079 --> 02:04:15.479 in Katie, Texas. Think of it as your West Houston garden center and 1696 02:04:15.560 --> 02:04:19.479 think of it also as a destination garden center. It is inspiring to walk 1697 02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:24.640 through. Now. We know the Nelsons have been a leader in water gardens 1698 02:04:24.960 --> 02:04:29.840 nationally for a long long time. When it comes to creating a water feature, 1699 02:04:30.319 --> 02:04:34.640 whether it's a waterfall or one of those disappearing fountains or the beautiful glazed 1700 02:04:34.720 --> 02:04:40.359 pottery with the water spilling over the side and returning back through again, they 1701 02:04:40.479 --> 02:04:44.520 invented that. Well, they've got all that, but their garden center's outstanding 1702 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:48.119 that the plants they have, the selection they have is great. You need 1703 02:04:48.199 --> 02:04:50.560 to go see it and take your friends with you because, trust me, 1704 02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:56.319 it's fun to walk through because it is so inspiring out there. Now on 1705 02:04:56.399 --> 02:04:59.359 Memorial Day weekend, you know, this is a tax free weekend for water 1706 02:04:59.479 --> 02:05:02.239 saving things, so plants, trees, grasses, malt, soil, composts, 1707 02:05:02.680 --> 02:05:08.159 underlayment, groundcover materials, those are all tax free this weekend. But 1708 02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:12.199 in addition, to that. They're at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery and Katie 1709 02:05:12.199 --> 02:05:15.279 they're having a twenty percent off all plants sale and a ten percent off all 1710 02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:21.560 their bagged goods and fertilizers sale. So there's the brown stuff that helps the 1711 02:05:21.640 --> 02:05:26.399 green stuff to thrive. Katie Fort Benroad. Just go out to Katie. 1712 02:05:26.479 --> 02:05:30.920 Turn right, turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road. It's a stone's throwaway 1713 02:05:30.279 --> 02:05:35.680 right up there, and trust me, you will love this place. Nelsonwatergardens 1714 02:05:36.000 --> 02:05:44.199 dot Com your West Houston area destination garden center. We're going to have now 1715 02:05:44.359 --> 02:05:48.800 back to the phones. If this individual being myself can figure out how to 1716 02:05:48.880 --> 02:05:53.920 click on the right box, there we go. Kathy and Conroe, how 1717 02:05:53.960 --> 02:06:00.079 can we help today? Yes, I had a big tree years now and 1718 02:06:00.199 --> 02:06:04.319 it's yet to produce figs. Really, do you know? Do you know 1719 02:06:04.359 --> 02:06:08.840 what kind it's supposed to be? No, they were here when I they 1720 02:06:08.880 --> 02:06:12.279 were here when I moved in. A fig that doesn't produce this fig seem 1721 02:06:12.399 --> 02:06:15.600 like I read somewhere that that kind of tree was cursed and dug up and 1722 02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:19.960 shriveled away. But I mean it's growing beautifully, it's gotten huge, but 1723 02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:26.039 not one single fig. Wow, I'm gonna have to chalk that up. 1724 02:06:26.520 --> 02:06:30.439 And it's in full sun, I assume, yes, Okay, I'm gonna 1725 02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:32.279 have to chalk that up. If something's wrong, I don't know what kind 1726 02:06:32.319 --> 02:06:34.479 of fig it is. I don't know what's going on. Does it die 1727 02:06:34.560 --> 02:06:40.239 to the ground ever winner an regro or does it just stay huge and it 1728 02:06:40.359 --> 02:06:45.439 leaves, it loses its leaves and then it comes back, Kathy, I 1729 02:06:45.479 --> 02:06:48.199 can't think of a reason for that, but I have a second So then 1730 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:53.159 I planted a second fig tree and I and I don't have any figs on 1731 02:06:53.239 --> 02:06:58.960 that one either. M I'm not have to work. I'm gonna have to 1732 02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:00.920 work on that. Here's what I want to do. I'm going to put 1733 02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:05.399 you on hold, and I want you to get my email from the producer, 1734 02:07:06.119 --> 02:07:11.000 and I want you to send me some pictures of these figs. I 1735 02:07:11.079 --> 02:07:14.880 want to see the whole bush, okay, and then I want to see 1736 02:07:15.199 --> 02:07:18.159 maybe up close, the leaves, the ends of the shoots, the shape 1737 02:07:18.159 --> 02:07:23.600 of the leaves. Not all fig leaves or shaped the same. And let 1738 02:07:23.680 --> 02:07:27.920 me look at this and look into it and see if I can identify anything 1739 02:07:28.000 --> 02:07:31.840 going on on there, and I will get back to you. Via emails. 1740 02:07:32.000 --> 02:07:36.840 Was I supposed to use a certain kind of fertilizer? No, no 1741 02:07:38.000 --> 02:07:43.199 figs or figs grow just abandoned almost they, you know, as long as 1742 02:07:43.199 --> 02:07:45.560 they have moisture. There used to be a huge fig industry here on the 1743 02:07:45.560 --> 02:07:50.199 Gulf coast and our black clay soils that then became rice patties. But they 1744 02:07:50.439 --> 02:07:55.760 they they shouldn't be that hard. I don't know why this thing is in 1745 02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:58.479 producing, but I'll look into it. But let me hang on. Don't 1746 02:07:58.479 --> 02:08:01.359 go away. My producers go to pick up and I have sent him the 1747 02:08:01.560 --> 02:08:05.800 email my email address, so that he can provide that to you, and 1748 02:08:07.520 --> 02:08:11.000 let's take it from there. Okay, thank you so very much. I 1749 02:08:11.039 --> 02:08:15.359 appreciate it. I'm happy to do that, no problem at all. You 1750 02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:18.680 know, we talk about the importance of brown stuff, of taking care of 1751 02:08:18.760 --> 02:08:20.920 the soil, and I just can't stress that enough. It's easy to get 1752 02:08:20.960 --> 02:08:24.000 excited about a tomato plant because you can taste of tomatoes when you're taking the 1753 02:08:24.039 --> 02:08:28.840 plan home. You can already imagine that you buy a little rose bush and 1754 02:08:28.920 --> 02:08:33.199 you can just picture the bush covered with blooms, and we get excited about 1755 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:35.920 that. But what about the brown stuff? What about the nutrient and the 1756 02:08:37.000 --> 02:08:39.279 soil. What about the organic matter in the soil. What about building up 1757 02:08:39.319 --> 02:08:43.640 a raised bed or putting in a box for a garden for better, better 1758 02:08:43.760 --> 02:08:48.359 drainage even than that. Ciena Malts down south of Houston. Ciena Malts they 1759 02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.479 are near Roch Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon. On FM five twenty 1760 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:56.600 one, they get you set up on the brown stuff. Now they're closed 1761 02:08:56.640 --> 02:09:01.800 on Sunday, but they're open Monday through Friday thirty to five and on Saturday 1762 02:09:01.880 --> 02:09:05.920 from seven thirty to two pm. So any of you down there in these 1763 02:09:05.000 --> 02:09:11.319 neighborhoods like Brasspin State Park area, sun Creek Estates, quil Valley, Manville, 1764 02:09:11.520 --> 02:09:16.640 Meridian, First Colony, Pomona or Cola Sweetwater Ciana Plantation, this is 1765 02:09:16.720 --> 02:09:20.800 your backyard. Green Brown's tough source. When you go in there, you're 1766 02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:26.439 going to find native hardwood mulches, double ground mulches, two inch screen materials, 1767 02:09:26.279 --> 02:09:31.560 beautiful dark chocolate colors, not dyed, beautiful color, not dye. 1768 02:09:31.760 --> 02:09:35.359 Smells wonderful. They've got it in bulk, They've got stuff in bags, 1769 02:09:35.439 --> 02:09:39.840 and they carry every fertilizer I talk about on garden Line at cienamulch. It 1770 02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:45.359 is your brown stuff place. You go there, you bring that home or 1771 02:09:45.439 --> 02:09:48.319 have them delivered. They deliver within about twenty miles for a fee. Have 1772 02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:54.079 them delivered to you. They're on FM five twenty one near Highway twenty or 1773 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:58.239 Highway six and two eighty eight cnmultch dot com. When you bring their stuff 1774 02:09:58.279 --> 02:10:00.840 home and then you put a plant in it, it's like you took the 1775 02:10:00.880 --> 02:10:05.000 plant to Disneyland. It's gonna be happy and everyone's gonna say you have a 1776 02:10:05.479 --> 02:10:09.399 green thumb, But what you really got is the secret sauce, the brown 1777 02:10:09.479 --> 02:10:11.399 stuff in the ground. First, we're gonna head out. Now, let's 1778 02:10:11.439 --> 02:10:15.720 see. Well, actually I got to take a break. Keep having breaks 1779 02:10:15.760 --> 02:10:18.840 today. I gotta pay these bills. Fred and Joyce, you'll be the 1780 02:10:18.880 --> 02:10:22.359 first two up when we come back. Seven one three two one two fifty 1781 02:10:22.399 --> 02:10:37.720 eight seventy four And welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with 1782 02:10:37.880 --> 02:10:45.159 us today. A lot to talk about. Still, Hey, Wahbird's Unlimited. 1783 02:10:45.680 --> 02:10:48.159 You need to go into a Wabird's Unlimited store. I'm telling you you 1784 02:10:48.279 --> 02:10:52.039 maybe you've never thought, yeah, I'm not a bird watcher. Okay, 1785 02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:54.199 that's fine. I mean if you are, you've probably already been in a 1786 02:10:54.239 --> 02:10:58.680 wild bird store. But if you're just a backyard gardener, you know, 1787 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:01.439 I used to not be the into birds. I just wasn't against that. 1788 02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:05.760 I just hadn't really thought about it much. I was into gardening and stuff. 1789 02:11:05.439 --> 02:11:09.000 I just year by year by year get more and more interested. Yeah, 1790 02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:11.119 the end of the day, I got up early in the morning and 1791 02:11:11.560 --> 02:11:16.239 I let the dogs outside, and the songs of the birds, I mean, 1792 02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:20.119 it was a cacophony. They were announcing the day. They're probably yelling 1793 02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:24.079 at me to get out there and give them some more feet. Wabirds Unlimited 1794 02:11:24.119 --> 02:11:28.600 as quality feed, and I love their blends. When you buy Wibirds Unlimited 1795 02:11:28.920 --> 02:11:31.479 bird seed and you buy a pound of it, you getting a pound of 1796 02:11:31.560 --> 02:11:35.279 stuff that goes into the bird. That is how it works. They have 1797 02:11:35.359 --> 02:11:39.119 the complete hullless blends. For example, so sunflowers they put the seed in, 1798 02:11:39.279 --> 02:11:41.840 not the whole hole. Now they also have the blends that have the 1799 02:11:41.880 --> 02:11:46.159 holes in them, but they don't have those little red beebes that the birds 1800 02:11:46.239 --> 02:11:48.399 kick out because they don't want to eat it. Nesting Super Blend, that's 1801 02:11:48.439 --> 02:11:52.439 a very important one for the birds. It gives them the nutrients, the 1802 02:11:52.520 --> 02:11:56.319 compounds, the proteins and things that they need right now. During this season, 1803 02:11:56.399 --> 02:12:00.520 we got a number of birds that are nesting around our house. Some 1804 02:12:00.640 --> 02:12:03.840 little swallows, barn swallows moved in. We always love those things watching their 1805 02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:09.760 antics. But whether it's hummingbirds or whether any kind of chickadee you are interested 1806 02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:16.000 in, out there, Wilbirds Unlimited will get you set up feeders houses in 1807 02:12:16.439 --> 02:12:18.520 incredible books. They have a book called The Joy Bird Feeding by the founder 1808 02:12:18.600 --> 02:12:22.319 of Wallbirds. It's really good. My favorite feeder they've got is the Eliminator. 1809 02:12:22.520 --> 02:12:26.680 It is the Cadillac squirrel proof bird feeder, And I mean squirrel proof 1810 02:12:26.720 --> 02:12:31.439 and squirrels are smart, but that is my favorite feeder that's out there. 1811 02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:33.000 Go check it out. Just say I want to see the skip talks about 1812 02:12:33.000 --> 02:12:35.159 the Cadillac out here. I want to see it. Well, that's it 1813 02:12:37.039 --> 02:12:41.439 and the parts. It's a lifetime feeder, it really is. I mean 1814 02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:43.680 it can be anything that ever needs to be replaced and stuff. They can 1815 02:12:43.760 --> 02:12:48.159 get that done on it. It's a good feeder. Wabirds Unlimited quality materials 1816 02:12:48.399 --> 02:12:52.680 and it is just such a good hobby. You know the birds are out 1817 02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:56.119 there then they're catching bugs for you in your garden. They're doing that, 1818 02:12:56.239 --> 02:13:00.640 You're enjoying their songs, you're enjoying their beauty. Why not go buy wild 1819 02:13:00.720 --> 02:13:03.079 birds? Maybe a bird bath that would be a good one. To add 1820 02:13:03.279 --> 02:13:07.239 another good thing, a little bit more for the birds in the garden. 1821 02:13:07.439 --> 02:13:11.600 Let's go to Kingwood. We're going to go talk to Fred. Now. 1822 02:13:11.760 --> 02:13:15.720 Hello, Fred, Hi, Skip, thanks for taking my call. And 1823 02:13:15.840 --> 02:13:20.600 we're having a memorable Memorial Day and we wish that for you and all your 1824 02:13:20.680 --> 02:13:24.479 listeners. Thank you so much. I have two questions on my Saint Augustine 1825 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:31.079 turf. One is is there any advantage I bought a Honda mower a year 1826 02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:35.159 and a half ago that will go all the way up to four inches. 1827 02:13:35.760 --> 02:13:39.399 I prefer the look of the lawn at three and a half inches. Is 1828 02:13:39.479 --> 02:13:43.439 there any value in going all the way up to four inches? And my 1829 02:13:43.560 --> 02:13:48.279 lawn guy uses my mower and I can have it set any place I want. 1830 02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:52.319 Tell me the kind of grass Saint Augustine, But do you know the 1831 02:13:52.439 --> 02:13:58.560 variety off hand or just Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine, that's okay, that's 1832 02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:03.079 all right. Most Saint Augustine at four I think it looks a little too 1833 02:14:03.199 --> 02:14:07.079 high at four. Now, if it were in a shady area where you're 1834 02:14:07.119 --> 02:14:11.399 trying to capture as much of that low light as possible, then mowing and 1835 02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:15.880 higher is better because the grass blades are solar panels, and so when the 1836 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.640 solar energy is down in the shade, having a bigger solar panel helps a 1837 02:14:20.680 --> 02:14:24.840 little bit, and so taller heights help with that. But three and a 1838 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:28.640 half inches is a pretty good standard height to go. That would be a 1839 02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:31.079 good heights to keep doing the thing, because I like the look of it 1840 02:14:31.199 --> 02:14:33.479 better at three and a half. Yeah, I would think you would, 1841 02:14:33.680 --> 02:14:37.439 yes, absolutely, yeah. And the second question was I put wheed Nator 1842 02:14:37.560 --> 02:14:45.039 Nelson's weed Enater on on March first. I've been using only Microlive six two 1843 02:14:45.159 --> 02:14:48.880 four for the last seven eight nine years, and I plan to continue using 1844 02:14:48.960 --> 02:14:52.560 that. I put the wheed nat on to help with some of the weed 1845 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:56.399 control and it seemed to work. But when do I need to get the 1846 02:14:56.600 --> 02:15:01.119 Microlife six two four out this month or early next month? Or do I 1847 02:15:01.199 --> 02:15:05.199 have time? Uh, you did the weed Nator band, you could do 1848 02:15:05.319 --> 02:15:09.079 the you could start the sixty four now, you could do that. Now 1849 02:15:09.279 --> 02:15:13.680 just do some moderate applications. Do it now and doing about oh I don't 1850 02:15:13.720 --> 02:15:18.119 know, six to eight weeks later, do it again. Just kind of 1851 02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:22.359 watch your lawn, see how it looks, and return the clippings in the 1852 02:15:22.439 --> 02:15:24.920 meantime. Well, that's what I'm doing with this mow where I bought I 1853 02:15:26.039 --> 02:15:31.840 multimo Good. That's good. You're recycling the store bought fertilizer that you put. 1854 02:15:31.239 --> 02:15:33.840 You're keeping those nutrients on the property. That's the way to do it. 1855 02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:39.520 How long should the weed nator last? Can I wait till late June? 1856 02:15:39.640 --> 02:15:41.960 Or should I just go ahead and get it on now because I'm also 1857 02:15:41.039 --> 02:15:46.720 going to put the azemite on the same time. What weeds are you dealing 1858 02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:54.000 with? Well, I had a variety of weeds, and most of them 1859 02:15:54.079 --> 02:16:01.319 were the wild strawberries, and so that's why I use the Nelson's weed Nator, 1860 02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:05.079 and it really seemed to take care of those. Okay, Well, 1861 02:16:05.159 --> 02:16:07.319 I mean you could. You could apply it again. You just have to 1862 02:16:07.319 --> 02:16:09.920 get the weeds wet before you put it down, right, Yeah, But 1863 02:16:09.960 --> 02:16:13.119 I don't want to use it again. I want to use the six two 1864 02:16:13.199 --> 02:16:16.840 four. Oh okay, Well, I guess I'm not following. I didn't 1865 02:16:16.840 --> 02:16:18.680 follow your question. But yes, you can use the six two four for 1866 02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.800 your nutrients and stuff and then that would be just fine. Is it a 1867 02:16:22.880 --> 02:16:26.680 slow release or no. It is an organic so it has to break down 1868 02:16:26.760 --> 02:16:33.120 microbial lely to release the nutrients. It's not the ones we generally refer to 1869 02:16:33.239 --> 02:16:39.440 as slow release or things that are designed forms of nitrogen that just can't release 1870 02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:46.399 until either microbial activity attacks them or other other things caused that nutrient over time 1871 02:16:46.479 --> 02:16:50.399 to release. So ok, thank you so much for your health. It's 1872 02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:56.079 slowish release the slowish okay, slowish okay. And and the lawn is really 1873 02:16:56.200 --> 02:16:58.760 lush. I have the lawn. Yeah, that's what nature does. Nature 1874 02:16:58.760 --> 02:17:03.799 does slow ish okay. Thank you sir. All right, thanks you a 1875 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:07.840 lot. I appreciate you. Thanks. Bobby Hey fix my slab foundation repair 1876 02:17:09.000 --> 02:17:11.559 Ty Strickland. They've been in the business twenty three years. Here. Ty 1877 02:17:11.799 --> 02:17:16.120 knows how to fix things. He knows how to look for things. We 1878 02:17:16.280 --> 02:17:18.360 just got a lot of rain. The soil is swollen. When it gets 1879 02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:24.079 hot and dry, the soil will shrink. That rex havoc on our foundations, 1880 02:17:24.120 --> 02:17:26.680 on our sidewalks, on our driveways. When you see cracks on the 1881 02:17:26.719 --> 02:17:31.040 brick outside, when you see cracks on the sheet rock inside, when you 1882 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:35.520 got a door that starts sticking that used to not something has moved and you 1883 02:17:35.639 --> 02:17:39.079 need to have Tye come out and look at it. The website fixmslab dot 1884 02:17:39.200 --> 02:17:43.600 com. Fix myslab dot com. The phone number two eight one two five 1885 02:17:43.719 --> 02:17:48.680 five forty nine forty nine. Tell him your guardline listener. You get a 1886 02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:52.879 free estimate guardline listeners. The thing I like about tie and fix my slab 1887 02:17:54.200 --> 02:17:56.920 number one. They know what they're doing, but they show up on time, 1888 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:01.319 they fix it right, and they give you a fair price, and 1889 02:18:01.399 --> 02:18:05.040 you just can't ask for more than that for service. Tysand Native Ustonian, 1890 02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:09.840 fifth generation Texan. Here, whether it's a sidewalk, a foundation, a 1891 02:18:09.000 --> 02:18:15.239 driveway, they can do it. Fix my slab, fix myslab dot com. 1892 02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:20.719 We're going to go now to Houston, it says, and Joyce. 1893 02:18:20.799 --> 02:18:26.079 Hello Joyce from somewhere in Houston. Hi, how are you? I'm good? 1894 02:18:26.159 --> 02:18:30.159 How are you? I have some question about blue bonnet seeds. I've 1895 02:18:30.200 --> 02:18:33.120 been growing blue bonnets to my garden for quite a few years and I want 1896 02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:39.079 to share the seas, so I've taken off my plants with friends, and 1897 02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:46.120 what's the best way I read online. It says to put them in the 1898 02:18:46.200 --> 02:18:52.600 freezer overnight and then put them in a dish the next day and put boiling 1899 02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:58.479 water on them, which is kind of wild. Okay, well, I 1900 02:18:58.479 --> 02:19:01.479 don't know about the freezer being than you. I don't know about the freezer 1901 02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:05.559 being a big help. The boiling water is to soften the hard seed coat. 1902 02:19:05.639 --> 02:19:09.280 Blue bonnets, by design, have this nice hard seed coat, so 1903 02:19:09.399 --> 02:19:11.319 they don't all sprout one year and that ends up being a drought year and 1904 02:19:11.399 --> 02:19:16.319 they all die. They gradually it decomposes away and then what some of the 1905 02:19:16.399 --> 02:19:20.000 seed sprouts this year, some sprouts next year, and so on. So 1906 02:19:20.200 --> 02:19:24.360 the hot water boiling water won't kill them because by the time it's soaking in 1907 02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:28.440 there, the water's already cooling off, but it being hot it makes it 1908 02:19:28.920 --> 02:19:35.600 soaking faster and soften that extra se outside seed coat. If you want to 1909 02:19:35.680 --> 02:19:39.479 speed things up, people do all kinds of different things, from putting them 1910 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:43.079 in sulfuric acid, which is crazy for the home end to do that, 1911 02:19:43.920 --> 02:19:48.000 but to using sandpaper, you know, rubbing them in sandpaper just to kind 1912 02:19:48.040 --> 02:19:50.600 of wear some of that coat off. There's a lot of things people can 1913 02:19:50.719 --> 02:19:54.159 do I think the hot water treatment is a pretty good way to go, 1914 02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.120 just to get it soaking in. But then you need to immediately plant them, 1915 02:19:58.559 --> 02:20:01.280 get them in the ground, scratched them in and keep them moist so 1916 02:20:01.399 --> 02:20:07.000 they go ahead and sprout. Okay, Now that's not now, that's that's 1917 02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:11.879 his fall. Okay, but they should put them into the fall, not 1918 02:20:13.079 --> 02:20:16.200 now. Right now. Nature throws the seeds out right now. The blue 1919 02:20:16.239 --> 02:20:20.840 bonnets that bloomed in spring, they've cast their seed, most all of them 1920 02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:24.280 have, and so uh that those seeds sit there all year waiting for fall. 1921 02:20:24.440 --> 02:20:28.760 So yes, you could plant them now. Most people just wait because 1922 02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:31.680 they're not going to do anything between now and fall. And sometime in late 1923 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:35.920 September, go ahead and put the blue bonnet seeds out and then fall takes 1924 02:20:35.959 --> 02:20:43.120 it from there. Okay, great, because the mind receed. I find 1925 02:20:43.159 --> 02:20:48.719 them coming up strange places. Yeah, I guess the animals that are you 1926 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:54.000 know, pick up the seeds off and they can fling seed a long way. 1927 02:20:54.479 --> 02:20:58.159 The blue bonnet pod looks like a little green bean pod, but it 1928 02:20:58.280 --> 02:21:03.959 turns brown on and the sutures that hold the two halves of the pod together, 1929 02:21:03.799 --> 02:21:09.399 they are when they break loose, that pod has a spiral twist that 1930 02:21:09.520 --> 02:21:15.520 it wants to form, and so you know a barber poles spiral that when 1931 02:21:15.600 --> 02:21:18.280 that pod breaks, it twists. It's like put your two hands together like 1932 02:21:18.600 --> 02:21:24.399 a praying hand, and then then break away the backside of your hand, 1933 02:21:24.479 --> 02:21:28.959 twist them around. That flings the seeds out, and that spiral twist just 1934 02:21:28.120 --> 02:21:35.280 flings those seeds along pretty far distance. But that's another natural dispersal, dispersal 1935 02:21:35.639 --> 02:21:39.360 method designed into the pod that makes it work so well. Hence our wonderful 1936 02:21:39.399 --> 02:21:45.200 state flower everywhere we're fascinating. I just love them, Yeah, I just 1937 02:21:45.520 --> 02:21:48.559 love them. Well, you're supposed to. If you if you said you 1938 02:21:48.719 --> 02:21:52.120 didn't, their authorities would come make you leave the state. They would. 1939 02:21:52.120 --> 02:21:58.040 They would hold they would escort you to the Red River or someplace and say, 1940 02:21:58.079 --> 02:22:01.600 good luck. You have to lie navy fast. Thank you so much, 1941 02:22:01.639 --> 02:22:05.319 sir. Appreciate you, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. 1942 02:22:05.879 --> 02:22:07.879 Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure if you're born in Texas, 1943 02:22:07.959 --> 02:22:11.879 when you see bluebonnets, tears streamed down your cheeks, your hand goes over 1944 02:22:11.000 --> 02:22:15.719 your heart and you run through the field singing, Texas are Texas? Oh? 1945 02:22:15.840 --> 02:22:20.639 Do that? Right now. Zare Texas. By the way, that's 1946 02:22:20.680 --> 02:22:24.360 the state song, not that other one. Yeah, yeah, okay, 1947 02:22:24.440 --> 02:22:28.239 I'm just saying, hey, Nicky's here, time for a break. I 1948 02:22:28.360 --> 02:22:31.680 just want to remind you though, real quick. NITROPHI super Turf, the 1949 02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:35.440 silver bag. That is a quality slow release fertilizer. It's got four percent 1950 02:22:35.520 --> 02:22:39.280 iron in it. Nineteen four ten. Those are the magic three numbers on 1951 02:22:39.360 --> 02:22:43.559 the bag. Put it down now. If you haven't done your summer fertilizing, 1952 02:22:43.639 --> 02:22:46.000 it's all my schedule. Put it down now. Let it grad your 1953 02:22:46.040 --> 02:22:50.200 release your southern lawn. It's designed for our southern lawns, and you will 1954 02:22:50.239 --> 02:22:54.600 see good density, beautiful color, and success in your lawn. We'll be 1955 02:22:54.719 --> 02:23:09.120 right back. Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good to 1956 02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:13.959 be back with you. We've got some garden talking left Dennis today. If 1957 02:23:13.959 --> 02:23:16.879 you've got some garden questions, give us a call. It's seven one three 1958 02:23:16.520 --> 02:23:22.040 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 1959 02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:28.399 seven four. The Anti grows in Porium is one of those places that you 1960 02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:31.440 just have to go visit. You just have to see it. I can 1961 02:23:31.520 --> 02:23:33.879 describe it to you. I can tell you that it's a trip back in 1962 02:23:35.000 --> 02:23:39.719 time. I can tell you that the antiqu roses are just gorgeous and they 1963 02:23:39.799 --> 02:23:43.040 have a selection like none other. I can tell you that the roses are 1964 02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:46.239 high quality. They grow them in two gallum pots, so you get a 1965 02:23:46.520 --> 02:23:50.159 very robust, good, strong rose. Uh. They do well. The 1966 02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:54.959 varieties and cultivars that is that they carry are outstanding. I can tell you 1967 02:23:54.079 --> 02:23:58.760 that when you go there, you will enjoy strolling through the gardens. That 1968 02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:03.319 they have display garden that is just like none other. It is wonderful. 1969 02:24:03.440 --> 02:24:05.920 It's just an enchanted place. I can tell you this too, that on 1970 02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:09.840 June fifteenth, they're going to be having the Father's Day event in the gardens. 1971 02:24:09.840 --> 02:24:16.639 They're gonna have framp family friendly fun including there'll be a classics car show 1972 02:24:16.079 --> 02:24:20.799 hosted by Showplace Classics. They'll be live music performed by Kathy Bolin, a 1973 02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:26.239 family friendly competition of lawn games, barbecue catered by Tiki's, lots more. 1974 02:24:26.680 --> 02:24:31.239 Just go to the website. Here's the website ready Antique Roseimporium dot com. 1975 02:24:31.399 --> 02:24:37.479 Antique Rosimporium dot com. Check out the upcoming events tab. When you're there, 1976 02:24:37.920 --> 02:24:43.079 you will find that it's just an outstanding place. It's an outstanding fun 1977 02:24:43.319 --> 02:24:46.120 place to be. And until May twenty seventh, that is tomorrow, they're 1978 02:24:46.159 --> 02:24:50.719 going to be offering seven dollars off select roses such fan favorites as you know 1979 02:24:50.840 --> 02:24:56.959 Red Cascade that's a wonderful little deep red, small, small flowered rows, 1980 02:24:56.120 --> 02:25:01.280 just loads up in flowers, quietness, all hope. There's some other good 1981 02:25:01.399 --> 02:25:03.840 roses that they're offering for that, But the Anti rosen Perim is a kount 1982 02:25:03.840 --> 02:25:07.360 of place you really want to go. If you are interested in perhaps going 1983 02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:11.600 out with a group and an event number one, I would highly recommend that 1984 02:25:11.440 --> 02:25:15.799 you can go. And it's it's it's a wonderful, wonderful trip out in 1985 02:25:15.920 --> 02:25:18.319 the country, not that far away from Houston, to just be there a 1986 02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:22.000 little bit and it just makes a good day. It's always a good day 1987 02:25:22.000 --> 02:25:26.159 out at the Antiqurosi period. They've been doing this since nineteen eighty three. 1988 02:25:26.600 --> 02:25:31.159 A wonderful destination for gardeners and for families and especially to bring the kids, 1989 02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:35.760 let them be part of it. Here's the phone number ninety seven nine eight 1990 02:25:35.840 --> 02:25:39.680 three six five y five four eight nine seven nine eight three six five y 1991 02:25:39.760 --> 02:25:46.959 five for eight we're going to go now to let's see Joe in Plantersville. 1992 02:25:48.079 --> 02:25:52.799 Hello Joe, good morning. Hey. Want to have the question. I've 1993 02:25:52.799 --> 02:25:58.239 got a lot of fruit trees and pekan trees, and mowing around them this 1994 02:25:58.360 --> 02:26:01.840 time of the year is quite difficult because I is this the wrong time of 1995 02:26:01.840 --> 02:26:05.840 the year to do some trimming and pruning? And when I do, whenever 1996 02:26:05.920 --> 02:26:09.959 the right time is do I put any type of sab or antment or covering 1997 02:26:11.120 --> 02:26:13.760 on the cut? All right? Those are good questions. Are these trees 1998 02:26:15.200 --> 02:26:18.520 very young or are they already production age? Oh? Their production age? 1999 02:26:18.879 --> 02:26:22.520 Okay, So on pecan trees, you don't have much pruning to do right 2000 02:26:22.600 --> 02:26:24.840 now. Do all your pruning when you get to the end of winter. 2001 02:26:26.680 --> 02:26:30.280 Do the prunting for the trees, pop out new growth for spring for the 2002 02:26:30.399 --> 02:26:35.360 peaches. For the peaches and fruit trees, any suckers which are upright shoots 2003 02:26:35.399 --> 02:26:39.959 coming off the base of the trunk, or any water sprouts which are upright 2004 02:26:39.040 --> 02:26:45.639 shoots coming off the spread out scaffolded branches, prune those anytime you have them. 2005 02:26:45.879 --> 02:26:50.799 So prune those now, remove those anything that is shading the inside of 2006 02:26:50.879 --> 02:26:54.840 your peach tree. Peaches, basically we train them to a big open bowl 2007 02:26:54.959 --> 02:27:01.159 shape, And so when branches come in and shade that out, those branches 2008 02:27:01.280 --> 02:27:05.200 are preventing fruit budge from forming down in there, and fruit buds will be 2009 02:27:05.319 --> 02:27:09.840 forming from midsummer on into early fall. Right through that region is when all 2010 02:27:09.879 --> 02:27:15.719 the fruit setting occurs, especially late summer early fall for next year's crop. 2011 02:27:15.879 --> 02:27:18.600 So if you've got a bunch of shade now, you're not going to get 2012 02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:22.040 the fruit bud set. So get those pruned out now, don't wait until 2013 02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:28.479 winter, all right? Do I put anything on the running areas? No, 2014 02:27:28.840 --> 02:27:31.319 No treatments needed at all for the prine cuts. Just make a good 2015 02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:35.639 quality cut. Learn how to make a cut, so you know you print 2016 02:27:35.680 --> 02:27:39.600 at the right spot and make a nice clean cut and it'll it'll be fine 2017 02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:43.920 to heal without without paint. All sounds good. I thank you for your 2018 02:27:43.959 --> 02:27:48.399 information day you bet thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. Azamite is 2019 02:27:48.760 --> 02:27:52.319 a micro nutrients supplement. I've talked about it before. We've talked a lot 2020 02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:58.319 about fertilizer today, but azamite is the micro nutrients. It's not the big 2021 02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:01.959 three numbers on the bag. That's what you put out to promote a lot 2022 02:28:01.000 --> 02:28:07.120 of growth, especially the nitrogen and whatnot. Asmite is needed in tiny amounts. 2023 02:28:07.239 --> 02:28:11.479 The micronutrients, the trace minerals are needed in tiny amounts, but they're 2024 02:28:11.600 --> 02:28:15.600 essential. So just because you don't need a lot doesn't mean it's not essential. 2025 02:28:16.280 --> 02:28:18.680 For example, I'll pick one out of the air. Let's say you're 2026 02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:22.920 talking about manganese or selenium or something. You don't need a lot of that, 2027 02:28:24.120 --> 02:28:26.760 but if you could take every molecule of it out of the soil of 2028 02:28:26.840 --> 02:28:31.520 plant could not live. That's called essential, But it's also called trace because 2029 02:28:31.520 --> 02:28:35.440 it's small amounts. That's asamite. You put down asamite and it goes a 2030 02:28:35.520 --> 02:28:39.719 long way. A ten pound bag will cover your whole of a thousand square 2031 02:28:39.760 --> 02:28:43.639 feet in your vegetable garden. A forty four pound bag will go six to 2032 02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:48.600 twelve thousand square feet in your lawn. Just don't put it in the hopper 2033 02:28:48.719 --> 02:28:52.760 with your fertilizer. But when you're done fertilizing, just follow up with azamite, 2034 02:28:52.840 --> 02:28:54.520 or do it in the middle of the summer when you're not even fertilizing. 2035 02:28:54.680 --> 02:28:58.280 Just want to put it out do it then. Asmite Texas dot com 2036 02:28:58.399 --> 02:29:01.920 is where you can get more information. On it, and I would recommend 2037 02:29:01.000 --> 02:29:05.120 that you look into that and do that. We're gonna now go to Southwest 2038 02:29:05.120 --> 02:29:09.920 Houston and talk to John. Hello, John, Hi, Escape, how 2039 02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:13.360 are you doing today? Good sir? How can we help Loie L? 2040 02:29:13.440 --> 02:29:16.239 D Well. I'm in Zone G in the Houston area, and I have 2041 02:29:16.440 --> 02:29:22.760 a maple tree up front, and I notice a fine like a goose, 2042 02:29:22.959 --> 02:29:26.799 like you know, like a mesh over some of the branches. It's not 2043 02:29:26.840 --> 02:29:31.879 but does it fine mesh? Yes? What is that an insect? And 2044 02:29:31.000 --> 02:29:33.559 well, how do I treat it? Yeah, that's a caterpillar that's feeding 2045 02:29:33.639 --> 02:29:37.840 on the branches, and it's out on the branches. It's not on the 2046 02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:43.120 trunk right correct. Okay, that is a caterpillar and it's eating the leaves 2047 02:29:43.159 --> 02:29:46.319 out there. Now, if you do nothing, the tree is gonna live. 2048 02:29:46.239 --> 02:29:52.840 Usually early on in the season like this, they are not very bad. 2049 02:29:52.239 --> 02:29:56.399 They may come back in the fall and be a lot more of them 2050 02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.680 and cover more of the branches and take off more of the leaves. If 2051 02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:03.000 it's one thing, you can reach to knock the webs apart. Wasps will 2052 02:30:03.040 --> 02:30:07.079 get in there and carry caterpillars away, or you can spray it, but 2053 02:30:07.239 --> 02:30:11.799 you have to be able to get the spray inside the webbing. So if 2054 02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:15.360 it's a big tree with webs really high and you can't reach them with a 2055 02:30:15.399 --> 02:30:18.120 long pole or with a strong stream of water to break open the webs, 2056 02:30:18.959 --> 02:30:22.280 then you just you're not able to treat for it. But if you can 2057 02:30:22.360 --> 02:30:28.280 reach it, then you can spray those leaves and kill the caterpillars. Okay, 2058 02:30:28.440 --> 02:30:31.040 old on, That won't detect the tree, do you Now? It 2059 02:30:31.159 --> 02:30:35.680 just weakens a little bit, but not much. Trees are able to lose 2060 02:30:35.719 --> 02:30:39.600 their foliage and bounce back there. They're pretty resilient. Okay, Okay, 2061 02:30:39.920 --> 02:30:43.920 thank you all right, Good luck, John, thanks for the call. 2062 02:30:43.200 --> 02:30:48.440 Appreciate your call very very much. You've heard me talk about green Pro before. 2063 02:30:48.600 --> 02:30:54.680 Green Pro is a company that comes out and they do core aeration for 2064 02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:58.200 you. Now what does that mean. That means you push a plug a 2065 02:30:58.319 --> 02:31:03.200 machine into the ground and pull a plug of soil out and drop it on 2066 02:31:03.319 --> 02:31:07.000 the surface. That creates this hole. That's important. It gets oxygen into 2067 02:31:07.079 --> 02:31:13.040 the root zone. It breaks through compacted dense clays that don't drain well. 2068 02:31:13.600 --> 02:31:18.360 And then you follow that with a compost top dressing a very finely screened high 2069 02:31:18.440 --> 02:31:22.959 quality compost and a lot of it washes down into those holes over time and 2070 02:31:24.120 --> 02:31:28.559 it builds that soil structure and quality over time, so your lawn gets better. 2071 02:31:28.879 --> 02:31:31.639 You've got a lawn that's struggling, you need to get some vigor in 2072 02:31:31.719 --> 02:31:33.719 it. You need to get to fill in better, you need to get 2073 02:31:33.760 --> 02:31:39.840 it to thrive. Water and nutrients are all important, but improving that structure 2074 02:31:39.959 --> 02:31:43.399 is also very important, and green Pro does that. Their website is greenpro 2075 02:31:43.920 --> 02:31:48.639 dot net greenpro dot net. If you give them a call, they'll come 2076 02:31:48.680 --> 02:31:54.079 out now. They service the northwest quadrant of Houston, so that includes if 2077 02:31:54.120 --> 02:31:58.360 you live in Spring and Cypres and the woodlands in Conroe and willis Over, 2078 02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:05.760 West Magnolia, Montgomery, down South I Katie, West Houston, Central Houston, 2079 02:32:05.840 --> 02:32:11.440 and then up toward North Houston. That's their area Greenpro dot net. 2080 02:32:11.879 --> 02:32:16.239 This is a process. They bring out very nice, expensive equipment and some 2081 02:32:16.479 --> 02:32:20.120 high quality materials and they do the job for you. It's not a cheap 2082 02:32:20.159 --> 02:32:22.239 thing. It's an investment. But listen, when you're dealing with a lawn 2083 02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:26.360 that's struggling, it's one of the most important investments that you can make. 2084 02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:28.639 We're gonna take a little break here. I'll be back the number seven one 2085 02:32:28.719 --> 02:32:33.040 three two point two kt r H and Charlie will be You'll be first up 2086 02:32:33.079 --> 02:32:46.079 when we come back. Welcome back to guard Line. Hey, good have 2087 02:32:46.200 --> 02:32:48.399 you with us today. We had a little bit of time left. Here 2088 02:32:48.520 --> 02:32:54.399 is our last segment of the day. Listen. If you're looking to have 2089 02:32:54.479 --> 02:32:58.399 a picture perfect lawn. I mean I'm talking to talk of the town lawn, 2090 02:32:58.559 --> 02:33:01.280 right, sweet green can help you achieve just that. You know, 2091 02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:07.760 it's one of the highest analysis of an organic plant food. Basically eleven percent 2092 02:33:07.920 --> 02:33:11.920 nitrogen when it applies, has got that wonderful fragrance because it's made from a 2093 02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:16.639 molasses base, smells very sweet, and the microbes are going to love the 2094 02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:20.719 environment that it creates in the root system, providing that carbon that they need 2095 02:33:20.319 --> 02:33:24.879 in order to thrive. When the soil is good, when microbes are happy, 2096 02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:28.120 your lawn's going to thrive. It's going to release those nutrients. They're 2097 02:33:28.159 --> 02:33:31.280 going to make sure the nutrients get released for the soil, for the plant 2098 02:33:31.559 --> 02:33:35.399 roots, and when you have that, you end up with a good dense 2099 02:33:35.479 --> 02:33:41.559 lawn. Nitrophosky sweet green available many many places. You're going to find it 2100 02:33:41.639 --> 02:33:45.159 done in Kingwood at the Ace Hardware store there. You're going to find it 2101 02:33:45.239 --> 02:33:50.479 in Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff down South Lake Hardware in Angleton. 2102 02:33:50.639 --> 02:33:54.399 You're going to find it at Fisher's Hardware in Clute, excuse me, Lake 2103 02:33:54.440 --> 02:33:58.000 Hardware also Inclute, and Fisher's Hardware down in Baytown. There we go. 2104 02:34:00.079 --> 02:34:05.000 That is many, several of the many places you're gonna find Sweet Green Night 2105 02:34:05.120 --> 02:34:07.879 fash products. Easy to find those things. We're going to now head out. 2106 02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:13.639 Let's see, we're going to go to Charlie in Friends would Charlie, 2107 02:34:13.680 --> 02:34:18.120 how are you today? Good morning, skip fine, thank you, hope 2108 02:34:18.159 --> 02:34:20.840 you're the same. My wife and I had a lot of fun in the 2109 02:34:20.920 --> 02:34:26.920 last couple of days going our second fight with the web works. A lot 2110 02:34:26.959 --> 02:34:33.079 of fun being out there most of the afternoon wondering if you have a good 2111 02:34:33.440 --> 02:34:39.440 preventive measure we can apply. It's the appropriate time next year so we don't 2112 02:34:39.520 --> 02:34:43.360 have all this fun. Yeah. Well, you know, the moths come 2113 02:34:43.399 --> 02:34:46.399 out and you never know exactly when they're going to show up, and they 2114 02:34:46.520 --> 02:34:50.719 lay their eggs and so you don't know what's going on up there, and 2115 02:34:50.840 --> 02:34:54.239 then next thing you know, one day you happen to glance up and see 2116 02:34:54.239 --> 02:34:58.799 all these webs? Will it if you glance up more often and catch them 2117 02:34:58.840 --> 02:35:01.680 earlier, you can a little spray over the foliage, and then any of 2118 02:35:01.719 --> 02:35:07.319 the webworms that are beginning to eat foliage you shut them down right then once 2119 02:35:07.399 --> 02:35:09.000 the web's form, you got to break open the webs to get the spray 2120 02:35:09.120 --> 02:35:13.200 in because you got to eat it on the foliage. The caterpillars are eating 2121 02:35:13.319 --> 02:35:18.879 inside that webbing. So most people, the trees are too big to do 2122 02:35:18.040 --> 02:35:22.079 that. They don't have a long pole to break up the webs. They 2123 02:35:22.159 --> 02:35:24.440 don't have a little spray or device that will shoot a stream that far to 2124 02:35:24.520 --> 02:35:28.600 break them up, and we're left with just letting nature take its course. 2125 02:35:30.159 --> 02:35:35.079 They have their natural enemies. The trees bounce back after webworm damage. It 2126 02:35:35.159 --> 02:35:39.360 doesn't do them any good, but it doesn't kill them, and it's unsightly. 2127 02:35:39.079 --> 02:35:41.920 So that's kind of the trade off that are hiring somebody to come in 2128 02:35:43.120 --> 02:35:46.680 and do a spray over the whole tree. Is there anything you can sprail 2129 02:35:46.799 --> 02:35:52.120 the trunk? Do they just fly in? Yeah? They fly The true 2130 02:35:52.159 --> 02:35:56.520 webworms fly in. There's a tent caterpillar that crawls up and down the trunk, 2131 02:35:56.920 --> 02:35:58.639 and little herds. You'll see those as herds on the trunk. But 2132 02:35:58.719 --> 02:36:03.440 they're webs tend to be in the crotches of branches where there's a V shape, 2133 02:36:03.600 --> 02:36:07.639 you know, where a branch comes up and forks into two right in 2134 02:36:07.760 --> 02:36:09.600 that crotch of the branch there, as they call it. That's where the 2135 02:36:09.719 --> 02:36:15.079 tent caterpillar webbing occurs. But you're describing something that's more like a fall web 2136 02:36:15.120 --> 02:36:20.639 warm most likely. Okay, so there's really no really, no good preventive 2137 02:36:20.760 --> 02:36:24.760 if you can't reach the limbs with your sprayer. No, no, not 2138 02:36:24.920 --> 02:36:28.120 really, not really. I mean, I guess I've never heard anybody talking 2139 02:36:28.159 --> 02:36:31.040 about putting a systemic insecticide in the soil to go way up in the trees. 2140 02:36:33.799 --> 02:36:37.559 Might be worth looking into that. That's a that is a you know, 2141 02:36:37.760 --> 02:36:41.600 like killing a bug with a hammer. It's a little bit of overkill. 2142 02:36:43.440 --> 02:36:48.120 But uh yeah, that and there's secondary issues with that sometimes, So 2143 02:36:48.360 --> 02:36:52.520 I wouldn't generally recommend it, But that might be a possibility, but you'd 2144 02:36:52.559 --> 02:36:54.280 have to do it way ahead of time because it takes time for that stuff 2145 02:36:54.319 --> 02:37:00.239 to get up there in the trees. Alrighty skip well, thank you very 2146 02:37:00.280 --> 02:37:03.120 much information and always enjoy hearing you every Saturday. Well, thank you, 2147 02:37:03.159 --> 02:37:07.959 I appreciate nice nice to talk to you. You take care you by bye 2148 02:37:07.000 --> 02:37:11.760 bye uh. Nitropous Speaking of bugs, Nitrovios has a product called bug Out 2149 02:37:11.840 --> 02:37:16.399 Max. Bug Out Max is an insecticide that it's quite persistent in the soil. 2150 02:37:16.520 --> 02:37:20.120 You put it down now and it'll carry you through the summer months and 2151 02:37:20.399 --> 02:37:24.600 in stopping things like chinchbugs which should be showing up here in the next couple 2152 02:37:24.639 --> 02:37:31.520 of months. If sod webworms decide to rear their uglyhead, well, the 2153 02:37:31.680 --> 02:37:35.600 Nitroposs Bugout Max will be around for them as well. Fleas and ticks for 2154 02:37:35.760 --> 02:37:39.799 example, fire ants crawling around on the surface up there. It will get 2155 02:37:39.840 --> 02:37:45.000 to those and do a very very good job of it. So bottom line 2156 02:37:45.159 --> 02:37:48.159 is you put it out, you water it in, and it takes care 2157 02:37:48.159 --> 02:37:52.079 of things going from there. Within forty eight hours, it's pretty much done 2158 02:37:52.120 --> 02:37:54.680 the total control of the insect that it's after. But again it sticks around 2159 02:37:56.040 --> 02:38:00.239 through the season. Nitro Foss bug Out Max available plants and things up in 2160 02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:07.600 Brenham, Jim's Hardware in Montgomery, Fisher's Hardware in Baytown for example, what's 2161 02:38:07.719 --> 02:38:13.200 head now up to Andy and spring? Hello? Andy? Yeah, hi 2162 02:38:13.280 --> 02:38:16.200 Skip, thanks for taking the call. Yes, sir, I've got St. 2163 02:38:16.239 --> 02:38:22.239 Augustine grass in my backyard in a corner. There's no sun to fall 2164 02:38:22.319 --> 02:38:26.239 shade, so it's just dirt. Saint Augustine won't spread out into that area. 2165 02:38:26.680 --> 02:38:28.600 Can I see that? For like with rye grass or something in the 2166 02:38:28.680 --> 02:38:31.440 cool season? Yeah, in the cool season you can. You can plant 2167 02:38:31.479 --> 02:38:37.639 that in late October early November and get it through the cool season. But 2168 02:38:37.719 --> 02:38:39.360 then when it heats up, the ryet is going to kind of melt out 2169 02:38:39.520 --> 02:38:45.879 and turn yellow and shrivel away. It'll just be a temporary fix. You 2170 02:38:45.959 --> 02:38:48.840 might want to get creative and think about, well, what else could be 2171 02:38:48.920 --> 02:38:52.399 done with that area? You know. The simplest thing is to put a 2172 02:38:52.520 --> 02:38:56.360 nice, good thick mulch over the surface and maybe plant a few things that 2173 02:38:56.639 --> 02:39:00.840 will take the shade. Could be shrubs, it could be like riopy or 2174 02:39:00.920 --> 02:39:03.479 Aztec grass or one of those kind of things. Or it could be a 2175 02:39:03.520 --> 02:39:07.399 groundcover you could plant in that area. So I think it may be a 2176 02:39:07.479 --> 02:39:11.399 situation of you know, as they say, when life gives you lemons, 2177 02:39:11.399 --> 02:39:16.360 make lemonade. It may be like give up on the grass unless you can 2178 02:39:16.440 --> 02:39:22.360 find a way to significantly increase the light intensity by doing some print. Well, 2179 02:39:22.399 --> 02:39:24.520 I appreciate the tip, Skip, thanks so much. All right, 2180 02:39:24.680 --> 02:39:26.319 good luck with that, Andy. Yeah, that is a that is a 2181 02:39:26.600 --> 02:39:31.600 challenge area when we hit that spot where we have a lawn, but it's 2182 02:39:31.840 --> 02:39:37.120 just not you know, just not quite enough light to keep it going. 2183 02:39:37.600 --> 02:39:41.200 Really good there, all right, we're gonna go now to Magnolia and we're 2184 02:39:41.200 --> 02:39:43.280 gonna talk to Manty Monty if I can find the button. There we go. 2185 02:39:43.760 --> 02:39:46.760 How are you today? Pretty good? How you doing, Skip? 2186 02:39:48.120 --> 02:39:50.440 I'm doing well? Thank you? Yeah good. I've got a lot of 2187 02:39:50.760 --> 02:39:54.479 crepe myrtle pups coming up everywhere, and I can mow over them and mulch 2188 02:39:54.559 --> 02:39:58.319 them, no problem with that. But now I got them growing in like 2189 02:39:58.399 --> 02:40:01.600 the crotch of the tree, and I trimmed them out of there about two 2190 02:40:01.639 --> 02:40:05.760 weeks ago, and now they're already two feet tall. I was wondering if 2191 02:40:05.799 --> 02:40:09.920 there's something I can paint on there without making the rest of the tree sick 2192 02:40:09.159 --> 02:40:13.959 or you're talking about stuff coming off the base of the trunk. Yes, 2193 02:40:13.520 --> 02:40:20.040 okay, I just dealt with some of those myself. And here's the thing. 2194 02:40:20.280 --> 02:40:22.559 When a shoot comes out of the bottom of a tree like a crape 2195 02:40:22.600 --> 02:40:26.399 myrtle, at the base of the shote, you don't see it, but 2196 02:40:26.479 --> 02:40:28.760 there's a whole bunch of little buds that are hidden in there and their dormant, 2197 02:40:30.239 --> 02:40:33.879 okay, And when you cut that shoot off, those buds sprout. 2198 02:40:33.000 --> 02:40:35.079 So where you had one shoot, now you got a bunch of them coming 2199 02:40:35.159 --> 02:40:39.000 up. And so, yeah, you're fighting. You're fighting a losing battle 2200 02:40:39.440 --> 02:40:43.319 if you can go right up against the trunk of the tree itself or the 2201 02:40:43.440 --> 02:40:46.440 top of the root wherever it's coming out and literally almost like gouget out. 2202 02:40:46.600 --> 02:40:50.120 I mean, just prune it as close as you can get to that. 2203 02:40:50.719 --> 02:40:54.399 I used to know a guy who used a crowbar and a hammer. He'd 2204 02:40:54.479 --> 02:40:56.559 use that little hook on the end of a crow bar and he'd stick it 2205 02:40:56.680 --> 02:41:00.479 up there on that thing, and he'd hit it with a hammer and gouge 2206 02:41:00.520 --> 02:41:03.959 out that section and get all those buds away from the base and then spray 2207 02:41:03.040 --> 02:41:07.399 it with a product called sucker stopper. Sucker stopper, it's a hopper, 2208 02:41:07.719 --> 02:41:13.159 it's a hormone. Plants make their own hormones, some cause growth on some 2209 02:41:13.600 --> 02:41:18.559 effect plants in other ways, but sucker stopper is a particular kind of hormone 2210 02:41:18.639 --> 02:41:22.760 that that kind of quiets down that tendency to want to re sprout. And 2211 02:41:22.920 --> 02:41:28.000 it's not a one to layman forever it's fixed, but a start by getting 2212 02:41:28.040 --> 02:41:30.719 rid of all the buds by you know, not just prning. If you 2213 02:41:30.799 --> 02:41:35.079 leave little one in stubs, you're just sentencing yourself to a thousand more suckers 2214 02:41:35.280 --> 02:41:37.520 and the coming. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm running into. Yeah, 2215 02:41:37.559 --> 02:41:41.040 there you go. Well that hopefully that will help help for that's what 2216 02:41:41.120 --> 02:41:43.520 I do with mine, all right, I sure do appreciate it, all 2217 02:41:43.600 --> 02:41:46.520 right, take care out there, Magnolia. Hi, all right, thank 2218 02:41:46.520 --> 02:41:52.639 you, you bet, take care. Wow. Another one in the books 2219 02:41:52.680 --> 02:41:56.639 there, Hey, don't forget. Tonight the Exchange Club the Sugarland presents a 2220 02:41:56.840 --> 02:42:01.040 Night to Remember, honoring our fallen heroes. They're going to have quite an 2221 02:42:01.079 --> 02:42:05.319 event. Grammy Singer, Grammy winning singers, brass band, a thirty member 2222 02:42:05.440 --> 02:42:11.200 chorus. They are going to be at in sugar Land at the town Square 2223 02:42:11.399 --> 02:42:16.120 in front of the City Hall facade. It's free, It's tonight, only 2224 02:42:16.799 --> 02:42:24.280 seven o five pm a night to remember our fallen heroes. I highly recommend 2225 02:42:24.360 --> 02:42:30.440 you also take some canned food to donate the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry. 2226 02:42:30.479 --> 02:42:33.239 It's gonna be collecting canned food as well. It just makes it a 2227 02:42:33.319 --> 02:42:37.239 win win win event. Overall. I want to remind you too, it's 2228 02:42:37.280 --> 02:42:41.319 coming out a long time from now, but June fifteenth, I'll be at 2229 02:42:41.399 --> 02:42:45.159 wild Birds Unlimited in bel Air and I'll tell you more about that as we 2230 02:42:45.239 --> 02:42:45.840 get closer.