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Kat r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor, so

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just watch him as a sign.
Well, good, good Sunday morning.

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We are happy to have you listening
to garden Line this morning, and we're

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gonna do some garden and talk.
I won't give you a phone number,

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so you can give us a call, get you on the board so we

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can talk about the things that you
are interested in. That number is seven

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one three, two, one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four,
and Josh, we'll get you on the

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board and we can talk gardening.
I'm still kind of dark outside, so

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we're it's a good time to be
curled up with a cup of coffee listening

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to the radio and I don't know, maybe talking some gardening with us.

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I'm gonna go over a bunch of
different things as we go through the day

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today. But before we before we
get too far into it, we've got

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Phil out here in Spring and we
want to go start off with him.

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See what we're gonna talk about with
Phil. Good morning, Phil Money,

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Good morning, school. Yeah,
I had two different questions. One had

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to do with craig myrtles and least
five feet. But I noticed this spring

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and maybe it did this before and
I didn't notice it. Look when it

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leased out, it was late.
Getting worried about it because other create mules

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are leaked out side and will it
worked itself? Well, I need to

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come in where I'm getting you cutting
out on me a whole lot. Um.

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I don't know if it's the what
I'm hearing is you're concerned that the

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maybe the createmurdle leaked out late later
than others. Is that the gist of

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it? No, it was hard
leaps out. It's fully leaps out now,

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okay, and then it gradually over
a period of more over about two

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weeks, it gradually spread in a
line north and south across the tree to

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the west side. And it's fully
and so my listen normal. The thing

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I didn't catching that again with the
cutting out is um, what was it

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that spread from north to outside?
Me? Yeah, Phil phill up.

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We have to get you to We'll
have to get your call back. Maybe

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if you can get a landline or
something, or try another call seat with

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Josh pittsgog work. I'm just I'm
not gonna be able to hear enough to

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be able to help. But please
do give us give it a try back.

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Okay, appreciate that. Thank you
very much. We are let's see

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our phone number this morning. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Boy, yesterday was a
great, a great day out at K

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and m Ace Hardwring Kingwood. We
were out there, and for all of

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those of you who came out yesterday, uh, it was it was great

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to meet you. I mean,
it was good to see so many different

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folks that listen to the station.
And I know those of you who came

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out, Uh do you agree with
me that? Wow, what a what

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a hardware store they have out there
at K and MS in Kingwood. If

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you didn't get to come out yesterday, you still you've got and just see

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the place it is. You will
be very very surprising and impressed at just

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what all they have. I mean, it's I could sit here all day

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talking about I bet you didn't know
you found you could get one of these

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at a hardware store, right Well, remember the old days, you know,

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growing up we had a little Ace
hardware store in our town and it

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was the typical little hardware store kind
of what you expect. Ace is evolving

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in so many many good ways.
I you know, like back in my

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day there was in a big green
egg barbecue section with many other great brands.

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There wasn't a gosh the k and
m Ace even had a lady's shop

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area where you could get all kinds
of jewelry and purses and bling for the

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house and bling for you and you
know what I'm talking about. It just

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like, my goodness, this is
uh, this is way beyond kind of

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a one stop shop. But anyway, it was good to be out there.

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Thank you guys for hosting me out
at East and thank everybody that came

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out got to visit with that day. All Right, we're gonna go back

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and give one more shot here,
Phil, Let's try it one more time

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to see if we can get it
to work this time. So I think

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where we are as you've got a
craig myrtle. It leaked out a little

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late, but it did leaf out, and now something's going on from north

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to south and what is that something? Okay? Is this a better line

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by so far? Yes? Okay? What it did is It started on

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the very east side and it leaked
out beginning there there was nothing on the

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west side. But over the course
of about the least two weeks, it

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finally moved all the way over to
the west side, and it was kind

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of in It traveled in the north
south playing moving from east to west,

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you know. And I'd never seen
a tree do that before. Okay,

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now that is kind of unusual,
and it is definitely one tree. It's

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not multi stems coming out and each
stem is acting different. Yes, it's

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just going to well, it looks
great now. I don't know. I

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don't know on that one. The
you know, the thing that cues the

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plant wind to leaf out is in
many cases it's how many hours of cold

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did they have before? But that
should not vary within within one genetically similar

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plant. On the other hand,
it sometimes exposure to you know, certain

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kinds of warming things like a reflective
wall or something else like that might have

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an effect. I have noticed sometimes
on different sides of a plant due to

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like cold northern winds, you may
see a little bit of a difference,

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but nothing like you're describing. So
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too well. I hope that doesn't
happen again. Yeah, well I had

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affordable kind of affordable tree service came
out and tramps and trees for me,

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and so I may give more of
the call se see it. But the

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attitude people I talked to you said
they never yet before. Yeah, yeah,

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it's you know, I'm just trying
to think horticulturally more from a sign

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space, you know, what would
cause that kind of development. And they're

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like, I mentioned a couple of
things that could, but I don't know

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if and if it's not done it
before. That's a good that's a good

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question. But it's good you talk
to Affordable tree though anybody knows, they'll

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know. I have one of the
questions for you. It's good. This

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has to do with blueberries. I
plan into some blueberriesis U in Sebruary and

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two different species that I got out
a right to this way, I don't

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know. I'm sorry, arbor gate
okay. And so the time is coming

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when they're rockinging up. I think
they're riping up in June, don't they.

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It depends on the kind of blueberry. But yes, that's a good

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general. So what is a good
way to keep the birds from getting to

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these things. I'll tell you what
we are. We are seconds away from

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me having to take a break.
Do you mind holding and let me let

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me enter that as we come back. Certainly, all right, he sounds

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good. You're listening to garden Line. I am your host, Skip Richter,

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and our phone number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven

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four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four word. Well,

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good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and I'm your host, Skip

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Rictor. We are here to answer
your gardening questions, and that's what we're

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already up to this morning. I
want to head back to Spring and we're

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going to talk to Phil. Phil
we were discussing blueberries and you mentioned you

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had two species. Do you mean
two different varieties of blueberries or two separate

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species of blueberries? Varieties? Two
varieties? Okay, good and tell me

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your question now with the blueberries again, Well, they're they're getting right,

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um. And my understanding is it
as they ripen up, the birds are

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going to get interested. Trying to
figure out a way to keep the birds

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away from them, got you?
Got you? Well, that's not an

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easy task, um, the blueberries, because you've got little berries all over

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the place. You can't bag the
fruit, so about your only option would

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be to have some sort of a
netting that you would suspend over the bush.

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If you just lay it on the
bush the bush, the birds will

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land on the netting and peck the
berries right through the netting. So you

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would need like like a PBC pipe
that you know, arches over kind of

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creates a maybe you think of like
an igloo if it were covered with something

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white, but you're you're you got
a one pipe going north south, going

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east west, and so it creates
the structure, and then it's easy to

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get the netting up over that because
it's hard to pull netting over a blueberry

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bush with all the little shoots sticking
out and everything everything else. So that

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that would be about the best thing
that I can think of, because they're

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just not going to be another good
solution, you know, that is practical,

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affordable, and you probably don't want
to spray certain kinds of things on

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your berries anyway since you can eat
them right right, Well, what's up?

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What does what size mess can you
use? I think you want to

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let the bee the bees get in
the pollen at and everything, right,

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Yeah, most of the meshes are
about I don't know inch, half inch

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somewhere in there. I've actually never
actually looked at the exercise of the square,

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but you know there's they're small.
Think of something you know about with

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your finger, maybe from the most
Okay, yeah, well I'm gonna try

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that then I can. I saw
some mess you's hardware when I was there

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the other day, so try to
get some of that. Okay, well,

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thanks a lot rick keeping it.
Do you have a I feel do

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you have a bunch of berries or
just a few bushes. It's quite a

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few. I've got the Climax and
the Premier, and it seems like the

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Climax is the one that's got the
most on it right now. Okay,

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yeah, well that's a good old
variety. Premire is too, though,

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if you have several and they're in
a row. Another option is people will

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put like a post at each end, and they will stretch a couple of

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wires horizontally over the patch, and
then you your netting can just be kind

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of hanging from those wires and you
just drag it across like you with a

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shower curtain to accept there. Instead
of being a single sheet it's light goes

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up across and down. You kind
of picture what I'm talking about. And

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that way it's easy to push it
back, pull it open. You know,

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you can take care of it.
Yeah. Yeah, when you do

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that is there you have to secure
it somewhere down at the ground to keep

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thanks from getting us under it.
Yeah, there's some there's some species of

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birds that will hop along go underneath
it and jump up in the bush and

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go to work. So you do
need to You need to secure it at

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the ground and on both ends of
course. Okay, well I'm gonna try

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that. Skip. Hi Phil,
thanks for the call. Appreciate you being

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on with us today. We are
now by the way, the phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Let's head out to Fairfield now and we

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are going to talk to Marty this
morning. Good morning, Marty, morning.

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Skip. I have a question.
Oh tell that guy kind of like

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a tent. Like a tent there
you go, yeah, and plug it

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down on the flapping part whatever you
call it anyway, sake it down anyway.

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I have a question about I need
some of the suggestions I pulled up

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a bunch of azaleas out of my
front bed, and it's got shade and

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it's dappled to medium shade two very
large oak trees, and I'm looking for

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some flowering plants to replace it.
I want something flowering perennial. I don't

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want too much here. I want
it to attract birds, bees, and

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butterflies. Two to four feet high
and whispy. I like in sun.

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I like a broom plant, you
know, with the big yellow flowers,

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or a fire carcer plant. But
I don't know what to put in this

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in a shade. It's kind of
whispy like those guys. Wow, I

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know I don't want much to it. No, I'm not at all.

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I'm gonna have to think about that
one a little bit. You know,

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as you were talking, I kept
thinking having some plants come to mind,

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and then you would say the next
characteristic. It'd be like, okay,

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I can't go that one. Okay, let's let's do the main part.

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Shade, flowering perennial. Yeah,
whispy. I think about some some that

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would be good whispy perennials. I
have had ranges and I those are a

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little bit too formal. Um.
I have cannas, I have all kinds

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of ferns and iris and everything else
out there. But and I have ground

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cover. Okay, so I want
something in the middle of the bed to

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give it some two to four the
height. Okay, you gave me a

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good a good shrub for like m
to put up against a fence. That's

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not what I'm looking for. I
just want something in the middle that's gonna

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be whispy and I attracting. And
I looked through Randy's book, and I

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looked online, and I just I'm
not coming up with much. Yeah,

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that's that is one, just to
be honest, that's one that I'm probably

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gonna have to um think about for
a while to try to pull together.

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Because the whispy is the biggest challenge
of it. I think when you when

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you're adding all those things, you
know for further north you could do is

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still be in there. But I
just I don't. I've not found to

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still be to be always dependable down
in our yeah, and in our area.

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Well, I even I got variegated
ginger in the bad backyard. But

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I you know, I thought about
just the leaves. I have also lots

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of leopard dance that I'm looking for
something more um with white or flowers of

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some sort that attracts okay in the
shade. Yeah, so I'm gonna for

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just a minute, I'm gonna ignore
the whispy because that's thrown me off,

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to be honest, Okay, ignore
that. One thing that does well in

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the shade and has has a bloom
like structure on top is a shrimp plant.

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Are you familiar with those? What
a shrimp? Yes? Okay,

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so you can get those in the
standard type is kind of a rusty red

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color or reddish orange. Yes.
Then there's one that has pretty variegated foliage

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with white and green, you know, splotch through the foliage, and then

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has a redder bloom. So I
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okay, for one that would do
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Turk's cap does well in the shade, but it's much it's very far from

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whispy. But no, I have
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yards. I don't want anymore.
You've got enough, Okay, I have

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enough. They're very invasive. All
right. Um, let's see what else

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shade garden Agapanthus might be one.
That's the clumps that come up, you

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know, about maybe three feet high. Uh, and they're I have this

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moment, yea, I have.
I'm sorry, that's why I called early.

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It's okay, that's okay. Well, well that's the problem with you

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calling early. My brain is still
trying to ask for one more cup of

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coffee. Okay, what don't know. Floss flower is nice, but it's

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down low. It's going to be
about a about a foot high. What

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is a Japanese mahonia? Mahonia is
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it grows in a form like a
nandina wood where you have stalks coming up

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out of the cover and it has
a holly like leaf and it has some

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blooms on it, not just outstanding
you know blooms one that I like in

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shade. But this is this is
an annual slash perennial, and that's Hinckley's

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columbine. It's going to get up
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primarily going to be there through the
cool season and then as the weather really

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heats up, it's it's not much
to look at. And so that would

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be maybe another one that you would
consider in that kind of area. I

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ran across that and I didn't stop
and look close enough. All Right,

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I'm gonna put you on hold,
and I'm gonna have Josh I get your

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give you some information to send me
an email, and if you have an

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email ready for you, okay,
and if you would, if you would

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send me some pictures of the op
of the location, that would be helpful.

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And it'll give me a reminder to
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little further than is coming off the
top of my head this morning. Okay,

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well I don't have pictures, but
I'll do my best. All right,

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thanks it all right, thank you, Marty, appreciate that. Okay,

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Wow, you're listening to garden Line
and it's stumped the chump morning.

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I believe that was a that was
a doozy, a good question in a

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totally legit question too. It's just, you know, it's like a Nikki

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if I said, I want you
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you to buy me some clothes,
but I don't want pants, I don't

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want shirts. I don't want anything
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know, and it's like, okay, wait, and we're narrowing it down

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pretty fast. But that's the reality
of gardening is we have these situations where

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it's a very demandable set of requirements
and I'm supposed to be here to help.

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Maybe you can help with the news
stunt the jump. Oh goodness,

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good morning on a good Sunday morning
for a great gardening day. I see

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a blow in the horizon as the
sun is about to come out and give

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us a really really nice day for
getting outside, enjoying the garden, just

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enjoying nature in general. You're listening
to Garden Line. I'm your host,

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Skip Richter, and our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four seven one three two
and two fifty eight seventy four. Let's

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hit out now to Deer Park and
we're going to talk to Jay. Good

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morning, Jay, Good morning Skip. First, before I get into my

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question, I just want to say
how much I appreciate everything you do and

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you bring it. You've done a
great job. I appreciate all you bring

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to the program. I'm a longtime
listener and was really anxious about the transition,

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but it's been fantastic, and thank
you for all you do. Well,

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that's very kind. Thank you Jaye. So my question is is that

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we did a complete rework in my
front yard intu being the beds, got

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them rebuilt up, everything stripped out
starting from ground, went out to Moss

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and got some tips from them on
plants to plant. So I've got a

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couple of plants and I'm not really
sure how to what to do with them

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as far as care for fertilization.
Just your general tips to maximize their health

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and production all right, specifically too
that I'm not familiar with it. The

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chameleons shigashira that they're going to kind
of produce over the winter and then peter

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pan dwarf agapanthus, okay, summer
over summer bloom. Just any idea on

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when I need to be fertilizing,
what I should be putting down focus feeding

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just overall from there, Well,
the communiers you're growing basically year round.

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They're evergreen, and so you want
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don't want to overdo it like you're
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but they do need a regular,
gradual supply, so you can use a

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slower release product to achieve that,
or you can take whatever fertilizer you have

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that's not slow release and give it
gradually over time. And you're going to

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find that at your local garden centers. You mentioned moss. Wherever you shop,

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they're going to have some products for
acid loving plants, and that's the

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kind you want to use on the
camillus. For example, I know that

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Microlife has I believe it's a red
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four. It's not the green bag, but it's like a red or pinkish

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color that is for acid loving plants. And there are other examples of acid

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loving plant fertilizers out there, and
that's what your chameleon needs. As far

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as the agapanthus, you know,
we're looking primarily there in a warm season

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growth habit, and so you're going
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and we're already there, and then
some to give them a gradual feed over

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time as well. You want something
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So if it's for blooming plants,
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agapanthus are going to respond really really
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would that be something on the agapanth
It's like my Nelson's color Star or something

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like that, or more of a
liquid. Yeah, color Star would be

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excellent for that. Nelson's color Star
would do good for that. Nitrofile has

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that color Express that would do good
for that. And I mentioned I mentioned

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the microlife types of products, but
all of those are gonna are gonna provide

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what you want. Just note whether
there's something that releases gradually, and if

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not, then make divide that amount
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Put them about four weeks apart,
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really good results. And Agapanthus likes
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So don't let them, don't let
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it? And it can ask a
few few more clarification questions. I've got

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a minute, So why don't we
try to start on one and then we'll

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come back after break and finish it. Yeah, that's that's perfect time.

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This is regarding the SOD that we
put down. I'm patient, and I've

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put down some of just some that
liquid organics and stuff. But but as

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far as it filling in, there's
some areas it's got some thatched build up

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and I don't know if I should
leave that to pull it out to keep

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it healthy and off to get start
all right, Well on that one,

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you want to if you're gonna lay
side on top, you need to get

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that dead organic material off the surface
because that's just gonna hold your sod soil

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up above your your your ground soil, and you don't want that, Okay,

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So rake it out a little light
roto till in there to get it

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out. But that would be the
way to go. If you have some

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other questions, just hang on.
I'm gonna put you on hold. If

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not, thank you very much for
the call. We're gonna go to break

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our phone number seven one three two
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three two and two fifty eight seventy
four. Well, good morning on a

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good Sunday morning for gardening. Here
comes the sun. It's going to be

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a beautiful day to day. I
was just out in the countryside the other

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day. I'd heading up to Grimes
County to the feed store up in that

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direction and driving through the country side
look at all the people's little pieces of

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property, and it just reminded me
of something. If you have a piece

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of property and you've been thinking about
getting some kind of equipment to manage it

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a tractor. Now is the time
to do it. And here's why.

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Lansdowne Moody they're your choice for Cabota
here in Houston. Lansdowne Moody has our

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Texas Edition L twenty five O one. It has a automatic hydrostatic type transmission

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and it is therefore not one that
you're going to be grinding the gears on.

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I used to have this old tractor
when we had our peach orchard,

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and every time you shift, it's
like, you know, you're fighting and

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grinding the gears. Not with us
one, not with this one. Here's

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the main reason I'm saying you need
to think about this now. Kubota has

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their best deal. I've seen more
affordable than ever, zero down, zero

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interest for eighty four months. That
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I mean seven years without interest.
You're not going to do better than that

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now, lansdown Moody and Cuboda.
There that is a pair that goes together.

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delay. If you're looking. If
you know you're on the fence, maybe

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I'm I really want to get a
tractor. This ought to be the thing

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that puts you over the edge.
And you can just step out to one

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of the many Lansdowne Moody stores here
in our area and learn all about it.

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LM tractor dot com. You know
the the well. The springtime is

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the time when I love to get
out and just work in the soil.

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And when we had our little peach
charger and I would love to get out,

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even though we had an old clunker
tractor that I had to jump start

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about every time I ran it.
It was just good getting out and enjoying

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that. And you know, if
you if you've trying to get some work

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done and you need a rotary cutter, you need you know, a box

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plate or a front end loader,
you can put that all together in a

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package with one of these comboders from
Lensdowne Moody at Fortune. Unfortunately, at

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that time, I did not have
a front endloader, and I can tell

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you I really wished I had,
because those are so handy, so cool

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for the kinds of things you want
to do. You're listening to Garden line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are here to answer your

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gardening questions. Our phone number I've
got a little bit of time for we

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have to take our next big break
of it. It's seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you want a call, we can

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perhaps get started on the question.
If not, Josh, we'll get you

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on the board and we can talk
to you when we come out of our

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break. Looking at the kind of
sky we have today and the kind of

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weather we have today just reminds me
that you know, if it rained,

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I know a lot of the areas
that are here in this show. We

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had a little bit of rain coming
through this weekend, and you want to

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get out, and you want to
check your rain gutters, make sure they're

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not drooping and holding water. You
want to check the bird baths and any

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other thing that holds water from an
old tire still left somewhere in the back,

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to the catch basins underneath your potted
plants on the patio, because wherever

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water stands for a very short period
of time, mosquitoes can do their life

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cycle. And now you're enjoyable sit
out on the patio in the evening becomes

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a battle against the blood suckers flying
everywhere after you, and you know,

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dump those out those, get those
cleaned out and get rid of them.

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Don't give them a chance. I
mean, all it does is just check

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it once or twice a week.
Just make sure you don't have that.

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If you do have standing water and
you need to do you know something about

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it. You can always do the
mosquito dunks. We talk about those before.

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They work very well. You put
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do the work that they're doing.
But in general, just be a good

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I guess patroller of your landscape and
look for those those kinds of things.

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They say a stitch in time saves
nine. That old adage you've heard before,

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Well, when it comes to gardening, that's really true. You know,

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if you're looking at weeds to get
in with malt before the weed seeds

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sprout, or even when they're a
little bitty weed seeds, throw the mulch

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over them and they can't get light
and they're gonna die. That's a stitch

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in time. If you've got young
weeds and you're gonna have to hand pull

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or hoe or whatever, I just
get a little hof slice into the surface

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and knock them out once they get
established. Number one, they're already stealing

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water, nutrienturer plants. They're already
shading your plants. In many cases,

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they're harboring viruses that insects will then
carry to your plants. So get them

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out ahead of time. It is
difficult to pull out a well established weed,

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and when you do that, you
may damage some of the roots system

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of the plant that you like that
the weed is growing by next maybe it's

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a flower or vegetable. A stitch
in time saves nine. Get in ahead

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of the problem and it's so much
easier. One other example of it.

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If you're trying to kill insects and
you want to do it organically, the

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products that you have available work best
when the insect is youngest, so don't

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wait. A stitch in time saves
nine. We'll be back after the break.

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

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with scarre Rictor just watch well

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good Sunday morning on a good day
for gardening. Oop I see the sunlight

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coming across the buildings and the tree
tops. It is going to be an

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house standing day to get outside.
Weather is perfect. Oh my gosh,

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you just can't do better than that. You're listening to garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter and our
phone number. You want to write this

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down seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four,
give Josh a call. Let's get you

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on the boards and talk about the
things that you are interested in. And

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we had we had some discussion earlier
about m plants for shady areas. And

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you know, shade is a challenge
in our landscape. If you look for

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sun, you know, if you've
you've got a spot that's Sunday and well

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drained, you can grow just about
anything, right. But when we start

406
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:03.960
having poured rainage, then that limits
our abilities are our options rather in terms

407
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.839
of plants we can plant, well, shade does the same thing. But

408
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.200
that doesn't mean there's nothing we can
plant in shade. There are many things

409
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.240
that we can plant in shade.
We just have to kind of back up

410
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:18.200
and you know, kind of take
a different look at it and come up

411
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.599
with some other options. And when
we're looking into the shade. One of

412
00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:26.039
the best options we have are our
foliage plants. We have a lot of

413
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.480
the really nice foliage type materials like
aspadistro, a cast iron plant, I

414
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.880
mean, my gosh, that grows
in deep shade, and its name is

415
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:41.240
well chosen cast iron. It is
an extremely tough plant. Colladiums are a

416
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.359
good foliage plant. They bring color, they'll carry you through the season.

417
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.160
Occasionally you can get another season out
of them, but in general, if

418
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.480
you want the big leaves, a
big, giant, beautiful leaves, that's

419
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:56.359
primarily going to happen in the bulbs
or the tubers that you purchased to put

420
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:02.279
in the ground. Kali lilies do
well here too. Killa lilies have you

421
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.880
probably have seen them as a florist
plant. They've got an unusual little bloom

422
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:12.880
that is almost shaped kind of like
a chalice or a vase or something like

423
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.319
that, if you can imagine that, and typically in white, but there's

424
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:19.599
some other versions of that light yellow, for example, pink. But they

425
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:24.240
like a rich organic matter soil.
But they are a beautiful and dependable perennial

426
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:30.279
if you provide them some of those
combinations of the enough light but not direct

427
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:34.680
sun and good moist soil. They'll
do really well for you. And we

428
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.799
have a lot of others. I'll
talk about some others as we go through.

429
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:42.200
One of the ones that we often
overlook are the ferns. I was

430
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.720
at Arbigate the other day looking through
some of the shade loving area that they

431
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.720
have and just examining the different species
of ferns that they have, and our

432
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.680
home independent garden centers do such a
good job of this kind of thing.

433
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.720
But there's ferns like cinnamon fern,
the leatherly fern. There's a little maiden

434
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.200
hair fern. By the way,
we have a maiden hair that's that's native

435
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:06.279
to the Texas hill country. You
go out there and you see a little

436
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.759
like a spring or a seep coming
out of a rock in a little shady

437
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:14.640
area, and there's maidenhair ferns growing
all along a little trickling seep of water

438
00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:17.519
coming out. Wood fern, royal
fern. Just lots of good kinds of

439
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.559
ferns. One of my favorite,
just because it's so darned dependable, is

440
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:28.119
holly fern. It's named because its
leaf is somewhat hollylike it's instead of a

441
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:31.119
little wispy fernlike leaf or lacy fern
leaf. It's got a little bit of

442
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:36.480
a boulder leaf on it, but
deep, deep green, kind of a

443
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.240
glossy foliage. The nice thing about
ferns this is like that cast iron plant

444
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.880
we were talking about. They if
they get to looking bad, you just

445
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.039
cut them off at the ground and
they come back up fresh again, just

446
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.559
fresh new growth. And so it
makes a very tall ground cover through a

447
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.559
shady area. But there are some
absolutely gorgeous ferns, and when you really

448
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.319
get into looking for some other they're
kinds of ferns, you're going to find

449
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:06.839
some very unusual things, some things
that really add a very nice interest to

450
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:09.119
an area. Well. As you
remember, though, when you're doing shade,

451
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:15.199
a lot of things I'm mentioning are
green, And so as you get

452
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:19.079
into shade, the darker green something
is, the more you don't notice it.

453
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:22.880
Or the darker the color is like
a deep purple versus a light pink.

454
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:28.679
The purple's going to go a little
more unnoticed in a dark, shady

455
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.760
area. So what we do is
we try to set our plants out by

456
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:37.159
putting things around them that are like
spotlights that draw your attention to that area.

457
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.599
And one of the best spotlights that
I think we can use is something

458
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.639
called aztec grass. Now, if
you're not familiar with it, first of

459
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:50.639
all, the word grass is applied
to a lot of things that aren't grass,

460
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.320
and aztec grass is not a grass. Think of it like a white

461
00:34:54.599 --> 00:35:00.440
with some green stripes. Leiopy think
of a larioty type plant, but the

462
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:06.519
leaves are virtually white, but they've
got little green stripings in them. When

463
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:08.760
you use that around the bed,
or when you use it to line a

464
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:14.440
pathway into a shady area, it
just draws your eye. It's like runway

465
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:19.400
lights looking at it. And so
instead of just having like a dark multi

466
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:24.039
pathway and then dark loriopy or monkey
grass or whatever and then holly ferns and

467
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:28.639
things that's just green, green,
green green, break that up a little

468
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.119
bit and you can do that with
aztec grass. That's a perennial, so

469
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:36.199
you buy it once and it just
keeps going for you. You can also

470
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.679
do it with annual plants. There's
impatients that have white ballooms. That would

471
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.400
be a really good way to achieve
the same kind of results. Colladiums that

472
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:51.320
have mostly white in the leaves another
way to achieve those kind of results.

473
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:55.800
So when life gives you shade,
there's a way to turn it into a

474
00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:00.639
beautiful area. And I've named what
six or seven plants, we could name

475
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.480
sixty or seventy that would do well. And again, good reason to go

476
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:08.760
to a full independent garden center,
knowledgeable mom and pop shop where the people

477
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.519
that walk up and greet you,
and by the way they do that,

478
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.679
they're unlike some places, and those
kind of garden centers. They walk up,

479
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:20.199
they greet you and they know what
they're talking about, and they direct

480
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.000
you to it. And if they
don't know, they don't just blow smoke.

481
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.159
They find out. They ask somebody
else at the staff, or they

482
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:29.800
check it out. Sometimes you just
like on this show, there are questions

483
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:31.280
that come in and it's like,
I'm gonna have to look into that one.

484
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:36.360
That's kind of a unique one there. And that's why we go to

485
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.400
those places. And that's why I
say that those kinds of places are the

486
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.960
most economical places to shop, because
when you spend your money, you get

487
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.039
something that does what you want,
that last that's like, oh, we

488
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.880
sell it in our stores all over
the United States. I guess it doesn't

489
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.760
do well in the hot South.
You don't have to deal with that.

490
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:02.760
You're talking about local and it really
really important. Another good flower for shady

491
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:07.159
areas, a bright shady areas is
Nicoceana, and they call it flowering tobacco.

492
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:12.239
And they're neicoceanas that are down,
you know, a foot high,

493
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.519
that are very compact. They're nicoceanas
to get you know, third or four

494
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.960
feet tall with big, beautiful blooms
in the summertime. Typically they're red or

495
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:23.079
white or pink, or there's some
that are kind of pale yellow, but

496
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.119
that's a that's a really good one. In Pentas is another good one in

497
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.960
a Gyptian star flower. It needs
a bright shade, but it will light

498
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:35.639
it up. Being a red and
pink and white are the most common colors

499
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.199
of blooms that they have. All
good things for the shade. Maybe maybe

500
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:40.440
we'll come back in a little bit
and talk more about shade, but for

501
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:43.480
now we're going to take a break. If you'd like to be on the

502
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:49.039
air, our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

503
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.519
Good morning on a good Sunday morning, and it's gonna be a good

504
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.400
day for gardening. Oh my gosh, the sky is blue, little breeze

505
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:20.760
out there, temperature is just perfect. I don't know what else could we

506
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.960
ask for. All right, this
is this is perfect. You're listening to

507
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:27.360
garden Line and I'm your host,
Skip Richter. And here is the phone

508
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:29.480
number. You want to write this
down so you can give us a call.

509
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.039
Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two

510
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:38.519
one two fifty eight seventy four.
And let's just go straight out to the

511
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:43.079
phone's. First thing here, we're
gonna go out to Lamarck and talk to

512
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.719
buddy. Good morning, Buddy,
Good morning, Skip. How are you

513
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.599
today? Well, I'm well,
thank you. I have to put some

514
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.360
shrubs in in a spring and a
property I have and it's a very high

515
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:59.159
shade area. What type of shrubs
would you recommend for a high shade area?

516
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:00.519
You know, the den sure the
shade, the harder it is to

517
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:05.039
get good density of shrub, you
know, just not enough light to create

518
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:07.440
that wall of foliage like you would
get out in the sun. Uh.

519
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.719
There's there's a shrub called a Fatsia
japonica. Fatsia japonica. There's another one

520
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:19.840
called a neck cuba it's a U
cuba. One form of a cuba is

521
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.920
called gold dust plant because it has
a little flex of gold in the leaves

522
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:28.280
or actually yellow but in the leaves. Those two can take a lot of

523
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:32.360
shade, and so I would I
would consider those. Uh, the U

524
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.599
Japanese U does pretty good too,
if the shade isn't too dense. Okay.

525
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:43.039
And what was the name of the
first one again, Japonica or something

526
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:51.320
Japonica, Yes, Fatsia fa t
Sia, Fatsia Japonica. I think sometimes

527
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:57.599
I believe that one is also called
Japanese are aurelia also, But anyway,

528
00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:00.760
those two are very, very very
When you look at them, you think,

529
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:04.559
well, that's shrub like, you
know, but but it is.

530
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:08.440
It is a shrub. It's just
not the kind of the bush structure that

531
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:12.159
you would think for when you hear
the word shrub, you know. So

532
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.119
okay, it's just something to put
in the house to please the Homeboarders Association.

533
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:22.880
But no sense in buying something that's
not going to live and have to

534
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:29.119
replace it every couple of years.
Yeah, these are okay? And are

535
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.840
they carried somewhere in spring at one
of the garden center. I'm down in

536
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.800
Lamark. In Lamark, yeah,
you're you're going to find them at all

537
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.480
the garden centers we talk about the
main you know, mom and pops are

538
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:43.559
going to carry things like that,
and you know when you're there. When

539
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.000
you're there, buddy, you may
just ask them that same question because they

540
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.920
probably you know, I don't know
what every every plant that every center carries,

541
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.800
but they may have another suggestion or
two that also fits that. And

542
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:57.840
if you're going to a good independent
garden center like the ones I talk about,

543
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:00.880
I have total confidence that they will
not there. You wrong, So

544
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:04.679
okay, and then they'll called the
properties up in a spring, I'll get

545
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.840
one locally, so those will know
more what's going on in the local area

546
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.239
than down here in Lamark. You
start heading a little bit north in that

547
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:15.719
direction and you've got you know,
our CW Nursery there you have two forty

548
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:16.800
nine, you've got plants for all
seasons. Of course, you all the

549
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:21.480
way out to Arbigate up in that
area, they're just a lot of good

550
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:27.079
Oh and down in the heights there's
Buchanans and they have a really good selection

551
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.760
of shade loving plants as well.
Because a lot of the landscapes in that

552
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:37.239
area because of the big beautiful trees
are pretty shady. Okay, I appreciate

553
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.960
that, sir, Thank you.
I appreciate the call very much. You're

554
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.880
listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and our phone

555
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:50.119
number. Write this down seven one
three two one to five eight seven four,

556
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:52.159
and always listen to garden Line with
a pen and a piece of paper,

557
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.920
because who knows I might say something
that you want to write down.

558
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:59.159
At least we hope we do several
times a day. Let's go out to

559
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:01.920
the woodlands now and we're going to
visit with Jill Well. Hello, Jill,

560
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:09.239
Hello, Skip. I have a
mulberry tree in my backyard and strangest

561
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:15.199
thing. It sprouted like a leaf
or two early early on in the spring,

562
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:20.000
and now there's absolutely not one leaf
on it. But when I like

563
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:23.920
check to see if it's still alive
and pop a branch, it's still,

564
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:27.960
you know, wet and has green
on it. Okay, but there's no

565
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:32.480
use. And then this has been
in the ground for more than a year

566
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:37.800
several years, yes, okay,
and never had this happened to it before.

567
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:43.199
Right now, I'm not sure why
they would have dropped off. That's

568
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.679
something is is shocking the plant.
You know, of course drafts can do

569
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.559
that, but that's not what the
problem is with your mulberry. At this

570
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:53.599
time of the year. It could
be sometimes saggy, wet soil will be

571
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:59.039
difficult on a plant, but from
mulberry, just to drop all those leaves

572
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.159
and not come out, that's kind
of well, the leaves didn't come back

573
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:07.840
from from from winter. Like there
was maybe one or two in the in

574
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.519
the spring, so like they they
dropped in the fall, right, and

575
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:17.400
then there's one or two and they're
not even there anymore. Yeah, that's

576
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:21.840
I don't know. Something's wrong,
Something is going on in the soil.

577
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.559
And exactly what it is, I'm
not I'm not sure what to tell you.

578
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.480
But I tell you what if you've
still got green on the on the

579
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.400
twigs, they're supple and green,
and there's there's juice in the limbs.

580
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.679
In other words, yes, I
would I would wait and it's probably going

581
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.280
to come out. Uh. The
only other thing would be some sort of

582
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.320
a herbicide used around it that might
have had some stressing effect like that.

583
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:47.800
Um, unless you just have some
distinct memory of doing some kind of a

584
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.440
weed treatment around it that might have
gotten in the root system. Yeah,

585
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:55.519
i'd say, just wait, it
ought to bounced back out. But that

586
00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.480
is a strange response, and I
can't I can't think of a disease or

587
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:01.519
insect, you know, particularly that's
causing it. So I think it's going

588
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:06.519
to be a wait and see.
Okay, well wait, Well I've been

589
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:08.679
waiting for a while. I've been
waiting to call too, So thanks so

590
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.719
much for taking it. Yeah,
I'm glad you called and keep us posted.

591
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.199
I'd be curious to know, you
know, if it if it still

592
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.039
doesn't come out, or if it
comes on out later. And because every

593
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.519
year is different and plants keep teaching
us new things, right, No,

594
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.119
I hear you. All right,
thank you so much, Thank you,

595
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:30.280
Jill. I appreciate the call.
Oh goodness. We uh yeah, you

596
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:35.760
know, plants, they do have
a way of teaching you amazing things.

597
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:39.119
Uh. One thing I always like
to say is the plants obviously can't can't

598
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:44.280
read. For example, I used
to have a list of deer resistant plants,

599
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.639
and my my humorous comment is,
yeah I had the list, but

600
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.119
deer broke into my office one night
rummage through the file drawers, and ate

601
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:54.920
the list in some other words,
deer can't read. You know, they're

602
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:58.880
everywhere it says, dear, don't
eat such and such plant, and then

603
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:00.559
you plan it and deer eat because
deer can't read. They don't know they're

604
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.199
not supposed to eat that cotton plant. Let's go out to northwest easton.

605
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.679
We're going to talk with Greg.
Now, Good morning, Greg, Yes,

606
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we're a good morning. Can you
hear me? Okay? I can?

607
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How are you okay? Good?
Good? Thank you. Hey.

608
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We have an important garden dust in
our back yard that has several plumps of

609
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:28.000
sedge nut in them, and we
have already treated them with sedgehammer. Had

610
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talked to Randy last summer before he
passed, and he had suggested a technique

611
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:38.639
of using a cotton glove over your
hand and dipping it into the liquid of

612
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:45.639
the sedge hammer and actually coating each
plant to avoid spraying in a garden where

613
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you have other it's all ornamental plants
and any food producing at the moment.

614
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But anyway, so I did the
treatment about a week and a half ago,

615
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and at about a week many of
the plants started showing kind of a

616
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yellowing and somewhat of a wilting process. But anyway, from reading the packaging

617
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:14.320
and instructions with the sedgehammer, it
wasn't real clear how long you have to

618
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.440
wait for the chemical to really do
its work. You know, they said

619
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it could take a week to two
weeks for you to see the signs of

620
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:23.280
it. But it works, like
you get rid of the stinking things that

621
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I kind of like to know how
long I have to keep looking at them

622
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.920
and have them well interfere with the
other things I want to do. I

623
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would give them at least a couple
maybe two weeks would be a good number

624
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.800
before you would just like you know, weed eat up them off at the

625
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:39.239
ground. By then it would have
moved down into the plant. So if

626
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you're tired looking at the top growth, you can remove it or you can

627
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.440
just leave it. But it takes
time to work, but it does work.

628
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.679
It does work. Sometimes you have
to retreat because there's going to be

629
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some nuts that had not sent a
shoot up yet. So you think,

630
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.440
while I killed it and it came
back, well, maybe it was a

631
00:46:54.440 --> 00:47:00.280
different nut underground that came back.
Sometimes a big strong tuber underground we call

632
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.880
them nuts, but tubers they have
several buds on them and you knock them

633
00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.559
back real far. But one bud
survives and comes on back out. So

634
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.480
be ready to do a retreatment.
Don't let it up for air. Once

635
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.920
it has three to five leaves on
it, it needs to be treated again.

636
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All right, yes, all right, well, thank you very much.

637
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We're gonna go to take a break. Appreciate that call. Greg.

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You were listening to garden Line.
Our phone number is seven one three two

639
00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:30.880
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

640
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four. Nikki, did you know
that you can eat nuts sedge? No?

641
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I didn't know you can eat the
tubers from yellow nuts edge. So

642
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:40.960
sometimes you feel like a nuts and
sometimes you don't. All right, well,

643
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.440
thank you speechless. I had to, I had to follow up,

644
00:47:45.440 --> 00:48:08.760
but I'm gonna drop and we're it's
all news now, bye bye. Boy.

645
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You're listening to garden Line. Here
we are Sunday morning, and you

646
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:19.280
could not have a better afternoon ahead
in this kind of weather. I mean,

647
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:22.199
is it is awesome. It's a
good day to get out and fertilize

648
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.000
the lawn if you haven't done that
already. If you fertilizing, it was

649
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:27.719
like six weeks ago and you put
on one of the quick releases to get

650
00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:30.880
an early green up, you need
to get the fertilizer down now that's going

651
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:35.039
to feed slowly and take you through
the summer. This is the time to

652
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:37.119
be doing that, and so you
want to get out there, get those

653
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:39.960
products, get them ready to go. Get your soil built as best you

654
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:45.159
can. Because whether it's a lawn, a vegetable garden, a flower bed,

655
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:49.719
a herb garden, you name it, the soil is the bank account,

656
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.960
and you can only spend money when
the bank account's got money, right,

657
00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:57.599
Isn't that true? If the soil
is dry, If the soil a

658
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.960
saggy wet, that's a problem.
We need good drink, we need good

659
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.199
moisture content. If the soil is
low in nutrients, that's going to be

660
00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:07.360
the limiting factor. Do you know
there's a thing we're going to nerd out

661
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.599
a little bit here, But bear
with me because I think it helps to

662
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:15.039
understand some of these principles in horticulture. So here we go. I'll make

663
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.519
this quick. There is a thing
called Lee Bigg's barrel. From long time

664
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ago, a scientists named Lee Bigg, a soil scientist came up with the

665
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:29.920
idea of a barrel and the staves
on a barrel each represent a different nutrient.

666
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.960
So imagine a big old whiskey barrel, okay, and each stave coming

667
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.920
up. One is nitrogen, one
is phosphorus, one is potassium. You

668
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.519
get the idea all the way,
all sixteen seventeen different nutrients that are absolutely

669
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:50.039
essential for the plants. Now,
imagine if you cut one stave off halfway

670
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:54.119
up the barrel, how high could
you put water in the barrel? No

671
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:59.039
higher than that, right, because
it just runs out. So that analogy

672
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:01.920
that he created is a good one
because you may add plenty of nitrogen,

673
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:07.119
plenty of phosphorus, plenty of potassium, But if you're lacking in sulfur,

674
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.679
or if you're lacking in zinc,
or if you're lacking in manganese, or

675
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:16.400
if you're lacking in magnesium, that's
going to be what limits what your plants

676
00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:22.920
can do. They can only be
as productive as the least available nutrient that's

677
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.360
there in the soil. That's why
we build our soil, that's why we

678
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:31.559
add compost to the soil, because
compost is dead organic matter. It's organic

679
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:38.320
matter that grow making plant parts therefore
required every essential nutrient or it couldn't have

680
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:40.800
grown. It wouldn't be essential if
you could grow without it. Right,

681
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.480
So when you take a leaf off
a tree, that leaf has a blend

682
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:49.400
of everything that that tree needs to
build a leaf, to function, to

683
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:53.360
do all the biological processes. So
it's the limiting factor that we're looking at,

684
00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:58.199
and that's why we add compost.
That's why we return our grass clippings

685
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.400
when we mow the lawn. That's
why we buy fertilizers. And then we

686
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:09.119
also supplement with the trace minerals,
the trace elements, those kinds of things

687
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.280
that are all the elements you'd never
think of, but they're important for plant

688
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:19.960
growth, are implant important for human
growth. All of that combination provides a

689
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:24.239
bank account. So when the plant
says I need I need some copper,

690
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.320
but I just need a little bit
of it for this function in the plant,

691
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.159
there's copper in the bank account that
it can draw from. Not too

692
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:37.559
much to cause imbalances, but there's
enough. And when you hear me talk

693
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.440
about fertilizing your law, and or
you hearing me talk about using one of

694
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.440
the mineral supplements, you know that
you might find like a Nature's Way has

695
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.079
one. When you hear me talk
about using something like an azamite for all

696
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.559
the trace minerals that are in there, that's what we're talking about. We're

697
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:58.239
talking about getting a bank account that
is stocked with everything a plant is going

698
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.599
to need, because strange enough,
you could have all of the minerals,

699
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.079
all the things you need, except
one being short, and that's the one

700
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.440
that's going to stop your tomato from
producing, your lawn from thriving, your

701
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.800
trees from doing well. It takes
all of them. And that's what we

702
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:19.280
mean when we say spend money on
the brown stuff before you spend money on

703
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.159
the green stuff. Fix your soil, and then the green stuff you put

704
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:27.079
in the ground is going to thrive
and it's going to be money well spent.

705
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.760
It's an investment. And I like
to think of a soil as a

706
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:36.360
bank account because that is a good
analogy. We all understand what happens when

707
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.320
it's called overdrawn ride or it's called
in not much money left there, right,

708
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.039
we want to build a bank account
that it's not just one thing money

709
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:51.320
coming out. It's seventeen different and
more than that, different minerals and nutrients

710
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:53.480
that are in that bank account,
and we can draw this one or that

711
00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:58.440
one or the other one just exactly
in the amounts we need, the timing

712
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.320
we need. That's the seas to
success, and that's what we're raiming for.

713
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:05.920
And you know what, it's something
that nature taught us a long time

714
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:07.679
ago. And I'll talk about that
coming back from break. Right now,

715
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.519
I'm gonna give you a phone number
to call get on the board while we're

716
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:16.000
in break, and that's seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

717
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:32.800
Brag you may well, good Sunday
morning. This is a good day

718
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:36.639
for getting out there and getting some
gardening done. A good day for getting

719
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.239
out there and visiting some garden centers. This afternoon. Boy, you just

720
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:44.239
this is chamber of Emers weather we've
got. Oh my gosh, it's sitting

721
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:46.159
inside and doing a radio show.
I love doing a radio show, but

722
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:51.039
Agent, I just look outside and
it's like the plants and dirt are calling

723
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:52.440
me. I need to get out
there. Hey, let's head over to

724
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.559
the Heights now. We're gonna talk
to Steve and the Heights. How you

725
00:53:55.559 --> 00:54:02.320
doing this morning, Steve us a
skip. I'm doing pretty good. I

726
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.280
had a mulberry tree that was just
full of mulberries, and then the web

727
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:13.360
worms got it, and they've pretty
much I pretty much roted it off,

728
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:16.119
but now they're starting. I bought
a few other little trees. I got

729
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:21.239
a few peach trees and a plum
tree going, and now the web worms

730
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:25.960
are getting on that. I bought
some regular stuff that's supposed to kill bugs,

731
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.320
you know that you just put on
your water hose and stuff. And

732
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.679
I've been spraying it like it's supposed
to last, like for four weeks,

733
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:37.000
and I spray it today and then
the web worms are back tomorrow. So

734
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:42.039
is there something I can put on
these? The key to the first of

735
00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:45.920
all, I'm surprised you're having that
kind of a web worm problem now.

736
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:50.880
Usually we have a little bit of
a spring outbreak. It's very small though,

737
00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:53.280
and then in the fall we have
the big web worm season when it

738
00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:59.440
just can defoliate a tree. But
anyway, nevertheless, first of all,

739
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:01.760
if is this a small tree where
you could reach up there with a stick

740
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:07.800
and break up the WEBSHOI not really, no, no, no, The

741
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:14.719
big one it's probably at least twenty
five okay tall or so all right,

742
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:16.880
and that's what I've been doing on
these two smaller ones. I've been getting

743
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:21.400
a rake and on a ladder and
try to just drag the web all for

744
00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:25.360
then sprays and wall spray. But
well, you want you want to when

745
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:29.480
you can, You want to break
the webs up and then spray, because

746
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:31.599
what they do is they build this
web so they can feed on the leaves

747
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:37.639
inside and be protected against wasps.
And the webs tend to deflects mists like

748
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:43.840
spray. So there are hosen sprayers
that shoot a straight stream a good distance,

749
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:46.079
and with the strength of that stream
you can kind of break through the

750
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:51.360
web because you want to get the
foliage inside covered with what you're spraying.

751
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.519
And the safest thing you can use
is as the products that contain BT.

752
00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:00.960
BT is a disease of caterpillars,
so it works on them. It doesn't

753
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:05.880
kill grasshoppers or lady beetles or anything
else. It's a grasshop it's a caterpillar

754
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.360
disease. The BT only lasts about
a day, but if you get good

755
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:14.880
coverage, it's gonna it's gonna take
them out, and then you may come

756
00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:17.719
back three to five days later and
hit it again. And you may have

757
00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.360
to come a third time. But
the BT is the less disruptive to all

758
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:25.360
the things that are out there that
are helping you fight the pests in your

759
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:30.360
garden. But that would be an
option. But I think the key to

760
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:35.239
success, even with the product you
purchase is getting through those webs, getting

761
00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.880
the foliage covered, because when you
coat the foliage and they eat the foliage,

762
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:46.440
that'll take them out. Okay,
so let me answer you something.

763
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:52.679
This tree I got, it's a
pretty big tree, and it will.

764
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:57.119
I mean they pretty much devoured it
and I had even so it will.

765
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:02.159
It will come back next year or
later on once. Okay, absolutely,

766
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:07.840
you'll come back, and they probably
won't be right back with the new growth.

767
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:12.000
They do run a life cycle,
and but you'll have them if you

768
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:14.199
had them, and now you're going
to have a heck of a time with

769
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.639
them in August, September, maybe
October when they come back again. So

770
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:22.119
just be ready and on all these
sprays, especially on the BT, you

771
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.800
want to spray it when they're young
caterpillars because as they get old and they're

772
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:30.000
about to become moths, going to
a pup and become a moth. These

773
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.440
products are not going to be as
effective, especially the organic BT. So

774
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:37.719
watch for the start of them,
and that's when you have access to all

775
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:40.599
the foliage and you know they'll lay
eggs on a bare leaf. They have

776
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:45.519
a little cluster yellow eggs into the
leaf. And when you first to see

777
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:49.360
some start of the damage and you
start spraying the foliage, that's the way

778
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:52.199
you get ahead of it and shut
it down. Once the big webs are

779
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:54.199
there, it's it's more work,
and it's kind of more hit and miss.

780
00:57:55.079 --> 00:57:59.719
It's more more physical work that you
have to try to just not know.

781
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:01.519
I was getting a rake what I
can reach and find to drag the

782
00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:05.599
webs off, and then I would
just spray them on the ground. So

783
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:08.760
get this BT, Yes, that's
what you call it, justs BT and

784
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:14.440
I'm getting I'm sure Southwest has it
the Southwest. If you go over and

785
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:16.679
talk to folks at Southwest they will
take you they probably have. There are

786
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:21.760
four different bts they sell. But
the thing to remember about BT is it's

787
00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:25.480
not it's not a toxic poison.
So you spray it on the on the

788
00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:30.440
pest and they die. It's it's
something they have to eat, and it's

789
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.239
a disease. So it's like spraying
bubonic plague on your leaves. But the

790
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:38.119
bubonic plague attacks caterpillars, okay,
so they eat, they get it inside

791
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:44.760
of them, and then then they
it kills them that way, But early

792
00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:49.719
on is the way to go,
no matter what products you're using. Let

793
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:52.760
me ask you this, and because
I've got I've got a couple of little

794
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:57.039
smaller you know, eight ten foot
like a peach tree and a pear tree

795
00:58:57.039 --> 00:59:00.559
and a plum tree. It wouldn't
be a bad idea because they're all to

796
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:06.599
spray that stuff now, even before
the caterpillars get on it, right before

797
00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:12.800
the most worms on peach, pear
or plum. They'll attack mulberry, that'll

798
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.800
tack pecan, they'll attack black cherry
and a few other things. But they

799
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:20.800
shouldn't be on those. Hey,
Steve, I'm gonna have to hit a

800
00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:23.400
break here, but I appreciate the
cloud and good luck with that. I

801
00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:29.039
wish you, wish you the very
best. I want to tell you about

802
00:59:29.079 --> 00:59:32.039
a garden center that you I don't
know if you've been out to Kingwood before,

803
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:36.039
but even if you don't live up
in the northeast part of town,

804
00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:40.239
Kingwood Garden Center on stone Hollow Drive
and Warren's Garden Center on North Park.

805
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:45.159
They it's an amazing place to visit. I stopped by there yesterday. I

806
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:50.039
was in Kingwood and I checked out
our friends at Kingwood Garden Center. They've

807
00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:53.159
got all the products we talk about, but they also have one of the

808
00:59:53.239 --> 00:59:57.719
most amazing gift shops I've ever seen. And Mother's Day is coming up not

809
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:00.239
too far away. You need to
check it out out because even if your

810
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.719
mom's not a gardener, they've got
some really cool stuff in there that I

811
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:08.519
think she will love. That's Kingwood
Garden Center on stone Hollow Drive, both

812
01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:13.960
Kingwood and Warren seven days a week. And you've got plants, you've got

813
01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:17.559
bling, you've got everything you're looking
for. You won't be disappointed if you

814
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:23.039
check those places out. Yeah.
I always like to stop into garden centers

815
01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:30.679
like that. We we just for
me. It's inspiration and I learn every

816
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:32.840
time. You know, you go
to a garden center and I'm walking through

817
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:37.079
and I'm going, oh, well, there's a salvy I've never grown before.

818
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:38.400
I'm gonna try that one out.
And actually I brought I brought a

819
01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:43.400
couple of things home from Kingwood Garden
Center yesterday just to try out in the

820
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:45.760
yard, see how it, see
how it does. So when I advise

821
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:50.760
you, it's not just me reading
something in a book somewhere, it's maybe

822
01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:53.599
I've actually done it myself. At
least that would be ideal. Tom out

823
01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:57.519
in Jersey Village. We're having to
head to a break, but I hope

824
01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:00.320
you'll hang on. We'll get to
you. You will be the first up

825
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:04.000
after we come back from break.
For those of you who would like to

826
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:08.639
get on the board with Josh seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

827
01:01:08.639 --> 01:01:15.599
four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Well, thank

828
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:19.960
again everybody who came out at K
and MS Hardware yesterday in Kingwood. And

829
01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:22.000
I do want to let you know
that in a couple of weeks, on

830
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:27.239
Saturday, May thirteenth, I'm going
to be at the arbor Gate, Now

831
01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:30.039
that's a day before Mother's Day.
I'll be out there for a couple of

832
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:36.079
hours at Arbourgate Nursery. Believe me, you will find somewhere between five and

833
01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:40.920
one hundred thousand different things you can
buy your mom. Five thousand different things

834
01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:44.480
that you can buy your mom for
Mother's Day at Arbor Gate. I hope

835
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:50.559
you'll come out Saturday the thirteenth and
we'll see you there. KTRH Garden Line

836
01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:54.880
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

837
01:01:54.960 --> 01:02:12.280
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip
rictor just watching. Well. Good Sunday

838
01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:15.760
morning, on a great day for
getting outside, a great day for gardening.

839
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:21.800
You just this afternoon you need to
either bee in your garden, in

840
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:25.519
your lawn, or out visiting a
garden center for inspiration and for some pretty

841
01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:29.920
cool things to bring home. No, momaid, I had forgotten about that.

842
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:34.519
That is important to give our pollinators
a chance to you know, have

843
01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:38.800
a shot at some some different blooms
that can help support them. Just remember,

844
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:43.079
though, one one drawback is in
your lawn. When you allow your

845
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:45.559
lawn weeds to bloom a number one, it's great for the bees. I

846
01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:49.760
mean, bees love dandelions, they
love chick weed and all that. But

847
01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:52.320
uh, here you're you're building seed
that's going to be in your lawn.

848
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:57.800
So if you are not tolerant of
any weeds in the lawn, maybe you

849
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.360
know that's not the approach. But
I can tell you this dry down the

850
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:02.480
roadside, I'll pull over. I'll
see little white flowers weeds, we're talking

851
01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:07.519
weed roadside weeds. I'll pull over
and just kind of go look at them

852
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:10.599
to see what's on them. And
I always find pollinator insects. I always

853
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:15.639
find beneficial insects. Some of the
things that are eating afids, for example,

854
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:17.400
in your garden are going to be
out there on those flowers. And

855
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:22.400
so when we create a flowerless environment, you know, we got our Saint

856
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.119
Augustine lawns that go everywhere. We've
killed every weed in the lawn. Maybe

857
01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:29.679
not doing a real great job planning
all kinds of blooming plants around the landscape.

858
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.000
You're just not going to have those
guys around because there's nothing for them,

859
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:37.320
there's nothing to support them. No
Momay, you know I would I

860
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.639
would have said, no momay is
what we call June first. When you

861
01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:45.119
get to June first, there's no
mowmay. Josh. We need like a

862
01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:50.719
symbol crashing couldn't sound or something for
when I tell one of those horrible,

863
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:55.719
horrible chokes. Let's head out to
Jersey Village and talk to Tom. Hello

864
01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:01.760
Tom, good morning morning, Skip. How are you today? Better than

865
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:04.079
I? Deserve. Thank you.
Well, good, How can we help?

866
01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:11.440
My wife has a I guess you'd
call it a pondless waterfall that still

867
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:20.079
has a pond, and he observed
some string alja and he has other critters

868
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:28.719
like frogs and whatever that are relying
on that pond. And she wanted to

869
01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:32.119
put some sort of a treatment,
and she got a product that she didn't

870
01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:38.239
want to apply it until she got
more information because it has the environmental cautions.

871
01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:43.880
And she's got a Texas Wildscape National
Wildlife certification and a monarch waystation,

872
01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:49.199
on and on and on. So
you had mentioned something yesterday in your program

873
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:58.599
to somebody about a product that contained
the alga in that situation, and I

874
01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:03.199
didn't write it down and wondered if
that would be an appropriate cure for this

875
01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:08.440
situation. Oh, I'm trying to
remember what we were talking about yesterday where

876
01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:12.119
I mentioned that this and this was
probably though not in a pond. I

877
01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:18.039
don't remember having a pond conversation on
algae. Well, it's called AKA something

878
01:05:18.119 --> 01:05:23.360
you'd mentioned it. I didn't write
it down. Okay, Well apparently I

879
01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:28.360
did, and I'm not remembering now
what what that was, but I can

880
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:30.639
tell you this when you have algae
in a pond, and is this are

881
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:33.559
we talking about a big farm pond
or like a little coipond kind of thing

882
01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:43.519
in the backyard. It's approximately six
feet by yeah. Yeah. So a

883
01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:45.559
lot of the products we would use
on algae are going to be toxic to

884
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:49.760
fish, for example, and so
we don't want to use them in that

885
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:55.039
kind of environment. One thing that's
done by people's little ponds like that is

886
01:05:55.519 --> 01:06:00.440
you can purchase straw, little straw
bales, and the straw is just a

887
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:08.719
dried grass material, but it draws
nitrogen out of the water. And because

888
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:13.079
that's a high carbon straw bale that
you're putting in and it literally takes the

889
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:15.800
algae down. It drops the numbers
down. And I think some of the

890
01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:20.000
some of the plant some of the
places that will sell like to do pond

891
01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:26.119
work, you know, like Nelson's
Garden out there in the Kadi area.

892
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:30.760
They may have an access to that, or they may have another product that

893
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:34.519
they would recommend for reducing the algae
that you have down in the pond.

894
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:40.039
That would be probably the best thing. There's actually there's a lot of different

895
01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:44.679
algae. I think you mentioned filamentous
algae there's a plankton algae and a macroalgae

896
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:46.679
and other things, and each one
is handled a little bit differently, so

897
01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:50.480
it's hard to generalize. But if
it's the filamentous types of algae, I

898
01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:55.920
think you're going to find success with
either the straw bales that you just set

899
01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:59.280
in the pond, the soap,
or one of the products that they may

900
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:04.119
have that's safe for fish and other
things. Great, she misses you.

901
01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:09.800
She was a master gardener out there
at Bear Creek. Oh it's flooded after

902
01:07:09.880 --> 01:07:12.840
Harvey. Oh well you said you
were always helpful. Well, thank you.

903
01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:15.440
That's kind of her. Yeah,
those were those were great days.

904
01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:18.719
Boy tell you Harvey we hit We
lost our office at Bear Creek twice,

905
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:23.039
the Agrilife extension office, And after
the second one he's like, okay,

906
01:07:23.079 --> 01:07:25.599
that's enough. You know that.
The second time, I think it was

907
01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:30.280
underwater for like weeks before you could
even walk back in there to see the

908
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:34.119
damage. And that was a nice
facility served as so many years the Houston

909
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:39.639
community. But yeah, we'll say
hi to your wife. I appreciate the

910
01:07:39.719 --> 01:07:45.159
kind words. Our anniversary is tomorrow, Well, happy anniversary. Hey,

911
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:48.119
thank you. Skip you you need
to do. Is she listening now?

912
01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:51.199
If not, I'll give you some
good ideas. She's always listening to you,

913
01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:55.599
skip, Well, I would thought
her a lot. Since she's listening,

914
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:59.239
I think it's appropriate for you to
buy her jewelry that's garden related.

915
01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:02.239
It has lots of diamonds on it
for an anniversary. Gap. I'm sorry

916
01:08:02.239 --> 01:08:08.239
to do that to you. I'm
just saying thank you very much, thank

917
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:11.360
you for the call. Tom.
Sorry, sorry to stir that pot.

918
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:15.440
Just have to be a little bit
devilish there. All right, all right,

919
01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:17.600
let's I'll tell you what. We're
going to run out to Bill and

920
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:20.880
conro a. Bill, we got
about a minute. How can we help

921
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:28.800
here today? We got you there? Bill? All right? Yeah,

922
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:32.439
here, I'm there you are.
I'm dealing the takeall patch and I'm doing

923
01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:38.039
two applications a fungicide two weeks apart, and I'm in the middle of the

924
01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:42.640
middle of that. Okay. My
question really is after the second application,

925
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:46.079
when should I apply fertilizer and I
shall use the fifteen five, or should

926
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:50.239
I move along to the next round. Yeah, I'd move along to something

927
01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:55.159
that's more gradual release over time.
And you know I've been talking about those

928
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:59.439
today are the folks that we talked
about here, the nitrofoss the folks,

929
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:01.399
the Nelson folks, microlife. They're
all going to provide you with things that

930
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:04.800
can gradually feed out over time.
And that's what I would do. And

931
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:10.159
don't worry about timing with that and
your fungicide. It's okay. Just fertilize

932
01:09:10.159 --> 01:09:14.880
when you want to fertilize. Okay, that's a great. Yeah, alright,

933
01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:17.319
good luck you bet. Thanks for
that call. Rich In Spring and

934
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:20.359
K and Pareland. We are coming
back to you. You guys will be

935
01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:25.239
the first up when we get back
from this little break segment. You're listening

936
01:09:25.279 --> 01:09:28.680
to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our phone number.

937
01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:31.479
Please write this down and give us
a call. Seven one three two one

938
01:09:31.560 --> 01:10:03.319
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two K t R H.

939
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:09.920
Well, good morning on a good
Sunday morning. Excellent day for gardening

940
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:12.439
ahead, day to get out in
the yard, day to go visit a

941
01:10:12.479 --> 01:10:15.760
garden center, day to get inspiration. This is spring. You know,

942
01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:19.399
when you get out there and you
prepare the soil and you plant the right

943
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:23.119
kinds of plants, the ones that
are going to survive. Here that they

944
01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:28.720
are going to thrive here. You
will enjoy the benefits of that money and

945
01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:30.720
that work all through the rest of
the year. And if you if you

946
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.640
pick good shrubs, trees, perennial
plants, you enjoy them for decades to

947
01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:41.159
come, and your home value even
gets better each time you enhance your landscape

948
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:44.920
and make it better. Well,
let's head out to Spring and we are

949
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.239
going to talk to Rich this morning. Hello Rich, good morning. Skip.

950
01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:56.000
Questions are regarding three emergence. I've
done a split application of prodiamine and

951
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:59.880
I'm still and I know pro diamine, I don't think it's good against kalinga

952
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:06.520
and nutsedge. Is there anything along
the pre emergent lines that will handle kalinga

953
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:13.079
and nutsedge? I? You know
what, Rich, I'm going to have

954
01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:15.279
to look at some of the products
that we have on that. I have

955
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:21.640
not checked the barricade label for the
sedges and related plants. I can do

956
01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:26.520
a little looking into that and maybe
comment back on it a little bit later

957
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:29.880
in the show. If you would
like to hold on, let me put

958
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:32.800
you on hold, have Josh give
you some information and you would send that

959
01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.800
to me. It'd give me a
chance to go read some labels. You

960
01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:39.159
know, it's one thing a lot
of plants. A lot of times you'll

961
01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:42.479
have a herbicide says this label for
this and another one's label for the same

962
01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:45.920
thing. But they don't perform equally
well. And I'd like to steer you

963
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:47.880
in a direction of what's going to
be a little bit more effective against that

964
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:55.560
particular kind of plant. So would
you hang on josh that information and then

965
01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:57.800
let me get you a better answer
than I'm going to be able to give

966
01:11:57.840 --> 01:12:00.720
off the top of my head.
Okay, we'll do, thank you,

967
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.760
all right, Well, good luck
with good luck with those Yeah, I

968
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:09.000
tell you the You know, we
have a lot of different groups of plants.

969
01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:12.680
We talk about annual grasses, and
we talk about a broad leaf weeds,

970
01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:15.600
and those are the two big ones. But then we have all the

971
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:18.520
sedges and the sedge like plants,
and that would be things like nutsedge and

972
01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:26.159
kalinga that Rich was mentioning, and
things perform differently. Then we have this

973
01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:30.079
other group of plants that is kind
of caught between a grass and a broad

974
01:12:30.159 --> 01:12:35.640
leaf, and that would be things
think of wandering jew think of dove weed,

975
01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:40.359
or think of basket grass. Those
kinds of things they have the you

976
01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:43.560
look at the leaf and the veins
run parallel to the leaf, but it's

977
01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:45.880
a broad leaf, not a grass
like leaf. Those are kind of caught

978
01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:49.359
in between, and they can be
a challenge to find the herbicides at work

979
01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:53.520
well on them, and especially if
it's in a lawn situation, you don't

980
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:56.680
want to you want to carry your
lawn in the process, so that that

981
01:12:56.720 --> 01:12:59.199
can be a little bit of a
challenge to pull off. Well, let's

982
01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:01.439
head out to pair Land now and
we are going to talk to k this

983
01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:05.000
morning. Well, good morning,
Kay, good morning Skip. Thank you

984
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:09.760
for taking my call. I talked
to you a couple of weeks ago about

985
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:16.039
some plants I was trying to highbiscus
and blue plumbago that had free freeze trying

986
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:19.960
to recover from and I've lost a
few. But anyway, in the meantime

987
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:26.920
it's a forty foot bed raised bed. And in the meantime, the Virginia

988
01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:31.800
button weed is kind of creeping in
taken over, and there's a long,

989
01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:38.359
long runner kind of of thin bladed
grass too. I don't know exactly what

990
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:41.800
it is. I think it came
in with the dirt, but anyway,

991
01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:45.039
I've pulled a lot of it out
back, maybe eight or ten inches away

992
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:49.600
from the plants. I was wondering, can I along the edges of these

993
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:56.199
beds? Can I spray with roundup
or some other weed killer. I actually

994
01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:59.359
have a big piece of cardboard with
a V cut in it to protect the

995
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:01.640
plant. You not want to spray? Yeah, if you're if you're using

996
01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:05.920
something like that, you definitely need
to protect the plant. And this is

997
01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:11.039
just a general answer kind of goes
broader than your question. But whenever you're

998
01:14:11.119 --> 01:14:15.000
using a product of any kind that's
going to kill a plant that you have

999
01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:18.439
desirable nearby, you want to make
sure and not pump your sprayer up with

1000
01:14:18.479 --> 01:14:23.560
too much pressure. That tends to
make it put out a mist that can

1001
01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:28.039
float in the air. So you
want course droplets, low pressure corse droplets.

1002
01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:30.479
You want to just spray enough to
barely wet the foliage. If it's

1003
01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:34.479
dripping off and going into the ground, you're wasting product. And followed by

1004
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:38.199
a rain, you can actually have
some of those products go in the soil

1005
01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:43.159
and do damage to the plant roofs. You want to be careful with that.

1006
01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:46.039
Uh, you know, I'm sorry, What was the kind of plants,

1007
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:50.920
desirable plants that you have in the
bed, high discus and blue plumbago,

1008
01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:56.119
plum bagons, both broad leaves.
Yeah, I would be real careful

1009
01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:00.079
because the Virginia button wheat is tough
to kill and it's going to take special

1010
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:03.399
products and you're gonna have to do
it more than once. And so if

1011
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:08.119
you're gunna spray, you know you
need kind of a weed beater, ultra

1012
01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:13.159
kind of product. There's another one
out. Oh gosh, the names escaping

1013
01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:15.520
me right now. Fertilone makes that. We'll do pretty good job on button.

1014
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:20.000
We'd be it takes more than one
application. But if it's you had

1015
01:15:20.039 --> 01:15:24.439
told me Celsius was one that was
one, well knows, yeah, No,

1016
01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:27.119
Celsius is one. That's not the
one I was thinking of. But

1017
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:30.760
the nice thing about Celsius is we
use it in the lawn. And I

1018
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:32.760
keep saying, don't use broad leaves
in your lawn, broad leaf control in

1019
01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:35.520
your lawn. When temperature gets up
above the mid to opper eighties, well

1020
01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:40.439
we're still inside that that line,
yes, but we're not going to be

1021
01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:44.760
very much longer. But celsius can
go up into probably ninety ninety one or

1022
01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:47.920
two degrees and still be okay in
the lawn. But it's not I don't

1023
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:55.119
believe it's going to have an ornamental
bed label for application, so I know

1024
01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:58.000
it's a long bed you've got.
But anything you can do just to get

1025
01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:01.159
in there with a little spade kind
of fork and try I'm going to get

1026
01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:08.039
a claw thing to maybe, yeah, one a little claw clawing to grab

1027
01:16:08.159 --> 01:16:11.359
the runners underneath. Yeah, that's
right, just kind of I have a

1028
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:14.600
little fork thing that's that's a hold
of my hand. It's not a spading

1029
01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:16.560
for it, but and I just
it just loosens the soil and you can

1030
01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:19.239
kind of shake the weed as you
pull it, and it comes right out

1031
01:16:19.239 --> 01:16:23.239
at the soul's moist. I would
do a lot of him pull and i'd

1032
01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:26.640
especially get it done before the button
weed produces the buttons, which are next

1033
01:16:26.920 --> 01:16:30.319
next plant a cycle seeds and try
to get those out of there. There

1034
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.880
are things you can squirt on them
that are pretty effective, but button wheat

1035
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:38.039
is tough, and I've seen it
get squirted right in the face with something

1036
01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:41.159
that you kill it, it gets
weak and then it bounces back. But

1037
01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:45.319
after that, if you hit it
again when it's in its weakened state,

1038
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.960
you get much better control. So
don't think of button weed. If you're

1039
01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.239
going to spray as a one off, expect to have to come back and

1040
01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:56.520
do it again. Okay, but
again in that situation, I think you're

1041
01:16:56.560 --> 01:16:59.960
going to be if you can take
the time, get you a good kneeling

1042
01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:03.560
bench out there where you can you
avoid all the things that happened to us

1043
01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:05.600
when we get down and get up, and get down and get up eight

1044
01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:10.199
hundred times on a Saturday morning.
Yes, actually, when you're eighty three

1045
01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:14.279
years old, it's a little harder. That's right. That is that is

1046
01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:18.439
right, That is right. I
understand that we all remember sometime north of

1047
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:21.560
forty when we woke up one morning
sore and we couldn't figure out why.

1048
01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:28.479
It only gets worse, doesn't it? But does? Seriously though that you

1049
01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:30.479
know, just a little bit of
time here and there, you know,

1050
01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:34.359
going through a few mornings and early
morning, don't work late, have a

1051
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:39.800
cup of coffee. It's just amazing
how much ground we can get covered that

1052
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:43.880
way. What's the first one you
said to use in the bed for the

1053
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:47.239
for Denny button, We've the first
I think I mentioned, I think I

1054
01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:53.119
mentioned we'd beat our Ultra as one. There's another one that also contains the

1055
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:58.000
ingredient carfentra zone. That's one that
you don't see in a lot of the

1056
01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:02.039
broad leaf weed controller products, but
it has it does a good job when

1057
01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:06.520
you're dealing with the weed like that. And I'm off the top of them.

1058
01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:10.920
I had the names escaping me that
Fertlane has a product that does that.

1059
01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:14.159
I think we'd beat their ultras of
bonide product. And you know,

1060
01:18:14.680 --> 01:18:17.119
the brands not what is important to
me here, it's getting the right set

1061
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:21.439
of ingredients out there. And so
that's that's what I would do. If

1062
01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:26.600
you know, if you can't do
all the pollen, at least do that.

1063
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:30.439
I'll give it a try. Thank
you so much. A great day.

1064
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:32.079
To be real careful with it,
because it kills broad leaf plants and

1065
01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:35.520
it doesn't care whether you think they're
a weed or not. It kills broadly

1066
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:40.000
plants. So yeah, I know
I don't have a lot of don't have

1067
01:18:40.119 --> 01:18:45.079
a lot of leaves on my plants
yet, but day some of them are

1068
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:47.600
struggling to come back. All right, Thank you so very much. I'd

1069
01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:50.119
like your little air track. Kay, thank you for the call. Okay,

1070
01:18:50.279 --> 01:18:54.880
appreciate that very much. You're listening
to garden Line. I am your

1071
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.319
host, Skip Richter. We are
here to answer your gardening questions. So

1072
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:00.840
if you want to write down our
number, if you'd like to give us

1073
01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:04.920
a call, it is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1074
01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:12.800
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. They are there's a

1075
01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:16.359
lot of different weed issues that we
deal without in the lawn and garden,

1076
01:19:16.439 --> 01:19:21.000
and everybody has, you know what, they're varying tolerance for different things.

1077
01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:26.159
And you know, we're we're about
to go to news here in a minute.

1078
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:30.279
But Nikki walked in and you you
were talking before about I mentioned that

1079
01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:33.439
you could eat nuts edge and you
took us fat almond joy. Do you

1080
01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:41.079
know that one of the names for
the edible uh nuts edge nuts is they're

1081
01:19:41.079 --> 01:19:45.239
called earth almonds, And so I
bought some seed one year now here I

1082
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:49.960
am. I hope nobody's out there
listening. I basically planted nut grass.

1083
01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:56.159
I bought the tubers, but it's
it's called tufa nuts tufa and they're used.

1084
01:19:56.680 --> 01:20:00.039
They can be roasted and they have
an almond like flavor. But I

1085
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:03.199
would not recommend them, because it's
like you put them in your mouth,

1086
01:20:03.279 --> 01:20:06.680
you chew a while, and then
you spit out a mouthful of sawdust and

1087
01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:11.239
you're walked with somewhat of an almond
like flavor. But did you know that

1088
01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:15.600
Egyptian pharaohs were buried with their chuffa
nuts in the tombs in the pyramids in

1089
01:20:15.640 --> 01:20:18.319
Egypt? I did not know that
that is one of the many things they

1090
01:20:18.319 --> 01:20:23.279
took with them to the afterlife.
Nuts. Yeah. Can you imagine being

1091
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:27.239
buried with your nut grass? That's
like also, I'd like to be buried

1092
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:35.439
with a bag of fire ants.
Uh and what from for crying out loud?

1093
01:20:35.760 --> 01:20:40.479
Buried with your nut grass and your
fire ants and everything. And anyway,

1094
01:20:40.479 --> 01:20:45.000
I just thought that was interesting,
very good earth almonds. You heard

1095
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:47.880
it here first. You also heard
that. I don't recommend that you do.

1096
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:51.319
By the way, that's yellow nuts
edge, not purple. Purple nuts

1097
01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:55.920
edge is bitter. The nuts are
bitter flavored. You don't want that.

1098
01:20:56.039 --> 01:20:58.439
Don't want that one. But if
you can't beat them, eat them.

1099
01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:21.279
That's that's what I there. You
go, all right, Well, good

1100
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:26.039
Sunday morning on a good day,
Oh my gosh, a good day to

1101
01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:30.239
get out get outside this afternoon.
There is wonderful weather. You just can't

1102
01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:33.960
beat it. And if you just
get some fresh air, do it for

1103
01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:38.039
your mental health if no other reason. I mean, if you just walk

1104
01:21:38.119 --> 01:21:42.439
through a park, get outside and
do that. This is this is like

1105
01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:46.720
free therapy, just everywhere outside on
Chamber of Commerce weather to day. We're

1106
01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:51.199
gonna go now out to Titusville,
Florida and talk to DC. A good

1107
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:58.960
morning DC today. Well I'm well, tell me how you are in Titusville,

1108
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:02.680
Florida listening to guard Line well as
hide Assville, Flard is doing just

1109
01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:08.359
fine. Um. I've got a
front yard and I have between the sidewalk

1110
01:22:08.399 --> 01:22:15.800
and the street, I have Northfolk
lines and also a crepe myrtle, big

1111
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:20.800
crape myrtle, and the grass between
the crape myrtle and the one of the

1112
01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:26.399
Northfolk pines is not growing. It
just kind of dying up and gets the

1113
01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:31.720
direct sun of everything. So I'm
thinking that they're just battling with the trees

1114
01:22:31.800 --> 01:22:34.680
for the glasses. It's been a
good water out of the grass, so

1115
01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:40.359
it's not growing. That's my dealing, but I'm not Yeah, hey,

1116
01:22:40.479 --> 01:22:45.640
d D see what kind of grass
is that st Augustine, Saint Augustine.

1117
01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:49.399
Okay, Well, as you get
a lot of tree roots, uh,

1118
01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:53.920
the soil basically gets filled with wood, right, I mean these are big,

1119
01:22:53.920 --> 01:22:57.560
giant tree roots, and there's less
room for the plants to get their

1120
01:22:57.640 --> 01:23:00.600
roots in and reach good soil.
And that's one thing. Of course,

1121
01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:04.319
the shade under a tree is something. But I think you indicated this is

1122
01:23:04.319 --> 01:23:09.199
a pretty sunny area. I would
I would do a couple of things.

1123
01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:13.880
Have you tried have you fertilized this
spring yet? Yes? I have a

1124
01:23:14.600 --> 01:23:20.319
Scott's botusaster my little commers. All
right, we'll be careful with the ones

1125
01:23:20.399 --> 01:23:26.319
that you know have that combo in
them, because sometimes the products that are

1126
01:23:26.399 --> 01:23:29.840
killing the weeds can also have an
effect on the lawn or maybe the timing

1127
01:23:29.880 --> 01:23:31.600
maybe a little off. But I'm
gonna assume you put that down at the

1128
01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:36.039
proper rate and got it watered in
and everything. I would just I would,

1129
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:39.960
I would check the area out and
see what what do you think about

1130
01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:42.319
soul compaction there? I don't know. If you're in a sandy soil,

1131
01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:44.439
it's not an issue. If you're
in a clay soil, it can be

1132
01:23:44.479 --> 01:23:53.199
an issue. Make sure that go
ahead, okay, okay, good,

1133
01:23:53.279 --> 01:23:57.039
Well, in that case, I
would just kind of watch how things are

1134
01:23:57.079 --> 01:24:00.279
going, make sure it's get adequate
moisture. You might want to contact your

1135
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:05.760
your extension office for your county.
Uh and in Titusville you probably have a

1136
01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:11.560
horticulturist in the office there, but
ask them about a sample. Bringing a

1137
01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:15.399
turf sample in you. They may
be able to determine that there's a particular

1138
01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:18.640
disease, like take all root rod
on it. We're not in chinch bug

1139
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:23.560
season right now, but you know
chinch bugs grubs. A good turf sample

1140
01:24:23.760 --> 01:24:27.720
may help us narrow down what exactly
is going on. Then we know what

1141
01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:30.000
to do about it. Because you're
saying you've got good decent sunlight, you've

1142
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:34.680
got good soil, and you fertilized, so that grass should be doing better

1143
01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:39.000
than it is. Who let me
ask you. Of course, if it

1144
01:24:39.079 --> 01:24:42.359
doesn't, it is baddly with those
greets. I know, I can take

1145
01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:47.119
out a big once a while conser, but what about us like fer jazz

1146
01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:53.680
as it is? If I can't
get the grass to put federick Jasmine all

1147
01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:58.920
couple that work. Confederate Jasmine is
a pretty big and sprawling planet. You

1148
01:24:58.960 --> 01:25:00.920
know, it's not like Asian jasmine
that stays down a little tighter. You

1149
01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:04.479
can keep it a little tighter,
closer to the ground. I like Confederate

1150
01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:08.399
jasmine. Uh, you know,
it's a it's a nice vine on a

1151
01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:11.960
fence or something like that. But
I think the Asian jasmine may may suit

1152
01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:15.239
that a little bit better. There
are some others the advantage of a vining

1153
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:18.800
ground cover as opposed to a clumping
like I'll use a low riopy as an

1154
01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:23.560
example. You know it lo riopy. The clumps can't grow where there's a

1155
01:25:23.560 --> 01:25:26.920
big root sitting right there, so
it tends to be kind of spotty.

1156
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:30.800
But with a vining, the vine
fills in all around, and so you

1157
01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:33.640
get a nice even coverage despite the
fact that there's some roots here and there.

1158
01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:40.640
Okay, all right, and I'll
look into that. Asian jasmin.

1159
01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:44.279
Does that have a good No,
No, it doesn't. In fact,

1160
01:25:44.359 --> 01:25:47.960
it basically doesn't bloom. Now,
there's some types that have some colorful foliage,

1161
01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:50.479
so they are a little extra attractive. You go to a good garden

1162
01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:54.560
center in your area, you're going
to find some that are not just the

1163
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:59.720
plain old dark green that they have
some either yellow or some white and other

1164
01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:02.239
thing in the foliage that are kind
of attractive. And then there are a

1165
01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:05.319
lot of other good ground covers.
I know what Delia is a popular one

1166
01:26:05.359 --> 01:26:10.680
in the South, but it is
a takeoff, running, sprawling booger,

1167
01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:13.600
and so you need to be able
to keep it in control. But it

1168
01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:15.560
is one that could sprawl through there
and fill in really well. I just

1169
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:18.239
think you're not gonna like it,
because it's going to be jumping over the

1170
01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:24.920
curb and jumping over the sidewalk,
and probably a little bit too aggressively vigorous.

1171
01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:29.319
Yeah, because I've got a live
woopie all along my walls, along

1172
01:26:29.359 --> 01:26:31.079
the edge of the house, pretty
much all into the pot yard. But

1173
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:34.880
can I take some of them little
wopee like along the street edge, along

1174
01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:41.039
the side walk, just make a
border? Yes, you bet you can

1175
01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:44.199
dig it. You can dig it
up, take a clump, take a

1176
01:26:44.239 --> 01:26:46.520
sharp shovel through it in two directions, make four plants out of it,

1177
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:49.199
and spread it out and it'll do
just fine. Hey, I've got to

1178
01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:53.640
take a break, DC. Thanks
for calling out from out in Titusville,

1179
01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:56.720
Sandy. We see you out there
in Cyprus. You're the first up when

1180
01:26:56.720 --> 01:27:00.760
we come back our number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1181
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:18.000
Good morning on a good Sunday morning
for getting outside getting some fresh air

1182
01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:21.920
this afternoon. I hope you're out
in the garden or you're walking in nature,

1183
01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:26.640
you're visiting a garden center. Uh, Sandy, I see out there

1184
01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:28.840
in Cyprus, and I almost got
to a minute ago, and then I

1185
01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:31.399
got decided to go to a reading
and come back. So how can we

1186
01:27:31.439 --> 01:27:42.560
help today? Okay, skip,
I need a real big sosh my yard

1187
01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:49.680
in the back backyard. I don't
know what these weeds are, but they've

1188
01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:56.359
got some pink flowers. And then
I think I have I don't know if

1189
01:27:56.359 --> 01:28:00.920
they're the dollar chy or the ones
that look like it's a round circle,

1190
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:09.319
but it looks like a clover almost, okay um. And it's like there's

1191
01:28:09.359 --> 01:28:17.279
like probably by my pen's line that's
about fifteen feet by ten feet that nothing

1192
01:28:17.319 --> 01:28:25.079
but weeds the same August UNI can
barely see. Okay. Well, and

1193
01:28:25.199 --> 01:28:30.720
I did the fertilizer um. I
did the fertilizer um at the end of

1194
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:35.199
February beginning of March, and then
I did the asam the next weekend.

1195
01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:44.439
And then I did the fertilizer again
like last week, but I think I

1196
01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:47.399
did the wrong one. I did
the fifteen five ten. That's okay,

1197
01:28:47.479 --> 01:28:50.079
that's okay. I mean, it's
fine. It's just gonna be an immediate

1198
01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:54.880
release. So you're gonna probably want
to after about six weeks do another light

1199
01:28:54.920 --> 01:29:00.159
fertilization. Uh, going into summer, okay. So as far as the

1200
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:03.319
weeds, Sandy, a couple of
thoughts I have. Number One, a

1201
01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:09.279
broadly weed control product is going to
be effective in killing the existing weeds that

1202
01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:12.920
you have. But my first thought
is why are they there? You know,

1203
01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.920
why is it that the grass isn't
there and the weeds are doing well

1204
01:29:15.960 --> 01:29:19.760
there? It is it soul compaction? Is it that there's not enough sunlight

1205
01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:24.720
for the soil, but these particular
types of weeds there they're getting by there.

1206
01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:29.720
Is it that you know something else
is out of balance or wrong?

1207
01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:32.680
The area is seeing too wet to
dry. There's a lot of things that

1208
01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:38.800
give weeds an advantage over grass,
and I would try to figure that out

1209
01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:43.000
first, because we can certainly spraying
kill the weeds, but if we're not

1210
01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:45.000
fixing the underlying problem, then it's
just we're just going to be on a

1211
01:29:45.039 --> 01:29:49.079
treadmill of spraying periodically to try to
keep weeds out of an area that grass

1212
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:53.760
is not doing well in and we
want the grass to do well, all

1213
01:29:53.800 --> 01:29:56.800
right. And the only thing I
can think of is I've lived here for

1214
01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:01.439
twenty years and this is my first
year having this, and really, to

1215
01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:06.279
be honest, the first fifteen years, I don't even think I did fertilizer

1216
01:30:06.319 --> 01:30:14.159
in my yard. The only difference
is this task. Winter October, November,

1217
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:19.680
December, January, part of January, even for February, those five

1218
01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:25.399
months I didn't have my grass cut
at all, Okay, but maybe once,

1219
01:30:25.800 --> 01:30:29.199
okay, once or twice in the
five months. Is that? Does

1220
01:30:29.199 --> 01:30:31.079
that have something to do with it? It's better to mow the lawn regularly,

1221
01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:34.439
no matter whether you mow it high
or low. If you mow regularly,

1222
01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:39.479
it makes a densure lawn. And
when your lawn gets a dentsure,

1223
01:30:39.600 --> 01:30:42.800
the weeds have more trouble, and
you give the lawn the upper hand rather

1224
01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:47.119
than the weeds when you don't mow. When you mow irregularly, and when

1225
01:30:47.159 --> 01:30:49.960
you cut it back, it looks
real bad until Larry Green's up again.

1226
01:30:50.439 --> 01:30:55.600
That erratic cycles hard on your grass
plant and it gives the weeds the light

1227
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:59.079
they need to get a good head
start. So I would I would give

1228
01:30:59.079 --> 01:31:01.520
a regular mowing schedule as you could. I would use a broad leafwat control

1229
01:31:01.560 --> 01:31:04.720
product. Though. Now try to
knock those out and let's get that done

1230
01:31:05.039 --> 01:31:09.640
before the temperatures are up in the
mid to upper eighties, because we are

1231
01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:13.640
right on the cusp of entering the
warm season and we don't want to damage

1232
01:31:13.640 --> 01:31:16.680
the grass with the products we used
to kill the weeds. Okay, okay,

1233
01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:20.319
So what do you recommend I get? You could do something called wheat

1234
01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:26.640
free Zone from fertiloam Bonide also has
a product was I was mentioning it a

1235
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:29.560
little bit earlier. It's called weed
Beater Ultra. There's a lot of good

1236
01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:32.239
products out there that'll do it.
Europe, in Cyprus, so you're not

1237
01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:39.439
far away from plants for all seasons. From the RCW or Arburgate, those

1238
01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:43.560
places can all steer you to the
product they have on hand that'll work well

1239
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:46.680
with that. With that, you
tell them if you do, oh yeah,

1240
01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:50.880
absolutely. If you're in Cyprus,
there's there is the M and D

1241
01:31:51.079 --> 01:31:55.279
ace and the Cypress area. You've
got the ace up on Jones Road in

1242
01:31:55.319 --> 01:31:59.920
the Cypress area, and they all
have a wide variety of products, absolutely,

1243
01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:03.199
and they can point you to many
options. Take them a picture of

1244
01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:06.960
the weeds that you have, just
so you know we know which weed we're

1245
01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:12.000
talking about when they recommend something.
But those two products i mentioned Ace is

1246
01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:14.520
going to have, They're gonna have
both of them. Thank you, you

1247
01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:18.720
bet all right, thank you,
Thank you for the call. Well,

1248
01:32:18.760 --> 01:32:24.920
you are listening to garden Line and
we are here to answer your gardening questions.

1249
01:32:25.399 --> 01:32:28.560
We will be taking a break now, but we will be back and

1250
01:32:28.720 --> 01:32:30.640
when we come back, you can
be ready to go on the boards.

1251
01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:35.600
Give Josh your call at seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1252
01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:42.600
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Can't wait to visit

1253
01:32:42.720 --> 01:32:45.399
more about some things that are going
on today. I've got a few other

1254
01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:47.920
things I'd like to talk a little
bit about, So please hang around.

1255
01:32:48.199 --> 01:32:51.880
You got neighbors that have not listened
to garden Line before, tell them about

1256
01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:59.000
garden Line and listen to us live
from six am to ten am every Saturday

1257
01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:03.359
every Sunday morning. You can also
subscribe to the podcast and that way you

1258
01:33:03.399 --> 01:33:08.039
can go back and listen to pass
shows. Maybe something you missed. Tell

1259
01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:11.920
your neighbors about that. It is
a great opportunity for people to be able

1260
01:33:11.920 --> 01:33:15.640
to listen. It's always interesting to
hear all the different places people listen from.

1261
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:17.880
Gosh, we were in Florida today, but that's kind of cool.

1262
01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:23.640
But garden Lines here to help you
have a more bounabul garden and beautiful landscape.

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01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:28.880
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

1264
01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:43.680
on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip Director, so just

1265
01:33:43.960 --> 01:34:03.159
watch him as well. Good Sunday
morning. Wow, have you looked that

1266
01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:09.159
side? This is the day to
enjoy this afternoon. Get out and do

1267
01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:12.439
some gardening. Maybe go visit a
garden center, take a walk in the

1268
01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:16.800
park. Good therapy for you there. You know, if you have purchased

1269
01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:19.399
yourself a little piece of property,
maybe you've had a piece of property for

1270
01:34:19.399 --> 01:34:24.239
a while and you are looking,
and you've been looking. Maybe I need

1271
01:34:24.319 --> 01:34:28.479
to get a tractor or some things
to take care of the property. Well,

1272
01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:30.760
I've got a deal for you here
that you need to listen up because

1273
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:38.079
this is unbelievable and it's not gonna
last long that is Lansdown Moody and Cabota

1274
01:34:38.199 --> 01:34:42.000
Tractor getting together. You can put
together one of those packages. Maybe you

1275
01:34:42.000 --> 01:34:45.640
want a Texas Edition L twenty five
h one. Perhaps the nice thing about

1276
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:49.399
that one I like is the hydrostatic
transmission so you're not grinding gears all day.

1277
01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:54.720
You can add a front end loader
or a box blade or a rotary

1278
01:34:54.760 --> 01:35:00.600
cutter, put the whole big package
deal together and get this zero down zero

1279
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:03.680
and for interest for eighty four months. Now, if I do my math

1280
01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:08.880
right, that's seven years now.
This deal is only available until June thirtieth,

1281
01:35:09.359 --> 01:35:12.399
so you don't want to delay.
But if you're looking to purchase a

1282
01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:14.359
tractor, you're not going to do
better than this, And you don't just

1283
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:16.399
have to buy the L twenty five
oh one. There's a lot of other

1284
01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:23.479
good Capoda tractors that are part of
the lands Down Moody program. Now you're

1285
01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:26.159
going to find LANSDOWNE Moody all over
the place. They've got a bunch of

1286
01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:28.760
stores. Wherever you live, there's
going to be a place where you can

1287
01:35:28.800 --> 01:35:32.560
go and get that tractor locally.
Go to LM tractor dot com. L

1288
01:35:33.199 --> 01:35:38.319
M tractor dot com you'll see what
I'm talking about. Drive by there,

1289
01:35:38.479 --> 01:35:42.159
stop in, you'll get they'll let
you sit on a tractor kind of check

1290
01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:45.159
things out. I think you will
fall in love with a Caboda from Lansdowne

1291
01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:51.359
Moody. I was talking about the
other day being out and about and seeing

1292
01:35:51.399 --> 01:35:57.199
things, and one of the one
of the things that I enjoy doing is

1293
01:35:57.239 --> 01:36:00.119
getting out to garden centers. And
I've talked to you about that before.

1294
01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:03.439
Familiar with that, but I was
at Buchanans Native Plants done in the Heights

1295
01:36:04.039 --> 01:36:10.319
and it's like a little secluded hideaway. And I say little, I probably

1296
01:36:10.479 --> 01:36:15.920
should say large secluded hideaway because you
get in there and you just wander through.

1297
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:18.279
You know, there's the shed where
they all have all the products that

1298
01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:25.000
we talk about, the fertilizers,
the soils, pest and disease management things

1299
01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:28.479
that that's there. You're going to
find a great gift shop. And by

1300
01:36:28.479 --> 01:36:31.560
the way, Mother's Day is coming, so if you cannot find something for

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01:36:31.600 --> 01:36:36.680
your mom and the Buchanans gift shop, you're not trying. Buchanans Plants dot

1302
01:36:36.680 --> 01:36:43.479
Com. They're on East eleventh Street
in the Heights and allow some time because

1303
01:36:43.479 --> 01:36:47.000
it takes a while to see everything
that they have everything you can possibly imagine,

1304
01:36:47.479 --> 01:36:54.079
from vegetables and herbs and flowers and
trees and tropicals and perennials and especially

1305
01:36:54.199 --> 01:37:00.079
native plants and all the products we
recommend Buchanans Plants dot Com. I'm gonna

1306
01:37:00.199 --> 01:37:03.479
put the phone number out there.
We've got seven one three two one two

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01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.199
fifty eight seventy four if you would
like to be on garden line. I'm

1308
01:37:08.199 --> 01:37:13.960
gonna start off by heading right out
to at Tascacita and talking to Cheryl.

1309
01:37:14.520 --> 01:37:18.399
Well, Hello, Cheryl, I
skip, good morning. I have a

1310
01:37:18.479 --> 01:37:24.520
question. I'm gonna be putting Microlife
six two four on the grass next week.

1311
01:37:24.800 --> 01:37:29.399
Yes, and I was wondering the
difference between the humates plus and azamite.

1312
01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:32.159
Okay, well, there's a big
difference and there's some similarities. Both

1313
01:37:32.199 --> 01:37:38.600
of them are going to give you
a wide range of micros because the azamite

1314
01:37:38.680 --> 01:37:43.279
is the mind product with that and
the humates plus. It's formerly it was

1315
01:37:43.319 --> 01:37:46.600
a plant organic matter, and now
it's been broken down to the point where

1316
01:37:46.680 --> 01:37:50.960
everything that was in those plants is
concentrated light, concentrated compost in a bag

1317
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:56.479
and it will provide those kind of
nutrients as well. With the humates plus,

1318
01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:58.920
you get a lot of micros that
you're not going to have in the

1319
01:37:58.960 --> 01:38:01.760
asomite. That would be an addition
that the humates plus would give you.

1320
01:38:02.359 --> 01:38:08.159
And the humates plus with being a
microlife product, it's just kind of natural

1321
01:38:08.199 --> 01:38:11.800
to do the green bag and the
purple bag, and you do each of

1322
01:38:11.840 --> 01:38:15.720
those when you do them. But
each of these products has its strengths and

1323
01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:19.199
each of them will provide the quality
of the nutrients and things that you need

1324
01:38:19.279 --> 01:38:23.640
going into the ground. Just think
of the humates plus more as a concentrated

1325
01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:27.399
compost in a bag with the micros. The azamite is a mind product with

1326
01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:30.600
micros as well. You're not going
to go wrong with you either way either

1327
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:33.399
one. Okay, all right,
thanks hip you bet, Thank you,

1328
01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:40.199
Cheryl. I appreciate the call.
Now let's head out to Kendall in Tanglewood.

1329
01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:44.479
How are you this morning? I'm
good? How are you? I'm

1330
01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:48.800
well? Thank you. So I
have Saint Augustine that's in shade and I've

1331
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:51.880
had it for fifteen years and it's
been great. But now it has a

1332
01:38:51.960 --> 01:38:58.640
fungus and so I tore out some
of the grass and put in Ivy English

1333
01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:01.159
Ivy. But the rest is the
fungus is still just eating the grass and

1334
01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:04.079
turning it into dirt. And so
now I'm concerned. Do I need to

1335
01:39:04.319 --> 01:39:08.640
But I have other Saint Augustine that's
unaffected. But is it coming its way?

1336
01:39:08.760 --> 01:39:12.399
Is there a way to fix the
Saint Augustine get rid of the fungus?

1337
01:39:13.119 --> 01:39:15.279
U? I'm not sure what to
do. That's a good question,

1338
01:39:15.359 --> 01:39:18.760
Kendall. And what what I would
ask is what when you say you have

1339
01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:24.039
a fungus? Was did somebody diagnose
something? Can you describe to me what

1340
01:39:24.159 --> 01:39:27.399
you saw? What do you think? Yes, I asked, are I

1341
01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:31.880
have a landscaper talkson Hansen who came
out and they said it was a fungus

1342
01:39:32.159 --> 01:39:34.760
and I didn't tell me what kind. And they said there's nothing I could

1343
01:39:34.760 --> 01:39:38.640
do about it, and that I'd
have to tear it all up and put

1344
01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:42.359
in ivy R put in plants.
But I have a large front yard that's

1345
01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:45.000
divided by a sidewalk, And then
I just didn't I didn't know what is

1346
01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:47.560
it going to jump to sidewalk?
Am I eventually going to have to tear

1347
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:50.119
up the whole yard? You know? I really didn't want to do this,

1348
01:39:50.920 --> 01:39:55.079
so I just torek part of it. And it's just it's just it's

1349
01:39:55.319 --> 01:39:58.439
it's not like it turns brown.
It literally just sort of eats the grass

1350
01:39:58.439 --> 01:40:02.840
and then it's dirt, and so
it looks like sitting hair on a bald

1351
01:40:02.840 --> 01:40:08.319
man. The description you're giving reminds
me more of what the effect of the

1352
01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:14.439
fungus take all root rot might be. Yeah, like most funguses that attack

1353
01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:17.279
fungi that attack our Saint Augustine,
it could be great gray leaf spot,

1354
01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:20.439
it could be take all root rot, it could be others. They're ubiquitous,

1355
01:40:20.439 --> 01:40:24.119
they're out there in nature, and
when conditions are right, they move

1356
01:40:24.159 --> 01:40:28.760
in. And so what we try
to do is culturally avoid the conditions for

1357
01:40:28.800 --> 01:40:31.600
the fungus being right. And Keno, I'm running out of time here in

1358
01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:33.880
this segment, but if you want
to hold on, I'll be glad to

1359
01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:38.159
keep going on this and we can
discuss it a little bit further. But

1360
01:40:38.199 --> 01:40:40.960
I'm gonna have to take a break
here in just a bit, so please

1361
01:40:41.000 --> 01:41:00.319
hang on for just a little bit. Well, good morning on a good

1362
01:41:00.359 --> 01:41:04.880
Sunday morning for gardening. I mean, it's a good Sunday overall for gardening.

1363
01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:08.800
Get outside today and enjoy some of
the air. We're going to head

1364
01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:14.199
back out to take away again.
We're visiting with Kendall and Kindle. Let's

1365
01:41:14.199 --> 01:41:17.079
continue our conversation. We were looking
at some possibilities of diseases and I think

1366
01:41:17.079 --> 01:41:19.920
I said, take all root rot. Maybe maybe one of the ads that

1367
01:41:19.960 --> 01:41:24.039
you're looking at, Yes, I
think that might be it. Okay,

1368
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:28.159
I would make sure an aerate that
area. If it's a small area,

1369
01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:30.239
you can just do it, you
know, with a little spade and fork,

1370
01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:32.119
you kind of wiggle straight into the
ground and kind of rock it back

1371
01:41:32.119 --> 01:41:35.199
and forth a little bit and then
pull it out. Just make those little

1372
01:41:35.199 --> 01:41:38.520
holes to kind of break it open
a little bit. If it's a bigger

1373
01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:41.000
area, you can hire someone to
do it the right way with a core

1374
01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:44.279
narrator. But if you do that
and then you follow that with a good

1375
01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:48.960
top dressing, normally I would recommend
a leaf mold compost and that that is

1376
01:41:49.000 --> 01:41:53.760
a good mix to use anytime you're
top dressing. Take all root rots.

1377
01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:58.239
Specifically, if we can acidify that
surface a little bit, it really helps

1378
01:41:58.560 --> 01:42:02.199
give the grass the advantage over the
disease. And so that would be acidifying

1379
01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:08.319
fertilizers would do that, but the
peat moss spread about a half inch thick

1380
01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:12.880
over that area. And you can
buy these compacted bales of peat and you

1381
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:15.840
just sort of break them up into
a wheelbarrow and then dump a little piles

1382
01:42:15.880 --> 01:42:20.359
around so that you can then kind
of spread them around. I use a

1383
01:42:20.439 --> 01:42:25.960
soil rake turned upside down with the
tines pointing up. And you know,

1384
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:29.279
I don't know if you've ever played
shuffleboard. I never have, but I've

1385
01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:32.039
seen pictures, and you know how
you have this long shuffleboard and you're kind

1386
01:42:32.079 --> 01:42:35.920
of you're holding your arm down by
your side as you push the shuffle forward.

1387
01:42:36.399 --> 01:42:40.199
Do the rake that way, turn
the times up, and just it's

1388
01:42:40.239 --> 01:42:43.680
like you're playing shuffleboard in the lawn. It makes it so easy to spread

1389
01:42:43.720 --> 01:42:45.840
the peat moss all over a small
area. Now, if you've got a

1390
01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:50.159
big lawn, of course that's too
tedious. But water that pete in when

1391
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:55.680
you're done and continue to fertilize.
I'd use kind of an acidic fertilizer.

1392
01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:58.960
Normally, I would say like a
Microlife six two four the green bag,

1393
01:42:59.279 --> 01:43:01.079
but there's a sick to forward that's
in a pink or reddish bag. That's

1394
01:43:01.079 --> 01:43:04.800
for acid loving plants. And if
you're fighting the take all in an area,

1395
01:43:04.840 --> 01:43:08.319
I think I would switch over to
that one and try that one.

1396
01:43:08.520 --> 01:43:12.359
It's not going to cure the take
all instantly, but everything we're talking about

1397
01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:15.720
doing, air raiding, peat,
moss, acidifying, fertilizers, that all

1398
01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:20.039
makes that take all not very happy, and it gives your grass a chance

1399
01:43:20.079 --> 01:43:26.760
to recover. Okay, okay,
so that can I plant new grass on

1400
01:43:26.840 --> 01:43:29.720
top of it because there's not much
grass? Laughs? Yeah, I would

1401
01:43:29.720 --> 01:43:32.119
just get the you know, get
any organic matter on the surface out of

1402
01:43:32.119 --> 01:43:35.600
the way, because you want the
side you put down, the soil on

1403
01:43:35.640 --> 01:43:42.039
the bottom of those pieces to touch
the soil in your yard and have good

1404
01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:46.000
We call it sid to soil contact, and that's important on helping it root

1405
01:43:46.079 --> 01:43:48.920
through. So if you've got a
whole bunch of dead grass or thatch or

1406
01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:51.920
whatever, it kind of gets in
the way of that. It creates kind

1407
01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:56.800
of like an air gap underneath the
side between it and the soil, and

1408
01:43:56.880 --> 01:44:00.800
we want it to touch the soil. Okay, all right, all right,

1409
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:02.960
that sounds grateful. I like I've
given you a lot of work to

1410
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:10.520
do today. Sorry about that it's
all good. Thank you all right,

1411
01:44:10.640 --> 01:44:13.880
Kendall, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Let's head out

1412
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:16.640
to Spring now and we are going
to talk to Mo. Hello, Mo,

1413
01:44:17.720 --> 01:44:21.600
Hi there, Steep. Hi are
you doing today? I'm good,

1414
01:44:21.720 --> 01:44:26.279
Mo. What can we do for
you today? Well, my grape plants

1415
01:44:26.279 --> 01:44:32.720
has suddenly got some kind of grayish
snow started at the base of the tree,

1416
01:44:32.880 --> 01:44:36.239
as you know, the plant,
okay, And I was wondering what

1417
01:44:36.439 --> 01:44:41.319
kind of spread there just to break
it away. Are you talking about down

1418
01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:45.479
on the trunk near the ground or
what? Yeah, okay, I would

1419
01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:48.840
not worry about that at all.
If it's if it's a grape vine and

1420
01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:54.039
it's got mold growing around deer near
the base, that is not something you're

1421
01:44:54.039 --> 01:44:57.560
going to spray or worry about.
You just make sure the grape has good

1422
01:44:57.640 --> 01:45:00.800
drainage, good moisture, good nutrients, uh malts the soil to keep the

1423
01:45:00.840 --> 01:45:04.680
weeds away, and it'll take off
and grow. Just find there's not a

1424
01:45:04.800 --> 01:45:10.279
disease of grapes that appears as mold
on the on the truck. Okay,

1425
01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:13.479
all right. And the other thing
I was going to ask you, what

1426
01:45:13.640 --> 01:45:23.039
kind of peat moss can I spread
it all over my uh grass in the

1427
01:45:23.119 --> 01:45:30.640
front yard. I would use just
the compacted bales of pete. But I'm

1428
01:45:30.680 --> 01:45:33.720
not recommending everybody that has a yard
go put peat on it. That's where

1429
01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:38.159
the leaf mole compost is the way
to go. In general for your yard.

1430
01:45:38.239 --> 01:45:43.319
You should spread leaf mole. Okay, oh my gosh, Yeah,

1431
01:45:43.359 --> 01:45:45.600
that's not practical. Well, pete
moss is definitely not practical either. The

1432
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:50.520
peat was just for a situation,
whereas the disease called take all root rot

1433
01:45:50.600 --> 01:45:57.159
and it it's a suppressive thing.
It's not a cure, but it suppresses

1434
01:45:57.199 --> 01:45:59.600
it. And we're trying to give
the grass the upper hand. But yeah,

1435
01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:01.479
if you eleven acres, you know, forget the top dressing. That's

1436
01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:04.520
probably not going to be practical for
you. Just take good care of it.

1437
01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:09.319
Take good care of it, make
sure it gets adequate nutrients over time.

1438
01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:12.920
Make sure when it's dry, you
water, but you don't overwater.

1439
01:46:13.319 --> 01:46:15.399
Make sure it has a good sunlight. And that's the best thing you can

1440
01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:20.359
do to have a big, beautiful
lawn. Okay, thank you, all

1441
01:46:20.439 --> 01:46:26.640
right. I wish you a nice
day as well, and thank you so

1442
01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:30.600
much for the call. You know, we're talking about soils and the importance

1443
01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:34.159
of you know, like top dressing
and soils and things. If you have

1444
01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:39.680
not checked out airloom soils before,
you really need to. Now you can

1445
01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:45.840
go to the website write this down
airlooms Soils of Texas dot com Airloom Soils

1446
01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:47.760
of Texas dot com. When you
go to airloom Soils, you're going to

1447
01:46:47.800 --> 01:46:50.479
find everything you can imagine. They
got the rose soil, they got the

1448
01:46:50.520 --> 01:46:54.880
compost, they got mulchous to go
on top of the ground, and a

1449
01:46:55.039 --> 01:46:58.960
lot, a lot of other things
for every kind of plant growing you might

1450
01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:01.479
need to do. One of the
cool things about Airloom Soils now is that

1451
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:08.319
they have the supersacks. Imagine a
giant sack that holds a cubic yard of

1452
01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:13.079
soil that they set in your driveway
full of a cubic yard of whatever it

1453
01:47:13.159 --> 01:47:15.760
was you purchased from them. They'll
deliver those and you just need to call

1454
01:47:15.840 --> 01:47:18.520
them up and make arrangement. Of
course, there's a charge for delivery.

1455
01:47:18.520 --> 01:47:21.960
It costs money to get big bulk
product like that out to a place,

1456
01:47:23.239 --> 01:47:27.039
but it's reasonable and the supersack is
a pretty neat, clean way to go.

1457
01:47:27.359 --> 01:47:29.640
Now, when you're If you don't
know how much you need, you

1458
01:47:29.720 --> 01:47:32.880
need to go online Airloom Soils of
Texas dot com check out their cubic yard

1459
01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:36.239
calculator. No matter how you want
to spread it, by the wheelbarrow,

1460
01:47:36.279 --> 01:47:40.800
by the five gallon bucket, you
name it, you can find out exactly

1461
01:47:40.840 --> 01:47:47.439
how much you need from Heirloom Soils. We love talking to gardeners on garden

1462
01:47:47.439 --> 01:47:49.399
line. I want to give you
a phone number here if you'd like to

1463
01:47:49.399 --> 01:47:53.640
give us a call in. We're
entering our last half hour here, pretty

1464
01:47:53.720 --> 01:47:58.479
quick of garden line for this weekend, So right down seven one three two

1465
01:47:58.560 --> 01:48:04.279
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1466
01:48:04.319 --> 01:48:09.399
four, and we'd be glad to
visit with you about whatever it is of

1467
01:48:09.439 --> 01:48:14.199
interest that you might you might be
interested in on gardening. Had any vegetable

1468
01:48:14.239 --> 01:48:16.279
calls today. That's kind of a
little bit of a surprise, because usually

1469
01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:21.279
there's some interest in the vegetable garden. But we can talk lawns, we

1470
01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:26.279
can talk trees, we can even
talk talk house plants. When I was

1471
01:48:26.319 --> 01:48:31.520
out at Kingwood Garden Center yesterday,
I noticed a really nice supply of house

1472
01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:34.680
plants by the way. I was
surprised at K and Mason Kingwood. When

1473
01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:38.600
I was out for the appearance,
I did not realize they had a nice

1474
01:48:38.680 --> 01:48:42.880
plant section outside the store. I
kind of caught me off guard, but

1475
01:48:42.960 --> 01:48:45.520
I walked through it and it's like, man, they had a lot of

1476
01:48:45.560 --> 01:48:49.279
good stuff that you really do want
a plant in this area. So it's

1477
01:48:49.359 --> 01:48:53.479
kind of cool to get out and
check that out. But the house plants

1478
01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:56.800
are kind of a hot thing.
People are excited about them, and I

1479
01:48:56.960 --> 01:49:00.119
just think you just really can't have
enough right enough house plats. We'll talk

1480
01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:02.399
about that maybe a little bit in
a moment. Right now, I'm gonna

1481
01:49:02.439 --> 01:49:06.119
run out to Trinity and we're gonna
talk to JR. Good morning, JR.

1482
01:49:08.840 --> 01:49:12.840
Hello there. Huh. I've got
new construction here, a barndow that

1483
01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:15.279
we've made, and we've got a
couple of slopes and one's about a thirty

1484
01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:19.640
degree slope, the other is about
a forty five. Tried to do spray

1485
01:49:19.800 --> 01:49:25.359
seed, but it ran off of
these heavy rains. So I guess the

1486
01:49:25.479 --> 01:49:30.479
question is is there it gets minimal
sun maybe three to four hours max in

1487
01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:33.840
some areas, and there is there
a grass that I can get in a

1488
01:49:33.960 --> 01:49:39.000
sod that you think would work on
this sixty forty mix, or should I

1489
01:49:39.000 --> 01:49:43.439
just go ahead and get some rip
rap and be done. So you got

1490
01:49:43.439 --> 01:49:46.680
a slope that you're getting the erosion
off the side of and you want to

1491
01:49:46.680 --> 01:49:49.800
cover it with a turf type grass? Is that? Am I understanding that?

1492
01:49:49.880 --> 01:49:53.239
Right? Yeah? I didn't know
whether or not there was a zoysia

1493
01:49:53.520 --> 01:50:00.520
or a maybe a some sort of
behavior and not behaved bermuda grass that I

1494
01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:03.720
could buy a thob that I could
stake to the ground and maybe get that

1495
01:50:03.800 --> 01:50:06.359
to it here. Yeah, if
you get it, if you can get

1496
01:50:06.359 --> 01:50:09.800
it to root in, yeah,
give it a couple of weeks of you

1497
01:50:09.920 --> 01:50:12.640
taking good care of it and getting
it rooted in well, and any of

1498
01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:15.760
the turfs will work in that kind
of a setting. The bermuda and the

1499
01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:19.359
zoysia is probably going to hold the
ground a little bit better than Saint Augustine

1500
01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:24.439
because it's got the underground runners and
the above ground runners. But either way

1501
01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:26.760
you should be able to do good. And if you get it out now

1502
01:50:27.399 --> 01:50:30.800
the weather's warming up enough to where
you can get good growth and establishment on

1503
01:50:30.840 --> 01:50:33.039
it, I think it'll work well
for you. It's not too steep to

1504
01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:39.039
mow right. It's one of those
kind of things I won't be doing with

1505
01:50:39.079 --> 01:50:43.199
the riding mower. I will definitely
be having a handboard. It's pretty good

1506
01:50:43.239 --> 01:50:45.840
angle, that's for sure. Okay, Well, you're not going to find

1507
01:50:45.840 --> 01:50:47.840
anything better at holding soil than grass. I mean, we have ground covers

1508
01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:51.880
that'll grown a slope, but nothing
holds the soil as well as grass does.

1509
01:50:51.960 --> 01:50:56.239
So I think I think you're on
the right track their trinity, and

1510
01:50:56.319 --> 01:50:59.880
I do I do appreciate that call. We're gonna head here to break in

1511
01:51:00.079 --> 01:51:01.960
just a second. Craig out in
Spring Valley. I see you on the

1512
01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:04.960
boards. You'll be first when we
come back. If you would like to

1513
01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:10.800
get on the boards and join Craig
seven one three two one two five eight

1514
01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:15.800
seven four that's two one two,
kat r H and Josh, we'll get

1515
01:51:15.800 --> 01:51:18.640
you on the board where we can
talk during our upcoming segment. About thirty

1516
01:51:18.680 --> 01:51:21.880
minutes left today, So if you
want to talk gardening, this is a

1517
01:51:23.000 --> 01:51:41.520
time to give us a call.
Well, good morning on a good Sunday

1518
01:51:41.560 --> 01:51:45.039
morning, this is going to be
a day this afternoon. Get out there,

1519
01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:47.560
do a little bit of gardening.
Maybe go visit a garden, center,

1520
01:51:47.840 --> 01:51:53.520
enjoy yourself, get some inspiration.
I think you will find if you

1521
01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:57.239
can't get a gardening bug this time
of year, I can't help you tell

1522
01:51:57.279 --> 01:52:00.600
you this is this is the time
of year when just about everybody with a

1523
01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:04.319
pulse is going to at least appreciate
the beauty of plants, if not find

1524
01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:09.039
one they have to come home with. We're gonna head out to Spring Valley

1525
01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:12.079
and we're going to talk to Craig
this morning. And how are you doing,

1526
01:52:12.119 --> 01:52:15.640
Craig. I'm doing well. Thank
you, thanks for taking my call

1527
01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:18.880
today. Yes, sir, so, I've got a question. We have

1528
01:52:19.199 --> 01:52:24.720
a about a two year old lemon
tree in our backyard. It last year

1529
01:52:24.800 --> 01:52:29.680
it produced I don't know, maybe
seven It was kind of small, made

1530
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:33.560
it through the freeze, and this
spring it has really started budding out.

1531
01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:39.000
I mean there are dozens of,
you know, small little lemon buds coming

1532
01:52:39.039 --> 01:52:44.680
out on this thing. And in
the last three days the leaves have started

1533
01:52:44.680 --> 01:52:49.880
turning yellow, and yesterday they started
dropping off, I mean like most of

1534
01:52:49.920 --> 01:52:55.279
them. And you're talking about leaves, not the lemon buds themselves, but

1535
01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:59.800
the leaves. No, just the
leaves, right, huh. Well,

1536
01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:04.479
let's see when lemons. When citrus
like that suddenly gets a bunch of yellow

1537
01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:09.319
leaves that fall off. I usually
look at a sole moisture issue to dry

1538
01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:13.199
to wet those kinds of things,
or a root damage could cause the same

1539
01:53:13.239 --> 01:53:16.399
thing, because it's it's essentially having
the same effect on the plant as sort

1540
01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:20.319
of it's too dry or too wet. If it's the new growth that's turning

1541
01:53:20.399 --> 01:53:25.560
yellow and the old growth looks fine
and green, then we look at things

1542
01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:28.439
like an iron deficiency, for example, as the nutrient. If it's face

1543
01:53:28.560 --> 01:53:30.319
versa, the new growth is still
there and green, but the old growth

1544
01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:33.960
is kind of getting yellow and starting
to head south, then we look at

1545
01:53:34.199 --> 01:53:40.199
mobile elements like nitrogen being deficient.
But what you're describing to me sounds more

1546
01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:45.439
like something is wrong, something shocking
the plant itself, that's system and causing

1547
01:53:45.479 --> 01:53:53.079
that yellowing and drop of the leaves. Tell me about again the growing site

1548
01:53:53.079 --> 01:53:57.039
and the conditions and the soil that
they're in. Well, I mean,

1549
01:53:57.199 --> 01:54:01.960
it's it's soil that it's been you
know, we've had other trees in the

1550
01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:05.880
same spot than the guy because of
the freeze and so forth. Yeah,

1551
01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:11.760
this one's I haven't done anything to
it. Other than we did start our

1552
01:54:11.800 --> 01:54:15.600
sprinkler system about four days. Excuse
me about it. I think it's right

1553
01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:18.119
now two or three days a week. We just started out in the last

1554
01:54:18.239 --> 01:54:23.159
week and a half. But I
mean it's no, it's not getting a

1555
01:54:23.199 --> 01:54:27.720
ton of of uh you know,
sprinkler on it. Yeah. Obviously we've

1556
01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:31.199
had the rain the past few days, but that's really that's the only thing

1557
01:54:31.239 --> 01:54:34.439
that's truly changed. Yeah, very
interesting. Well, if it's just a

1558
01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:39.600
yellowing and drop of the leaves,
I'm I'm thinking underground. Something's going on

1559
01:54:39.760 --> 01:54:44.600
underground, and so, uh you
know, other than dig down maybe three

1560
01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:47.000
inches feel the soil. Is it
wetter than you think it is? Uh?

1561
01:54:47.119 --> 01:54:50.159
You know? And or is it
getting it can't be getting dry right

1562
01:54:50.199 --> 01:54:54.840
now, So excessive moisture is all
I can think of. In the meantime,

1563
01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:57.039
I think it's gonna be okay,
and I think it's gonna bounce back.

1564
01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:00.960
Just watch that it doesn't stay two
side you wet. Provide a good

1565
01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:04.760
Centrius food fertilizer. If you haven't
have you fertilized it this spring yet,

1566
01:55:04.960 --> 01:55:09.199
I'm miss If you said it,
I'm not sir, Yeah, I would

1567
01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:12.000
get a good Centrius food and it's
going to have a blend of nutrients,

1568
01:55:12.039 --> 01:55:15.800
including nitrogen. Let's give it a
boost. You're going to find that,

1569
01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:19.600
you know, in the Nelson's Plant
Foods and Nitrofis foods, they're going to

1570
01:55:19.680 --> 01:55:26.079
have the foods for specific kinds of
plants like that. A Microlife has a

1571
01:55:26.119 --> 01:55:30.239
citrus specifically a centrius food as well. But get you one of those kind

1572
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:32.319
of things, and let's give it
a boost. Let's getting watered in really

1573
01:55:32.359 --> 01:55:34.800
good, and watch and see how
it does. I think you're going to

1574
01:55:34.880 --> 01:55:38.720
see new buds up here, and
I think normal growth is going to take

1575
01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:42.479
off. Okay, all right,
well, I appreciate your time. Thank

1576
01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:45.079
you very much. You Bet Craig, thank you for your time. I

1577
01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:48.279
appreciate very much. A task a
Ceda Thomas. What's up this morning?

1578
01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:53.039
Good morning, so here to talk
about nitrogen for a minute. I've been

1579
01:55:53.119 --> 01:56:00.119
using the Microlife liquid organic maximum wool
on my plants. Yes, and I'm

1580
01:56:00.159 --> 01:56:05.239
getting nice color. I'm getting so
much green, so many leaves and not

1581
01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:10.800
as many blooms as I should be
getting. Okay, well, what's the

1582
01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:15.319
kind of plant we're talking about?
Um? Well, my day lilies,

1583
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.680
for one thing. They're just going
crazy, okay, And I've got everything

1584
01:56:17.760 --> 01:56:27.479
under the sun. I've got scotch
broom, you know, bagonias and the

1585
01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:30.039
only kind of thing that the ground, little ground flowers and the leaves are

1586
01:56:30.079 --> 01:56:33.239
coming great. And I've got plenty
of blooms, but not a lot,

1587
01:56:34.119 --> 01:56:36.199
not that I should have. Well, let me see if in the next

1588
01:56:36.239 --> 01:56:39.800
forty seconds here I can give you
a good answer, and I think I

1589
01:56:39.840 --> 01:56:45.640
can. When you start looking at
lack of blooms, it can be due

1590
01:56:45.680 --> 01:56:47.720
to a number of things. Certainly, the amount of sunlight is a big

1591
01:56:47.760 --> 01:56:49.840
deal. You know, something like
a day lilies. I come bloom in

1592
01:56:49.840 --> 01:56:53.560
the shade, and I realize you
grow dailies. You know better than to

1593
01:56:53.560 --> 01:56:57.520
put them in the shade. But
sunlight is important for that. Nutrients is

1594
01:56:57.520 --> 01:57:01.640
important. When you overdo nitrogen,
you can encourage vegetative growth at the at

1595
01:57:01.640 --> 01:57:06.239
the expense of blooming or fruiting with
plants at fruit and so you just want

1596
01:57:06.239 --> 01:57:09.800
to watch it. You don't overdo
a good thing. That would be a

1597
01:57:09.800 --> 01:57:13.680
possibility, But that fertilizer is a
good one and it ought to be performing

1598
01:57:13.720 --> 01:57:16.079
well. Your plants ought to be
performing well. So they may just need

1599
01:57:16.119 --> 01:57:20.000
a little more time I don't know
what else would be going on other than

1600
01:57:20.319 --> 01:57:26.520
either a lack of sunlight or some
other nutrient issue. But if they've done

1601
01:57:26.520 --> 01:57:30.079
well in the past, it's not
like your soil changed dramatically overnight. So

1602
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:34.760
you have been good soil and plenty
of sun light. Yeah. So I

1603
01:57:34.800 --> 01:57:39.279
don't know. I you know,
I don't know the exact rate of everything

1604
01:57:39.279 --> 01:57:42.760
that got put out, But if
you feel like you knew you stayed within

1605
01:57:42.840 --> 01:57:45.039
about what the label would recommend in
terms of use of it, then I

1606
01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:47.439
would just wait and give them a
little more time. I don't think it's

1607
01:57:47.439 --> 01:57:53.079
gonna be still with you. The
temperature. It's been a cool spring,

1608
01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:57.239
and that has delayed some things for
us. But we still have good performance

1609
01:57:57.359 --> 01:58:00.520
out there in the garden. But
I have noticed significant delay, especially on

1610
01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:04.079
certain plants. And it's like about
the time it starts to warm up here,

1611
01:58:04.119 --> 01:58:08.399
we go back down into the upper
fifties and you know, in the

1612
01:58:08.479 --> 01:58:13.000
evenings and so spring is dragging itself
out. We're gonna wish we had this

1613
01:58:13.079 --> 01:58:15.680
cool weather though, when July and
August get here. YEA, thank you,

1614
01:58:15.720 --> 01:58:17.920
sir, all right, thank you, sir. I appreciate that call

1615
01:58:18.119 --> 01:58:24.720
very much. Phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four,

1616
01:58:24.800 --> 01:58:38.600
give Josh a call. Let's get
you on the boards. They read

1617
01:58:38.800 --> 01:58:46.239
scriptures, they passed play. We're
both preyed. He don't pree delay,

1618
01:58:47.520 --> 01:58:56.600
but he's getting ad and that's your
star. Yeah, it's eighty five degrees

1619
01:58:56.680 --> 01:59:08.159
outside, just getting hold up.
Well it's not eighty five degrees outside yet,

1620
01:59:08.279 --> 01:59:11.600
but it is that kind of day. I tell you for sure you

1621
01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:14.760
are listening to garden Line. I
am your host, Skip Richter, our

1622
01:59:14.840 --> 01:59:16.800
phone number. You're gonna write this
down. This is our last segment,

1623
01:59:16.960 --> 01:59:23.800
last chance to call for next Saturday. Seven one three two one two fifty

1624
01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:28.079
eight seventy four. And we are
going to head right out now to Missouri

1625
01:59:28.159 --> 01:59:32.000
City and say good morning to Paul. Yeah, good morning, Skip,

1626
01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:39.399
I thank you for taking my call. My question is wild Bermuda. My

1627
01:59:39.520 --> 01:59:43.520
yard is in really very good shape
this year with Saint Augustine, but I

1628
01:59:43.600 --> 01:59:48.439
do have a two foot by six
foot strip of wild Bermuda which is pretty

1629
01:59:48.520 --> 01:59:56.079
much choked out any Saint Augustine in
that area, and I'm anxious to knock

1630
01:59:56.159 --> 02:00:00.439
it out now. I'm not a
very patient person. I want to treat

1631
02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:06.920
it aggressively. Either chemically or mechanically. By mechanical I mean I'm willing to

1632
02:00:08.039 --> 02:00:12.680
hack it out with a pick axe, okay, or should I poison it?

1633
02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:17.319
Well, you have those two options. You can get in there with

1634
02:00:17.479 --> 02:00:21.279
some spading forks. I wouldn't use
a rototiller because it'll just break the bermuda

1635
02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:26.039
up into little pieces and then you're
gonna have resprouting coming out everywhere. But

1636
02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:29.199
get down over a spading fork and
kind of loosen the soil up and get

1637
02:00:29.239 --> 02:00:32.520
as many of those underground runners as
you can out of there now. And

1638
02:00:32.640 --> 02:00:34.960
doing so, you're going to get
the Saint Augustine out of there too,

1639
02:00:35.039 --> 02:00:38.600
right, I mean, because you
can't do one without the other. But

1640
02:00:38.760 --> 02:00:42.720
hand digging it as an option.
After you hand dig it, just water

1641
02:00:42.760 --> 02:00:45.800
it in, wait and watch because
you will miss some, and then do

1642
02:00:45.840 --> 02:00:47.880
it again. You may need to
do it a third time just to get

1643
02:00:47.880 --> 02:00:50.560
all the sprigs. Because here's the
deal. Once bermuda, as in your

1644
02:00:50.560 --> 02:00:55.560
Saint Augustine, if it's a good
sunny spot, it is going to be

1645
02:00:55.640 --> 02:01:00.000
virtually impossible to get it out of
there with a selective control product. So

1646
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:03.600
in addition to the hand digging,
the other option would be to spray and

1647
02:01:03.760 --> 02:01:08.319
kill everything in that area, and
I'd go a little bit out beyond where

1648
02:01:08.319 --> 02:01:11.720
you see the bermuda, because it's
going to have runners moving out in that

1649
02:01:11.760 --> 02:01:15.720
area already beyond where it is visible
above ground. And so you would spray

1650
02:01:15.760 --> 02:01:19.760
it and kill everything, and then
wait because you won't get all of it

1651
02:01:19.800 --> 02:01:24.640
with one spray. After a couple
of weeks, you should see some resprouting,

1652
02:01:24.720 --> 02:01:28.279
and then you could go in and
individually just hit the little bermuda weeds

1653
02:01:28.279 --> 02:01:31.239
that are coming up sticking their heads
up above the ground and stay watching it

1654
02:01:31.359 --> 02:01:35.880
for a month or so because you
can always get another sprag and again once

1655
02:01:35.880 --> 02:01:40.399
he gets a foothold, then you
got the mess that we're in right now.

1656
02:01:40.840 --> 02:01:44.880
And so those are both dramatic,
drastic measures. But you said you

1657
02:01:44.880 --> 02:01:47.159
don't like to mess around. You
want to get it done. And there's

1658
02:01:47.239 --> 02:01:51.600
no other way to get in there
and just get the bermuda out without sacrificing

1659
02:01:51.600 --> 02:01:58.520
the Saint Augustine and then replanting the
Saint Augustine back in Okay. So when

1660
02:01:58.560 --> 02:02:02.359
you say spray, am my spraying
with you can spray. There are number

1661
02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:06.199
of products that will kill bermuda grass. The common when you hear people talk

1662
02:02:06.239 --> 02:02:11.239
about is glypha said, and that
is a kills everything that you spray it

1663
02:02:11.279 --> 02:02:16.199
on product. There are products also
that are grass only killers, and they

1664
02:02:16.279 --> 02:02:20.319
would have do you have a pen
or pencil handy. Yeah, I'm gonna

1665
02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:25.680
spell an ingredient. And there's more
than one ingredient and grass only killers.

1666
02:02:25.680 --> 02:02:27.960
There's two different ones, but I'm
going to tell you about one, and

1667
02:02:28.039 --> 02:02:36.640
it's set h O x y d
I M suthoxy dim. Now, when

1668
02:02:36.680 --> 02:02:41.239
you go to the garden centers,
you know you're out in Missouri City.

1669
02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:44.720
You got some great ace hardwares by
the way out there in the Missouri City

1670
02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:46.920
area, and you if you go
into one of those, you may see

1671
02:02:46.960 --> 02:02:53.000
something that says grass killer or grass
be gone or well, you know some

1672
02:02:53.880 --> 02:02:57.199
the label just tells you this kills
grass. And you're probably going to see

1673
02:02:57.239 --> 02:03:00.399
that suthoxidem as ingredient. There's one
they're ingredient. And I'm not going to

1674
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:04.000
spell the whole thing out in the
air right now, but it's flu a

1675
02:03:04.359 --> 02:03:10.000
Z flu a Z. If you
see those letters, and then there's more

1676
02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:15.159
to the word. That's the other
grass only killer. Either of those sprayed

1677
02:03:15.199 --> 02:03:18.359
on will kill the bermuda you're saying, augustine, any other grass that's in

1678
02:03:18.399 --> 02:03:23.199
that area. If you go the
glyphasate route, it kills all that,

1679
02:03:23.279 --> 02:03:26.640
but it also comes broad leaf weeds
as well, and some people prefer not

1680
02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:30.920
to use glyph sate. That's fine. These two grass only killers. They

1681
02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:34.319
will they will work just fine on
it. But just know that one treatment,

1682
02:03:34.560 --> 02:03:39.159
it's not like a miracle cure.
One percent of all of it dies.

1683
02:03:39.199 --> 02:03:42.319
There may be some sprigs underground that
haven't sprouted yet and then they will.

1684
02:03:42.640 --> 02:03:45.439
But then you come back and hit
those and once you get that cleaned

1685
02:03:45.439 --> 02:03:51.720
out, then go in and reside. What's your opinion on atrazine. Atrazine

1686
02:03:51.880 --> 02:03:58.960
is an effective pre emergent weed killer
that has some post emergent activity. The

1687
02:03:59.039 --> 02:04:03.600
reason we're not fineto atrazine is because
it can wash off into places we don't

1688
02:04:03.600 --> 02:04:06.439
want it to wash. It can
go down in the roots system and damage

1689
02:04:06.479 --> 02:04:13.359
trees as well. And I've seen
people misuse atrazine and get a good rainfall

1690
02:04:13.600 --> 02:04:18.640
and suddenly the trees are getting some
real weird yellowing symptoms and damage because of

1691
02:04:18.680 --> 02:04:21.600
the atrazine products. So it's general
we kind of stay away from it.

1692
02:04:23.359 --> 02:04:27.720
You know, each product is going
to have its pros and cons and so

1693
02:04:28.119 --> 02:04:30.920
there's not like a product that is
just one hundred percent safe. I mean

1694
02:04:31.319 --> 02:04:36.159
even organic products have their pros and
their cons and so that's the con of

1695
02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:43.880
atrazine. The other thing for me
about atrazine is depending on the season that

1696
02:04:43.960 --> 02:04:46.439
you're in, the time that you
A lot of times it's put in fertilizer

1697
02:04:46.479 --> 02:04:51.479
products and that's fine, But depending
on the season you're in, the best

1698
02:04:51.520 --> 02:04:56.000
time to fertilize and the best time
to put on a pre emergent we control

1699
02:04:56.359 --> 02:05:00.239
don't always overlap fully, and so
I would rather see you by quality fertilizer

1700
02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:04.920
and if you've got a weed issue, by the right weed control product and

1701
02:05:05.159 --> 02:05:09.800
use them separately, and I think
you're going to have much better results.

1702
02:05:09.960 --> 02:05:13.520
There's other issues that come with combining
them. You can get away with it.

1703
02:05:13.600 --> 02:05:15.800
There are a lot of big brands
on the market that do it all

1704
02:05:15.800 --> 02:05:18.159
the time. You know, they
sell the combinations. Uh. It just

1705
02:05:18.399 --> 02:05:24.640
you're asking me personally, and my
preference would be fertilized with a fertilizer,

1706
02:05:24.960 --> 02:05:29.760
do weed control with a weed control
product, and that's geared toward the weed

1707
02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:33.359
that you have and the timing that
you need to do. It sounds like

1708
02:05:33.359 --> 02:05:38.520
a complex issue, Thank you so
much. You know it can be.

1709
02:05:38.640 --> 02:05:40.960
But you can call me here on
garden line, I mean, and we

1710
02:05:40.960 --> 02:05:44.119
can talk about it. And you
know, you can say I've got crabgrass

1711
02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:45.680
that comes up every year, or
I've got clover in my lawn, and

1712
02:05:46.000 --> 02:05:50.159
I can direct you to that product
that'll that'll do that and the right timing.

1713
02:05:50.439 --> 02:05:54.359
It would be nice just to say
weed killer, and you know,

1714
02:05:54.439 --> 02:05:57.439
and all it is is a quote
weed killer, and then you just use

1715
02:05:57.479 --> 02:06:01.279
it everywhere any time for any weed. That product doesn't exist, you know,

1716
02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:05.039
there's always a yeah. But there's
annual weeds and perennial weeds, there's

1717
02:06:05.079 --> 02:06:10.560
broad leaf and grass. There's cool
season and warm season, and so if

1718
02:06:10.600 --> 02:06:14.359
we oversimplify it, we're not going
to have good results. So I can

1719
02:06:14.359 --> 02:06:16.159
direct you to fertilizer, I can
direct you to a weed control. Just

1720
02:06:16.239 --> 02:06:21.159
call anytime. Thank you so much. All right, thank you, Paul.

1721
02:06:21.199 --> 02:06:27.039
I appreciate for that call out there
from Missouri City. Wow, we're

1722
02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:30.560
this morning flew by. At least
it seemed like it to me. This

1723
02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:33.600
has been a good, a good
visit with you about a lot of different

1724
02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:38.039
kinds of plants and plant kind of
issues. I just want to remind you,

1725
02:06:38.079 --> 02:06:42.760
by the way, on the day
before Mother's Day, that would be

1726
02:06:42.880 --> 02:06:47.520
on Saturday, May thirteenth, I
will be at the arbor Gate from eleven

1727
02:06:47.560 --> 02:06:50.680
thirty in the morning until one thirty. So you got two weeks to get

1728
02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:54.319
ready for this. But put it
down on your calendar. Number one,

1729
02:06:54.520 --> 02:06:57.479
you don't want to miss an opportunity
to go to Arburgate. But on top

1730
02:06:57.520 --> 02:07:00.119
of it, we'll get to me. We'll get to be there. Can

1731
02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.159
bring me some plants in a baggy, or you can bring me some pictures

1732
02:07:02.239 --> 02:07:06.239
or something. I guarantee you Arburgate's
gonna have the plants you need, and

1733
02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:10.520
they're gonna have the products you need, and so you know, we can

1734
02:07:10.600 --> 02:07:13.720
kind of kill a whole bunch of
birds one stone there. But the main

1735
02:07:13.760 --> 02:07:17.439
thing I want to point out is
Mother's Days the next day, and you

1736
02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:20.399
maybe you want to come out and
buy a surprise for your mom. They've

1737
02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:25.039
got gift shops out there, they've
got plants out there, they got all

1738
02:07:25.039 --> 02:07:28.560
the bling that you might want to
go with anything, and you're longing landscape,

1739
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:30.720
but maybe you'd want to bring your
mom out and just say hey,

1740
02:07:30.760 --> 02:07:33.800
Mom, here's the treat. We're
gonna go out and have fun to Arburgate.

1741
02:07:33.840 --> 02:07:36.760
By the way, Mom's life you
spending time with them. Trust me,

1742
02:07:36.840 --> 02:07:42.000
I'm a dad. I understand how
that works. Arburgate, May thirteen.

1743
02:07:43.439 --> 02:07:44.920
Don't forget it. Write it down.