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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. It's

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so crazy, Trim, just watching
so many takes backing a s well.

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Good Sunday morning, Good Sunday morning, on a good day to be outside

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this morning, A little bit certainly
a good day this afternoon to get out

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and visit one of our mom and
pop local garden centers around the Greater Houston

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area. There are some some cool
plants in stocked in I'm looking at some

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of the new things going on Buchanans
Nursery. They actually have a nice selection

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of hummingbird plants all right now.
The hummingbirds are flying through by the way,

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they're starting to arrive. Their big
month is going to be September here

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as they do their migration. But
they will eventually head on out most of

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them. A few we always have
a few scragglers. But now's the time

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to get out hummingbird feeders if you
have them. But I tell you now

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is also the time to plant hummingbird
plants because that just sets you up for

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a lot of years of success.
And I think I always get excited when

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I look at lists of quality plants
that do well. I have some turks

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cap in my yard. That's that's
one of the ones that Buchanans is keeping

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in stock. In fact, I
think they keep that thing in stock all

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the time. Firebush Amelia pattens is
another one of those kinds of plants.

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The coral high cuckle is really nice
in the spring, and of course this

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esperanza will take you through summer.
The red yuca does amazingly. You know,

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that's a plant that looks like,
well, this ought to be in

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West Texas own, but it just
does well everywhere as long as you don't

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drown it. Uh, and it
its flowers are really loved by by the

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hummingbirds. There are many other of
these we could just keep going on and

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going on with with things like a
pineapple sage. That is one that blooms

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in the fall season, primarily late
summer and fall. You can get blooms

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at some other times, but that's
it's that's it's at least for me when

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it's done its best. And just
another reminder to always have things that are

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blooming at different times of the year. You know, your your cigar kafia

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that is a good one for hummingbirds
in it. It'll bloom fairly late in

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the season. That's when they're coming
through, and that's when you want to

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have them because once they find your
place and they realize, hey, this

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is a good wayte station, uh, then they're going to be back.

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And I guess the way I look
at it is turn your landscape into a

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horticultural Bucky's for hummingbirds and they will
pull in there, you know, uh

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in the fall season, which is
what we want. Buchanan's has a lot

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of a lot of other good things
like that. You know, they've got

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their shade plant collection is really one
of the best I've seen. I really

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am always amazed. I always going
there and I see some new plants I

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haven't seen before, and it's just
like, yeah, you know, it's

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been a long time, but that
is that would be an awesome plant to

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plan here. Of course, they
specialize in natives. That's the that's their

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big deal, the thing that uh
yeah, I guess they're known for its

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in their name. But don't just
think natives, I mean think everything.

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Right now, They've got a lot
of carnivorous plants that they are making available,

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and this would include a lot of
the thing you know you may have

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known of venus flytraff you know,
you put inside in a little glass bot

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or plastic box and and of course
feed it flies. But they have outdoor

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carnivorous plants as well, some that
actually will survive here in the right location

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and the right situation. They'll survive
right here and do well. And so

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I would encourage you to get by. I can tell you this there.

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I defy anybody to walk through Buchanans
and not find a hundred plants that they

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absolutely would love to have that they
don't already have in there and their landscape

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a good time for doing just that. I was talking to somebody the other

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day about plants that are fragrant,
and in fact, I'm going to be

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doing an article coming up here on
some fragrant plants. And you know,

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we walk out in the landscape,
we look at our plants, and we

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just you know, there's the visual
that we buy far you walk into nursery,

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there's a big giant red hibiscus flower. I want that plant. But

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there's also the sense of smell,
and there's also the sense of sound and

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of course, the sound can come, especially when we bring in our songbirds,

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but it also comes with some of
the plants. You know, a

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clumping bamboo. As the wind moves
through and kind of rustles the leaves,

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it almost sounds like a raining when
you sit underneath a larg clumping bamboo.

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By the way, plant a clumping
if you're gonna plant one, don't the

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runners unless you go to great links
to keep them confined. You do not

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want to get started without at least
in my experience, and your neighbors that

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if you plant it on the property
line don't want you to do that either.

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I guess I ought to give you
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I would say you need to get
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trade setlements are the micronutrients as we
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humates plus and then you're adding something
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we're talking we're talking lawns, and
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purple bag Humates plus from Microlife.
I was talking about cents and things that

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have a nice fragrance. One of
my favorite plants is sweet almond verbina a

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Loisier Vergatta and I grew up in
South Texas where there's something called whitebrush and

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whitebreg makes a wonderful honey The honey
bees absolutely love it because you get down

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in the hot, dry South Texas
area and anything's got a bloom on it,

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bees will take advantage of it.
But this is a relative of it.

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But it makes a shrub slash tree. It gets quite large. In

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fact, the one thing I'd like
them to do to Sweet album of Verbena

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is come up with a more compact
form, something about four or five feet

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tall. But it's still well worth
planting. It has this wonderful vanilla almond

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kind of fragrance that you just have
to smell it. I know what I'm

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talking about. Bees love it,
absolutely love it. I've mentioned it began

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as a minute ago. They've they've
got a good stock of it in and

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I would plant something like that maybe
on the south end or west end or

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west side of your outdoor sitting area
if your landscape layout allows for that.

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And the reason is, you know, the during especially the warm gardening season,

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our primary wind is out of the
south west, and so that way

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it wafts the fragrance toward wherever you
sit. It just makes sense to me.

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Well, I believe it's time to
take a break. If you would

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like to get on the boards,
give Josh a call at seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. This will be, this will be,

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will be. Well, good morning, good Sunday morning. You're listening

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to garden Line. We're here to
talk about gardening. That makes sense,

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doesn't it. If you'd like to
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We'll talk about whatever you're interested in
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vegetables, lawns, trees, I
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on the bestimated patch you've ever grown
before this summer. Well, it's just

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a fun time to get out in
the garden and enjoy ourselves. You know.

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The gardening is I think that the
best hobby that there is because of

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all the benefits that it has,
and and folks that are interested in gardening

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but feel like, yeah, I
don't know how to do that. Well,

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that's why we're here. Give us
a call. We will get you

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on the right start so you can
have success. Because I think everybody can

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garden. I think it's just a
matter of learning some basic principles, weeding

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through some bologna that's out there,
and coming down with Hey, here's how

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it's done. Here's some tips,
here's some suggested plants, and we can

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get you off to a good start. And that's what we want to do.

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We're speaking getting off to a good
start. This morning. We're going

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to head out to Spring and talk
to Daniel. Hello, Daniel, Hey,

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skip a great show. A love
it. So I've had an issue

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with lantana. I've got a lot
of it on the south side of my

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property. It was blooming like crazy
for a while and then all of a

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sudden it stopped booming. I took
a look at it yesterday. It looks

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like I've got a lot of mealy
bugging in its space. You know,

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it's a little cottony. Look at
these bugs. Okay, well they're tough

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to get rid of. Um.
You know, using a systemic on that

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would probably not be good because lantana
is one of the plants that it'll even

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attract hummingbirds, but it attracts,
you know, some beneficials that we would

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rather not put the systemic in the
beneficial insects through the nectar. I guess

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that that kind of leaves us with
the you know, the old Really a

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couple of options. One is cutting
a plant like that bat and getting all

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the debris out of there, to
get as much of it as you can

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out, and then as a new
growth comes out, doing some treatments on

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it to try to shut down the
problem. So you may want to go

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through a period where you're not blooming
just to get ahead of this one.

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All the other things we do form
mealy bugs, like it's excital soap,

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horticultural oil. Getting coverage inside the
canopy of a lantana plants pretty tough,

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and you absolutely have to give the
bath the bugs a bat in that stuff

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for it to work. That they
aren't poisons the oil and the soap they

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coat the bug and kill them physically
like that. So that's not really practical.

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Go ahead, I don't know that's
it's just say yeah, yeah,

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it's a it's a problem. Now. Mealybugs have their enemies, and so

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one thing you want to kind of
avoid is getting on an insecticide treadmill where

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you know you're just treating and treating, because when you kill the things that

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attack mealybugs. They can be worse. We have that even a worse situation

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with white flies, the same kind
of problem. We spray and we end

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up helping the white flies in the
process. But I would you know,

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you might try something like a perretheran
based insecticide, something hopefully that's not super

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long lasting. The goal is to
spray them, get it done, and

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then you know, have have that
product no longer killing insects so that the

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beneficials don't they're able to recover.
Got it, Okay, yeah, not,

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I'll get whatever it is what it
is. I'll just get up the

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shears today and start cutting back,
right. Yeah. And after you cut

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back, then you can use you
know, whatever you want to. Just

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shut down, you know, get
the blooms off there. Just shut things

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down and I think you can get
ahead of them. Okay, I appreciate

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it. Hey, Daniel, thank
you for the call. I appreciate that.

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Yeah. Some of these pasts they
are just I mean, they are

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they are tough. They're very tough
to deal with. Hey, if you

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four eight zero seven six six three. We're gonna head now out to stagecoach

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and talking to Jerry. Hello,
Jerry. Hey, it's a Terry with

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the team and that's okay, Terry, all right, we'll talk to Terry.

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Yeah, I got a question.
You know what this for long heat

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dry, So we got going on
looking for the truth about water in the

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lawn. All right. I've always
been told with doing water tonight, Joe

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getting molden fungus, and then don't
water during the heat of the day because

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that'll shock and burn it up.
But I go out to the golf course

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and they're watering during the heat of
the day and green Step says, oh

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no, that's fine. It depends
on what kind of fertilizer. And then

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is it, you know, better
to do five minutes a day every day?

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Are you better off? You know, soaking it's for twenty minutes every

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fourth day. So it look just
fun to have all these conflicting comments by

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people who claim that they're right and
other people are wrong. That's why I'm

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calling an expert to get the lowdown. All right, well, thank you,

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but folks, at a twenty dollar
bill, we'll get you that kind

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of compliment. By the way,
now, I would put this way number

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one, The idea that if you
water during a sunny day you're going to

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burn your plants is absolutely false.
Now if you had, you know,

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if you lived up in College Station
where there's so much sodium in the water,

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it'll fry plants. Yes, that
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general, no, I mean think
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raindrops are left sitting on leaves of
whatever plant, and then the sun comes

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out. And that's one of the
things people say is the raindrop acts like

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a magnifying glass. And you know
how a magnifying glass with a sun will

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burn things. Well, every time
it rained down, our plants would have

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burn spots all over them. So
that's not true. The way you take

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care of a lawn is you give
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So if you can fill that soil
profile. Let's say you apply one

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inch of irrigation and fill that soil
profile, and then over the coming week

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the water starts to move out of
the soil, whether it's evaporating or moving

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into plants or moving down with gravity, And as it does that, it

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brings oxygen back into the soil,
which is really important for the root system.

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And then you water again when it's
needed again. The little squirt every

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day or every two days, or
even every three days really is more than

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you need to water. Now.
I know some people like to water twice

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a week, and I'll let me
just say, I'll go along with that

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to a degree. I mean,
that's okay, but I don't water my

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lawn hard to even once ever seven
days, and I've got a good,

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deep rooted lawn and i just don't
need to. And every time you water,

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you increase the potential for disease problems. And if you don't water very

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long, you end up just wetting
the thatch and the grass blades and very

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little goes into the soil. So
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inch when I water. That may
have been more of an answer than you

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were asking for, but hopefully that
is what you want to know right now.

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That helps, thank you. Huh
you bet, yep, that's it.

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So if you want the most efficiency, water when evaporation is the lowest

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and that would be about right now
before the sun comes up. All right,

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sir, all right, thank you, Hey, thanks Terry, appreciate

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the call. Our phone number is
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seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Hey,

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do you have a little piece of
property that you purchased outside of town.

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Maybe it's not a little, maybe
it's a big, but you're needing some

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kind of equipment, you know,
to help you get the jobs around the

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property done. Maybe you're building fence
and hauling fence post. Maybe you're just

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a gardener wanting to haul compost and
mulch and different things like that, and

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a big front end loader. You
need to check out the Caboda L twenty

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five oh one. The Caboda L
twenty five oh one is a first class

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tractor. It let's just put it
this way. It will be your favorite

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ride. Even if you just bought
a new pickup truck, the Cabota is

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going to be your favorite ride on
the property. Seriously, L twenty five

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o one. With the package that
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you can put a front endloader on. You put a mower on the back.

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I mean all kinds of things.
Go to Lansdown Moody because that combination

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Lansdown Moody and Caboda that is a
winning combination on both sides. You can

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go to lmtractor dot com LM tractor
dot com and listen to this. Now's

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the time to do it because zero
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that's eighty four months. That is
that is an opportunity that you do

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not want to pass up. You
can contact Lansdown Moody at LM tractor dot

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com. There's Lansdown Moody's all around
the Greater Houst scenario. Or just go

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to Caboda USA and you get more
information there as well. Yeah, that's

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it man. I love doing stuff
on a tractory. Used to have a

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little property up in Willis excuse me, and uh just getting out and you

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know, working on the land and
moving things around and planting and all the

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kind of stuff. It's just a
lot of fun, I guess. Uh

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like Eddie Eddie Albert from Green Acres. Do you remember green Acres? Nikki?

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All right, Green Acres is the
place to be a place to be.

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Farm living as a life for me
land spreading. All right, Well,

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enough of that, it's time for
the Nicky News Network. We call

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that NNN around here. Hey yeah, Curtis CNN, but you don't know

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you want NNN for me spreading out
keep man, hadn't just give me that

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country man? How many of you
remember green Acres? So that was a

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lot of folks in reduction to a
county agent, which is what which is

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what I do as it done it
for forty three years county extension agents with

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Agrilife Extension. That we cringe when
we see green Acres because I don't know,

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mister Kimball was not exactly the best
representative of the field. Let's say

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he was outstanding in his field,
but he wasn't outstanding in his field.

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If you know what I'm saying.
All right, you're listening to Garden Line

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our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

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That makes it simple and easy.
We're here to talk about all kinds of

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things gardening with you this morning,
and that's what we were going to continue

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to do. I was talking about
fragrant plants a little bit earlier, and

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I mentioned alman Verbino, which is
one of my favorite. Another good one,

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and it does so well as we
move east in Texas. The further

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east you go, the better it
seems to do. Is the gardenia gardinia

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just has a heavenly fragrance. I
mean it, it's a perfume that is

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just unbelievable. I really enjoy that. Sometimes it give me a little bit

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of a challenge to grow, especially
if you have a heavy clay soil or

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high pH soil, and some of
those conditions can give it a little bit

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of a challenge. But it's a
good one. It is a very very

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good one. Another one that I
love is white butterfly ginger. And by

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the way, that one is late
summer and fall is when it does most

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of its blooming early fall. The
white butterfly ginger is a type of hedicium.

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It's a very upright stalk with just
a cluster of beautiful white flowers.

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There's other hediciums, other colors that
are very pretty, but I love the

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fragrance of just the plain old white
butterfly ginger. We I think I've told

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you this before, but when one
of my children was born. I cut

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a flower from the garden, brought
it into the hospital room, put it

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in the vase, and nurses were
walking in from the hallway trying to figure

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out what that smell was and where
was it coming from. I mean it

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literally is that fragrant and wonderful and
enticing. One of our main I guess,

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almost a poster plant for native plants
here in Texas is Texas Mountain Laurel.

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It's got those big clusters of purple
flowers in the spring, and it's

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a native. Of course, it
needs really good drainage to do well over

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here, but you can grow it
over here. It just, you know,

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you just don't need to. It
needs to think it's still up on

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a hill in West Texas rather than
a swamp in East Texas. And so

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you treat it accordingly and it'll do
pretty good. But it has it's fragrance,

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I would say, would be gaudy. If you can call a fragrance

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gaudy. Think of the old grape
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in that strong grape grape flavor.
That's what it smells like. And it

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again will knock you down when you
walk around the corner and that breeze wafts

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by, you will really really know
you've got that plant. As many other

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good fragrant plants, but the nose
nose some of those wonderful plants. Let's

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head out to Katie and we're gonna
talk to Hank. Hello, Hank,

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good morning. I have doorga grass. It's on the east side of the

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house. Plenty of sun and there's
a patch of its just discoloring and it

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may be a little brown spot or
two, but for the most part it

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is continued to discolor. H And
it's a it's just a pretty large area

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of kind of irregular, no pattern
to it. Yes, yeah, it

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may be. On an average Zoysia
can become a very dense grass and a

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lot of times if you're water infrequently, you could be creating just a disease.

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Have an environment in there, and
you may be seeing one of the

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several diseases that can attack zoysia that's
going on. That that's a possibility,

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of course, me hearing a description
and diagnosing a disease that's not that you

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know that, that's a very best
shot kind of approach. Um, Well,

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of course I did the opposite.
I thought it was a lack of

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water. So I'm found a water
more okay issue, Um, well,

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you know that could be the problem. It could be that it's a lack

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of water. Next time the water's
on and just kind of go look at

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how your sprinklers are distributing. Sometimes
our systems there's areas that just don't get

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as much water as the rest of
the yard, and so that could be

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a factor. But over WHI trying
to say. Yeah, what I was

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trying to say is it's definitely not
a lack of water at this point.

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Okay, Okay, well then we'll
then we'll go back to the maybe too

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much as being a possibility. There's
a disease called take all root rot.

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They can affect zoysia. I don't
I've never noticed chinch bugs as a big

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zoysia problem. I suppose they might
feed on soysia a little bit, but

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I don't think Okay, yeah,
I pulled it up. Okay, yeah,

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I think we're probably talking about a
disease of some sort in there.

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I would let's back off. Let's
water if we can soaking once a week,

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but but not too often. Try
to try to have that grass spend

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most of its week dry, meaning
not wet foliage. You know, the

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soil will have moisture from your watering. It takes a while for that to

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move out. But that's what I
would recommend. The only other thing would

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be to take a sample and send
it to the state Plant Clinic and have

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them put it under a microscope and
officially diagnose it. They could name the

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disease and what to do. But
I I'd try backing off on the water

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first and see if it gets better. If that doesn't work, you bet

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you, you bet you, and
and thank you for the call, Hank.

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But if that doesn't work, give
me a call back. We can

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switch over and we can move to
a funge decide if we think we need

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to. Okay, what did you
us? Okay, it's one turf side

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or something I don't remember. Okay, it's like a hundred dollars a bag.

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Okay, and how long ago would
you do that? Yesterday? Oh?

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Okay? Well, hey, you
know I was gonna say, just

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calling garden line will make it get
better. And since I know you just

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put a fungicide down, maybe I
can take credit for that. We don't

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eat a way. I feel better
all right, Yeah, that's good.

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Well, let's see how it does. If it was that particular product you

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mentioned, we may need to possibly
shift to a different kind of product depending

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on the disease. You know,
not one product, just like one medicine

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doesn't fix all our woes. We
may have to switch. But I think

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the combination of that and backing off
the water, I believe you're gonna be

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okay. Hang, thank you,
sir. All right, you take care.

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Thank you for the call. Appreciate
that our phone number seven one three

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two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. When you need stuff
for your lawn and garden, I don't

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care where you live in the Greater
Houston area. Where can you go?

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Well, I'll tell you where you
can go. You can go to Ace

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Hardware. There's thirty nine locally owned
Ace Hardware stores. That means each one

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is in its own way a little
unique. Of course, they're all Ace

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Hardware stores, but each owner gets
to kind of create the type of store

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they're looking to create. Carry you'll
find some very unusual things that, you

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know, someone decides to focus on
a particular type of thing. I know,

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some of them have like fudge bars
in them. Can you imagine that?

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Go to hardware store and I mean
it is outstanding the selection that they

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have. There's all kinds of things
in Ace, but most importantly there's fertilizer.

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There's products that you need to control
disease, insects, weeds on your

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lawn, and then there's everything else
you need for indoor and out or living.

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It is the one stop place.
If I mentioned it on garden Line,

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go to ACE Hardware and you'll find
it there. Go to Ace Hardware

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dot com to find one of those
thirty nine store and probably two or three

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near you. Just look for their
store locator and they'll be all set up

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to go. Well, we're gonna
take a break. It is seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. If you'd like to give Josh

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a call and get on the boards. Is it's still over? We still

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drew, that's my poltid ain't ringing
I as soon it stid ain't. I've

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hadn't mind to take time to buy
somebody into but I'm not too sure that

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I'm still over. Good morning on
a what is to be a beautiful Sunday,

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I am seeing a little light gathering
outside start to make out some things.

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I think if you get out today
in the early morning hours, you're

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gonna find it to be downright pleasant. Okay, now, isn't it interesting?

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How you know? If I were
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it was going to be ninety six, I would get really excited. And

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that's a sad, sad situation when
ninety six is exciting, But it is

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what it is. It's where we
live. But the morning hours are a

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good time to get out there and
get some work done. I like it

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because it's quiet, and I like
it because the birds are singing. They

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get up and they do their thing, and I get to be out there

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and enjoy. Let's just say,
that's kind of a therapy, right,

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I think that you might agree with
that, may be able to identify with

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that. And we start messing around
with plants and we start puttering along and

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trying to grow things and do different
things. It just, I don't know,

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it's fulfilling. It's a renewal,
renewal process. You know. Gardeners

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are always hopeful because we always know
that next season is going to be the

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best one we ever had. Best
tomatos we've ever grown, the sweetest peaches

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we've ever had, the most beautiful
landscape we've ever had. If you're interested

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in retiring, maybe you're looking to
move and find a community where you can

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live a very active, enjoyable lifestyle. You know you've you've done the work,

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thing you've been through that you would
like to just kick back and really

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enjoy yourself. Well, Dellweb is
that kind of community. They design them

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for folks that are fifty five and
better. They design communities that have programs,

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active lifestyle programs designed around you.
They design communities of beautiful homes with

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beautiful walk places. The one down
in full Sure that's going in less than

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two miles from downtown Fulsure on three
fifty nine. That Dellweb community has a

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community garden in it as well.
Now you can go online to dellweb dot

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com slash Houston and find out more
information about it, or give him a

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call two eight one four five nine
zero six zero nine. You need to

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go buy there and look at it, because that way you can discover that

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Dellweb difference for yourself. And I
think as a gardener, that is one

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heck of a great idea to have
a community garden right there in the community.

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I was talking yesterday

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to a group of folks at the
Opapalooza and we were talking. I was

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talking about the two teas that make
the phone ring. Trees and turf.

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That's the two main ones and all
the things we do to take care of

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our trees. And you know,
trees are resilient. They have extensive root

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systems. An established mature tree has
roots reaching out maybe two and a half

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times the height of the tree in
all directions. Ferries with soil and species

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and whatnot, but the bottom line
is the root are way out there,

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way past the branches. Now there's
there's roots from the trunk all the way

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out. So when you're taking care
of a tree, maybe you've just planted

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one, maybe you planted one last
winter or last fall or even a year

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ago. Those trees have very limited
roots system. Still they're working their way

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out and you know, the day
after you plant it, the whole root

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system still in that cylinder. How
do you take care of it? Well,

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the way you do it is you
keep that root ball moist with small

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amounts of water really on a day
or every other day basis for the first

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00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.319
week or two or three or four, and then not large amounts. You

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don't want to create a swamp.
You want to keep the soil just moist

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for the roots. And because the
roots are confined pumping all the water out

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00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:16.160
of one spot, you gotta water
that spot. And then as the tree

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gets bigger, you water in a
larger and larger area. Someone call me

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the other day and they add a
tree about the size of a coke can,

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00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.799
about three inches across, and I
was telling them, what you need

446
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:29.359
it. You're probably gonna need a
water about a twelve foot wide circle once

447
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.319
the tree is hitting about that stage. And that's why I like tree hugger

448
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.160
sprinklers because you can do that.
Yeah. Tree hugger is it's a little

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00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.920
sprinkler. You put it up around
your tree. It has a little hinge

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so it goes around the tree.
You can turn on the valve to you

451
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know, of course you have your
faucet at the house, but the valve

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00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:47.759
on the sprinkler you can turn on
to just barely put water out or to

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water a wide area. Now you
can find tree Hugger everywhere. I mean

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every time I go into one of
our sponsors, I see tree Hugger in

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00:32:55.279 --> 00:33:00.799
there. Whether it's a home nursery
or whether it's a feed store, whether

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you know an ace hardwarester, you're
gonna find tree Huggers. You can go

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online to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com
and find out more information. I'd recommend

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you do that, but I'm telling
you, when you invest in a woody

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ornamental plant, and when we go
into this kind of hot and very little

460
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:22.079
rain, it is very important to
keep the soil moderately moist. And that

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00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:25.839
requires some thinking and some doing.
Where are the roots. Now it's a

462
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:29.960
new plant, they're all at the
bottom. It's an established plant, they're

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all way out beyond the branches.
And if it's somewhere in between, well

464
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you get the idea. But you've
got to make sure they don't lack for

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water, because when a tree gets
stressed, then you're going to end up

466
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with all kinds of problems. If
it's an oak tree, hypoxylan canker can

467
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.799
come in and kill it Upoxyland is
out there across Houston and all the oak

468
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.759
trees. It's there, but when
the tree gets weak, it moves in

469
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and it kills the tree. So
how do we avoid hypoxylan. We can't

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spray for it. We keep the
tree out of stress. That's what we

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do. And speaking of trees and
deep root watering is important. You can

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00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.480
put the same as deep root feeding, but it's getting water down there in

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the ground. Sometimes you put the
sprinkler on for the lawn and you just

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00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:17.440
don't get it wet deep enough to
really benefit that root system. And the

475
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.440
folks that Affordable Tree, Martin spoon
More, they know how to do this.

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00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:23.840
They have the equipment to do this. You can give them a call

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00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:30.159
at seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three seven three six nine

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twenty six sixty three. They can
come out and during these hard times.

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But remember, don't wait until the
tree looks like it's having a problem,

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because you are way past when you
should have saved that tree. When you

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00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.239
get to that point, now,
folks like Martin and Affordable Tree, they're

482
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.599
going to be able to do all
kinds of heroic things to do whatever is

483
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:54.039
necessary to help your trees, but
avoid the problem rather than hitting the crisis

484
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:59.159
stage. And you know, there's
no tree ambulance to come out and save

485
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.880
the tree, and you need to
take care of it. And that's why

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00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.639
having them come out and do deep
root feeding is important. Go to aff

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Tree service dot com, I said
deep root feeding. I'm at deep root

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00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.800
watering. In this case, they
also do deep root feeding. Give McCall

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00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:19.000
also seven month, three, six
nine nine, twenty six sixty three.

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00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:22.360
Pretty simple, pretty easy, And
it's nice hiring somebody who shows up when

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00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:27.199
they say they'll show up, and
does a good job and doesn't sell you

492
00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.639
something you don't need. Oh my
gosh. I mean whether you're going to

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00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:35.840
the mechanic or hiring a landscaper or
hiring a treecare person. I just want

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00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.079
somebody who will tell me the truth
and do what needs to be done for

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00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:44.920
a reasonable price. That's why I
like Affordable Tree so much. I talk

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00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.760
about how important it is to take
care of our soil, and yesterday I

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00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:54.360
was visiting with some of the folks
from Nature's Way and they are really the

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00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:59.400
originator of a lot of the quality
soils we enjoy here, whether it's rose

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00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.239
soil, whether it is you know, a leafmol compost. They're the ones

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00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.679
who they started it, they know
how to do it, and they have

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00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:09.480
plenty of supply of all of that
on hand. They also have a two

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00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:15.519
acre nursery that is being expanded with
one of the better selections of native plants

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00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.760
in the Houston area. Pretty impressive. Nature's Ways up there on forty five

504
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:23.000
forty five. As you head toward
Conrow about where fourteen eighty eight comes in,

505
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.760
you just turn to the east to
the right if you're going north,

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00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.559
cross over the railroad tracks and you're
there. They sell bag, they sell

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00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:34.800
bulk, and you can get deliveries. Always start with a soil, and

508
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:39.000
always start with quality composts, not
wood chunks. We're talking about quality material

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00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:43.800
and Nature's Way. They don't know
how to do anything other than quality material.

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00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.800
They don't know how to do anything
other than take the time that is

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00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.800
needed to make quality. Anybody can
grind up some wood, throw it in

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00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.679
a pile, keep it wet,
get it to turn dark, and then

513
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:59.000
start selling it. That is not
quality compost, and then it's not on

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00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:04.679
Nature's Way goes about doing their business. Well, you are listening to Gardenline.

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00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:06.880
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are going to take a

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00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:12.039
little break here to the noon news, not Noon the news, top of

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00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.320
the hour, if you would like
to give us a call seven one three

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00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:22.159
two, one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

519
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.920
eight seventy four. A little bit
later this morning, in the next hour,

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00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.599
the eight o'clock hour, we're gonna
have Dean Nelson come in. We're

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00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.679
gonna talk about the Randy Lemon Memorial
Scholarship. Maybe I'll pick his brain a

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00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.800
little bit for some of the fertilizer
technologies that are out there. But we're

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00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.880
gonna really go into a little bit
deeper dive into this scholarship. And I

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00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:47.159
know a lot of you listen to
Randy for years and years, very beloved

525
00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:51.960
lots of lemonheads out there, And
I can't think of a better cause for

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00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.000
those of you who really enjoyed listening
to Randy, who appreciated the way he

527
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.039
helped you for decades, stick around
for the eight o'clock an hour for that.

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00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.039
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

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00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:23.519
on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with scarp Rictor. Just watch

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00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:40.400
him as a wood well good Sunday
morning, the sun has broken through.

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It is beautiful outside, and I
would suggest taking advantage of the cooler part

532
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:50.119
of the day to get a couple
of things done and then being ready to

533
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.679
make plans to head out and visit
some of our garden centers this afternoon.

534
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.639
I know it's hot. I know
it's hot outside, but there's stuff to

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00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.199
be doing. Now. We're preparing
for fall. Now, we're taking of

536
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.119
our lawns. Now, we're making
sure that our plants have what they need

537
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.840
to get through this heat. And
go to a quality garden center, a

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00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.519
mom and pop that knows what they're
talking about. They hire people that and

539
00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:15.039
they train people to know what they're
talking about. And you get service,

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00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:19.440
You get help, you get what
you need, You get answers that are

541
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.960
correct, you get a friendly folks
knowledge before I mean, can I go

542
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:28.280
on and on? They're just there
is no better way to save money than

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00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:32.400
to go to a quality garden center
by a quality plant that has adapted to

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00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.960
your area, with advice on how
to take care of it. That is

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00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.760
the package right there. I mean
people think that you know, you save

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00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:44.519
a nickel here on some plant.
It may be a plant that shouldn't even

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00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.679
be planted here. Some of the
pot I'm not going to name names.

548
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:51.400
Maybe I should, but I'm not
going to name names. There are some

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00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:57.840
national companies out there that have garden
centers all over the place. But I've

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00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.360
gone in and seeing red rad bras
for sale in Houston. I've seen,

551
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:06.800
let's see conquered grapes, well,
just grape, juice, grape. I've

552
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:08.800
seen those for sale here. They
don't they don't grow here. You don't

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00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:13.840
plant those here. But same package
of plants, I guess, goes all

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00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.000
over the place. Who knows.
That's why I like to go to a

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00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.559
quality home mom and popping garden center. Plus, it's just fun. It's

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00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.119
just a lot more fun plants that
are being taken care of. Well,

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00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:28.000
here I go. I'm just drowning
on our phone number seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four,
and we are going to head out to

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the woodlands and talk to Brian.
Hello, Brian, Good morning, Skip.

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I got a question about three East
Pilatka holly trees that I planted in

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the spring. They were thirty down
and I saw my watering system sprinklers were

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00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:47.559
taking care of them. But I
noticed yesterday that one of them is losing

563
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.519
a lot of its leaves. I've
done a more of a deep watering to

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it, but I need to know
is there anything else I should do as

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00:40:55.239 --> 00:41:00.599
far as maybe any kind of fertilizer
to help it out. No, not

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00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.280
fertilizer right now, Let's just keep
the roots hydrated. The first year or

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00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.840
two for hollies is very critical once
they're established. You know, we're not

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00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:12.719
so worried about a little bit of
drought here and there. They're pretty tough.

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00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.639
But the first year or two is
critical, and they don't really have

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00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:21.400
a way of showing you they need
water other than turning brown. And it's

571
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:23.559
a little late, you know what
I'm saying. And so we want to

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00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.559
always just dig down in the soil
about six inches four inches, feel the

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00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:30.360
soil, and then you know for
sure. I mean, I could tell

574
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.559
you put on this much, you
know, a week. I could tell

575
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.519
you a lot of other kind of
rules of thumb, but the bottom line

576
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.760
is in your soil, which may
be anything from a sandy soil to a

577
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.000
heavy clay to a really quality rosebed
mix or something. There's a lot of

578
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.440
variation, and all the spot could
be sunny or shady, and it just

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00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.119
varies so much. That's why I
just say, look, get down there.

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00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:53.559
You don't have to do it every
time you water, but just get

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00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:57.840
on occasionally and feel and see how
are things going? Am I keeping this

582
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:01.400
adequately moist? And that's about the
best advice I can offer to you on

583
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:07.280
those East polatkas that you're dealing with. That's a beautiful holly. Okay,

584
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:08.599
great, Yeah, that's that's what
I'll do. I'll just be more diligent

585
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:12.760
and checking the water level. I
think that's the most important thing now once

586
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.440
they're established and they're growing. Yeah, I'm a little bit of fertilizer,

587
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.119
A little acidic type fertilizer especially would
do well. So if it's made for

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00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.360
azaleas and gardenias and blueberries and stuff, that'd be a good one for hollies

589
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:28.480
too. That works pretty well.
But right now it's not a lack of

590
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.840
nutrients, and we don't want to
complicate things with especially a salt based product

591
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:37.400
and overdoing it during a dry,
hot, dry period. Okay, great,

592
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.920
I appreciate the advice. All right, thanks sir, appreciate the call.

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That's uh, you know, taking
care of our plants is really important.

594
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:51.199
I was, I have a you
know, I kind of spend part

595
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:52.519
of my day, part of my
day, part of my week up in

596
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:57.440
the Brian College Station area and come
down here. I'm here all weekends.

597
00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.320
It's it's kind of a interesting doing
see in both places because you see a

598
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:02.880
lot of variation in things. But
anyway, I got house plants in both

599
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:06.440
places. And I came back the
other day and I was checking out my

600
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.840
house plants here in Houston, and
some of them were not very happy with

601
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.360
me. I had let the temperature
get a little warm in there, and

602
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.480
they were kind of like, where
have you been. But every time I

603
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.360
come back, they always get excited
to see me because I show up.

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00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.960
I get my watering can out,
and I put in some Microlife bio matrix.

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00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:28.280
That's the orange label Microlife. It's
a seven one three. I like

606
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:32.800
that higher first number in this liquid
fertilizer because house plants or foliage plants buy

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00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:36.320
and large, even if they have
a few of them have a bloom on

608
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:39.960
them. But in general, this
is a super way to get vigor to

609
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:45.039
support vegetative growth, which is part
of the beauty of the house plants.

610
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.719
Microlife Biomatrix orange label. Outside,
you can use the Ocean Harvest blue label.

611
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.920
That's a four two three fertilizer.
It's a fish based fertilizer. It's

612
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.800
essential for taking care of all of
your outdoor family plants. Now. I

613
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:02.000
love it for containers because you know, you mix it up, follow the

614
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:06.159
label, it's not going to burn
infect You can dilute it down and even

615
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:08.000
use it as a folior spray if
you want to. By the way,

616
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.960
the other thing about that orange label, the Indoor seven one three is it

617
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.239
has a lot of beneficial microbes that
are in that product itself, and just

618
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:22.599
another reason for that product to be
successful or your plants to be successful when

619
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.559
you use it. That's why I
use it. Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot

620
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.199
com, Microlife Fliser dot com.
Check out where you can buy Microlife.

621
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:31.760
Check out the products that I just
talked about, learn a little bit more

622
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:36.519
about them. This is a good
time for indoor gardening. Hey, when

623
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.800
it's one hundred degrees outside, why
not mess around with your house plants?

624
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:43.639
Right. I think it's so cool
that we have a hobby that we can

625
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.000
do indoors, we can do outdoors, you can do inclement weather and nothing

626
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.480
stops us. Well, let's head
out to Alvin and we're gonna talk to

627
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:55.880
Debbie. Hello, Debbie, I
skip. I had a fifty year old

628
00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:01.760
water oak removed from the front yard
because it was rotten. They did a

629
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:07.480
great job with the removal and the
stump grinding. Well, now I have

630
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:13.119
the opportunity to have someone with an
excavator come in and remove the root ball,

631
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.519
okay, and I'm wondering if I
should do that or just leave it

632
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:23.440
be and wait until next year to
replant a tree. Well, if you

633
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.280
can get it out of there,
that's good. You know, stump grinders

634
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:29.679
can come in and chomp it all
up, But then you end up with

635
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.519
a lot of raw wood mixed all
in with the soil in that spot.

636
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.920
And so that means it's going to
settle a lot more over time, because

637
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.280
that wood is going to decompose away
over time and tie up the nitrogen for

638
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:44.639
a while when it starts that decomposition. So I mean, if you got

639
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.000
somebody that can pop as much of
that trunk and or you know, stump

640
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:52.199
and root out of there, I
would do that. Otherwise, you know,

641
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.400
you can do everything from just leaving
it in place and turning the stump

642
00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:59.880
into a feature in the yard to
having it ground or you know, whatever

643
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.280
is most convenient for you. Okay. I just didn't know what would happen

644
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.079
to if there was a sewer line
nearby. Oh, that's a good question.

645
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:13.639
That's a good question. Yeah,
I don't know that. I mean,

646
00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.519
you would need to make sure on
that one, the chances of them

647
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.000
running that right under that oak or
even really close to the oak or slim.

648
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.440
But if the house was old enough, it could have predated the tree.

649
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:30.559
But I doubt that's the case.
Yeah, yeah, all right,

650
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:32.719
Well on that one, I don't
know. You have to get somebody out

651
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:36.519
there to you know, try to
figure out where these lines are and where

652
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:40.440
they're going if you don't have a
map with the property, so to just

653
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:45.920
kind of be careful. All right, thank you, you bet you take

654
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:47.800
care of Debbie. All right,
it's time for a break. Our phone

655
00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:52.119
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four give Josh call,

656
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.039
get you on the boards and we
will talk to you when we come back.

657
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.239
Well, good morning, good Sunday
morning, on a good day for

658
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:15.960
gardening, for talking about gardening.
Maybe some of your awake and shuffling around

659
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:17.000
the house, a cup of coffee, getting ready to go to church,

660
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:22.199
or whatever you are is in your
plans for today. We are glad you're

661
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.840
listening. Thank you for listening.
We enjoy getting to visit with you about

662
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:30.000
all kinds of things. Plants,
you know, it is it is summertime,

663
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.760
and sometimes when you know, I've
been talking all day about protecting your

664
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:37.800
trees, taking care of your trees, watering your trees, all those kind

665
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:39.920
of things. Well, it's also
a time when you can steal plant trees.

666
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:44.719
Now, if you go to a
verdant tree farm, for example,

667
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.039
you get to wander through there and
pick the tree out you want. It's

668
00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:50.840
kind of like shopping in the grocery
store. Go down the aisles and I

669
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:52.639
want that, I want this.
Well, they'll tag the tree for you,

670
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:54.920
and they'll bring it to your house
and they'll plant it. And they

671
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.360
know how to do it. They
know how to successfully plant a tree.

672
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.440
And this kind of weather if you'd
like to do that, If you want

673
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.199
a palm tree, this is a
great time for planting palms. You know,

674
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:12.760
palms actually are best when they're planted
in warmer weather. And verdant tree

675
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.519
farm has a selection of palms,
like I mean, nobody's business. All

676
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:22.480
kinds of wonderful palm trees that they
carry. They got the Florida sable in

677
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.239
the Midjule and Canary Island, and
the mule palm, the windmill palm,

678
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:29.039
and on and on. When you
think about palm trees, you need to

679
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:34.280
think about Verdant tree Farm. But
not just palms. Verdant carries all kinds

680
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.400
of trees that are quality and they
know what they're doing. So you can

681
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:38.639
take a picture of your house in
there and say, hey, what do

682
00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:42.559
you think would be good in this
spot in the yard, and they can

683
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.519
help you with that. They can
advise you on that. That is Verdant

684
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.119
Tree Farm. And I know the
word is pronounced verdint, but for some

685
00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:52.599
reason, in my head, Verdant
as someone always comes out. So if

686
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.400
I'm using it like I'm trying to
say the word greening, I guess I'd

687
00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.119
say verden. But that doesn't make
any sense, does it. Hey,

688
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.199
let's go out to Montgomery. We're
gonna talk to Jim. Good morning,

689
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:06.760
Jim. Hey, how are you
doing? I'm well, thank you?

690
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.480
How are you today? Oh man? Loving the dream? There you go?

691
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:15.639
What's up? I got a question
about about rose a rose and also

692
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.400
have a comment after that if you
don't mind about the music. But there's

693
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:24.719
a heard of a rose, a
purple rose called a B Tide. Have

694
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.039
you heard of that? I was
wondering how hardy that would be? No,

695
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:36.000
I have not. I have not
heard of that EBB Tide. We

696
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:40.920
had him in in Tyler, Texas. They said that some nursery up there

697
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.360
had him. And I was just
told about it because I was I was

698
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:52.840
wanting a purple rose and they said
that that's not you know, real you

699
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.679
know, there's not real purple or
something. But uh, but you know,

700
00:49:57.719 --> 00:50:00.239
they said an EBB Tide would be
the one. And it was about

701
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:05.639
sixty five bucks for one. You
know, it's three gallons size, I

702
00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:08.000
think is what they said. Okay, it was just a friend of mine

703
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:12.119
talking about it. It had been
up to Tyler and saw one or something.

704
00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:15.079
I don't think you gonna have to
go Tyler to get one. R

705
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:19.480
c W Nursery carries EBB Tide that
they have a lot of four pages long

706
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.920
of roses and they do. Okay, EBB Tide. Arc W is the

707
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.960
nursery over there where two forty nine, tom Ball Parkway comes into BELTWAYE.

708
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.239
I know where it is. I
was like to make a comment about the

709
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:37.559
music. There's a song by the
Beach Boys called a Sloop John B.

710
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.079
I know that. And every time
you have one of those that caller that

711
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:45.360
calls up pretty regular, her name
is John B. It always reminds me

712
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:49.400
of that song. Okay, John
B. If you're here, and if

713
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.400
you're listening, you heard that,
Yeah, slop John B got on the

714
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.559
sloop jomb Yeah, my grandfather and
me, I remember that. Yeah,

715
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.159
that's a great tune. Well,
thank you. Well, we try to

716
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.639
surprise you with music so you never
know what's coming next. I heard a

717
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:07.880
rumor already that we might we might
actually I don't know, play a yodeling

718
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:13.400
or a barbershop song every night.
We try not to. Well, we

719
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:15.920
have fun here. Come on,
have some fun with us, all right,

720
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.880
Jo, thanks a lot, and
yeah, give our CW call.

721
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:23.000
They'll get in today. I don't
know that. I know it's on the

722
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.840
list of the roses they carry.
Then if they don't know it, they'll

723
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:30.119
get it. That's our CW.
All right, I'll talk to them about

724
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:32.599
it, all right, all right, you take care. Our phone number

725
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:39.280
is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

726
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:44.920
one two five eight seven four.
Yeah, you can give us a call.

727
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.679
We'll talk all kinds of things gardening
with you. If you'd like to.

728
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:50.440
Josh, you get you on the
board too. By the way,

729
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:54.000
Hey, if you live up in
the Spring Creek area, we're talking about

730
00:51:54.039 --> 00:52:01.199
Magnolia Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy
eight. Your hometown feed store is Spring

731
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:07.280
Creek Feed Center. They carry the
fertilizer lines that I talk about here.

732
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:13.320
They carry lawn and garden supplies.
They carry things like herbicides, pesticides,

733
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.920
fungicides, those things. They carry
all the kinds of feed stuff you need,

734
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:21.119
quality food for your pet and for
your animals. They are I'll tell

735
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:22.599
you. When you walk in there, you are greeted. It's friendly,

736
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:27.840
courteous staff, just like you would
expect from one of our garden line feed

737
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:31.239
store favorites that we have around the
community. If you're FA, f H,

738
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:36.280
Military, senior citizen, there's discounts
for each of those groups. They

739
00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:38.320
even special order products and they have
a delivery service. I don't know what

740
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:44.840
more you could ask for Spring Creek
Feed and Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy

741
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.840
eight. I love going into feed
stores. So I don't know, there's

742
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:51.559
just something just something unique about it. Maybe it's because I grew up and

743
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:54.679
going to feed stores and you know, they're just that that feed store smell

744
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.599
that I love it, you know, the smell of fresh feed and things

745
00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:02.199
like that. I think that's cool. I was talking earlier about the importance

746
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:08.239
of getting your lawn fertilized if you
haven't already, the importance of continuing to

747
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:15.480
provide a gradual supply of nutrients over
time, and that over time, the

748
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:20.800
that is the key. You want
to gradually feed your lawn over time when

749
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:24.119
you do that. Now, nitro
Fole Summer Essentials has a product, it's

750
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:29.679
a sweet Green product that I think
is an excellent choice. It's a it's

751
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:34.880
an organic fertilizer. It's made from
a molasses base, and so when the

752
00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:38.360
microbes get ahold of anything that's sugary
like molasses, that makes them very very

753
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:43.000
happy, really kicks them into high
gear. The Sweet Green is eleven percent

754
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:46.880
nitrogen and it will just dissolve away
into your lawn and you will see the

755
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:51.239
results from it. Now You can
get sweet green every where you get nitro

756
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.039
files, so Ace hardware stores,
Mom and Pop, Garden Center's feed source.

757
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:59.360
It's available in a lot of different
places, but that nitrofos sweet green.

758
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:01.159
By the way, you want to
put about ten pounds per thousand square

759
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:05.960
feet on your lawn when you fertilize
about ten pounds of the sweet green per

760
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:09.960
thousand square feet has a wonderful fresh
sweet smell. That's why they call it

761
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:13.599
sweet green. I think you ought
to try it out. They got a

762
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:17.159
great stock in this year because the
demand has been so high on that product,

763
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:22.880
and for good reason. We're going
to head out now to Huntsville and

764
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:25.880
talk to Charles Well, good morning, Charles, Good morning. Yes,

765
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.679
I'm in Huntsville about forty miles north
and my pear trees last year were just

766
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:36.400
loaded and this year not a pair. And I had a neighbor that had

767
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:38.320
a huge pear tree and it was
the same situation. Last year. They

768
00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:42.840
were loaded. This year, no
pairs. Is that normal for them to

769
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:45.920
produce every other year? Well,
there can be a little bit of that,

770
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:49.000
not as much as with pecans,
but you can get a little bit

771
00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.559
of that because pears do ripen a
little bit later in the season. They're

772
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:55.800
not as late as pecans though.
That's why we don't have that alternate bearing

773
00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:59.679
so bad. Let me ask you
a question. Did your pears get a

774
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:02.280
little stressed from heat and drought last
year and then maybe bloom a little bit

775
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.880
on the fall. Did you notice
that, Well, we didn't have the

776
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:09.519
heat and stress that y'all did down
there in Texas. Okay, so you

777
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:14.360
didn't have a fall bloom on your
pears, No, I did not.

778
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:19.519
Okay, in the spring this year, did your trees bloom? No,

779
00:55:19.639 --> 00:55:22.639
they did not. Okay, the
apple tree, the apple tree did great,

780
00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:29.039
it's loaded. But the pear trees
were just void of blooms, even

781
00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:30.679
blooms. Okay, well, there
we're getting to the bottom of the problem.

782
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:36.360
Then for some reason, they didn't
set blooms in the previous year,

783
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.920
and your pear trees have been setting
blooms since a little a little bit earlier

784
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:44.599
in the summer, and it'll go
on into the next month or so.

785
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:47.519
And so this is a critical time
that they're adequately watered, that they're not

786
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:52.360
in stress, because you want to
get those blooms made now, because by

787
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:57.599
the time we get to a late
fall all the way up until bloom time,

788
00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:00.880
you know they've either done it or
they have it. And so next

789
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:05.000
spring for you to have a bloom
show, that means July, August,

790
00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:09.199
maybe early September, mid September.
Those trees are needing to do that bloom

791
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:13.000
set. So that's when we really
want to avoid any kind of stress.

792
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.519
That would be about the only thing
I can think of. There's not a

793
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:20.800
disease or an insect that causes them
not to set blooms. So it's going

794
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:25.199
to be something along one of those
lines. What can you spray an apple

795
00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:30.440
tree with? I noticed that that
the apples I'm getting have little black holes

796
00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:32.400
in them, and some of them
are turning rotten and even when they fall.

797
00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:37.239
Yeah, we have a problem with
that. Apples are a challenger because

798
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.360
of our heat and humidity. And
there I'm not there. I'm north.

799
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:45.639
I'm north of Huntsville, Alabama.
Oh, Huntsville, Alabama. I miss

800
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:51.360
that. I'm sorry. I think
in Huntsville, Texas. I missed that,

801
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:55.679
all right, So hunts I'll now, Okay, Well that helps you

802
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.320
know. We've got a Paris,
Texas. So if you come told me

803
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:06.119
you're calling from Paris. I wouldn't
think France, all right. So anyway,

804
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:12.760
yeah, there there are home fruit
labeled spray products that have fungicides end

805
00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:16.960
them that you can spray for the
black rot and for some of the leaf

806
00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:23.519
spots on apples that apples are prone
to foliage issues. And so I would

807
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:28.679
I would go to wherever your local
garden centers are out there in the Huntsville

808
00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.119
area, and uh, you know, see what they have on hand.

809
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:36.320
But you're going to have needed to
start that a little bit earlier if you

810
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:37.760
if you've got fruit, you're needing
to spray for the sake of the fruit,

811
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:39.880
But when you have leaves, you're
having to spray for the leaves too,

812
00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:45.280
because if you get a lot of
leaf drop on your apples, then

813
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:49.400
again same thing. They're setting their
bloom buds now, and there's not the

814
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:52.440
carbohydrates they need to do as good
a job on that either. So I

815
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:57.239
wouldn't delay anymore. I would go
ahead and get out there and try to

816
00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:00.719
protect whatever you have left, because
even if you don't, you know,

817
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:05.199
an apple that already has disease is
a goner, but you do still have

818
00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.440
the potential for setting those bloom buds. For next year, or protecting any

819
00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:12.800
apples that haven't gotten infected yet.
The problem we have is a lot of

820
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:15.639
the garden centers up here don't carry
the line of products that that we I

821
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:19.840
used to live in Houston, So
yeah, we just can't get the products

822
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:24.639
that you carried down there, right
right. I understand that there are some

823
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:30.079
ways to mail order some stuff in
you can you look online for that kind

824
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.800
of thing. That's a possibility when
you just can't find it local. Yeah,

825
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.840
I think Amazon. I just how
about one name, one, one

826
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.079
thing that you could tell me for
the the apple tree that I could order

827
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:47.840
online from Amazon. Well, you're
catching me off guard in that. I'm

828
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:52.920
trying to think of. You know, what is labeled for the apples for

829
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:59.800
that particular fungicide. Probably a product
that had either manab or manko zeb in

830
00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:04.559
it that was labeled for apples would
be a good one to try. Those

831
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:09.519
are pretty effective fungicides. Let's see
the leaf spots. Something with a dacannil

832
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:14.440
in it would do that. But
I think the app the apple, I

833
00:59:14.440 --> 00:59:19.440
don't think the apple rots Dacannil's gonna
work on. So I may look for

834
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:23.079
the manab manca zab maybe something would
have like a propocondazole type product, But

835
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:25.599
again it's all going to be about
is it labeled for it or not.

836
00:59:27.039 --> 00:59:29.719
You can find those products. If
they don't have apples on the label,

837
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:32.519
don't use them on your apple.
I'll look for those deals. Okay.

838
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.199
I appreciate your insight and thank you
for your information. All right, Charles,

839
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:39.280
thank you for calling, and have
a good time out there in Huntsville,

840
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:43.320
Alabama. I was talking about fertilizing
in your lawn a minute ago,

841
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:46.639
and when you fertilize you always need
to think about micronutrients as well. And

842
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:52.199
asamite is a mind product that is
a basically a crushed mineral mind up in

843
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:57.199
Utah that is chock full of all
kinds of trace elements, trace elements that

844
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.760
your plants need. Certainly the lawn
is well as other plants. I put

845
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:06.480
it in vegetable gardens because I want
my produce to be as packed with quality

846
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:12.559
nutrients for my own human health as
I can, and asamites that that's what

847
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:15.280
it is. Go to Azamite Texas
dot com to find out more information.

848
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.920
I wouldn't mix it with my fertilizer
and apply it at the same time because

849
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.320
particle size is different. But I
would follow up first with the fertilizer and

850
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:25.880
then asamit, vice versa, and
make sure you take care of those things

851
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.360
and get that done. Well,
it is time for the Nicki News Network,

852
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:34.760
so I'm going to bow out here. Our phone number is seven one

853
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.599
three two one two five eight seven
four. Give Josh a cold who'll get

854
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:55.440
you right on the boards. Well, good morning, good morning, and

855
01:00:55.519 --> 01:00:59.239
welcome to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we're here

856
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:01.239
to talk gardening. What is your
question? What are you interested in?

857
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:05.519
And we'll go from house plants to
orchids to I guess that would be a

858
01:01:05.559 --> 01:01:08.840
house plant. You know, that's
an interesting thing. I just just occurred

859
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:13.320
to me. We call things house
plants, but no plants are native to

860
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.440
the house, right. House plants
are typically jungle plants, not always,

861
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:22.880
but oftentimes we find them in some
tropical rainforests somewhere and we figure out,

862
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:25.559
you know what, they're living here
without hardly any light with due to the

863
01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:30.239
heavy tree canopy, you know,
so maybe we can bring them home,

864
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:31.880
grow them in the house, and
that's how they get there. But it

865
01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:38.039
helps to remember that and because then
you realize the environment that plant is used

866
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:44.239
to being in the temperature environment,
the kind of moisture, and other things

867
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:45.920
that are kind of a clue to
how to take good care of it.

868
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:52.119
If you are interested in redoing some
beds, and I hope you are,

869
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:57.639
because fall is coming and fall planting
is coming, you need to go to

870
01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:00.840
the arbigate and you need to get
there one two three, completely easy system.

871
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.199
And here is why I say that. The first part is a food

872
01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:08.360
that feeds anything with roots. They
have a four four three ten percent calcium

873
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:14.519
added. Additionally, it's an organic
food, a complete organic food that you

874
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.719
can mix into your beds to provide
those nutrients to create that bank account.

875
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:22.679
In the soil. They have an
organic soil complete. Now that would include

876
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:27.920
a compost and expanded shell and large
particle sand. So this is a soil

877
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.599
that's going to stay loose. It's
going to stay open each time you add

878
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.199
it. You know, the compost
breaks down as all of our composts do,

879
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.440
that's how nature is. But the
particle sand and the expanded shale,

880
01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:43.320
each time you're adding it, you're
redoing that bed and you're building it up

881
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:46.760
better and better. And the soil
just gets really really good, perfect for

882
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:52.199
plant growth. And then finally there's
their organic compost complete that's a third of

883
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:57.920
the one two three and has two
different kinds of compost blended together again shale

884
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:02.199
component inside of it to promote aeration
and to promote drainage. If you have

885
01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:07.679
a black play, so you absolutely
have to be using some expanded shale when

886
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.360
you're mixing up your soil. Always
we want to add compost. It's always

887
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.639
a good idea to add compost,
but expanded shale as well is important.

888
01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:20.320
So Arburgate's got it all put together
with a one two three. So you're

889
01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:23.159
getting ready for those fall flower beds. Maybe even plant marigolds or something for

890
01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:27.840
the fall. You're getting ready for
the fall vegetable garden. You need something

891
01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:31.760
for containers. Even this stuff works, it just it works. And when

892
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:36.760
you're out at Arburgate, pick up
that one two three and do it again

893
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:39.480
and again over time, and just
watch your soul get better and better.

894
01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:44.800
And when the soul gets better,
production is better, more bountiful, more

895
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:49.239
beautiful. Well. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

896
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:55.199
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four and I

897
01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:00.480
was out in the front yard yesterday
and not yesterday, earlier this week,

898
01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:06.239
and I we have a Vitex tree, and this vitex has bloomed, but

899
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:10.519
now it's in another cycle of bloom. And I was just standing there.

900
01:04:10.679 --> 01:04:13.840
Number one, I like the fragrances. You know, the regular blue purple

901
01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.039
Vitex has fragrance. It sure does. I was enjoying that, and I

902
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:23.159
just noticed motion in the tree and
I looked and it was bees. All

903
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:26.920
kinds of pollinators were just going through. There's three or four. There was

904
01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:28.880
two that I didn't even know what
they were. I mean, they weren't

905
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:31.920
honey bees, they weren't bumble bees, and they were just working those blooms.

906
01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:34.800
And it just reminded me how important
it is to take care of our

907
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:41.320
bees. Bees are the thing that
keeps this world fed, if you will,

908
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:45.039
and it's really important to take care
of them. If you've never put

909
01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:47.559
bees in your backyard, you ought
to consider doing that. You know,

910
01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:53.519
it is really not that difficult at
all. You can improve your pollination in

911
01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:58.039
your garden. You can also have
a source of honey right there. Bees

912
01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:02.159
are fascinating, fast, senating world
to learn about If you have never been

913
01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:05.519
to the Bee Supply in Dayton,
you really need to go. First of

914
01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:11.840
all, just go to their website
and learn therebe supply dot com. They

915
01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:14.719
have once a month now during this
time of the year. Once a month

916
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:17.679
they have beginner classes out at the
Bee Supply where if you're interested in getting

917
01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:21.639
into bees, you learn the whole
nine yards and they hold your hand and

918
01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:27.079
walk through the process. Even after
you purchase products, go home, set

919
01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:30.079
them up and you run into some
issues. They are there for you and

920
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:33.960
they will see you to success.
That is their goal. Now, if

921
01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:36.760
you just want to learn about bees, go to one of the free honey

922
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:42.119
tours there once a month out in
Dayton, and you get to learn all

923
01:05:42.239 --> 01:05:45.159
kinds of stuff. Kids have got
to go do this, but I'm telling

924
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.480
you as an adult. Last time
I went out there, I talked to

925
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:51.280
them for I think two hours,
and I'm still learning more about bees as

926
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:55.400
a result. They have a honey
tour where you get to sample a lot

927
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:59.480
of honey too, which is another
kind of fun and cool thing to be

928
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:03.719
able to do. Let's head out
now to clover Leaf and we're going to

929
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:08.599
talk to Gordon. Hello, Gordon, Hey, good morn. How are

930
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:13.079
you doing today. I'm well,
thank you. I called you a while

931
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:19.559
back. Uh, planting my side
in my yard okay, and used all

932
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:25.960
your helpful tips and everything is looking
green except the parts that I didn't plant.

933
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:30.559
But my question is, when Randy
was still alb God bless his soul,

934
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:38.719
he said that there was a something
called carbo load with a and it

935
01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:44.840
contained a pre emergent harbicide in it. Yes, And I don't know if

936
01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:49.239
that was Nelson's or whatever it was
Adams or that was Nelson Nelson. Nelson

937
01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:56.920
Nelson's has a carbo load and it's
designed for the fall application. And so

938
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.400
when you put that on, uh, it's not super high nitrogen because we

939
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:04.480
do not want high nitrogen in the
fall like we do through the rest of

940
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:08.000
the year. You know, we
do the three one two or four one

941
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:11.840
two ratio products during the year,
but when we get to fall, we

942
01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:15.880
back that nitrogen down to closer to
or even a little under the potassium levels.

943
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:19.480
And so the carbo load is that
kind of product. It's designed for

944
01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:26.360
that and it works very very well. That gets your grass nutrient wise packed

945
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:29.760
up and ready to go to move
into winter. So that when it comes

946
01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:33.519
out in the spring, you have
a healthy grass coming out because people don't

947
01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:36.199
think about this, but they think
about you know, here's the spring and

948
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:40.400
my grass is growing. The roots
are all out there taking up stuff.

949
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.880
No, actually, initially coming out
of the winter, it's what the grass

950
01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:48.800
went into winter with that's supplying the
energy and the growth. So that's why

951
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:57.079
that shop that should keep a green
throughout the winter. Well it's not.

952
01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.480
It's not so much that it keeps
it green. It's that think of it

953
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:04.079
as this. It's anti freeze.
It's carbohydrates in the plant to protect it

954
01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:10.280
against cold, but to have that
energy when spring comes to take off growing

955
01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:14.199
when the plant doesn't have the same
root system that it did during the growing

956
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:18.079
season, it's that initial Now this
the greenness over winter is based more on

957
01:08:18.119 --> 01:08:25.159
the temperature. You don't want to
push a high nitrogen fertilizer onto your grass

958
01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:30.680
going into winter. That would that
would be not the ideal scenario. That's

959
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:36.000
why we like things like Okay,
so I've been putting the Medina, not

960
01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:40.760
the lawn fertilizer, but the Medina
soil activator. I've been using that since

961
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:45.159
a plant the grass and yeah,
well so that's don't think of that so

962
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:48.399
much as a fertilizer. Think of
it as a stimulant. Okay, but

963
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:54.640
the fertilizer would be separate from that. But there's I called them and they

964
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:58.079
told me that I can't overdose my
law and I'm like I can't. Right,

965
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.359
Oh good, I'll use I'll use
a lot of all Right, Hey,

966
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.119
Gordon, I have run out of
time. I've got to go to

967
01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:06.039
a break here. But I hope
that I hope that helped you. Sounds

968
01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:11.399
like Randy got you on a good
track and you're still going than you can

969
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:14.880
I ask you. Or we're gonna
have to hold on till after break,

970
01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:17.279
So I'm gonna put you on hold. Our phone number is seven one three

971
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:33.760
two one two five eight seven four. We'll be right back. Well,

972
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:39.119
good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and we are here to answer

973
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.720
your gardening questions. Hey, have
you ever heard when life gives you lemons,

974
01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.039
make lemonade? Right? Well,
what do you do when life gives

975
01:09:46.079 --> 01:09:50.439
you blazing hot sun? Day after
day after day? You make electricity?

976
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:55.800
You put you put a solar device
on your roof. Man, maybe you

977
01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:58.920
don't want to look at one of
those big old panels sitting on the roof.

978
01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:01.880
Well, brink And can fix that. Brinkman has something called a solar

979
01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:06.199
shingle. Is that cool or what
it's Actually, it's not on the roof

980
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:11.439
above the roof, it's it is
the roof. And they know how to

981
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.960
do this. I mean they protect
your home while they create electricity for you.

982
01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:18.760
Fully warranted twenty five years now.
Brinkman is the quality roofer that we

983
01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:24.960
brag on here on garden Line because
fifty years in the business, they know

984
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:29.039
what they're doing. This is their
home turf. They have a reputation and

985
01:10:29.119 --> 01:10:33.199
they keep that reputation in fact to
be a twenty twenty two Better Business Bureau

986
01:10:33.359 --> 01:10:39.159
Pinnacle Award winner. That doesn't come
easy, but they make sure that they

987
01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:42.720
do the kind of work and use
the kind of materials that earn them that

988
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.439
kind of respect from their customers.
You can go to Brinkman Quality dot com,

989
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:51.520
Brinkman Quality dot com or dial two
eight one four eight zero seven six

990
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:58.439
six three. I'm going to head
out back now to clover Leaf. We

991
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.520
were talking to Gordon Guard and I
think you had a follow up question.

992
01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.920
Yeah, I just have the thing
with the medina has to grow. I

993
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:09.920
have a bottle of that. Yes, when is a cutoff date to where

994
01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:13.600
I should not use that anymore?
There's not a big cutoff date. As

995
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:17.119
we head into October, our grass
is slowing down quite a bit, and

996
01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:21.079
it just kind of, you know, it's still taking up some things to

997
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:25.640
prepare for winter. But I would
say once we get passed about October,

998
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:30.680
that's probably long enough to be using
something like the medina has to grow.

999
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:36.000
I would at that point I asked
you before, this will not burn my

1000
01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:40.479
grass in the heat. But if
I use it likes first thing in the

1001
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:45.000
morning, right, it should be
Okay, yes it won't. But just

1002
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.359
follow the label on any product you
use. Always follow the label, you

1003
01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:51.960
know. All right, Okay,
all right, you guys have a blessed

1004
01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:55.760
day, and you too. Thank
you for the call. I appreciate that.

1005
01:11:56.840 --> 01:12:00.640
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interested in a quality community, you

1006
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.560
want a beautiful home, you want
a beautiful setting, walking trails, you

1007
01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:11.199
want active programs, active programs,
lifestyle programs that are designed around you.

1008
01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:14.159
That's what Dell Web's all about.
I mean, they've they've been doing this

1009
01:12:14.199 --> 01:12:17.560
for seventy years now. Dellweb has
a new community out in full Shirts on

1010
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two miles from downtown Full Shure, and

1011
01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:25.000
it has all the things you would
expect from Dell Web. Plus it has

1012
01:12:25.039 --> 01:12:30.079
a community garden that I've been helping
them with and I can't imagine a better

1013
01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:31.680
place. You know, you go
live and you get all the stuff I

1014
01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:34.760
just mentioned, Plus you have a
place to go garden where you don't have

1015
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:38.880
to dig up the backyard, where
you get to gather with friends and visit,

1016
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:42.319
you know, gardeners. I don't
know whether we get more gardening done

1017
01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:47.520
or more visiting and opining and pontificating
about plants done, but that's the fun

1018
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:51.800
of gardening, is getting together and
just enjoying it with other people. And

1019
01:12:51.880 --> 01:12:56.359
that's what you would do in a
Dellweb community like that one down in full

1020
01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:00.840
Schre dellweb dot com slash Houston.
You can get more information there or you

1021
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:05.319
can call him two eight one four
five nine zero six zero nine. Our

1022
01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:10.159
phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. We're

1023
01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:12.720
gonna be taking a break in a
minute, and when we come back at

1024
01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:15.439
eight o'clock hour, we're gonna have
Dean Nelson from Nelson Plant Food here.

1025
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:19.560
We're gonna talk about the Randy Lemon
Memorial Scholarship. Now, I know we

1026
01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:24.199
have a lot of listeners that listen
to Randy, many of you for almost

1027
01:13:24.239 --> 01:13:28.439
all twenty six or seven years that
he was doing this, and Randy was

1028
01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:31.600
an icon when it comes to plant
I mean, there are people that would

1029
01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:35.560
not go to the garden center without
checking with the Randy first, because that's

1030
01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:40.039
just the reputation that he built.
He helped a lot of you in your

1031
01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:45.439
landscapes and in your gardens and just
provided that week to week entertainment on the

1032
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:48.640
weekends, you know what I mean. Randy was beloved here. I can

1033
01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:54.520
think of a not a better way
to honor and recognize Randy than this scholarship.

1034
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.239
And we're gonna spend some time talking
about it next hour, but I

1035
01:13:57.279 --> 01:13:59.920
just wanted to kind of give you
a heads up that that is coming.

1036
01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:03.119
Let's head out now to Spring,
Texas and we're gonna talk to Rich.

1037
01:14:03.319 --> 01:14:10.680
Hello, Rich, good morning.
Skip. Following up on the diesel exhaust

1038
01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:16.199
fluid. Yeah, I called in
last week about yes, yes, did

1039
01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:19.640
did you have a chance to look
at it? I sent an email with

1040
01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:24.119
a couple of links I did.
I saw that, and I glanced at

1041
01:14:24.159 --> 01:14:26.640
it, but I bookmarked them so
I could come back. At the time

1042
01:14:26.680 --> 01:14:29.199
I was looking at it, I
was having to run and do something else.

1043
01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:31.920
But yeah, that's something I did
not know about. I had never

1044
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:35.920
I'd never heard about that before.
But you do it all right. But

1045
01:14:35.960 --> 01:14:41.359
it seems it seems interesting based on
the you know, cost per gallon for

1046
01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:45.119
a fifteen zero zero So that's why
I was interested. Well, it is,

1047
01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:47.359
and you know, I still want
to look into it a little bit

1048
01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:49.960
further. You know, I when
I see something like that, I always

1049
01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:53.640
think, okay, wait a minute, where's the yeah butt in this?

1050
01:14:54.079 --> 01:14:57.840
And I interest in glancing at it. I didn't see that, but that

1051
01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:00.199
that is interesting. Just remember though, that we use a quality for alizer.

1052
01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:03.560
You're getting a lot of other ingredients, a lot more things you got

1053
01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:08.159
the Big three, of course,
but you often have a lot of micros

1054
01:15:08.199 --> 01:15:13.279
that are there, sometimes microbial activity
as well. So I just understood.

1055
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:18.600
And I use azomde and some other
things and the normal nitro fosl sortalizers.

1056
01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.920
This would be something that was interested
in just to spoon feed, you know,

1057
01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:26.920
once a month a light application.
Well that's interesting, yeah, that

1058
01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:30.199
you know, and doing this forty
three years. There are not many things

1059
01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:33.640
I haven't heard of, but that
was one I have not heard of.

1060
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:38.720
So it's a good day without it
to learn something else, right, it

1061
01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:41.880
is. Thanks, good, Hey, Thanks. I appreciate the call,

1062
01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:45.239
Rich and thanks for sending me that
information. And this is just a reminder.

1063
01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:47.479
I need to go back, but
I did bookmarket so I could come

1064
01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:51.159
back and study that a little further. Appreciate your call, right, Thank

1065
01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:56.520
you. You take care. If
you live in the Kingwood area, you

1066
01:15:56.560 --> 01:16:01.439
are fortunate in that you have two
out standing mom and pop garden centers out

1067
01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:08.600
there that would be Kingwood Gardens and
Warrens Southern Gardens. Now, these folks

1068
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:11.279
they carry the products we talk about. You know, if I'm talking about

1069
01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:15.199
a fertilizer, they're going to have
it at Kingwood Garden Center and at Warren's

1070
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:19.640
Garden Center. They have those Microlife
and Nelson Plant Food filling stations for your

1071
01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:23.319
jugs. You know, how you
go into a grocery store and you can

1072
01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:26.199
buy peanuts and stuff. You pull
the little handle down and fill up a

1073
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.359
bag. That's what we're talking about, except you take your empty canisters from

1074
01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:32.640
those products. You go in there
and you fill them up. Saves a

1075
01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:36.239
little money, saves a little bit
on putting more plastic out there in the

1076
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:41.720
environment. Now, right now,
the weekly special this weekends. This weekend,

1077
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:44.960
it is called the Hibiscus Happy Hour. And I don't want to be

1078
01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:47.800
clear. This is at Kingwood Garden
Center. This is at Kingwood Garden Center.

1079
01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:54.199
One gallon Cajun hibiscus, that's my
favorite tropical hibiscus, nineteen ninety nine,

1080
01:16:54.199 --> 01:16:57.960
from two pm to five pm.
And that happens on Saturday. And

1081
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:00.720
that happens on today Sunday. Okay, so that's your opportunity. Now.

1082
01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:06.640
Both locations have Mandevilla on sale,
the beautiful tropical blooms of Mandevilla. Here's

1083
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:10.640
your chance to pick those up.
And we got a lot of Mandevilla weather

1084
01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:15.399
still to come. An interesting thing
out at Warrens Garden Centers are having a

1085
01:17:15.439 --> 01:17:20.359
fall garden soil prep it's a cultivate
a harvest of abundance. That's August nineteenth,

1086
01:17:20.399 --> 01:17:24.680
so it's coming up in a couple
of weeks. Nine am to ten

1087
01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:28.399
am. It's free nine am to
ten am. But you will learn all

1088
01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:30.800
about preparing your soil. Space is
limited, even though it's free, space

1089
01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:36.039
is limited, so reserve your spot
at Warren's Garden Center out there in the

1090
01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:42.119
Kingwood area. Kingwood Garden Centers on
Stone Hollow Drive Warren's Garden Centers on North

1091
01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:46.880
Park both are open seven days a
week, so just a good time to

1092
01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:51.359
get out there. See the beauty. The gift shops are amazing for those

1093
01:17:51.399 --> 01:17:56.880
places. But here's all the other
reasons. Now more reasons to want to

1094
01:17:56.920 --> 01:18:02.159
head out to Kingwood and Warren's Garden
Center out there the Kingwood area. Let's

1095
01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:06.640
see, I am going to Jim. I'm gonna go to you next out

1096
01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:10.960
in Conro. We've got about a
minute, so let's see if we can

1097
01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:17.119
get it done in a minute.
Okay, okay. I planted a large

1098
01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:23.760
red maple tree last fall or head. It done by RCW, and it's

1099
01:18:24.159 --> 01:18:29.920
having some issues with this heat.
I think it's though that it's been overwater

1100
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:32.399
rather than underwater, and I wonder
if I could send you a couple of

1101
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:35.600
pictures and could take a look at
it. Yeah, but as we finished

1102
01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:38.720
talking here, I'll put you on
hold, Josh. We'll get you the

1103
01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:41.439
email so you can do that.
Make sure they're in good sharp focus.

1104
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:44.920
Maybe some close ups of some leaves
or any other symptoms, but also of

1105
01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:48.159
the whole tree. We'll take a
look. Yeah, overwatering or underwatering,

1106
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.800
but either way you could do it. It's a new tree, still putting

1107
01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:57.399
roots out there, so it's easy
to overwater. Still confined, somewhat confined

1108
01:18:57.479 --> 01:19:00.079
root system. But if you got
it, if you got it from our

1109
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:04.359
CW, those folks know they were
quality trees, and they plan them right

1110
01:19:04.399 --> 01:19:08.760
and get them established. And so
if they did the planning for you especially,

1111
01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:11.840
we know all that was taken care
of. We just got to figure

1112
01:19:11.880 --> 01:19:15.720
out, you know, what's going
on and turn them around, right all

1113
01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:21.039
right? Jee O, yes sir, here you go on hold and Josh

1114
01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:25.840
we'll pick it up. We're gonna
be taking a break here run I see

1115
01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:29.319
out there in League City. We're
gonna have to hold on until after the

1116
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:31.000
news at the top of the hour. If anyone would like to give us

1117
01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:36.279
a call seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four, maybe

1118
01:19:36.319 --> 01:19:43.439
you just want to tell about something
that Randy did that you just really enjoyed,

1119
01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:45.640
that really helped you some ways,
that he was helpful to you.

1120
01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:48.840
We would love to take some calls
like that. During the eight o'clock hour,

1121
01:19:49.199 --> 01:19:51.960
we're gonna have Dean Nelson here and
we're gonna be talking about the Randy

1122
01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:57.560
Lemon Memorial Scholarship. And but I
would just like to take some time to

1123
01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:01.000
remember Randy, just to remember the
impact that he had. And I think

1124
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:05.920
there's no better way than to hear
from you as to what was significant,

1125
01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:11.359
what was important? How is that
helpful? Randy was beloved by a lot

1126
01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:15.680
of folks. And you know,
I didn't meet Randy until about nineteen eighty

1127
01:20:15.720 --> 01:20:18.800
three when we were in college,
but I've known him. I've known him

1128
01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:25.119
since that time, and he was
always a character. I was enjoyed visiting

1129
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:28.760
with Randy. That was a lot
of fun. But he was also an

1130
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:31.760
important icon in the hoard industry here. So let's let's talk about that a

1131
01:20:31.800 --> 01:20:36.560
little bit. Give Josha call seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1132
01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:40.960
four. I will be right back
and we look forward to talking to you

1133
01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:48.560
more. KTRH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1134
01:20:48.560 --> 01:21:04.119
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Scared Victory, just

1135
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:16.119
watching well, good morning, Good
morning on a beautiful Sunday morning, and

1136
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:20.039
we are glad you are listening today. Hey, if you need to get

1137
01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:25.159
your landscape taken up a notch,
you need to call Jason and the team

1138
01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:29.199
out there at Peerscapes. Now,
Peerscapes is one of those places it does

1139
01:21:29.239 --> 01:21:31.119
at all, and they do it
right. They've got designers that know how

1140
01:21:31.119 --> 01:21:34.000
to design beautifully. Do you need
a rock border, do you need a

1141
01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:39.640
hardscape? You got an irrigation problem
that needs fixing, or maybe a drainage

1142
01:21:39.640 --> 01:21:42.800
problem that needs fixing, that's important
here in Houston. All you have to

1143
01:21:42.800 --> 01:21:45.800
do is go online to Pierscapes dot
com and leave an online enquiry, or

1144
01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:49.560
you can give a call. They'll
be back open again tomorrow morning. Two

1145
01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:56.439
eight one three seven zero five zero
six zero. Don't delay, though,

1146
01:21:56.479 --> 01:22:00.239
go ahead and get that done because
fall is coming and there's a lot of

1147
01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:03.039
things that may be involved in that
landscape renovation. You want to get it

1148
01:22:03.119 --> 01:22:06.600
started now so you can really enjoy
the show place that you're going to end

1149
01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:12.279
up with when you do that.
I'm here with Dean Nelson Nelson Plant Food,

1150
01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:15.600
and we have been talking about the
Randy Lemon memorial scholarship, And I

1151
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:20.000
do hope those of you who are
here would would agree and consider that a

1152
01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:26.199
very worthwhile thing to donate some money
toward. You know, normally I talk

1153
01:22:26.239 --> 01:22:29.399
about Dean, I talk about your
fertilizers and online, but here I got

1154
01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:32.760
the man himself. You know that
featherlight, the eighteen to eight, that's

1155
01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:36.640
such a good one through the summer. Why is it that when you put

1156
01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:42.119
the feather I'm sorry, featherlight,
I'm sorry, slow and east twenty two

1157
01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:45.199
two ten is the one I met. Yeah, the featherlight's the next one

1158
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:47.279
I want to try out, by
the way on then, but twenty two

1159
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:51.079
two n Why is it that that
nitro did and just available? Because fertilizers

1160
01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:55.760
often we call them flizer salt,
so you put salt and water and the

1161
01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:59.479
whole sodium chloride is right there in
the glass and ready to go. What

1162
01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:03.159
about it? What's the technology that
makes up twenty two percent nitrogen release over

1163
01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:08.920
time? Well, there's there's different
ingredients we can use to make the fertilizer

1164
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:12.520
release different ways, and the nitrogen, of course is the big one.

1165
01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:16.479
It's slow. Rely, he have
nitroc cycomonium sulfate urea. It's it's immediately

1166
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:21.920
available, especially in potasium nitrate,
and it's gone also in about six weeks.

1167
01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:26.279
But then you've got the you know, the bio solids that last longer.

1168
01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:30.399
And it's all about the nitrogen cycle
is what it is, and the

1169
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.319
nitrogen cycle any kind of there's all. The plant doesn't care where the nitrogen

1170
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:36.159
comes from. Yeah, it can
come from manure, it can come from

1171
01:23:36.239 --> 01:23:42.600
lightning, you know, the air
in slow release or fast release. But

1172
01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:45.920
the bacteria in the soil is what
converts all of it to plant available.

1173
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:48.760
It has to be nitrateed. Nitrite
is the N O three n O two

1174
01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:55.279
molecule for the plant to start using
it. But other than potassium nitrate,

1175
01:23:55.359 --> 01:24:00.560
it's it's it's a maniacal nitrogen or
it's urea, and so the materia has

1176
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:04.159
to convert that, okay, and
in slow and easy. The blue stuff

1177
01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:06.640
and the green stuff you look at
as a bunch. I mean, it's

1178
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:11.760
like eighty percent of the nitrogen is
slow releasing. That nitrogen is the only

1179
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:17.479
nitrogen in the world that is man
made, and it is it is broken

1180
01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:23.279
down with the bacteria that makes it
released slowly. That is good it's it's

1181
01:24:23.359 --> 01:24:27.199
carbon and nitrogen. That's what we
call carbon based nitrogen. And as the

1182
01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:31.039
bacteria want the carbon for energy,
it releases the nitrogen. And they've they've

1183
01:24:31.079 --> 01:24:35.359
designed that stuff so it'll last six
months. And it's a really even slow

1184
01:24:35.640 --> 01:24:40.319
even curve. I showed you the
Courage yesterday. It's just flat, it

1185
01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:43.720
goes up and it's just really slow, and neutraline is a little faster.

1186
01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:49.199
And then we put in some some
bacteria inhibited nitrogen which is slow release,

1187
01:24:49.359 --> 01:24:54.279
slow release. Also it slows the
bacteria down, breaking it down right okay,

1188
01:24:54.319 --> 01:24:58.640
And then we put in ammonium sulfate
to make it up front of nitrogen.

1189
01:24:58.680 --> 01:25:00.840
So it's got five different nitrons in
there. Well that and that's what

1190
01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:04.119
makes it. That is the way
it does that is interesting. And the

1191
01:25:04.119 --> 01:25:06.680
other advantage of a product like that
is, you know, if you if

1192
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:11.279
you put out a regular immediately available
and you get a gully washer for a

1193
01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:14.920
couple of days, it's just going
to dissolve and wash away. And but

1194
01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:18.079
thus the grandiles, you know,
they it's gonna take them while where they're

1195
01:25:18.079 --> 01:25:21.000
willing to give that nitrogen up.
And in the process that you just talked

1196
01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:23.880
about, and you talked about a
salt. You know, there's a good

1197
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:27.079
salt, bad salt, you know, passing SOULFI it's a good salt facing

1198
01:25:27.159 --> 01:25:31.000
cords of bad salt. The nitro
form is zero salt none zero, yeah,

1199
01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:34.199
and so that that helps the plant. All right, good Dean,

1200
01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:36.880
thank you so much for coming into
Dre. I appreciate having you here,

1201
01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:41.239
and thank you again for what you're
doing and getting this Randy Lemon and Scott

1202
01:25:41.479 --> 01:25:45.279
we it's been industry has been good
to Julie me for forty years. We

1203
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:47.560
still enjoy getting up going to work
every day, and and we're gonna keep

1204
01:25:47.560 --> 01:25:54.479
on doing it. And if we
can help out Aggie Aggies anytime anywhere and

1205
01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:57.640
put Randy's name on it, then
uh, we'll do that. All right.

1206
01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:00.439
Well, thanks again, I appreciate
that. By the way, you

1207
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:05.760
know you're gonna find a nitrofoss and
pretty much anything you're looking for at Southwest

1208
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:11.960
Fertilizer Bob down there. They have
got everything. I mean, if you're

1209
01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:15.079
an organic gardener, if you're a
synthetic gardener, if you need tools,

1210
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:17.359
if you need your law more blade
sharp and if you need small engine repayer,

1211
01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:23.439
if you need any kind of a
product for controlling pass for controlling diseases.

1212
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:27.920
I don't if Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have
it, you don't need it for

1213
01:26:27.960 --> 01:26:30.359
your lawn and garden. I mean
they have it all. They're in the

1214
01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:33.920
corner of Bissonette and Renwick. You
can go online to Southwest Fertilizer dot com

1215
01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:38.199
and find out more about them.
But the main thing you need to do

1216
01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:40.640
is just go in there. You
got a plant sample, you got a

1217
01:26:40.640 --> 01:26:44.279
picture of a problem. They'll take
a look at it. They'll identify it

1218
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:46.479
accurately because they know what they're doing, and then they'll take you to a

1219
01:26:46.520 --> 01:26:53.680
product that'll fix the problem because they
understand the different products, how they work,

1220
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:58.920
and what's needed. That in and
of itself is well worth a trip

1221
01:26:59.039 --> 01:27:03.840
down to Southwest Fertile Leisure. I
enjoy going to good garden centers and on

1222
01:27:03.880 --> 01:27:06.600
the way back, I was down
in El Campo the other day and on

1223
01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:10.840
the way back I stopped in it
and Chanted Gardens up in Richmond. They're

1224
01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:15.560
out there on FM three fifty nine
outside in Richmond on the Katie Fulsher side

1225
01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:16.800
of Richmond. If you will,
and you by the way, you can

1226
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:24.680
go online to Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

1227
01:27:24.760 --> 01:27:27.079
You can find out more about them, you know how to get there and

1228
01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:30.479
all the things going on. They've
got a lot of good information online,

1229
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:36.239
I mean really really informative information online
for you to learn more about it,

1230
01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:40.279
so you can find out for yourself. You know what it is that you

1231
01:27:40.359 --> 01:27:43.239
might want to grow, what you
might want to do, if you need

1232
01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:46.800
supplies, if you need plants,
whatever you might need, they have got

1233
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.439
it. There, got some really
nice ornamental grasses that are just looking beautiful

1234
01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:55.880
right now. Fall is a beautiful
time for ornamental grasses. It's also a

1235
01:27:55.880 --> 01:27:59.159
place where you can get frog fruit
one of those native groundcovers. It's really

1236
01:27:59.199 --> 01:28:02.520
becoming popular that are here on the
market, all out there at Enchanted Gardens

1237
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:11.239
out north of Richmond toward Katie three
fifty nine. I know that some of

1238
01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:15.199
you live way up north and they're
listening to the show, maybe Navasota Bryan

1239
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:18.000
College Station, anywhere up there.
Well, you need to know about your

1240
01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:25.000
hometown feed store, and that is
Grimes County Feed now Grimes County Feed.

1241
01:28:25.279 --> 01:28:30.159
The family. Chris served for fifteen
years in the Houston Fire Department Public service

1242
01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:32.800
has always been his passion and that
shows up daily at the way they do

1243
01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:36.640
business there at the feed store.
He puts his personal cell phone number on

1244
01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:41.000
the business card. See that The
idea isn't to get your money and get

1245
01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:44.119
you out the door. The idea
is to continue to help you have success

1246
01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:46.159
because that's what makes you want to
come back. And that's the kind of

1247
01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:50.760
service that we all appreciate in any
kind of industry. The roy family has

1248
01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:54.960
been living in Northern Grimes County for
the last twenty years now. They just

1249
01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:59.600
celebrated their fifth anniversary for Grimes County
Feed and Farm, and in fact,

1250
01:28:59.640 --> 01:29:04.920
they have a customer appreciation Week August
seventh through August twelfth. So there's ten

1251
01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:09.680
percent off on that tree hugger sprinkler
that I keep telling you you can't live

1252
01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:14.079
without, ten percent off on their
plant foods like the Nelson's Medina, nitro

1253
01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:18.199
Fos Microlife, ten percent off all
of that at Grimes County Feed. You

1254
01:29:18.279 --> 01:29:21.359
need to check them out. They
are well worth it. Hey, here's

1255
01:29:21.359 --> 01:29:24.680
a phone number if you want to
give them a call. Two eight one

1256
01:29:25.039 --> 01:29:28.680
eight one four twenty four ninety four. We're gonna take a break. We'll

1257
01:29:28.680 --> 01:29:32.119
be right back the phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1258
01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:59.960
four. Well, good morning,
good Sunday morning. You are listening to

1259
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:03.479
garden Line and we are here to
talk about whatever is of interest to you

1260
01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:06.439
in gardening. And I'm gonna I
just want to tell you something. If

1261
01:30:06.479 --> 01:30:11.760
you are putting in transplants and it
you know you can be planning things now,

1262
01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:15.479
but falls coming. We've been planning
a lot of things and you need

1263
01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:18.399
to know about has to grow.
It's a six twelve six liquid product.

1264
01:30:18.439 --> 01:30:23.720
Now has to Grow is from the
Medina folks. It's got Medina soil activator,

1265
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.880
and it's got humate humic acid,
and it has seaweed extracts and at

1266
01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:31.560
all things to help stimulate not only
rooting, but fruiting and blooming. You

1267
01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:34.880
can use it as a folier application. It's not gonna burn your plants.

1268
01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:39.039
Just follow the label on that.
I like to use it in a can

1269
01:30:39.079 --> 01:30:43.479
of water mixed up to drench on
my transplants. When I plant, I

1270
01:30:43.640 --> 01:30:46.119
water them in with a has to
grow water. Then about five to seven

1271
01:30:46.199 --> 01:30:49.560
days later I just do it again, and then five to seven days later

1272
01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:54.800
do it again. Those three applications
will get your plant off to a good

1273
01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:57.800
start. In fact, I would
say when you plant them and you water

1274
01:30:57.880 --> 01:31:00.119
them, don't don't stand over the
plant because they're gonna grows the fast.

1275
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:02.399
I come up and hit you in
the chin. Okay, that's a little

1276
01:31:02.399 --> 01:31:06.880
bit. That's a little taking it
too far. But seriously, a good,

1277
01:31:08.159 --> 01:31:11.640
strong, healthy start for plants is
really important, and the has to

1278
01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:15.159
grow. Six twelve six will do
just that. I'm going to head up

1279
01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:18.000
to northwest Houston now and we're gonna
talk to Maggie. Good morning, Maggie.

1280
01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:27.039
Do we have a Maggie there?
All right? I'm put Maggie back

1281
01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:29.800
on hold, Josh. Maybe we
can get her back and get going again.

1282
01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:32.560
I think it was it yesterday or
this morning. I was talking about

1283
01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:36.359
birds and being out and in the
backyard and thinks I got a brand new

1284
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:43.279
bird bath, a bird watering a
bath, and boy watching their antics and

1285
01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:46.159
that is just a blast. You
know, it is so hot and drying

1286
01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:49.640
out. You've got to have water
for your birds and other wildlife. You

1287
01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:53.640
gotta have water for your beneficial insects. For your bees, for example,

1288
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:56.479
a little bird bath where they can
come up to the edge, they can

1289
01:31:56.479 --> 01:31:59.520
do that, and where do you
get it. Well, wild Birds is

1290
01:31:59.560 --> 01:32:03.359
going to have a selection like you
just haven't seen of all things related to

1291
01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:08.000
birds, including bird best. They
even a little mister and dripper up there.

1292
01:32:08.039 --> 01:32:11.119
The mister the hummingbirds fly through it, just get their wings that they

1293
01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:14.399
love that. The little dripper.
You'll see birds it's drinking right out of

1294
01:32:14.439 --> 01:32:19.600
the dripper itself over the bird beat. They have quality food were our birds

1295
01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:23.960
are dealing with molting right now at
the end of summer and so all through

1296
01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:28.720
August. That nesting superblend is really
perfect. It works good feeding all the

1297
01:32:28.720 --> 01:32:32.520
time. One thing I like about
wall birds food is that it is designed

1298
01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:36.239
with the birds in mind, with
the things that the birds eat. A

1299
01:32:36.319 --> 01:32:40.520
lot of these feeds that you see
out there, bird feed it's got the

1300
01:32:40.560 --> 01:32:43.439
little red babies. That's a milo
and they kick it out. They don't

1301
01:32:43.479 --> 01:32:45.279
want it. It's hard to crack. They don't care for that. And

1302
01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:49.479
a huge portion of what you paid
for is that kind of I don't care

1303
01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:55.479
about it. The birds say Milo
babies, And with wallbirds, you don't

1304
01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.399
get that. You get one hundred
percent of what you buy is what the

1305
01:32:59.439 --> 01:33:02.319
birds eat. You can even buy
mess free feeds. They don't drop the

1306
01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:06.079
shells all over the place. They're
real clean and neat. Maybe your feeder

1307
01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:10.760
is over a patio and you don't
want to breathe all over it. Wilbirds

1308
01:33:10.840 --> 01:33:15.359
Unlimited. Go Towbu dot Com,
forward slash Houston and you can find one

1309
01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:18.439
of the seven wilbirds in our area. Well, let's head back out to

1310
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:21.600
northwest Houston. I believe we have
Maggie. Now, is that correct?

1311
01:33:25.239 --> 01:33:28.319
Okay, where's Maggie. We're gonna
try to get you one more time.

1312
01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:30.760
Maggie. I'm gonna put you back
on. Okay. Oh, there you

1313
01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:34.039
are, there you are. I'll
be real still with my phone. Okay,

1314
01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:40.439
Okay, I have a question.
I have an agga tampus. I

1315
01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:44.159
have three of them. I bought
them the first of the season. Yes,

1316
01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:46.960
they get sun from noon the rest
of the day. They are just

1317
01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:51.640
burning up a water about three times
a week. I get about ten minutes

1318
01:33:53.199 --> 01:33:59.600
when a water, So dude,
I need to move them. Well,

1319
01:33:59.720 --> 01:34:02.239
they they need bright light, but
they don't need to sit out in the

1320
01:34:02.279 --> 01:34:09.520
full brunt of the sun. So
yeah, well just kind of look at

1321
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:12.399
the sun's pattern through the day and
a little bit of sun is okay.

1322
01:34:13.000 --> 01:34:16.039
But not full blazing all day.
If that's what you have, then I

1323
01:34:16.039 --> 01:34:18.880
would I would try to just keep
them going for now. Don't move them

1324
01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:21.680
right now. But when fall comes, then try to move them. Let's

1325
01:34:21.680 --> 01:34:25.880
get a little pressure off of them
before we rip them up and do the

1326
01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:30.840
root damage it's involved in moving.
Okay, how much watering should I water

1327
01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:35.600
them? Keep the soil moist depending
on your soil, depending on the temperatures,

1328
01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:40.680
depending on the amount of light watering
will vary a lot. But you

1329
01:34:40.760 --> 01:34:44.239
just dig down and feel the soil
about four or five inches deep, and

1330
01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:47.039
you'll know when it's not moist.
Agapanthus does not want to dry out completely,

1331
01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:49.600
nor does it want to be in
a swamp, so you just find

1332
01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:55.960
that sweet spot. Oh that's great, that's good news. I enjoy your

1333
01:34:55.960 --> 01:35:00.600
show. Well, thank you very
much. I appreciate that. Maggie.

1334
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:04.239
Thank you very much as well forgiving
us a call. Hey, if you're

1335
01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:09.560
interested in a place where you can
retire and have a beautiful home, a

1336
01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:15.159
beautiful community, and a very nice
active lifestyle to enjoy those years, well,

1337
01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:18.279
that's a delleweb community. There's one
down in full Sure, about two

1338
01:35:18.279 --> 01:35:21.760
miles out of downtown Full shure.
It's got everything a Delleweb has, which

1339
01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:27.079
is everything. And plus they have
a community garden, and so here we

1340
01:35:27.119 --> 01:35:30.760
are, we're gardeners, and I
can't find a better package of benefits than

1341
01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:35.159
a Dellweb home, a Dellweb community, and a community garden to enjoy as

1342
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:39.840
well. Go online to Delleweb dot
com slash Houston. You can find out

1343
01:35:39.840 --> 01:35:43.840
more information there or you can give
him a call to eight one four five

1344
01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:53.000
nine zero six zero nine. We
were somebody who is not listen, see

1345
01:35:53.079 --> 01:35:58.560
not from this part of the state, was at the house and looking there

1346
01:35:58.680 --> 01:36:01.840
was actually a cockrow treant out yes
in my house at Cocker Trend, and

1347
01:36:02.399 --> 01:36:06.079
there was just a reaction to them
like, oh my gosh, it's like

1348
01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:11.760
it was this giant flying alligator about
to attack the world. Well, it

1349
01:36:11.800 --> 01:36:14.920
doesn't bother me so much, but
I do need to get that under control.

1350
01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:17.640
What I need to do is call
Scott McGrath over at McGrath Pest Control

1351
01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:24.159
McGrath Pest Control and by the way, their website is macgraff pest Control dot

1352
01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:28.960
com. They have been in business
since nineteen seventy four, oh you know,

1353
01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:33.319
forty nine years now. Still family
run They're one of those good old

1354
01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:36.920
time service companies that say, you
know, not, hey, take off

1355
01:36:36.960 --> 01:36:41.600
your whole afternoon. I may be
there sometime in the afternoon, like a

1356
01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:44.319
lot of service companies. No,
they tell you when they're going to be

1357
01:36:44.319 --> 01:36:46.239
there, and that's when they show
up, super highly rated. They cover

1358
01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:50.880
the whole Houston area. Scott is
involved in day to day operations and is

1359
01:36:50.920 --> 01:36:56.640
accessible to all the customers and he
knows his business. Give him a call

1360
01:36:56.760 --> 01:37:01.640
two eight one four six nine eight
two for zero. You know, every

1361
01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:05.840
season has the issues. When you
get into September through February, we're going

1362
01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:10.119
to be dealing with a lot of
rodent calls, a lot of that's when

1363
01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:14.039
rodents are kind of peeking out.
February through March is the peak of the

1364
01:37:14.119 --> 01:37:15.920
termite season. There's always something to
go on. I need to get them

1365
01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:18.439
right now, to get some cockroaches
out of the house. For crying out

1366
01:37:18.520 --> 01:37:24.359
loud, Apparently not everybody enjoys living
with those little buggers crawling around everywhere.

1367
01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:28.199
Scott knows what to do, he
knows how to get it done, reasonable

1368
01:37:28.239 --> 01:37:30.720
price, and he does what he
says he's going to do. Let's go

1369
01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:34.720
now and talk to Chris. Good
morning, Chris, good morning. Thank

1370
01:37:34.760 --> 01:37:38.319
you for taking my call. You
bet, how can we help? I

1371
01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:42.880
got well, I have a compost
pile that I've been throwing different things into

1372
01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:46.560
all summer long, and one of
them was a sweet potato. And I

1373
01:37:46.720 --> 01:37:53.800
think going out, you know with
the thing on the apps that tell you

1374
01:37:53.840 --> 01:37:58.199
what something is. At first it
said morning glories. There's never been any

1375
01:37:58.199 --> 01:38:00.880
flowers, and now the leaves are
really big. There's a lot bigger than

1376
01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:03.640
a morning glory. And now it's
saying maybe it's sweet potato. Okay,

1377
01:38:04.119 --> 01:38:08.520
well those are related. And a
sweet potato, if it ever bloomed for

1378
01:38:08.600 --> 01:38:11.159
you, it would look like a
morning glory. That's what the flower is,

1379
01:38:11.319 --> 01:38:14.760
just a little bit smaller than the
ones that are bred for fines and

1380
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:20.079
are ornamentals. But that's probably well. If you want, I can put

1381
01:38:20.079 --> 01:38:23.199
you on hold and Josh, you'll
give you an email. You can send

1382
01:38:23.239 --> 01:38:27.319
me some pictures up close. Put
your hand or something that shows me the

1383
01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:30.920
size of the leaves in the picture. Could be a pencil or you know,

1384
01:38:30.000 --> 01:38:32.279
you know what I'm talking about,
and let me take a look.

1385
01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:35.159
I'll tell you what it is.
But from what you're saying, I think

1386
01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:40.199
you probably have either a sweet potato
or a morning glory, and they are

1387
01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:45.640
almost the same thing. They're very
closely related. The morning glory leaves should

1388
01:38:45.680 --> 01:38:49.119
not be glossy. The sweet potato
leaves may have just a slight sheen to

1389
01:38:49.279 --> 01:38:54.319
them, kind of a glossy sheen
to them. The sweet potato, the

1390
01:38:54.359 --> 01:38:58.239
morning glory is more of a heart
shape than the sweet potato. Sometimes there's

1391
01:38:58.239 --> 01:39:00.399
a little sort of lobes on the
sweet potato leaf, not completely, but

1392
01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:03.920
a little bit, so those those
also may help you distinguish it. All

1393
01:39:03.960 --> 01:39:09.439
right, Well, what I'm wondering
is if it is sweet potatoes, should

1394
01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:13.439
I go ahead? And when should
I harvest them? Or just let this

1395
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:16.399
go? I would wait Wherever they
come out of the ground. The ground

1396
01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:20.760
will start to heave up as those
large roots which are very near the surface,

1397
01:39:21.199 --> 01:39:25.000
as they start to swell up,
it sort of pushes the ground up

1398
01:39:25.039 --> 01:39:27.920
a little bit, and you see
some light cracks in the soil around the

1399
01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:31.880
plant as it's heaving up. There's
not a ripening for them, but you

1400
01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:35.640
want to give them time to fully
develop. Otherwise you have little finger sized

1401
01:39:35.640 --> 01:39:41.760
sweet potatoes instead of nice sweet potato
sized sweet potatoes. So I would wait,

1402
01:39:41.920 --> 01:39:44.279
let it get a little further along. I don't how long would you

1403
01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:47.199
plant? How many months ago?
Well, I didn't plant it intentionally,

1404
01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:54.720
compost pile, and I've been heading
more and more stuff into that. Let's

1405
01:39:54.720 --> 01:40:00.199
just wait until sometime in October.
Then chriss and dig them. Then there's

1406
01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:02.760
no harm in waiting. It may
or may not be sweet potato, but

1407
01:40:03.279 --> 01:40:06.359
you'll know at that time. All
right, Okay, we'll go ahead and

1408
01:40:06.399 --> 01:40:10.760
send a picture just a few minutes. Then who do I send it to?

1409
01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:12.960
All right, I'm gonna put it
on put you on hold, and

1410
01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:15.760
Josh's gonna give you the email address
to send it. Just make sure it's

1411
01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:19.319
a good, well focused photo.
Thank you very much. Okay, already,

1412
01:40:20.199 --> 01:40:26.239
that is a good deal. Hey, if you need anything for your

1413
01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.760
garden, I mean we're talking about
fertilizers, We're talking about pesticide like insexicise,

1414
01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:34.319
fertilized. How about soil, bags
of soil mixes. How about some

1415
01:40:34.399 --> 01:40:40.640
outdoor furniture to beautify your garden,
outdoor living areas. Maybe a barbecue pit.

1416
01:40:40.720 --> 01:40:44.439
Oh my gosh, is this ever
barbecue country? And barbecue kind of

1417
01:40:44.479 --> 01:40:48.880
weather that we're having here? Ace
Hardware has all of that. ACE Hardware

1418
01:40:49.239 --> 01:40:56.479
is the stop for everybody because they're
everywhere. Thirty nine ACE Hardware stores from

1419
01:40:56.479 --> 01:41:00.079
the Greater Houston area. There's one
near You go to ACE Hardware dot com,

1420
01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:04.279
Ace Hardware dot Com find their store
locator and find the ones that are

1421
01:41:04.279 --> 01:41:08.039
close to you, and there will
be ones, in other words, more

1422
01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.479
than one that's close to you.
And when you're there, joined the ACE

1423
01:41:11.760 --> 01:41:15.359
Rewards program. I belong to it, and every time you go in and

1424
01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:18.159
buy something, you get money back
on your purchase. So it just makes

1425
01:41:18.199 --> 01:41:21.039
sense because, believe me, you're
gonna want to go back because they have

1426
01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:25.840
everything you need, they got a
reasonable price, and you know the old

1427
01:41:25.880 --> 01:41:30.479
time hardware field where the person that
greedid you was friendly and they knew what

1428
01:41:30.520 --> 01:41:33.760
they were talking about. That's the
modern ACE Hardware as well. But when

1429
01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:38.079
you walk into one, if you've
not been into an ACE in a long

1430
01:41:38.159 --> 01:41:42.319
time, you are going to be
amazed at all the different things. I

1431
01:41:42.319 --> 01:41:45.560
mean, it's pretty much. I
guess if they threw groceries in, you

1432
01:41:45.680 --> 01:41:48.640
never have to go anywhere else other
than an ACE Hardware. No. Seriously,

1433
01:41:48.640 --> 01:41:53.359
they really stock a lot of things
and it's a great, great deal.

1434
01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:58.359
We're going to head out now to
Katie and talk to Katie. Hello

1435
01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:01.359
Katie from Katie, Hi, how
are you doing well? I'm well,

1436
01:42:01.359 --> 01:42:08.039
thank you. I have a question
about using the half to grow six to

1437
01:42:08.079 --> 01:42:12.920
twelve six fertilizer on my potted plants
on my patio. Okay. I have

1438
01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:15.600
always used that like on the first
of the month, and I have not

1439
01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:19.039
done it in July or August yet, just simply because I was worried about

1440
01:42:19.039 --> 01:42:21.960
doing that during this heat. Is
it safe to do? Should I do

1441
01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:25.600
it? Should I not? It
would be it would be okay. You

1442
01:42:25.640 --> 01:42:28.800
could go ahead, just just follow
the label, do it the end moderation,

1443
01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:32.199
follow the label and you'll be fine. Okay. I pacifically that my

1444
01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:36.920
hybiscus are really struggling in this heat. So it's just mainly water is what

1445
01:42:36.960 --> 01:42:40.000
they need. I mean, if
you're in a container, you can move

1446
01:42:40.000 --> 01:42:43.159
them where they get a little bit
of afternoon shade that gives them a little

1447
01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:45.680
bit of a break. But no, you're you're on a good track there.

1448
01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:48.520
It'll do just fine. All right, Okay, I will do that

1449
01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:53.039
act. That's the other question I
have. Is it better to do this

1450
01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:55.960
in the morning or in the evening, because I've noticed I've been watering a

1451
01:42:56.000 --> 01:42:58.560
lot of times in the evening,
but some of my souls are beginning to

1452
01:42:58.600 --> 01:43:01.279
get that white, you know,
like no step. Yeah, I just

1453
01:43:01.279 --> 01:43:04.359
just keep it moist. It doesn't
matter when you water. I usually water

1454
01:43:04.439 --> 01:43:06.760
in the morning when I'm on my
way out of the house, or in

1455
01:43:06.800 --> 01:43:11.159
the afternoon when you're coming home.
It doesn't really matter. Just keep the

1456
01:43:11.199 --> 01:43:14.479
soil as evenly moist as you can. And depending on the size of the

1457
01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:16.920
container, that may be watering more
than once a day or every two days.

1458
01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:19.680
Hey, I got to go to
a break, Katie, but I

1459
01:43:19.720 --> 01:43:25.239
really appreciate the call. Thank you
very much. It is time for NNN,

1460
01:43:25.439 --> 01:43:32.439
not cnn NNN Nikki News Network.
We need some news music like remember

1461
01:43:32.439 --> 01:43:50.239
that. Okay, good Sunday morning. You are listening to garden Line.

1462
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:55.199
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and our phone number is seven one three

1463
01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:59.640
two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two and two K t

1464
01:44:00.199 --> 01:44:03.439
our h give us a call.
Let's talk about the things that are interesting

1465
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:08.359
to you, the things that you
care about that you're interested in. Hey,

1466
01:44:08.359 --> 01:44:13.000
if you if you are planning on
putting some fertilizer out on the lawn,

1467
01:44:13.399 --> 01:44:16.760
and you were looking for an organic
product with a fairly high content of

1468
01:44:17.000 --> 01:44:20.560
the nitrogen. For example, that
would be Sweet Green. It's eleven percent.

1469
01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:26.039
The first number of the bag is
eleven I believe eleven O four zero

1470
01:44:26.039 --> 01:44:30.880
four, and that will provide not
only the nutrients, it breaks down really

1471
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:34.439
quickly with the microbes that are in
the soil they get on that sugar stuff.

1472
01:44:34.479 --> 01:44:38.880
They love a molasses based fertilizer,
and you will too. By the

1473
01:44:38.920 --> 01:44:42.560
way, it smells a wonderful none
named sweet Green is for a reason.

1474
01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:46.000
That's exactly what it smells like.
When you do the Sweet Green on your

1475
01:44:46.039 --> 01:44:49.319
lawn, you're going to feed the
lawn. You're going to stimulate the microbial

1476
01:44:49.359 --> 01:44:54.399
activity in the soil too, which
is really important. And the Sweet Green,

1477
01:44:54.520 --> 01:44:58.479
remember that was a product that last
year we were looking at trying to

1478
01:44:58.479 --> 01:45:01.520
find enough of it to go around
because how popular it is. This year,

1479
01:45:01.560 --> 01:45:04.119
they're stocked up and they're ready to
go. But I wouldn't delay.

1480
01:45:04.159 --> 01:45:08.880
It didn't hurt to have a bag
ready to go in the garage at any

1481
01:45:08.920 --> 01:45:11.000
time. So you may want to
grab two. Hey, where do you

1482
01:45:11.000 --> 01:45:14.840
get nitro foss well pretty much everywhere. If it's ace hardware store, if

1483
01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:16.560
it's a feed store, if it's
a garden center, we talk about I'll

1484
01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:20.680
bet you they have nitro foss widely
carried through the area, easy to find,

1485
01:45:20.760 --> 01:45:24.000
and that's sweet green. For those
of you who are looking for an

1486
01:45:24.079 --> 01:45:27.199
organic option, or maybe you don't
care about whether it's organic or not,

1487
01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:30.520
you just want a good fertilizer,
that's sweet green. Sweet Green by Nitrofoss,

1488
01:45:30.840 --> 01:45:34.079
really really good stuff. I was
talking about earlier about bragging on my

1489
01:45:34.279 --> 01:45:39.239
Grimes County Feed and Farm out there
in Carlos, Texas. And I don't

1490
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:42.760
think I told you exactly where they
are. They are about two miles west

1491
01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:46.680
of FM two forty four on State
Highway thirty. So those of you who

1492
01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:50.039
listen up there, and by the
way, I've been very surprised at how

1493
01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:54.319
many people back up through that part
of the country. I call it God's

1494
01:45:54.319 --> 01:45:58.239
Country out there. Listen to garden
line up there. A lot of folks

1495
01:45:58.239 --> 01:46:01.279
out in that country. Beat Eyes
and Iowa and Shiro and Anderson all through

1496
01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:04.960
there. You know, if you're
in the Brian College Station area, that's

1497
01:46:04.960 --> 01:46:10.520
your hometown feed store as well as
as if you're in the Navasota area.

1498
01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:13.439
Also, I just love going in
there. I need to get back in

1499
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:15.840
there. It's been a few weeks
since I've been in there, and I

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01:46:15.880 --> 01:46:17.880
need to get back in say hello
to those folks. But again, two

1501
01:46:17.920 --> 01:46:23.920
miles west of FM two forty four
on State Highway thirty, locally owned and

1502
01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:27.600
operated, we are going to head
out of the phones and we're going to

1503
01:46:27.680 --> 01:46:30.920
talk to Gerald. Good morning,
Gerald, Good morning. How are you

1504
01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:34.159
doing well? I'm well today.
How are you? Oh, I'm doing

1505
01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:38.479
pretty good. Stand in the heat, yes, sir, hang in there.

1506
01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:41.880
It's fall is coming. I don't
know when it comes. It may

1507
01:46:41.880 --> 01:46:45.760
be December third, but it's coming. Yeah, that's why I'm afraid of

1508
01:46:45.199 --> 01:46:51.640
all right. Yeah, what I
need to know two quick questions is it

1509
01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:56.640
is it okay to put down some
fertilizing all this stuff? And if so,

1510
01:46:57.800 --> 01:47:00.840
what numbers shoot I put down?
All right? Well, in general,

1511
01:47:01.000 --> 01:47:04.760
we want a fertilizer this time of
year that has a larger first number,

1512
01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:10.199
a small second number, and a
medium third number. That's why we

1513
01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:15.239
say three one two ratio, so
a four one two ratio, and it

1514
01:47:15.279 --> 01:47:17.960
doesn't have to be exactly that,
but that's what you're aiming for. So

1515
01:47:18.039 --> 01:47:23.920
I just I was just talking about
the nitrofos sweet Green that's an eleven zero

1516
01:47:24.039 --> 01:47:28.399
four that would be a good one. That's an organic type fertilizer that is

1517
01:47:29.039 --> 01:47:33.359
based on the molasses, and so
it's it's an excellent choice. If you

1518
01:47:33.399 --> 01:47:39.760
want something that's gonna last longer out
there, then I would consider nitrofists super

1519
01:47:39.840 --> 01:47:46.760
turf that's a nineteen four ten fertilizer
and nineteen four ten and the chemistry of

1520
01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:53.640
it, it's designed so that that
nutrient is not just immediately released. You

1521
01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:57.119
know, some fertilizers we call them
salt based. They it's like, you

1522
01:47:57.159 --> 01:48:00.359
know, you put table salt or
sugar in water and it just designs and

1523
01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:03.239
suddenly the water is filled with what
was in the granules, right uh,

1524
01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:08.039
And when fertilizers can be that way. But this type of fertilizer, the

1525
01:48:08.079 --> 01:48:12.600
nineteen four ten, that has got
a chemistry that the microbes just can't break

1526
01:48:12.600 --> 01:48:15.479
it down right away. It takes
a little while for the full release of

1527
01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:18.960
those nutrients. And so if you
want a longer term feed, that would

1528
01:48:19.000 --> 01:48:21.920
do it. Either way, you're
not going to go wrong with either of

1529
01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:30.720
those two nitro Foss products and that
was a nineteen Yeah, nitro foss n

1530
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:35.439
I t ro dash pho s nitro
foss. And you're gonna find it everywhere.

1531
01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:38.520
You know, if you've got an
ace hardware, new you you got

1532
01:48:38.680 --> 01:48:41.439
nitro fiss. You know, the
feed stores carry it in a lot of

1533
01:48:41.479 --> 01:48:45.119
things. But it's the easy way
to remember it is it's the silver bag.

1534
01:48:45.359 --> 01:48:48.800
They put it in a silver bag, so right when you walk in

1535
01:48:48.880 --> 01:48:51.840
the store you can see it right
there. Okay, all right, one

1536
01:48:53.039 --> 01:48:58.000
more quick one. Sure all the
plants I had out for the spring or

1537
01:48:58.239 --> 01:49:01.680
burnout? Now? So what what's
good? What's a good plant right now

1538
01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:08.800
that will last till a Paul were
talking flowers a vegetable, No flowers in

1539
01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:13.560
a pot. Flowers in a pot. Uh Angelonia will carry you on into

1540
01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:16.039
fall. We get a little further
into the season, and I would probably

1541
01:49:16.039 --> 01:49:19.640
put out marigols, the big old
pom pom types. You know, there's

1542
01:49:19.680 --> 01:49:24.399
little small marigoles size of a quarter. There's other blooms that are size of

1543
01:49:24.399 --> 01:49:28.520
a tennis ball. That's the palm
palm, the African marigoles. And boy,

1544
01:49:28.560 --> 01:49:30.439
when they go into fall, they
just get brighter and prettier. And

1545
01:49:30.479 --> 01:49:34.119
the spider mites don't bother them.
But I would wait until the end of

1546
01:49:34.159 --> 01:49:39.840
August probably to start doing those.
But the angelonia would look really good right

1547
01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:45.439
now. Hibscus, the tropical hibiscus, absolutely awesome right now. Manda villa

1548
01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:47.359
is a little bit of a vine. If you've got a little small trellis.

1549
01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:50.520
It's not a vigorous vine. You
can put in in a container and

1550
01:49:50.600 --> 01:49:56.840
it'll look really pretty too, just
a few choices. Zenias, the compact

1551
01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:05.000
typese angelonia. It's like a N
G E L O N I A.

1552
01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:09.640
You go to a good garden center
and tell them you need an angelonia.

1553
01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:15.119
Some people call it summer snap dragon. It's sort of snapdragon ish, but

1554
01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:19.399
definitely not a snapdragon. But it
definitely is a heat tolerant plant. You'll

1555
01:50:19.399 --> 01:50:26.520
see them all over the place and
commercial landscapes. They're good in pots.

1556
01:50:26.840 --> 01:50:29.479
They do good in pots. Yep. You just you know when it comes

1557
01:50:29.520 --> 01:50:32.640
to plants in pots, Gerald it's
how big is a plant, how good

1558
01:50:32.680 --> 01:50:35.560
of a quality mixed you have in
the pot, and how big is the

1559
01:50:35.600 --> 01:50:41.159
pot. Those are the three important
things to in getting it set up.

1560
01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:44.640
If you have a big plant and
a small pot, you're gonna water it

1561
01:50:44.720 --> 01:50:46.840
three times a day trying to keep
it alive. If you know, if

1562
01:50:46.840 --> 01:50:50.880
you've got a good sized pot with
a good soil that holds moisture but drains,

1563
01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:54.840
well, you made water it every
other day. I mean, you

1564
01:50:54.840 --> 01:50:58.920
know, it's the key is to
get that right so you're not having to

1565
01:50:58.960 --> 01:51:02.359
remember every few minutes to go out
there and water the thing. Yeah,

1566
01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:05.800
okay, well I appreciate it.
Well, I appreciate your call. Thank

1567
01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:10.079
you very much. We're going to
take a break right now. Our phone

1568
01:51:10.119 --> 01:51:14.319
number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four and Sam,

1569
01:51:14.399 --> 01:51:30.560
when we come back from break,
you are the first up. Well,

1570
01:51:30.600 --> 01:51:33.920
good Sunday morning. You are listening
to garden line. Let's sad, nice

1571
01:51:34.000 --> 01:51:38.079
day out there. Good day to
get out and put around a little bit

1572
01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:42.000
in the yard early this morning.
Good day to get out and visit some

1573
01:51:42.039 --> 01:51:45.039
of our garden centers to this afternoon
as well as some of the other sponsors

1574
01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:47.880
that we have that have the quality
products that you need. Remember, this

1575
01:51:48.039 --> 01:51:51.520
is a time it's fall. It's
falls on the doorstep. I know it's

1576
01:51:51.520 --> 01:51:55.680
one hundred degrees and it doesn't feel
like fall, but you need to tell

1577
01:51:55.720 --> 01:51:59.640
your brain this is fall, because
now is when you would be planning to

1578
01:51:59.720 --> 01:52:02.159
make some peppers and eggplants, for
example. Don't delay one more day because

1579
01:52:02.159 --> 01:52:04.840
those things need to get in really
quick. If you're going to get a

1580
01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:10.159
crop out of the things. Very
soon, it will be playing in green

1581
01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:13.680
beans in the vegetable garden and squash
and cucumbers and things like that. And

1582
01:52:13.800 --> 01:52:16.119
then next thing, you know,
in September October, really October two,

1583
01:52:16.800 --> 01:52:21.239
we're putting in coal season things like
the coal crops, the blue leaved vegetables,

1584
01:52:21.359 --> 01:52:27.640
cabbage, cauliflower, kale called Robbie. What am I forgetting broccoli?

1585
01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:32.159
Of course I couldn't forget that one? Collards? You know, the time

1586
01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:35.359
to start those though. If let's
say, have a packet of broccoli seed

1587
01:52:35.439 --> 01:52:39.680
and you want to grow your own
transplants, now's the time to get those

1588
01:52:39.680 --> 01:52:45.159
things started. You know. The
our weather here it is quite unique,

1589
01:52:45.159 --> 01:52:47.640
because a lot a lot of places
have unique weather, but here we just

1590
01:52:47.800 --> 01:52:53.399
have this blazing inferno where we're having
to get ready for some things that don't

1591
01:52:53.479 --> 01:52:57.039
like a blazing inferno, and so
you just kind of have to take care

1592
01:52:57.079 --> 01:53:00.399
of them. You need to keep
them watered, you need to get ready

1593
01:53:00.439 --> 01:53:05.279
to go, because when it comes
time to have the fall harvest, all

1594
01:53:05.319 --> 01:53:08.520
this stuff needs to have been done
a long time ago, and a long

1595
01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:13.520
time ago as now. So what
that means is, for example, you

1596
01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:16.640
put out, let's say you plant
a new tomato plant, or an egg

1597
01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:21.000
plant or a pepper something along those
lines. Well, they may need a

1598
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:24.800
little bit of a shade for a
week or so just to kind of help

1599
01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:29.119
get them acclimated to the full sun
and the new soil and the roots are

1600
01:53:29.159 --> 01:53:32.880
getting established. You need to water
them carefully so they stay moist but not

1601
01:53:33.000 --> 01:53:38.239
saggy wet. So that's kind of
a touch and go thing, but that's

1602
01:53:38.279 --> 01:53:41.279
what we do so that we can
enjoy the benefits later on. You know,

1603
01:53:41.359 --> 01:53:45.439
we were just just visiting about flowers
and flowers that could go in a

1604
01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:48.840
container now, and there's so many
options out there, lots of good ones.

1605
01:53:49.239 --> 01:53:55.199
But we're still planning our warm season
flowers now. It'll be probably October

1606
01:53:55.359 --> 01:53:59.880
before we really start to think about
things that might be more cool season,

1607
01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:03.479
you know, a lesson and snap
dragons and the many many cool season flowers

1608
01:54:03.520 --> 01:54:06.520
that we have to plant. We'll
be getting to those, but not for

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01:54:06.600 --> 01:54:10.520
just a little while. In the
meantime, you want to keep your law

1610
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:15.479
and healthy moderate fertilization, always having
some gradual amounts of nutrients that are being

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01:54:15.560 --> 01:54:19.760
released. The best way to do
that is a slow release fertilizer. I

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01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:24.840
talk about them all the time.
If you don't have a slow release furtilizer,

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01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:29.880
maybe you've bought something that's an immediate
release, immediately available fertilizer. Will

1614
01:54:29.960 --> 01:54:33.199
just take what you would have put
down in an application and divide it into

1615
01:54:33.239 --> 01:54:38.399
two or three and make two or
three small applications about four weeks apart.

1616
01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:42.680
And if you do that, what
you're going to do is you're going to

1617
01:54:42.800 --> 01:54:46.439
gradually release those nutrients because you're only
putting them on gradually. And that's a

1618
01:54:46.520 --> 01:54:49.720
way to kind of turn a fast
release into a slow release, if you

1619
01:54:49.760 --> 01:54:54.680
will. It's not the best of
technologies, but it sure is a good

1620
01:54:54.720 --> 01:54:58.800
way to you know, if you've
got some fast release on you go ahead

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01:54:58.800 --> 01:55:00.960
and use it that way and get
that done. In the meantime, the

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01:55:01.079 --> 01:55:05.520
most important thing for your lawnch right
now is to be watered adequately, not

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01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:12.159
overwatered, not watered every other day
so that the grass spends half its time

1624
01:55:12.239 --> 01:55:16.399
wet. You're inviting diseases, you're
inviting chinch bugs, and when the cool

1625
01:55:16.479 --> 01:55:19.920
weather hits, you'll be inviting the
large patch which we used to call brown

1626
01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:25.079
patch, those big circles. You
want to water with a good soaking on

1627
01:55:25.199 --> 01:55:30.079
an infrequent basis. And my new
chart that's coming out on lawn Care talks

1628
01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:35.199
about watering and I've got in there
January through December, how much on average

1629
01:55:36.119 --> 01:55:41.600
we get per week and rainfall here
in the Houston area. So like on

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01:55:41.960 --> 01:55:45.800
the summer months, it's about an
inch that our plants are needing, but

1631
01:55:46.880 --> 01:55:50.359
when we get into the fall in
the spring, we drop down to a

1632
01:55:50.439 --> 01:55:54.199
half inch. And then when we
get in the cool season, the very

1633
01:55:54.279 --> 01:55:57.239
coldest season here, we don't water
the lawn at all, and so we

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01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:00.840
need a water accordingly. And the
best way I know to do that is

1635
01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:05.439
a free app called water my Yard. You can visit water my yard dot

1636
01:56:05.640 --> 01:56:10.760
org online sign up there, or
go to the Apple Store, the Apple

1637
01:56:10.800 --> 01:56:15.039
App Store or Google Play if you
have an Android and download the free app

1638
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:19.680
and you sign up and it's free, and it's free science based watering recommendations

1639
01:56:20.119 --> 01:56:25.640
to promote a healthy lawn that's tailored
for your yard and how could we say

1640
01:56:25.680 --> 01:56:29.279
that it's tailored for your yard.
There's little weather stations you would need to

1641
01:56:29.319 --> 01:56:31.479
notice them. They may be out
at a golf course or somewhere and it's

1642
01:56:31.479 --> 01:56:35.199
a low weather station and it's it's
measuring the temperature, the wind speed,

1643
01:56:35.640 --> 01:56:40.960
the humidity, the amount of solar
radiation. You know, cloudy days versus

1644
01:56:41.039 --> 01:56:44.960
sunny days. We got those things. Well, it's a small or fires

1645
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:47.800
coming out of Canada or whatever it
was with you know, all the particulates

1646
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:50.920
in the air that actually affects solar
radiation and cuts down on the amount of

1647
01:56:50.960 --> 01:56:55.199
water that plants. You use in
areas where something like that would happen.

1648
01:56:55.800 --> 01:56:59.680
These weather stations figure it all out
for you and they send you an email

1649
01:56:59.720 --> 01:57:03.840
say you need to water this much
this week, and that's so much better

1650
01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:06.800
than me, sayan water an inch
a week. Water an inch a week,

1651
01:57:06.880 --> 01:57:12.359
Well that's a good rule of thumb. But water myyard dot Org gives

1652
01:57:12.399 --> 01:57:17.560
you the full value of tens of
thousands of dollars worth of equipment and science

1653
01:57:18.279 --> 01:57:20.840
and sends it to you for free. I got one the other day and

1654
01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:27.239
it's at water point four eight inches
this week. That's what my lawn used.

1655
01:57:27.399 --> 01:57:30.640
Based on all of that, I
wouldn't have known that without water myyard

1656
01:57:30.720 --> 01:57:33.279
dot org. I really encourage you
just try it out. You don't have

1657
01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:35.840
to keep using if you don't like
it. I think you will find it

1658
01:57:36.119 --> 01:57:41.279
really really helpful. Well, let's
go out now to pair Land and we

1659
01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:44.279
are going to talk to Mark.
Mark, how are you doing out there?

1660
01:57:45.319 --> 01:57:47.560
I'm doing okay, all right.
I have a question about how to

1661
01:57:47.760 --> 01:57:53.600
get rid of day flower and it's
taking over my front flower bear, particularly

1662
01:57:53.640 --> 01:57:59.399
around my plumbago. I've tried a
lot of things, and it's been proaching

1663
01:57:59.439 --> 01:58:03.520
into my yard, into my lawn. Yeah. It's a it's a demon.

1664
01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:12.279
Yeah, yeah, I day flower
is. It's one of those Um,

1665
01:58:13.520 --> 01:58:16.479
it's one of those weeds that you
know, normally we talk about broad

1666
01:58:16.560 --> 01:58:20.760
leaf weeds and grassy weeds, right, and so with the broad leaf weeds,

1667
01:58:20.760 --> 01:58:24.720
we use broad leaf herbsides. With
the grassy weeds, your grassy herbicides,

1668
01:58:24.720 --> 01:58:28.319
and day flower just seems to be
kind of caught in the middle of

1669
01:58:28.439 --> 01:58:32.000
the whole whole nine yards. Uh. There is a product called Speeds on

1670
01:58:32.119 --> 01:58:38.920
Southern that has day flower, that
has some day flower activity and it'll it'll

1671
01:58:38.920 --> 01:58:42.520
do a pretty good job. Fertilham
has a weed free zone also that does

1672
01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:46.159
a pretty good job. The problem
with those is when it is over the

1673
01:58:46.279 --> 01:58:50.319
mid eighties, even the upper eighties
and above, especially above the upper eighties.

1674
01:58:50.760 --> 01:58:54.359
Uh, these products can hurt your
lawn. And so if you can

1675
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:59.159
find really really early time of the
day, I mean the coolest moment of

1676
01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:01.600
the day and right now, we're
lucky if we make it to eighty degrees

1677
01:59:01.760 --> 01:59:06.720
right overnight. But that if you
can treat then and get it dried up

1678
01:59:06.800 --> 01:59:13.439
before the temperature is up there ninety
and above especially, and do spot treatments

1679
01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:17.399
where you just as much as possible
squirt the day flower weeds and don't just

1680
01:59:17.600 --> 01:59:24.199
like treat the whole lawn with the
product. That's probably your best bet to

1681
01:59:24.359 --> 01:59:30.199
try to minimize damage to your Saint
Augustine. I normally don't recommend those products

1682
01:59:30.319 --> 01:59:32.520
right now, if you know,
if there's any way to wait and treat

1683
01:59:32.560 --> 01:59:35.560
at cooler times of the year,
But that day flower loves warm weather.

1684
01:59:36.279 --> 01:59:41.560
It's like dove. Doveweeds the same
kind of thing. Basket grass is another

1685
01:59:41.640 --> 01:59:46.600
one that challenges us to work with. There is another product called Celsius like

1686
01:59:47.000 --> 01:59:53.520
fahrenheit and Celsius. Celsius is a
little better when the temperature gets warmer,

1687
01:59:53.680 --> 01:59:56.960
now one hundred degrees, I think
that's asking too much of any herbicide,

1688
01:59:57.079 --> 02:00:02.479
But Celsius might give you a little
better, a little less of a temperature

1689
02:00:03.359 --> 02:00:06.800
negative effect, like most of the
other broad leaf we control products will.

1690
02:00:06.920 --> 02:00:10.880
So you might want to go for
that one. You can buy that in

1691
02:00:10.960 --> 02:00:13.279
a lot of places. You're done
there in Pairline, you probably got an

1692
02:00:13.279 --> 02:00:15.159
ACE hardware. In fact, Pairline
does have an ACE hardware, more than

1693
02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:19.520
one in that area that would probably
carry the Celsius. You'll find it in

1694
02:00:19.640 --> 02:00:24.960
a little little packet. It's almost
like, you know, like a sugar

1695
02:00:25.000 --> 02:00:28.720
packet or whatever, but something about
twice that size, and it's made to

1696
02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:31.560
just mix up and use. It's
a one off. You know, you

1697
02:00:31.600 --> 02:00:34.199
don't want to buy a bottle of
celsius. I mean number one, you'd

1698
02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:39.760
have to. You'd have to,
you know, sell the family jewelry and

1699
02:00:40.680 --> 02:00:44.000
rent the kids out to pay for
the thing. But just a little packet's

1700
02:00:44.119 --> 02:00:46.039
very affordable, and it's it's a
one and done. You get it done

1701
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:49.199
and you're done. I think I
would try that one and see how it

1702
02:00:49.279 --> 02:00:53.520
works. As long as day flour
is actively growing, it ought to do

1703
02:00:53.560 --> 02:00:56.880
a pretty good job on it.
But with these kind of tough weeds,

1704
02:00:57.000 --> 02:01:00.079
we often find that one application usually
is enough. We have to come back

1705
02:01:00.119 --> 02:01:04.279
and here again. So just be
ready to get after it. Yeah.

1706
02:01:04.640 --> 02:01:06.600
When I didn't know what it was, I just dug it up. But

1707
02:01:06.680 --> 02:01:10.680
it comes back with a bench in. Yeah, I know, I know,

1708
02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:14.119
I know. I hate that.
Hey, Mark, thank you,

1709
02:01:14.279 --> 02:01:16.640
thank you for the call, and
thank all of you for being listeners to

1710
02:01:16.720 --> 02:01:21.680
garden Line. We are wrapping up
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1711
02:01:21.760 --> 02:01:26.439
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1712
02:01:26.520 --> 02:01:30.760
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1713
02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:33.039
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1714
02:01:33.039 --> 02:01:35.600
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1715
02:01:35.680 --> 02:01:41.520
others meet and so we can provide
you with past shows that way, if

1716
02:01:41.560 --> 02:01:45.520
you want to go back. I
was just talking to Gerald here. We're

1717
02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:47.680
talking about you know, day flower
weeds and stuff, and you go,

1718
02:01:47.800 --> 02:01:50.239
what are those things? He just
said, Go back and listen to the

1719
02:01:50.279 --> 02:01:54.279
podcast. You can hear it there, but remember you always listen to guarden

1720
02:01:54.319 --> 02:01:57.479
line with a pen and a paper
handy because you need to write stuff down.

1721
02:01:57.760 --> 02:02:00.279
Hey, we look forward to talking
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1722
02:02:00.319 --> 02:02:00.039
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