WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.960 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:20.600 this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Richards. So just watching 3 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:35.520 as a wood Well, good morning, good Saturday morning. Oh my gosh, 4 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:41.439 I am. I am so excited that we are finally. I'm calling 5 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.719 summer over, I'm calling fall begun. I know, got a warm day 6 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.520 or two here, But listen, this is nothing like we've been through a 7 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.280 lot of you have gotten rain. There's we're gonna have more rain on the 8 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.640 way. We're gonna have more good temperatures on the way. And this is 9 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.399 a time man as a gardener. Uh, you know, it's like we 10 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:00.520 just came through the gauntlet. We were in the gauntlet and here we are 11 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.599 ready to go for the best gardening season of the year. And that is 12 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.400 fault. It is hands down the best. And why do I say that, 13 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.959 Well, Number one, we just got out of summer and we're coming 14 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.040 back to temperatures and coming back to rainfall rates that we really will appreciate getting 15 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.079 and so all our plants. By the way, the temperatures are so mild 16 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.640 in the months to come that we can just garden to our hearts content once 17 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.079 again, it's safe to go outside, and we are doing exactly that. 18 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.200 A lot of gardeners been out of garden centers and just people. I can 19 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.959 just sense. It's a palpable excitement that people are ready to go, and 20 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.599 boy, I am ready to go. I hope you are too, because 21 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.760 there is a lot to be doing right now out there in the garden. 22 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.879 One thing you could be doing right now is giving us a call at garden 23 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.560 line seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 24 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.959 one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's talk about what you're interested in. 25 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:01.200 I have, boy, this week, just lots of questions. I've been 26 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.680 answering phone email, all kinds of things that disregarding what to plant now, 27 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.919 what to do now? You know, what? How do I make my 28 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.120 lawn recover? Is this tree going to die? That's a that's a weekly 29 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.680 question all the time. It seems like, uh, And I think it's 30 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:23.560 good that people are starting to think forward. You know, we're we're looking 31 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:27.960 at probably the best vegetable garden season of the year as things cool off. 32 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.080 There's a lot to be planning out there. We're looking at a really critical 33 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.840 time of taking care of your lawns. And I'm I'll be talking about that 34 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:37.199 a little bit this morning. As we go forward, what do we do, 35 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.879 how do we get our lawn to recover? Uh, you know, 36 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:44.080 once we hit the fall season, we're still in you know, hurricane season 37 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.159 just I guess towards the end of it. But excuse me. Those storms 38 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:51.159 can always come through. But even just you know, a good blasting coal 39 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.479 front with strong winds and things can can be a concern. And if you've 40 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.840 if you're looking at a roof that is probably needing replacing. Maybe I don't 41 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.560 know, may have been damaged in some way, It may just be getting 42 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.520 old. May just be time to consider a new one to protect that house. 43 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:12.280 A big investment of years by the way, right, you know, 44 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.560 maybe you've been thinking about putting solar panels on a house. Well, you 45 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.639 need to give the folks at Brinkman a call. Jason Brinkman, Brinkman Quality 46 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:24.159 Roofing Surfaces Services. I guess it's a surface too up there on the roof. 47 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.520 They are fully warranted twenty five years of service. They've been doing this 48 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:34.599 for fifty years. They belong in the community that they live in. They 49 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.159 serve the community that they live in. Their customers rate them highly. They 50 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:42.240 are part of the community. They're not a fly by night stick a card 51 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.159 in your door company. When they do it, they do it right. 52 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.319 They've been doing it for fifty years now. You can go to Brinkman Quality 53 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.280 dot com Brinkman Quality dot com or give them a call two eight one four 54 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.439 eight zero seventy six sixty three. And when you do, ask them about 55 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:01.000 their timberline solar shingle. Not a solar well on your roof that this is 56 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:05.120 your roof timberline solar shingles. Pretty cool stuff. Ask him when you give 57 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:11.599 him a call to eight one four eight zero seventy six sixty three. I 58 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:17.199 did a video recently for the A and M. Hort Department, Texas. 59 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:23.600 Eggy Horticulture has a thing called Facebook Live and created a video for them on 60 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.120 what do we do now with our lawns? That video is on Facebook now. 61 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:32.000 If you go to our garden line Facebook page, you can find just 62 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.680 scroll down a little bit, you'll see the video there and I kind of 63 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.680 walk through all the basics and it's from a generic standpoint. You know it's 64 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.480 time to fertilize. It's time to if you're going to deal with weeds, 65 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.240 here's what you do and diseases and things, and it just sort of walks 66 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.319 through the whole thing. I'm standing in a lawn that has the trifecta of 67 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:51.800 summer curses that would be chinch bugs and drought and take all root rod all 68 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:55.959 hit in the same poor lawn, and how do we bring our lawns back 69 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.759 from that? The video is an introduction. It's about seven minutes long, 70 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.399 so it's not long, but it's long enough to kind of cover the topics 71 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:08.240 get you thinking about it. Always remember that our fall lawn care is listed 72 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:14.560 on my lawn care schedule and you can find that at Gardening with Skip dot 73 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.120 com. Gardening with Skip dot com, check out the lawn care schedule. 74 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:23.000 Somebody had sent me anothe the other day saying, hey, can I use 75 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:26.639 organic or synthetic fertilizer? And what I use and stuff. Go to the 76 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.560 schedule. It's right there. If you want a garden organically. If it 77 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.360 doesn't matter, you just won't see the whole list. It's all there. 78 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:38.240 There's a lot of quality fertilizers on there. And I tell you exactly when 79 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.079 it's time to plant them. And we are basically at the door. We're 80 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.279 knocking on the door of October, and that's a big month for getting a 81 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.879 lot of things done out there in the garden. If you want to have 82 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:54.360 a beautiful garden and sustain it, that is for sure. And if you 83 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.240 want to have a beautiful garden, and I say garden, I'm really you 84 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.160 know, I use that term sometimes to mean everything around the house, lawn, 85 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.759 landscape, tree shrubs. If you want it to be beautiful, if 86 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:08.000 you want your lawn to recover, you need the products to be able to 87 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.160 put down and take care of it and make it do that. And Ace 88 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.079 Hardware is an easy answer to work. And I get that stuff because Ace 89 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.959 Hardware is thirty nine all over the area and they carry all the things I 90 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.959 talk about on garden Line and more. If you need fertilizers, if you 91 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.000 need past control, disease control, weed control, anything you need to make 92 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.120 your lawn beautiful, A garden hose for crying out loud, a little hose 93 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.920 end timer. So you know, I don't know if you're like me, 94 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.199 but when I leave the water running at night and forget about it, the 95 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:41.120 kids the next morning when I come out, are taking canoes up and down 96 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:46.319 the roadside rivers that I created for them out a little hose end timer will 97 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.279 say that problem. But that's just an example of the one billion things for 98 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:54.759 your lawn garden landscape that you can find at ACE Hardware. Go to ACE 99 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.639 hardware dot com. There's a store locator and you can find the one nearest 100 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.079 sew makes it really, really simple. So I'm gonna I am going to 101 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.680 be continuing on talking about some of the things we're dealing with on our lawns. 102 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:10.759 Today. We're going to take breakcare just in a minute. If you 103 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:14.680 would like to get on the phone and ask some questions, you can give 104 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:19.360 me a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 105 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:25.079 three two one two five eight seven four Josh. We'll get you on the 106 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.480 board and we'll be ready to go. By the way, I want to 107 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:31.240 remind you. And I'll be doing this today today eleven thirty to one thirty, 108 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.519 I will be at the Arbigate Nursery and tom Ball, Texas. We're 109 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:39.360 going to be giving away some of their special organic fertilizer part of the one 110 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.759 two three Easy system. Nitrofoss has provided some giveaways as well. I'll be 111 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.800 entering your gardening questions, and I know Beverly's going to have a few extra 112 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.879 surprises to throw into the mix, Like every fifteen minutes she's providing a fertilizer 113 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.680 to give away there. So you definitely want to come out, love to 114 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:56.560 meet you, bring me some samples. We look forward to that. We'll 115 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.439 be right back in the meantime. Give Josh a call seven one, three 116 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.680 two to fifty eight seventy four. You're listening to garden Line and we are 117 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.879 glad you are. We are here to talk about whatever you're interested in related 118 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.639 to gardening. I hope you're as excited as I am that I'm officially calling 119 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.879 I called it a week ago too. It's like when we drop five degrees 120 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.879 off one hundred fallers here and we are there and then some it's only going 121 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.839 to keep getting better and better. You know. I just I really really 122 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.480 enjoy this season. I don't know it, I guess because our winners aren't 123 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.680 so bad. People that live further north, you know, they come out 124 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.120 of winter and it's like I gotta grow something, you know, because they've 125 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.200 been looking at snow for the whole winter down here. It's kind of like 126 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.919 summers that way, you know, we come out of summer. I lived, 127 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.240 I lived, hooray. And so we get out there and we're ready 128 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.480 to garden and kind of cutting loose. I'm gonna start off by going out 129 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.480 to Richmond and we are going to talk to Hetty this morning. Hello, 130 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.080 Hetty, am I saying your name right? Yes, sir, how are 131 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.200 you this morning? I'm well, how are you? Pretty good? I 132 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.960 am calling. I wanted to tell you first that we are certainly enjoying you 133 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:07.320 on the show. You're very refreshing and we appreciate you taking it over. 134 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:18.519 And I live on a p conrove of pecan orchards, and around our around 135 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.799 the house that I live in are at least one hundred foot pecan trees and 136 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:31.840 they are gorging, and I am so yeah, I'm so curious to know. 137 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.000 Do you know how old those kind of trees that all would be? 138 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.600 Is this a planted orchard or is this just a river bottom with the old 139 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:46.399 native pecans? Well around my house must be the old planted bottom, but 140 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:52.519 oh right around my house. And then there is an orchard that is planted 141 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:58.639 back behind our house, right, and it is all one owner and I 142 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.200 just rent so right, I'm assuming the trees around the house were there before 143 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.320 he started as the orchards. Yeah, it's really hard to It's hard to 144 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.559 tell, you know, You've got to look at the soil type, the 145 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.720 location and things, because trees grow at different rates in different soil conditions. 146 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.600 But you know, I don't know. It could be fifty years, could 147 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.639 be almost a hundred years some of the some of the trees on the river 148 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.600 bottoms and Texas are pretty ancient. Of course, the planted orchards are going 149 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.759 to be significantly younger. For ben County has been a big comproducing area, 150 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.440 but not you know, from the eighteen hundreds or anything. I mean, 151 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.039 it's a you know, it's it's fairly recent, as is many of our 152 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:43.519 Texas planted orchards in this area. Well, that's very interesting. How we'll 153 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:48.679 try and find out a little bit more about Yeah, and but I didn't 154 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.600 want to tell you. You're very refreshing on this show. Thank you so 155 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.399 much. All right, well, thank you. I appreciate your call from 156 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.000 out there in Richard. Right. You're you're lucky, by the way, 157 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.960 you know in Richmond, you've got some great nurseries near you, so you 158 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.600 are very fortunate. I don't know if you've been around, but they're they're 159 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:09.200 great. Yes, Shannon Garden is right down the street for me. Oh 160 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.720 my gosh. Really well, and you can do that, and you also 161 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.000 have Enchanted Forest down there. I mean, my goodness, you guys, 162 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.120 that's a reason to that's a reason to move to four Bean County. Right, 163 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.919 they're alone exactly, all right? Take care, thank you, bet, 164 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.720 thank you. Yeah, I was, I was looking at a a 165 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.360 Facebook page for Enchanted Forest. I always keep up with what's going on, 166 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.360 whatever they have happening out there, and oh my gosh, they have some 167 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:45.000 moms that are just unbelievable. You know, it's fall, it's time for 168 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:46.799 moms, and they're beautiful ones. You know, if you have the typical 169 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.200 mum that you would think of, you know, that's a just a very 170 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.440 dense flower. And then that we have the single flowered type moms at almost 171 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:01.200 daisy looking flower forms, and the colors they have are unbelieve it. You 172 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.200 need to check it out. And Channing forst is out there. If you're 173 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.279 at Richmond and you're heading up towards Trigerland. They're off to the right down 174 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.919 in that direction south of fifty nine. Easy to find them. But Danny 175 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.159 and Clay have just been getting in a lot of new things. I can't 176 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.600 wait until the pumpkin dry that's coming. It's coming down the line pretty soon. 177 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.600 But they got lots of new trees and all kinds of stuff, and 178 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.960 it's just fun to go out there and shop too, really really fun. 179 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.240 But it's worth going just to see the mums alone, and that is amazing, 180 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.360 the new ones that they've gotten in. We're gonna head out now. 181 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.120 Let's let's have the other direction. We're gonna go to Pasadena and talk to 182 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.320 Gil this morning. Hello, Gil, Hey, how are you this? 183 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.519 I'm doing well? How can I hear it? Good? Good? Well. 184 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.600 I had to actually have two questions, but first one I'm asking if 185 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.120 you don't have time for the second to spint. Okay, the first one 186 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:56.039 I have. It's a three foot wide area twenty foot long soil pattern. 187 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.480 It's it's, it's and I'd say three foot wide because one side I hate 188 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.320 foot fence, the other side of my garage wall and roof. So if 189 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.919 you barely get any sunlight, because that that small opening between the roof and 190 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.159 the and the fence. Oh well, so what can what can a plant 191 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:15.720 there that is you know that food grade wise? You know, cucumbers, 192 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:20.759 tomatoes. Okay, what can a plant there that that doesn't require a lot 193 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.799 of sunlight? Your best with my first weason, Yeah, your best shot 194 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:30.840 for low light for vegetables is leafy greens. And we are entering into leafy 195 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:35.120 green season. We got lettuce and a arugula and kale and collards and spinach, 196 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.440 and you see what I'm saying. I mean, there's a lot of 197 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.720 things we can plant in the cool season and leaves. You know, a 198 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.759 plant doesn't have to make a lot of carbohydrates to grow a leaf. It 199 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.799 takes a lot to grow a root or a fruit. So carrots and tomatoes, 200 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.440 lots of sun with leafy greens, you can get by on a little 201 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.799 less. Oh great, great, great, So now I know what I 202 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.840 could plant there? There you go? Great? Great? They do you 203 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.240 a tip for the second question. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do 204 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.559 it quick. Okay, all right. The second one is I have a 205 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.639 smaller part in my yard because I have a pool in a smoky so I 206 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.120 have a ton of smaller part that's eight foot wide by ten foot long, 207 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.519 and it has a lot of some moderate to every some light. Okay, 208 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.759 it's on the opposite side of the garage and the fool. So what can 209 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.080 I plant there that doesn't burn? Well, we're out of the burn season 210 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.159 and even in the summer. The things that we say grow in the summer, 211 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.159 if you water them, they're not going to burn. Okay. So 212 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.559 you could plan anything in that other area anything you want. I would just 213 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.919 say, have you done any soil improvement on it yet? No, I 214 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.159 haven't, but I will. I intend to. So that that's all there 215 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:45.600 has been there for I know, pointy years I've been I bought the house. 216 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.919 Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. Yeah. Out in that direction. 217 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.240 Anywhere you go, you just the soils always need improving and you need 218 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.279 you know, you need to get some organic matter mixed down. You can 219 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:00.240 also just bring in a mix and you know, do like a raise bet. 220 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.320 I know Airloom has their vegetable garden mix that they that we talk about 221 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.120 a lot, and you know, you can have it delivered or you can 222 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.440 just go buy bags. It's available in a lot of different places. But 223 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.200 I like the veggie and herb mix. That's a really good if you want 224 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.159 are kind of ready to go soil. And if you you can also just 225 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.480 buy compost from them and mix it into the soil you have. That's gonna 226 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.759 be more work, but you can do that too, Okay, Yeah, 227 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.240 just great man talking with you. I appreciate you. You bet gil. 228 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.679 Just don't don't skimp on the soil because you know, all the best varieties 229 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:37.759 and all the things we recommend you do in the world. Nothing replaces uh, 230 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.080 starting or failing to start with a good foundation in the soil. That's 231 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.440 your key to success. So I want you to have success this fall. 232 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.159 Thank you all right, sir, thank you for the call. I really 233 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.120 appreciate that goal. Yeah. You know Airloom Soils of Texas there, that's 234 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.720 their website, Airloom Soils of Texas dot com. They have it all. 235 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.399 I mean, the number of mixes they have. Maybe you're gonna plant fruit 236 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.440 trees, they got a mix for that, you know, Or you're gonna 237 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.320 plant herbs. The veggie herb mix is excellent. Do you need some indoor 238 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.720 potting soil? Do you need just a general outdoor potting soil? They've got 239 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.519 it all. I mean, if you just want to put some expanded shale 240 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.519 down. You know we're talking about Pasadena. We got some clay soils done 241 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:21.279 in that area, and expanded shale always always helps. So go online airlom 242 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:22.720 Souls of Texas. They be a little calculator. You can figure out how 243 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.639 much you need and make sure that you get your soul right before a seed 244 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.159 goes in the ground, because when you plant a seed or transplant and walk 245 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:34.840 away, you are eighty percent of the way to success or failure right there, 246 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:37.960 because it's either sunny or not. And that's what we were talking about 247 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.879 just a moment ago with Gil. It's either well drained or not. It's 248 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.519 either improved soil or not. And you've already picked your varieties, and so 249 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:52.240 yeah, everything that happens before you walk away from planting is the vast majority 250 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.519 of whether you're going to have success or not. I hope you will write 251 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.840 that down and think about it, because it is true and it is important. 252 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.720 We're gonna it out now to Conro and talk to Cheryl. Hello Cheryl, 253 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.039 Hi, sir, how you done this morning? I'm well, thank 254 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.039 you? How can we help? I have actually a two far question. 255 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:17.960 I have a planets from Mexican pejunia, and I knew when I planted them 256 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:21.319 that they were an invasive plant. Yeah, I had an area that I 257 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:25.000 wanted to get filled in. Okay, Well, my questions are number one, 258 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.119 do I cut them back in the fall? And number two, how 259 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:33.960 do I keep them from expanding from the area in which I wanted them to 260 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.720 fill in? Okay, you cut them back in the fall, cut them 261 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.000 back as low as you want. They will come back out. You know. 262 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:44.720 Just if they look ugly above ground and they're not going to be pretty 263 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.119 in the winter, then you can you can cut them back. There's the 264 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.839 short, bushy types and there's a tall upright types for these above knee high 265 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.720 and okay, yeah, well they have underground rhizomes, most of them do, 266 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.079 and they spread that way. So that's one challenge. So you'd need 267 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.799 a vertical wall in the ground to stop them from spreading, a sidewalk, 268 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.519 a house foundation, or just literally a vertical wall. The other the other 269 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.960 way is by seed, and they spread profusely by seed, and that's just 270 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:18.400 going to be a challenge of having to continue reading them. Okay, I'll 271 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:23.960 stay, so'll just trying to stay diligent about keeping them maybe seat pull in 272 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.880 a month that they go beyond where I walk up. Yeah, yeah, 273 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.920 And if you keep your gardens mulst well, it will prevent the seeds from 274 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.599 coming through. The seeds are going to have to have light they germinate, 275 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.920 and that little seedling needs light or it will not make it. And with 276 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.559 a mulch, they just are not going to make it. Now, the 277 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.039 rhizomes they'll push through a mulch. But if you're talking about seeds down the 278 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.960 way, that'll do it. All right, all right, thank you, 279 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.960 sir. I appreciate your help. You bet, thank you. I appreciate 280 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:56.640 appreciate your call. Good night, Nikki. We are just talking about gardening 281 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.319 already this morning. Here we go. That's what a surprise. I know, 282 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.799 who'da thought nobody calls me about stock prices. But that's a good thing 283 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.960 because it's well, it's a lot. We have to start thinking differently. 284 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.920 That's right, that's right. We are about to take a break for the 285 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:17.839 news seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like 286 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:22.079 to be on garden line. You're listening to garden Line, and you never 287 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.519 know what kind of bumper music we're gonna have on garden line. I'm your 288 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:29.359 host, skip rictor We're here to answer your gardening questions. So just give 289 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.960 us a call if you'd like to visit. It is seven one three two 290 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.440 one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight 291 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.799 seventy four. I was talking about being excited about fall, and I am. 292 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.079 But I will tell you something else I'm very excited about, and you 293 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.720 will be to the arbor Gate. I'm going to be out at the arbour 294 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.400 Gate today and guess what, they have a brand new parking lot. It's 295 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.920 behind the arbor Gate. There's a little road. I believe it's pronounced try 296 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.240 Shultz's. That's how I would say at try Show Road. As you're coming 297 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:02.400 out twenty nine twenty from tom Ball, you can turn in before the Arbogate 298 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.519 on Treshel or you can turn in after. It's a loop and when you 299 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:10.519 get right behind the Arbogate there's a nice new parking lot. So there'll be 300 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:12.759 plenty of space for you to come out today do some shopping. I hope 301 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.079 you'll come out and see me. I'm looking forward to that they're going to 302 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:21.319 be giving away a bag of their organic Food Complete every fifteen minutes. That's 303 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:26.480 their four four three organic food with it also has ten percent calcium in it 304 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:30.279 as well, lots of trace minerals. Just a high quality, high quality 305 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.160 product. Basically every fifteen minutes, we're going to be given away a bag. 306 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.000 I believe they have some nitroposts as well out there, a little some 307 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.160 canisters of that that we're going to be giving away. It's a good product 308 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.640 for all your color plants. So you got some petunias or things in the 309 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.440 ground, you're gonna plant some pansies, you need some of this stuff to 310 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:51.960 mix in the soil. Get things ready to go, because remember even with 311 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:57.359 flowers, you need vigor. Vigor provides leaves, Leaves provide carbohydrates. Carbohydrates 312 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:00.640 make blooms. That's how it works. So come out and see me at 313 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:04.440 the arbour Gate today and while you're there, pick up one of their organic 314 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:11.240 Food Complete, Organic Soil Complete, and Organic compost Complete. It's their one 315 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:17.599 two three completely easy system. And now Arburgate has the one two three completely 316 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.559 easy parking situation out behind the store, So come out check it out. 317 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.039 Let's visit. Really look forward to meeting a lot of you today. If 318 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:26.880 you've got some plant samples you want to bring in, just throw them in 319 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.319 a bag. Make sure they're you know, zipped up or something when you 320 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.519 bring them to me. We don't want to turn everything loose out there. 321 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.839 If you have photos, that's great to make sure they're in sharp focus and 322 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:41.799 we can identify, we can diagnose, or we can even advise on what 323 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.160 you might want to plant where. I hope you will come out and join 324 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.279 us, because that is going to be a lot of fun. We are 325 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:48.200 going to have a heck of it. They always throw a good party out 326 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.599 of our gate. Let's go now to Cyprus and we're gonna visit with Charlie. 327 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:59.960 Hello Charlie, nice kid. What's up. I've got a question about 328 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:06.759 actus. I feed cactus to my tortoises, the the spineless pers Okay, 329 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.839 so I want to build a raised bed and then start growing my own cactus. 330 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.279 And I was wondering how deep it needs to be and if I use 331 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:25.119 something like soil complete the one from Usual about the arburgate, the arbgate. 332 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.039 Yeah, yeah, okay, I like that soil or Yeah, it's something 333 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.240 comparable to that. Yeah, no, that would be fine. You know, 334 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:36.319 it's got some some expanded shale in it. I would probably also get 335 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:40.920 a bag of expanded shale and just take it up a notch with the shale 336 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:45.640 level and the soil. For something that is, you know, like a 337 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.440 cactus or a succulent, I just would give it one extra measure and make 338 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.000 sure the bed is high enough to where it's not a low spot that'll sit 339 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.599 whenever we get our week of deluge that can happen here. But but that 340 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.400 ought to do it. Yeah, that'd be silent for that. You think 341 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:06.119 you think like two by twelve for depth would be deep enough. Okay, 342 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:07.319 I mean I'm sorry, I got two by four timber. I mean two 343 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.960 by twelve timber like a low Yes, yeah, that's that's plenty. That's 344 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.039 plenty. Yeah, that'll do it. Okay, yep, that'll do And 345 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:17.839 just mound it up a little higher than you expect because it is going to 346 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:22.960 settle in time and so you want you'll want to Yeah. But all right, 347 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.720 I was hoping to get to go see you today. I ended up 348 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.000 in the hospital last night, so I'm not gonna make it out to see 349 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.039 you. Oh man, I have fun out there at Arburgate. I'm sorry 350 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.160 to hear that, but yeah, yeah, Well after you feel better, 351 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.400 you need to get out there and check out that new parking lot. That 352 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.319 is a cool deal, a wonderful edition. Hey, thank you, Charlie. 353 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.599 I appreciate that call. Thank you, Bye bye, yes sir, 354 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:48.400 and get well. Get well. You know that the summer has been brutal 355 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.680 and we have a lot of do it yourselfers. Those are folks that get 356 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:53.279 out, Like Charlie was talking about, we're gonna we're gonna mix up soil, 357 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.839 we're gonna plant plants, We're gonna do the whole thing from ground up. 358 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.559 And then there's some of you are looking out there saying, you know 359 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.079 what, the lawn looks bad, that I've got plants that have died or 360 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:08.440 just struggling everywhere. What I do, it's discouraging. Well, I'll tell 361 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.079 you one thing you can do is just call Peerscapes and say, look, 362 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.319 I need you to come in here and let's talk. Bring them, bring 363 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.000 them some pictures and say we want to reduce some stuff. Do you need 364 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:23.480 Does your irrigation system need work? Because it probably does a lot of poorly 365 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:27.359 designed systems that need some help. Do you need maybe to put in some 366 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.039 new beds, Do you need to move plants? Would you like to have 367 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:34.880 Peerscapes put in plants that are more drought resilient, drought tolerant plants. They 368 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:40.559 can transform a landscape and if you call them now, get in quick so 369 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.599 that you can get the design, get it set up, and have that 370 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.880 done. So this fall the best planting time of the year. You can 371 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:51.759 have a turnkey walk away a place you just can't wait to get outside and 372 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.160 be in again. Pierscapes can do that two eight one, three, seven 373 00:24:55.240 --> 00:25:00.920 zero fifty sixty or piercescapes dot com really easy to get a hold of them. 374 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:04.200 We're gonna go now to Northwest Houston and talk to Bob. Hello, 375 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:08.119 Bob, Thank you more sir, How you doing well? Thank you? 376 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:14.079 Yeah, Hey, I got a problem with a weed called a daughter weed 377 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:17.200 d O D D E R. Yes, I'm kind of like a bunch 378 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:21.279 of spaghetti looking stuff that wraps around them. Yes, flowers and plants and 379 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:25.559 stuff. And yes, if you have some ego spray on that or or 380 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.079 I'm cutting it out, it just grows faster. I can cut it out 381 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:30.680 yeah, no, there's there's not a good way. You want to strip 382 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.359 it all out of there. There's gonna be seeds in the soil, a 383 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:38.960 good thing. Mulch can help. But Daughter, it basically it comes up 384 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.039 on its own, but then it attaches to a plant and it just becomes 385 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:45.599 a parasite and it doesn't have the green chlorophyll. So a lot of the 386 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:51.079 products that we would use on a weed for that kind of weed is not 387 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:55.480 going to work on Daughter. Clearing it out, just completely getting all of 388 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.480 it that you can out of there. There's some good information online and I'm 389 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.119 a I may do a little search just to make sure there's not a pre 390 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.200 emergent that might work on Daughter, but basically, get it out of there, 391 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.079 don't let it up for air, keep the area well mulched if you 392 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.279 can. If the area is not suited to that, we'll look. But 393 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.440 yeah, it's a it's a very unique problem that doesn't fit our other boxes. 394 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.680 YEA, all right, what's on my lantana and some other flowers. 395 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.960 It's I cut it out one weekend and I'll go back. It'll be growing 396 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:32.000 back up again. Oh, I know, I know it is. Probably 397 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.119 I'm gonna try to take a look at that Durham break and come back and 398 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:38.039 just make some general comments because you people see that occasionally on the roadsides and 399 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:42.039 don't know what it is. But yeah, not a good problem, but 400 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.319 good luck with it on Bob. I'll make a few more comments in a 401 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.799 bit here, I think. All right, all right, thank you sir, 402 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.680 all right, thank you. I appreciate that very much. Uh. 403 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.160 You know, it is time to take care of your lawn for fall, 404 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.759 and Nitrofoss has what they call the Texas three step really simple. A Number 405 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:04.960 one, you treat your lawn with the Nitrofoss Fall Special. It's a win 406 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.720 aizer. It's the kind of things that has that extra potassium that helps our 407 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.480 plants get winter hardy and ready. Number two, it's got the barricade in 408 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:15.880 the system that this is the one, two, three three separate bags. 409 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.480 The barricade is a pre emergent weed control. It keeps out broad leaf and 410 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:23.839 grassy weeds. And in October all your cool season weeds are gonna start germinating. 411 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.920 You can have the barricade down ahead of that so it prevents them. 412 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.720 In that way, next spring you're not dealing with knee high weeds in the 413 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:37.160 yard. Number three is the nitros turf fungicide called eagle. Eagle turf is 414 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.640 a systemaic It will fight a lot of the diseases that we deal with in 415 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.920 the fall. That would include things like large patch and things like take all 416 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.200 root rod for example. Eagle turf fungicide that systemic ingredient and it works well. 417 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.119 That one two three simply so simple to do. I mean it's the 418 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.640 Texas three step from nitrofish. You can find it a plantch for all seasons 419 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.480 in Channet Gardens out there in Richmond carries it as does like hardware down in 420 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.839 Angleton where we're going to take a break. Our number seven one three two 421 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.960 one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, you're listening to Garden Line and 422 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.640 we're here to answer gardening questions. That's what this is all about. And 423 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.640 I think the best shows are the shows where you ask questions, because as 424 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.480 supposed to me, I mean, I've drone on about all kinds of things 425 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.200 regarding gardening. But when you ask a question, somebody else has that same 426 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.359 question. Believe me, there are a lot of people that have questions a 427 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:29.839 little shy. I don't want to call in. That's all right, that's 428 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.200 fine. I hope I hope you'll become a caller someday because I love to 429 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.960 visit with you. But when you have a question, just know someone else 430 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:40.079 does too and we can take it from there. Hey, you know our 431 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:45.119 CW nurseries. That's the nursery where the Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes down 432 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:47.960 into Beltway eight. Right there in that area. A lot of you you 433 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:49.440 know, you know what I'm talking You've been there. It is a get 434 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.839 it got at nursery. If they don't have it, they'll get it. 435 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.359 But I'll tell you what, they probably have it right now. They got 436 00:28:55.359 --> 00:29:00.400 a great stock on a lot of wonderful plants. I always like to visit 437 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.200 RCW and see what's going on. Lots of color right now. I was 438 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.079 just checking the other day. They had some dianthus, the snap dragons. 439 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.039 You know, these cool season plants. You can still plant some of the 440 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:12.960 warm things too. I mean, you know, there's plenty of warm season 441 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.640 plants that are going to carry us a while. Our normal first frost is 442 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.359 really far away, and we can get a lot of good weeks and even 443 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.960 months. It's a couple of months out of some really nice warm season color 444 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.359 too, So take your pick, do it either way. RCW gets fixed 445 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:30.559 up. They also have roses, Oh my gosh, do they have roses. 446 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:34.400 And their selection is outstanding. So if you're gonna plant some maybe you 447 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.279 want to hybrid tea or some special kind of rows that you just have been 448 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.000 really looking for it, well, their list is long enough to where I 449 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.680 will just say if they don't have it, it probably doesn't exist. They 450 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:49.839 really have a great selection again. RCW nursriies dot Com is their website. 451 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:55.680 They're on fifteen eight O nine Tumball Parkway where it comes into Beltway eight. 452 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.400 I hope you get out there and enjoy the wonderful day we're having some time 453 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.480 and get check them out. You will be you will be impressed. We're 454 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:08.240 gonna head out now to Navasota and talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy, 455 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:12.880 good morning. How are you well? I'm well, thank you good. 456 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.599 I have two questions. Actually. The first question is we have a year 457 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.759 lease up in Navasota and I've been bringing my dogs up where there's a water 458 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:27.319 shortage. The question that I have for that is I need some type of 459 00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:33.359 a killer that I can put out around deer camp that actually will kill fleas, 460 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.000 ticks, fire ants, and I guess they're called the crazy ants. 461 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:42.480 Okay, but all of the killer that i'm a bud killer that I've looked 462 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:47.240 at, all of them are required to be watered in. Well, there 463 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:52.039 is a water shortage here and that is not going to work for this situation. 464 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.039 Is there anything that you can suggest that I can put down that will 465 00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.799 take care of that? So you're not able to water in a granule that 466 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.000 you spread, so you need something to mix up and spray liquid. Is 467 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.119 that what you're telling me? Probably? I mean I would prefer a granule 468 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.519 that doesn't have to be watered in by I don't know if that exists. 469 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:14.759 You know, I'm not a weather man, but it seems like last time 470 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:15.880 I looked, we're supposed to get a little bit of rain on Monday. 471 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:21.000 I believe check the weather. You could put the granule out ahead of that 472 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.319 and you could get the benefits from it from that, So that may be 473 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.000 something you would want to do if you do that. You know, nitrofiles 474 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:33.680 has thereby phen thrind that work works really wells having it's a really affected products 475 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.519 oft granule, so it's easy to spread. Now if you have to go 476 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:48.079 bi f E N T h R I N by pen thren, got you, 477 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.079 okay? Okay? Yeah, And so you you know you could go 478 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:56.839 with a direction like that that that works really well. I would say the 479 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.160 if you can't do the granule and get a rain to do it, then 480 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.799 you have to switch to a liquid. And if you go that route, 481 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:07.880 then you know, I would look for something with biphenthren or something called cyanara. 482 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.680 Either of those would work well as a liquid. But even those, 483 00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:14.799 you know, you need to go moisture on them to move him down near 484 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.960 the sole surface because down there in the thatch of the grass and things, 485 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.279 the weeds, that's where your fleas are hiding. That's where larva or hatching 486 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.759 out and waiting for a dog to come by when they become adults. So 487 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.319 yeah, either way you go, you're you're just gonna have to deal with 488 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.039 those. But you know, I'm not a vet either, but the most 489 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:35.680 important thing on your dogs is making sure they've got the products on them that 490 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:37.759 if the flea jumps on him and bites them, it takes care of it. 491 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.200 Because you can't just believe it it's a big vicious circle. We got 492 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.039 to attack it everywhere around the circle. Yeah, believe it or not. 493 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:52.279 I actually have to treat my dog with essential oils because he has epilepsy and 494 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.279 I can't give them. I can't give him the flea medication because it's bad 495 00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.720 to calls seizures. Wow, that's interesting. Well, as I said, 496 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.640 I am not a vet, so I just know what we do. I 497 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.319 appreciate, I appreciate the information, but I have a second question when guarding 498 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:13.160 roses. Okay, go ahead, okay on the roses. Is it okay 499 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.359 at this time to be able to cut back the roses and to fertilize them 500 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.599 might have survived this this really harsh, harsh summer that we've had. Yes, 501 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:28.559 but I'm looking to revive them a little bit before it gets too cold. 502 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:32.000 It's a it's a little later, Cindy, just to cut to the 503 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.480 chase on it, a little later than than I normally would do it. 504 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.240 But you can go ahead and share them back, give them a little fertilizer, 505 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:42.359 a little bit of water, and get some new growth on them, 506 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.680 and you should have a beautiful la later in October and November. You should 507 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:50.799 have some decent blooms too wonderful one. Well, thank you very much for 508 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.440 answer my questions. You have a great day, all right, you two 509 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.799 as well? Yeah, thank you very much for that. You know I'm 510 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:58.640 talking about all these products and where do you where do you get products? 511 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:01.759 Well, uh, if you have never been to Southwest Fertilizer, you need 512 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:04.960 to go. If you've been, you know what I'm talking about. But 513 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:08.360 nobody in town carries as much as they do when it comes to fertilizers, 514 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:14.480 pesticides and secticides, fungersides orbsides, the whole nine yards, as well as 515 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.599 everything else you need for the lawn and garden. They just do. They're 516 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.719 out there on the corner of Bissonette and Renwick and Southwest Houston. You can 517 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.880 go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com find out more. If they don't have it, 518 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.880 you don't need it. And it literally I mean that literally, it's 519 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:34.039 not just an expression. They carry everything that you need. It is a 520 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.599 one stop shop and they also have expert advice. They have people that know 521 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.920 what they're talking about. Bob and his team will look at your problem. 522 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.320 They will direct you to the product that works. And that is so nice 523 00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.639 being able being able to know that you have that kind of thing. I 524 00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.000 mean, they carry a wide variety of fertilizers too. Yeah, Nelson fertilizer 525 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:57.880 for example, They've got a really good stock of Nelson fertilizer. So maybe 526 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.920 you wanted to use Nelson's car carbo load. That's a ten ten twenty that's 527 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:05.559 used in the fall. It works really well. I mean, it provides 528 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:09.519 the plant what it needs to get ready for winter. Potassium the third number 529 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.679 very important, and drought resilience and winter heartiness. And here we are sitting 530 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:20.840 on the steps of spring fall having come out of summer, an important application. 531 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.440 It also includes something to help fight weeds at the same time. That's 532 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:29.559 Nelson's carbo Load ten ten twenty. And it's just one of the many many 533 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.000 products that Nelson makes. I mean, they have a wide variety of a 534 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.280 products. Their Color Star line for example, Beautiful for your flowering plants, 535 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.920 make them jump, Nutrastar line, Turf Star line for all the lawn fertilizers, 536 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:46.000 and the Nature Star line which is our organic line. That's pretty cool, 537 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:52.159 really nice to be able to have such an option range and Nelson it 538 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.079 just provides you just that and I know it was it about a week or 539 00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:00.239 two ago that ones in Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood had had shut down for 540 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.000 inventory and they have opened back up. Of course they were open on past 541 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.559 Sunday, but oh, my gosh, the amount of product that they have 542 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.679 and the beauty of the product. You know, it's it's mum season, 543 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:15.039 it's fall flower season. It's time to pick up the fertilizers that you need 544 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.840 for your lawn. And both Warrants and Kingwood Garden Center they're going to carry 545 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.679 that. It's it's easy to find them. And if you're in Kingwood, 546 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.880 my gosh, two garden centers for one town like that that are so outstanding. 547 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:30.679 It's an amazing thing. You are very fortunate. By the way, 548 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:36.719 don't don't don't forget when you're going by there to make always pick up a 549 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.599 bag of soil for improving your soul, whether it's compost or shale or whatever. 550 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:44.599 Get it in the car, take it home and fix the soil. 551 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.400 Always fixing the soil. We never stop. You may buy the best blend 552 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.880 in the world, but over time you're gonna need to continue to enhance it. 553 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.280 Maybe it needs some extra expanded shail mixed in. If it's a heavy 554 00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:00.280 clay, maybe you just need to rejuvenate your gain matter. Because think about 555 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.880 it. You've seen pots that they're full of soil and two seasons later they're 556 00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:09.119 half full of soil. That's why we continue to rejuvenate. Organic matter decomposes 557 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:14.639 away, and that's a good thing because it's feeding our plants. We want 558 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:19.320 our plants to have that release a decomposing organic matter. That's how nature works. 559 00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.360 That's how nature is design to take care of the roots of the plants 560 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.639 and enhance them. Well, you can do the same thing in your garden 561 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:31.920 beds and your containers, whatever you do. Just quality mixes and I just 562 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.239 think, I don't know, this probably wouldn't fly, But if we might 563 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.559 need a state law that says, hey, if you're going to buy a 564 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:43.320 plant, you have to buy a bag of soil too. I know a 565 00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.840 lot of people wouldn't like that. I would your plants would. They would 566 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.800 vote for it. If you're listening to garden Line, We're gonna take a 567 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.320 break seven one three, two, one two fifty eight seventy four. Give 568 00:37:52.400 --> 00:38:06.360 Josha call and we will be right back. Ktr H. Garden Line does 569 00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:12.199 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 570 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:30.920 to ktr H Garden Line with skip rictor It's smelly. Just watch him as 571 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:43.840 so many Good morning on a beautiful Saturday. This is chamber of commerce. 572 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.400 Whether we got coming today, it is going to be a nice day. 573 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:51.119 We were ready for fall. Hey, we paid our dues, we went 574 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.719 through summer, we survived, We kept as much as we could our plants 575 00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:57.639 alive. We're going to call that a win. And now we're going to 576 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:00.639 head into fall. When things get easy. It's much easier to grow things, 577 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.599 vegetables and flowers, taking care of your lawns, giving your trees a 578 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.639 support they need to keep them healthy and growing. All of that kind of 579 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:12.760 stuffy much better time of the year. Hey, if you are up in 580 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.159 the Montgomery area, Ana Plants and Produce, that is your hometown nursery. 581 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:19.599 And when I say Montgomery area, I'm talking about all the way over to 582 00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.599 Conro, all through the Lake Conro area. Lots of beautiful neighborhoods up in 583 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.480 Lake Conro. Just all of you guys that Ana Plants is it. You're 584 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.280 probably driven past them one hundred times. They're on the east side of Montgomery 585 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:35.599 on one oh five, right on the north side of the highway, and 586 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.880 you can wander through three acres of all kinds of beautiful things out there. 587 00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:44.800 They really do. I mean right now, one of the things I noticed 588 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:49.360 you walking around driving up is just all the fall decorations. Now you know 589 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.519 that would be all kinds of bling for indoors and for outdoors and the front 590 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.679 porch and decorating and all that. They have got an outstanding selection. And 591 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.360 of course they have plants. They always got plants. Do you need what 592 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.920 do you need? Do you need fruit trees? Do you need shade trees? 593 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.920 Do you need flowers? You look for perennials, ornamental grasses, maybe 594 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:10.400 some shrubs. You know that did this summer take out some of your shrubs 595 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.440 and need to replace them. Stop by Ana plants. They will get you 596 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.719 set up again in Montgomery on the highway one oh five on the east side. 597 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:22.920 Really easy to get to, seven days a week, nine am to 598 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:28.320 five pm, with plenty of knowledgeable staff to help you as you shop around. 599 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.559 Our phone number, if you would like to give us a call here 600 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:37.239 on garden Line is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 601 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.719 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four earlier, I was discussing lawns 602 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:49.599 and coming out of this brutal winner that we've had, and you know, 603 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:53.519 your grass has has suffered from a number of things. It's not just the 604 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:58.559 heat. Saint Augustine is pretty darn heat tolerance, so it's Bermuter grass and 605 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:02.039 Soisier grass. But it's the it's the drought, and then it's the things 606 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.119 that add insult to injury. It's the chinch bugs that are feeding on in 607 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:08.760 the summer. By the way, they're still out. I saw some the 608 00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:13.119 other day. Again it hadn't quite made the corner. In the fall, 609 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.360 they'll shut down, but we're not quite there yet. On the chinch bugs, 610 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:20.599 large patch is coming soon. That's a fungal disease. It will attack 611 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:27.280 and it gets its opportunity when we open the door with excessive nitrogen, which 612 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:31.639 we try not to excessively apply nitrogen in the fall because that makes large patch, 613 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.239 which we call brown patch, makes it much much worse. Also, 614 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.760 mowing very very low. You know, your lawn is not a golf course 615 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.039 screen. If it's Saint Augustine, you're never going to have your golf ball 616 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.360 and putter out there on Saint Augustine. But people mow it a little too 617 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.199 short, and that just makes it worse. If it's not drained well, 618 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:55.599 if you water too often and you're just constantly keeping it wet. Now stop 619 00:41:55.639 --> 00:41:59.840 it. It doesn't need that, and that just makes the problem worse. 620 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:04.000 Now, if you would like to put some things out to get your lawn 621 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.840 healthy, I would recommend you look at Microlife's brown Patch. It's a five 622 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.559 one three fertilizer. So it's got a good amount of phosphorus that third number 623 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.480 in it. It's got some nitrogen, which is needed too. By the 624 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.159 way, you need both the the I said phosphorus, potassiums the third number, 625 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.360 the nitrogen first number, potassium third number. Those are those are keys 626 00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:27.320 in the fall. You'd like them to be close to the same in terms 627 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.199 of their numbers, you know, not just for super high nitrogen, but 628 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.199 drop that nitrogen down. That's Microlife brown Patch. It's a five one two 629 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.400 and it's going to also put a lot of microbes out there on the surfaces 630 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:42.639 of your plants, so that when something like brown patch tries to infect it 631 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.880 is a hostile surface. It's a place where it's not easy for the disease 632 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.079 to have access because you've got a lot of the good, good guys if 633 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.400 you will, that are active. And I would follow it with the microlife 634 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.280 bionoculant. Only ten pounds per thousand square feet didn't take much. But if 635 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:04.599 you will do that, and again you're adding microbes, you are increasing the 636 00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.920 amount and the variety of the microbes that are out there that are helping with 637 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:13.360 your plan. And you combine that with not excessively fertilizing. You combine that 638 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:20.920 with not excessively watering and mowing properly, and that is a key to helping 639 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:22.719 to avoid brown patch. Those of you who are trying to garden organically, 640 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:27.760 this is a simple system for doing it. The microlife brown patch and the 641 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.039 bio inoculant. Now, can you put out humates now, yes, if 642 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.159 you wanted to, If you want to, you can do that. Could 643 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:36.719 you put out the green bag sixty four? Of course you could. That's 644 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:39.440 also a good blend and it'll work well. Just remember that in the fall 645 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:45.199 potassium is are key and we want to give things moderately provided to the lawn 646 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:50.000 over time. That's how nature does it. That's how Microlife does it. 647 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:53.679 And you can find Microlife all over the place. Just go to Microlife Fertilizer 648 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.360 dot com. It's easy to find them. And when you go there, 649 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.679 you're going to find all kinds of places where you can get it, and 650 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:06.920 you'll find more information on these products like the brown Patch five one three bio 651 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:12.079 inoculant. They're all there. You can learn more about them on the website. 652 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.760 Well, you're listening to garden Line are I'm your host, Skip Richter, 653 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.480 and our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 654 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:25.199 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. If we want 655 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:30.320 to take care of our lawns and gardens and have good health and good success, 656 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:35.760 that is really really important for those of you who live, you know 657 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.559 along two forty nine plants for all seasons. You've probably been in there before. 658 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:43.440 I mean, it's a it's been an icon in that region for a 659 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:47.639 long long time. They are right there where Louetta comes into two forty nine 660 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.599 and it's been a family on nursery. The Flowery family has had that since 661 00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:55.679 what nineteen seventy three, full service garden center. I mean, do you 662 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:59.800 need Do you need a good selection, they got it. Do you need 663 00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:02.000 things he is delivered. They can do that. They even do custom planning, 664 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.800 custom potting, They can do things like that. They are truly lawn 665 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.679 and garden experts. You can bring any problem in in a picture sample, 666 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:13.639 they'll identify it. They know what they're talking about. That's the advantage of 667 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:19.519 a place like Plants for all Seasons, super quality staff, super knowledgeable Plants 668 00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:23.199 for all seasons dot com. That's easy. Plants for all seasons dot com, 669 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:25.559 or if you'd like to call them two eight, one, three, 670 00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:30.360 seven six, sixteen forty six, get by there. If you've got a 671 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.000 brown thumb, they'll turn it green. Just get by there, get the 672 00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:37.800 information, get the advice. Plants for all seasons. Oh and when you're 673 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:39.440 there, by the way, you're going to see color like you wouldn't believe. 674 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.000 The fall inspiration is running rampant out to Plants for all seasons. I 675 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:50.000 always love that, you know, as a horticulturist, I'm interested in all 676 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.280 kinds of plants. People ask me what's my favorite plant. That's that's not 677 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.599 a fair question. I think you don't have a favorite plant. I have 678 00:45:55.880 --> 00:46:00.639 a thousand favorite plants. But every time I go into a garden center and 679 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.079 I see lots of plants in color, I just become a learner again. 680 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.159 Oh there's a new variety of that out. I did not know that. 681 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:08.280 That's cool. Let me read about it, let me learn about it, 682 00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.559 or what on earth is this? Do you know that after thirty four years 683 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:17.679 of doing this and only probably learning ten bazillion plants, always I see new 684 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:21.599 plants that are new to me. Maybe they're new to the market, or 685 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:25.079 maybe I just hadn't gotten around to them yet. But that makes it fun. 686 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:29.960 Gardening is forever hopeful, forever fun. And that's why we're here doing 687 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.559 garden Line. Give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight 688 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.360 seventy four. All right, you are listening to garden Line, and we're 689 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.119 here to answer gardening questions. That's what we love to do. We love 690 00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:43.719 to visit with you. You know. By the way, don't forget speaking 691 00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.840 a visit with you. I'm going to be at arbour Gate today eleven am, 692 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:52.000 excuse me, eleven thirty am to one thirty pm. Every fifteen minutes 693 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:58.360 we're gonna be giving away their organic food complete a bag of organic food complete. 694 00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.599 That's a lot of giveaways. We've also got some nitrofoss on hand, 695 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:07.199 one of their flower colors type plants that are products that is just excellent for 696 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.199 all your cool season color. And I'll be there to answer questions, Bring 697 00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:14.920 me samples, bring me pictures, let's talk. Let's figure out how to 698 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:20.719 turn that parched remains of summer into something gorgeous this fall. And boy did 699 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:22.760 they ever have plenty of it on hand there to arbigate. I just saw 700 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:27.920 they got in there citrus not too long ago too, and they have It 701 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.440 would take me an hour to name all the different guys of citrus they carry. 702 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:35.559 Excellent selection, excellent selection. Good time to get out and get that 703 00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:39.159 kind of thing done for sure. You know, if you are trying to 704 00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:45.960 get your lawn in tip top shape, well you just need to begin with 705 00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:50.679 making sure you got the nutrients that it needs. And Nitrofuss has something called 706 00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:54.880 Texas three step. What is that. That's three different products that you put 707 00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:58.840 on in the fall to deal with the things of fall, not just the 708 00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:02.639 problem, but also to enhance your lawn. For example, they've got the 709 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:08.199 Nitrofosphall Special that's a winterizer fertilizer. It's got phosphate to promote healthy root systems, 710 00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:13.280 but it's also high in potassium. That's drought heartiness, that's winter heartiness. 711 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.039 That's what potassium does. With a little nitrogen. The potassium gets in 712 00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:20.880 the plant and you set that plant up. The plant be in your grass 713 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:25.400 plant, your lawn plant for a very good, strong, healthy burst into 714 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:31.360 spring. Spring growth initially comes from fall fertilizers. That's very important. Number 715 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:37.320 two the weed control nitrofoss barricade, broad leafweeds, grassy weeds, they're going 716 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:42.679 to start germinating in October for the cool season. Barricade put down, watered 717 00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:45.840 in ahead of time prevents that germination. And finally the nitrofoss eagle turf fung 718 00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:52.159 aside that is to deal with the fall lawn disease problems that we have to 719 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:55.079 deal with leg brown patch and like take all root rot. We are getting 720 00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:59.079 ahead of those. Don't wait until you see circles. You got to get 721 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.519 that stuff down a little bit earlier. The weather throws us curves. You 722 00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:06.159 never know exactly when that starts, depends on the temperatures and the rainfall, 723 00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:08.960 but it's coming so early October. I would get that down to all part 724 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:12.840 of the Night Foss Texas three stuff. You can find it it bearings, 725 00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:16.519 hardware and missing up all spats hardware up in the woodlands and plants and things 726 00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:21.519 and brand I'm all carry night Foss products. We're gonna head out to Katie 727 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.639 and we're gonna talk to Cliff. Hello, Cliff, good morning, Good 728 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:32.880 morning. Get finished construction construction projects about three weeks long in the backyards, 729 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.960 and I have my lettle backyard of oasis out there, Okay, throughout so 730 00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:43.239 throughout that process, you know, you've got to destruction equipment and all kinds 731 00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:46.000 of stuff, and it's and so the whole what used to be a really 732 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:54.519 pretty thick backyard grass, it's now kind of just trampled on for three weeks 733 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:59.519 yea. And so I've got some yellow here in there, and it's just 734 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.440 press down from all the foot traffic it's had. Okay, I just kind 735 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.280 of wondering, you know, how do I revive it? So to speak? 736 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.119 All Right, Well, what I would do first is I would get 737 00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.119 some aeration and maybe a little compost top dressing done too. Especially the aeration. 738 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:22.079 The foot traffic compaction squeezes the poor spaces out of the soil and roots 739 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.760 don't get oxygen and grass doesn't thrive in that condition. So having someone like 740 00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.920 green Pro, they're one of the folks we talk about here on garden Line 741 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.719 that does such a good job of that. Having them come out and do 742 00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:39.639 a aeration along with the compost top dressing, that would get your lawn ready 743 00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:43.559 to go. Now. I would also still do a fall fertilization. And 744 00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.719 if you go online to gardening with skip dot com, I put my schedule 745 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.000 up there for fall fertilization. It lists the products and it lists the timing, 746 00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:54.519 and so without reading them all out right now and there, you know, 747 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.760 just go there long Care Specials you can find them. Water Men really 748 00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.960 good and with the comptos stop dressing, you know that's heading you into fall. 749 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.760 I mean, there's other things we can do. We can deal with 750 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.119 disease, we can deal with insects, we can deal with weeds and whatnot. 751 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:13.199 But just first of all, culturally, let's get that grass in a 752 00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.239 place where it can recover. And I tell a Cliff, you need to 753 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.880 do it soon, because October is a big month for that long being able 754 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.480 to recover. As we get closer and closer. Let's say we get halfway 755 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:28.880 into late November, even things have slowed down to a point where we're not 756 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:32.559 getting the recovery speed that you will right now and in October. So let's 757 00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:37.400 get all that stuff done sooner rather than later, so the benefits of it 758 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.280 have time to really kick in before the grass goes more dormant for winter. 759 00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:45.960 That's what I needed to appreciate your feedback. All right, sir, Thank 760 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:49.880 you have fun out there, and Katie get that thing back. I hope 761 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.840 you enjoy the new remodel in the meantime. Thank you so much. Yes, 762 00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:55.960 sir, all right, you take care. Bye bye. Hey. 763 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.159 Do you have a little piece of property and you've been thinking about getting a 764 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.840 tractor but you just haven't gotten around to Someday. I'm gonna do that. 765 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:07.360 Well, someday just arrived. Lansdown Moody has a deal. Listen to this, 766 00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:15.559 zero down, zero interest, eighty four months, seven years on the 767 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:19.840 Caboda L twenty five oh one. The Caboda L twenty five oh one. 768 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.880 It's got a hydrostatic transmission. I grew up grinding tractor gears, not anymore. 769 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:27.599 Not on that one. Go buy a lansdown. There's several of them 770 00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:31.960 around the Greater Houston area and you can also just go online to l M 771 00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:37.199 Tractor dot com find out more about them. But this is this is one 772 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.480 sweet ride. That's how I like to refer to the Caboda L twenty five 773 00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:44.920 oh one. And anything you need to get done out on your property, 774 00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:47.000 this is going to be able to do it. And so don't delay. 775 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:51.519 You're not gonna find a better deal than this. That that is absolutely a 776 00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:55.000 fact for sure. We're going to head out now to Roe. Sharon. 777 00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:00.920 Am I actually speaking to the Texas Garden guy? Am my o'clock into the 778 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.880 skip Ricker, Well, good morning, Okay, Well let's end the Mutual 779 00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:09.320 Admiration Society and cut to the chase. What's happening out there? Oh man, 780 00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:14.559 my fault tomatoes. I went out there and I watered, and I 781 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:20.320 was watering one particular pot in about fifteen leaf footed bugs just blew up like 782 00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:25.320 a flock of crows. Are they heading south for the winter? Yeah, 783 00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:29.760 I don't know. It was nuts. It was nuts. And I went 784 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:35.119 through with some mean oil being I tried some saddle soap and they're just still, 785 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:38.159 you know, hit still pretty you know, heavily hitting my tomatoes. 786 00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:42.480 Wow, So do you have a solution for them? You know, when 787 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.079 they hit the stage where they got wings, it takes some pretty toxic stuff 788 00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:50.079 to knock them down, if if you know, I always always encouraged people 789 00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:52.239 to learn what the eggs look like. And when you see them, you 790 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:53.639 can just clip off a petio with all the little eggs on it, or 791 00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:57.840 when you see the little herds of them, put a soapy bucket under there 792 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.280 and just swat it and they all fall down. They don't wings, can't 793 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:02.239 fly away, and they tend to stay in a herd when they're real young. 794 00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:07.559 But once they get the wings, man, I tell you, uh, 795 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.119 Destin, that's uh that that is tough. There are insects sides that 796 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.800 will kill them. But you know, you're you're not getting You're having to 797 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:17.400 sort of chase them around. They're flying around everywhere there, you know, 798 00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:21.400 So it's not like you just spray the plant and you've taken care of it. 799 00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.079 Yeah. So yeah, I don't know, early in the morning, 800 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:29.039 maybe catch them when they're a little sluggish, that that might be an option 801 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.960 to I might have to look up like a d I y trap form or 802 00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:37.360 something. Try to figure something out that that may work. I don't know, 803 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.719 I don't know a good Yeah, they don't have any great natural enemies 804 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:44.000 either. That we really need, you know, something that loves to eat 805 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:50.599 those things and couple. Yeah, they have those hard exoskeletons and like nothing 806 00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:52.960 really penetrates them. Yeah, that that is really tough to do. That 807 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:57.239 is absolutely true. I have put little bags, you know, when I 808 00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.840 have big slice or tomatoes, I put those little organza bags from just to 809 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.039 keep them off the tomato. That way they're gonna stick in their mouth. 810 00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:06.639 It doesn't matter if they're on the plant, if you don't want them feeding 811 00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:08.599 on your fruit. So if you can find a way to protect the fruit 812 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:13.000 like that, I guess that'd be another option. But sometimes that's not practical. 813 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:15.119 Yeah, that might be a good Those were games, the bags. 814 00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:21.679 I got plenty of them. Hey, I appreciate the calm man. Hey 815 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:23.440 anytimes here, have a good morning. All right, you take you take 816 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:27.760 care out there. Thank you appreciate that. You know, if you're going 817 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.400 to be planting this fall, and you are, I mean fall is for 818 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:35.800 planting. We're planning shrub planning roses. We're planning perennials or planning ornamental grasses. 819 00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:39.320 You're planning perennial herbs, we're planning flowers. Has to grow six twelve 820 00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:44.880 six, simple as that has to grow six twelve six from medina. It's 821 00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:50.239 got the three NPK six twelve six in it, of course, plus medina 822 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:53.400 still activator to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humic acid in it, 823 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:59.679 and it's got seaweed extracts in it. So that concoction watered into a root 824 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:02.519 system when you plant is a good way to get that plant off to a 825 00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:06.519 good start. So what I'll do is I'll put it in a watering can 826 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:08.679 and when I plant the plant, I'll watered in really good. A week 827 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:13.239 later, watered in again really good, a week later, watered in again 828 00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:17.559 really good. Three applications of that help that plant hit the ground running, 829 00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:21.719 because the goal is to get it from that little waded uproots system that came 830 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:25.199 out of the container into a good established plant going into fall. That's when 831 00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:28.559 you get the growth. That's when you get the flowers, that's when you 832 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:31.239 get the vegetables that you see what I'm saying, it all happens right there 833 00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:36.800 hash to grow six twelve six easy to find, works well and you need 834 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:40.840 to try it. Don't go into fall planting without some on hand. Our 835 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:44.760 phone number if you'd like to give us a call is seven one three two 836 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:51.440 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 837 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.199 four and Josh, we'll get you on the board and we'll talk about whatever 838 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:59.320 is of interest to you. Hey. By the way, if you are 839 00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:02.079 out in the Richmond area and getting out and about today, which I would 840 00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.079 highly recommend you do, you know, Saturdays are for driving around going to 841 00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.719 garden centers. That's another state law we need to pass. I have a 842 00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:12.639 whole bunch of state laws. I think it ought to be a state law 843 00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:15.039 that if you drive past the buckeys you have to pull in. Yes, 844 00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:17.719 I think that already is. People act like that. Number two. You 845 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.239 have to visit garden centers pretty much every day, but if you once a 846 00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:24.599 week at least, and Saturday is a great day. Weekends are fabulous, 847 00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:30.599 absolutely, and out in the Richmond area in Chennic Gardens is a great place 848 00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:32.079 to go. I mean, if you're in Richmond and you're heading up toward 849 00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:37.199 Katy Way on three fifty nine. That's how you get to in Chennic Gardens. 850 00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:42.320 You can go online Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com and find them. They're 851 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:45.599 open today eight am to five pm. And do they ever have a stock 852 00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:51.599 of everything? You can imagine? Trust me on this one, you believe 853 00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:53.480 me. Drive up and just look at the place, look at the color. 854 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:59.719 You will realize that summer is over. We are now into the beautiful 855 00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.480 fall season. And Nikki, I am not responsible for what happens to your 856 00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:07.400 bank account when you go into a beautiful garden. Eight The prices are good, 857 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:12.519 but eight hundred thousand plants you can't live without. What do you do? 858 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:14.400 You do? Well, I'll tell you what we do. Right now 859 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:20.440 we go to the Nikki News Network. Well, good Saturday morning. We 860 00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:23.599 are looking forward today to get in a visit with you about a lot of 861 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:27.920 things. But also I'm going to be out at Arburgate eleven thirty to one 862 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:31.360 thirty at Arburgate two hours at the table, they are going to be given 863 00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:36.199 away some of their organic food complete. We're going to be giving them away, 864 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:38.639 not just some ever, fifteen minutes they have a few of the surprises 865 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.360 they're gonna throw in out there as giveaways. Also, they've got some of 866 00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:46.639 the Nitrofroust fertilizer on hand that the ones it's for your color plants, little 867 00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:50.679 jars of that. When we're providing some of those to people that come by, 868 00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.440 Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures. Let's talk about how 869 00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:58.840 to get your lawn and garden in top shape for the fall. And there's 870 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:00.599 a lot that we can talk about for that. That is always fun. 871 00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:05.519 You know, it is so important that when we're going to have success, 872 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:08.599 that we start with the soil. And you've heard me once, You've heard 873 00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:13.840 me a thousand times talking about just how important it is to start with the 874 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:15.679 soil. The folks at Nature's Way, they've been doing this a long time, 875 00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:21.400 you know, John Ferguson, the originator of things like the rose soil 876 00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:24.440 for example, the leaf mold compost for example. By the way, they've 877 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:29.320 gotten fungal compost on hand, that great supply of it, and it just 878 00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.840 keeps getting better and better. You know, each month that goes by, 879 00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:35.760 it's just decomposing a little bit more, just getting a little more richer, 880 00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:39.360 a little more ready to turn your plants into something special. That's the leaf 881 00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:44.400 mold compost, and they have their Fungal Fridays ten percent off bag products, 882 00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:51.079 twenty percent of bulk products for fungal Fridays. So check out the fungal composts 883 00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:54.880 that they have. Those are just outstanding. Any kind of thing you need 884 00:59:55.079 --> 01:00:00.719 really to make your plants thrive because the root system is healthy. You're going 885 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.159 to find a Nature's Way resources. By the way, put on your calendar 886 01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:09.320 next Saturday. Next Saturday, they are going to have their Fall Garden Festival. 887 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:14.079 The Fall Garden Festival. I'll be there. I'll stop in and we'll 888 01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:15.880 answer your questions. They're gonna have Latin food, they gonna have live music, 889 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:20.039 local vendors, adult beverages, are stuff for the kids, like a 890 01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:24.239 kid's scavenger hunt. They're gonna have some demonstration class that is on creating an 891 01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:29.679 enchanting fairy garden. Learn the magic of miniature gardening. If you want more 892 01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:34.880 information about Nature's Way, it's easy to find, easy to find them. 893 01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:37.760 You can just give them a call out there nine three six two seven three 894 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:45.719 twelve hundred ninety three six two seven three one two zero zero. Look forward 895 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:47.840 to that and while you're out there, definitely want to load up. Either 896 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:51.639 have them deliver it or by it by the bag. But get some good 897 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.079 stuff to make your lawn happy, make your plants happy. We're gonna go 898 01:00:55.079 --> 01:01:00.199 out to Claire Lake now and talk to Lane. Hello. Lane, right, 899 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:04.039 good morning, Skips, Good morning. I got my new plants from 900 01:01:04.079 --> 01:01:07.719 Michigan. They're a quartz size. And I prepare my soil and I put 901 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.599 the the rose oil down you told me, Yeah, And I put like 902 01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:17.880 six four inches the rose soil. I fifty five bags okay, And so 903 01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.599 I'm going to plant them. And do I want me to fertilize it? 904 01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:29.239 Uh? Well, tell me what you're planting again in this bed they're off 905 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:34.199 with zone line. There are various types of flowering plants, flowering plants, 906 01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:37.199 Okay, yeah, I would, I would get you a good quality mix. 907 01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:42.039 Uh, you know for a flowering plant. Uh. There there are 908 01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.440 a number of good quality products out there. I know Nelson's. Uh they 909 01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:51.400 have their color Star line that is an excellent one comes in a little canisters. 910 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:53.519 Uh. And so you know, wherever you go and shop, look 911 01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:57.639 for the color Star line of canisters. You just take them out, a 912 01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:00.400 little tablespoon out and sprinkle it out in the in the garden beds and mix 913 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:05.079 it in and it provides that boost to help the plants have vigor, but 914 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:08.559 also the ingredients that they need to produce good blooms. And so I would 915 01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:15.519 probably put something like that down. You're I just heard just talk about hospital 916 01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:20.199 has to Grow is a good transplant. That's that's something we're watering in when 917 01:02:20.239 --> 01:02:23.559 we transplant. The other I'm talking about, you're mixing into the soil so 918 01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:28.320 as the roots go out end the soil, there's good nutrient content there. 919 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:30.840 So there's two different things. It's not one or the other. Both are 920 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:35.880 important. The has to grow transplant. That's getting that transplant off to a 921 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:39.320 good start. Something like a color star from Nelson's or one of their other 922 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:45.880 they have a nature star that's an organic line, a nutrastar star. Yeah, 923 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.159 those those are going to be for building the soil up the levels so 924 01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.599 that as that plant does get established, then the roots are moving out into 925 01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:59.400 some really good rich soil. Until you sprinkle that in there first before you 926 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:00.719 plant it. You would, yeah, I would sprinkle it down. I 927 01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.639 would scratch it into the soil kind of you know, with a little whatever 928 01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:07.320 kind of little hand tool you got to kind of mix it into the surface. 929 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:13.599 The soil is really you know, lose because it's full of the Oh, 930 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:15.880 I know, it's it's great. You can wait and put the You 931 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.119 can put that I was talking about color stars an example. You can put 932 01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:23.320 that down after the plants are established and watered in, then put it around 933 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:27.159 the plants, or you can put it in before you Okay, so how 934 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:30.159 long like a week later? You could do it a week later. There's 935 01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:34.559 not a magic time. What is convenient for you? Would you rather get 936 01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:37.840 it done before you plant? Would you rather go ahead and get the planting 937 01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:40.360 done and water them in with a hastragrow and then later come along and add 938 01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:45.599 some fertilizer. Either way, it's great, okay, okay, great? 939 01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:51.360 And one more question. Sorry, I have an existing bed with with with 940 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:54.480 bushes already, and then you know I haven't put an emulge down so I 941 01:03:54.480 --> 01:04:01.000 can see roots. Do I put that? Uh? What a set malts? 942 01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:08.239 I mean no compost down or roast soil. I would use roast soil 943 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:12.599 if you're building a bed for any kind of shrubs and bushes. That would 944 01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:15.119 work really well. It works on a lot of things. But you were 945 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:17.920 talking about bushes, so yes, road soil would be fine. Compost is 946 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:24.400 something we can mix into our old clay soil or whatever we have to improve 947 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:26.920 it. It's also something you can put on the surface as a mulch. 948 01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:31.199 But I think you've gone out of your way to get some quality sail mixes 949 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:35.400 established, and so I think you're off to a good start, okay, 950 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:41.960 okay, And then I would put what is it molts on top, right, 951 01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.000 Yes, the most we throw the mulch on top to keep the weed 952 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:48.760 seeds down. We have it on top to keep moisture in in the summer, 953 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:54.719 to moderate soil temperature. And so that's all important. Now, when 954 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:59.079 you bring in a fresh rose soiled mix like you brought, you're not gonna 955 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:03.679 have weed seeds in so the critical level that normally I would say the minute 956 01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:06.719 you mix up the soil and plant, put mult down because those weeds are 957 01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:10.559 going to start popping up. Well, you probably don't have meat seeds in 958 01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:13.360 it yet, so you have a little bit of a leeway. That mult 959 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.159 is always a good idea. When we get a gully washer rain multi protects 960 01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:24.199 that soil from eroding and crusting. Two okay, it's about two yeah, 961 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:29.119 that'd be good. Be good, and then send me pictures of the beauty 962 01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:32.519 when it takes off. Okay, great, how do I send your pictures. 963 01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:35.960 I'm gonna put you on hold and Josh will give you an email. 964 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:41.079 And that email is, you know, it just for a picture for something 965 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.320 that you're going to call in about. Okay, okay, thank you, 966 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:48.519 you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate that a lot. Yeah. 967 01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:51.199 I always like to see pictures of things that people are doing and the 968 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:55.519 successes that they have, and you know that's why we're here. We want 969 01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:59.039 you to have success. You do not have a brown thumb. You may 970 01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.599 have an uninformed thumb and we're working on that, but you do not have 971 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:05.360 a brown thumb. You can grow anything if you do the soil right, 972 01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:10.079 pick the right plants, plant them right, fertilize and take care of them. 973 01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:13.719 You can do it. You really can. And we're here to advise 974 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:18.519 you and help with exactly that kind of thing. You know, the folks 975 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:25.239 that the bees supply have finally gotten that wonderful observation. Hive ready to go. 976 01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:28.000 I've been I saw the old one. I love the old one. 977 01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.480 They've redone it and made it even better, stands over seven feet tall, 978 01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:34.400 has sixteen frames in it. The frames are the little panels that the bees 979 01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:39.039 build the honeycomb and put the honey in. You can watch them build their 980 01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:41.800 comb and watch them care for the brood, see the queens, see the 981 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:44.840 honey and the pollen that they've stored up. It's really cool. There's a 982 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:48.000 big tube taking them where they come in from outside to come into that indoor 983 01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:53.920 plexiglass hive and take the kids out to see it. While you're out there, 984 01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:58.000 I don't know, maybe schedule one of their tours that they have. 985 01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:00.159 They offer tours all the time and you can go out and you can see 986 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:04.280 the whole nine yards. Buy some really quality honey too where you're out there. 987 01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:08.440 If you're a beekeeper, you gotta go. I mean, their classes 988 01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:13.800 are outstanding. If you want to have successive beekeeping. Before you get moving, 989 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.079 talk to the folks at the b Supply. They're out in Dayton, 990 01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:20.079 Texas the b Supply dot Com. We're gonna take a break, we'll be 991 01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:25.480 right back with the rest of your questions. Well, good morning, and 992 01:07:25.639 --> 01:07:29.559 welcome to garden Line. We're looking forward to visiting with you whatever you're interested 993 01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:33.280 in talking about as long as it's related to plants. We're happy to visit 994 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:38.840 with you about that. We are. You know, we've kind of made 995 01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:41.440 it to the end of the summertime here. I know, we've got a 996 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:44.760 couple of hot days coming, all that kind of stuff that happens. But 997 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:48.719 we're at the end. But our trees are still struggling. You know. 998 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:55.039 Tree stresses last a long time. Tree stresses you can have things a tree 999 01:07:55.119 --> 01:08:00.000 die three years after something started the process of weakening and stressing that tree. 1000 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.159 It could be five years even sometimes it takes a while. And we always 1001 01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:05.840 want to make sure our trees have what they need, and number one thing 1002 01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:10.519 they need is water. They need moisture in the soil. And if you've 1003 01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:14.199 got a tree that's only been in the ground for a year, you need 1004 01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:17.000 to be taking care of that tree's root system. If it's only been in 1005 01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:20.680 the ground a short time, like a few months, then you definitely need 1006 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:25.079 to be watering pretty much where that cylinder of roots went in the ground. 1007 01:08:25.079 --> 01:08:28.199 And that's what a tree hugger sprinter can do. Turn it on real low. 1008 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.439 It waters a small area, you turn it on more, it waters 1009 01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.920 a large area. Three different sizes seven inch, eleven inch, fifteen inch. 1010 01:08:34.279 --> 01:08:38.239 Tree Hugger is easy. It's easy to do. You hook it up. 1011 01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:41.439 I like to use mine with a hose end timer. That way I 1012 01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:44.920 can have it come on and just I can have it water for five minutes 1013 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:48.039 or an hour, whatever is needed. It can apply that water, it 1014 01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:51.600 can wet the root zone, and it can help the tree because remember you're 1015 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:55.600 not just trying to keep it from dying, you're trying to get it to 1016 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:58.520 thrive. The goal when we plant a tree is to hang a hammock in 1017 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:00.920 it soon, right, So do we get there? Well, we get 1018 01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:05.560 there number one by water. Fertilizer is important. Other things are important. 1019 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:11.439 Water is number one and tree Hugger is the insurance that you need for that 1020 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:15.119 success. You can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com tree Hugger Sprinklers dot 1021 01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:18.600 com. They're available everywhere. I see them everywhere I go. Tree Huggers 1022 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:21.840 an easy one to find. Let's head out to Fairfield and we're gonna talk 1023 01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:27.239 to Marty. Hello, Marty morning, skip, how are you this morning? 1024 01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:30.720 Well? Good morning, good good. I know you're excited about fall 1025 01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:39.520 and so am I? So am I? Hey? Question I need like 1026 01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:43.399 a guideline. I have a bunch of seeds that I've been collecting from my 1027 01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:48.359 just normal plants, not veggie, and I don't I get a list here. 1028 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:53.720 It doesn't have anything to do with my plans. I get suggestions here. 1029 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:59.640 Go to each website kind of gets overwhelming. Is there one place that 1030 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:06.560 has as like guidelines for monthly or even a website that has here's what here 1031 01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:10.920 are There are seeds that you plant this month. Here are the seeds that 1032 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.399 you plant this month, not vegetables. I've got that right, I've got 1033 01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:21.279 that. Marty. You you are pointing out a very true fact that is 1034 01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:26.720 a sad case, and that is we don't have great we don't have great 1035 01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:32.640 annual flower schedules. Now you're you're good garden centers they can guide you with 1036 01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:36.199 that. Some of them have little handouts on their flowers and things. I'm 1037 01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:40.880 actually working on one. But this is going to be a long term database 1038 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:45.720 project on annuals and perennials and for the area when to plant, what they 1039 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.239 do, how big they get, what color. But that's that's a monster 1040 01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:54.000 project that I'm working on. But you can't wait on that. It's it's 1041 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.680 gonna be a little while before I get that finished. But I see information 1042 01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:00.880 from time to time, but it's kind of hit and mess, you know, 1043 01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:06.680 and if it's coming offline from some other part of the country, it's 1044 01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:12.359 often flat not true. I'm amazed at I saw something the other day about 1045 01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:15.960 planting spinach in August, and it is like, who are you kidding me? 1046 01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:18.479 But that you know, just because it's online doesn't mean it's true, 1047 01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:23.359 right, right, So I would, I would talk to your garden centers 1048 01:11:23.359 --> 01:11:26.159 where you like to purchase stuff. They're going to be really good at that. 1049 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:32.199 In general, in general, our warm season seeds we start after the 1050 01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:36.640 last frost. For whatever part of the area someone lives in, after the 1051 01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:41.439 last frost, which is going to be sometime, you're probably starting planting those 1052 01:11:41.479 --> 01:11:45.359 things in March. In general around here, that's all the warm seasons. 1053 01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:48.039 So if you're planting seeds of zinny years or sunflowers or marigolds or are all 1054 01:11:48.079 --> 01:11:51.399 those kinds of things, if you're putting out transplants of on the same thing. 1055 01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:56.159 We have some that go through the summer that we can plant earlier, 1056 01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:00.199 but we often plant because they can take the heat and other things often can't, 1057 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:04.720 and then when you come into fall. I usually do a planting in 1058 01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:10.039 August of warm season to carry us all the way up to frost. It 1059 01:12:10.079 --> 01:12:13.199 could be early September too early to mid September. In fact, some people 1060 01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:16.039 are still planning some warm seasons. But then when it starts to cool off, 1061 01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:21.560 which we're calling that now beginning now October is an important time for a 1062 01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:30.119 lesson and snap dragons and stock and gosh, I'm trying to think of all 1063 01:12:30.159 --> 01:12:32.159 the cool season and then when it comes off a little bit more in November, 1064 01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:38.119 that is when violas and pansies are happier being in at that time. 1065 01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:43.560 Dianthus is the one I couldn't think of while ago. What I'm I guess 1066 01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:47.840 I'm not looking more for annuals. I'm looking for perennials like I have, 1067 01:12:48.760 --> 01:13:00.800 like for suggestions Plumme area, spider lily Crossandra. You know some of the 1068 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:04.319 things that I collect. I collect seeds because I just think they're just cool 1069 01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:08.359 plant okay, and I just don't know when to put them back in the 1070 01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:14.920 ground and start propagating. So so you're wanting to plant the seeds of the 1071 01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:17.920 perennials that you're talking right, Okay, yes, yeah, is there a 1072 01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:23.560 site for that? Well, I don't know, but the thing I just 1073 01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:27.000 said about warm season, cool season, that would hold true. So if 1074 01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.239 you're going to if you're gonna plant a salvia or a crssander or something that 1075 01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:34.920 that's gonna take, you know, the milder temperatures and and do find not 1076 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:40.159 a not a super freeze tolerant plant. I would do that kind of stuff 1077 01:13:40.159 --> 01:13:45.119 in in the spring. You could start your transplants in in a February for 1078 01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:47.760 planting out once they're up at a decent size and the all the frost has 1079 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:54.279 passed. That would be one option for doing that. Okay, And even 1080 01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:59.560 like cannas and stuff like that. Just just I just guess I just thought 1081 01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:03.039 maybe there was something online or you hit knew somewhere. You're a wealth of 1082 01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:06.640 information. We really appreciate you. Well, yeah, and it's a it's 1083 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:11.359 a wide open category. I mean, they're literally are hundreds and hundreds of 1084 01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:16.520 plants they could follow in the category. And so Thompson Thompson Seed Company Thompson 1085 01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:20.960 Morgan Seed Company used to have a thing online that listed a bazillion kinds of 1086 01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:25.920 annuals and the information on when to stardom and how to stardom, But you 1087 01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:29.760 just got to look for it. At one point it came offline and then 1088 01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:33.359 it was put back on. But Thompson and Morgan had the best single planting 1089 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:38.079 or list of that that I had seen. But a good garden, a 1090 01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.640 good a good seed company side or a good garden center ought to be able 1091 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:44.680 to guide you on that too. Very good. Okay, thank you. 1092 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.600 In the meantime, you just reminded me I need to get into gear on 1093 01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:50.720 my project. Thanks a lot, Okay, thank you, Bye bye bye. 1094 01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:55.039 Yeah, you're listening to Garden Line and we're here to answer your gardening 1095 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:59.560 questions. That is what we do. Seven one three, two one two 1096 01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:03.039 five eight seven four. That will get you ready to go, and we 1097 01:15:03.119 --> 01:15:08.279 will take you up with whatever Josh has on the board once we come back. 1098 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:10.439 I'm looking forward to that. Hey, by the way, don't forget 1099 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:14.199 eleven thirty two day, I'll be at the Arbourgate. I'm going to finish 1100 01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:16.600 the show. I'm heading out there. We're gonna be giving away their organic 1101 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:23.399 soil complete every fifteen minutes during that two hour time. Beaverty's also got some 1102 01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:29.720 surprises on hand as you've got some jars of Nitrofoss's color plant fertilizer. It's 1103 01:15:29.720 --> 01:15:32.479 a fourteen fourteen fourteen that you put in for your color beds. They'll be 1104 01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:36.279 given away those as well. Bring me your plants. You're tired, you're 1105 01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:41.000 weary. Your hurdle mass is yearning to be identified, diagnosed and helped. 1106 01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:44.720 We will be glad to look at those pictures and help you have success. 1107 01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:48.119 Hey, ball is here by the way, Arburgate brand new parking lot in 1108 01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:53.439 the back on Trishell Road. You just turn in before Arburgat or after Arburgate. 1109 01:15:53.479 --> 01:15:57.560 Trishell is a loop. It goes around behind the nursery and there's a 1110 01:15:57.600 --> 01:16:00.520 parking lot and it's easy to get in, easy to it out. I 1111 01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:02.439 hope a lot of you come out today. I'm looking forward to meeting a 1112 01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.960 lot of folks. Hey, it's fault if you're a gardener, if you 1113 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:10.439 have a pulse, you ought to be excited about getting out and planning some 1114 01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:19.279 things starting today. Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 1115 01:16:19.319 --> 01:16:27.079 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with 1116 01:16:27.279 --> 01:16:50.640 Skip Rictormelly. Just watching as so many. Well, good Saturday morning. 1117 01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:55.399 I'm gonna call this the first day fall. How about that? I don't 1118 01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:57.359 know when the first day of fall? I know it. I know there's 1119 01:16:57.399 --> 01:17:01.319 a calendar first day of fall. But this is our official first deffall. 1120 01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:08.000 This is our day that we get free from summer and go forward. This 1121 01:17:08.079 --> 01:17:12.640 is a you know, it's a time when it's easy to get excited because 1122 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:14.800 there's a lot we can do. You know, you try to look at 1123 01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:16.640 it Brown, Let's fix out we can, we know how to do it. 1124 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:20.319 Let's get it fixed. Let's get it beautiful out there in our landscapes, 1125 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:25.880 there are there are a huge source of enjoyment. Yes, they're valuable. 1126 01:17:26.039 --> 01:17:28.960 I mean the value of your home. When you have a beautiful trees, 1127 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:32.279 when you have a beautiful landscape, it is significant enhancement right there. 1128 01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:36.279 But what about your mental health, what about your physical health? Just the 1129 01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:40.960 enjoyment getting out and do it. I was joking with Nikki earlier about you 1130 01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:43.840 know, I go into a garden center and there's so much stuff. It's 1131 01:17:43.880 --> 01:17:46.920 like I'm going to empty the bank account. Not because this stuff's expensive, 1132 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:49.279 but because there's so much. If there's a plan, I don't have. 1133 01:17:49.359 --> 01:17:53.680 I got to have it right, Okay, but think about it. Let's 1134 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:56.359 think about this just a minute. Some of you guys are ready to head 1135 01:17:56.399 --> 01:18:00.840 out there and do some deer hunting this fall. Right, what is the 1136 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:02.439 dear least cost? What does a deer rifle cost? I mean, how 1137 01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:08.079 much a pound is that venison? Right? Maybe you're a fisherman and you've 1138 01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:11.119 got a bass boat, and you know, you see where I'm going with 1139 01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:15.399 this. Gardening is an inexpensive hobby compared to some of the things that you 1140 01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:19.880 could be out there do and buying equipment for whatever kinds of enjoyable things you 1141 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:25.800 like to do. But gardening is it's it's just a I don't know. 1142 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:30.399 To me, it's the kind of thing that the rewards are ongoing, the 1143 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:34.319 rewards of learning, the rewards of enjoying, of being in nature, of 1144 01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:39.840 having the ascetics, and remember, gardening is multi century. We visually see 1145 01:18:39.880 --> 01:18:44.039 beauty, yes, we see order, We see textures and lines and all 1146 01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:47.000 the things that a beautiful landscape can have. But we also smell. We 1147 01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:53.439 smell the fragrances and some of your best memories from the past, or smells 1148 01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:59.520 grandma's cookies, maybe a particular flower that Grandma had blooming at our house that 1149 01:18:59.560 --> 01:19:01.439 you can you'll remember walking in the gate and smelling. You see what I'm 1150 01:19:01.439 --> 01:19:04.720 saying. Smells, And then we have sounds. We have the sound of 1151 01:19:04.760 --> 01:19:08.279 birds, we have the sound of water. Oh my gosh, water is 1152 01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:13.479 so relaxing. That's why I love to have water features in my landscapes. 1153 01:19:13.479 --> 01:19:15.199 So I just got one the other day in that I'm haven't put together yet. 1154 01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:18.399 I'm about to put out there in the landscape, just a multi tiered 1155 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:23.920 kind of fountain that I'm building myself and really looking forward to it. Gardening 1156 01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:30.359 is a great hobby and it's money well spent that you get a return from 1157 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:32.319 every time you get out there and enjoy it. Well, let's head out 1158 01:19:32.319 --> 01:19:36.640 to Bear Creek and we're gonna start off talking to Kay. Hello, Kay, 1159 01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:42.680 Hi, Hi, what's up? Okay? This is you already know 1160 01:19:42.760 --> 01:19:45.800 from talking to me. I'm a crappy gardener. I've got a dead rose 1161 01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:48.600 book at the back of my yard. It got choked out by this nasty, 1162 01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:53.239 weedy little vine that doesn't have any leaves. It's just like a big, 1163 01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:56.960 skinny, skinny, skinny twig that grew into a bush. And surrounded 1164 01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.520 the roses, and it's dead. So I got it. I gotta dig 1165 01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:03.439 it out and replace it. Should I just like completely dig it out and 1166 01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:06.000 dig a big old hole, putting a new soil in and plant something, 1167 01:20:06.079 --> 01:20:10.159 or do I need to worry about that nasty thing coming back and killing whatever 1168 01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:14.239 I put there? So it's the nasty thing is still alive there, right, 1169 01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:17.760 Well it's still it's getting bigger, so I assume it's still alive. 1170 01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:23.479 So how big would you say, is the trunk of the nasty thing coming 1171 01:20:23.479 --> 01:20:26.239 out of the ground, size of your thumb, size of your finger, 1172 01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:30.199 little finger, little like like the size of my about my pinky finger at 1173 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:33.800 biggest it's a tay skinny little Oh that's okay. So you want to get 1174 01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:39.880 a product that contains an ingredient and get a pen. You have a penhandy, 1175 01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:45.880 Yes, try clow peer t R I c l O p yr. 1176 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.439 It'll be sold as a poison, ivy killer, as a brush killer or 1177 01:20:48.479 --> 01:20:51.239 whatever. And you're just gonna need a little bit of it that it's not 1178 01:20:51.319 --> 01:20:55.319 an organic product, but you're gonna you're gonna put so little out there you're 1179 01:20:55.319 --> 01:20:59.039 not gonna hurt anything else. And here's how you do it. You you 1180 01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:01.039 cut that vinyl off, you cut that bush off, whatever it is, 1181 01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:05.479 the nasty thing, and immediately you just take a little spongebrush and just dab 1182 01:21:05.640 --> 01:21:09.920 tracolate pier right on that fresh cut stump. That's all you put on. 1183 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.800 Don't spray it, don't get it on anything else, don't have it walton, 1184 01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:15.880 you know, drenched down into the soil. Just a little dab of 1185 01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:18.520 it. That plant will take that in and it will kill it. And 1186 01:21:18.640 --> 01:21:21.880 sometimes you'll get a little bit of a resprout because you can quite get all 1187 01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:25.960 of it. But in general, that's the way to go. That's an 1188 01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:30.199 easy way to get brushy and viney weeds out of our flower beds and things. 1189 01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:34.399 Okay, so after I do that rose, the rose bush is gone. 1190 01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:38.119 I mean it's just it hasn't It hasn't flowered in like a year and 1191 01:21:38.119 --> 01:21:41.880 a half. So they used to replant at that point or do I need 1192 01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:45.000 to like put new soil down and then treat it somehow to make this No, 1193 01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:49.600 you can absolutely replant. Just give the give the product time to get 1194 01:21:49.840 --> 01:21:56.000 to kill the nasty thing that we keep preferring to. And once it's once 1195 01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:59.840 it's done its job. There, You're you're good to move forward. All 1196 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:03.119 this thing it's now the whole contraption is I'm about six feet tall and it's 1197 01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:06.800 about a foot taller than me. So it's like this giant seven niche foot 1198 01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:11.239 bush that's probably like five feet across. Can I just take a chainsaw to 1199 01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:15.880 the whole thing at about ankle level? And is this the nasty things it's 1200 01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:21.159 surrounding the rosebush it's all interwoven with Okay, yeah you could, But if 1201 01:22:21.159 --> 01:22:25.439 you do that, either you have to dig up the whole base, the 1202 01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:30.439 stump, the bottom of it of that big plant and get all those roots 1203 01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:32.560 out of the ground, or you have to paint the cut surface immediately while 1204 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:36.159 it's fresh to get the poison done in there to kill that particular plant. 1205 01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:41.079 Only Okay, yeah, I think. I mean, the roses are not 1206 01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:43.920 coming back, so I'm just gonna have to replant whatever's going to go back. 1207 01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:46.000 Well, you know, sometimes just ripping it out and starting over is 1208 01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:49.760 the easiest way. You're not having to tiptoe around everything, you know, 1209 01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:53.920 trying to not do damage while you get rid of the nasty thing. And 1210 01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:56.800 so it sounds like that may just be the best way for you to go. 1211 01:22:57.319 --> 01:23:02.199 I think that's probably the easiest way. It's easy as good, that 1212 01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:05.560 is for sure. I thank you, all right, kay, thank you. 1213 01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:13.560 I appreciate I appreciate your call the nasty thing. I like that. 1214 01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:16.560 That is that. Now that plant is forever called the nasty thing. Think 1215 01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:20.399 about itself image, think about how that hurt its feelings. But we don't 1216 01:23:20.399 --> 01:23:26.439 care to we because it is a nasty thing. Weed. Verdant Tree Farm 1217 01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:29.760 has been grown trees in Houston for a long time. You know they're they're 1218 01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:33.439 out there in West Houston on Barker Cypress. They're also down in parallel on 1219 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:36.800 Broadway, just a few blocks away from the Killing Steakhouse. Down there, 1220 01:23:38.199 --> 01:23:41.119 if you go up into the Heights area where I ten in Yale Street come 1221 01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:45.399 together, there's a very down there Verdant Treefarm dot com. B E R 1222 01:23:45.479 --> 01:23:48.520 D A N T. Treefarm dot com. All sizes up to seven hundred 1223 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:51.159 gallons. Do you need palms? They've got palms. Do you need any 1224 01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:54.720 of the kind of tree they've got it? Do you even need like a 1225 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:59.199 really large like a Nelly R. Stevens holly kind of thing? They've got 1226 01:23:59.239 --> 01:24:02.600 all that I'm they know what they're doing. You show up, you tag 1227 01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:05.560 your plant, they bring it, they plant it by the way, they 1228 01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:10.720 plant it right, which is critical. And then here we go and you're 1229 01:24:10.880 --> 01:24:14.399 well on your way to success. And trees are always a nice addition to 1230 01:24:14.439 --> 01:24:16.960 the landscape. They're beautiful. Talk to the first folks at Ford, they 1231 01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:20.039 know what they're talking about. Tell them here's what I want. I want 1232 01:24:20.079 --> 01:24:24.000 a flowering tree. I want a shade tree. And needed to be about 1233 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:26.680 this big. I needed to go take them a picture. I need to 1234 01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:29.520 go right here. What do you think they will help get you off to 1235 01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:33.039 success. The best time to plant that tree was fifty years ago. Second 1236 01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:36.479 best times today, So don't delay, get out there and check it out. 1237 01:24:36.920 --> 01:24:39.840 Well, we're going to take a break here. Our phone number is 1238 01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:43.800 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We will be right 1239 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:48.159 back. Hey, good morning, thanks for listening to garden Line. Let's 1240 01:24:48.199 --> 01:24:51.720 talk about what you're interested in, whatever is related to gardening. And boy, 1241 01:24:51.760 --> 01:24:56.319 is this ever a good time to be talking about gardening. Hey, 1242 01:24:56.359 --> 01:25:00.000 if you live up in the Magnolia area, spring Creek Feed, Spring Creek 1243 01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:03.399 Feed, that is your hometown feed store. Right up there, They are 1244 01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:08.760 on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to 1245 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.479 forty nine. Last time I was in there, I just really impressed with 1246 01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:15.880 the line of lawn garden products that they had. Herbicides, fundersides, pesticides, 1247 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:18.720 the fertilizers we brag about here on garden line. They've got it all 1248 01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:21.720 there. They've got it. If yellow pond, they got pond supplies. 1249 01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:25.399 You need food for your pets, well, there are a feed store. 1250 01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:29.039 They got livestock food, they got pet food and quality examples of both. 1251 01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:33.359 They also will special order products if you need. They do provide a delivery 1252 01:25:33.399 --> 01:25:39.039 service, just ask them. There About that Spring Creek feed Center in Magnolia 1253 01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:43.439 on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Always a pleasure to go in there because 1254 01:25:43.439 --> 01:25:46.720 the staff is friendly and courteous, just like you would expect from a quality 1255 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:51.199 hometown feed store. Love to go in to Spring Creek Feeds. Well, 1256 01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:56.359 I'm gonna head out now. Let's see, We're gonna go to Lane out 1257 01:25:56.439 --> 01:26:00.039 in clear Lake. Hello, Lane, let's if thanks for taking the call 1258 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:06.159 again. That just the questions just keeps coming. I order this holly called 1259 01:26:06.319 --> 01:26:13.960 Squeeze Box ink theory holly. And then I needed the male gym box ink 1260 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:17.560 berry holly to you know, a male team, so they would produce the 1261 01:26:17.560 --> 01:26:21.960 berries. Anyway, the gym box in't berry holly. It's a dwarf. 1262 01:26:23.079 --> 01:26:28.840 And then the leaves are falling out? Should I be concerned or asked? 1263 01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:32.640 When you say their leaves are falling out? We talking about like how much 1264 01:26:32.800 --> 01:26:35.520 dropping? How much of the leaves have you lost? Like a quarter of 1265 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:42.880 the leaves or just a few here in I mean a handful. Okay, 1266 01:26:43.359 --> 01:26:45.760 it's only a court size. You know plant well, you know a plant 1267 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:48.439 and a container. If you don't get watered per day, it gets a 1268 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:53.399 little stressed and you may see some issues with that. I would not worry 1269 01:26:53.439 --> 01:26:56.279 about it based on what you're saying, but I would do one thing and 1270 01:26:56.359 --> 01:27:00.800 make sure you keep the leaves moist all the time time. Don't let it 1271 01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.479 dry out, but don't keep it no, I'm sorry. The roots, 1272 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:09.560 oh my bet, thanks for catching that. The roots moist. Hollies do 1273 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:13.439 not do well with drought when they're young. They'll just flat doe. Yeah, 1274 01:27:13.680 --> 01:27:15.159 And so you don't want to you don't want to drench it. You 1275 01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:18.119 don't want it to be a swamp. It needs to be just moist. 1276 01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:21.920 But it needs to be moist and that goes all the way through next summer. 1277 01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:26.039 Make sure you keep it moist. Once it's had two or three years 1278 01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:29.600 and it's really well established, we don't worry about that as much. But 1279 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:32.600 early on you just gotta be careful because that that's one thing they don't put 1280 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:38.479 up with. Okay, So if I need to be gone for two weeks 1281 01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:42.119 so I'm having on a sprinkler system, I should it's thirty minutes, okay, 1282 01:27:42.199 --> 01:27:45.239 on Uh, you know, Lane, I can't tell you that because 1283 01:27:45.279 --> 01:27:50.079 I don't know your soil and I don't know the I just put it all 1284 01:27:50.119 --> 01:27:55.239 down the rate that water comes out of the sprinkler and stuff. Here's what 1285 01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:57.439 I would do. I would if you want to, if you want to 1286 01:27:57.479 --> 01:28:00.399 run it for thirty minutes, run for thirty minutes whatever number you said, 1287 01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:03.359 and then dig down, wait a little bit, wait about thirty minutes to 1288 01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:08.279 dig down and see how deep the soil is moist if you if you're if 1289 01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:12.800 you're getting moisture down about eight inches deep or more, then that's a good 1290 01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:15.039 watering. If not, it needs to run longer. If it's saggy. 1291 01:28:15.159 --> 01:28:19.319 It needs to run shorter. That's what matters, isn't the run time. 1292 01:28:19.439 --> 01:28:25.560 It matters how wet is the soil. Okay, God, okay, appreciate 1293 01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:28.000 it. Thank you here you bet hey, thanks for the call. Good 1294 01:28:28.079 --> 01:28:32.640 luck with those hollies. Uh. You know, I talk about soils importance, 1295 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:38.479 and we are so fortunate here in the greater Houston area to have quality 1296 01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:42.840 soils. We we do not. You do not have to look far to 1297 01:28:42.920 --> 01:28:46.159 find one. If you're down south of the Houston area. CNA Mulch is 1298 01:28:46.800 --> 01:28:51.159 the spot. I mean, they're near what Highway six and two eighty eight 1299 01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:56.039 down north of Roe Sharon. In fact, they're on five twenty one. 1300 01:28:56.359 --> 01:29:00.000 You can go to their website cnamulch dot com find out more. Bulk Mulch's 1301 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:06.279 bulk soil mixes, bulk composts, they've got it in bags, they've got 1302 01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:11.800 it. Every fertilizer I talk about, they've got it even things like you 1303 01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.279 know the azamite that we brag on here. And they just have a wide 1304 01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:19.279 variety of things down there and it's quality. They know what they're doing. 1305 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:25.239 Sienna Mulch dot com. They're open today until two pm. Close tomorrow, 1306 01:29:25.359 --> 01:29:28.439 So now'd be a good time to go out there and take a look when 1307 01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:31.439 I brag about rose soils and organic composts. And by the way, when 1308 01:29:31.439 --> 01:29:34.840 you're out there, to check out the shredded hardwood mulch and check out their 1309 01:29:34.960 --> 01:29:42.680 rock supplies. Unbelievable selection of all kinds of decorative rock for your landscape, 1310 01:29:42.760 --> 01:29:45.279 Samulch. I'm gonna be out there this fall. I'll tell you more about 1311 01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:46.960 that when we get closer. But I'm looking forward to my trip out to 1312 01:29:47.039 --> 01:29:51.520 Sienna myself. Oh gosh, we are. I'm watching the clock ticking with 1313 01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:57.399 this morning seems to be going kind of fast. Maybe it's just because we're 1314 01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.279 having fun. I hope you're having fun, because I sure am today. 1315 01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:04.319 I just get all excited when the thought of no more summer it's my head. 1316 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:09.880 We're gonna go out to Dickenson now and talk to Jennie. Good morning, 1317 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:15.159 Jennie, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I noticed yesterday 1318 01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:18.640 one of our pine trees is getting brown, and of course around Dickinson there's 1319 01:30:18.640 --> 01:30:26.239 a lot of dead pine trees. Is this pine beetles? It's so what 1320 01:30:26.319 --> 01:30:29.439 do I do? Can you say? Getting brown? Do you is the 1321 01:30:29.479 --> 01:30:32.279 whole thing brown already or you just losing some of the older leaves turning brown. 1322 01:30:32.399 --> 01:30:36.319 Well, it's just starting to turn brown. And I've been looking around 1323 01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:40.319 town. There's you know a lot of dead ones here and there, but 1324 01:30:40.840 --> 01:30:43.960 I've just kind of been looking at ours. And last night I looked at 1325 01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:46.159 it, and this morning it's it's not looking good. Of course, every 1326 01:30:46.239 --> 01:30:49.199 day might be worse, but right do you see? I got a neighbor 1327 01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:53.119 to look at it. He thinks it could be pine beetles. Well, 1328 01:30:53.399 --> 01:30:56.399 if it's pine beetles, you're going to see globs of sap on the trunk. 1329 01:30:56.760 --> 01:31:00.319 They could be. They could be on the bottom, like bottom eight 1330 01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:03.119 feet of the trunk. That's one kind of pine beetle. If it's you 1331 01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:05.800 know, real high up, all the way up the trunk, there's a 1332 01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:10.000 bunch of little tiny gloves of sap, that's another one. If you're not 1333 01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:14.239 seeing that, I don't think you have pine beetle yet. But why would 1334 01:31:14.279 --> 01:31:17.319 that be just drough out it just because it's been so It could be it 1335 01:31:17.319 --> 01:31:20.520 could be just drought. It could be, you know, something anything disturbing 1336 01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:25.479 the roots, anything preventing moisture for getting up in the plant. That's what 1337 01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:28.920 pine beetles do is they cut the tubes so you're not getting moisture up into 1338 01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:31.800 the plant. That's why it turns brown and dies. But this is in 1339 01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:35.600 an area on our property that's kind of in a wooded area. It's not 1340 01:31:35.680 --> 01:31:39.880 really like on a lawn. It's kind of in a wooded area, okay, 1341 01:31:39.960 --> 01:31:43.239 where we have multiple trees, kind of well costs from the bio so 1342 01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:46.239 well it's been I could probably get in there to look to see. I 1343 01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:49.000 guess would it be you said it would be on the trunk. I could 1344 01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:53.840 see globes, gloves of sap. They may be as big as a quarter, 1345 01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:57.319 they may be as small as a dime. But that's that's what you're 1346 01:31:57.319 --> 01:32:00.359 looking for. Or also saw dust falling down and catching in the bark as 1347 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:03.600 it falls down the trunk. The only thing that's in your power, Janice, 1348 01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:06.600 is if you can get water to them, to water them. Otherwise 1349 01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:10.039 it's a wait and see. Sounds like they're kind of in a wood lot 1350 01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:13.680 where it may not be real easy to get water to them. If you've 1351 01:32:13.680 --> 01:32:16.000 had an inch of rain in the last week or two, then you're not 1352 01:32:16.119 --> 01:32:20.520 needing to water okay, because we did get a quarter an inch and three 1353 01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:25.800 quarters by Friday, and maybe it's time on the Tuesday before that. Okay. 1354 01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:31.039 So do pine beetles they spread? Right? Yeah, well they can, 1355 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:34.199 depending on which kind. But first I go out there and look and 1356 01:32:34.199 --> 01:32:39.279 then come back with a good description or send me some pictures or whatever. 1357 01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:42.359 Just start with a good description on the call and we'll take it from there. 1358 01:32:42.520 --> 01:32:45.319 I don't think that's what you have. But okay, well, how 1359 01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:47.119 did this we'll deal with that. Yeah, buddy, do you have a 1360 01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:51.399 tree arborist that you recommend? Yes, Affordable Tree Service, Martin Spoon. 1361 01:32:54.399 --> 01:32:57.800 Yeah, we talk, We talk about them all the time. They Martin. 1362 01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:00.199 They know what they're doing. They're they're very, very thorough, and 1363 01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.039 they'll come out and they'll take a look at it. Now if you if 1364 01:33:03.039 --> 01:33:05.159 you want somebody to look at it and say, you know, do I 1365 01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:08.840 have I have pine beals or not? Well, they're gonna know in a 1366 01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:12.199 heartbeat. But you can call him here right right down this number seven one 1367 01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:17.680 three, okay, six nine nine, twenty six sixty three okay, And 1368 01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:19.920 that will get you right to him. Tell him, tell him you're a 1369 01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:25.640 guardline listener. So you get to the front of the line because he does 1370 01:33:25.680 --> 01:33:28.520 a good job. So he stays busy and so well, I imagine he's 1371 01:33:28.520 --> 01:33:31.640 busy this time of year right now with this drought. Well, all right, 1372 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:34.239 hey, thank you for the call, Jennie. Hey, thanks for 1373 01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:40.439 the help. Appreciate it. You take care bye bye. Yeah, yeah 1374 01:33:40.520 --> 01:33:44.119 yeah, affordable tree service, you know, spoon more. He's been doing 1375 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:45.560 this. Martin has been doing this for a long time. I mean, 1376 01:33:45.640 --> 01:33:49.319 he knows what he's doing. His dad had the company for crying out lout. 1377 01:33:49.399 --> 01:33:54.920 They they just know what they're talking about. And don't just call him. 1378 01:33:54.960 --> 01:33:57.760 When you have a tree things dying. Call him to look at trees 1379 01:33:57.800 --> 01:34:00.199 to see if you're storm ready, you know, or the limbs. Does 1380 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:04.039 it need pruning for the sake of protecting things that might be underneath the tree 1381 01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:08.000 a limb fallen on him? Do you need stump grinding done? Do you 1382 01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:11.000 need deep root feeding or deep roop watering? Do you need pest control? 1383 01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:15.359 And here's an important thing, here's another good reason to call Martin. If 1384 01:34:15.399 --> 01:34:19.880 you're going to do anything around a tree. Call first, after you've built 1385 01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:26.000 a house, after you've put in trenches, after you've laid concrete for sidewalks 1386 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:30.319 and driveways. You're limited on what you can do to save that tree. 1387 01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:33.600 But if you call him ahead of time, he can guide you on that, 1388 01:34:33.840 --> 01:34:40.079 and that beautiful tree that you really want to keep you won't lose because 1389 01:34:40.119 --> 01:34:43.079 you do the things you need to do to protect it ahead of time. 1390 01:34:43.640 --> 01:34:45.920 Don't wait until after. I mean, he can come in and he can 1391 01:34:45.920 --> 01:34:50.479 do what he can do, but don't ask somebody to do a miracle when 1392 01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:56.039 it's just a simple Let's get some consultation up front when that comes. And 1393 01:34:56.079 --> 01:35:00.439 that goes to anybody with any kind of situation where you're going to mess around 1394 01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:02.880 with the soil around a tree, bringing soil in, taking soil away, 1395 01:35:03.039 --> 01:35:09.560 digging trenches, compacting the soil. All of those things lead to long term 1396 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:13.800 plant problems. We're gonna head out now to Spring Branch and talk to Nathan. 1397 01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:19.920 Hello, Nathan thod morning, I'm good. What's up. A couple 1398 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:24.479 quick questions for you. I want to know if there's anything at this time 1399 01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:27.800 of year. I think kint a vegetables that would be good to start growing, 1400 01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:30.720 maybe like an little five gallon buckets or something in the backyard. Oh 1401 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:33.319 yeah, yeah, all the blue leaf vegetables, the cabbage, cauliflower, 1402 01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:42.000 kale, corrabi. Let's see what am I leaving out? Collards and broccoli 1403 01:35:42.039 --> 01:35:44.520 I didn't leave. I can't believe it left broccoli out. Those are all 1404 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:46.880 good. You can be planning a little bit of lettuce here pretty soon now 1405 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:49.800 it cools off a bit, and then spinach when it gets a little bit 1406 01:35:49.840 --> 01:35:55.640 cooler. Your root crops like carrots and beets and radishes and turnips can all 1407 01:35:55.640 --> 01:36:00.000 go in. Lots of things to plant right now, or any of these 1408 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:02.199 they are good to go a five gallon bucket. They will all grow in 1409 01:36:02.199 --> 01:36:05.640 a five gund No, they'll all grow in a five gallon bucket. Just 1410 01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:09.800 get you a good get you a good quality saw mix, and you can 1411 01:36:09.880 --> 01:36:13.840 just go right to town and have fun. That's fans happened. Yep, 1412 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:16.399 you bet. The other question for you I had. Okay, I've got 1413 01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:19.840 about twenty about twenty seconds here, I can hold you till after break, 1414 01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:24.880 but I've got about Yeah, do you have any luck without venus fly tramps 1415 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:27.199 and any suggestions on how to keep you from going? You know, I've 1416 01:36:27.199 --> 01:36:30.079 never tried grown them. They're a little personnicketty. They want humidity. They 1417 01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:34.800 you know that they want constant moisture but not underwater. H And if you 1418 01:36:34.840 --> 01:36:39.039 can give them those conditions, they do pretty good. That's about the fastest 1419 01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:41.000 answer I and give you on it. They want to be in a little 1420 01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:45.840 moist terrarium like environment with good light, but not direct something. All right, 1421 01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:48.159 So thank you for the call, Nathan. I appreciate that. Seven 1422 01:36:48.199 --> 01:36:51.920 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm on turn it over 1423 01:36:51.960 --> 01:36:56.880 to Nikki. All right, we're gonna get back to the gardening and the 1424 01:36:56.920 --> 01:37:00.920 gardening calls here on Garden Line. Our number is seven one two one two 1425 01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:05.359 five eight seven four. Now, a lot of lawns have taken a beaten 1426 01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:10.560 this summer, and it is time to get in there and start doing some 1427 01:37:10.680 --> 01:37:15.720 things to help them out. Microlife has put together a nice collection of products 1428 01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:17.520 really. You know, we've talked about their green bag six two four, 1429 01:37:17.560 --> 01:37:21.560 we talk about their humids plus all through the summertime going into fall. Two 1430 01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:26.399 of my favorite products that they do is the Microlife brown patch. That's a 1431 01:37:26.520 --> 01:37:30.239 five one three mix. Lots of lots of microbes that go with that to 1432 01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:34.640 help protect your plants, as well as the microlife bio innoculant. Now, 1433 01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:40.000 the brown patch that's an orange bag. The bio inoculant is kind of a 1434 01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:43.800 violet colored bag. At least that's the way my eyes see it. And 1435 01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:46.039 you only put about ten pounds per thousand square feet because what you're doing is 1436 01:37:46.119 --> 01:37:53.520 you are introducing, you are innoculating your grass plant surfaces with microbial activity. 1437 01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:57.640 And when you have active good microbes on a plant at number one, it 1438 01:37:57.680 --> 01:38:00.760 helps out compete the bad things shoes that might come along, like brown patch, 1439 01:38:00.840 --> 01:38:04.920 for example, you've got good health there. Some of the good guys 1440 01:38:05.039 --> 01:38:12.359 actually directly fight against bad disease organisms. So when we say good and bad, 1441 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:15.760 they don't wear white and black hats. But if they if we like 1442 01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:17.119 what they do, they're good. If we don't like what they do, 1443 01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:21.399 they're bad. How about that for a way to look at nature. But 1444 01:38:21.560 --> 01:38:27.600 anyway, microlife brown patch five one three combined with microlife bio inoculant, that 1445 01:38:27.640 --> 01:38:30.920 would be a good thing to do starting right now, really, and especially 1446 01:38:30.920 --> 01:38:34.439 get it done in early October. If you don't get it done now, 1447 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:39.600 that's fine too. But you want to get ahead of these things because when 1448 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:42.800 large patch appears in the circles are there. It's a little late to be 1449 01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:46.479 benefiting your plants, and coming out of the summer we had October is a 1450 01:38:46.760 --> 01:38:51.520 hugely important month for your lawn to get it back in good, strong health. 1451 01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:57.399 So it comes out of winter strong, but doesn't instead just continue to 1452 01:38:57.479 --> 01:39:00.439 decline. That's why we talk about the port into the fall fertilizing, and 1453 01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:05.479 that's why this package from Microlife I think it's so important you go to Microlife 1454 01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:09.800 Fertilizer dot com find out more about those products or where to find them. 1455 01:39:09.880 --> 01:39:14.640 Easy to find Microlife is pretty much everywhere around the greater Houston area. We're 1456 01:39:14.640 --> 01:39:17.800 gonna head out now to Alvin and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, 1457 01:39:18.640 --> 01:39:24.199 Hey, skipper, let's up, skipper of the new skipper of the garden 1458 01:39:24.279 --> 01:39:28.960 line. Okay, well that's the one way to look at it. Hey 1459 01:39:29.039 --> 01:39:32.119 man, I got a live oak. Well, I have several of them, 1460 01:39:32.159 --> 01:39:38.520 but I've got one. It's probably fifty sixty years old. Okay it 1461 01:39:39.319 --> 01:39:43.960 my granddaughter swings has the swinging outers you come in and eat up with ants. 1462 01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:48.279 Got to look in and then one of the crotches where the tree separates 1463 01:39:48.359 --> 01:39:55.560 you. It's just got a lot of ants or little miny things. Were 1464 01:39:55.560 --> 01:40:00.319 they biting? Were they biting her or just crawling around on her no tongue 1465 01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:03.520 or she had whelps all over her legs, which really surprised me. Well, 1466 01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:06.319 that's fire ants. That would that would have to be fire ens. 1467 01:40:08.039 --> 01:40:10.800 Would they get in a tree? Well, I guess they could. You 1468 01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:13.960 don't normally see them up in trees. They tend to be down in the 1469 01:40:13.960 --> 01:40:15.439 ground. But I guess if you had a hollow area where they could make 1470 01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:19.720 a little home in there, I guess they might do that. That that 1471 01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:24.159 is unusual for fire ends, at least in my experience. Someone else may 1472 01:40:24.199 --> 01:40:29.039 have had that happen. They is, Uh, they're they're in the crotch 1473 01:40:29.079 --> 01:40:32.119 of the tree and they've already you know, kind of story working on. 1474 01:40:32.239 --> 01:40:38.279 You can tell it's kind of rotten dog Graham. Uh what I was wonder, 1475 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:45.319 what should I use, uh to spray around that tree and in as 1476 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:49.520 high as I can get in that tree, because it's about sixty foot tall. 1477 01:40:49.600 --> 01:40:54.079 Brou Is there like a hollow area up in there? You think where 1478 01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:57.600 they're coming out of You're saying, yeah, yeah, I would get I 1479 01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:00.840 would get a product with by fenthering and put it in there and watered in 1480 01:41:00.920 --> 01:41:03.720 really well up in there. And if they have to crawl through that, 1481 01:41:03.720 --> 01:41:08.520 that isn't gonna be. That is gonna to shut down any ant trying to 1482 01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:13.079 crawl back and forth through that area that's been treated like that. Well good, 1483 01:41:13.159 --> 01:41:17.039 I get fan. Yeah, that'll that'll work generally. You know, 1484 01:41:17.079 --> 01:41:20.720 with fire ants, we're dealing with baits down low. But I think in 1485 01:41:20.760 --> 01:41:27.079 this case, number one year, your story is a little strange to my 1486 01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:30.199 ears because it doesn't add up quite right. But I'll take it at face 1487 01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:33.399 value. I would just go ahead and treat them that way up in the 1488 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:38.920 up in the tree. These are little bitty ants, so they don't look 1489 01:41:38.960 --> 01:41:42.800 like fire ants. I mean, well, okay, then that that would 1490 01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:46.039 make more sense. But the fact that they're biting, you know, I 1491 01:41:46.079 --> 01:41:50.479 mean, ants have jaws. Any ant can literally close its jaws on something. 1492 01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:55.840 But if they're biting and causing, well, it's that I don't know 1493 01:41:55.880 --> 01:41:59.560 another anti than fire ants. It does that, Okay. I mean, 1494 01:42:00.119 --> 01:42:02.000 you know there's a big red harvest rants on the ground and stuff, but 1495 01:42:02.079 --> 01:42:09.399 that's different. Yeah, yeah, I've got some of the muh. Now, 1496 01:42:09.479 --> 01:42:14.920 let me ask you about maybe putting a metal cloaker it out. Okay, 1497 01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:18.680 some of that some kind of suesteem me. Yeah, that's not going 1498 01:42:18.760 --> 01:42:23.840 to help at all. No, if something is sucking juice out of the 1499 01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:27.560 oak tree, it would kill it. But or but if it's if it's 1500 01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:30.520 just something like living in the tree, that's not gonna help. Hey, 1501 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:32.840 Larry, I appreciate to call. Good luck getting that under control. We 1502 01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:35.800 don't need a little granddaughter out there getting bit that's for sure. Now, 1503 01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:42.079 will you take care you have a very good day. Uh. You know, 1504 01:42:43.680 --> 01:42:46.479 storm season around here is a good time to have generators. But storms 1505 01:42:46.520 --> 01:42:50.920 can happen anytime. I mean, our grid is unreliable and maybe it's maybe 1506 01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:56.640 it's one of those horrible winter storms like we've had before. We don't wish 1507 01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:00.119 that on anybody, but it could happen. Uh. And you need a 1508 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:03.079 good generator. And you're not going to find a better generator than the Generac 1509 01:43:03.239 --> 01:43:06.920 automatic stand by generators, and you're not going to find a better pace to 1510 01:43:06.960 --> 01:43:11.560 buy them than Quality Home Products of Texas. And this is important. 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Kermit the Frog says time is fun when you're having flies, but 1528 01:44:30.920 --> 01:44:34.279 that's neither here nor there. Seven one three, two, one two five 1529 01:44:34.520 --> 01:44:38.520 eight seven four is the number. Josh will get you on the board. 1530 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:42.199 Frank, you'll be first up when we come back. Well, good morning. 1531 01:44:42.239 --> 01:44:45.760 You're listening to Gardenline and what are we doing? We are we are 1532 01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:50.960 talking about the fact that summer is gone and we are excited to be in 1533 01:44:51.119 --> 01:44:58.119 fall and getting all the plants replaced, getting our lawns rejuvenated, our trees 1534 01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:00.279 back and good hell, I'm excited about that. Something else I'm excited about. 1535 01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:03.199 And I'm going to be out at Arburgate Nursery today and I get to 1536 01:45:03.199 --> 01:45:06.640 see for the first time for me the brand new parking lot they got out 1537 01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:11.680 back. It is on Trishall Road, so Trishall's a loop. It comes 1538 01:45:11.720 --> 01:45:14.600 off twenty nine twenty, goes around Arburgate and comes back in, so you 1539 01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.199 can go in before you get to Arburgate or after you get to Arburgate you 1540 01:45:17.319 --> 01:45:21.840 just swing around Trishall loop in the back. Is the parking lot really simple? 1541 01:45:23.079 --> 01:45:28.119 You know? We talk about Arburgates one two three simplely easy system with 1542 01:45:28.239 --> 01:45:33.720 soil compost molt right well one two three simply easy parking now, I mean 1543 01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:36.399 really easy to get there. I hope you will come out to see me. 1544 01:45:36.560 --> 01:45:40.680 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be given away 1545 01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:45.960 their organic food complete every fifteen minutes, every fifteen minutes a bag. They've 1546 01:45:45.960 --> 01:45:48.520 got some nitrofoss one of the color products from nitrofoss on hand. We're gonna 1547 01:45:48.520 --> 01:45:51.520 be given that away. To come out and see me. And then of 1548 01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.479 course Beverly who knows what kind of things she'll pull out of the bag to 1549 01:45:55.520 --> 01:45:59.159 also give away. There's always some cool bling that they have their Their gift 1550 01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:02.279 shops are so cool. There's lots of good stuff out at Arburgatement. Come 1551 01:46:02.279 --> 01:46:04.680 on out and see me. Let's talk about gardening. Let's look at your 1552 01:46:04.720 --> 01:46:12.000 situation, identify, diagnose, make suggestions. That's why we're here looking really 1553 01:46:12.039 --> 01:46:15.319 looking forward to that, get out and doing that. We are now going 1554 01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:19.520 to go to let's see Frank in northwest Houston. Hey Frank, thanks for 1555 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:26.640 waiting anning skip. Thank you put me on the right track. I laid 1556 01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:30.239 out salt the beginning of the spring of this year. It was doing fine, 1557 01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:35.560 and then I think I got the brown patch and I put Derris beIN 1558 01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.640 down on it. But I think I waited too late. I think it's 1559 01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:44.479 just took out my whole backyard, small area about a thousand square feet. 1560 01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:50.800 Okay, I want a chill, kill, till and feel Okay, So 1561 01:46:50.920 --> 01:46:56.079 what do I do to kill well? Herbet side? Is this? U? 1562 01:46:56.520 --> 01:46:59.840 Is this Saint Augustine grass? Yes? It is in every other kind 1563 01:46:59.880 --> 01:47:02.960 of steam in the yord. Okay. If you've got perennial weeds, you're 1564 01:47:02.960 --> 01:47:06.319 probably gonna need to spray those to kill them. That that would require a 1565 01:47:06.319 --> 01:47:11.119 spray. If it's just Saint Augustine, it just lives on top of the 1566 01:47:11.119 --> 01:47:14.319 ground. I mean, you scrape it back and it's it's gone. You 1567 01:47:14.319 --> 01:47:16.119 know, just a light tilling would would break it all loose. You can 1568 01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:18.520 kind of break through there, get it, get it all out of there, 1569 01:47:19.520 --> 01:47:24.199 and then do a more heavy duty tilling, you know, get that 1570 01:47:24.319 --> 01:47:27.920 organic matter off the surface first, so that you can really mix the soil. 1571 01:47:28.399 --> 01:47:31.159 Any low areas, you're going to throw some soil in them to level 1572 01:47:31.239 --> 01:47:34.239 them out, to fill them in so that you have a nice, good 1573 01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:40.119 level lawn area without the pockets and whatnot. Maybe you've got tree roots that 1574 01:47:40.239 --> 01:47:42.760 need a little bit of soil put in around them just to kind of bring 1575 01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:45.039 that soil level up a little. Well, do all that, and then 1576 01:47:45.439 --> 01:47:49.319 then you put the side down. But you've got two options. Either one 1577 01:47:49.560 --> 01:47:55.359 you do it right away so that it has pretty much all of October for 1578 01:47:55.439 --> 01:47:59.199 that new side to root in and get ready for winter and get strong and 1579 01:47:59.239 --> 01:48:01.920 ready to go, because if you wait until the end of October, it's 1580 01:48:01.960 --> 01:48:05.920 a little late for that grass to be strong going into winter. Or you 1581 01:48:06.000 --> 01:48:10.359 just wait until spring and do it. Then that's a good idea. But 1582 01:48:10.399 --> 01:48:13.600 what do I kill it? If I want to kill every weed grass in 1583 01:48:13.680 --> 01:48:15.560 all, I would use a grass Well, if you're gonna kill everything, 1584 01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:21.359 you're gonna have to use a weed killer that contains like a glyphosate product that 1585 01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:26.479 is going to kill everything if you're just going after grasses, or some grass 1586 01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:30.479 only weed killers that you can get rid of. But it kind of depends 1587 01:48:30.520 --> 01:48:32.359 on what we If I knew all the weeds that were in your lawn, 1588 01:48:32.479 --> 01:48:36.560 I could better advise you. But your options. You basically have two options 1589 01:48:36.600 --> 01:48:41.479 if you're spraying, and that's kill everything with a glyphosate type product or just 1590 01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:46.960 kill grass only with a grass only product product that grass. Only enough for 1591 01:48:47.119 --> 01:48:51.239 everything. I want to kill everything. Glyphosate is it's it's the roundup is 1592 01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:56.600 the brand name that people talk about, but there's a lot of brands of 1593 01:48:56.640 --> 01:49:02.359 that, Glyphosa gly Pho sat e will around up. But do it though, 1594 01:49:03.119 --> 01:49:05.600 if it's if it's a green weed out there, it's going to kill 1595 01:49:05.600 --> 01:49:09.720 it. Okay, that's what I want, and then I want. But 1596 01:49:09.960 --> 01:49:14.039 here, here's here's what you need to keep in mind with any pest side 1597 01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:15.920 you use. Be careful when you spray it. Don't get it all over 1598 01:49:16.000 --> 01:49:19.199 you. Just because it's for sale and over the counter doesn't mean that you 1599 01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:23.359 take a bath in it, right, So be careful with that. Number 1600 01:49:23.439 --> 01:49:28.319 two. Apply just enough to moisten the weed, don't drench it where it's 1601 01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.600 running down in the soil. Don't spray on a windy day or it could 1602 01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:35.039 blow over to things you like that you don't want to kill. And when 1603 01:49:35.119 --> 01:49:39.800 you pump up your sprayer frank, you want to do it just a little 1604 01:49:39.840 --> 01:49:43.760 bit so it spurts out the drops of water, but not such high pressure 1605 01:49:43.800 --> 01:49:46.640 that you get this fine miss that drifts over. Because you don't want any 1606 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:50.960 secondary damage to non target plants. You want to just kill what you're spraying. 1607 01:49:51.520 --> 01:49:57.319 What kind of who would cap? Oh? Oh gosh, all over 1608 01:49:57.359 --> 01:50:00.760 the place in your area. If you're up in northwest Houston, there's some 1609 01:50:00.840 --> 01:50:04.319 great Cypress. Uh, there's Cypress Ace Hardware. There's M and D Ace 1610 01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:09.800 Hardware up in the Cypress area as well a number of Ace hardware. That's 1611 01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:13.800 probably the for right where you're located. That's probably the easiest place to just 1612 01:50:13.840 --> 01:50:18.039 go find it. Go to Ace Hardware dot com and do their store locator 1613 01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:20.960 and there's gonna be a whole bunch of them right in your area. I'm 1614 01:50:21.000 --> 01:50:28.239 close to a once board nursery I think Watchman Nursery or the Shepherd. Oh 1615 01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:31.319 you're you're in You're in kind of in down in Houston. Yes, oh 1616 01:50:31.359 --> 01:50:34.600 okay, Well you also have Ace hardwares around you there. Just go to 1617 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:39.760 go to Ace Hardware and uh and and do a search right there and you 1618 01:50:39.800 --> 01:50:43.079 can find it. You can find one in your area if you were in 1619 01:50:43.159 --> 01:50:47.239 north central area there. Okay, Do I have time up the apply bet 1620 01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:51.760 before they go dormae yes, whatever, Yes, but you need to you 1621 01:50:51.800 --> 01:50:55.840 need to do it soon. If it didn't rain at your house, water 1622 01:50:56.039 --> 01:51:00.840 all the weeds get them growing, because these products were when the weeds are 1623 01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:05.479 actively growing, not when they're drought stressed. So if you got rained, 1624 01:51:05.479 --> 01:51:10.399 don't worry about it, because but now's the time, and it'll take it 1625 01:51:10.439 --> 01:51:13.920 about a week before you really see that it's doing something, and then by 1626 01:51:13.920 --> 01:51:16.920 another week you really know it's killing it. But you want to wait out 1627 01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:21.960 that time before you do the roto tilling because you need that product to move 1628 01:51:23.000 --> 01:51:27.720 down before you start cutting the plants up. Okay, I think that's just 1629 01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.640 what I needed to know. All right, Well, good luck with that, 1630 01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:33.640 Frank, Thank you. Hope you end up with a beautiful lawns as 1631 01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:38.840 a result of all of that. It is bird season. It's always bird 1632 01:51:38.920 --> 01:51:42.079 season. Right now, it's hummingbird season. Oh my gosh. Those little 1633 01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:45.760 buggers are everywhere, and if you've got a quality feeder, they're gonna come 1634 01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:48.079 to it. I've got several feeders I always use like four parts water, 1635 01:51:48.199 --> 01:51:53.920 one part white table sugar. No die. The idea that you got to 1636 01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:58.399 make the liquid red for hummingbirds is bologny. It's absolutely untrue, and it's 1637 01:51:58.399 --> 01:52:01.520 not even good for them. Four parts water, one part white table sugar. 1638 01:52:01.800 --> 01:52:04.800 That's it. I heat it up so the table sugar dissolves faster. 1639 01:52:05.359 --> 01:52:09.359 Let it cool down and you're ready to go. When you go to Wilbirds 1640 01:52:09.439 --> 01:52:14.199 Unlimited, they sell something called Nectar Defender, and instead of nectar going bad 1641 01:52:14.239 --> 01:52:16.920 in a day or two of warm weather, it'll it'll go like ten days 1642 01:52:16.960 --> 01:52:20.920 without going bad. Now. They also have hummingbird feeders. Ask them about 1643 01:52:20.960 --> 01:52:26.439 their high perch feeder. That's the one I like best of all the hummingbird 1644 01:52:26.479 --> 01:52:30.079 feeders I have. I've got a Wildbird's high perch feeder works works really well. 1645 01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:35.720 Go to w b U dot com, Wilbird's Unlimited, w b U 1646 01:52:35.880 --> 01:52:42.640 dot Com, forward slash Houston and you can find the many wild Birds Unlimited 1647 01:52:42.840 --> 01:52:45.800 all over our area. And you're gonna go in there for hummingbird stuff, 1648 01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:49.119 but you're gonna come out with a lot of other cool stuff because winter season 1649 01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:54.880 is coming. Birdhouses, bird feeders, bird seed blends, it's all there 1650 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:59.359 right now. It's all about the hummingbirds. That is pretty cool stuff. 1651 01:52:59.479 --> 01:53:03.720 I love. I love that well. I am gonna have to go for 1652 01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:08.039 another break. Here we're hitting the top of another hour. Time is flying 1653 01:53:08.199 --> 01:53:11.880 like crazy today. I'm glad you're listening to garden Line if you'd like to 1654 01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:15.640 get on the air seven one three two one two five eight seven four, 1655 01:53:15.640 --> 01:53:19.319 I'll be happy to answer your question. Janey out in Missouri City. You 1656 01:53:19.319 --> 01:53:23.960 will be first up when we come back from break and not enough time to 1657 01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:28.399 do justice to a call from you right now, so we're gonna just say 1658 01:53:28.439 --> 01:53:30.199 hang on just a little bit and you'll be first up. Hey, if 1659 01:53:30.239 --> 01:53:34.760 you have not checked out or printed out my lawn care schedule, you can 1660 01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:41.199 go to gardening with Skip dot com. The Gardening with Skip dot Com the 1661 01:53:41.319 --> 01:53:45.359 schedules there. It tells you what fertilizers still apply if you're organic fertilizer, 1662 01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:48.720 synthetic fertilizer, talks about mowing and watering, all kinds of things that will 1663 01:53:48.760 --> 01:53:53.600 help you get your lawn off to a good start. October is a huge 1664 01:53:53.680 --> 01:53:57.760 month in the lawn. In fact, I would say October is the most 1665 01:53:57.760 --> 01:54:02.000 important month of the year in your lawn. It's it's when we're recovering from 1666 01:54:02.119 --> 01:54:06.680 what summer just did to our lawns with good quality fertilizers and good blends and 1667 01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:11.199 microbial products, any kinds of things like that you're putting out. Just a 1668 01:54:11.239 --> 01:54:14.600 good time to do it. It's when large patch hips and we got to 1669 01:54:14.640 --> 01:54:17.880 get ahead of that. It is when take all root rot also infects, 1670 01:54:17.920 --> 01:54:21.199 and we got to get ready for that. It's when the cool season weeds 1671 01:54:21.239 --> 01:54:25.600 germinate, and we got to get ready for that. Lots to talk about. 1672 01:54:25.720 --> 01:54:30.840 October is the big month of the year. KTRH Garden Line does not 1673 01:54:30.920 --> 01:54:36.760 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 1674 01:54:36.960 --> 01:55:01.399 KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictord. It's so please crazy just watching ass well, 1675 01:55:01.439 --> 01:55:06.159 good morning on a good fall morning. Yes, we're calling it fall. 1676 01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:11.159 It is here. We are done with summer. That's behind us. 1677 01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:15.119 I can take another ninety five or two, two or three days here and 1678 01:55:15.159 --> 01:55:19.159 there. Okay, that's fine. Rain is coming, cool weather's coming. 1679 01:55:19.760 --> 01:55:25.159 Planting season is upon us. It is absolutely time to be doing a lot 1680 01:55:25.279 --> 01:55:29.600 of stuff right now. I mean, from a gardening standpoint, we just 1681 01:55:29.680 --> 01:55:35.119 went from peeking out the air conditioned windows areas of our houses at a drying, 1682 01:55:35.199 --> 01:55:43.680 dying landscape to big time hit the ground, both feet running, We're 1683 01:55:43.840 --> 01:55:45.199 moving. We are going. I mean, we got a lot to do. 1684 01:55:45.239 --> 01:55:47.359 We gotta take care of our lawns. We've got to get them healthy. 1685 01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:50.720 We've got to rescue trees where we can take care of those. It 1686 01:55:50.840 --> 01:55:56.239 is time to get the soil ready today. Get soil ready so that you 1687 01:55:56.319 --> 01:55:59.279 are ready to plant. And when you go out to a garden center, 1688 01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:02.479 grab some beautiful plants, bring them home, but bring some bags of soil 1689 01:56:02.520 --> 01:56:06.000 with them. Make sure and load up on that, because that's the secret 1690 01:56:06.079 --> 01:56:11.000 sauce, so that those beautiful plants end up what you are picturing in your 1691 01:56:11.039 --> 01:56:15.239 mind's eye right now, so they end up fulfilling that dream and they can. 1692 01:56:15.600 --> 01:56:18.800 We absolutely can't great place here to be able to grow things, easy 1693 01:56:18.840 --> 01:56:23.520 to do, not a problem at all. And speaking of you know Buchanan's 1694 01:56:23.600 --> 01:56:27.560 Plants and the Heights, that is one of the most outstanding garden centers we 1695 01:56:27.600 --> 01:56:30.199 have in the greater Houston area and it's right down in the big middle of 1696 01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:33.920 Houston. Buchanan's Plants is on East eleventh Street. If you haven't been there 1697 01:56:33.960 --> 01:56:38.239 before, that's where it is. You can go to their website buchanans Plants 1698 01:56:38.359 --> 01:56:41.000 dot com. Lots of good things going on. By the way, the 1699 01:56:41.079 --> 01:56:44.760 Native Plants Society is going to be out there on Saturday, September thirtieth, 1700 01:56:44.800 --> 01:56:47.560 next Saturday from nine am to noon to talk all about natives and to help 1701 01:56:47.600 --> 01:56:50.119 you as you shop. If you own a shop for natives, these are 1702 01:56:50.159 --> 01:56:55.000 some experts that can help you find the things that you need. It's kind 1703 01:56:55.000 --> 01:57:00.199 of a meat and chat time out there with them. I was looking yet. 1704 01:57:00.439 --> 01:57:03.479 I've got the Texas Star hibiscus at the house and one of my plants 1705 01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:08.920 is in an area where it's just too hot, too dry. I don't 1706 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:11.880 take care of it and water it, and it has been struggling. It's 1707 01:57:12.039 --> 01:57:14.920 I have a white version of it, and I was just looking. Buchanans 1708 01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:17.800 has the Texas Star as well. They've got the beautiful red one that is 1709 01:57:17.920 --> 01:57:20.760 like the most common one, but I think the prettiest one of all. 1710 01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:24.800 They've got those on hand. You can get them planted now. It's a 1711 01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:28.840 perennial planet. Now get it established. Next summer. Here you go. 1712 01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:32.319 You're gonna have beautiful blooms. They've also one of the one of the cool 1713 01:57:32.439 --> 01:57:38.239 roses that has been kind of introduced to the market as the Gay Hammond rows. 1714 01:57:38.319 --> 01:57:42.680 It's it's a it's a cross done by doctor Davids leisak Up in the 1715 01:57:42.760 --> 01:57:46.159 University of Wisconsin. And Doctor's Leisak has worked with us here in Texas on 1716 01:57:46.199 --> 01:57:49.880 our earth kind rose trials, as has Gay Hammond, of course, key 1717 01:57:49.920 --> 01:57:54.800 player in that uh and they named a rose after Gay Hammond rows. It 1718 01:57:54.880 --> 01:57:58.760 starts off a beautiful yellow, it fades to a whitish color, and it 1719 01:57:58.840 --> 01:58:02.079 is very disease for which is an important thing for roses. Where do you 1720 01:58:02.119 --> 01:58:04.960 get it? Well, they've got it to be Cannon's Plants. Just another 1721 01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:09.560 example of one of the reasons we would love to go places like that. 1722 01:58:10.159 --> 01:58:14.720 I'm going to go now out to Janey and Missouri City. Hello, Janey, 1723 01:58:15.680 --> 01:58:17.039 Hey, how are you this morning? Well, I'm good, I'm 1724 01:58:17.039 --> 01:58:23.279 good. It's fall, summer's gone. We survived. Congratulations. Yes, 1725 01:58:23.479 --> 01:58:30.520 I have a forty year plus live oak in my backyard that we have trimmed 1726 01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:34.800 several times over the years. The most recent time was probably almost three years 1727 01:58:34.800 --> 01:58:39.840 ago in February or March. Wow, and I had done some research on 1728 01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:44.439 having it trimmed again, and it kind of looked like that during the maybe 1729 01:58:44.520 --> 01:58:48.600 more dormant time like February March was a better time to trim. But I 1730 01:58:48.640 --> 01:58:53.840 noticed lots of people are trimming trees around the area. Yes, and I 1731 01:58:53.840 --> 01:58:58.439 wondered. I wondered if it's the canopy's gotten a little heavy, which probably 1732 01:58:58.520 --> 01:59:02.239 saved my backyard with shade. But okay, I'm wondering whether I should go 1733 01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:06.479 ahead and trim it now. I have watered it during the summer, okay, 1734 01:59:08.760 --> 01:59:11.399 But I just wonder whether now is a good time or whether I could 1735 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:15.840 go ahead and wait until February. So are you going to do the trimming 1736 01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:16.880 or are you hiring somebody to come in and try. Oh no, I'm 1737 01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:19.640 going to hire somebody. Okay, good. We've used the same company a 1738 01:59:19.640 --> 01:59:24.000 couple of times. Okay good. They can shimmy up there, and well, 1739 01:59:24.039 --> 01:59:27.640 if they know what they're doing, that's important. That It's why I 1740 01:59:27.680 --> 01:59:30.840 always brag on affordable tree because I know that I know the guys. I 1741 01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:34.199 know that they know what they're doing. The best time to prune trees in 1742 01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:39.119 general is in late winter, mid to late winter. Their dormant and the 1743 01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:44.000 fastest healing time is in spring. That's why. But that said, you 1744 01:59:44.039 --> 01:59:45.399 can prune a tree any any month of the year if you need to. 1745 01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:51.399 Fall is also a decent healing time. It's not as as fast as spring, 1746 01:59:51.600 --> 01:59:57.560 but it's faster than it. Much faster than summer are the winter time 1747 01:59:57.600 --> 02:00:00.479 in terms of healing that wound. So you also do pruning now if you 1748 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:04.560 need to. It's just up to you. The one thing that I would 1749 02:00:04.600 --> 02:00:10.079 throw into consideration is a lot of our good quality treecare people. They get 1750 02:00:10.079 --> 02:00:14.079 booked up and busy in the peak season, and so if you catch them 1751 02:00:14.079 --> 02:00:16.279 at a little bit of an off time like this, you might have a 1752 02:00:16.319 --> 02:00:19.439 better chance of getting getting them out there promptly to get the job done. 1753 02:00:20.239 --> 02:00:23.560 Okay, that's just a thought, just to put in the back of your 1754 02:00:23.560 --> 02:00:27.000 mind. Yeah, okay, all right, thanks so much. Hey, 1755 02:00:27.000 --> 02:00:29.359 thank you, Janey. Good luck with those trees. Sounds like you got 1756 02:00:29.399 --> 02:00:34.600 a beautiful live boat. Ye all right, well we are. You know, 1757 02:00:36.920 --> 02:00:41.600 I just wish I could could we make this show go four more hours 1758 02:00:41.680 --> 02:00:45.399 than hey, because I've got a lot more to talk about. You probably 1759 02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:49.560 have a lawn that is struggling. I mean, what lawn is not struggling 1760 02:00:49.640 --> 02:00:53.199 after this summer? Right, even if you watered it a lot. It's 1761 02:00:53.239 --> 02:00:58.239 tough. Nitrophiles. Folks have put together the Texas three step. I love 1762 02:00:58.279 --> 02:01:00.880 the Texas three step that you know. Texas two steps are counting Western dance. 1763 02:01:01.159 --> 02:01:04.319 We're going to add an extra step in there, and here's what they 1764 02:01:04.359 --> 02:01:10.319 are. Number One, nitrophosts Fall Special winter aizer that's a fertilizer. It's 1765 02:01:10.359 --> 02:01:15.199 got the potassium. It helps with drought heartiness and cold heartiness and makes your 1766 02:01:15.239 --> 02:01:18.000 grass come out stronger in the spring. It's as simple as that. Secondly, 1767 02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:21.880 they've got the nitrophost barricade. That's a pre emergent. You put it 1768 02:01:21.880 --> 02:01:27.039 down. You watered in grassy weeds, broad leaf weeds when they try to 1769 02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:30.760 germinate, it shuts things down and you never have the weed problem. It's 1770 02:01:30.760 --> 02:01:32.520 one thing to kill weeds are already there. It's another thing to prevent them 1771 02:01:32.520 --> 02:01:36.479 from happening. And that's what barricade does. And October is the month when 1772 02:01:36.600 --> 02:01:41.279 our cool season weeds are going to be germinating, and so why not get 1773 02:01:41.279 --> 02:01:44.159 ahead of them and just be done with it rather than trying to kill them 1774 02:01:44.239 --> 02:01:48.840 later. The third step nitrophiles Eagle fungicide is a systemic protectant. It's a 1775 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:55.880 curity fungicide too of your turf issues. Now, the ingredient in this it 1776 02:01:56.000 --> 02:01:59.800 soaks into the plant, it sticks around. So here we've got large patch 1777 02:01:59.840 --> 02:02:01.920 of brown patch coming up. You got to get ahead of it with a 1778 02:02:01.960 --> 02:02:09.800 product like like the Eagle Turf Fungicide one two three Fall Special Barricade Eagle Fungicide. 1779 02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:14.319 That package is what you're using to deal with all the things that happen 1780 02:02:14.520 --> 02:02:16.239 in the fall season in your lawn. Now where can you find it? 1781 02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:20.840 Well, One's Southern Gardens carries all three of those Ace hardware, and Sinkle 1782 02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:26.680 Ranch carries all three of those Grower's Outlet, and willis all three the Nitropus 1783 02:02:26.800 --> 02:02:31.479 three steps system. Simple as that makes it easy. We're going to go 1784 02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:35.199 out to Cypress. Now, excuse me, Steve. I started to take 1785 02:02:35.239 --> 02:02:39.399 your call and they are telling me I gotta take a break so you will 1786 02:02:39.439 --> 02:02:43.439 be first up. Sorry for that false alarm. Seven one three two one 1787 02:02:43.479 --> 02:02:47.840 two five eight seven four. Well, good morning. You're listening to Garden 1788 02:02:47.920 --> 02:02:51.560 Line and I'm telling you we are having a good time today. It is 1789 02:02:51.680 --> 02:02:56.199 fall and we are raring to go because there's a lot of good stuff to 1790 02:02:56.199 --> 02:03:00.840 happen in these coming months. Beautiful lawns, bountiful lands gapes. That is 1791 02:03:00.880 --> 02:03:03.680 what we're going for. Productive gardens as well. Hey, if you are 1792 02:03:03.680 --> 02:03:09.800 looking at a roof system being installed, Brinkman. Write it down. Brinkman. 1793 02:03:10.000 --> 02:03:14.279 That's who you need to know. Brinkman Quality dot Com. You can 1794 02:03:14.279 --> 02:03:17.680 give him a call at two eight one four eight zero seventy six sixty three. 1795 02:03:18.119 --> 02:03:21.239 Why do I say Brinkman, Well, number one, they've been doing 1796 02:03:21.239 --> 02:03:26.159 this for fifty years. Here they are a Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award in 1797 02:03:26.199 --> 02:03:30.720 twenty twenty two. 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Hey, we're talking about taking care of your lawns, and 1806 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:06.359 one of the things we do as we take care of our lawns, in 1807 02:04:06.359 --> 02:04:12.560 addition to fertilizing, is putting down some of the trace minerals. The micro 1808 02:04:12.960 --> 02:04:15.960 micronutrients not needed in big quantities at all, just need a little bit, 1809 02:04:16.039 --> 02:04:21.119 but they are essential. If a nutrient is part of the about twenty essential 1810 02:04:21.199 --> 02:04:25.600 nutrients that we have for our plants. If it's one of those, if 1811 02:04:25.600 --> 02:04:28.119 it's essential, it's essential. Even if you just need a little If you 1812 02:04:28.119 --> 02:04:31.359 don't have any, the plant can't grow. Azamite provides that counter mineral to 1813 02:04:31.439 --> 02:04:34.800 your soil. Azamite Texas dot com is where you can find out more. 1814 02:04:34.880 --> 02:04:39.319 It doesn't take much. Again, at forty four pound bagg will do what 1815 02:04:39.600 --> 02:04:43.039 six thousand to twelve thousand square feet. If you got any leftover, put 1816 02:04:43.039 --> 02:04:46.199 it in your vegetable garden. You'll have a lot higher nutrient content in the 1817 02:04:46.199 --> 02:04:51.039 produce that you're grown for your own family as well asamite. Don't forget the 1818 02:04:51.079 --> 02:04:56.399 asmite when you're out taking care of the fertilizer. We're going to head out 1819 02:04:56.439 --> 02:05:00.760 now to Steve and Cyprus. Well, hello, Steve, gonna for real 1820 02:05:00.840 --> 02:05:05.439 talk this time. Skip takes taking my call. Man, I really like 1821 02:05:05.479 --> 02:05:13.359 your your program. Italian cypresses they look great in a in an Italian countryside 1822 02:05:13.399 --> 02:05:16.159 painting. They don't do worth the durn here. I've been there, done 1823 02:05:16.199 --> 02:05:20.560 that. Uh can't. Is there anything else that that I can run along 1824 02:05:20.600 --> 02:05:25.840 the border or my picket fence that that that would grow up in a cylinder 1825 02:05:26.159 --> 02:05:30.039 and and just kind of a border border plant. I was wondering about the 1826 02:05:30.079 --> 02:05:34.960 popular varieties. So you want something tall and skinny or do you want what? 1827 02:05:35.000 --> 02:05:39.039 Do you how big and how tall do you want to be? Well, 1828 02:05:39.079 --> 02:05:42.399 I don't want to encroach over into the neighbor's side. I'm on an 1829 02:05:42.439 --> 02:05:46.159 acre out here with a big ticket fence around the back. But uh on 1830 02:05:46.199 --> 02:05:51.600 the west side, I'd like some shape for sure, but that just uh 1831 02:05:53.119 --> 02:05:58.119 a cylinder border plant. Uh. Well, there are a number of different 1832 02:05:58.119 --> 02:06:02.279 ones. We've had some upright yopine that you're right about Italian Cyprus. You 1833 02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:05.439 may get by with it for a while, but eventually they're going to break 1834 02:06:05.479 --> 02:06:11.079 your heart. So I don't recommend those. But the yopons. The problem 1835 02:06:11.159 --> 02:06:13.800 with those as they get tall, as they tend to fall apart, Meaning 1836 02:06:14.159 --> 02:06:16.600 you have all these upright shoots and they get real tall and heavy and they 1837 02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:21.039 start leaning out, and it's like the plant just falls open instead of being 1838 02:06:21.119 --> 02:06:26.319 that nice cylinder you were describing, So I'm not real crazy about those. 1839 02:06:26.439 --> 02:06:30.239 If you don't need something really tall, we have some weeping yopons that you 1840 02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:33.560 could train up and then the branches weep downward. Some of those even have 1841 02:06:33.680 --> 02:06:36.520 berries on them. Those are nice. I was trying to think you're up 1842 02:06:36.520 --> 02:06:41.199 in Cyprus. I was talking to Beverly at Arbigate a while back, and 1843 02:06:41.279 --> 02:06:45.760 there was a holly type plant that they were really big on. And the 1844 02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:47.680 name is not come to my mind right now, but I'm going to be 1845 02:06:47.680 --> 02:06:50.720 out there today by the way, from eleven thirty to one thirty. If 1846 02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:54.159 you would like to come out there, I will find out what it is. 1847 02:06:54.279 --> 02:06:57.079 But you might want to talk to them about it, because she and 1848 02:06:57.159 --> 02:06:59.920 I were having this discussion about what are we gonna do these yopons, because 1849 02:07:00.039 --> 02:07:01.199 every time we get a new one, we think it's going to be good 1850 02:07:01.319 --> 02:07:06.279 and then it doesn't hold up. And we started talking about this this holly 1851 02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:10.560 that I think is going to be the plant to fit the bill that you're 1852 02:07:10.600 --> 02:07:15.760 talking about. Nice. I planted a bunch of those uh old pencil bushes 1853 02:07:15.960 --> 02:07:20.239 early spring. They didn't they didn't last through to this this brutal stub. 1854 02:07:20.399 --> 02:07:25.880 You talking about Skypencil Holly, Yeah, and yeah, you know, just 1855 02:07:25.880 --> 02:07:29.520 just for up against the house and up against the fence anyway. I know 1856 02:07:29.560 --> 02:07:31.439 they're not going to get super tall, but they didn't make it at tall. 1857 02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:34.840 Well. And the thing about all the hollies, really, even our 1858 02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:39.319 native yopun is, if when it's trying to get established, it doesn't have 1859 02:07:39.359 --> 02:07:43.000 adequate moisture, it'll just turn brown and die. And so we got to 1860 02:07:43.039 --> 02:07:45.600 get those through. I always say give them two or three years a good 1861 02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:49.760 TLC with moist soil not saggy, to make sure they're established. And so 1862 02:07:49.800 --> 02:07:53.760 even even something like Skypencil, which wouldn't be at the top of the list, 1863 02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:56.640 but it's you know, it's the form of the plant is beautiful. 1864 02:07:57.159 --> 02:07:59.800 Uh. If it if it goes through a low droughty period, it's going 1865 02:07:59.840 --> 02:08:03.159 to be up a creek. Yeah, that was all those were on me. 1866 02:08:03.239 --> 02:08:07.840 The Italian cyruses. No, I mean, I've got I've got two 1867 02:08:07.960 --> 02:08:11.199 thirty foot ones that are just coast and they've never looked great. Right, 1868 02:08:11.399 --> 02:08:15.039 And just to be clear for everyone listening, I'm not saying that, you 1869 02:08:15.039 --> 02:08:16.920 know, if you plan hollies, they won't survive here. No, not 1870 02:08:18.000 --> 02:08:22.800 at all I'm saying. During the establishment of Hollies, consistent soul moisture is 1871 02:08:22.840 --> 02:08:26.520 critical. That that's all. Hey, Steve, good luck with that. 1872 02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:28.600 I hope you. I hope you're able to come out to arbigrate today. 1873 02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.079 If not, just go there and I'm I'm Beverly and say what was that? 1874 02:08:33.520 --> 02:08:35.680 What was that Holly type plan? Like you and skip we're talking about 1875 02:08:35.720 --> 02:08:39.359 to replace the upright yopons And she'll she'll straight now, thank you, all 1876 02:08:39.439 --> 02:08:43.319 right, thank you much? You bet you take it. Yeah, it's 1877 02:08:43.359 --> 02:08:48.439 it's really really cool. There's so many new plants and we just don't have 1878 02:08:48.479 --> 02:08:52.399 time to test them all and keep up with all of them. Hey, 1879 02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:58.079 if you're looking for a quality soil mix, Nature's creation makes an organic compost 1880 02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:03.159 with Michael Eisal fungi simple is that it's a byproduct of recycling native trees and 1881 02:09:03.199 --> 02:09:07.079 shrubs. It really works well. They compost them organically. They don't add 1882 02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:11.920 any other chemicals or anything in there. There are eleven strains of microhizal fungi, 1883 02:09:13.039 --> 02:09:15.720 both kind that grow in the root and out of the root. To 1884 02:09:15.840 --> 02:09:20.760 increase the drought tolerance and water intake and disease resistant of your roots. Microhizer 1885 02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:26.039 or important. Nature's Creation puts them in there. Now you can find Nature's 1886 02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:30.399 Creation. It growers outlet and willis at Moss Nursery, don Seabrook RCW up 1887 02:09:30.399 --> 02:09:33.840 on two forty nine Wabash Feed and Garden and the Houston Garden Centers. Nature's 1888 02:09:33.920 --> 02:09:39.760 Creation is a quality mix. Look for their organic compost with microrhizal fungi and 1889 02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:43.800 you will be well on your way to a good start for your plants, 1890 02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:46.760 because, as you know, you hear me say, it all begins in 1891 02:09:48.199 --> 02:09:52.760 the soil. We're going to head out now to Port Arthur and talk to 1892 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:58.800 d How are things way out east? D Oh, it's still hot? 1893 02:10:00.199 --> 02:10:03.640 Okay, first day a fault? No? All right, Well, what's 1894 02:10:03.840 --> 02:10:07.960 what's happening? I have a follow up question we spoke about a month ago. 1895 02:10:09.159 --> 02:10:13.920 I have an indoor aeroponic Tower Garden and my fall seedlings are ready to 1896 02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:20.560 transition to outdoors, and I need to know a couple of things. The 1897 02:10:20.600 --> 02:10:22.880 way that they grow in the Tower garden. They are in rock wolves, 1898 02:10:24.319 --> 02:10:28.199 so they're in little rock wool cues. Yes. And the roots system, 1899 02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:30.920 of course you know some of them. The roots are you know, three 1900 02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:35.640 four feet long. Okay, So my question is, when I've put them 1901 02:10:35.720 --> 02:10:39.760 in smaller posts outdoors, do I need to take them out of the rock 1902 02:10:39.840 --> 02:10:45.760 will trend the roots and then put them in soil, or should I leave 1903 02:10:45.840 --> 02:10:48.479 them in the rock wool kind of curl up the root system and then put 1904 02:10:48.520 --> 02:10:52.600 soil over the rock wool. Cue. That's a good question. It's gonna 1905 02:10:52.600 --> 02:10:56.560 be a transplant shot going from the aeroponic system they've been in to soil outdoors. 1906 02:10:56.640 --> 02:11:01.079 That's just a fight. If you could, if you could lesson that, 1907 02:11:01.319 --> 02:11:05.560 maybe make it in stages. For example, maybe you would take them 1908 02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:07.880 out of the araponic, you would leave the rock wall, don't take it 1909 02:11:07.920 --> 02:11:13.560 off. Trim the roots so they fit a container that you have, and 1910 02:11:13.640 --> 02:11:16.880 get them started, get them kind of adjusted, and then move them gradually 1911 02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:22.479 into the outdoor where they're exposed more to the full temperatures and things, and 1912 02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:26.920 then gradually even into the full sun that transition period. The way roots grow 1913 02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:31.279 in water is a little different than in soil, and so you can transfer 1914 02:11:31.439 --> 02:11:35.479 from water to soil, but there's a little bit of a setback. And 1915 02:11:35.520 --> 02:11:37.199 so if you add to that, now we're exposing you know, ninety five 1916 02:11:37.279 --> 02:11:41.159 degree temperatures or maybe full sun or something. You can't do all that at 1917 02:11:41.199 --> 02:11:46.520 once, right, Okay, what kind of soil would you suggest that I 1918 02:11:46.680 --> 02:11:50.520 use? A good quality soil mix? You know, I was just I 1919 02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:54.399 was just talking about nature's creation. Has that organic compost mix that's is good. 1920 02:11:56.239 --> 02:12:01.760 I know that Heirloom Soils makes an outdoor and an or potting mix that 1921 02:12:01.840 --> 02:12:05.800 works really well too, and as well as a mixes for just the beds 1922 02:12:05.880 --> 02:12:09.600 that you're building and wanting to plant in. You're not going to go wrong 1923 02:12:09.720 --> 02:12:13.880 with either. Okay, Okay, that sounds great. I'll be working on 1924 02:12:13.920 --> 02:12:16.680 that this week. Thanks, all right, all right, send pictures. 1925 02:12:16.760 --> 02:12:22.600 Thanks a lot. I appreciate appreciate that call. Hey, are you looking 1926 02:12:22.640 --> 02:12:28.439 for an outing? Maybe? How about an idea for tomorrow Sunday afternoon to 1927 02:12:28.479 --> 02:12:33.720 get out and about. You know the Antique Rosemporium up in They're in the 1928 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:37.199 Brenham area, you know, up and toward Independence Way. You can go 1929 02:12:37.239 --> 02:12:41.920 to Antique Rosemporium dot com. It's always good to go out there and visit 1930 02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:46.800 them. I mean, they it's just cool. This weekend only this weekend 1931 02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:50.279 only, Saturday and Sunday. All roses are five bucks. Off. All 1932 02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:52.399 roses are five bucks off, and boy do they ever have a selection of 1933 02:12:52.479 --> 02:12:56.399 antique roses, roses, roses roses. They also have a lot of other 1934 02:12:56.399 --> 02:13:01.600 great plants in their garden center, perennials and a nuals and natives. Of 1935 02:13:01.640 --> 02:13:05.520 course, they've got vegetable starts and herbs. Nice selection. I bought herbserve 1936 02:13:05.560 --> 02:13:09.720 before, a really nice selection of herbs. Antiqurosium dot com, rose Emporium 1937 02:13:09.800 --> 02:13:16.119 dot com. I'm talking too fast here. Antiqu Rosemporium dot com now nine 1938 02:13:16.199 --> 02:13:20.399 seven nine eight three six five five four eight that's their phone number. Don't 1939 02:13:20.439 --> 02:13:26.680 forget. They're having their Fall festal of roses November third through fifth. Go 1940 02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:30.920 online, it's on their website. Check it out. Lots of great talks, 1941 02:13:31.119 --> 02:13:33.399 lots of fun at the Antique Rosenmporium. Always a good day to be 1942 02:13:33.439 --> 02:13:37.560 out at the Antique Rosenbrier, and plus it's just a good outing. Take 1943 02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.680 family and friends out there. It's like you've gone to another place and time. 1944 02:13:43.359 --> 02:13:48.880 That place since way back in the days John Chupas was establishing, it 1945 02:13:48.880 --> 02:13:52.760 has always been a destination place. And boy with the new the new folks 1946 02:13:52.800 --> 02:13:56.439 running the place now, they are just continuing to take it forward, really 1947 02:13:56.479 --> 02:13:58.079 really cool. You know, we've gotten a little bit of rain here and 1948 02:13:58.119 --> 02:14:01.000 there, and when you get ran, you get mosquitoes, and so we 1949 02:14:01.039 --> 02:14:05.560 don't want to be a squitter breeder. So what we're gonna do is we're 1950 02:14:05.560 --> 02:14:09.680 going to make sure that doesn't happen by putting mosquito dunks in any standing, 1951 02:14:09.960 --> 02:14:13.399 stagnant piece of water. You can buy the whole dunks. You can throw 1952 02:14:13.439 --> 02:14:16.279 them in a little pond covers one hundred square feet in last a month, 1953 02:14:16.399 --> 02:14:20.920 or you can buy granules are you can just buy a mosquito dunk, the 1954 02:14:20.920 --> 02:14:24.199 little doughnuts and break them up and put them in water. Anyway you go 1955 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:28.039 about it. It's a disease of mosquitoes. It will not hurt fish, 1956 02:14:28.359 --> 02:14:33.319 pets, birds, wildlife at all. Mosquito dunks are available everywhere. They 1957 02:14:33.359 --> 02:14:37.479 work well, it's organic, it's simple, and it's the best thing that 1958 02:14:37.520 --> 02:14:41.159 can happen to a mosquito is to die of a horrible disease. Nikki, 1959 02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:46.960 that is that makes me happy, you know that's happening out there in the 1960 02:14:46.000 --> 02:14:48.960 water. Indeed, they carry so many diseases. They do, they do, 1961 02:14:50.079 --> 02:14:52.560 and I know they have a place in nature and blah blah blah. 1962 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:56.359 Yeah, but it's it's in a different kind. It's not in my back 1963 02:14:56.399 --> 02:14:58.640 yard. It's not that part of nature. We're gonna take a break. 1964 02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:03.560 Seven three two one two five eight seven four. Well, good morning, 1965 02:15:03.159 --> 02:15:07.760 and welcome to Garden Line. We are glad you're listening. Our phone number 1966 02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:11.840 if you would like to give us a call is seven one three two one 1967 02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:18.039 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1968 02:15:18.520 --> 02:15:22.439 Hey, I've got an idea. The weather's cooling off, it's football 1969 02:15:22.479 --> 02:15:26.640 season. It's time to get outside and enjoy the landscape, enjoy the patio. 1970 02:15:28.239 --> 02:15:31.279 A visit to Ace Hardware can get you set up just for that. 1971 02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:33.960 Now, why are you there. You're going to pick up the fertilizers you 1972 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.840 need for your lawn because they have them all, absolutely all. If you 1973 02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:41.439 need weed control, disease control, insect control, they've got it all. 1974 02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:43.720 They've got everything for your lawn, the tools, the hoses, everything you 1975 02:15:43.760 --> 02:15:48.039 need to have a beautiful lawn and landscape, they've got it. They've got 1976 02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:52.520 outdoor materials to turn that beautiful patio, that deck, or just an outdoor 1977 02:15:52.560 --> 02:15:58.439 sitting area in the lawn into a place of beauty, really an enjoyment. 1978 02:15:58.520 --> 02:16:01.800 Do you need a barbecue pit? Do you need some bling for your whole 1979 02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:05.359 barbecue scene out there as you're the pet master in the backyard. Ace Hardware's 1980 02:16:05.359 --> 02:16:09.960 got it. If you need it, they've got it, and they make 1981 02:16:09.159 --> 02:16:16.720 outdoor living fun and easy and truly truly a pleasure. Ace Hardware dot Com 1982 02:16:16.760 --> 02:16:20.479 go online, look for their store locator. Find the one near you with 1983 02:16:20.600 --> 02:16:24.920 thirty nine in the Greater Houston area. There is more than one near you. 1984 02:16:24.359 --> 02:16:26.800 And when you walk into Ace Hardware, you're going to come out with 1985 02:16:26.840 --> 02:16:31.880 everything you need for that beautiful outdoor living. And oh my gosh, we 1986 02:16:31.120 --> 02:16:35.920 just got a break from the weather, so it's time to start living outdoors 1987 02:16:35.959 --> 02:16:39.760 again. Those folks at they'll set you up and they will get you well 1988 02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:43.719 on your way to doing just that. I was out barbecue in the other 1989 02:16:43.799 --> 02:16:46.079 day. It's been a while because I don't know, I just you know, 1990 02:16:46.079 --> 02:16:48.000 when it's a hundred degrees at eight o'clock at night, it's kind of 1991 02:16:48.040 --> 02:16:52.559 hard to get excited about being outside even at that hour. And boy, 1992 02:16:52.639 --> 02:16:56.680 now it's not And oh my goodness, were we were cooking up some stuff 1993 02:16:56.680 --> 02:17:01.319 I had some baskets that I got from Ace Hardware. The put like vegetables 1994 02:17:01.360 --> 02:17:03.639 in. You know, it's kind of like you're going to do a shish 1995 02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:07.360 kebab, but you just put the vegetables loose in there and flip them over 1996 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:09.040 and turn them. I got a basket. We're cooking fish in as well, 1997 02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:15.799 and just enjoying the pit, enjoying being outside. And if you hadn't 1998 02:17:15.840 --> 02:17:18.639 noticed today, I'm a little bit excited about the fact that it's fall, 1999 02:17:18.760 --> 02:17:22.879 and as a gardener, I am very excited about the fact that it is 2000 02:17:22.959 --> 02:17:26.799 fall. Let's head out to friends Wood and we're going to talk to Charlie. 2001 02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:30.680 Well, Hello, Charlie, good morning, Skip. Have you Paul, 2002 02:17:31.440 --> 02:17:35.200 well you as well. What's happening in Friendswood? Well, we have 2003 02:17:35.360 --> 02:17:39.200 a small pond down the front yard. I would say it's so about a 2004 02:17:39.239 --> 02:17:43.079 ten by eighteen or ten by twenty and after that it would have been dry 2005 02:17:43.120 --> 02:17:46.680 for a month or so at least. And at that recent rain we got 2006 02:17:46.680 --> 02:17:52.000 about foot and a half of water in it looked nice. Within two days 2007 02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:58.200 we suddenly had a green scum we'll call it, all across the top, 2008 02:17:58.559 --> 02:18:03.159 okay, and tried to rake it off or you know a little bit, 2009 02:18:03.200 --> 02:18:09.840 but we didn't help. My wife put a bottle of dome and it quite 2010 02:18:09.959 --> 02:18:16.280 well cleared it up. However, Yeah, and you know, but then 2011 02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:22.959 about three or four days it was back. She said, it looks it 2012 02:18:22.000 --> 02:18:28.799 looks oily stuff on the top. All right, were all around it. 2013 02:18:28.840 --> 02:18:31.520 But it needs some help from that. All right, So a couple of 2014 02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:33.280 things. That's not a huge pond. I mean, it's it's manageable, 2015 02:18:33.360 --> 02:18:39.799 right, ten by twenty go ahead, no, but but maybe ten by 2016 02:18:39.879 --> 02:18:45.799 fifteen or ten by twenty, okay, all right, So that scummy stuff 2017 02:18:45.840 --> 02:18:48.280 you can you can literally skim off of there. Put in your compost top. 2018 02:18:48.319 --> 02:18:52.319 By the way, too. It's really packed with nutrients, but you 2019 02:18:52.360 --> 02:18:58.360 can skim it off there. It happens. Algae and other types of weeds 2020 02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:01.920 like that in the pond. They happen because we have nutrient content in the 2021 02:19:01.959 --> 02:19:05.719 water. You know, if you were to throw nitrogen fertilizer out in your 2022 02:19:05.760 --> 02:19:11.319 pond, you're gonna see it's gonna turn green because all those little microplants they 2023 02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:15.479 need nitrogen and it just gives them a boost and it becomes a big mess, 2024 02:19:15.520 --> 02:19:18.200 a big, big mess. So you want to avoid anything that puts 2025 02:19:18.200 --> 02:19:22.760 that kind of nutrient in the pond. Maybe it's running off your driveway or 2026 02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:26.520 running off your yard, and just avoid that kind of thing and the way 2027 02:19:26.559 --> 02:19:31.399 you fertilize and watered in and everything. There is a website and it's it 2028 02:19:31.840 --> 02:19:41.319 deals with everything pond and weed h and it's called Aquaplant aquapla n t aquaplant 2029 02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:48.159 dot tmu dot edu. And that website has videos, it's got pictures. 2030 02:19:48.200 --> 02:19:52.760 It'll help you identify the specific plant, the specific scum type thing you get 2031 02:19:52.799 --> 02:19:56.280 you're dealing with. It tells you how to control them, how to manage 2032 02:19:56.280 --> 02:19:58.760 them. It's just a really good resource. And I realize yours is a 2033 02:19:58.799 --> 02:20:03.280 little kind of a small backyard thing. There are people that are listening. 2034 02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:07.639 They've got little small farm ponds, you know, little ponds outside of town, 2035 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:11.959 and aquaplant dot temo dot etu is a good place to go. That 2036 02:20:11.079 --> 02:20:15.799 is what I would do. I would not resort to herbicides in this particular 2037 02:20:15.879 --> 02:20:20.079 situation. I would skim the top off, just keep good freshwater in there. 2038 02:20:20.239 --> 02:20:22.959 And I think that's your best bet. When we get the change in 2039 02:20:22.000 --> 02:20:28.239 the weather that's coming, it's going to help with that as well. One 2040 02:20:28.360 --> 02:20:33.440 other question, Now your thought of would possibly do any good? I'm trying 2041 02:20:33.479 --> 02:20:37.920 a shortcut better guess Okay, put in some gradulated chlorine in there. Well, 2042 02:20:37.959 --> 02:20:43.600 yeah, I would kill it. It would kill it. The only 2043 02:20:43.639 --> 02:20:46.120 thing is when you kill organic matter and it sinks down in the water, 2044 02:20:46.360 --> 02:20:54.200 it decomposes anaerobically without oxygen. And two things. If you have fish in 2045 02:20:54.200 --> 02:20:58.520 the pond, it'll just flat kill them because it removes the oxygen. Okay. 2046 02:20:58.559 --> 02:21:01.319 The other thing is it can start to it can start to stink really 2047 02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:05.719 bad. I was outside, I had a bucket sitting around the corner of 2048 02:21:05.799 --> 02:21:09.239 the back door. I didn't see it, and it had a bunch of 2049 02:21:09.280 --> 02:21:11.760 plant material in it that I'd pulled up and it filled up with water at 2050 02:21:11.760 --> 02:21:18.040 a rain and I started smelling this horrible stench. I couldn't figure out where 2051 02:21:18.040 --> 02:21:20.479 it was coming from. There's that bucket full of decomposing organic matter, And 2052 02:21:20.520 --> 02:21:24.360 that's what will happen in your pond if you just kill it, because it's 2053 02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:28.200 still organic matter. So just be aware of that. If I could skim 2054 02:21:28.239 --> 02:21:31.600 as much out as possible, I would do that. But yes, you 2055 02:21:31.639 --> 02:21:37.559 could chlorinate and kill it that way. As well, okay, great and 2056 02:21:37.760 --> 02:21:43.120 ta or aqua plant TAMU dot ed yeah, eed u as in education, 2057 02:21:43.200 --> 02:21:48.559 the first three letters of education, yep dot edu aqua plant. And for 2058 02:21:48.600 --> 02:21:52.520 anybody listening, if you got a little farm, pond or anything, it's 2059 02:21:52.680 --> 02:21:56.239 especially good for those because they just have everything you need to know. It's 2060 02:21:56.239 --> 02:22:00.280 one of the best organized websites I've ever seen. I Charlie, thank you 2061 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.639 for that. Good luck with that pond. I appreciate thank you very much. 2062 02:22:03.680 --> 02:22:05.120 Good luck to you. Yes or thank you. I appreciate that call 2063 02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:09.159 very much. You know, when when we get rain like we've had, 2064 02:22:09.399 --> 02:22:15.360 and we've got this Houston black clay top soil all through this area, it 2065 02:22:15.479 --> 02:22:18.520 shrinks and swells. It gets wet, it swells, it shrinks when it 2066 02:22:18.559 --> 02:22:24.239 gets dry, and that movement rex havoc on our foundations. That's why Tie 2067 02:22:24.239 --> 02:22:30.600 Strickland started Fix My Foundation, Fix my Slab Foundation Repair Service. You can 2068 02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:33.319 give them a call at two eight one two five forty nine forty nine. 2069 02:22:33.360 --> 02:22:37.319 If you see that your doors are sticking, something's moving. If you see 2070 02:22:37.520 --> 02:22:43.520 cracks in the brick outside, cracks in the sheet rock inside, don't delay. 2071 02:22:43.559 --> 02:22:46.680 It's not going to get better, is not going to fix itself and 2072 02:22:46.760 --> 02:22:50.120 it will get worse. Call Ti Strickland two eight one two five forty nine 2073 02:22:50.239 --> 02:22:56.159 forty nine. They give you time and they show up on time. They 2074 02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:58.479 give you a fair price, and they fix it right. That's what's important. 2075 02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.280 By the way, they also do driveways and sidewalks if you need that 2076 02:23:01.360 --> 02:23:05.959 done. Fix my slap dot com. We're gonna take a break seven one 2077 02:23:05.120 --> 02:23:09.920 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Mike, you're first up when 2078 02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:13.399 we come back. Well, you're listening to garden Line and we are entering 2079 02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:18.680 our last segment of the morning wherever every Saturday and Sunday, by the way, 2080 02:23:18.760 --> 02:23:20.719 six am to ten am. This is a call in show. You 2081 02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:24.079 can call in and ask whatever kinds of gardening questions you might have. And 2082 02:23:24.239 --> 02:23:28.799 that is what I most enjoy doing, is visiting with gardeners and helping you 2083 02:23:28.840 --> 02:23:33.840 have success. You have a green thumb, you just don't know it yet, 2084 02:23:33.879 --> 02:23:37.319 and all you need is information to go from brown to green when it 2085 02:23:37.319 --> 02:23:41.959 comes to your thumb color. And you know part of that information is here 2086 02:23:43.000 --> 02:23:46.360 on garden Line. That's why we're here to help looking forward to doing just 2087 02:23:46.479 --> 02:23:48.760 that. Our phone number seven one three, two, one two fifty eight 2088 02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:52.280 seventy four. We're gonna head straight out to Sugarland and talk to Mike. 2089 02:23:52.520 --> 02:24:00.479 Hello, Mike, Hello, Skips, good morning, Thank you. I 2090 02:24:00.600 --> 02:24:05.319 got a question. I overwatered my arbor. It was in a pod. 2091 02:24:05.639 --> 02:24:09.239 It's only about four feet tall. I took it out and the root ball 2092 02:24:09.440 --> 02:24:16.000 was really wet, so I put it in the ground. And I'm wondering 2093 02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:24.639 if the brown that's dead on it now will turn back green eventually or whether 2094 02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:28.000 it's yeah, yeah, just dead. Yeah, that's a good question. 2095 02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:35.120 Arborvitis, junipers, cedars, pines, all those trees can only regrow from 2096 02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:39.120 the base of living needles or living living scale like leaves, which is what 2097 02:24:39.200 --> 02:24:43.639 your arborvity has. So if you have a branch that turns brown, that 2098 02:24:43.680 --> 02:24:46.399 branch is not going to be able to reach sprout. If you cut a 2099 02:24:46.440 --> 02:24:50.360 branch off right behind the living green stuff, it cannot reach sprout. On 2100 02:24:50.440 --> 02:24:54.479 those kind of plants. It would have to then start to grow in from 2101 02:24:54.479 --> 02:24:58.399 the sides to fill that hole, which is usually a very slow process that 2102 02:24:58.520 --> 02:25:01.920 if the hole's big enough, it'll it'll never finish. Right, So take 2103 02:25:01.920 --> 02:25:05.399 a look at the plant esthetically, make your judgments. But if there's a 2104 02:25:05.399 --> 02:25:09.719 brown branch, you might as well just cut it off wherever it attaches because 2105 02:25:09.840 --> 02:25:13.680 it's not coming back out there. Yeah. I was scared of that. 2106 02:25:13.159 --> 02:25:16.000 Yeah, yeah, sorry to be the bear of bad news that happens. 2107 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:18.479 We have diseases that do that. We have drought that does that. We 2108 02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:22.000 have spider mites that do that. We have bagworms that eat the leaves off 2109 02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:26.239 and do that. Arborvites have a lot of enemies out there. And keeping 2110 02:25:26.360 --> 02:25:31.879 one full and round and green and tall or whatever it is, it's a 2111 02:25:31.000 --> 02:25:35.239 it's a challenge. Yeah, Okay, I want to plant a winter grass 2112 02:25:35.520 --> 02:25:41.959 and my Saint Augustine this year and for the first time. So when when 2113 02:25:41.000 --> 02:25:43.959 do I want to buy the seed? And what kind of seed do you 2114 02:25:45.000 --> 02:25:48.280 recommend? Well, if you want to do that, first of all, 2115 02:25:48.319 --> 02:25:50.760 I'm gonna have tried to talk you out of it and saying that when you 2116 02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:56.440 overseed your lawn, it's like you're planting weeds in the lawn to compete for 2117 02:25:56.559 --> 02:26:00.360 water and nutrients and things. People do it every year. You seem virtial 2118 02:26:00.719 --> 02:26:05.319 properties around town that have the beautiful green lawn all winter because they overseated it. 2119 02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:07.479 It can be done. But just know that that is exactly what you're 2120 02:26:07.479 --> 02:26:11.879 doing. You're putting weeds in your lawn. Those weeds just happened to be 2121 02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:15.559 grass weeds that you like to look at. I would get a mix of 2122 02:26:15.840 --> 02:26:22.479 about the annual rye and perennial rye. There's usually some eighty twenty mixes out 2123 02:26:22.479 --> 02:26:28.479 there, but the annual and perennial together, one of them helps make up 2124 02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:31.399 for what the other one lacks, and so it ends up being a better 2125 02:26:31.440 --> 02:26:35.600 overall. Look. I'd probably put it out early November or maybe late October 2126 02:26:37.159 --> 02:26:41.879 as the seed follow whatever rate is recommended on the product you purchase, and 2127 02:26:43.719 --> 02:26:46.000 you know, watered into the lawn. Just know you are going to need 2128 02:26:46.040 --> 02:26:48.600 to give a little fertilizer as it starts to grow and get going, and 2129 02:26:48.600 --> 02:26:54.959 you're gonna have to do some winter mowing. Okay, maybe just seed it 2130 02:26:54.040 --> 02:27:00.760 lightly with that help with the weed problem or well a little bit, But 2131 02:27:00.799 --> 02:27:03.319 then it kind of looks doesn't really look very impressive. You know, It's 2132 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:07.559 like your grass kind of browns a little bit in the winter, but there's 2133 02:27:07.559 --> 02:27:11.399 no green coming back. So I guess I'm not saying don't do it. 2134 02:27:11.479 --> 02:27:15.639 I'm just saying, realize when you do it coming out in spring, you're 2135 02:27:15.639 --> 02:27:20.239 gonna need to mow that lawn down pretty low to get that cool season grass 2136 02:27:20.280 --> 02:27:22.920 out of there and get your fresh new grass coming back in to fill it 2137 02:27:22.959 --> 02:27:26.840 in. And year after year when we do that in Bermuda grass lawns on 2138 02:27:26.879 --> 02:27:31.120 commercial sites, we do see a little bit of a stress and a decline 2139 02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:35.040 that can happen. All right, thank you very much. All right, 2140 02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:39.440 so thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Oh let's see, 2141 02:27:39.479 --> 02:27:41.959 let's go back to tom Ball and we're going to talk to Linda. Hello, 2142 02:27:43.040 --> 02:27:48.000 Linda, good morning. I'm doing good. I can't wait to come 2143 02:27:48.079 --> 02:27:50.399 up to tom Ball. I don't know if you have the afternoon free, 2144 02:27:50.440 --> 02:27:54.600 but I hope you and family and friends will come over to Arburgates so we 2145 02:27:54.639 --> 02:27:58.280 can talk more about things going on in your landing. Exactly, exactly. 2146 02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:01.079 Well, I have a question for you. Actually on my way to my 2147 02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:05.239 grandson's football game right now, but yeah, I plan on coming back. 2148 02:28:05.520 --> 02:28:11.799 Okay. I have pon trees that only every couple of years have little pecans, 2149 02:28:11.920 --> 02:28:15.280 and I think it's always the squirrels that eat them, But my dogs 2150 02:28:15.360 --> 02:28:18.360 chase the squirrels off. Now, yes, so I actually have little pecons 2151 02:28:18.440 --> 02:28:22.159 on at least one of my trees. What can I do to make sure 2152 02:28:22.239 --> 02:28:28.280 they become full adult pecans and I can actually eat them? Okay? Now, 2153 02:28:28.399 --> 02:28:31.280 was this a volunteer tree or did you buy and plant improve pecans? 2154 02:28:31.479 --> 02:28:37.280 The people that had the property thirty years ago when we bought it had planted 2155 02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:43.479 three trees. Okay. So pecan size, the nutlet size is dependent number 2156 02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.159 one, on the genetics. Some pecans are naturally big, some are naturally 2157 02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:52.440 small, And to be honest, it's not bad having a smaller pecan because 2158 02:28:52.440 --> 02:28:56.680 it's easier to fill some of the really big paper shell pecans. If we 2159 02:28:56.760 --> 02:29:01.639 go through summer droughts, which hello the last two years, they don't fill 2160 02:29:01.639 --> 02:29:05.959 the kernels well and you end up with not fully filled kernels, which isn't 2161 02:29:05.959 --> 02:29:11.000 a good thing. Whereas the small sized pecan varieties they do feel better, 2162 02:29:11.079 --> 02:29:13.959 and so that would be one thing to keep in mind. The other thing 2163 02:29:13.040 --> 02:29:18.280 is water. In the first part of the growing season up until about August, 2164 02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:22.079 first the pecan is growing in size, and if you lack water, 2165 02:29:22.360 --> 02:29:26.920 or if you lose leaves to disease or insects, on the pecan tree, 2166 02:29:26.159 --> 02:29:31.680 you may not get the full sized pecan that that variety is capable of producing. 2167 02:29:31.200 --> 02:29:35.399 Then after August first, it fills the kernel in. So if you 2168 02:29:35.479 --> 02:29:37.920 have hollow pecans, it's because of a lack of water or a lack of 2169 02:29:39.040 --> 02:29:43.879 leaf cover after August first. So it's going to either be genetics or it's 2170 02:29:43.879 --> 02:29:46.600 going to be water, or it's going to be a combination of the two 2171 02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:54.440 that you're you're asking about. Well, they are on a lower part of 2172 02:29:54.479 --> 02:29:56.319 our property. I'm on six acres and they're in a lower part of the 2173 02:29:56.360 --> 02:30:01.120 property. Okay, but I haven't been able water them. Yeah. Well, 2174 02:30:01.159 --> 02:30:05.879 you know in Texas, pecons are native and they grow in these big 2175 02:30:05.959 --> 02:30:09.120 river bottoms and they can send a route down twenty feet if they need to 2176 02:30:09.120 --> 02:30:13.120 to find some water a water table down there, and that's where they thrive. 2177 02:30:13.200 --> 02:30:16.040 And when we bring them into more of an upland kind of a soil 2178 02:30:16.120 --> 02:30:22.120 situation where the water is sometimes not so dependable, pecans can struggle. I 2179 02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:26.760 mean, you can keep them alive, but they don't reach their full potential. 2180 02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:31.959 Let me just put it that way. That's try well hopefully rain. 2181 02:30:33.559 --> 02:30:35.920 Yeah, that's what we need. You just need to get out and do 2182 02:30:35.959 --> 02:30:39.520 a raindownce and I'll do one myself to try to help you out a little 2183 02:30:39.520 --> 02:30:43.559 bit in the meantime. And here you go and get those things, get 2184 02:30:43.600 --> 02:30:46.079 those those things going. But you know, with pecans, I hate to 2185 02:30:46.120 --> 02:30:50.319 say it this way, but I kind of joke that when you plan a 2186 02:30:50.360 --> 02:30:52.799 pecan tree, you don't get to eat pecans. You just get to eat 2187 02:30:52.840 --> 02:30:56.799 squirrel meat. And a lot of people don't don't like the sound of that, 2188 02:30:56.959 --> 02:30:58.399 but hey, it's the reality. But I'll tell you a pecon fed 2189 02:30:58.440 --> 02:31:03.639 squirrel is some good eating. That's the mess of what we're dealing with. 2190 02:31:05.040 --> 02:31:09.079 At least you're making some squirrels happy out there. Linda. There you go. 2191 02:31:09.280 --> 02:31:13.319 Well, I appreciate it. You have a great day you too. 2192 02:31:13.840 --> 02:31:18.200 Take care. Oh man, Wow, another show gone. That was fast. 2193 02:31:18.479 --> 02:31:20.079 Hey, I am about to jump in a car and guess where I'm 2194 02:31:20.120 --> 02:31:24.879 heading. I Am heading to the arbour Gate up in Tomball eleven thirty to 2195 02:31:24.040 --> 02:31:28.479 one thirty. I'll be there. I'm going to be giving away the arbor 2196 02:31:28.559 --> 02:31:35.799 Gates organic food complete every fifteen minutes. They're supplying it and also nitrophos Color 2197 02:31:35.920 --> 02:31:41.319 Express fourteen fourteen fourteen now you sprinkle that in your flower beds. Getting good 2198 02:31:41.399 --> 02:31:45.840 response on all these cool season color plants you're about to put out there and 2199 02:31:46.000 --> 02:31:48.120 your flower beds. So we'll be giving both of those away. I'll be 2200 02:31:48.120 --> 02:31:52.559 answering your gardening question. So bring me some samples and ziplock bags to look 2201 02:31:52.600 --> 02:31:56.559 at, to identify, to diagnose, Bring me pictures of the yard. 2202 02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:01.159 Look at my yard? What do I do? What would go well here? 2203 02:32:01.399 --> 02:32:03.200 Let's talk about that because you're gonna be right there at the arbourgate and 2204 02:32:03.239 --> 02:32:07.280 they have everything. By the way, they got a new shipment of citric 2205 02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:13.159 in very recently, and every kind of citris you can imagine, so plan 2206 02:32:13.280 --> 02:32:16.239 on shopping. The best news of all for the day, though, is 2207 02:32:16.280 --> 02:32:20.360 they got a brand new parking lot off Tracial Road that goes around behind Arburgate. 2208 02:32:20.799 --> 02:32:22.399 No more parking on the road. Get back there in the parking lot. 2209 02:32:22.520 --> 02:32:24.040 Come see me