WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.080 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:10.199 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter. 3 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:31.000 It's sho crazy Gashrim. Just watch him as worlds many got by gas 4 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:42.600 again not a sound Well. Good morning, Good Saturday morning. I am 5 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.840 looking forward today to talking to you about whatever you're interested in regarding gardening. 6 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.560 I've got a few topics I'm going to cover. I must spend a lot 7 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.079 of time today on what to do this time of year in your lawn, 8 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:58.600 your landscape, some of the important things. Last year hammered a lot of 9 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:00.439 our lawns and there's a lot we can do. And let me tell you, 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.439 we are in the big middle of it. They always say he who 11 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.799 hesitates his loss. This is the time of year when it comes to your 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.200 lawn that you don't want to hesitate. And I'll talk about that a little 13 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.760 bit more later and we get a little further into it. If you had 14 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.920 like would like to give us a call, you can reach me at seven 15 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.799 one three two one two five eight seven four, or if you like to 16 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:29.239 die by the letter seven one three two one two KTRH Simple as that, 17 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.719 let's get you on the board and talk about the things that you are most 18 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.640 interested in regarding your garden, your landscape. We're going to start by heading 19 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:38.599 out to Tomball and talking to our early bird of the day, Mel. 20 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.879 Hello, Mel, Hey, good morning. You know your opening lines are 21 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:47.959 just hit home with probably what my question is. Okay, as warm as 22 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.280 it's been this February, I've never seen this warm before. We're looking for 23 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.959 an early spring. I would imagine, Hey, you know, I wish 24 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.359 I had that crystal Ball. I'm a concern. I'm concerned that we still 25 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.159 may have another frost or freeze in US. So some of the things I'll 26 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.439 talk about today is those of you are anxious to get out gardening, there 27 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.080 are some ways we can we can prep for that kind of hedge our bed 28 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.800 a little bit so. But uh anyway, yeah, I don't know about 29 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.840 how early. If it comes early, that like I said, this is 30 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:22.840 the big the big caveat is well when does some little late freeze come? 31 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:25.319 And that's that's what we deal with every spring. Welcome to gardening, right? 32 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.319 Yeah? Well good, I was I was I was going to try 33 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.039 to put down by pre emergent herbicide pretty quick before the rain case or whatever. 34 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.960 And I would imagine that's okay to do that. Absolutely, it's not 35 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:42.159 just okay. If you're going to use a primergent, you got to get 36 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.759 in ahead of the sprouting of the weeds and we're there. It's time to 37 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.400 get it down, all right. Well, that's that's that's that's good to 38 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:52.759 know it. I lost. I lost a lot of grass last year like 39 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.840 everybody else. So I'm hoping that can get something back. Well. And 40 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.439 if since you did, you got thin areas in the lawn and that you 41 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.439 know, wherever unlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. And so 42 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.280 that that's why the pre emergent probably this year is going to be a little 43 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.360 more, you know, in an important step because yeah, that bear soil 44 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.520 area will just you'll just start to get weeds each germinating. All right, 45 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.879 Uh all right, yeah, hey, mel, I don't know if you're 46 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.400 using barricade or what, but when you use a pre emergent like nitruss is 47 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:30.319 barricade, you want to put it down at the label rate. Don't think 48 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.199 that adding more is better. It's not use the label rate, follow it 49 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.759 very carefully and then watered in with about a half inch of water, about 50 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.960 third a half inch of water. That moves Go ahead, I'm sorry, 51 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.120 I was going to say it moves it into the soil. Sitting on the 52 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.960 granule you put out, it's not doing you any good when the moisture comes 53 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.479 and dissolves it and it ties up right at the soil surface where it does 54 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:59.879 its work, so that that watering it in is very important. Well that 55 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.759 it's pretty interesting that you say that, because somebody told me says, no, 56 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:08.719 that like the barricade is I think it's like whatever ten crowns covers five 57 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:13.280 thousand, and he said no, he said, that's really not enough. 58 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.919 Do you need to actually make it, like, you know, maybe a 59 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.240 bag and a half or five thousand and I'm thinking, well, well let 60 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:23.399 me let's just let's just use logic, you know, for a minute, 61 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:28.000 on what your friend said. If I made a herbicide, wouldn't I want 62 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.720 you to use more to buy more of my product? Right? So why 63 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:35.279 would I set a label rate that's low lower than it needs to be for 64 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:42.319 you to have success? Absolutely cannot be true. Follow the label. It's 65 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.560 on there for a reason that that rate if you put it out evenly. 66 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:47.519 At that rate, you will get good results when you move it in. 67 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.879 But the teaspoons good tablespoons better. We've used it our whole life for all 68 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:56.800 kinds of things, you know, and it just don't do it in gardening, 69 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.360 whether it's an insecticide or a fundicide. You know, there are secondary 70 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.920 issues that come when we move. It'd be like taking too much of certain 71 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:09.079 kinds of medicine. It's not not good for you. All right, Well, 72 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.720 that's good, good, good too. I'm glad I called you. 73 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.480 All right, Well, I'm glad you did too. Good luck up there 74 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.240 getting that tomboy yard and top shape. I'd save some money now there you 75 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:23.480 go. Well, okay, so I hope you spend it on other plants 76 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:31.279 and pum take care. Our phone number again seven one three two one two 77 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.279 k t r H. Give me a call. Let's talk about the things 78 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:40.199 that are of interest to you. Yes, I want to talk about spring 79 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:42.879 and the critical things. I'm going to do this more than once today, 80 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.759 because I know we have folks at tune in different times and listen. Uh 81 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.160 So it's always surprised me. Sometimes I'll say something and three minutes later someone 82 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.759 will call with that same question because they weren't listening when I said that the 83 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.439 first time. They weren't tuned in the first time. Maybe they were tuned 84 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.639 in, they weren't listening. I'll give them the benefit of a doubt. 85 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.839 But anyway, last summer was brutal, and our lawns lost a lot of 86 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:10.560 their density just because we couldn't water. And some people completely lost areas of 87 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:15.519 their lawn And you're gonna have to sad those areas. And I want to 88 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.959 say something right now, and I need you to listen. This is important 89 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.519 to hear this and understand this. If you have a lawn and you're not 90 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:28.639 re sodding, a pre emergent herbicide put down at the right rate and moved 91 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:32.800 into the surface will help protect against weeds. But if you plan on having 92 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.680 to put sod down, you don't want to lay sod down on something designed 93 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:43.360 to prevent we'd seed roots from developing and therefore control the weeds. So because 94 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.720 you don't want to affect your grassroots that you're laying on top of this barrier. 95 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.000 So you know, to put a barrier on the surface is fine, 96 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.199 but to lay it put it down on the ground. And then lay sod 97 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.639 on. It doesn't make sense, So go ahead and get the sodding done, 98 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.199 and then later on, when you've got that established and grown in really 99 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.680 well, the roots have moved from the sod down into the soil, then 100 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.879 if you want to use products on the surface, that's fine, but just 101 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.439 keep that in mind. Some people are going to have to do some residing, 102 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.519 and so when I talk about pre emergence, you need to have that 103 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.879 in mind. But if you're not residing, you can go ahead and do. 104 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.399 I hope that wasn't confusing, but it is important to remember that this 105 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.639 is an important time because once our soil temperatures hit about fifty five degrees or 106 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:35.040 so, depends on the weed species, things start to sprout out in the 107 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.759 garden. Do you have issues with grass birds? Do you have issues with 108 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.720 let's see crabgrass, that's a common summer weed that we deal with. Well, 109 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:46.920 each of those has this little temperature range where it really begins to sprout, 110 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.680 and we're getting close to hitting those temperature ranges here. That starts to 111 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:56.199 happen on the average throughout the Greater Houston area about this time of the A 112 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.279 A little bit later than this time toward the end of the month and in 113 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:03.399 tomorrow, and we want to be ahead of that with our applications. Uh. 114 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.680 And the analogy I like to use is you're playing baseball. Should you 115 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.759 swing at the ball before it gets to the plate so that you hit it 116 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.120 when it does or do you wait until it's in the catcher's myth to swing? 117 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.720 Well, that's a ridiculous question, but it makes a point. If 118 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.800 you let all the weed seeds sprout and germinate and then you put on a 119 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.839 pre emergent, well, pre emergent is what it's called, not post emergent. 120 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.120 So, uh, you want you don't want to delay in that and 121 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.759 move those in. I want to see a couple of other things about application. 122 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:33.960 We talk about watering it in with about a half inch of water. 123 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.320 I'm going to come back in just a moment. It's time for me to 124 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.480 take a break, but I'll be right back and with your calls. Our 125 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:45.480 phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. All 126 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.799 right, welcome back to garden Line. We're glad you're listening today. Our 127 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.399 phone number. You want to write this down so you can give us a 128 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:56.120 call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven to one 129 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.919 three two one two five eight seven For guess what day is coming up? 130 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.120 Valentine's Day. I know you were all thinking that, right, Valentine's Day. 131 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:13.159 This is a tip. Guys, listen if ladies don't listen for just 132 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.840 a minute, please, Guys, you don't want to mess up this. 133 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.759 It's important to get it right. Okay. I want to give you a 134 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.159 suggestion. You're not going to go wrong with a rose bush. Rose bushes. 135 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.200 You know. The cool thing about a plant like that for a gift 136 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:33.240 like that is it's one thing you can buy a bunch of long stem cut 137 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.039 roses. That's fine, go ahead and do that. Good luck. I 138 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:41.519 mean everybody else is after the same runs you are. Rose bush. You 139 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.759 give it to them, and year after year after your season after season, 140 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.879 the blooms just keep coming. You cannot buy a better, cheaper, more 141 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:56.279 economical, more repeat ongoing supply of roses than just getting a nice quality rose 142 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:00.840 bush. And RCW Nursery is an example of a place like that. Rcw's 143 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.919 rosebush list is like over four pages long. I mean you can go to 144 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.519 their website, do that, go to RCW nurseries dot com. Check it 145 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.240 out. You'll see what I'm talking about. The list is on there and 146 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.080 they are loaded up. And by the way, when it comes to blooms 147 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:18.840 and pretty blooms, pretty pink blooms, azaleas, camellias, citrus trees are 148 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:24.279 all on February sale twenty percent off azaleas, camellias and citrus trees. So 149 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.679 while you're there at the roses, there's a lot of other things to get 150 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.919 At RCW Nursery they always have a good stock, and just go through the 151 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.960 list. I would recommend print it out or at least look at it online, 152 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.799 write down some of the ones you want to check into, and then 153 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.080 go there to shop with that. You know there's gonna be other people there 154 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.440 after your roses, so don't delay. You want to get be able to 155 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.279 have a good selection, get the ones you're looking for. And that's how 156 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.919 you do it now RCWS at Tombolpark win but way eight, real easy to 157 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:54.000 get to, real simple. Just go to RCW Nurseries dot com. RCW 158 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.240 nurseries dot com and find out more. And believe me, when it comes 159 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.600 to a good selection, they definitely definitely have it. Hey, you're listening 160 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.000 to Guardline. We're going to talk about all kinds of things today. I 161 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.440 was just talking about if you are using a pre emergent, how to do 162 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.720 that right. And I want to make one other statement about both putting down 163 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:20.000 a nervous side and fertilizing, and this is important. We get rainstorms that 164 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.559 come. We got a little bit predicted this weekend, and you know that 165 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:30.279 it would be nice if it rained a nice slow half inch to move that 166 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.000 product down into the soil. But what often happens is we get a gully 167 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.559 washer and it just, you know, really rips and goes. And if 168 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.639 you especially if you have a fertilizer that's an immediate release which is used in 169 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.799 the spring green up application. If you choose to do that, an immediate 170 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.039 release fertilizer, it's a salt based and so imagine, you know, you 171 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.279 sprinkle salt or sugar on the counter and then just flood it with water. 172 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.480 Where does all that go? It dissolves and it washes away. So you 173 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.279 don't want to do that right for a rain do it, do a little 174 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.679 irrigation, But unless you know it's not going to rain too much, I 175 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.279 wouldn't put those out right before a rain. Make sure and you know, 176 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.720 just pay attention to that because you purchased it, it took time to put 177 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.240 it out. You want to grow grass with it. If this is a 178 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.080 lawn situation, you want to go grass. You don't want to grow algae 179 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:24.559 in a creek somewhere else. So be wise and be frugal by making that 180 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:30.000 application correct. Just something to think about out there in our spring lawn care 181 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:35.639 activities. You know, we talk a lot about lawns and weeds. Just 182 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.799 about everybody has a lawn and so we get a lot of questions on how 183 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.600 to what's wrong with my lawn, how to have a beautiful lawn, how 184 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.600 to take care of my lawn, and we talk about that all the time 185 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.399 on guard Line. But I want to be really clear about one thing. 186 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.840 When it comes to any garden, any landscape situation, the goal is not 187 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.399 to run around with products to kill things that pop up. The goal is 188 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.440 to grow as good and healthy of a garden as you can. And then 189 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.000 when you have a deal an issue you need to deal with, then you 190 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.759 pick the right product at the right time, at the right rate to do 191 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:13.720 that. And so the way we have a big, beautiful lawn or a 192 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:18.279 beautiful lawn is to mow water and fertilize properly through the year. And that's 193 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.759 what my lawn schedule does. If you go to gardening with Skip dot com 194 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.200 Gardening with Skip dot com, look at the lawn schedule and it talks about 195 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.000 when to fertilize and with what to get you all the way through the year. 196 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:33.000 That's the goal. Mow water infertilized. The denser your lawn, the 197 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.679 healthier lawn, the better shape your lawn is in, the fewer weed problems 198 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.039 you have to deal with. And when you fertilize properly, not too much, 199 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.519 not too little, then you also have less of a problem with issues 200 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:50.559 of certain insects and certain diseases that can be related to lawn care as well. 201 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.440 So it makes sense to make it easier on yourself create that foundation. 202 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:00.840 Over time, you can grow yourself out of most weed issues, but there 203 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:05.159 are weeds that you cannot grow out of. Saint Augustine will choke out a 204 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.320 lot of weed seeds, but things like Virginia button weed and dollar weed and 205 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.759 some others they're very difficult to deal with because they can coexist in the Saint 206 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.039 Augustine Lane. We have to deal with those, but that's a one at 207 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.679 a time. You know, each one has its its particular the best approach 208 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:24.039 to managing it. But for right now, just focus on the fact that 209 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.639 if you're going to need to prevent weeds, this would be the time to 210 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.159 prevent them. Compost top dressings help a little bit in that as well. 211 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:31.879 It's always a good time to get out there and put a little bit of 212 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:37.639 a compost top dressing down where you know, you can have that thin layer 213 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.960 over the surface. It shades the soil a little bit. It's not like 214 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.600 you're putting three inches the compost out, so it's not going to give the 215 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.159 full multch effect, but it is going to help some and that that's really 216 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.879 important to be able to do that. We got we got one of our 217 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:56.000 our folks that we like to recommend is green Pro Green Pro. My gosh, 218 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:00.360 they have been doing compost top dressing for a good while now and they 219 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:05.240 are focusing their efforts on about twenty five forty five excuse me, miles one 220 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.960 way or another from the Magnolia area. You know, they don't they don't 221 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.039 head wey south we kind of say it tends kind of the line they work 222 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.080 on. But if you're in Spring or Cyprus area, Woodland's up in Conroe 223 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.240 or Willis Magnolia, Montgomery, Katie, even West Houston, Central Houston, 224 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.960 North Houston, that's green Pro territory and they can come out. They if 225 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.759 it's a distance, you know, they have to charge a mileagrate to get 226 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.879 out because they're bringing a lot of heavy equipment. They're bringing the com bulky 227 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:37.279 compost materials and everything. But I'm telling you, a compost stop dressing on 228 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.600 your lawn, especially with a quality leaf more compost, that's what Greenpro uses. 229 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.039 That material will do a lot to helping your lawn, especially one that's 230 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.039 struggled. And they are struggling right now coming out of the winter season. 231 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.240 So give green Pro call. You can go to the website it's greenpro dot 232 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.960 net, green pro dot net, or call them two eight one three five 233 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:06.159 one forty seven thirty three two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. 234 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:11.559 I love watching lawns when they've been compost top dressed and just watching the 235 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.919 way the lawn responds as the weather worm's up, maybe begins to grow and 236 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.080 stuff makes a big difference. You know, nature fertilizes that way. Nature 237 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:23.559 drops leaves on the ground in forests and in meadows, and it adds back 238 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.879 that organic matter to the soil gradually over time, over the years, and 239 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.200 things just keep getting better and better. I have talked a little bit about 240 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:34.840 some things with the lawn this morning. I'm going to continue to do that 241 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.559 as we go through the morning. What are some things you need to know 242 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.799 about in getting ahead of things? And the first message of the day is 243 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.879 you gotta if you're gonna have to deal with a weed problem, it's better 244 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.720 to prevent it than to try to kill it after it's growing. When weeds 245 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.879 are growing in your lawn, there are products that can help on that, 246 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.399 but as it gets hotter and hotter, our product options dwindled to very few, 247 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.360 very few, and it's much better to just avoid it in the first 248 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:06.480 place. If you have a vegetable garden, if you're interested in vegetable gardening, 249 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.079 By the way, I keep forgetting to give you our phone number seven 250 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.799 one three two one two KTRH if you'd like to give me a call this 251 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:18.240 morning. If you're thinking about vegetable gardening, We're on that borderline, you 252 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.960 know, where we go. Do I put my tomatoes in the ground and 253 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:26.079 peppers and things, or do I not? H? And the gamblers will 254 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.599 uh. And they're because they're going to get out and cover the plants because 255 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.119 it is a likelihood we're going to have a frost coming up. I mean 256 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.599 it, just if you look at the average, we're not there yet. 257 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.359 We're not at the average last final date. We may not have any more 258 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:44.480 and we may it, just we don't know. That's the gambler. So 259 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.160 if you like to gamble to get out early and get going, go for 260 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.640 it and be ready to cover them up. If you are very conservative and 261 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.599 you do not want to buy more seeds or transplant or anything like that, 262 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.759 you got two options. By the way, those are the people that wear 263 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:03.480 both belts and suspenders, just to be sure. The options you have are. 264 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.519 Number one, go aead and buy the plants and bring them home. 265 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.440 And if look at the root system, if it's pretty full in that pot, 266 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:11.720 go ahead and bump it to the next sized pot and just hang on 267 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.200 to them. You can put them outside during the day when we're going to 268 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.160 get down below fifty five or so. I would bring them in at night 269 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.440 and make sure they're doing good. Some people bring them in even if it's 270 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.599 going to just be sixty But just couldn't do that and get them growing, 271 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.119 because then when it's time to plant, you have a bigger plant and you're 272 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.640 better off. You're doing better off, or you you know, you could 273 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.000 put them in the garden and then have to protect them. But just a 274 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.240 couple of options for getting that good early start. Because I don't know about 275 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.160 you, but I am raring to go to get out and do some gardening. 276 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.640 This is going to be a good spring. I just know it is. 277 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.720 I feel it in my bones, and I've been planting out in my 278 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.119 garden. I've got some transplants going indoors, and it's just a lot of 279 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.759 fun to be able to do that. Hey, if your landscape was looking 280 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.440 bad, I talked about it, then lawn. If you have other issues 281 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.839 in your landscape, like maybe you lost some plant or lost some whole sections 282 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:07.359 along last year, maybe your irrigation system wasn't giving good coverage, even coverage, 283 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:10.279 and even though you're watering, you just couldn't keep the lawn alive. 284 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.559 Pierce scapes can come out and they can fix all of that, they can 285 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.640 put in new planting and say, hey, I need some stuff that's a 286 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.960 little more drought tolerant, or how about redesigning a bed or something like that. 287 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.319 Now's the time to call them and get scheduled, because they're gonna be 288 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:26.319 really busy. They're gonna be do irrigation twunops, making sure taking care of 289 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.839 things like that. They're gonna be doing planting and designing. And the sooner 290 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.720 you sit down with them and bring in your pictures and talk to them and 291 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.680 say, hey, let's talk about a design. The sooner you can get 292 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:41.079 that set up and oh my gosh, water gardens, walkways, rock patios, 293 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.359 landscape lighting, and it just goes on. A drainage. There's a 294 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.200 huge one, a huge one. If we don't have good drainage, planes 295 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.240 don't do well. Piercecapes can fix that. All you gotta do is go 296 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.799 to the website Piercescapes dot com or call them. Two eight one three seven 297 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.759 oh five zero six zero was time for Nicky and the news. We'll be 298 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.440 right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We're glad you're listening today. 299 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.960 We are going to be talking all morning, well all morning till ten am 300 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:15.480 about the different things that we need to be doing right now that are very 301 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.200 timely, and we have some things. This is that baseball moment the pitcher 302 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.680 has let go of the ball. You got to make a decision and you 303 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:23.759 got to swing at the right time if you're going to hit the ball. 304 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.839 And this is the right time for a lot of different kinds of things that 305 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:32.279 are out there. For example, you've got plants that have been through a 306 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:33.759 little bit of a hammering frieze. This year, we had a pretty good 307 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:38.480 one that wopped them pretty well. And as those plants are getting ready to 308 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.160 push new growth, As you start to see new growth coming on, it's 309 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:47.039 a good time to put down something that is going to provide nutrients for those 310 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:52.880 roots as well as other important elements or other there's hormones, there's vitamins, 311 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.039 there's nutrients, all kinds of different things that go on to the soil. 312 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:02.160 But Medina Plus is a seaweed extract to medina soil activator. So you got 313 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.359 two really excellent products right there put together. In Medina Plus, it encourages 314 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.759 root growth, encourages blooming and fruiting. You're getting the nutrients out there and 315 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.079 you're providing a lot of biological activity additionally to what's in the soil. With 316 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.240 those products, I like to drench them on to the base of the plant 317 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.799 as it's beginning to try to regrow, and then turn on and do folio 318 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.880 your feet as well. You can spray on the leaves as are coming out 319 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.839 and beginning to grow. Once you have a leaf you can hit with spray, 320 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.680 then it's time to do some of the folio feeding as well. And 321 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:34.799 Medina has a number of different products at work very well. I'll talk about 322 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:37.839 some others a little further in the season, but right now, the Medina 323 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:42.559 Plus with that seaweed extracts, or you can also just purchase Medina Seaweed two 324 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.160 to use as you begin to do some folio on your plants. It's very 325 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:51.440 good too for little seedlings you're getting started. Just to follow the label real 326 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:56.480 carefully, but mix a dilute solution and kind of watermen get them going. 327 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.319 As you're putting transplants in watermen with that as well, it all works really 328 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.319 well. Hey, we're going to head out now to Ralph in northwest Houston. 329 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:08.640 Hello Ralph, good morning. I'm sure glad you've covered everything. How 330 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:14.519 hold on, hat's already. Oh okay, well and I'm all already to 331 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:19.119 get to going. Yeah, and my compost? What did put on top 332 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:26.720 of my yard? My Saint Augustine is coming through to the board. Have 333 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.160 you put some compost out already? Ralph? Have you already put it out? 334 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.960 No? I haven't. Okay, Well, any kind of a good 335 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.759 screen compost can be used, you know, if you purchase that's a lot 336 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:38.240 of work and it's a mess. Uh, and a lot of people just 337 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:41.000 heart done. That's where we're talking about greenpro coming out and just doing it 338 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.680 for you. But uh, you can anytime you you do a compost top 339 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:51.119 dressing lightly over the over the grass, you can get some benefit from that 340 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.279 as long as it's screened. You don't want chunks of wood and stuff that 341 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:57.039 you know your lawnmoar is going to hit and send everywhere. But I say, 342 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:00.160 my compost, if I'm making it my self, I save it for 343 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:06.640 you know, potting plants and potted plants containers and working into the vegetable garden 344 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:11.519 because uh, it's you need a lot of it. Okay, you're very 345 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:15.599 good at what you do. And I'm glad for Aguland thanks sir, and 346 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.759 my pecan tree. I told you about it. They it's very so much 347 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.000 and I had have ability to come out in trimed three years ago and then 348 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:32.559 it had so much heavy I didn't have them again this year. And it 349 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:38.160 just wrapped the big limbs off of a lost I got a bunch of different 350 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:42.319 kind of leaves. Yea tree. Well, those those pecans get older, 351 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.359 Ralph, and that just you know, they they do. They're bad about 352 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:49.640 dropping some limbs sometimes as they get older. So oh, it was so 353 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:55.319 heavy, like the acorns did everything on my tree. I got. I 354 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:57.039 got a lot of stuff, all right. Anyway, Well, hey, 355 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:00.599 thank you so much. I appreciate you call this. You take care up 356 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.160 there, have a good time gardening. Let's head up to Seabrook and talk 357 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:10.359 to Carol. Hello, Carol. Hi. Hey, you know we don't 358 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:15.599 spend that much time in the front yard. And several days ago we were 359 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:21.240 out there and I looked up at our our live oak and there was a 360 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.480 holes, I mean hundreds of holes. It's just on the street side. 361 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:32.799 And my husband said, well, it must be a woodpecker. Okay, 362 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.720 you tellmage to the tree. Will it ever survive? You're talking about holes 363 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:42.079 that are like the size of a pencil eraser, little little bittyles. That 364 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:45.079 is a sapsucker bird. It won't hurt the tree. Don't worry about it. 365 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.920 They do that, and if you look at them closely, they typically 366 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.240 are in horizontal lines, like you took a machine gun and strafed across the 367 00:24:52.279 --> 00:25:00.599 trunk. Are you there? It's up and it's up and down tree. 368 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.240 Well, you could send me a picture of it, but I'm ninety nine 369 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.960 point nine percent sure you're talking about a sapsucker and there's nothing to do about 370 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:14.440 it, nothing to worry about. Okay, so we shouldn't spray it or 371 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.319 anything to keep bugs from borrowing in. No, that's it's not really. 372 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.079 That won't be related to that. The sapsucker work. They make a little 373 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.440 tiny hole, barely touch that living bark inside, and it leads a little 374 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.440 sap They come back and drink it and that that's kind of how that works. 375 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:36.640 But I would say that these holes are at least a quarter or plus 376 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.359 deep. Yeah, they're about the depth of a pencil of a brand new 377 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:45.680 pencil eraser and about that size too. Yep, that's what the bird does. 378 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.720 Hey, you're lucky to be out there in Seabrook. You got Moss 379 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:52.799 Nursery on the back steps. Yeah, true. Oh well, I was 380 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.759 just out there out there yesterday. Go ahead. Well, I'm not gonna 381 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:03.680 We're not gonna lose our tree that was my Those holes are not going to 382 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.400 be the cause of a loss of the tree. Okay, all right, 383 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.799 Well, thank you so very much for the information. The day you take 384 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.119 care of Carrol, you too as well. Yeah, I went out, 385 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.160 I was out at Moss. We were just walking through and look at my 386 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:21.200 wife loves string of plants, and oh my gosh, when you go to 387 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:25.720 Moss there is a lot of house plants, including succulents, which are really 388 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:29.160 a hot item right now. And we had to get some string ofs to 389 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.839 add to the collection out there from Moss. You know, Moss has stuff. 390 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:34.400 I was walking through there. You know, their fruit trees, all 391 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.119 kinds of fruit, you know, like the the what we think of as 392 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.599 more northern fruit like apples and peaches, and then the tropicals like guava, 393 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.839 papaia and dragon fruit and apoloies. I mean, they have all kinds of 394 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.400 things, blackberries that are thornless. I saw probably forty fifty different kinds of 395 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.200 herbs, probably ten different kinds just of mint. What kind of mint do 396 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.400 you like? They've got it. They've got herbs and hanging baskets, they 397 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:59.720 got the vegetable plants, everything you need. And you know, one thing 398 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:02.720 I was out there, I visited with a couple of Travis County and not 399 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:07.119 Travis, Harris County master gardeners back when I was agent here in Harris County. 400 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.240 I got to visit with some out there because Moss hires gardeners, people 401 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:14.720 with years and years of experience in their own garden. So when you're walking 402 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.279 around talking to someone at Moss, you're talking to somebody that knows what they're 403 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.079 doing. They are experienced, and you want to get things right the first 404 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:23.480 time, and they help you do that. They talk to you about the 405 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.559 swelling water and fertilizing and how to plant a plant, how to take care 406 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:33.039 of it. Go to Moss Nursery dot com Moss Nursery dot com or give 407 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:37.720 them a call. It is two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty 408 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.759 eight two one twenty four to twenty. Hey, I love going to Moss 409 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.160 and I know you will too. Where are we now? We're going to 410 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.200 go back, Well, got to take a little break. When we come 411 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.920 back, Ray, Phil and Beverly, you will be first up and look 412 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.359 forward to visiting a little bit more about some things that are very timely for 413 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.920 right now. We'll be right back, all right, welcome back to garden. 414 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:04.720 Looking forward to visiting with what with you for with good night, Looking 415 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:07.599 forward to visiting with you about what you're interested in. That's what I'm going 416 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.799 to say. What topics. You don't talk vegetables or you're talking herbs or 417 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.599 whatever. Beautiful hanging baskets, bibles at massa other day and talking about that 418 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:19.599 yesterday, and oh my gosh, that had a listen and hanging baskets. 419 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:26.039 They're just a rose pink color and you couldn't see the leaves or some ballooms 420 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:27.960 on the plant. It's just beautiful. They got all kinds of hanging baskets 421 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:30.079 too. Hey, if you want to get a staghorn fern, they got 422 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.000 those two. You can get a smaller size when you can get started for 423 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:38.480 a very reasonable economical way and get going to have your own beautiful stag goorn 424 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.039 too. I love hanging baskets all really nice. Hey, let's go down. 425 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:45.680 We're going to go to pear Land and talk to Beverly. Hello, 426 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:52.319 Beverly, good morning. I have a big, long brand. It's about 427 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.000 twelve foot long four foot deep, and it has cestrums and lantanas in it 428 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.759 and one alamanda. This year, I all, I covered them up. 429 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:11.240 But when I uncovered them, it's all uh and yeah, will those plants 430 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.880 come come back? And how much should I prone them? Well, it's 431 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.079 impossible to tell, not knowing exactly the extent of the damage to those plants 432 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:25.039 in that specific location. But alamanda's are more of a tropical I'd worry more 433 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:29.119 about it. The lantana should be fine, and the cystrum, I think 434 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.480 from the base you should. You should see some regrowth on both of those, 435 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.279 especially if you had some sort of cover over them. So on the 436 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:41.119 the alamanda, I'm doubtful, but wait and see. Okay, But so 437 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.480 I just need to get the dead part off of the lantanas. And yes, 438 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.880 how much should I purne the Well? You know what I would do 439 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.440 if it were mine is I would wait and let some regrowth begin and then 440 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.640 let let the plant tell you where to prune back to. You can prune 441 00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.720 it now, there's not a problem but you really other and scrape in the 442 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.319 bark and looking for a living bark underneath the surface. It's kind of hard 443 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.079 to tell how far back to prune on that cesstrum. For example, if 444 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.839 you use a knife for your thumbnail and scrape back and it's brown like a 445 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:17.599 paper sack, then go down for alone. But how about the lantanas. 446 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:22.440 They they're probably killed back. I would probably prune them back to a few 447 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.720 inches above the ground. And I think they're going to resprout for you below 448 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:30.559 that. Oh okay, thank you, okay, I appreciate it. Yeah, 449 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.880 And I was out in Paarland, uh see about three days ago. 450 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.279 You guys have a Walldbird's unlimited store down there. That is unbelievable. I 451 00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:45.519 was in talking with the movie that is. Isn't that the coolest stuff that 452 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.480 they have inside? That you're fortunate to have a Wallbird's. Well, I 453 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.200 was actually a bunch of them, But you're fortunate to have one right now. 454 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.640 Twll everybody by yourself A squirrel a danger a squirrel. Oh I know, 455 00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:02.680 I've got their scrollator preventer feeder and it works. Man. That is 456 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.039 very very cool. All right, Well, I just had to say that 457 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.160 because I was just out there. Thanks a lot, Beverly, Okay, 458 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:14.799 thank you all right, bye bye? Yeah, that oh my gosh, 459 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.359 that is I love going love going into Wilbirds. You know, there's I 460 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.680 think there's six different Wildbirds stores now going around the greater Houston area. And 461 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.599 it's time. Listen if you if you want Bluebirds or if you want Purple 462 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.200 Martins, you got to get the houses up now. When the Purple Martins 463 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.279 scouts come out and look for a place, you need to have a house 464 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.720 up or they're gonna find somewhere else to set up shop. Purple Martins are 465 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:38.960 out there eating bugs. So are bluebirds and other many other birds by the 466 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.319 way, But now's the time and they can get you set up on all 467 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.839 of that. You know, six six stores all over the Houston area. 468 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.839 Go to WBU dot com if you want to find the one near you. 469 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.240 They're all I've never walked into a wild Birds that I just wasn't. My 470 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:59.079 jaw hits the ground. It's like I need one of everything that's in that 471 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.680 store. Let's go to filling Tomball now, Hey Phil, what's up? 472 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:08.599 Yeah? Look, I had some some Italian cypress trees and they got killed 473 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:13.200 off by the freeze. This was several years ago, and I've been looking 474 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:16.240 for some I really like the Italian cyprus a lot, but I was told 475 00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:21.960 that they're really not quite quite good for this area just because of the freeze 476 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.599 and the disease and stuff like that, and and I was looking for something 477 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:29.559 to replace them with. They gave kind of a similar look, okay for 478 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:36.000 the Italian Yeah, yeah, that is a very narrow, tall, unique 479 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.519 plant, and it's hard to find one that's just like that, So you're 480 00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:45.119 gonna have to The look's going to be different. The Japanese you can be 481 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.240 trimmed to make a wall of foliage if you put a bunch of them together. 482 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:54.119 It takes continued trimming, though to maintain that. And that's the challenge 483 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:59.119 of the Italian cypress. It just sort of maintains it's with But we have 484 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.200 very few op when it comes to being able to have a plant that fits 485 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:08.319 that exact dimensions. So somebody had told me that maybe maybe like a tailor 486 00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:13.319 juniper would work. Have you had any experience for those? You know, 487 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.759 I haven't grown tailor, and I need to look at the width. It's 488 00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:21.519 got to be pretty wide. Compared to the Italian cypress though, but you 489 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.880 could try that. But listen any cypress or juniper type plant, cedar, 490 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.880 you know those kind of things that they can have thing issues like spider mites. 491 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.319 They can have issues that like certain diseases, some needle blights, and 492 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:39.240 when you kill a section of a plant whether whatever does it, that turns 493 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.119 brown and it never regreens right there, and so you sort of have a 494 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.799 hole in your plant. That's one of the reasons I don't generally recommend Italian 495 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.519 cypress for here because you get them up, they look beautiful. You feel 496 00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.720 like you're on your villa in the Mediterranean, and next thing you know, 497 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.039 this one loses a hole and that one dies, and now how do you 498 00:33:55.160 --> 00:34:00.119 recreate that uniform beautiful? Yeah, you described it exactly exactly. That's what 499 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.400 always happens. It may not happen early, but it will happen. And 500 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.160 so that's why I don't I would have to look at that tailor. I 501 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:09.159 don't know the width on it off the top of my head. But let 502 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.599 me ask you this, where's a uh that's all just going to go maybe 503 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:17.119 shop for some trees to get a like a hedge or I've got like two 504 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.320 acres and a single story house, and I want to kind of put some 505 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.920 a privacy, some some trees up, I guess, and looking for something, 506 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.559 where's a where's a good place in town? Where'd you consider some recommendations 507 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:37.719 to actually go look at a wide variety of like smaller trees that I could 508 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.400 get. Yeah, plant, Well, you're you're up there in Tomball, 509 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:42.840 so you know you got to arbrogate on your back door. I mean, 510 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.760 they've got a lot of different things up there. If you're wanting just to 511 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.039 go, like to a place that just focuses on trees, you know, 512 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.239 we we've got those as well. But I would I would start right there 513 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.000 at the Arborgate first, okay, And if you want to obrogates, like 514 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:58.519 ten minutes for me. Yeah, And they're going to have a lot of 515 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.719 options for you out there down there, not too far, I guess. 516 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:07.519 The next closest place and focusing on trees would be the RCW folks have Williamson 517 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:12.320 Tree Farm and they grow a lot of different trees up in Plannersville that they 518 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.800 bring in and so they are they're like the local retail nursery, but they 519 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.960 have access to that farm, and so you would that would expand your a 520 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.159 little bit. But both of those you're not gonna go wrong in either of 521 00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.639 those places. Okay, okay, all right, well, thank you very 522 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:28.920 much. I appreciate it, you bet, Phil, thank you. I 523 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.679 appreciate that. Yeah. Our Arburgate. By the way, those of you 524 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:34.880 who've been to Arburgate, Uh, do you know about the new parking lot 525 00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:38.280 that's behind it? You need to because you know they're out on twenty nine 526 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:43.599 to twenty just to the west of Tomball Trisher Road. Whether you're coming from 527 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:47.400 east or west, Trisher Road makes a loop behind Arburgate and so either either 528 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:52.079 way before Arburgate or after Arbrogate, coming east or west, just turn on 529 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:57.039 Trisher Road and go around behind Arburgate. Great new parking lot, super super 530 00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.559 parking lot, and boy, they are loaded with all kinds of really cool 531 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:06.159 stuff. Go look at the Lenton roses, the HeLa bores. That is 532 00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:09.119 the most beautiful plant. And it's named because it blooms during the lent season 533 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:13.400 each year. A great perennial for a shady area that you might have a 534 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:16.079 part shade type area. Lobos, I'm a bit of shade. Lenton rose 535 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.039 is gorgeous. I like it because it has an antique look. That's one 536 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:22.679 of the reasons. You know, we got a lot of plants. We 537 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.440 use a lot that just eh, it's the same old plant everybody has. 538 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.400 This one's kind of different. Not everybody has a Lenton rose, that's for 539 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.880 sure. There's a lot of great perennials like that that you ought to be 540 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.079 looking for. But anyway, yeah, you know, you know what I'm 541 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:38.760 talking about. Always new plants. By the way, anytime I go to 542 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:43.079 Auburgrade, I'm will see a dozen plants I've never heard of before, because 543 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.400 that's kind of something new coming in out there. We're gonna take a little 544 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.880 break here. It's time for the top of the hour in the news. 545 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:53.000 Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four or two 546 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:55.679 one two k t r H. If you want to do it that way, 547 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:07.719 we'll be right back. Kat r H. Garden Line does not necessarily 548 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.079 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat 549 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:24.920 r H. Garden Line with skimped Richard. It's Trim just watch him as 550 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:34.840 well. Welcome back to garden Line. Good Saturday morning to you, Glad 551 00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.480 you're listening in today. Still dark outside. Hey, if your neighbors lights 552 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:40.519 aren't on, go bang them the door, tell them they're missing guard line 553 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.519 and they will rise up and call you blessed. Maybe not today, they 554 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:46.639 might call you something else today, but you get the idea. They need 555 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:50.440 to know about guard line so they can have a beautiful on a bountiful, 556 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.360 bountiful garden. Uh, we're gonna run. Let's see, We're gonna run 557 00:37:54.400 --> 00:38:00.639 straight out to Katie and talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, the morning, 558 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.039 good morning, good morning, good morning. I just had a quick 559 00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:09.079 question. My yard kind of died off. Large large patches of grass just 560 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:13.639 died. Yeah, I want to do the top the you know, the 561 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:17.159 air ration and compost stop dressing. Yeah. Should I do that before I 562 00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:22.360 lay the new sad or lay the new sod and then do the compost top 563 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:27.079 dressing. If you're going to do that, I would definitely do it after 564 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:29.920 you lay the new side. Give that sid, you know, a few 565 00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.480 weeks of at least two weeks if it's a warm season when you lay it. 566 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:37.400 But it needs time to root in really really well. Uh, and 567 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:42.480 so it's better to do that aeration itself. As we get into the growing 568 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.280 season. The grass is actively growing. The compo stop dressing. You can 569 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.760 do then, or you can do it anytime. So you may just want 570 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:52.119 to get them get them both done, especially if you're going to have folks 571 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:53.960 at Greenpro come down and do it. And they green Pro does come down 572 00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:58.079 to the Katy area. I know they go down to about it ten, 573 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.239 So Katie's one of the town as I go to, Yeah, out fixing 574 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:05.880 a call and set up an appointment maybe for like March. Yeah, yeah, 575 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.840 that'd be a good March would be good. Later in March even or 576 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:12.400 April would would also be good. You can do it anytime. I mean, 577 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.119 you can do it in May, even June, whatever. But I'm 578 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.679 just saying that it's better to go ahead and get that done. Okay, 579 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:21.920 Well, thank you skid. You have an awesome date. All right, 580 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.519 Ray, thanks for the call. I appreciate that a lot. You know, 581 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:28.719 we're talking about lawns and when you're looking at the nutrients a lawn needs, 582 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.599 the big three are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Those are the 583 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:35.960 three numbers on a fertilizer bag that drives a lot of growth. The grass 584 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.000 uses the most of those three nutrients of any of the nutrients, but it 585 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:45.000 needs about twenty different nutrients to do really really well because there are nutrients that 586 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:51.400 are called essential that are needed in trace amounts, and as mite provides that 587 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.800 a might When you put as mit down, you're adding a micronutrients source to 588 00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:59.800 the soil and to your lawn. So you don't need to put it down 589 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.639 and it's time to fertilize a lawn, you can just separate it from your 590 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:07.000 fertilizer, make two applications, but you can put it on any time that 591 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:08.599 you want to do it, because what you're doing is you're looking at building 592 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.920 the bank account in the soil. So if it needs a little bit of 593 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:15.920 manganese, or if it needs a little bit of boron, or if it 594 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:20.320 needs a little bit of copper, whatever is needed, is there in an 595 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:23.119 adequate supply for your lawn. And you go to azamite Texas dot com, 596 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:28.039 it's widely available. Lots of our good mom and pop garden centers, lots 597 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.320 of our suppliers and feed stores will carry asamite, And I would I would 598 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.400 recommend you that you get that on your schedule. I've got it on my 599 00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:42.480 lawn, my excuse me lawn care schedule that's online at gardeningwith Skip dot com. 600 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.039 We're going to now go to Mary in West Houston. Hello Mary, 601 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:52.199 Hello skips. I have a couple of questions, one with regard to some 602 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:59.719 heavy, too heavy philodendrons in pots, play pots and plastic pod They're very 603 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:05.079 heady and they've got sapped by the recent freeze the leaves did, and they've 604 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:09.039 got this white mildew stuff growing on top of the stalk. Right. Can 605 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:14.239 I move them outside of the house into the ah room again or should I 606 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.519 wait for the next freeze before March? I would make sure you were done 607 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.880 with freezes, because unless you just like moving them in and out, if 608 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:23.559 you're able to know to do that heavy, yeah, I would. I 609 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:28.519 would give you a little bit of time, So about three more weeks you 610 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:31.039 think by the first of March will be okay to move them back out. 611 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.719 Let's see, you are in Western you know it, Yes I do. 612 00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:42.840 But the weather is unpredictable, and so we now look at percentages like here's 613 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.320 the fifty to fifty date, here's the seventy five twenty five date. You 614 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.400 know what I'm saying, And so sure, sure, I been on safe 615 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.280 side. You're pretty safety. I wait till the middle of March. No, 616 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:54.280 I think you're probably ok. You could wait till the middle of March 617 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.800 if you want to be extra careful. And those things don't want to grow 618 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:02.159 until it warms up anyway, So that was my next question. There's stalks 619 00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:07.679 are coming off the there's there's runners coming off the stalk and they're all brown. 620 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.519 Did they die with the leaves or were they start uf? Well, 621 00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.199 I don't, I don't. Yeah, I don't know what exact kind of 622 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.440 philodendron you have, but that I think I know based on the fact that 623 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.280 you're seeing those are roots, aerial roots dropping down to the ground. Probably 624 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:28.000 yes, they go underneath the bricks to the to the ground. Okay, 625 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:32.360 And yeah, well time will tell, ma'am. We're just got to see 626 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:37.239 when new growth begins, you'll know, you'll know exactly. Yeah, okay. 627 00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:42.960 And on the weeds in the front yard, can I go ahead and 628 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:49.280 put a fertilizer, uh, with a broad leash weed killer down in the 629 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:54.360 front yard that you can now? Well, yes, But Nelson's Plant Food 630 00:42:54.400 --> 00:43:00.119 has something called turf star we donator weed do nature and what it has is, 631 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:05.320 it's got it. Normally I don't put a weed controlled and fertilizer in 632 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.559 the same product. This one is used for the cool season weeds that you're 633 00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:13.480 talking about right now, the existing weeds. So you need to wet the 634 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.880 grass first so that the leaves of the weeds are wet. It just takes 635 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:22.079 just enough water to barely wet the grass and then put the fertilizer weedinator out. 636 00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:24.880 The weed control. It sticks to the weeds. Give it about a 637 00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:29.840 day or two before you water the lawn. After that because let it stick 638 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:31.000 to the weed, let it move into the weeds, and then a day 639 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:35.639 or two later you can water, but that'll move the fertilizer down. And 640 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.960 it's such a slow release that you're not going to get all that fertilizer washed 641 00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:43.400 away with the winter rains like you would with some of our spring green up 642 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.400 type fast release product we had last night would be sufficient. Yeah, unless 643 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:52.800 you just literally have water sheeting off the lawn carrying debris and everything with it. 644 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:57.880 But that fertilizer doesn't just dissolve away. It's it takes a long time 645 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:04.840 to release everything that's in the product. In the turf star weed denatur we 646 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.559 didn't. Okay, okay, if you want broadleaf we control you bet all 647 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.320 right, you bet? Thanks. I appreciate that call Mary very much. 648 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:16.920 If those you've living down League City, League City Feed has been there for 649 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.400 a long time, forty years ago. I mean this was I was by 650 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:24.079 visiting with Wes just this past two let's see it Thursday, I believe I 651 00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:29.800 went by there and the store is just like what you always expect. It's 652 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.239 that old time feed store. They bring the bags out for you and oh 653 00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:37.880 my gosh, the products selection that they have, Wes, and it's just 654 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:43.079 if I recommend a fertilizer, they've got it. They have the soil type 655 00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:45.159 products we recommend. If you need any kind of a pest control, they've 656 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.880 got it. Of course they have animal feed. You know that it's a 657 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:51.800 feed store. You expect that. But it's on Highway three, just a 658 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:53.719 few blocks south of the Highway ninety six out there in the League City. 659 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:58.320 So for all of you like Dickinson, Lamark Bay Cliff, Santa Fe, 660 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:01.119 clar Lake City, el come into Reale Webster. You know that's your hometown 661 00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:07.440 feed store, and you know they're going to be available nine to six pm. 662 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.159 Closed, on Sundays Monday through Saturday nine to six. It's easy to 663 00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:13.960 get by there. You can give them a call to eight one three three 664 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.719 two one six one two. We're going to take a break right now, 665 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.920 Cleveland and San Antonio. We're going to get to you first when we come 666 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.079 back. All right, welcome back to guard Line. We're glad you're listening 667 00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:27.880 this morning. If you'd like to give us a call on any kind of 668 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.360 gardening question, our number is seven one three two one two k t r 669 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:35.599 H seven one three two one two ktr H. We're going to go out 670 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.599 to San Antonio now and talk to Cleveland. Hey, Cleveland, thanks for 671 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:42.519 being patient. Hey, Heyskip, what you're doing? I'm good. I'm 672 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.880 good. Are you in San Antonio right now? Well, right now I'm 673 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:51.760 in Sofa Springs. I'll trive a big truck. Oh okay, So you're 674 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:55.119 listening on the app? Is that? Yes? All right? Good, 675 00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.840 glad you're listening as usual. Thanks for calling. All right, So the 676 00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:05.360 question I have is about de thatching. I need to I've sent Augustine and 677 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:08.159 I need to be thatches. Is there a way I can deepfat you without 678 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:15.679 equipment like a liquid detache or something. Well, the thing to do there 679 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.800 would be to do a compost top dressing so that those runners are covered with 680 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:25.480 organic material. Runners that create the thatch in Saint Augustine, those runners are 681 00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.000 very resistant to breaking down compared to like grass blades. When you mow, 682 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.480 you can just let the grass blades fall down, but the runners, when 683 00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.840 you when you fertilize the water a lot, you create more that So number 684 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.039 one, don't overfertilize the lawn that because that just creates more growth, that 685 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.719 creates more thatches. Those runners are crawling around everywhere, but when you put 686 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.440 that top top dressing of compost over it, it's it's like you know, 687 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:52.320 you're covering them up, and it's like the forest floor where leaves are covering 688 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.320 up organic matter. It all starts rotting down there and you can you can 689 00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:00.400 decay away if you will, uh some of the thatch. Other than that, 690 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:04.679 you would want to use a core aer rator. That's the one that 691 00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.159 goes in the ground and pulls the plug of soil out outside your finger a 692 00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.000 plug of soil out of the ground and drops it on the surface, and 693 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:16.440 that soil also mixes in around and with air rating and compost, stop dressing. 694 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:20.960 You can decay away a lot of that thatch, just don't grow more 695 00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:24.320 in the process. All right, good, thank you, all right, 696 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.320 thanks be safe out there on the roadways. We've got some rain coming through 697 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.559 you. Oh yeah, I'm already in it. Yeah, okay, all 698 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:35.960 right, you take care. Yeah, that is true. Thatch is interesting. 699 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:40.239 You see things called de thatchers, uh, and those are for northern 700 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:45.719 turf grasses, bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, fescue grass, those clumping types of 701 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.559 grasses. De thatching works well for those. When you start taking a Saint 702 00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:53.480 Augustine lawn and running a a thatcher over to it's just pulling those runners up 703 00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:58.920 and it just it just makes a mess and does does some damage. There 704 00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:04.320 is something for severe situations, and this is this goes toward Cleveland's question. 705 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:10.679 It's called a vertict cutter, and think of it as blades that are vertical 706 00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:16.960 separated out at some distance maybe four inches, to cut down through the Saint 707 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.719 Augustine runners and it pulls up a little bit of debris in that process, 708 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.800 and then you go through and mow it and cut it down. That is 709 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:27.800 a wounding process and we don't want to do it if we don't have to. 710 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:30.599 But where you cannot use a the de thatcher, or you shouldn't use 711 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.280 a de thatcher on Saint Augustine, a vertic cutter is an option. I 712 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.440 don't talk about it much because almost nobody needs it. It would take a 713 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.760 very unique situation where that is going to be needed, but at times it 714 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:45.039 is. But I just like to grow myself out of it. You know, 715 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.360 anytime that we can just let nature's processes go to work for us, 716 00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.400 I think it's a good idea to do that. And the corroration compost top 717 00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:57.920 dressing just an example of that sort of thing. You know, we're talking 718 00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.360 Valentine's Guess why this week is Valentine's Week? Come on, guys, we're 719 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:07.960 here, guys and ladies both Now if you are interested in learning more about 720 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:12.480 roses, and while you're picking up some roses, even Chenned Gardens in Richmond, 721 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.800 they've got a program today. The minute I end the show today, 722 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:21.440 the program starts ten am, so twelve noon. Rosecare in the Gulf Coast 723 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:23.599 region. Now, if you're interested in starting a rose garden, this is 724 00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:27.840 a seminar you need to go to. Now. Marie Jenkins, manager of 725 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.679 the Anti Grozing Porium. It's gonna come down to Chenni Gardens in Richmond, 726 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:35.239 and they're gonna be talking all about rosecare on the Gulf Coast region, the 727 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.519 best varieties to grow here, and so on. And in Chennet's stocked up 728 00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:40.519 on all their spring roses. You can choose your favorites, take them right 729 00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:44.360 home with you. They're gonna have tents out. Don't worry about the weather 730 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.719 today. They have beautiful, big old tints with plenty of seeding to keep 731 00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:52.800 you all protected and comfortable and everything like that while you learn. Their programs 732 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:58.800 are always outstanding out there at the enchanted Gardens. They're also they're stocked up 733 00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:00.480 on tomatoes and peppers, so if you want to bring some of those home 734 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:04.119 with you, they can get you fixed up now. In Chinned Gardens, 735 00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:07.079 they're on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond on FM three fifty nine, So 736 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:12.119 as you're going north toward Katie from Richmond, that is in Chanded Gardens NURSE 737 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:16.760 three fifty nine. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. Take advantage because you're going 738 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:20.559 to learn about how to plant roses, the roses to pick, how to 739 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.800 care for your roses all today again. That's ten am to twelve noon out 740 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.039 at the Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. Our phone number is seven one three two 741 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:34.960 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 742 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:38.039 four. You know, whenever we get rain, our soil shrinks and swells. 743 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:40.480 As it dries out, it shrinks, as it gets wet, it 744 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.239 swells, and there's a lot of movement in the soil. I don't know 745 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.440 if you've ever driven down through some of the streets in Houston and it's like 746 00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:50.480 you're going across the rocky mountains. You know, the streets are buckled and 747 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.039 bent and all kinds of stuff going on, potholes and whatnot. And it's 748 00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:59.039 that constant shrinking and swelling. It even breaks waterlines during severe droughts. The 749 00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:01.800 soil movement is a powerful thing. It moves your foundation and cracks your house 750 00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:06.280 foundation. That's why you see cracks in the brick outside and cracks in the 751 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:10.440 sheet rock inside your driveways, your sidewalks. Well, fix my slab foundation 752 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:15.199 repair. They know about that. They've been doing this for fifty three years. 753 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.880 Ty Strickland here in the Houston area fifty three years, twenty three years 754 00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:23.719 of doing foundation type repairs, and he can come out and you can take 755 00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:25.840 a look. You got a door that's sticking, You want to have them 756 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:30.199 take a look, do so, don't wait Number one, tell them me 757 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.159 from garden Line. They do free estimates for garden Line listeners, and they 758 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:36.800 do it right. Then they show up on the time. They set a 759 00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:38.800 time, and they show up at that time, and let them come out 760 00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:43.119 and take a look. It doesn't get better, it gets worse if you 761 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:45.440 don't deal with it. And so don't be afraid. Don't stick your head 762 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.400 in the sand. Oh I'm afraid I might have a problem, Well find 763 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.159 out. Bite the bullet let's let's find out. If something is needed, 764 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.440 they can take care of it. You go to fix myslab dot com. 765 00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:00.320 Fix myslab dot com. If you got a pin or pencil handy, always 766 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.320 should when you listen to guard Line two eight one, two five five, 767 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:08.440 forty nine forty nine, fix my slap. It's bad news to have foundation 768 00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.880 issues. But I tell you, if you're gonna deal with them, you 769 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.119 need to get somebody that knows what they're talking about, and that's Tystrick and 770 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:21.119 fix my slap. I have been talked about things to do in your lawn 771 00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:24.559 and garden this season. You know, we're getting really close to the early 772 00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:28.559 spring green up. If you wish to do that for your lawn, I 773 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:32.000 call that an optional one. And here's why. When the weather's cool, 774 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.400 the soil is cool, grass isn't on take off growing because you've put a 775 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:39.599 fertilizer on it, but it will green up. So it's sitting there, 776 00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:43.239 it's not doing a lot of growth, but you're getting you're starting to see 777 00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.360 those nutrients come in. You get a little bit earlier green up from that, 778 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:51.920 and we're just right on the verge of that early green up application in 779 00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:54.280 the southern parts of our listening area. Get to the right toward the end 780 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:58.360 of February, we do that. You can do it anytime in the first 781 00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.440 two or three weeks of March if you want to do it at that time. 782 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:04.280 That's probably a better general guest for our listening area. We got people 783 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.639 listening from north to south and east and west, but that would be the 784 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.320 time to get ready to do that. You need to go ahead and buy 785 00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:14.559 those products, have them on hand so you're ready to go. You know, 786 00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.039 if you're gonna if you're gonna get a lawn care product, whether it's 787 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:22.320 something to control weeds that exist, to prevent weeds that have not sprouted yet, 788 00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.320 to deal with insects or diseases or any of those things, go ahead 789 00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:30.199 and buy those supplies and have them ready. Bob over in Southwest Fertilizer, 790 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.480 you've probably been there before. If you haven't, you need to go talking 791 00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:38.000 to somebody yesterday and they were somewhere way across down and they go, you 792 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.239 know, I keep wanting to go to Southwest Fertilizer just to see that place, 793 00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:46.119 and you got to go. If Southwest Fertilizer does not have something, 794 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:52.039 you don't need it, because they have everything. I will go in there 795 00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:55.000 periodically just to see what's the latest stuff that comes out on the market. 796 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:58.639 These companies don't always tell me, hey, Skip, we're putting out a 797 00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:01.280 new whatever. But I can go to Southwest because Bob's going to have it 798 00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:05.960 first when it comes in, He's going to have it. They've got medina 799 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.719 products and microlife products, they got copper fungicides. They've got all kinds of 800 00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:14.880 things for your fertilize and your lawn. The Nilson Plant food, the nitrophos, 801 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.119 very high selection of nitrophas, and the barricades and things like that. 802 00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.800 Southwest Fertilizer has it all. They're on Bisonet, Bissonet and Runwick. That's 803 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:28.480 the intersection. If you want to call them seven to one, three six 804 00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:34.119 six six, seventeen forty four, or just go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 805 00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:37.400 You can find out more there. But you know, got a little 806 00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.280 drizzles today, but be a great day to go buy and get those supplies. 807 00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:44.320 It's not going to be too rainy to do that. Get them ready 808 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:46.840 to go, bring them home, and then when the weather clears and you 809 00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:49.920 can get out and do the work you want to do. You already got 810 00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:52.599 the stuff on hand. I would recommend that. You know, I tend 811 00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:54.719 to wait sometimes until ooh, I think I'll fertilize it in and then I 812 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.639 go looking for something. Well, why not just go ahead and get it, 813 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:01.320 have it ready to go. Then when the weather allows, when you 814 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:04.519 want, when you feel up to it, you can just go out and 815 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:08.119 get the job done. That's pretty simple to do it that way. We're 816 00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:14.159 going to go out now to Katie and talk to Felicia. Hello, Felicia. 817 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:16.880 Hello, I have a question. I have sweets that are in my 818 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:22.719 lawn now that I already see because the grass stead. You have a dorman, 819 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:25.119 I should say, but I see all this green and I see I 820 00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:30.280 wheat. So do I go out and start pulling them out? Or spray 821 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.840 something on them to kill off? Both are options. If you don't have 822 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.559 a big lawn, or you just have one little patch that's wheedy, you 823 00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:38.639 can go out there and do pulling. You can do that if you want 824 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:44.480 to do that. If you want to spray, you have two options on 825 00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:47.440 that. One would be to apply apply a product. I was talking a 826 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.480 little bit earlier about turf Star weededter from Nelson. It's got a very slow 827 00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:54.599 release fertilizer in it, so it's going to feed for a long time and 828 00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:59.639 not all wash away in the spring rains. But you get the weeds wet 829 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:01.480 and then you put that down and those granules stick to the weeds. It 830 00:56:01.519 --> 00:56:06.199 also has a post emergent weed killer that's the weeds you see growing now, 831 00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:12.239 and give it about a day or two before you water, So don't put 832 00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:15.760 that out today. You just can have rain wash it right off. Go 833 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.920 ahead and put it out and then when you're ready to put it out, 834 00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:22.199 turn your irrigation on just enough to wet the weeds. Now, the other 835 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:25.599 option would just be to buy a broad leaf weed control spray, and you 836 00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:30.119 can do that too, that's another option. But then you're going to need 837 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:36.159 to go ahead and fertilize later. Yeah, And you can put that out 838 00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:42.559 anytime out the Nelson's weedonator or the spray, I mean the spraw leaf spray, 839 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:46.440 the spray not before a rain, but yes, anytime now. And 840 00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:51.559 it's better to kill those now before they get real big. All the cool 841 00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:54.239 season weeds in your lawn, they're like your blue bonnets out on the roadside. 842 00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:58.679 They sprouted in the fall, they sat there as little plants through the 843 00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.320 winter. You're looking at those plants now and then they're about to grow like 844 00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:05.519 crazy, bloom and set seed. And when they start the bloom and set 845 00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.440 seed, it's it's just it's too late, and it's very difficult to kill 846 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:13.199 them before they do that. Like now, that would be the time if 847 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:16.400 you're going to kill them, to kill them. Okay, So that free 848 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:21.320 emergent won't do anything with that particular issue. No, it will not kill 849 00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:24.599 a weed that's already well established and growing. It prevents them from getting started. 850 00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:28.760 Now, the pre emergent. I don't want to be I don't want 851 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.039 to complicate this were and confuse everybody listening. But we're putting a post emergent 852 00:57:32.079 --> 00:57:36.880 down on the cool season weeds that have been growing all winter. We're putting 853 00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:40.400 a pre emergent down to prevent the warm season weeds like crabgrass and grass burd 854 00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:47.079 that'll be sprouting in the next weeks to come. All right, okay, 855 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:53.159 perfect, yeah, let me well, I got to take a break. 856 00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:55.320 If you want to hang on, I'll come back to you after the break. 857 00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:59.280 Let me just say one thing. If you will go online to gardening 858 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:04.519 with Skip, my lawn, pest disease and weed schedule is all there. 859 00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:08.119 It's a big chart January through December with color codes and directed organic synthetic. 860 00:58:08.199 --> 00:58:12.119 Everything is right there on that chart, and that'll make it a lot easier 861 00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:14.800 for you too. I'm gonna put you on hold. It's time for Nicky 862 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.599 and the News. Welcome back to garden Line. Thanks for listening in today. 863 00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:21.960 We have got a lot to talk about, lots of things to be 864 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.599 doing. We're visiting with Felicia and Katie on some weed questions and where do 865 00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:30.400 we leave things? Felicia, Yeah, thank you so much for taking this 866 00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:36.719 last question from me. I have a three by briefly by twelve feet area 867 00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:44.000 where the bermuda graph has taken over last year, and so I need I 868 00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:46.719 need to pull. I don't like bermutographs personally. I want I have Saint 869 00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:51.880 Augustine, and so I need to pull that. You know, do I 870 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:55.199 pull it all out? And you know when do I pull it out and 871 00:58:55.280 --> 00:59:00.239 replant side? Yeah? Uh well, nothing gonna want to really take off 872 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.719 grow until it warms up just a little bit more. I would probably make 873 00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:09.039 that move in late March or maybe early April, depends. Uh are you 874 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:13.960 gonna spray it and kill everything and then plant or are you going to try 875 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.800 to dig it out? I was thinking dig it out? But what do 876 00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:20.599 you what do you think? Well, it's hard to get it all. 877 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:23.119 It's very hard to get it all. But if you dig I would probably 878 00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:27.880 go ahead and dig it out a little sooner than I said, because you're 879 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:31.000 going to watch it and see bermuda re sprouting that you missed. It's inevitable 880 00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:35.800 you're going to miss a bunch and then you dig again and maybe dig again 881 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:38.199 if you're going to go the non spray route, because it's hard to get 882 00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:44.000 rid of it. You had to clear out that whole area, So can 883 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:46.639 I spray? It would be easier to spray it and kill it. You 884 00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:51.559 kill. You can also do that. There are products that kill just grass, 885 00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.639 and then there's products that kill grass and broad leaves. They're called you 886 00:59:54.679 --> 01:00:01.280 know, general herbicides. The bermuda needs to growing for those products to work. 887 01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:06.400 So again we're gonna wait and let it warm up a little bit and 888 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.599 get that bermuda going, and then when you spray it, it takes it 889 01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:13.440 down and moves it down into the plant and kills it. Even with the 890 01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:15.920 sprays, I would do it, and I would wait about two weeks and 891 01:00:16.519 --> 01:00:21.960 see if something else pops up. Because it's hard to kill bermuda and not 892 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:23.960 kill Saint Augustine. That's why you're going in and just taking a whole patch 893 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:30.519 of it, out everything and replanting. Okay, So either way I would 894 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:36.719 neither way you would either way. You don't favor one other over the other, 895 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:39.320 one product over the other, or what are you asking me? Well, 896 01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:45.880 one technique either dig it all out. Well, just having having tried 897 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.000 digging bermuda myself and watched other people, the spray in is the way that 898 01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:53.000 tends to work better. But you know, people that don't want to spray, 899 01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:57.800 digging is an option. It just it. It's hard to get one 900 01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:00.800 hundred percent of it, and you got to be patient, and it's time 901 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:02.360 and trouble. And if you're willing to do that, that that's fine. 902 01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:05.400 You know, I'm not here to tell you how to garden. I'm just 903 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:07.800 here to tell you that the techniques that will or won't work with however you 904 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.119 choose to go about it. Okay, So I need to wait for it 905 01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.719 the warm up, and then spread it and then spread it again until I 906 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.920 see it probably, So yeah, be patient, be patient because our warm 907 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.480 season turf grasses wake up a little bit slow. And uh so by the 908 01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:29.280 time you've mowed your Saint Augustine twice that bermuda is that ought to be about 909 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.840 time to do the second spring. If you're gonna spray of the bermuda, 910 01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:35.880 Okay, okay, gotcha, got all right. And if you go out 911 01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:37.480 there, you're in Katy. You're in Katie. You've got an ace hardware 912 01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:42.559 store over there, that just they're gonna have all the supplies of everything you 913 01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:45.760 need out there, So you got to y'alla, just drop drop in there 914 01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:47.960 and tell them what you're dealing with and they'll they'll set you on the right 915 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.679 products. Okay, thank you so much this morning. All right, Felicia, 916 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:55.440 thanks for the call. Good luck taking care of that lone. Yeah, 917 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:59.840 it's a it's a challenge sometimes, uh to deal with some of these 918 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:02.119 issues, and that's why it's always better to avoid them if you can. 919 01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:05.719 What do we mean by that, Well, don't let them go to seed, 920 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:07.880 that's one. If you got a little bit of bermuda, jump on 921 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:10.480 it early. If it's in your Saint Augustine, don't let it now infiltrate 922 01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:14.920 half your lawn because it just gets worse. And you know, I've had 923 01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:15.840 to deal with all these things. I mean, I tell you what to 924 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:21.320 do, but that sometimes falls into the category of do as I say, 925 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.840 not as I do, because in the past I've often made the mistakes I'm 926 01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:29.440 trying to keep you from making right now no better. All right, Well, 927 01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:31.480 let me talk a little bit about a quality mix. If you're going 928 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:37.280 to start some seeds indoors. Maybe you want to grow some cucumbers or squashed 929 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:39.039 but as a transplant later. But you want to get going now, it's 930 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:42.679 too early to put the seeds in the ground, but you can get going 931 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:46.119 with some transplants indoors. Now, well, Landscaper's Pride has a forty pound 932 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:51.199 bag of potting sorts. There's the most budget friendly thing. And you're going 933 01:02:51.239 --> 01:02:54.920 to find that it's customizable because it's got the decomposed or aged pine bark and 934 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:00.119 sand and blended organics and everything. But if you wanted to add other things 935 01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:05.239 to it to make it more of a soil for maybe grun cactine suculents, 936 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.079 put in some gritty material to improve the drainage even more. You can do 937 01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:10.960 those kind of amendments to it. But I'm telling you you can just use 938 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.480 it right out of the bag for starting your seedlings if you want to. 939 01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.840 They've got a premium rose mix that is excellence, got composted pines, got 940 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:22.000 some sphagnum moss in it, a slow release fertilizer all in there for roses 941 01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:27.199 or really any other ornamental that you're wanting to grow. Twenty seven different products 942 01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:30.119 from Landscaper's Pride. There's a lot. Where do you find it? Well, 943 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:35.960 go to Landscaperspride dot com makes it easy. Landscaperspride dot com find out 944 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:38.119 where they sell this around here. They're the ones that have that black velvet 945 01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:43.719 maltz, the naturally dark, not dyed, naturally dark material. They've been 946 01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:47.360 doing this for twenty years now. Their local top quality Landscaper's Pride, easy 947 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:52.519 to find, widely, widely available. We are. Let's see where we're 948 01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:54.599 going to go now. I'm going to go to David and Tomball. Hey 949 01:03:54.679 --> 01:04:01.480 David, good morning, sir. Hey my little baby tomato tomato plants that 950 01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:04.559 I bought at Plants for all season yesterday, I got them in the ground. 951 01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:12.599 Okay, And since tomatoes are technically of fruit, I have some some 952 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:16.159 stuff I got at RCW. It's a microlife product for citrus and fruit. 953 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.360 Yes, uh like a six two four or six four to two, I 954 01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:24.199 don't matter what is it? Anyway? Could I put some of that stuff 955 01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:28.119 around in baby plants to kickstart them? You absolutely can. I have found 956 01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:30.599 that plants can't read. Even if they see that label, they're gonna be 957 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:33.480 happy you put it on there. They're they're gonna not gonna say, wait 958 01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:36.239 a minute, that's for citrus. We're tomatoes. I didn't know if it 959 01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:39.599 was just too early and they was too young, it might hurt them or 960 01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:42.480 something like that. Won't hurt them. Microlife products are not salt based. 961 01:04:42.519 --> 01:04:45.599 They're not gonna burn. You're gonna be just fine on that. So just 962 01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:50.039 go right ahead, mix it into the soil around them, and what's going 963 01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:53.480 to happen is microbes are going to get a hold of the micro life. 964 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:58.559 They're gonna start breaking down the nutrients that are in there and releasing it out 965 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.800 into plant available for them from the organic material that is micro life fertilizer. 966 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:04.840 And it'll work just fine. You're not You're not going to burn them. 967 01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:08.679 It works well. Hey, all right, thank you. That answers that 968 01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:11.800 question. But I'm gonna can I add to what the lady just talked to 969 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:15.800 about Bermuda and Saint Augustine. I got to make sure of that. Man. 970 01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:18.320 You can talk about you can talk about getting Bermuda out of Saint Augustine, 971 01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:20.880 but you can't use any four letter words because a lot of people start 972 01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:25.480 to do that. Okay, go ahead, No, although you probably won't 973 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.079 make you want a sin or cause anyway. Hey, I was under the 974 01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:34.199 impression that if you keep fertilizing your Saint Augustine, and I've been on the 975 01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:41.559 Randy Lemmon fertilization schedule for a year and a half years now, and I 976 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:45.760 was under the impression that eventually your Saint Augustine would just push out that bermuda. 977 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:47.639 Is that correct? Well not quite. But you know what, David, 978 01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:50.519 I'm looking at the clock and I have missed a break. I'm gonna 979 01:05:50.679 --> 01:05:54.480 stop right here. I'll be right back with you in just one second. 980 01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:57.320 Just hang on. Welcome back to the garden line. Glad you're listening. 981 01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:00.440 Hey, it's getting a little bit of light out there. You can look 982 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:04.360 outside and see what's going on in your landscape, your neighborhood. Finally, 983 01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:08.480 we'll go go back to David up in Tomball. David, we were talking 984 01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:12.119 tomatoes. I believe. Where do we go from here? Well, well, 985 01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.199 you finished my talk about the tomatoes, and then I asked another question 986 01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:19.400 about Saint Augustine with that lady you have in Bermuda problems. Yes, I 987 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:23.480 kind of got the same problem, and I'm wondering I've been on the Randy 988 01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:28.159 lemon schedule for about two years now, and I was always under the impression 989 01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:31.920 that if you followed that schedule that sooner or later the Saint Augustine would push 990 01:06:31.960 --> 01:06:36.039 out to Bermuda. That ain't necessarily happening or is that the case. Well, 991 01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:41.039 well, that can help. Following a quality you know, schedule of 992 01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:45.639 mowwater, fertilized, whatnot can help. But there are factors that lean the 993 01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:47.960 needle toward Bermuda or towards Saint Augustine. As you go into the shade, 994 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:54.519 Saint Augustine has the advantage. Bermuda can't take as much shade as Saint Augustine 995 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:59.159 can. As you go into droughty spells where you go into severe drought and 996 01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:01.679 then you come out of it, that gives Bermuda the advantage. It's better 997 01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:06.119 survivor and drought conditions than Saint Augustine. Is if you use certain kinds of 998 01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:12.039 herbicides that will weaken Saint Augustine in the hot weather of summer that won't do 999 01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:15.599 that to Bermuda grass, then you give Bermuda that brand. So there's just 1000 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:19.199 a lot of factors in there. Bottom line is when you got both, 1001 01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:25.199 it's hard to get all completely rid of the bermuda in the Saint Augustine. 1002 01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:30.039 It's usually kills Saint Augustine out of bermuda than vice versa. Well, the 1003 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.679 schedule did at least get rid of the stickers, those little burdweed stickers. 1004 01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:35.719 Are you going, Yeah, it will, It absolutely will. I've got 1005 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:40.599 my schedule online at gardening with skip dot com. There's two of them. 1006 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:45.239 I have a lawn care and a weed pest disease management schedule, two different 1007 01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.840 ones. You can go on there hopefully, yeah, hopefully, sooner or 1008 01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:51.760 later I'll have a beautiful Saint Augustine line. There you go. That's what 1009 01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:56.280 we're aiming for. You know. In the meantime, just just mow the 1010 01:07:56.320 --> 01:08:00.480 lawn and take off your glasses and it looks great if you take your glass. 1011 01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:05.119 Thanks David, you take care. Yeah, he was talking about asking 1012 01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:08.199 the question. You know, we're talking about, well, what can I 1013 01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:13.599 use a Centrus microlife on tomatoes, for example? And the answer is yes, 1014 01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:15.479 you can. You know, the green bag that we use for lawns, 1015 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:17.760 we talk about for lawns all the time. I use it on all 1016 01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:20.800 kinds of things. It's just a good fertilizer and so it's a CEUs for 1017 01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:24.640 example. Uh, you know, if you're going to go out and buy 1018 01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:27.079 one, well, yeah, buy one that's more designed for the kind of 1019 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:29.560 plant you're dealing with. But you've got something on hand, you need to 1020 01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:31.439 use it, go ahead and use it. Microlife also has something called humates 1021 01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:39.560 plus that's a zero zero four and that is it's it's humans humate. Humous 1022 01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:44.960 is the fully decomposed composted materials you got. You got things like leaves and 1023 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:49.000 grass clippings, They composed away into composts and then it just keeps degrading into 1024 01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:53.880 the form we call humus, the last form, and humates have a lot 1025 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:57.359 of organic acids in them and other things that help build the soil, help 1026 01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:00.560 build soil structure. The humates plus is a purple bag, by the way, 1027 01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.119 kind of a bluish purple. I may be color challenged on that, 1028 01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:06.880 but you know, i'd say purple zero zero for it's got a little bit 1029 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:13.159 of potassium in it, but a bazillion different kinds of microbes, and then 1030 01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:16.239 a bazillion different strains of each of those micro robes. So it is a 1031 01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:24.720 very micro micro biologically active material that will help your lawn over time. It's 1032 01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:28.079 not something you just put down to fertilize for spring. You can put it 1033 01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:30.840 down anytime you want. I would put it down now. But you're also 1034 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:36.399 still going to need your heavier nitrogen, phosphorus potassium fertilizers to support and push 1035 01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:42.880 that local that early vigor and growth as the weather begins to warm. Microlife 1036 01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:45.359 Fertilizer dot com you can find it all over the place. It's easy to 1037 01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:50.720 find Microlife products widely available. When I talk about garden centers and feed stores 1038 01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:56.319 and other suppliers, ACE hardware stores, office, they all are going to 1039 01:09:56.319 --> 01:10:00.640 carry the Microlife product line for you. You're listening to Garden Line and we 1040 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.119 are here to answer gardening questions if you would like to give me a call. 1041 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:08.439 Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three 1042 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:12.800 two one two k t r H. For those of you way out west 1043 01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:16.000 to tom Ball looking for a good feed store, quality feeds, I say, 1044 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:19.319 way out west on the west side, how about that uh D and 1045 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:24.399 D feed They're on twenty nine twenty out west to Tomball. They got everything 1046 01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:28.840 you expect a feed store to have, right which includes feed for your animals 1047 01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:30.880 for your pets, high quality feeds. By the way, they're about three 1048 01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:33.800 miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty. By the way, 1049 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:39.960 the Dover family open this up in nineteen eighty nine and they just keep getting 1050 01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:43.560 better. They got a new shipment of chicks in last week. You just 1051 01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:45.720 give them a call if you're thinking about getting backyard chickens. Give them a 1052 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.760 call, see when the shipment is coming in again, and if they got 1053 01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:53.960 some leftover from that last one, because those things are hot items and they 1054 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.760 do tend to go fast. Two eight one three five one seventy one forty 1055 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:02.720 four two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. That's D and 1056 01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:06.840 D Feed. If you need potatoes, red potatoes, white potatoes, the 1057 01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:12.199 yellow Yukon gold, they've got those. They've got a good supply of the 1058 01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:15.000 age leaf, mole, compost, heirloom soils, rose food and fruit and 1059 01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:19.439 berry and citrus, veggie and herb. All those quality soil materials that I 1060 01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:23.960 talk about are going to be available there at D and D as well. 1061 01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:27.079 Kind of makes a nice one stop shop, and I always grab my dogs 1062 01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:30.920 a couple of the treats. They've got a little doggy treat doggy Deli type 1063 01:11:31.239 --> 01:11:35.560 treat area. They got seeds available to It's just a lot of fun to 1064 01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:40.640 go in there. I always like swinging by there. Hey, we're talking 1065 01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:45.680 things that are related to gardencare, spring lawn care. Especially right now I've 1066 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:49.560 talked about it's pre emergencies and get it down half inch of water to move 1067 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:56.239 it into the soil. If you're going to prevent the warm season weeds in 1068 01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:00.800 a thin lawn, that is what you need to be doing. Out products 1069 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:05.079 like nitroposs for example, Nitrofoss barricade is a pre emergent that's going to control 1070 01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:10.319 it's going to control your broadly feed. It's gonna control your grassy weeds as 1071 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:12.960 well and prevent them. But you got to get it down. But remember, 1072 01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:16.000 don't put something down unless you know how much water is gonna fall out 1073 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:18.520 of the sky. Don't put it on for a rain unless you know how 1074 01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:21.039 much water it's going out of the sky. If there's a good chance we're 1075 01:12:21.039 --> 01:12:24.880 going to get a gully washer, just hold off, put it down and 1076 01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:27.399 just turn on the water for a little bit. Just a half inch is 1077 01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:30.520 all you're putting out to move it down into the soil. And let me 1078 01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:36.079 make one other comment on this. If you are looking for all of these 1079 01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:40.680 kind of products anywhere you live around the Houston area, you're gonna find them 1080 01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:45.319 in Ace Hardware. Ace Hardware there's forty stores around the greater Houston area and 1081 01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:49.079 they keep stocked up on everything, all the fertilizers and the soil products and 1082 01:12:49.159 --> 01:12:53.640 the pest and disease and weed control. You hear me talk about it's going 1083 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:57.039 to be at Ace Hardware. Go to acehardware dot com find the store locator. 1084 01:12:57.239 --> 01:13:00.319 You can find a store near you. And that's really convenient, you 1085 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:02.399 know, to be able to find one so close by, and they are 1086 01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:06.640 close by. They I was in some Aces last week and just looking at 1087 01:13:06.680 --> 01:13:10.800 all the product. To me, they just were getting in the nitrofive shipment 1088 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:14.279 that day, getting ready for spring and getting ready to go. They're gonna 1089 01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:17.159 have a wide variety of anything that you're looking for. If you need to 1090 01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:20.680 do any plumbing repair, any kind of repair in your sprinklers, maybe someone 1091 01:13:20.760 --> 01:13:25.920 ran over a sprinkler head, Ace Hardware's got all of that. And by 1092 01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:29.359 the way, when you're in there, check out the barbecue pits. Oh 1093 01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:31.920 my gosh, check out the home furnishings, you'd be surprised at what's at 1094 01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:36.079 ACE Hardware. They say ACE is the place for well you fill in the 1095 01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:41.079 blank. ACE is a place for everything you could possibly want to put out 1096 01:13:41.119 --> 01:13:46.199 there on your garden and on your landscape if you are gonna be taking care 1097 01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:50.319 of your lawn. I just want to mention that I mentioned the pre emergent 1098 01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:55.479 herbicides. I mentioned the fact that the green up season is coming. We're 1099 01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:59.840 right on the doorstep of the spring greenup application. If you choose to do 1100 01:13:59.880 --> 01:14:02.399 that, that's a fast release, and we put it on there basically just 1101 01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:05.720 to get the long green and looking good early on. It's an optional. 1102 01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:10.640 Once the lawn begins growing, that's when we look at our summer fertilizing. 1103 01:14:10.680 --> 01:14:13.359 That's gonna happen, by the way, in April and it we're going to 1104 01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:17.560 be recommending some slow release products to gradually feed your lawn over weeks and weeks 1105 01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.760 and weeks. And if you think about it, that just makes sense because 1106 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:26.560 grass takes up a little nutrient each day and it's nice to have that gradual 1107 01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:31.199 release. Organic materials release gradually. There's a lot of good chemistries of synthetics 1108 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:35.840 that will slowly turn those nutrients loose. And that's helpful because when we get 1109 01:14:35.880 --> 01:14:39.800 a gully washer, you don't want all your eggs in one basket. You 1110 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:43.680 want something's going to stick around and give you a little more gradual release over 1111 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:47.159 time. That's the benefit of those Always good to do that. Hey, 1112 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:49.960 it's a time for us to take a break here. In just a second. 1113 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:53.640 Here, I'm going to give you the phone number again so you can 1114 01:14:53.680 --> 01:14:58.119 be first up when we come back, phone number seven to one three two 1115 01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:03.119 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two k t r 1116 01:15:03.520 --> 01:15:08.920 H seven one three two n two k t r H. By the way, 1117 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:15.279 next Saturday, I'm going to be at see what is today? Yeah, 1118 01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:18.079 No, of two weeks away, the twenty fourth of February. I'm 1119 01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:21.239 kind of getting out of out of sync here. The twenty fourth February, 1120 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:25.560 I'm going to be at A and A Plants and Produce up in the Montgomery 1121 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:29.199 area, and I'm gonna be doing a giveaway of some turf Star products up 1122 01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:32.359 there from Nelson's. That is Saturday, the twenty fourth, two saturdays from 1123 01:15:32.399 --> 01:15:34.359 now, So go and write it down if you live up in the Lake 1124 01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:38.239 Conroe area. Come on and see me. I'd love to meet you. 1125 01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:41.600 That's at A and A Plants and Produce. I'll be here from twelve o'clock, 1126 01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:44.439 mat me just a bit to get up there after the show to two 1127 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:47.920 pm. Looking forward to seeing you and I'll talk about that more going forward. 1128 01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:57.399 Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 1129 01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:02.359 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Lined with Scared Rict. 1130 01:16:02.520 --> 01:16:25.319 It's just watching as the world. Welcome back to Garden Line. I 1131 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:30.039 can see outside. It's always nice when the light appears, sun comes up 1132 01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:33.479 in this case, just some light appearing outside. I just love love the 1133 01:16:33.479 --> 01:16:35.960 start of a new day. You know, as a gardener, we are 1134 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:41.720 eternal optimists. We complain about the weather too much rain, I don't know 1135 01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:44.199 a frame, blah blah blah, all that stuff. Yeah, we do 1136 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:47.159 kind of like farmers, I guess, but we're optimists. Every time you 1137 01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:53.000 put a seed in the ground, that is, you are basically saying, 1138 01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:59.239 I believe that this detritis dead looking bit of who knows what this is? 1139 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:00.800 Such, I'm put it in the ground. It's going to create me a 1140 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:04.079 plant, and that plant I'm gonna get a tomato, or you put a 1141 01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:06.720 plant in the ground. I'm going to get a rose bush, for example. 1142 01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:12.000 And Valentine's Day, this is rose bush time, right, it sure 1143 01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:15.119 is. I mean, if there's anything that's easier for even non gardeners to 1144 01:17:15.159 --> 01:17:18.680 remember, no, it's like Valentine's that's time, plants, rose, entrepreneur 1145 01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:23.600 rose, all kinds of things we tie into Valentine's Day. By the way, 1146 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.640 if you love roses and you need an outing, I want to tell 1147 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.479 you Polace, you need to go. And that's Antique Rose and Porium that's 1148 01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:33.359 up in the north of Brenham. North of Brenham, Antique Rose and Porium 1149 01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:39.159 has been a long time destination for gardeners and for families. By the way, 1150 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:43.479 it's just a wonderful, cool setting. It's a great outing to get 1151 01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:45.680 out there. And there's always something going on out there. You know. 1152 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:49.319 There's Spring celebration is March ninth and tenth. That's just coming around the corner 1153 01:17:49.359 --> 01:17:51.079 here. I'm going to be up there for that, by the way. 1154 01:17:51.119 --> 01:17:55.000 At the Rose and Portum, they're gonna have speakers, artists and market food 1155 01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:59.319 trucks and then they've got all their native plants are perennials, and of course 1156 01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:02.079 roses, but there are roses and so much more. You can go to 1157 01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:09.560 the website Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique Rosanmporium dot com or call them ready 1158 01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:14.800 for this ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight nine seven nine 1159 01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:17.760 eight three six five five four eight. With Valentine's Day coming up? What 1160 01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:21.880 would be a better gift than roses? And heyre here's an idea. If 1161 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:26.720 you don't you don't just have to have the plant on a certain day, 1162 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:30.199 why not take your loved one out there with you and let them wander around 1163 01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:32.479 and pick out a rose that they want, and then come home help them 1164 01:18:32.479 --> 01:18:35.560 plant it. You know, if you give roses as a gift, maybe 1165 01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:39.520 someone's a little older, a little bit more, I don't know, a 1166 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:42.960 little bit less able to get around plant the rose for them. What an 1167 01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:46.520 extra gift? You know? It gives you time and folks enjoy time spent 1168 01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:49.800 over a cup of coffee or just out there looking at the rose. Listen, 1169 01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:53.760 you're creating a memory and they'll think of you every time. An anti 1170 01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:58.279 rosemporium can get you all fixed up on all those great old roses that we 1171 01:18:58.359 --> 01:19:03.319 love so much Antique Roseenporium dot com. I always like going out there. 1172 01:19:04.239 --> 01:19:08.079 I'm busity with Jim somewhere else. I don't know where we were. We 1173 01:19:08.079 --> 01:19:12.119 were at some other event and talking to Jim Keeter from Rose and Porium out 1174 01:19:12.119 --> 01:19:15.960 there, and it's just always good to go out there. Boys. Spring 1175 01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:19.960 time, that place lights up. Oh you got a plan at least one 1176 01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:24.159 weekend to get out and do something like that. And I say weekend. 1177 01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:27.279 During the week it's even you know, less people out and about. You 1178 01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:30.199 kind of get the placed yourself a little bit, not so many folks around, 1179 01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:33.039 But anytime, it's a good time to go out there. We're going 1180 01:19:33.039 --> 01:19:39.560 about to Jersey Village now and talk to Clara. Hello, Clara, Hey, 1181 01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:44.720 well I my rose colored glasses. Today is the eternal Optimus. There 1182 01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:53.199 you go. Is there any benefit to leaving all these acorns in your wawn 1183 01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:58.880 and your flower beds? Practically speaking, no, Now, in nature, 1184 01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:02.359 everything organic that drops to the ground eventually becomes part of the soil. But 1185 01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:08.199 there's no reason to leave them. You know you're going to get some o 1186 01:20:08.279 --> 01:20:11.520 them sprouting, So you've got some little little oak seedlings. You're gonna have 1187 01:20:11.520 --> 01:20:15.199 to pull up or do something with But in general, now I wouldn't worry 1188 01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.880 about it. On the other hand, if it doesn't bother you, there's 1189 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:20.359 no reason you couldn't just leave them. But you are going to get a 1190 01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:26.720 few sprouting. Okay, So I was told that it would kill my lawn. 1191 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.920 Acorns will kill your lawn. No, no, okay, the shade 1192 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:34.720 shade from the tree that gave you the acorns may kill your lawn. But 1193 01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:39.560 but the acorns, they don't have a lawn poisoning them or anything. Okay. 1194 01:20:39.920 --> 01:20:45.279 I have one other question. Thornless blackberries for our region? Okay, 1195 01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.960 is there such a thing? Oh? Absolutely, yeah, you bet. 1196 01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:57.359 We got some great ones, And can you recommend a certain one for down 1197 01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:00.560 here. There's a number of them that do well well if you find one 1198 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:08.520 that starts with prime arc Prime. I think they finished spelling at Prime and 1199 01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:14.239 then Ark like Arkansas Primark. There's a Primark Freedom and there's a Primary Traveler, 1200 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:19.479 and those are both there. Thornless they produce well, and they have 1201 01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:25.000 they have the ability to produce the first year on a new shoot, which 1202 01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:29.680 normally blackberries don't produce on shoots until after those shoots go through winter, but 1203 01:21:29.720 --> 01:21:31.680 the primarks can do both. There are other good ones. Those are the 1204 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:34.640 not the only two blackberries to plant. Those are just two that come to 1205 01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:40.720 mind initially. Blackberries like a well drained soil. So if you get them, 1206 01:21:40.720 --> 01:21:44.239 if you gave them BlackBerry Heaven, it would be kind of a sandy 1207 01:21:44.279 --> 01:21:46.680 loam soil with lots of organic matter maybe mixed in or something. They'll do 1208 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:49.399 well in that. If you got to clay, just build up a little 1209 01:21:49.439 --> 01:21:54.640 bit of a raised bed so the drainage is good, and you know, 1210 01:21:55.239 --> 01:21:58.680 using one of our quality soil mixes, and that way you can have better, 1211 01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:03.840 even better results. I have a raised bed on a chain link fence 1212 01:22:04.079 --> 01:22:10.640 background, so I was thinking of putting them there. That'll work. That 1213 01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:14.439 will work if you want. This is more than I can go to in 1214 01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:16.960 a few seconds on the radio. But if you go to the Aggie Horticulture 1215 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:24.640 website, there's a fruit section and there's a publication several colorful pages of pictures 1216 01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:28.399 and things on blackberries, and they'll tell you how to prune them. It'll 1217 01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:30.479 tell you how to prunum, and it'll give you a list of some other 1218 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:34.880 varieties as well. Oh all right, well, that's always. Thank you 1219 01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:39.439 for all of your help to help and keep a screen. All right, 1220 01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:43.319 let's do that. All I ask Clara is that when the blackberries start producing, 1221 01:22:43.399 --> 01:22:45.039 bring half of the crop to the K. T. H. Studio 1222 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:48.399 so I can enjoy them with you. That's the only charge I have you 1223 01:22:48.439 --> 01:22:56.319 take care of I want hold my breath though. Thanks a lot, Clara, 1224 01:22:56.560 --> 01:23:00.000 I appreciate that. Okay. I have a garden line quiz for you. 1225 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:02.479 I think I ask you this every week because I talk about it ten 1226 01:23:02.520 --> 01:23:05.720 times a week. What is the most important thing you do if you want 1227 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:10.560 to have success with plants? And the answer is take care of the soil. 1228 01:23:10.600 --> 01:23:16.119 First, brown stuff, fertilizers, compost, good soil, drainage, 1229 01:23:16.319 --> 01:23:19.960 take care of that. And then comes the green stuff, the plants. 1230 01:23:20.039 --> 01:23:23.399 That's the stuff you want to get to. I know you want a rose 1231 01:23:23.399 --> 01:23:26.399 bush, you want a tomato, you want to fill one fill in the 1232 01:23:26.399 --> 01:23:30.159 blank. When the soil is right, everything is going to want to thrive 1233 01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:33.680 for you. And Nature's way resources is the place where you can get the 1234 01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:38.479 soil right. Listen. John Ferguson has been doing this for years and years. 1235 01:23:38.479 --> 01:23:42.199 He's the originator of a lot of the soil products we talk about all 1236 01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:45.199 the time now and all over town rose soil, leaf compost and things like 1237 01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:49.520 that. They've got their fungal Fridays ten percent off the bag product and twenty 1238 01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:54.079 percent off the bulk product, and they have plenty of it on hand. 1239 01:23:54.119 --> 01:23:56.640 I mean they can deliver it. You can go pick it up. You 1240 01:23:56.640 --> 01:23:58.680 can get the bags, you can go pick up the bulk if you got 1241 01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:01.239 a truck or trailer and get out there. The phone number is nine three 1242 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:06.600 six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine 1243 01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:11.159 ninety Listen, put this data on your calendar. March ninth, that is 1244 01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:15.920 their Spring Garden Festival, and a lot will be going on at Nature's Way 1245 01:24:16.119 --> 01:24:20.279 Resources. You can go to Nature'sway Resources dot com. I don't have time 1246 01:24:20.319 --> 01:24:24.600 to read you all the stuff that's going on at the Spring Garden Festival, 1247 01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:28.840 but it is a lot good talks and shopping and all kinds of fun stuff 1248 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:32.960 for kids and families. Nature's Way Resources dot Com. We'll be right back 1249 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:36.760 after this break and we'll look forward to talking to you at seven one three 1250 01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:41.960 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back, Guarden line. Glad 1251 01:24:42.000 --> 01:24:45.520 you're listening to our show today. If you'd like to give a call talk 1252 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.439 about something on the air. Seven one three two one two ktright seven one 1253 01:24:49.439 --> 01:24:54.680 three two one two k t R. We're gonna go up to George in 1254 01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:59.239 Jersey Village. Now, Hello George, Yeah, good morning, ship you 1255 01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:02.319 do it. I'm well, thank you good. I want to grow blueberries, 1256 01:25:02.359 --> 01:25:05.000 so I love the little boggers, but I've never had any luck, 1257 01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:08.760 and so I wonder, well, what am I doing wrong? Is this 1258 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:12.840 particular plant that's going to go well in Houston? Thanks, that's my first 1259 01:25:12.920 --> 01:25:16.720 go ahead, Yeah, I can. You've got two basic types of blueberries. 1260 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:19.880 One group is the rabbit eyes. Those have been grown here for a 1261 01:25:19.920 --> 01:25:25.720 long time. They're called rabbit eye because the unimmature berry before it turns blue 1262 01:25:26.199 --> 01:25:30.880 is pink like an albino rabbit eye, the little white rabbits, and those 1263 01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:32.359 do well here. They get a little bit larger. And then there's the 1264 01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:36.239 Southern high bush, which is a smaller statued plant. They're only going to 1265 01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:41.319 get up about four feet high roughly, give or take. And that's a 1266 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:44.680 whole different group of blueberries. Either way you go, you need to have 1267 01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:49.479 a couple of varieties to ensure the best pollination, and that is very important 1268 01:25:49.479 --> 01:25:55.439 for success. Blueberries want good drainage, and they want a highly organic acidic 1269 01:25:55.560 --> 01:25:59.359 soil, and they want a good quality water. So in your air, 1270 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:02.239 go ahead. The kind of plants got to have, like a boy plant 1271 01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:06.840 and a girl plant. No, it's just needs two different varieties to cross 1272 01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:14.039 pollinate some fruit or that way. The male and female are both on every 1273 01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:19.720 plant. In blueberries, it's just the pollen compatibility with itself isn't always real 1274 01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:24.319 good. Some of them are okay, but overall, just plant two different 1275 01:26:24.319 --> 01:26:27.680 ones. That also helps spread out your ripening season a little bit too. 1276 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:31.720 Okay. My second question was I called you last week about planting potatoes, 1277 01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:39.079 and Yukon gold is one in particular. Can I go sweet potatoes at the 1278 01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:43.159 same time? Are they different kind of a critter? Very different. The 1279 01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:48.399 potatoes that we plant in the spring are the Irish potatoes, the new potatoes, 1280 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:53.960 the red you know, the red potatoes, those kind, the creamy 1281 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:56.880 types, and including the baker's too. If you're going to do that, 1282 01:26:56.920 --> 01:27:00.239 I wouldn't recommend those here, but you can grow them here. The sweet 1283 01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:03.119 potato is a root that we grow in this summertime, so it needs to 1284 01:27:03.119 --> 01:27:08.439 warm up a whole lot before you want to put sweet potatoes out. Yeah, 1285 01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:12.319 okay, that's an interesting Thanks very much, you bet, George. 1286 01:27:12.319 --> 01:27:15.279 Good luck with those out there. Yeah, hey, you're just down the 1287 01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:18.760 street from Plants for All Seasons right there in Jersey Village. You got to 1288 01:27:19.039 --> 01:27:23.279 you gotta check them out. I'm date from timetime out. They do carry 1289 01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:26.760 blueberries in there. I don't. I haven't been by lately to see if 1290 01:27:26.760 --> 01:27:29.079 they've got them in yet, but I bet if they don't have them, 1291 01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:31.159 I bet they are going to get them in real soon. But that's a 1292 01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:35.359 great, great place, real close to you there. All right, thank 1293 01:27:35.359 --> 01:27:38.720 you very much. I appreciate the call. Hey, yeah, Plants for 1294 01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:42.720 All Seasons. If you want to know the website, it's Plants for All 1295 01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.960 Seasons dot com. You need to go on line subscribe to their social media 1296 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:49.159 so you can find out what's going on there. The phone number seven or 1297 01:27:49.159 --> 01:27:51.960 excuse me, what why do I always start off with the wrong area code 1298 01:27:53.239 --> 01:27:59.119 two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six 1299 01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:03.399 once for six Plant for All Seasons as family owned. I have been going 1300 01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:09.359 by there for well over a decade at a Plants for All seasons, visiting 1301 01:28:09.359 --> 01:28:12.680 with the Flowery family. You're talking about people that know what they're talking about, 1302 01:28:12.840 --> 01:28:15.159 people that sell plants that grow here and not the other stuff. You 1303 01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:18.479 know, a lot of places, not our good mom and pop nurseries, 1304 01:28:18.840 --> 01:28:23.079 will sell you stuff that doesn't grow here, and you don't need to be 1305 01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:27.479 wasting your money on that. I don't care if you like Welch's grape juice. 1306 01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:31.079 Do not plant a corn concord grape here in this area. You're not 1307 01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:33.800 going to have success. And yes, that's an example I just saw the 1308 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:39.359 other day at let's just say, one of those national chains that sell stuff 1309 01:28:39.359 --> 01:28:44.000 other than plants, but plant for all seasons. They won't steer you wrong. 1310 01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:47.079 And you know it's not just the sale, it's after the sale. 1311 01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:49.560 Do you have questions? Do you need advice? Do you want to bring 1312 01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:53.680 in a picture or something? They're going to fix up on that. That 1313 01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:58.359 is why it's worth it always to go to a place that knows what they're 1314 01:28:58.359 --> 01:29:00.640 talking about. We love our mom and pops. I'm not going to hear 1315 01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:04.640 a big chain nursery kind of commercial here on guard Line. We stick with 1316 01:29:04.680 --> 01:29:09.159 the mom and pop nurseries because they're the ones that are here in the community 1317 01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:13.000 and where you get the good advice. And I could tell story after story 1318 01:29:13.439 --> 01:29:16.079 of the other kind of places, and I'm just not going to take time 1319 01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:19.199 to do that right now. We're going to now run out where we're going 1320 01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:25.039 to Crosby and talk to Tanya. Hello, Tanya, Hey, Skip, 1321 01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:29.640 good morning. How do you dody? What's up? I put down barricade 1322 01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:33.119 yesterday, mode put down the barricade, was hoping for a big rain. 1323 01:29:33.520 --> 01:29:40.560 It's not here yet. But my question is, well, actually it's two 1324 01:29:40.680 --> 01:29:45.119 questions. I uncovered several bear spots where I want to put sod squares of 1325 01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:49.960 sod in the spring. Okay, So question is how long after barricade can 1326 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:54.079 I do that? And then how do I prepare the soil? What kind 1327 01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:57.600 of bed do I make for you for the sod? That's a good question. 1328 01:29:57.680 --> 01:30:00.319 So the barricade's going to last a while. It'll last, you know, 1329 01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:01.960 I could say it last in three months, probably go a little longer 1330 01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:04.520 than that. But you know, of course, it's a time breakdown over 1331 01:30:04.560 --> 01:30:08.039 time, so it's not black and white like on such and such a day 1332 01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:12.720 it's completely gone suddenly, I would if you've already got it down, now 1333 01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:15.560 it's gonna get watered in, I would probably let's see what are we in 1334 01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:19.239 now, we're in February and March April. I'd probably look at maybe May 1335 01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:23.920 putting some sod down. It's warmed up, the grass is growing fast, 1336 01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:27.119 and it'll take off better if you want to be a little extra careful. 1337 01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:29.760 You can concentrate the soil back it's going to have barricade in the surface, 1338 01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:32.560 that's where it ties up, and then put the sod down, you know, 1339 01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:38.600 below the surface inch or so of soil. But I think by then 1340 01:30:38.680 --> 01:30:43.439 it'll be okay, okay, all right, so probably May. How about 1341 01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:45.560 May? Would I would try it at that time. And always when you 1342 01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:48.439 put these down, that's another reason why we don't over apply them, because 1343 01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:51.760 when you overdo something like that, don't have it a little bit longer, 1344 01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:56.760 not a lot, but it'll extend a little bit the length of time that 1345 01:30:56.800 --> 01:31:02.079 it's out there. Okay. And then the bedding the soil material to put 1346 01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:05.439 the saw down on. Should that be a mix, yeah, any kind 1347 01:31:05.439 --> 01:31:10.880 of a good mix. I wouldn't do just like compost right on the surface 1348 01:31:10.920 --> 01:31:14.439 and plant in that because it's going to decompose a way. I would get 1349 01:31:14.640 --> 01:31:17.920 some sort of a top soilerty type mix to put in to kind of fill 1350 01:31:17.920 --> 01:31:21.359 in those areas as much as you can try to replicate what you've already got 1351 01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:27.279 out there, that's probably a pretty good idea. So a couple of bags 1352 01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:30.680 a top soil mixed with maybe, yeah, I would This is a year 1353 01:31:30.720 --> 01:31:38.399 out in Crosby, you're not too far from Porter's Porter Texas from the Warrens 1354 01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:41.359 Rocking Malts. See what kind of a top soil they would have out there, 1355 01:31:41.359 --> 01:31:44.039 and I would go with that. It's a little bit better than just 1356 01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:47.399 to use all organic because again, that just decomposes away. It's one thing 1357 01:31:47.439 --> 01:31:50.640 in a bed to use it a raised bed, but down in the lawn 1358 01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:54.720 where that long's gonna be there for a very long time. I would try 1359 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:58.359 to get a good quality topsaw mix. And sometimes what you find in a 1360 01:31:58.399 --> 01:32:02.000 bag, especially if you go bargain pricing to find something cheap, you end 1361 01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:05.079 up getting what you paid for and it's not top soil at all, even 1362 01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:10.399 though the bag says that. Okay, love your show. Thank you so 1363 01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:13.880 much for the answers. Thank you Tania, I appreciate that call very much, 1364 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:16.840 thanks a lot. You know, we I was talking about turf Star 1365 01:32:16.920 --> 01:32:21.079 earlier, the weed Nator product, and this is one of the timely things 1366 01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:27.000 that if you're gonna do it, you need to do it because turf Star 1367 01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:31.079 is a post emergent product that has a very slowly fertilizer in it. So 1368 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:35.600 what's happening is when the lawn is damp, the weeds are damp, you 1369 01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:39.880 don't need an inch of water. You just need wet surfaces. So you 1370 01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:43.840 can turn the water on for five minutes and turn it right back off and 1371 01:32:43.960 --> 01:32:46.880 you're ready to put out that turf Star is gonna stick to the weed leaves. 1372 01:32:47.439 --> 01:32:50.720 The material is gonna move into the leaves gradually, so you want to 1373 01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:55.520 give it about a day or two before you water. So you're gonna want 1374 01:32:55.520 --> 01:32:59.199 to water because you're gonna want to move the fertilizer off the granules down into 1375 01:32:59.239 --> 01:33:01.479 the soil. But give it about a day or two. And again, 1376 01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:05.399 if you don't have wet leaves first, the granules just bounce off the leaves 1377 01:33:05.399 --> 01:33:09.800 and hit the ground, and so you need wet leaves before you put that 1378 01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:13.359 out. But it will work and it'll give you months. You know, 1379 01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:18.760 actually at least see four, probably six weeks or more of release of those 1380 01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:23.920 nutrients out into the lawn. Probably a little further out than that because the 1381 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:27.520 chemistries of it are designed to not turn all that loose at once, so 1382 01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.279 the spring rains don't wash it all the way. It's going to be a 1383 01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:32.800 gradual thing. Turf Star weedenators from Nelson. It's part of the turf Star 1384 01:33:32.880 --> 01:33:36.119 line. Lots of great products, easy to find, lots of places you 1385 01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:41.399 can find those here in the greater Houston area. Let's head out to northwest 1386 01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:45.560 Houston. Now we're going to talk to Fred. Oh. Fred, they 1387 01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:50.079 good morning. I'm coming to the finals of information, and I'm trying to 1388 01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:56.960 find out my wife wants a pudding green instead of a lawn, okay, 1389 01:33:57.119 --> 01:34:00.840 and i need to know whether whether it's oil of grass would be better than 1390 01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:04.720 this daughter in St. Augustine. Yeah, I'm all turn it over to 1391 01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:09.079 you. Yeah, uh, well, Saint Augustine will ever make a putting 1392 01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:12.520 green, the best putting greens. And if you look, if you look 1393 01:34:12.520 --> 01:34:15.720 at golf courses, that's Bermuda grass here in our area Bermuda grass, and 1394 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:20.920 it's a very fine textured dwarf type of bermuda that's planted. Uh, and 1395 01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:25.159 you you're gonna have to look around to find something like that, and then 1396 01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:29.279 you have to mow it regularly. Do you know they mow a golf course 1397 01:34:29.319 --> 01:34:32.000 green every day in the warm season when it's growing, because they're cutting off 1398 01:34:32.079 --> 01:34:35.640 just a tiny bit. They just like an eighth of an inch cutting off 1399 01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:42.079 that thing and just just constantly keeping it perfectly because that's the best putting surface. 1400 01:34:42.720 --> 01:34:45.199 So whatever you use, you want a very dark bermuda and you want 1401 01:34:45.239 --> 01:34:49.720 to do it regularly. Now you can. You can create a low dense 1402 01:34:49.800 --> 01:34:54.840 lawn with zoisia, but it's going to be rougher than the bermuda. So 1403 01:34:54.920 --> 01:34:58.640 when it you know, if you're talking about more of a fairway kind of 1404 01:34:58.680 --> 01:35:01.760 thing, I think that be okay. Making a putting green out as zois 1405 01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:05.439 is going to be very difficult. And when you mow something short enough to 1406 01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:10.840 be a putting green, you're going to need a real type mower, not 1407 01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:18.079 the propeller blade like everybody else's mower. Is the real type well, well, 1408 01:35:18.119 --> 01:35:21.680 the real type mowers is what they mow golf course greens with. It's 1409 01:35:21.680 --> 01:35:26.600 like a barber pole, the candy cane, that that mower blade that spirals 1410 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:31.199 around uh and and that kind of mower gives you the finest, closest cut. 1411 01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:38.920 So that's what it takes to get a putting green in the common. 1412 01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:44.000 Long that's a good long grass. It does very well here, puts up 1413 01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:47.079 with quite a better shade generally not quite as much as Saint Augustine, but 1414 01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:51.079 good shape tolerance, and it also takes sun. It's very persistent. You 1415 01:35:51.159 --> 01:35:56.119 just have to mow it regularly for it to look its best. Saint Augustine's 1416 01:35:56.119 --> 01:36:00.319 plus is that it's very forgiving of an irregular mowing schedule. It doesn't like 1417 01:36:00.359 --> 01:36:02.680 it, but it'll it'll put up with it, and zeusa. If you 1418 01:36:02.680 --> 01:36:08.720 don't moan it regularly gets a little lumpy on you. What about the brown 1419 01:36:08.840 --> 01:36:14.920 patch is a subject. The brown patch as bad as uh St Augustine, 1420 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.319 You know, I don't. I haven't seen the one that you're thinking of, 1421 01:36:17.359 --> 01:36:20.159 the big circles brown patch, and I bet it does. I just 1422 01:36:20.199 --> 01:36:24.399 don't know that one. It does get some other diseases. It can get 1423 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:29.439 take all root rot like Bermuda and and UH Saint Augustine both can. Uh. 1424 01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:33.039 Every every turf grass has potential diseases, but when we take good care 1425 01:36:33.079 --> 01:36:36.960 of them, we help avoid a lot of that. It's always I planted 1426 01:36:38.359 --> 01:36:43.520 the same way as uh St Augustine. Yes, sad is the best way 1427 01:36:43.520 --> 01:36:46.880 to go really for Zoysia and Saint Augustine. Hey, uh Fred, I'm 1428 01:36:46.920 --> 01:36:49.399 gonna have to run time for Nicky in the news, but thank you for 1429 01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:54.239 the call. I appreciate that very much. Good luck in that long established 1430 01:36:54.520 --> 01:36:57.479 all right, we're gonna find out now what's happening. I know you're sitting 1431 01:36:57.479 --> 01:37:00.520 by your phones not to hear a garden line, but or by your radios, 1432 01:37:00.520 --> 01:37:02.159 but to hear Nikki tay if it's safe to go outside or not. 1433 01:37:02.239 --> 01:37:05.279 So here it comes. Welcome back to guard Line. We are happy to 1434 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:10.279 have you with us today, looking forward to talking about the things you are 1435 01:37:10.359 --> 01:37:14.000 interested in talking about. So let's do that. Let's jump straight out here 1436 01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:16.560 to the west side and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, Hi, 1437 01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:21.039 Skip. I didn't hear the last call, fully, but I'm calling because 1438 01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:29.039 we re sotted our backyard last November with Aaron Zoysia, and so my first 1439 01:37:29.159 --> 01:37:38.399 question is I'm familiar and use the Randy Lemon system on fertilizing and everything. 1440 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:44.159 Do I still use that on the airon zoia? Yes? Yes, it's 1441 01:37:44.159 --> 01:37:48.760 a warm season southern turf grass, so so that that would be a good 1442 01:37:48.760 --> 01:37:54.159 schedule. Yep. Okay, that's now number two, number number two. 1443 01:37:55.960 --> 01:38:00.640 We didn't replace the sod in the front yard. It's Saint Augustine out there. 1444 01:38:01.000 --> 01:38:04.399 And someone told me, boy, after you mow your front yard, 1445 01:38:04.399 --> 01:38:10.000 you're gonna have to wash your lawnmowre to keep this Saint Augustine out of your 1446 01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:15.199 zoosiet Is that correct? No? No, it's Saint Augustine doesn't spread very 1447 01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:17.560 readily like that a big old chunks and it just doesn't get a foot down 1448 01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:21.039 to get a root in the ground. Uh, now you can, you 1449 01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:26.920 know, you can bring in sprigs of bermuda grass if they're long enough, 1450 01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:31.199 not chopped up so much that they're just not gonna make it. But generally 1451 01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:34.920 we don't worry about that kind of thing. Okay. Is there anything else 1452 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:40.920 I should do this first spring on that zooyshia to encourage it? Uh, 1453 01:38:41.720 --> 01:38:45.800 just mow water fertilized. The more often you mow your zois o the densure 1454 01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:50.560 and more attractive it's going to be, uh. You it you have a 1455 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:55.520 little range and how high you mow. Generally, mowing a little bit higher 1456 01:38:55.720 --> 01:38:59.239 you don't have to mow quite as often as if you mow a little lower. 1457 01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:01.119 As you mow lower, it makes a nice, tighter, denser, 1458 01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:06.000 more attractive plant Thezuisia. So that's the range you kind of have a train. 1459 01:39:06.560 --> 01:39:10.800 You think once a week would be about right, depending on the growing 1460 01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:14.399 season and how much it's growing. When we mow grass, we would like 1461 01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:16.720 to cut off one third of the leaf blade every time you mow. So 1462 01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:19.479 if you if you've got a grass that you're mowing a little bit higher, 1463 01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:24.039 uh, then you're not mowing quite as often because it grows more to reach 1464 01:39:24.079 --> 01:39:28.319 that one third length. But as you go down lower and lower, you're 1465 01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:31.760 mowing more often. But again you're getting a better, more attractive Zuisia lawn. 1466 01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:36.760 By doing that, keep your keep your lawnmower blade very sharp because lois 1467 01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:41.520 is a little bit of a tougher grass plant. You know, if Saint 1468 01:39:41.560 --> 01:39:44.600 Augustine has led us, Zuezia is more like a little bit of a jute 1469 01:39:44.600 --> 01:39:46.640 twine. It's it's got a lot of silicon stuff in it and it just 1470 01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:50.560 it. That's an over exaggeration to call it jute twine, but I'm just 1471 01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:55.359 saying a good shark lower reason. Yeh, that's one of the reasons why 1472 01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:58.199 we wanted it. It's so lush. Yes, it is a beautiful, 1473 01:39:58.199 --> 01:40:01.159 beautiful plant. Okay, Well, thank you very much. Good luck with 1474 01:40:01.239 --> 01:40:05.239 it. Hope you hope you enjoy that a lot. It's a really cool 1475 01:40:05.279 --> 01:40:09.159 deal. Let's see where are we going to go now? We are going 1476 01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:15.520 to Luis and Galveston. Hello Louise, good morning. Two quick questions. 1477 01:40:15.720 --> 01:40:20.119 We had a rubber plant outside. We covered it during the recent freeze. 1478 01:40:20.840 --> 01:40:27.439 All the leaves have turned brown, they have fallen off. Do we cut 1479 01:40:27.479 --> 01:40:31.960 the rubber plant down as a result the steam itself or just wait for leaves 1480 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:35.159 to repopulate. Yeah, let the plant tell you. You can do the 1481 01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:39.880 branch scraping thing to see where it's alive, where it's dead. Just let 1482 01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:43.159 the plant tell you. That's what I would do. And when you see 1483 01:40:43.199 --> 01:40:46.039 green growth sprouting, then cut it back to just above. That's the best. 1484 01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:53.279 Yeah. The second question is I stumbled down upon twelve hanging baskets under 1485 01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:59.319 the house and to go out and purchase twelve hanging plants might be a bit 1486 01:40:59.439 --> 01:41:03.439 costly. I'm just wondering what would be the most successful results from what seed, 1487 01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:08.399 what plant that I could that I could put in those baskets. Is 1488 01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:11.000 this a sunny area or will they be in a lot of shade or what 1489 01:41:12.800 --> 01:41:15.359 it could be either? Or which twelve I have to find areas throughout the 1490 01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:18.560 property. I like to mix it up. You know, there's things that 1491 01:41:18.720 --> 01:41:23.720 look good in the spring. People love big old baskets of ferns and whatnot 1492 01:41:23.760 --> 01:41:27.479 like that. I like when the weather gets hot to switch over to things 1493 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:31.000 like porta laca. It takes the heat and does really well. They're just 1494 01:41:31.199 --> 01:41:38.239 so many good options right now hanging baskets, or we're entering big time hanging 1495 01:41:38.279 --> 01:41:42.680 baskets season, where there's a lot of really really good options that always look 1496 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:45.920 good. I just mix mine up. I like to look at different things, 1497 01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:48.720 and some things do better when it gets really hot. And then there's 1498 01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:53.600 of course the shade versus sun. Some things need more light, so if 1499 01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:57.439 you're in a shady area, foliage is probably going to do better for you. 1500 01:41:57.479 --> 01:42:00.720 There's a few shade loving flowers for hanging baskets, but as you get 1501 01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:04.880 into more sun than some of the blooming options become a little more well suited. 1502 01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:08.920 Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. 1503 01:42:08.920 --> 01:42:13.600 I appreciate that call very much. Hey, do you live down in the 1504 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:18.399 Richmond Rosenberg area? Have you ever been out to Enchanted Forest and Jenny Forests? 1505 01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:23.560 A beautiful, beautiful nursery. It just I love going out there. 1506 01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:26.239 I love the look of it. Do you just drive up and the overall 1507 01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:30.439 look everything is just so so cool and inviting. It's like you went back 1508 01:42:30.479 --> 01:42:33.239 to another place and time kind of deal. You know. It's it's just 1509 01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:42.239 a really cool environment. Everything you can imagine growing houseplants, succulents, roses, 1510 01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:46.079 bedding plants, annual plants, perennial plants. Tomatoes. By the way, 1511 01:42:46.079 --> 01:42:51.039 today at this write this down today, an enchanted forest out there in 1512 01:42:51.159 --> 01:42:55.720 the Richmond area, danmim millokan's to be talking about all about tomatoes. It 1513 01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:58.840 starts at ten o'clock. When I quit talking here, he starts talking there 1514 01:42:59.000 --> 01:43:04.520 all about tomatoes out and Enchanted Forest nursery. They've got your vegetables, just 1515 01:43:04.680 --> 01:43:11.800 go lower their new area that Danny built out there, and vegetables, herbs, 1516 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:15.479 this selection is unbelievable. You are going to be very impressed with what 1517 01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:17.680 you find when you go out there. They may even still have some red, 1518 01:43:17.680 --> 01:43:21.560 white, and yellow sea potato types that are available for you out there. 1519 01:43:21.640 --> 01:43:25.840 But there's always something going on. Every weekend this spring, there's gonna 1520 01:43:25.840 --> 01:43:29.960 be something happening out there at Enchanted Forest Garden Center. And once you go, 1521 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:31.199 once you'll see what I'm talking about. Now, how do you get 1522 01:43:31.199 --> 01:43:35.239 there? Well, if you're in Richmond and you're heading up toward sugar Land 1523 01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:41.399 direction off to the right, FM twenty seven fifty nine, that's where Enchanted 1524 01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:45.479 Forest will be located. So again, just give them a call, go 1525 01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:47.159 buy stop by, the stop by the website. Do it that way. 1526 01:43:47.199 --> 01:43:55.399 If you go to Enchanted Forest, that's Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot 1527 01:43:55.439 --> 01:43:58.720 com. That'll get you there, and I promise you you won't be you 1528 01:43:58.760 --> 01:44:02.000 will not be disappointed. Oh By, it is time for another break. 1529 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:06.039 When we come back, Donald and Roy, you'll be the first two up 1530 01:44:06.119 --> 01:44:11.319 if you would like to call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1531 01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:14.640 four. Welcome back to garden Line. We're glad you're listening today and looking 1532 01:44:14.640 --> 01:44:16.840 forward to talking to you about the things that are of interest to you. 1533 01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:20.079 What do you care most about? Well, let's let's talk about that. 1534 01:44:20.840 --> 01:44:26.680 Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 1535 01:44:26.760 --> 01:44:31.079 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, the there's 1536 01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:35.960 always a new product coming on the market every year. There's new types of 1537 01:44:36.079 --> 01:44:40.119 pretty much everything you need, certainly, new kinds of plants, new kinds 1538 01:44:40.119 --> 01:44:43.520 of products and things. One of the one of the cool new things that 1539 01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:47.680 is now available pretty widespread here now in the Houston area is the three sixty 1540 01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:53.359 tree stabilizer. What that is is it's a think of it as a bar 1541 01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:57.119 that attaches to a steak and attaches to your tree to stabilize it, and 1542 01:44:57.159 --> 01:44:59.960 that could be. It's made so that you can put one of the tea 1543 01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.640 posts in the iron t posts and it grabs onto that. It's designed to 1544 01:45:03.720 --> 01:45:08.000 grab a tepost. It'll also grab just a round post. I mean you 1545 01:45:08.479 --> 01:45:11.359 put a regular post down on the ground, it'll grab onto that and it 1546 01:45:11.359 --> 01:45:14.000 reaches out and grabs a hold of the tree. And it's got a soft 1547 01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:17.119 connection so it doesn't damage your tree bark, which is very important, but 1548 01:45:17.399 --> 01:45:21.239 it prevents that tree from moving. And if you put them from two different 1549 01:45:21.239 --> 01:45:25.800 angles, like at a right angle, it won't go in north southeast west. 1550 01:45:25.840 --> 01:45:30.800 It controls it for movement in any direction. The three sixty tree stabilizers 1551 01:45:30.840 --> 01:45:32.520 are available in a lot of areas. You can get them at rcw's got 1552 01:45:32.520 --> 01:45:35.399 the Buchanan's got them, Arbrogate's got them. Plants for all seasons, got 1553 01:45:35.479 --> 01:45:41.119 them. I was out at Verdant Tree Farm yesterday talking with Patrick about some 1554 01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:44.319 trees and things they have coming in and whatnot, what's happening in this spring. 1555 01:45:44.560 --> 01:45:45.960 He's got some there. I saw them there as well. Now, 1556 01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:49.840 the three sixty tree stabilizer is a kind of product that you buy it once 1557 01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:55.159 and you got it on your shelf and it lasts a very very long time. 1558 01:45:55.439 --> 01:45:58.880 When you got wires, you got people tripping over them, you forget 1559 01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:01.039 to take them off, they cut into the tree, a lot of issues 1560 01:46:01.159 --> 01:46:04.279 like that. Look, trees are not cheap. I don't care if it's 1561 01:46:04.279 --> 01:46:08.239 a little crape myrtle or if it's a big old shade tree, gunn plant. 1562 01:46:08.640 --> 01:46:11.880 You want to make sure they're stabilized and taken care of. And so 1563 01:46:11.960 --> 01:46:15.479 this is a very small investment to do that and you'll always have one. 1564 01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:20.960 They're ready to go next time you plant something. Three sixty degree tree stabilizer, 1565 01:46:21.199 --> 01:46:25.640 good quality probably by the way. Verdant Tree Farm. Verdant Tree Farm, 1566 01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:29.479 they are loaded up and getting a whole bunch of new plants in. 1567 01:46:30.119 --> 01:46:33.000 There's always new things coming in. They got a bunch of hollies coming in 1568 01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:38.000 here really soon, really looking forward to seeing those. They've got trees of 1569 01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:41.479 all sizes. I mean, if you want something up to seven hundred gallon 1570 01:46:41.800 --> 01:46:45.159 soil balls, they've got that in containers out there now. Verdant Tree Farm. 1571 01:46:45.199 --> 01:46:49.800 There's two locations, well there's three. Actually there's the farm on West 1572 01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:56.119 Houston out on Barker, Cyprus. There's the one Yale Street where it comes 1573 01:46:56.119 --> 01:46:59.520 into it in the Heights area, and then there's one down in Parlane on 1574 01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:03.279 Broadway. They have a wide variety of very cold hearty, very drought resistant 1575 01:47:03.319 --> 01:47:05.720 plants. You can go in, you can talk to them, you can 1576 01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:10.319 get a consultation. What tree would go here? You pick out your tree, 1577 01:47:10.359 --> 01:47:12.800 they come and they plant it. And it's as simple as that. 1578 01:47:12.880 --> 01:47:17.039 And listen, summer's coming. Don't delay if you want a tree covered today 1579 01:47:17.520 --> 01:47:21.119 and get scheduled to get one brought out to your place. Whether it's a 1580 01:47:21.159 --> 01:47:25.479 palm tree or whether it's a deciduous tree, you know, the regular standard 1581 01:47:25.560 --> 01:47:29.520 types of trees. They've got all of that, including the hollies that I 1582 01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:32.039 was just talking about. So make sure and get that set up so you 1583 01:47:32.079 --> 01:47:35.960 can get it established, because every day you give that tree to form roots 1584 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:40.159 between now and the heat of summer, the better off and the more resilient 1585 01:47:40.479 --> 01:47:43.800 it's going to be. We're going to head now out to northwest Houston and 1586 01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:46.520 talk to Donald. Hello, Donald, how are you? I'm good, 1587 01:47:46.560 --> 01:47:53.000 sir. This is the way to start today. ALRIGHTY. I feel embarrassed 1588 01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:55.720 because I wrote down, you know, I write down the name. So 1589 01:47:55.760 --> 01:47:59.039 I wrote down Martin, and then I wrote down George. But I'm not 1590 01:47:59.119 --> 01:48:01.720 sure how, so tell me your first name again. Skip. You can 1591 01:48:01.760 --> 01:48:04.319 call me Skip, call me anything you want. Just have you got a 1592 01:48:04.359 --> 01:48:08.720 gardening question. I'll help you. I sure do. But I got something 1593 01:48:08.800 --> 01:48:12.840 to read you real quick that you'll like. I got my ACE Rewards coupon 1594 01:48:12.960 --> 01:48:16.840 thing here, which is wonderful five off twenty five fifteen off seventy five twenty 1595 01:48:16.840 --> 01:48:21.159 five off one twenty five and each coupon has my name on it with a 1596 01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:27.359 membership number. And can't beat that. Can't beat that. Oh, I've 1597 01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:31.119 been to ACE Hardware when they have them, when they said they have everything, 1598 01:48:31.840 --> 01:48:35.600 I can't explain it. They have bins and bins and bins of hardware. 1599 01:48:36.000 --> 01:48:44.319 And you can buy threaded screws and machine bolts in snake brass or brass 1600 01:48:44.399 --> 01:48:47.399 or nylon or a stainless steel. I mean, you can't find that anywhere, 1601 01:48:47.479 --> 01:48:50.359 no one at a time. ACE is a place for your name. 1602 01:48:50.399 --> 01:48:53.920 And hey, Roy, do you have a gardening question or don't excuse me? 1603 01:48:53.960 --> 01:48:57.399 Oh? I sure do. Okay, Remember I was talking to you 1604 01:48:57.439 --> 01:49:00.199 about property up in Love lady, and still not sure what to do with 1605 01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:06.319 it. But I'm thinking that excuse me if I just want to put thornless 1606 01:49:06.359 --> 01:49:10.760 blackberries up there, and now I'm thinking pumpkins. This is things that we 1607 01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:13.640 don't get to take care of much. We go there, but you know 1608 01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:17.720 we're not like a daily visit. So if just put pumpkins in the ground 1609 01:49:18.199 --> 01:49:24.399 and thornless blackberries and just let them go and see how they grow. You 1610 01:49:24.439 --> 01:49:27.399 can do that with the blackberries the pumpkins. I think you're going to run 1611 01:49:27.439 --> 01:49:30.479 into. They get some powdery mildew and issues on the leaves. It's worth 1612 01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:34.600 a try, but under neglect, it's a little roll of the dice with 1613 01:49:34.640 --> 01:49:39.119 the weather on those. Okay, well again, there's thirty acres on the 1614 01:49:39.159 --> 01:49:43.079 side of the house there to play with. So we could put some in 1615 01:49:43.159 --> 01:49:45.319 one area and then maybe you know, the one hundred feet away, put 1616 01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:48.199 some more and see what happens with them. And we know animals will get 1617 01:49:48.199 --> 01:49:51.560 to them. But just have fun, have fun. That's a main Yeah, 1618 01:49:51.600 --> 01:49:56.279 that's the main thing. Yeah. And I forgot to mention to you. 1619 01:49:56.279 --> 01:49:58.319 You said, well, it's a nice piece of property. There's one 1620 01:49:58.399 --> 01:50:00.359 hundred and sixty five more acres that have to be mode. That takes two 1621 01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:03.000 and a half weeks to do. Good. Luckily, I better let you 1622 01:50:03.000 --> 01:50:06.039 go so you can get that thing mode. Hey. I do appreciate the 1623 01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:09.680 call, Donald, but I think you did experiment with whatever you want. 1624 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:12.640 Hey, there's nothing wrong if something doesn't turn out. That's how that's how 1625 01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:15.399 gardening can be. Just have fun. A quick pine tree question, all 1626 01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:19.319 right, real quick, I gotta move. I have my property here in 1627 01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:24.600 Houston. I have like sixteen pine trees, about eight to ten inches around 1628 01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:28.079 close to the house, and some are so they're not that far apart, 1629 01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:30.560 and some are nice and dark green, and the others are kind of yellowed 1630 01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:33.079 out, like they almost look like they're dying. But they've been here for 1631 01:50:33.199 --> 01:50:38.920 years. Why would they be so different. Could be a number of things. 1632 01:50:39.119 --> 01:50:43.800 The weather, the drought we had last summer has taken a toll on 1633 01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:45.560 a lot of pine trees. There's just a lot of other issues. But 1634 01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:49.039 I suspect drought related maybe part of it. And it's always hard to kind 1635 01:50:49.039 --> 01:50:53.439 of predict, right, Yeah, at this point, there's not much you 1636 01:50:53.479 --> 01:50:56.560 can do because of what happened before. You just kind of have to wait 1637 01:50:56.600 --> 01:50:59.840 and see. Okay, and I get other catalogs. I just want people 1638 01:50:59.840 --> 01:51:01.479 to know, like, hey, Donald, I'm sorry I have to cut 1639 01:51:01.520 --> 01:51:03.920 in, but I might have to run. We got some folks here waiting 1640 01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:06.000 up. I got a break coming. Thank you, sir. I appreciate 1641 01:51:06.039 --> 01:51:10.680 the call very much. Uh. Yeah, that that is, you know, 1642 01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:14.439 it's the vicissitudes of nature. They direct a lot of things that we're 1643 01:51:14.479 --> 01:51:16.399 doing. Let's uh, let's see here. We're gonna go to Katie and 1644 01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:20.640 talk to Roy. Hello, Roy, Hey, I got a couple of 1645 01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:26.319 quick questions. I uh took the day off yesterday to get my gardens ready, 1646 01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:30.319 and so now I got to follow up on that. Okay, I 1647 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:36.520 did a about a one third mixture of chicken manure with my soil, and 1648 01:51:36.560 --> 01:51:44.479 I'm wondering, does the manure make me need to fertilize less? Yeah? 1649 01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:48.640 Or or do I still need to do a weekly liquid fertilizer? And what's 1650 01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:51.560 the plant? Tell me? Tell me the plan again, Roy, Oh, 1651 01:51:51.720 --> 01:51:59.039 it's gonna be different vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, jalapenos. Okay. 1652 01:51:59.119 --> 01:52:02.199 And was this and minru you got from somebody or or what? Or what 1653 01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:05.600 it was it a bag? It was? It was a mixed corn that 1654 01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:09.960 I got out. Okay, so it was it was already processed. Okay, 1655 01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:14.840 Yeah, all right, good two thirds soil and one third chick I 1656 01:52:14.840 --> 01:52:17.479 don't know that. Yeah, well that's a lot of chicka mine. You 1657 01:52:17.479 --> 01:52:21.079 shouldn't have to fertilize. But watch how things grow. And see, chicken 1658 01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:25.680 manure is one of we call it the hotter manures, meaning it's got a 1659 01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:29.600 lot of nutrient in it compared to something like rabbit or horse for example. 1660 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:32.600 Uh, And so just be a little careful that that one third is a 1661 01:52:32.640 --> 01:52:36.039 lot. That's a lot of chicken maneur. So I think you're probably okay. 1662 01:52:36.319 --> 01:52:40.239 You don't want to overdo anymore. Just be careful with it. I'd 1663 01:52:40.239 --> 01:52:42.319 throw a malt on the ground, you know, when we do with chicken 1664 01:52:42.319 --> 01:52:45.199 mineur. I don't know the product and how well processed it is, but 1665 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:48.279 there are some human microbe types of things that we have to deal with. 1666 01:52:48.359 --> 01:52:53.680 Most people making a product are gonna have that in mind and get it adequately 1667 01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:58.039 composted. But just just be a little careful. If you're doing vegetables, 1668 01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:00.039 you know, got soul splashing up on your leg, leaves or stuff. 1669 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:04.159 We always like to make sure that it's fully, fully decomposed. That's why 1670 01:53:04.159 --> 01:53:06.520 I throw a mulch on top of it when I use any kind of a 1671 01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:11.560 manure in the gardens. Okay, thank you very much, Roy, thanks 1672 01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:13.920 a lot. Enjoy that. Hope you have a good time. Hey, 1673 01:53:13.920 --> 01:53:16.159 we gotta take a little break, Nancy and Westbury. You are first up 1674 01:53:16.199 --> 01:53:19.399 when we come back. I appreciate you hanging on with us. We'll be 1675 01:53:19.479 --> 01:53:23.680 right to you if you would like to give us a call seven one three 1676 01:53:23.800 --> 01:53:28.279 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 1677 01:53:28.399 --> 01:53:30.000 seven four. Two weeks from now, I'm going to be up at A 1678 01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:34.720 and A Plants and Produce, which is up in Montgomery. That is on 1679 01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:39.479 Saturday, the twenty fourth, not next Saturday. Two saturdays from now. 1680 01:53:39.800 --> 01:53:43.720 That's going to be my next appearance out and about A and A Plants and 1681 01:53:43.800 --> 01:53:46.760 Produce in Montgomery. Saturday is twenty fourth, twelve to two. Hope you 1682 01:53:46.800 --> 01:53:55.359 can make it out. Kat RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 1683 01:53:55.359 --> 01:54:00.880 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy H. Garden 1684 01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:17.840 Line with scared director. It's crazy. Just watch him as the world may 1685 01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:32.840 give things to Septasya again, not a sad Welcome to garden Line. We're 1686 01:54:32.840 --> 01:54:35.520 glad to have you back today. What are we going to talk about? 1687 01:54:35.720 --> 01:54:39.760 Well, that depends on what you call about. Our phone number is seven 1688 01:54:39.800 --> 01:54:44.279 one three two one two five eight seven four. Overall, I'm talking about 1689 01:54:44.279 --> 01:54:46.439 getting ready for spring, and we've got a lot of questions coming up about 1690 01:54:46.479 --> 01:54:50.159 that. Uh so we're gonna jump right into things. But before I do, 1691 01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:55.279 h have you been to Warren's Garden Center and Kingwood Garden Center? Out 1692 01:54:55.319 --> 01:54:59.880 in Kingwood, Texas. Those of you listening up to the north and east, 1693 01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:03.199 you're lucky. You got two places that are top quality. Mom and 1694 01:55:03.279 --> 01:55:09.680 Bob local fill in all the names you want independent garden centers right there in 1695 01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:15.239 Kingwood, and they have got a great selection of vegetables and herbs available right 1696 01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:17.640 now. Now is a good time to get out there and do that. 1697 01:55:17.800 --> 01:55:20.720 Hey, by the way, they have Kettley orchids arrived just in time for 1698 01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:25.239 Valentine's State. What a great gift. And orchids are not that difficult to 1699 01:55:25.279 --> 01:55:28.760 take care of a little bit of TLC here and there. Just tell them 1700 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:30.119 when you get them an orchid. Hey, call garden line if you have 1701 01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:33.840 a question, help you with it over there, or go back to Warren's 1702 01:55:33.880 --> 01:55:38.319 in Kingwood. Listen, those folks know what they're talking about. And if 1703 01:55:38.359 --> 01:55:41.960 you have any issues with taking care of plants, if you wanted tips for 1704 01:55:42.039 --> 01:55:45.880 success, you know what are the ABC's that haven't success with this plant? 1705 01:55:45.960 --> 01:55:48.880 They can take care of that. They are still selling the supersacks from heirloom 1706 01:55:48.920 --> 01:55:55.119 soils out at Warren's Garden Center. Very cost efficient, very easy, super 1707 01:55:55.159 --> 01:55:59.680 convenient. It's a cubic yard sack that they'll put in your truck or your 1708 01:55:59.680 --> 01:56:02.119 trailer or you know. It just makes it real easy to get a hold 1709 01:56:02.279 --> 01:56:05.840 of the composts that you need, the quality mixes that you need. They've 1710 01:56:05.880 --> 01:56:11.720 got that. Now here's you need to listen to this part. They are 1711 01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:15.359 offering a deal. They're calling it the Skips Special. Okay, buy three 1712 01:56:15.399 --> 01:56:19.960 bags of heirloom soil that are one cubic foot or larger, not the little 1713 01:56:20.000 --> 01:56:23.960 tiny bags, but you know, decent sized bag one cubic footter larger, 1714 01:56:24.279 --> 01:56:28.520 and you get one free. That that is a really good deal on it. 1715 01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:30.119 But just go by and say, hey, I need the Skip Skip 1716 01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:34.079 special on these bags of soil. Three bags of heirloom soils, and there's 1717 01:56:34.239 --> 01:56:36.960 you can mix and match, like if you want to get a veggie and 1718 01:56:38.039 --> 01:56:41.439 herb soil and you also, you know, want to get a rose soil 1719 01:56:41.560 --> 01:56:45.319 for example, that counts. But buy three bags and you get the fourth 1720 01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:47.720 one for free. And it's good this weekend. It's good all the way 1721 01:56:47.800 --> 01:56:53.079 up until February eighteenth, so that would be what next Sunday, that's right, 1722 01:56:53.239 --> 01:56:56.119 this weekend and next is your chance to do that. So get buy 1723 01:56:56.600 --> 01:57:00.359 Warren Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden Center and you can do just just that. 1724 01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:04.319 That's a good deal. Let's see, We're going to head now to Westbury 1725 01:57:04.399 --> 01:57:11.119 and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, Hi, Skip, I have 1726 01:57:11.199 --> 01:57:15.039 a question today. My question is I live at a condo with a swimming 1727 01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:19.199 pool. On one side of the swimming pool, there's a brick flower bed 1728 01:57:19.239 --> 01:57:25.479 that runs the length of the pool, and the lagustrum in that flower bed 1729 01:57:25.600 --> 01:57:30.960 died last summer. Okay, so we want to replace the lagustrum, and 1730 01:57:30.239 --> 01:57:36.760 some suggestions have been to plant purple sage oryopon. So what shrub would you 1731 01:57:36.920 --> 01:57:42.760 recommend that we plant in that bed, well, both purple sage and yopon. 1732 01:57:43.079 --> 01:57:45.319 I don't know if that's coming in on your own, but I'm getting 1733 01:57:45.359 --> 01:57:49.319 a lot of feedback right there. If that's all your question, go ahead 1734 01:57:49.359 --> 01:57:51.199 and hang up, and I'm gonna go ahead and answer it. If you 1735 01:57:51.239 --> 01:57:55.520 need to hang on for a follow up, that's fine, Okay, all 1736 01:57:55.600 --> 01:57:59.920 right, okay, Yeah, the yopon is an evergreen and it's green. 1737 01:58:00.159 --> 01:58:04.239 Of course, you can buy the little compactyopons that are smaller. You can 1738 01:58:04.279 --> 01:58:08.640 get a larger yopon that would have berries like there's a variety called Pride of 1739 01:58:08.680 --> 01:58:12.560 Houston. Just no yopon berries or poisonous. If you got little kiddo's playing 1740 01:58:12.600 --> 01:58:15.000 in the pool and that might tend to want to stick something in their mouth, 1741 01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:18.319 that may not be a good choice. The yopon, but prior to 1742 01:58:18.359 --> 01:58:24.000 Houston's, a beautiful yopon does really well. Texas sage the siniso is also 1743 01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:27.279 good. It's more of a silvery Some versions are a little bit greenish, 1744 01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:30.880 a little more silver with others. But it's got to have really good drainage. 1745 01:58:30.920 --> 01:58:33.000 And if you can give it a raised bed so when it rains too 1746 01:58:33.039 --> 01:58:38.279 much here, which it does at times, you drain off that extra soil, 1747 01:58:38.399 --> 01:58:42.319 it'll be okay. And it's a beautiful plant does really well also, 1748 01:58:42.520 --> 01:58:45.760 So those are both good tough plants that you're not going to have many pests 1749 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:49.479 and disease issues with. I would just throw in one other idea. This 1750 01:58:49.560 --> 01:58:53.520 would not be an evergreen, but why not some shrub roses. There's a 1751 01:58:53.560 --> 01:58:58.079 lot of beautiful roses out there that are shrub type roses, and they're easy 1752 01:58:58.079 --> 01:59:00.279 to prune and sheer and keep looking good. So that would just be one 1753 01:59:00.319 --> 01:59:03.680 other being a swimming pool. It's probably in the sun, so that's gonna 1754 01:59:03.680 --> 01:59:09.680 make roses very happy too. Just another thing to consider it as an option 1755 01:59:10.239 --> 01:59:13.720 out there. By the way, if you already have roses and you need 1756 01:59:13.760 --> 01:59:16.800 to get them fertilized, well why not use a quality mix one of Microlife's 1757 01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:20.359 quality mixes. And they have a lot of blends. You know with Microlife, 1758 01:59:20.399 --> 01:59:25.199 you've got you've got the standard green bag, that's the six two four. 1759 01:59:25.319 --> 01:59:28.079 We think of it as a lawn fertilizer. I'll tell you this. 1760 01:59:28.279 --> 01:59:30.560 I use it on my roses. It encourages good vigor, and when your 1761 01:59:30.640 --> 01:59:34.159 roses have vigor, they're gonna have blooms. It works really well for that. 1762 01:59:34.600 --> 01:59:38.600 But Microlife has a wide variety of selections. You know, they got 1763 01:59:38.640 --> 01:59:43.880 things for fruit and citrus, for example. They've got they've got acidic types 1764 01:59:43.920 --> 01:59:48.920 of fertilizer, and the acidic blends also super super good for roses. So 1765 01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:54.840 consider the one that's made for things like blueberries and camellias and gardenias. You 1766 01:59:54.880 --> 01:59:58.880 can use that on your roses too. The Humates plus that's the zero zero 1767 01:59:59.000 --> 02:00:01.359 four purple bag, very good for your lawn. It would be a good 1768 02:00:01.399 --> 02:00:04.960 time to start thinking about getting that out in the lawn here pretty quick. 1769 02:00:05.159 --> 02:00:10.960 You're going to be following it up with your standard summer lawn fertilizations, but 1770 02:00:11.359 --> 02:00:15.039 for now, just the humates plus over time, year after year, adding 1771 02:00:15.079 --> 02:00:19.399 that in building the soil, improving the soil structure, improving the lawn, 1772 02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:24.960 you're basically doing what nature does, and that is growing a healthier plant and 1773 02:00:25.039 --> 02:00:29.039 improving the soil little by little over time. That's what nature does, and 1774 02:00:29.079 --> 02:00:31.399 that's what you do with your microlife Microlife Fertilizer dot com if you want to 1775 02:00:31.399 --> 02:00:35.840 get more information, they're available everywhere. It's really easy to find microlife in 1776 02:00:35.880 --> 02:00:41.079 this area. We're going to head now to just says Houston and Karen, 1777 02:00:41.319 --> 02:00:45.880 Karen, what part of Houston are you in? Southwest Houston? Alrighty, 1778 02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:51.159 how can we help? So? I had a horrible struggle with aphids in 1779 02:00:51.239 --> 02:00:58.279 my cucumbers last year, okay, and I just never could get pasted. 1780 02:00:58.680 --> 02:01:02.840 I guess by the time I discovered them, they were already too established. 1781 02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:09.159 And I bought some mem oil and was treating it with nim oil, but 1782 02:01:09.640 --> 02:01:14.359 it just never like it never got rid of them. Okay, is there 1783 02:01:14.439 --> 02:01:17.359 something I can do, like this spring when I plant my cure numbers to 1784 02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:21.439 kind of prevent them. Yes, aphids will feed on those new cucumbers, 1785 02:01:21.479 --> 02:01:26.560 especially the new shoots out toward the end, and they will cause them to 1786 02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:29.319 curl and cup, and it's hard to get a spray in there to kill 1787 02:01:29.359 --> 02:01:33.319 the aphid because the leaf is deformed because of their feeding so early on. 1788 02:01:33.520 --> 02:01:35.960 Just watch for them, you know what to look for. When you see 1789 02:01:35.960 --> 02:01:41.560 a few, just get you some insecticidal soap and just squirt those leaves. 1790 02:01:41.600 --> 02:01:45.000 Make sure you get the bottom of the leaves when you spray, and the 1791 02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:49.079 soap. If you give aphids about the insecticidal soap, it kills them. 1792 02:01:49.119 --> 02:01:55.039 It's not a poison, it's physically killing them. And so that you just 1793 02:01:55.399 --> 02:01:57.880 every now and then. You don't need to spray every week. Just when 1794 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:00.880 you see a little problem cropping up, catch it early. And that is 1795 02:02:00.960 --> 02:02:03.359 the safest, simplest, easiest thing you can do. You're not gonna kill 1796 02:02:03.359 --> 02:02:08.479 your bees that way either, Okay, great, and I have and I 1797 02:02:08.479 --> 02:02:13.119 have chickens, so there it's like but they but I fence them off so 1798 02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:16.279 they cannot get to my plants. Not a bad idea, not about chickens. 1799 02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:19.680 Are very bad gardeners. They're not. They are, but they do 1800 02:02:19.800 --> 02:02:25.159 provide fertilizer, servis and eggs. That's it. That's it. If you 1801 02:02:25.199 --> 02:02:29.640 got backyard chickens, you get eggs. That's the fun part, all right, 1802 02:02:29.920 --> 02:02:32.359 Yes, and then one other quick question, if it's okay, I 1803 02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:39.439 planned a layer garden. It seemed like margals help my tomatoes because I had 1804 02:02:39.479 --> 02:02:45.439 no pett Yeah, any other suggestions to layering? Okay, Karen, I've 1805 02:02:45.479 --> 02:02:48.239 run into a break. I'm gonna just let you go, and when I 1806 02:02:48.279 --> 02:02:51.880 come back from break, I will address that. We will be right back. 1807 02:02:53.279 --> 02:02:56.920 Well, welcome back to garden Line today. We are having a good 1808 02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:00.239 time talking about all kinds of things. Listen, it is spring. I 1809 02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:03.600 don't know if you're excited or not. I am. I am very excited 1810 02:03:03.600 --> 02:03:05.960 about spring, and if you're a gardener, I bet you are too. 1811 02:03:06.239 --> 02:03:09.760 Listen. I know you see a lot of clouds up there, but I've 1812 02:03:09.760 --> 02:03:12.760 been looking at weather forecasts and it looks like some of this is gonna hold 1813 02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:15.119 off a little bit. So if you have a chance to get out today 1814 02:03:15.279 --> 02:03:19.079 and get by your garden centers, get by the places that supply the kind 1815 02:03:19.119 --> 02:03:23.359 of things you need, to grow your lawn, your garden, your landscape. 1816 02:03:23.560 --> 02:03:25.479 I would get out there and do it. I mean, we got 1817 02:03:25.600 --> 02:03:28.520 we got a lot of spring to come, and we want to get ahead 1818 02:03:28.520 --> 02:03:30.000 of things and be ready to go. So don't let a little bit of 1819 02:03:30.039 --> 02:03:33.760 cloudy weather keep you from doing that. I was just talking on the phone 1820 02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:38.479 about I think I was talking with Karen, and we were talking about different 1821 02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:42.600 things like marigolds and tomatoes and putting those things together. The whole issue of 1822 02:03:42.680 --> 02:03:45.720 companion planting is a very complex one, to be honest. It's you know, 1823 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:48.119 you can't just say, yeah, you put these two plants together and 1824 02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:54.199 everything works out. It's more complicated than that. Some companion planting claims don't 1825 02:03:54.199 --> 02:03:58.680 hold out and some do some types of things. You know, like if 1826 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:03.079 you were to use marigols to keep nematods off your tomatoes, well you'd have 1827 02:04:03.119 --> 02:04:09.119 so many marigals planted that they would essentially become a weed to your tomatoes, 1828 02:04:09.199 --> 02:04:13.000 that is, taking water, nutrients and whatnot, And that's not a good 1829 02:04:13.000 --> 02:04:17.840 way to do it. Will marigals trap nematodes and reduce the numbers over time 1830 02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:20.880 in the saw, yes they will, But to put a whole bunch of 1831 02:04:20.920 --> 02:04:27.640 on a tomato plant is not that effective of an approach. It's too complicated 1832 02:04:27.680 --> 02:04:30.439 to go into Whi's been a whole show on it really talking about all the 1833 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:32.680 aspects of it. But in general, with that one marigoles and tomatoes, 1834 02:04:32.720 --> 02:04:36.760 I don't do that. And I know that some people recommend that you will 1835 02:04:36.800 --> 02:04:41.279 find that marigals get spider mites, and spider mites love tomatoes too, and 1836 02:04:41.319 --> 02:04:44.560 they'll just move right up on your tomatoes as well. So I don't know. 1837 02:04:44.680 --> 02:04:48.000 I'm not a big one on that particular example of companion planting. Let's 1838 02:04:48.039 --> 02:04:51.880 go up to Cyprus and we're going to talk to Teresa. Hey, Teresa, 1839 02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:57.720 Hi, I need your help going to war with rabbits that are eating 1840 02:04:57.720 --> 02:05:05.399 my pansies. Okay do you War's a big term, I mean it, 1841 02:05:05.520 --> 02:05:12.319 Okay, Uh with rabbits. There are some repellents that you can purchase. 1842 02:05:12.479 --> 02:05:15.279 You might try your ACE Hardware store if you're up in Cyprus. You got 1843 02:05:15.279 --> 02:05:17.880 a couple of great ones. You got the one on Jones Road, Cypress 1844 02:05:17.920 --> 02:05:21.359 as you've got M and D that's a little bit further further north for you 1845 02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:25.800 up there. Both of those are going to be really good choices. M 1846 02:05:25.840 --> 02:05:29.479 and D's on Luetta Road. Uh, And they're gonna have some repellents for 1847 02:05:29.560 --> 02:05:32.800 various kinds of animals. You might try that. Fencing them out. If 1848 02:05:32.880 --> 02:05:36.520 you in an area where rabbits are coming out of the woods and whatnot, 1849 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:42.560 putting a low fence out maybe the best way to keep them out of there 1850 02:05:42.560 --> 02:05:45.399 because they are that they don't cooperate with what we want them to do in 1851 02:05:45.439 --> 02:05:54.800 the garden. Okay, so a repellent, a repellent or fencing them out. 1852 02:05:55.279 --> 02:05:58.119 Those are like for the front yard. Like, if I can't put 1853 02:05:58.119 --> 02:06:00.079 a fence, I'm just gonna have to use the repellent. Then yeah, 1854 02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:06.079 yeah, you use the repellent. I'm not a wildlife expert, but that 1855 02:06:06.079 --> 02:06:11.760 that would be something you could try. I know, the bunnies are cute. 1856 02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:15.159 You use the term war. I'm pretty sure ballistics will be frowned on 1857 02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:20.159 in your neighborhood. So I would stay away from that. But seriously that 1858 02:06:20.840 --> 02:06:25.159 if you can, if you can just try to kind of repel them away, 1859 02:06:25.239 --> 02:06:29.279 that's probably one of your better options. Okay, Okay, thank you 1860 02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:31.119 for your advice. All Right, thank you very much. Not a real 1861 02:06:31.199 --> 02:06:34.319 super super good answer for that one. We're going to go now to the 1862 02:06:34.319 --> 02:06:39.239 Woodlands and talk to Chris. Hello, Chris, good morning, Thank you 1863 02:06:39.279 --> 02:06:44.680 for taking my calls here, bet you bet. I have a lot of 1864 02:06:44.800 --> 02:06:49.920 oak trees leaves brother coming down, and I just want to know can I 1865 02:06:49.920 --> 02:06:55.159 put them in my compost pile or do they No? You can? You 1866 02:06:55.199 --> 02:06:57.960 can? Yes, you can? The answer here, Okay, they're not 1867 02:06:58.000 --> 02:07:01.319 a problem. No, not to a go for it. There are huge 1868 02:07:01.560 --> 02:07:09.439 stretches of hardwood forest across the southeast United States, and it's almost eighty or 1869 02:07:09.640 --> 02:07:14.560 percenter more oak leaves fall into the ground decomposing and everybody's happy. So don't 1870 02:07:14.560 --> 02:07:16.760 worry. Don't worry about that at all. Good deal, Thank you, 1871 02:07:16.760 --> 02:07:19.399 you bet. And if you run over them with a mower, break them 1872 02:07:19.439 --> 02:07:23.680 up a little bit, they decompose faster, and so that may be something 1873 02:07:23.720 --> 02:07:26.760 you'd want to do. Okay. Oh okay, all right, thank you, 1874 02:07:26.800 --> 02:07:30.159 thank you, thank you you bet. Yeah. I was talking about 1875 02:07:30.159 --> 02:07:31.479 ACE Hardware up in Cyprus area. You know, if you just go to 1876 02:07:31.560 --> 02:07:36.319 their store locator, go to acehardware dot com and find the store locator, 1877 02:07:36.399 --> 02:07:39.840 they'll ask you, you know, what the zip codes you're coming there from. 1878 02:07:39.880 --> 02:07:42.840 If you put your zip code in they'll show you the ACE stores that 1879 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:45.359 are near you. It's real easy, easy to find them. And you're 1880 02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:50.079 going to find all kinds of things from repellents to pest control, disease control, 1881 02:07:50.079 --> 02:07:55.760 weed control, fertilizers. Oh my gosh. ACE has stocked up like 1882 02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:59.760 crazy on all these products. They're ready to go. Get out there and 1883 02:07:59.800 --> 02:08:03.119 get some now. So when the weather is such that you're gonna get out 1884 02:08:03.159 --> 02:08:05.319 and fertilize or put on brimmerge, whatever you're gonna do, go ahead and 1885 02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:07.800 get it now, be ready to go, and ACE will get you fixed 1886 02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:11.359 up on that. We're gonna now head out to sugar Land and talk to 1887 02:08:11.399 --> 02:08:18.640 Greg. Hey, Greg, Yes, I have a knockout roses. I 1888 02:08:18.680 --> 02:08:22.680 would like to know when do I need to cut those back? I had 1889 02:08:22.039 --> 02:08:31.439 a bloom right during the the freeze. On a week after froze, they 1890 02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:37.239 bloomed down. And now yeah, this dope dormant or whatever, I go 1891 02:08:37.279 --> 02:08:39.680 ahead and cut it. You can do some printing now, it's fine time. 1892 02:08:39.800 --> 02:08:43.359 It's excellent time to do printing on your road. They're gonna be putting 1893 02:08:43.359 --> 02:08:45.760 out new growth, gonna get a little more warmer weather coming here. You're 1894 02:08:45.760 --> 02:08:48.479 gonna see some sprouting coming out if you have already on your roses and uh, 1895 02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:52.359 so you go ahead and get that printing done. However you want them 1896 02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:56.880 to be shaped and look knock out some good shrub rose. Very disease resistant. 1897 02:08:56.279 --> 02:09:01.600 Uh and that's its main attribute. Is it blooms and blooms and it's 1898 02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:07.359 a disease resistant. And also my fertilizer once should I put that down for 1899 02:09:07.640 --> 02:09:13.880 the winter for the summer coming we talk about your roses. No, for 1900 02:09:13.960 --> 02:09:16.520 my lawn. For you lawn you could do you could just see you in 1901 02:09:16.520 --> 02:09:20.239 sugar nut. You could do a greenup. I would probably consider if you 1902 02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:22.920 want to do a greenup just to have it turned green. It's a little 1903 02:09:22.920 --> 02:09:28.000 early for making it grow. But you can do that in early March or 1904 02:09:28.039 --> 02:09:31.359 even very late February, but probably more like early March. For your your 1905 02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:35.800 lawn green up, your actual you know where you're putting on the slower release 1906 02:09:35.880 --> 02:09:41.079 fertilizers to last you a while over the summertime and spring. I would start 1907 02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:43.920 that at about the beginning of April for your area. And that's on my 1908 02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:48.399 lawn care schedule, which is at gardening with Skip dot Com. Go to 1909 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.159 that website and print those out or just bookmark them gardening with skip dot com. 1910 02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:56.800 They're free and it tells you everything from January to December what you need 1911 02:09:56.840 --> 02:10:00.520 to do. Hey, and it has all the numbers as far as the 1912 02:10:00.640 --> 02:10:03.640 five ten or whatever numbers. It does. So, for example, if 1913 02:10:03.680 --> 02:10:07.159 you go the lawn schedule, you get to choose the synthetic options and the 1914 02:10:07.279 --> 02:10:13.840 organic options and done at the bottom there is a list of the best products 1915 02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:16.880 for that option, for fast release, for slow release, for synthetic, 1916 02:10:16.960 --> 02:10:20.159 for organic. It's all right there, real easy. That's why I like 1917 02:10:20.159 --> 02:10:22.239 people to print them out. You can carry them with you when you go 1918 02:10:22.279 --> 02:10:24.439 shopping and just say, hey, I want that one and point at it. 1919 02:10:24.479 --> 02:10:28.159 You don't have to memorize everything. Okay, thank you so much. 1920 02:10:28.680 --> 02:10:31.920 All right, Greg, thank you. I appreciate your call very very much. 1921 02:10:33.840 --> 02:10:35.640 I've been telling you that I'm going to be at A and A Plants 1922 02:10:35.640 --> 02:10:39.159 and Produce. That's in Montgomery. If you're in Montgomery, it's on the 1923 02:10:39.199 --> 02:10:43.479 east side of town. If you're in Conroe, head toward Montgomery passed by 1924 02:10:43.560 --> 02:10:46.000 Lake Conroe. All those of you live out there Lake Conroe, this is 1925 02:10:46.039 --> 02:10:50.760 your this is your backyard. Garden center right there on the east side of 1926 02:10:50.920 --> 02:10:54.159 Montgomery, and they have a little of everything. They got sea potatoes, 1927 02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:56.239 now, they got onion sets, now, they have fruit trees, including 1928 02:10:56.319 --> 02:11:01.640 citrus trees right now. Lots of bagged products, all the nitrofoss products, 1929 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:05.960 all nail, some plant food in fact, all of the turf Star line 1930 02:11:05.960 --> 02:11:09.880 from Nelson, All of the microlife fertilizer products are there, all of the 1931 02:11:09.880 --> 02:11:15.199 heirlooms, soils are there, Nature's Way resources, leaf mold, composts, 1932 02:11:15.199 --> 02:11:18.880 both finding course, they've got it there. I mean, Ana Plants has 1933 02:11:18.920 --> 02:11:22.960 got what you need. You can hire them by the way to do cleanup 1934 02:11:22.119 --> 02:11:26.239 in the homes around that Lake Conroy area. So if you're up in that 1935 02:11:26.319 --> 02:11:28.680 area, they'll come out and they'll the landscape crew will come up and do 1936 02:11:28.720 --> 02:11:33.279 a good clean up and get you ready to go for spring. And at 1937 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:35.760 the counter you'll find my lawn care schedules. So if you don't want to 1938 02:11:35.760 --> 02:11:39.840 print up your own, just go buy Ana Plants and Produce. Now, 1939 02:11:39.880 --> 02:11:45.039 remember two weeks from today, Saturday, February twenty fourth, I'm going to 1940 02:11:45.039 --> 02:11:48.039 be at Ana Plants and Produce. Come up and see me. Bring me 1941 02:11:48.079 --> 02:11:50.680 samples of plants. You want to identify it or diagnosed. Bring me photos 1942 02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.399 that you like me to look at. I'm going to be given away eight 1943 02:11:54.479 --> 02:11:58.359 bags of turf star weedinator, one every fifteen minutes for the two hours that 1944 02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:03.279 I'm there at Ana Plant Produce. Not next Saturday, but the next Saturday, 1945 02:12:03.520 --> 02:12:07.359 February twenty fourth. I hope you'll come out and see me, and 1946 02:12:07.399 --> 02:12:11.439 while you're there, get some shopping done. They've got it all. We're 1947 02:12:11.439 --> 02:12:13.359 gonna go. Now. Let's say we're gonna have to report and talk to 1948 02:12:13.439 --> 02:12:18.920 David. Hey, David, good morning, Skip for taking my call. 1949 02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:24.279 I called for the first time. Last year, my neighbor infested my along 1950 02:12:24.359 --> 02:12:33.680 with chinch bugs. We decided to rip out some significant pieces of the Saint 1951 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:37.760 Augustine there, and you know you recommended to go ahead and rip it out 1952 02:12:37.800 --> 02:12:43.600 and put it in. Now. It was around August or early September, 1953 02:12:43.479 --> 02:12:48.359 so I went ahead and did that. I bought a palette of sod and 1954 02:12:48.079 --> 02:12:52.720 I mean it caught on pretty good. Everything's looking good here. You must 1955 02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:58.680 have got out water, yes, sir, we've got some you know, 1956 02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:03.000 uneven and patchy here and there. You know, okay, I didn't do 1957 02:13:03.439 --> 02:13:09.439 as good a job as I should have maybe laying the sad, but when 1958 02:13:09.720 --> 02:13:13.880 when was a good time for me to fill in or top soil that lawn? 1959 02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:20.039 And what's a good product to use. So if you're wanting to fill 1960 02:13:20.079 --> 02:13:22.880 in low spots, you want to use a top soil. You don't want 1961 02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:26.279 to just put a compost or leath more compost on. That's not for filling 1962 02:13:26.279 --> 02:13:30.079 it in. It'll just decompose the way itself and you'll still have a hole. 1963 02:13:30.199 --> 02:13:33.239 Yes, so a good quality topsail mix and they're you know, different 1964 02:13:33.239 --> 02:13:37.560 soil yards are going to have their versions of that. If it just a 1965 02:13:37.560 --> 02:13:39.039 little bit, you can buy things by the bag or you can have it 1966 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:41.520 delivered. If you're going to need a lot of it to put out out 1967 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:48.279 there, that's for filling in. If you're wanting to do compost top dressing 1968 02:13:48.359 --> 02:13:50.680 over the top of the lawn, that's a different thing. But I think 1969 02:13:50.720 --> 02:13:54.239 top soil is what you're asking about. Yes, sir, so a top 1970 02:13:54.279 --> 02:14:01.520 soil and thank you for that. Just a follow up question on our flower 1971 02:14:01.560 --> 02:14:05.159 bed. You know, with this freeze that came, it's a new home, 1972 02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:07.479 so there was not there was a couple of plants in there that that 1973 02:14:07.960 --> 02:14:13.479 died. I pulled them out. What do you recommend as far as something 1974 02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:20.760 to throw in the flower bed soil to prepare for for some new prints? 1975 02:14:20.760 --> 02:14:22.000 All right, I got about twenty seconds. I'm gonna give you a quick 1976 02:14:22.039 --> 02:14:26.880 answer on this one. I would get like an heirloom soils. The veggie 1977 02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:31.239 and herb mix would work for that, the rose mix would work for that. 1978 02:14:31.520 --> 02:14:35.000 All of those would be good for soils. If you've already got a 1979 02:14:35.000 --> 02:14:39.119 pretty decent soil, maybe just adding some of the compost to the soil alone 1980 02:14:39.239 --> 02:14:41.439 would work well. But either of those three products gonna work pretty good for 1981 02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:43.319 you. Hey, I'm sorry, I got to run. It's time for 1982 02:14:43.399 --> 02:14:46.680 Nicky in the news, and she will run me out of here with a 1983 02:14:46.680 --> 02:14:50.399 pitchfork if I don't let her have the microphone. So how was that for 1984 02:14:50.520 --> 02:14:54.560 us? Your character just got drug through the mud. There, I'm gonna 1985 02:14:54.560 --> 02:14:58.800 shut up. Now we'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line, 1986 02:14:58.960 --> 02:15:00.960 Welcome back, Glad you're here? Or Hey, what do we want to 1987 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:05.680 talk about today? We can discuss the things that are most of interest to 1988 02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:09.199 you. I've got my own things. I've been talking about what to do 1989 02:15:09.279 --> 02:15:13.159 for spring and whatnot. While Ago is mentioning heirloom soils, and you know, 1990 02:15:13.279 --> 02:15:18.119 heirloom has such a wide variety of products. I mean, whatever you 1991 02:15:18.159 --> 02:15:20.880 want to grow, they have a soil for growing it, and they have 1992 02:15:20.920 --> 02:15:22.359 those amendments that you need. You know, I just want to improve on 1993 02:15:22.439 --> 02:15:26.680 a clay soil area, and you want something that's going to last a long 1994 02:15:26.720 --> 02:15:28.600 time, like the expanded shale, you can mix that in. Do you 1995 02:15:28.640 --> 02:15:33.119 want to do some of the leaf more compost, you can top dress with 1996 02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:35.439 that yourself. Do a little bit here and there, just where you might 1997 02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:37.800 need a little bit. If you need a big yard full, you have 1998 02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:41.159 to bring in quite a bit of it by the cubic yard and get that 1999 02:15:41.279 --> 02:15:43.000 done. But that that can be a mess. That's why we have people 2000 02:15:43.119 --> 02:15:50.479 like you know, our dependable sources for like greenpro for putting the top dress 2001 02:15:50.520 --> 02:15:54.960 compost out. Those who live north of Interstate thirty five up in the let's 2002 02:15:54.960 --> 02:15:58.960 just say the north and west quadrant. As you look at Interstate forty five, 2003 02:16:00.079 --> 02:16:03.880 their seat ten. I said thirty five forty five and ten up in 2004 02:16:03.920 --> 02:16:07.039 that quadrant. You get the idea. Hey, I would highly recommend though 2005 02:16:07.079 --> 02:16:09.800 that you go ahead and get your soil, so you're ready to go when 2006 02:16:09.840 --> 02:16:15.159 you work the soil, and you're gonna find heirloom soils. You're gonna find 2007 02:16:15.199 --> 02:16:18.279 them everywhere. They're sold by the bag, they're sold by the bulk. 2008 02:16:18.319 --> 02:16:20.600 You can go get them in porter, you can have them to deliver them 2009 02:16:20.600 --> 02:16:22.920 to you any way you want to go about it. For those of you 2010 02:16:22.000 --> 02:16:26.319 living down south, Siena Molts that's a great place to get airloom products. 2011 02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:31.960 Cenamlts carries everything you need to do what I say every week you need to 2012 02:16:31.960 --> 02:16:35.879 do, and that's brown stuff before green stuff, fix the soil. Do 2013 02:16:35.920 --> 02:16:39.920 you need a quality blend airloom soils has got it. Do you need a 2014 02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:43.840 place where you can get it? Well, Ciena Malts a great place to 2015 02:16:43.879 --> 02:16:48.280 do that. Sienna's got compost blends. They've got mulches. They got them 2016 02:16:48.280 --> 02:16:50.959 by the bag, they got them by the bulk. They have the fertilizers 2017 02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:54.040 that I talk about. So while you're there, while you're doing the brown 2018 02:16:54.079 --> 02:16:58.000 stuff, that includes composts and soul mixes. That includes fertilizers for the nutrient 2019 02:16:58.040 --> 02:17:03.159 bank account and your so well, and that also includes the mulches. They 2020 02:17:03.159 --> 02:17:05.159 go on top of the ground to protect the soil, to fight weeds and 2021 02:17:05.200 --> 02:17:07.840 things like that. Sienna's got all it. They also have, by the 2022 02:17:07.840 --> 02:17:13.760 way, a pretty good selection of all the things you're trying to use to 2023 02:17:13.879 --> 02:17:18.760 fight problems like wheat problems or insect problems or disease problems. They have tools 2024 02:17:18.799 --> 02:17:22.280 on hand. They've got rock and stone. Do you want to create a 2025 02:17:22.280 --> 02:17:26.959 beautiful pathway? Do you want a stone bed siding? They've got all of 2026 02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:31.959 that. And here's the thing. They're in Siena. Siena Multch is down 2027 02:17:31.200 --> 02:17:37.000 near Siena Plantation, for example. They are just north of Roe Sharon where 2028 02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:41.760 Highway six and two eighty eight come together the little FM road FM five twenty 2029 02:17:41.840 --> 02:17:43.600 one at Siana Maltch. I love to go there, by the way, 2030 02:17:43.600 --> 02:17:46.680 I want to be there this spring. I'll tell you more about that as 2031 02:17:46.719 --> 02:17:50.319 it's coming up. But Ciana Maultch is just a great place to go visit 2032 02:17:50.399 --> 02:17:52.399 and to find all of these kind of products like the airloom we were just 2033 02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:58.280 talking about a second ago. I want to head now to northwest Houston. 2034 02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:03.799 We're going to talk to Diana. Annah. Hi, Hi, happy to 2035 02:18:03.840 --> 02:18:09.639 talk to you. Last year I built a ten by two foot raised bed 2036 02:18:09.920 --> 02:18:13.719 you know, out of the concrete corner blocks and with the wood between them. 2037 02:18:13.879 --> 02:18:18.200 Okay, but I'm trying to figure out what to put in there. 2038 02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:24.440 Last year I put cucumbers, uh, squash, and zucchini and some green 2039 02:18:24.479 --> 02:18:31.760 peppers, and of course I had nothing but tangled vines and that didn't work. 2040 02:18:31.000 --> 02:18:35.920 I mean, the crop the crops were takinge are you talking about the 2041 02:18:35.920 --> 02:18:41.079 crops tangling up the vines or with his weed vines? What? What was 2042 02:18:41.120 --> 02:18:46.520 the vines? Okay, I'm sorry, do what was it? The was 2043 02:18:46.559 --> 02:18:50.479 it the vining crops that were getting all tangled up in the Okay? So 2044 02:18:50.600 --> 02:18:54.799 here's here's what I would do. Whenever you have a small garden, go 2045 02:18:54.920 --> 02:18:58.520 vertical as much as you can. So on the north side of the garden, 2046 02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:01.120 if there is such a thing, you know, the put a put 2047 02:19:01.200 --> 02:19:05.879 up a fence. It could be a livestock panel, it could be mesh 2048 02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:09.680 wiring on posts, it could be anything. And run your vining crops up 2049 02:19:09.719 --> 02:19:15.200 the the mesh fence, the wall, the trellis. That'll give them good 2050 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:20.040 air circulation and it uses very little footprint of your garden and they're not crawling 2051 02:19:20.040 --> 02:19:22.079 all over everything else. Then in the other area, you can plan all 2052 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:26.680 the other things that you don't want vines climbing all over. That's how you 2053 02:19:26.760 --> 02:19:31.000 get the most out of a small garden area. Yeah, I used I 2054 02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:35.040 use the tomatoes, you know, the tomato what do you call them? 2055 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:43.200 Ca okay, so those little grew all over, Yeah, what they call 2056 02:19:43.280 --> 02:19:48.319 tomato cages, those little those little round, triangular three wire things. That 2057 02:19:48.479 --> 02:19:52.159 is too dinky for tomatoes. That's okay for peppers, maybe mayde eggplant, 2058 02:19:52.559 --> 02:19:56.159 but tomatoes just get most of them get too big for that. You need 2059 02:19:56.200 --> 02:20:01.799 a regular tomato cage. Or you can also train your tomatoes onto that wall 2060 02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:05.680 that that fncing I was talking about. That's a little more work, but 2061 02:20:05.760 --> 02:20:09.159 that that is an option if you choose to go that route or just buy 2062 02:20:09.239 --> 02:20:15.040 a more compact the squaestion, would you can suggest I love the squash, 2063 02:20:15.360 --> 02:20:20.360 the yellow squashing the zucchini, which you suggests that those since they do vine 2064 02:20:20.440 --> 02:20:24.520 out so much, that I plant both in se Can I do a container 2065 02:20:24.000 --> 02:20:28.600 just like a large pot if it's a very yeah, and then they don't 2066 02:20:28.639 --> 02:20:33.159 those two don't viine. I mean they do slowly the stem grows out and 2067 02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:35.600 crawls along the ground. But it's not what I would call a vining plant 2068 02:20:35.680 --> 02:20:39.559 at all. Squash, the yellow squashed zucchini is more of a bush. 2069 02:20:39.639 --> 02:20:43.280 And yes, if you could get about ten gallons of soil and a container, 2070 02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:48.760 they'll do pretty good. If you container starts getting smaller, you end 2071 02:20:48.840 --> 02:20:52.479 up not being able to water enough and fertilize enough to keep them happy because 2072 02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:56.360 those roots are way too confined in a small container to have good success. 2073 02:20:56.399 --> 02:21:01.360 Gotcha, But yes, I love love container gardening. That's a fun thing 2074 02:21:01.399 --> 02:21:05.559 to do. I'm getting into it this year and last year, so hopefully 2075 02:21:05.559 --> 02:21:09.520 it'll work better this year. All right, Dinna, thank you very much. 2076 02:21:09.639 --> 02:21:13.200 I appreciate your call. Let's head out to uh let's see. I 2077 02:21:13.239 --> 02:21:16.000 tell you what, John and Sour Lake. I do not have enough time 2078 02:21:16.079 --> 02:21:18.840 to give your call justice, so just hang on a minute. You will 2079 02:21:18.879 --> 02:21:22.000 be first when I come back, and I'll be right back. Our phone 2080 02:21:22.079 --> 02:21:26.760 number is seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one 2081 02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:31.280 three two one two k t r H. We've been talking today about what 2082 02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:35.360 is important. What do we need to get done right now, especially in 2083 02:21:35.399 --> 02:21:39.559 the lawn. Go to gardening with Skip dot com my website Gardening with Skip 2084 02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:43.159 dot Com the lawn care schedule is there that we talk here about on Garden 2085 02:21:43.200 --> 02:21:46.159 Line. You can print it up. You can just look at it online. 2086 02:21:46.200 --> 02:21:48.360 I'd print it up. I'd take it with me, stick it on 2087 02:21:48.360 --> 02:21:52.920 the refrigerator if you want. It'll tell you January to December what to do. 2088 02:21:52.959 --> 02:21:56.879 You can also print up the lawn pest disease and weed management schedule, 2089 02:21:56.280 --> 02:22:01.959 same thing, January to December, organic synthetic. It's all on one schedule, 2090 02:22:01.040 --> 02:22:05.000 easy to find. I'll be right back, and if you'll call us 2091 02:22:05.040 --> 02:22:07.520 up, we'll be ready to go with you when we come back. Right 2092 02:22:07.520 --> 02:22:09.799 after. John, all right, there we go. We're gonna hear a 2093 02:22:09.840 --> 02:22:13.040 lot about that during the Super Bowl. I bet too. Welcome back to 2094 02:22:13.040 --> 02:22:16.600 the Garden Line. Glad to have you with us today. We're gonna run 2095 02:22:16.680 --> 02:22:20.879 right out of the phones. First thing here and talk to John out in 2096 02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:26.159 Sour Lake. Hello, John, Hey, I've got I planned it in 2097 02:22:26.200 --> 02:22:35.159 some sugar snaps. Yes, I was wanting to watch fertilize and with you 2098 02:22:35.200 --> 02:22:37.000 know, sugar snaps is a lagoon, being a pee, a cool season 2099 02:22:37.079 --> 02:22:41.719 p and they don't need a lot of extra nitrogen now a little bit. 2100 02:22:41.719 --> 02:22:43.840 If your soil is very poor. A little bit is helpful, just a 2101 02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:48.280 little bit early on. I would probably use a very slow release, gradual 2102 02:22:48.319 --> 02:22:54.600 release product for that, and once they get going, they're going to do 2103 02:22:54.600 --> 02:22:58.319 pretty good on their own. If it all depends on what you're starting with, 2104 02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:01.200 John, So, if your soil is poor, I would get a 2105 02:23:01.200 --> 02:23:03.959 moderate amount of fertilizer that's got a little bit of everything in it and put 2106 02:23:05.000 --> 02:23:07.239 it down, mix it into the soil, and then plant the sugar snaps. 2107 02:23:07.280 --> 02:23:11.639 If you already planted them, you can sprinkle some around the sides and 2108 02:23:11.959 --> 02:23:15.840 real carefully just scratch it into the soil surface around them, kind of water 2109 02:23:15.920 --> 02:23:20.319 it in to get those nutrients released into the soil, but be careful because 2110 02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:24.159 too much of that first number you end up with vining at the expense of 2111 02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:28.639 pod production, which is your growing upclid on them. Well that's perfect, 2112 02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:33.760 that's perfect. Yeah, just the green bag would be just fine. Yeah, 2113 02:23:33.879 --> 02:23:35.920 that's what I normally. I got one other question. I want to 2114 02:23:35.959 --> 02:23:41.120 plan a kate jasmine or guardain you okay, I want to put it in 2115 02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:45.040 a pot, big pot started out on the port. Okay, what kind 2116 02:23:45.040 --> 02:23:48.879 of salt you use? You want a soil that is for acidic loving plants. 2117 02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:52.479 And the folks, I know, the folks up at Airloom Sauce have 2118 02:23:52.600 --> 02:23:56.520 got various kinds of blends that they do. It's real easy to find them 2119 02:23:56.520 --> 02:24:00.920 there for sale by the bag everywhere. So if you want to, if 2120 02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:03.719 you want to go that route, they absolutely will have, you know, 2121 02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:07.399 something to help out with that kind of plant you mentioned. You like the 2122 02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:11.000 Microlife too, so buy some of that a reddish bag that has that's for 2123 02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:20.000 acidic loving plants to go for that gardena that you're going to put in acidic. 2124 02:24:20.120 --> 02:24:22.079 Yeah, you know, Microlife has a products kind of in a reddish 2125 02:24:22.200 --> 02:24:28.399 pink bag that that has It says it's for azaleas and blueberries and camellias and 2126 02:24:28.559 --> 02:24:35.120 guardinas and whatnot, that it's good for all of those. All right, 2127 02:24:35.200 --> 02:24:37.040 thank you, I appreciate it. All right, you take out, hey, 2128 02:24:37.159 --> 02:24:41.840 thank you, appreciate you being a listener. You take care. Yeah, 2129 02:24:43.000 --> 02:24:46.879 lots of lots of good I tell you guys this, those of you 2130 02:24:46.920 --> 02:24:50.479 living in the Houston area all the time, but you do not know what 2131 02:24:50.559 --> 02:24:56.200 a horticultural paradise of garden centers and product suppliers and stuff you have down here. 2132 02:24:56.280 --> 02:25:00.360 It is. It is just really really unique. A lot of people. 2133 02:25:00.360 --> 02:25:03.959 I get responses all the time, someone from Dallas wanting to know, 2134 02:25:03.040 --> 02:25:05.719 well, I can't get such and such product up here. Well, I'm 2135 02:25:05.719 --> 02:25:11.319 sorry, you know I can't. I can't control that, but I can 2136 02:25:11.319 --> 02:25:15.159 tell you this, folks down here have a lot of options. And if 2137 02:25:15.159 --> 02:25:18.200 you're looking for the best garden centers in the state of Texas, really in 2138 02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:24.159 the region, all in one spot, Houston is it. They're downtown, 2139 02:25:24.559 --> 02:25:28.719 north of town, east of town, west of town, southwest of town, 2140 02:25:28.920 --> 02:25:33.760 south of town, you know, over southeast. I mean, it 2141 02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:37.479 doesn't matter which direction you are, You've got a destination kind of place. 2142 02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:43.360 And that is just amazingly convenient. So I guess we're spoiled by all that 2143 02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:46.760 good stuff because it's really cool. For example, downtown Buchanan's Native Plants, 2144 02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:50.200 they're in the Heights, by the way. I'm going to be out at 2145 02:25:50.200 --> 02:25:52.840 Buchanan's in March. I'll tell you more about that as we get close to 2146 02:25:52.920 --> 02:25:54.440 it. I can't wait to get out there for that one. But they've 2147 02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:58.760 got their first batch of tomatoes and peppers and they're ready to go on that. 2148 02:25:58.879 --> 02:26:01.120 Do you need a Valentine day gift. That's kind of a grab and 2149 02:26:01.159 --> 02:26:05.799 go, you know, maybe like potted tulips or moms or hedranges. They've 2150 02:26:05.799 --> 02:26:07.680 got that. Any kind of a plant that you want to give away. 2151 02:26:07.680 --> 02:26:11.079 They got weeks roses coming in. They still have some some of I believe 2152 02:26:11.120 --> 02:26:16.239 that David Austin, I believe some roses well on those. They just have 2153 02:26:16.319 --> 02:26:20.520 a good stock of all kinds of plants, and they specialize in natives. 2154 02:26:20.520 --> 02:26:24.040 That's why it's called Buchanans Native Plants. Now. You can find them really 2155 02:26:24.120 --> 02:26:26.879 easily. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights, or just go to the 2156 02:26:26.879 --> 02:26:33.399 website Buchanansplants dot com. Once you when you're on their website to bookmarket and 2157 02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:37.559 to sign up for their newsletters. Their newsletters are full of great information. 2158 02:26:37.680 --> 02:26:41.639 And when you go to Buchanan's Plants online, when you go to the website, 2159 02:26:41.799 --> 02:26:46.799 there's some really helpful educational material on there too. It's called resources. 2160 02:26:46.799 --> 02:26:50.799 There's gardening articles and gardening guides and whatnot. You can be part of their 2161 02:26:50.799 --> 02:26:58.079 rewards program all there at Buchanan's Native Plants. Oh okay, we're going to 2162 02:26:58.120 --> 02:27:03.360 go to East Harris County now and Robert Hey Robert, good morning, Good 2163 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:11.000 morning. I've got a terrible issue with my lawn being overrun with what looks 2164 02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:15.959 like clover in every form of weed I've never seen in my life. I've 2165 02:27:16.000 --> 02:27:18.200 been in this house thirty years and I've never seen it. Yes, as 2166 02:27:18.280 --> 02:27:24.920 it is now. Yeah, I've followed Randy Lemon's lawnchair guy for years, 2167 02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:30.600 but it's it's it's overtaken even that. So I'm just wondering. I see 2168 02:27:30.600 --> 02:27:35.040 you advertise for this leading nator, if that's something I should be considering doing 2169 02:27:35.079 --> 02:27:39.879 now. Yes, what you're seeing as a result of a real bad summer 2170 02:27:39.000 --> 02:27:43.799 last year and our lawns got thin and we'd seed starge brought and everywhere, 2171 02:27:43.040 --> 02:27:46.680 and now we're dealing with it the weedonator. If you wet the weeds, 2172 02:27:48.120 --> 02:27:50.239 just wet them. Don't drench the soldier. You just want the leaf surface 2173 02:27:50.280 --> 02:27:54.280 wet. You put it on the cranial stick to the weed and they move 2174 02:27:54.360 --> 02:27:58.680 in and wait a day or two before your water, because you want to 2175 02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:03.319 let it do that and then water it to get the nutrient themselves down into 2176 02:28:03.360 --> 02:28:07.280 the soil, the fertilizer part of it, and that will get you good 2177 02:28:07.280 --> 02:28:11.760 to go. You can also spray weeds. You can if you want to 2178 02:28:11.760 --> 02:28:15.159 do if you don't do the fertilizing right now, you can do the spray 2179 02:28:15.200 --> 02:28:18.360 on them now. But either way you've got a good package there that's going 2180 02:28:18.399 --> 02:28:22.399 to work. But the key, and you said this, Robert, is 2181 02:28:22.000 --> 02:28:26.440 do it now because those weeds are small, and in the next three or 2182 02:28:26.440 --> 02:28:30.920 four weeks they're going to take off growing. They're going to have ballooms and 2183 02:28:31.000 --> 02:28:35.479 seeds, and then products don't work as well. And so it's much better 2184 02:28:35.600 --> 02:28:37.600 if you're going to do something to do it now on those young, younger 2185 02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:43.360 weeds before they get really big and grow too fast, I understand. And 2186 02:28:43.399 --> 02:28:46.280 then what should I do as far as fertilizing then later in the spring. 2187 02:28:46.680 --> 02:28:50.799 Yeah, you mentioned Randy's schedule. If you go to my website Gardening with 2188 02:28:52.159 --> 02:28:54.319 Skip, I've got both. I've got two schedules up there. One of 2189 02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:58.479 them is just lawn care. It's mowing, watering, fertilizing, air rating, 2190 02:29:00.120 --> 02:29:03.239 trace minerals, and it gives you all the products for organic and synthetic 2191 02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:07.239 lawn care whichever way you want to go. On. Also is the lawn 2192 02:29:07.319 --> 02:29:11.760 pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. So that's going to tell you when to 2193 02:29:11.760 --> 02:29:16.399 do chinchbugs and sodweb worms and take off patch and brown patch and weed prevention 2194 02:29:16.600 --> 02:29:20.520 and killing existing weeds and so on. It's all on that schedule too. 2195 02:29:22.319 --> 02:29:24.920 Okay, great, thank you. Still one more question on the weed donator. 2196 02:29:26.479 --> 02:29:28.399 With it raining, now, do I wait for the lawn to dry 2197 02:29:28.440 --> 02:29:33.879 out and then right before fertilizing you'll water it down? Yeah? You just 2198 02:29:33.959 --> 02:29:37.840 keep Yeah, you can't control the rain, so you don't want to put 2199 02:29:37.879 --> 02:29:39.520 it out and then have rain wash it right off in the next few hours 2200 02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:43.079 or something. So I would wait until we get to the end of it, 2201 02:29:43.360 --> 02:29:46.079 when it's quit raining and the leaves are damp. If you run out 2202 02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:50.159 there and do it, fine, if you miss that window, just turn 2203 02:29:50.200 --> 02:29:52.280 on the sprinklers, wet the leaves, and then put it out and you're 2204 02:29:52.360 --> 02:29:56.840 and that's good. Doesn't take much water, just enough to barely with those 2205 02:29:56.040 --> 02:30:01.399 those leaves weed leaves, got it? Thank you for your help, all 2206 02:30:01.479 --> 02:30:05.680 right, sir, Thank you for the call out there in East Harris County. 2207 02:30:05.719 --> 02:30:07.920 Good to talk to you, Robert, as always. Well, unless 2208 02:30:07.920 --> 02:30:11.840 you've been living under a rock, you know two things. Number one, 2209 02:30:11.879 --> 02:30:18.079 the Super Bowls tomorrow afternoon number two. Valentine's Day is this week, and 2210 02:30:18.280 --> 02:30:22.040 Valentine's Day is a perfect day to give a gift. Let me throw an 2211 02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:24.840 idea out there. Do you have a friend, some older person. Maybe 2212 02:30:24.840 --> 02:30:28.680 it's your grandma, maybe it's an aunt or uncle, maybe it's just a 2213 02:30:28.719 --> 02:30:33.600 neighbor, a shut in, and can you imagine a better gift than getting 2214 02:30:33.639 --> 02:30:37.399 them a rose taking it over their house, let him know you know you're 2215 02:30:37.399 --> 02:30:39.959 coming. You want to plant a rose bush, And plant that rose bush 2216 02:30:41.000 --> 02:30:45.840 and sit down and spend a little time with them. Listen, life goes 2217 02:30:45.920 --> 02:30:50.120 fast. Kids grow up, older, folks get older. It moves fast. 2218 02:30:50.360 --> 02:30:54.840 Any of you who have been around for a few years know that's true. 2219 02:30:54.840 --> 02:30:58.360 And it gets faster by the way. So why not take time for 2220 02:30:58.399 --> 02:31:03.360 those relations ship things. You know, Gifts are gifts. Gifts are great. 2221 02:31:03.440 --> 02:31:07.120 But when you give a plant, you give a memory. Every time 2222 02:31:07.159 --> 02:31:09.440 that rose bush ballooms, they're going to remember you. I mean they are. 2223 02:31:11.440 --> 02:31:15.639 I heard an old gardener I used to know up in Conrod, Texas. 2224 02:31:15.719 --> 02:31:18.239 He would say flat and this is not his quote, but he would 2225 02:31:18.319 --> 02:31:22.079 quote it. Flowers leave part of their fragrance in the hand of the beholder. 2226 02:31:22.760 --> 02:31:26.239 And it just it's a pleasant thing to do to give a plant as 2227 02:31:26.280 --> 02:31:31.079 a gift, and with Valentine's Day, I can't think of a better plant 2228 02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:35.719 than roses. Everybody loves roses, All kinds available. Hey, thanks for 2229 02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:37.920 listening to the Guardline. We'll be back tomorrow at six am to ten am 2230 02:31:39.000 --> 02:31:39.799 to do this again