WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.839 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:18.399 on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor it's so trim, 3 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:41.320 just watching as many club rick A s Well, good morning, Good 4 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:46.640 Saturday morning. It's still dark outside, but it's gonna be life soon and 5 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:50.520 we're gonna have another day for gardening. This uh, this kind of weather 6 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.640 has been driving a lot of folks inside just a little bit too hot. 7 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:57.200 But you know, morning time's a great time to get out there and get 8 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.200 a little bit of things done. We still have to maintain. We will 9 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.760 take care of the lawns and the gardens and the landscapes. Certainly are maintain 10 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.480 our trees and whatnot, So let's get that done in the morning. I 11 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.519 like to also work late in the day, although I find the mornings even 12 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.599 better, better time to get up and get out and do some things. 13 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.840 So we'll talk about some things to be doing this time of the year. 14 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:19.439 In the meantime, we'd love to have you give us a call. Our 15 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:26.040 phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 16 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:33.439 three two one two five eight seven four. We are going to actually jump 17 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.560 right on the phones this morning and head out to League City and talk to 18 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:41.959 John V. Hello John V. Good morning, skib Good morning everybody on 19 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:49.000 Garden line. Yes, my question is on the cosmics apple. Would I 20 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:57.040 be able to plant a tree here in a city of League Sydney cosmic Crisp? 21 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:02.480 Where did you find that? That's not a no? It took fourteen 22 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:12.120 years to genetically create. Uh, this is something that um, I have 23 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:17.800 never tried done before. I love the I love all types of apples, 24 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:23.960 and so yes, sir, yeah, well that's a that's a new one 25 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.400 that they've been promoting. I'm what I'm trying to figure out is what is 26 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:35.159 the what is the chill hours on the cosmic Crisp? Do you happen to 27 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.000 know offhand? I have no idea, sir. No, I just don't 28 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:45.560 know if it survives here in Lake City or My first guess would be no. 29 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.159 But since I don't know, I'm not saying that's the definitive answer. 30 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:54.439 It was developed in Washington State, which makes me think it's probably not gonna 31 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:00.280 do well in our chilling down here. I see, yeah, So, 32 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.960 but I'm sitting here, I'm trying to see I can find something on it. 33 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.840 If I do, I'll mention it on the show today. Wonderful. 34 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:12.080 Yeah, it's a it's a new thing they're really excited about up there. 35 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.800 But I generally when they develop an apple, it's too high chill for us 36 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.479 down here. I see, Well, wonderful, You'll have a wonderful day. 37 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.360 Thank you, well, thank you for the call. I appreciate that 38 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:29.240 you take care. Okay, goodbye, bye bye. You know, if 39 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.840 if you haven't been by RCW Nurseries in a while, you haven't been by 40 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.680 RCW Nurseries. I mean they are always rotating the stock that they have. 41 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.039 And by the way, that's a nursery up there where Tumball Parkway comes in 42 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.000 with Beltway eight. You can go online to RCW Nurseries dot com find out 43 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:47.800 more information about them, what they got going on right now. I know 44 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:52.879 they still have that super duper rose list, like four pages long. That 45 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:57.240 is a document worth downloading just for information. I mean, you want to 46 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.280 know the name, the type of rose, is that a climber, is 47 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.599 it disease resistant? How big does it get? What color of the blooms? 48 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.560 You see what I'm saying. Everything you can imagine, and then while 49 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:09.719 you're at it, go ahead an order one. They can get them in 50 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.439 up there. Right now, they're specializing in shrubs. They've got a lot 51 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.879 of good shrubs, a good deal going on shrubs, and so if you 52 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:19.480 need you know, some Nandina, Laura padalums, whatever kind of shrubs you're 53 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:23.720 looking for, our CW Nursery is going to have that, and way, 54 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:28.680 way way more. Now they specialize in trees as well. The fifteen gallons 55 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.360 up the two hundred gallons be on ornamental tree, something beautiful blooming, or 56 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:38.199 maybe just a nice big shade tree. So give our CW Nurseries a look. 57 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.759 You will find that they have all you need. And if they don't 58 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.720 have it, they probably get it for you. One of the good things 59 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:48.439 about visiting up at OURCW. Let's head over now to fin it and we 60 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:54.720 are gonna talk to Duke. Good morning, Duke. Who Hey, I've 61 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.360 got an azea bush that's getting over rain. It's a pretty big size of 62 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.720 zea bush, but it's getting over rain with vines. Is there anything I 63 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.199 can put on that? Do you know what kind of vines they are? 64 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:10.000 Off hand? Absolutely not just some old weed vines. That sits up at 65 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.120 the lake house until you do. Yeah, well, what I would do 66 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.839 just grab one of them and follow it down, find out where it comes 67 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:24.800 out of the ground, and I would if you can cut it off there 68 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.000 and then dab some product I'm going to give you in a moment here right 69 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.879 on that fresh cut surface, it'll translocate down and kill the roots and everything. 70 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.399 Because if you tried to spray something on the vine that is on your 71 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:42.360 azzalia, you're gonna kill your azzalia. And so just yeah, all you 72 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.560 gotta do is you know, when you cut a vine off where it comes 73 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.680 out of the ground, everything above that's going to turn brown and it's easy 74 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:50.639 to see and pull pull out of there. But by treating that stump or 75 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:55.079 the base, the base of the vine, you shut the whole thing down. 76 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.319 It doesn't come back out of the roots. And there are a few 77 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.000 vines like pepper vine that you may get a resprout from somewhere else because they're 78 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.800 just coming up from so many places. But if you just stay with that 79 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:12.120 in the ingredient duke that you want is called trich lopier t t R I 80 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:16.839 c l O P y R, and it'll come in a number of things 81 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.920 from the home market. It may be called poison ivy killer or it may 82 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:26.759 something like that, but Traclopier's ingredient and just actually I've actually got some poison 83 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.720 poison killer up there, so yeah, I'll definitely give that a truck. 84 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.839 Yeah, check that ingredient. But remember it'll kill yoursel yet. So do 85 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:38.680 you just want to put it on the cut surface of that vine and that'll 86 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.959 do it? All right? Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, 87 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.800 thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Let's see, I'm going 88 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.720 to head out now to Roe, Sharon, and we are going to go 89 00:06:53.800 --> 00:07:00.360 talk to Alex. Hello Alex, good morning, Harry. Wow, thank 90 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:06.439 you. So I was going to turn my tree tomorrow and I was wondering 91 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.439 if I were to run the branches through a shredder, if i'd be able 92 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:16.360 to use a fresh wood chippings that molten my garden or around my trees. 93 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:21.199 You can, yeah, you can. You're using them as a mult which 94 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.959 means they're sitting on top of the surface, and that's that's okay. If 95 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.519 you were to mix them into the soil, that's a lot of raw wood 96 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.279 and it would draw a lot of nitrogen out of the soil, but it's 97 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.040 not going to happen so much with them sitting right up on the surface. 98 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:39.879 You could always just toss a little extra nitrogen up there into the into the 99 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.199 mulch and kind of rake it so it falls down in the surface and watered 100 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.279 in, just to be extra sure. But generally a mulch is not going 101 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.120 to affect your soil like you would have with a with a soil amendment mixed 102 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:57.319 in. All right, okay, all right, well, good luck, 103 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.600 good luck with that. That's a good, good use of that in a 104 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:09.000 good way to recycle those clippings. I want to talk about a new thing 105 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.199 that I haven't mentioned before, and that is with Microlife, and it is 106 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:20.240 their commercial liquid fertilizers that are available for say commercial available for homeowners. The 107 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.759 first one it would be the Microlife Biomatrix. That's the orange label, the 108 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.720 seven one three. It's a high nitrogen liquid organic but it has a lot 109 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.440 of beneficial microbes in it, and I use it for all my houseplants. 110 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.519 It's a it's an excellent product. You mix it in water and just use 111 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.759 it when you water. You can very dilute and use it every time, 112 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.080 or you can, you know, give them more of a boost and then 113 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.240 water in between applications of it. But the other one and that's Microlife Ocean 114 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.519 Harvest, the blue label. That's a four two three. It's a it's 115 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:58.720 a fish based material and I use it outside outside. You can mix it 116 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.879 up follow the label as a folior spray and it won't burn. You can 117 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.720 also use it as a drench on the soil. Now, Microlife Ocean Harvest. 118 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.360 If you want to use it as a folior, you want to mix 119 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.039 it at the lower rate and then spray upward from under the plant early in 120 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.639 the morning. That is the best time and way to get nutrient into the 121 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.120 plant. And so either way you go with the orange label Biomatrix or the 122 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.200 blue label Ocean Harvest, you are going to be very impressed with how quickly 123 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.399 your plants respond. Now you can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com for more 124 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:35.279 information if you would like to find out where to buy Microlife in your area. 125 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.840 Well, let's take a break. We are going to go ahead and 126 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.200 stop for a break at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 127 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.639 We'll get Saturday morning on a great day for gardening. You're listening to 128 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.919 garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number. 129 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.360 Write this down so you can give a skull seven one three two one two 130 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:15.879 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 131 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.200 Hey, if you've not been to Quality Feed, Quality Feed and Garden Company, 132 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.159 it's there in the Heights now we're all close to the Heights. Rather, 133 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.919 it's on Lozon Street eighteen thirteen lose On, which is near the intersection 134 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.960 of Equipment and Alesion. I used to go to the old store, Now 135 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.480 I've been to the news store. Ken and Chris have had Quality Feed for 136 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.919 about thirty two years now, and they've got all the kinds of things we 137 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:39.320 talk about here. You know, if you're looking for the herbicides and the 138 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.639 soils and mulches and whatnot, they've got all of that. Now be in 139 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.879 a feed store, of course you're going to get feed. They really do 140 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.279 an awesome job, better than anyone I know. With the chickens. I 141 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.120 mean they get shipments of chickens in about ever two weeks. It's amazing. 142 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.399 So if you're into backyard chickens, this is a place you need to go 143 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.559 check out of course, so get all the supplies you need to go with 144 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:05.200 those baby chicks to take home and enjoy in your own yard. Quality feedco 145 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:11.360 dot com, Quality feedco dot com. Check them out. You will find 146 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.200 a wide variety of products everything you need and that good old fashioned service that 147 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:22.000 we love from a good old fashioned type feed store like Quality feed. Let's 148 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.720 head out. Now we're going to go to Cyprus and visit with Joyce. 149 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:31.320 Good morning, Joyce, good morning. I was going to ask about take 150 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.279 patch. I think I'm getting it again. I had it a couple of 151 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:39.399 years ago and did the aeration and the compost top dressing and all that fact. 152 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.960 I think a top dressed twice, it's not three times, but it 153 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.759 looks like it's coming back. And there's a products made by Scotts. It's 154 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.879 called disease X and I was wondering if I could put it says it takes 155 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.840 works against takeall patch. I was wondering if I could put that down, 156 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.720 or if it's too hot. It's not too hot, but take all patches 157 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:05.559 primarily uh infecting in the fall season, a little bit in the spring, 158 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:13.360 but primarily in the fall season. So I guess you know, to put 159 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.679 it on. Now, I don't think it is going to help a lot. 160 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.720 If you want to try it, you can uh either way. It 161 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.600 you know, it certainly is something that uh take all. It needs to 162 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.759 be treated because it is, as you have learned it, it's a it's 163 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:33.039 a pretty devastating uh fungus once it gets into your into your plants. That's 164 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.960 well, it just really looks like it because you know how to see in 165 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.559 Augustine the shoots gool out and they turn all brown and and then all of 166 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:45.759 a sudden there's just dirt there, don't grass. It might not be, 167 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:50.840 but that's what it looks like to me. Okay, uh, well have 168 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.519 an idea. Yeah, just describing basically you're you know, what you're describing 169 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.879 as the grass is dying and and uh so that in and of itself does 170 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.480 not necessarily mean it's take on me. It could be anything from you know, 171 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.240 drought to burn, from a chemical to lots of things can kill grass. 172 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.240 But take all, root rot is a disease that we have to deal 173 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.559 with. And that particular product. Really, any product you get that has 174 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.320 a zoxystrobin, which is ingredient in that product, is going to be effective. 175 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.440 It's just most of the activity of takeall has taken place. Now you've 176 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.559 got grass, it doesn't have a good root system, and so as a 177 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.600 weather heats up, it starts to die. And it's a little confusing because 178 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.240 you think, well, take all seems to kill my lawn more in the 179 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.440 when it warms up than in the cool season. But yet it's more active 180 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.639 in getting into the grass during the during the fall and sometimes spring season. 181 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:48.720 Well I don't have an irrigation system, but you know we have watered quite 182 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.639 well. Yeah, I think, well, and it's not a lack of 183 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.320 water. I mean, it's a lack of roots. And so you want 184 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.080 to be careful because if you overwater, that creates its own problems, so 185 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:03.279 be real careful about that. I think the air rating and the top dressing 186 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.440 is always a good idea, and anything that stimulates and strengthens the grass is 187 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.159 going to help it fight take all rot. Take all is a disease that 188 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:18.360 loves to get into stressed grass. When grass is strong and healthy, not 189 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.639 so much of a problem as when grass is weakened and its defenses are compromised. 190 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.000 All right, well, thank you very much. All right, Joyce 191 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:33.519 thank you. I appreciate that call very much. You know, we're talking 192 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.480 about top dressing and air rating and all that that anytime we improve the soil, 193 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:43.120 we improve our plants. And the best time to improve soil is before 194 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.679 you plant something. Now, I realize the lawn, you know, it's 195 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:50.639 there for decades hopefully, and so it's not like you go in and rototil 196 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.440 your lawn to replant it for no good reason. But when you're putting in 197 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.639 a flower bed, or when you're putting in a vegetable bed, or when 198 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:00.960 you're preparing soil for some shrubs in a row, you want to use a 199 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.120 high quality compost, and airloom Soils can provide just that. You can go 200 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.759 online to write this down Airloom Soils of Texas dot com. 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They're on the website Airloom Soils of Texas, and 209 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.000 you can find exactly how much you need, whether it's cubic yards or whether 210 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:54.120 it's how many one cubic or one square foot or two square foot bags. 211 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.559 They've got it easy to figure and always at Airloom Soils of Texas. I 212 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.960 want to now go out and we're going to visit with K out there in 213 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.000 Missouri City. K. If I can find the button, here we go. 214 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.919 How are you this morning? I'm just fine. Thank you. Listen. 215 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.879 My lawn is absolutely gorgeous, and I was wondering if there was anything 216 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.039 I need to put on it to sustain it through this heat wave that we 217 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.720 have. If it looks good now, I would leave it be and I 218 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.240 would just focus, just focus on a good deep soaking as infrequently as you 219 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.279 can, I would say about once a week. And now if it's in 220 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:36.080 the full blazing sun and for whatever reason your soil is somewhat limiting. You 221 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.879 might need to water twice a week, but I would aim to get toward 222 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.120 once a week where and it may mean you have to water several times on 223 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:45.639 watering days so it soaks in and between watering, so you can get that 224 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.480 one inch down because most soils you can't put an inch on at one time. 225 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:53.159 But if you give it a good soaking and then when you let it 226 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.480 dry out, it brings oxygen back into the soil's roots system as that water 227 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.360 moves out, and then you give it a good watering again, and that 228 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.720 is is deep rooted and healthy and resilient. Of a watering schedule for lawns 229 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.359 as you can as you can get. Okay, thank you very much. 230 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:12.920 Appreciate your show. Well, good luck with the lawn. I'm glad to 231 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:17.559 hear it's doing well. Usually people are complaining about it's dying. Right. 232 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.440 No, it's absolutely gorgeous, so I just want to make sure it stays 233 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.240 out lake all right, Thank you, I appreciate that. Yeah, the 234 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.799 h when you look at you know, lawns and trees and turn. In 235 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:36.880 fact, I'm gonna do a talk for the Oba Palooza Oba Palooza. I'll 236 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.799 talk about more coming up that's coming up in July. I'm going to be 237 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:45.559 given a talk and the topic is the two teas, the things that make 238 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.440 the phone ring, and that is trees and turf. Actually there's three trees, 239 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:56.559 three trees, turf and tomatoes. But the primary two or trees and 240 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.480 turf, that that is what people call about because you know, everybody wants 241 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:07.519 a big, beautiful, gorgeous lawn. They want beautiful shade trees, maybe 242 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.519 blooming trees, and those are valuable parts of the landscape. I mean, 243 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.680 if you're ever going to sell your house and you've got those in order, 244 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.799 man's that's impressive when people drive up when it's not not so much. And 245 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.680 I know some people have different opinions about lawns, or are those who would 246 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.079 rather not have lawns and go back to kind of a natural prairie look and 247 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:33.440 other things, but they're for the most part lawnser or the popular thing that 248 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:37.079 just about everybody has. Everybody wants that beautiful outdoor carpet, and so as 249 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.680 a result, we have to figure out how to have a beautiful lawn. 250 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.319 And that's one of the things we do here on garden line is we talk 251 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:48.319 to you about how to have a beautiful lawn, and one of the ways 252 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:53.680 to have a beautiful lawn, absolutely beautiful lawn, is to fertilize it properly. 253 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.079 And when I'm talking about fertilizing it properly, a good example of just 254 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:06.400 exactly that would be Microlife's silver bag, the silver bag. If you've heard 255 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:11.400 about different or Microlife fertilize. Excuse me, I said Microlife nitrofoss the silver 256 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.599 bag that is nineteen four ten. I got two different things running through my 257 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:21.279 head here. Nineteen four ten is a slow release that nitrofoss makes that gradually 258 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:25.559 feeds that soil over time. So what's going to happen is the nutrients come 259 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:29.400 out slowly, and as a result, you don't get this flush of growth, 260 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:32.920 you get gradual growth, you don't get a lack of root system, 261 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.200 which over nitrogen applications can do. Because you're putting this on at a rate 262 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.400 about five pounds per thousand square feet. That is going to give you that 263 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.799 gradual feed and that's going to give you the right amount of nitrogen, and 264 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:52.000 you're just not going to do better than a nineteen The nitrofoss nineteen four ten 265 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:57.680 fertilizers specifically formulated for our hot, humid southern climates, and it's just a 266 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:02.759 wh wh When you do that once for the summertime, it carries you all 267 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.720 the way through into your fall fertilization. You're gonna find nitro foss all over 268 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:08.319 the place. I mean, for crying out loud, a lot of our 269 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:11.599 ace stores, almost all our A stores are going to carry the nitrofoss. 270 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.880 You're gonna find it an enchanted forest and channing gardens down in the Richmond area, 271 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:21.599 or maybe you're up at RCW Nursery's talking about them earlier on I forty 272 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:27.000 five North. R CW carries nitrofoss as well. Our phone number is seven 273 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:32.759 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 274 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:37.440 five eight seventy four. When you give us a call, we can talk 275 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.319 about whatever you're interested in. In the meantime, I'm gonna talk about some 276 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:45.000 things that I am interested in. And we were discussing the importance of lawns 277 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.759 to people and how people just want to have that beautiful, picture perfect lawn. 278 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.920 I find that the lawn rangers out there and you know who you are. 279 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.880 They have this varying tolerance for lack of perfect action in a lawn. 280 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.480 Some people, if it's green and they mow it, that's good. It's 281 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.119 like the old guy from Mississippio stelling you bout a while back that he says 282 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.799 he just gets rid of all his weeds by taking off his glasses. In 283 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.920 other words, it's all green when you take your glasses off. Other people 284 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.119 it's like it's got to be perfect. It's got to be perfect, And 285 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.920 so they want to have that where it looks it's absolute best. And we 286 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.839 can do that. We can achieve that, but we do it primarily through 287 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:32.559 proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And I know that sounds so simplified, 288 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:36.519 but it is that simple. When you mow regularly, the more often 289 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.319 you mow, the dent your lawn. When you mow at the right height, 290 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.759 the deeper your root system, the more resilient your lawn. When you 291 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:47.759 water properly, like I was just mentioning a moment ago, with a deep 292 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:51.519 soaking followed by drying out, the better your lawn is going to be. 293 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:55.920 And then when you fertilize with the right ratios of products, the right kinds 294 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.720 of products at the right rate, at the right time. Those three together, 295 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.359 it's simple. But it's the secret. Mo water and fertilize properly. 296 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.559 When you do that, you can have that kind of lawn you want. 297 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.039 Now, yes we have we just we have disease and insects we deal with. 298 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.200 But those three are key. Well, let's take a break. Five 299 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.200 one excuse me, seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 300 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.759 Give Josh a call. We'll get you on the board for when we come 301 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:41.279 back from break. Then I saw her face. Well, good Saturday morning. 302 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.000 You are listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 303 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.359 and we're here to answer your gardening questions. That's what it's all about. 304 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.359 If you'd like to give us a call, the number is seven one three 305 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:59.279 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three, two one two five 306 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:03.319 eight and four. So let me go back to this mo water and fertilize 307 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.839 a little bit, because I think that for a lot of folks, they 308 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:08.519 think, well that's that's just too simple. I mean, you got to 309 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.079 be more to it than that. Well, remember how I said, Yes, 310 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.440 there are weeds as their diseases. Yes, they're insects and so on. 311 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:19.519 Those are there, But think about this. We were talking with a 312 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:23.680 Joyce in cipersub minute to go about take all root rot. Take all root 313 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:29.119 rot as an opportunists. We have several different types of fungi that we deal 314 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:33.480 with in our lawns and landscapes that are opportunists. That means that if the 315 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:40.720 patient is just completely healthy and everything's good, those diseases typically do not attack 316 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.519 and get the upper hand. But when the grass in this case is weakened, 317 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.400 then take all root rot has a chance to move in. And you 318 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.920 know that makes sense. I mean I love to, I guess anthropomorphize things, 319 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:57.079 but where you know, I'd use human examples that don't always one percent 320 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.759 fit, but still I think they work. And here's one. If you're 321 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.519 tired, if you don't get good sleep, if you don't eat right, 322 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:10.400 if you don't exercise, if you basically are doing all those things, you 323 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.599 are more likely to get sick than someone who in all the other ways is 324 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.480 as healthy as they can be. That doesn't mean that a healthy person that 325 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:21.279 works out and does all that can't get sick. Of course they can It 326 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:25.200 just means that it's more likely that as we weaken our bodies, we get 327 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.000 sick easier. Well, the same is true with your lawn, and that 328 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:33.000 would be the case. Would take all root rot as an example. So 329 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.960 when we mow, water and fertilize right, and we keep the lawn as 330 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.079 healthy as we can, then the chances of having problems would take all become 331 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:45.680 less and we have less problems with that disease. With the large patch. 332 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.720 Now everybody calls it brown patch. That's the old name. Large patch is 333 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:55.039 the big brown circles that you see in the cool season and you're seeing augustine 334 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.279 lawns, and it can occur in other turf grasses as well. Well. 335 00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:03.440 If you overdo the nitri and we're moving into that fall season where the weather 336 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:06.400 cools off a little bit, you get some rain, some frequent rains, 337 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.480 and boom, here come the big browne circles everywhere. Well, overdoing it 338 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:14.759 with nitrogen makes that worse. It sets them up for a problem. Even 339 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:19.400 chinch bugs on the lawn. Overdoing with nitrogen makes that a little bit more 340 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:26.240 of a problem. So mo water and fertilize helps us avoid, not eliminate, 341 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.960 but avoid a lot of the issues that we have with insects and diseases. 342 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.559 And then how about weeds weeds? The way I like to put it 343 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:41.039 is, wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. So if 344 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:47.079 your lawn is thin, nature will fill that in with green, and green 345 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:51.799 is called a weed, okay to nature. And so anytime we create a 346 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:56.480 scar on the earth where we strep back the foliage the plants and we leave 347 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:02.079 bare soil, weeds are going to come up there. And it's a you 348 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:04.519 know, from an environmental standpoint, it's a good thing because it avoids soil 349 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.599 erosion and a lot of the other issues that can happen when soil is left 350 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:12.839 exposed, like crusting and erosion. And so that's just how it works. 351 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.880 So how do we avoid weeds? Mo water, fertilize. We mow regularly 352 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.799 with more density, less light hits the soil, less weed seeds can come 353 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:27.119 up. We water properly for density, and we fertilize properly for density. 354 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:33.400 So mowater in fertilize is the best weed control in your lawn. And along 355 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.359 with returning those clippings when you mow. Now that doesn't mean that if you 356 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:41.039 just mowater and fertilize, you never have weed problems. It just means you 357 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:45.680 minimize them. There's some weeds that are perennial. They'll live toe to toe 358 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.200 with a Saint Augustine or Zoysier or Bermuda grass law and they'll just keep going. 359 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:52.000 I mean, their perennial, they can survive, they can fight their 360 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.400 way. Those are the exceptions, but they're there. You know, Virginia 361 00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.720 button weed as an example of that, dollar weed as an example of that. 362 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:04.160 But all those annual weed seeds, we can pretty much deal with those 363 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.240 with a good, dense, healthy lawn. And that's what we're aiming for. 364 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:15.039 I mean, our goal. Our goal is not to live with a 365 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:21.680 turf that is dependent on products that fight everything that goes wrong. Our goal 366 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.960 is to have the healthiest turf we can and then grab those products if and 367 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.720 when they're needed, if and when they're needed. If you know, we're 368 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.640 discussing this hot weather that we've been having here, been brought up more than 369 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:38.720 once already today. But when you put a new shrub in, it takes 370 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.720 it a while to to establish its root system. That's true with the new 371 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:48.400 tree too, and I strongly encourage you to consider purchasing a tree Hugger sprinkler 372 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.240 if you're planting shrubs or trees, or if you've already planted them, let's 373 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.920 say in the last six months to a year, they need they're going to 374 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.759 need extra TLC on watering when we now that we are in the one hundred 375 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:06.559 degree range way too early, by the way, and but TreeHugger sprinklers they 376 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.720 water. You can turn them on load of water right at the base where 377 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.960 that cylinder of soil came out of the pot and is now all the roots 378 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.720 are right in that spot when it first goes in the ground. You can 379 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.839 turn them up a little more and more to water a larger and larger area 380 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.680 is that tree establishes and grows. They come in seven inch, eleven inch, 381 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.119 and fifteen inch sizes, are easy to hook up to the water hose, 382 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.319 put around the tree, and you just take off. Go to town 383 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.559 tree Hugger Sprinklers dot Com. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot Com is where you can 384 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.920 find a retailer near you. Pretty much the places we talk about on garden 385 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.920 Line are going to be places at Kerry TreeHugger sprinklers dot Com. Let's head 386 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.319 out to Cyprus this morning and we're going to talk to Vicki. Hello, 387 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:51.839 Vicki, Hi, how are You'm well? Thank you? My question is 388 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:59.880 I put some slow release fertilizer down Wednesday morning, okay, and I water 389 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.559 it in, but then we got that heavy rain Wednesday night that I wasn't 390 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:10.799 expecting, right, do I need to refertilize it? You're you're okay? 391 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:17.839 Unless the soil was bare enough to where the watering caused the rain caused the 392 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:23.359 water to just flow across your law. I put new grass in right before 393 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.200 we had all that rain, okay, like April, all right, I 394 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:33.000 think it was all right. So so Vicky, if the if the water 395 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.960 did not literally wash the granules off the lawn, which it didn't in your 396 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.240 case as you're describing it, then you're fine. Those granules are made to 397 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:47.119 not dissolve right away like an immediate release fertilizer would. It's going to take 398 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:52.400 them time to release those nutrients. So that's another reason for a slow release 399 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.960 through the summer. Okay. That was my question. It's like I didn't 400 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.359 want to really have to redo that again. That's good new. I'm glad 401 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.799 to be the bearer of good news. Sometimes I had to be the bearer 402 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.519 of bad news. But yeah, that was good news. I'm also air 403 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:08.799 rating it too, because I don't think the guys did it when they put 404 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.200 the grass down. Okay, So I bought an air raider, so will 405 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:18.440 that help too? Got brown? I've got some brown out there already. 406 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.039 Yeah, if you're if your air raider pulls out plugs out of the soil, 407 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:26.799 that's the best kind. But when you open up the soil down deep 408 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.599 and then get a little compost top dressing occasionally over the top of it, 409 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.160 that's even better on top of it all. But an air raiding does, 410 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.440 and they generally don't errate when they put the side down because it needs a 411 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.079 wild for that side to get roots down in, or the air raider will 412 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.440 just pick up the side pieces as it pokes through them. I thought he 413 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.519 was should have air raided the dirt underneath it. Okay, No, no 414 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.519 need to do that. Okay, So he did do what he was supposed 415 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.920 to. He did what he's supposed to do based on what you're telling me 416 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.799 at least. Yeah, okay, so I should buy the air raider with 417 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:03.200 the plug where the plugs it's got the two things where the plugs come out. 418 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:06.599 Yes, we call those a core narrator, and the way I describe 419 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.240 it as the other kind just sort of has a solid tine that presses a 420 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.640 hole open in the soil. You know, as if you took a cone 421 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.440 shaped thing and just shoved it in the soil. The core narator pops out 422 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.240 those little sections of soil and leaves them on the surface. That's the better 423 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.759 of the two kinds. All right, Okay, okay, I think I 424 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.119 saw those on Amazon. I'll buy one of them. You got it, 425 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:32.319 all right, Vicky, thank you for the call. We're gonna go take 426 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:34.640 a break here, and if you would like to be on garden Line, 427 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:40.119 give me a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 428 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:56.519 Everybody knew in a brand. Oh you'll get well. Good morning, 429 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:02.279 good Saturday morning, on a great day for gardening. You are listening to 430 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:07.160 garden Line, and our purpose here is to help you have a more bountiful 431 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:13.400 garden and a more beautiful landscape. And that is exactly what we try to 432 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.559 do. If you've got some gardening questions you'd like to call, it's seven 433 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:21.319 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. That's two one two kt 434 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:23.799 r H. If you would like to give us a call, I'm going 435 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:29.079 to go back to the lawns and we're going to continue talking about some of 436 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.640 the basic principles that I was talking about. Basically, what this amounts to 437 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:37.720 is I am trying my best to convince you that the most important thing you 438 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.319 can do for your lawn is to mow it, water it, and fertilize 439 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.279 it property. That is the most important things we do for our law. 440 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:50.440 So we were talking about how diseases and insects and weeds are all hampered by 441 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.720 proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. We reduce the problems that we have 442 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:57.799 by proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing of the way of the lawn. 443 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.440 There is another practice, and I talk about it here pretty often, and 444 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.359 that is the core aeration. Now, if your soil is a heavy clay, 445 00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:09.920 if your spot has a lot of compaction from foot traffic or whatever reason, 446 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:16.759 compaction, coreeration is even more important. But for any lawn that is 447 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:22.160 you know, struggling with water infiltration and just the density the clay, the 448 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:28.119 soil coreation could be helpful for that. And what it does is we're popping 449 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.160 plugs out of the ground. So imagine a little hollow tube goes in the 450 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:36.079 ground and it pulls out a plug of soil, a little tube of soil, 451 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:38.119 and drops it on the surface. So when you get through aerating a 452 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:44.319 lawn, it looks like that there was a convention of small dogs that hung 453 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:46.759 out at the lawn for a while, if you know what I'm talking about, 454 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:51.559 little little thing sitting on the surface like dog droppings, and that that's 455 00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:55.240 kind of the the visual equivalent there. When we're talking about coreation, we 456 00:33:55.359 --> 00:34:00.400 follow that often with a compost top dressing. And what that means is a 457 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:06.559 very fine textured compost, not woody, chunky stuff. Ideally it would be 458 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:12.039 a leaf mold compost, though that is a super high quality and a screened 459 00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:15.960 product that's small enough to fall down in those little spaces that the core aeration 460 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.559 creates in the soil. So kind of look at a cross view of your 461 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.760 law and think about it this way. Follow me on this one. You've 462 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:28.519 got a cross view of your soil and there's little holes down into the soil, 463 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:30.679 straight down in the soil where the soil has been removed, and now 464 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:37.360 you top dress and it falls down in those holes those holes. Oxygen moves 465 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.840 readily sideways down into the soil from those holes, and now you've got the 466 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.639 decaying organic matter and the root system. It's just the best thing you can 467 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.599 do. And the root system is to get oxygen and organic matter and everything 468 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.320 down into the soil like that. When it rains, water can move down 469 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.559 in those holes and not just have to soak in from the surface, but 470 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.920 even sideways through holes that could be moving in. So do you see what 471 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:07.840 I'm saying. It's a corderation sets your soil up over time to get richer 472 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:12.440 and richer and better and better and be a better zone for roots to thrive. 473 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.440 And if roots thrive, your grass can thrive. If you've got a 474 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:20.239 soil that's dense, that's compacted, there's no good aeration, water can't move 475 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.519 in. Roots are not going to thrive, and you can't have a beautiful 476 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:27.760 top grass top above ground part of your grass plant, which is what we're 477 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:31.199 looking at, if you don't have a good root system to support it as 478 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:36.440 well. That's what we're aiming for. So it's really simple. You know, 479 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.000 when it comes to taking care of your soil, it's just not that 480 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:44.599 difficult. I was talking last week, and I've talked about this several times, 481 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:49.760 but the Dell Web Communities are putting in a new community in full shirt 482 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:52.559 that has a community garden in it. Now, if you know del Weeb, 483 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:58.039 you know that for what seventy years they have been building communities for active 484 00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:06.039 adults fifty five and better that just have that lifestyle program that wold. It's 485 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.400 not just a house to live in. This is a community. This is 486 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:14.920 a community with programs and activities and events that are just built around you. 487 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:20.199 To put it shortly, the inspired designs of Dellweb homes or second to none. 488 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.440 But when we talk about now adding a community garden to that, oh 489 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:27.400 my my goodness. What you don't have to dig up the back forty to 490 00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.719 which is your yard to plan a garden. I mean you can go over 491 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.400 the community garden and enjoy the fellowship and the social connections with people over there 492 00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:39.159 as well. Go to dellweb dot com slash Houston for more information or call 493 00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:45.159 them to eight one four five nine zero six zero nine. If you're a 494 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:50.679 gardener, I cannot think of a better place than the New dellweb community and 495 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:54.039 fulshure on. Let's see, it's on Highway three fifty nine, just a 496 00:36:54.039 --> 00:37:00.480 couple of miles outside of full Sure. We you know, we're trying about 497 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:06.119 a lot of different kinds of things today regarding gardening and when you're looking for 498 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:12.320 a place where you can find not just the best plants selection you can imagine, 499 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.480 but also the best advice you can imagine. I think of plants for 500 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.159 all seasons on Highway to forty nine. They're right there where Louetta comes in. 501 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.639 They're on two forty nine. Now, plants for all seasons. Green 502 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.760 thumbs know it. I mean they take pride in their lawn and garden and 503 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.880 they go to plants for all seasons. But if you're a brown thumb and 504 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.119 you want to turn that thumb green, you need to visit plants for all 505 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:37.199 seasons as well. This is a family owned, owned and operated garden center. 506 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:44.920 Since nineteen seventy three, the Flowerties have created this dependable go to place 507 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.800 for plants and for gardening advice. Take the pictures, bring in samples. 508 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.199 They will tell you what's wrong, or they'll identify a plant for you. 509 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.320 And they will direct you to the products or the plants that you need. 510 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.039 Now. You can call them at two eight one three seven six sixteen forty 511 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:05.599 six two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six, or just go to 512 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.079 Plants for All Seasons dot com and see all that they have to offer. 513 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:14.559 Right now. They are loaded up in beautiful summer color plants. So I 514 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.639 was looking at the other day, just so many different nice annuals that can 515 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.760 take one hundred degree heat and still bloom and look good. Plants for All 516 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:25.760 Seasons dot com. If you'd like to give us a call, our number 517 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:32.840 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three 518 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:42.159 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Love entering gardening questions from folks, 519 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.880 and if if we don't get to you right before the next break, which 520 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.320 is coming pretty quick here, we will, Josh, We'll have you on 521 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:52.760 the board and you will be absolutely the first one up. When I think 522 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:57.559 about where do you go for the things you need for your garden and your 523 00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:01.199 home here in the Greater Houston area, I think of our thirty nine locally 524 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:07.599 owned and operated hardware stores. Go to ACE Hardware dot com. To find 525 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.880 the store nearest you, I should say the stores nearest you. With thirty 526 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:15.679 nine of them, you have options. But the ACE Hardware stores carry all 527 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:21.320 the fertilizers I talk about. They have a product selection that is very extensive 528 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.239 and wide for any kind of thing, from a disease to an insect or 529 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:27.599 a weed. You name it, they've got it. ACE Hardware is part 530 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:30.719 of our community. Do you know that in twenty twenty two they raised half 531 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.719 a million dollars for the Texas Children's Hospital. They've got the ACE Rewards program 532 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:39.199 where you can earn money back on your purchases. Another reason to shop at 533 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:43.559 ACE. And when you look at the grills, the furniture, the decor, 534 00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:46.239 the lighting, the outdoor power equipment, on and on and on. 535 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:51.360 Everything you need you're going to find at your local Ace Hardware. Check them 536 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:58.880 out at ACE hardware dot com. We've been talking lawns a lot this morning, 537 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.119 and I'm going to kind of shift years unless calls want to keep going 538 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:05.320 in the lawn direction. When we come back from break, I'm going to 539 00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:09.239 talk a little bit about some of this summer vegetable garden and flower beds there 540 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:13.920 is despite the hundred degree heat. There's a lot that we can do. 541 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.000 You know, you get out on a morning like right now, I'm looking 542 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.480 outside. It's daylight out there. The temperature is not that bad right now, 543 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.159 but good time to get out, plant, take care of things and 544 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:27.719 just have a beautiful and bountiful flower garden and a vegetable garden. There are 545 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:30.119 vegetables we can grow in the summer. Did you know that? And I 546 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:34.639 mean not just Okrah, there are a lot of other good vegetables. Fresh 547 00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:38.280 produce for your garden, from your garden, for the kitchen, for your 548 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:43.400 cuisine. I use fresh produce and smoothie. Believe it or not. I 549 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:45.920 love to have a morning smoothie, a little protein and and that's where I 550 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:51.119 get a lot of my greens in a lot of my different vegetables, root 551 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.840 crops and greens that are so good one these days. I just need to 552 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:57.960 give you a recipe I guess for the smoothie to beat all. Hey, 553 00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:04.559 we'll be back in a short time. Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily 554 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:09.719 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH 555 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:37.119 Garden Line with Skip Rictord. Just watch him as anything come chicken not a 556 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:46.360 sign. Well, good morning, good Saturday morning. The sun has shown 557 00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:52.679 itself on the buildings downtown Houston. See the beautiful, beautiful rays of the 558 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.079 sun coming through. It's gonna be a good day. A little breeze going 559 00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:58.840 on. This will be a good time to be outside. Take a radio 560 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.840 though, she can keep listening a garden line while you're out and about doing 561 00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:07.119 your gardening chores. Hey, have you ever had to deal with a foundation 562 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:12.239 problem before? Now, if you have, you know that that is something 563 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.519 that you do not want to have to get into. But if you do, 564 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.159 you want to hire somebody that knows what they're talking about, and that 565 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.159 would be Fix my Slab Foundation Repair. Tie Strickland has been doing this for 566 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:28.360 twenty three years. It's a local small business service. They've got that foundation 567 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:31.079 experience that you need. You need someone who knows what they're talking about when 568 00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:34.960 they do this. If you want more information, you can go to fix 569 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:38.519 my Slab dot com or give them a call at two eight one two five 570 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:44.440 five forty nine forty nine. Now, before you do any home improvements, 571 00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.440 you need to get that foundation level and right, otherwise everything's going to shift. 572 00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:52.119 When they fix the foundation and the improvements you made or just kind of 573 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.320 out of whack. So first, get the foundation fixed before you do the 574 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:59.559 home improvement. Secondly, you need to know that if you're a garden line 575 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.840 listener, let them know that because it'll be a free estimate for you when 576 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:06.000 you do. They they are committed to a fair price, They show up 577 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:08.039 on time, they know what they're doing. The way we like to put 578 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:13.760 it is on time, fair price, and fixed. That's fixed myslab dot 579 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:15.400 com. And by the way, you got a driveway crack, you got 580 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.719 a sidewalk crack, they can deal with that as well. We live on 581 00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:23.679 that part of the state where we got a lot of clay soils and it's 582 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:28.599 shifts and shifts and shifts. I mean you drive down Houston streets and it's 583 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:32.719 like you're running through the rocky mountains up and down with all the shifting soils 584 00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:37.599 and whatnot that we have. That's why we need a good foundation repair company. 585 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.800 Let's head out to Cyprus. We're on a visit with Walter this morning. 586 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.719 Good morning Walter, Well, good morning, sir, Hey sir. 587 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.760 I've got a problem with NATS. I've never had it before. We have 588 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:57.000 tried everything, we know, you know, bleat in the drains sprays, 589 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:06.599 but the thray line insects don't seem to affect them. Okay, so we 590 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:09.920 don't have any food setting around or anything. They're in your house. You're 591 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:15.480 saying, yes, okay, garden, go on, you'll tomato, yeah, 592 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:22.920 out back. But yeah, well, basically I think a three different 593 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.320 places that will really encourage, you know, three situations that bring the gnats. 594 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.880 At number one, you got fruit laying around like fruit flies for example, 595 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.559 and another thing other food, and you say you've checked, you don't 596 00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:37.559 have that. The drain is another source for nats. It can be, 597 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.880 and so you just want to want to check that, make sure that that 598 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.519 huh okay, and then uh let me see what's Oh, the pop plants 599 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:52.840 in the house. We we can when we keep our plant soil surfaces moist 600 00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.079 fungus, nats will breed and developing that and we can end up with some 601 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:04.119 gnats from that Somewhere. Those gnats are getting the moisture and the sustenance that 602 00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:07.679 they need. And Walter. Other than those, I don't know where else 603 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.840 to tell you to look. You might talk to a good you know exterminator, 604 00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.639 the Scott over at McGrath. Pest control can probably direct you to some 605 00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:19.559 things that either you do yourself or they come in and do for you, 606 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.599 to try to try to shut those down. But there are several different kinds 607 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.880 of gnats and but still they got to have water, and they gotta have 608 00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.280 something that they're feeding on. A little bitty I mean like a pencil. 609 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:36.239 Yeah, get in a pencil about that. Yeah, I know I've seen 610 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.880 what you're talking about. I usually trace mind some food I didn't know was 611 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.039 there. You know, maybe a one time I found a potato that had 612 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.519 kind of gotten behind the counter and were starting to decay a little bit. 613 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:51.320 And boy, I mean it was there were gnats all in there that were 614 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.119 coming out from behind there. I don't know where to tell you to look, 615 00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:57.119 but I know it's going to be some type of food source from wet 616 00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:01.719 saying it's supposed to track them and kill them books. I hope that's gonna 617 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:06.400 work. It's socially here today, Okay, I don't know anything about those, 618 00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:10.599 so uh that that's outside my certain poet. Maybe we could put out 619 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:17.400 not that I know of. You know it, you got to figure out 620 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.880 what's bringing them in. And I know you've you've kind of looked and tried 621 00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:27.679 enough suggested some things. But other than that, I don't know. I 622 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.719 think I may call a pest control company and see what they what they say, 623 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.320 Okay, sir, I appreciate your knowledge. All right, Well, 624 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:37.639 good luck with them. I'm sorry you having to deal with that. That's 625 00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:42.840 a pain, I know. Thank you, Yes, sir, you were 626 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.840 listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 627 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:51.800 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 628 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.960 Hey, if you love out in the Kingwood area, and I mean area, 629 00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:59.480 I mean humble the task as seat a Porter, Valley Ranch, New 630 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.719 Caney, all that area. You're Richwood Garden Centers out there. You've got 631 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.360 Warning Southern Gardens on North Park Driving, Kingwood, and you've got Kingwood Garden 632 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:12.519 Center on Stone Hollow Drive in Kingwood. Both of those are open seven days 633 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.280 a week and they have got all kinds of great plants. I was taking 634 00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.760 care of some pentas that I put in a container on my back porch this 635 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.880 past week, and I just noticed Warrens has a excellent supply of Penta's in 636 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.840 Penta's They're also called Egyptian starflower. They're white, they're pink, they're red, 637 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.440 they bring in butterflies, they love bright shade. I mean, they 638 00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:37.400 do it in containers and everything. They've also got the Primark Freedom blackberries in 639 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:43.679 now. Primark Freedom is a thornless BlackBerry that produces on the first year in 640 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.519 the canes, which most blackberries won't, and then also on the second year. 641 00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:51.719 So it's an awesome berry to try. You should you should give that 642 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:54.079 one a try now. Or head over to Kingwood Garden Center where they just 643 00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:58.599 got in a whole bunch more of those Cajun hibiscus that I just can't quit 644 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:00.320 talking about. I mean, if if you think you know what a hibiscus 645 00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.199 flower looks like, look at a Cajun hibiscus and you're gonna see something very 646 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:08.719 different. They're very very popular now in our Greater Houston area. Or grab 647 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:15.280 some diamond frost. Euphobia's another little whispy plant with white flowers that absolutely laughs 648 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:20.000 at our summer sun. I like it in containers, I like it in 649 00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:22.360 the ground, in beds. It's a beautiful plant. Hey, Warren's and 650 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.760 Kingwood Garden Center, you're not going to go wrong with either of those. 651 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:30.559 You can find them online. They've both got the Facebook pages, They've got 652 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.639 the Instagram pages where you can see all the plants and what's happening. Check 653 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.519 those out and feel fortunate if you live over in that area, because you 654 00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:46.440 are indeed, very very fortunate. Let's see, I'm gonna mention one thing. 655 00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:51.360 If you're down in the area and your League City, Santa Fe, 656 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:55.719 Dickinson, San Leone, Lamarck, League City Feed is your local feedstore. 657 00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:02.280 Wes and Madison Funderburg have really continued that tradition that began over forty years ago 658 00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:07.039 in an Oprah patch of League City Feed. You can give McCall at two 659 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.480 eight one three three two sixteen twelve. If we talk about a fertilizer on 660 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:14.039 Garden Line, they're going to have it at League City. They're on Highway 661 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:17.239 three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. Everything else that you 662 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:21.800 would expect from a feed store, from Chicken Supplies to pep food and you 663 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.760 name it is there. And it's that old fashioned service that all of the 664 00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:30.079 feed stores we talk about will provide you down in that area. League City 665 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.320 Feed. You're not going to do better Monday through Saturday nine to six and 666 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:36.400 closed on Sunday. Hey, give us a call, Josh. You'll get 667 00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:37.760 you on the board. We're gonna take a break and you'll be first up 668 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.719 when we come back. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 669 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:06.639 Good Saturday morning, on a great day for gardening. The sun is 670 00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:08.920 shining, it is beautiful outside. Boy, this is a time to get 671 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:14.760 that kind of stuff done. We are here to talk about whatever you're interested 672 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:17.039 in regarding gardening. My name is Skip Richter. I'm your host in our 673 00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:22.440 phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one 674 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:27.159 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now, I've talked to you 675 00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:30.159 about Dell Web before, but I just want to remind you that they have 676 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:35.039 a brand new community coming in in Fulsher on FM three fifty nine, less 677 00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:38.760 than two miles from downtown fullsher If you've ever been around Dellweb, you know 678 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:44.199 the quality, you know the workmanship. You know that they design their homes 679 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:49.760 and their communities for active adults age fifty five and better. The lifestyle programs 680 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.360 designed around you, and part of that lifestyle is being able to garden. 681 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.239 They have a community garden that I am helping them set up there at the 682 00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:02.000 Dellweb community in fullsher Now check it out. I hope you would go online 683 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:07.280 to dellweb dot com slash Houston or give up a call two eight one four 684 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:13.039 to five nine zero six zero nine find out about that community and the Dellweb 685 00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:19.559 difference for yourself, including the really nice community garden for residents. Pretty excited 686 00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.719 about that. I think it's a great addition for a Dellweb community. Let's 687 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:27.760 head out to Cyprus and we're going to talk to Susan this morning. Hello 688 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:32.440 Susan, good morning. I wonder it is too late and too hot to 689 00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:38.559 fertilize your lawn. Yes, no, it's not. You want to use 690 00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:44.000 the fertilizer at the right rate so you don't overdo it. And you want 691 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:47.719 to use a slow release so you don't burn the lawn. Okay, So 692 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:54.239 a product that's going to gradually release over time will give you the good nutrition 693 00:51:54.480 --> 00:52:00.079 without putting the salts down in a concentration that might cause burning. So the 694 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.280 nitro fos product, what are the numbers that first nineteen nineteen four ten. 695 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:07.440 But it's easier, it's easiest just to look for the silver bag. When 696 00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:12.000 you see silver, that's it. That nitro files has one silver bag, 697 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:15.679 and that's that's the one we're looking at. Thank you, does does very 698 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:19.000 very well for it. Yeah, just follow the label. By the way, 699 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.599 Susan, you want to put five pounds per thousand square feet out there? 700 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:27.599 Okay? Five pounds per thousand of that of that fertilizer. All righty, 701 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.360 thank you, Thank you very much. Bye bye. Now we're gonna 702 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:37.679 head to Southwest Houston and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hi, 703 00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:43.559 how could we help today? Uh? Well, I, um, you 704 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.480 know, pulled leeks and peas out of my garden bed. It's a raised 705 00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.880 bed, and I have the rose soil compost mix that I hit picks two 706 00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:57.719 to one. Okay, um do I And now I'm going to plant some 707 00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:05.679 oat crop and I do I put or do I did more compost yet? 708 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.639 Uh? I don't think you need it at this time. It's warm enough 709 00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:15.440 now to where the microbes are really breaking down all the organic matter in that 710 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:21.000 rose soil that you have. Have you done any fertilizing in the last couple 711 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:24.920 of months. No, I just pulled out all of my leaks that were 712 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.360 there. Yeah, yeah, last week and so yeah, well and how 713 00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:32.480 how were the leaks doing? Did they look pretty good? Are they pretty 714 00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:37.239 healthy? They did? Yes? Okay, I think you're gonna be okay. 715 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:42.599 If you wanted to get you a fertilizer that is a you know, 716 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:46.440 geared toward a vegetable garden for example, I think you can. You can 717 00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:51.199 go ahead and do that. I mean that we have so many good options 718 00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:54.400 out there on the market. I know Nelson Plant Food makes one for vegetables. 719 00:53:54.400 --> 00:54:00.360 They make an organic U fertilizer for vegetables as well that you could just 720 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:02.880 mix a little bit in and just give them a little extra boost as you 721 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:07.719 go into the okra anytime though, you mentioned peas. Anytime you're doing beans 722 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:12.199 and peas, you want to hold off on the nitrogen because too much nitrogen 723 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:17.920 causes them to vine without as much production. Okra, okra would be fine 724 00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:22.239 with a little boost. Okay, Okay, thank you so much, you 725 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:29.440 bet, thank you. Yeah. The Nelson's products, they know, when 726 00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.440 we think of Nelson's, we think of like the color Star line, we 727 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.920 think of the Nutrostar line, or but now the turf Star line. And 728 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:40.199 then they also have a Nature Star line, the turf Star for summer fertilizing 729 00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:44.679 for your lawn, The Slow and Easy as the one you want to look 730 00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:49.559 for. That's the twenty two two twenty two ten. It's gonna do that 731 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:54.960 gradual release over time that just absolutely provides the nutrients that the plant needs, 732 00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:59.760 but not all at once. It gives it to the plant gradually, which 733 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:02.679 is how plants grow. That's how plants feed. So Slow and Easy twenty 734 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:07.239 two two ten from Nelson's is a good one, you know. But as 735 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.280 we're talking about the you know, the taking care of the garden, when 736 00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:15.239 it comes to vegetables, look for their look for their vegetable fertilizer. Look 737 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.639 for one of the Nature Star lines as well. It's gonna you're gonna find 738 00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:23.159 it. Your plants just perform exceptionally well when you provide them that kind of 739 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:28.239 nutrition. Let's head out to Tanglewood now and we're going to visit with Charles. 740 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:32.280 Hello, Charles, well skip with all this heat, is it okay 741 00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:37.119 to put the slower grow out? And how do I handle that for your 742 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:43.599 lawn? Yes, yes you can. If it's a gradual feed, it's 743 00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:46.559 a gradually releasing fertilizer, a slow release fertilizer. You're not going to burn 744 00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:51.159 your lawn if you put it out at the right rate. Okay, the 745 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.400 best time, the earlier the day, and then watered him. Yeah, 746 00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:55.199 you could do that. I mean, you know, you could do it 747 00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:00.159 anytime of day, but because of the temperature, for human reasons, I'd 748 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:02.000 say do it early in the day. All right, Okay, Well, 749 00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:05.480 thank you very much. Have a great day. Okay, thank you. 750 00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:08.519 I appreciate that call very much. You know, when you're talking about a 751 00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:13.159 source for fertilizers, we're talking about all these fertilizers out here. You're not 752 00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:17.599 going to find a better place than Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer has been on 753 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:21.679 let's see, they've been a lawn and garden tradition here now in the Houston 754 00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:25.079 area since nineteen fifty five. So you think you don't stand business that long 755 00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:30.880 if you're not doing a whole lot right, including customer service selection and whatnot. 756 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:35.559 They're at the corner of Bissonet and Renwick. You can go online Southwest 757 00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:39.119 Fertilizer dot com and see what I'm talking about. There's not going to be 758 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.679 a product you need that you don't find in there. If they don't have 759 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.840 it, you don't need it. That includes all the fertilizers we talk about, 760 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:49.679 and then some that includes herbicides, fungicides, and secticide. That includes 761 00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.599 organics. If you want organic products, you're not going to find a better 762 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:57.920 selection. The Southwest Fertilizer. They've got everything else you need. You need 763 00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:00.400 your more blade sharp and they got a little shop in the back. They 764 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.320 can do some repair on small engine. It's everything you need. Let them 765 00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.400 help you. Take a sample in, take a photo in. They will 766 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:12.719 direct you. If you need a product, they won't say something if you 767 00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.280 don't. If you need a product, they'll direct you to the one you 768 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:20.960 need to have good success. Let's head out now to Hempstead and we're going 769 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.760 to talk to Greg. Hello Greg, Good morning Skip. I've got a 770 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:30.320 quick question for quick question for you. My wife and I just built a 771 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:35.320 new house out out here in Hempstead, and of course there's a new side 772 00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:39.360 with that. Let's permute a side. My question to you is what do 773 00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:45.000 I do now? How do I pick up on the fertilization schedule and so 774 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:49.480 on and so forth? How long go did the side? Was it put 775 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:53.159 down. It was installed about her laid down about three weeks ago week. 776 00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:57.840 Okay, good, So it is now rooted in in this weather we're having, 777 00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:00.400 you need to give it a good soaking on an infrequent basis. So 778 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:04.119 if you can water once a week, even if you have to apply it 779 00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:07.079 in two or three, you know, cycle and soak applications on watering day, 780 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.039 that's best. That's number one. But but yes, go ahead and 781 00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:15.880 fertilize. Get you a slow release product. We've been talking about them all 782 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:20.920 morning that is going to gradually feed over time and you're not going to burn 783 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:23.280 your lawn that way, and it'll carry you all the way through into the 784 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.880 fall fertilization time when you do that. Okay, so I can pick up 785 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.880 right with the normal fertilization schedule now. Yes, And if you have a 786 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:36.840 preference you know of a brand or a product like that, or we've got 787 00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.840 a lot of good ones here that are local companies, which is what we 788 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:45.199 like to talk about. Just just follow the label carefully. And yeah, 789 00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:47.519 you're Bermuda, and you know with the Bermuda, Greg, the most important 790 00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.599 thing for beauty is regular mowing. The more often you mow it, the 791 00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:54.760 better it looks. If you get it down in the inch and a half 792 00:58:55.000 --> 00:59:00.400 range, you know it's gonna really really look good. Okay, very good, 793 00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:04.960 all right. I appreciate your help. Thank you, sir. Appreciate 794 00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:09.840 appreciate that call very much. Now I'm a broken record when it comes to 795 00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:14.559 soil. I say it all the time, and I'm not ashamed of it 796 00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:19.920 at all, because everything starts in the soil. Plant success starts in the 797 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:23.639 soil. If you run out to some place and buy a flat of plants 798 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:28.079 and bring them home and walk around the yard wondering where am I going to 799 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.880 put these, you've already messed up. You need to get your soil right. 800 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:35.360 Maybe buy the plants and buy the soil product, get them right, 801 00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:38.239 bring it home and take care of that. But if you're looking for a 802 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:42.920 quality soil, you are not going to do better for all of you down 803 00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:47.000 in the south of Houston, south southwest all through that area than CNA mal 804 00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:52.880 CNA Malch is north of Rocher and they're on five twenty one where Highway six 805 00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:57.280 and near where Highway six and two eighty eight come together. You can go 806 00:59:57.360 --> 01:00:00.519 online to Cnamulch dot com and find out more about them. But all the 807 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:05.760 fertilizers I've been talking about, and then some they carry them if we recommend 808 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:08.280 them, they carry them at Ciena mulch dot com. So you here's your 809 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:12.800 soil well for Elijah goes in the soil. You can pick up your fertilizer 810 01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:15.039 at the same time. Do you want bags of soil? Do you want 811 01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:20.559 bolts soil, bolts, bulk soil that there we go. If you live 812 01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.039 down in that area, Quel Valley, Riverstone, Manville, Row, Sharon 813 01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:27.599 Lake, Olympia, Pomonia, Sweetwater, pear Land, you know, anywhere 814 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.760 near Brasispin State Park within about a twenty mile radius. They will also provide 815 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:34.719 delivery out there for the soils. You pay it delivery fee for that. 816 01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:39.079 Naturally, it costs money to haul big bulky things around. But they're gonna 817 01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:44.000 have everything and they'll get you set up. And when you do this right, 818 01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:47.440 when you start with Sienna, then when you buy your plants, you 819 01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:52.280 buy your flowers, buy your vegetables, whatever you're going to plant, you're 820 01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:54.800 just gonna see a much much greater chance of success. By the way, 821 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.920 they're open today until two thirty, closed tomorrow on Sunday, but give them 822 01:00:59.960 --> 01:01:05.559 a call or check them out. Saml dot com, Senamultz dot com, 823 01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:07.440 You're not gonna do any better. I was out working in the garden the 824 01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:13.360 other day, actually two days ago, and taking care of some beds and 825 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:16.480 some things like that, and I was just thinking that the next set of 826 01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:20.480 beds I put in in my garden, they're gonna be the vegobed. I 827 01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:23.920 talk about them all the time, and I am I've never been as excited 828 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:29.679 about a type of vegetable bed than I am about Vego Viago As a modular 829 01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:34.599 metal bed. They treat the metal so that it doesn't rest and corrode, 830 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:38.360 and then they paint it with a USDA certified quality paint to hold onto it. 831 01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:42.480 You can make them any shape you want. Their modular so you buy 832 01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:45.559 the pieces. They go together very easily. You can make a long, 833 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.880 skinny bed, a square bed, a C shaped bed. If you're an 834 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.159 organic gardener, these vegobeds are the thing you need. And if you're not 835 01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:55.920 an organic gardener, I can't think of a better use of space in your 836 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.760 garden than these narrow edged Vego beds. There's a lot of impostors out there. 837 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:06.239 Vego is a Houston company. The first in America to do the metal 838 01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:08.760 beds. Don't be fooled by an impostor. Go to Vego garden dot com 839 01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:14.119 and many of our local garden centers that we talk about on garden Line also 840 01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.800 carry the Vego beds in stock Well. It's time take a break and get 841 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.159 some news going here. If you would like to get us, give us 842 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:24.360 call, get on the boards. Seven one three two one two, five, 843 01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:44.880 eight seven four. Good Saturday morning. Good day to be listening to 844 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.079 garden Line, Good day to be talking about gardening. Give us a call. 845 01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:52.679 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 846 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:55.800 and two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, you've heard me talk about the 847 01:02:55.840 --> 01:03:01.639 Trusted lab before, and the Trusted lab is one organic made from the highest 848 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:07.119 quality hump grown under USDA guidelines. They use a CO two extraction so it's 849 01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:12.480 never touched by chemicals. They test it pesticide, solvents, heavy metals, 850 01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:15.599 all the things you don't want in there. They ensure they don't have it 851 01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:19.079 in there. You can get them in oils, soft jails, goomies, 852 01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:22.880 creams. I like to use a cream for muscle aches and skelet of muscular 853 01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:25.320 aches and things that we have. You can go online to the Trusted Lab 854 01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.079 dot com. By the way, they have a fourth of July sale coming 855 01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:32.880 up here. If you've wanted to try CBD from the Trusted Lab dot com 856 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:37.039 to sleep better, or for tight joints or so on, go to the 857 01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:44.079 Trusted Lab dot com now and shop their fourth of July sale little extra savings. 858 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:49.840 This is a Texas company, Texas proud company here in our own state 859 01:03:50.119 --> 01:03:54.639 for trusted CBD type products. Trusted Lab. You know we're talking about plants 860 01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:59.079 and when it spent a little bit of time this morning on lawns. If 861 01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:00.199 I spent a lot of time on lawns and I said, I'd like to 862 01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:04.440 talk a little bit about some flowers and vegetable things. We have so many 863 01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:09.599 good flowers for summer. Now I realize there's something in our psyche that happens 864 01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:15.119 when it gets hot. People start thinking less about gardening, and there's no 865 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:20.039 reason to do that. Most landscapes become a sea of green in the summer. 866 01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:24.639 Green grass, green groundcovers, green shrubs, green trees, green, 867 01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.800 green, green green. Nothing wrong with the color green, But there's a 868 01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:31.280 lot of colors out there that we could be choosing from I mentioned pentas earlier. 869 01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:38.400 Beautiful Angelonia takes the summer like a champ, the diamond frost Euphorbia takes 870 01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:41.920 the summer like a champ. Zennis. I mean, we could just go 871 01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:45.239 on and on and on, and then there's all the foliage colors that look 872 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:48.199 so good. You can get out in a morning time like this and get 873 01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:51.480 those things planted, or maybe very very late day if it's a lottle cooler, 874 01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:57.519 then let the sun kind of head toward the horizon a little bit and 875 01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.360 get these things planted. If you will water him and get them started good, 876 01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:03.519 they will look good for you, and they'll just keep getting better and 877 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:08.559 better and better as we go forward in time. You're you're not going to 878 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:11.760 have a lack of color in your landscape if you just take care of some 879 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:15.800 these wonderful planted options that we have, and our garden centers are greater Houston 880 01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.559 area garden centers that we talk about on garden Line. I mean, you're 881 01:05:19.559 --> 01:05:23.920 just not going to do better. I honestly mean it when I say I 882 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:29.639 don't know a town that has so many awesome garden centers like the Houston area 883 01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:35.079 does. North Southeast West Central. Everywhere you are there is a super independent 884 01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:42.039 garden center near you. And what are they They're staffed with people that know 885 01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:46.039 what they're talking about. They're not staffed with people that were working the jewelry 886 01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:50.840 counter or the lumber counter last week. They're staffed with people who know gardening, 887 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:56.480 who have experienced gardening, who know the products they carry and can help 888 01:05:56.519 --> 01:06:00.599 you identify problems, can direct you to things that work, tell you how 889 01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:02.599 to do it, and they can show you the plants. You say, 890 01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.119 I need something for shade, I want something color or whatever. They take 891 01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:11.280 you to what they're talking what they need, and that is so important. 892 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.920 That is worth a lot of money. Let me tell you that. You 893 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.519 know, when you think about what does it cost to have a plant, 894 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:21.000 Well, there's the cost of the plant, But then is that plant going 895 01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:24.280 to live? Is it going to do what you want it to do? 896 01:06:24.760 --> 01:06:27.519 Are you going to plant it the right way in the white time and take 897 01:06:27.559 --> 01:06:31.280 care of it because you've got expert advice helping you with that. That saves 898 01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:35.800 money and it just and not only that, it makes your property more valuable. 899 01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:39.440 It makes your property more beautiful, and it helps you enjoy it. 900 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:42.920 You only to get out there and you want to enjoy your property. And 901 01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:47.039 that's why I just so much talk about the importance of going to a quality 902 01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:50.920 nursery that knows what they're talking about. And you know Buchanans and the Heights. 903 01:06:50.960 --> 01:06:56.400 It's just one example that's a central and he's in north central Houston. 904 01:06:56.719 --> 01:07:00.280 It's on East eleventh Street. Now you can go online to be Cannons Plants 905 01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:04.960 dot com, Buchanansplants dot com. They've been a Houston garden center since nineteen 906 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:12.719 eighty six and they specialize in Texas natives and they also specialize in pollinator type 907 01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:16.000 plants. Now they have everything else vegetables, houseplants, I mean, shade 908 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:19.119 plants, trees, everything you can think of, they've got it. But 909 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:24.239 if you're looking for a source for let's say you want to attract butterflies and 910 01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:29.239 you want some velvet leaf center for the yellow butterfly, hummingbird bush for the 911 01:07:29.880 --> 01:07:33.280 tersa sphinx moss, or maybe fragrant mist flower for the metal marked butterfly, 912 01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:38.199 inland seats for the roadside skipper. Do you hear all those? I mean, 913 01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:41.400 on and on and on. They're all there at Buchanans plants, and 914 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:44.559 they have people that know what they're talking about, so they can direct you 915 01:07:44.679 --> 01:07:49.199 to on Buchanans Plants dot com. Go check them out. It's a shady, 916 01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:54.119 wonderful stroll through one of the most beautiful nurseries in town. You'll see 917 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:58.880 what I'm talking about when you go at Buchanans Plants. Yeah, we can 918 01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:03.199 plant flowers. Now. The other kinds of things that I didn't mention are 919 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:08.400 all the hibiscus that's so many. There's a tropicalbiscus and they're the Southern dinner 920 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:13.639 plate hibiscus, the Gulf Coast native Texas star hibiscus that can be planted at 921 01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:16.600 this time. Just beautiful blooms, on and on. And then when we 922 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:26.520 get into vegetables, lots of heat tolerant vegetables, and most people probably couldn't 923 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:30.119 name two summer vegetables. But there's sweet potato vines. You can eat the 924 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:33.680 potatoes, of course, that's why we grow them the underground roots, but 925 01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:36.680 you can also eat the vines. It's it's a leafy green that can be 926 01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:43.279 eaten. The okra is probably the most famous plant of summer. One of 927 01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:47.119 my favorite vegetables. Okra absolutely does well all the southern peas, black eyed 928 01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.640 peas, purple hole peas, cream peas, crowder peas. You know, 929 01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:57.960 tons of purple hole I mentioned black eyes. Those are all doing super super 930 01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:01.640 well in the summer. But then we have vegetables that are from other cultures 931 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:05.560 in areas of the world that are hot and humid, welcome to Houston. 932 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:12.319 So when we think about things like molochia, that's green that is very popular 933 01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:15.640 in parts of the Middle East and other parts of the region, really that 934 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:20.960 it just thrives in our summer heat. There's a one called water spinits that 935 01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:25.119 a lot of people grow here. There's an amoranth that people grow here, 936 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:30.520 that vegetable amorand that's big nice leaves, and there are many many other good 937 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:35.560 options that do so super well here in our climate. There's no reason to 938 01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:44.439 not have fresh, healthy, locally grown locally meaning your own yard grown vegetables 939 01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:47.039 and your landscape, and you can certainly take care of them. Now. 940 01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:51.239 They will thrive if you give them adequate moisture. That's all they need is 941 01:09:51.319 --> 01:09:57.119 just adequate moisture and they will do really, really well. So why not 942 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.840 why not get out and try some of these vegeta in your landscape and in 943 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:03.760 your garden. And by the way, if you don't have a traditional garden, 944 01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:09.039 you know I mentioned earlier just my favorite type of garden in the world 945 01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:14.399 is the raised bed garden. Then you're not going to do better than a 946 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.600 raised bed garden and vegos the one we talk about all the time. But 947 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:21.600 that is how I would do it. If not a large container also works. 948 01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:25.600 Well, well, let's take a break. Give Josh a call at 949 01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:29.239 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four so he can get you 950 01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:42.840 on the board and we will be right back. Was yeah, through a 951 01:10:43.039 --> 01:11:01.359 chap up in the garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 952 01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:05.920 we are here to talk gardening with you our phone number seven one three two 953 01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:12.000 one two fifty eight seventy four. We are now going to head to League 954 01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:18.359 City and talk to John V. Hello John V. You know what, 955 01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:25.680 it always helps. It always helps if I actually click on the collar so 956 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:28.600 I can talk to you. Sorry about that. How are you John V? 957 01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:35.079 Yes, Skip, this is m John V. Hello to everybody at 958 01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:41.680 Garden Line. I have a question about mint, okay and herb. Now 959 01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:46.119 I have two strands of mint and a pop and I need more because I've 960 01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:51.560 got like seven different things to make from mint. Few things in mint limju 961 01:11:51.680 --> 01:11:56.279 Believe Mint Team Mint, chocolate chip, ice cream, and Possessha bread and 962 01:11:57.079 --> 01:12:00.159 others. Trying to make a list right now, making me hungry. I 963 01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:05.319 am hungry right now for some mint. I love mint, that's true. 964 01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:10.840 And what is I'm sorry? What is the question? Or should I should 965 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:14.199 I put? Should I should I put it in the garden because it's in 966 01:12:14.279 --> 01:12:18.279 a pot right now? I would keep it in the pot myself. You 967 01:12:18.359 --> 01:12:21.600 can put it in the garden. But mint takes over the world. It's 968 01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:28.640 like bermudograss, just it thinks everything belongs to it in all territories. And 969 01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:31.119 so I would. I would keep it in a big pot. I have 970 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:36.600 some in those big like giant almost almost Whiskey Girl smires containers. But if 971 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:40.880 you put it in the ground, you just need something that is like a 972 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:44.039 vertical wall on the soil, which is a lot of work to create that, 973 01:12:44.319 --> 01:12:47.520 you know, to bury a panel to block it. But other than 974 01:12:47.640 --> 01:12:51.359 that, you know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry about that. Well, 975 01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:54.880 I will keep it in a mint green pot to magic the mint. 976 01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:58.680 There you go, there you go. Yeah, make all those wonderful things. 977 01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:01.000 My mom made mint jelly when I was a kid, and oh my 978 01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:06.319 wow, that was the most I've ever seen them all. Anyway, Hey, 979 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:14.039 thanks wonderful, Thank you for the absolutely you stay had in trouble and 980 01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:16.840 have fun with that mint. Yeah mint mint will get us in trouble. 981 01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:23.039 I'll tell you for sure, that is certain. Hey, if you are, 982 01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:28.520 if you're a fan, and I hope you are, of the oh 983 01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:30.560 my gosh, I can't even say Green Pro, Green Pro our company that 984 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:35.960 does the aeration corporation and the top dressing. They also have a company called 985 01:13:36.439 --> 01:13:43.000 org Lawn o RG Lawn like Organic Lawn. Now they have a summer special, 986 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:46.239 so if you want to have them come out and do a liquid treatment 987 01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:53.119 for new customers, it's twenty nine ninety nine plus tax, twenty ninety nine 988 01:13:53.119 --> 01:13:57.479 plus tax. The first application can be whatever they think your lawn needs the 989 01:13:57.560 --> 01:14:00.399 most. Maybe it's a fertilizer, a liquid feed, or maybe it's a 990 01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:04.720 micronutrient. Maybe it is an insect protection prevention treatment for example. So in 991 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:09.720 other words, whatever your lawn needs, you can get a twenty nine ninety 992 01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:13.720 nine plus tax garden line special for a new customer to come out and do 993 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:18.840 that. They can do like seaweed, They can do the bug prevention. 994 01:14:19.079 --> 01:14:23.359 They can treat up to ten thousand square feet of grass for this deal, 995 01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:27.760 additional costs if it's more than ten thousand. Now they serve Katie, Cypress, 996 01:14:27.800 --> 01:14:31.239 Houston, Sugarland, Richmond. They use as many organic inputs as possible 997 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:35.479 to keep your lawn looking great. And you're just not going to do better 998 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:42.199 than org Lawn. That's www dot org lawn dot com or give them a 999 01:14:42.239 --> 01:14:47.359 call eight three two three five one zero zero three two. They don't do 1000 01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:51.640 the long term contracts. You can just harm to come out whenever you feel 1001 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.359 like you need it or what they suggest your lawn might need. They do 1002 01:14:56.520 --> 01:15:01.279 both fully organic and organic hybrid option in their mom care. Well, let's 1003 01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:05.079 head out to Cypress now and we're gonna talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, 1004 01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:13.439 Hi there, skip, good morning morning. My question I have is 1005 01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:17.520 on my oquid they're growing, but I have these little bitty bitty, tiny 1006 01:15:18.199 --> 01:15:25.119 brown looking ants. Okay, is that is that a good insect? It's 1007 01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:30.079 not a it's not a pest of the okra, but ants ants or dairy 1008 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:36.079 farmers ants will haul aphids up onto a plant and then they will protect them, 1009 01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:40.720 just like a dairy farmer would protect a herd of cattle. And then 1010 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:44.359 they literally milk the apid. Now, don't try to picture what a dairy 1011 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:46.800 farmer does here. They use their antenna to stroke the afid and it makes 1012 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:50.560 them produce honeydew that the ants feed on. So it's literally like a little 1013 01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:54.760 herd of cows for the ants. And I mean, yeah, for the 1014 01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:58.600 Yeah, that's what they do. And so the negative of the ants is, 1015 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:02.359 yeah, they you know, they'll protect your aphids against things that eat 1016 01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.840 aphids. But in general, I don't worry about ants. You can take 1017 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:09.680 a blast of water and knock off the apids if you need to. But 1018 01:16:09.800 --> 01:16:15.000 oaks is so tough it's just not going to be a problem. Okay, 1019 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:18.279 great, thank you, um, thank you so much. And I planted. 1020 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:23.279 Uh, I couldn't um. The tag doesn't say what it is, 1021 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:31.880 but it says camaro slicing tomato. Oh, carmelo? Is that it is? 1022 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:40.720 That a just oh my gosh, that is a good question. I'm 1023 01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:43.680 gonna have to do a quick look on that. Carmelo is a slice or 1024 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:46.640 tomato? It used to be very popular in the south of here in Louisiana, 1025 01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:56.359 especially um the um carmelo tomato was was really a go to tomato. 1026 01:16:56.840 --> 01:17:00.479 And so let me see if I can find out right quick. It looks 1027 01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:04.079 like it is indeterminate, indeterminate. Oh goodness, Yeah, it's a it's 1028 01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:08.680 a favorite, you know, an old French selection, just real, rich, 1029 01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:12.960 flavor, beautiful. Another thing about it doesn't crack as bad as some 1030 01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:16.399 tomatoes do, and so that's another good thing. So anyway, it's a 1031 01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:19.399 good one. It's a one though. I would say on carmelo, I 1032 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:27.600 would probably plant it in maybe mid July, so that by the time it 1033 01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:30.760 gets a good size, our temperatures are breaking in the fall and you get 1034 01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:35.159 a little bit of a fall fruit set on it. Okay. Well, 1035 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:41.079 um, since my tag didn't say I bought it at HIB, which I 1036 01:17:41.199 --> 01:17:45.000 usually don't buy. I'm plants at Hib, but Ace Hardware didn't have they 1037 01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:50.239 ran out of the tomatoes, okay, and so um it doesn't say on 1038 01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:54.239 it, but I put it in like a I want to say. It's 1039 01:17:54.239 --> 01:18:00.319 a ten ten gallons pot. Okay, And I guess I'll just have to 1040 01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:03.039 keep trimming it. I don't know. Well, yeah, you can just 1041 01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.479 keep trimming it. I mean, keep it around. It'll be a bigger 1042 01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:10.600 plant and it'll do well for you when the temperature breaks. Fall is a 1043 01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:15.760 short season for us because we've got to get past those days where it's in 1044 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:18.720 the mid nineties in the day and the night times are in the upper seventies, 1045 01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:21.920 and so they can start setting fruit and then next thing you know, 1046 01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:26.960 here comes cool weather and they slow down so much that we usually end up 1047 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:31.079 picking slightly green tomatoes in the fall to get them in before the first frost. 1048 01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:36.039 Thank you so very much, Skip your wonderful keep up the great job. 1049 01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:39.960 Thank you, Sandy. I appreciate that call, and good luck with 1050 01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:45.920 those tomatoes. And now, if you live down in the Richmond area, 1051 01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:49.760 especially up towards sugar Land Way, you need to know about Enchanted Forest. 1052 01:18:49.960 --> 01:18:55.319 I've talked about them before, but Enchanted Forest is the nursery if you're in 1053 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.600 Richmond, you go towards sugar Land, but it's it's south of fifty nine. 1054 01:18:59.199 --> 01:19:03.119 They have a super selection of all kinds of plants. One thing that's 1055 01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:08.920 really of interest to me is they just got in some of the pipe vine 1056 01:19:10.319 --> 01:19:14.840 Dutchman's pipe that attracts the I was heading ahead of myself. That attracts the 1057 01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:20.520 pipe vine swallowtail butterflies, the pipe vine swallowtail, which is a beautiful butterfly. 1058 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:27.039 It's larva love to feed on the Dutchman's pipe. That's where they get 1059 01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:30.199 the name Aristolochias, the fancy name for the plant. They've got those in 1060 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.000 stock, but they have a whole whole lot more things in stock. If 1061 01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:42.119 you want milkweeds, swamp milkweed Asclepius tuberosa, or the balloon milkweed or tropical 1062 01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:46.239 milkweed or giant milkweed for your monarchs, you're not going to do better than 1063 01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:51.319 enchanted forests down in Richmond. Now, of course they carry a lot of 1064 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:56.840 other stuff other than just the things I mentioned, but it's well worth a 1065 01:19:56.880 --> 01:19:59.600 trip. When you drive up, it is so cool the look of the 1066 01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:02.399 play it's kind of like this old barn look to it, and it's just 1067 01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:06.840 one of the super mom and pops that we keep bragging on that just make 1068 01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:12.239 you want to bring family and friends and spend the day kind of wandering around 1069 01:20:12.279 --> 01:20:15.760 and looking at all of the unlimited supply of things that they have enchanted Forest. 1070 01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:20.159 You can find more information on them by going to my enchanted dot com. 1071 01:20:20.279 --> 01:20:25.800 But also if you just give them a call to eight one three or 1072 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:31.720 nine three seven ninety four forty nine two eight one nine three seven ninety four 1073 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:35.560 forty nine. I love to go out to that, but it's been a 1074 01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:38.479 while since I've been out. In fact, it's been over a month. 1075 01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:41.880 I need to I need to head back out there because I do really really 1076 01:20:42.039 --> 01:20:45.319 enjoy being able to go check them out. Well, you've been listening to 1077 01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.039 garden Line. We are here to answer your gardening questions. We're about to 1078 01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:50.920 take our hour break. Now what we got two hours in the books this 1079 01:20:51.039 --> 01:20:55.119 morning. That means we have two left, the nine o'clock and the ten 1080 01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:59.159 o'clock hour. Tell your family and friends about the show. If they're not 1081 01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:03.680 listeners, we would love to have helped them have a more beautiful landscape and 1082 01:21:04.039 --> 01:21:08.239 a more beautiful garden. Did I say eight and nine, nine and ten? 1083 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:12.239 Yeah, eight and nine, eight to nine and nine to ten. 1084 01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:15.119 How about that? That's easy. You know I'm a broadcast professional. I 1085 01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:19.039 can't even tell you what time it is. Well, anyway, we'll be 1086 01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:25.880 back. Give Josh a cult seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1087 01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:30.119 four. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I hope 1088 01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:32.319 you're planning a day to get a little bit of stuff done out in the 1089 01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:38.199 garden and landscape if you want to do some things with your house plants. 1090 01:21:38.279 --> 01:21:43.880 By the way, Enchanted Forest has got a couple of really cool philodendrons, 1091 01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:46.520 and I know they have a burken and several others. You need to check 1092 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:54.039 those out. Speaking of house plants, KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 1093 01:21:54.119 --> 01:22:00.479 any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRA Garden 1094 01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:31.319 Life with Scared Rector smell. Just watch him as so many good A good 1095 01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:38.840 Saturday morning. Take a look outside, beautiful day, beautiful day, beautiful 1096 01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:42.560 sunshine coming through. Good day for plants, and good day for gardening, 1097 01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:45.560 and good day for talking about gardening. And that is why we're here. 1098 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:48.520 Give us a call if you would like to visit seven one three two one 1099 01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:54.079 two fifty eight seventy four. Maybe we can help recommend a plant, help 1100 01:22:54.159 --> 01:22:59.279 diagnose something, help identify something. Whatever you're interested in, we we will 1101 01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:01.600 be happy to is it about that as long as it's herticultural you know I 1102 01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:06.720 do. Sometimes people will give me a call and when I get on the 1103 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:12.199 call, I find out the call really isn't about a plant question. It's 1104 01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:15.680 we have two spouses on the call, and one of them is hoping that 1105 01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:19.000 I will say something so that an argument they've been having with their spouse they 1106 01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:24.079 will have a backup to it. And I always say, look, gardening 1107 01:23:24.119 --> 01:23:27.319 advice is free. Marriage advice is one hundred dollars an hour. So you 1108 01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:31.560 decide what you want and we will try to help with that. Sometimes there's 1109 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:35.560 more than one opinion in a household. Have you ever noticed that before? 1110 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:40.640 Well, we're going to talk about gardens this morning, and I want to 1111 01:23:40.680 --> 01:23:43.039 tell you, first of all, if you if you have a little piece 1112 01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:45.399 of property, you know, a few acres outside of town, or maybe 1113 01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:48.279 a lot of acres outside of town, and you've been thinking about getting you 1114 01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:53.079 a nice tractor to help you get the work done, you're not going to 1115 01:23:53.199 --> 01:23:57.399 do better than the Texas edition Cabodo. That's the L twenty five O one 1116 01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:02.319 by Landsdown Moody. That common Lansdown and Kubota. What a combo. There's 1117 01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:10.000 Lansdown Moody Tractors companies all over or outlets all over this area. Here you 1118 01:24:10.079 --> 01:24:14.359 can go to l mtractor dot com and find out more. But here's why 1119 01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:16.960 you don't need to delay until June thirtieth. There is a deal going on 1120 01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:23.640 that you're not going to do better than a period zero down, zero interest 1121 01:24:24.079 --> 01:24:30.520 for seven years, eighty four months Lansdown Moody LM tractor dot Com on the 1122 01:24:30.880 --> 01:24:34.439 Texas Edition Caboda L twenty five one. It's got the hydrostatic transmission. If 1123 01:24:34.479 --> 01:24:38.279 you want to add a front endloader or a box blade, or a rotary 1124 01:24:38.359 --> 01:24:42.760 cutter, anything like that, you're not going to find a more affordable option 1125 01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:48.399 than you have right now with Lansdown Moody LM tractor dot Com. I wanna 1126 01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:54.760 now go. We're gonna head out to Cyprus and visit with Mike. Good 1127 01:24:54.840 --> 01:25:00.359 morning, Mike morning, thanks for taking my call. I just bought house 1128 01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:05.880 and Cypress have moved from the Brennamaria into Cypress. And this house has got 1129 01:25:05.880 --> 01:25:11.239 about half the yard that had been laid in with some landscape. It's monkey 1130 01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:15.159 grass, okay, and it's been cut in the past. It hasn't been 1131 01:25:15.199 --> 01:25:19.119 cut in a while. It's full of weeds. Everything from dollar weed to 1132 01:25:19.319 --> 01:25:25.439 some other taller weeds. I'm just wondering, can you kill weeds and monkey 1133 01:25:25.520 --> 01:25:28.760 grass without killing the monkey grass? And can I do it when it's this 1134 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:33.159 hot outside. You know, I've never tried treating in this heat on it. 1135 01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:38.359 I would say you probably can, but I would test a small area 1136 01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:42.079 just to be sure, check it out, give a spray, see if 1137 01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:45.159 it does. I don't think you're going to have a problem with using a 1138 01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:48.760 broad leaf weed control product. Just to be a little extra sure, you 1139 01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:54.119 might want to use one called celsius, like as in fahrenheit and celsius. 1140 01:25:55.000 --> 01:26:00.720 It's a little less stressful to some plants when the weather's are hot. But 1141 01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:04.560 I think you're probably gonna do okay with most of the broad leaf weed killers. 1142 01:26:04.600 --> 01:26:09.159 But again, just to be sure. That's kind of an unusual you 1143 01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:13.640 know, there's always this new twist on a question and monkey grass one hundred 1144 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:16.079 degrees, you know, dollar weed. But you know, I'm just trying 1145 01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:18.199 to think through that, and I don't want to send you in the wrong 1146 01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:23.439 direction. But if it were mine, I would probably grab some celsius. 1147 01:26:24.079 --> 01:26:27.119 I would treat a small area and then if it looks like it's gonna be 1148 01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:30.800 okay, then treat the rest. Or you could just use another broadleaf weedkiller. 1149 01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:33.920 There's the weed beater Ultra. The Bonide puts out furtloam. I'm trying 1150 01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:40.039 to think of what's furloams equivalent of those? Ah, I'll think of it 1151 01:26:40.119 --> 01:26:43.479 in a minute. But anyway, a test a small area with the the 1152 01:26:43.600 --> 01:26:45.880 only thing that the Celsius says you buy a little packet and you mix it 1153 01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:49.319 in water and it treats a large area. So you don't want that sitting 1154 01:26:49.319 --> 01:26:51.680 around for a week while you wait to see what it's going to do. 1155 01:26:51.920 --> 01:26:56.800 So it's not like the other kinds where you could make a small amount to 1156 01:26:56.960 --> 01:27:00.880 just test with and then make more later. So that may be a reason 1157 01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:05.520 to not do the Celsius in this situation. All right, appreciate it very 1158 01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:08.760 much. I'll give it a try. Yeah, good luck getting that in 1159 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:13.479 control. Yeah that's yeah, you bet, you bet. Welcome to the 1160 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:17.399 new home, you know. The when we start looking at the weed problems 1161 01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:19.760 and stuff that we have to deal with like that, I mean, it 1162 01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:24.880 can be it can be quite quite a challenge. I mean it really can, 1163 01:27:25.039 --> 01:27:28.840 because we have to deal with those kinds of problems that come in on 1164 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:33.840 it. If you are living out in the Mont Bellevue area, or if 1165 01:27:33.880 --> 01:27:36.720 you're down you know, all the way down in Baytown. I want to 1166 01:27:36.760 --> 01:27:42.000 tell you about your hometown feed store, and that's Texas Feed Stop. Texas 1167 01:27:42.039 --> 01:27:45.920 Feed Stop is on North Highway one forty six. It's just a few minutes 1168 01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:53.000 north of I ten in Mont Bellevue. And so when you go to Texas 1169 01:27:53.039 --> 01:27:56.520 Feed Stop, these we were just talking about these products. You're just a 1170 01:27:56.600 --> 01:28:00.079 moment ago with Mike on deal with monkey Grass. You're when you go to 1171 01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:03.520 a place like Texas Feedstop, you're going to find the supplies we talk about. 1172 01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:10.039 And there is no place like Texas Feedstop except the original Texas Feedstop out 1173 01:28:10.079 --> 01:28:14.319 of Mont Bellevue. The Rhodes, Brian and Hope have created a beautiful little 1174 01:28:14.319 --> 01:28:17.159 business there. I mean it's the old time feed store. Some teenager from 1175 01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:21.119 the Mont Bellevue community they hire from the community there. They will carry their 1176 01:28:21.159 --> 01:28:25.680 bags out for you. I mean they're going to carry all the fertilizers that 1177 01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:28.960 I talk about and the other things you know that you hear me talk about, 1178 01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:32.039 like the mosquito dunks for example, a mosquito season which we're in the 1179 01:28:32.079 --> 01:28:35.680 big middle of that. They have it all right there, and so if 1180 01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:41.359 you're looking for products and supplies at a reasonable cost, all the stuff we 1181 01:28:41.479 --> 01:28:44.279 talk about, in addition to all the feed things that you would expect from 1182 01:28:44.319 --> 01:28:46.880 a feed store. Check out Texas Feedstop just a few minutes north of i 1183 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:53.680 Ton on Highway one forty six in mont Bellevue. We're gonna head now down 1184 01:28:54.000 --> 01:29:00.239 or out to Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hello Martyr yea, how are 1185 01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:03.319 you? I'm well? Thank you good? Hey. Last week you were 1186 01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:09.119 talking about digging up some potatoes, getting there your sweet potatoes. Yes, 1187 01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:16.199 how do I know? How do I know when to start working them up? 1188 01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:19.560 Yeah? Okay, Actually that I was talking about regular potatoes, the 1189 01:29:19.640 --> 01:29:24.520 little red new potato kind of things. The sweet potatoes. As they grow, 1190 01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:27.279 as those roots get bigger, the soil kind of heaves up and you 1191 01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:30.319 see cracks around the base of the plant because you got something under the ground 1192 01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.319 kind of pushing up on it. Typically we let them run full course all 1193 01:29:33.359 --> 01:29:36.159 the way up into the fall season. It takes about one hundred and twenty 1194 01:29:36.239 --> 01:29:42.079 days from planting before you have a good sizeable potato. Now, if you 1195 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:45.680 if you go earlier. You don't have the nice swollen roots. You just 1196 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:49.159 have little things like your fingers sticking out there that are not worth messing with. 1197 01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:54.520 So you might want to dig around one just to check and see if 1198 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:58.479 you're not sure that it should be way way too early to dig a sweet 1199 01:29:58.520 --> 01:30:02.279 potato. Well, I had some come up from last year last fall. 1200 01:30:02.560 --> 01:30:10.000 Okay, they's just divine. And then I did see two that popped out 1201 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:14.840 of the ground, and so I was told to cover them back up and 1202 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:18.239 let them fully mature. Well I went out looking for them and they're gone. 1203 01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:24.279 So I guess it created out them. But I'm seeing flowers and stuff, 1204 01:30:24.560 --> 01:30:28.520 little purple flowers. Ye, but I don't know when just start digging. 1205 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:31.680 They've been way way too long. I would. I would just dig 1206 01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:34.640 down, look around, see what you see, because it's gonna be a 1207 01:30:34.760 --> 01:30:38.960 roll of the dice on these, Marty. I don't know how to predict 1208 01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:41.680 whether you're going to have a good results or not. But I would just 1209 01:30:41.800 --> 01:30:44.760 dig, you know, dig down. You don't have to completely dig one 1210 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:46.159 up, just check it out. Hey, I'm gonna have to run to 1211 01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:48.960 a break, but thank you for the call. I'll make some sweet Potata 1212 01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:55.600 comments when I come back. The phone number here is seven one three two 1213 01:30:55.680 --> 01:30:58.920 one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. You'll be first 1214 01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:24.239 stop when we come back. Good Saturday morning, on a great day for 1215 01:31:24.359 --> 01:31:27.960 gardening, as all days are, and it could be pouring rain outside and 1216 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:30.239 it's a good day to be starting plants indoors, taking care of house plants. 1217 01:31:30.319 --> 01:31:32.520 You see what I'm saying. Every day is a good day for gardening. 1218 01:31:33.159 --> 01:31:38.600 You know we earlier today I was talking about nitrophisis silver bag and the 1219 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:42.560 nineteen fourteen and the importance of that as a slow release fertilizer. I want 1220 01:31:42.600 --> 01:31:45.920 to say about a couple of other products that are part of their Summer Essentials 1221 01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:48.319 program, and that would be first of all, their fire ant killer nitrophiles. 1222 01:31:48.439 --> 01:31:54.119 Fiant killer works quickly, but it prevents the queen from escaping. It 1223 01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:57.760 kills the colony, preventing them from building new mountains. Now, if you've 1224 01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:00.319 dealt with fire ants, you know they are no fun. And if you 1225 01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:02.159 like to roll around in the grass, have kids playing in the grass and 1226 01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:06.199 so on, you do not want fire nts in the yard. And nitrofos 1227 01:32:06.399 --> 01:32:11.399 firont killer works well on that. Now we have other insects that are coming 1228 01:32:11.560 --> 01:32:15.720 up in our landscape soon, and that would be things like chinch bugs tend 1229 01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:18.760 to have their worst population as we get towards the end of summer. Then 1230 01:32:18.920 --> 01:32:26.680 we have things like the side web worm that we never know each year it's 1231 01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:29.439 gonna be a bad year or not on those but boy, when it's a 1232 01:32:29.479 --> 01:32:31.920 bad year, it's a bad year. Well. Nitrofous makes a Bugout Max 1233 01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:38.640 and it is the best consumer choice for Texas insect problems. Bug Out Max 1234 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:42.960 Nitropous bugout Match. It's an advanced formula. It targets a pests and invest 1235 01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:46.039 our lawns including up to one hundred and thirty different species of insects. Those 1236 01:32:46.079 --> 01:32:53.119 two products, the firont killer and the bugout Max are key to success in 1237 01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:57.920 keeping the bugs at bay and your lawn. And Nitrofosts is sold everywhere. 1238 01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:00.439 You're gonna find nitrofoss up at Harbor Gay, You're gonna find nitrophiles up in 1239 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.560 the indfeed in Tomba. You're gonna find them down in Fisher's Hardware in Baytown, 1240 01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:09.680 or plants and things in Brandham or many many other locations. Check out 1241 01:33:09.720 --> 01:33:15.039 their summer essentials of these two important insect management products. Well, let's head 1242 01:33:15.079 --> 01:33:17.600 out to Spring and we're gonna talk to Phil. Good morning, Phil, 1243 01:33:18.720 --> 01:33:24.239 good morning, thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, recently I 1244 01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:31.159 picked up a about a thirty inch tall ceramic pot. Okay, it's very 1245 01:33:31.319 --> 01:33:38.039 large, it's very heavy, It's probably three quarter inch thick. And my 1246 01:33:38.279 --> 01:33:42.520 question is it doesn't have a hole in the bottom. Can I drill a 1247 01:33:42.560 --> 01:33:47.319 hole in the bottom without tearing up the pot? You can? I am 1248 01:33:47.399 --> 01:33:51.920 not an expert on that, but I would go to probably an ACE hardware 1249 01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:57.960 store and ask them for a masonry type bit and ask them how do you 1250 01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:00.880 use it? You may have to go online and do a little watch. 1251 01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:04.199 You know, though, you you don't want a normal drill bit on this, 1252 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:08.359 either wood or metal bit, and you want one that's made to kind 1253 01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:13.520 of grind its way through the ceramic. A lot of times water is involved, 1254 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:16.560 and you know, putting it on there. But again, this isn't 1255 01:34:16.640 --> 01:34:19.840 my area of expertise. But I've seen it done, I guess you could 1256 01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:24.920 say, and you can drill the hole yourself. You just want to be 1257 01:34:25.039 --> 01:34:28.159 real careful and go very slow, don't push too hard. On the bit 1258 01:34:28.600 --> 01:34:30.640 and let it kind of chew its way or grind its way through there. 1259 01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:35.840 The only other alternative would be if you if you wanted to put a pot 1260 01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:40.359 in a pot, maybe something that's not as attractive of a planner, and 1261 01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:43.760 set it down in that pot and then put some moss on top, just 1262 01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:46.760 to kind of so people don't know it's not planted. Then you could just 1263 01:34:46.920 --> 01:34:51.840 pull that out and it would drain down into the bottom and the fact that 1264 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:55.680 the pot didn't drain wouldn't matter, because the pot you have in it would 1265 01:34:55.720 --> 01:34:59.760 drain. Do you see what I'm saying. Yes, that's probably more tribula 1266 01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:02.239 on something that size. I do that on indoor plants all the time. 1267 01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:09.000 Really appreciate your help. Well, good luck with that. And boy, 1268 01:35:09.079 --> 01:35:13.880 those beautiful ceramic pots, those are those are nice things to have. Yes, 1269 01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:15.760 they are all right, Well, thank you, sir. I do 1270 01:35:15.960 --> 01:35:19.800 appreciate your call. Hey. Yeah, And speaking of pots and containers, 1271 01:35:20.239 --> 01:35:26.399 if they're standing water anywhere, you're gonna have mosquitos breeding in your landscape. 1272 01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:30.159 That could be a saggy rain gutter, you know, I mean, one 1273 01:35:30.199 --> 01:35:36.640 of those materials that catch water and hold water, but don't don't allow it 1274 01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:41.880 to drain. If you know the edges are not are not tilted at an 1275 01:35:41.960 --> 01:35:45.159 angle where they drain. Well, you got a low spot, maybe on 1276 01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:48.119 the eaves of your house. If you've got things catch basins under your plants 1277 01:35:48.159 --> 01:35:53.600 and they hold water for five, ten, certainly twelve days, you're gonna 1278 01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:58.039 have a generation mosquitoes go right through there. Mosquito dunks prevent that. You 1279 01:35:58.159 --> 01:36:00.520 put a mosquito dunk in a large body of water, it'll cover ten square 1280 01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:04.159 feet and it will last for a month. You can get the little granules 1281 01:36:04.199 --> 01:36:08.720 and toss them into the bottom of the pot just for a small area, 1282 01:36:08.840 --> 01:36:11.600 or if you want to really quickly kill a whole bunch of mosquitos in a 1283 01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:15.119 big area fast faster than the doughnuts will dissolve, the little granules work for 1284 01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:19.439 that. Mosquito dunks are organic. They do not harm people. They don't 1285 01:36:19.439 --> 01:36:24.399 harm pets, not fish, not birds, not wildlife. Very safe to 1286 01:36:24.600 --> 01:36:28.039 use. If it's an ace hardware store, if it's a feed store, 1287 01:36:28.039 --> 01:36:30.199 we talk about. If it's an independent garden center, we talk about they're 1288 01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:35.399 going to have mosquito dunks. Don't be a skeeter breeder. Get some mosquito 1289 01:36:35.479 --> 01:36:41.560 dunks and mosquito granules to take care of that. I would like to go 1290 01:36:41.920 --> 01:36:49.279 now out to Bob in Walker County. Hello, Bob, is this are 1291 01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:54.439 you heavy online? Now? Yes? Or Bob? I'm actually in North 1292 01:36:54.520 --> 01:36:59.720 harri standing. But I have a sweet gum tree and I've had a true 1293 01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:05.279 forty years, and what I've noticed is that when it gets really hot, 1294 01:37:08.319 --> 01:37:12.760 it has a tendency to break off and drop limbs. I did lose a 1295 01:37:12.840 --> 01:37:18.159 couple of limbs during the recent storms. But for example, about oh maybe 1296 01:37:18.720 --> 01:37:23.720 three weeks ago, on just one of the really hot days dry, nothing 1297 01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:27.960 happened. I went out and I had maybe a four inch limb that had 1298 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:31.960 broken off about fifteen feet long and just fall into the ground. And I've 1299 01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:38.199 had that happened before. Is any thoughts too? I mean, the tree 1300 01:37:38.279 --> 01:37:43.680 appears to be healthy, it's watered with a sprinkler system. Yeah, you 1301 01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:46.920 know, it's it's lush. But I just for the life of the tree, 1302 01:37:47.000 --> 01:37:49.720 every now and then, particularly when they get long arms on them, 1303 01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:54.239 they break off. Yeah. I understand when you walk out to the tree, 1304 01:37:54.279 --> 01:37:58.319 Bob, about chest high, about how how wide diameter is it? 1305 01:37:58.520 --> 01:38:05.319 How far across? Maybe as I said it's about forty years old. For 1306 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:09.920 five years old, yeah, big one. Sweet gums are not good about 1307 01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:14.159 healing themselves. In other words, they get a break or they get something 1308 01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:18.560 in them and it decays. And limb breakage is not unusual on those going 1309 01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:21.439 over time. And this is an old tree, so it doesn't have the 1310 01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:26.279 vigor that a young tree would have to close over and wound. We also 1311 01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:30.840 have a thing that's a sudden limb drop phenomenon that happens. It hames up 1312 01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:34.199 a coon, trees and other things in the summertime where just out of nowhere, 1313 01:38:34.279 --> 01:38:36.279 I mean, not a big storm or anything, you just get a 1314 01:38:36.319 --> 01:38:41.720 limb that falls out of a tree. And there are different reasons they speculate 1315 01:38:41.840 --> 01:38:45.079 for it, but there's nothing that we can do anything about. So if 1316 01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:51.199 your tree is receiving adequate care, meaning moderately moist soil, which the rainfall 1317 01:38:51.319 --> 01:38:56.640 generally takes care of that most of the year, then I don't know anything 1318 01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:00.319 else you can do. Certainly, when a limb falls out where you've got 1319 01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:02.560 that wound up in the tree, having a fresh cut, clean it up 1320 01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:06.359 and hope that it can start to heal over would be helpful, but that's 1321 01:39:06.439 --> 01:39:10.439 just an issue that we have to deal with, and sweet gums can be 1322 01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:16.279 problematic, especially as they get a little bit older. To follow up questions 1323 01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:23.760 number one, if I had read or heard somewhere that if a tree starts 1324 01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.039 showing moss that grows out on the limbs, that's not a good sign. 1325 01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:32.880 Some of the big branches, particularly lower down, could be as much as 1326 01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:39.560 eight ten inches in diameter on the branches, and some of those do have 1327 01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:43.239 moss growing on them. Is that a Is that an indicator or issue? 1328 01:39:43.560 --> 01:39:46.319 No, not really. I mean in moist climates we get different things that 1329 01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:50.079 grow. You can get lichens that grow in a human environment that we see 1330 01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:55.560 those a lot. We can have the resurrection fern that doesn't grow on sweet 1331 01:39:55.560 --> 01:39:58.279 gum to my knowledge, but you see it on live oaks in Houston all 1332 01:39:58.319 --> 01:40:01.840 the time. That's like a fern that grows on the trunks and the branches. 1333 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.119 And then there's also what you're describing moss. It may just be a 1334 01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:10.359 regular type of moss that just indicates it stay and wet, stay moist up 1335 01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:15.840 there, and so it's not a disease of the tree. Last question, 1336 01:40:15.279 --> 01:40:18.880 because of the size of it, the proximity of the house, and it's 1337 01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:25.399 tendency to drop. I'm debating whether or not it's time to just remove it 1338 01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:30.880 completely. Yeah. If I do that and excavate, the trouble is where 1339 01:40:30.920 --> 01:40:34.279 it's located is exactly where I'd want to put another tree back in, right, 1340 01:40:34.920 --> 01:40:39.880 you know, neighborhood etc. If I excavate or you know, grind 1341 01:40:39.920 --> 01:40:43.039 out the stumps and so forth, how long can it be before I could 1342 01:40:43.079 --> 01:40:46.079 plant something back in the same vicinity. You know the problem with grinding it 1343 01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:48.640 up. You have all that wood in the ground and it's going to decompose, 1344 01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:53.600 and as it decomposes, the soil is going to sync down considerably because 1345 01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:57.479 what was you know, once level after they finished their grind job, now 1346 01:40:57.560 --> 01:41:00.800 it becomes a hole. So that's that's the if there were a way to 1347 01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:04.319 you know, have that thing pulled out, and I realize you can't get 1348 01:41:04.359 --> 01:41:10.079 a D nine caterpillar bulldozer in there to do it, But if you could 1349 01:41:10.119 --> 01:41:13.840 do that, you could go probably ill faster back in with something. I 1350 01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:16.680 think you need to move over the side as much as you can to try 1351 01:41:16.720 --> 01:41:20.000 to do that, or as they grind it, try to get as much 1352 01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:23.279 of the wood out as you can, but that's not going to be very 1353 01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:28.680 easy to do. So if I if I do grind it and just excavate 1354 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:33.239 as much of the you know, sawdust and chips and thing that I can. 1355 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:36.760 Yeah, do I need to leave it follow for a year or two, 1356 01:41:38.359 --> 01:41:41.319 or if you left it a couple of years it would help. I 1357 01:41:41.359 --> 01:41:44.319 would throw some nitrogen on it, and I'd do that about three or four 1358 01:41:44.359 --> 01:41:47.399 times a year, just to speed up the decomposition of all that carbon, 1359 01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:51.119 which is basically the wood. Sure, and then you're gonna end up with 1360 01:41:51.159 --> 01:41:54.720 a sunken area. You need to fill it back in before you do the 1361 01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:58.479 planting. Yeah, I understood. Hey, thank you very much, you 1362 01:41:58.640 --> 01:42:01.359 bat. I appreciate that call. Thank you very much. You know, 1363 01:42:01.800 --> 01:42:05.079 Dellweb has the new community. I've been talking about them for a while now. 1364 01:42:05.119 --> 01:42:09.159 They're out in Full Sure on FM three fifty nine, less than two 1365 01:42:09.199 --> 01:42:13.640 miles from downtown Full Sure. It's a typical Delweb community, beautiful homes, 1366 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:17.600 beautiful designs, lifestyle programs built around you, and this one has a community 1367 01:42:17.640 --> 01:42:23.279 garden that I'm helping them set up. Go to dellweb dot com slash Houston 1368 01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:27.359 for more information or give us a call or give them a call two eight 1369 01:42:27.479 --> 01:42:32.359 one four to five nine zero six zero nine and discover that Dellweb difference for 1370 01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:35.359 yourself. We're going to take a break here, John and Katie. You'll 1371 01:42:35.399 --> 01:42:39.039 be first up when we come back if you'd like to get on the board. 1372 01:42:39.199 --> 01:43:08.920 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Good morning on 1373 01:43:09.159 --> 01:43:13.199 a good Saturday morning, beautiful day out there today. Need to get out, 1374 01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:15.920 get to visit some of our local mom and pop garden centers. See 1375 01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:19.960 what's going on by the way today out of Buchanans from ten am to twelve 1376 01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:27.159 thirty pm. The folks from Heirloom Soils Luis and It's gonna be out there 1377 01:43:27.479 --> 01:43:30.840 and they're gonna be giving away some hats and t shirts as well as samples 1378 01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:32.680 of the products and stuff. So just another reason to head out to bukein 1379 01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:38.800 Ands today ten am to twelve thirty pm. Check out the folks from Heirloom 1380 01:43:38.840 --> 01:43:43.239 Soils to make some beautiful, beautiful mixes out there. You know, we 1381 01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:48.439 talk about gardening topics all the time and different kinds of things that are important 1382 01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:53.840 to understand. One of the things that is important to understand is when you 1383 01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:59.640 apply nutrients to your garden. You want to provide the things that plants need. 1384 01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:02.760 Plants need the three big numbers on the bag, but when we are 1385 01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:08.600 looking at all of the other things plants need that includes micronutrients as well. 1386 01:44:08.800 --> 01:44:13.600 Many of the microbes as well in the soil are all part of that sustaining 1387 01:44:13.640 --> 01:44:16.199 good, healthy plant growth. If you have a vegetable garden or a flower 1388 01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:20.199 bed, I would seriously consider getting the has to grow. It's a six 1389 01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:27.560 twelve six higher phosphorus content hastrogrow six twelve six. It's really three products in 1390 01:44:27.640 --> 01:44:30.680 one. Number one, you got the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium the six 1391 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:35.039 twelve six plus it has a medenus soil activator to stimulate biological activity and humate 1392 01:44:35.359 --> 01:44:40.680 humic acid, which humic acid improves soil structure and improves nutrient uptake with the 1393 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:45.279 roots. And it even has seaweed extracts in it as well that helps stimulate 1394 01:44:45.359 --> 01:44:47.800 the fruiting and the blooming. Now you can use this as a foliar application. 1395 01:44:47.880 --> 01:44:51.439 I would spray it upward in the morning or in the morning while the 1396 01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:56.279 stonemats are still open, spray upward to coat the bottoms of the leaves as 1397 01:44:56.359 --> 01:44:59.119 well as the tops of the leaves. This is not going to burn your 1398 01:44:59.159 --> 01:45:02.439 plants. It's a salt low chemical formulation to burn that will not burn your 1399 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:05.560 plants. You can get in a court bottle with a little measuring cup, 1400 01:45:05.680 --> 01:45:08.800 or if you want to use a hos In sprayer you can do that too. 1401 01:45:08.880 --> 01:45:11.159 I like the little quart bottle where I can mix it up myself, 1402 01:45:11.239 --> 01:45:14.720 put it in a in a drench. Can you know a watering can or 1403 01:45:14.800 --> 01:45:17.640 something along those lines. It's a great way with new transplants. When you 1404 01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:21.680 put a new transplant in the ground, you need to have the HASTI twelve 1405 01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:27.439 one on hand. A good solution with a hiphos first content is a great 1406 01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:31.520 way to water in those new transplants and that helps get them off to a 1407 01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:35.560 good start because they're having to hit the ground running facing one hundred gree temperatures 1408 01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:40.359 out here when they're brand new in the garden. But that will accomplish it. 1409 01:45:42.800 --> 01:45:46.560 Yes, Okay, we're going to head out to Katie and talk to 1410 01:45:46.680 --> 01:45:51.359 John. Good morning, John, good morning, how are you well. 1411 01:45:51.399 --> 01:45:57.560 I'm doing well? Thank you. Okay. I planted some green ball to 1412 01:45:57.640 --> 01:46:02.800 santhis six of them and they're doing well. It's set that they don't stand 1413 01:46:02.920 --> 01:46:08.920 up. The stems with the flowers just lay down on the ground and I'm 1414 01:46:08.960 --> 01:46:15.520 afraid to put them in deeper that have rocked the stems. But at this 1415 01:46:15.640 --> 01:46:19.039 point, I don't know what to do. Uh, tell me again, 1416 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:26.560 what is the plant? It's called a green ball, the santhus green ball, 1417 01:46:26.720 --> 01:46:34.039 the santhis yeah stem with a very just round ball. Oh, oh, 1418 01:46:34.159 --> 01:46:38.079 I know what you're talking about. It's a dianthus. Yes, it 1419 01:46:38.239 --> 01:46:41.520 has a yeah, it has a little stock with it. It's just like 1420 01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:46.000 a dandelion, but it's all green on top. Okay, yeah, well 1421 01:46:46.119 --> 01:46:50.760 Dianthus is primarily a cool season plant, you know, so how it will 1422 01:46:50.840 --> 01:46:57.079 do in the heat of summer. I've never tried that particular dianthus, but 1423 01:46:57.239 --> 01:47:01.239 green ball is very very unusual, very uh, just to say the least, 1424 01:47:01.279 --> 01:47:05.439 just for folks that are listening. Just imagine a stalk with this little 1425 01:47:05.520 --> 01:47:09.840 like the equivalent of a dandelion head, but much larger, but it's all 1426 01:47:09.920 --> 01:47:15.760 green. It's all part of what would be of Diantha's flowering stalk. Yeah. 1427 01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:18.560 So I don't know on this. You might you might just kind of 1428 01:47:18.600 --> 01:47:20.920 keep an eye on them and maybe a little bit early, a little bit 1429 01:47:21.000 --> 01:47:25.399 early for him, maybe better to if it doesn't work, well try it 1430 01:47:25.399 --> 01:47:30.479 again in the fall. Okay, So did I appreciate it? Yeah? 1431 01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:33.159 I was hoping for more than that. But well, I know, I 1432 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:36.640 know, Well, are you wanting any questions? Do you have questions on 1433 01:47:36.840 --> 01:47:43.720 caring for them in the meantime or well, I unless there's something very very 1434 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:46.279 special. Yeah, if you didn't know something special, let me know. 1435 01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:50.119 But the other than that, no, no, no, it's just you 1436 01:47:50.199 --> 01:47:54.560 know, good soil law as always before you plant, and then good drench 1437 01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:58.159 water man with something like the hastier. I was just talking about six towelve 1438 01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:01.800 sixty an instance early spring, and I mean early early spring. Okay, 1439 01:48:01.840 --> 01:48:05.680 really well, I mean you know it's just the flowers, instead of being 1440 01:48:05.760 --> 01:48:09.239 up on the end of the stalk, are laying on the ground in the 1441 01:48:09.359 --> 01:48:13.319 end of the stalk. Yeah. Well, you know that could be part 1442 01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:16.079 a heat related, it could be whend related to They make little things you 1443 01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:20.880 can put over perennials and it's like just imagine a little flat, horizontal piece 1444 01:48:20.960 --> 01:48:26.359 of checkerboard fencing that the stalks grow through and it keeps them from flopping over 1445 01:48:27.159 --> 01:48:30.800 that that's a little bit of an extra trouble there to try to do that 1446 01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:34.600 something like that. Yeah, but if the plants are looking good number one, 1447 01:48:34.640 --> 01:48:40.039 I'm very impressed. I would not think Dianthus would would in general be 1448 01:48:40.119 --> 01:48:43.560 looking good right now, and that that floppiness may in part be due to 1449 01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:47.239 the heat too. All right, well, good luck. Hey, keep 1450 01:48:47.279 --> 01:48:51.560 me posted on it. I've never grown a green ball before, and I'd 1451 01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:55.640 be curious to see how they do for you, especially going through summer. 1452 01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:59.079 I'm probably gonna learn something here, so don't hesitate to let me go. 1453 01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:03.359 Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that, John very much. Hey, 1454 01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:08.560 if you're looking for a tree for your landscape, you are not going to 1455 01:49:08.600 --> 01:49:12.159 do better than Verdant Tree Farm. Verdant Tree Farm, by the way, 1456 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:16.199 the website is just that Verdant tree Farm dot com. Maybe I should say 1457 01:49:16.319 --> 01:49:18.359 Verdant. I don't know. I never know which way to say that. 1458 01:49:18.479 --> 01:49:23.520 I tend to call Verdant. They've got all sizes up to like seven hundred 1459 01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:26.520 gallons. I mean, they got palm trees. Awesome. I like that 1460 01:49:26.600 --> 01:49:30.119 you can go there and you can pick out the plant that you want, 1461 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:32.439 and they'll tag it and they'll bring it to you and they'll plant it for 1462 01:49:32.600 --> 01:49:38.239 you. Now, the original location, the one I've always gone to period, 1463 01:49:38.319 --> 01:49:42.640 has been out on Barker Cyprus in West Houston, kind of near Attic 1464 01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:47.079 Reservoir. There's one down in Parland on West Broadway, and there's one in 1465 01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:51.800 the Heights at Edg Yale Street where I ten come together Verdant Tree Farm. 1466 01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:57.600 They know what they're doing. The twenty acre farm in West Houston, Barker 1467 01:49:57.680 --> 01:50:01.720 Cyprus. Just coach, get out. You will see you'll be very impressed 1468 01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:05.199 with the kind of trees that they grow there. They grow trees that do 1469 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:11.199 well here and they will advise you on which tree may do best in a 1470 01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:15.399 particular site. So go in and let them help you pick out the perfect 1471 01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:17.399 tree for your landscape. Remember, the best time to plant a tree is 1472 01:50:17.399 --> 01:50:25.439 fifty years ago. The next best time is today. I have a new 1473 01:50:25.760 --> 01:50:30.439 bird feeder that I am putting out in the landscape, one to you know, 1474 01:50:30.800 --> 01:50:33.479 provide a little bit of a break from the squirrels. And I have 1475 01:50:33.520 --> 01:50:35.840 an old time bird feeder. It's one of those with a camera on it. 1476 01:50:35.960 --> 01:50:41.119 By the way, that bird feeder now is sending me pictures of squirrels. 1477 01:50:41.359 --> 01:50:46.680 So I need my new bird excluding feeder that I actually got it from 1478 01:50:46.680 --> 01:50:51.520 wild Birds. And you know, wild birds is the place for all kinds 1479 01:50:51.560 --> 01:50:55.920 of bird stuff. I mean we are talking about you know, the seed, 1480 01:50:56.079 --> 01:51:00.439 the houses, the squirrelproof feeder, you know the quality seed that are 1481 01:51:00.520 --> 01:51:03.479 no waste seeds. There's wallbirds all over the I think we have seven of 1482 01:51:03.560 --> 01:51:09.279 them here Katie Kingwood, Cypress, Pearland, Belair, West Houston and clear 1483 01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:14.600 Lake. Just go to wabu dot com and find the wild birds near you. 1484 01:51:15.119 --> 01:51:18.159 Hey, it's it's hot and dry. Make sure there's water for wildlife, 1485 01:51:18.239 --> 01:51:25.319 including the birds in your landscape. And bluebirds are nesting still through July. 1486 01:51:25.680 --> 01:51:30.399 Cardinals, chickadees and wrens are still nesting. They need a quality super 1487 01:51:30.439 --> 01:51:34.199 blend for that summer feeding to take care of them. So going to wilbirds. 1488 01:51:34.319 --> 01:51:39.399 They're the experts. They will tell you exactly what you need for the 1489 01:51:39.520 --> 01:51:43.600 birds you're interested in attracting in the time of year that you're in. Right 1490 01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:45.199 now, Hey, we're gonna take a break. It is time for a 1491 01:51:45.239 --> 01:51:48.159 break. In fact, it's over time seven one three, two and two 1492 01:51:48.600 --> 01:51:51.119 five eight seven four. Josh, we'll get you on the board and you'll 1493 01:51:51.159 --> 01:52:15.960 be first up. Good morning bed Saturday morning, gray day for gardening, 1494 01:52:16.039 --> 01:52:19.640 as all days are. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 1495 01:52:19.840 --> 01:52:23.680 Skip Richter, and if you would like to be on the air, ask 1496 01:52:23.760 --> 01:52:30.159 a question seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three 1497 01:52:30.560 --> 01:52:33.640 two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know I have been. I've 1498 01:52:33.680 --> 01:52:38.479 talked about Microlife fertilizers. You know the green bag and the purple bag that 1499 01:52:38.560 --> 01:52:42.359 we use in our lawns through the year. Really that do so well. 1500 01:52:42.880 --> 01:52:45.000 But I haven't talked much about their liquid products. And they have a wide 1501 01:52:45.119 --> 01:52:48.880 variety of full array of granular and liquid fertilizers, but two of them that 1502 01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:53.359 I want to really feature and tell you about it. The first one is 1503 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:57.560 the Microlife Biomatrix. Now that is an orange label. I love it when 1504 01:52:57.720 --> 01:53:00.800 when companies give us color labels or it's easy to pick the right one orange 1505 01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:08.600 label seven one three. That's the nutrients seven percent nitrogen, one percent phosphorus, 1506 01:53:08.680 --> 01:53:14.079 three percent potassium. Seven one three is higher nitrogen percentage liquid organic. 1507 01:53:14.159 --> 01:53:18.399 It has beneficial microbes in it. We know what microbes do for roots systems 1508 01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:23.000 of plants. I use the seven one three for my house plants. It's 1509 01:53:23.039 --> 01:53:26.600 my favorite one to take care of the plants indoors. Mix it a little 1510 01:53:26.600 --> 01:53:33.479 bit of water. Sometimes I'll do just a full mixed strength application for a 1511 01:53:33.560 --> 01:53:39.359 boost. Maybe I'm giving some vegetables even outside a boost to help them get 1512 01:53:39.439 --> 01:53:43.800 going. But generally I'll do it at a lower rate where I just constantly 1513 01:53:43.920 --> 01:53:46.479 every time I water, I feed them with it and they do really well. 1514 01:53:46.680 --> 01:53:51.680 It provides being a liquid, it provides a really fast release and provides 1515 01:53:51.720 --> 01:53:57.159 your nutrients that the plants need along with those microbes they need. The second 1516 01:53:57.239 --> 01:54:00.079 thing is the Ocean Harvest. Now that's a blue label. So first was 1517 01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:03.760 orange, second is blue. Ocean Harvest is a four two three. It's 1518 01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:09.600 a fish based product, and I like to use it on the outdoors plants. 1519 01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:14.159 If you've got container plants, if you've got plants you know in a 1520 01:54:14.199 --> 01:54:17.439 flower bed or something you want to water them in get them going good. 1521 01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:20.359 It's fine for that. You can also use it as a foli your feed. 1522 01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:23.600 You want to mix it at a lower concentration. It's not going to 1523 01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:28.000 burn your plants. It's not a salt based fertilizer and spray upward from underneath 1524 01:54:28.039 --> 01:54:30.560 the plant early in the morning when the stonemaches are open for the best results. 1525 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:36.640 But Ocean Harvest blue label or Biomatrix Orange label. I would suggest having 1526 01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:40.399 both of those on hand if you want to find out where to buy them. 1527 01:54:40.520 --> 01:54:44.920 Well, they're available all over the place, as is microlife in general. 1528 01:54:45.279 --> 01:54:49.199 But Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com will tell you more 1529 01:54:49.239 --> 01:54:54.239 about these products as well as where you can find them. So be kind 1530 01:54:54.640 --> 01:55:00.159 to mother nature with microlife. You know, the plants that we're taking care 1531 01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:06.000 of right now in the house, the ones that I have are they're really 1532 01:55:06.119 --> 01:55:10.319 happy with the summertime, and it's because it's a little warmer in summer, 1533 01:55:10.359 --> 01:55:12.640 even indoors. You know, if you're over buy a window, it's a 1534 01:55:12.680 --> 01:55:15.439 little warmer over there. But the light levels are really good and this is 1535 01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:19.000 their chance to thrive. This is also a time when we can move some 1536 01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:25.079 plants outdoors if you need to. Now, I don't move them outdoors just 1537 01:55:25.159 --> 01:55:28.640 to move them outdoors, but if they need a little extra light, find 1538 01:55:28.680 --> 01:55:31.800 a spot that has just a little more light intensity than where they are inside. 1539 01:55:32.079 --> 01:55:35.000 Don't put them in the sun. It will burn them for sure. 1540 01:55:35.960 --> 01:55:41.800 Move them gradually to from low light to the higher light. Even like my 1541 01:55:41.960 --> 01:55:46.680 front covered porch area is totally shady, but the light intensity, it's so 1542 01:55:46.840 --> 01:55:50.319 much brighter there than it is and even a bright spot indoors, So just 1543 01:55:50.479 --> 01:55:56.439 be aware of that. Outdoors they get that extra light intensity, they kind 1544 01:55:56.439 --> 01:56:00.600 of rejuvenate, they get ready for summer. My Norfolk pine goes out there 1545 01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:02.800 during the summertime. That's just a good example. Some of the times the 1546 01:56:02.880 --> 01:56:09.079 corn plant there's sena goes up out there. But again, be real careful 1547 01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:14.039 and remember when you move them outside, they're gonna need about twice as often 1548 01:56:14.119 --> 01:56:17.039 to be watered as they would inside, just because of the change in temperature. 1549 01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:21.600 So don't over water them. That's death to plants. But do water 1550 01:56:21.720 --> 01:56:28.319 them, make sure they get adequate amount of moisture. Hey, you're listening 1551 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:30.000 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. If you'd like to 1552 01:56:30.439 --> 01:56:35.800 ask a question, our phone number seven one three two one two five eight 1553 01:56:36.239 --> 01:56:41.960 seven four. You know, I was talking about the importance of watering a 1554 01:56:42.039 --> 01:56:45.279 little extra, but I want to make something really clear, and I was 1555 01:56:45.439 --> 01:56:50.479 visiting with you know, some folks last week about this. But there's a 1556 01:56:50.600 --> 01:56:54.800 tendency for people to think, if it's one hundred degrees, I got to 1557 01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:59.840 put twice as much water on my plants. That is not the right way 1558 01:56:59.880 --> 01:57:03.600 to think. Because when it is hot, if you water log your plant's 1559 01:57:03.720 --> 01:57:08.119 root systems, you will kill them faster than any other time of the year. 1560 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:13.319 The demands on the plant are high, and when roots can't get oxygen, 1561 01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:17.600 they shut down, They shut down respiration. They cannot survive in completely 1562 01:57:17.680 --> 01:57:21.680 water logged soil except for a very few species of plants that have developed ways 1563 01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:26.640 of doing that. When you overwater them, you will kill a plant faster 1564 01:57:26.760 --> 01:57:30.159 in the summer than you will in the fall or spring, the cooler seasons 1565 01:57:30.279 --> 01:57:33.159 of the year. So you want to keep the soil moist They never should 1566 01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:38.119 lack for water in the soil. Lack for moisture, I should say. 1567 01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:42.760 But if you've got a standing water table and you're just overwatering, or you 1568 01:57:42.840 --> 01:57:45.800 put a new plant in the ground and now you've dug a hole in clay, 1569 01:57:45.880 --> 01:57:48.319 so it's an underground bathtub, and you fill it with water and keep 1570 01:57:48.359 --> 01:57:51.600 over water and keep overwater, you're gonna kill your plants and you're gonna kill 1571 01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:57.319 them fast. Don't do that. Dig down, Feel the soil. You 1572 01:57:57.359 --> 01:57:59.960 know, I could tell you water this much, this mean times a week 1573 01:58:00.239 --> 01:58:03.560 and all that. It just there's too many variables. Dig down about three 1574 01:58:03.640 --> 01:58:06.640 inches. Feel the soil. Is it getting a little dry to the touch, 1575 01:58:08.039 --> 01:58:11.359 then water. If it's not, then don't water. That's the best 1576 01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:17.039 way to go when you're when you're looking for a quality source of all the 1577 01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:21.039 supplies you need, certainly everything I talk about on garden line, the fertilizers 1578 01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:25.640 and so on, as well as the pest control products. That's Ace Hardware, 1579 01:58:26.159 --> 01:58:29.960 and it's easy to find Ace Hardworkers. There's thirty nine of them. 1580 01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:33.079 Go to ACE Hardware dot com, thirty nine in the Greater Houston area. 1581 01:58:33.479 --> 01:58:36.880 Go to ACE Hardware dot com and find the store locator, find the ones 1582 01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:41.880 nearest you. You're going to find all the fertilizers, but you're also going 1583 01:58:41.920 --> 01:58:44.800 to find all the other things for that outdoor living, you know, the 1584 01:58:44.880 --> 01:58:47.880 barbecue area, the webber, the tragger, the big Green egg and more. 1585 01:58:48.239 --> 01:58:51.520 All the supplies and bling that you need to go along with a good 1586 01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:58.039 quality outdoor barbecue setup so that you can enjoy that patio furniture outdoor furniture for 1587 01:58:58.159 --> 01:59:02.720 example, and decour It's all there at ACE hardware dot com. Super easy, 1588 01:59:03.159 --> 01:59:08.479 super easy. Let's head out to talk to Valerie. Now, hello, 1589 01:59:08.720 --> 01:59:15.359 Valerie. Hi, um. I have a crape myrtle tree and the 1590 01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:18.520 bark is falling off. It's like in big chunks. Is that normal? 1591 01:59:20.119 --> 01:59:25.079 You mean strips, little kind of like paper things rolling up and falling off. 1592 01:59:26.439 --> 01:59:30.279 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's normal. Yeah, that is long. 1593 01:59:30.720 --> 01:59:34.600 Yeah. That out crepe myrtle exfoliates its outer bark and little thin sheets 1594 01:59:34.800 --> 01:59:40.039 and they typically kind of curl up as they dry and pop loose. That's 1595 01:59:40.079 --> 01:59:44.800 part of the beauty of the plant. That nice smooth trunk. Some cultivars 1596 01:59:44.920 --> 01:59:50.319 have a beautiful cinnamon color underneath. It's really really nice. Nothing to work, 1597 01:59:50.359 --> 01:59:56.000 Oh okay, do you have time for another question? I'll tell you 1598 01:59:56.079 --> 02:00:00.800 what. I'm probably gonna have to hold sag a little, but let's let's 1599 02:00:00.840 --> 02:00:04.239 give it a shot and see Vellerie. Oh okay. I have a property 1600 02:00:04.359 --> 02:00:11.199 that slopes down to the street, and when it rains, all the dirt 1601 02:00:11.279 --> 02:00:16.119 washes down to the street to the better and there's all these roots are showing, 1602 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:19.520 and I didn't know what to do whether I should just you know, 1603 02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:24.239 get some dirt and put it down and then put sad down on top of 1604 02:00:24.319 --> 02:00:28.119 it to hold it in place, or what's the best thing to do. 1605 02:00:28.439 --> 02:00:30.079 Yeah, that's about all you can do. You can just bring it up 1606 02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:32.720 to the level of the top of those roots, or just a little bit 1607 02:00:32.800 --> 02:00:35.119 above that. You can put some sod on it. If there's a whole 1608 02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:39.720 lot of roots, the sod's going to have time a hard time because there's 1609 02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:43.079 so much essentially wood in the soil that it doesn't have soil to put its 1610 02:00:43.199 --> 02:00:45.880 roots in. It's just all tree roots. But you could try that. 1611 02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:50.359 You could also use a groundcover like an Asian jasmine or something groundcover that covers 1612 02:00:50.399 --> 02:00:55.760 over the whole area. But nothing holds soil better than turf than grass, 1613 02:00:55.880 --> 02:01:00.520 any kind of grass. Oh, okay, should I put some down on 1614 02:01:00.640 --> 02:01:04.199 this street, like rocks or something so that the water the dirt doesn't rush, 1615 02:01:04.560 --> 02:01:06.520 And yeah, you could do that. You could have a little bit 1616 02:01:06.520 --> 02:01:10.560 of a stone wall or something along those lines. That would be fine too. 1617 02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:14.399 And then of course the ultimate would be creating little tears you know, 1618 02:01:14.479 --> 02:01:17.479 where it's like stairstep going down. But that's a whole other world. Right 1619 02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:20.520 there, so I would do the first things we're talking about. I think 1620 02:01:20.560 --> 02:01:25.439 that's going to work best for you. Oh okay, thank you very much, 1621 02:01:25.720 --> 02:01:28.399 thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Valerie. Well, 1622 02:01:28.439 --> 02:01:31.399 if you'd like to be on guarden Line seven one three two one two fifty 1623 02:01:31.479 --> 02:01:35.319 eight seventy four, we're going to take another news break now, but give 1624 02:01:35.399 --> 02:01:40.239 Josh you call and he'll get you right up there on the boards so we 1625 02:01:40.319 --> 02:01:44.960 can talk to you about things that are of interest to you. I've been 1626 02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:48.039 talking about a lot about side this morning, or grass. We've talked a 1627 02:01:48.079 --> 02:01:51.119 little bit about some summer vegetables. I want to talk a little bit more 1628 02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:59.000 about some summer flowers and another strategy for color in Houston, in the greater 1629 02:01:59.079 --> 02:02:04.920 Houston area, really all over Texas when it's blazing hot outside, and hang 1630 02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:13.079 around when we come back. I'll do your son, katrh Garden Line does 1631 02:02:13.119 --> 02:02:17.920 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 1632 02:02:18.039 --> 02:02:38.199 to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor so just watch him as mold so many 1633 02:02:38.319 --> 02:02:45.359 good good Saturday morning, good gardening. Saturday morning. You're listening to garden 1634 02:02:45.439 --> 02:02:50.399 Line, and I am your host skip Rictor, and we would love to 1635 02:02:50.479 --> 02:02:55.279 talk to you about whatever is of interest to your regarding gardening. Our phone 1636 02:02:55.359 --> 02:03:00.760 number is seven one three two one two five eight four seven one three two 1637 02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:08.279 one two fifty eight seventy four. I was mentioning before we went to break 1638 02:03:08.359 --> 02:03:12.159 that I want to talk a little bit about how to have color without blooms. 1639 02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:15.840 Now, when we are in the spring season, everything wants to bloom. 1640 02:03:15.960 --> 02:03:19.720 I mean everything blooms in spring. It seems like there's lots of colors, 1641 02:03:19.920 --> 02:03:25.439 lots of options and so on, and then this thing called summer arrives 1642 02:03:25.600 --> 02:03:31.119 and it just fries stuff that doesn't survive well here when it's that blazing hot, 1643 02:03:31.279 --> 02:03:35.000 which a lot of things can't take the heat. Well, that doesn't 1644 02:03:35.039 --> 02:03:38.680 mean we can't have color though. Number one, we do have a lot 1645 02:03:38.720 --> 02:03:43.000 of blooming things. I mentioned a whole bunch of them earlier, just thinking 1646 02:03:43.039 --> 02:03:45.720 a minute ago, I didn't mention Plumeria. Plumeria is a little sky blue 1647 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:49.520 flower. Beautiful. There's a white form also. They take the heat. 1648 02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:51.960 Well. I used to look at the plant and just because there's like a 1649 02:03:53.000 --> 02:03:56.520 little baby blue sky flower, I thought, oh it's a whimp, you 1650 02:03:56.600 --> 02:04:00.960 know. I judged it wrong. One year, I was working at the 1651 02:04:00.039 --> 02:04:04.840 extension office in Travis County over in Austin, and our water went off and 1652 02:04:04.960 --> 02:04:09.399 it was like the first of June and it was off for sixty days and 1653 02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:15.560 we lost a lot of plants. But the plumeria or I said, did 1654 02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:18.920 I say plumeria while ago I meant plumbago. If you're wondering what I'm talking 1655 02:04:18.960 --> 02:04:25.039 about now, I'll clarify it's plumbago. If I didn't say that sky sky 1656 02:04:25.319 --> 02:04:30.479 blue flowers, the plumbago looked terrible. Well, who wouldn't in one hundred 1657 02:04:30.520 --> 02:04:33.600 degree weather two months in the middle of summer. But it survived and it 1658 02:04:33.720 --> 02:04:39.399 bounced back, and after that I have had a much greater appreciation for a 1659 02:04:39.600 --> 02:04:44.159 blue plumbago as one of our good hot weather flowers. But then there's some 1660 02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:47.319 foliage flowers too, And I'll talk about these is as we get going through 1661 02:04:47.439 --> 02:04:49.680 here a little bit. But right now I want to start off, and 1662 02:04:49.720 --> 02:04:54.439 we're gonna go straight out to Bear Creek Park and our Bear Creek area and 1663 02:04:54.479 --> 02:04:59.479 we're gonna talk to k Hello, kay, hey. I used to work 1664 02:04:59.520 --> 02:05:03.560 out at Creek at the Aggarlive Extension office back before it flooded twice and finally 1665 02:05:03.600 --> 02:05:09.359 went away. Oh oh dear, yeah, yeah, it's it's a dicey 1666 02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:13.840 area for them. So here's the thing I've got. I don't know what 1667 02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:15.159 they are, and I don't care what they are. I just need to 1668 02:05:15.199 --> 02:05:19.479 get rid of them. They're little, trashy, crappy little trees that start 1669 02:05:19.520 --> 02:05:24.800 off little twigs and then get big like they start off about the size of 1670 02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:28.560 your pinky finger, and then they grow and grow and grow until they're about 1671 02:05:28.560 --> 02:05:30.439 as big a round as your forearm, and they get really deep roots and 1672 02:05:30.720 --> 02:05:34.079 they are everywhere, and I hate them. I don't know that they're Chinese 1673 02:05:34.159 --> 02:05:38.760 tallow or hackberry because I've never actually seen berries on them, but I don't 1674 02:05:38.800 --> 02:05:40.439 care. I hate them. What do I do? There? You go, 1675 02:05:40.720 --> 02:05:43.560 well, you're right, you accurately describe them. You use the word 1676 02:05:43.600 --> 02:05:46.520 crappy, which is very important in describing that kind of tree. They're woody 1677 02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:50.000 weeds. And what happens is a bird each seed, and they come on 1678 02:05:50.199 --> 02:05:54.079 and they fly and land on a fence or someplace or in a tree, 1679 02:05:54.680 --> 02:05:58.119 and with one little flick of the tail, they both fertilize and plant the 1680 02:05:58.199 --> 02:06:01.000 seed that has gone through the bird, and that's how we have poison ivy 1681 02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:06.600 everywhere and hackberries everywhere. Tallow trees can show up as well in our landscapes. 1682 02:06:08.000 --> 02:06:11.119 What you need to do is you need to buy a product K that 1683 02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:16.000 contains the ingredient triclopier, and I will spell that out in just a moment 1684 02:06:16.079 --> 02:06:18.319 while I give you a second to grab a pen in case you don't have 1685 02:06:18.439 --> 02:06:25.399 one. Tricopier is a woody plant killer. Farmers use it to control brush 1686 02:06:25.479 --> 02:06:29.520 and hay pastures, but in the home guarden market it may be sold as 1687 02:06:29.560 --> 02:06:32.840 poison ivy killer or poison oak killer or brush be gone, those kinds of 1688 02:06:32.960 --> 02:06:40.760 names. But it's t r i clo pyr. Follow the label. Mix 1689 02:06:40.800 --> 02:06:44.920 it as strong as you can, almost almost straight strength. When you're doing 1690 02:06:45.000 --> 02:06:46.720 what I'm about to tell you, and that you cut the tree off with 1691 02:06:46.840 --> 02:06:51.800 a saw and immediately you take a little sponge brush and you dab that tricolo 1692 02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:56.720 pier right on the fresh cut stump. Even if it's a tiny one and 1693 02:06:56.880 --> 02:07:00.800 it translicates down. Now, if it's a big old robot root system, 1694 02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:04.079 it may take a second application, it may die back and then reach sprout. 1695 02:07:04.600 --> 02:07:09.880 But in general that's the best way to kill woody weeds, including woody 1696 02:07:09.960 --> 02:07:15.319 vines, because you're not spraying herbicide that may kill other things out onto the 1697 02:07:15.399 --> 02:07:19.680 foliage where it can drift and land somewhere else. You're just taking a dab 1698 02:07:19.880 --> 02:07:24.880 and putting a dab right there on the fresh cut and it's important that it's 1699 02:07:24.920 --> 02:07:29.760 fresh cut, not two days after cutting it. So is that something that 1700 02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:32.359 I can I'm very close to the Ace Hardware over on Barker Cypress. I 1701 02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:38.479 think it is. Absolutely. They'll probably have two or three or four different 1702 02:07:38.560 --> 02:07:43.920 kinds of triclopier at the home Garden Packaging. Yeah, okay, all of 1703 02:07:44.039 --> 02:07:47.600 mine. They're they're either up against the house or the fence line or under 1704 02:07:47.680 --> 02:07:51.760 a tree. So you know, I think that's and it won't kill under 1705 02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:55.880 the one tree. I've got a ring, used to have a ring. 1706 02:07:55.960 --> 02:08:03.760 I may still of wandering jew with sporadic amarillas. It won't kill um tricola 1707 02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:07.399 pier. I do not think triclopier will kill either wandering jew or amaryllis. 1708 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:11.199 But the way I'm telling you to treat it, you will avoid that because 1709 02:08:11.680 --> 02:08:18.000 you're gonna dab it onto the cut wood surface. Only so while you're at 1710 02:08:18.079 --> 02:08:20.479 Ace Hardware, grab one of the little tiny foam brushes, a couple of 1711 02:08:20.560 --> 02:08:22.840 them. I get two or three of them actually, because they're cheap. 1712 02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:26.159 And that way, when you're done, you can just throw it away. 1713 02:08:26.399 --> 02:08:28.039 You know, you don't have to. If you want to keep it and 1714 02:08:28.119 --> 02:08:31.000 try to reuse it, you can, but you don't have to. So 1715 02:08:31.159 --> 02:08:35.119 I need to saw in some tricola pier and some brushes. That's it. 1716 02:08:35.600 --> 02:08:39.159 That will do it. All right, Thank you so much. I really 1717 02:08:39.159 --> 02:08:41.960 appreciate it. I appreciate that call. Okay, thank you very much. 1718 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:46.239 Yeah, that is a common problem that people deal with. You know. 1719 02:08:46.399 --> 02:08:50.000 I'm always bragging about our garden centers, our mom and pops around here. 1720 02:08:50.119 --> 02:08:52.640 And if you are up in the Montgomery area and we're talking about Lake Conro 1721 02:08:52.800 --> 02:08:58.720 area, your hometown garden center is A and A Plants and Produce. They 1722 02:08:58.760 --> 02:09:01.680 are on the east side of Montgomery on one oh five. So if you 1723 02:09:01.800 --> 02:09:07.800 live in April Sound, the Woodlands, Magnolia, Bentwater, Delago, like 1724 02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:11.560 anywhere around Lake Conro, Huntsville, Willis even. This is a place and 1725 02:09:13.119 --> 02:09:16.520 it is going to have everything we talk about in terms of fertilizers, it's 1726 02:09:16.520 --> 02:09:20.319 going to have an unbelievable plant selections. Three acres filled with everything from shade 1727 02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:24.960 trees to fruit and nut citrus, berries, vegetables, herbs, flowers, 1728 02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:28.880 annuals, palm tree, cactus. I could just go on and on. 1729 02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:33.880 They have beautiful Blaine for the landscape, Mexican tellavera, terra cotta, Chimenea's 1730 02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:39.720 metal artwork, gazebos, topiaries, you get the idea. A and a 1731 02:09:39.920 --> 02:09:43.840 plants and produced on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. 1732 02:09:45.439 --> 02:09:48.560 Check them out seven days a week, nine to five. Today would be 1733 02:09:48.600 --> 02:09:52.239 a good day to go out and visit them. At Ana. We love 1734 02:09:52.279 --> 02:09:56.039 our garden centers and our nurseries here. It just makes it so fun to 1735 02:09:56.119 --> 02:10:00.439 get out and get that inspiration. Well, let's take a break. We'll 1736 02:10:00.479 --> 02:10:03.359 be right back after a break. If you'd like to call Josh at seven 1737 02:10:03.479 --> 02:10:07.640 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, you'll be first up. 1738 02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:30.920 Good Saturday morning. You are listening to garden Line and we are here to 1739 02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:35.439 talk gardening. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If 1740 02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:39.039 you'd like to get in on the action, Hey, it is blazing hot 1741 02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:43.760 season now. And by the way, I have filed my official objection, 1742 02:10:45.319 --> 02:10:48.439 we cannot have weeks of one hundred degree temperature in June. That is just 1743 02:10:48.720 --> 02:10:54.680 not okay, that is wrong, wrong, wrong. Somebody somewhere screwed up. 1744 02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:58.560 We have got to get back down in the mid nineties where we belong, 1745 02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:01.760 or even lower nineties. I would take that too. But in the 1746 02:11:01.840 --> 02:11:05.079 meantime, here goes the hot weather, which means our plants need water, 1747 02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:09.079 and yards in the Greater Houston area get over watered all the time. It 1748 02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:13.279 happens. I've lived here. I know what we're talking about. You know 1749 02:11:13.439 --> 02:11:18.359 that every other day the neighbor sprinklers are coming on. That is not how 1750 02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:22.479 you water. You give a good deep soaking infrequently, aim for once a 1751 02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:24.560 week. If you need to do twice a week, okay, we'll allow 1752 02:11:24.680 --> 02:11:28.239 that. But once a week is what you should be aiming for a good 1753 02:11:28.319 --> 02:11:31.000 soaking. So how do you know when to water? How do you know 1754 02:11:31.079 --> 02:11:35.359 when you need it? Well, there is a free app that you can 1755 02:11:35.479 --> 02:11:39.159 use call water my Yard. Does it get any simpler than that? Find 1756 02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:43.680 the water my Yard app. You can find it on the Apple App Store. 1757 02:11:43.720 --> 02:11:46.680 You can find it on Google play, you download it, You put 1758 02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:52.680 in your location, and you can even put in the kind of watering heads 1759 02:11:52.720 --> 02:11:54.479 you use. Is it a pop up spray, solid spray, is it 1760 02:11:54.600 --> 02:11:58.800 a rotor, is it a multi stream rotor? You know, you put 1761 02:11:58.840 --> 02:12:01.560 in the kinds of stuff or detail there. They will tell you how much 1762 02:12:01.720 --> 02:12:05.800 you need to water, and when you need to water. They'll even send 1763 02:12:05.880 --> 02:12:07.359 you an email saying, hey, and I got one the other day. 1764 02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:11.760 You've used a half inch of water in your low. This week, it's 1765 02:12:11.880 --> 02:12:13.680 time to apply about a half inch. Well that's good to know, because 1766 02:12:13.680 --> 02:12:18.000 I probably would have applied an inch I'd I not known that. A free 1767 02:12:18.039 --> 02:12:20.279 app you can't do any easier than that. I'm going to have the folks 1768 02:12:20.319 --> 02:12:24.880 from Water my Yard on to talk a little bit later this summer more about 1769 02:12:24.920 --> 02:12:28.319 it. But in the meantime, water my yard app over half. Listen 1770 02:12:28.359 --> 02:12:33.640 to this. This is a scientific fact. Over half of the landscape water 1771 02:12:33.800 --> 02:12:39.359 we apply as wasted and you paid for that. That's drinking water that you're 1772 02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:41.880 putting out there on your yard. It doesn't need to be done. Our 1773 02:12:41.920 --> 02:12:46.439 plants need water, but they don't need wasted water. That doesn't do them 1774 02:12:46.520 --> 02:12:50.159 any good. All that wasted water? Does is it gives the kid something 1775 02:12:50.199 --> 02:12:54.760 to put their canoes in at the curb side because you left the water runner 1776 02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:56.680 all night. All right, let's head out to Spring and we're gonna talk 1777 02:12:56.720 --> 02:13:03.640 to Bonnie. Hello, Bonnie. Hi, I have an answer for the 1778 02:13:03.359 --> 02:13:07.199 problem people have with squirrels attacking their tomato plants. All right, what's that? 1779 02:13:09.640 --> 02:13:13.159 Well, i'd like permission to send you a picture of it? Okay, 1780 02:13:13.520 --> 02:13:16.239 you you have pound permission. I will when we're done here, I'll 1781 02:13:16.239 --> 02:13:18.720 put you on hold and Josh will will pick up the phone and he'll tell 1782 02:13:18.720 --> 02:13:22.079 you how to do that. Okay, perfect. So is it going to 1783 02:13:22.159 --> 02:13:26.960 remain a secret until I see the picture? You're gonna tell us? No, 1784 02:13:26.119 --> 02:13:28.680 you're you are gonna love it? No, No, it's got to 1785 02:13:28.720 --> 02:13:33.920 be a secret. All right. Well, I like I like to use 1786 02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:37.840 I like to use photos when possible, So if you don't mind when you 1787 02:13:37.119 --> 02:13:41.199 send it, just if you if it's okay, send me permission to keep 1788 02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:43.199 and use your photos. That's all I ask. Oh? Yes, definitely, 1789 02:13:43.319 --> 02:13:48.920 definitely you will want to Okay, Well, you you've got me interested. 1790 02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:50.319 Okay, I'm gonna put your on hold. Josh, we'll pick you 1791 02:13:50.479 --> 02:13:56.119 up and we will learn all about squirrels. I always always enjoy, you 1792 02:13:56.199 --> 02:14:01.720 know, callers and our listeners sending photos of things, because there's all kinds 1793 02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:05.359 of crazy things that go on out there that I never get to see. 1794 02:14:05.560 --> 02:14:09.640 But I have quite a collection over the years that I've put together. I 1795 02:14:09.800 --> 02:14:13.520 have put together. If you live up in the Tamball area and you haven't 1796 02:14:13.560 --> 02:14:18.520 been to Arbourgate Nursery, what are you living under a rock? Crawl out 1797 02:14:18.560 --> 02:14:22.119 from under there and check it out. Arburgate is known not only all over 1798 02:14:22.119 --> 02:14:26.039 the Houston areas and over Texas and even beyond. People come from a long 1799 02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:30.439 way to see this destination garden center. Now you can go to Arburgate dot 1800 02:14:30.520 --> 02:14:33.119 com to find out more. But while you're there, in addition to all 1801 02:14:33.199 --> 02:14:35.720 the plants that they have, and boy do they ever have a lot of 1802 02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:41.960 plants, check out their one two three system. It is a organic food. 1803 02:14:43.319 --> 02:14:48.000 When you're thinking about our organic plant food, Arburgates Organic Food Complete. 1804 02:14:48.079 --> 02:14:52.239 It's a four four three plus calcium. Very good to use on anything that 1805 02:14:52.359 --> 02:14:56.199 has roots. If you're mixing in maybe you're doing a flower bed and you 1806 02:14:56.279 --> 02:14:58.760 want to put some soil, some fertilizer around to get things ready so that 1807 02:15:00.079 --> 02:15:03.520 the plant roots begin to grow, or maybe you're fertilizing after planting. That's 1808 02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:07.319 a good choice. They have a soil for every application. That's number two 1809 02:15:07.520 --> 02:15:13.119 and number three a completely organic compost that does a quality compost, a special 1810 02:15:13.239 --> 02:15:18.640 blend. Not just you know, someone piled up some stuff and decomposed it 1811 02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:22.399 and now it's called compost. No, we're talking about a quality compost mix 1812 02:15:22.920 --> 02:15:28.560 that has the exact same things you need, including some expanded shale. So 1813 02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:33.239 if you're dealing with a heavy clay soil, the addition of expanded shale and 1814 02:15:33.520 --> 02:15:39.479 compost and Arbourgates Organic Compost Complete is an especially good blend to open up that 1815 02:15:39.640 --> 02:15:43.600 clay and improve the inner drainage in your yard. And by the way, 1816 02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:46.560 while you're out and about, today good day to go to Arburgate. It's 1817 02:15:46.560 --> 02:15:50.560 always a good day to go out to Arburgate and see what they have going. 1818 02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:54.159 I was talking about color plants, and in fact I was looking at 1819 02:15:54.720 --> 02:16:01.880 earlier. Arbourgate has this outstanding array of color plants. They've got the mendavias 1820 02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:07.079 that are just beautiful hot pink colors that go through it never gets hot enough 1821 02:16:07.199 --> 02:16:11.640 and humid enough for mendavillas here in Houston, or I should say not too 1822 02:16:11.720 --> 02:16:16.199 hot in humid for mendavillas here in Houston. The even near in Burgia, 1823 02:16:16.560 --> 02:16:20.159 which is a little pretty little flower, a little wispy foliage, and I 1824 02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:24.159 use it around the edge of my containers. In fact, two days ago 1825 02:16:24.199 --> 02:16:28.000 I planted some that are going to spill over the sides. It's got these 1826 02:16:28.039 --> 02:16:33.879 little whitish lavender lavender centered flowers that are just really pretty. And it does 1827 02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:37.559 well even in the heat. I mean it'll grow in spring and fall too, 1828 02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:39.600 but it loves it does super well in the heat. It's a good 1829 02:16:39.639 --> 02:16:45.120 one. But talking about color, when we hit summertime, we have a 1830 02:16:45.319 --> 02:16:52.000 secret, a little secret trick for having color in Houston area in the summer, 1831 02:16:52.079 --> 02:16:58.680 and that is foliage. Foliage color is the mainstay that we depend on. 1832 02:16:58.239 --> 02:17:03.840 Now. May be one of the burgundy foliaged cannas, or it may 1833 02:17:03.879 --> 02:17:09.879 be the the green and white striped canna called let's see a Bengal tiger. 1834 02:17:09.440 --> 02:17:15.200 There's another one too. It may be the Phasian canna that has the coral 1835 02:17:15.319 --> 02:17:18.639 and it's just a whole bunch of color blends in it. As if you 1836 02:17:18.680 --> 02:17:22.719 haven't seen phasian. I think they call it tropicana. That's its trade name. 1837 02:17:22.200 --> 02:17:26.280 You gotta check it out. It's beautiful. But what about copper plant 1838 02:17:26.479 --> 02:17:30.399 with large, beautiful color, Joseph's Coat, a little bedding plant that has 1839 02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:35.639 beautiful colored foliage in shady areas. Remember white is a color too, So 1840 02:17:35.840 --> 02:17:39.239 Aztec grass draws your eye. It lines a bed, it draws your eye 1841 02:17:39.280 --> 02:17:43.399 down a pathway. If you border the path with Aztec grass, it's not 1842 02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:48.440 a grass. Let's think of it as loriopy monkey grass, cousin that astec 1843 02:17:48.440 --> 02:17:54.479 grass does so well there. Colladiums really brighten up a shady area. Collius 1844 02:17:54.680 --> 02:18:01.239 an important summer color plant. Persian shield in a very bright shade. The 1845 02:18:01.399 --> 02:18:07.319 brighter the light it gets, the more purpleish you get in otherwise silvery green 1846 02:18:07.479 --> 02:18:11.479 foliage. I have some Persian shield, just potted it up in a larger 1847 02:18:11.520 --> 02:18:13.280 pot the other day because I'm trying to get around to getting a spot ready 1848 02:18:13.319 --> 02:18:16.600 to put it in in the garden. But persian shield is excellent. I 1849 02:18:16.680 --> 02:18:20.799 could go on and on. There's so many good foliage plants, and in 1850 02:18:20.959 --> 02:18:26.360 Houston heat, when you want extra color, we have many good flowering options 1851 02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:31.799 in summer but not as many a spring, and so we looked a foliage 1852 02:18:31.079 --> 02:18:35.000 to fill out that dependable color to carry us through the season. Some of 1853 02:18:35.040 --> 02:18:43.719 the burgundy leaf bagnias, beautiful of wax pagunias that just have gorgeous burgundy leaves, 1854 02:18:43.200 --> 02:18:46.760 just lots of color, a lot of beautiful color options out there. 1855 02:18:46.840 --> 02:18:50.959 So I hope you will take advantage of some of those things. You know, 1856 02:18:52.000 --> 02:18:56.360 we're entering the season where we start thinking about hurricane season. Right, 1857 02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:01.200 it goes through summer and on in the fall, and when a hurricane blows 1858 02:19:01.280 --> 02:19:05.319 through, your trees can have a problem with that, right if you've got 1859 02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:09.760 trees that need limbs are removed. Maybe there's a roof line that the trees 1860 02:19:09.760 --> 02:19:13.280 are rubbing against the shingles on your roof. Maybe there's a dead tree that 1861 02:19:13.399 --> 02:19:16.719 needs to come down, or a leaf or a limb hanging over your house 1862 02:19:16.959 --> 02:19:22.040 or over your neighbor's fence, or maybe the driveway where they bark their maserati. 1863 02:19:22.440 --> 02:19:24.760 Not a good thing for your limb to land on your neighbor's maserati. 1864 02:19:26.040 --> 02:19:31.120 Well, affordable tree service can do all that, and then some now affordable 1865 02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:33.600 tree they're easy to get a hold of it's seven one, three, six, 1866 02:19:33.799 --> 02:19:39.959 nine, nine, twenty six sixty three r aff Tree Service dot com. 1867 02:19:39.159 --> 02:19:43.520 Aftree Service dot Com. They will come out and they'll do all the 1868 02:19:43.639 --> 02:19:46.360 things I mentioned above. They'll take care of all of that. You can 1869 02:19:46.399 --> 02:19:50.399 pay them to come out just to give you a consultation on your trees. 1870 02:19:50.559 --> 02:19:52.000 What may need to be trimmed back, what may need to come out, 1871 02:19:54.200 --> 02:19:56.000 what is fine? And they won't sell you something you don't need. At 1872 02:19:56.000 --> 02:20:00.760 Affordable Tree. Martin has been doing this a long time. I'm Martin spoon 1873 02:20:00.840 --> 02:20:03.639 Moore and his wife. They answer the phones themselves. And by the way, 1874 02:20:03.680 --> 02:20:07.120 if you if you call and it's not Martin or Joe that's entering, 1875 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:11.000 hang up and call back. You've called the wrong place with that affordable in 1876 02:20:11.079 --> 02:20:15.319 the name. Now, Affordable Tree will help you when you're going to do 1877 02:20:15.520 --> 02:20:20.000 construction. Let them come out first. It's money well spent to have them 1878 02:20:20.079 --> 02:20:24.559 advise you on what to do to protect your trees during construction, because after 1879 02:20:24.680 --> 02:20:28.879 the damage is done, it's a little late to fix it, and it's 1880 02:20:28.040 --> 02:20:33.440 money well spent. What do they say, A stitch in time saves nine 1881 02:20:33.559 --> 02:20:37.680 or it's one of those many many adages like that in other words, don't 1882 02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:41.680 delay, take care of things when they need to be taken care of and 1883 02:20:41.760 --> 02:20:48.520 avoid a much much bigger problem as a result. I was visiting with the 1884 02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:54.600 folks with Pulte Homes and Dell Webb the wall back and you know, Dell 1885 02:20:54.639 --> 02:20:58.559 Webb is building that new community. I keep talking about it and fullser And 1886 02:20:58.920 --> 02:21:01.479 the thing that I like this community is they've asked me to come in and 1887 02:21:01.600 --> 02:21:05.760 help with their community garden. They're putting a community garden in. Now imagine 1888 02:21:05.799 --> 02:21:11.239 this. You have a Delweb home, Dellweb home in a Dellweb community with 1889 02:21:11.399 --> 02:21:16.159 a lifestyle program that comes with being part of a Dellweb community for all active 1890 02:21:16.159 --> 02:21:20.360 adults age fifty five and better. You're not going to do better than Dell 1891 02:21:20.399 --> 02:21:24.159 Weeb. And now out at Fulscher, you know what, listen two miles 1892 02:21:24.239 --> 02:21:28.200 from downtown Fulscher on three fifty nine, the new community is going to have 1893 02:21:28.559 --> 02:21:31.079 a community garden. You don't have to dig up the backyard to have a 1894 02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:35.799 garden. You can go to a community garden in that first rate and you 1895 02:21:35.879 --> 02:21:37.600 know, if it's Dellweb, it's first rate and it's going to look good. 1896 02:21:39.040 --> 02:21:43.360 Go to Dellweb Dot com slash Houston or callum two eight one four five 1897 02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:50.040 nine six z nine two eight one four five nine zero six zero nine. 1898 02:21:50.159 --> 02:21:54.479 Find out about that Dellweb difference and have a community garden in your community where 1899 02:21:54.520 --> 02:22:01.559 you can gather and enjoy growing things and enjoy that social us that comes with 1900 02:22:01.719 --> 02:22:05.200 a community garden. I mean that there are no better folks in the world 1901 02:22:05.239 --> 02:22:09.479 than gardeners. I am very strongly of that opinion, because I've been working 1902 02:22:09.520 --> 02:22:15.399 with gardeners for decades and decades now. Just so enjoy time spent with gardeners, 1903 02:22:15.440 --> 02:22:20.280 and you will too, as you already know that you do. There's 1904 02:22:20.280 --> 02:22:22.319 so many things to talk about today, I don't even know where to begin. 1905 02:22:22.840 --> 02:22:26.000 You know, we've got and we've talked lawns, We've talked vegetables, 1906 02:22:26.159 --> 02:22:30.079 talked a little bit about flowers, a little bit about foliage plants, and 1907 02:22:30.159 --> 02:22:33.639 the important of that. I just want to remember you that when you remind 1908 02:22:33.719 --> 02:22:37.200 you that when you have containers, you need to keep them adequately watered. 1909 02:22:37.440 --> 02:22:43.440 Containers dry out faster they're above ground, the sides stay warmer, the soil 1910 02:22:43.479 --> 02:22:48.440 stays warmer. Make sure you water them regularly and how often well it depends 1911 02:22:48.479 --> 02:22:52.200 on the soil mix. It depends on the plant and the plant size, 1912 02:22:52.399 --> 02:22:58.159 and it depends on the volume of soil. That's the most important thing when 1913 02:22:58.239 --> 02:23:03.920 selecting containers. Pick bigger rather than smaller, for sure, bigger rather than 1914 02:23:03.959 --> 02:23:07.079 smaller, so that you water them once a day, maybe twice a day 1915 02:23:07.079 --> 02:23:09.520 at the most. I mean, it depends on again all those factors, 1916 02:23:09.600 --> 02:23:13.760 including the temperature. But containers are a great way to have instant color. 1917 02:23:15.079 --> 02:23:16.639 Hey, we'll be right back. We're gonna take a break. Seven one 1918 02:23:16.760 --> 02:23:20.479 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a column. We'll 1919 02:23:20.520 --> 02:23:31.879 be glad to talk with you. So rain you could allude four reads. 1920 02:23:33.120 --> 02:23:46.760 Let's Morgan never hate troubles up for good them. Good morning, I'm beautiful 1921 02:23:46.799 --> 02:23:50.840 morning. You're listening to garden Line and our phone number if you'd like to 1922 02:23:50.920 --> 02:23:56.079 give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1923 02:23:56.200 --> 02:24:00.159 And without any further ado, we're going to head right out to Tumball and 1924 02:24:00.280 --> 02:24:05.040 talk to Andrew. Hello Andrew, Hey, good morning Collins. Just to 1925 02:24:05.120 --> 02:24:09.799 ask the real quick question. Um, we bought a peach tree last year 1926 02:24:09.799 --> 02:24:16.920 at Arbor Gate. It's been planted in the yard and it had peaches on 1927 02:24:18.000 --> 02:24:20.079 it when we got it, little ones. But ever since we had it 1928 02:24:20.200 --> 02:24:24.600 and had it planned, it's been growing glute good. But there's not a 1929 02:24:24.639 --> 02:24:28.200 single peach this year. We were wondering, do we have to have a 1930 02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:31.840 second peach tree in order to do that? I know you don't. Peaches 1931 02:24:31.840 --> 02:24:35.520 are self fruitful, and so it's unusual, you know, usually and this 1932 02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:39.200 is hard to talk people into doing, but usually we try to pull the 1933 02:24:39.239 --> 02:24:41.559 peaches off for the first year or two just to get all the energy to 1934 02:24:41.639 --> 02:24:45.440 go into as big a tree as you can. So years three, four 1935 02:24:45.520 --> 02:24:48.879 and five you you have better, better crops, but the bigger tree. 1936 02:24:48.559 --> 02:24:52.280 But it's not unusual for a young tree to not not fruit, you know, 1937 02:24:52.399 --> 02:24:56.159 a whole lot, just initially. But it'll be okay. Is it 1938 02:24:56.319 --> 02:25:01.280 in good sunlight and got decent drainage in the soil, it's perfect. Yes, 1939 02:25:01.559 --> 02:25:07.079 we were just concerned if she didn't see anything this year because it's in 1940 02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:11.639 the twelve foot tall But no, nothing, okay, just a truth. 1941 02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:13.120 We'll just kind of watch on the pruning of it. You want to keep 1942 02:25:13.159 --> 02:25:18.479 as much as you can kind of an open bowl shape to it because peaches 1943 02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:22.959 will try to grow and essentially they become an umbrella of foliage, meaning just 1944 02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:26.559 like an umbrella. You know, you've got the little sticks going out to 1945 02:25:26.639 --> 02:25:31.680 hold up the umbrella, and then there's this top to the umbrella with a 1946 02:25:31.760 --> 02:25:35.319 peach tree. When it gets that green top, it shades out all the 1947 02:25:35.399 --> 02:25:39.479 interior foliage. And that's where I describe it as an umbrella. So if 1948 02:25:39.520 --> 02:25:43.200 you can create more of an open bowl shape, you have peaches from everywhere 1949 02:25:43.239 --> 02:25:46.680 from knee high all the way up to as high as you reach, and 1950 02:25:46.799 --> 02:25:48.680 you're not up on a ladder all the time. If you go online, 1951 02:25:48.719 --> 02:25:54.760 there's a website it's Aggy Horticulture. You just do a search for Aggy Horticulture 1952 02:25:54.840 --> 02:25:58.719 and when you get there, there's a fruit and nut page and there is 1953 02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:03.159 a free publication on every kind of fruit you can imagine, including the stone 1954 02:26:03.159 --> 02:26:05.840 fruit, which is peaches, and plums and apricots and nectarines, those kind 1955 02:26:05.879 --> 02:26:09.840 of things. So that'll tell you how to prune and everything. You can 1956 02:26:09.920 --> 02:26:15.639 read it online or you can just print it out. So much you bet, 1957 02:26:15.799 --> 02:26:20.479 thank you, Andrew. I appreciate that call. Take care. Now 1958 02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:24.159 let's go to Austin County and we're gonna talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, 1959 02:26:26.239 --> 02:26:28.760 Hi, how are you well? I'm well, thank you, well 1960 02:26:28.879 --> 02:26:37.280 good. I'm having problems with these big fat green worms that had the kind 1961 02:26:37.280 --> 02:26:39.639 of like a horn on them. Yes, they're on my tomato plant. 1962 02:26:41.079 --> 02:26:43.760 Okay. I go out there one day and I picked one huge one off. 1963 02:26:45.520 --> 02:26:50.600 Well here it is about a week later and I look out and I 1964 02:26:50.719 --> 02:26:54.600 go out there and there's at least fifteen of them a boy, and now 1965 02:26:54.680 --> 02:27:01.120 they're on my angel trumpets. Yes, they do. They like those. 1966 02:27:01.200 --> 02:27:05.319 They're somewhat related. You know. That's a tomato hornworm or the tobacco hornworm. 1967 02:27:05.399 --> 02:27:09.520 They're they're both. They look similar that they both are green worms. 1968 02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:13.719 They both have a horn on the back end. It doesn't matter which one 1969 02:27:13.760 --> 02:27:18.799 it is. They become a real beautiful moth, a nocturnal flying especially moth. 1970 02:27:20.319 --> 02:27:22.760 Pretty. You can go online google it and look at what the moth 1971 02:27:22.879 --> 02:27:24.920 looks like. But for folks that have tomatoes, you know, they're not 1972 02:27:26.040 --> 02:27:28.280 interested in growing them for the moths or interesting growing them for the tomatoes, 1973 02:27:28.399 --> 02:27:33.319 So that would be considered a pass problem. And you just have to decide 1974 02:27:33.360 --> 02:27:35.319 if if you want to get rid of all of them, well, you 1975 02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:37.639 just hand pick them off, or if you want to use a spray, 1976 02:27:39.079 --> 02:27:43.360 get a spray that contains BT. Bee is in boy teas and tom It's 1977 02:27:43.399 --> 02:27:48.799 a disease of caterpillars and will not kill steakbugs. They will not kill ladybugs. 1978 02:27:48.840 --> 02:27:52.479 It won't hurt the family pet. I mean, it's a very very 1979 02:27:52.520 --> 02:27:56.399 safe product. But for caterpillars, when they feed on foliage that's been sprayed 1980 02:27:56.440 --> 02:28:03.959 with BT, it's it's deadly. So I okay, somebody tell me to 1981 02:28:03.040 --> 02:28:07.079 put self rising flour on it, let them eat it, and then they'll 1982 02:28:07.079 --> 02:28:15.159 blow up. Um. That is a very very enjoyable mental image. But 1983 02:28:15.280 --> 02:28:18.280 don't believe it. Don't believe it. It's kind of like people that say, 1984 02:28:18.360 --> 02:28:22.799 put grets on your fire nt mound. They'll eat it and they'll swell 1985 02:28:22.959 --> 02:28:26.319 up and explode. I love the idea of a fire end exploding, but 1986 02:28:26.479 --> 02:28:30.360 it doesn't work. Trust me. They're Southern fireants. If you put grets 1987 02:28:30.399 --> 02:28:33.239 on fire ends, they just come up mash for bacon fat. It's I 1988 02:28:33.319 --> 02:28:37.200 mean, yeah, there they are Southern fireance. No, it doesn't work 1989 02:28:37.280 --> 02:28:41.879 that way. It just just get bat it's cheap, it's easy. Or 1990 02:28:41.959 --> 02:28:43.920 you know, if with hornworms they're generally not that many. And you kind 1991 02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:48.680 of threw me when you said, what fifteen or something. Well, normally 1992 02:28:48.719 --> 02:28:52.280 I just diferent sizes too. They were big ones, small ones, and 1993 02:28:52.879 --> 02:28:54.799 little bitty was I thought, well he brought his whole family in. Yeah, 1994 02:28:56.399 --> 02:28:58.280 well you can hand pick them too, And do you have any neighborhood 1995 02:28:58.360 --> 02:29:03.600 kids or grandkids or kids, or if you will bring one of them over 1996 02:29:03.760 --> 02:29:07.360 and pick one hornworm and go over and set it on a sidewalk and stomp 1997 02:29:07.440 --> 02:29:11.239 it, it'll be like you stepped on a packet of ketchup in McDonald's. 1998 02:29:11.239 --> 02:29:13.559 It goes squirting out this side, and you don't have to say a word, 1999 02:29:13.840 --> 02:29:16.639 and they just go inside. And then in fifteen minutes later, look 2000 02:29:16.639 --> 02:29:20.879 out the kitchen window and there's gonna be six kids. They got all their 2001 02:29:20.959 --> 02:29:24.680 friends and they're going over your plants to find hornworms to show their friends. 2002 02:29:24.959 --> 02:29:31.239 That's called importation of natural enemies for pest control. Good, that's another technique. 2003 02:29:31.280 --> 02:29:35.360 All right, Doris, Okay, thank you, you have a good 2004 02:29:35.440 --> 02:29:37.920 day. You too, you too, Thank you, thank you very much 2005 02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:43.399 for the call. If you you're talking about men up in the Tomball area 2006 02:29:43.399 --> 02:29:48.159 and everything, if you're if you're in D and D Feed is your hometown 2007 02:29:48.239 --> 02:29:52.159 feed store now. It's about three miles west of Highway two forty nine on 2008 02:29:52.360 --> 02:29:56.360 twenty nine twenty. About three miles west. The Dover family has had D 2009 02:29:56.440 --> 02:29:58.399 and D sense, I think the open doors back in nineteen eighty nine. 2010 02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:03.680 They expanded this summer, beautiful new space and more products than ever before. 2011 02:30:05.200 --> 02:30:07.719 All the fertilizers we talk about. You need pest control products, they've got 2012 02:30:07.799 --> 02:30:11.440 it. You need soils, you know, heirloom soil, landscape pride, 2013 02:30:11.479 --> 02:30:15.840 those kinds of thing, they've got them there. They also have plants, 2014 02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:20.440 quality dog foods like Origin, Diamond, Victor, and Star Pro. They've 2015 02:30:20.520 --> 02:30:24.959 got of course there. Feedstore, livestock, feed, horsecare products, things 2016 02:30:24.000 --> 02:30:28.479 to control pests and rodents, and pool cleaners and everything you can imagine. 2017 02:30:28.600 --> 02:30:33.840 D and D Feed is a fun place to visit, lots to offer and 2018 02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:37.840 quality service as you always expect from one of our good mom and pop local 2019 02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:41.959 feed stores. Dandfeed and tom Ball three miles west of two forty nine on 2020 02:30:43.079 --> 02:30:46.440 Highway twenty nine twenty. Let's see, we're running real short on time, 2021 02:30:46.559 --> 02:30:50.239 Carolyn. I'm gonna have to catch you right after break but hang on, 2022 02:30:50.399 --> 02:30:52.520 you will be the first up if you'd like to get on the board. 2023 02:30:52.879 --> 02:31:03.520 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. He comes, he 2024 02:31:03.799 --> 02:31:24.040 comes. All right, there we go, gosh, And now we're just 2025 02:31:24.200 --> 02:31:28.680 visiting about music. You know. It is my goal in life is to 2026 02:31:28.959 --> 02:31:31.399 play stuff you've never heard before. We try to mix it up here. 2027 02:31:31.479 --> 02:31:35.799 By the way, I am still in search of some yodeling barbershop music. 2028 02:31:35.879 --> 02:31:39.200 So if anyone knows that, please let me know. I will be forever 2029 02:31:39.319 --> 02:31:43.440 in your debt. Of course, the rest of the listeners will be forever 2030 02:31:43.520 --> 02:31:46.959 irritated at you for sending me that. But you get the idea right. 2031 02:31:46.680 --> 02:31:50.600 Well, you're listening to Garden Line. I am your host, Skip Richter, 2032 02:31:50.760 --> 02:31:54.200 and it is a phone number you want to write down. Seven one 2033 02:31:54.399 --> 02:31:58.239 three two one two five eight seven four And we are going to zoom right 2034 02:31:58.280 --> 02:32:03.360 out to south west Houston. And talked to Carolin this morning. Hello Carolin, 2035 02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:07.559 good morning, Good morning. I have a surprise plant. Okay, 2036 02:32:07.799 --> 02:32:16.280 I have a little garden area beside my screen porch and between the crack between 2037 02:32:16.360 --> 02:32:24.840 the concrete pavers that I use and the foundation. About three weeks ago, 2038 02:32:24.959 --> 02:32:30.239 I saw a little green leaf coming up, and I didn't pull it out. 2039 02:32:30.360 --> 02:32:33.639 I just left it to grow because it looked kind of healthy and pretty. 2040 02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:37.920 Okay, it's about now, it's about eight inches tall, and it 2041 02:32:39.440 --> 02:32:46.040 looks to me like a red a red stem malabar spinach. And it's it's 2042 02:32:46.079 --> 02:32:50.719 in the place near the place I used grow boxes. And I had the 2043 02:32:50.799 --> 02:32:54.399 red stem malabar that in the grow box right next to where it is. 2044 02:32:56.120 --> 02:32:58.799 Yes, but that was two summers ago. And I don't think they're self 2045 02:33:00.079 --> 02:33:07.040 eaters. But could that possibly be another rid Stam malabar. It absolutely could, 2046 02:33:07.040 --> 02:33:09.760 because they definitely are self seeders. They will. I have some know 2047 02:33:09.920 --> 02:33:13.799 that that some red and green, both in my garden last year, and 2048 02:33:13.079 --> 02:33:18.520 I've got sprouts coming up from both of them. In fact that some people 2049 02:33:18.600 --> 02:33:22.280 fuss that they're almost weedy, they recede so readily, but I don't. 2050 02:33:22.360 --> 02:33:26.120 I don't worry about that. No, no, no, I'm delighted to 2051 02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:31.200 have another one. The malabar I have right now is the broad, the 2052 02:33:31.639 --> 02:33:35.239 big fat leaf one, and it's not doing nearly as well as the rid 2053 02:33:35.399 --> 02:33:39.760 stam. Yeah yeah, well, let me let me ask the best way 2054 02:33:39.840 --> 02:33:43.360 for me to keep this one going just just fertilizer and water. It's it's 2055 02:33:43.440 --> 02:33:48.719 okay, it's a vigorous Sure. I have some Scott Super Bloom a fertilizer. 2056 02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:50.799 Will that be good? Now you can use that. That's not one 2057 02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:54.840 of the ones I recommend, but that certainly, you know, if you 2058 02:33:54.959 --> 02:33:58.079 got that on hand, go ahead and use it up, use it on 2059 02:33:58.159 --> 02:34:01.440 there. It's just fine. Let me ask you a question, how do 2060 02:34:01.559 --> 02:34:05.159 you eat malabar, because that's one of those things that a lot of people 2061 02:34:05.159 --> 02:34:07.840 aren't familiar with, and I'm always, you know, trying to think of 2062 02:34:09.360 --> 02:34:11.920 new ways to use the vegetable. So well, I just saw tee it 2063 02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:16.120 in olive oil. Okay, like they eat spinach in Italy. Okay, 2064 02:34:16.559 --> 02:34:22.079 all right, and it's wonderful. I love it. And it's so handy 2065 02:34:22.239 --> 02:34:26.879 just to go out and pluck a few leaves before dinner. Well, that's 2066 02:34:26.959 --> 02:34:30.799 true. You know. Earlier I was talking about we have vegetables from places 2067 02:34:30.840 --> 02:34:33.200 in the world that are as hot and humid as our area in the summer, 2068 02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:37.680 and they just do so well here. I wish that they'd been more 2069 02:34:37.760 --> 02:34:41.920 of our traditional cuisine, but yeah, they're good, right, So the 2070 02:34:41.479 --> 02:34:46.520 muse laginous. We would also say slamm. Equality of malabar doesn't bother you, 2071 02:34:46.639 --> 02:34:52.440 and you cook it that way. And I have some Asian okra that's 2072 02:34:52.559 --> 02:34:58.840 red. It's really pretty and it grows beautifully down here. Well good, 2073 02:34:58.120 --> 02:35:01.639 good, Yeah, there's some There are some Asian types of poker that that 2074 02:35:01.840 --> 02:35:05.680 do well, some of my favorite varieties. In fact. Well that's good, 2075 02:35:07.760 --> 02:35:11.000 okay, And I love the mental image of your taking care of the 2076 02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:16.799 caterpillars. Okay, Well it works. Hey, you gotta have fun, 2077 02:35:20.280 --> 02:35:24.920 you take see you take advantage of the nefarious nature of children. But it's 2078 02:35:26.000 --> 02:35:30.479 like, do you remember Dennis the Menace cartoons? One day? One day 2079 02:35:30.559 --> 02:35:33.280 there's it's always like a one square cartoon, and Dennis comes in and he 2080 02:35:33.360 --> 02:35:37.559 says, hey, mom, mister Wilson gave me a brand new pocket knife, 2081 02:35:37.959 --> 02:35:43.319 and he asked me if I knew what was inside my drum. See 2082 02:35:43.360 --> 02:35:46.399 what I'm talking about. There's two ways to skin a cat. Right, 2083 02:35:46.719 --> 02:35:50.479 Hey, Carolyn, thank you, thank you for the carl. I appreciate 2084 02:35:50.559 --> 02:35:54.360 that. Let's go to Missouri City and talk to Janey. Hello, Janey, 2085 02:35:54.200 --> 02:35:58.440 Hello, how are you this morning? Well? Thank you good. 2086 02:35:58.760 --> 02:36:01.239 I didn't get to turn in earlier this morning. And you may have probably 2087 02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:07.079 already covered this, but I think I might have the starting of some brown 2088 02:36:07.159 --> 02:36:11.319 patch. The first area that I noticed in my yard was down by the 2089 02:36:11.520 --> 02:36:16.079 street, between the sidewalk and the street, and it's kind of a two 2090 02:36:16.479 --> 02:36:20.559 foot kind of a triangle shape, and it just looks like the yard is 2091 02:36:20.639 --> 02:36:26.360 just burned. And so then I also noticed just recently I was in the 2092 02:36:26.440 --> 02:36:31.559 backyard and I have a large oak tree in the backyard and it shades the 2093 02:36:33.239 --> 02:36:37.799 yard some, but I do get sun also, and I found a little 2094 02:36:37.920 --> 02:36:43.079 round circle that's just about three inches maybe circular, And when I looked, 2095 02:36:43.239 --> 02:36:48.360 I noticed about a foot away was another little circle. Okay, and then 2096 02:36:48.399 --> 02:36:50.639 there's and they're not very big, and those are the only three in the 2097 02:36:50.680 --> 02:36:54.319 backyard. But I was just wondering if that was brown patch, and should 2098 02:36:54.360 --> 02:36:58.360 I try to do something with it. I did fertilize in the spring. 2099 02:36:58.559 --> 02:37:03.159 Yeah. Do you this is Saint Augustine? Right? Yes? Okay? 2100 02:37:03.200 --> 02:37:07.719 And do you have a pet? I don't have a pet, but I 2101 02:37:07.840 --> 02:37:11.719 have a grand dog that is visiting me. Okay, Well, so the 2102 02:37:11.159 --> 02:37:16.280 backyard might be that because he's been here for about ten days. That's the 2103 02:37:16.360 --> 02:37:20.159 front yard. Heath really not in the front yard all that much. Yeah, 2104 02:37:20.280 --> 02:37:24.360 that sounds like what we call phido blight, you know, like dogs 2105 02:37:24.479 --> 02:37:31.680 name phido phido blight. It's I have a dog that for some reason thinks 2106 02:37:31.719 --> 02:37:33.479 they have to go to the bathroom in the same spot every time. But 2107 02:37:33.760 --> 02:37:39.000 anyway that the salts and stuff in the urine can do that, that doesn't 2108 02:37:39.040 --> 02:37:41.840 sound like a disease in the back. Now in front, I'm kind of 2109 02:37:41.879 --> 02:37:46.040 wondering about insects. We don't have brown patch, which they now call large 2110 02:37:46.079 --> 02:37:50.920 patch this time of the year. There are some it's the genus is riise 2111 02:37:50.959 --> 02:37:56.399 Octonia, and there are some other riise Octonia diseases of summer. But I 2112 02:37:56.520 --> 02:38:00.799 don't think that's what you're seeing. I think that it could be take all 2113 02:38:00.920 --> 02:38:05.879 root ride. It could be chinch bugs going on. So you you know, 2114 02:38:05.120 --> 02:38:09.159 other than sending a sample into the state lab from an analyzing you might 2115 02:38:09.239 --> 02:38:13.760 get on your hands and knees and right on the edges of that little I 2116 02:38:13.840 --> 02:38:18.399 think you describe two foot triangular on the edges kind of part the grass and 2117 02:38:18.559 --> 02:38:22.479 look down in the thatch and at the soil surface and look for chinch bugs. 2118 02:38:22.479 --> 02:38:24.879 You can go online google them see what they look like they're about an 2119 02:38:24.920 --> 02:38:28.120 eighth of inch long. They're black with white markings on them, and the 2120 02:38:28.239 --> 02:38:33.879 young ones are a kind of a gold or a reddish brown with a white 2121 02:38:33.000 --> 02:38:37.280 band across their back. But if you know what they look like, you 2122 02:38:37.319 --> 02:38:39.079 can get on your hands and knees and look for them and if they're there, 2123 02:38:39.239 --> 02:38:43.159 then you want to treat that with an insecticide like nitrofoss. Bug out. 2124 02:38:45.200 --> 02:38:48.239 Okay, all right out, okay, thank you very much. Yeah, 2125 02:38:48.399 --> 02:38:50.600 just look for them first, because you know, if it's a disease 2126 02:38:50.639 --> 02:38:54.440 and you're putting an insecticide down, that's not going to do you any good. 2127 02:38:54.319 --> 02:38:58.079 Yeah, okay, sounds good. Thank you so much. Bad, 2128 02:38:58.639 --> 02:39:01.920 Thank you very much. This is a beautiful time of the year in a 2129 02:39:01.079 --> 02:39:05.799 landscape. If you have a well designed, well planted landscape, you know, 2130 02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:09.600 we talk about beautiful plants to have. Well, maybe you're not a 2131 02:39:09.719 --> 02:39:13.520 designer. 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