WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.080 Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:09.919 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skip rictor 3 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:52.840 trip. Just watch him as woods so many pricking not a sign starting and 4 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:57.880 well, good morning. You are listening to garden Line this morning. We're 5 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.159 here to talk about plants. That's what we do. What we also do 6 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.200 is take your calls. If you'd like to give us a call at seven 7 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:10.599 one three two one two five eight seven four. Will be glad to visit 8 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.040 with you about whatever's of interest to you this morning. That's seven one three 9 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:19.879 two one two five eight seven four. Well, the brutal heat just continues, 10 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.159 and it takes its toll on us and takes its toll on our plants 11 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.959 as well. But that doesn't mean gardening stops. There are a lot of 12 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:33.400 plants that just absolutely thrive despite the heat long as you give them a little 13 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:34.959 bit of water. What does a little bit mean? It means keeping the 14 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:40.239 salm moist. There's an interesting thing that goes on in the summertime with gardeners. 15 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:46.040 First of all, people will neglect a water just not recognizing that you 16 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:51.040 know how much water plants are capable of kneading and taking up this time of 17 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.519 the year, that's not the most common thing. If you see somebody in 18 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.879 their lawns dying and drying and all that kind of stuff. Generally, it's 19 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.719 just because trying to save it dollar on water bills and other things, because 20 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:07.359 it you know, it adds up. But the other end of the spectrum 21 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.639 is equally bad, and that's people that water too much. And there's two 22 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.759 I'll say too much, let me say improperly. There's two ways of improperly 23 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:19.000 watering. One is you keep it too saggy wet. The plants do not 24 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.159 need to live in a swamp because it's one hundred degrees outside. In fact, 25 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.080 they need to not live in a swamp because it's one hundred degrees outside. 26 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.919 And here's why they are doing all that their systems can do to pump 27 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.039 the water needed to keep them hydrated and to keep them cool. Think about 28 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.520 that, anything setting out in the sun on a sunny day in the summer 29 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:43.639 is going to get blistering hot. Well, if a plant leaf gets up, 30 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.520 you know, one hundred and forty degrees or even way below that, 31 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:52.319 it has some serious problems. I mean it literally cooks the leaf, and 32 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.439 I mean it just can't take that kind of heat. So without water flowing 33 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.680 through constantly evaporatively cooling it, it's going to be a big trouble. The 34 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:04.639 other thing is that the roots can't sit in water, and if they sit 35 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.520 in water, they can't get oxygen, and roots have to have oxygen. 36 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:14.719 At least most plant roots don't have a system for dealing with saggy, wet 37 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.919 soil conditions. So you don't want to overwater. You don't. It keeps 38 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.439 you wet, But then you also don't want to miss water, and miss 39 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.360 watering means we're going to give them a little squirt every day to keep them 40 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.599 going. You need a good soaking and then it needs to dry out. 41 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.159 That's just the way to water. And the reason is when it dries out, 42 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:38.080 it brings oxygen in the soil for the roots. So watering properly is 43 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.639 important. We'll probably talk about that a little bit more today. Right now, 44 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.879 let's go to the phones and let's talk to Mel. Good morning, 45 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:52.879 Mel, Hey, good morning, Hey, what's up? Question about fertilizing 46 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:58.639 during this drought season. A couple of weeks ago, I fertilized the aze 47 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:02.280 is. And then last week I fertile as my um mocks woods. But 48 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.639 now I was going to add to it, but then I heard or read 49 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:11.360 somewhere too that doing so during a drought season is not a good idea to 50 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:18.360 fertilize your plants. Anything on that. Uh so I'm not quite following you 51 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:25.519 fully on that. Could you could you elaborate this a little bit? Yeah, 52 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:30.319 I had heard that during the drought season it's not a good idea to 53 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:35.920 fertilize your like your flowers or whatever. Um, Okay, I don't know 54 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:42.279 where exactly I heard that. Okay, but and I I've already put some 55 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.720 down on some of my plants, and I was going to add some more 56 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.759 to it, but then I heard that, you know, hey, don't 57 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.879 don't do it during a drought season. I see what you're saying. Yeah, 58 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:53.399 yeah, well there's truth in that, but there it's also not true. 59 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:57.439 So here's thought that works. If you're using if you're using a salt 60 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.560 based fertilizer, which a lot of our synthetic fie a salt based and you 61 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:04.680 overdo it and you get a lack of moisture. So it's sort of the 62 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:11.319 moisture in the soil has a concentrated salt content in it, you can burn 63 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.439 plants with that. But if you fertilize properly with a salt based fertilizer, 64 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.000 don't overdo it, watered in really good and keep it adequately moist, then 65 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:26.079 it's not a problem. A natural slow you know, an organic type fertilizer 66 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.120 typically is not going to have a salt base to it, and so you're 67 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.560 not going to be able to burn with those either or and so that that's 68 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.079 kind of the difference. So your azaleas are taking up nutrients every day, 69 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:42.120 and so gradually feeding them with a slow release or feeding them in small amounts 70 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.079 with a not slow release. Either one is okay, right, Because I 71 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.160 was going to use some medina on it, got it was it was organic 72 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.600 stuff that I put on her. So yeah, putting on me to it 73 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.600 wouldn't hurt them, No, it wouldn't. You're not gonna you're not gonna 74 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.839 burn them with a medina. And you know that that's just the only thing. 75 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.240 Sometimes people you know, they get a good a good fertilizer, maybe 76 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.639 a synthetic and it you know it is maybe a salt based it's a good 77 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.560 fertilizer. But they just you know how we are. If a t spoon's 78 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.639 good, a tablespoon's better, And so we dump it on and then we 79 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.439 half watered in, and now we got a very salty soil solution. But 80 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.279 that's created by the applicant, the fertilizer applier, not by the product. 81 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.000 That's the It's a user error. I guess when that kind of thing happens. 82 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.199 All right, I appreciate it. I'm gonna go put it on there 83 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.000 later on. All right, Hey, I thank you for the call. 84 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.120 I appreciate that very much. Let's see, I believe we've got somebody else 85 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:40.639 on the line. Let's see. This is a garden line you're on. 86 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.720 How can we help? Ah, yes, sir, I am. I'm 87 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:48.439 not really sure what the proper term for it is. I've heard they're called 88 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:54.240 potato plants. It's a vine. It's growing on my spins and it gets 89 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:58.879 these big round I guess what you're supposed to be potatoes? I don't know. 90 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.639 Oh you yeah, I know that's called an air potato. Okay, 91 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:08.600 yes, sir. I've tried so many different things to try to kill this 92 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.920 thing off, to quit it, keep it from growing on my bins and 93 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.360 I just can't kill this thing off. And I wondered if you had any 94 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:20.399 suggestions what might do it in once and for all. Yeah, Number one, 95 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.279 they form potatoes. So when they form, get those out of there, 96 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.079 because those are essentially like the seed pieces if you will of the vine 97 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.000 propagating. Secondly, find out where it's coming out, and you can dig 98 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:38.439 up the tuber that's underneath there to get rid of it. Another option is 99 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:46.240 to spray the vines with a product containing triclopier triicl o pyr, and with 100 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.319 the tricopier it will translocate down and do a pretty good job. You may 101 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.240 have to do more than once, but just be careful with it because it 102 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.879 kills. It kills anything brushy, anything broad leaf, wheaty, and if 103 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:00.519 you get a lot on your lawn, it can damage your Sain Augustine in 104 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.240 the heat too. So and be very curious that if I could just care 105 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:09.399 anything that's close to it, I can read plant and grow. I mean, 106 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.720 I'm just the main thing I want to do is get it off my 107 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.360 bins. I've tried, but you know, you know what I would what 108 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.519 I would do is get the Tracyle pier. And by the way, you're 109 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.800 going to see it for sale and something like poison ivy, poison oat killer 110 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:28.040 or something maybe with a name like brush be Gone or something on the in 111 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.279 the home garden market. And put a little bit of your vegetable oil catchen 112 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:37.480 vegetable ottle with it and try try just dabbing it right on the vine. 113 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.559 You can I use those little foam brushes like you buy to paint their throwaway, 114 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.480 a little wooden handled foam brushes and just just dip it in there and 115 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.759 just wipe it on the vine, especially down near the base. And okay, 116 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.879 that works. Well, that's how farmers kill brush with Tricolo pier. 117 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.440 They put a diesel oil in it to make it stick and soak in and 118 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.919 that'll prevent you having to spray all the foliage. I think you have success 119 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.919 with that, but you want to mix it very strong. Try to try 120 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:13.480 color clear, try chlow here, tri Clo pyr. But um, let's 121 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:20.120 see what part of the listening area are you in up in Conra. Okay, 122 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:22.679 Well, if you if you go to an Ace hardware store or if 123 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.200 you head out, you might give them a call at a and a that's 124 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:30.639 your hometown nursery out there towards Montgomery, and they probably have something with triclopier 125 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.120 in it. But just tell them it's like, do you have like a 126 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.120 poison ivy killer or something along those lines, And that's what it because I 127 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.440 have some poison ivy I need to get rid of. Tricle Au pair works 128 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.399 on whatever. The birds plant seeds when they poop, so poison ivy, 129 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.000 hackberry trees, you know, all those kind of things. The birds are 130 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.519 eating the seed and they're dropping them in your fence lines and under the power 131 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.840 line, under the tree. That's why those plants are there, and so 132 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.159 all those things. Striclepayer works. All right, Okay, well, I 133 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.320 appreciate your help today. Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate 134 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.399 that call. Thank you very much. You know, if you are looking 135 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:18.000 for a quality liquid product to feed your plants through this summertime, Microlife has 136 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.440 just what you're looking for. They have the Biomatrix that's the orange label. 137 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.840 I use that one on my house plants. It's a seven one three ratio, 138 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.320 so it's got a lot of nitrogen in it, and that nitrogen supports 139 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.399 foliage growth. It supports a vigor. That's what nitrogen does for plants, 140 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.240 and our house plants or foliage plants by and large, and it does just 141 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.200 it's outstanding. It has beneficial microbes that get into the potting soil in the 142 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.799 house and help the root systems outside. Try the blue label that's the Ocean 143 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:48.279 Harvest. It's a fish based fertilizer. It's a four two three ratio and 144 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.559 it just works on anything you got outside. If it's blooming, it works 145 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.559 fine. If it's foliage, it works fine. You can dilute it and 146 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:00.200 use it as a folior spray. It's not going to burn your plants. 147 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:05.080 Its Microlife Orange label Biomatrix and blue label Ocean Harvest. One for inside, 148 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:09.320 one for outside. You need to have a court jug of each where you 149 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.480 keep your plants supplies. I keep mine unto the kitchen sink, and I 150 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.279 just just the other day I went there and mixed up some and a gallon 151 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.360 of water and took care of all my house plants and they were very happy 152 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.320 as a result, which of course they always are. If you have not 153 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.840 been up to Buchanans lately, you have not been to Buchanans, you know, 154 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.440 Buchanans Plants up in the Heights there on Eleventh Street. The thing I 155 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.600 like about going to Buchanas, well, right now, the thing I like 156 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.799 about going to Buchanans is there's shade everywhere, so when you walk through, 157 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:45.039 you can actually shop and enjoy yourself without standing in the blazing hot summer sun. 158 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.519 They just it's a really wonderful setting. If you've ever been there, 159 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.840 you know what I'm talking about. You can go online to Buchanans Plants dot 160 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.399 com. But they are like your hometown specialists when it comes to natives. 161 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:01.639 That is their main focus. That's what they really excel beyond beyond all. 162 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.279 They've got a table just for Houston natives. But don't just think of Buchanans 163 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.200 as natives only. Do you need herbs? Do you need house plants? 164 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.279 Do you need perennials, Do you need plants for the shade? And on 165 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.600 and on and on? Do you need products? All the fertilizers I talk 166 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.919 about, You're going to find him at Buchanans. The soils I talk about, 167 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.480 You're going to find him at Buchanans. Buchanans Plants in the Heights. 168 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.120 It's just it's just a fun place to shop, and you got a little 169 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.919 time this afternoon, that would be a great thing to do, or maybe 170 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.840 this morning, get over there and check them out. They've always got something 171 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.399 going on. Sign up for their newsletter because they have incredibly good information that 172 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.039 comes free to you in the email where you can learn more about plants and 173 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.200 be up ahead of the game when it comes to what's the latest special, 174 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.080 because you definitely will know in those kinds of things are going on. You're 175 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.360 listening to garden Line and I'm your host, skip Rick. You're our phone 176 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:01.080 number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 177 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:07.200 one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's see. I'm gonna just make because 178 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:13.799 another mention about watering on our plants. I was talking about overwatering and underwatering. 179 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.919 You just want to be careful too when you water. If you can 180 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.639 keep it off the foliage, it's better because with it being so hot, 181 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.720 people watering a lot every time you went the foliage, it just makes diseases 182 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:31.399 proliferate more so. Drip irrigation is good, but the less frequent watering also 183 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.279 helps because you avoid getting it all over the foliage. Well. Let's take 184 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.840 a break here, we'll be right back seven one three two one two fifty 185 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.320 eight seventy four and SKIP producer Ryan here joining the show. Good morning, 186 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.279 Yeah, good morning. Just wanted to say before we went to break to 187 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.960 all our callers out there, we are doing things a little differently this morning. 188 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.720 Our normal studio is under maintenance, so we may not be able to 189 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.559 process your call. But if you hear the station and you're on hold, 190 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.360 you're in. Don't go anywhere, and we may just have to process you 191 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.440 on the air. So it's just one of those things. We're working through 192 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.240 it. So we're so happy to have you guys with garden line. Like 193 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.759 Skip said someone three two one two, KTR five eight seven four, that'll 194 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.879 get you in here. And by the way, we're doing a great job 195 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.879 holding those strings between the ten cans taught so we can hear each other. 196 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:16.200 Ryan, I appreciate that exactly. Yeah, so I just wanted to give 197 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.120 you callers that heads up. We're not ignoring you, just having some difficulties 198 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.320 that we're working through, so hopefully we'll be able to process you soon. 199 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.039 But like I said, if you're on hold, you're in, so don't 200 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:52.360 go anywhere. We'll be right back with more garden Line times. Are afraid. 201 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.960 Good morning, you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 202 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.639 Richter, and we are here to answer your gardening questions. On this Saturday 203 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.399 morning. It's going to be a beautiful day for gardening. I can just 204 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:07.840 already tell you that, because every day is a beautiful day for gardening. 205 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.879 Hey, if you live down in the area, let's say around League City, 206 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.639 Santa Fe, Dickinson's, Lamark, Clear Lake City, l come into 207 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:22.120 Reale all those places. Your hometown feed store is League City Feed Now West 208 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.799 and Madison Funderberg operate the place, and I mean it is when you walk 209 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:31.879 in there, it's like you've walked into the traditional hometown feed store. I 210 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.320 mean, with the traditional kind of service. They got all the products you 211 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.519 need. Of course, they are feeds, so they got all the kinds 212 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.919 of things you would expect, like a premium quality pet food or things for 213 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.799 your backyard chicken needs and so on. But they also carry the fertilizers that 214 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.440 we talk about, they carry the soil blends that we talk about. They've 215 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.840 got a good selection of different kinds of pest control products as well, so 216 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.679 You're not going to go wrong with League City Feed. In fact, I 217 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.080 think you will find it refreshing to go to a place like that to have 218 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.120 the kind of service that they give there. Now, you can give m 219 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:04.559 a call at two eighty one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three 220 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.320 three two sixteen twelve. Hey, they're open from Monday through Saturday from nine 221 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:14.279 am to six pm and closed on Sunday. So today's to get over Today 222 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.039 is the day to get over there and get your shopping done. Say hey, 223 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.399 do them for me. I always enjoy going into League City Feed. 224 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.200 I just find I don't know, I just love the feel of going into 225 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.159 a place like that that just sort of makes you feel like you're at home. 226 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.559 It's maybe the kind of feed store or some of you grew up with 227 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.600 and and you know what I'm talking about. If that's the case, League 228 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.480 City Feed down in League City. By the way, they're on Highway three, 229 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.039 a few blocks south of Highway ninety six, so that makes them really 230 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.440 easy to find, easy to get to and meet ope until six I mean 231 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.440 you need to swing by after work on any given day. They're going to 232 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.360 be there. League City Feed, Well, we're here to answer your gardening 233 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.159 questions. And I believe Josh, do we have or Josh Ryan, do 234 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:57.919 we have somebody? Yes, we do have someone on hold and skip iled. 235 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.120 I thought I'd be able to process system. I was not, So 236 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.960 we're just gonna go straight to our collar. There you go, line number 237 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.160 one. You're on the air. Good morning, Good morning. How are 238 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.880 you doing well? We're good. We're good, other than we're kind of 239 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:17.799 dealing with some digital gremlins here. But other than that awesome question, I 240 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.279 am. I'm down in Angleton, and my soil is a little bit play, 241 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.200 kind of red play. And I planted a couple of plum trees and 242 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.680 they seem to be living, but they're not thriving. I don't know if 243 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.359 that has to do with the clay soil or if they just take time to 244 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:41.119 get hold. How long did you plan them. I'll plant it on before 245 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:47.960 I guess before the summer, so three or four months ago. Okay, 246 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.160 Well, you know they can take a little while to get going. But 247 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.480 if it's a heavy clay soil, they may be struggling with that soil. 248 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.440 If you can put a lot of composite organic matter in the soil, even 249 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.559 some expanded shail things to kind of open the soil up. They're gonna thrive 250 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.119 better if the area is a little bit low. So when it rains or 251 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:12.440 when you water, water tends to sit. Then plums and peaches are gonna 252 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:18.279 really not like that. And so it could be a drainage issue, or 253 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.240 it could be an overwatering issue, or it could just be a soil quality 254 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.960 issue. All right, So we need to add something to the soil when 255 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.279 our plant. It seems like every time I plant comes in, it dies 256 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.200 before it starts to grow. It like takes the quality. You know, 257 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.680 Yeah, you know, if you've got that kind of soil, I think 258 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:41.799 what I do is, you know, when you decide, hey, I 259 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.559 want to put in some fruit trees, go ahead and bring in a good 260 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.400 quality mix with hopefully with a little bit of expanded shale in it, and 261 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.519 just work up a large area. You know, if you could get maybe 262 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:57.039 eight foot wide area even for a fruit tree, really built up and a 263 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.680 little bit raised up so the excess can drain away when it's too wet, 264 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.559 I think you'll be off to a better start that way. But you know, 265 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:08.559 of course I'm not there sitting looking at your place, and so I 266 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:14.200 can't I can't for sure see what all might be going on. But that's 267 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.519 that's really common in a clay. Okay, my dad said, we can't 268 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:23.440 do a haircat over the tomb. There you go. I guess all right, 269 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.440 Well, thank you, I appreciate it. Hey, thank you for 270 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.839 the call. I appreciate that. Say, if you are wanting to take 271 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.000 your landscape up a notch, peer escapes is a place. They're the ones. 272 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.519 I don't know if you were listening. We had Jason on uh and 273 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.319 Bob his designer, and they were on the other day and we had a 274 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.079 really good time. Peer escapes is that one stop shop. I mean, 275 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.960 whatever you need if you're want to renovate your landscape. I mean I'm talking 276 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.839 about I need a new hardscape, I need to improve drainage, I need 277 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.279 the irrigation worked on, I need rock borders. They can do it all. 278 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.880 Peer escapes. Do you go to peerscapes dot com and find out more 279 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.319 about what they can do or just give them a call. Two eight one 280 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.599 three seven zero five zero six zero. That's two eight one three seven zero 281 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:15.079 five zero six zero. Pierscapes is they're professionals. They know what they're doing. 282 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.920 Their employees are tenured, they've been there a long time. It's a 283 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:23.000 first class, one stop shop, and that's exactly what you need. I 284 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.279 mean, it's easy for us to go out and pick plants. We like, 285 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:32.079 it's something altogether different for somebody to design the space and to make it 286 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:34.720 a place that you want to go out in the outside and enjoy. Maybe 287 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.319 it's some landscape lighting. That's another thing they do a great job of over 288 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:44.920 there at Peer Scapes two eight one three seven zero five zero six zero. 289 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.480 Well, Nikki, I believe we're going to be doing a little bit of 290 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:53.319 news here, so we shall. I'm looking I'm looking around a monitor trying 291 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:57.839 to see Nikki over here high. You know, we could have a comedic 292 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:00.920 element to the show if we brought a video camera in here and watch me 293 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:07.359 trying to crawl around on the equipment. Gets something to work here? All 294 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:22.880 right, it's all yours. It ain't that state of pain. And I 295 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.960 can tell by the smell of the perfume. It's like forty dollar suits. 296 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:30.240 I like, somebody's in a lot of trouble to me, right, you're 297 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.319 listening to I picked the wrong song I was met Dirty Laundry by Don Henley. 298 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.920 That's dirty laundry, dirty laundry, bubbleheady bleached blonde on. Hey, 299 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:42.119 you're listening to garden Line. I know this isn't a music show, but 300 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.880 we can try. I'm your host. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 301 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:52.559 and our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 302 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:53.599 Give us a call, Ryano, get you on the board. Well, 303 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.839 we'll be glad to talk about whatever you are interested in. Listen. 304 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.720 If you're thinking about retiring, maybe you know you've been thinking, you know 305 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.440 it's time to move and settle in somewhere and just enjoy my retirement years. 306 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:11.400 If you're an active adult age fifty five and better, Dellweb bills communities for 307 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.079 you. And we're not talking about going out to pass year. We're talking 308 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:18.000 about still thoroughly enjoying life, living an active lifestyle. That's dell Weeb. 309 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.599 There's a new community less than two miles from Fulsure, from downtown Fullsure. 310 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:27.440 It's on three fifty nine. It has those designs that Dellweb has that are 311 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:32.799 just inspired. It is a beautiful place. The cool thing about this community 312 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.799 is it's got a community garden going in that I'm helping them with and that 313 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.519 you know, if you're a gardener, I mean, how can you do 314 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:44.200 better than beautiful home, beautiful community, lots of activities that are built around 315 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.160 you. Plus you have a nice place set up just for you to go 316 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.519 and enjoy gardening to grow the things you want to grow. Go to dellweb 317 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.000 dot com slash Houston for more information or just give them a call to eight 318 00:22:55.039 --> 00:23:00.480 one four five nine zero six zero nine. I believe we have Jason on 319 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.240 the line and we're gonna head out there. Hello, Jason, how are 320 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:06.720 you this morning? Hey? All right you, I'm well, Thank you 321 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.440 for calling. Yes, sir, Hey, I've got a question. I 322 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:14.880 got some pecan trees that the squirrels planning. Okay, they planned the pecans 323 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.319 when I threw them out like three years ago, and there's little trees that 324 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.960 popped up okay, and I'm wondering, is it right now it's a good 325 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.839 time to dig them up and free planom. I want to plan them and 326 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.559 like a big pot or something in the yard. So okay, well, 327 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.119 it's gonna be hard to grow up acon and a pot, even if it's 328 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.160 a big pot. No, no, no. So right here we have 329 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:44.799 a lot of clay. So what I do is I dig a hole in 330 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:48.599 the ground, hopefully two foot deep, and it put something around it so 331 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.920 it never gets damaged by mower or something, you know what I'm saying. 332 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.640 Okay, well, here's the thing. You want to wait until about the 333 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:03.000 first of November to make that dig and move of the trees. They need 334 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:06.039 to be the pressure needs to all be off of them. This is like 335 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:10.559 the highest pressure time on them. And so if you want, you could 336 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:14.079 do a cut a route here and there on the size light, go out 337 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.880 about a foot from the tree with a little sharpshooter type shovel, go straight 338 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:21.359 down, you know, eight or ten inches, and then just come straight 339 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:23.359 back up and do that on maybe two or three sides of the tree. 340 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:30.240 And that cuts us some roots that then they'll branch and proliferate, so when 341 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:33.920 you transplant them, they transplant easier. You just want to be very minimal 342 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.640 about that, and you want to keep that area very moist so that the 343 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.839 new roots can proliferate and then when fall comes it'll be ready for you to 344 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.240 dig and move. Okay, all right, well, hey, I appreciate 345 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.440 it. Hey, thanks for the call. I appreciate that. Thank you. 346 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.279 Yes, sir, well you're listening to Guarden Line. I am your 347 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.799 host, Skip Richter and our phone number seven one three two one two five 348 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:02.720 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You 349 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:07.160 know, if you are looking for a fertilizer for your long this summer, 350 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.839 you're not going to do better than a quality fertilizer from Nitrofoss. And one 351 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.839 of my favorite it's the Silver Bag. I mean, you know Nitrofoss, 352 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.519 the nineteen four ten, the Super Turf. I mean you remember it however 353 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.160 you want, remember nineteen four ten, Remember Super Turf. I think it's 354 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:30.960 easiest to remember the Silver Bag. It is gradually released. The chemistry of 355 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:36.000 that is such that the nitrogen cannot get loose until a period of time has 356 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:37.559 passed. And so what does that mean. That means you don't get a 357 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.119 flush of growth. That means you're not mowing more. That means you're not 358 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.759 having top growth at the expense of root growth. You're not promoting disease or 359 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.200 chinch bug attack or other things that can happen when we overdo it. So 360 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.799 Nitrofoss is the way to go. You can find nitrofoss all over the place. 361 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.720 I mean everywhere. That all the places we talk about here. You 362 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:03.240 know, our feed stores are nurseries. Certainly the Ace hardware stores all carry 363 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:06.759 nitrofiles. It's one of the easy products to find around town. And super 364 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:08.920 Turf as a product that if you have not fertilized your lawn this summer yet, 365 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:11.960 now's the time to get that done because it's going to carry you all 366 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.799 the way into the fall season. We got somebody else over there waiting on 367 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:19.680 the lines. Yes, we have Maureene and Lakeside of States, well Marine 368 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:26.480 and Lakeside of State's good morning, Good morning. I have probably a brief 369 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:33.119 question. My Okra is doing very well and it's almost as tall as I 370 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.920 am and I'm five to five. So I wanted to get an understanding. 371 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:45.359 Will it continue to have fruit there? Yes, it will. It just 372 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.720 keeps growing taller and keeps having more fruit. Now Okra has a way of 373 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.000 sort of playing out at some point where it's not producing. Yeah, that's 374 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.680 what I'm trying to figure out what's going on, because it's just I've got 375 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.680 I'm overwhelmed right now, and so I have neighbors will be very happy. 376 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.640 But I just wanted to know when it sort of slows down, that I 377 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.559 have a heads up that it's going to happen, and then I won't have 378 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.839 anymore. Well, it's not like you don't have any more, it just 379 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.960 slows down a whole lot. But here's what people do. If you've got, 380 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.319 you know, a decent sized little ochra patch, you can go in 381 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:23.519 and probably, let's see, I would do it about now about every two 382 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:27.880 or three plants, cut them off, oh, just a little above knee 383 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:33.359 high, and they will resprout and you have all these fresh new terminals. 384 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.160 You know, okra is basically a big old bad boopole coming out of the 385 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:38.920 ground, and you'll have a whole bunch of them. Now, you won't 386 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.839 get anything from that plant for a while, but when we get to late 387 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:48.119 summer and early fall, it will be producing like crazy, whereas plants that 388 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.119 weren't cut back maybe dwindling. So you sort of hedge your bet there. 389 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.480 You know, you don't cut them all off, because then you're out of 390 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:57.960 okra for a period of time. But you can do that great time. 391 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:00.799 Yeah, you can do half of I mean, if you've got more, 392 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.680 Okrah, than you know what to do with, which is often the case. 393 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.799 It's a good way to spread things out a little bit. Yeah, 394 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.240 okay, I will listen. What is your main topic for today? I 395 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.759 just turned the radio. I talk about whatever you guys are interested in talking 396 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:19.119 about. But I love when someone I know, but you do more than 397 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:23.480 that. You have a little segment on flowers, and I love it because 398 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.559 I like to hear the different things. So I'll just have to hang on 399 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.599 and listen and see where you go. Well, I've been talking water this 400 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.720 morning, because you believe it or not, it's something on people's mind. 401 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.839 So talking a little bit about that. Who knows? Okay, um, 402 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.480 yeah, ALRIGHTY have a good show. Hey, thank you for the call. 403 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:47.279 I appreciate that. Our numbers seven one three, two, one two 404 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:52.839 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 405 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.960 Yeah, we like to talk about whatever you guys are interested in. So 406 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:57.839 you know, as you as I see the different calls. I work at 407 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:03.640 Higher Life Extension in service during the week and we get a lot of calls 408 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.319 and so I kind of go by what are people asking about? And that's 409 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:10.119 probably what we need to be talking about and the same thing. Same kind 410 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:14.599 of calls are true here when we get on garden Line people call them. 411 00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.559 They have the same kinds of basic questions that we're dealing with, so makes 412 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.200 it kind of easy. Hey, if you've not been to Arbigate recently, 413 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.759 you need to get out there. They always have something of interest. I 414 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.319 mean they sell free trees twelve months out of the year, which is just 415 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.400 amazing, beautiful rose selection. It just always a place one of those garden 416 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.160 centers what we call the destination garden center that somebody comes to town from the 417 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.480 family and you put them in the car and say, come look at this. 418 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.000 You got to see this, even if you're not a gardener. I 419 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:47.640 mean, the gift shops and just the beauty out there is wonderful. But 420 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.680 they have a one two three system for soil and it's one food that feeds 421 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:55.920 anything with roots and that is an organic product, one percent organic product. 422 00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.839 It's a four four three plus ten percent calcium and you can put that on 423 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.240 your plants, I shrubs, trees, vegetables, you know, and even 424 00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.839 lawns. I mean, you can use it any way you want. It 425 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.519 works super super well. Being organic as well, it provides all the extra 426 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.680 microbes in addition to the nutrients that it provides. And they've got the soil 427 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:21.920 complete, and the soil complete is it's a blend. It's got a compost, 428 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.000 and it's got a large particle sand and it has expanded shale. What 429 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.240 is that? Well, think of kitty litter that's been fired you know, 430 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.039 the old clay kitty litter. Think, just think of that. That's not 431 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.920 what this is. But it's been fired in and oven so hot that it's 432 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:41.160 like little rocks and they're porous and they expand and they look more like that 433 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.119 little lava rock you put used to put on your barbecue pit. Right Well, 434 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.880 on a microscopic level, that's what they're looking like. You put that 435 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.480 in clay soil and it holds it open and organic matter to decomposes away and 436 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.279 the clay sort of shrinks back down fairly tight. Again. It's not a 437 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:02.000 twenty year fix, but expanded shale is it gives you a long term fix 438 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:03.640 on that. And that's why I like to see that in these products. 439 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:08.000 The other thing that they have is an compost complete, and that's two different 440 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:14.440 kinds of composts that at very high biological activity in the compost. They have 441 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:18.599 macronutrients, they have micronutrients, and they also have the expanded shale in the 442 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:25.119 organic compost. Complete so one two three of food to feed anything, with 443 00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:29.319 roots of soil for any application, and a compost to improve any and also 444 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:32.359 and you're all finding it there at Arburgate there by the way, if you 445 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.759 haven't been out there, they're one and a half mile west of two forty 446 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:40.279 nine in tumble On twenty nine twenty So just head west on twenty nine twenty 447 00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:45.920 a mile and a half oricle online arbergate dot com. Really easy to find. 448 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.599 And if you haven't been there before, you got to get out there. 449 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:51.480 If you have, it's time to get out there anyway, because getting 450 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.079 those supplies ready. We're getting ready for fall, by the way, pretty 451 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.039 quick. Here. It's time to begin planting some of our fall crops, 452 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:04.359 and so having the soil right is essential before you start putting in seeds and 453 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:08.079 plants. Well, our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight 454 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:13.880 seventy four, Ryan, we got somebody on hold there. Okay, I 455 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:15.279 believe it's time for a break. Why don't we do that? You got 456 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.680 the phone number. Give Ryan a call and we will be looking at you 457 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:37.079 first when we come back. Here we go. There's some music. Hey, 458 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.160 you're listening to garden line. We are glad you're listening, and we're 459 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:42.799 glad you're calling too. We're here to talk about all kinds of things. 460 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:45.960 It might be of interest to you. By the way, it is hurricane 461 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.480 season, right, and what happens when hurricanes come through, Well, they 462 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.279 take a toll on our trees. You ought to get a hold of Affordable 463 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.519 Tree Service. We're talking about Martin Spoon, Moore, his wife Joe. 464 00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:59.079 One of them will ancher when you call. That's a nice thing about a 465 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:04.240 company like this. The owners are actively involved and they basically answer the phones 466 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.480 for the business. You can go online to aff Tree Service dot com or 467 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:13.480 just give him a call. Seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty 468 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.359 three. Seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. They'll look 469 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:20.880 take a look at your trees. What needs to happen, What doesn't need 470 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:22.599 to happen. Maybe there's a dead limb, Maybe there's a limb hanging down 471 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:28.000 low they could break off during a storm. Perhaps some powerline drops coming in. 472 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.119 Got a limb over them. But they do everything an Affordable Tree, 473 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.920 I mean not just you know, hurricane season. They do pruning, they 474 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:37.960 do deep root feeding, They come out and do consultations. And if you 475 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:42.880 ever are going to have anything done around your tree, trenching, building, 476 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:45.880 anything like that, don't do it until you have Martin come out and take 477 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.480 a look at those trees. Because once damage is done, you can't undo 478 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:54.160 it. It's really hard to recover from a mistake, and they can help 479 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:59.119 you avoid that again. Affordable tree dot Com seven one three, six nine 480 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:04.160 nine twenty six sixty three. We're gonna go out to Pasadena now and tell't 481 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.039 to Ze. Actually, unfortunately Ze dropped off. Z if you're there, 482 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.719 give us a call back. We're gonna go to Lisa in sugar Land. 483 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:12.880 All right, let's do it. Good morning, Lisa, Hey, good 484 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:17.519 morning. I love my rank jud And I'm wondering what the fascinated care for 485 00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:22.440 those I am knew at Gartneys and flowers and like got and I have a 486 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.960 couple of my front porch. I took a little vacation and we forgot to 487 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:32.320 water them. Came home water them. They to like back from brown spots 488 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:37.440 on the leaves. Just tell me walking through how does care for them. 489 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.719 Hadrang just want to be kept evenly moist. They want to be in very 490 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.679 bright light, but not necessarily direct sun. You know a little bit of 491 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.840 morning sun's okay, but a real bright dapple shade would be hadrangja heaven. 492 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.639 But the main thing is they do not put up with drying out. They 493 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.679 don't. You know, we buy these floorish tadran just to bring home put 494 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.119 inside the house. And I'll tell you, if you can get one of 495 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.039 those to last more than two weeks, you're doing You're doing something because inevitably, 496 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.920 you know, we forget to water them, and then they do get 497 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.960 the brown tips and edges and brown blotches and the leaves, and they just 498 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.440 don't like that. So keep them moist using acidic type fertilizer for them. 499 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:19.360 In general, that's generally the best way to go, and just give them 500 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.840 gradual feeding over time. Don't dump a bunch of fertilizer on them all at 501 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.599 once. Very good, and then the leaves that have some brown spots drike 502 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.639 cut those off. You know, it depends on how much it is. 503 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:32.639 I mean, if you know, like half the leaves on your plant or 504 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.440 getting brown. Your plant needs the green leaf area, So as long as 505 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.639 there's some functioning leaf area, I would leave them until you get some fresh 506 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:45.320 new growth and new leaves, just to avoid taking all the carbohydrate production away 507 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:51.280 that's left. Even with the brown spots, I'd leave them and kind of 508 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:53.679 embrace the ugly for just a little while, try to get some new growth, 509 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:58.320 and then you can pull those o ones off. Very well. Well, 510 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.679 thank you, you have a great day. Thank you, Lisa. 511 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:05.079 I appreciate your call very very much. For any of you that are living 512 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.239 out there in the Kingwood area, you are rich with garden centers. I 513 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:12.679 mean you've got Kingwood Garden Center, which by the way, Kingwood Garden Centers 514 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.119 over on Stone Hollow Drive, and then you have Warren Southern Gardens on North 515 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:20.760 Park Drive. So I mean and when I say if you're living in Kingwood, 516 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:22.960 I mean Humble, a Tasca Seed, a Porter, or New Caney. 517 00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:28.519 You know that whole area out there, awesome, unbelievable garden centers. 518 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:32.239 They have all the products I talk about if you hear about them here, 519 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.199 you're like a fertilizer, for example, or a soil, an excellent selection 520 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.639 of every kind of soil. But you can imagine, you know, from 521 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:45.760 potting sail mixes to composts, to rose soil for building beds, to a 522 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:50.119 veggie and herb soil. I mean, they've got them all there, plus 523 00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:54.639 the plants, the plants, the pottery. They have ability to help you 524 00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:59.599 with making a design and a container. Maybe you want a multiplant container. 525 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:04.360 I just did some this summer just the other day actually for hot weather flowers 526 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.719 and foliage, and they just look beautiful. I mean, it's an easy, 527 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.760 fast way to do it all there at Kingwood Garden Center. Hey, 528 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.039 by the way, Kingwood and Warren's both seven days a week, both open 529 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.199 seven days a week, easy to find, easy to get to, and 530 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.519 a pleasure to shop at either of those places. Let's head back to the 531 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:25.800 phones. I think we're going on to Rockport and talk to George. Hello, 532 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:31.800 George, Hi, good morning. Um. So, I was in 533 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:40.440 in Zion National Park about a month ago down in southern Utah and they have 534 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:47.639 the the Kislopenia plant, the bird, yeah, the bird of Paradise plant 535 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:53.159 all over the place over there, and I only mainly see the red one 536 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:58.119 here. And I grabbed a bunch of seats from the plants there, and 537 00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:01.840 just about all the seeds are growing now. But I'm wondering, why is 538 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.079 it that I only see the red one instead of I don't never really see 539 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.599 the yellow one. Is there's something about that the yellow one that yeah, 540 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.599 maybe it isn't. They're both they're both fine. They're both beautiful. The 541 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:19.559 red one is a little more the flowers are a little bigger and bolder. 542 00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.440 The yellow one is beautiful because it has yellow flowers, beautiful red stamens coming 543 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:27.679 out. But it's more of a kind of a lanky, open plant, 544 00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.519 I guess, is how I would describe it. It gets it typically gets 545 00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:34.239 a little bigger than the red one would. But they're both good. They're 546 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.199 both good. It's just I think the red is a little gaudier, showier, 547 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.119 you know, it's something to take the people's eyes off the pink flamingos 548 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:45.400 in the front yard. Okay, yeah, because because the ones that I 549 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.400 saw were, I mean to me, they were just as a showy and 550 00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.239 beautiful, and I was like, well, you bet, you bet well, 551 00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:52.239 those are beautiful. Glad you got some seed. Hey, I'm gonna 552 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.360 have to go to break but thank you so much for the call our phone 553 00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:00.920 number seven one three two one two five eight seven four Ryan a call who 554 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:02.039 gets you on the board and when we come back from break, you'll be 555 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:08.320 first up. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 556 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:15.159 services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with skip rictor so 557 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:40.000 just watching so many Well, good morning, good Saturday morning, and it 558 00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:44.239 is beautiful outside. If you have been outside yet, you can go outside 559 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:46.519 and take a look at this. This is really gonna be a good day. 560 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.079 Hey, morning is a good time to get a little more work done. 561 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.599 You know, you get up in a hundred degree temperatures, just a 562 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:58.159 little tougher to get some things done. But it's still time now to get 563 00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.840 it done, you know it number time. I understand we want to run 564 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:05.880 inside. I head for the air conditioning myself. But it's amazing how much 565 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.239 you can get done just a little time in the morning, a little time 566 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.519 late in the day, and there's plenty to do. Right now. This 567 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.239 is a time to begin for planting for our fall garden. You know, 568 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.280 if you've got crops that are carrying on, you want to take care of 569 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.480 them. Things like eggplants and peppers and okra. You know those eggplants and 570 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:27.679 peppers both will really be producing well again once we get a little break and 571 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:30.320 the weather here coming up. So hang onto those plants because you will have 572 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:35.960 your best harvest of the year at the end of the year when it comes 573 00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.480 to peppers. At least, that's been my experience every time, because in 574 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:42.360 the spring your plants are small, so how many peppers can you hang on 575 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.119 a small plant? But you take care of a plant through the summer. 576 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.559 You got a nice sizable plant in the fall, and oh my gosh, 577 00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:52.920 it is nachos for Christmas and for football season. Isn't that a nice coincidence 578 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.800 that the Halopenia's produced best in the fall season. That's the way it is. 579 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:02.400 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 580 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:05.679 If you'd like to give me a call, seven one three two on 581 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:09.519 two five eight seven four. I was, you know, bumping and banging 582 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:13.079 along the streets of Houston the other day. You know how it is when 583 00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.199 you go in some parts of town, the soil has shifted so much that 584 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.960 you know, you feel like you're wide and a riding the wall bull or 585 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.480 something like that. Remember Gillies and the wall bull he used to have. 586 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:28.760 It's just so rough, and it's because the soil moves here, it moves 587 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.480 a lot, It gets dry at shrinks, it gets wetted, swells. 588 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:35.159 Well why am I talking about this? Well, because if you have a 589 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.880 house and you have a foundation, that's an issue. If you've got a 590 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:43.079 driveway, if you've got a sidewalk, you know it's an issue. If 591 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.840 you notice sticky doors, if you're if you're bricks on the exterior or cracking, 592 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.519 or maybe there's even sheet rock cracks inside, you may need some foundation 593 00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:54.559 repair and you need to not delay. Don't stick your head in the sand. 594 00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:00.800 Check it out. Find out now. Call Tie Strickland at fix my 595 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:06.719 Slab Foundation Repair. You can go to fix myslab dot com, or you 596 00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.679 can just call two eight one two five five forty ninety nine. Tell them 597 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.960 your guardline listeners, because they'll do a free estimate for you. They're committed 598 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:20.239 to doing things right, they give you a fair price, they show up 599 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:22.400 on time, and they fix it right. If you got a driveway or 600 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:28.440 a sidewalk, same kinds of things going on there, just call fix my 601 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:32.840 Slab foundation repair, have it professionally estimated, look at what is or is 602 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:37.880 not happening, what you need to do and act now, don't put it 603 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.760 off. Tie as a native Ustonian, fifth generation Texan, and he has 604 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.039 been here in the business doing this for a long time. I believe they've 605 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.280 been here now twenty three years in the business. Fix my slab dot com. 606 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:53.719 I'm gonna go now to the phones. Let's see, let's talk to 607 00:42:53.880 --> 00:43:00.880 Michael and Galveston. Hello, Michael, good morning, thank you for taking 608 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:07.400 up the business. Brandy went to a just reward. You're doing a great 609 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:13.360 job. Thank you. M Yeah. Um, there's a world why grout 610 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.679 going on. And there was a lady or guy called in when Randy wood 611 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:24.400 around. I'm talking about how she was getting our air him water from air 612 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:30.079 condition I have our central and I'm not a ball and I don't know if 613 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:36.159 she was talking about either water or both. And um, that'd be a 614 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:43.880 good source or water since and also if you know of a company, um 615 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:52.239 that does that or how to get the directions, Um, I'm sulfur doers 616 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:59.239 to make one and all would be handy. And um, this drought stuff 617 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:07.440 going on now, that's all right? Yeah, thank you, Thank you, 618 00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:09.280 Michael. I appreciate that, and yes there is some information. I 619 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:15.400 don't know a company that comes out and does the condensate collection system for you, 620 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.519 but a lot of people do themselves. Usually got a little tube hanging 621 00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.159 outside the wall of your house that's dripping when the air conditioners running, and 622 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:24.440 you can get a lot of water that way. I don't know the exact 623 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:28.639 data. I do know that just a window unit, which a lot of 624 00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:31.119 people have those. But remember the window units, they'll put out a couple 625 00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.360 of gallons a day, and in a central system can put out quite a 626 00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.599 bit more. And think about that. That is like distilled water. It 627 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.480 is water that is condensed out of the air, and so it is very 628 00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:46.599 pure, very good for plants. And to have even like a little rain 629 00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:52.400 barrel that that drip is directed into would be well worthwhile because you would have 630 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:57.639 some high quality water. And again it's water that's you're either not doing anything 631 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.840 with it and wasting it or you're collecting it, so you're on the right 632 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.039 track. What I would suggest, Michael, is there is a website called 633 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:15.239 Rainwater Harvesting Rainwater Harvesting and then dot TAMU like Texas A and M University TAMU 634 00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:22.280 dot DU Rainwater Harvesting dot TAMU dot e DU And there you can find out 635 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:27.360 about rainwater harvesting and find out condensate collection. If you're a rancher listening to 636 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:31.760 this and you've got you know, just some little shacks and feed covered areas 637 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.000 you can collect water for while wildlife, you can collect water for livestock and 638 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.000 all the information is free and it try to get that website. So I 639 00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:44.159 would recommend you go to there check that out. I think you learn a 640 00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.639 lot. I appreciate that call. By the way, our phone number is 641 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:52.320 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two 642 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.440 one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, we're always glad when we 643 00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:58.599 get a little bit of rain around here. But when you get rain, 644 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.039 what do you get with it? Well, you get mosquitoesses. Houston is 645 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:07.360 mosquitoes worldwide. They make their vacation plans to come to Houston every year because 646 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:09.559 it's such a lovely environment for They're very happy here. You know. They 647 00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:14.440 like the hype, they like the human they like the rain and everywhere water 648 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.440 stands. I'm talking about a thimbleful of water sitting stagnant, you can a 649 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:22.519 mosquito can lay an egg and raise a baby in that amount of water. 650 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.360 I mean, it's that's what we're up against. Sagging gutters. You got 651 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:30.840 to fix them. Standing water underneath the pots and your plants and rain the 652 00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:34.880 bird baths and things like it. You gotta deal with that. Well. 653 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.159 The way we deal with it is number one, dump out those supplies. 654 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:42.719 But when you can't, you need mosquito dunks. And a mosquito dunks are 655 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.320 a little small beige donut. You throw it out there in the standing water, 656 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:49.639 it floats in it. Maybe you got a little drainage ditch behind the 657 00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:52.760 house and nobody's dealing with that, and you can just throw a mosquito dunk 658 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.599 in it. It'll dissolve slowly over time, and it will release a disease 659 00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.880 of mosquitoes. It is safe for birds, it is safe for pets, 660 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:04.639 It is safe for fish, you know, any kind of wildlife and won't 661 00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.519 hurt people. Mosquito dunks are natural, organic way to do it. And 662 00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:10.800 if you've got a large area, you can buy their granules and kind of 663 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:15.280 scatter the granules over a larger area to get a real quick knock down. 664 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.679 You know, you walk back there and you just see mosquito regulars all over 665 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.320 the place in the water. Throw the granules all over it and get that 666 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.599 knocked down now. But the mosquito dunk is a good long term way to 667 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.199 do it. Sometimes when I go on vacation, I'll put a bunch of 668 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.920 houseplants in a little kitty wading pool and maybe an inch or so of water 669 00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:36.880 in there, just to kind of hold them for a while, and then 670 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:38.960 I'll throw a mosquito dunk in and that way when I come home, I 671 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:45.360 haven't been a mosquito breeder. Makes sense, sure does to me our phone 672 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.079 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two 673 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:58.119 one two ktrh. I was talking about watering earlier and watering efficiently and properly. 674 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.599 If you ever have a chance to switch to drip or other kinds of 675 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:07.119 micro sprinkler irrigation, you should take advantage of it. So what's a microsprinkler. 676 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:10.000 We'll think of it as a little drip line. But a little line 677 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:15.239 comes up and you've got a little spurting sprinkler about oh, I don't know, 678 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.679 maybe eight in ten inches up off the ground. Those are really easy 679 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.159 to install. It's like playing with tinker toys. For those of you who 680 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.920 remember that, you just pop them together. The instructions are simple. But 681 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.360 you weave those through a bed and now you've got water on the ground where 682 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:32.920 the roots are, where the plant wants it, not spraying on the foliage. 683 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.239 You know, your Indian hawthorns get all that intimate spoium leaf spot because 684 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.480 we spray the foliage all the time. There's a lot of other diseases that 685 00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:49.199 drip irrigation avoids. It saves water, it's by preventing waste, and it's 686 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.679 just the way to go. It's really easy flower beds. You can use 687 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:54.960 it in shrub beds. I use it in my vegetable garden. I haven't 688 00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:59.280 used it with containers. I got a line that runs along the back patio 689 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:02.400 and little come up from it into each container. So you know how many 690 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.559 times you have the water a container to keep them moist. Would drip irrigation 691 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:09.199 you don't even have to worry about that. It's really really simple, it's 692 00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:15.679 fast, it's easy, not a problem at all to do. The RCW 693 00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:21.000 folks We've been talking about them on Guardenline. I don't know since forever. 694 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.840 My first introduction to RCW was their rose selection. I mean, it's unbelievable. 695 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.760 You can go online and look at it. Their list of roses they 696 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:36.480 carry are like four pages long. It is just an unbelievable list of roses. 697 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:38.440 They're also known for their trees. You know, they grow their own 698 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:45.800 trees up in oh gosh, Plantersville area, and they have fifteen gallons all 699 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:47.280 the way up to two hundred gallons. You can get them planted for you. 700 00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.199 It's just really good. But don't just think RCWS roses and trees, 701 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:58.320 herbs, perennials, annual shrubs, native plants. They have great selection of 702 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:04.000 some of those unbelievable a bowl hibiscus plants that are just so gorgeous that I 703 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:07.280 mean, they just there's nothing more show stopping than some of the hibiscus that 704 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:10.000 they carry out there. And they carry the products. You know, why 705 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.280 are you there? You hear me talk about a fertilizer. They're going to 706 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.280 have it at our CW nursery. They're at Tomball Parkway where it hits Beltway 707 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:19.760 eight, you know, two forty nine at Beltway eight. Right there. 708 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.360 You go online to RCW Nurseries dot com. You can find out more information. 709 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:27.239 By the way. They're open today from eight am to five pm and 710 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.000 tomorrow from ten am to five pm. So it's not hard to find a 711 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:36.360 time to get by RCW Nurseries and you will be really impressed with the color 712 00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.719 that they have. They just know what they're doing. They've been doing it 713 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:44.679 a long time. And people that know our CW love r CW Nursery here 714 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:46.760 here in the Houston area. Well, let's take a break. Our phone 715 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:51.480 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Ryan a 716 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:52.920 call, get you on the board and we'll talk to you when we come 717 00:50:52.920 --> 00:51:09.000 back. And the way this white place partner, good morning. You're listening 718 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:13.760 to garden Line and we're here to talk gardening. That's a big surprise. 719 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:17.719 Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Love 720 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:21.440 visiting with gardeners about all kinds of things like that. You know, I've 721 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.599 been talking about watering today and the importance of watering enough to keep the salm 722 00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:29.000 moist, but not so much that you keep it saggy wet. That is 723 00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:31.840 a big problem, and don't water so often you just a little squirt every 724 00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:37.400 other day is wasting water. I mean, go into it to explain why 725 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:40.400 that is. But in a nutshell, it's just wasting water. If you 726 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:46.679 want a free way of watering your lawn with what it needs but no more, 727 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:52.559 you need to go to the water my yard dot org website water my 728 00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:57.320 yard dot org. Now there's an app. You can get it on Apple 729 00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:00.280 at the Apple Store, on Google Play both, and you download it and 730 00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:04.639 when you connect with them, you know, you give me your address and 731 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.639 what they do is they find the nearest little mini weather station and those are 732 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.679 all over the place. I mean they're a little bit of weather stations like 733 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:15.519 sitting out at a golf course or someplace like that, and it connects you 734 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.000 to them. And so that weather station is looking at solar radiation, at 735 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.920 humidity, at windspeed, at temperature, all those things that affect how much 736 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:30.280 water our grass is using. It crunches them through the scientific formulas that have 737 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:32.480 been researched, proven over the years or recently, you know, they've learned 738 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.400 how to create those formulas by based on turf research. And it sends you 739 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.079 a free email and it says, hey, I got one just the other 740 00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:44.239 day. It said you've used point five eight inches of water in your yard. 741 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:46.000 Because I subscribe to it, it's free for crying out loud. I 742 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:51.760 mean, what a better deal at point five eight so I know exactly how 743 00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:53.320 much water to put on. I don't have to put a whole inch on 744 00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:57.639 that week because I didn't use that much. Maybe you use an inch. 745 00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:01.159 It'll tell you water my yard. You're not gonna find a better better deal 746 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:06.199 than that. I mean, works really really well. Let's now head out 747 00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:08.960 to northeast Houston and talk to Harrison. Hello, Harrison, how are you. 748 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:13.239 Oh I'm doing good. How about you? I'm well, thank you 749 00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:17.079 good. Look here, I have a problem with my indue plant. They 750 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:23.079 keep they keep producing mosquito, lot flies and all that. You know, 751 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:29.239 Okay, wonder look at you get suggested I may be able to use So 752 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.400 what those are? Those are called fungus gnats. And when you keep the 753 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:37.679 top of the soil moist, those fungus gnats they get in there and they 754 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:42.719 eat on that organic material and they proliferate. It's kind of like drain flies. 755 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.159 You know. You get a bunch of junk done in the kitchen sink 756 00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.239 drain and you got these little gnats coming up out of there. It's the 757 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.880 same kind of thing. The simplest thing is let it dry out on top. 758 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.719 Just let it dry out. Some people will spread a little bit of 759 00:53:54.800 --> 00:54:00.320 something over the top, you know, like a kind of grandyear, little 760 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:02.519 gravelly kind of stuff, just to keep them from having access to the wet 761 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:06.800 surface. But that's not necessary. Just let it dry out. There are 762 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:12.880 some some products that will kill fungus gnats, but you can spray on the 763 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:16.400 soil. But you know, I don't. I wouldn't go to the trouble 764 00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:19.960 having to buy those. I would just let that thing dry out a little 765 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:22.639 bit more. I think a good soaking. Let it dry out, and 766 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:27.840 you're gonna stay away from them. Okay. Yeah. Some people will will 767 00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.000 make it their own little sticky card too. You know the little red solo 768 00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:36.039 cup plastic cups. There's a yellow one, and in the yellow one, 769 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.440 if you smear it with kind of an oil or a grease kind of material, 770 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:43.639 they'll go to that land on it and they'll stick to it. It 771 00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:46.800 looks ugly, but you can catch those little gnats flying as adults are drawn 772 00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:51.400 to that yellow and you can capture a whole lot of monitor and kind of 773 00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:57.000 shut it down. All right, Well, let's see we are going to 774 00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:01.440 head now to Frank over in Deer Park. Hello, Frank, Hey, 775 00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:05.840 good morning Skip. I appreciate you in your in the program, your job 776 00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:09.320 you're doing. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I wanted to 777 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:15.760 ask. I think last week you mentioned gallery pre Emergent herbside, and I've 778 00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:19.239 had a problem with neighbors yards not being kept very well, and I get 779 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.039 seats, all kind of weed seats coming in from them. And then a 780 00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:28.039 pipeline heasment in the backyard and used nitros barricade, but it doesn't go very 781 00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:32.119 far. And I was wondering the price of that Galery's like off the chartists 782 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:37.280 to forty five a court, but it goes a long way. It looks 783 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.199 like he's a point three to point five ounces per one thousand square feet, 784 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.880 And so I was wondering, would that you would that be a good thing 785 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:50.039 for a residential lot if I let me get it last a long time. 786 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:53.079 Yeah, it's fine, but um, the barricade should go a long way. 787 00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:57.159 I'm not I'm not quite following, but we don't want to need to, 788 00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.960 you know, get into that. Barricade works very well on broadleaf weeds 789 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:07.679 and on grassy weeds. Gallery is primarily a broadleaf weed pre emergent. Okay, 790 00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:10.559 So if you just are looking at broadleaf weeds, the gallery should work 791 00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:14.639 fine for you. It's a good product for that. But the barricade will 792 00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:19.199 do both. And so you know, it kind depends on what you're going 793 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:27.000 after. I guess Virginia buttonweed and crab grass, okay, preventing crab grass 794 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:32.440 barricade for sure. Virginia buttonweed is a perennial mess and it just is always 795 00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:37.239 there and you pretty much have to hit it with a post emergent product, 796 00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.840 and you're gonna have to hit it more than once. And during the kind 797 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.440 of weather we're having, if you can get very early in the morning and 798 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:51.400 use something called celsius on it, like fahrenheit and celsius, you can as 799 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:52.800 a post emergent, you'll knock it back. But what you're gonna have to 800 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:58.000 do is you're gonna have to hit it again because Virginia buttonweed is not a 801 00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:00.280 one and done spray deal. I mean, it's tough. There are some 802 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.719 other products out there that will work on it post emergent. Typically, we 803 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:07.480 try to hit it as early in the season as we can, poor it 804 00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:12.559 gets so darn hot. And then as we go later in the season you 805 00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:15.800 can you can knock it out too. But but if you wait until later, 806 00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:19.480 it's already produced a ton of little seeds, you know, those those 807 00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:23.440 little white flowers turn into two seeds, and that now you're just starting over 808 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:30.000 again. Okay, well I'll go with that, and I might have to 809 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:31.960 wait to the weather cools a little bit and then I'll stick with the nitro 810 00:57:32.079 --> 00:57:36.440 facet. It does work. It just seems like this other would be a 811 00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:39.960 liquid that I could put out with a garden in sprayer versus a broadcaster. 812 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:43.159 Well that, you know, it's fine. I mean, there's a lot 813 00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:45.440 of good products out there. It's just you know, kind of what are 814 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:49.239 the weeds you need and what season of the year are you in, And 815 00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:51.239 it's you know, it's going back to what I was saying, like, 816 00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:54.599 right now you got Virginia button weed. A pre emergent is not what you 817 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:58.000 need. You need a post emergent. Uh. You know, once I 818 00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:00.480 got up and growing, but you get ahead of them, and the pre 819 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:02.000 emergent is a way to go, that's for sure, and that's why we 820 00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:05.880 recommend them at least a couple of times a year. And it's springing the 821 00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:08.639 fall especially, all right. Sounds like a plan. I appreciate it, 822 00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:13.119 Scoop, Hey, thank you man. I appreciate the call very very much. 823 00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:19.039 We are gonna Yeah. I just wanted to mention I've talked about dell 824 00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.440 weeb before and the chance of you know, getting out and finding a nice 825 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.599 little place to retire and enjoy. You know, Delweb bills communities for active 826 00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:29.880 adults, you know, those of us fifty five and better that want to 827 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.800 keep going in an active, fun lifestyle. They're less than two miles the 828 00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:38.119 new community less than two miles from downtown fulscher on three fifty nine. They're 829 00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:42.840 gonna have a community garden at this community. So with all the Dellweb advantages 830 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:45.119 and they're a bazilion. I'm out there now this community, you're gonna have 831 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:49.199 a community garden. I'm helping them with it. I'm really excited about it. 832 00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:51.920 As a matter of fact, if you want to check it out and 833 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:55.719 discover Dellweb difference for yourself, go to dellweb dot com, slash Houston or 834 00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:02.199 just give them a call two eight one four five zero six zero nine two 835 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:07.320 eight one four five nine zero six zero nine and they can get you set 836 00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:10.239 up. I'll tell you what. Let's head to the phones now. We're 837 00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:15.679 gonna go to Magnolia and talk to do we need to hold Okay, we're 838 00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:17.480 gonna have to Bruno your first when we come back. Sorry about that, 839 00:59:17.559 --> 00:59:21.960 We're about to have to go to a break here. Our phone number is 840 00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:42.519 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, double love and causing 841 00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:51.000 the city rushing by. I said, well, good morning, a beautiful 842 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:53.559 Saturday morning for gardening. You're listening to garden Line and I am your host, 843 00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:57.880 Skip Richter. We're here to answer gardening questions. That's what we're here 844 00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.679 for. That's what we do. Love to have you call talk about whatever 845 01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:04.679 you're interested in. I mean, I can talk about things that I know 846 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:08.000 people are wondering and asking about now, but it's always better when we hear 847 01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:10.679 your questions, because, believe it or not, somebody else is going to 848 01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:15.719 have that same kind of question if you have not done your summer lawn fertilization 849 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:21.440 yet you need to consider getting a hold of some microlife and putting it out 850 01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:25.519 to get those nutrients to the growing grass. Also, when you put out 851 01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:30.320 microlife, you're adding an organic material out there that is going to improve the 852 01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:32.440 soil over time. As you do that, you're just building it up stronger 853 01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.159 and stronger. They didn't it quick fix. This is an ongoing, constant 854 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.840 improvement, over and over and over. Now you're going to get the nutrients 855 01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.519 right away, of course, but it's the long term build that's where you 856 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.760 really see the full benefit. They've got a green bag which is a six 857 01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.559 two four six percent a nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, four percent potassium. 858 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:57.519 They've got a purple bag, which is a human's plus. Think of it 859 01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:02.559 as liquid or concentrated post in a bag. And the humtes are just always 860 01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:07.800 a good idea for our soils. There's so many things that they do enhancing 861 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:10.119 the microbial activity. Of course, there's a lot of nutrients that come out 862 01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:15.199 of a microlife fertilizer, like sixty three essential nutrients that are going to give 863 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:20.079 you that gradual feed in the gradual growth promotion that your lawn needs. Go 864 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:25.000 online Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You can find out 865 01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:29.920 where to buy Microlife, which basically is pretty much everywhere. And also you 866 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:35.079 can learn more about the green bag and the Purple bag that one too combo 867 01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:38.599 punch that will really enhance your lawn as we go through these hot weather and 868 01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:43.920 you're not going to burn with these. They are gradual release over time. 869 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:50.079 Microlife Green, Microlife Purple. It's a good combination for your lawn. You're 870 01:01:50.119 --> 01:01:53.239 listening to guardline seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I 871 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:57.800 believe we're going to head out to Magnolia now and talk to Bruno. Hello, 872 01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:04.440 Bruno, good morning. What's up. Well, I've I'm building a 873 01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:09.599 home when a couple of outbuildings uh and um um it's uh. In order 874 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:13.440 to get the grade right, I've got a lot of slopes and things. 875 01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:16.039 And by the time the bulldozers left, there's not much top soil, but 876 01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:21.360 there's a lot of the sandy clay. Uh. That's that's good select filled, 877 01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:24.719 but probably not so good for growing grass. And from the slopes I 878 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:30.039 do get starting to get really deep ruts the occasionally when it does rain. 879 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:34.519 And my project's been going on for months, and when when mister Lemon was 880 01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:38.480 still with us, I'd called and he suggested just putting down rye grass with 881 01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:43.880 some bermuda, because I don't want to really a lawn look when we're done. 882 01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:46.360 I wanted to still have that forest preserve type of look, you know, 883 01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:51.360 So cutting weeds and bermuda was what he suggested. And I did that 884 01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:55.199 and had some pretty good results. But when this heat came, the rye 885 01:02:55.239 --> 01:03:01.599 grass all died. Uh, and so did the rauda. Now well, 886 01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:06.480 not much of it seemed to take. And I didn't have water at that 887 01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:09.480 point. So I and it's about three acres that I'm dealing with, um 888 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:14.159 a total of seven. So you know it's you know, bringing in a 889 01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:17.159 bunch of top soil and really watering every day. It just isn't feasible right 890 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:23.159 right now the bermuda. Is this area pretty sunny or is it partially shade 891 01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:28.599 or what? Oh? There's all of the above. Okay, okay, 892 01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:31.159 Well, bermuda grass is about as drought tallerant as you're going to get. 893 01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:37.400 So if the bermuda can't take the drought, then you know that I'm not 894 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:39.679 sure it was not taking the drought. I think it never really germinated, 895 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:45.159 right because at that point I was relying up on the rain water or you 896 01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:51.039 know, in order to so places that actually held more water when it did 897 01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:53.239 rain and didn't run off got the best results for the grass. But I 898 01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:58.639 know, going back with rye grass, um, you know this time here, 899 01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:00.840 I don't think it's going to be successful. Yeah, no, no, 900 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:03.280 not at all. In fact, it'll be about October before you'd want 901 01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:08.639 to try putting ray grass back in there. Uh is there another thing like 902 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:12.599 ray grass or I guess even a weed that I could put down? Oh 903 01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:18.480 boy for summer grass covered they're just not um, you know, there there 904 01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:23.320 are a lot of different kinds of grasses. There's there's native grasses too, 905 01:04:23.480 --> 01:04:27.159 that would be an option. As you're describing it, almost like a kind 906 01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:30.719 of a little mini meadow kind of deal. Uh, There there are Yeah, 907 01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:33.280 Yeah, there's there's a Uh I'm right off of Milk Creek, so 908 01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:38.679 it slopes a lot more than you would normally think of Houston properties. So 909 01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:43.360 I've got some some open areas, some of it's heavily wooded where I've just 910 01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:46.039 kind of mowed around around the trees. So there all that gets a few 911 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.920 hours of sunlight. You know, good good sunlight, but it's uh so. 912 01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:54.960 The natural grasses are different. There's tall grasses of some area that there's 913 01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:59.119 I don't have. I'm not much in h very knowledgeable about plants in general, 914 01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:03.920 but there's one kind of grass that shoots up little old pokey birds about 915 01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:08.239 a quarter of an ins diameter that you stick to your socks through fingers, 916 01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:11.280 and yeah, the stuff is just awful and I hate that stuff, but 917 01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:14.360 it's becoming my friend because it seems to be the only thing that's spreading. 918 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.400 Yeah, that sounds like sambur and it does like poor droughty soils, you 919 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:20.599 know, other than just next time you see a little rains come in, 920 01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:27.360 tossing some more bermuda seed out, they'll get rained in and get started that. 921 01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:29.440 You know, it's going to be kind of an off and on. 922 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:32.920 But with the using seed is not that expensive compared to trying to sod something, 923 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:38.320 and you might just want to try that, but just look for here 924 01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:42.320 comes some rain and then get that seed scattered and just kind of repeatedly do 925 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.719 that until you get a better stand. But the bermudas as drought tolerant as 926 01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:47.920 you're going to get and if you if you've started with that, I think 927 01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:50.840 I would just keep going. Otherwise it would just be a matter of getting 928 01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:57.239 a kind of a native meadow type pasture grass and seating it out there. 929 01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:59.880 And there's some ways of doing that as well, but that's a whole different, 930 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.559 different kind of grass. Okay, all right, Yeah, not being 931 01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:06.719 able to not being able to water, you know, you're kind of left 932 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:11.760 to planning your planting around the season when it tends to be a little moisture 933 01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:16.039 and that grass has a better chance of getting going. All right, Thank 934 01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.920 you very much. I appreciate that call. You know that if you happen 935 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:26.159 to live out in the Mont Bellevue area or maybe Baytown, your hometown feed 936 01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:29.599 stores Texas Feed Stop, and we love feed stores here on Guarden Line. 937 01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:33.159 The Texas Feedstop is it's everything you would expect in a feed store, and 938 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:36.000 we're talking about you walk up, they greet you, they know what they're 939 01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:40.800 talking about, They carry the products you need, and then they have some 940 01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:45.920 folks to carry that feed to your car so you're not having to lug the 941 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.719 feed and everything else. It's just a full service. It's a pleasant experience 942 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:56.079 and Brian and Hope Roads have made sure Texas Feedstop is a pleasant experience for 943 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:59.840 people coming by, and not only just the experience. You're going to find 944 01:06:59.880 --> 01:07:02.280 all the fertilizers we talk about, You're going to find the pesticides herb besides 945 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:06.039 fund decide all that that you need is going to be there Texas Feed Stop. 946 01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:10.440 I mean I talked about mosquito dunks a minute before. They've got those 947 01:07:10.519 --> 01:07:14.880 as well. They're just they're on Highway one forty six, just a few 948 01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.079 minutes north of I ten there in mont Bellevue. So if you're in Baytown, 949 01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:21.239 this is minutes away. I mean, that's your hometown feed store, 950 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:27.519 the Texas Feedstop. We are going to go now to the phones and take 951 01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:30.679 a call from Ross and Montgomery. Hey Ross, how are you this morning? 952 01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:34.159 Doing well? Good morning? Yeah? I had a question get a 953 01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:41.280 suggestion. I've got a about a sixty foot long patio that I'm trying to 954 01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:46.800 get something low maintenance, something that wouldn't grow more than maybe a foot and 955 01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:54.400 a half and not take a lot of wit as it relates to that for 956 01:07:54.760 --> 01:08:01.199 coverage, and wanted to just get some suggestions on what might be alternative plants 957 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:03.679 or hedges for that. All right, So you got a foot and a 958 01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:09.079 half in height or width height, and okay, I want to make it 959 01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:13.679 full width, so yeah, full coverage. All right. Well, uh, 960 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:17.079 the fast answer is dwarf you opon. That's a fast answer. If 961 01:08:17.119 --> 01:08:19.560 you'd like to talk a little bit further about that, We're about to take 962 01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:23.720 a break here, kind of running out of time on this segment, but 963 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:26.239 if you want to hang on, I can pick it back up with you 964 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.399 right after the segment. Would you like to do that? Yes, I'll 965 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:32.359 be fine. All right, very good, Thank you our phone number seven 966 01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:51.520 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Someone else? But can 967 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:56.279 your name? Can you name two monkeys? I don't know if I can. 968 01:08:56.640 --> 01:08:59.520 I know there's Mickey, and there's Davy and what were the rest of 969 01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:01.239 them? They had great music. Hey, you're listening to garden Line. 970 01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:04.239 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 971 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:12.079 Have you ever heard of the nitrophoss sweet green product? It is cool. 972 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:17.960 It is a molasses based product. It's eleven percent nitrogen zero phosphorus, 973 01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:24.880 which most our lawns don't need phosphorus, and four percent potassium eleven O four 974 01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:29.039 nitrophile sweet Green. It smells wonderful. The name really fits the way it 975 01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:31.560 smells. It's an organic product. You put it down and I mean it 976 01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:36.920 just kicks the microbes into super high gear. They love that sweet material and 977 01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:41.600 they kick into gear. And when microbes kick into gear, they release the 978 01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:45.840 nutrients to your grass. So you're going to get a good release of feed 979 01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.760 from it, and the nitrophile sweet green you'd hist or not gonna do better. 980 01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:53.680 They've got a great supply in now where we can get it. I 981 01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:56.760 mean, it's so popular. You know, last year seemed like it's about 982 01:09:56.840 --> 01:09:59.920 sold out trying to get enough of it out there. Well, you'll see 983 01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:02.880 why. When you use nitrofost Sweet Green, super high quality product and one 984 01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:06.760 of the highest percentages of nitrogen of any organic products. You're going to be 985 01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:11.119 able to find nitrofos sweet Green. Look for it wherever you buy your nitro 986 01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:14.760 FoST products, which is pretty much everywhere. You know, if we talk 987 01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:18.720 about a place like ACE Hardware, the home, mom and pop garden centers, 988 01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:20.920 you know, the feeds are a lot of those places they're going to 989 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:25.279 carry nitro FoST. Makes it super easy to find. Let's go back to 990 01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:29.279 the phones. We're talking with Ross out in Montgomery about some shrubs, and 991 01:10:29.399 --> 01:10:31.479 Ross, you wanted something that's about a foot and a half high. You 992 01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:34.479 want it to not be too wide, and you wanted it to be easy 993 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:39.079 to care for. And I think I said that the dwarf yopon may be 994 01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:43.399 the best bet to fill all those It's a Yopon's a native here, so 995 01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:46.359 it does well here, and you know, you can do some sharing on 996 01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:48.279 it. I mean, if you want to make it a square box, 997 01:10:48.359 --> 01:10:51.439 you can, but that's just a lot of maintenance to keep a square box. 998 01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:55.680 Or you could leave it in a very natural, you know, kind 999 01:10:55.720 --> 01:11:00.159 of just a natural loose form, which is I really like that in the 1000 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:04.479 dwarf jopon. What about the timing of planting, is this a you know, 1001 01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:08.840 okay to plant at this point in time? And then how far apart 1002 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:12.920 would you put them? Okay, I would put them. I would probably 1003 01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:16.279 put them, oh, you know, if you want it to be solid, 1004 01:11:16.520 --> 01:11:19.960 I'd probably put them about maybe two two and a half feet apart. 1005 01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:24.760 If you want it to be just a series of shrubs down the line, 1006 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.720 not necessarily making one hedge, then you could put them just a little further 1007 01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:31.479 than that. Apart as far as the time of planting, you can plant 1008 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:35.600 now, but you've got to be right on it. Watering every day because 1009 01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:40.760 you know in the container the garden centers water in those things every day because 1010 01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:43.720 all the roots are in that little cylinder when you put them in the ground, 1011 01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:45.920 the roots are still in the little cylinder. It takes a while for 1012 01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:48.720 them to get out in the soil. So you've got to put water right 1013 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:54.479 at that cylinder every day until they begin to get into the soil around them. 1014 01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:57.960 So if you want, if you need something fast, go ahead and 1015 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.640 do it now. If you can wait until fall, all that's even a 1016 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:03.560 better, easier time to get them established, just because the demands are less 1017 01:12:04.359 --> 01:12:10.119 and so it's not a day by day thing. Okay, Can I expand 1018 01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:15.840 one other question? So sure, brand new yard six foot fence, um, 1019 01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:19.520 but neighbors can see in, I can see out. And so looking 1020 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:28.000 for like maybe a ten foot privacy type hedging, what would what would you 1021 01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:30.359 recommend for something like that? Oh, boy, there are there are some 1022 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:34.239 hollies that will do. Okay, they're gonna probably get a little bigger than 1023 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:39.920 ten foot but you know you could you could get by with some of hollies. 1024 01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:43.720 The Eagleston's a pretty good holly. The oh gosh, I can't say 1025 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.680 the the other names escaping me of them. You know, if you're up 1026 01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:49.479 there in Montgomery, if you go out to any plants, they're going to 1027 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:55.920 have a good selection of both the yopon, the dwarf yopon, and the 1028 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:59.960 hollies. There are some taller yo pons, uh like, probably to Houston, 1029 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:02.199 and they get a little bit larger. They have berries on them, 1030 01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:05.239 and they're pretty. They're not as dense of a hedge, but they are 1031 01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:11.720 a beautiful hedge that you could use. The standard Southern wax myrtle another native. 1032 01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.199 If you water it, it'll get up there. I would say, 1033 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.720 I would expect it to go an eight foot pretty easily, and you can. 1034 01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:20.319 The more you share it, the denser it's going to be. As 1035 01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:24.800 far as the privacy hedge. So those are just some options for you. 1036 01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.479 But the folks out at a Anda have got them. You know, they're 1037 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:30.479 right there on Highway one oh five. You've probably driven best them before. 1038 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:32.920 Okay, great, I appreciate your home. All right, Hey, thank 1039 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:35.880 you for the call, I appreciate that very much. Ross. Yeah, 1040 01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:41.000 Ana, you know that they're on the east side of one oh five is 1041 01:13:41.079 --> 01:13:45.079 you're going like Conro direction. So if you're at Lake Conrow, if you're 1042 01:13:45.159 --> 01:13:48.680 Bentwater, Delago, Walden, April Sound, you have that whole area, 1043 01:13:48.880 --> 01:13:54.800 certainly Montgomery and even Conrow, and they're your hometown nursery and they carry all 1044 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:59.520 kinds of things. They have a really good ironwork selection. So if you 1045 01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:01.560 like at Trullis, maybe going over a garden path, one of those old 1046 01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:08.119 iron trellises, chimineas you know for the patio. Just just lots of stuff 1047 01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:13.359 to enhance your landscape. Besides three acres of plants to choose from. You're 1048 01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:15.520 not gonna do better than Ana. You guys are fortunate to have a and 1049 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:20.600 A around up there, because they really really are a great nursery that has 1050 01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:26.760 so many cool things to supply. Let's see where are we now on our 1051 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:30.520 calls here, we believe we've got something from William. William, are you 1052 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:34.279 out in beat Eyes? I think you and I may be the only two 1053 01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:41.000 people who know where beat Eyes is other than the people in Bad Eyes and 1054 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.319 the people in Carlos. And you know you get the idea. All right, 1055 01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:48.640 what's going on? Shiro? Don't forget that metropolis. I love that 1056 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:51.359 country out there. I love it. Hey, y'all are lucky. You 1057 01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:56.319 got grimes canny feet out there. Have you ever been there? Yeah? 1058 01:14:56.760 --> 01:15:00.159 Yeah, oh man, that's I love to go in and talk to Chris 1059 01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:01.680 and the folks are at Grahame Skenny. How can we help you today? 1060 01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:06.199 I'm calling about the mineral that you could buy it to put in your garden. 1061 01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:12.760 Yes, sir, that specific question is if you apply it in your 1062 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:17.920 guarden in the spring, you have to re applying in the fall. It 1063 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:23.399 looks to me like it's a little rock with it. It's all are you 1064 01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:27.520 talking about asamite or what product are you talking about? That's a z. 1065 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:31.319 I can't think of the n angler right now. Okay, Well, you 1066 01:15:31.359 --> 01:15:34.920 know, if it's if it's a fertilizer like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, 1067 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:39.840 those kind of minerals, you apply it regularly to keep feeding your plants because 1068 01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:43.840 they're needed in large quantities. But if it's if it's a product like asamite, 1069 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:47.760 that's just the micro's the trace minerals number one. I'd have my soul 1070 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:53.000 tested to see just what you do need because you need them. They're essential, 1071 01:15:53.399 --> 01:15:56.159 but you don't need a lot of them. So I would do it 1072 01:15:56.199 --> 01:15:59.920 about once a year, but a soil test would be the best way to 1073 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:01.439 know if you maybe need to do it twice a year, you know, 1074 01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:04.239 if you need to kind of beef it up a little bit. But at 1075 01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:09.079 least once a year, I would say for those kind of things. Okay, 1076 01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:12.880 I thank you, and you're very eligible. All right, we'll have 1077 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:15.760 fun out there. I haven't been out in that country in a while, 1078 01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:16.880 but I need to get out there. You got some you got some nice 1079 01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:19.680 little hole in the wall restaurants out there. I just love to go to 1080 01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:26.119 driving through. Yeah, ok yes, Sarah, thank you appreciate that call. 1081 01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:29.399 William. Hey, if you're looking to buy a tree and you want 1082 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:33.760 a deal, you're not going to do better than Verdance Christmas in July sale. 1083 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:36.000 It's at all three of their locations. You know. They got the 1084 01:16:36.039 --> 01:16:41.399 place out there on Barker Cypress that's on the west side of town, right, 1085 01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:45.119 They've got the place down on Broadway Street in Pearland, and they've got 1086 01:16:45.199 --> 01:16:49.199 the place at the Heights where Yale Street comes into I ten. It's not 1087 01:16:49.319 --> 01:16:53.600 hard to find a Verdant tree farm. By the way, go online Verdant 1088 01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:56.600 tree farm dot com. That's the way to find out more about them. 1089 01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:00.119 But with this Christmas in July sale ten to fifty per sent off the trees 1090 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:04.039 when you purchase them with an install Now that's not off the installs off the 1091 01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:08.520 tree, but when you buy the tree and harmed a planet, which you 1092 01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:12.840 need to do. You buy a big, old beautiful tree. Your carpractors 1093 01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:15.760 kids are going to find a way to get to college without you helping them. 1094 01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:18.479 And so I would just let them install it for you. They know 1095 01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:21.600 how to planet. They do it right. You're investing in this tree, 1096 01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:25.359 you need to take care of it and get it done right. Verdant will 1097 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:30.159 do all that. Verdant treefarm dot com take advantage Christmas in July cel ten 1098 01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:34.600 to fifty percent off the trees. I don't know how you get you get 1099 01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:40.079 any better than that is that is a deal. That is an opportunity, 1100 01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:44.159 and boy do they have a lot of really good quality trees as well. 1101 01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:46.079 Hey, we're gonna go ahead and take a break here again. We will 1102 01:17:46.119 --> 01:17:50.520 be back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1103 01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:53.920 Give Ryan a call. He'll get you on the board and we'll look 1104 01:17:53.920 --> 01:17:58.079 forward to talking to you. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 1105 01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:02.520 the products or services advertised on this gra Welcome to k c r H Garden 1106 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:33.600 Line with Skip Richter trip just watch him as wood Many luck, Good morning 1107 01:18:34.079 --> 01:18:40.960 on a beautiful Saturday morning for gardening. We are talking gardening today because that's 1108 01:18:40.960 --> 01:18:44.119 all we do on garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 1109 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:46.079 our phone number. Write this down so you can give us a call whenever 1110 01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:51.119 you need to. That is seven one three two one two five eight seven 1111 01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:58.079 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I talk all 1112 01:18:58.119 --> 01:19:01.119 the time about the importance of soil. Now we get excited about plants. 1113 01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:03.560 You know, you go to garden center. There's this plant's got a big 1114 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:06.079 old flower on it, and you just get excited and want to bring it 1115 01:19:06.159 --> 01:19:11.800 home and planet and good for you. You should, but don't PLoP it 1116 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:16.560 into an unprepared plot. Prepare the soil first, because that's your key to 1117 01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:20.680 success. But when you put that plant in the ground, you are seventy 1118 01:19:20.760 --> 01:19:24.920 five to eighty percent of the way to success or failure. The minute you 1119 01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:27.760 walk away from planning it. Why is that, Well, it's either sunny 1120 01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:30.520 or not sunny, and the plants can have an opinion about that. It's 1121 01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:33.560 either well drained or it's not. And the plant probably wants well drained almost 1122 01:19:33.640 --> 01:19:39.239 all due it. You've either put fertilizer in the soil so the nutrient levels 1123 01:19:39.359 --> 01:19:42.439 or balance and what they should be, or you haven't. You've added compost 1124 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:45.039 to improve the clay soil, You've added shale to improve a clay soil, 1125 01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:49.079 or you haven't. And so here's what I'm saying. You create the setting 1126 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:54.000 for that plant to succeed, and then it will. And it looks like 1127 01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:57.279 you have a green thumb. What you have is an informed thumb because we 1128 01:19:57.399 --> 01:20:00.600 just informed you that that's what plant need. And how do you prepare the 1129 01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:04.520 soil? You get a quality soil and you know airloom soils they've been doing 1130 01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:08.840 this for a while. They know what they're doing. They have a wide 1131 01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:11.840 variety of options. I mean, do you need a veggiean herb soil? 1132 01:20:12.319 --> 01:20:15.840 You know, do you need a mix for maybe container plants indoors, a 1133 01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:18.119 jungle land you know, or any of the different kinds of things you can 1134 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:21.920 find. Airloom Soils got them all. I mean they have them. While 1135 01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:27.039 they have a super dupe or indoor potting soil. They've got the mulches that 1136 01:20:27.199 --> 01:20:30.800 you need. They've got you know, the soil amendments and things. Everything 1137 01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:33.359 is there. So if you go give M a call, al go to 1138 01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:36.840 airloom Soils dot com. That's their website, airloom Soils dot com. You 1139 01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:40.600 can find out more, give M a call, find out about the one 1140 01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:44.840 QB yard super sack. They fill that sack up with a quality mix and 1141 01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:48.039 they set it on your driveway. I mean it's really cool. Imagine a 1142 01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:53.560 sack that holds a cubic yard of mix and then you just shovel it out, 1143 01:20:53.720 --> 01:20:55.560 use it, take it where you want it. I mean it's really 1144 01:20:55.560 --> 01:21:00.199 easy to do, very convenient. They also have a cubic yard calculator on 1145 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:03.920 the Heirloom Soils website and the qubcard calculator. You can find out exactly what 1146 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:06.800 it is that you need. How much do you need? You know, 1147 01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:13.239 how many wheelbarrow, how many wielbarrows are in a cubic yard. If you 1148 01:21:13.239 --> 01:21:16.840 don't know the answer that the qubcard calculator it does. It knows what it's 1149 01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:19.640 talking about. By the way, when you're talking to him, you need 1150 01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.600 to look at the expanded sail and compost blends. You need to look at 1151 01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:31.159 the leaf mold compost super super high quality stuff. And also it's it's summer. 1152 01:21:31.239 --> 01:21:36.560 We're doing stuff inside their potting soil called the Works the Works potting soil 1153 01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:42.279 and the Works indoor potting soil. You're not going to do better. Super 1154 01:21:42.399 --> 01:21:47.239 high quality all available from heirloom soils. Just go to Airloom Soils of Texas 1155 01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:53.199 dot com and you can get right there. Really easy, easy to do. 1156 01:21:54.439 --> 01:21:58.680 You know, I always struggle with you, how do I convince somebody 1157 01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:02.560 to build the soil first? To get it right? One way I put 1158 01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:06.239 it is spend a dollar on your soil before you spend a dollar on your 1159 01:22:06.279 --> 01:22:10.600 plants. How about that? And it'll save you money in the long run. 1160 01:22:11.239 --> 01:22:15.199 Anyway you want to put it, just remember that the plant is only 1161 01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:18.239 going to do as well as the conditions you put it in, and that's 1162 01:22:18.319 --> 01:22:21.560 what we're aiming for. Let's head to the phone right now. We're going 1163 01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:26.159 to go out to Hempstead and talk to Richard. Hello, Richard, how 1164 01:22:26.239 --> 01:22:32.119 can we help? Oh? I'm live out here on well on forty acres, 1165 01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:38.920 but I maintain about four acres and I've got areas that I've had some 1166 01:22:39.079 --> 01:22:42.600 health problems over the last year and hadn't been able to really take care of 1167 01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:47.960 and control. But they have you know, knee high grass and stuff in 1168 01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:53.600 them. Yes, And I mean I've used round up in the past, 1169 01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:58.119 but I'm normally you know, keeping up with it my chain link fences and 1170 01:22:58.279 --> 01:23:03.039 all that throughout the r this year things have kind of gotten out of control. 1171 01:23:06.199 --> 01:23:15.119 Would a brush killer hermicide work better and be more devastating, like total 1172 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:19.399 devastation compared to a roundup? Uh? So we're we're not talking about a 1173 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:24.159 pasture now, We're talking about are like around your yard fences and things like 1174 01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:27.960 that. Is that correct? Well? And yeah, And I live right 1175 01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:30.039 on the edge of a pasture, so I mean some of it's you know, 1176 01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:34.319 some of its hayland and that kind of stuff. So it's okay much 1177 01:23:34.439 --> 01:23:39.239 just open, you know. So if it's a woody plant, a brush 1178 01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:42.159 killer is going to be the way you need to go. And the ingredient 1179 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:47.880 in those is triclopier t R I c l O p y R. If 1180 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:51.199 you go to our garden center, it'll be sold as a brush be gone 1181 01:23:51.319 --> 01:23:55.439 or it'll be sold as a poison ivy and poison oak killer. You know, 1182 01:23:55.520 --> 01:24:00.239 it'll have names like that. But the ingredient as triclopier, and you 1183 01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:03.039 can if it's a if it has somewhat of a trunk to it, let's 1184 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:06.039 say as big as your thumb or bigger, then you can cut it off 1185 01:24:06.159 --> 01:24:11.159 and you just paint the triclopier directly onto that fresh cut, not the next 1186 01:24:11.239 --> 01:24:15.239 day, but cut it off and then right then dab fresh tricleopier. I 1187 01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:17.079 was a little phone brush to do that, and it'll it'll move down, 1188 01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:20.720 it'll do it. You can also put a little oil with it, and 1189 01:24:21.279 --> 01:24:29.680 like I just use a kitchen oil. Sometimes beneficial to be added into that 1190 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.199 max a surfact It would be if you're going to spray something on the leaves 1191 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:36.239 and the leaves are glossy and you want it to stick, that the surfactant 1192 01:24:36.279 --> 01:24:41.199 would help that. Generally, I just tell people to treat the stump, 1193 01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:45.119 or if it's small, to just spray it on the base of the trunk. 1194 01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:48.640 You know, maybe you've got little shoots coming up and and they're not 1195 01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:53.359 big enough to really cut off and have a stump. Then you can just 1196 01:24:53.720 --> 01:24:58.159 apply that product, put a little bit of a vegetable oil with it, 1197 01:24:58.359 --> 01:25:00.840 or I mean diesel oil can be used too, But it makes it stick 1198 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:06.359 and soak into the trunk and then you get a really good result. It 1199 01:25:06.479 --> 01:25:10.880 just works really well. Poison, ivy, poison, oh, cackberries coming 1200 01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:14.399 up, you know. Yeah, I mean it's it's a full mix of 1201 01:25:14.560 --> 01:25:17.560 pretty much, you know, everything that you can imagine, grape vines and 1202 01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:21.680 other stuff like that. And I was just looking for something I could just 1203 01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:26.199 spray on it. I mean, I've got a twenty five gallon sprayer put 1204 01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:30.319 on the back of my foiler. So I was looking for something just to 1205 01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:32.560 go in. Like you said, it's pretty much knee high. Yeah, 1206 01:25:33.039 --> 01:25:36.880 instead of having to go in and we'd eat it all down and then treat 1207 01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:41.680 it right. I was just looking for something just to knock it all down 1208 01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:45.279 and kill it all there. You go, Well, you're you that is 1209 01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:48.119 what That's what I would do. Now. Ranchwise, there's some bigger there's 1210 01:25:48.239 --> 01:25:53.920 products like Remedy that you buy a two gallon jug and it's a lot of 1211 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:57.720 money to cover a lot of acres. But I think sounds like what you're 1212 01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:00.399 needing is mostly you can get from the home garden market. You've got an 1213 01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:04.399 ACE Hardware there. The hometown Hardware in Hempstead is probably going to carry more 1214 01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:08.439 than one type of tric will appear for you and they could get you a 1215 01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:11.159 strad up. I don't know, if you're familiar with me, that would 1216 01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:15.279 be a good one stop. That'll work. Thank you, sir, you 1217 01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:17.520 bet, thank you. I appreciate that call. Yeah, you know, 1218 01:26:18.159 --> 01:26:21.880 that's the thing about ACE Hardware is that they're going to carry everything. I 1219 01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:26.880 mean, I'm always amazed when I walk in and look at the product line 1220 01:26:27.079 --> 01:26:30.279 that they have. The fungicides and secticides, herbicides of course, all the 1221 01:26:30.319 --> 01:26:34.479 fertilizers we talk about, they're all there at ACE. And I just I 1222 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:38.680 love hardware stores. I love going in. I grew up with a little 1223 01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:44.399 old town, old time hometown garden. Gosh, I can't even talk hardware 1224 01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:46.159 store. Where you go in and this guy, you just walk in with 1225 01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:48.359 a piece of pipe and show it to him and he goes follow me and 1226 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:50.800 he takes you right to what you need and tells you how to fix it. 1227 01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:56.159 That's ace hardware that they still have that kind of service. They still 1228 01:26:56.199 --> 01:26:59.039 have that kind of knowledge and stuff. And then when you add to it 1229 01:26:59.239 --> 01:27:01.600 that pretty much everything you can imagine you might need is going to be right 1230 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:06.079 there. And it doesn't get much easier than than that. Let's head to 1231 01:27:06.119 --> 01:27:09.640 the phones. By the way, we need to take a break right quick. 1232 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:12.880 But when we come back, Richard and Jeremy and Hurta you will be 1233 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:30.439 the first ones up. Good Saturday morning. Look outside, take a look 1234 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:33.359 at this. It is beautiful outside there, and now it's a good time 1235 01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:35.239 to get out and get some gardening done. By the way, I take 1236 01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:40.199 your radio with you. Hope you can keep listening to Garden Line or just 1237 01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:44.840 give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1238 01:27:44.840 --> 01:27:47.159 If you live up in the tom Ball area and you are looking for that 1239 01:27:47.399 --> 01:27:51.640 good old hometown feed store D and D Feed, that's a place you need 1240 01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:56.880 to go. They're about three miles west of Highway two forty nine on twenty 1241 01:27:56.960 --> 01:27:59.960 nine twenty in Tomball, So you just had out twenty nine twenty towards the 1242 01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:03.800 west about three miles the Dover family opened D and D in nineteen eighty nine. 1243 01:28:04.039 --> 01:28:08.079 They expanded it this summer. Oh my gosh, it is they have 1244 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:12.960 even more places to carry to store all the different things they carry, and 1245 01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:15.560 they carry everything. The fertilizers we talk about, the soils, we talk 1246 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:18.560 about they've got plants, they got hand tools, they got you know, 1247 01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:23.800 if you plants like roses and fruit, trees and vegetables and seeds and on 1248 01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:27.039 and on and on. You want a high end dog food like Origin, 1249 01:28:27.880 --> 01:28:30.920 Diamond, victor Star Pro, those they've got them. You need things for 1250 01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:34.800 your livestock, for your horses. Maybe you need a pool cleaner. How 1251 01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:39.079 about pests and rodents? Oh my gosh, I was dealing with some rats 1252 01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:43.159 the other day and those little boogers, those nighttime terrorists coming along. They 1253 01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:45.840 can set you up to take care of that. We're talking about mosquito dunks 1254 01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:48.640 earlier. They carry those as well. What can you not get a D 1255 01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:51.319 and D. I'm not sure. I mean they just about have everything. 1256 01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:57.079 Dnd feed that is west of tom Ball on two forty nine, about three 1257 01:28:57.119 --> 01:29:00.600 miles. Stop in and check it out, say hey, the Dovers, 1258 01:29:00.720 --> 01:29:03.920 and you will see why we're so excited. About another one of those awesome 1259 01:29:04.359 --> 01:29:11.199 hometown feed stores that love going into the feed stores. Well, let's head 1260 01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:14.680 to the phones now, we're going to talk to Jeremy out in Friendswood. 1261 01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.720 Hello, Jeremy, good morning. You know today, Well, I'm well, 1262 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:21.920 how are you today? I am doing great, doing great. Hey, 1263 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:26.800 I had a quick question for you. I've got a weekend place over 1264 01:29:26.920 --> 01:29:31.359 on sam Rayburn just north of Jasper, Texas, and I'm having a large 1265 01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:36.600 building built there in part of the land is slow being so that the pad 1266 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:40.560 that they've made is about four and a half to five foot tall, a 1267 01:29:40.680 --> 01:29:45.119 pretty packed clay type soil, and I was trying to decide what would be 1268 01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:48.279 the best approach to minimize erosion. If I should get a couple of palettes 1269 01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:54.079 aside brought in stand agustine, or would it be better to plant some sort 1270 01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:57.319 of a seed like a bermuda or some other type of seed for that area. 1271 01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:00.720 So you're wanting to cover the pad until you get a chance to put 1272 01:30:00.760 --> 01:30:05.119 the building on it, or what's section just the slopes on the side I 1273 01:30:05.159 --> 01:30:09.640 should have cleared, Oh, just the slopes. Well, yeah, you 1274 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.079 can use bermuda. That is a that is a good old tough, takes 1275 01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:15.119 you know, takes a heat, pretty drought, resilient and all that. 1276 01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:18.119 The only thing is if you ever decide you want to put flower beds around 1277 01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:21.359 it, the Bermuda is a flower bed invader, and so it meant it 1278 01:30:21.439 --> 01:30:26.359 be the best of all choices for that. But as far as holding the 1279 01:30:26.439 --> 01:30:29.319 soil, putting up with a heat and the drought and all kinds of things, 1280 01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:33.399 you're probably not going to do better than a Bermuda great and that comes 1281 01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:38.119 in a seed form. Is there any recommendation on like the fertilizer to apply 1282 01:30:38.279 --> 01:30:42.119 with the bermuda seed? Yes, you want a fertilizer that's in a three 1283 01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:45.800 one two or four one two ratio if you can. If it's a little 1284 01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:48.439 higher nitrogen, that's okay. But you know, we've got a lot of 1285 01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:54.279 great fertilizers that we talk about here on the show, you know that will 1286 01:30:54.359 --> 01:30:58.000 provide that kind of of a mix for you. I know, one we 1287 01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:00.680 just just kind of a pull one out of the hacks we've got a lot 1288 01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:08.600 of them, will be nitrofoss is the silver bag. The silver bag is 1289 01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:13.319 Super Turf. It's a nineteen four ten product, so it's got plenty of 1290 01:31:13.439 --> 01:31:15.680 the nitrogen for a boost. And it's slow release, So if you put 1291 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:20.119 that down now, when you put your seeds down, that's going to carry 1292 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:24.079 you all the way into the fall. And so that would be kind of 1293 01:31:24.079 --> 01:31:26.920 like a one time done. It's slow release, it's not going to just 1294 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:30.560 all wash away. And I probably would would give that one a good shot. 1295 01:31:30.880 --> 01:31:34.840 I think that that's going to help your bermuda get started. There's seeds 1296 01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:39.359 of bermuda all around. I don't know, you know, it depends on 1297 01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:43.359 you know where you shop. I know down there you've got some ACE hardware 1298 01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:47.079 stores down in the Friendswood area that I would you give a serious consideration too. 1299 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:51.159 If you're going to do your shopping up in sam Rayburn area, you 1300 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:54.760 know that you're gonna find some places up there too. But I'd probably buy 1301 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:57.199 my seed down here to be ready, just to take up, so you 1302 01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:01.199 know you've got what you need. Yes, sir, perfect that that is 1303 01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:04.600 a great product. I'd use it on the lawn down down in Friendswood as 1304 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:09.039 well. Yeah, great, great results with all the nitro foss products. 1305 01:32:09.159 --> 01:32:11.800 Yeah, believe you're out of me. Yeah, well that's good to go 1306 01:32:11.880 --> 01:32:15.560 to the ACE there down on Edgewood Drive in Friendswood and seed. Do you 1307 01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:19.600 have some bermuda seed available? There's a lot of different types, you know, 1308 01:32:19.680 --> 01:32:24.600 the old standard rangey bermuda, just a coastal bermuda kind of thing. 1309 01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:28.600 But they have they have types now for sad that that do pretty well. 1310 01:32:28.960 --> 01:32:30.640 Uh, you know, I could, I could name varieties, but then 1311 01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:34.880 you're running all over trying to find that variety and it's not that important that 1312 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:41.239 you get exactly one variety. Yes, sir, thank you for your time 1313 01:32:41.279 --> 01:32:43.359 this morning, and have a great day, all right. Just be ready 1314 01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:46.680 to keep it moist during that early seed starting stage. Those seedlings, if 1315 01:32:46.720 --> 01:32:49.159 they dry out, which they can do in a day or two in this 1316 01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:54.920 weather, they'll die and so you gotta keep them moist until for about two 1317 01:32:54.960 --> 01:32:59.079 weeks until they get some good roots in the ground. Okay, okay, 1318 01:32:59.159 --> 01:33:01.119 well dude, thank you, you bet, thank you. Jeremy appreciate that 1319 01:33:01.279 --> 01:33:05.680 call very very much. We're gonna head out now to Spring Branch and talk 1320 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:10.720 to Hrta Hirta. Thanks for waiting. How can we help today, Yes, 1321 01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:15.520 sir, hey Hurda, we're here, Herda. Turn your radio down, 1322 01:33:16.560 --> 01:33:19.880 you're on air, all right, We're gonna put Hurt on hole one 1323 01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:27.079 second and we will come back to talk to Hurdas. If you are interested 1324 01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:30.600 in a quality garden bed, you need to know about Vego garden beds. 1325 01:33:31.119 --> 01:33:39.039 Vego garden beds. Vego like a Lego v egogarden dot com, viegeogarden dot 1326 01:33:39.079 --> 01:33:44.680 com. Vegos the original here in the US for a iron or metal bed 1327 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:47.960 that has been coded so that it does not rust, it does not corrode, 1328 01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:53.239 and then it's been painted with the USDA certified paint tested at Texan m 1329 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:57.000 University. And these little beds are modular. You know, you just bolt 1330 01:33:57.039 --> 01:34:00.199 them together. I mean it's just like playing, you know with legos. 1331 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:02.199 I guess you just put them all together like you want them. You can 1332 01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:05.279 make them long and straight, you can make them C shaped, L shaped. 1333 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:09.800 I mean, you create the garden you want. They come in different 1334 01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:14.479 heights, different sizes, and so it just makes it easy. It's absolutely 1335 01:34:14.560 --> 01:34:18.720 simple. Several different beautiful colors with a nice little protective edge over the top. 1336 01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:21.880 I mean, if you want something neat and clean, if you're an 1337 01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:26.960 organic gardener, you don't want treated wood. I mean, there's a thousand 1338 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:30.840 reasons to do Vego and I think everybody should do a bed like this. 1339 01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:32.479 It's because you know, I've made a lot of garden beds in my life. 1340 01:34:32.520 --> 01:34:35.880 I've built them down in the soil just by improving the soil and raising 1341 01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:41.600 up a mound. I've used sender blocks, I've just treated what I've used 1342 01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:44.520 all kinds of things. Vego is the only way to go, really, 1343 01:34:44.600 --> 01:34:46.880 it really is. It's just fast, it's easy, it's simple. There's 1344 01:34:46.920 --> 01:34:54.600 impostures out there. Go with Vgo vgeogarden dot com. They're a Houston company 1345 01:34:54.840 --> 01:34:58.199 right here hometown, and they will get you set up. And by the 1346 01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:01.560 way, some of our home and garden or some of our mom and pop 1347 01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:05.920 garden centers around town carry the Vego beds. I was out at uh the 1348 01:35:06.239 --> 01:35:11.720 uh let's see uh gosh, Kenny said, uh in Chenna Gardens and Chenne 1349 01:35:11.800 --> 01:35:14.199 Forest down there. I saw him out there. They had them there, 1350 01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:16.439 really really nice. I know. I think they have them at Buchanans downtown 1351 01:35:16.560 --> 01:35:21.079 some other places. Go online vegogarden dot com and find out more. You'll 1352 01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:25.279 be as amazing impressed with them as I am. Would. We have heard 1353 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:28.119 it back on here. Hey Hurda, how are you this morning. How 1354 01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:33.880 can we help, Well, I'm interested. I want some foxtail fern. 1355 01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:45.720 But I wondered if I could cut cut them up like two stams at a 1356 01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:51.960 time, would they would they be okay doing that? So if you buy 1357 01:35:53.000 --> 01:35:56.880 a foxtail fern in a pot and it's got a little clump there, you 1358 01:35:57.000 --> 01:36:00.159 can use like a sharp butcher knife just cut straight down through it and you 1359 01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:02.720 can make two plants out of it, or you can make three plants, 1360 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:06.840 if it's a big enough plant to start with. But when you divide them 1361 01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:10.520 that way, you know, you need to be a little baby them a 1362 01:36:10.560 --> 01:36:13.960 little bit because you just kind of they went through something there, and so 1363 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:16.399 you just want to keep them moist, keep them watered, and they will 1364 01:36:16.439 --> 01:36:19.159 be just fine. That's one way. If you need to spread things out 1365 01:36:19.159 --> 01:36:24.279 a little bit further, you can. Okay, now, is it okay? 1366 01:36:24.399 --> 01:36:27.880 You go ahead and plant now in this sat Well, it's okay, 1367 01:36:28.239 --> 01:36:30.520 But you're gonna water them every day with just a little bit of water. 1368 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:33.920 That's not how we normally recommend watering. You know, we say a good 1369 01:36:34.000 --> 01:36:39.319 soaking infrequently, but that you plant, especially when you've cut it in half, 1370 01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:44.079 you need to keep it constantly moist right there at the base. Don't 1371 01:36:44.159 --> 01:36:47.399 drown it, don't make it soggy, but every day a little drink of 1372 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:51.199 water until they get their roots out, and once they're established, you don't 1373 01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:55.720 have to baby, I'm like that anymore. All right, all right, 1374 01:36:56.000 --> 01:36:59.000 thank you very much, Well, thank you heard it. That's a beautiful, 1375 01:36:59.159 --> 01:37:01.079 beautiful plant. Yeah. I love I love foxtill fern. They do 1376 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:06.600 do super super well. Well. You know, if you need a supply 1377 01:37:06.760 --> 01:37:10.920 of things, you're not going to find a better place in Southwest Fertilizer. 1378 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:15.159 No talk about brag him, Bob and his team down at Southwest. They've 1379 01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:17.720 been They've been in business since fifty five, nineteen fifty five. It's a 1380 01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:21.800 long time. They have all the fertilizers we talk about, including their own 1381 01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:27.800 Southwest Premium Gold of fifteen five ten slow release product. If you're an organic 1382 01:37:27.880 --> 01:37:31.680 gardener, you're not going to find a better organic selection than south West Fertilizer. 1383 01:37:31.760 --> 01:37:36.279 They carry everything that you can. If there's a product that is not 1384 01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:40.640 at Southwest, you don't need it, go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 1385 01:37:41.000 --> 01:37:47.079 They're on the corner of Bissonette and Undwick. Bisonette and Rundwick and Seeds supplies 1386 01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:51.279 everything you can imagine. Get your lawnmower blade sharp, and get your small 1387 01:37:51.520 --> 01:38:16.279 engines prepared. All there one stop at Southwest Fertilizer. Well, good morning 1388 01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:21.000 on a beautiful day for gardening. You are listening to garden Line and we're 1389 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:26.560 here to talk to you about whatever you're interested in regarding gardening. Maybe some 1390 01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:30.760 diagnosis, maybe some identification, maybe just some advice on what works well, 1391 01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:32.720 what would be a good plant for this area, or how do I keep 1392 01:38:32.760 --> 01:38:36.760 my plants alive? That's a good question for today, that is for sure. 1393 01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:41.680 How do I keep my plants alive? Oh my? You know, 1394 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:46.000 I have become a fan of backyard birding and I never was. I was 1395 01:38:46.039 --> 01:38:48.800 a gardener, but I just I mean, I like birds and I always 1396 01:38:48.960 --> 01:38:53.079 kind of had a bird feeder or something out there, but I've really gotten 1397 01:38:53.119 --> 01:38:56.640 interested in it, and it just it's another aspect of gardening. You know. 1398 01:38:56.800 --> 01:39:01.159 You we garden because of the esthet We garden because of the nutrition and 1399 01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:06.920 flavors of the food. We also garden for the smells. There's fragrant plants 1400 01:39:06.960 --> 01:39:11.840 and it's it's beautiful. It makes it just enhances the outdoors we garden for 1401 01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:15.319 the sounds and that's where songbirds come in. They come in well number one 1402 01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:19.680 visually. The esthetics are there too on the antics of the birds as well, 1403 01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:27.399 but the sounds and while birds unlimited. They just have everything you can 1404 01:39:27.479 --> 01:39:30.359 think of when it comes to birds and taking care of birds and promoting and 1405 01:39:30.479 --> 01:39:33.479 bringing them in and everything. Like that. First time I walked into a 1406 01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:36.800 wild birds I was just I was just stunned. I mean, I could 1407 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:43.159 not believe the amount, the options, the selection, all of the things 1408 01:39:43.239 --> 01:39:45.720 that they have. Wilbirds just has it all right. Now, by the 1409 01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:50.479 way, our birds some birds are still nesting, bluebirds, cardinals, chickenees, 1410 01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:55.720 wrens, they're all still nesting. They need that nesting super blend that 1411 01:39:55.800 --> 01:39:59.920 Wilbirds has. It's a high quality feed, just perfect for summer feed. 1412 01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:02.479 And really it goes all the way through August because as we get toward the 1413 01:40:02.600 --> 01:40:06.000 end of summer, our birds start to molt and they that's when they're renewing 1414 01:40:06.079 --> 01:40:11.159 their plumage. Keep it on top condition. Again, there you are with 1415 01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:15.319 the nesting super blend. Now, Wilbirds has a lot of quality feed, 1416 01:40:15.399 --> 01:40:18.560 including what the no waste types of feed where you know they're not going to 1417 01:40:18.600 --> 01:40:23.279 be debris kicked out all over the ground. It's a very clean, easy 1418 01:40:23.319 --> 01:40:27.319 way to feed. You can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston. 1419 01:40:27.359 --> 01:40:30.520 By the way, we're gonna have a special guest from Wahbirds tomorrow here in 1420 01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:35.199 the studio at our eight o'clock hour and we are going to pick their brains 1421 01:40:35.359 --> 01:40:41.680 on everything regarding birds and you know, just all the tips that you need 1422 01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:44.720 to take care of the birds, So many beautiful ones I was looking at. 1423 01:40:44.720 --> 01:40:48.239 I got one of those squirrel excluding feeders, got it from Wahbirds and 1424 01:40:48.560 --> 01:40:53.520 oh my gosh. You know, squirrels are smart, and I mean they 1425 01:40:53.600 --> 01:40:58.680 can thwart anything you come up with. There's a there's actually a social media 1426 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:01.720 I can't remember which of the it's on YouTube or somewhere. There's a guy 1427 01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:08.159 that has just devises squirrel obstacle courses and then films that as you watch the 1428 01:41:08.199 --> 01:41:15.159 squirrels overcome them, they will not overcome the squirrel excluding feeder from Wilbirds. 1429 01:41:15.199 --> 01:41:17.960 And trust me on this, I know what I'm talking about. Watching the 1430 01:41:18.479 --> 01:41:23.960 squirrels get frustrated makes me very happy. And they just pretty much have given 1431 01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:26.840 up on this feeder. They've tried every where the world get into it. 1432 01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:30.359 They can't do it. And so if you want to see birds and not 1433 01:41:30.520 --> 01:41:34.279 watch squirrels, eat all your bird feed wilbirds, I love it can get 1434 01:41:34.319 --> 01:41:38.479 you fixed up. So tomorrow eight am, rich Eddie's going to be in 1435 01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:42.279 here from Wilbirds, and I hope you will give us a call and let's 1436 01:41:42.399 --> 01:41:45.439 talk birds during that time. I mean, I'm not the bird expert, 1437 01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:49.640 but Rich sure is, and so hang on. We'll be back tomorrow at 1438 01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:54.800 eight o'clock hour with wild Birds Unlimited. And I think you'll find it very, 1439 01:41:54.920 --> 01:42:00.199 very very interesting, very helpful. Our phone number is seven one three 1440 01:42:00.399 --> 01:42:04.520 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 1441 01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:10.760 seven four or KTRH if that makes it a little easier for you. You 1442 01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:15.039 know, Nitrofosts has a lot of different quality products out there. I mean, 1443 01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:18.279 you're gonna find just many different types of nitrofost fertilizers, and we brag 1444 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:21.880 on them all the time. Here. One of the new ones, one 1445 01:42:21.920 --> 01:42:26.800 of the newer ones as far as the fertilizers go, is there Sweet Green 1446 01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:33.000 Products. Sweet Green it's a molasses based organic food. It's an eleven zero 1447 01:42:33.520 --> 01:42:39.399 four fertilizer come about the highest percent's nitrogen of any of any organic that you're 1448 01:42:39.439 --> 01:42:43.600 gonna find. Smells great. That's where the names sweet Green comes trump. 1449 01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:50.439 And because it's a sugar based um molasses based material, the microbes just go 1450 01:42:50.600 --> 01:42:57.079 crazy. You know, when you put a molastis type product on your microbes, 1451 01:42:57.159 --> 01:43:00.039 my gosh, they it just kicks them into high year. And when 1452 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:05.000 microbes get active, it's good for plants. Microbes are breaking down organic matter, 1453 01:43:05.079 --> 01:43:11.199 they're releasing nutrients, they're providing substances protech plant roots. All of that's 1454 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:15.039 going to happen when you get your microbes fueled and well taken care of. 1455 01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:17.840 And that's what sweet Green will do. Sweet Green is easy to find, 1456 01:43:18.039 --> 01:43:26.680 you know, the microbe type supporting materials like that. They you don't have 1457 01:43:26.720 --> 01:43:30.159 to hunt around for them. Everywhere nitro FoST is sold. You know, 1458 01:43:30.199 --> 01:43:32.319 we talk about ace Hard Restore, they're in all ace Hard restores. Talking 1459 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:35.279 about our home and garden home, Mom and pop garden Center. You're going 1460 01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:39.000 to find them their feed stores. You're going to find it there. But 1461 01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:42.319 you need to check out that Sweet Green. It's really easy. It's a 1462 01:43:42.399 --> 01:43:46.520 gradual release over time, but it is an outstanding, outstanding fertilizer for you 1463 01:43:46.640 --> 01:43:51.399 to consider. You're listening to Garden Line. I am your host, Skip 1464 01:43:51.520 --> 01:43:57.279 Richter, and our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 1465 01:43:57.640 --> 01:44:03.880 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seven four Yeah, and 1466 01:44:04.079 --> 01:44:08.640 skip if you're ready. We actually have Shelley out in the Lake Jackson area. 1467 01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:11.600 Well let's do that. Hey Shelley, how's it going out in Lake 1468 01:44:11.680 --> 01:44:16.079 jack How are you? I'm well, thanks? Are you? My problem 1469 01:44:16.399 --> 01:44:24.680 is cane that's growing up through our rock bullhead. Okay, like George, 1470 01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:29.880 you're talking about the Georgia kane or what do you mean by cane? I 1471 01:44:30.000 --> 01:44:36.720 don't know. I actually live Old Caney Creek. So it's just a green 1472 01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:42.079 cane, Okay, it can grow burl tall. Yeah, yeah, that's 1473 01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.199 a Georgia kane. That's a grass type plant. So any kind of a 1474 01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:49.359 grass like we'd killer will work on it. You can use something with glypha 1475 01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:53.399 said in it though you know, round up is the old common name, 1476 01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:56.199 but there's a lot of brands of that that will kill it. You can 1477 01:44:56.319 --> 01:45:00.720 use a grass only killer. There are some products that us kill grass. 1478 01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:03.239 They don't kill broad leaf weeds, and we use those that were flowers I 1479 01:45:03.359 --> 01:45:09.079 don't need I mean using broad leaf and it's not killing. Now we won't 1480 01:45:09.119 --> 01:45:11.920 touch it. It won't touch it. That's right. So switch over. 1481 01:45:12.359 --> 01:45:17.439 Switch over to everything killer like a glass saide or a grass only killer that 1482 01:45:17.640 --> 01:45:23.479 you know you'll find things that are They have names like grass be Gone or 1483 01:45:24.199 --> 01:45:27.680 over the top grass killer or things like that. Uh, and they just 1484 01:45:27.800 --> 01:45:32.479 go out. Well, my husband's out on his way to go get something. 1485 01:45:33.079 --> 01:45:36.560 So I'm giving the buzz right now him know what to get? Yeah, 1486 01:45:36.600 --> 01:45:42.600 where where are you located? Lake Jackson? Lake Jackson? Okay, 1487 01:45:42.680 --> 01:45:46.319 so you're out there the closest big town too. But yeah, so you've 1488 01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:51.560 got Ace hardware is out and not too far from Yeah. That that you're 1489 01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:55.520 gonna they're gonna carry it. They're gonna carry more than one option for you 1490 01:45:55.560 --> 01:45:58.680 in factory, maybe three or four options when he gets there. Awesome, 1491 01:45:59.000 --> 01:46:01.000 I won't tell him where to go. All right, thank you, thanks 1492 01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:04.520 for the call, and good luck with that. Georgia King. All right, 1493 01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:13.119 bye bye bye. You know, the folks at dell Weeb they know 1494 01:46:13.279 --> 01:46:17.119 how to build communities and they gear them toward active adults age fifty five and 1495 01:46:17.239 --> 01:46:19.680 better. You know you want to retire, you want to relax, but 1496 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:21.760 you don't want to just go out to pasture. I mean you want you 1497 01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:26.840 want an active lifestyle. Well, dell Web the community has built all around 1498 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:30.359 that, and even for gardeners, because the Dell Web community going in and 1499 01:46:30.479 --> 01:46:35.000 fullsher On it's about two miles from downtown fullsher On FM three fifty nine. 1500 01:46:35.239 --> 01:46:39.560 It's got a community garden, and I've been assisting them with this, and 1501 01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:43.680 so not only do you have all the pluses of a dell Web community which 1502 01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:46.800 is a mile long list, but also a community garden out there. I 1503 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:49.920 don't know how you can do better than that as a gardener. Dellweb dot 1504 01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:54.399 com slash Houston, we'll get you more information. Give him a call to 1505 01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:59.880 eight one four to five nine zero six zero nine two eight one four five 1506 01:47:00.119 --> 01:47:06.319 nine zero six zero nine. Well, we are working our way through today 1507 01:47:06.520 --> 01:47:12.840 despite some technical challenges that we've had, but we're gonna go ahead and take 1508 01:47:12.840 --> 01:47:15.600 a break here. When I come back, we will be glad to visit 1509 01:47:15.640 --> 01:47:18.960 with you about whatever you're interested in. Give Josh a call or Josh, 1510 01:47:19.640 --> 01:47:23.640 I have to switch all right, Ryan, guests producing today, deb in 1511 01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:26.680 the Woodlands, Roseanne and Mission Mandera. And we have another caller that I'm 1512 01:47:26.680 --> 01:47:29.319 about to process. We will be with you momentarily. All right, thank 1513 01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:48.920 you. I have some nice happy music for today. And it's a happy 1514 01:47:49.000 --> 01:47:53.199 day by the way. Look outside, Wow, good weather, good weather, 1515 01:47:53.279 --> 01:47:56.359 good day to be outside, good day to go shopping. And you 1516 01:47:56.439 --> 01:48:00.039 know, if you get out there and get a chance to move around a 1517 01:48:00.079 --> 01:48:03.520 little bit shopping today, I can't recommend any place higher than we do. 1518 01:48:03.880 --> 01:48:08.640 Plans for all seasons right there. I mean, it's just two forty nine 1519 01:48:08.720 --> 01:48:13.039 on the way to tom Ball right at Luetta, right where Luetta comes into 1520 01:48:13.079 --> 01:48:16.239 two forty nine. Now, Plants for all seasons. You're familiar with them. 1521 01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:23.920 It's everything you would expect in a hometown mom and pop, quality, 1522 01:48:24.039 --> 01:48:27.399 first rate garden center. What am I talking about? When I'm talking about 1523 01:48:27.399 --> 01:48:30.920 staff that knows what they're talking about. You know, they've they've been doing 1524 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:32.680 this a long time. They've seen a lot. In fact, there's times 1525 01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:34.920 and I'll call them out and go, hey, you see any chinch bugs 1526 01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:38.880 yet this year? And they're going to be the first to know. They 1527 01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:44.520 got the products that absolutely are the best things that you would use for your 1528 01:48:44.560 --> 01:48:46.159 plants, and they'll direct you to that. You can walk in there with 1529 01:48:46.199 --> 01:48:48.439 a picture, you can walk in there with a sample, what is this 1530 01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:51.359 weed? What do I do? They're going to take you to the things 1531 01:48:51.439 --> 01:48:55.600 and tell you how to do it. And that is so important to have 1532 01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:59.039 a garden center that knows what they're talking about, that has the products you 1533 01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:02.439 need, and it can accurately address them and then advise you along the way. 1534 01:49:02.920 --> 01:49:05.439 You know, people are always, you know, talking about, well, 1535 01:49:05.479 --> 01:49:09.199 I'm gonna go get you if I find some sale over here on this 1536 01:49:09.319 --> 01:49:13.680 or that or the other. Listen, the number one factor in a garden 1537 01:49:13.760 --> 01:49:17.640 center should be do they have quality plants that are in great condition? And 1538 01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:21.720 do they have people who can help you because you're gonna have questions. You're 1539 01:49:21.720 --> 01:49:25.840 gonna have questions what's wrong with this plan or what would be a good plant 1540 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:29.479 to go in this area? You go to some big box store and you 1541 01:49:29.560 --> 01:49:32.000 know they're just gonna they don't know it. Just be honest, they don't 1542 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:34.720 know what they're talking about. And I'm saying that because I ask a lot 1543 01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:38.960 of times. I've been to those places where you you talk to them and 1544 01:49:39.399 --> 01:49:41.920 the minute you ask the question, the eyes glaze over in New Realizes. 1545 01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:45.039 Okay, that was just wasted breath because they have no idea what they're telling 1546 01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:46.239 me. I was talking to someone at the big box store one time and 1547 01:49:46.319 --> 01:49:49.239 said, hey, you're selling products here, you know, asking them about 1548 01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:53.439 a product, and it was like they had no idea what they were saying. 1549 01:49:53.520 --> 01:49:55.840 I said, so, how long you've been working here? Well, 1550 01:49:55.840 --> 01:49:59.359 I've been here for a while, you know, but I was cutting hair 1551 01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:02.079 last week, so I've been here almost a week now. And they were 1552 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:06.520 actually working in a beauty shop before that. And that's the qualification for selling 1553 01:50:06.560 --> 01:50:12.159 pesticides. Well that's ridiculous. I've kind of drifted off here, but it's 1554 01:50:12.199 --> 01:50:15.600 a tangent for me. It's a soapbox for me, Mom and Pop quality 1555 01:50:15.640 --> 01:50:18.039 garden Centers. Plants for All Seasons is just that. You can go online 1556 01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:21.640 to Plants for All Seasons dot com, or you can go give him a 1557 01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:28.359 call two eight one three seven six one six four six two eight one three 1558 01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:31.239 seven six one six for six And by the way, they just got in 1559 01:50:31.399 --> 01:50:36.800 a great shipment of stuff that laughs at Houston Heat, things like Lantana's, 1560 01:50:36.920 --> 01:50:43.880 things like vinca that I call him the Madagascar prairiewinkle, absolute heat tolerant firecracker 1561 01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:45.880 fern. If you ever seen those, it's not really a fern, but 1562 01:50:46.039 --> 01:50:50.920 it's just this big arching thing with beautiful tubular red blooms that hummingbirds love. 1563 01:50:51.399 --> 01:50:57.079 Blue plumbago can take the heat. Mist expires blue salvia, probably the best 1564 01:50:57.199 --> 01:51:00.359 single blue salvia there is. Mist expires. It's there, graffiti pentas. 1565 01:51:00.439 --> 01:51:04.159 I just planted some of those in a container in my backyard and they are 1566 01:51:04.279 --> 01:51:10.199 just looking great. Another butterfly magnet, all that plants for all seasons. 1567 01:51:10.479 --> 01:51:13.840 Well, I think you get the idea. I love. I love a 1568 01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:17.680 quality hometown garden center that knows what they're talking about. Well, let's let's 1569 01:51:17.720 --> 01:51:20.920 head out to the woodlands and talk to Deb. Now. Hello, Deb, 1570 01:51:21.199 --> 01:51:26.119 Good morning, scap. How are you well? I'm doing good? 1571 01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:29.920 How can we help today? Great Saturday? Out here? I'm out walking. 1572 01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:33.159 Hey, listen, we live on a cold of sack, and that 1573 01:51:33.399 --> 01:51:39.800 could of sack has some rogue lantana on it. And I have been trying 1574 01:51:39.840 --> 01:51:44.399 to baby these things for the longest time. Okay, I gave them a 1575 01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:48.319 good dose of water. They looked a little wilty on Monday, and I 1576 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:55.039 gave them all a bunch of water and they nothing happened. They still looked 1577 01:51:55.279 --> 01:52:00.000 like wilted and the coloring is not very green. I have a huge lantana 1578 01:52:00.159 --> 01:52:06.800 right across the coulda stack drive that looks a thousand times better than these little 1579 01:52:06.880 --> 01:52:11.720 rogue guys do. And I just don't know what to do to them. 1580 01:52:11.800 --> 01:52:15.399 And before I end up killing them, maybe you can tell me what the 1581 01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:18.520 problem is. If it's not water, Yeah, that's a good question. 1582 01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:23.680 Lantana is pretty tough, and say, I don't worry about They're not a 1583 01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:26.800 hydrangea that you got to sit there with a drink of water over five minutes, 1584 01:52:27.840 --> 01:52:30.319 right, Lantana? You know, I don't know, something damaging the 1585 01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:34.199 roots. Possibly maybe the soil in that one spot is super sandy, or 1586 01:52:34.439 --> 01:52:38.399 you know, just drains too darn well and doesn't hoole water. Well, 1587 01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:43.960 I'm speculating here, but for a lantana to be wilty and not doing good, 1588 01:52:44.079 --> 01:52:48.279 something's wrong underground. So well, very well, dig down and feel 1589 01:52:48.319 --> 01:52:53.199 the soil a few inches deep and see what you think. Yeah, it's 1590 01:52:53.279 --> 01:52:59.039 just you know, whatever soil is in that island, the cul de Sac 1591 01:52:59.199 --> 01:53:01.640 island, and so then one of the neighbors I was on vacation. One 1592 01:53:01.640 --> 01:53:08.239 of the neighbors decided to put some black mulch on top of the whole island. 1593 01:53:08.319 --> 01:53:11.720 And it doesn't look like it's the kind that leaches out in the color. 1594 01:53:12.039 --> 01:53:15.039 Yeah, it's just but because it's black, I think it's really really 1595 01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:20.840 hot. I don't know. I dug down a little bit around a couple 1596 01:53:20.920 --> 01:53:25.239 of these things to see if I could see if they were still wet, 1597 01:53:25.640 --> 01:53:29.119 and they were not wet from Monday. It was yesterday. I did thought 1598 01:53:29.359 --> 01:53:32.399 yeah, and so yeah, it could be that they're not getting any water. 1599 01:53:32.840 --> 01:53:35.800 It's not running off either. Yeah, I think they need more and 1600 01:53:35.880 --> 01:53:40.520 the most Yeah, the black mulch will get hot, and we're where I'm 1601 01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:44.359 again. I hope it's not a dyed mulch. But the black most gets 1602 01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:47.159 hot on the surface, but it still keeps the soil cooler because as you 1603 01:53:47.239 --> 01:53:49.479 go down, you know, you're gonna put a two or three inches thick, 1604 01:53:49.560 --> 01:53:53.760 depending on what you're mulching, and it'll be hot on top, but 1605 01:53:53.880 --> 01:53:57.600 underneath that soil will be much much cooler than if it wasn't mulch. So 1606 01:53:58.000 --> 01:54:01.399 that's that in of itself is not them. I think a good deep soaking 1607 01:54:01.720 --> 01:54:05.399 a few times and see if they perk up and turn around. Other than 1608 01:54:05.520 --> 01:54:10.239 that, I don't know. I'm not familiar with a common root rod on 1609 01:54:10.359 --> 01:54:14.119 them. We don't have common root feeding insects that chew the roots off of 1610 01:54:14.199 --> 01:54:18.119 a lantanna or you know all there is good holes in them, and they're 1611 01:54:18.159 --> 01:54:23.039 not in the leaves and leaves. Yeah, yeah, but that's not a 1612 01:54:23.119 --> 01:54:27.319 wilting thing. So let's let's start with the water and give us some good 1613 01:54:27.359 --> 01:54:30.239 deep soakings out there and see see what you think. Can you get a 1614 01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:31.520 hose to them or are they not just not on your part? No, 1615 01:54:31.680 --> 01:54:33.760 I can't get a hole. I don't have a hose long enough. But 1616 01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:36.800 I do have a water in cannon. I did build up some little dams 1617 01:54:36.880 --> 01:54:42.439 around them, you know, so yeah, um, and and so that's 1618 01:54:42.520 --> 01:54:45.800 working. It's not really running off, it's soaking in. Yeah. But 1619 01:54:46.319 --> 01:54:49.159 they just don't look I mean, they look the same. They're not changing 1620 01:54:49.199 --> 01:54:53.000 at all when I give them water. And that's what's confusing me because right 1621 01:54:53.039 --> 01:54:57.760 across the street is my lantana and it only gets water three times a week. 1622 01:54:57.920 --> 01:55:00.840 For like, I don't know, eight minutes or whatever, and it 1623 01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:05.199 is green and humongous, and it even had a cable company run right through 1624 01:55:05.239 --> 01:55:09.079 the middle of it to put their line in, and I thought, oh 1625 01:55:09.159 --> 01:55:12.560 god, they've killed my beautiful Lantanna. But no, it has come back, 1626 01:55:12.760 --> 01:55:15.720 just as fears that it always does. Well. The only explanation, 1627 01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:19.800 tub is that you've just got a really green thumb. So yeah, now 1628 01:55:19.960 --> 01:55:23.439 give me some water. I think that's probably the best you can do, 1629 01:55:23.960 --> 01:55:27.039 if you if you don't mind looking at something ugly. What I've done before 1630 01:55:27.079 --> 01:55:29.520 on a plant that was out there where I couldn't water it really well, 1631 01:55:30.159 --> 01:55:32.640 get a five gallon bucket, drill some little tiny holes in the bottom, 1632 01:55:33.119 --> 01:55:35.960 and then set it on the ground, kind of move the mulch bike so 1633 01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:40.680 it sits on the ground. Fill up full of a half full for a 1634 01:55:40.800 --> 01:55:43.920 lantanna, you know, about half full in that bucket, and it'll slowly 1635 01:55:44.039 --> 01:55:47.720 leak that water out and that'll give the best slow wide soaking that you're going 1636 01:55:47.800 --> 01:55:50.479 to get. That That would be the only tip. Just tell the neighbors 1637 01:55:50.560 --> 01:55:54.840 not to look. Okay, all right, yeah, hey, thank you, 1638 01:55:55.119 --> 01:55:58.000 thank you for the call. I appreciate I appreciate that very much, 1639 01:55:58.239 --> 01:56:00.600 you know, talking about those mulches and stuff. If you live anywhere south 1640 01:56:00.640 --> 01:56:04.680 of town, Sienna Malch is the multiplace for you. I mean you go 1641 01:56:04.800 --> 01:56:10.039 to Sienna Mulch dot com. They're down there just north of Rose Sharon. 1642 01:56:10.399 --> 01:56:14.720 So for all those folks living near the brows has been State Park, Manville, 1643 01:56:14.800 --> 01:56:17.600 Riverstone, Fresno, Arcola, Sandy Point like Olympia, Iowa Colony. 1644 01:56:17.720 --> 01:56:23.279 You get the idea of Sienna Plantation. Sienna Malch Monday through Friday, seven 1645 01:56:23.439 --> 01:56:27.560 thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sunday, so 1646 01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:30.800 today is a day to get out there. They carry all the fertilizers we 1647 01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:33.000 talk about. If you need stone, if you need rock, if you 1648 01:56:33.119 --> 01:56:36.840 need bulk soil, if you need bag soil, if you need rose soil, 1649 01:56:36.920 --> 01:56:42.239 if you know, they have it all Sienna Malch and they deliver within 1650 01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:45.680 twenty miles for a small charge out in that area. Check them out. 1651 01:56:48.359 --> 01:56:53.920 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 1652 01:56:53.960 --> 01:57:12.960 this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just watch him well. 1653 01:57:13.039 --> 01:57:16.600 Good morning, good Saturday morning, on a great day for gardening, 1654 01:57:16.680 --> 01:57:20.079 which every day is. Of course you're listening to garden Line. I'm your 1655 01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:25.880 host, Skip Richter and our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 1656 01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:30.399 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Hey, 1657 01:57:30.399 --> 01:57:33.560 if you've got a little piece of property and you would like a tractor 1658 01:57:33.760 --> 01:57:36.640 to to help take care of it, I mean I'm talking about moving maltz 1659 01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:40.680 and moving you know, soil, bags of feed, all that kind of 1660 01:57:40.760 --> 01:57:45.520 thing. Caboda is what you need, and Lansdown Moody is where you get 1661 01:57:45.560 --> 01:57:49.600 it. Now, the Landsdown Moody has a great deal on select Caboda tractors, 1662 01:57:49.800 --> 01:57:53.399 one price, one package, and a whole lot of that. A 1663 01:57:53.479 --> 01:57:59.399 beautiful original orange color Caboda L twenty five O one. You can package that 1664 01:57:59.560 --> 01:58:03.319 thing up. The folks at LANSDOWNE Moody are extending the incredible deal that I've 1665 01:58:03.359 --> 01:58:06.319 been talking about all summer. They're extending it on into the fall. And 1666 01:58:06.479 --> 01:58:12.600 what is that deal? Zero down, zero percent interest for eighty four months, 1667 01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:16.800 seven years, zero down, zero percent interest. Versatility and performance from 1668 01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:20.960 two brands you just always can count on, and that those two are Caboda 1669 01:58:21.079 --> 01:58:26.039 and Lansdown Moody. You can go to caboda us today for more information. 1670 01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.800 You can contact Lansdowne Moody for more information. Just go to l mtractor dot 1671 01:58:30.880 --> 01:58:36.960 com LM tractor dot com. Hands down, It's Lansdown and this is one 1672 01:58:38.159 --> 01:58:42.760 sweet ride. You got to check it out. I used to have a 1673 01:58:42.800 --> 01:58:45.399 little farm and had some tractor that I took care of there. It was 1674 01:58:45.439 --> 01:58:48.960 an old clunker that you know, I pretty much had to do magic on 1675 01:58:49.039 --> 01:58:53.600 it every time just to get the thing to start. I wish that l 1676 01:58:54.119 --> 01:58:57.840 I wish that Cabota L twenty five oh one was around and available and I 1677 01:58:57.920 --> 01:59:00.880 had one at that time, because that sure would have been sure it would 1678 01:59:00.880 --> 01:59:02.279 have been nice, made it even more of a pleasure of getting out there 1679 01:59:02.319 --> 01:59:05.720 and working on the place. We're gonna head out to Willis now and we're 1680 01:59:05.760 --> 01:59:11.800 gonna talk to Joe. Hello, Joe, good morning, Hello, Hey, 1681 01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:15.560 how are you? How can we help just well, I actually would 1682 01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:19.199 like to get rid of a plant. Its looks like a shrimp plant. 1683 01:59:19.199 --> 01:59:23.920 I'm not sure a gardener put it in. It's underneath a little bit under 1684 01:59:24.000 --> 01:59:28.880 my huge oak tree. And we tried to dig it and we done it 1685 01:59:28.960 --> 01:59:30.359 all out and I said, ah, it's gone, but it had such 1686 01:59:30.479 --> 01:59:32.960 large roots. We said, well, it's going to come back, and 1687 01:59:33.279 --> 01:59:39.800 it did. I mean it refilled that entire area immediately. It looks like 1688 01:59:39.960 --> 01:59:44.359 a shrimp plant, but it's a light pink flower. And I had a 1689 01:59:44.399 --> 01:59:46.800 shrimp plant before that had a coral flower and it didn't spread. But this 1690 01:59:47.000 --> 01:59:51.600 thing, I mean, it's it's spread blooms beautifully that I just wanted it 1691 01:59:51.720 --> 01:59:54.680 out, all right. So what you got have to do is you need 1692 01:59:54.760 --> 02:00:00.720 to broad leaf weed control product on it, a post larg if is there 1693 02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:03.479 anything desirable around that, like, because we don't want to kill something else 1694 02:00:03.560 --> 02:00:05.760 when we're killing. Well, I didn't want to kill on my oak tree. 1695 02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:09.960 And there's no other plants around it. Oh, there's a couple of 1696 02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:13.159 lilies in there, but they're okay, then go all right. So here's 1697 02:00:13.199 --> 02:00:15.600 what I would do. I would check around one more time around the oak 1698 02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:18.920 tree. Make sure there's no sucker sprouts coming out of the bottom or anything 1699 02:00:19.000 --> 02:00:23.119 that we'd get a spray on. Okay, the trunk. Getting the spray 1700 02:00:23.159 --> 02:00:25.479 on the trunk's not a problem with getting it on the other it is. 1701 02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:30.039 And you want to get you can get a product that contains kind of a 1702 02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:33.159 mixture of different broad leaf controls. There's there's a lot of them out there. 1703 02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:39.119 I would probably just get something that contains trichlope R t R, I, 1704 02:00:39.960 --> 02:00:44.000 C l O, pyr, and I would be very careful when you 1705 02:00:44.079 --> 02:00:45.920 spray it. And you don't want to pump up the sprayer too much because 1706 02:00:45.920 --> 02:00:49.439 you don't want it drifting over onto other things, because it'll kill any broad 1707 02:00:49.520 --> 02:00:53.239 leaf thing you get it on. If you get it on the green tissues, 1708 02:00:53.600 --> 02:00:57.399 you don't want to overspray it and have it drenching and dripping down into 1709 02:00:57.439 --> 02:01:01.239 the soil. And you know, just wet the foliage and I would spread 1710 02:01:01.319 --> 02:01:05.199 with that, give it some time to work. You'll see it the effects 1711 02:01:05.239 --> 02:01:09.199 of it, and then just cut all that back to the ground and wait. 1712 02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:13.720 It's probably going to reach sprout because you genuinely don't get everything with one 1713 02:01:13.840 --> 02:01:16.800 spray, and when it does, spray it again. But the more you 1714 02:01:16.880 --> 02:01:20.760 can have a small plant there coming up that you're spraying, it's better than 1715 02:01:20.840 --> 02:01:25.840 having something tall that you know you're spraying up higher and who knows where the 1716 02:01:25.920 --> 02:01:29.479 spray is going. Just be real careful with it. If you do do 1717 02:01:29.600 --> 02:01:31.439 it. The way I said, you won't hurt anything, but we'll hurt 1718 02:01:31.479 --> 02:01:33.600 the tree. That's that's the main thing. I just didn't want to hurt 1719 02:01:33.640 --> 02:01:36.079 my tree. No, definitely don't want to hurt your tree. Just check 1720 02:01:36.159 --> 02:01:40.479 for those check for those suckers or sometimes you got the little plants coming up, 1721 02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.239 and you can't do this if you've got if you're going to end up 1722 02:01:43.279 --> 02:01:46.880 spraying tree tree foliage you know, coming up. Yeah, Okay, yeah, 1723 02:01:47.159 --> 02:01:49.039 I don't want Yeah, I don't want to hurt the tree, but 1724 02:01:49.159 --> 02:01:53.520 I do want to get rid of it because I mean, it scupped pretty 1725 02:01:53.520 --> 02:01:56.920 flowers on it. But I'm tired of it. Really. Yeah, I 1726 02:01:57.319 --> 02:01:59.880 can't get anything else in there. Not a problem. Hey, thank you 1727 02:01:59.920 --> 02:02:02.600 for the call, Joe. I appreciate that very very much. Our phone 1728 02:02:02.680 --> 02:02:06.079 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now we're going 1729 02:02:06.119 --> 02:02:10.680 to head out to Bendera and talk to Roseanne. Roseanne, you get an 1730 02:02:10.720 --> 02:02:14.520 award. I wish I had a door prize for you for holding so patiently, 1731 02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:17.680 But thank you for hanging on. No problem, no problem, Skip. 1732 02:02:18.880 --> 02:02:25.000 My question is about bees and the bird bath. Okay, ever since 1733 02:02:25.119 --> 02:02:31.439 we've had you know, this horrible running one hundred degree weathers. I've had 1734 02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:39.399 more honey bees in my bird bath than ever, and I read up on 1735 02:02:39.520 --> 02:02:42.760 it, and I've always been worried about them drowning because I know they don't 1736 02:02:42.800 --> 02:02:46.039 swim. So I put some river rock in my deep bird bath and so 1737 02:02:46.159 --> 02:02:50.319 there's places for them to go. But one of my neighbors suggested that it 1738 02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:55.520 may be a problem for the bees to move on when we start any rain, 1739 02:02:56.159 --> 02:02:59.319 and I don't see that being a problem. I know they need water 1740 02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:03.039 now desperately, but I don't know if I'm if I'm building in a problem 1741 02:03:03.199 --> 02:03:08.079 for me later on. No, you're not, absolutely not. You're saving 1742 02:03:08.159 --> 02:03:12.119 bees and they desperately need the water to keep doing what they do, which 1743 02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:15.239 helps us with our gardens in the meantime. No, don't worry about that 1744 02:03:15.560 --> 02:03:19.600 when when they're they're not going to become dependent and think they have to hang 1745 02:03:19.640 --> 02:03:24.319 out at the bird bath. That's just a dependable source for them, which 1746 02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:30.119 good for you for providing them. So there isn't a problem then with birds 1747 02:03:30.279 --> 02:03:34.479 and bees. I mean, I've seen some birds out at my other bird 1748 02:03:34.560 --> 02:03:39.239 bath, but they're not going to the same bird bath that the bees are 1749 02:03:39.319 --> 02:03:43.079 going to, so you don't see an issue with that either, you know, 1750 02:03:43.159 --> 02:03:47.000 I've hadn'try thought about it in that way. I don't know. Tomorrow 1751 02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:49.600 I'm going to have a guy from Wall Birds Unlimited. I'm not asking that 1752 02:03:49.680 --> 02:03:53.880 question. I would say there's not a problem. But even if there was, 1753 02:03:54.000 --> 02:03:56.079 I mean, they're gonna find times to come there, and you could 1754 02:03:56.399 --> 02:03:59.720 anytime you give another source of moisture out there. I mean, I've seen 1755 02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:04.119 bee around drip irrigation lines when it's hot, a little tiny little drops of 1756 02:04:04.159 --> 02:04:06.640 water coming out, and that's just a great place for them to get a 1757 02:04:06.720 --> 02:04:14.159 drink. Anywhere they go ahead, No, I was anywhere they get water 1758 02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:15.560 is a good good thing, And you're right, yeah, you need they 1759 02:04:15.640 --> 02:04:18.039 need to be able to step on the side and reach down and get a 1760 02:04:18.119 --> 02:04:24.159 drink without falling in and drowning right right. Well, one of the things 1761 02:04:24.279 --> 02:04:28.880 I was so affrightened of is when I fill the bird baths in the evening, 1762 02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:31.279 I fill them twice a day because it because of the evaporation, and 1763 02:04:31.680 --> 02:04:35.680 I would go out there with my garden hose and skip. I have never 1764 02:04:35.880 --> 02:04:40.840 been stung at all these birds. I mean, these birds, these beas 1765 02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:45.039 deemed to under I don't know. They don't understand anything. But um, 1766 02:04:45.279 --> 02:04:48.640 you know, I was able to gently fill the bird bath with water and 1767 02:04:48.800 --> 02:04:53.840 they would buzz around me. But I tried very hard not to be frightened, 1768 02:04:54.319 --> 02:04:59.039 and somehow they knew I wasn't there to hurt them. That's exactly right. 1769 02:04:59.399 --> 02:05:00.960 Yeah, if you grabbed one, squeezed it with your hand, yeah 1770 02:05:00.960 --> 02:05:04.279 you crabbed talking them into biting you. But basically are stinging you? Those 1771 02:05:04.359 --> 02:05:09.760 bees they know they they they are not interested messing with the costs them there 1772 02:05:09.800 --> 02:05:12.680 if their honeybe it cost them their life to sting us, and so that 1773 02:05:13.000 --> 02:05:16.760 that's only protecting the colony and things. But yeah, that's a good idea. 1774 02:05:16.920 --> 02:05:20.359 I think I think they'll do just fine. And uh, I wouldn't 1775 02:05:20.399 --> 02:05:25.359 I wouldn't worry about it any further than that. Okay, thank you so 1776 02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:27.640 much for taking a call. Yeah, I have a quick question. Are 1777 02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:32.000 you listening in Lantana to the radio waves? Are you listening online? Actually 1778 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:36.199 I'm not in Lantana. I'm in Mission band Oh, Mission Bend. Okay, 1779 02:05:36.560 --> 02:05:40.680 yeah, Lantana. That's my bad, Rosanna. I misheard you. 1780 02:05:40.760 --> 02:05:44.439 I'd put Bandera all right, I thought were I thought we were talking about. 1781 02:05:44.600 --> 02:05:46.479 I heard garden Line all the way out to Atlanto one time. I 1782 02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:49.199 was surprised it went that far, but I thought, well, maybe we 1783 02:05:49.319 --> 02:05:54.720 made bendera too or something. I don't know. No, I'm in all 1784 02:05:54.760 --> 02:05:59.640 mission bands all. Thanks for the call. Bet you hey, you're listening 1785 02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:02.279 to guard Line seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give 1786 02:06:02.359 --> 02:06:12.720 Ryan a call, will be right back. Is gonnacause east cooloolay comes a 1787 02:06:12.760 --> 02:06:16.199 fool. I got a fast car, but then a sol on the pool. 1788 02:06:16.279 --> 02:06:25.880 But the brood is wholes for miles for my big ship because we ain't 1789 02:06:25.920 --> 02:06:30.159 got down to wish. Sometimes I can just get to listen into the music 1790 02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:34.039 and I forget I'm supposed to a radio show here. Welcome to garden Line. 1791 02:06:34.039 --> 02:06:38.880 I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here to answer your gardening questions. 1792 02:06:39.399 --> 02:06:42.680 You know, if you're looking to do some summer fertilizing in your turf, 1793 02:06:43.119 --> 02:06:46.399 I want to tell you about the slow and easy, Slow and Easy 1794 02:06:46.600 --> 02:06:51.119 from Nelson playing food. It's a twenty two two ten great ratio. There 1795 02:06:51.239 --> 02:06:55.600 lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus. We don't need much phosphorus in our 1796 02:06:55.640 --> 02:06:59.600 lawns. If any and then the meat of the amount of potassium. The 1797 02:06:59.640 --> 02:07:03.680 temper potassium is a great powerhouse blend. Well, here's the thing. This 1798 02:07:04.119 --> 02:07:11.079 fertilizer has a design where it releases the nitrogen very gradually over time. It 1799 02:07:11.199 --> 02:07:15.000 doesn't just all get dumped. When you use an immediate release, you mow 1800 02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:17.880 more. You have shallower root systems. Believe it or not, push in 1801 02:07:18.000 --> 02:07:21.159 top growth at the expensive root growth is a real thing. You want to 1802 02:07:21.279 --> 02:07:26.439 gradual feed. You want to be able to slowly, over time feed your 1803 02:07:26.479 --> 02:07:30.239 plants. And that's what Nelson plant Food does. That's what the specifically the 1804 02:07:30.399 --> 02:07:33.960 Slow and Easy does. That's why we design things that way. That's why 1805 02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:40.039 they've used the science to create that kind of fertilizer because that is exactly what 1806 02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:44.880 your lawn needs. It's good, excellent for the gradual feed. Nelson Plantard 1807 02:07:44.920 --> 02:07:46.840 and Nelson's has all kinds of good stuff. They got color Star, they 1808 02:07:46.920 --> 02:07:50.640 got their Nutril Stars, they got their Nature Star for natural based, organic 1809 02:07:50.680 --> 02:07:55.479 type fertilizers, and then they have the sturf Star line. And when it 1810 02:07:55.560 --> 02:08:00.039 comes to summertime, slow and easy do it now, you'll be done so 1811 02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:03.720 fall, when it's time to fertilize again, that is an excellent product. 1812 02:08:03.960 --> 02:08:07.920 Let's see who do we have online right now? We got Bill Linkingwood Bill 1813 02:08:07.039 --> 02:08:11.800 in Kingwood? Hey Bill, good morning, how can we help today? 1814 02:08:13.319 --> 02:08:20.800 All right? Good morning, um, good morning. I have planted recently 1815 02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:26.359 a persymmetry in my backyard. I bought a yard of Nature's way rosebed soil 1816 02:08:26.840 --> 02:08:33.880 and built a small mound approximately a foot tall and four or five feet lander, 1817 02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:39.000 and I planted this Rugu persymmetry. But in the interim period, what's 1818 02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:43.359 happened is the grass or grass like weeds have taken over. The have taken 1819 02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:48.600 over the area around it. In the persymmetry seemed to be suffering from a 1820 02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:52.680 lack of water briga to all this grass. So I was thinking about covering 1821 02:08:52.680 --> 02:08:56.880 all that with maybe some landscape fabric. But the grass is so tall that 1822 02:08:58.000 --> 02:09:03.560 I was thinking maybe there might be some herbicide that I could use that would 1823 02:09:03.640 --> 02:09:07.399 kill all the grass without killing them per seminary. Yes you could, yeah, 1824 02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:11.920 absolutely can. So where are are you in Kingwood? Or you north 1825 02:09:11.960 --> 02:09:16.000 southeast and west? Which direction? I'm right on Lake Houston? Oh, 1826 02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:20.760 right on last? Okay, so you've got a yard My backyard is Lake 1827 02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:24.239 Houston. Okay, Well, You've got a couple of great Ace hardwarees out 1828 02:09:24.239 --> 02:09:26.479 there that are going to carry what I'm about to tell you. One is 1829 02:09:26.520 --> 02:09:31.560 a K and M Ace hardware. They're right there on Kingwood Drive in Kingwood, 1830 02:09:31.640 --> 02:09:35.560 and then Timber Forrest Drive down in Humble is a tesscaseda ACE hardware. 1831 02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:39.279 Both of them are going to have the grass only killers. And these there's 1832 02:09:39.319 --> 02:09:46.079 two different ingredients, one or the other in depending on the product that will 1833 02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:50.439 both kill grass without killing broadleaf plants, which your percenton is a broad leaf 1834 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:54.920 plant. And one of them has something calls a foxy deem and it just 1835 02:09:56.199 --> 02:10:03.520 look for the first letters set h X if you if you see that s 1836 02:10:03.680 --> 02:10:09.920 is in sam s et like the boys name seth o x y seth ox. 1837 02:10:09.800 --> 02:10:15.880 That's that's one. The other one begins with f l U A Z 1838 02:10:16.279 --> 02:10:20.239 flu as. No other chemicals are going to begin with those two names though. 1839 02:10:20.279 --> 02:10:22.960 The grass only. But if you go into a good Ace hardware like 1840 02:10:22.039 --> 02:10:26.960 the TESK c A s Arcane I'm up on Kingwood Drive, they're gonna both 1841 02:10:26.279 --> 02:10:31.000 be able to provide you with what they carry that's a grass only and it's 1842 02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:35.359 gonna have one or the other those two chemicals follow the label careful go ahead 1843 02:10:35.560 --> 02:10:43.560 fethoxy and su l u a z f l f l u flu like like 1844 02:10:43.760 --> 02:10:46.760 you got the flu. But you don't even need to know those. If 1845 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:48.840 you say grass only, they're gonna take you to it. And here's what 1846 02:10:48.960 --> 02:10:52.079 you need to do. Uh. If I if it were mine it was 1847 02:10:52.159 --> 02:10:56.319 taller, I'd probably mow it down and then water it. You want it 1848 02:10:56.359 --> 02:11:00.359 to get actively growing. If it's in drought, stress products do not kill 1849 02:11:00.439 --> 02:11:03.840 it as well. But when the grass is actively growing, these things will 1850 02:11:03.880 --> 02:11:07.960 take it down really really well. Yeah, last breaker says, we got 1851 02:11:09.000 --> 02:11:13.600 that. Well it's happy. Well, let's disappoint it by spraying them with 1852 02:11:13.720 --> 02:11:18.680 one of those two things. All right, okay, all right, thank 1853 02:11:18.720 --> 02:11:20.880 you for your home for you, bet, Thank you, Bill, thank 1854 02:11:20.920 --> 02:11:22.840 you. I appreciate that you'll. Bill's talking about a sprinkler system around a 1855 02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:26.800 tree, and I should have mentioned this to him when I was talking to 1856 02:11:26.880 --> 02:11:30.199 him. But a tree hugger makes a sprinkler that goes right around a tree. 1857 02:11:30.279 --> 02:11:33.319 And it's like, imagine just a little kind of C shaped thing with 1858 02:11:33.439 --> 02:11:37.640 a hinge on it where you put it up to the trunk and twist bend 1859 02:11:37.720 --> 02:11:39.560 it and it goes around like a circle around the trunk. They've got a 1860 02:11:39.560 --> 02:11:43.800 little seven inch diameter eleven inch fifteen inch. Here's why I like the tree 1861 02:11:43.880 --> 02:11:48.239 hugger. You hook it up to your hose. You set the little valve 1862 02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:52.279 on the tree hugger and you sor turn your water on and you can make 1863 02:11:52.319 --> 02:11:54.439 it water. You can make it just squirt up about two or three inches 1864 02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:56.760 high. Like I see. You've got a brand new woody ornamental, a 1865 02:11:56.840 --> 02:12:00.680 shrub or a tree or a vine, and you just want to water that 1866 02:12:00.800 --> 02:12:03.079 root cylinder and a little beyond it. It'll do that. You can turn 1867 02:12:03.119 --> 02:12:07.000 it up a little bit more and it'll water wider, and as the tree 1868 02:12:07.039 --> 02:12:11.079 gets bigger and bigger, you just increase the watering area and you get the 1869 02:12:11.199 --> 02:12:13.720 darn thing to survive. You know, the summer is a hard time on 1870 02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:18.920 a new tree, shrubber, vine, treeck or sprinkler is a very inexpensive 1871 02:12:18.039 --> 02:12:22.800 insurance policy. You can go to tree Hugger sprinklers dot com, find a 1872 02:12:22.880 --> 02:12:26.760 retailer near you, or I can just tell you this way if it's a 1873 02:12:26.800 --> 02:12:28.720 nice hard riff. It's one of our mom and pop garden centers of as 1874 02:12:28.800 --> 02:12:31.640 many of the feed stores. They're going to have that tree hugger there for 1875 02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:35.600 you. Really good to go, We're gonna head back out to the phones 1876 02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:39.800 now this time we're going to go to West University and we're going to talk 1877 02:12:39.840 --> 02:12:43.680 to Charlie. Well, hello, Charlie, how are you today? I'm 1878 02:12:43.800 --> 02:12:48.880 good. I've got some tree roots from a very large tree my front yard. 1879 02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:58.439 Okay, coming tree roots coming through a crack in my driveway. Yeah, 1880 02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:01.079 it goes, goes all the way across the dri driveway. Yeah. 1881 02:13:01.239 --> 02:13:03.760 I wanted to chop them out, but my wife says, well, it 1882 02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:07.039 might hurt the trees, right, I said, well, I'll call I'll 1883 02:13:07.079 --> 02:13:11.760 call a skip rictor. Yeah. Well it's it's also it's also lifting up 1884 02:13:11.800 --> 02:13:16.520 the drive or the sidewalk a little bit there or the driveway whichever I'm seeing 1885 02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:20.239 in the picture there. Uh. So you can go to wherever it enters 1886 02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:24.399 that crack in the in the driveway or the sidewalk or wherever you're finding these 1887 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:28.760 roots, and you can just dig down and cut them right there. That's 1888 02:13:28.800 --> 02:13:31.720 okay. Now, if you cut half the roots on the tree, that'd 1889 02:13:31.760 --> 02:13:33.720 be a big problem. But just taking out this one route that's going through 1890 02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:37.760 the crack. Uh. That is something that you can go ahead and do. 1891 02:13:37.800 --> 02:13:39.600 It's not gonna be an easy job dig down and cut it, but 1892 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:45.720 that's that's probably what you gotta do because it's fixing to do some major lifting 1893 02:13:45.760 --> 02:13:50.239 on that sidewalk or driveway. Yeah, that's it. That's the driveway. 1894 02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:54.399 Does it does go all the way across the driveway? Yeah? Yeah, 1895 02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:58.079 I mean you could. You could hire somebody, you know, call H 1896 02:13:58.399 --> 02:14:01.159 Martin spend more an affordable tree. You have him come out and look at 1897 02:14:01.199 --> 02:14:03.239 it. He may tell you, you know what, I can put a 1898 02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:05.640 trench in there, and I can put a barrier in there that forces those 1899 02:14:05.800 --> 02:14:11.119 roots to go down and under rather than to go right underneath. Because when 1900 02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:13.279 a little rout goes underneath and then it grows in diameter, that's how we 1901 02:14:13.359 --> 02:14:18.600 get in the situation. We get in here, and so it's a you 1902 02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:22.119 know, it's only going to get worse. So I think I would deal 1903 02:14:22.199 --> 02:14:26.600 with it um and either cut that one out of yourself, or you know, 1904 02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:28.760 have Martin come out and do a consult and say what would it cost 1905 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:33.960 to put a barrier in here and then have a more long term solution. 1906 02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:37.520 Either way, Okay, yeah, I like the idea of the barrier. 1907 02:14:37.640 --> 02:14:43.319 But yeah, but my wife wanted to take the three hundred years old. 1908 02:14:43.319 --> 02:14:46.479 It's a very big tree. One of the pictures. Oh wow shows the 1909 02:14:46.560 --> 02:14:50.239 tree too. Yeah, that's that's awesome. Uh yeah, beautiful, beautiful 1910 02:14:50.279 --> 02:14:54.399 tree. Uh. Let's take care of it, because that that thing is 1911 02:14:54.439 --> 02:14:56.479 worth a lot of money to the value of the home. You know, 1912 02:14:56.600 --> 02:15:01.920 it gives shade and just a lot of benefits. So I think it's it's 1913 02:15:01.920 --> 02:15:03.760 worth doing a little bit to invest in it and make sure it's around for 1914 02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:09.039 another one hundred years longer than you and I'll go around. Yeah, well 1915 02:15:09.199 --> 02:15:13.039 hundred maybe too long and wait it's old. Okay, all right, thank 1916 02:15:13.039 --> 02:15:15.399 you very much. All right, thank you for the call. I appreciate 1917 02:15:15.520 --> 02:15:20.319 that call very much. If you live in the you know, the kind 1918 02:15:20.319 --> 02:15:24.079 of north central downtown area of Houston, your home down feed stores, Quality 1919 02:15:24.119 --> 02:15:28.119 Feed, Quality Feed and Gardens Center. I mean all the folks up in 1920 02:15:28.159 --> 02:15:31.159 the heights and just all around in there. I used to go to Quality 1921 02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:35.760 Feed when there are another location downtown. They've now moved if you're not aware 1922 02:15:35.800 --> 02:15:39.920 of this, but they've moved to eighteen thirteen Luzon Street. That's near the 1923 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:45.439 intersection of Equipment and Illusion and Quality Feeds open Monday through Friday, nine am 1924 02:15:45.520 --> 02:15:46.920 to six pm, so you can head buy there on the way home from 1925 02:15:46.960 --> 02:15:52.359 work every day if you want. Today Saturday's nine am to four pm and 1926 02:15:52.399 --> 02:15:56.960 tomorrow Sunday eleven thirty am to four pm. It's been a tradition in Houston 1927 02:15:56.039 --> 02:16:01.720 since nineteen twenty eight. Kenn and Chris owned it for thirty two years now. 1928 02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:05.439 And I mean they all the fertilizers I talk about, they've got them 1929 02:16:05.439 --> 02:16:07.600 there. All the soils I talk about, they've got them there. Do 1930 02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:09.680 you have backyard chickens, You need to know quality feed. I don't care 1931 02:16:09.720 --> 02:16:13.920 where you live, because they're getting chickens in about every two weeks, the 1932 02:16:13.039 --> 02:16:16.439 new chicks coming in. They've got the feeds, the feeders, all the 1933 02:16:16.520 --> 02:16:20.560 stuff that you need. You want to source a local honey that's quality feed, 1934 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:24.560 pet foods, everything you would expect from a feed store. Anything your 1935 02:16:24.640 --> 02:16:28.760 plants and need, from fertilizers to soils, to compost to multis to pesticides, 1936 02:16:28.800 --> 02:16:33.399 to herbicides to fungicide, all of it at Quality feed. Go to 1937 02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:39.399 Quality feed coo dot com, Quality feedco dot com. Ken and Chris have 1938 02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:45.879 really created a wonderful hometown feed store. You are fortunate if you live anywhere 1939 02:16:46.079 --> 02:16:48.239 near that area. But again, if you're looking for the backyard chickens, 1940 02:16:48.920 --> 02:16:52.959 that is the place you need to go all through the year. All right, 1941 02:16:54.479 --> 02:16:58.040 we are going to be heading to a break here a little bit. 1942 02:16:58.479 --> 02:17:03.239 I did talk about about one thing though. If you're putting new transplants in 1943 02:17:03.319 --> 02:17:07.239 the ground, some people have callida. They're talking about planning this or planting 1944 02:17:07.319 --> 02:17:09.639 that you need to be aware of. Has to grow six twelve six. 1945 02:17:09.959 --> 02:17:15.559 Has to grow six twelve six got a high phosphorus content which is important for 1946 02:17:15.719 --> 02:17:20.120 root development and for flower development. And this has to grow contains the NPK 1947 02:17:20.399 --> 02:17:24.200 the six twelve six, but it also has medinas oil activator, stimulant, 1948 02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:28.760 biological activity. It's got humic acid, it's got seaweed extracts. You can 1949 02:17:28.840 --> 02:17:31.600 use it for a fold of your feet. It's not going to burn your 1950 02:17:31.639 --> 02:17:35.600 plants. I like to mix it in water and drench it in with new 1951 02:17:35.680 --> 02:17:39.760 transplants. Do it when you plant, do it five days later, do 1952 02:17:39.840 --> 02:17:43.000 it again five days later. Has to grow will get your plants off to 1953 02:17:43.079 --> 02:18:01.040 a good start. Has to grow six twelve six plant Food. Well, 1954 02:18:01.079 --> 02:18:03.600 good morning. You're listening to garden Line and I am your host, Skip 1955 02:18:03.719 --> 02:18:07.239 Rictor. We are here to talk gardening and we are gonna jump right on 1956 02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:11.440 it. We got a bunch of calls that are holding, and so we're 1957 02:18:11.479 --> 02:18:15.280 gonna see how many of those we can get through this morning. Elizabeth out 1958 02:18:15.440 --> 02:18:18.479 in Tomball, how are you this morning and how can we help? I 1959 02:18:18.600 --> 02:18:24.559 am doing well. So my question is that I have a very persistent one. 1960 02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:28.600 I think it's pepper vine growing between my sidewalk and some landscape break. 1961 02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:33.399 Okay, and I cannot pull it up. I should try I cut it. 1962 02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:35.559 I've done everything I could see right, so I'm hoping, and of 1963 02:18:35.639 --> 02:18:39.319 course it's right by the front door. Yeah, so I'm hoping I can 1964 02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:43.680 learn kind of how to kill it or get rid of it permanently. Okay, 1965 02:18:45.079 --> 02:18:48.920 we can do that. I'm kind of talking about this a lot today. 1966 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:56.000 But there's a product ingredient called trichlopier t R I c l O p 1967 02:18:56.799 --> 02:19:01.559 y R. When we're dealing with anything that's a shrub tree or vine we're 1968 02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:05.520 trying to get rid of, whether it's poison ivy or pepper vine or Hackberry's 1969 02:19:05.559 --> 02:19:07.639 coming up in the fence line or tricyle pier is the way to go. 1970 02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:13.520 You can buy it. It's sold in many brands, It'll say. Often 1971 02:19:13.639 --> 02:19:18.360 brands say something like a brush control or poison ivy killer or something like that. 1972 02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:24.479 The triklopier is the one that you were looking looking for, and you're 1973 02:19:24.559 --> 02:19:28.399 up there in tom Ball. I'll bet you you can find that at Arburgate. 1974 02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:31.799 I bet Beverly at Arburgate is going to have some of that. I'll 1975 02:19:31.840 --> 02:19:35.600 bet you that DND down down the road there and tom Ball is also going 1976 02:19:35.639 --> 02:19:37.959 to be a place where you're going to be able to find the tricyle per 1977 02:19:39.200 --> 02:19:43.479 Okay, is this something I have to use the baggy method more? Or 1978 02:19:43.639 --> 02:19:46.159 is this just painted on? And so if it were a little like a 1979 02:19:46.200 --> 02:19:50.040 little mini tree coming up in the fence line, I would say cut it 1980 02:19:50.120 --> 02:19:54.479 off and paint the stump but on on the pepper vine. If you can 1981 02:19:54.600 --> 02:20:01.920 just paint it along the vine themselves, like where they come out of the 1982 02:20:01.000 --> 02:20:05.159 ground, just slathered on. I'll put a little bit of like a cooking 1983 02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:09.719 all canola oil or corn oila or something like that from the kitchen in with 1984 02:20:09.879 --> 02:20:15.559 the trichopier because it makes it stick. Farmers use a rancher version of that, 1985 02:20:15.680 --> 02:20:18.399 and they put diesel oil in it for the same reason. They makes 1986 02:20:18.440 --> 02:20:22.000 a little diesel because it makes it stick to the stem of the brush. 1987 02:20:22.079 --> 02:20:24.200 They're trying to kill it in the pasture. So anything you can do like 1988 02:20:24.319 --> 02:20:26.799 that. You can paint it on the outside. And if analyss it's just 1989 02:20:26.879 --> 02:20:31.600 a real thick plant with real thick bark on it, that the stem treatment 1990 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:35.719 will work just fine. You don't have to cut it off. Yeah, 1991 02:20:37.200 --> 02:20:39.680 try just be careful because it's a brush killer. You know, you don't 1992 02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:41.600 want to drench plant. You don't want to like soap the soil with it 1993 02:20:41.680 --> 02:20:46.520 because it can cause damages. But when you use it, I try to 1994 02:20:46.559 --> 02:20:48.760 avoid the spraying just because of drifts. So I like that just painting it 1995 02:20:48.920 --> 02:20:52.879 right on there. I get me one of those little phone brushes from the 1996 02:20:52.319 --> 02:20:56.360 you know, the paint store, you know, the little phone brushes on 1997 02:20:56.399 --> 02:20:58.280 a wooden handle, and just dip it in that and paint it right on 1998 02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:03.520 there. Okay, thank you so much. All right, thank you. 1999 02:21:03.879 --> 02:21:07.159 I appreciate that call Elizabeth very much. Let's go out to Cyprus now and 2000 02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:11.239 talk to Diane. Hello, Dianne, how can we help Hi? I've 2001 02:21:11.280 --> 02:21:16.879 got several questions I need to ask you about concerns about our yards. Okay, 2002 02:21:16.239 --> 02:21:20.479 our neighbor next door they have an area out front that started turning really 2003 02:21:20.639 --> 02:21:26.040 yellow and it's kind of moving towards it into our yards. That very likely 2004 02:21:26.319 --> 02:21:31.360 probably chinch bugs. I mean, we've really struggled trying to keep our yard 2005 02:21:31.440 --> 02:21:35.920 has been beautiful because we've lost parts of our yard and that previous draft had 2006 02:21:37.000 --> 02:21:41.239 replaced some of our grass and everything looks so good, and we're concerned about 2007 02:21:41.280 --> 02:21:43.760 that and what we should do to treat I know that one time you mentioned 2008 02:21:43.799 --> 02:21:48.200 about that. I think it's a Texas Data and part of culture, a 2009 02:21:48.319 --> 02:21:52.200 lab that you can send the sample into. And should we do that or 2010 02:21:52.200 --> 02:21:56.040 should we go ahead? And do you think it's probably chinch bugs? Okay, 2011 02:21:56.120 --> 02:22:00.239 I think it's probably not. It could be chinch bugs. That chinch 2012 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.120 bugs Usually you've got green grass, it just starts to dry up. It 2013 02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:05.840 may have a little yellowing to it as it does that, but generally it 2014 02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:11.000 dies pretty quick. As the chinch bugs move out and attack further and further 2015 02:22:11.120 --> 02:22:13.639 out into the grass. It could be something called take a whole root rot. 2016 02:22:13.799 --> 02:22:18.600 And I think if you wanted to go online and look up what chinch 2017 02:22:18.680 --> 02:22:20.639 bugs look like. They're about an eighth of an inch long. The adults 2018 02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:24.520 are black and white. The young or kind of have a kind of a 2019 02:22:24.639 --> 02:22:28.799 reddish brick red color to them, with a white band on their back. 2020 02:22:28.559 --> 02:22:31.719 You can get on your hands and knees, get down in there and look 2021 02:22:31.760 --> 02:22:35.520 for them. Or you can do this, go to the zone between healthy 2022 02:22:35.559 --> 02:22:37.159 and dead, not the green, not the brown, but the yellow, 2023 02:22:37.559 --> 02:22:43.120 and get a get some dish detergent, you know, just any kind of 2024 02:22:43.159 --> 02:22:46.600 a like your washing dishes at the sink. Put about a tablespoon into a 2025 02:22:46.680 --> 02:22:50.879 gallon of water, and you probably need about two gallons of water. But 2026 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.760 in a watering can drench it over about a three by three square yard area 2027 02:22:56.159 --> 02:22:58.760 and then get the other gallon and drench it over the same area. And 2028 02:22:58.879 --> 02:23:01.280 then just watch if your chinch bugs in there, they will come crawling up 2029 02:23:01.360 --> 02:23:05.680 on top. You won't have to dig down to find them. That irritates 2030 02:23:05.719 --> 02:23:07.760 it, and that would be a tast If you want to do the sample, 2031 02:23:09.719 --> 02:23:13.920 you want to go um, let's see, you want to go to 2032 02:23:13.040 --> 02:23:20.440 the State Plant Clinic and it's called plant Clinic dot t A m u dot 2033 02:23:20.719 --> 02:23:26.920 e edry. You kind of treat out there for a minute and stay plank. 2034 02:23:26.959 --> 02:23:33.079 Here's the website plant Clinic. That's one word, dot t A m 2035 02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:39.319 U dot e d u. If you will hang on, I will have 2036 02:23:39.479 --> 02:23:43.479 Ryan get with you and give you an email address. And what I'm going 2037 02:23:43.559 --> 02:23:46.000 to send you is a link to a video I did on YouTube telling them 2038 02:23:46.079 --> 02:23:50.639 how to take a proper turf sample. And you need to take the rock. 2039 02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:54.399 You need to send them sick turf, not healthy turf, and not 2040 02:23:54.760 --> 02:23:58.520 dead turf. They can't do autopsies at the lab that they can do diagnoses, 2041 02:23:58.600 --> 02:24:01.959 and so uh, just let me put you, put you on holden 2042 02:24:03.040 --> 02:24:05.040 and I ask you. Wanted to ask you one other quick flakes and how 2043 02:24:05.200 --> 02:24:09.440 often in this heat? I mean one of the things we were going to 2044 02:24:09.559 --> 02:24:11.479 do at the end of June, we were scheduled to do our fertilizing, 2045 02:24:11.959 --> 02:24:16.479 but we were concerned about doing that with this extreme heat, that it might 2046 02:24:16.600 --> 02:24:18.239 burn our yard, even though we tried to water as much, you know, 2047 02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:22.520 because we haven't had any rains. So what do you what do you 2048 02:24:22.680 --> 02:24:28.000 suggest about that? Uh, you should fertilize you should fertilize at the right 2049 02:24:28.120 --> 02:24:31.799 rate and you will not burn the grass. When you fertilize, then immediately 2050 02:24:31.920 --> 02:24:35.000 water down, get your body okay, you know, about a half inch 2051 02:24:35.040 --> 02:24:37.360 irrigation or something on it, and get it watered in. It'll just do 2052 02:24:37.520 --> 02:24:41.920 fine. If your grass is needing fertilizing, if you hadn't fertized last summer, 2053 02:24:41.920 --> 02:24:45.319 this would be a time to go and get that done. Okay, 2054 02:24:45.520 --> 02:24:48.360 since I know we're trying to mow just like every two weeks, even though 2055 02:24:48.360 --> 02:24:50.000 our grass gets a little bit high. Yeah, and we kept cut it 2056 02:24:50.079 --> 02:24:54.639 high to be since we're trying to preserve it as best we can. That's 2057 02:24:54.680 --> 02:24:56.840 all. That's all good. It's all good, So just keep that. 2058 02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:03.479 But okay, but when you fertilize, take the first number on the bag 2059 02:25:03.639 --> 02:25:07.959 of whatever you buy. Take the first number and divide it into one hundred, 2060 02:25:09.079 --> 02:25:13.079 and that tells you how many pounds of that fertilizer to apply to a 2061 02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:18.920 thousand square feet. So you can do a length times width and figure out 2062 02:25:18.000 --> 02:25:22.280 how big your lawn is. And let's just say I'm gonna make up make 2063 02:25:22.360 --> 02:25:24.399 up a thing here. Okay. Let's say that what you purchased had about 2064 02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:30.440 twenty is the first number. Twenty goes in one hundred five times five times 2065 02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:35.479 twenty as one hundred, So you would need five pounds of that fertilizer per 2066 02:25:35.559 --> 02:25:39.159 thousand square. So you can do that with fertilizer you buy. It tells 2067 02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:41.479 you how much to put out. Okay, well great, okay, Now 2068 02:25:41.520 --> 02:25:46.520 you're gonna switch me over to your information. Yeah, John, put you 2069 02:25:46.600 --> 02:25:50.559 on hold and Josh will get you the email. Send me an email or 2070 02:25:52.000 --> 02:25:54.959 tell you know. Josh will give you my email. He'll send. Yeah, 2071 02:25:54.079 --> 02:25:56.520 he'll tell you what to do. All right, all right, I'll 2072 02:25:56.520 --> 02:26:00.479 tell you what. I'm gonna take a break here. I want to tell 2073 02:26:00.520 --> 02:26:05.000 you about org Lawn. Now. You have heard me talk, i'm sure 2074 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:09.120 many times about green Pro. Green Pro's a great summer service. They do 2075 02:26:09.280 --> 02:26:13.440 a lot of the core aeration and compost top dressing. Well. Green Pro 2076 02:26:13.600 --> 02:26:18.680 has change their name to org Lawn now and they do that still, but 2077 02:26:18.799 --> 02:26:24.239 they also do organic lawncare in general. Maybe you need fertilizers or micronutrients or 2078 02:26:24.319 --> 02:26:28.079 bug prevention. If you will call and tell them you are a garden line 2079 02:26:28.159 --> 02:26:33.399 caller, they have a garden line special twenty nine nine nine twenty ninety nine 2080 02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:39.760 plus tax will get you whatever they think you need most as a liquid feed. 2081 02:26:39.840 --> 02:26:43.040 For example, maybe you do need a fertilization, or maybe you need 2082 02:26:43.079 --> 02:26:48.159 an addition of micronutrients, or maybe you need to do insect prevention. Whatever 2083 02:26:48.319 --> 02:26:52.879 you need, that's what they'll do for twenty nine ninety nine. Now they 2084 02:26:52.959 --> 02:26:56.559 are putting out seaweed. They're putting out bug prevention for a lot of people 2085 02:26:56.600 --> 02:26:58.639 out here in the heat of summer. This will cover up to ten thousand 2086 02:26:58.719 --> 02:27:01.360 square feet of grass. And if you go over ten thousand, it's gonna 2087 02:27:01.360 --> 02:27:05.239 cost a little bit more, but I mean ten thousand a lot of a 2088 02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:07.799 lawn area. They serve Katie Cypress, Houston, Sugar Line, Richmond. 2089 02:27:09.120 --> 02:27:13.079 They use as many organic inputs as possible to keep your lawn looking good. 2090 02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:18.799 Here's the number. Write this down eight three two three five one zero zero 2091 02:27:18.239 --> 02:27:41.200 three two or just go to org lawn dot com. Anybody grew up in 2092 02:27:41.239 --> 02:27:46.000 the seventies. I bet you've heard that one before. How you're listening to 2093 02:27:46.120 --> 02:27:50.239 garden Line, I'm your host, Skipper Richer, and we're hearing to answer 2094 02:27:50.319 --> 02:27:54.799 your gardening questions. You know, I want to tell you about the Enchanted 2095 02:27:56.159 --> 02:28:00.600 Forest update, that's what I'm calling it, at least today, Ended Forest. 2096 02:28:00.840 --> 02:28:05.239 If you're on the Richmond area, it's one of the outstanding garden centers 2097 02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:07.799 you have a chance to go to down there. Chanted Forest is one if 2098 02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:09.719 you're heading up toward a kind of sugarland direction off to the right, just 2099 02:28:09.840 --> 02:28:16.079 south of fifty nine. One of the things I like about Enchanted Forest is 2100 02:28:16.159 --> 02:28:18.600 the beautiful trees. I mean, when you're talking about shopping in the summer 2101 02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:22.680 and you want to be able to walk through a beautiful shaded area that is 2102 02:28:22.799 --> 02:28:26.319 inspiring, and all the plants that they have and everything, and it's you're 2103 02:28:26.600 --> 02:28:31.239 enjoying the shade of the trees. Right. That's Chanded Forest. But they 2104 02:28:31.319 --> 02:28:33.799 have everything. They have every kind of plant you can imagine. They have 2105 02:28:33.879 --> 02:28:37.840 all kinds of things to go with your plants, the supplies, the products 2106 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:43.200 we talk about here on garden Line. But they just seem to be knocking 2107 02:28:43.280 --> 02:28:46.280 it out of the park when it comes to things for butterflies and things for 2108 02:28:46.360 --> 02:28:52.479 pollinators. It is amazing the number of adult attracting plants and the number of 2109 02:28:52.680 --> 02:28:58.280 larval food sources. For example, they've got the white vane Dutchman's pipe. 2110 02:28:58.319 --> 02:29:01.879 The arrists lookia I embriata. It's kind of a groundcover like thing. It's 2111 02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:05.319 a perennial groundcover. It's about six twelve inches high, about two three feet 2112 02:29:05.360 --> 02:29:09.639 wide, and the pipine swallowtails just go nuts on it. In fact, 2113 02:29:09.680 --> 02:29:13.319 you need to buy a number of these because when the butterflies come in, 2114 02:29:13.479 --> 02:29:18.239 they're gonna chomp away their larva are but that's how you get an adult butterflies 2115 02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:20.319 to have a larval food source. You can use it to groundcover in a 2116 02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:24.719 shady area. You can put in a hanging basket. It works really really 2117 02:29:24.760 --> 02:29:28.600 well. Now when you go to Enchanted for us, you have knowledgeable staff. 2118 02:29:28.920 --> 02:29:31.760 You know, Danny and Clay are they're on site, they're walking through, 2119 02:29:31.840 --> 02:29:33.719 they're talking to you, they're helping you. All their staff they take 2120 02:29:33.799 --> 02:29:39.079 the time to help you because they know that for you to have success, 2121 02:29:39.360 --> 02:29:43.479 that's the goal. A happy customer takes a good quality plant home, knows 2122 02:29:43.520 --> 02:29:46.879 how to take care of it and knows how to use it, knows how 2123 02:29:46.920 --> 02:29:50.399 to they help you pick the plants that fit the area that you need. 2124 02:29:50.879 --> 02:29:52.520 And I mean that's just the way to do it, and they do it 2125 02:29:52.639 --> 02:29:56.959 right. There at Enchanted for Us, so check them out Enchanted for Us. 2126 02:29:56.000 --> 02:30:00.399 You can find them on a Facebook. They got a great way facebook 2127 02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:05.319 page. Lots of good information on there, but Enchanted Forest definitely worth a 2128 02:30:05.440 --> 02:30:07.959 visit. We're gonna head out to the phones now. I believe We're gonna 2129 02:30:07.959 --> 02:30:11.440 start in Space Center and talk to Becky. O, Becky, here are 2130 02:30:11.479 --> 02:30:15.440 you this morning? I'm good? Can you hear me? I can? 2131 02:30:15.840 --> 02:30:22.040 What's up? We'll have a greenhouse and I've learned to not overwater, but 2132 02:30:22.319 --> 02:30:26.840 because I have overwatered, my leaves are yellow. And is there anything I 2133 02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:31.840 should do to help them greener? Leave them alone, let them dry out, 2134 02:30:31.959 --> 02:30:35.120 Let it dry out a little bit, keep it moist. I mean, 2135 02:30:35.200 --> 02:30:37.719 you know it's touching. Go you don't want to SAGGI what you don't 2136 02:30:37.719 --> 02:30:39.639 want to dry? But let it dry a little bit and it should be 2137 02:30:39.680 --> 02:30:43.440 fine. You know, in this intense heat, sometime in a greenhouse it 2138 02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:46.639 just gets way hotter than it is outside. I know you may have some 2139 02:30:46.760 --> 02:30:48.559 good ventilation, but sometimes it's hard to keep up on a hot day. 2140 02:30:50.000 --> 02:30:54.719 And if it just excellent, excellent ventilation. And my husband put a fan 2141 02:30:54.840 --> 02:30:58.040 in there on top of that, so that's I'm going to know, are 2142 02:30:58.079 --> 02:31:03.159 there certain plants I have in there that should be outside. I have a 2143 02:31:03.280 --> 02:31:07.120 cover over the greenhouse that came with a greenhouse, and it's wonderful, but 2144 02:31:07.920 --> 02:31:11.639 I have onions in there and they died. And I don't know if it's 2145 02:31:11.639 --> 02:31:15.159 because I overwatered or what. It's because it's summer. The onions in the 2146 02:31:15.239 --> 02:31:18.559 garden are dying too. They can they can't take the heat. Yeah, 2147 02:31:18.639 --> 02:31:24.920 okay, what about cucuvers and Zucchini's same thing too darn hot. It's just 2148 02:31:24.120 --> 02:31:28.399 about time to plant those again for fall. So I would say once we 2149 02:31:28.479 --> 02:31:33.440 get into probably cucumber, zucchini, Yeah, sometime in August, we would 2150 02:31:33.440 --> 02:31:37.079 go ahead and put those in seeds and get them going. So then when 2151 02:31:37.120 --> 02:31:41.520 it finally cools off, you know they have they're ready to go and set 2152 02:31:41.600 --> 02:31:46.079 fruit. Yeah. Just two blakest okay, So okay, what about okay, 2153 02:31:46.200 --> 02:31:54.079 two more things? You see milk peppers keeping Yeah, yellow squash is 2154 02:31:54.120 --> 02:31:58.440 like zucchini. So what I said about cucumbers applies to yellow peppers. Keep 2155 02:31:58.479 --> 02:32:03.159 the plants going, fertilize them, watering, and get them bigger and bigger, 2156 02:32:03.520 --> 02:32:05.719 because when fall comes, they are going to set again very well, 2157 02:32:07.000 --> 02:32:09.280 and you'll have a bigger plant and a lot more peppers to hang on it 2158 02:32:09.360 --> 02:32:15.639 as a result. Okay, all right, all right, I appreciate it. 2159 02:32:15.719 --> 02:32:18.479 Thank you so very much. Great, have fun with that greenhouse. 2160 02:32:18.799 --> 02:32:20.760 Let's head out to Sugarland now and talk to Neil. Hey, Neil, 2161 02:32:20.799 --> 02:32:24.600 how are you this morning? I'm doing pretty well. Thanks. I've got 2162 02:32:24.680 --> 02:32:28.360 a summer question, I think to the last one. I've got an indoor 2163 02:32:28.840 --> 02:32:37.200 hydroponic seed start and I'm looking to get cherry tomato seeds. I want to 2164 02:32:37.239 --> 02:32:41.959 get them started in corner for a fall crop. And most of seem to 2165 02:32:41.040 --> 02:32:45.920 say about seventy five days more or less, you know, from I guess 2166 02:32:46.120 --> 02:32:50.719 when you you know, plan them to when they actually mature and produced fruit. 2167 02:32:50.479 --> 02:32:54.280 So, with all that in mind, or if you've got a better 2168 02:32:54.399 --> 02:32:58.799 idea than that estimate, what's a good what's a good time to start indoor 2169 02:33:00.040 --> 02:33:05.479 hydroponic seeds for a trade commit fall crop? Today? Today is a good 2170 02:33:05.559 --> 02:33:09.200 day. You can do it for the next couple of weeks if you want. 2171 02:33:09.319 --> 02:33:11.600 But as as we get into fall, you know, we have these 2172 02:33:11.639 --> 02:33:15.680 things like seventy five days to harvest, like you mentioned, Well, that's 2173 02:33:15.719 --> 02:33:18.399 seventy five days of the right kind of weather. When we get into fall 2174 02:33:18.479 --> 02:33:22.239 and the day length gets shorter and it starts to get a little bit cooler, 2175 02:33:22.799 --> 02:33:26.120 uh, it drags things out, and so it takes more than seventy 2176 02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:28.879 five days. So we don't want to delay. We'd like to get a 2177 02:33:28.959 --> 02:33:33.840 plant up and growing and blooming so that when the weather breaks enough to actually 2178 02:33:33.959 --> 02:33:37.799 get some good set on it, then we're ready to go. Now, 2179 02:33:37.879 --> 02:33:43.760 you said the ground, Well, I mean, I'm just I've got some 2180 02:33:43.920 --> 02:33:48.239 already going, yeah, and big enough to pot, but I'm afraid to 2181 02:33:48.280 --> 02:33:50.719 put them out in this heat. Okay, So you're gonna plant them outdoors? 2182 02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:54.280 You're just starting them indoors? Is that I'm starting the seeds indoors? 2183 02:33:54.760 --> 02:34:01.239 And then when they said hydroponic, seems they go they start up fairly fast. 2184 02:34:01.559 --> 02:34:03.319 Point we need to put them in a peat pot. You know, 2185 02:34:03.399 --> 02:34:05.799 I'm gonna get ready to put them in the ground. But yeah, I've 2186 02:34:05.840 --> 02:34:09.680 got something really that they've got on peat pots that I started too late for 2187 02:34:09.760 --> 02:34:13.680 the spring there, but I'm kind of wondering where you should even put them 2188 02:34:13.760 --> 02:34:16.200 out in the sun. And it's kind of weather, Yeah, it's it's 2189 02:34:16.200 --> 02:34:18.840 a little tough to go directly out in the full sun. If you can 2190 02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:22.639 get them a really bright area. They need plenty of sunlight to grow and 2191 02:34:22.799 --> 02:34:26.840 do well. But if you can make it morning as opposed to late day 2192 02:34:26.920 --> 02:34:31.840 shade or late day sun. You know, from two to five PM is 2193 02:34:31.959 --> 02:34:35.879 the worst part of the day, and so if you avoid the sun on 2194 02:34:35.000 --> 02:34:39.159 that put them under a shade cloth or whatever, that's fine. But yeah, 2195 02:34:39.200 --> 02:34:41.440 you do need to get them growing and just get them and as big 2196 02:34:41.479 --> 02:34:43.920 of a container as you can. For example, a lot of times we 2197 02:34:45.000 --> 02:34:48.840 start our tomatoes and a little six packs or maybe four inch pots. Well, 2198 02:34:48.959 --> 02:34:50.319 in the heat we've got, they need to be in a gallon pot. 2199 02:34:50.399 --> 02:34:54.479 They need more soil to draw moisture from, or you're just not gonna 2200 02:34:54.520 --> 02:34:58.000 be able to water them enough. You're gonna forget for a while and it 2201 02:34:58.120 --> 02:35:01.239 sets them back, and so you don't want them to ever look back once 2202 02:35:01.280 --> 02:35:05.079 they hit the ground. You want them to keep going. Okay, good 2203 02:35:05.120 --> 02:35:09.879 advice. Alrightny, all right, thank you very much. Hey, go 2204 02:35:09.000 --> 02:35:11.879 fun out there and trigger line with those tomatoes. All right, we're gonna 2205 02:35:11.879 --> 02:35:16.600 go now to Tom in Baytown. Tom, how's it going, and how 2206 02:35:16.639 --> 02:35:20.520 can we help. Oh, everything's going just fine, Sarah, Thank you. 2207 02:35:20.959 --> 02:35:26.239 Rose of Sharon. Yes, I've got bright green leaves, an acceptable 2208 02:35:26.239 --> 02:35:33.559 amount of flowers for the amount of blazing sunlight. The branches are like they're 2209 02:35:33.600 --> 02:35:35.440 made out of rubber, and the whole thing is laying on the ground. 2210 02:35:37.239 --> 02:35:43.440 A Rose of Sharon has soft branches. Yes, I brought this thing home 2211 02:35:43.520 --> 02:35:48.079 from Michigan about twelve years ago. It's always had that problem, gross to 2212 02:35:48.159 --> 02:35:52.799 make flowers, that the branches just aren't strong enough to hold it up. 2213 02:35:52.040 --> 02:35:56.520 Yeah. Well they had that big freeze last fall yea and or last winter, 2214 02:35:56.959 --> 02:36:00.760 and I had to cut it short. And now the ranches aren't growing 2215 02:36:00.799 --> 02:36:03.920 at all, and it well, we're about to run out of show here. 2216 02:36:03.920 --> 02:36:07.440 So I'm gonna give you my best, my best quick answer, but 2217 02:36:07.479 --> 02:36:09.159 I'm gonna put you on hold when i'm done with that, and I want 2218 02:36:09.479 --> 02:36:13.360 ran to give you an emails. I need to see pictures of it from 2219 02:36:13.399 --> 02:36:16.760 a distance, and I need to see pictures up close, check them that 2220 02:36:16.879 --> 02:36:20.200 they're in focus before you send them to me, because I need good sharp 2221 02:36:20.280 --> 02:36:24.000 focus too. And I'll be I'll be glad to help you. It could 2222 02:36:24.360 --> 02:36:28.159 be a number of different things. Sometimes when we overdo the nitrogen, we 2223 02:36:28.239 --> 02:36:31.079 get a lot of succulent growth that can get a little floppy on us. 2224 02:36:31.239 --> 02:36:35.000 That is one possibility that could be causing that kind of growth. Rose of 2225 02:36:35.120 --> 02:36:39.920 Sharon. You know, normally it makes a pretty good upright bush and it 2226 02:36:39.040 --> 02:36:43.120 doesn't do what I'm hearing you describe. So let me see some pictures of 2227 02:36:43.239 --> 02:36:46.639 it in that way and give you much more intelligent answer. All right, 2228 02:36:48.920 --> 02:36:54.399 all right, here we go. Well, we're gonna get Tom's information offline 2229 02:36:54.520 --> 02:36:58.120 here so we can help him a little bit further. Hey, you've been 2230 02:36:58.200 --> 02:37:03.520 listening to garden Line. We are here every Saturday and every Sunday from six 2231 02:37:03.639 --> 02:37:07.520 am to ten am. Tell your neighbors about garden Line, especially that one 2232 02:37:07.559 --> 02:37:09.120 they won't take care of his yard. Maybe if he listens a little bit 2233 02:37:11.000 --> 02:37:13.639 can help him out. We'll be in the nosy neighbor instead of you just 2234 02:37:13.799 --> 02:37:16.760 kind of, you know, put him onto us. Here. You can 2235 02:37:16.840 --> 02:37:20.520 listen to garden Line of course on KTRH on the air seven forty am. 2236 02:37:20.879 --> 02:37:22.959 You can also listen to us by podcast if you got the iHeart Media, 2237 02:37:24.079 --> 02:37:26.840 whatever kind of podcast app you got, you can find garden Line and you 2238 02:37:26.920 --> 02:37:31.360 can listen to it if you've got friends that live outside the area. We 2239 02:37:31.440 --> 02:37:35.520 had three collars from out of state last weekend. We're glad to help. 2240 02:37:35.680 --> 02:37:39.159 Just tell them about Garden Line, tell them to find it on podcasts. 2241 02:37:39.479 --> 02:37:41.879 Maybe I talked about a product on a show and you can't remember what that 2242 02:37:43.159 --> 02:37:46.399 was, Well, go online, listen to the podcast, and you can 2243 02:37:46.479 --> 02:37:48.959 rehear the previous shows. Talk to you next day or tomorrow.