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Kat r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's

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sho Crazy trim. Just watch him
as many sets not a sun glass gas.

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Good morning, Good morning on a
great day for gardening. You are

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listening to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Rictor. We're here today

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help you have a more bountiful garden
and a more beautiful landscape. That's kind

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of the goal. You know,
we say the cereal I say this here

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a lot on Guardline that there's no
such thing as a brown thumb. My

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point is that it's not the thumb
that's the problem. There's just an If

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we're gonna blame it on our thumbs, let's just say there's uninformed thumbs.

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Okay, Because anybody can grow things
if you just learn about what that particular

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plant needs and you provide it.
It's as simple as that. That's why

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we talk a lot about places where
you can get good quality plants that want

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to live here. You know,
I know you have tried things before that

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didn't want to live here. Sit
There are stores around the region that sell

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things that should not be planted here. I mean, if you go to

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Colorado for a vacation, don't bring
back a blue spruce tree, a little

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baby blue spruce, and maybe a
blue Colorado columbine. The Society for the

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Prevention of Cruelty to Plants is setting
up way stations at the border between Texas

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and New Mexico, just so that
when you come across, they can confiscate

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those things and send those poor plants
back to where they came from, where

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they can be happy. Good plants. That's number one. Good products to

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help enhance growth, from fertilizers to
soils, and you know how important soil

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is. We walk you through that, We help you with the specifics.

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There are things that go wrong.
You know. Sometimes you may hear talk

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or read articles that make it sound
like, well, you just do this

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and everything's going to be fine.
Well, there are things we do that

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are important, but sometimes nature gets
in the way. You know, we

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can do all the kinds of things
we want to create the perfect environment,

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but then all of a sudden,
here comes soid web worms when summer to

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attack our lawns, and that just
you can't plan for it. You just

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respond to it. But we help
you with that. That's why I have

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schedules on my website Gardening with Skip
dot com schedules where you go by the

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way. They're free. You can
download them, print them out, and

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I recommend you do. It tells
you when to fertilize, what to use,

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how to deal with pasts, how
to deal with insects specifically, how

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to deal with diseases in your lawn, how to control weeds in your lawn.

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We do all those kind of things
to help you out in those ways.

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Let's head up to begin with up
to Tom Ball and talk to Mel.

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Hello, Mel, good morning.
Hey, been runing against Kip listen,

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Yeah, on your schedule along the
line. I guess maybe I should

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go there to see this. So
I've had I got so sick and tired

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of these stupid weeds, you know. Yeah, And so Tuesday, Tuesday

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and Wednesday I put down some weed
stop and uh not wearing any underneath trees

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or anything like that. And I
know that stuff didn't seem to help me

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a whole lot. My problem is, and my question is, I know

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this is about the time to put
down some pre emergent too, but now

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is it wasteful or you said,
all right, to still put down my

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pre emergent on top of all that
other stuff. Well, now would be

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the time. We're getting close to
the time here where we do are our

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pre emergent if you did one a
little bit later. Yeah, we've been

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doing the second application since really toward
the end of April. But oh,

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I thought that goes into May.
Well it doesn't know. We've been doing

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it since toward the end of April. It goes through May and goes through

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June as well. There's not a
specific time you have to put it on.

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It's just that if you apply it
in early to mid February, which

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is prime time for getting those down, then after about sixty days ninety days

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somewhere in that region, it's wearing
out enough to where you probably could do

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a second application. Things like graspers
and crabgrass and whatnot can still sprout later

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on. They don't only sprout in
the early spring, and so I have

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it on there for that. I
just always encourage people to be careful because

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you know, you got weeds,
and so I'm going to double dose on

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this stuff and really kill the weeds. And that's where we get into problems

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with your grass. All right,
So but you know I could still it's

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all right if I still go ahead
and put down my pre emergent, even

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though I put that stuff other stuff
down. Yes, if you have not

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put down a pre emergent since back
in February, you can do it again

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now, okay, so it's still
safe to do that. Yeah, all

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right, I've got some weeds that
it just doesn't want to kill. So

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well, now, if you know, again, the pre mergent only stops

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weeds that you don't see yet,
and if you've got existing weeds, that's

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called post emergent, which I'm sure
you know. The post emergent information is

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on my schedule too, if you
choose to go that direction. All right,

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appreciate it, all right, mil
thanks, appreciate the call. Let's

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see if we can move along here. We've got kind of people hopping on

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by the way. We're talking about
things to do on the lawn. Azamite

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is a micronutrients source that we put
down. You'll find it almost schedule,

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and there's not a specific time when
you would apply azamite. You can do

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it at anytime. Think of it
as a bank account, like when when

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is a good time to put a
deposit in your bank account. Well,

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anytime you got some money, put
it in there. Uh. And that's

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kind of how azemite is. It's
not like nitrogen where you put it down

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at certain times to promote more rapid
green growth. It is a bank account

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of the trace minerals that every plant
needs in order to survive. They are

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not needed in large amounts, but
they are absolutely essential. That's what makes

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them essential nutrients. It's about twenty
different nutrients by the way, that that

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plants do need for one or another
process. You can go to azmite Texas

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dot com and find out more information, or just wherever you go shopping.

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Pretty much, if I'm talking about
a place here on garden Line, I

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don't care if it's a garden center
or a feed store, Southwest fertilizer,

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ace hardware store. They've oh they
carry. It's easy, easy to find

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in the region. We go out
now to Beaumont and talk to Dan.

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Hello. Dan, Hey, good
morning, good morning. I'm running into

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a little issue. I've got tomato
plants. Yeah, I called you up

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last week and I was concerning the
rotting from the inside. Will. I

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was at my garden this last week
and I noticed these little red bugs running

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around. Now they look like a
big, huge army ants, but they're

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they're red and they have black legs, six legs, and I'm trying to

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figure out what they are and how
to get rid of them. And I'm

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thinking, those are what's eating my
tomato from the inside. Okay, they're

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on the they're they're on your tomatoes. I yes, there are two things

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that can fit that description. One
is a past the leaf footed bug.

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In its nymph stage when they're very
young, they are kind of an orange

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red color and they have black,
long black legs. There's also a beneficial

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called the assassin bug, and certain
species of assassin bugs have the same coloring.

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The difference between the two, just
from a standback and look at them

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without really studying them closely, is
bad bugs tend to hang out in herds

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when they're young. You'll just see
a whole cluster of them, kind of

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on a tomato. Good bugs tend
to disperse, and you tend to see

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those individually because they're predators and they
know they're out hunting. Some types of

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good bugs even eat each other,
so that's if you're seeing more than one

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of them on a tomato. That's
probably the leaf footed bug, a bad

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bug, and you can go online, you can send me a picture.

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I can identify it for you too. But those you need to deal with

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now when they're young like that,
they don't have wings, they can't fly

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away, and it's really you to
manage them. You can take sometimes I'll

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just take it like a little pale
of soapy water and swat them into it.

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Sometimes I'll just vacuum them off with
a little handback. You don't have

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to spray them, but at this
stage they're most susceptible to sprays. Once

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they get they turn dark colored and
then they're flying around there. It's it's

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a much much harder to control them. What if I put down like this

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chemical that we put on our animals
like horses and stuff, it's oh good

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night, I forget the name of
it. Now. Well, you as

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long as it's labeled for tomatoes,
you can do that. Just remember that

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there are good bugs out there too, so make sure we are dealing with

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a pass before you do that.
Right. Well, I'm thinking these guys

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are a pass because they were in
they were in kind of a herded flour.

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Okay, yeah, well so yeah, you can do that, just

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just be cautious in what you use
and follow the label carefully. Dan,

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I'm gonna have to run. I've
gone, I've bumped past a break here.

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But good luck with those bugs,
and I wish I do, wish

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you well. We'll be right back. What two three Nicistic, Welcome back

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to Gardenline. Good to have you
with us today. We are talking about

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all kinds of things today. Looking
at the board, we got a lot

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of topics up there. If you're
planning on putting out a container of flowers

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or vegetables, number one, congratulations. More people need to do that.

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We do not grow enough things and
containers on our patio. We have beautiful

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containers. We can grow anything in
a container. You can grow in the

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ground pretty much. I mean,
you know, within reason, you're not

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going to grow a big shade tree, of course, but if you get

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a big enough container, you grow
anything. So what do you do in

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a container though? You put a
quality mix. And what makes a soil

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mix quality? Well, a number
of things, but two key things are

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it needs to hold water, so
the water doesn't just run straight through and

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out and you got drought immediately.
It needs to drain well though, you

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don't want a mucky swamp in that
container. And so jungle Land it was

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created to provide just that. It's
got several different types of decomposed organic matter,

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it's got the microhizo fungi in there, and it will enhance your plants.

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And just look for something called jungle
Land flour and vegetable planting soil to

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do just that for your plants.
Now where do you get it? Well,

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lots of different places. Jungle Land's
widely available. Plants for all seasons.

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Has it on two forty nine,
All spas ace up in the woodlands

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has it. You can find jungle
landed plants and things in brennam A.

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Jungle Land is a quality mix that
does what you need to do so your

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plants look good, so you have
success. We're going to go to Paul

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now on the southeast side. Hey
Paul, Hey, yep, how are

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you? I'm good, sir,
Welcome to Guardline. How can we help?

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Yes, sir, I've got a
burgundy poem that I've passed numerous people

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bathroom, They all draw a blank. This is plant I don't know,

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ten fifteen years old. Used to
when I first planet it of course a

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year or two it produced at the
wazoom and did real well, and I

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had other golf variety clumbs next to
it. I lost the two gulfs to

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the boars, but the burgher did
is done well. And then about four

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or five years ago it just quit
producing. Still looks good, still going

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healthy. But I've got one limb
at about chest Hide. This plant now

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it's fifteen foot call at least,
I've cut it back to the three times.

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But I've got one planet about chest
Hide that produces like crazy, one

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limb. That's it. Have you
ever seen anything like that? No?

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There, I mean what I would
like to tell you is that's impossible.

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But obviously it's happening at your house, so I don't pictures of it just

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for this reason. Yeah, well
here here's the thing. And then this

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year I've got two plums on the
other side on the north side, tree

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way apat two a tree Okay,
but it's still just this one limb on

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the south side. Yeah, it
is the trend. Is it the full

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sun? Oh yeah, lots of
sun. Okay, Well, bergun to

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yourself fruitful so that it's not a
poll it's not a lack of pollinator uh,

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the blues do have to be pollinated. Something has to move the pollen

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from the miss Let me tell you
this, for I forget, I'm old

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man, that one limb is always
flowers first the one lamb, and I

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mean it's got a ton of bloons
on them. And then about two weeks

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later, of course, the pedals
drop and stuff like that, and then

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the rest of the tree explodes with
the same flower. Okay, do the

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plums look identical to the plums on
the rest of the tree and the ones

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that are on the other side now
this time are up high and they're still

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green. Because it's like I said
this, the rest of the trees too,

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a couple of weeks behind then through
the whole process. Okay, but

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I think I think in the same
thing it might becoming maybe the rootstock mating

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or something something. If it's a
good edible plum, it's not the rootstock.

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In fact, most plums are drafted
onto peach rootstock. But I would

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let me, let's do this.
I'm going to put you on hold,

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and I have h callum uh get
give you an email address, and would

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you send me photos of what you're
seeing. One of one or two things

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has happened. Either they double grafted
the tree, which is very unlikely,

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or there's been a genetic sport,
which means that sometimes implants and we have

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a lot of varieties that are because
of this, and various kinds of plants,

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flowers and fruit. But it changes
genetically and suddenly that branch starts producing

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something a little different, and that
that happens a lot, and that probably

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is what's happened on that branch.
Why the rest of the tree isn't producing

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good son self fruitful? I don't
I can't tell you why that is unless

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I mean, I guess you know
if you spray it with insecticide every spring.

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But that let me put you on
hold. Would you give him you

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would you get my email and send
me some photos? All right? I

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think that's that's the next step.
I don't think we're get any further with

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it here, but I think I
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But let's see if we can figure
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plumbs again. Thank you, Paul. I appreciate that call very much.

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Talking about fruit trees and stuff.
Anytime you're planning a tree, especially your

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landscape, trees that young tree has
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It's what came out of the pot, and that's not well stabilized. Once

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the tree roots are out there and
established well, it takes two or three

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seasons to get good, strong root
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that point, it's very stable.
The wind's not going to blow it over

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very easily, and it's not going
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That's why we steak trees often early
on, and tree stabilizer three sixty.

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Tree stabilizer is a plastic arm that
holds that tree very strong. Instead of

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having to go buy wire, cut
up garden hose and make those guy wires

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to trip over in your lawn,
you just hammer steak in near the tree,

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I mean you know, foot and
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You attach the stabilizer to the steak
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to attach to a t post too. You can get them like that and

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it holds it just fine. If
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directions, you can use two of
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north south, one east west,
so no matter which way it goes,

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you got a strong arm holding onto
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so there's a little bit of movement
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the stability of that tree. Three
sixty tree stabilizers. You're going to find

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them at Southwest Fertilizer, Jorges Hidden
Gardens and Alvin Plans for All Seasons,

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Buchanan's Nursery, RCW Nursery, and
at the Arbor Gate, which is where

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I'll be today at eleven thirty.
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up there to the Arbor Gate and
I will be answering gardening questions. I'll

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tell you a little bit more about
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now to Conroe and we're going to
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Good morning, yep, good morning. I've got a couple of spots in

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my Saint Augustine grass that have got
some small areas of bluish gray. I

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don't know if it's some kind of
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And then in some similar bushes,
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they are, there's several petals that
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I've done some I've taken a couple
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is worth a thousand words that I'd
like to maybe send in if I could.

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Then you take a look at them
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Yeah, that's the best thing.
Especially when we see a problem and

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it's on different species of plants,
that's not a common occurrence for it to

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be the same cause. But it
may not be the same thing on the

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bushes the grass, but they're in
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as bushes right now? The same
okay, well, similar nearby area.

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And did you describe it like I
hear bluish colored coats, well, kind

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of on the grass, kind of
a bluish bluish gray on several and two

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or three different areas, taking pictures
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and a couple of a couple of
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they sorry to interrupt you. In
the grass. Lead is this is this

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like a coating on the on the
grass blades itself? Yes, it is.

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Okay, that's probably a little mold
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is not a disease of grass.
The only way it hurts grass is it

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shades the light from getting to that
blade. But you can just take a

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water hose and blast it off if
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and it's a natural thing out there, and they just think of it as

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a slimy mold climbing up on it. And then it goes through this stage

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where it produces spores and that's when
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there. But let me I'm gonna
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up and give you my email address
so you can send me some good pictures.

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Make sure they're in sharp focus of
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I'll be happy to take a look
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And I appreciate your tending guidance once
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to words. The picture is worth
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That's true. Thanks a lot ly. I appreciate that call very much.

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When's the last time you were done
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You know that place is a showplace, and I'm telling you it is.

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I mean, people come from all
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one, it's it's large. I
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of plant you can imagine, beautiful
pottery. Of course, they carry all

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the fertilizers, soils and things you
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annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, beautiful, beautiful flowers. Right

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now they have got If you're looking
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just gorgeous boogom villias, I mean, and you can get them as

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a hanging basket. You can get
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two gallon or seven gallons. You
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trellis. They're already trellised for you
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things up in summer. They've got
that. Pretty much. Anything you can

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imagine you would need as for a
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They have knowledgeable staff Enchanted Gardens Richmond
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com. They are on the Katie
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head out FM three fifty nine.
That's where you'll find them. Enchanted Gardens

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in Richmond, Quality quality Place.
Hey, welcome back to the Guardline.

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Good to have you with us today
on a great day for gardening. Really

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looking forward to getting out and getting
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The be Supply in Dayton, you've
heard me talk about it before. It's

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kind of like, you know,
there's places where only people that are interested

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in a particular kind of thing would
go to buy this particular product or whatever.

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I see the be Supply as almost
a combination of several things. First

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of all, the be Supply is
for people that want to get into bee

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keeping. They will walk you through. I was talking somebody just the other

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day, and they're from away from
here. I mean, I believe they're

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up in Brian or someplace like that, Brian, Texas, And I was

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just in look, just call the
bee Supply. They had a question.

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I said, they'll help you,
even though you're not out there buying something

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at the time. They will help
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They want people to have success.
But the be Supply is also a place

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where you can call. Maybe you
don't want to have to keep bees,

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but you want to have bees maybe
for an agricultural exemption, Yes, bees

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count for that. They can do
a be rental program. If you have

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five to twenty acres and you're within
fifty miles of Dayton, Texas. They

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come out, they set up the
bees, they manage the bees for you.

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Just go to the website and all
the details of what's involved in that

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is there. They have be classes, but they also for folks that I'm

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not going to keep bees, well, okay, go there and just learn

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about bees. Take your garden club, your master gardener group, your friends,

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and definitely take your kids. They'll
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You'll learn the fascinating world of beest
and you get to taste several different

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types of honey and it's just a
wonderful event. It's an outing, it's

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an experience. So no matter who
you are, the b Supply is a

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place you need to go. It's
thebesupply dot com, thebsupply dot com.

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It's where you'll find out everything you
need to know. We are now going

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to head to Jersey Village and talk
to Dale. Dale. Thanks for being

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a patient on whole person there,
I appreciate that, no problem, good

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morning, and thank you for you
too. My question is I have some

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patches of what I believe is Dallas
grass in my lawnlan being Saint Augustine and

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just and there's another one which I
can't I don't know what it is.

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I hope I can probably send you
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just because those probably secondly right.
But for the first one, which is

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to Dallas grass, just your thoughts
on the best way of treating it such

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that if it's a herveside or whatever, something that yes, I can eventually

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pull laid back some sat on at
the spots where it comes out, so

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you take it from here, okay. So Saint Augustine is your lawn,

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yes, okay. So there's not
a way to kill grass in grass by

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and large, yeah, without killing
your grass. So your options on something

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like Dallas. It's a perennial,
so we can't wait it out and use

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pre emergence to get ahead of it. So you can use a wiper type

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of an applicator to apply something that
kills grass to it without getting it on

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your desirable lawn grass. So instead
of spraying, you're essentially letting Dallas grass

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leaves come up above the lawn,
which they'll do, and you're wiping it

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on those leaves or dabbing it onto
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You can also just targeted spray just
that spot. And I've seen people take

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you know, little pump up sprayers
and a like pop soft drink bottle,

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the two liter bottles or a milk
jug and attach them so that it's like

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a shield over the end of your
sprayer and you just set it down on

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that weed and give it one squirt
and it doesn't let the spray go out

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everywhere on your lawn. It just
targets it right there. And that way

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you're gonna have some dead spots,
but at least you're able to, let's

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say, surgically remove those Dallas grass
clumps and then let the Saint Augustine crawl

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back in. Those would be your
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wipe. What's an example of those. You can find online wiper type

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of applicators. They look in different
ways. I've got to get this put

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online. You can build a wiper
applicator yourself using a grabber tool, like

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one of those little things you's got
like a pistol grip and you reach out

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and get a jar off a shelf
way up high, and it like grabs

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a jar and you pull it down. Or you can use it to pick

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up trash those kind of things.
But you could spin. Yeah, you

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put spongers, go ahead. Yeah, when you say this, this is

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something to put it on, not
the actual chemical. What chemical do you

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recommend? You could use a grass
only killer. There's a couple of substances

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that are grass only killers. Or
you could use a general killer like a

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glacyssate, which is the roundup as
a brand everybody knows, but there's a

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lot of brands of it. But
either way is fine. But either way

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you're using something that will cure your
lawn if you get it on the lawn.

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done and I'm successful, is there

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a timeline I need to wait for
me to if I want to put down

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some sod, because there's a section
it's pretty big, so I wouldn't leave

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the I wouldn't leave it for like
the existence and august seed to then spread

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back in. I would probably put
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if you're going to do that,
I would just dig it out. I

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you know, I would. However, you don't go about it hoe or

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dig or whatever. Just get it
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down, because you're going to have
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you're gonna have to get all that
dead grass out anyway, any weeds

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and stuff. So you might be
best off just you don't have to dig

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deep, but just get that,
get those plants out of there, and

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then put your sad down. So
it's a little more labor, but you're

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gonna have You can't lay sod on
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you know. Okay, yep,
And like I mentioned, email if I

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can probably send you pictures of all
right, I'm putting you on hold right

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now and and Calum we'll get online
and he'll take care of that. I

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appreciate your call. Soil is the
most important thing we do for our garden

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plants. It is the most important
thing. It's a foundation. Would you

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build your house on sand and have
a flood come wash your foundation out?

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Of course you wouldn't. Foundations are
critical. They set the stage for everything.

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Soil is a foundation for success with
your plants and Nature's way resources.

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They special and so and a half
for a long time. John ferguson way

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back when I mean when we use
terms like leaf mo compost and rosesoil,

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those kinds of things. Those things
began at Nature's Way Resources, and John

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and Ian have a wonderful selection of
all kinds of quality products, all kinds

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of quality products. They're available by
the bag, they're available by the bulk.

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I would suggest you consider their either
fine leaf mo compost as a top

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dressing. I would suggest that you
also consider their fungal based composts. It's

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that get a version of it that's
screened down in very small particle size.

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You can use that for a compost
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That means ten percent off bags and
twenty percent off bulk purchases for the

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fungal based compost. You need to
check them out Nature's Way Resources, the

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website, nature's Way Resources dot com. They're up almost to Conro, Texas

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on it off Interstate forty five.
If you'd like to give them a call.

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The numbers nine three six three two
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three two one sixty nine ninety talking
about the importance of soil and that foundation.

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Microlife fertilizers are nature's way of feeding
the soil. We're taking organic materials,

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we're putting them into the soil.
They're chocolal of nutrients. The microbes

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go nuts because I mean that's like
feeding them their favorite foods. They break

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those down. They take the nutrients
in microlife and release it to your plants.

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That's how nature works and microlife fertilizer. That the one that most people

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are familiar with is a green bag. The green bag is we typically use

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it for lawns. It's a six
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just living some yesterday for acidic plants, acid loving plants. Now that particular

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one is in a ink bag.
There are purple bag that is the microlife

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humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. Something you can do on a regular

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basis to your lawn to continue to
improve the soil, to improve in time.

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As you do this, the soil
structure improves. The microbial activity stays

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high in the soil because microbes love
these products. That's how that works.

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00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.880
Go to Microlife fertilizer dot com to
find out more information about them. We're

408
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.480
gonna have to take a break here. I will be right back our number

409
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.079
seven one three, two, one
two, five eight seven four. When

410
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.359
I come back, Steve and Sandy
and Ralph, you will be the first

411
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:47.920
ones up. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today.

412
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.519
I am going to make a B
line for Sandy and Cyprus. Sandy,

413
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:56.119
I think you get the award for
the most patient person on hold on

414
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.000
Garden Line, at least in the
history of my time on this show.

415
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:05.279
Here. Thank you for being suppatient. Thank you, good morning. I

416
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:12.759
have a couple of questions. One
is there's mushrooms, small itty bitty mushrooms

417
00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:16.200
in my soil? Am I overwatering
in? Is that good for the soil

418
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.880
or is that bad? And the
other question I have is how do I

419
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:27.960
get rid of I found a green
powder pillar crawling out of the soil in

420
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.680
my blueberries, so I'm wondering if
they're in my other and that they're all

421
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:38.359
entertainers and they're crawling out, So
I'm wondering if they're in my other plant,

422
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:44.240
because when he crawled out, you
know they can just move across to

423
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.319
the next pot, right right.
Well, first of all, the mushrooms

424
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:51.279
it is. It is a rare
thing for a mushroom to be the sign

425
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:53.680
of a disease. There are a
few oak root rot for example, will

426
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.480
pop up, but in general,
when you see mushrooms, it's just decomposer

427
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.799
fungi turning organic matter back into soil. So I would consider them a good

428
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.960
thing and nothing to worry about.
So that that is the case. Caterpillars.

429
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.559
There are a lot of caterpillars out
right now. I pulled out a

430
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:16.000
few plants the other day and some
flower things I was replacing, and when

431
00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:20.960
I went back to the soil,
there were inch worms just you know,

432
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:22.960
going all over the place, and
they had been in those plants and I

433
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:29.079
hadn't even noticed it. So I
don't get really alarmed just a few caterpillars.

434
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.799
If you're seeing a lack of foliage
on your plants, like there's the

435
00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:36.559
blueberries, the leaves are being eaten
off or something, well then yeah,

436
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:42.039
throw some BT or spinosa out there
and spray them. Otherwise, don't don't

437
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.559
sweat it. It's not a not
a big concern. Okay. One more

438
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:52.359
thing, how do I know when
to harvest my Brussels sprouts? Well,

439
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:57.119
you know, you would like them
to reach what would be the normal size,

440
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.599
Like when you buy Brussels sprouts in
the store, the you know the

441
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:02.559
size they would be. Sometimes they
don't quite make it that far, and

442
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:07.199
it depends on growing conditions and when
they were planted and whatnot. But if

443
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:10.800
you can get them up to that
size, that's fine. They don't ripen

444
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.679
if you will, so you could
you could eat a Brussels sprout from the

445
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.440
time it's the size of an English
pee up to the time it's its normal

446
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.920
size. So I would just kind
of give them a little time to get

447
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:27.800
the most size you can out of
them. Sometimes it helps to cut the

448
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.239
tops out of the plant. We're
about to get out of Brussels sprout season,

449
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.639
and you know how when you tip
a plant, the buds along the

450
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:38.920
stem brake and you get new shoots
that come up from from pruning. When

451
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:43.960
you cut the top out of your
Brussels sprout, it it stimulates some of

452
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:47.679
the side bud development and you can
go ahead and maybe get a little bit

453
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.679
of a bump on it that way, because we're summer's right around the corner

454
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.000
here, and it's good to get
them to go ahead and produce for you.

455
00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.440
Okay, thank you very much.
A great day. All right,

456
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.320
Andy, if you get a chance, come on up to Arburgate in Tomball.

457
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:05.559
You're not too far away. We're
gonna be out there this afternoon.

458
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.920
They're having one heck of a shindig
with peach, Bellini's and all the above

459
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.119
stuff you would expect from Arburgate.
Thanks for the call. Thank you so

460
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.400
much. I have a great day, all right. Bye bye. Yeah,

461
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.880
we're gonna have a really good time
out there. Let's see, we're

462
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:27.320
gonna go now to Steve and Southwest
Houston. Hello Steve, Oh, good

463
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.079
morning, thanks for taking me call. First question I am is what time

464
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:34.920
are you going to be at Arborgate. I am gonna hit Arbor Gate at

465
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.800
eleven thirty and I'll be there till
one thirty today, a couple of hours.

466
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:43.440
Yeah. I mean, I'm giving
away a lot of stuff. I'm

467
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:47.440
giving away four super Grow Ready to
Spray. That's a new product I'm so

468
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:54.239
excited about from Medina. Three hast
Grow Courts, Hastro Grow lawn seaweed samples.

469
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:00.280
We're gonna give Arbor Gay Is given
away one bag every thirty minutes of

470
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.880
their that that one two three easy
system. The organic soil, they're gonna

471
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.599
be given that away. We're gonna
be giving away forest tree stabilizers. There's

472
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:15.480
free peach billinis frozen there. I
mean, just come hang out. Okay,

473
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:22.079
Well, my primary question has to
do with a grassy yard in Conro

474
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:28.000
area. Obviously, we've been a
bit of rain in Conro lately, and

475
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:34.880
this lawn is sloped in two different
directions, but one south and west,

476
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:40.440
and it's beginning to show signs that
it's eroding. It's not big ditches or

477
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.480
anything like that, but small amounts. And I'm wondering about, Well,

478
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:52.800
first of all, we'll deal with
some upstream type of situation like gutters on

479
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.519
the house, that type of thing. And yeah, what would you recommend

480
00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:01.239
for for this mild type of erosion
as far as going back into the grassy

481
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:07.400
lawn right type of a sand or
top soil or just what's your idea?

482
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:13.960
Yeah, if you can find a
decent quality top soil, sometimes that's hard

483
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.320
to come by, but if you
can find that a sandy loam type of

484
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.719
top soil, that would be the
best to top dress it with in small

485
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.719
amounts. You know, if you
put three inches down. You buried your

486
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:28.519
Saint Augustine and that's not coming through. But just me you know a little

487
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.599
bit on let make sure the grass
blades are sticking through. Do it a

488
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.840
little at a time and you can
bring that level up. Some people will

489
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:40.639
mix a little bit of compost with
that. Just remember compost decomposes away.

490
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.679
And so if you if you have
three inches of compost two years from now,

491
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:47.880
you're going to have a half inch
of composts. You see what I'm

492
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:52.280
saying it it disappears. So if
you're trying to raise the level, it's

493
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:59.280
better to have the bulk of it
be a sandy loam type top soil top.

494
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.280
So okay, yeah, because it
had been my intention to before it

495
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.639
started to get too too hot,
to use some pumppost on the law,

496
00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:12.079
and I did that last fall and
caught it just before rains and it settled

497
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:17.000
out really nice. But okay,
maybe I need something a little bulkier and

498
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:21.119
bigger for all right, Well,
good luck with that. I hope that

499
00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:25.039
works for you. Well. I
appreciate Steve very much that call. For

500
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.719
those of you who haven't been to
plants for all seasons, you need to

501
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.440
get by there and check it out. They're on two forty nine high Way

502
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:35.840
two forty nine, but it's called
Tomball Parkway. They're just north of Lueta

503
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.440
Now. They've been around since nineteen
seventy three. And if you're looking for

504
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:42.920
a place that knows what they're talking
about, that carries plants that grow here

505
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.239
and will advise you on them,
that you can go in and ask questions

506
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:51.039
and have knowledgeable staff. All of
that and more is Plants for All Seasons

507
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.440
Plants for All Seasons dot com.
That's their website two eight, one,

508
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:59.920
three, seven six, sixteen forty
six. When you go and to Plants

509
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.920
all Seasons, you know you're setting
yourself up for success because you get the

510
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.440
right plants, you got the right
products, and you got people that know

511
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:10.599
how to help you. Gardeners,
expert gardeners, people that have been doing

512
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:15.320
this a very long time. Well, we're putting the first hour in the

513
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.039
books here. That went fast.
It seems like that they say time flies

514
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.880
when you're having fun. From the
frog says times fun when you're having it

515
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:29.280
flies. We'll be right back.
Don't forget today. I'm going to be

516
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.599
a harbor gate up in Tomball.
Now, what are we gonna do there.

517
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.159
We're gonna answer your gardening questions,
bring in samples, bring in pictures,

518
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.400
just come in to talk. I'll
be kind of giving some general Q

519
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:43.559
and A with a group of folks
out there at Arborgate, they always put

520
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.880
on a good show. Bring your
mom, Bring your mom. There's a

521
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:51.719
Mother's Day special at Arburgate on the
brick house rows. This is a disease

522
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.960
resistant rose and it has a type
of bloom that's open in the center so

523
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:59.639
these pollinators can get in there.
And it's just a it's an awesome,

524
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:05.480
awesome road frozen peach. Bellini's giving
away all kinds of stuff today today,

525
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:08.719
left and right, come on see
me Arbaga eleven thirty to one thing.

526
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:25.760
Welcome to kat r H Garden Line
with Skimp Richard. It's just watch him

527
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:42.320
as Welcome back to garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter is good

528
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.360
to have you with us. We
are here for the ride today. We're

529
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.159
gonna be talking about a lot of
things. This is a season to get

530
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:52.440
that lawn in top shape. That
is one thing a lot of people love

531
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.559
is a beautiful, beautiful carpet of
green grass out there. You know,

532
00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:59.960
grass has a lot of good functions. Actually, it helps prevent a rose.

533
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.360
It also cools the air. Did
you know that you can Actually there's

534
00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:08.000
a BTU number. You know high
AC units have BTUs. There's a BTU

535
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:15.599
number for the amount of cooling that
turf does per thousand square feet because compare

536
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.559
it to you know, the reason
we have this thing called the heat island

537
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:24.519
effect in cities is because asphalt and
concrete and things like that hardescapes. They're

538
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:30.800
absorbing heat and it's literally warmer in
Houston than it is outside in the countryside

539
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:35.840
for that reason. Now, turf
benefits our homes that way. So there's

540
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:39.000
a lot of good things that turf
can do in addition to just being beautiful

541
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:45.599
and a nice recreational area around your
house if you don't have a dense lawn.

542
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.480
Nitroposs has put together a product.
They had it for a while now.

543
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.719
It's a silver bag. It's nineteen
four to ten. Half the nineteen

544
00:41:52.840 --> 00:42:00.760
percent nitrogen is slow release, So
about ten percent or about ten percent of

545
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.920
that night of the product is a
slow release nitrogen. About nine or ten

546
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:08.199
percent is a release. It's a
little faster than that. So what you're

547
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:12.960
gonna get is you're gonna get an
even feed over time, and that is

548
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.280
very important going through summer. You
want your grass to be fed gradually over

549
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:20.119
time. That's how you end up
with the best grass plant, the most

550
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:23.239
resilient grass plant. Superterf will do
that. It also has four percent iron

551
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:28.800
to help with that nice, beautiful
uniform color that we're trying to achieve with

552
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.000
our lawns. Where do you get
Nitrofoss super Turf, Well, pretty much

553
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.800
everywhere. Bearing's Hardware on Bissinet and
on West Teimer has it. Plantation Ace

554
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:42.920
Hardware out there in the Richmond Rosenberg
area has it as well as does Hidenen

555
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:47.800
Feed, which is on Stubner Airline. Easy to find Nitrofoss nineteen four ten,

556
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:53.639
the silver Bag. I'm going to
head out now to talk to Ralph's

557
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.559
see here if I can there,
we go, Good morning, Ralph,

558
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.000
how can we help today? Skip? Good morning? Good morning? I

559
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:06.199
sent you an email with a couple
pictures. Yes, sir, I don't

560
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:09.559
know if you have that. I
do and I looked at it and this

561
00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:15.239
is in your lawn grass. It
looks like is that correct? That's correct?

562
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.679
Sir? Well, yeah, very
you have two very common perennial weeds,

563
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:23.000
and they're not super super easy to
get rid of. The first one

564
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:29.679
with the little tiny yellow flowers is
called horse herb now horse herb. I

565
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:35.719
have seen people spray it with roundup
and it didn't kill it. That's impressive

566
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:42.639
for a weed. Native enthusiasts love
horse herb as a groundcover in bright shade

567
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:46.880
areas. It's a native plant here
in the area, but when it's in

568
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:50.719
your lawn, people aren't excited about
it. But you're gonna have to use

569
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.960
a post emergent broad leaf weed control
product on it. There are a number

570
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.840
of different ones out there that can
be used and sprayed. You're just gonna

571
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:05.360
have to stay with it in order
to get to get some success in control

572
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.199
of it. Some of the best
our hardest on your Saint Augustine, though

573
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:15.360
unfortunately I got you. I did
do I'm up to date on the schedule.

574
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.000
I'm not going to list everything,
but okay, if it's on there,

575
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.679
I've done it. Okay, good, I'm I do need to do

576
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:32.519
the second of the pre emergent okay, but that won't do anything to the

577
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.639
items that I sent you the picture
of. No, they won't. And

578
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:40.440
at your lawn. Well, I'm
just seeing the areas with the weeds,

579
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:45.840
but things look pretty dense, and
so if you if you don't have an

580
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:52.639
ongoing annual weed problem, the second
pre emergent is definitely an optional one for

581
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:57.800
you. So just just think about
that. But yes, we're at the

582
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.000
time where if you want to extend
the pre emergen coverage, this would be

583
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.960
the time people do that. The
horser would have to be sprayed with a

584
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.119
post emergent. The second one is
called dollar weed, and it's called that

585
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:12.760
because they look like all silver dollars. They remight be of umbrellas. You

586
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.199
know, they've got the little stem
in the back like an umbrella and what's

587
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.440
around. Yeah, yeah, and
dollar weed. There are a number of

588
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.119
different things that will control dollar weed. It's it's pretty easy easy to get

589
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:24.440
a hold of if you're out in
Katie. If you'll go to the Katie

590
00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:32.840
Hardware on Pinoak, they have a
number of excellent products that will work really

591
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:40.199
well. Okay, will it?
Since I am about to do the pre

592
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:45.360
emergent, can I follow up a
week or so later with the post emerging

593
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:50.280
again, you can do them both
at the same time. The pre emergent

594
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.239
is going to be a granule that
you put on and then water in,

595
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:57.000
and then after you've watered it in, you can just turn right around or

596
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:02.000
before you can spray with the post
emergent onto the weed leaves themselves. And

597
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:06.119
I mentioned the katie on Pinoke.
There's also one on Mason Road. If

598
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:09.000
you're out single ranch direction out there
in DA, that's where I go.

599
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:12.760
Yeah, they're gonna they're going to
carry those for you. And I've got

600
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.159
some things. You say you have
the schedule, so I assume you also

601
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:21.360
have the pest control schedule pest disease
and weed, and that has the things

602
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:25.159
that I would suggest you try for
the post emergent. Broad leave, got

603
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:30.000
it, yep, That's what I
used before. But for the post you

604
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:36.679
recommend liquid as opposed to granule,
I'd prefer that, and it's it's easier

605
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:38.440
for me. It's easier to get
it on the leaves, you know,

606
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:44.039
because you can direct it right to
where the leaves weeds are. People that

607
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.400
have spotty weed problems. It's much
easier to do with the spray. You

608
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:51.480
know, with the granule, you're
essentially covering the whole lawn. You got

609
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:55.199
to get the weeds wet so the
granules stick to the leaves for best results.

610
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.599
And uh so granules are fine.
It's just I prefer to have the

611
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:06.239
spray so I can target it where
I want beautiful. I'll get those today

612
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:09.079
after I cut the grass. Follow
the label carefully. Ralph, and you

613
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:13.559
you ought to be in good shape. Appreciate your help, sir, you

614
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:17.960
bet, Thank you. Appreciate your
call. Thank you. Take care.

615
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.199
Have you been down to Hoges Hidden
Gardens? Those of you who live down

616
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.760
south? When I when I say
down south, they're in Alvin, Texas.

617
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.559
They're on Elizabeth in Alvin, Texas, just south of Highway six.

618
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:36.480
But communities like Alvin and Santa Fe
and Dickinson. I'll goa Arcadia, Alta

619
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.800
Loma or or what's the other hillcrest? That's enough. Hojores Hidden Gardens is

620
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.719
just a hop, skipping or jump
away. They have got the three sixty

621
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.039
tree stabilizer for example, that I
talk about. But they have a wide

622
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:52.960
variety of different conseplants right now.
They have a they recently got a new

623
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:58.639
shipment of citrus trees and that includes
satsumas, which is about this cold hearty

624
00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:02.320
of an orange you're going to get. It's a satsuma type orange. They

625
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.519
have oranges, they have limes,
they have lemons, and they have the

626
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:12.199
very popular Peggy Martin roses and three
gallon sizes and a Mother's Day special on

627
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.199
roses still going on. So here's
you know, kind of last call here,

628
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:20.760
folks. Guess what tomorrow is Mother's
Day? So if you're down in

629
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:24.079
the Alvin area, stop in talk
to the folks at rahe Siding Gardens.

630
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:30.199
Horay and his wife have really done
a great job, just continuing to build

631
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:34.039
that place and add more and it
just looks great. But anyway, go

632
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.119
buy there, Say hi Tori and
grab you one of those three gallon Peggy

633
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:42.519
Martin roses or one of the other
things many other things that Hoy carries down

634
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:46.719
there. Let's see here. I'm
gonna now head to uh No, actually

635
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:51.159
I wanted to. I want to
take a break. It's time. I

636
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.159
don't have enough time for another call. We'll be right back our phone number

637
00:48:53.159 --> 00:49:06.159
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to the

638
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.440
Guarden Line. Good to have you
with us today. We are doing our

639
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:15.159
best to guide you to success.
You know, gardening is I think the

640
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:17.599
best hobby there is, and I
can give you a lot of reasons why.

641
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:22.480
From argument number one, it's fun
number two, you get exercise number

642
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:27.320
three. There are very few things
that give you the mental benefits of getting

643
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.079
out with plants in the garden.
And I've got a stack, a foot

644
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:36.400
high stack on my desk of research
projects to prove it. We just keep

645
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.760
learning more and more about it.
So how do we have success? Because

646
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:43.440
you know, we don't want to
stress ourselves looking at plants at struggle.

647
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:45.519
We don't want to use words like
I got a brown thumb. You don't

648
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:49.840
have a brown thumb. You have
an uninformed thumb, and we're here to

649
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:54.519
inform your thumb. Now, we
just had some storms come through here recently,

650
00:49:54.639 --> 00:50:00.039
and in those storms we lost some
big tree lambs. I'm talking with

651
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:06.599
folks out at Affordable Tree. They
know all about storms and the effect on

652
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:10.000
trees and what you do to your
trees to help protect them against storms.

653
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:15.320
Last summer was brutal. Maybe you
lost a tree, maybe you lost branches,

654
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:19.119
a limbs of a tree. Call
Martin Spoon Moore, have him come

655
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.760
out take a look at them.
Because when those things come down. There's

656
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.880
a reason they call them widow makers. They can do significant damage to people

657
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.599
and to property. You're in your
neighbor's fence, for example, being a

658
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:35.159
good example of that. Martin will
come out and you do some selective pruning.

659
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.039
This isn't the big time to do
all your print. We do that

660
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:40.400
primarily in the winter, but you
can prune all year round, and selective

661
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.480
pruning right now is important, taking
out dead areas, making those trees safer

662
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:49.440
in heavy winds, setting them up
for the best they can do when it

663
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:53.519
comes to storm readiness. Martin spoon
More has been doing this for a very

664
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:59.159
long time here. I trust him
to do the job right. That's why

665
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:02.119
he is our recare sponsor here on
guarden Line. Give him a call seven

666
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:08.079
one three six nine nine twenty six
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667
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:15.760
twenty six sixty three, or go
to the website afftree Service dot com.

668
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:20.760
Aff tree Service dot com. Martin
charges about I think it's one hundred and

669
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.360
fifty bucks to come out to the
property and do the consultation. If you

670
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:27.519
have him do the work, that
one fifty just goes right into your price.

671
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.280
So but it's just a way to
you know, not have to run

672
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:31.599
all over town people saying, well
I want you to look at this.

673
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:36.960
Yeah, never mind, you know, they just wanted free advice. Hate

674
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.639
that. But anyway, Martin does
a good job. And when he does

675
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.480
it, you know that your trees
are in good hands. That's very,

676
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:47.840
very important. We're going to now
go out to Laporte and talk to Elmer.

677
00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.880
Hey, Elmer, Hey, Hi, how you doing it that.

678
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:54.400
I'm a limber radio. Real quick. I've got a big problem. I've

679
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:59.480
got three big oldfruit trees, and
those buggers. They yield a lot of

680
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.039
fruit. Lemon tree and orange tree
and a grapefruit tree. The problem I'm

681
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.119
having is every time they mature on
the exterior. I can't explain it.

682
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.559
On the exterior of the fruit,
it gets like a very rough dride.

683
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.960
It looks a cancerous type thing on
it. Now, the fruit is very

684
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.360
sweet, I mean they're very juicy, but I mean they just don't look

685
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:22.639
like the way they do at the
store, you know what I mean.

686
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:27.400
Yeah, And I don't know what
the heck that is. It's just an

687
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:30.119
ugly looking thing on the exterior,
and it looks very dry and ugly.

688
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:34.119
Yeah, I know, it's talking
about omer. You don't need to worry

689
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.599
about it. Bottom line is it
is a cosmetic damage on the outside.

690
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.760
You don't eat the outside, turn
off the lights, close your eyes,

691
00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:45.320
and enjoy your orangees. I guess
there's one way to look at it.

692
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:51.519
I'm joking, but seriously, you
kidding me? Yeah, no, seriously.

693
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:54.760
There are some different things that can
affect the skin of ceterus. There

694
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:59.679
there is actually little mites that chew
on the skin and cause that's what it

695
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:04.519
looks damaging to it. Sometimes you
get a bird. There are birds that

696
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:08.880
do little tiny pecks all over it
and it gets all just crusty and bad

697
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.840
looking. There's a lot of different
things that can do that. But the

698
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.039
bottom line is, as you said, the inside tastes just the same.

699
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:22.559
So I I nothing is worth worrying
about in spraying for if you're still let

700
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:24.239
me ask you, let me ask
you something crazy. Does it make sense

701
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:29.719
at auto for me to throw something
over it like a very very How can

702
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:37.000
I explain bean screen or something like
that screen? I mean no, you

703
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:38.480
know, I mean you've put a
burden that over and keep the birds off.

704
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:43.440
But that's not needed. You can
You're not going to have anything like

705
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:45.440
that. If it were mites doing
it, a type of mite that does

706
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:50.880
that it, the screen wouldn't help
on that. Uh No, I wouldn't.

707
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:53.400
I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry about
it. Right now, they're the

708
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.119
size of about a wall or peanut. They look beautiful, but I already

709
00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:59.440
know when they get to the size
about a baseball, they don't look terrible.

710
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:02.039
Yeah. Well, you know,
if you get to that stage and

711
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:06.960
you want to send me a close
up photo of the fruit, and then

712
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:10.639
I can get more specific with what
is causing the cosmetic damage and we could

713
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:14.960
discuss things I don't know. You
know, you could put like a horticultural

714
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:19.559
oil spray over it and that would
help deal with like the mites, for

715
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:23.199
example. But we need to know
exactly what's causing it. But again,

716
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:28.559
it's cosmetic, you know, so
don't don't don't see Yeah, it don't

717
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:31.599
look like the ones at the store. Man. All right now, we

718
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:35.639
are we doing bragging rights in the
neighborhood here? Is that? What's going

719
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:37.880
on on this? No? No, you know what. I'm proud of

720
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:40.519
my fruit. I'm gonna tell you
why. Because the cost of food has

721
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:45.440
gone skyrockets. You know, my
limitree yields so much lemons, I don't

722
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:46.440
know what to do with themselves.
I just throw them white and my grapeful

723
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.079
tree. Forget that that thing's about
thirty feet tall. I didn't do they

724
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:52.679
would grow that tall and they fall
on the ground small. To be honest

725
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.360
with you, but if the price
of fruit today, I'm fine with the

726
00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:58.119
way they are. You know what
I mean. I got you. I

727
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.400
got you. Sounds like you're doing
everything right. Uh, Like I said,

728
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.440
you hit that stage of season.
Send me a picture. We'll look

729
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.440
at it. But I would i
would say ninety eight percent of the time.

730
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.199
I'm gonna tell somebody, don't worry
about it. Don't worry, turn

731
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.360
off the close your eyes, and
enjoy your situess. And one last thing.

732
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:21.800
During the summertime, is it appropriate
water those trees three times? Excuse

733
00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:23.280
me, once twice or three times
a week? I really don't know what

734
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:28.920
the schedule is on water. You
should not have to water a citrus more

735
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:30.639
than once a week. In fact, you probably don't need to water it

736
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:36.880
every week. These things have a
good root system, and you know if

737
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:40.280
it if it's one hundred and five
degrees, you know, for two weeks

738
00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:44.239
and no rain. Yeah, you
know they're gonna need some water. But

739
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:49.159
in general, we weigh over water
our plants. Just I guess that's what

740
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:51.840
that's what I guess. That's why
every time I come out and I see

741
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.079
that great for crear, another branch
is coming out right, yeah that yeah,

742
00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.559
you're all right, man, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate

743
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:04.519
it. All right, take care. If you live up in the Magnolia

744
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:08.280
area, just kind of northeast of
tom Ball a little bit that direction,

745
00:56:08.599 --> 00:56:15.960
Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown
feed center Magnolia on Highway FM twenty nine

746
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:17.960
eight, twenty nine seventy eight.
They're right there on the side of the

747
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.159
road. I love going by their
beautiful place. For example, you walk

748
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:24.920
in. I had a posted something
to Facebook the other day just what it

749
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:28.800
looks like when you walk in.
I mean it it is just makes you

750
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:30.920
want to run around and start shopping. And of course it's a feedstore.

751
00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:34.960
They got all the feed for your
animals, your pets and whatnot, high

752
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.679
quality feed. But they have a
lot of bling in there too. And

753
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:42.800
then when it comes to your garden, if I talk about a fertilizer,

754
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:46.440
it's at Spring Creek Feed Center.
If you need to control insects, diseases,

755
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:52.639
or weeds, it's at Spring Creek
Feed Center. They cover that friendly,

756
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:54.920
courteous staff. One of the best
things about shopping there too. I

757
00:56:54.920 --> 00:57:00.840
should mention that they even do special
orders and delivery, so check them out.

758
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:06.480
Spring Creek Feed is conveniently located in
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight.

759
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.239
Our phone number if you would like
to give us a call seven one

760
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:15.360
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

761
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:17.920
eight seventy four. I was in
Spray Creek Feed a couple of weeks ago,

762
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:21.960
I believe it was. I have
trouble going back in time going how

763
00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:24.480
long ago was that? But anyway, it was really recently how about that?

764
00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:29.280
And they had a good stock of
Microlife fertilizer in as well as there

765
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:31.880
are other fertilizers, you know.
I was looking at the Microlife and they

766
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:37.159
had the humates plus the purple bag. That is the numbers are zero zero

767
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.440
four. You're not putting it down
to just put all these nutrients on your

768
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.559
lawn, although when you add it
you are getting nutrients, but you're getting

769
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.679
concentrated compost in a bag. Think
of it this way. You got a

770
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:54.000
bunch of grass, clippings and leaves. That's called organic matter. It decomposes,

771
00:57:54.079 --> 00:58:00.159
that's called compost. The compost continues
to decompose as far as it will

772
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:07.840
decomposed. That's called humus. And
Humates plus is a concentrated compost product.

773
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:12.920
Concentrated compost in a bag. It
is got microwhizl fungi that have been added,

774
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:16.239
as well as a lot of essential
microbes. It will help improve your

775
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:23.119
turf by helping improve your soil by
helping enhance the microbial activity in the soil.

776
00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:27.880
It can help with these claysoils we're
dealing with here. It's something that

777
00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:30.000
I would suggest just on a regular
basis. You know, each year,

778
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:36.800
do some concentrated compost in a bag, the purple bag Microlife Humates plus.

779
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:38.719
When you're out doing your fertilize,
that's a good time to do it.

780
00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:43.119
Same time as well, and yeah, you can get that sprint Creek Feet

781
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:46.280
and a whole lot of other places
around the Greater Houston area. Makes it

782
00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:52.920
easy to find, very easy to
find. Have you ever noticed that sometimes

783
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:57.800
those landscape beds around the house don't
look so good and you're like driving up

784
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:00.599
and looking at them like, oh
man, that's not good. I got

785
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:01.400
to get out there. I gotta
pull weeds. I need to put some

786
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:06.800
mulch down, I need to need
to need to well. Pierscapes can do

787
00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.400
that for you. Pierscapes Number one, they do beautiful designs. I mean,

788
00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:15.639
if you want stone rockways, if
you need any kind of a special

789
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.679
feature like landscape lighting, if you
need to improve drainage, even if you

790
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:22.880
just need irrigation repairs and work done, they can do all that. But

791
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:28.480
quarterly maintenance is a service that I
need to talk about more about Peerscapes because

792
00:59:28.519 --> 00:59:30.639
what they'll do. You go in, you know, you sign up for

793
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:34.480
it, and every quarter they come
out. They trim, they weed,

794
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.840
they fertilize, they check out your
irrigation system, make sure it's looking right.

795
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:43.480
They do mulch on the surface.
Of course you need to maintain the

796
00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:46.800
mulch. And then they do seasonal
color changes. You decide how many a

797
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:52.000
year you want, but they'll transition
from one season to another with color all

798
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.719
at Pierscapes. And it's easy to
get a hold of them. You know,

799
00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:59.800
pierscapes, they're just professionals. They
got their certifications, they got their

800
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:04.559
life. Since they know what they're
doing, they do quality work. Piercescapes

801
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:12.320
dot com Pierceescapes dot com two eight
one three seven oh five zero six zero.

802
01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.159
We're gonna go now out to Matagorda
and talk to Jesse. Hey,

803
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:20.079
Jesse, good morning. How are
you? I'm well, sir. How

804
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:23.599
can we help today? Well?
A couple of years ago we bought a

805
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:29.960
Texas mountain Laurel, at a nursery
there in Houston. It is beautiful blue

806
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:36.400
blooms or blue flowers on it,
and we planned it and she's doing wonderful,

807
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:42.360
nice green leaves growing taller. But
I don't know if it's too windy

808
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:45.840
or because we haven't got those beautiful
blue flowers. I don't know if it's

809
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:51.480
just too windy out here and they're
blowing the blooms off early we water it.

810
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.039
Maybe we water it too much.
Can you give me some advice?

811
01:00:55.280 --> 01:01:00.480
Okay? Does the tree itself,
as far as the greenery and stuff,

812
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:07.199
does it look good? It does? Sometimes it looks like something's maybe chewing

813
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:09.960
on it, because a branch or
two will start to bear, and then

814
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.039
these pods come out but then more
leaves, so okay, it's yeah.

815
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:20.000
Well, Mount Laurel sets its blooms
in the late summer and fall for the

816
01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:25.840
spring bloom show, and so stresses
during that time could affect effective bloom set.

817
01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:30.719
Mount Laurel is tough, it is. I mean it grows out of

818
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.840
a crack and the rock west of
Austin in the hill country. I mean

819
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:38.360
you'll find it native in places like
that. The biggest issue we would run

820
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:42.599
into with Mount Laurel here is going
to be when we don't give it good

821
01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.400
drainage, when the roots get a
little on the soggy side. They don't

822
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:50.480
like that at all at all.
And so you just need to make sure

823
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:53.920
that it drains well. That's the
number one thing in your control. Okay.

824
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:58.920
And what would you suggest as far
as a watering schedule for her?

825
01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:02.239
You've had it more than one year
in the ground. You should never have

826
01:02:02.280 --> 01:02:07.519
to water Mountain Laurel here, Okay, I'm serious, you really, it's

827
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:13.079
that well established because it grows in
the wild west of Austin where it rains

828
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:15.079
twenty three inches a year. Hey, I got to run. We're hard

829
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:20.239
up against a break, Jesse,
But good luck with that. All right,

830
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:31.320
we'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the Garden Line.

831
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:36.079
Good to have you with us today. We are talking about lots of different

832
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.400
things related to gardening. Where's turf
is always the elephant in the room.

833
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.480
That is the number one thing that
makes phone ring at your county agro Life

834
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:50.480
Extension office and at Garden Line as
well. After thirty six years of doing

835
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:55.400
Agrolife Extension horticulture work, I tell
you turf is the king and trees are

836
01:02:55.480 --> 01:03:00.480
right behind it. And then if
it comes to vegetables, tomatoes are the

837
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:02.760
number one question that we get.
And we used to say the three things

838
01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:07.519
that make our phone ring or the
three t's trees, turf, tomatoes,

839
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:13.119
And boy, that holds true.
It definitely does hold true. If you

840
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:17.599
are looking for a quality blend of
soil less mix, a quality blend of

841
01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:22.119
media. We say soil less mix
because it's not soil. It's a special

842
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:25.800
blend that's called composted potting soils.
You know we talk about potting soils.

843
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.239
Well, what about for your indoor
plants? What would be a good blend

844
01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:34.480
for indoor Well, jungle land with
water saving crystals would be a good blend

845
01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:38.719
for indoor. It's got little crystal
structures in it that absorb water, and

846
01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:45.239
it's almost like think of a like
a gelatin like imagine little tiny chunks of

847
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.880
jello, very small chunks of jello, and they absorb many times their weight

848
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:53.039
in water. So when you forget
to water your plants and that potting mix

849
01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:59.320
gets a little dry, those crystals
hold onto the water and are able to

850
01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:01.079
say, okay, plant, just
you know, here's a little bit of

851
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:04.079
water to get you by. They
will eventually remember to water you. For

852
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:08.440
crying out loud, it's happened at
my house too. I bet it has

853
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:12.559
it yours. Jungle Land with water
saving crystals, that's the stuff you need.

854
01:04:13.119 --> 01:04:15.679
You can find jungle land with water
saving crystals at a lot of different

855
01:04:15.719 --> 01:04:19.320
places, for example in Chanted Forest
down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area.

856
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:27.199
Growers outlet up in willis Or RCW
Nursery where Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine

857
01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:33.679
comes into bout Way eight all carry
nitrofoss products. Nit fross widely widely available

858
01:04:33.679 --> 01:04:42.000
here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaking of RCW, RCW is the kind

859
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:46.480
of garden center where you walk in
and if there's something you don't see that

860
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:49.679
you want that you don't see there, They can get it for you.

861
01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:54.159
They really do their best to do
that and they're very successful at it.

862
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:57.800
But I'll tell you this, when
you walk in, you're going to see

863
01:04:57.800 --> 01:05:01.800
what you're looking for. You know, tomatoes in vegetable plants, and when

864
01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:06.119
it comes to herb plants, I'm
not saying right now necessary tomatoes, but

865
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:10.719
you know what I'm saying. Through
the season, when it comes to perennials,

866
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:14.480
when it comes to annual flowers,
when it comes to beautiful hanging baskets,

867
01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:18.079
definitely, when it comes to roses, like pages and pages of the

868
01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:23.440
roses, they can get their RCW
Nursery and then they grow their own trees.

869
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:26.400
They grow their own trees up to
Plantersville, and they grow trees that

870
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:30.400
belong here, species that will thrive
here in our area. That's what they

871
01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.719
do. I call them to get
it, got it nursery because if they

872
01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:38.159
don't have it, they will get
it. They absolutely can do that.

873
01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:42.480
Now you're going to find the fertilizers
I talk about on guarden Line at r

874
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.480
CW Nurseries, and you're going to
find a lot of cool landscape plank,

875
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:53.000
metal art, little metal arches and
things things to enhance and beautify that landscape.

876
01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:56.840
Go to RCW Nursery. They're at
Tomball Parkway where it comes into a

877
01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:01.519
eight. It's easy to get to. The website are CW Nurseries dot com.

878
01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:09.480
RCW Nurseries dot com. I always
like to go in and visit.

879
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:13.440
Uh, there I was. Last
time I was over there. My jaw

880
01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:16.119
was just hitting the ground at the
bougainvilleas that they had. They had the

881
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:20.639
standards by a standard. We mean, and we do this with roses and

882
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:25.800
bougainvillias and other things. Uh,
but where you train the trunk up a

883
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:30.360
little steak and then you have this
this head or this it billows out at

884
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:32.960
the top. So think of a
rosebush. We'll think of a rose standard,

885
01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:35.920
just like a little rose tree,
a mini rose tree. They have

886
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:44.639
Booga Villa standards out there that were
showstoppers, just unbelievable, beautiful, beautiful,

887
01:06:44.679 --> 01:06:47.280
beautiful stuff. Hey. Our phone
number is seven one three two one

888
01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:51.800
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

889
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.440
Got an open board all of a
sudden here. That's interesting. Not

890
01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:58.960
a common occurrence. Uh, if
you'd like to give us a call.

891
01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:00.960
It be an easy way to get
on. Some folks had to really hold

892
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:05.760
the day. We had a rush
for the phones early on. And so

893
01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:09.880
now if you don't want to have
to wait a little while, it'ud be

894
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:15.079
a good time. Medina has a
new product that I am really excited about,

895
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.639
and that is super Grow Plush.
You've heard me talk about it a

896
01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:24.440
lot. Sixteen zero two. Those
are the three numbers, sixteen zero two.

897
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:28.199
It is a very unique product in
that you hook it up to a

898
01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:31.400
garden hose and it takes about I
don't know ten minutes to spray your whole

899
01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:35.920
lawn covers about four thousand square feet
one of their low court bottles. It's

900
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:42.119
got nitrogen in of course the immediately
released form. It's a quick acting green

901
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.039
up, but it also has iron
in a slower release form. There's a

902
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.039
percentage of that iron that is going
to release a little bit more slowly.

903
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:54.360
And it has things that are very
important for giving your lawn green, like

904
01:07:54.559 --> 01:07:59.000
iron that's keylated in it. It
has that, it's got seaweed extract.

905
01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:01.679
It's just a good product all around. It makes sense. It got molasses

906
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:05.000
and humic acid in it as well, so you can use it any time

907
01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:08.840
of the season. You're not going
to burn your lawn with it. And

908
01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:12.000
by the way, this you know, we talk about it for lawns,

909
01:08:12.039 --> 01:08:15.119
but I've seen some awesome pictures of
a tomato patch where they were using it

910
01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:18.960
as just a foldier feed and I
put it on the ground in the patch.

911
01:08:19.159 --> 01:08:24.079
A good fertilizer, high quality stuff
and guess what you want a shot

912
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:26.720
at it? Well, I'm going
to be giving away four quarts of it

913
01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:30.520
today out at Arburgate. I'll be
there from eleven thirty to one thirty,

914
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:34.239
and Medina is providing four quarts of
that, three quarts of a hash to

915
01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:39.319
Grow, three quarts of hashtra Grow
lawn, three of their seaweed. I

916
01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:43.439
got a lot of different kinds of
samples out there. Appreciate the folks at

917
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:45.680
Medina providing those. This is your
chance to come put your hands on some

918
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:50.560
of it and get you a free
sample or in this case, a free

919
01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:57.720
giveaway Medina super Grow Plus. It's
part of the hastro Gro line of Medina

920
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:01.479
Hastrogro number of good quality products.
Supergirl Plus that's the one, that's the

921
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:04.880
new one, that's the one I'm
really excited about right now, we're going

922
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:12.960
to go out to spring Bronze.
Hey, hurt, Oh, hey you're

923
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:21.319
here, you're live? Yes?
Oh h yes, ma'am, I catch

924
01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:26.720
you off guard. Boy, that
was quick. I just said we had

925
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:30.520
an open line, So there you
go. Oh sure, uh I we

926
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:38.640
celebrated money today early because they're going
out of town. Well, anyway,

927
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:46.039
I got a call lily. Oh
it's beautiful. They're about ten stems in

928
01:09:46.079 --> 01:09:51.520
this part. I imagine that's too
many for one thing. Uh, and

929
01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:57.800
I need to know about that.
But where are the LEAs? Were two

930
01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:06.239
of them actually all leo yo gold
yellow? Are they supposed to do that?

931
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:12.479
It's probably an older leaf. Kali
lilies want even the moist soil.

932
01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:15.920
They don't want to dry out,
but and they'll turn yellow if they get

933
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.680
too dry. But they also want
good drainage, and so make sure the

934
01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:24.720
pot has holes in it that drain
away because if it gets soggy wet,

935
01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:28.199
you can get some root rot type
issues in there that can cause that as

936
01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:36.640
well. All right, now,
I feel like ten stems is too much

937
01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:45.239
for this five inch pot. How
soon should I separate them? Well,

938
01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:49.319
I mean you could do it whenever
you want, but you could bump into

939
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:53.119
a little bigger pot. That would
be another option if you want to do

940
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:56.640
that. People put them in the
ground, if you've got a real good

941
01:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.800
spot, that gives them what they
want. Bright light, but not just

942
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:04.560
blazing hot sun, but bright light
and then good drainage and lots of organic

943
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:09.119
all right, all right, well, thank you very much. All right,

944
01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:12.359
heard it, Thank you. I
appreciate your call very much. Well,

945
01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:15.359
we're hitting a break here. When
we come back, we will get

946
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:19.399
to you out there that are holding
Lee and Avida and Patrick and Laura Loretta.

947
01:11:19.560 --> 01:11:24.640
Boy, the phone's lit up again. We'll be right back. Come

948
01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:30.039
on, hey, welcome back to
the Guardline. Good to have you with

949
01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:35.159
us today. Absolutely good to talk
with you about what kinds of things we

950
01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:39.359
can do to help. I want
to go now to Lee and Conroe.

951
01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:43.039
Lee, I got your photos and
that is a slime mold. That is

952
01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:45.640
the stuff we were talking about on
your grass, and it looks like it's

953
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:50.720
gotten on those plants as well.
The one on the plants looks a little

954
01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:56.319
bit like powdery mildew, but it
looks a lot more like slime molds.

955
01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.760
So bottom line, get your hose
with strong last of water and just blasted

956
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:05.640
away. Nothing to worry about on
the lawn and on the plants. Yeah,

957
01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:10.159
I don't, I don't. There's
no disease that looks like that other

958
01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:13.079
than powdery mildew. And it doesn't
quite look like powdery mil do to me.

959
01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:19.720
Well, I appreciate you looking at
both those, both the bush and

960
01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:26.439
the grass blades, and I will
get some pressure, puts the pressure nozzle

961
01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:29.960
on my hose on the on both
of them, and yeah, see if

962
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.199
we can. And I guess the
good news is it doesn't doesn't sound like

963
01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:42.239
it needs any application of no not
at all. Okay, Well that's good

964
01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:48.319
news, and I thank you very
much again for your you're reviewing them and

965
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:53.279
feedback. Okay, so lee on
the plants, not the grass plant,

966
01:12:53.279 --> 01:12:58.039
but on the other plants you sent
picture of. If the blasting away doesn't

967
01:12:58.319 --> 01:13:02.199
make it go away, then I
would shift over to treating for powdery mildew.

968
01:13:02.199 --> 01:13:05.920
And there are a number of different
fungicide type options for controlling that.

969
01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:12.520
I think it's going to be okay
without it. Okay, okay, if

970
01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:15.239
I if I, if I find
that it doesn't on the plant, and

971
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:21.760
I went I went to your website
and powder and mildew whether there be uh

972
01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:27.119
yeah, there there are a couple
of options. There's standard synthetic fungicides.

973
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:33.800
Name oil, any kind of a
horticultural oil will control powdery mildew as well.

974
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:36.680
You just want to follow, okay, And you just said name oil

975
01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:44.319
and I've got a trigger court trigger
of name oil on him, all right,

976
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:49.079
kyn off, and it doesn't do
it from the yeah names normally we

977
01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:53.920
use it for insects, but the
any oil product is going to work on

978
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:57.680
powdery mildew as a as a temporary
control. All right, thank you,

979
01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:01.960
sir. I appreciate that call very
much. People often will ask where can

980
01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:06.079
I who can help me with aeration
and compost top dressing because that's a heck

981
01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:09.560
of a job to do it yourself. I mean you can, but it's

982
01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:13.000
a heck of a job. Well
if you if you live down in the

983
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:17.119
south and especially toward the south and
west direction. B and B Turf Pros

984
01:14:17.319 --> 01:14:24.000
is the company that you want to
contact. B and B Customer satisfaction is

985
01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:27.840
their number one priority, it really
is, and they do high quality work.

986
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:31.159
They use quality products. They only
use products in companies that I trust.

987
01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:35.239
Here on guardline you're going to find
if you're in sugar Land or Missouri

988
01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:39.920
City, come out west direction.
They can service that area. If you're

989
01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:44.399
down in Ciena and or Cola and
Iowa Colony and Manville, Fresno down south,

990
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:47.479
they're going to service that area about
as far east as pear Land because

991
01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:53.520
they've got heavy duty equipment, beautiful, beautiful equipment that does an excellent job

992
01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:58.279
in the air rating and in the
compost top dressing. Give them a call

993
01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:03.239
seven to one three two three four
fifty five ninety eight seven one three two

994
01:15:03.279 --> 01:15:11.439
three four five five nine eight,
or here's the website b B Turfpros dot

995
01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:16.119
com. B B Turfpros dot com. They go above and beyond to make

996
01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:19.880
a personal connection and make sure you're
happy with the work they do. And

997
01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:23.560
I can just tell you will be
because of the kind of work that I

998
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:28.960
have seen that they do. We're
going to go now to Patrick and Katie.

999
01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:31.680
Hello, Patrick, Hey, how
are you doing? I'm good sir.

1000
01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:36.720
How can we help fantastic? I've
got a gardener we get is a

1001
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:42.199
kinny planet in a couple of cucumber
plants, and they've been doing great so

1002
01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.319
far, but now it looks like
some of the next batch of cucumbers coming

1003
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:50.520
up. They're starting to look a
little they're not shaped properly. They're string

1004
01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:59.199
to bend over. Yes, and
it looks like also on the main stalk,

1005
01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:02.039
it looks like, I don't know, we're kind of guessing at Scot's

1006
01:16:02.119 --> 01:16:06.079
vine bore or something because it seems
like there's some damage and maybe some little

1007
01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:11.199
eggs or something that got laid in
there. Okay, so well, let's

1008
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:14.399
start with the Let's start with the
fruit there, Patrick, that is due

1009
01:16:14.439 --> 01:16:20.960
to incomplete pollination. Seeds release hormones
that make the fruit grow normally. And

1010
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:26.439
if you have pollination in some seeds
but not in others, you're going to

1011
01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:30.520
end up with a fruit of fruit
that bends or twists or you know what

1012
01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:32.439
I'm saying. It's not going to
be normal, and it could be due

1013
01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:39.319
to a lack of bees. It
could be due to weather conditions as temperatures

1014
01:16:39.319 --> 01:16:43.359
heat up. Typically we often see
a lot of the fruit where the tips

1015
01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:46.359
don't pollinate as well as the rest
of the cucumber, for example, But

1016
01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:50.359
that's not something you really can control. As far as the insect, I'd

1017
01:16:50.399 --> 01:16:54.479
almost need to see a picture to
be able to be sure what we're dealing

1018
01:16:54.479 --> 01:16:58.640
with. I suspect it's not a
big problem on yours. It doesn't sound

1019
01:16:58.680 --> 01:17:01.279
like a common problem that you're describing. Okay, okay. And then the

1020
01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:04.840
zucchini has been doing great, but
all of a sudden, it looks like

1021
01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:09.520
there's a lot more ants, uh
that they are just kind of running up

1022
01:17:09.520 --> 01:17:14.399
on it. And and the last
one we had, you know, before

1023
01:17:14.399 --> 01:17:18.680
it reached full size, it started
to get mushy. And yeah, rainy

1024
01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:23.760
weather is a problem on our squash. When the balloom falls off, we

1025
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:28.239
often get infection through the belly button
end of the squash. Uh, something

1026
01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:31.359
is going on. And those just
try to keep them picked as much as

1027
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:34.319
you can. They produce so much
that if you keep picking them and getting

1028
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:39.199
the old stuff out of there,
you cut down on some of the reinfection

1029
01:17:39.359 --> 01:17:43.520
that can occur. But I think
that's that's probably the thing that's most in

1030
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:47.039
your in your control on those.
But well, that's awesome, sounds easy

1031
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:50.119
enough, Yes, sir, thank
you. I appreciate your call very much.

1032
01:17:50.439 --> 01:17:54.680
Good good to visit with you.
We're gonna now head out to porter

1033
01:17:54.800 --> 01:18:00.119
and talk to Avida. Hello Avita, Hello, I have a house plant

1034
01:18:00.199 --> 01:18:04.319
if they call it a ZZ plant. Yes, I've had it for several

1035
01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:09.560
months. It's doing great. I
have it next to a window. I

1036
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:14.279
water it only when it's dry.
But here recently in the last week,

1037
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:20.760
my branches are falling now, and
I'm wondering what could I do to take

1038
01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:25.399
care of the plant. You don't
mean falling off, you mean drooping down,

1039
01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:30.359
drooping down? Yeah, yeah,
it does that and mine does that

1040
01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:33.479
too. And I don't know if
as new growth comes up that the older

1041
01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:38.560
growth kind of bends down because it's
still looking for light, or if that's

1042
01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:45.359
just but it's not associated with any
problem on the ZZ plant. They can

1043
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:50.560
spread out like that. I would
think probably the lighting environment might have an

1044
01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:55.840
effect. It does on how plants
orient their growth, but in general,

1045
01:18:56.319 --> 01:19:00.359
it's not a problem that I would
worry about. Okay, So just let

1046
01:19:00.439 --> 01:19:05.000
them fall and I'm trying to I'm
trying to kind of kind of lean them

1047
01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:09.880
up against the other plants to support
them. But they're there now. I

1048
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:13.359
have Now I have two branches that
are just you know, falling down,

1049
01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:16.039
right. And ZZ is a it's
a great plan. It's it's super easy

1050
01:19:16.079 --> 01:19:19.520
to grow, uh, and it
may be that maybe if it gets a

1051
01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:23.800
little on the dryer side, it
would tend to sag down and then it

1052
01:19:23.840 --> 01:19:27.640
doesn't bounce back up. I don't
know why they end up like that,

1053
01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:30.279
but I'm just telling you. I've
got zz's that are doing great. But

1054
01:19:30.720 --> 01:19:34.600
that's just part of the deal that
I've experienced with them as well. But

1055
01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:39.760
it doesn't lead to problem. I
wouldn't cut them off. I just just

1056
01:19:39.880 --> 01:19:42.000
leave them alone. No, no, you could. I mean, there's

1057
01:19:42.039 --> 01:19:44.720
no no problem at all. If
you want to cut one off it's too

1058
01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:47.399
low. I've done that before,
where there's like one hanging out way off

1059
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:51.039
to one side and just blunch the
plant. I'll just cut it off back

1060
01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:54.439
at the base. You can do
that. There's not a problem with that.

1061
01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:57.560
Okay, all ready, thank you, all right, thank you very

1062
01:19:57.640 --> 01:20:01.359
much. I appreciate it. Appreciate
your call very much. Warrens and Kingwood

1063
01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:06.199
Garden Center out in Kingwood, they
are excellent nurseries for the folks that are

1064
01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:12.079
out there in that region. There's
always something going on out of Warren's Garden

1065
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.840
Center. There are always new plants
coming in. I mean, it's going

1066
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:17.920
to be a great place to get
your heirloom soils products. For example,

1067
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:21.960
It's going to be a great place
to get annuals and perennials. If you

1068
01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:29.159
want beautiful, beautiful color, that's
a place to go. They absolutely get

1069
01:20:29.199 --> 01:20:32.760
you set up with the things that
you need to have success. That's what

1070
01:20:32.800 --> 01:20:36.920
they do, that's what they specialize
in. And so when you go out

1071
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:42.119
to Warren's Southern Gardens, just tell
them you heard about it on Guardenline and

1072
01:20:42.159 --> 01:20:45.079
that you're interested in seeing some of
the color that they have. They have

1073
01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:51.359
an elephant ear that has a hot
pink stripe through a purplish green leaf.

1074
01:20:51.720 --> 01:20:57.479
Now just imagine that you figure out
what that might look like. Easy.

1075
01:20:57.520 --> 01:21:00.960
Easy to find them out there in
Kingwood, an awesome austome garden. Say

1076
01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:04.760
wow, another one in the books, folks, I said, we had

1077
01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:09.439
open lines, and if you're filled
up, we're coming back and we will

1078
01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.720
get to you. I see K
and Steve out there. We will get

1079
01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.840
to you. You'll be the first
up a Loretta and Texas city. In

1080
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:18.720
fact, you, I believe are
the very first stop when we come back

1081
01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:24.640
at eleven o'clock today, I will
be in Tomball, Texas at the arbor

1082
01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:27.880
Gate Nursery. Come see me drive
around the back. You want to drive

1083
01:21:27.880 --> 01:21:30.680
around the back on Treshal Road to
park in that wonderful old weather parking lot

1084
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.560
back there. Makes it easy.
We're going to be giving away all kinds

1085
01:21:34.600 --> 01:21:39.359
of things. Arburgates providing some of
their one two three system, the organic

1086
01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:43.479
soil, I'll be given a battle
road for thirty minutes, the true Stable

1087
01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:46.800
visors and me Dina products. And
there's a special on the brick house Rows.

1088
01:21:47.920 --> 01:22:01.119
Welcome to kt r H garden Line
with Scape Richard. It's just watch

1089
01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:16.319
him as the world. Welcome back
to the garden Line, folks. Good

1090
01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:20.439
to have you with us. We
have got plenty, plenty more to talk

1091
01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:28.079
about today. It is time to
do your summer fertilizing of the lawn.

1092
01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:31.640
If you haven't done it already,
now some of you've done a pre I

1093
01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:35.119
mean a slow release fertilizer. Well, if you done that, you're you're

1094
01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:39.399
good for several months out that that's
that's good. But if you have not,

1095
01:22:40.960 --> 01:22:45.279
you need to grab some Slow and
Easy from Nelson. Nelson's Slow and

1096
01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:50.720
Easy is a nice slow release fertilizer. It puts that release out three or

1097
01:22:50.720 --> 01:22:53.920
four months. In fact, I
would say if you do a Nelson,

1098
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:57.680
slow and easy right now, You
don't need to fertilize again until we hit

1099
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:01.640
the fall. That it truly gives
a long, gradual release. And why

1100
01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:04.720
is that important? Well, Number
one, you just fertilize once you're done.

1101
01:23:05.279 --> 01:23:10.039
But for the plant, when you
push a plant with too much nitrogen

1102
01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:14.199
at one time, it's not that
the number is big on the bag,

1103
01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:16.079
it should be big on the back. It's how much of that do you

1104
01:23:16.119 --> 01:23:19.800
put out? And when you push
it with too much at one time,

1105
01:23:20.159 --> 01:23:25.680
you end up with top growth at
the expensive root growth, literally less roots

1106
01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:30.039
when you overdo the nitrogen on a
lawn. But with a gradual release over

1107
01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.199
time, you get a good,
deep, extensive root system. So when

1108
01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:38.760
we hit a drought, hot dry
conditions, you're going to be better off.

1109
01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:43.000
Your plant's going to be more resilient. When a grub comes along and

1110
01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:45.119
chumps a root or two, it's
not the end of the world. The

1111
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:48.279
plant's got a big, extensive,
robust root system. Slow and easy bills

1112
01:23:48.359 --> 01:23:54.479
that. It also has an acidifying
effect on soil, and it just is

1113
01:23:54.640 --> 01:24:00.680
a product that's really designed to create
the perfect soil environment. The mechanism of

1114
01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:04.680
its release helps feed the microbes in
the soil, which then feed the plants

1115
01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:11.800
and enrich the soil itself. Slow
and Easy by Nelson Fertilizer. Very very

1116
01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:15.079
good product, works very very well
and you will be impressed with the gradual

1117
01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:19.159
release. Always remember, too,
when you're doing this, return those grass

1118
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:25.960
clippings. That's part of a complete
lawn care system is to chop those clippings

1119
01:24:26.039 --> 01:24:29.079
up with a multi moor and put
them back in the soil. Let's go

1120
01:24:29.119 --> 01:24:32.880
out to Texas City now we're going
to talk to Loretta. Hello, Loretta,

1121
01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:38.439
Hello, Hi, thanks for waiting. Thank you well, thank you

1122
01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:45.359
for taking my call. I too, to make a long story as short

1123
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:50.479
as I can. Two years ago, my son planted a lily garden for

1124
01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:57.520
me, and there's lots of lilies
in there, and I'm not real diversified

1125
01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:02.520
on him. There's a candi lily
and a calally. Okay. The candle

1126
01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:08.479
lilies, I think are the tall
ones that have the flowers on top,

1127
01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:15.199
and the cal lilies are the ones
that had like the cup yes flower.

1128
01:25:15.680 --> 01:25:23.079
Okay, I've got uh one of
the catal lilies with the cup flower that

1129
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:27.680
has like a seed pod coming out
of the flower. This is the first

1130
01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:32.279
time I've ever seen that is Is
that what it is? And can those

1131
01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:43.279
seeds be harvested and planted? It's
probably a bloom stalk coming up out of

1132
01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:48.840
the center of that. Uh,
it's it's uh marbled. I I mean

1133
01:25:48.880 --> 01:26:02.359
it looks like the inside of ah
okay pomegran It's got the little seed pods

1134
01:26:02.399 --> 01:26:05.800
like the inside of a pomegranate.
But it's all green, all right,

1135
01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:13.119
hmm, that's very well and it's
not well. I guess you are seeing

1136
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:18.800
a pod then if it's following back
behind a bloom, Uh, that's interesting.

1137
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:21.279
You don't get to see those a
whole lot, at least when I've

1138
01:26:21.399 --> 01:26:24.960
tried to do those before. You
don't see it. But I know what

1139
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:29.680
you're talking about on the pomegranite type
thing. So hopefully the seeds inside are

1140
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:32.119
viable. Who knows whether they are
or not. But if they are,

1141
01:26:32.520 --> 01:26:36.000
you can harvest them and you can
sprout them yourself. You just have to

1142
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:39.439
go online to read how to do
that. There's got a lot of good

1143
01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:45.720
information online about that. But as
Cala's growing in mostly shade, mostly sun,

1144
01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:48.399
or kind of a mix of the
two. It's a mix of the

1145
01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:55.760
two. We've had this tropical rainforest
kind of yes weather pattern this year,

1146
01:26:56.079 --> 01:27:03.439
and uh, you know, everything's
doing beautifully. Ah, but this is

1147
01:27:03.479 --> 01:27:08.199
the first time I've ever seen this
in this kind of flower. Well,

1148
01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:13.600
it happens, it does happen.
Yeah, so you are correct, and

1149
01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:17.520
and what what you were seeing there? And yeah, I would try,

1150
01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:21.399
just for fun, sprinkle sum on
a little potting soil, and but go

1151
01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:27.239
online first and read read what to
do to successfully grow those. It sounds

1152
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.319
like you're doing a lot good.
If you've got a happy cali lilies canna's,

1153
01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:36.520
you can. It's hard to make
a canna unhappy. They are tough.

1154
01:27:39.199 --> 01:27:43.319
Yeah. I've got the glady Ella's
and the star lilies and the wow.

1155
01:27:44.520 --> 01:27:47.520
Yeah, it's a beautiful lily garden. My goodness, what a kind

1156
01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:54.239
thing your son did that. Yours
of enjoyment, yours of enjoyment. Well,

1157
01:27:54.319 --> 01:27:57.920
Lauretta, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Thank you

1158
01:27:57.920 --> 01:28:01.159
you, Pat take care. Yeah, that is just as an example of

1159
01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:06.199
another reason why we always want to
consider plants as gifts. Such a good

1160
01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:11.479
idea. Let's go to Pairland talk
to Kay. Hey k, good morning,

1161
01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:15.000
Skiff, Thank you for taking my
call. I have a question.

1162
01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:21.199
It's again for a friend about fungus
or mold naps. Okay, she has

1163
01:28:21.640 --> 01:28:27.279
her plants. They're infesting them,
and she has a seven or eight foot

1164
01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:32.680
bed of amarillis and she said they
have killed completely killed the leaves. They're

1165
01:28:32.760 --> 01:28:39.640
mushy and the bulbs are mushy,
and they've invaded other plants and she's treated

1166
01:28:39.680 --> 01:28:47.279
them some with she found well,
she's researched or tried to research that hydrogen

1167
01:28:47.319 --> 01:28:54.920
peroxide killed them, but she's afraid
that the hydrogen peroxide may also kill natural

1168
01:28:56.479 --> 01:29:01.560
beneficial insects or things in the soil. You yeah, I wouldn't. I

1169
01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:05.880
mean, I've heard of people doing
that. Fungus gnats are not that difficult

1170
01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:11.800
to get control of. This Is
this in containers? You said, no,

1171
01:29:11.880 --> 01:29:16.840
it's no, they're in the ground. The ground usually when we have

1172
01:29:17.199 --> 01:29:21.079
if it is fungus nats, we
have those because we're keeping the soil surface

1173
01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:26.520
too wet, and that's one step
is just let it dry a little bit.

1174
01:29:27.439 --> 01:29:30.840
I don't know that it's fungus gnats. It could be something else,

1175
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.960
but there's a lot of little tiny
gnat like insects that this could be.

1176
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:40.199
And it may be that the rot
is not due to the things flying around,

1177
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.119
the gnats flying around. It could
be due to something else. So

1178
01:29:43.159 --> 01:29:49.279
we kind of got a lot of
possibilities in that question. I would there

1179
01:29:49.399 --> 01:29:56.119
is a type of BT that will
kill fungus gnats. And what it does

1180
01:29:56.199 --> 01:29:59.319
is it kills the larvae and the
soil, so you drench the soil surface

1181
01:29:59.359 --> 01:30:03.279
and it larva just like it kills. There's a type that kills mosquito larva,

1182
01:30:03.359 --> 01:30:09.640
and there's another type that kills caterpillar
larva oil caterpillars are larva. But

1183
01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:13.199
there's one that will kill fungus gnats. And so when you go you can

1184
01:30:13.199 --> 01:30:15.760
go to your you're down in the
Pearland area. You know, you've got

1185
01:30:15.760 --> 01:30:18.840
your ACE hardware down there on Main
Street, and I would just go in

1186
01:30:18.920 --> 01:30:23.079
and say I need a BT,
not the caterpillar kind, but one that'll

1187
01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:26.600
kill fungus gnats, and they probably
have that on the shelf. Okay,

1188
01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:30.840
we'll do, Thank you so very
much. Have great day, you bet

1189
01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.039
you take care, appreciate your call. We're going to take a little break

1190
01:30:33.039 --> 01:30:36.600
here. We'll be right back our
phone number seven one three two one two

1191
01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:46.520
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back
to the Guardline. Good to have you

1192
01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:51.359
with us today. As always,
you are looking for a quality tree,

1193
01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:58.199
a species that wants to grow here
a proper planting of that tree, you

1194
01:30:58.239 --> 01:31:01.319
need to call the folks at Burden
Tree Farm Verden has three locations around Houston.

1195
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:05.279
There's one up in the Heights where
Iten or Yale come together, it's

1196
01:31:05.319 --> 01:31:09.800
one out barker Cypress on the west
side, and down in Pearland. There

1197
01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:15.199
is also a Verdant Tree Farm down
there the website Verdant Tree Farm. If

1198
01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:17.800
you're looking for trees that are cold
hardy, that are drought resistance, especially

1199
01:31:17.800 --> 01:31:20.960
palms for example, a palm tree
that can take the cold, they've got

1200
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:25.079
palms like that down there. They
have a wide variety of things. Go

1201
01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:28.840
to the website too, Verdant Treefarm
dot com and look at there's a list

1202
01:31:28.880 --> 01:31:32.760
of all the trees with descriptions of
each one's really excellent information, as well

1203
01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:35.760
as all the palms. Also there
they have trees all the way up to

1204
01:31:35.880 --> 01:31:40.840
seven hundred gallons. So yeah,
they ought to give you a free hammock

1205
01:31:40.920 --> 01:31:44.239
with that, because it's time to
hang a hamck in a tree that size

1206
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:48.119
just about one your warranty included with
their installation of the tree. They know

1207
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:51.960
how to establish it, and there's
never a better time to get the tree

1208
01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:57.920
done than now. Because the best
time to plant a tree is forty years

1209
01:31:57.960 --> 01:32:01.439
ago. Second best time is today. Don't delay. Those trees can be

1210
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:06.680
adding beauty and significant value to your
landscape, and verdant tree farm trees will

1211
01:32:06.720 --> 01:32:11.520
do just that because they're going to
be well adapted, well planted, and

1212
01:32:11.560 --> 01:32:15.119
they're going to last. I want
to go out now to Deer Park and

1213
01:32:15.159 --> 01:32:18.800
we're going to talk to Steve.
Hello, Steve Hello, can you hear

1214
01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:25.800
me? Yes, sir, I
can I have a just one small question.

1215
01:32:26.039 --> 01:32:35.600
I have a pretty good pile of
finished composts and I was wondering can

1216
01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:42.279
I mix that with potting mix to
kind of stretch the potting mix? Yeah?

1217
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:45.159
Absolutely, If it's a good quality
compost, you can mix it and

1218
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:47.920
stretch your mix out, mix it
with mix, mix it with soil,

1219
01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:53.159
whatever you want to mix it with. What kind of ratio would I use

1220
01:32:53.319 --> 01:32:56.359
or I don't want to use?
Straight? Yeah, well, it just

1221
01:32:56.399 --> 01:33:00.119
depends. I mean, let's say
go conservative, not more than twenty five

1222
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:03.399
percent of compost initially, because you
know, I don't know the condition of

1223
01:33:03.439 --> 01:33:06.640
your compost, the quality level of
it and stuff. So yeah, I

1224
01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:12.840
would say let's start with twenty five
percent. Okay, well that's the only

1225
01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.800
question I had this morning. Okay, good well, good luck with that,

1226
01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:18.399
and congratulations on making composts. That
that is a good, thank you,

1227
01:33:18.600 --> 01:33:23.159
good thing to be doing. For
sure, absolutely, for sure.

1228
01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:26.720
Let's see, we're going to go
now to James in Paarland. Hey,

1229
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:31.560
James, Hey, Jiffy. I
called you a couple of weeks ago and

1230
01:33:31.600 --> 01:33:34.960
you gave me some information. I'm
planning a garden and I get these little

1231
01:33:36.079 --> 01:33:41.800
bugs that I can't see that are
you know they're enjoying a good salad bar.

1232
01:33:42.680 --> 01:33:46.039
Okay, but you mentioned a product
and I went down to the local

1233
01:33:46.079 --> 01:33:50.439
aid and I didn't write it down, but it started with an F and

1234
01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:53.359
they were like, well, we
got lots of things to start with.

1235
01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:58.399
You do you remember what that was? I mean, I know you don't

1236
01:33:58.399 --> 01:34:04.760
remember. The phone call is in
frank is what I thought. I probably

1237
01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:13.000
recommended spinosaid it's sp spin no sad. Yeah, that's an organic product that

1238
01:34:13.239 --> 01:34:18.000
kills things that eat leaves, caterpillars
and beetles, for example. Spinosaid work.

1239
01:34:18.119 --> 01:34:23.119
It works on other things too,
but primarily leaf fet is that applied

1240
01:34:23.159 --> 01:34:26.960
in the soil or is that a
spray it? You gotta spray it on

1241
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:30.600
the leaves so that it'll soak into
the leaf and then when something comes along

1242
01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:35.399
and choose on it, it kills
it. Will it wash away when it's

1243
01:34:35.399 --> 01:34:40.800
being water or well to some degree, but as it soaks in, what's

1244
01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:45.560
what moves into the tissue doesn't wash
away. But I wouldn't do any spray

1245
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:50.079
right for a rain Okay, So
no rain, spray it on and then

1246
01:34:50.439 --> 01:34:57.720
what give it twenty four hours before
watering or yeah? Probably so there's not

1247
01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:00.920
a black and white line on that
one, but yeah, that'd be a

1248
01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:04.479
good practice. Okay. And I
have one other question for you for my

1249
01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:10.239
wife. He has an orchid that
she's been trying to get to bloom forever.

1250
01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:15.000
It's green and healthy, but it
doesn't flower. Is there something that

1251
01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:19.319
she could see that or something that
she should be giving it? She looked

1252
01:35:19.319 --> 01:35:24.800
online and done all the different tricks, but you know, is this healthy?

1253
01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.520
But it is? Yeah? Is
this one of those supermarket orchids that

1254
01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:33.960
you see the called the moth orchid
or calalea orchid. That's well, those

1255
01:35:33.960 --> 01:35:39.199
are pretty easy. They need good
sunlight and then they need to be occasionally

1256
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:42.680
repotted. And I can't go into
detail on the air how to do it,

1257
01:35:43.000 --> 01:35:45.319
but you're going to cut away the
old stuff down at the bottom of

1258
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:46.359
the old roots. You're going to
repot it, and then you're going to

1259
01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:50.680
do some fertilizing in very light doses. So think of it as mixing an

1260
01:35:50.760 --> 01:35:57.439
extremely diluted fertilizer and water extremely diluted, right, and watering with it a

1261
01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:01.439
few times to just support some growth. And if you have good sunlight for

1262
01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:06.319
that orchand I don't mean direct sun
I mean bright indirect light, then you're

1263
01:36:06.319 --> 01:36:10.960
gonna be able to get that plan
established so it produces the bud to be

1264
01:36:11.039 --> 01:36:15.000
able to do a bloom cycle.
Again. That that's in a nutshell what

1265
01:36:15.119 --> 01:36:17.199
you need to do. All right, Okay, we'll go and research it.

1266
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:20.680
And yeah, it says green,
it looks healthy. It's just it's

1267
01:36:20.680 --> 01:36:26.239
in a vibrant area in the house
where we talk. All that that happens.

1268
01:36:26.680 --> 01:36:29.000
It does happen a lot. I
know what you're talking about. I've

1269
01:36:29.000 --> 01:36:31.000
had that myself. Changed. Hey, thank you for the call. Sorry,

1270
01:36:31.880 --> 01:36:35.880
I'm gonna I appreciate that call Ana
Plants and Produces up there in Montgomery.

1271
01:36:35.880 --> 01:36:39.960
In fact, they're on the east
side of Montgomery on Highway one oh

1272
01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:42.920
five. Now, if you've been
to Ana Plants and Produce, you know

1273
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:45.720
that you've got a wide variety of
all kinds of plants. I mean,

1274
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:51.199
if you're looking for turning your place
into a beautiful place, Ana Plants is

1275
01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:55.920
going to have it. What they
also have is every fertilizer I talk about.

1276
01:36:56.039 --> 01:36:58.840
I'm talking about all the different brands
and products I talk about. They're

1277
01:36:58.880 --> 01:37:02.880
there. I'm talking out all the
soils there there as well. Uh you

1278
01:37:02.920 --> 01:37:06.279
get they they pretty much they make
it where you get to have your pick

1279
01:37:06.399 --> 01:37:11.399
of what you're looking for, A
and a you just know you're gonna get

1280
01:37:11.439 --> 01:37:15.479
what you need. You know.
Ana Plants and Produce. They're open seven

1281
01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:17.399
days a week for crying out loud, I mean seven days a week,

1282
01:37:17.479 --> 01:37:21.760
nine to five. All the fertilizers, take your pick, all the soils,

1283
01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:26.560
take your pick, Lots of beautiful
plants. Always things going on there

1284
01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:30.039
at Ana Plants and Produce on the
east side of Montgomery. You can go

1285
01:37:30.159 --> 01:37:34.039
to We'll go to the phone just
give me a call nine three six,

1286
01:37:34.600 --> 01:37:41.600
five nine seven fifty seventy nine three
six, five ninety seven five zero seven

1287
01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:46.199
zero. We're gonna go to Rufus
in Cove, Texas. Hey, Rufus,

1288
01:37:47.600 --> 01:37:51.319
got a Rufous there? All right, I'm gonna put you back on

1289
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:56.560
hold. We're gonna go to Susan
in League City. Hello, Susan,

1290
01:37:57.720 --> 01:38:00.560
good line, skiff. How are
you? I'm well, how can we

1291
01:38:00.600 --> 01:38:04.159
help? Thanks for helping with my
question. Okay, I have a butternut

1292
01:38:04.159 --> 01:38:10.439
squash that has a mystery that I
hope you can help me with. I've

1293
01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:15.159
been watching it growing and flowers coming
out, and male and female flowers,

1294
01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:19.239
and what I can figure out is
I never see the male and the playing

1295
01:38:19.319 --> 01:38:24.720
female flowers open at the same time, so I have no idea how they

1296
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:30.520
poppinate, and the flowers keep falling
off the Finally I got frustrated and I

1297
01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.439
went out there and took matters into
my own hand, and I open up

1298
01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:39.880
a clothes male flower, took the
stepmen, and I use that to geminate

1299
01:38:39.920 --> 01:38:45.199
the open female flower, and so
far that's the only one that the food

1300
01:38:45.279 --> 01:38:50.720
will start growing. Okay, I
can't figure that out. Well, normally

1301
01:38:51.119 --> 01:38:57.600
the way those things sprawl around the
butternuts, and they they're going to have

1302
01:38:57.680 --> 01:39:00.520
open male and female. I don't
know if some are hidden on or leaves,

1303
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:04.119
maybe you're not seeing them. But
I've never had a situation where you

1304
01:39:04.159 --> 01:39:09.039
would have a male flower one day
and then and no females, and then

1305
01:39:09.079 --> 01:39:13.359
the next day females and no males. That that's very unusual. But what

1306
01:39:13.479 --> 01:39:15.640
you've done is the thing you got
to do, and that is take matters

1307
01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:19.640
into your own hands to do that
cross pollination. It might be a reason

1308
01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:24.119
to have more than one plant just
so you have more blooms, so the

1309
01:39:24.159 --> 01:39:29.039
percent chance of having some of both
open on a given day is higher.

1310
01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:31.840
But other than that, I think
you've done all you can do. There's

1311
01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:39.560
no way to make the plant behave
differently. All right, well i'll have

1312
01:39:39.720 --> 01:39:43.880
to that. I'll see if I
can get another one. Well, hopefully

1313
01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:46.199
they'll still set fruit. I mean
we're still you know, those squash.

1314
01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:50.399
You've got quite a bit of season
left, so hopefully that will turn around.

1315
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:55.119
Hey, thank you very much,
Susan. I appreciate your call.

1316
01:39:55.880 --> 01:40:00.760
If you're down south of town and
you are looking for quality products to help

1317
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:04.359
set the foundation for success in your
garden. See in a mulch is the

1318
01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:08.600
place you need to go. Now, what do we always say on Guardline,

1319
01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:14.359
brown stuff before green stuff? Right? Ciena Malts specializes in everything you

1320
01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:17.760
need for the brown stuff, for
the foundation, for the soil, so

1321
01:40:17.800 --> 01:40:21.600
that when you put the green stuff
in vegetables, plants, treat shrubs,

1322
01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:28.560
they're going to do success successfully.
So for example, do you need composts,

1323
01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:32.039
do you need rose soil? Do
you need any kind of a blend

1324
01:40:32.239 --> 01:40:34.960
to grow plants in? Do you
need maltch to go on the surface.

1325
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:40.800
Do you need fertilizers? Cienamultch carries
all the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline

1326
01:40:40.840 --> 01:40:44.119
and then some. I mean,
they really have a good selection. When

1327
01:40:44.199 --> 01:40:47.279
you drive off from Cienamulch or if
you're within twenty miles, they'll deliver your

1328
01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:54.199
bulk supply. Then when you leave
you have what's needed for plant success.

1329
01:40:54.239 --> 01:40:57.079
Now just take it home, make
good soil and get good plants and you're

1330
01:40:57.119 --> 01:41:01.239
off to the races. For example, they carry that super By nitrofoss the

1331
01:41:01.600 --> 01:41:08.640
silver bag nineteen four ten fertilizer.
Half of the nineteen is slow release.

1332
01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:12.800
That is a good thing. That's
how you want to feed plants gradually over

1333
01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:16.319
time. It's got four percent iron
for excellent color and green up. If

1334
01:41:16.359 --> 01:41:19.479
you've not done a slow release this
summer, go ahead and do it.

1335
01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:24.000
Just head out to SI Animals gets
you some of that nineteen four to ten

1336
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:27.840
and put it down on your lawn
at the recommended rate. You can find

1337
01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:31.600
it on my chart that I do
online. It tells you when to fertilize

1338
01:41:31.640 --> 01:41:38.439
and whatnot. And Nitrofos super Turf
nineteen four ten silver bag. That's one

1339
01:41:38.520 --> 01:41:43.279
that will give you beautiful results.
We're going to go now to Cyprus and

1340
01:41:43.359 --> 01:41:47.039
talk to Clay. Hello, Clay, good morning. I've got a question.

1341
01:41:47.119 --> 01:41:54.079
I've got some tomatoes that are doing
really well, fruits coming out.

1342
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:59.800
But I noticed cavity in one of
the one of the tomatoes. Something's been

1343
01:41:59.800 --> 01:42:03.560
eat eating at it. And I
did notice some beetle looking things, ugly

1344
01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:09.239
ugly things kind of orange and black
stripes. Okay, and it was is

1345
01:42:09.279 --> 01:42:13.279
that what beating the tomatoes? It
could have been, but I suspect the

1346
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:16.560
whole the cavity was done by a
caterpillar and maybe the beetle is just in

1347
01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:23.600
there. Now, that is my
my best guess on that. Typically that's

1348
01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:27.479
a good guess because I did see
a caterpillar. All right, well,

1349
01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:30.920
I'm up against a hard break,
but caterpillars, BT and spinosa are your

1350
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:35.159
two best options on tomatoes to shut
down those caterpillars. And again the beetle,

1351
01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:39.760
I wouldn't I wouldn't sweat it.
But Clay sry to be in a

1352
01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:42.600
hurry day. We gotta we gotta
take a break. All right, We'll

1353
01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:45.720
be right back seven one, three, two, fifty eight, seventy four

1354
01:42:50.119 --> 01:43:02.000
and come back to guarden line.
Good to have you with us today.

1355
01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:09.319
If you have not been out to
RCW Nurseries recently, you need to get

1356
01:43:09.319 --> 01:43:15.399
out there. RCW has got a
wonderful deal going on for mom this weekend,

1357
01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:18.520
in fact, Saturday to day and
Sunday from ten to two. So

1358
01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:21.640
when guard line's over, they're going
to kick off out there from ten to

1359
01:43:21.680 --> 01:43:25.640
two, they're going to be doing
a thing where for ten bucks you get

1360
01:43:25.680 --> 01:43:29.399
a pot, a paint and a
succulent plant and you get to sit down

1361
01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:31.720
with them a little project, put
it together. You paint up. The

1362
01:43:31.760 --> 01:43:35.680
pot is a beautiful little I'm just
looking at some of the designs that they

1363
01:43:35.680 --> 01:43:41.439
have really cool and then you plant
your cucculent and it makes a nice little

1364
01:43:41.479 --> 01:43:43.920
gift for mom. This would be
a good one for maybe kids to go

1365
01:43:43.960 --> 01:43:46.800
out and do to give to mom
or to give to grandmam. That would

1366
01:43:46.800 --> 01:43:51.079
be another good idea RCW. Just
something they got going on this weekend,

1367
01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:56.560
both today and tomorrow. Out there. RCW is going to have an excellent

1368
01:43:56.600 --> 01:44:00.000
selection of anything that you're looking for, and they're going to have the product

1369
01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:01.680
to go with it too. You
know, if I talk about a fertilizer

1370
01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:04.000
on there, they're going to have
it. If you're going to be planting

1371
01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:08.079
a tree, for example, like
one of their trees that they have,

1372
01:44:08.520 --> 01:44:11.840
they've got a little schedule for you, you know with they use like a

1373
01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:15.399
microlife every three to four months.
They tell you with each size of container

1374
01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:19.159
how much that you put out and
win. They've got the root activator that

1375
01:44:19.239 --> 01:44:23.560
you can use once a month during
that first year, because you know,

1376
01:44:23.760 --> 01:44:27.920
the goal of the first year is
to get that tree root system established.

1377
01:44:28.359 --> 01:44:30.720
That is the number one goal for
success, not just survival, but for

1378
01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:35.720
fast growth and success. Rcw's got
it. R CW Nursery. They are

1379
01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:40.439
the garden center right there where Tombo
Parkway. Highway two forty nine comes into

1380
01:44:40.479 --> 01:44:45.119
beltwegh eight makes it easy. We're
going to go now to Rufus, and

1381
01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:47.680
Oh, Rufus, I've already talked
to you today. I just saw you

1382
01:44:47.680 --> 01:44:53.159
hanging out there on the board,
So excuse me. We're going to go

1383
01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:57.920
to Joshua here in Houston. There
we go, Hey josh Higo morning.

1384
01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:00.079
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir, last year, we

1385
01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:04.000
uh we got three apple trees.
There's a couple of other ones, but

1386
01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:10.800
I got two anna apples and a
golden apple. And the frieze last year

1387
01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:15.520
took kind of took most of the
growth up top, and I believe they're

1388
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:19.960
grafted trees and the I had to
cut two of them down. Most a

1389
01:45:19.960 --> 01:45:24.800
lot of it died, but they
lasted. They're they're green. I got

1390
01:45:24.840 --> 01:45:27.960
no buds or anything on them.
But the one apple tree, which I

1391
01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:30.560
thought was dead this year, it's
got quite a bit of fruit. But

1392
01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:34.159
uh, as far as I know, they were one year olds when I

1393
01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:38.439
got them. I know they grafted, and I don't know much about the

1394
01:45:38.560 --> 01:45:44.640
age on grafting trees. But producing
the fruit this early at one year is

1395
01:45:44.680 --> 01:45:49.039
that? Is that? Okay?
And and also my cutting down those trees.

1396
01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:54.720
I did a little looking online and
it looks like there's a certain point

1397
01:45:54.760 --> 01:45:57.600
where I guess that used some kind
of a dormit tree or something, and

1398
01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:00.920
they graft good tree onto it.
If I cut all the what was grafted,

1399
01:46:01.560 --> 01:46:05.079
that is that tree pretty much going
to be non fruit bearing now.

1400
01:46:05.279 --> 01:46:11.680
Yeah, so apples are grafted under
rootstocks that do not produce good apples.

1401
01:46:11.840 --> 01:46:16.880
The rootstocks don't. The reason they
graft them some there's certain soil conditions that

1402
01:46:16.920 --> 01:46:20.560
they do. It a graph for
that, but also primarily it's to control

1403
01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:24.640
the size of the tree, because
an apple tree just gets way too big

1404
01:46:25.359 --> 01:46:30.239
otherwise. And so everything above the
graft is that is, the anna or

1405
01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:35.479
the Dorset golden or whatever variety they
have, is above the graph. If

1406
01:46:35.479 --> 01:46:40.319
you cut that all away, and
you cut it down where all that's left

1407
01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:42.960
is a rootstock, then you're not
going to have trees. You would have

1408
01:46:43.039 --> 01:46:47.000
to regraft yourself or just dig it
out better yet and buy a new tree.

1409
01:46:47.319 --> 01:46:54.600
But so don't don't cut the above
the graft union completely off right.

1410
01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:58.159
I don't think I did. But
it's just got big leaves now, and

1411
01:46:58.199 --> 01:47:00.600
there's no I don't see any kind
of goods. Yeah, made me question

1412
01:47:00.800 --> 01:47:04.359
if I had gone I could still
see the joint. But I mean,

1413
01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:09.279
I guess I could take and graft
on from the good and apple free to

1414
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:12.399
the either one of those two.
I know you need a golden and you

1415
01:47:12.439 --> 01:47:15.039
need you to tie, you could
you could do that if you do.

1416
01:47:15.840 --> 01:47:19.039
If you go online, you can
learn how to do what's called a tea

1417
01:47:19.119 --> 01:47:25.079
bud and that's done during the growing
season and just have to study it and

1418
01:47:25.119 --> 01:47:28.359
read it and figure it out.
It's not easy, but it's doable.

1419
01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:33.800
Or during the dormance season you can
use what's called a whip graft. Those

1420
01:47:33.840 --> 01:47:40.239
are the two easiest grafts probably for
you. I would in general, though,

1421
01:47:40.279 --> 01:47:44.359
seriously consider just getting a new tree
that's ready to go. And unless

1422
01:47:44.359 --> 01:47:46.319
you just want to play around,
you know, with the hands on stuff,

1423
01:47:46.960 --> 01:47:49.359
but you're going to be way ahead
of things to just get a new

1424
01:47:49.399 --> 01:47:53.000
tree and put it in in terms
of getting it. And now, how

1425
01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:57.880
long does it take for edible fruit
from a fairly young tree that three to

1426
01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:01.439
so many years, even if it's
another third year, you should be getting

1427
01:48:01.760 --> 01:48:05.760
a decent amount of apples. But
then it becomes how big is the tree,

1428
01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:09.159
you know, think of it like
a Christmas tree. The bigger the

1429
01:48:09.199 --> 01:48:12.000
tree, the more ornaments you can
hang on it. Well, the bigger

1430
01:48:12.079 --> 01:48:15.960
apple tree, the more apples you
can hang on it. So that is

1431
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:19.920
that's the real determiner of yield.
Then at that point I appreciate it.

1432
01:48:19.960 --> 01:48:23.199
Thanks very much. All right,
Josh, thanks a lot. I appreciate

1433
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:26.560
it. Appreciate your call very much. We're going to go now to Katie

1434
01:48:26.600 --> 01:48:30.199
and talk to Ray. Hello,
Ray, good morning, Skip, good

1435
01:48:30.199 --> 01:48:32.479
morning, and happy Mother's Day to
all those moms in a listening area.

1436
01:48:32.520 --> 01:48:36.119
I just had a quick question.
I mowed a lawn. I put the

1437
01:48:36.159 --> 01:48:42.800
imperial down the silver bag. How
long should I wait to mow it.

1438
01:48:43.000 --> 01:48:46.760
I'm afraid it's gonna suck up those
pellets and spread them all over the place.

1439
01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:50.000
Oh, I see more than that, more than I did. Hello,

1440
01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:54.960
it's growing. The grass is growing. I'm just afraid to cut it.

1441
01:48:55.159 --> 01:48:59.479
Well, are you using a bagger
or something? Or no? No?

1442
01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:01.239
No, turning everything. I don't
worry about. You mow right after

1443
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:03.960
you fertilize if you want. Don't
worry about Oh, okay, okay,

1444
01:49:04.039 --> 01:49:10.720
yeah, another question I have.
I have a cabbage and it's growing.

1445
01:49:10.760 --> 01:49:14.479
I have three of them. Two
of them are close to the ground on

1446
01:49:14.479 --> 01:49:19.359
on on on containers and the other
one, the third one, is growing

1447
01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:25.920
like it's trying to reach for the
sky. So whenever the cabbage grows in

1448
01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:30.920
it, will it be too heavy
where it breaks the stem of the of

1449
01:49:30.960 --> 01:49:34.399
the plant? Or no, if
it's on a stalk, it's not a

1450
01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:39.439
cabbage. Can you take a picture
and send it to me by email.

1451
01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:42.359
I don't know what we're talking about
here, but cabbage just sets right down

1452
01:49:42.359 --> 01:49:45.960
on the above the ground. Okay, yeah, so let me let me

1453
01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:49.439
put you on hold and kay yeah, Callum will give you my email address.

1454
01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:53.159
Thanks a lot, I appreciate that. Hey, if you need a

1455
01:49:53.199 --> 01:49:57.159
good Mother's Day gift, idea why
birds has got you covered. I'm telling

1456
01:49:57.199 --> 01:50:00.199
you your mom may not be a
gardener, but she will appreciate a beautiful

1457
01:50:00.239 --> 01:50:04.159
bird feeder like their eco turff.
It's made out of recycled milk jugs.

1458
01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:06.239
But you don't know that. When
you look at it, it looks like

1459
01:50:06.279 --> 01:50:11.000
it's made out of wood or something. Real beautiful, But what a cool

1460
01:50:11.039 --> 01:50:14.119
deal. A really nice feeder,
one of the best or the best.

1461
01:50:14.199 --> 01:50:16.800
Actually hummingbird feeder I know of is
the high perch feeder, and they have

1462
01:50:16.960 --> 01:50:23.640
those at mothers for Mother's Day gifting
at Wildbird's or you know, you can

1463
01:50:23.640 --> 01:50:27.800
also buy you one for yourself too. I love mine. They also have

1464
01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.279
the Eliminator scroll proof feeder. They've
got The Joy of Bird Feeding, a

1465
01:50:30.319 --> 01:50:36.439
book by the founder of Wildbirds Unlimited
that is just really fun and it answers

1466
01:50:36.439 --> 01:50:42.840
all kinds of common questions things you
might run into feeding birds. Wildbird's Unlimited

1467
01:50:42.960 --> 01:50:45.399
has got you covered. There's six
of them all around the Greater Houston area.

1468
01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:54.439
Go to WBU dot com forward Slash
Houston WBU dot com forward Slash Houston.

1469
01:50:54.439 --> 01:50:58.960
I'm telling you it is a can't
miss place for your Mother's Day gifting.

1470
01:50:59.880 --> 01:51:02.920
You are trying to create some new
color on your landscape, patio,

1471
01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:11.000
or maybe you want some vegetables to
grow. Jungle land flour and vegetable jungle

1472
01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:15.840
land flower and vegetable soil. You
put it in the container. It holds

1473
01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:20.159
water enough to help the things survive
and do well, but it drains the

1474
01:51:20.199 --> 01:51:25.159
excess away, and that combination is
very important. Jungle Land sold in a

1475
01:51:25.199 --> 01:51:27.720
lot of different places. You're going
to find it in Lake Hardware done in

1476
01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:30.600
Angleton, Fisher's Hardware over in Baytown, or d and de Feed up in

1477
01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:39.600
Tombole all carry nitrofoss products. We
are running up right up against a break

1478
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.680
here, Rufus. You will be
my first up when I come right back.

1479
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:45.760
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four

1480
01:51:45.880 --> 01:51:55.880
and we'll be right back in just
a moment. Hey, welcome back to

1481
01:51:55.880 --> 01:51:58.640
the Guardline. I'm your host,
skip Rictor're good to have you with us

1482
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:03.279
today. Any plan you to talk
about. Listen to Buchanans Buchanan's Nursery.

1483
01:52:03.319 --> 01:52:06.159
They're in the Heights. They're on
Eleventh Street. You've probably been there.

1484
01:52:06.159 --> 01:52:09.920
If you haven't, well you got
you gotta go. I mean, it's

1485
01:52:09.960 --> 01:52:15.560
one of those places everybody needs to
check out because it's so cool. Buchanans

1486
01:52:15.680 --> 01:52:18.920
native plants. They specialize in native
plants. But don't let that fool you.

1487
01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:21.840
I mean, first of all,
if I know no place that carries

1488
01:52:23.239 --> 01:52:28.720
the selection of natives that the Buchanans
does, they just it's unbelievable what they

1489
01:52:28.760 --> 01:52:32.000
have there. If you're trying to
put in a let's say, a garden

1490
01:52:32.079 --> 01:52:34.800
for pollinators, that's a big deal
right now. Well, they're going to

1491
01:52:34.880 --> 01:52:40.560
have things like Texas rock rose,
Salvia, greggy ie, Brasis penstem.

1492
01:52:40.560 --> 01:52:45.359
And by the way, I was
up in North Carolina at the Let's see

1493
01:52:45.439 --> 01:52:48.920
Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh, and I
saw brass penstem growing up there. I

1494
01:52:48.920 --> 01:52:53.199
want to go, Hey, that's
our plants from down here. Frog fruit,

1495
01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:57.039
Greg golden rod, purple cone flower. That's a good one for butterflies

1496
01:52:57.039 --> 01:53:00.039
too, by the way, turks
cap blanket flower, gregsmithsflower on and Buchanan's

1497
01:53:00.159 --> 01:53:03.199
got all of that. That is
what they specialize in. But they have

1498
01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:09.720
much much more houseplants vegetables. If
you're looking for herbs, they have an

1499
01:53:09.760 --> 01:53:13.359
excellent selection for mom. By the
way, houseplant wouldn't be a bad idea.

1500
01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:17.079
You know, they have stuff that
is just amazingly beautiful. Mom will

1501
01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:23.880
not have seen the plant before because
the selection is you know, it's not

1502
01:53:23.920 --> 01:53:27.279
just apotheos ivy, which hay,
nothing wrong with that, but it's way

1503
01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:32.239
beyond that. Some really beautiful and
exotic options on plants all available there at

1504
01:53:32.279 --> 01:53:36.399
Buchanans, So you need to go
check them out. They are definitely worth

1505
01:53:36.399 --> 01:53:42.279
the stop eleven Street in the Heights
Buchannansplants dot Com. We are going to

1506
01:53:42.319 --> 01:53:45.479
go now to Rufus in Cove,
Texas. Hey, Rufus, can you

1507
01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:49.960
hear me now? Yes, sir, I can. All right, I'm

1508
01:53:50.000 --> 01:53:55.119
growing purple peace. And an old
man tell me what it's all the little

1509
01:53:55.119 --> 01:53:59.720
shooters that's running off. They might
runners that connect one road to another row

1510
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:03.399
saying dead had them. And I'm
out here doing that, and I'll see

1511
01:54:03.399 --> 01:54:06.479
a little holes of about tea plant. Turn out, I got little holes

1512
01:54:06.479 --> 01:54:12.199
of a tomato plants. So what's
a little bug that's like a little hole?

1513
01:54:13.880 --> 01:54:17.680
Are you saying? Pea plant like
southern peas? Yes, purple?

1514
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:25.600
Okay, Well, if there are
holes, individual little holes like babie holes

1515
01:54:25.720 --> 01:54:29.039
in a pea leaf, that southern
pea leaf, that's probably a beetle that

1516
01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:33.000
did that. But caterpillars and beetles
both chew leaves, as do grasshoppers,

1517
01:54:33.319 --> 01:54:39.520
for example. But a spinosid spray
would be the one that I would use.

1518
01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:43.159
It's the least toxic. It also
works very well on chewing insects.

1519
01:54:43.199 --> 01:54:46.600
However, that said, a few
holes, in fact, quite a few

1520
01:54:46.600 --> 01:54:50.680
holes is not a problem. They
took bean plants and a research trial one

1521
01:54:50.720 --> 01:54:56.079
time rufus and they had to pull
forty percent of the leaves off before they

1522
01:54:56.079 --> 01:55:00.399
saw a significant reduction and yield.
So a few holes is nothing. We

1523
01:55:00.439 --> 01:55:05.479
don't we don't provacating tomatoes. Well, it could be the same insect,

1524
01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:09.039
it could be a different one.
There's a lot of beetles and there's a

1525
01:55:09.079 --> 01:55:13.840
lot of caterpillars out there, but
the same is true with tomatoes. It's

1526
01:55:13.880 --> 01:55:17.319
not. You know, you could
lose probably a fourth of the leaf area

1527
01:55:17.399 --> 01:55:23.039
on a plant and still be okay
producing a good crop of tomatoes. Well,

1528
01:55:23.119 --> 01:55:25.760
I used seven dust. It's been
raining so much. I hadn't put

1529
01:55:25.760 --> 01:55:28.560
any in and had been out guard
about five days. Okay, Well that

1530
01:55:29.079 --> 01:55:31.680
I was putting seven dust down first. Okay, Well that's what I follow

1531
01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:35.960
the holes. Yeah, seven dust
should control what eats the holes, beetles

1532
01:55:36.000 --> 01:55:40.079
and cattle, right all right?
Now, the other part about the little

1533
01:55:40.079 --> 01:55:44.640
shooters on the purplele piece, is
that true? Just go ahead and cut

1534
01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:48.880
them off because they're not going to
provocate enough fruit. Yeah, I'm not

1535
01:55:49.039 --> 01:55:55.800
fully understanding what it is you're describing
there, but uh, all right,

1536
01:55:56.399 --> 01:55:58.960
when your plant grows, it grows
up, makes a nice bush and it

1537
01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:00.760
puts on the flies. All of
a sudden, you'll see this little runner

1538
01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:04.199
shooter come out. Okay, yeah, he'll run across the road and he'll

1539
01:56:04.239 --> 01:56:08.640
climb up on my plant. No, then they'll put peas all over here,

1540
01:56:08.640 --> 01:56:11.279
but it'll be two months down the
road. Yeah, yeah, that's

1541
01:56:11.359 --> 01:56:15.880
that's true. But some people just
they'll even trell us certain kinds of peas

1542
01:56:15.319 --> 01:56:18.199
and let them just keep growing and
producing. It's up to you. There's

1543
01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:21.000
not a right or wrong on that
one. You can pick what you way

1544
01:56:21.359 --> 01:56:27.159
about it. Just chopping them off
what dead Heading them off did not gonna

1545
01:56:27.199 --> 01:56:30.199
hurt me. No, it won't
hurt them, but it'll just mean you

1546
01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:34.039
get one crop and you're done.
That's what I'm hoping for. All right,

1547
01:56:34.119 --> 01:56:36.720
Rufe, good luck with that.
I appreciate your call, Thank you

1548
01:56:38.600 --> 01:56:43.640
very much. ACE Hardware stores are
all over the greater Houston area. There's

1549
01:56:43.680 --> 01:56:48.000
forty stores here in the Houston area
that are ACE Hardware's. ACE is the

1550
01:56:48.039 --> 01:56:51.039
place for a lot of things.
But you know, when it comes to

1551
01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:57.399
stuff for maybe mom. For example, for mom, they have beautiful gifts.

1552
01:56:57.479 --> 01:57:00.760
I mean the jewelry like a kinders, you know, types of jewelry,

1553
01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:05.439
purses, all kinds of indoor decorations
and beautiful things. ACE is a

1554
01:57:05.479 --> 01:57:09.399
place for gifts as well. I
know you already know. It's a place

1555
01:57:09.439 --> 01:57:13.199
for your lawn and garden and the
fertilizers and pesticides and everything else you might

1556
01:57:13.279 --> 01:57:16.760
need we control, but it's also
a place for some wonderful gifts. You

1557
01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:19.680
need to go check out. Each
Ace Hardware store is independently owned, so

1558
01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:24.760
they don't all have exactly the same
things in them, but so many of

1559
01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:30.039
them have really added just this beautiful
indoor living and gifting and things like that

1560
01:57:30.039 --> 01:57:33.399
that you got to go check them
out. Go to ACE Hardware dot com,

1561
01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:38.199
Acehardware dot Com, do the store
locator, find which of the forty

1562
01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:42.560
stores are nearest you. I'm going
to head out now to let's see,

1563
01:57:42.560 --> 01:57:45.239
We're gonna go to Missouri City and
talk to Steve. Hello, Steve,

1564
01:57:46.520 --> 01:57:48.880
Hello, sir, how you doing
today. I'm good, I'm good.

1565
01:57:48.920 --> 01:57:53.920
What's up? Well? So I've
got what I think too. I think

1566
01:57:53.960 --> 01:57:58.720
it's like an American ELM, but
I've got the gross the little stems,

1567
01:57:58.720 --> 01:58:01.239
the little shooters are shooting out and
clusters on this thing, and I can't

1568
01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:06.840
keep up with them. Is there
anything I can do to stop those from

1569
01:58:06.920 --> 01:58:12.039
growing out? Are you talking about
coming out of the ground. No,

1570
01:58:12.279 --> 01:58:16.119
they're actually coming out of the trunk
of the tree in spot. Oh oh

1571
01:58:16.039 --> 01:58:19.760
okay, No, I mean,
well, there's a there's a product called

1572
01:58:20.359 --> 01:58:26.119
Florrel. It's a growth regulator.
But I don't know anybody who sprays tree

1573
01:58:26.159 --> 01:58:30.039
sprouts on a trunk of a like
an elm like that with it. Typically

1574
01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:33.000
we just will go in and cut
those off, but try not to leave

1575
01:58:33.079 --> 01:58:36.720
stubs when you cut them off.
I mean, when they're really young,

1576
01:58:36.760 --> 01:58:42.079
you can just break them off,
but just get them as close as you

1577
01:58:42.119 --> 01:58:44.680
can. But if you want to
do something to shut that down a little

1578
01:58:44.720 --> 01:58:47.279
bit, you can use something called
Florrell. It's a growth regulator. There's

1579
01:58:47.319 --> 01:58:54.000
another one called sucker stopper, sucker
sucker stop like that. Yeah, that

1580
01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:58.399
makes sense, doesn't it. But
just go go go do that. I've

1581
01:58:58.399 --> 01:59:00.960
never sprayed for that kind of thing, but I know what you're talking about.

1582
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:06.119
It's annoying. Okay, all right, the second question, is that

1583
01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:11.960
possible or yeah, very very very
quickly, very quick. I have a

1584
01:59:12.000 --> 01:59:15.199
sago that's got a whole bunch of
other sagos popping up underneath. It.

1585
01:59:15.319 --> 01:59:20.399
Okay, it looks really pretty that
way as opposed to just having the big

1586
01:59:20.439 --> 01:59:24.960
stock and the pop at the top. Yeah. Is that safe for it

1587
01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:28.399
to be that way? Or should
I be cleaning it? No? Perfectly,

1588
01:59:28.560 --> 01:59:30.920
perfectly okay. Most people like the
look of a single trunk. But

1589
01:59:31.039 --> 01:59:34.800
in nature, segos grow clumps,
and that's what you got going there.

1590
01:59:34.840 --> 01:59:39.159
Those are called pups at the bottom. That are they're coming in around mom

1591
01:59:39.239 --> 01:59:43.680
to fill in and make a clump. Okay, okay, thank you very

1592
01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:45.399
much. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate

1593
01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:50.680
that. You know, Heirloom Soils
is a place where you know you're going

1594
01:59:50.760 --> 01:59:55.600
to get a quality blend. And
I Airloom Soils has the rose soil,

1595
01:59:55.680 --> 01:59:59.920
they have the veggie and herb mix, they have a fruit and citrus mix.

1596
02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:02.920
They've got things like leaf mold composts. I mean, I could go

1597
02:00:02.960 --> 02:00:08.800
on and on a dozen over a
couple dozen products that Airloom Soils produces,

1598
02:00:09.359 --> 02:00:12.760
and they're all high quality, and
you can buy them by the bag all

1599
02:00:13.039 --> 02:00:15.560
over the place. I mean,
they are widely distributed by the bag.

1600
02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:17.920
You can buy it by bulk.
You can drive up to porter and pick

1601
02:00:17.960 --> 02:00:20.159
it up yourself. You can call
them and say, hey, deliver it.

1602
02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:24.760
Do you want them to dump some
stuff in your driveway for you to

1603
02:00:24.880 --> 02:00:28.159
use to finish that flower bed?
They'll do that. Do you not want

1604
02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:30.359
that much mess? Well, they
can bring us supersack. It's like one

1605
02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:33.800
of those big old grocery sacks that
you take to the store, so you

1606
02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:38.560
don't have to get a plastic bag. But imagine one so big it holds

1607
02:00:38.560 --> 02:00:42.039
a cubic yard. They can do
that, drop it right off in your

1608
02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:48.960
driveway. Heirloom soils quality products that
grow successful plants. And when I say

1609
02:00:49.000 --> 02:00:54.039
successful, I mean beauty, I
mean bounty. Everything you're looking for it

1610
02:00:54.079 --> 02:00:59.079
all starts in the soil and Airloom
Soils are specialists doing just that. Go

1611
02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:03.039
to Heirloom Soils of Texas dot com, Airloom Seals of Texas dot com.

1612
02:01:03.640 --> 02:01:10.159
Yep. Oh. When you're there, there is a calculator and you can

1613
02:01:10.199 --> 02:01:13.840
figure out exactly how much mult you
need. I don't care if you buy

1614
02:01:13.880 --> 02:01:15.680
soil from or not. You need
to go check out that calcula. Really,

1615
02:01:16.079 --> 02:01:18.840
I mean it, it is really
really cool. But while you're there,

1616
02:01:18.880 --> 02:01:21.800
you're gonna you're gonna have to have
some of their stuff because it is

1617
02:01:21.920 --> 02:01:28.079
high colalal putting an hour in the
books. At eleven thirty, I will

1618
02:01:28.079 --> 02:01:31.439
be at Arburgate in Tomball, and
I hope you will too. Arbrogate's gonna

1619
02:01:31.439 --> 02:01:35.000
be serving frozen peach billinis oho.
I love these things. They are really

1620
02:01:35.000 --> 02:01:39.000
good. They're going to have a
special on the brick house. Rows are

1621
02:01:39.399 --> 02:01:44.439
beautiful red rose, highly acclaimed,
very disease resistant. I'll be given away

1622
02:01:44.520 --> 02:01:49.279
four tree stabilizers from the three sixty
tree Stabilizer, both lots of products from

1623
02:01:49.319 --> 02:01:54.079
me Dina, including that new super
grow. Arborgate's going to be given away

1624
02:01:54.119 --> 02:01:59.680
about every thirty minutes of their one
two three system dot organic soil completely don't

1625
02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:14.760
miss it. Welcome to kt r
H Garden Line with Scip Richter's trim.

1626
02:02:15.000 --> 02:02:24.479
Just watch him as a world.
Here we are. This is the last

1627
02:02:24.720 --> 02:02:28.800
hour coming up on the Saturday edition
of garden Line. I'm your host,

1628
02:02:28.800 --> 02:02:31.199
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer your gardening questions. Feel free to

1629
02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:34.439
give us a call and if you
would like seven one three two one two

1630
02:02:34.840 --> 02:02:41.600
five eight seven four listen today.
After the show, I'll be at Arburgate

1631
02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:46.119
Garden Center, Arburgate nursery at eleven
thirty and I'll be there till one thirty

1632
02:02:46.119 --> 02:02:50.439
two hours there answering your gardening questions. So if you have a sample that

1633
02:02:50.479 --> 02:02:54.800
you want to identify it or diagnosed, or a bug you want to identify

1634
02:02:54.840 --> 02:02:57.560
it, put it in a plastic
bag. We don't need those things going

1635
02:02:57.680 --> 02:03:01.319
flying around everywhere. Bring it to
guard the arborgate and I'll take a look

1636
02:03:01.359 --> 02:03:03.800
at it. We will figure out
what it is and what you need to

1637
02:03:03.840 --> 02:03:06.600
do about it. If you have
photos on your phone, we could take

1638
02:03:06.600 --> 02:03:11.560
a look at those as well.
Perhaps you'd like some advice on an area.

1639
02:03:11.680 --> 02:03:14.279
Maybe you need me to point you
to a plant that is going to

1640
02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:17.199
fit that spot just perfectly. Well, we're at the right place, the

1641
02:03:17.399 --> 02:03:24.800
arbor gate. They have so many
wonderful options of plants that grow here.

1642
02:03:25.560 --> 02:03:30.000
That's what they specialize in. I
mean, they specialize in your success.

1643
02:03:30.479 --> 02:03:33.119
That's why they carry the stock they
do. That's why they carry the products

1644
02:03:33.119 --> 02:03:36.960
that they do. They're one two
three completely easy system. A soil for

1645
02:03:38.039 --> 02:03:42.399
anything, an organic soil, A
fertilizer for anything with roots, an organic

1646
02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:45.720
fertilizer, the compost complete, which
is a compost and by the way,

1647
02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:50.079
the soil and the compost both have
expanded shale mixed in as well. So

1648
02:03:50.119 --> 02:03:53.800
when you do the one, two, three, those three products together,

1649
02:03:54.600 --> 02:03:59.119
it's the brown stuff. It's everything
you need to have success. Quality soil,

1650
02:03:59.359 --> 02:04:02.920
quality post in it, and also
a quality fertilizer as well. While

1651
02:04:02.920 --> 02:04:08.439
I'm there on to be given away
four super grow ready to sprays, the

1652
02:04:08.439 --> 02:04:11.680
new product from Medina, I'm gonna
give the three of the hast Grow quarts,

1653
02:04:11.760 --> 02:04:15.439
three of the hast grove lawn,
I'm gonna be given away seaweed,

1654
02:04:15.479 --> 02:04:18.600
and I'm be giving away samples all
from Medina donated by Medina. We're gonna

1655
02:04:18.640 --> 02:04:25.239
be given away four of the three
sixty tree stabilizers you get if if you

1656
02:04:25.279 --> 02:04:27.840
don't do anything else, just come
up and say I want to see that

1657
02:04:27.880 --> 02:04:30.399
thing, and let me show it
to you because it's cool. They're gonna

1658
02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:34.000
be doing a special, a Mother's
Day special on the brick House Rows.

1659
02:04:34.319 --> 02:04:39.520
Listen, when you give your mom
a rose bush as a gift, year

1660
02:04:39.600 --> 02:04:44.319
after year after year, when those
blooms appear, it's just like a dividend

1661
02:04:44.760 --> 02:04:48.199
on your gift. A remembrance too, By the way, I have plants

1662
02:04:48.239 --> 02:04:51.800
that I still remember who gave me
that plant, and I just think plants

1663
02:04:51.800 --> 02:04:56.079
are a great gift. They're gonna
have frozen peach bellinis. Yep, you

1664
02:04:56.159 --> 02:04:59.520
got to try those out there.
Are awesome, awesome. Uh do you

1665
02:04:59.560 --> 02:05:00.960
see what I'm I'm saying. We're
gonna have a good time out. Please

1666
02:05:00.960 --> 02:05:05.680
don't miss this park in the back
their new parking lot off Trishall Road in

1667
02:05:05.720 --> 02:05:09.520
the back. It's easy to get
to. So here's all you need to

1668
02:05:09.560 --> 02:05:15.039
know. Arburgate is out twenty nine
to twenty. It's west of Highway two

1669
02:05:15.079 --> 02:05:19.239
forty nine out of Tomball to the
west on twenty nine to twenty. When

1670
02:05:19.239 --> 02:05:24.000
you get out there, be looking
to the left. Trishall Road leaves the

1671
02:05:24.159 --> 02:05:28.039
twenty nine to twenty before Arburgate,
swings around behind it and the parking lot

1672
02:05:28.079 --> 02:05:31.079
comes back in after Arburgate. If
you miss it when you see Arburgate,

1673
02:05:31.119 --> 02:05:33.920
just keep going. It's gonna be
the next place to turn and you can

1674
02:05:33.920 --> 02:05:38.359
come around behind good good parking.
So please do that. Please come join

1675
02:05:38.399 --> 02:05:40.960
me today. I would love to
visit with you. I always like to

1676
02:05:41.000 --> 02:05:46.479
talk to folks that listen to Garden
Line. Where you're gonna go Now to

1677
02:05:46.680 --> 02:05:50.920
Greg in League City. Hello,
Greg. Good morning, Skip, and

1678
02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:55.399
thank you for taking my call this
morning. Yes, sir, I have

1679
02:05:55.520 --> 02:06:00.920
a couple of black diamond craig myrtles
in my backyard, very pretty plants,

1680
02:06:00.920 --> 02:06:06.560
but they have some type of white
powdery substance on some of the leaves and

1681
02:06:06.600 --> 02:06:10.560
those wondering if you could point me
in the right direction about it. Yeah,

1682
02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:15.399
yeah, that is powdery mildew and
it is a problem on the crape

1683
02:06:15.399 --> 02:06:19.319
myrtle. In general. There's some
varieties that are resistant, but in this

1684
02:06:19.399 --> 02:06:24.680
case you got one snot. So
what you can do. There's a couple

1685
02:06:24.720 --> 02:06:29.560
approaches to powdery mildew. First of
all, it likes humidity. Most diseases

1686
02:06:29.720 --> 02:06:33.039
like it when the leaves get wet, but powdery mildew likes a dry leaf

1687
02:06:33.119 --> 02:06:39.000
but high high humidity and welcome to
Houston. So it's a problem here.

1688
02:06:40.279 --> 02:06:45.840
Now, you can use on an
organic end oil type sprays. Horticultural oils

1689
02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:50.960
including neem oil will suppress the powdery
mildew that you spray it on. It'll

1690
02:06:51.000 --> 02:06:59.600
kill it because it's a surface fungal
strand you can use their synthetics like Belaton

1691
02:06:59.680 --> 02:07:03.680
Frigs semple that would would also move
into the leaf and control it. There's

1692
02:07:03.680 --> 02:07:08.039
a number of ways to deal with
it, but it's just one of the

1693
02:07:08.079 --> 02:07:12.279
things that tends to come and go
with the weather. Especially it likes milder

1694
02:07:12.319 --> 02:07:15.079
temperatures. When it gets really hot, I don't see as much of it

1695
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:20.880
unless there's just a lot of lower
spraying that's increasing the humidity. Got it,

1696
02:07:21.199 --> 02:07:24.279
got it? Well, thank you
very much. I really appreciate it,

1697
02:07:24.279 --> 02:07:27.640
all right, good luck, Yes, you bet. I appreciate that

1698
02:07:27.680 --> 02:07:31.119
call very much. Nitrophos the silver
bag what is it called. It's called

1699
02:07:31.199 --> 02:07:38.520
superturf. Why because it makes super
turf. It is a nineteen four ten

1700
02:07:38.640 --> 02:07:44.119
fertilizer. Half the nitrogen and a
slow release form iron added on to make

1701
02:07:44.279 --> 02:07:46.960
that deep, beautiful green that we're
looking for. You know, iron deficiency

1702
02:07:47.000 --> 02:07:49.439
is very common. My neighbor I
was looking at my neighbor shoard the other

1703
02:07:49.520 --> 02:07:55.319
day and there's a lot of little
iron deficient areas. A little supplement like

1704
02:07:55.359 --> 02:08:00.600
that would be very helpful to use. And super turf silver bag nineteen four

1705
02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:01.720
ten. It's easy to find.
They have it all over the place.

1706
02:08:01.760 --> 02:08:05.840
You can find in a lot of
places. You go to a Southwest fertilizer,

1707
02:08:05.880 --> 02:08:09.319
for example, Bob's got Itchurse.
Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got everything he

1708
02:08:09.439 --> 02:08:13.880
does. I mean every fertilizer I
talk about, and then some every pest

1709
02:08:13.960 --> 02:08:18.760
control, every disease control, every
weed control. Bob and Aaron and his

1710
02:08:18.880 --> 02:08:24.119
team, Josh, the team there. They are experts. They know how

1711
02:08:24.159 --> 02:08:28.680
to identify, they know how to
diagnose, they know how to point you

1712
02:08:28.119 --> 02:08:31.239
to a product that's gonna work.
So if you're looking for a one stop

1713
02:08:31.279 --> 02:08:35.600
shop, I mean, you can
take your lawn more bleeds are lawnmower equipment,

1714
02:08:35.680 --> 02:08:41.079
your power equipment in there for repairs. I mean they sell quality power

1715
02:08:41.079 --> 02:08:46.119
equipment too. By the way,
they eighty foot wallle of tools. There's

1716
02:08:46.159 --> 02:08:48.399
another one. I mean, you
just walk in there and you're gonna find

1717
02:08:48.479 --> 02:08:54.319
plenty of things. Fertilizer spreader for
your fertilizer. They're gonna have products for

1718
02:08:54.399 --> 02:08:58.720
fireant control for example, and whatnot. Southwest Fertilizers on the corner Abysinet and

1719
02:08:58.760 --> 02:09:07.039
Run in Southwest Houston. So it's
easy to get to Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest

1720
02:09:07.199 --> 02:09:11.000
Houston. You can go to the
website Southwest Fertilizer dot com and while you're

1721
02:09:11.039 --> 02:09:15.079
in there, you're gonna find pretty
much anything you could possibly need. I

1722
02:09:15.239 --> 02:09:18.760
like to say that if if a
Southwest fertilizer doesn't have it, you probably

1723
02:09:18.800 --> 02:09:24.800
don't need it. Let's go now
to Spring talk to Matt. Hello,

1724
02:09:24.960 --> 02:09:30.479
Matt, oh hi, good morning. Thanks for your time and I enjoy

1725
02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:37.239
the show. Thank you very briefly. I hope to visit your time at

1726
02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:43.560
Arbor Gate. You too here by
night. Yeah, and I apologize.

1727
02:09:43.760 --> 02:09:48.439
I was kind of in the middle
of when you were speaking of something called

1728
02:09:48.560 --> 02:09:54.119
Nelson slow and something slow and easy. That's right and easy? Yeah,

1729
02:09:54.199 --> 02:10:01.359
yes, sir, I'm right now
finishing off complete Saint Augustine thought on our

1730
02:10:01.399 --> 02:10:07.159
front lawn. Okay, it's only
in the been laid down a week now.

1731
02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:13.079
Okay, I was causing not to
fertilize it for a couple week and

1732
02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:18.199
then cut it. And your team
comment about once you use this product or

1733
02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:24.359
recommended not to worry to fall,
right, if I heard correctly, Yeah,

1734
02:10:24.399 --> 02:10:33.359
and I don't hope you don't mind
the listeners. The keep Maltz company

1735
02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:39.439
up there at nineteen sixty is just
going wild with a good All right,

1736
02:10:39.479 --> 02:10:43.399
well let's say let me let me
jump in there, Matt. Nelson slow

1737
02:10:43.439 --> 02:10:46.920
and easy is a good gradual release. The company that grow grass, they

1738
02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:50.319
put a fertilizer on it before they
sell it to you, and so you

1739
02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:56.880
should be good for a month or
more just in what is already in the

1740
02:10:56.920 --> 02:11:01.520
grass. But after about a month
after you've put it down, put down

1741
02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:05.079
the slow and Easy and the next
time you fertilize will be in the fall.

1742
02:11:05.119 --> 02:11:09.079
And if you go online to my
website, gardeningwith Skip dot com,

1743
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.359
find my fertilizer schedule, it'll tell
you when to fall fertilized and it'll give

1744
02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:16.479
you all your options, including Nelson's
Slow and Easy. I'm up against a

1745
02:11:16.479 --> 02:11:20.680
hard break and I got a run, but good luck with that. Congratulations

1746
02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:24.359
on your new lawn. I hope
you will you have it with you?

1747
02:11:24.960 --> 02:11:30.880
What's that? Do you have a
book out? I do, but I'm

1748
02:11:30.880 --> 02:11:33.760
not. I'm not gonna have it
with me today, but I'll talk about

1749
02:11:33.760 --> 02:11:35.880
that more later. All right,
We're going to take a break here seven

1750
02:11:35.960 --> 02:11:46.720
one three, two, one two
five eight seven four. Welcome back to

1751
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:52.279
Guardline. Good have you with us
today. We are gonna head straight out

1752
02:11:52.399 --> 02:11:56.960
to the phones and talk to Joel
from Conro. Hey, Joel, Hey,

1753
02:11:58.000 --> 02:12:00.000
good morning, thanks for kaking my
call. How are you doing it.

1754
02:12:00.359 --> 02:12:01.560
I'm well, sir, I'm well
sir. How can we help calling

1755
02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:05.159
about leaf cutter ants up here and
trying to see what the best way to

1756
02:12:05.199 --> 02:12:11.239
control that is. Well, there
is a concoction that you're going to put

1757
02:12:11.239 --> 02:12:15.359
together, and John, what I'm
gonna need to do is give get you

1758
02:12:15.520 --> 02:12:18.880
to send me your email and I
will send you the instructions for doing that.

1759
02:12:20.399 --> 02:12:22.279
You're going to buy two different products
mixing together and a bucket, let

1760
02:12:22.279 --> 02:12:26.279
them sit for a couple of weeks, and then put it out. And

1761
02:12:26.319 --> 02:12:30.840
it seems to be as good as
we can do to control those leaf cutters.

1762
02:12:30.920 --> 02:12:33.960
But rather than going through the whole
nine yards on the on the air,

1763
02:12:33.000 --> 02:12:39.359
I'm just gonna put you on hold
and Callum will get give you my

1764
02:12:39.439 --> 02:12:41.800
email. Okay, perfect, Thank
you so much. Every great day.

1765
02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:45.399
You bet, you bet have a
good day, yeah, leaf utter.

1766
02:12:45.560 --> 02:12:50.840
Leaf cutters are tough because they don't
typically want to eat the baits and the

1767
02:12:50.840 --> 02:12:54.960
poisons we would put out, unlike
fant for example, would would do.

1768
02:12:56.439 --> 02:12:58.399
Uh. And so it's a bigger
challenge to get them because what they eat

1769
02:12:58.600 --> 02:13:03.199
is a fungus. They cut the
leaves off your plants. Shame on them.

1770
02:13:03.239 --> 02:13:05.880
For doing that, and they take
it to a big cavern underground that

1771
02:13:05.920 --> 02:13:09.199
they made and they stick them in
there and grow fungus on them and eat

1772
02:13:09.239 --> 02:13:13.439
the fungus. Is that cool?
So you can think of leaf cutters as

1773
02:13:13.479 --> 02:13:18.199
farmers because that's kind of what they
are. And Yeah, I had a

1774
02:13:18.239 --> 02:13:22.720
peach orchard a while back up in
Willis many years ago, and one night

1775
02:13:22.800 --> 02:13:26.479
I came out and two trees were
defoliated overnight by leaf cutter ants. They

1776
02:13:26.520 --> 02:13:31.039
found them, they told the family. Everybody showed up and I mean literally

1777
02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:35.600
stripped them bare overnight. Wow,
they're a mess, that is for sure.

1778
02:13:35.640 --> 02:13:43.359
Have you been to enchanted Forests down
in Richmond Enchanted Forest is it's an

1779
02:13:43.479 --> 02:13:46.560
enchanting place. I always love to
go to Enchanted Forest because they always have

1780
02:13:46.680 --> 02:13:52.119
things going on down there. They
always have an excellent selection of plants.

1781
02:13:52.680 --> 02:13:56.680
They're doing a little thing where you
know, you can make and take a

1782
02:13:56.760 --> 02:14:00.720
succulent arrangement for mom there. Of
course, there's tons of game for mom

1783
02:14:01.119 --> 02:14:03.880
down in that area of whether mom
likes flowers or maybe she wants a new

1784
02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:09.079
Vitex tree in the yard, something
beautiful like that. Chenny Forest has quality

1785
02:14:09.119 --> 02:14:13.840
plants. They've got quality staff that
can help you, that greets you,

1786
02:14:13.960 --> 02:14:16.720
that points you to what you need. And if you're thinking about a butterfly

1787
02:14:16.800 --> 02:14:20.159
garden, that'd be a good one
for mom. By the way, they

1788
02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:22.960
have all the plants for the adults
to attract the adult butterflies and all the

1789
02:14:22.960 --> 02:14:28.520
plants for the larvae to feed and
create adult butterflies. You need to do

1790
02:14:28.600 --> 02:14:33.760
both when you're planning a butterfly garden. And Enchanted Forest and Richmond they're going

1791
02:14:33.840 --> 02:14:35.960
to have that for you. They
are on FM twenty seven fifty nine in

1792
02:14:37.119 --> 02:14:43.520
Richmond, Texas. The website Enchanted
Forest Richmond TX dot com and Chanted Forest

1793
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:48.479
Richmond, TX dot com. We're
going to go now to Chris in Conroe.

1794
02:14:48.600 --> 02:14:54.520
Hello, Chris, Hello, how
are you today? I planted some

1795
02:14:54.760 --> 02:15:00.399
sant augustine grass about six weeks ago
and immediately fertilized it. Now I'm not

1796
02:15:00.399 --> 02:15:05.479
supposed to now and it's kind of
dormant. What can I do to make

1797
02:15:05.520 --> 02:15:11.359
it grow better? Seeing augustine dormant
now that's unusual. I don't know why

1798
02:15:11.479 --> 02:15:16.680
it's done into growth. I guess
did it have a weed control product in

1799
02:15:16.760 --> 02:15:20.840
it? Yes? It did?
Okay, well, it may have been

1800
02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:24.680
that You're just gonna have to wait
that one out. It will start growing

1801
02:15:24.760 --> 02:15:28.479
again, but for right now,
let's not mess with it. It's not

1802
02:15:28.560 --> 02:15:33.359
a lack of nutrients right now that
that's causing that. So let's just wait

1803
02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:37.239
it out. Uh, and it
should start to grow again. Uh,

1804
02:15:37.880 --> 02:15:41.119
I don't know, you know,
to the degree that it was set back

1805
02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:46.000
will vary the time that when you
start to get back to normal again.

1806
02:15:46.119 --> 02:15:50.039
But uh, at this point,
there's no product to fix the situation.

1807
02:15:50.359 --> 02:15:54.680
Just just make sure it has water
when it head and rained for a while

1808
02:15:54.720 --> 02:16:00.680
and it's warm. Don't need a
watered a lot. But it'll bounce back

1809
02:16:00.720 --> 02:16:03.079
here in a wall. All right. Well, I appreciate it very much.

1810
02:16:03.119 --> 02:16:05.199
Thank you very much, you bet, Chris, thanks for the call.

1811
02:16:05.319 --> 02:16:09.199
Sorry to hear about that. I
know that is no fun, right,

1812
02:16:09.520 --> 02:16:15.760
no fun at all. Have you
been Have you been to Nelson Water

1813
02:16:15.840 --> 02:16:18.479
Garden out in Katie, Texas.
They're out there in Katie, Texas.

1814
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.800
You just turn north off iten on
Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a

1815
02:16:22.840 --> 02:16:28.399
stone throw up the road there.
Nelson Water Garden has an outstanding selection,

1816
02:16:28.680 --> 02:16:35.600
outstanding selection of plants. It's really
Nelson Nursery and water Garden. I always

1817
02:16:35.600 --> 02:16:39.360
say Nelson Water Garden because I mean
they are nationally literally, they are nationally

1818
02:16:39.399 --> 02:16:45.000
famous for their water garden work.
They created that disappearing fountain that comes out

1819
02:16:45.000 --> 02:16:48.639
of a beautiful tall container. If
you've never seen the you just gotta go.

1820
02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:52.079
You run out there to Nelson Water
Gardening, Katie, and consider this

1821
02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:56.840
an outing, consider this a destination, because that is exactly what it is.

1822
02:16:56.840 --> 02:17:00.399
They got a Mother's Day sale going
on, that's right, mother Day

1823
02:17:00.399 --> 02:17:05.559
sale, twenty five percent off azaleas
and roses and magnolias and krepe myrtles in

1824
02:17:05.639 --> 02:17:11.440
the garden center. Oh the hibiscus. They have got beautiful hibiscus, beautiful

1825
02:17:11.600 --> 02:17:15.120
herbs as well, and even an
herb bold gift. You know, it's

1826
02:17:15.120 --> 02:17:20.159
like all ready planted for mom right
there. Uh, it's it's what you

1827
02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:26.040
would expect out of an outstanding nursery
and garden center. But when you see

1828
02:17:26.079 --> 02:17:30.600
the water features, the kinds of
fountains and kinds of waterfalls they can create,

1829
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:33.600
you're gonna want to have them come
out and do that for you.

1830
02:17:33.639 --> 02:17:35.760
And if you're doing yourself or they'll
they'll advise you on how to do it

1831
02:17:35.799 --> 02:17:41.440
yourself. But I'm telling you the
work they do is it's amazing. It

1832
02:17:41.600 --> 02:17:48.159
absolutely is. Nelson Water Garden and
Nursery, Nelsonwatergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens

1833
02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:54.520
dot com. That is what you
need to know. And I'm telling you

1834
02:17:54.559 --> 02:17:58.680
any any time that you have a
chance to just get out of the house,

1835
02:17:58.840 --> 02:18:01.680
grab a friend or two, take
the kids, take the family,

1836
02:18:01.799 --> 02:18:05.200
take the friends, maybe get your
garden club together to go. You need

1837
02:18:05.239 --> 02:18:11.079
to do some horticultural tourism around the
greater Houston area. There are outstanding places.

1838
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:13.959
I've noticed that people around Houston they
kind of live in their little part

1839
02:18:13.959 --> 02:18:18.799
of Houston, whether it's downtown or
way out west or north or whatever,

1840
02:18:18.079 --> 02:18:22.040
and they don't tend to venture around. It is worth a drive to go

1841
02:18:22.159 --> 02:18:28.280
see our garden centers that are north, south, east, west, central,

1842
02:18:28.959 --> 02:18:33.360
wherever you are, there is something
that other big cities would die to

1843
02:18:33.399 --> 02:18:37.159
have. And I mean that I've
been San Antonio, in Dallas and Fort

1844
02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:39.879
Worth and Austin. Yes they have
good garden centers, but not like here.

1845
02:18:41.159 --> 02:18:45.000
Not the quantity, not the quality
level that you will find here in

1846
02:18:45.040 --> 02:18:48.479
the Greater Houston area. Something to
note, something you definitely want to for

1847
02:18:48.520 --> 02:18:56.360
example, for example, over in
Seabrook. The excuse me in Seabrook.

1848
02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:01.200
Moss Nurserymaas. By the way,
I always times forget to give websites and

1849
02:19:01.239 --> 02:19:05.079
things like that, and I think
it's worth going to check out websites.

1850
02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:09.479
It's Moss Nursery dot com. Maas
Nursery dot com. I was there yesterday,

1851
02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:11.559
as a matter of fact. I
always try to swing by there as

1852
02:19:11.639 --> 02:19:16.600
much as I can, and they
people were coming out with hadranga trees.

1853
02:19:18.399 --> 02:19:20.360
What is a hydranga tree, Well, it is a stand we call a

1854
02:19:20.399 --> 02:19:24.440
standard. I explained that yesterday.
Think of a trunk and then up at

1855
02:19:24.440 --> 02:19:28.799
about three four inch three or four
feet high, you just have this top

1856
02:19:28.920 --> 02:19:33.079
which has all the foliage and all
the beautiful blooms. Very unique, very

1857
02:19:33.120 --> 02:19:39.479
cool. They have elephantears, gorgeous
elephantears, not just green but deep burgundies,

1858
02:19:41.559 --> 02:19:45.680
pink stripe, and the leaf just
all kinds of stuff for sun and

1859
02:19:45.719 --> 02:19:50.360
for shade. They have that.
They were so loaded with hanging baskets still

1860
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:56.520
that they're stunning beautiful cactus succulents they've
got them. I wandered through the houseplant

1861
02:19:56.559 --> 02:19:58.200
greenhouse. I have to do that
every time I go there. Because they

1862
02:19:58.239 --> 02:20:03.799
have an ex intensive selection of beautiful
house plants. They have a butterfly and

1863
02:20:03.920 --> 02:20:09.719
hummingbird attracting plants. Do you want
a garden that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds?

1864
02:20:09.159 --> 02:20:15.760
Just go to Moss Nursery and Seabrook
Moss Nursery. They are They've been around

1865
02:20:15.840 --> 02:20:20.680
seventy years. Did you know that
seventy year old family operated eight acres of

1866
02:20:20.760 --> 02:20:26.399
wonderfulness on Toddville Road down in Seabrook. I want to head now to Let's

1867
02:20:26.440 --> 02:20:31.760
go to NEF in clear Lake.
Hello, Nef, Hey, good morning,

1868
02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:35.040
Good morning. How are you doing, Skiff? I'm good? What's

1869
02:20:35.079 --> 02:20:39.159
up with NEF today? Hey?
So, I'm just listening to the last

1870
02:20:39.200 --> 02:20:43.879
few callers about the Saint Augustine side. I had some contractors come out early

1871
02:20:43.959 --> 02:20:48.920
in the year and they had tore
up the lawn and then I had to

1872
02:20:48.959 --> 02:20:54.520
reside it. But I've always followed
the Randy Lemons schedule for years. Have

1873
02:20:54.639 --> 02:21:00.200
one of the best lawns in the
neighborhood. But aside from that, the

1874
02:21:00.280 --> 02:21:05.000
callers that you just got to be
patient and just water it. Water it

1875
02:21:05.079 --> 02:21:11.399
water, don't overwater it, but
just water it in good and it will.

1876
02:21:11.639 --> 02:21:16.000
It took about four weeks, and
there was times that I thought like,

1877
02:21:16.040 --> 02:21:20.719
oh my gosh, it's not grabbing, you know, and there's pieces

1878
02:21:20.719 --> 02:21:24.399
of it, you know, that
were just yellow and yellow. But now

1879
02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:31.360
after the last few rainfalls, it's
all green and and looks like like brand

1880
02:21:31.360 --> 02:21:33.680
new grass. There. You got
to be got to be patient, follow

1881
02:21:35.079 --> 02:21:41.520
and exactly exactly. Well, hey, it's a loyal listener and uh,

1882
02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:45.840
and I just want to give that
advice to the callers. Thanks, you

1883
02:21:45.959 --> 02:21:48.000
have a great weekend. Thanks for
being a longtime listener to guarden Line.

1884
02:21:48.000 --> 02:21:52.399
I appreciate that you take care of
and I wish you well uh this weekend.

1885
02:21:52.680 --> 02:22:00.520
Uh. Landscaper's Pride produces a number
of quality products to help your plants

1886
02:22:00.559 --> 02:22:05.000
have success. Remember brown stuff before
green stuff. Well, they have twenty

1887
02:22:05.079 --> 02:22:09.600
seven different kinds of brown stuff.
In other words, they've got black velvet

1888
02:22:09.639 --> 02:22:11.840
moltch goes up on top of the
surface. It is not dyed malt It

1889
02:22:11.920 --> 02:22:18.239
is naturally beautiful, velvety black and
dense, keeps those weeds out, keeps

1890
02:22:18.239 --> 02:22:22.000
the temperature moderated. It's just a
quality product. Hardwood mults. This is

1891
02:22:22.040 --> 02:22:28.280
a shredded true hardwood maltz not chopped
up paletts or repurpose wood. You can

1892
02:22:28.399 --> 02:22:30.959
use it in your flower beds,
of course, it's a mault. You

1893
02:22:31.000 --> 02:22:33.440
can put it in walkways if you
want an all weather walkway, a good

1894
02:22:33.559 --> 02:22:39.479
thick layer of this hardwood multch in
there. I be raining and raining and

1895
02:22:39.520 --> 02:22:41.200
you're just able to head right out
there to the garden without getting your feet

1896
02:22:41.239 --> 02:22:46.079
money. Pine bark malts is most
popular in they have locally sourced pine bark.

1897
02:22:46.159 --> 02:22:50.399
It degrades very slowly. In other
words, it decomposes very slowly out

1898
02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:54.000
there in the soil. It's a
good one. Gardener's Magic Soil. This

1899
02:22:54.040 --> 02:23:00.239
is an organic pine based blend that
has humus. It's got screened compass pin

1900
02:23:00.319 --> 02:23:03.120
in it, and it's got composted
rice holes as well. And then they

1901
02:23:03.159 --> 02:23:07.479
throw in a chicken pellet fertilizer to
give you about three months of additional feeding

1902
02:23:07.719 --> 02:23:13.559
in that garden. Magic soil,
Gardener's Magic. Excuse me, now,

1903
02:23:13.680 --> 02:23:16.239
it's been a heck of a good
spring. We're in a whirlwind still going

1904
02:23:16.280 --> 02:23:20.360
on for that. But Landscaperspride dot
com is the website you need to go

1905
02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.239
to to find out where to get
the products because they're widely available. Well

1906
02:23:24.399 --> 02:23:28.280
here I am talking myself right into
the news break. Sorry about that,

1907
02:23:28.360 --> 02:23:41.079
Jeff, it's all yours. Yeah, I need to set this guitar down.

1908
02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:45.840
I'll just have a little fun there
during break. All right, it

1909
02:23:45.959 --> 02:23:48.799
was the Eagles. Welcome back to
Gardline. Good to have you with us

1910
02:23:48.840 --> 02:23:54.879
today. We are entering our last
half hour of the day and after that

1911
02:23:54.959 --> 02:23:58.000
I won't be at Arburgate. I
hope you will come see me today at

1912
02:23:58.040 --> 02:24:01.079
Arburgate eleven thirty to one thirty,
and they are throwing one heck of a

1913
02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:05.120
Mom's Day weekend party, and you
need to come out there. You need

1914
02:24:05.159 --> 02:24:07.479
to be out there. In fact, when the show's over, I'm on

1915
02:24:07.600 --> 02:24:11.559
jumping a car. I'll head that
way. I hope you will join me.

1916
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:15.479
Last one, there's rotten Egg Drive
safely. We are going to go

1917
02:24:15.520 --> 02:24:18.639
straight to the phones this segment and
we are going to go to Richmond.

1918
02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:22.200
Talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, how can we help today? Hey,

1919
02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:26.200
I got a butterfly plant question for
you. I got the I guess

1920
02:24:26.200 --> 02:24:30.600
it's called the butterfly weed. Okay, yeah, with a nice tiny little

1921
02:24:30.719 --> 02:24:33.280
yellow flowers. Well, I planted
that a couple of weeks ago to hyday.

1922
02:24:33.520 --> 02:24:37.760
I got the ugly green box in
my backyard and that thing has grown

1923
02:24:37.799 --> 02:24:41.440
over. It's probably like six feet
tall. Now, what's the best way

1924
02:24:41.479 --> 02:24:45.120
to trim that? I don't want
to trim it too much, but you

1925
02:24:45.159 --> 02:24:50.200
know what can be done with that? How tall is it? It's like

1926
02:24:50.319 --> 02:24:54.079
six foot tall? Now it's really
grown. Well, I've got a couple

1927
02:24:54.079 --> 02:24:56.879
of milk weeds next to it and
they don't grow at all. And I

1928
02:24:56.920 --> 02:25:01.600
also had a question about how to
the best food for those. Well,

1929
02:25:01.639 --> 02:25:05.040
I'm trying to figure out what plant
you have that you're describing that six foot

1930
02:25:05.799 --> 02:25:11.399
Uh. Well, I was at
the Enchanted Gardens and I probably should have

1931
02:25:11.399 --> 02:25:15.000
asked them out there, but it
said it was called a butterfly weed,

1932
02:25:15.120 --> 02:25:18.479
is what it was called. It's
got the it was in their butterfly section,

1933
02:25:18.680 --> 02:25:22.120
and it's these tiny yellow flowers.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm familiar with

1934
02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:26.639
the butterfly weed. We call it
tropical milk weed or Mexican milkweed. But

1935
02:25:28.399 --> 02:25:31.760
six feet tall, that's a that's
bigger than I've ever seen it. So

1936
02:25:33.000 --> 02:25:35.520
I'm kind of wondering if we're talking
about the same plant. But anyway,

1937
02:25:35.520 --> 02:25:39.680
I've got I've got the name,
the actual name of it is as salopius.

1938
02:25:41.760 --> 02:25:48.440
You're of course, Uh, well, it's a Sclepias currasavaca, and

1939
02:25:48.840 --> 02:25:52.159
that is the mexicmom tropical milk weed. I guess, uh, you just

1940
02:25:52.280 --> 02:25:54.920
must be grown things better at your
house than I do at mine. But

1941
02:25:56.360 --> 02:25:58.959
that's a that's an impressive result of
it. I know they can get tall,

1942
02:26:00.079 --> 02:26:05.840
But so are you wanting to know
you threw me there initially? Are

1943
02:26:05.840 --> 02:26:09.760
you wanting to know about cutting it
back or what? Yeah? Okay,

1944
02:26:09.159 --> 02:26:15.959
so you can cut them back.
They will send up shoots from the base.

1945
02:26:16.040 --> 02:26:20.799
They also reseed profusely when they do
finally form their seeds that float around.

1946
02:26:22.159 --> 02:26:26.840
If there's some people will do supports
for tall upright plants like that.

1947
02:26:26.920 --> 02:26:30.520
You know, it comes up with
just one single shoot coming straight up to

1948
02:26:30.559 --> 02:26:35.920
the sky, and they will put
kind of some sort of a support thing

1949
02:26:35.000 --> 02:26:37.520
in. It could be a post
with some things wrapped around it. When

1950
02:26:37.520 --> 02:26:41.399
I say post, I mean,
you know, not a fence post,

1951
02:26:41.440 --> 02:26:46.360
but something to kind of hold it
up. I don't you know. As

1952
02:26:46.399 --> 02:26:50.239
far as getting them to branch,
I don't think you're gonna. I've never

1953
02:26:50.360 --> 02:26:52.920
tried that, tried cutting them and
getting them to branch. But I knew

1954
02:26:52.920 --> 02:26:54.479
they will put out new stuff at
the bottom. I should know that,

1955
02:26:54.520 --> 02:26:58.399
but I've just never had to cut
mine back. I don't do as good

1956
02:26:58.440 --> 02:27:03.520
a job of growing them as you
do. Hell, mine's up next to

1957
02:27:03.639 --> 02:27:07.639
one of those transformer electrical boxes.
So maybe it's it's tied into that thing

1958
02:27:07.680 --> 02:27:11.479
and is just taking off. That's
right to get the great power from.

1959
02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:18.000
Well yeah, as far as as
far as the milkweed next to it,

1960
02:27:18.559 --> 02:27:22.520
what's a good plant food for that? Well? Uh, what kind of

1961
02:27:22.559 --> 02:27:24.719
milk weed? Is it? One
of the real low growing ones? Is

1962
02:27:24.719 --> 02:27:28.639
it the orange one or a pink? What colors it's got? It's the

1963
02:27:28.680 --> 02:27:33.319
one with no color. It's just
green with the green leaves, the green

1964
02:27:33.440 --> 02:27:37.840
leaves, the green Uh. Probably
it'll probably eventually have some some light kind

1965
02:27:37.879 --> 02:27:43.159
of a creamy white looking bloom on
it in time. Okay, you don't

1966
02:27:43.200 --> 02:27:46.399
really need to fertilize those things.
I mean, if if your soil just

1967
02:27:46.440 --> 02:27:52.000
happened to be incredibly poor, which
apparently it's not based on your other butterfly

1968
02:27:52.239 --> 02:27:56.079
plant, uh, then maybe adding
a little bit, but don't don't push

1969
02:27:56.120 --> 02:28:01.840
it, you there. Things grow
in nature in the wild, depending on

1970
02:28:01.879 --> 02:28:07.760
which specific type of asclepias or butterfly
weed. You have, it should not

1971
02:28:07.959 --> 02:28:13.440
need much in the way a fertilizer
of any Okay, well, I appreciate

1972
02:28:13.440 --> 02:28:16.719
it, Thank you. Well.
I hope butterflies are listening because you need

1973
02:28:16.719 --> 02:28:18.680
to have the rechimond to Allen's house. Sounds like a good place to have

1974
02:28:18.719 --> 02:28:26.440
a good come on over guy.
Thanks Alan. I appreciate that you know

1975
02:28:26.520 --> 02:28:33.159
had those storms recently which just dumped
tons of rain through our listening area or

1976
02:28:33.239 --> 02:28:37.200
most of our listening area here,
and those of you who had to endure

1977
02:28:37.200 --> 02:28:39.920
the worst of that and the flooding, our hearts go out to you,

1978
02:28:39.040 --> 02:28:43.799
and I hope things are I hope
you're able to get things cleaned out and

1979
02:28:43.879 --> 02:28:48.520
turned around back on the other direction. During those storms, we had over

1980
02:28:48.559 --> 02:28:50.799
one hundred thousand people that lost power
during the last time we had a really

1981
02:28:52.159 --> 02:28:56.200
serious, significant storm. And when
that happens, you need a standby generator

1982
02:28:56.280 --> 02:29:01.600
that's going to come on automatically and
just take over and run the power.

1983
02:29:01.319 --> 02:29:05.879
Maybe you have refrigerators and freezers,
and you can lose a lot of food

1984
02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:09.959
when you don't have power. When
it's summertime and this happens, and you

1985
02:29:09.000 --> 02:29:11.479
know, we have storm season takes
us all the way into the fall.

1986
02:29:13.600 --> 02:29:16.600
Air conditioners. Who it doesn't take
long in Houston without an air conditioner to

1987
02:29:18.239 --> 02:29:20.879
know that's tough. Certainly lights do
you have a work from home business?

1988
02:29:20.920 --> 02:29:28.399
For example, electronic devices stand by
generator just bounces right on when the power

1989
02:29:28.440 --> 02:29:33.399
goes out and it takes care of
you. And quality home products of Texas,

1990
02:29:33.559 --> 02:29:35.760
in my opinion, is the absolute
best place to get those. And

1991
02:29:35.799 --> 02:29:39.760
why do I say that? Well, Number one, they carry Generac.

1992
02:29:39.120 --> 02:29:45.920
Generak is an outstanding generator brand.
We depend on it. We know it.

1993
02:29:45.959 --> 02:29:50.639
I mean, people know Generac is
quality generators. But why quality home?

1994
02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:54.799
Well, quality home is a place
that when I say they do customer

1995
02:29:54.879 --> 02:30:00.719
service, I really mean it and
I can prove it. Eighteen thousand and

1996
02:30:00.719 --> 02:30:07.399
five star reviews, seventy seven thousand
established satisfied customers. Eight times. They've

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won the Pinnacle Award for the Better
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I mean eight times they've won that
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know these companies that come in and
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That is a myth. That's maloney. Don't even don't do that. Quality

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or whatever, you know, permissions
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out there, and to put the
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life. They do have financial financing
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don't buy your home generator from anybody
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a quality piece of equipment, yes
they have that, but very important to

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have quality service. And their ratings
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case. That alone, as they
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Our phone number if you'd like to
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take a little break here. We're
going to come back for our last little

2021
02:31:54.280 --> 02:31:58.799
segment on Garden Line. I always
hate to say this, but we do

2022
02:31:58.879 --> 02:32:03.000
have an open field. I can't
promise you when everybody else calls it,

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you'll be the first up. But
it is blank right now. So give

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02:32:05.360 --> 02:32:18.520
column a call. Welcome back to
guard Line. Good to have you with

2025
02:32:18.600 --> 02:32:20.319
us today. Hey, we're running
out of time today. We gotta get

2026
02:32:20.319 --> 02:32:24.000
some talking done here. We've got
a lot more to talk about. Let's

2027
02:32:24.120 --> 02:32:26.719
just jump right in there and we're
going to head out to Conroe and talk

2028
02:32:26.760 --> 02:32:31.159
to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Hey, good morning morning. I have

2029
02:32:31.399 --> 02:32:41.079
a newly planted peach tree was planted
back in early April, and it looks

2030
02:32:41.159 --> 02:32:48.319
like it's dying lost all its leaves. Oh, some of the branches are

2031
02:32:48.440 --> 02:32:54.280
green at the tip, but in
the middle they look kind of brownish.

2032
02:32:54.360 --> 02:32:58.719
Okay, and there is a little
play in some of the leagues. Okay,

2033
02:33:00.559 --> 02:33:03.840
can I get it back. We'll
see Bob. There's a lot of

2034
02:33:03.840 --> 02:33:07.639
things that can kill a tree,
So we're, you know, we're looking

2035
02:33:07.680 --> 02:33:11.120
at a lot of possibilities. Usually
with a peach, a new peach,

2036
02:33:11.200 --> 02:33:13.600
you got to get them in.
You got to keep the roots moist,

2037
02:33:13.639 --> 02:33:18.840
but you got to keep the oxygen
in the soil too. Peaches, when

2038
02:33:18.040 --> 02:33:22.879
they are in anaerobic conditions, meaning
the soil is water logged, the roots

2039
02:33:22.920 --> 02:33:28.000
can't get oxygen. The roots actually
produce hydrogen cyanide. Of all things,

2040
02:33:28.799 --> 02:33:31.959
they are one of the least tolerant
of soggy conditions of all the things we

2041
02:33:33.000 --> 02:33:37.760
can grow, So that is a
possibility. Getting too dry, even for

2042
02:33:37.799 --> 02:33:41.280
a minute earlier on could have been
a possibility. But with the spring we've

2043
02:33:41.319 --> 02:33:48.040
had, dry is unlikely because we've
had plenty of rain to kind of keep

2044
02:33:48.040 --> 02:33:50.239
it going here so far. So
I'm more worried about the drainage being a

2045
02:33:50.280 --> 02:33:56.159
possibility there. As long as you
can keep oxygen in the soil, get

2046
02:33:56.159 --> 02:33:58.399
that excess drained away, but at
the same time, don't let it go

2047
02:33:58.520 --> 02:34:03.360
dry. The tree should bounce back, but it's going to be kind of

2048
02:34:03.399 --> 02:34:07.319
a wait and see in the meantime. Okay, I went out this morning

2049
02:34:07.079 --> 02:34:11.559
and grabbed a handful of the mulch, and it feels kind of it's still

2050
02:34:11.639 --> 02:34:18.120
damp. Okay, you know,
it's not really really overly wet, but

2051
02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:22.000
you know if all the rain we've
had, yeah, you know recently,

2052
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:24.760
I can see that. Well,
you know, it could be you need

2053
02:34:24.799 --> 02:34:28.360
to dig down in the soil about
four to six inches with a little hand

2054
02:34:28.399 --> 02:34:33.120
trout and then feel the soil there
and if it is not you know,

2055
02:34:33.159 --> 02:34:35.079
if it is not damp, there
water. But it's going to be damp

2056
02:34:35.120 --> 02:34:39.959
there for a good while, so
probably too much water is my best shoot

2057
02:34:39.959 --> 02:34:43.520
from the hip of all the possible
options for why is the tree dying?

2058
02:34:45.399 --> 02:34:48.120
Okay, sir, all right,
you have a good weekend. I appreciate

2059
02:34:48.159 --> 02:34:52.280
your information absolutely absolutely, Thank you
very much. We're going to go now

2060
02:34:52.319 --> 02:34:58.920
to Joe in Houston. Hey Joe, good morning, Good morning. Listen.

2061
02:35:00.479 --> 02:35:05.200
I want to get some bonze eyes, not pot size, plant size,

2062
02:35:05.280 --> 02:35:07.559
you know, like six h fet
tolls. Where can I get that?

2063
02:35:11.879 --> 02:35:15.319
But they're in a container you're talking
about, Well, I'm going to

2064
02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:18.600
plant them in the ground. Do
you said? Bones eye? Though?

2065
02:35:18.680 --> 02:35:24.760
Right? Cut like bonsai? Oh? Okay, a pine tree that's cut

2066
02:35:24.840 --> 02:35:30.239
like a bonzai or some other tree. That's cut to look like a Japanese

2067
02:35:30.280 --> 02:35:33.920
I see. Uh, but I
don't want these little things I see on

2068
02:35:35.000 --> 02:35:39.479
people's porches. Yeah yeah, Now
this is just something that's six eight eight

2069
02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:43.959
ten tres. Okay, you know
that's a tree. That is a good

2070
02:35:45.040 --> 02:35:48.000
question depending on where you are,
If it's not too far to drive down

2071
02:35:48.040 --> 02:35:54.319
to Seabrook to Moss Nursery. They've
got some things similar to that that might

2072
02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:58.399
do. You know, I've never
I've never with you know, being around

2073
02:35:58.399 --> 02:36:03.000
the garden center has kind of looked
for that. Really, what you're talking

2074
02:36:03.040 --> 02:36:05.200
about, the Japanese style garden.
I mean you would you could buy regular

2075
02:36:05.280 --> 02:36:11.040
junipers and train them to that kind
of style. So there it's not just

2076
02:36:11.120 --> 02:36:16.319
that it has to be a certain
kind of plant only. But uh yeah,

2077
02:36:16.120 --> 02:36:20.319
so I want all cut in the
style already, and I would continue

2078
02:36:20.559 --> 02:36:24.360
style. Uh, call Moss before
you drive down. They just call them

2079
02:36:24.360 --> 02:36:28.920
and ask them if they have some
some of those kind of plants that have

2080
02:36:28.000 --> 02:36:33.120
been trained already into somewhat of a
style. Now, there's a lot of

2081
02:36:33.159 --> 02:36:39.079
places that will sell you junipers that
are spiral junipers and the kind with like

2082
02:36:39.120 --> 02:36:41.879
the limbs go out and there's a
little pomp poms of foliage on the end,

2083
02:36:41.479 --> 02:36:46.200
and those kind of I call them
Doctor Seuss plants because they remind me

2084
02:36:46.239 --> 02:36:52.360
of Doctor Seuss books. But that's
what my quick answer would be to start

2085
02:36:52.399 --> 02:36:58.200
with. I just got back from
Vietnam and China. Oh yeah, they

2086
02:36:58.079 --> 02:37:01.520
a couple of hundred. Pause,
they had them all over the place.

2087
02:37:01.559 --> 02:37:05.479
They just wanted to get rid of
them. Beautiful. Well they can get

2088
02:37:05.520 --> 02:37:09.680
them out of the country. Any
of our good full service garden centers we

2089
02:37:09.719 --> 02:37:15.079
talk about here, they're going to
have plants that suit that. Whether they

2090
02:37:15.079 --> 02:37:16.760
have am already pre prune like that. You're just gonna have to call and

2091
02:37:16.840 --> 02:37:18.879
ask. But hey, I need
to run. I got a few more

2092
02:37:18.920 --> 02:37:22.159
calls. I'm trying to get for
the day goes away here. But good

2093
02:37:22.280 --> 02:37:26.479
luck, good luck, you bet, you bet. Thanks a lot.

2094
02:37:28.959 --> 02:37:31.719
Ace Hardware Stores or the place you
go for everything you need and noy you

2095
02:37:31.760 --> 02:37:35.440
hear me talk all the time.
If you want a beautiful lawn, a

2096
02:37:35.440 --> 02:37:39.799
beautiful garden, beautiful landscape, Ace
has all the supplies for that. Everything

2097
02:37:39.840 --> 02:37:43.920
you need, fertilizers, pest,
weed disease control, the tools you need,

2098
02:37:43.559 --> 02:37:48.239
garden hoses. Do you want to
enhance your outdoor setting with some of

2099
02:37:48.239 --> 02:37:52.159
the little strings of lights, or
all the things, barbecue pits for the

2100
02:37:52.159 --> 02:37:56.040
back patio. They've got that it's
Mother's Day tomorrow. ACE is a place

2101
02:37:56.079 --> 02:38:01.079
for that as well. They have
an extensive election of things, I mean

2102
02:38:01.079 --> 02:38:05.159
all the way from like purses and
jewelry to beautiful indoor decorations. Now,

2103
02:38:05.159 --> 02:38:09.959
each ACE is independently owned and no
tour exactly alike, So depending on where

2104
02:38:11.000 --> 02:38:13.760
you go, you're going to have
a range of options. I mean,

2105
02:38:13.760 --> 02:38:18.760
I've seen ACE hard restores that do
a little laser etching and cutting boards for

2106
02:38:18.799 --> 02:38:22.200
you. I mean, who thought
about that, right? But that's the

2107
02:38:22.280 --> 02:38:24.719
kind of place ACE is. Go
to your local Ace, talk to them,

2108
02:38:24.719 --> 02:38:28.159
find out what kinds of things they
have. But you're going to find

2109
02:38:28.159 --> 02:38:33.319
that a lot of them have some
wonderful things, wonderful gifts for mom as

2110
02:38:33.319 --> 02:38:35.719
well. Let's go to Kingwood and
we're going to talk to Bill. Hello,

2111
02:38:35.799 --> 02:38:43.719
Bill, good morning. I have
a question about granted for symmetry native

2112
02:38:43.719 --> 02:38:52.079
broodstock Japanese top And after several years
in my backyard and good crops, all

2113
02:38:52.079 --> 02:38:56.280
of a sudden, the trees and
a serious state of decline, and wherever

2114
02:38:56.399 --> 02:39:01.120
the limbs meet the trunk. There
seems to be a uh, some kind

2115
02:39:01.159 --> 02:39:05.719
of disease that is creating a big
problem. Yeah, there is fact and

2116
02:39:05.840 --> 02:39:11.840
the proad group is called Crottrot.
Yeah, so I don't know what it

2117
02:39:11.920 --> 02:39:15.639
really It's a it's a type of
canker there. There there was a precimine

2118
02:39:15.680 --> 02:39:18.399
arch probably still around kind of northwest
of Houston that it got into. And

2119
02:39:18.520 --> 02:39:22.559
I mean it was extensive the damage
that it had done in there. Uh,

2120
02:39:22.680 --> 02:39:26.920
there's not a spray for it that
you can't just it's think of it

2121
02:39:28.079 --> 02:39:31.000
as like an infection down in the
tissues, you know. So it'd be

2122
02:39:31.159 --> 02:39:37.319
like having an infected cut on your
arm and just putting some little surface alcohol

2123
02:39:37.520 --> 02:39:39.920
on it to kill the surface.
It wouldn't get down in there and kill

2124
02:39:39.959 --> 02:39:43.200
the disease. And and that I
don't have an answer for you on that

2125
02:39:43.319 --> 02:39:48.840
one. I is there a is
there a tape of fungicide that will be

2126
02:39:48.920 --> 02:39:52.959
absorbed by the planet and spread throughout
the leaves, Not that I know of

2127
02:39:54.479 --> 02:39:58.959
that that fights that disease. That
would require a little more investigating. The

2128
02:39:58.040 --> 02:40:01.399
last time I look, it was
kind of a it is what it is.

2129
02:40:01.920 --> 02:40:05.360
There are certain kinds of disease situations
where we just can't get the product

2130
02:40:05.559 --> 02:40:09.639
in there and in a way that's
going to be effective. You might want

2131
02:40:09.680 --> 02:40:13.959
to do a little more searching online
for that one, but it would take

2132
02:40:15.040 --> 02:40:20.440
a systemic and I don't know one
that moves in the way through that plant

2133
02:40:20.559 --> 02:40:26.879
that is labeled for per Simmons to
control a disease like that. So I'm

2134
02:40:26.959 --> 02:40:30.920
not hopeful, but I'm not saying
you might not be able to find something.

2135
02:40:31.399 --> 02:40:35.120
But I do know that, I
know, I know, I'm not

2136
02:40:35.399 --> 02:40:39.399
you sound like people I know.
Yeah, Bill, thanks a lot,

2137
02:40:39.879 --> 02:40:43.440
Thanks a lot. Hey, that
was worth every penny you paid for it.

2138
02:40:43.639 --> 02:40:46.719
Have a good weekend. Good luck
getting ahead of that though, because

2139
02:40:46.719 --> 02:40:50.399
I love per Simmons and I can
imagine how that feels. All Right,

2140
02:40:50.399 --> 02:40:54.920
We're gonna go to Neederland and talk
to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, we

2141
02:40:54.040 --> 02:40:56.360
got just a short time, but
let's see what we can do for you.

2142
02:40:58.200 --> 02:41:01.440
Oh. Yes, our little neighborhood
and Needlane. During the storm last

2143
02:41:01.479 --> 02:41:03.920
week last Thursday, we had I'm
in an old neighborhood, lots of trees

2144
02:41:05.000 --> 02:41:09.200
down. One was my oak tree
in the front yard, completely uprooted.

2145
02:41:09.239 --> 02:41:15.239
That's my afternoon sun area. And
I'm just wondering what I can replace or

2146
02:41:15.319 --> 02:41:18.680
what we can replace that with.
It's not going to grow as huge as

2147
02:41:18.680 --> 02:41:22.159
an oak tree, but still provides
that afternoon shade you know that we need.

2148
02:41:22.360 --> 02:41:24.799
Are you trying to shade a window
or a wall or are you trying

2149
02:41:24.799 --> 02:41:28.120
to go over the whole house and
shade the roof? Well, no,

2150
02:41:28.399 --> 02:41:31.959
just really one side of the house
in the front, Okay, Well,

2151
02:41:31.040 --> 02:41:33.600
there's a lot of good trees where
the bedrooms are, kind of where the

2152
02:41:33.639 --> 02:41:37.360
bedrooms are on this side. There
are a lot of good trees. There's

2153
02:41:37.360 --> 02:41:43.920
a number of different oaks that grow
pretty fast. The nut tall oak gets

2154
02:41:43.040 --> 02:41:46.440
quite large in time, but it
grows pretty fast. It would be a

2155
02:41:46.479 --> 02:41:50.600
good one. You know. There
are crape myrtles that get big niches crape

2156
02:41:50.639 --> 02:41:54.440
myrtle, yes, I thought about. The natches will get thirty feet tall

2157
02:41:54.600 --> 02:42:00.559
and the beautiful white blooms, beautiful
cinnamon colored exfoliating bark, so that that

2158
02:42:00.680 --> 02:42:07.200
would be another option. The Chinese
elm drake is one variety, but Chinese

2159
02:42:07.280 --> 02:42:13.399
elm grows pretty fast casts a light
shade can be really beautiful. So there

2160
02:42:13.440 --> 02:42:16.319
are a number of good options out
there. It just kind of guns on

2161
02:42:16.479 --> 02:42:20.239
what you're looking for, but the
ones I mentioned are all fast grow Okay,

2162
02:42:20.280 --> 02:42:22.600
I appreciate your health. Thank you, all right, Lisa, Sorry,

2163
02:42:22.719 --> 02:42:24.600
ran out of time on that.
Hey, guess what happens now?

2164
02:42:26.000 --> 02:42:28.399
You and I both jump in our
cars. Last one, there's a rat

2165
02:42:28.440 --> 02:42:33.479
and egg. We're heading to arbor
Gate. We're gonna be giving away Medina

2166
02:42:33.600 --> 02:42:37.200
products. We're giving away tree stabilizers. We're giving away arbor Gates, Organic

2167
02:42:37.280 --> 02:42:41.200
Soul Complete. There are one,
two, three easy system. Every thirty

2168
02:42:41.239 --> 02:42:45.319
minutes, we'll give the bag of
that a way. We're gonna be given

2169
02:42:45.399 --> 02:42:50.399
away enjoying frozen Bellini's. So come, bring your questions, bring your samples,

2170
02:42:50.559 --> 02:42:54.719
let's talk. Always love to meet
gardeners. Can't wait to see at

2171
02:42:54.799 --> 02:42:58.840
Arborgate and be ready to buy mom
a gift. In fact, bring her

2172
02:42:58.879 --> 02:43:00.959
with you to get one of those
wrick House roses.