WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.200 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:11.199 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:35.240 Crazy Trip. Just watch him as so many peas supt crazy gas truble bricking 4 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:43.600 not a sound. Good morning and welcome to Garden Line. Boy. We're 5 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.719 glad you're listening today, and congratulations you were an early bird. I hope 6 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.359 you got a cup of coffee and at least one eye half open. About 7 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:56.280 two hours ago I was in that condition. I managed to get it myself 8 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.600 together and here we go. We're going to talk about gardening today. I 9 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.240 know that's surprise, but we're going to talk about what you're interested in too 10 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.480 today and the way we do that is for you to call. All you 11 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:11.280 have to do is a'll seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy 12 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.359 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four, and we'll talk 13 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:23.120 about the things that interest you and excuse me and doing and doing garden a 14 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.879 gardener question and answer. Over a lot of decades now, I've heard a 15 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:32.879 lot of different questions. But it's interesting how the same types of questions sort 16 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:38.159 of come to the surface each year. And that makes sense because number one, 17 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.840 it's things are seasonal in the garden. But we have a lot of 18 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:45.040 new people gardening every year, which I think is a wonderful thing. So 19 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:51.120 maybe someone's never gardened before, they experience something and they ask the same question 20 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.359 someone earlier had asked. But that's okay, because our goal here is to 21 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.680 help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what we're here 22 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.359 about. That's what we're trying to do. So if you've got a question, 23 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.959 just ask it. Let's talk about don't worry about it. If it's 24 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.360 a dumb question or not. I'll worry about dumb answers. That's on me, 25 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:14.000 okay, So just ask your questions and we'll work through it. I 26 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.719 think it's important because you know, you may think I'm the only one that 27 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.240 has a question, but I guarantee you a lot of other people do. 28 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.120 I was out at the Home and Garden show up in the Cipher area, 29 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.000 which is still going on today by the way up at the Berry Center, 30 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.000 and just talking with a lot of different people that came by, came in 31 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.639 for the presentation, and then came by the booth or the table that I 32 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:39.639 had, and in visiting with people, I just realized that a lot of 33 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:45.879 things that you would think, well, you know, they they've worked through 34 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:49.280 that, or they figured that out, or they've heard that. People don't 35 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.560 always hear. You know. I've had my schedule out now for a good 36 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.199 while, my lawn care schedule, and there's still quite a few folks I 37 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.879 talked to us like they didn't know it was there, and so, wow, 38 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.400 Okay, I thought I talked about it too much, but apparently not 39 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.919 enough. But that schedule is designed to help you have success. And there's 40 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:14.520 actually two schedules on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com. One of 41 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.319 them is how to take care of your lawn. It's proper mowing schedules in 42 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:24.520 height, it's the proper watering and certainly proper fertilizing, and it gives organic 43 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:29.599 and synthetic options and it tells you what to use all the way across the 44 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.400 year. So when do you fertilize with? What is basically what it's about. 45 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.159 The other schedule is about what goes wrong in the lawn weeds, diseases, 46 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.759 and insects, and it tells you when do you expect side web worms 47 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.400 to maybe show up. If they're going to show up this year. They 48 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.479 kind of tend to be a hit and a miss. When does take our 49 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:53.560 root router brown patch controls? When do they need to be put down to 50 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.280 control those diseases? I cover those sort of things, and certainly with weeds 51 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.639 and weeds are always a challenging question because it's not a simple answer. You 52 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.159 know, people think, well, I'm going to put it something that says 53 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:10.960 it kills weeds on my weeds, and that's going to kill my weeds. 54 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.800 Well, not necessarily. There's grassy weeds, and there's broad leaf weeds. 55 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.040 There's weeds that are existing, and there's weeds that are not yet emerged from 56 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:26.120 seed yet. And so you select the product to fit the situation that you 57 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:31.399 have. But one thing that's true acrossword culture is our number one goal is 58 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:39.959 cultural management to avoid problems and to build a dense, healthy turf or a 59 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:46.879 healthy plant. So we don't just have grass that's out there and then we 60 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:53.560 run around killing whatever the problem is that shows up. What the better approach 61 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:56.639 is is to how do I grow a dense, healthy turf. That's my 62 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:02.160 first schedule. That's what's about when you do that to find that problems minimize. 63 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:06.399 There will still be an insect or disease or a weed that can cause 64 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.439 you problems, but you've cut down a whole lot of those problems. And 65 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:17.800 I think if I could just convey to you listening that getting a healthy plant 66 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:25.920 and establishing and maintaining and building a healthy plant is the number one goal that 67 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.800 you have, we would have a lot less problems that we have to deal 68 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:31.720 with. You don't want to be on a treadmill where every year you're having 69 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:35.399 to deal with this and that and the other. And a lot of problems 70 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:43.399 that we have in our lawns and landscapes are caused by weak plants. They're 71 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:49.040 caused by growing conditions that the plants are not healthy and strong. For example, 72 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.079 lawns last year went through one heck of a hot, dry summer, 73 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.439 lots of stress from that. I would expect take all root rot to be 74 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:03.160 much worse this year because it's an opportunist opportunist that really gets the upper hand 75 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:09.519 when a law is stressed. Our oaks went through a very dry, hot, 76 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:14.040 stressful time. I would expect hypoxylin canker for some of you that have 77 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:17.720 oaks, especially those of you with property outside in the countryside outside of town. 78 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.720 I would expect to see a lot of that this year because it's an 79 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:26.800 opportunist and when the tree is stressed, it moves in. And so our 80 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.879 number one goal is to create healthy plants. One of the ways we do 81 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:35.480 that in our lines, for example, is by providing fertilizer nutrients to sustain 82 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:41.600 good, healthy growth and density. Nitrovis has something called Superturf. It's their 83 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.519 silver bag nineteen four ten. Those are the three numbers nineteen four ten. 84 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.639 Half the nitrogen in that is going to release slowly over time, and that's 85 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.319 exactly what we would like because we want to feed that grass. Like the 86 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.000 grass takes up nutrients which is a little bit here and there, week by 87 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.920 week, day by day over time. It also has iron. If your 88 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.360 lawn looks a little on the yellowish shide, typically we see sort of patches 89 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:10.079 in the lawn that are they look like they're yellowing a little bit. That's 90 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:15.279 our deficiency and Superturf provides four percent iron for uniform growth and excellent color for 91 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.600 it. Now you can buy Superturf all over plantation Ace Hardware out there in 92 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:26.319 Richmond Rosenberg they carry Superturf I forty five North Area Hiding and Feed. On 93 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:30.759 Stubner Airline they have Superturf and then Bearings both the Bisonette and Westheimer locations. 94 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:35.079 Toward the Southwest, Bearings Hardware they have Superturf as well. It's not hard 95 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.439 to find, really easy to find. Well, I'm going to take a 96 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.000 little break here and we'll be back if you'd like to give us call seven 97 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.920 one three two one two K t R H. Welcome back to guarden Line. 98 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:49.040 Hey, it's good to have you with us today. What are we 99 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:53.560 going to talk about? I suspect we'll talk a little bit about turf and 100 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.079 weeds as we go through the day. I also think we might even talk 101 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.560 a little bit about trees. It is time we should be thinking about trees, 102 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.000 that's for sure. Vegetable gardens. I don't know. We can talk 103 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.560 about anything you like. Whenever you're looking for the kinds of products that you 104 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.360 hear me talk about on garden Line, I'll make it real easy for you. 105 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.439 Ace Hardware. Ace Hardware there's forty stores all over the Greater Houston area, 106 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.839 so you're going to find a store pretty close to you, if not 107 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.560 right across the street. ACE Hardware makes a point to carry the fertilizers, 108 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.399 the soil products that I talk about on garden Line. This yesterday, I 109 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:35.159 happened to swing by the Langham Creek ACE Hardware over there in the Cypress area 110 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.000 and had a chance to. I always like to stop in, you know, 111 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.919 just visit with the folks that are sponsors and things. Rick and Lacy 112 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.960 are the new owners over there, and boy, they just have a wonderful 113 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.759 little store. It's what you expect when you walk into an ACE, just 114 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.679 a wide variety of all kinds of things. I was up at Jones Road 115 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.799 recently too, just visiting with them. And when you go into an ACE, 116 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.960 it you find people that can help you, but you find every product 117 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.080 you need. I talk about all these fertilizers, they're there. Do you 118 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:11.519 need weed and disease and insect control and things, they're there. But so 119 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.360 much more is there. You just have to go in to look around and 120 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.080 see. It really is the place where you get whatever it is you need. 121 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.120 Now. For example, right now is fire ant time. I'm gonna 122 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.919 talk about fire ants a little bit later today, but the ACE has you 123 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:28.600 covered on all the different products that you would need to manage your fire ants. 124 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.200 Just go to ACE Hardware dot Com find the store locator, and that 125 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.240 makes it really easy to find what you're looking for because ACE is going to 126 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.720 have it. Let's go up to the Woodlands and let's visit this morning with 127 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.720 Bill. Hello, Bill, Oh, good morning, Skip, good morn. 128 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.559 I hope you're having a good day so far. I am so far. 129 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.919 We have a sago palm that has a lot of dead branches, some 130 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.639 branches that are green, and then some branches that are half and half. 131 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.799 And I'm trying to figure out that I can see. I figur were supposed 132 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.440 to cut off the dead ones, but what about the ones that are half 133 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:11.200 and a half? Yeah, so you want to leave green leaves on the 134 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.960 plant to provide carbohydrates to strengthen the plant and get it going good. If 135 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.879 you've got some other healthy green leaves on it, I'd cut those that are 136 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.399 half and half off because they're unsightly. If you don't have a lot of 137 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.799 other green let's leave them for now, get some new green on them, 138 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.080 and then take them off. Because the leaves, the green leaves fuel the 139 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.559 plant. They fuel growth and health and everything else. So we'd rather leave 140 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.120 what little is there. And so that's kind of how I would make that 141 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.000 decision. Bill. If you've got some green ones and take the old ones 142 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:48.159 off, Okay, we'll do. Thanks so very much, Hi Bill, 143 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.279 good luck the Woodlands. Appreciate your call very much. By the way, 144 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.360 up in the Woodlands area, I was swinging through across one oh five. 145 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.159 This is north of the Woodlands a little bit, but stumped in A and 146 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.519 A plants and produce, and I always like to stop in there because they 147 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.360 have so much in stock, lots of color, lots of plants and all 148 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.000 the things you want to go with it. They have the products. I 149 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.080 was checking out some of the microlife products they'd gotten in on a shipment up 150 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.840 there. A good selection of those, but they're going to carry a wide 151 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:22.799 variety of things you hear me talk about here on Guardenline. They got the 152 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:28.080 nitroposs and Nelson's in microlife. They have airloom soils products for the soil by 153 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.480 the bag. They have Nature's Way resources as well. I mean, it 154 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.480 just goes on and on. If you live up in the Lake Conro area 155 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.080 and you would like to have somebody come in and kind of spruce up the 156 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.279 landscape, little flower bed work and planting and cleaning out and things. Call 157 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.120 A and A and ask them about their landscape crew, you know, say 158 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.159 hey, i'd like to harm to come out and do that. That's what 159 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.679 they do. They're very, very good at it. And it's just another 160 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.600 service that you can get from A and A Plants and Produce on the east 161 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.279 side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. It's easy, easy, easy 162 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.919 to get by there. I mean seven days a week they're open nine to 163 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.039 five. So even today this afternoon would be a good time to go buy 164 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:18.000 an A plants. Let's see. I think we'll go out now to Faith 165 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:24.600 in Port Arthur. Hello Faith, Hello, Good morning Skip. I'm calling 166 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.600 about carbads that has invested in my garden. I don't want to use any 167 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.159 poison that my plants might pick up. I'd really like to use something that 168 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:41.039 I already have at my house. I thought about bulk balls, but decided 169 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.480 that might be poison. Can you help me, Well, everything in the 170 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.360 right quantity can be a poison. Just to kind of, you know, 171 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.240 clarify on that, even table salt and aspirin as a poison if if you 172 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.240 take the right amount of it, that's our connection is not good. You're 173 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.000 sounding for okay, is this any better? Can you hear me? Oh, 174 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.879 yes, okay, I must have turned my head to the side. 175 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:13.080 I'm just saying everything just about in nature and life is a poison, even 176 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.360 aspirin and table salt is a poison. I understand your desire not to needlessly 177 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.559 put out chemicals that may have environmental effects to people in the environment. I 178 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.759 don't know a crowd ad control that's labeled, and I'm not going to make 179 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:33.759 unlabeled recommendations on the air on guard line, and so you know, I 180 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.960 can't say we'll go mix up this concoction and put it in the hole. 181 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.639 They there are things that they will kill crowd ads, but they just it's 182 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.879 a misuse of the product, and it would fall in the category of what 183 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.200 you're thinking when you say the word they're poisons, and so well, stiff, 184 00:13:52.279 --> 00:14:00.320 I was thinking about pepper might be breaking shoulda or just trying something thought 185 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:07.200 I had hoped that you had heard a remedy such as that. Well, 186 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:16.120 no, I don't know. I don't in well, okay, I just 187 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.559 want to be careful here. You know, we're broadcasting out in a large 188 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:24.960 area and making recommendations that are not on the label. It's just not something 189 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.840 that that Well, if that's on something that works, I'll call back and 190 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:35.679 tell you about it. Okay, you want me to love you well that 191 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:41.919 that's that's all right. I would let's do this. I would call your 192 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:48.759 county Extension office. David Oates is out there in the Beaumont Port Arthur area 193 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.799 and he's a horticulturist. I would call him and see if he has some 194 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:58.960 ideas that would work out for that crowdad control. Okay, I'll do that. 195 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:05.399 Thank you, you bet, thank you. So just to kind of 196 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.720 be clear on things, the label the label on products is a law. 197 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:15.879 And misusing a product applying something that doesn't belong uh, you know it's not 198 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:18.879 labeled for that plant. Uh. There's a reason it's not labeled. And 199 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.120 it may not be that it's going to kill you if you put it on 200 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.039 the plant, but it may be it may be that it poses a human 201 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.639 risk. And and I'm just not gonna go online and say, oh, 202 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.960 I know that's not on the label. Just use this stuff and get rid 203 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:37.799 of them that way. Uh, it's just not it's not something that I'm 204 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.399 gonna do. Try to stay with the label and there's a reason that the 205 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.639 labels are there and whatnot. I understand the problem with crowded. I used 206 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.799 to tell people, well, you just need to import a bunch of folks 207 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.360 from South Louisiana come over here and and uh graze the ground, graze the 208 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.120 front yard, because we all know we love crowd eds and crowded season. 209 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.559 Unfortunately, those in your yard are not the kind you want to They're not 210 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.519 the size and what not that you want to eat. But it is kind 211 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:07.559 of a humorous thing. When I was a kid growing up, we would 212 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:15.279 we would use bacon on a string in little ditches under the roadways and stuff 213 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.519 to bring catch crowdads, to bring them in. But that was more sport 214 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:25.759 than harvesting food, that's for sure. I mentioned earlier that now's the time 215 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.200 to be thinking about your trees too, and we're going to be getting tree 216 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:33.039 calls before long, but now's the time people should be thinking about trees. 217 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:37.519 And here's why we got these spring storms that come through and that can do 218 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.960 damage break limbs. By the time we get the end of the year, 219 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:47.360 we're in hurricane season and anything you do to strengthen that tree by proper pruning 220 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:51.559 is important. Affordable tree service, they know how to do things. Martin 221 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.240 spoon More has been doing this for a very long time here in the Greater 222 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.840 Houston area, and Martin stays busy because he does a good job and people 223 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:03.799 know that. And as a result of you would like to have Martin come 224 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:04.759 out and do your trees, you need to give him a call, tell 225 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:11.480 him that you are calling that your guarden line listener. He'll give you kind 226 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.640 of move you up into the front of the line. He does give a 227 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.799 preference to the folks that listen to guarden Line. I appreciate that. And 228 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.839 what I would do is hav him come out for a consultation. A consultation's 229 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.720 one hundred and fifty dollars. He takes a look at everything, sees what's 230 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.279 going on. There may be things you didn't even know to call him about 231 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.599 that he'll see out there. And if you decide to hire him for work, 232 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:36.079 that one pin fifty goes right into the cost of hiring. So that's 233 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.559 that is just a way to make sure you're serious about it before he comes 234 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:45.720 out and takes a look. Martin prunes properly. He only prunes when it's 235 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.720 necessary. He doesn't just create hat racks out of your trees that ruins them 236 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:55.160 permanently, like a lot of people do. You can call Martin at seven 237 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.480 one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven three, six, 238 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:03.720 nine nine and two six sixty three, or go to his email. It's 239 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:10.640 afftree Service dot com. Aff tree Service dot com. Take care of those 240 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.359 trees. They are a huge value to your property, and they provide the 241 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.400 shade for that blazing summer heat that's coming. There's just a lot of reasons 242 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.839 to take good care of them. Don't just assume that they're going to be 243 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:30.039 okay. I suggest that because I've seen a lot of I've seen a lot 244 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.799 of folks I'll drive down the road. I can't help but look, just 245 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:38.000 being a plant person, I just see trees and just instantly I'm thinking, 246 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.480 Okay, that needs pruning, or that's a bad pruning job, or why 247 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.200 did they plant that tree right there? Or wow, that's a good one. 248 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.680 It look how beautiful it is. Somebody must taken care of it. 249 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.119 And it's just kind of automatically what I do is I'm driving down the road 250 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:56.359 looking at plants and things, and it is important. It is important to 251 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.559 take the most valuable single plant in your landscape and not take care of it. 252 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.559 It's important to take care of it. That's that's just the way it 253 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.680 is. If you're thinking about putting in a garden this year, or if 254 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:12.839 you're already working on doing that, you need to consider the products that Nature's 255 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:18.039 Way provides for enhancing the soil, because the soil is where it all starts. 256 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:23.759 When you create a soil that is well drained, when you create a 257 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:30.680 soil that has high levels of organic content, organic matter, the microbial activity. 258 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.880 When you create a soil that has all the nutrients your plant needs, 259 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:37.039 the plants are going to thrive and you're giving them a head start. You're 260 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.359 setting them up for success. And Nature's Way resources they build that kind of 261 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.960 soil, they make that kind of soil. Listen, John Ferguson's been making 262 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:52.079 soil for a long long time, basically making compost, taking organic matter, 263 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.440 taking it through the process the proper way, taking the time to do it 264 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.000 right, and that's important. Anybody can pile up a bunch of woodchips, 265 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:04.279 wait until they turn brown and then sell it. That is not quality compost 266 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:10.839 or quality molts or any other compost related product that might be out there. 267 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:15.960 Nature's way provides. Actually, they were the originators of rose soil. They 268 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.519 were originators of the leaf more compost. And now's a good time to put 269 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.759 leaf mold compost out on your yard. If you've got a yard that's kind 270 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.319 of thinning and needs a little boost, put some leaf more compost out. 271 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:34.079 I was talking to somebody up in Conro or not Conra, Cyprus yesterday and 272 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:38.599 they had a problem with that. Just theyd overfertilized through the years and just 273 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.480 had grown a lot of runners and it was a thick thatch. And one 274 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:47.400 of the things I suggested, in addition to air rating is top dressing with 275 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:51.640 leaf mold compost. Anything you do like that's going to be helpful to the 276 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.279 lawn and help bring it back, and we do need to bring our lawns 277 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:59.480 back from the stresses that they just went through. Compost has many benefits, 278 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:04.559 including helping to deter disease problems like brown patch that we might have. Well, 279 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.960 I'm gonna take a little break here. I'm going to pass the baton 280 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.839 over to Nikki for the news. If you'd like to give us a call. 281 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.480 Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two 282 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:22.119 one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to guarden Line on what is 283 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.680 going to be a beautiful Sunday. I just am, I really am excited 284 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:33.200 and appreciate the fact that we've had a beautiful sunny weekend, A great weekend 285 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:34.599 for getting out in gardening. It was rainy last week. I got a 286 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.440 little rain coming back. I want we get out of the weekend. But 287 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.480 wow, this is I love it this way. I hate it the opposite 288 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.160 where you know, it's sunny during the week, but got to go to 289 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.319 work and get things done and then you come home on the weekends and it's 290 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.240 just gone to rain. That's no fun. But anyway, it's been a 291 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.880 great one, so I think that's a wonderful thing. Hey, have you 292 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.359 ever been to Buchanan Plants, Buchenants, Native Plants and the Heights bu Cannan's 293 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.960 Native Plants specializes in natives, and I'm telling you, I've never seen a 294 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:12.039 selection of natives like Buchanans Plants have. They have a very wide variety of 295 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:17.160 things all kinds of cool stuff. They even have the little red native columbine. 296 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.240 Did you know that there's a columbine native to Central Texas on the little 297 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:25.759 creeks and seeps through Central Texas. It grows well in a bright shade and 298 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.599 it recedes, So that's kind of cool. You buy one and you'll see 299 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.559 it again next spring when it comes out with its little bluish green leaves. 300 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.559 Very pretty, very pretty plant. They've got things like cone flower. They 301 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.839 have things like the rude Beekia, for example, the coral berry, lemon 302 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.960 bee, balm, golden rod, greg grey golden rod, actually black eyed. 303 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.799 It's just a wonderful place to shop. There's always something going on cool 304 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:56.599 at Buchanan's Plants. Right now, vugenbilias and mandavillas are looking awesome, and 305 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.920 I think everybody ought to have a mandavilla on their patio. It is a 306 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.400 vine that is just beautiful. It does well here. Just go by there 307 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.480 and take a look at them. Don't forget. Next Saturday the thirtieth, 308 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.640 at eight thirty am, they're going to have their Easter egg hunt at Buchanan's 309 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:17.079 Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights for kids that are ten years old and 310 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.400 under, so make sure and show up for that. Oh. By the 311 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:23.440 way, they also just got in the first shipment of jungle Jack's Plumeria, 312 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.319 the Hawaiian lay flower plume area. You got to have one of those. 313 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:32.480 Two. Let's head out to Conro and we're going to talk to Dennis. 314 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:36.680 Hello, Dennis, how you doing. I'm well, sir, How are 315 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.599 you? I'm all right? All right? How can we help? Well? 316 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.480 I got a weed problem. Help maybe tell me how to kill it. 317 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:51.519 It's a kind of a slender leaf. The main thing of it. 318 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:56.440 It grows like one stem that goes straight up and has the little seed black 319 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.200 seat pods that shoot off from the top. Is there anything that kills that? 320 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.359 Or do you have to dig it out? I need to see a 321 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.920 picture of that done us. I can't. There's several weeds that could kind 322 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:12.000 of fit that description. Uh do what the leaves are are more grass like? 323 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:18.519 Is that what you're saying? Yeah, it kind of resembles the Saint 324 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:25.119 Augustine grass. Okay, but it grows very fast and very tall. Yeah. 325 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:27.559 Let me. I'm gonna put you on hold when we're done here, 326 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:34.319 and uh get my email from Josh and send me some pictures from you know, 327 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.519 kind of standing up and taking a picture of the lawn, but then 328 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.519 also getting down as close as you can and making sure it's in sharp focus 329 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.720 and I can cover it that way. That way, I'm not sending you 330 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:52.759 for the wrong product. Okay, all right, if you got you can 331 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.240 get it to me here when the sun comes up a little daylight. If 332 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.480 I can get it done by ten, I'll try to reply to you this 333 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:03.000 today sounds good. Thank you, all right, thanks a lot. I 334 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.559 appreciate that. Yeah, the weeds a lot of different kinds of weeds, 335 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.480 and it's important to get a good id so that you apply the right product 336 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.559 to control them. And there's a lot of products out there. Each has 337 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:22.079 its strength. There's no perfect herbicide that kills everything that you wanted to kill 338 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:23.640 and doesn't hurt anything you don't want it to go. There's no such a 339 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.319 thing as that, but we can definitely direct to the proper ones. By 340 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:33.559 the way I mentioned fertilizing your lawn, it's also important to make sure your 341 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.599 lawn bank account of nutrients includes the trace minerals that are needed for growth, 342 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.680 that are essential for growth. That's why we put out azmite. Azamite is 343 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:47.640 a trace mineral supplement mind in Utah that has those minerals that are needed in 344 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.559 tiny amounts, but that are essential. And that's hard for people to get 345 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:52.359 their head around. You know, it's like, well, if they just 346 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.079 need a little of them, how important can that be? Of what it's 347 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.559 essential. So if you took a plant and you could take some soil and 348 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:08.519 remove all every molecule of something like selenium or zinc or iron or manganese, 349 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.960 those kind of nutrients, you can remove every molecule of one of those, 350 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.599 the plant couldn't grow because they're essential. So we don't need a lot of 351 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.200 them, but we need them in the soil and azemite. That is exactly 352 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.160 what it's about. You can do it when you're fertilized. Just don't put 353 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.039 them in the same hopper because it's different particle sizes and you wouldn't get an 354 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.839 even spread. So go through the yard with your hopper and your fertilizer and 355 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.400 go through the yard with a hopper of asmite. You can do asimite anytime 356 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:38.759 a year, but you know, if you're out fertilizing, maybe now would 357 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:41.559 be a good time to go ahead and get that done. I'm going to 358 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.160 head now out to Rosenberg and we're going to talk to Tommy. Hello Tommy, 359 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:52.160 Yes, good working shirt. Kind is a new construction home. They 360 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.480 it's looks like some kind of clay. I don't know that the soil is 361 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:03.759 filter somewhere, but Sarga Saint Augustine sad. Okay, I kind of want 362 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:08.880 to get your take on new grass. What might be a good starter fertilizer 363 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.720 for it? How long ago was it planted? About a week? About 364 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:17.920 a week ago? Okay, So the most important thing for you to do 365 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:21.720 right now is to make sure that it's watered every day with a small amount 366 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.119 of every small amount. You don't have to turn it into a swamp, 367 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.960 but just because it's going to take it a couple of weeks to get some 368 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:34.279 roots down to a point where it's resilient. More resilient after a week or 369 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:40.400 every day or a week or so, you can go to a maybe every 370 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.680 other day, but just kind of watch your grass after it has been in 371 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.359 for I would say at least two weeks. Right now, it's still cool 372 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.640 and Saint Augustine is not actively growing. It's growing, but it's it's slowly 373 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:57.599 waking up kind of like I do. Y. Yeah, and so after 374 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:02.039 at least two weeks, maybe a three week at this time of year, 375 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:08.519 you can do your fertilization and whether whatever approach you want, organic or synthetic. 376 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:14.519 I have them both on my lawn care schedule. Yeah, yeah, 377 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.599 yeah, Okay, Well gardening with skip dot com. That's the website and 378 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.920 they're free to print, download, look at online, and it tells you 379 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:27.920 exactly what to use. When I would begin with a we're kind of at 380 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:33.319 a point now where the early greenup with this new lawn. By the time 381 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.880 you're going to start fertilizing, I would just begin using the summer fertilizers that 382 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.039 we have on the schedule, and those would be things that gradually release the 383 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:47.839 nutrients over time, will really show yeah, better way to go. You're 384 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:51.799 out there in the Rosenberg area. You know, you've got a hardware stores, 385 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:55.599 the plantation aces out there in that area, and they're going to carry 386 00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:02.720 those things. So whether it's Nelson's nitroposs or or microlife or whatever, that 387 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:04.000 you're going to be able to find them right out in your area. A 388 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:10.039 little bit less on the pond ash. Yeah, it's kind of a quite 389 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:15.079 a bit of nitrogen percentage wise, very little phosphorus percentage wise the middle number, 390 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.039 and a medium amount of the third number. Okay, we say three 391 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:23.640 one two four one two. But the slow releases, they you can have 392 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.640 a little higher nitrogen, and that's okay because it's going to take a month 393 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:33.519 or two or three to have all that released into the soil pressure. Let 394 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.400 me, let me give you a real quick way to know how much to 395 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.279 put it out. Whatever fur measure you buy, Take the first number that's 396 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:45.279 nitrogen, and divide it into one hundred and that's how many that's how many 397 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:51.519 pounds for thousand square feet. So like, yeah, So for example, 398 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:57.960 U Nitrofoss and Nelson's both have a fertilizer that's either nineteen or twenty two percent 399 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.440 nitrogen. So we're going to all that twenty twenty goes into one hundred and 400 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.079 five times. You need five times of either of the five pounds of either 401 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:10.400 of those fertilizers per thousands plus. That gets you in the ballpark. You 402 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:12.640 can go a little higher than that with the slow release, and that it'll 403 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:18.200 be well, that sounds good in terms of herbersidn or pest a sign any 404 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.920 thoughts around those guys, I wouldn't use those right now. Let's get that 405 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.720 grass growing. Some of the products can be stressful to the grass, or 406 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.240 can I give it rooting or other things. I would just hold off. 407 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.559 You've got new sod laid out there. I think you ought to be okay, 408 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.039 sure, all right, Well appreciate it. Yeah, long time whister. 409 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.960 Yeah, I guess I appreciate you. Glad you did. Thanks a 410 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.640 lot, Tommy, appreciate that. We're gonna take a little break here. 411 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.720 Our phone number is seven one three two one two K t R H. 412 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.079 Give us a call, Josh. We'll get you on the board and we'll 413 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.000 talk to you when we come back. Okay, that's enough. I tell 414 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.599 you what. It is a challenge to find a song where you have both 415 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.000 the odling and chicken sounds in the same saw. But we did it here 416 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.920 on garden Line. I was just talking with Tommy and Rosenberg about he just 417 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.839 put in the brand new sowd and I said, well, hold off on 418 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:15.119 the weed control right now. If you have an established SOD and you've got 419 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:19.960 weeds in it. Nitrofoss fifteen five to ten, containing the ingredient trimac will 420 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:25.119 help nail those weeds. You want to wet the wet the weeds, don't. 421 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:27.440 You don't have to water and soak the lawn. Just wet the foliage 422 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:32.200 of the weeds. Put the product out. It will soak into the tissues 423 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.400 of those weeds. That trimec product will move in and kill the weeds that 424 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.759 are there now. And then after a day or two, just go ahead 425 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.359 and water it in. Get that fifteen to five to ten down in. 426 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.519 It's kind of a quick release. It's like our early green up. That's 427 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.319 exactly what it is. And it will help kick that lawn off and get 428 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.960 it to a good start. And it's as simple as that. That's one 429 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.559 way to deal with those broad leaved weeds that come in. And you can 430 00:31:55.599 --> 00:32:00.359 find night foss products a lot of different places. They are widely available throughout 431 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.960 the area. For example, you can find them at Enchended Forest down there 432 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.400 in Richmond Rosenberg. You can find them at Growers Outlet up in Willis. 433 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.960 You can find them at RCW Nursery, Tomball Parkway where it comes in to 434 00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.319 Beltway eight, and you can find them at Plants for All Seasons. You 435 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:20.279 know, plants for All Seasons is the Garden Center on Luetta. You probably 436 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.119 have been by there. If not, you need to go by. They've 437 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:29.119 been around since nineteen seventy three in the Flowerty family. They are incredibly knowledgeable 438 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:32.119 about what it takes to grow plants successfully. Here. They know the problems, 439 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:36.759 they know when those problems occur. They know the best plants, and 440 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:39.200 they sell the best plants. They don't sell you something that isn't going to 441 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.240 grow here. When you go in, you can take a sample, you 442 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.079 can take a picture, you can get help with it, and that alone 443 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:51.359 is worth the price of admission. As they say, having somebody that knows 444 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:53.599 what they're talking about that's not going to send you home with something that doesn't 445 00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:58.720 work that is important. You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons 446 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.000 dot com. You can also just give them a call two eight, one, 447 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:07.599 three, seven six, sixteen forty six. They are loaded up with 448 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:12.400 color and vegetables and shrubs and rods, everything you might we want on the 449 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.160 plant Right now, you're going to find it. Plants for All Seasons. 450 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:19.799 They're just north of Luetta off Tombo Parkway to forty nine, So if you're 451 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:24.319 going north toward Tomball from the Houston when you you exit Luetta crossover Luetta and 452 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.400 they're right there on the right hand side, really easy to get to. 453 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.400 Well, I tell you what we are going to go to visit with Louis 454 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:38.079 now in West Houston. Hello, Louis good. How are you? I'mll, 455 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:43.799 sir, I'm will. How are you good? Good? So this 456 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:49.559 is with their loom soils. Yes, we and you and I were talking 457 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:53.200 the other day about something going on in the green industry and I appreciate you 458 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:58.839 calling because I want folks to hear about this and I'll turn it discussion over 459 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:07.359 to your air. Thank you for the platform for me to inform everybody that 460 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:12.199 listens to Garden Line. So here's what I wanted to inform everybody. Off 461 00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:21.559 the green industry has landscape supply companies such as I just give you examples and 462 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:27.760 named CNMLS, the company I worked for Warren's Broken Mulch. There's companies all 463 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:35.760 over town that sell gravel to the retail market to the listeners. If a 464 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:40.239 listener or somebody just that doesn't live in the Garden Line goes on Facebook Marketplace 465 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:46.880 and looks for a deal on an example of the product would be gravel or 466 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:53.639 sowd and you find a deal that seems too good to be true. And 467 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:59.920 this is the prime example. Let's say you ordered seven qv cars of black 468 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.079 start gravel. The retail price and the competitive price in the market would be 469 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:08.119 about fifteen hundred dollars for selling QB yards of that gravel. But you find 470 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:13.719 this deal on Facebook marketplace and they tell you we will deliver it for three 471 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:19.360 hundred and twenty dollars to your driveway. It's too good to be true because 472 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:25.320 it's a total scam. The people you're dealing with are criminals that have defrauded 473 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.679 other people and have stolen their credit card numbers or have done identity theft to 474 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:36.320 get credit card numbers issued to them with limits, you know, credit card 475 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:42.000 limits, and they call the landscape supply company, they place the order, 476 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:50.000 they play with a fraudulent credit card, and the transaction goes through normal and 477 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.920 then the product gets delivered to the homeowner. The homeowner thinks, wow, 478 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.639 I really got a good deal. The product is being delivered by a landscape 479 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:05.119 supply company, and the owner then pays the camera the criminal through zell, 480 00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:10.000 Vemo, cash app or PayPal or They even say, go to Walmart and 481 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:13.840 make it pozzit on this, you know, on one of these apps. 482 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.239 And a few days later or a few weeks later, the credit card charge 483 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.880 drops or gets red flagged as fraudulent then drops, and the landscape supply company 484 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:28.280 is out of the money and out of all the work to source that product, 485 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:34.159 to send that product to this figtitious criminal customer. So the end user 486 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:38.159 of the actual product, the gravel or the sod never knew that they were 487 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:45.159 aiding and supporting a criminal organization. Why this came about? And why why 488 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:51.400 I found out about this, this this you know fraud. Back in July 489 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.280 of twenty twenty three, I got a phone call from within order. I 490 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:59.960 thought CNM MOLT was closer to the job site, so I called actually an 491 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.320 emotion. I said, hey, can you deliver this Instead of delivering it 492 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.119 from from sixty miles away, let's go ahead and take it from three miles 493 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:09.039 away. And she said, no, we've been scammed by these people. 494 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:15.840 And I started calling around and I found a trend that almost every landscape supply 495 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.559 company had been scammed. Wow. And I started investigating this, and I 496 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:28.440 figured a lot of things out about the whole fraud, and authorities have not 497 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.960 helped us. In the landscape supply industry, credit card companies can care less. 498 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.519 Zell doesn't care, and so I decided to take it to take a 499 00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:44.639 kind of a step forward and investigate this and try to crack down and try 500 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.000 to prevent this fraud from happening. But it continues to happen, and as 501 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:53.039 the season starts evolving, then these criminals get more active and people are going 502 00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:58.800 to start, you know, aiding this criminal activity. Well, that's your 503 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:01.840 advice is good, but if it sounds too good to be true, it 504 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:06.760 probably isn't true. And that we find out a lot in life. But 505 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.199 the scope of this is pretty large. Though this didn't happen just a few 506 00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:15.840 times, you know, the scope of this is in the hundreds of thousands 507 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:22.679 of dollars or millions, and that is not an exaggeration. We have personally 508 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.719 as a company been hit by it, and we've probably lost out twenty thousand 509 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.559 dollars. When I spoke to Ashley Cnemoti is of one of the prime examples. 510 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:36.239 They've lost like fifteen thousand dollars. Other companies have been hit by thirty 511 00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:43.760 thousand dollars and so forth. So yeah, there's a lot of honest sellers 512 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:49.199 on Facebook Marketplace in this marketing Houston, but there's always that bad apple that 513 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:53.039 ruts everything out. And just be cautious if you're buying stuff on Facebook marketplace, 514 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:59.039 be very cautious because there's a lot of criminals that will take advantage of 515 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:02.159 the situation and we'll defraud us as a landscape of that company. That's that's 516 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:06.519 good. Well, man, I appreciate you, know, you providing that 517 00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:10.079 information and everybody listening. All you have to do. You hear me talk 518 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:15.960 about some excellent soil yards, excellent compost providers here throughout the Houston area. 519 00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:19.719 If you see something that looks too good to be true, to just give 520 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.039 them a call and just check in on it, because they're probably going to 521 00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:29.079 use some soil yard, some industry person to try to be part of the 522 00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:30.320 scam. And Luis, I appreciate that. Hey, you and I are 523 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.559 both going to be down at Siena Mulch next Saturday, aren't we. We 524 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.719 will be at CNA Molch next Saturday. It's going to be a total blast. 525 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:43.320 I know. Actually and Corney have been planning this for quite a while 526 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:47.000 and They always make it very fun for everybody that attends and visits, So 527 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:52.199 make sure you know, take some time and go go visit with Siena Mulch, 528 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:54.800 with all the vendors that are going to be there. I will be 529 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.320 giving up a bunch of stuff away, so you will be giving up sure 530 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.719 it will be, sure, will be Yeah, it's Jay White from Texas 531 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.000 Gardener Magazine will be out there. We're gonna have the OMG baked potato food 532 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:07.880 truck. That's a good one. By the way. I'll be giving away 533 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:14.440 stuff good Nelson and heirloom and medina and all kinds of things. But hey, 534 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.440 thanks for calling in. I appreciate that, and I think it's important 535 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:21.440 that people are made aware of it. So and I appreciate your work. 536 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:28.960 One more kid. As a kid, I always wanted to learn how to 537 00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:32.519 yodeling, do yodeling, and I can never do it. Yeah, well 538 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.239 now I can do it. Well all right, thanks so much, thank 539 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.199 you, thank you. Take care. Uh yeah, I'll be at Cena 540 00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.079 Maltz. Where is Cienamultch For those of you who have been hiding under a 541 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.800 rock, Well it's on FM five twenty one down Roach Sharon Texas, just 542 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.159 just north of Roach Sharon. Here's what you need to do. Go to 543 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:58.840 Sienna Mulch dot com. Sienna Multch dot com. That's the website. You 544 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.519 can find the phone number, you can find the location of it. Next 545 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:07.000 Saturday, I'll be there. This will be going on from ten am to 546 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.039 two pm. From ten am to two pm, and I'll be there as 547 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.599 soon as I can get there out of the after the radio show, and 548 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.719 we'll be giving away a lot of cool stuff. So again, I definitely 549 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:21.880 want to put that Ciena Maltz visit on your calendar. Hey, it's time 550 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:24.599 for another break. I think we're about to hit the top of the news 551 00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:28.960 and music should start playing here any minute. Now. There we go. 552 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.320 You're listening to Garden Line. And first of all, I want to thank 553 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.719 the folks up at the Cyprus Home and Garden Show for having us up there 554 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.320 yesterday. That was a blast. I always love to get to visit with 555 00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:45.360 listeners eye to eye. Next Saturday is Ciena Moltz. I'll be there from 556 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:52.239 eleven thirty to one thirty and I'll be giving away samples from ASMI from Nelson, 557 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.760 plant food from heirloom soils from Medina. We've got a lot of good 558 00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.039 stuff to provide for you out there. We'll be there to your gardening questions 559 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.559 too. As in all appearances, you can bring samples, you can bring 560 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.800 pictures. I don't know. Think of me as a statue of liberty. 561 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:12.199 Bring me. You're tired, you're sick, you're huddled. Your disease, 562 00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:17.119 your insect infested masses are very good. Yearning to breathe free, very good. 563 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:21.920 That was almost poetic. Pikiladi named Emma Lazareth came up with that. 564 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.440 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 565 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:37.159 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Richter. 566 00:42:37.320 --> 00:43:08.320 It's just watching. As in the thumbs taking not a sign. Welcome 567 00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.519 to guard Line. Hey, it's good to have you listening today. I'm 568 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.000 happy to tell you that we are going to help you have a more bountiful 569 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:20.920 garden and a more beautiful landscape if you just follow with us and make some 570 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.440 notes. You've heard me say this before. There's no such thing as a 571 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:29.320 brown thumb. There's an uninformed thumb, and we are informing thumbs all over 572 00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:32.960 the Greater Houston area this morning, so that you can have success. It's 573 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.920 just a matter of doing the right things. The reason Grandma seemed to have 574 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:42.559 a green thumb and everything she touched grew, I wasn't any magic. It 575 00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.199 was just Grandma was doing things that plants like her to do. She was 576 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.719 taking care of them in ways they like to be taken care of, and 577 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.840 so on. And you can do that same thing yourself. Out in the 578 00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:59.039 landscapes, our warm season weeds are starting to germinate and we are looking at 579 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:04.800 future weed issues in your lawn. One thing that's a problem with this is 580 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.639 with the warm season weeds is that by the time they show up big enough 581 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:12.719 to whear, oh I got a weed problem, it is too hot to 582 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:17.400 put out most of the broad leaf post emergent weed control products. So yeah, 583 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:21.599 we have something that will kill that weed, but it will also really 584 00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:24.719 hurt your Saint Augustine and the temperatures that are of that period of time. 585 00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:30.360 So it's better to just prevent them in the first place, and barricade from 586 00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:35.039 nitrofoss is a product for doing just that. Barricade controls broad leaf weeds, 587 00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:39.400 it also controls grassy weeds. When I say controls, I mean prevents them. 588 00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:45.840 It's a pre emergent before the weeds emerge. So you're putting barricade down 589 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:47.920 not because you see weeds, but because you know they're coming. And I'm 590 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:52.440 telling you they're coming. We have two big seasons here, warm season, 591 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:54.639 cool season. There's a set of weeds for each one. Now you can 592 00:44:54.679 --> 00:45:00.239 find barricade. It's just available all over allspa Ace in the Woodland carries barricade. 593 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:05.679 You can find it at Plants for all seasons on just northwest on Tomball 594 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:07.480 Parkway area. You heard me talk about that a minute ago. And out 595 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:12.519 in Brennam Plants and things is another place where you can get barricade and other 596 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.559 nitrofoss products. Make sure to follow the label watered in with just a little 597 00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:20.519 bit of water to move it into the soil where it does its work. 598 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.000 That is a very important step when you're going to use a product like that. 599 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:31.159 I was shopping around for some different kinds of plants that you know, 600 00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:35.719 there's always a new plant that I don't have and that I want. Salvia 601 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:40.400 is my favorite genera of plants, and it's hard for a horticulturists to pick 602 00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:45.159 a favorite plant, and so I decided to just pick a favorite genera and 603 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:50.800 that's Salvius. I just love them. Salvias. Some attract hummingbirds, Salvias 604 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:53.960 can attract pollinators. Salvias go through our heat and laugh at the humidity of 605 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:59.760 the Southeast Texas. They just have a lot of wonderful features. Or Salvia 606 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:02.280 is the get up chest high. There's salvias that stay down low, low, 607 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.639 and it just it just gives you a lot of options. And that's 608 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:10.960 one reason why I like those. Savvia ger Nitka is one of my favorite. 609 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:15.239 Is it gets taller and it typically is going to have purple flowers or 610 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.079 a bluish flower. I bought one the other day that had a little bit 611 00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.119 of a kind of a fishia tint on the end of the purple flowers, 612 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.320 kind of different. Hummingbirds love those. They'll put up with a little bit 613 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.400 of shade. That's good. A bright shade, they'll put up with a 614 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:34.039 little bit. And most flowering plants don't like to be put in the shade. 615 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:37.880 They want sun to get the carbohydrates to make the flowers. Best. 616 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:39.679 One that you might want to consider, and where do you get these kinds 617 00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:45.480 of things. Well, they're available at our home local mom and pop if 618 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:50.000 you want to put it that way. Garden centers out in Kingwood. There's 619 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:52.320 the Warren's Garden Center, There's Kingwood Garden Center. And by the way, 620 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.480 Warrens in Kingwood have dropped their prices and you need to check it out very 621 00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.519 they have really dropped their prices on a lot of things. They're loaded with 622 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.960 bougainvillias. You can get salvia's out there too. Of course, they have 623 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.840 those herbs and vegetables and so on. By the way, if you're going 624 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:09.880 to plant quite a few vegetables, you got to just buy a flat because 625 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:15.159 you get an extra discount when you buy a flat of eighteen plants, and 626 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.280 you can mix and match. So maybe you have an egg plant, some 627 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:22.599 peppers, some tomatoes. You see what I'm saying. You can mix and 628 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.760 match to get those eighteen and get that extra discount. Really beautiful, beautiful 629 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:35.039 things include Hollywood hibiscus, mendavillas. They have all kinds of color like kalladiums 630 00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:39.119 for the shade at Warren's and Kimwall Garden Center out there in Kingwood. Make 631 00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:45.000 your place burst with color this summer. That's something we should be trying to 632 00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.519 do, and we have plants that can take us into the summer. We're 633 00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:51.119 going to head out to Katie and talk to Sean. Hello, Sean, 634 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.039 Hey, good morning, Skip. How you doing today? I'm well, 635 00:47:54.159 --> 00:48:00.880 thank you. So I have San Augustine here and Katie ticks is. I 636 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:07.440 had actually quite a bit weed on it and I threw down the we donator 637 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:15.559 from Nelson Nelson. I do have a question though, is there any overseating 638 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.960 I can do to prevent weed next time? What can I do to choke 639 00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:27.280 off the weeds? Yeah? Yeah, you can put out a pre emergent 640 00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:32.440 herbicide ahead of the weeds sprouting season. If you go to my website gardening 641 00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:38.119 with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, I've got my two lawn 642 00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:43.199 care schedules on there and on the on the one that deals with pests, 643 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:47.400 diseases, and weeds. What you'll see is that you put a pre emergent 644 00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.480 out for weeds in October, maybe early November, but I would prefer to 645 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.639 get it out in October, and then you do that again in late January 646 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:01.559 through February and the fall all application is for all the cool season weeds. 647 00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:06.400 That's what you're seeing right now in your yard. They're still around, but 648 00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:09.599 they're about to go out. And then the spring one we put down for 649 00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:14.719 warm season weeds. Now, if you haven't applied it yet, you can 650 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.360 still apply a pre emergent herbicide to your lawns. If you did it in 651 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.079 the spring, don't do it again, but you can go ahead and do 652 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.679 that now to prevent the weeds that are going to be coming up. Okay, 653 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:31.119 but is there any like like a grass seeds I can oh, I 654 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:36.960 mixed it with sant augustine. You know it's kind of centerpede or tall fisty 655 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:42.039 because I'm trying to have more denser grass. Uh. And what do you 656 00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.039 have in your lawn right now? What kind of grass? Augustine Augustine? 657 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:49.239 Yeah? I would you could plug in Saint Augustine, but there's not a 658 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:54.679 seeded version, and I wouldn't recommend, Like fescue does not do well here, 659 00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.920 centipede, I don't think you're going to be happy with the results of 660 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.320 it in a lawn here that you can plant that one from seed, but 661 00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:07.800 I wouldn't recommend mixing it into your Saint Augustine. Okay, so just stick 662 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.400 with it, Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine, and use my other schedule that 663 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.800 tells you about fertilizing, and if you will mow it regularly, and if 664 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:22.880 you will just continue to provide a release of nutrients through through the season, 665 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.559 you can get that thing back in shape by the end of this season, 666 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:30.000 for sure. Even if there's sprigs of grass within a foot of each other, 667 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:32.280 you can probably fill it in all the way by midsummer. Okay, 668 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.199 we'll do that. I'll print out the paper and stick it on my fridge. 669 00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:37.280 Thank you. Good luck with that, you bet, thank you, 670 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.760 and you're out there. And Katie, by the way, all the stuff 671 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.280 that's in my schedule is available at your Katie as hardware. Out there, 672 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:49.800 they carry all of these things I'm talking about. All right, Yes, 673 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:52.360 that's where I go. A right, good, thank you, appreciate that 674 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:54.880 time for a little break. We'll be right back the number seven one three 675 00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:00.440 two one two, Katie. Alright, if you've got a question, welcome 676 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.719 back to the garden line on a Sunday that is going to turn out to 677 00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:07.800 be absolutely gorgeous. We still look outside, it's dark, by the way, 678 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:09.000 if your neighbor's lights aren't on. Go bang on the door, tell 679 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:14.119 them they're missing garden Line. They will rise up and call you blessed someday, 680 00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.519 maybe not this morning. They call you something else this morning. For 681 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:23.159 those of you up in the Navisota College Station area, all through a Brian, 682 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:28.639 all through that region up there, we're talking about towns like Rones, 683 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.840 Prairie, Anderson's bead Eyes. I oh lah, Yes, there is a 684 00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:36.800 town called i Ola, Schiro and Richards. You have a hometown feed store 685 00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:39.840 and it's called Grimes County Feet for those in the neighborhoods of King Oaks and 686 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:43.760 mire Woods. By the way, I loved I've driven through your neighborhood. 687 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:46.760 I love that place out there. This is your hometown feed store and they 688 00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:51.400 carry the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line. You're going to find those 689 00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:57.440 brands there. You can also find seeds and tools and sprayers and pest control 690 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:01.079 things for your lawn and other things. Grimes County Feed is just a one 691 00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:04.760 stop shop. Of course, they have quality feeds. That's a whole nother 692 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:07.719 thing. For those of you who live out in the country and you have 693 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.960 a pond, they have the supplies for taking care of your pond. They 694 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:15.239 also stock fish about twice a quarter. I believe you just call them up 695 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:20.639 and ask about that, but they they're involved in making that available. So 696 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.000 if you'd like to stock your pond Grimes County Feed, where are they? 697 00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:28.360 Well, they're on State Highway thirty, Carlos, Texas, two miles west 698 00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:31.119 of two forty four. State Highway thirty, Carlos, two miles west of 699 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:35.599 two forty four. Stop by, say hello to the roy family, and 700 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.840 I think you will find out why I like Grimes County Feed so much when 701 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.920 you go and visit, see the way you're treated, see the products you 702 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.960 can get there. We're going to go out to the heights now and talk 703 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:52.719 to Steve. Hello, Steve stay Skift. Two questions. You were talking 704 00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:59.280 about this new generation nugenics or something yesterday that's kind of like specially made for 705 00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:07.400 transplant stuff. Yeah, what Genesis. Go ahead, It's called Nelson's Fertilizer 706 00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:13.400 produces Genesis. Okay, it's Genesis by Nelson. And where's the closest place 707 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:15.840 I can get that? Do they have that over there on Eleventh Street, 708 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.760 like at B Cannons or something or you know? Yeah, I would call 709 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:25.079 them and see they probably carry I can't remember, you know, having the 710 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:30.440 last time I was at no the cannon's checking for that particular one. Uh. 711 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.559 The next thing I would probably do would be to, you know, 712 00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.960 find your local ACE Hardware store by going to Acehardware dot Com, go to 713 00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:45.000 that store locator and see, okay, so has it, and I guess, 714 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:49.199 yeah, usually they carry the fertilizers that I talk about here on Guardline. 715 00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:51.440 And what about I guess And if they don't have it, I guess 716 00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.360 Southwest for a lot of what habits for sure? Huh you think yes, 717 00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:58.360 yes, and that it's always worth driving over to Southwest fertilizer. Uh. 718 00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:00.480 So, okay, it's a little out of a drive for you, but 719 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:04.880 not not too bad. No, it's not that bad. In my second 720 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:08.599 question, I had some twenty gallon containers, but I had some papaya plants. 721 00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:14.760 In the papaya they they they froze, they're dead, but in their 722 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.679 twenty gallon containers. And in those containers, I mean, I've got a's 723 00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:22.000 am I and uh, all that stuff that you advertise on the on on 724 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:28.000 the radio, you know the Macro you know Macro fun guy and all this 725 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.360 stuff Okay, in those containers, the papaya plants are dead, but I've 726 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:36.920 got mushrooms growing up in those containers. Is that a bad sign? Can 727 00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:40.079 I still use that dirt for something else? Yes? Those are not plant 728 00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:46.280 killing mushrooms that you're seeing. Uh okay, So that's that's organic matter decomposing 729 00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:52.440 mushrooms that are popping up. Very good, Thank you so much. Just 730 00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.000 like the forest floor, we got mushrooms when we got good soil health going 731 00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:59.119 on too. Well. So that's so that's actually a good sign. Well 732 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:04.159 yeah, well it is because it shows that you have organic matter, and 733 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.159 fungi are part of turning organic matter back into soil. Okay, all right, 734 00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.760 very good, Thank you so much. You bet, thank you okay, 735 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:14.880 man, appreciate that a lot. I know you love the sound of 736 00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:19.119 birds in your landscape as I do. But I'm telling you right now is 737 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:23.599 nesting season and it's important to put feeders out. You know, wildbirds has 738 00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:28.880 their nesting superblend. It's got high protein, all kinds of things like dried 739 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:34.920 mealworms and sunflower chips, peanuts, tree nuts, all kinds of things that 740 00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:38.920 are important because you need a high protein feed to fuel those birds. Those 741 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:44.480 birds also are capturing caterpillars in your garden and taking them back. That caterpillar 742 00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:49.280 is a number one you know pest that birds are grabbing at this time of 743 00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.519 the year to feed their young. So grab some nesting super blend to provide 744 00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:57.639 that. If you don't have feeders, check out wildbirds. They have awesome 745 00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:01.480 feeders. I'd highly recommend their squirrel excluding feeder. That's one I have that 746 00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:07.480 it works well, very very well, and you're going to find everything at 747 00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:13.280 Waldbirds. It's time where ruby throated at hummingbirds are coming through on their way 748 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:15.400 north. You want to get your feeders out for them as well. So 749 00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.760 cool watching those things and their antics as they fly around. You can get 750 00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:25.440 them right up to the window with a good feeder. Wildbird's Unlimited WBU dot 751 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:32.760 Com, WBU dot com, Forward slash Houston WBU dot Com Forward Slash Houston 752 00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:37.760 find the wildbirds near you. That would be the way to go about it. 753 00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:45.360 I've kind of grown into the bird attracting and you know, putting that 754 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:50.480 as part of my landscape these last few years. I'm starting to learn about 755 00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.559 different kinds of birds and things. But I just enjoy going out in the 756 00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:58.599 morning and listening to the songs. I mean that is that's a beautiful and 757 00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:02.360 enjoyable thing. When was the last time you were down in Rosenberg at in 758 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.679 Chenna Gardens? In Chenna Gardens is I don't know how to say it other 759 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:14.360 than it is a destination and people was out there a while back and visiting. 760 00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:19.880 People from Austin had driven over to enchanted Gardens because they know that kind 761 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:21.960 of play. They loved to go out and shop like that. I call 762 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:25.559 that horticulture tourism, but it's that kind of place. I could sit here 763 00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:30.360 and name every plant that they have, but basically just let me say every 764 00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:34.960 plant. I mean, do you want roses or flowers, or vegetables or 765 00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:37.880 shrubs, just on and on and on down the line. They've got it 766 00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:43.119 all. They have knowledgeable staff that's important. And it's just a nice, 767 00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.280 wide, spread out, open, beautiful place to go visit. They're going 768 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:51.440 to have the products you need to take home member brown stuff prior to putting 769 00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:54.000 that green stuff you're buying in the soil. They'll helpe you do that. 770 00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:59.239 They know how to do that. They're open today from ten am to four 771 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.519 pm, normally only Monday through Saturday. Eight to five today ten am to 772 00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:07.079 four pm, So this afternoon be a great time to get out to Enchanted 773 00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:12.079 Gardens now. They're on FM three fifty nine on the Katie fullsher side of 774 00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:17.239 Richmond. Here's the website, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Sign up for 775 00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:22.320 their newsletter. It is very informative, very informative. You want to get 776 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:29.159 that Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number 777 00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:34.239 is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 778 00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:39.199 Poe two fifty eight seventy four. Back at my house this as soon as 779 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:44.559 I head back there and I'm all done with the radio. I have a 780 00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:47.559 drainage. I have a drainage problem. Had a drainage problem in the front 781 00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:52.159 beds and when it rained just the way the driveway slopes, it just would 782 00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:55.039 fill those beds with water and they'd sit there a long time, because yes, 783 00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:59.960 I have a clay soil, and I put in a little underground drainage 784 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:04.440 pipe to get that extra water out of there, and it's working really well. 785 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:08.880 And it just reminded me the folks at Peerscapes. They do work like 786 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.159 that, and they do it. Mine was just a simple little do it 787 00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:16.440 yourself drain. But sometimes you've got to go quite a distance from the low 788 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:20.239 spot to where the water gets dumped, and you may have to put in 789 00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:22.679 a sump pump or something out there to get that water out. But I'm 790 00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:28.199 telling you, when you get excess water out, it opens the door to 791 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:31.639 planting a lot of things. Now, Pierscapes they can do anything. Go 792 00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:37.679 to their website and look at some of the really cool upscale stuff that they've 793 00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.199 done. They can do that kind of thing at any home. At your 794 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.519 house, pierscapes dot com, pierscapes dot com, spring us here. Don't 795 00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:51.320 put up with a gloomy landscape. Let peer Scapes come in and really turn 796 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:58.159 it into a showplace. Two eight one three seven zero five zero six zero 797 00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:02.440 two eight one fifty sixty. That's how you get a hold of them, 798 01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:06.639 and I encourage you to do that. They stay busy because they do good 799 01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:10.679 work, but boy, can they ever transform a place. You're listening to 800 01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:15.320 garden Line and our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 801 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:22.599 seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Just visiting 802 01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:28.199 with some of the folks that have called in this morning. You know, 803 01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:32.599 the the microbes in the soil, the microbes that are in We were just 804 01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.000 talking about the old soil that the mushrooms are coming up out of. Microbes 805 01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:43.199 are what makes they rule the world. They really do that that's a topic 806 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:46.960 for another day, but they run everything. They work with plant roots, 807 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:52.360 the good microbes to enhance that plant, to make the They actually there are 808 01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:58.280 a fungi that live with the root and reach out and bring nutrients from way 809 01:00:58.320 --> 01:01:00.320 out past what the root can get. They bring it back to the root 810 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:05.480 form. There are microbes that help plants become more disease resistant. There are 811 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:10.000 microbes that protect the plant against the tack and root rots and things and microlife 812 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:15.679 fertilizer, like the name implies, that's what it's about, the microbial life 813 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.440 of the soil. And whether you buy their sixty four the green bag. 814 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:27.519 It's loaded with all kinds, just dozens of different species of beneficial microbes, 815 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.920 and the sixty four is a perfect blend for fertilizing your lawn. It's a 816 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:34.960 three to one to two ratio. It's going to release, not super slow 817 01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:37.159 release, but it's going to release some immediately and it takes a little while 818 01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:39.960 for it all to go out, which is good. We want to gradually 819 01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:44.400 open it up over time. Get their hemates. Plus, so that's the 820 01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:49.440 purple bag. That one is another thing that's going to help your soil structure, 821 01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:55.440 which means that heavy clay we always gribe about roots and oxygen go deeper 822 01:01:55.480 --> 01:02:00.960 and deeper as you improve the structure and microlife he makes plus I can do 823 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:05.559 that. Plus again, it adds micro isilo FUNCHI and a central MicroB swing. 824 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:08.320 You put it out there. That's important. Let's go now out to 825 01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:14.280 Jeff in Spring Branch, Hell. Hello, Jeff, Hey, Skip, 826 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:16.199 Hey, appreciate you taking my call. Man, first time I've been able 827 01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:20.719 to call in ask you a question. I'm excited to hear what you have 828 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:22.599 to say. All right, let's go, let's do it good. All 829 01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:27.320 right. I have a Zoijah that I've had in my front and back lawn 830 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:32.840 for now going on about six years. And this fall and winter my backyard 831 01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:37.920 took a beating. I was building a project back there and walking on it 832 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:42.559 a lot more than I generally do. And it's not coming back nearly like 833 01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.679 my front yard, which I expected, you know, a little bit slower. 834 01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:50.360 What advice can you give me to kind of help get that going back 835 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:54.800 there and catch up maybe you and I'm just got FYI got about one minute 836 01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.599 before I have a heartbreak from the news. So here's where's the fast one. 837 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:01.920 Go to my long care schedu gardening with skip dot com and look at 838 01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:06.639 it. I've got everything lined up there. Your lawn needs warm temperatures, 839 01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:10.199 and your lawn needs a good fertilization, and you can find the fertilizer on 840 01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:15.800 the schedule. But our grasses wake up slow, our southern turf grasses, 841 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:19.760 and so sometime an area is a little shadier, may stay a little bit 842 01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:25.320 cooler or but whatever reason, mowing properly and getting that nutrient out I think 843 01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:29.039 is the best thing. After you do that, if you start to see 844 01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:31.519 problems, you can call back, you can give us a send me a 845 01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:36.440 picture and let's look at it. But right now, I think what you're 846 01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:40.320 seeing is just a slowly waking up lawn and the nutrients of little warming temperatures 847 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:44.599 what it needs. All right, gotcha, all right, all right, 848 01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:49.800 thank you, Jeff, Thanks jam Sorry we ran up. Yeah, yes, 849 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.639 patients, that's it. We're going to take a break time for Nicky 850 01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:54.400 in the news. For us, you are first up when we come back 851 01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:58.800 from break. Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you with 852 01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:01.559 us today. If you would like to give us a call seven one three 853 01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:06.079 two one two five eight seven four. For those of you up in the 854 01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:11.840 Magnolia area, we're talking about SM twenty nine seventy eight. It's just real 855 01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:15.400 close, just minutes away from Highway two forty nine Grand Parkway. All of 856 01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:19.079 that. Well Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed store and they carry 857 01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:24.480 the products I talk about on garden Line. If you need the fertilizers and 858 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.480 it is time now to be fertilizing your lawn, stop by there. Check 859 01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:30.679 it out. You're going to find not only fertilizers, but you'll find the 860 01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:35.360 herbicides, insecticides, the fungicide. They have organic products, they have synthetic 861 01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:40.320 products. Friendly, courteous staff are going to greet you. That's the experience 862 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.320 I've had going in there and uh, you know, but they didn't know 863 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:45.400 me from out. I'm walking in first few times it went in. So 864 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.199 there we are there. I can tell you that I always like to do 865 01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:54.239 that with a new sponsor, just kind of go in as a just as 866 01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:57.920 a person off the street. I guess coming in and see how they treat 867 01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:00.119 you, and I can guarantee you they do that. Did they do treat 868 01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:04.239 you well there at Spring Creek Feed? You know it? Just write this 869 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:11.760 down FM twenty nine seventy eight in Magnolia Spring Creek Feed. Go buy and 870 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:15.639 see them. If you are in FFA or four h if you're from the 871 01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:18.519 if you've been in the military, or a senior citizen, there's discounts for 872 01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:21.159 you. And if they don't have something, they can special order it, 873 01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:26.840 which is also a very nice add on because a lot of times there's new 874 01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.239 products coming out and want them. They'll be happy to see if they can 875 01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:32.800 get that for you. We're going to go now to the galleria and talk 876 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:39.599 to Forest. Hello, Forest, Ay, good morning. Skip over the 877 01:05:39.719 --> 01:05:45.880 years I've been buying peppermint peach trees from RCW Nurseries. Yeah, and this 878 01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:51.159 this year, for whatever reason, my peppermint peaches didn't blue them out first. 879 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:57.039 Normally they put on these this spectacular blooms, but this year it was 880 01:05:57.159 --> 01:06:00.039 just leave that came out. Do you have any idea know why that happened? 881 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:04.639 So, did you get zero blooms or just not as many, just 882 01:06:04.760 --> 01:06:09.920 not as many. I mean one tree gave me some blooms, but the 883 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:15.159 other three trees that I have gave me zero blooms. Well, if a 884 01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:21.320 peach tree doesn't bloom, either it's not getting enough sunlight, which I doubt 885 01:06:21.440 --> 01:06:28.679 is the case for years, because they need sunlight to produce blooms, or 886 01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:31.280 I don't know enough. See I said ore, and I can't think of 887 01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:36.320 an ore. If a peach tree is too high chill and we don't get 888 01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:41.519 enough chilling hours in a particular location, what you see is not a lack 889 01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:45.920 of blooms necessarily, but it's a lack of the buds from the leaves and 890 01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:50.039 shoot buds coming out. And you're describing it like those have come out just 891 01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:55.239 fine, It's just no blooms on it, right, Yeah, I mean 892 01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:59.760 I normally get these really spectacular shows every year, and I love these trees. 893 01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:03.679 I can if you can't think of anything that you've done different around the 894 01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:09.480 tree, I'm a little flummoxed by why that would be. The bloom buds 895 01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:15.280 are set in late summer and an early early fall for next for the next 896 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.480 year, So if you go back to last Oh, I don't know, 897 01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:24.880 let's say August September, especially that time of the year. If something really 898 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:29.960 stressed the tree, perhaps the buds didn't get set. But other than the 899 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:35.280 two things, maybe just thinking out loud here, maybe the drought had something 900 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:40.920 to do with it last year. Well, I did water regularly. But 901 01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.519 the other thing is that I've never pruned any of these, you know, 902 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:48.119 peppermint, peach, flowering peach trees. Is that something I should be doing, 903 01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:53.719 well, just just for shaping as you want, you know, if 904 01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:59.000 you may, you probably don't want low hanging limbs, you thinning them out 905 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:01.199 just a little bit to kind of open it up just a little bit. 906 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:05.800 It's not you're not growing it for edible fruit. So we don't go with 907 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:13.960 traditional peach tree pruning on any ornamental peach like bonanza or peppermint, any of 908 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:17.640 those. Yeah, okay, all right, thanks sir, all right, 909 01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:20.039 you bet, thank you for the question. That is very I'm gonna have 910 01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:25.359 to think on that one. That's very peculiar. If you're doing color on 911 01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:29.840 your patio container color, and I hope you are, because that is a 912 01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:34.640 fast, easy way to get beauty and to really make things look nice. 913 01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:41.600 Jungle Land is distributed by Nitrofoss. Jungle Land is a potting potting soil, 914 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:46.359 and there's an outdoor version called it's called flour and Vegetable, but it should 915 01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:49.439 be also called flour, vegetable and herb because you can plant anything in it. 916 01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:55.279 The indoor version has water saving crystals. It's jungle land water saving potting 917 01:08:55.319 --> 01:08:57.880 soil. Both of those are great, they work well, and they're easy 918 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.119 to find. Nitro Fuss jungle Land, you're going to find them at a 919 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:05.039 place like in Chinnet Gardens down in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Shades of Texas 920 01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:10.680 up in the Woodlands are going to carry that as well. How about Fishers 921 01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:14.199 Hardware, both the one on Southmore and the one on Broadway Street we're talking 922 01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:17.560 in southeaston Laport area. All of those are going to have the jungle Land 923 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:21.600 product available. Let's go now to Spring and we're going to talk to James. 924 01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:25.840 Hello, James, good morning. How are you doing this morning. 925 01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.720 I'm well, got a question, got a question for you. My daughter 926 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:34.520 lives in Woodville and she has a pastor and she's having a problem with bull 927 01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:40.800 netals trying to trying to take over what kind of treatment would you recommend? 928 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.560 Also, would the treatment be safe for like livestock, cattle, pigs, 929 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.880 and sheep you know that roams in that area. Okay, is this is 930 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:54.239 this a sandy soil or do you do you know? I have no idea. 931 01:09:54.359 --> 01:09:58.520 Okay, whatever soilt will be around Woodville when in the Woodville area? 932 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:03.039 Right, So when you see these netles, are they very tall with big 933 01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:09.479 white flowers on top? Or are they smaller with little yellowish flowers? They 934 01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:12.800 a little smaller ones and not the real tall like like a milk weed. 935 01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:15.159 Yeah, nothing like that. They kind of like spread out. Yeah, 936 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:19.760 you're gonna you're going to need to use a post emergent broad leaf herbicide in 937 01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:27.239 it and something that has the two four D ingredient two four D D is 938 01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:31.640 and dog h that there are a lot of pasture versions of that that you 939 01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:39.079 can use. Another thing that she could do is call her a county extension 940 01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:44.920 office and speak to the ag agent about, you know, the products that 941 01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:48.359 they would recommend for that area for the bull nettles. I'm not a pasture 942 01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:53.159 specialist, but I do know that it's going to take a broadly post emergent 943 01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.520 and two four d has kind of been a standard, but it won't hurt 944 01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:59.880 the grass and whatnot. It'd be better to buy one labeled for the past. 945 01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:04.760 Sure though, Okay, okay, I appreciate that it was they take 946 01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:11.239 it over, but they Oh my gosh. Listen, when I was a 947 01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:15.479 kid growing up, I used to move irrigation pipe and peanut fields. Was 948 01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:19.720 a laborer. And when you go running barefoot through a peanut field carrying irrigation 949 01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:25.319 pipe, your your foot pops through a bull netal. I'd rather step in 950 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:31.000 a bet of fire ants. To be honest, It's all right, James, 951 01:11:31.319 --> 01:11:36.079 we'll go appreciate you bet. Good luck with that, oh bull netal. 952 01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:40.239 You know you can eat the seeds of those. My mom told me 953 01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:42.920 that. She said when she was a kid, they would. I don't 954 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:45.760 know how they got them. I mean, I guess a little flyers or 955 01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:47.279 something, get them out of there, get it from the bull But the 956 01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:51.560 dried seeds, it's just like eating sunflower seeds or something like that. They 957 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:57.159 would eat those so interesting. Can't beat them? Eat them? How about 958 01:11:57.199 --> 01:11:59.960 that? That's good? I like that. We can do that for weeds. 959 01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:02.159 Do you know you can eat chick weed? You can? You can 960 01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:05.720 eat dandelion greens. Yes, you can do that. There's a lot of 961 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:10.800 weeds that are edible out there. Now, edible and palatable are two different 962 01:12:10.880 --> 01:12:15.279 things. So I'm not saying don't plant greens in your vegetable garden, just 963 01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:20.199 eat weeds grazier lawn. But you can do that, and there's folks that 964 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:30.520 are very knowledgeable about that. The idea of eating native plants that are growing 965 01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:34.079 all around, or just it's really cool. Maybe I'll talk about that a 966 01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:38.640 little bit when I come back. Have you been out to mos Nursery recently? 967 01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:44.119 Because Moss has all kinds of stock, They're always getting shipments. Every 968 01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:46.399 time I turn around, I'm looking at things going on there. There is 969 01:12:46.960 --> 01:12:50.479 a new shipment of stuff coming in. If you go to their social media 970 01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:56.039 like Facebook or Instagram, they have a little video where they're walking through the 971 01:12:56.119 --> 01:13:00.279 nursery and you can see what I'm talking about. Acres of wonderful stuff around 972 01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:06.199 every corner, more plants on the ground, hanging on shelves. Moss Nursery 973 01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:10.720 is always going to be a place to get things. Chinese, French. 974 01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:15.720 My favorite spring bloomer Texas Mountain Laurel. Another spring bloomer vegetables, herbs, 975 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:20.199 cactus. They have very good cactus and succulent, very good houseplants. You 976 01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:26.000 just got to go. Moss Nursery is always a place where something is beautiful, 977 01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:30.680 if something is happening, and those plants when you bring them home, 978 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:32.520 you're gonna have success with them. And I just always love to go. 979 01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:38.800 Buy moss by the way, m Aas Nursery dot com, Moss Nursery dot 980 01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:42.359 com. We're gonna take a little break. We'll be right back. I 981 01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:46.359 bet you did not know the beach boys sang about vegetables. Think about cars 982 01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:49.039 and girls and all kinds of things. But I bet you didn't know they 983 01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:55.319 sang about vegetables. But yes they do. So there I go. I 984 01:13:55.439 --> 01:13:59.600 work long and hard, step late at night to find songs that you haven't 985 01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:03.239 heard four or that maybe you never want to hear again. In some cases, 986 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:08.520 welcome back to garden line seven to one three two one two five age 987 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:13.640 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you've 988 01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:16.199 got a question about anything that you want to grow or do, we're happy. 989 01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:23.920 We'll be happy to do that for sure. Landscaper's pride is it's a 990 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:33.159 company that transforms organic materials into plant growing soils, composts, mulches, all 991 01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:36.800 kinds of quality things like. They have twenty seven different bag products available. 992 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:45.359 And Landscaper's Pride is a regional company here local to US that produces that and 993 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:47.880 the products are excellent. They are absolutely excellent. 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You're gonna find out 1009 01:15:56.279 --> 01:15:59.680 a lot about all of their products and also weahing buy them and they are 1010 01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:06.520 white available here in the Greater Houston area. I want to mention something the 1011 01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:13.479 Organic Horticulture benefits Alliance OBA. We call that OBA OHBA. They're going to 1012 01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:18.159 have their Soil Science Conference coming up April third and fourth. That's Wednesday and 1013 01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:23.359 Thursday, April third and fourth. It's at the United Way. Most OBA 1014 01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:26.800 meetings are there at the United Way on the first day and then they're going 1015 01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:31.439 up to Nature's Way Resources for the second day. Now, this event is 1016 01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:38.840 they bring in speakers that are highly trained, well respected in the industry. 1017 01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:44.199 Doctor Tom Dykstra is going to be the first speaker on the first day that's 1018 01:16:44.239 --> 01:16:49.880 April third, and he's going to talk about using bricks instruments to measure results. 1019 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:55.600 What does that mean? Well, bricks measures like essentially the sugar content. 1020 01:16:56.920 --> 01:17:00.600 Just put it simply. So, if you're like a great grower and 1021 01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:02.640 you're trying to decide when it's time to harvest, they go out and squeeze 1022 01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:05.119 some juice and they say, oh, this is a time to harvest. 1023 01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:10.479 Well, bricks also is a sign of things going on inside of your plant 1024 01:17:10.600 --> 01:17:15.520 and plant health. And so by understanding this along with the microbe activity, 1025 01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:18.359 and doctor Adam Cobb, by the way, is going to be talking about 1026 01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:23.920 the latest in soil biology and microbes, you can have healthier plants. Now 1027 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:26.840 day two April fourth, they're going to be up at Nature's Way. They're 1028 01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:29.000 going to do a little tour there and then they're going to have a half 1029 01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:32.479 day hands on workshop on how to learn to take measurements with a bricks instrument. 1030 01:17:32.880 --> 01:17:38.960 If you want more information, go to OBA online, ohbaonline dot org, 1031 01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:42.880 forward slash register. When you get to OBA, you'll see the events 1032 01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:45.840 coming up. And I've never been to an OBO event that I didn't learn 1033 01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:50.279 something. In fact, often a lot and found the speakers to be excellent. 1034 01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:56.399 I would recommend it. We're going to go to Clear Lake, Texas 1035 01:17:56.479 --> 01:17:59.880 and talk to Don. Hello, Don, Hey, how you doing. 1036 01:18:00.199 --> 01:18:03.960 I'm well, sir, How can I help? Well? I'm interested in 1037 01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:11.680 are wanting to plant this with sterea on the outside of the house directly in 1038 01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:14.920 the ground, And I was just wondering, what are the pitfalls of that? 1039 01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:17.760 How successful is it? Is it difficult? What do I have to 1040 01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:23.840 do? Yeah, there's different kinds of hysteria that you can plant in general. 1041 01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:30.239 There's one that's kind of the flowers you're blood red, and it is 1042 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:35.640 it's a little easier to manage in terms of its growth rate. The typical 1043 01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:41.199 blue wisterias that look like clusters of grapes that you see. They're pretty vigorous, 1044 01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:45.159 and so you're going to need a good strong trellis to hold them, 1045 01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:48.079 or an arbor if you want to go that route, and you're going to 1046 01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:53.479 need to prune them to keep them in within the where you want them to 1047 01:18:53.560 --> 01:18:57.920 grow, because they are a vigorous viner. I've seen people put them on 1048 01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:02.039 a steak out in the yard and train it up the steak and then just 1049 01:19:02.199 --> 01:19:09.000 let the branch's arch back down toward the ground and sort of create a shrub 1050 01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:12.119 out of it, but that's taking quite a bit of care to keep it 1051 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:15.439 like that. So those would be your options for wisteria, okay. And 1052 01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:19.800 then is it picky about the soil here? Do I have to mix anything 1053 01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:24.119 into the ground or just put it just in a natural soil? I think 1054 01:19:24.119 --> 01:19:28.399 it's always a good idea to mix some quality soil amendment into the ground. 1055 01:19:29.039 --> 01:19:32.560 But when you do that, mix it into the whole area around where this 1056 01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:36.479 plant is, and then dig the hole, put the plant in the hole, 1057 01:19:36.560 --> 01:19:40.600 and refill it with that blend that you dug out to make the hole. 1058 01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:44.119 A lot of people want to dig a hole in a clay soil and 1059 01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:47.680 throw compost on the bottom, and that clay soil just becomes an underground bathtub 1060 01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:54.600 and the compost is decomposing without oxygen because it's filling up with water. And 1061 01:19:54.760 --> 01:19:58.399 that is so like, how big of an area would I have to dig 1062 01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:00.880 up? You don't have, you know, there's not like X feet. 1063 01:20:01.319 --> 01:20:06.119 But if you could give that wisteria about three feet in all directions or four 1064 01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:11.479 feet in all directions, that would be great. If if for whatever reason 1065 01:20:11.560 --> 01:20:15.840 you can't do that, just do what you can do okay, all right, 1066 01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:17.640 well, thank you, all right, good luck with that, all 1067 01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:21.640 right, Thank you boys. By bye. Beautiful plant, very beautiful plant 1068 01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:27.680 whenever you plant. To talking about planning, that was steering a steak, 1069 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.119 reminding me of planting trees. And by the way, if you if you 1070 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:33.840 want to plant a tree, you know the best time is forty years ago. 1071 01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:39.079 Second best times today. You want to do it before summer if possible, 1072 01:20:39.239 --> 01:20:42.159 because it's just easier on the tree to do that. And you're going 1073 01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:45.279 to need to steak the tree initially because winds will come and move it, 1074 01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:48.920 bend it over in things you don't want that. Well. Three sixty tree 1075 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:53.880 stabilizers a brand new product on the market, and it is the way to 1076 01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:56.520 go the old way. We had to buy fifty feet a wire, We 1077 01:20:56.600 --> 01:20:59.680 had to put steaks in the ground, and we had to have sections of 1078 01:21:00.199 --> 01:21:02.880 hose to go around the branch slip over the wire so it doesn't cut into 1079 01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:08.319 the tree. Forget all that. You just put a iron steak in the 1080 01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:11.680 ground. That's the simplest, easiest way to do it. And the three 1081 01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:15.920 sixty stabilizer can attach to an iron steak or any kind of steak and It 1082 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:19.560 grabs the trunk and holds it loosely, so the trunk can move, which 1083 01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:24.960 builds trunk strength. That's very important for that. You can find them all 1084 01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:30.039 over the place. Down in Alvin Jorges Hidden Gardens carries them. Southwest Fertilizer 1085 01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:34.279 Southwest Houston carries them. Plants for all seasons, Buchanans, Arbrogate RCW. 1086 01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:38.920 Those are just some of the places where you can get the three sixty tree 1087 01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:43.439 stabilizer. They last a very long time. They you know, it's not 1088 01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:47.479 something that next year you got to buy a new one. Like a lot 1089 01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:51.279 of products are made cheap, this one is not. It holds firmly. 1090 01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:57.039 You can do it from you know, one stabilizer holding the tree, or 1091 01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.399 you can put two of them at right angles to each other. Then which 1092 01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:02.560 way north, south, east, west that have beens or the wind blows, 1093 01:22:02.680 --> 01:22:08.239 it's going to hold that tree in its spot. But always remember on 1094 01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:11.600 these let the trunks move a little bit in the wind, just a little 1095 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:17.319 bit. That helps strengthen the trunk. That's really important. Well, I 1096 01:22:19.079 --> 01:22:21.680 what have you been talking about that? I've been wanting to talk about fire 1097 01:22:21.720 --> 01:22:26.199 ants. Maybe when I come back, I'll just go into a little bit 1098 01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:30.159 on fire ants. I think that would be a good thing. It is 1099 01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:33.680 fire ant management season, that is for sure, and we have some great 1100 01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:39.640 suggestions for how to manage those in your yard. Fire Ants are a very 1101 01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:43.439 interesting creature that came here long time ago. I believe it was in the 1102 01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:47.680 fifties that they arrived here. But anyway, they came in from ships. 1103 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:54.119 The ships will load up like soil in the bottom that they call ballast, 1104 01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:57.760 and that way, when they're not weighted down with cargo and stuff, that 1105 01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:01.399 soil helped stabilize the ship. And they go to South America, load up 1106 01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.960 with some ballast, come here to the ports in America on the Gulf Coast 1107 01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:10.079 and empty some of that ballast out. And guess what came with the ballast, 1108 01:23:10.199 --> 01:23:13.000 Well, the ballast soil at fire it's in it. And then they 1109 01:23:13.079 --> 01:23:15.439 spread from there and the rest is history. As they say, well, 1110 01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:19.279 let's talk about how to manage those when we come back. Don't forget. 1111 01:23:19.399 --> 01:23:25.800 I'm going to be at Ciena Moltch next Saturday. I'll be there from eleven 1112 01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:30.039 thirty to one thirty. I'll be answering your gardening questions and giving away free 1113 01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:34.000 products from Nelson plant food and heirloom soils and medina. By the way, 1114 01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:39.920 Andy chid Ester, anybody who's heart Andy knows that is a great lady to 1115 01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:43.000 listen to. She's going to be there as well. Let's see an amultch 1116 01:23:43.079 --> 01:23:48.239 on Saturday, March thirtieth. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 1117 01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:55.560 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line. 1118 01:23:55.840 --> 01:24:12.359 With Skiff Richter's so crazy gas trip. Just watch him as gas us so 1119 01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:25.840 many supposing gas dogs back together. Not a sign gas Welcome back to the 1120 01:24:25.880 --> 01:24:30.520 Garden Line. Guess what it is. The light has come on outside. 1121 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:33.000 We don't have direct sun right now, but we sure do have a nice 1122 01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:40.439 bright light appearing. We get outside, do a little bit of morning lawn 1123 01:24:40.560 --> 01:24:43.600 chores if you got some. If not, this afternoon would be a good 1124 01:24:43.640 --> 01:24:45.760 time to get out and do that as well. You're listening to Garden Line. 1125 01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:49.840 The phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four 1126 01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:54.880 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was talking about 1127 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:57.840 fire ants going into break and I'm just going to use a little segment here 1128 01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:00.319 to talk about fire ants that is a problem that a lot of people have 1129 01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:05.119 to deal with, and they are they hurt when you step into a fireant 1130 01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:13.399 mound. You know why they're called fire ants. They really sting. One 1131 01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:15.720 time, I was in Louisiana in a peach orchard doing some pruning. So 1132 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:23.479 I was looking up and suddenly I found hundreds of ants biting me from the 1133 01:25:23.560 --> 01:25:27.039 waist down. And let's just say that is not a place for fire ants 1134 01:25:27.119 --> 01:25:31.079 to be. Now. By the time I realized what was going on, 1135 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:34.840 pants are coming off, and all kinds of things were going on out there, 1136 01:25:35.039 --> 01:25:42.840 and so modesty somewhat gives way to survival in those situations. Some of 1137 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:47.239 you have been in such a situation where you stepped in firence before. Here's 1138 01:25:47.279 --> 01:25:53.039 the thing about fire ants. If you just use individual mound treatments to control 1139 01:25:53.119 --> 01:25:56.319 fire ants, you're playing whack a mole. You know the game Whack them 1140 01:25:56.319 --> 01:25:59.039 mole, where you whack a little thing that sticks up and then it pops 1141 01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:01.560 up somewhere else and you get there. That's what's happening because fire ants have 1142 01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:06.720 colonies that are forming underground that you don't see the little dirt mound on top 1143 01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:13.520 yet. And those colonies are often interconnected, and so when you treat just 1144 01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:16.159 the dirt mounds, I see fire ants here. There are others that you're 1145 01:26:16.199 --> 01:26:21.439 not reaching. So we start with a bait and then we do the direct 1146 01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:26.239 mound treatments, and that's called the Texas two step. That ought to be 1147 01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:30.560 an easy one to remember. Texas A and m Agro Life Extension came up 1148 01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:32.319 with that many years ago. So you start with a bait. Now, 1149 01:26:32.399 --> 01:26:36.760 this bait is put out at extremely low rates. We're talking about a pound 1150 01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:42.960 of bait on many of the baits, a pound of bait covering an acre 1151 01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:48.159 that's forty three over forty three thousand square feet. So we're talking about granule 1152 01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:53.439 here, a granule there. You don't take a tablespoon and dump bait this 1153 01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:57.119 on the mound. That's not how you apply it. You sprinkle it everywhere. 1154 01:26:57.439 --> 01:26:59.800 The ants pick it up, they take it back, And baits are 1155 01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:02.439 very low talks in terms of working because you don't want to kill the ant 1156 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:04.640 that picked it up. You want them to take it back and feed it 1157 01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:10.000 to the colony. So environmentally, this is about as safe as you're going 1158 01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:13.119 to get. Now, there are baits that are synthetic, and there's a 1159 01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:16.119 bait that's organic. The organic bait is called come and Get It. I 1160 01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:20.159 think it's a fertile and product. Come and Get It has spinosied as the 1161 01:27:20.239 --> 01:27:28.119 active ingredient in the bait. There's other baits like MDRO and the extinguished fire 1162 01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:30.960 ant bait. There's just a bunch of them out there, and they all 1163 01:27:30.039 --> 01:27:32.920 work pretty good. They vary a little bit and how fast they work. 1164 01:27:33.520 --> 01:27:36.640 You want to put the bait out when the ants are foraging. So what 1165 01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:42.239 does that mean. Well, in the summertime, when it's hot, ants 1166 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:45.840 don't get out and about during the day as much. They kind of hunker 1167 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:48.800 down underground and they come out in early morning or evening hours to do a 1168 01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:54.720 little bit of their foraging work. And so if you don't know if they're 1169 01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:58.680 foraging, get you something oily. It could be a potato chip, it 1170 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:02.560 could be a little knew guy wants to cut hot dog wieners into little sections 1171 01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:06.319 and put one of those pin flags that you stick in the ground to say 1172 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:10.800 here's where the pipeline is. He put them on those so he knew where 1173 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:13.640 the hot dog was and he put them all over the yard. Maybe three 1174 01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:16.079 or four and then come back in fifteen minutes. And if fire ants are 1175 01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:19.239 all over it, they're foraging. If they're not, don't put the bait 1176 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:23.159 out because they're not out there to get it, and you don't want You 1177 01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:26.279 want the bait to be as fresh as possible for the fire ants to pick 1178 01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:30.560 it up. So don't store baits in the hot shed out back, keep 1179 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:33.159 them cool and use that. And then if there's going to be some you 1180 01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:36.960 miss from the baits, and that's where individual mound treatments come in. And 1181 01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:42.720 again there are many different products that'll do that. Texas Agger Life Extension has 1182 01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:45.279 a fire ant website. It makes it real easy, you know, to 1183 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:50.520 find exactly what you're looking for, and there's a lot of information on that. 1184 01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:54.640 I can go into a little more on it. I'm just going to 1185 01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:58.520 talk just for a moment on it. But fire ants are something that we 1186 01:28:58.640 --> 01:29:04.039 need to manage. If your neighborhood or your neighbors would also treat when you 1187 01:29:04.199 --> 01:29:09.840 treat, that works even better because that way you don't have somebody from fifty 1188 01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:13.279 feet away, here come the ants in from the yard next door. And 1189 01:29:13.399 --> 01:29:18.000 now one last thing, you'll hear a lot of home remedies like put grits 1190 01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:23.399 out and the fire ants eat the grits, they swell up inside the ant 1191 01:29:23.479 --> 01:29:27.520 and the ant explodes. Now, while that's a very pleasant thought, it 1192 01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:31.319 doesn't work. And here's why fire ants don't eat dry food. They liquefy 1193 01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:34.680 the food and drink it. That's how fire ants take it in, so 1194 01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:40.399 it's already liquefied by the time they take it in, So grits don't work. 1195 01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:44.760 Another reason they don't work is these are Southern fire ants, Southern fiants, 1196 01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:46.560 So if you start throwing grits on the mound, they're gonna come to 1197 01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:50.479 the top and ask for bacon fat because we all know those are those two 1198 01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:55.159 are butter. We all know that goes together in the South. Right. 1199 01:29:55.359 --> 01:29:59.199 Okay, enough joking aside, but seriously, fire ants are very manageable. 1200 01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:02.600 The large chrevenirea you manage the better. Starting with baits is the way to 1201 01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:06.600 go, and then the individual mound treatments. You can use a variety of 1202 01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:12.319 different things organic and synthetic to control them and more ant. I think the 1203 01:30:12.439 --> 01:30:18.199 website is like fireant dot tamu dot edu and maybe fireants dot tamu dot edu. 1204 01:30:18.359 --> 01:30:23.439 Let me check that, but it just gets some good information. Yeah, 1205 01:30:23.439 --> 01:30:27.560 it's fireant dot TAMU DOT ed U, TAMU, Texas A and M 1206 01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:31.600 University. There's a wealthy Oh there's also videos on the website where you can 1207 01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:36.800 watch a little fly that is imported now into this country that flies around in 1208 01:30:36.920 --> 01:30:41.479 lasin egg in the back of a fire ant's head and the larva hatches and 1209 01:30:41.560 --> 01:30:45.600 the firean's head falls off. Another cool thing. Makes me happy to know 1210 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:49.920 that's happening out there in the landscape and the environment. So fire ants are 1211 01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:54.840 a number one thing that we deal with. But again, a little information 1212 01:30:55.039 --> 01:31:00.119 will help you have success, but also importantly help you minimize damage to the 1213 01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:08.279 environment. You're going out just nuking everything to accomplish a purpose not necessary. 1214 01:31:08.600 --> 01:31:12.640 You can you can control them a lot of different ways. A general purpose 1215 01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:15.680 insecticide. Some people use those in the yard and you that will control them 1216 01:31:15.720 --> 01:31:20.319 too. But fire ants are not that difficult to deal with. But I'll 1217 01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:25.159 tell you when they are coming on you, that is difficult to deal with, 1218 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:28.479 that is for sure. All right, we just kind of used that 1219 01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:30.680 up for a little firet monologue. We're going to be back after a little 1220 01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:34.680 break here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 1221 01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:40.119 seventy four. Welcome bout your guard line. Good heavy with us today. 1222 01:31:40.119 --> 01:31:44.800 Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H. If 1223 01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:47.439 you live down in the Richmond area, I want to tell you about Enchanted 1224 01:31:47.520 --> 01:31:51.359 Forest. Enchanted Forest is a garden center. If you're in Richmond heading to 1225 01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:56.119 a trigger land, it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. 1226 01:31:56.720 --> 01:32:00.800 Now they always have events every weekend going on there. Right now they have 1227 01:32:00.920 --> 01:32:06.199 gotten in some spring and summer bulbs, things like Dahlias, gladiolus, the 1228 01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:11.439 oriental lilies, kalalilies. My wife just got some klaliies the other day, 1229 01:32:11.760 --> 01:32:16.079 Kracosmia freezia. Those are all bulbs, not the winter bulbs like daffodil, 1230 01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:20.800 or early spring bulbs like daffodils and things. We're talking about things that bloom 1231 01:32:20.880 --> 01:32:26.119 on through warmer season. They also have a lot of cool antennas. You 1232 01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:30.119 know, for a long time we've just had the new gold the yellow lantana, 1233 01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:32.600 which is a good lantana, but there are a lot of nice dwarf 1234 01:32:32.880 --> 01:32:39.960 lantenna's, compact size lantennas. Lantanna's got that scent to the foliage that deer 1235 01:32:40.039 --> 01:32:43.159 and rabbits don't care for, which is a nice thing to have when they're 1236 01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:45.880 a problem. They have the bandalist align the red chili and the coconut and 1237 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:49.239 the pineapple. They've got all that out there by the way. Next Wednesday, 1238 01:32:49.399 --> 01:32:55.960 on the twenty seventh, at Enchanted Forest Fairy Garden make and take workshop. 1239 01:32:56.560 --> 01:32:59.920 So you pay about I think it's twenty five bucks unless you want to 1240 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:02.560 add a bunch more to it, and they'll have a class at ten. 1241 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.000 They'll have a class at eleven thirty and you will be able to make what's 1242 01:33:06.079 --> 01:33:11.520 called a ferry garden. It's a little miniature scene with plants in a container 1243 01:33:11.720 --> 01:33:16.319 and it looks really cool. That's Enchanted Forest in Richmond, Texas. The 1244 01:33:16.399 --> 01:33:25.119 website Enchanted Forest Richmond TX dot com. Love going there. I'm serious. 1245 01:33:25.359 --> 01:33:30.520 That place is. It's just fun. It's fun and if you're into butterflies 1246 01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:33.560 and stuff, oh my gosh, you've got to go there. It really 1247 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:41.720 They specialize in plants that attract butterflies, both the flying butterflies and the crawling 1248 01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:47.359 caterpillars stage so that you can have that kind of butterfly garden that's nice. 1249 01:33:47.520 --> 01:33:51.880 Someone called me earlier asking about the Nutristar Genesis transplant mix, and so I 1250 01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:59.000 want to be real clear about this product. Nutristar Genesis is by Nelson Plant 1251 01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:02.640 Food, and it's a six three that comes in a little canister and you 1252 01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:08.960 mix it in to the soil or the potting soil or whatever you're moving a 1253 01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:13.279 plan into. So when you're relocating a plant or putting it from a smaller 1254 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.199 pot into a bigger pot, for example, Nutristar Genesis I use it. 1255 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:21.119 It's a new product. I first started using it this spring with some peppers 1256 01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:25.720 and the results were very impressive. You know, I always like to try 1257 01:34:25.800 --> 01:34:29.279 products before I say you need to go buy them. I'm going to make 1258 01:34:29.319 --> 01:34:32.479 sure that they do work, and this one does. It's got beneficial bacteria, 1259 01:34:32.560 --> 01:34:36.920 it's got the two types of fungi that attached to the root and go 1260 01:34:38.079 --> 01:34:43.079 out and get nutrients. It has humates. It just it enhances the biology 1261 01:34:43.119 --> 01:34:46.840 of the soil. But it provides that six to one three naturally decomposing, 1262 01:34:46.960 --> 01:34:53.720 slow releasing fertilizer into the mix, and the plants do respond. That's been 1263 01:34:53.800 --> 01:34:57.159 my experience with it. If you'd like to give us a call on Garden 1264 01:34:57.199 --> 01:35:02.640 Line. Our phone number is seven one three two fifty eight seventy four seven 1265 01:35:02.720 --> 01:35:10.600 one three two one two five eight seven four. Earlier you heard me say 1266 01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:13.520 that the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. The next 1267 01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:15.760 best time is today. You may have heard me say this on guard line 1268 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:21.239 before. But a master gardener from Montgomery County years ago, Jim and Fukumi 1269 01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:27.319 Smith, boy, they were wonderful folks, uh. They Jim brought in 1270 01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:31.199 a picture of a house that they had like forty years before. He was 1271 01:35:31.239 --> 01:35:35.039 showing me this picture and there was a little, tiny, broomstick sized tree 1272 01:35:35.079 --> 01:35:39.359 in the front yard of this little house. And then he brought me a 1273 01:35:39.439 --> 01:35:42.199 picture of what that he drove by and had seen that house, and he 1274 01:35:42.239 --> 01:35:45.359 took a picture and he showed me what it looked like then forty years later, 1275 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:48.199 and I mean it was. It was huge. It covered the whole 1276 01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:53.760 area because it was well adapted, well planted, and it was choosing a 1277 01:35:53.880 --> 01:35:57.640 good, good species that's going to thrive. And it just reminds us that 1278 01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:00.560 we want to hang a hammock the day after we plant tree, right, 1279 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.039 and so we got to pick a good Species's got a planet right, We've 1280 01:36:03.039 --> 01:36:06.720 got to care for it right now. Verdant Tree Farm they have three locations 1281 01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:12.439 where you can get those kinds of plants, those kinds of trees that are 1282 01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:15.520 going to be long term success for you. There is a location out on 1283 01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:20.319 Barker Cypress in West Houston. There's one where Yale comes into it up in 1284 01:36:20.359 --> 01:36:25.960 the Heights area, and there's one done in Pairland on Broadway Street. It's 1285 01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:30.159 easy to find a Verdant fairly near you. Verdentreefarm dot Com is the website 1286 01:36:30.439 --> 01:36:34.000 you're going to find there. They have a great selection of palms as well 1287 01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:39.479 and trees of all sizes. Now, if you let them come out and 1288 01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:42.479 install it, which you should, they know how to do it, and 1289 01:36:42.760 --> 01:36:46.239 these root balls are incredibly heavy. They give you a one year warranty included 1290 01:36:46.399 --> 01:36:51.239 with that installation. It's a veteran owned company and they always offer a ten 1291 01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:58.039 percent discount for both the military and first responders at Verden Tree Farm Verdant Treefarm 1292 01:36:58.119 --> 01:37:00.600 dot Com. It's time to plant a tree. Don't wait until summer. 1293 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:04.439 Go ahead and get it done now. That would be even better. You 1294 01:37:04.560 --> 01:37:08.520 listening to the guard Line and I took a little bit of time while ago, 1295 01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:12.399 just to kind of go into firance because that's one of the big topics 1296 01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:15.119 that we have and as I'm able, I like to do that from time 1297 01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:17.960 to time so we can we can kind of talk about, you know, 1298 01:37:18.079 --> 01:37:21.359 what are there, what are the things that we most need to know. 1299 01:37:21.520 --> 01:37:26.920 I think when you begin to understand why, it helps you to do a 1300 01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:30.399 better job of what you do. You know, I could tell you here's 1301 01:37:30.439 --> 01:37:34.399 what you do. You go buy this fiant bait and this variant mound treatment 1302 01:37:34.600 --> 01:37:38.720 and go use them. Or I could explain to you what's going on you 1303 01:37:38.840 --> 01:37:41.760 need to do it when they're foraging. And that's why I go into those 1304 01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:45.399 things because then you know, a week from now this fall. I mean, 1305 01:37:45.439 --> 01:37:47.600 if you've heard that and kind of learned it it makes sense, then 1306 01:37:47.640 --> 01:37:51.119 you know exactly what to do and to have success. And we want you 1307 01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:56.199 to have success that that is very important to us for your lawn. A 1308 01:37:56.279 --> 01:38:00.880 good way to have success is nycropass is super turk. That's a silver bag. 1309 01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:05.279 I was at Langham Creek Ace Hardware yesterday talking to them about the superturf. 1310 01:38:05.600 --> 01:38:11.520 It's on my schedule as something that you use through the summertime because it's 1311 01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:15.199 slow release, it's fifty percent of the nitrogen. It's slow release, and 1312 01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:19.279 Superturf it also has iron to green up those yellow spots in your yard. 1313 01:38:19.880 --> 01:38:26.680 Superturf is a quality product that is specifically designed to feed your lawn over two 1314 01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:30.239 or three months period of time. Now you can find Superturf at Ace Hardware 1315 01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:34.640 and Sinco Ranch. You can find Superturf at a Tascasita, Ace Hardware and 1316 01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:39.600 Lake Hardware down in Clute Lake, Jackson. That is going to be another 1317 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:44.199 place as there are many where you find nitoposs products like the Superturf, and 1318 01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:45.319 I would encourage you to get it. I mean, even if you're not 1319 01:38:45.359 --> 01:38:48.239 going to fertilize this weekend, go ahead and get some have it on hand 1320 01:38:48.439 --> 01:38:51.520 because then when you're ready to go, you can just run out there and 1321 01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:56.760 get the job done. And so anyway, something to think about. We're 1322 01:38:56.760 --> 01:38:59.920 going to go to Spring Branch and talk to Sally. Hello, Sally, 1323 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:06.359 good morning. I believe you had mentioned a garden tool and the people that 1324 01:39:08.039 --> 01:39:14.399 sell it, and it is for pulling out weeds in the easy manner where 1325 01:39:14.479 --> 01:39:18.359 it just pulls up the roots and all can you remember the name of that. 1326 01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:23.239 Yeah, that was actually a caller came in and mentioned it, and 1327 01:39:23.319 --> 01:39:26.520 I happened to have a tool, so I did say, yes, they 1328 01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:30.199 work. It's called Grandpa's weeder. And it's a little stick and at the 1329 01:39:30.279 --> 01:39:35.960 bottom or is a hinge with like two fingers on each side of the hinge, 1330 01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:41.079 and you push it in the ground, uh, with your your its 1331 01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:44.199 you like press it down with your foot and then you just pull back on 1332 01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:47.119 the handle and the fingers squeezed together and they pull up the weed. So 1333 01:39:47.239 --> 01:39:50.760 if it's a tap rooted weed, that works. Well. If it's something 1334 01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:56.479 like Virginia button weed or dichondra or dollar weed, well you can't use the 1335 01:39:56.520 --> 01:39:59.760 tool for that. You just need you need to read weed that you grab 1336 01:39:59.840 --> 01:40:02.239 the of the weed and pull it straight up. And the name of it 1337 01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:08.600 again, please Grandpa's Weeder. Okay. And who sells that, you know? 1338 01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:12.319 I don't know, but my first call would be the Southwest Fertilizer because 1339 01:40:12.359 --> 01:40:16.720 they pretty much have everything. Southwest Fertilizer is best and Nutton Runwick. It's 1340 01:40:16.880 --> 01:40:21.920 not too terribly far from you. Okay, all right, thank you, 1341 01:40:23.359 --> 01:40:26.399 yeah, you bet, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very 1342 01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:31.479 much. Yeah, Southwest Fertilizer doesn't matter what it is, fertilizers. Everything 1343 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:34.760 I mentioned they have. When it comes to soil bags, you know, 1344 01:40:34.920 --> 01:40:38.920 the quality soil, take care of the brown stuff, they got it. 1345 01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:42.399 They have it there with its past disease and weed control. They have it. 1346 01:40:43.039 --> 01:40:45.600 And the most important part is they have people that know what they're talking 1347 01:40:45.640 --> 01:40:48.239 about. You know, whether you talk to Bob the owner, whether you 1348 01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:54.279 talk to any of the staff that he has on hand, they're going to 1349 01:40:54.319 --> 01:40:57.880 be able to point you in the right direction. And that is important when 1350 01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:00.199 we don't want to misuse a product. We don't want to use a product 1351 01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:05.840 that accomplishes nothing. Aerin, for example, there is extremely knowledgeable and so 1352 01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:09.239 you go in, you get what you need, and you find out how 1353 01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:11.399 to use it and what to do about it. It's good they have an 1354 01:41:11.439 --> 01:41:13.680 eighty foot wall of tools. I mean, I could go on and on. 1355 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:16.520 I like to put it this way, if Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have it, 1356 01:41:16.640 --> 01:41:19.960 you don't need it, because they pretty much have everything. We're going 1357 01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:26.520 to go now out to Tomball and talk to John. Hello, John good 1358 01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:30.880 More to skip. I have a quick question. I want the perfect answer 1359 01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:32.960 from you. Okay, the unt the pressure's on, all right, here 1360 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:36.800 we go. You know how new bills are right one on top of each 1361 01:41:36.840 --> 01:41:41.800 other. Well, I'm trying to kind of ground out the sound on one 1362 01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:45.119 of these neighbors, because there's always one, and I'm looking at to put 1363 01:41:45.319 --> 01:41:53.439 around the fence line, right around my fence. I'm looking at Eagleston's Polly's. 1364 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:57.119 Do you have any other suggestions to where they can kind of grow and 1365 01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:02.439 Lauren's grows some type of barrier. Yeah, Holly is fine. Holly, 1366 01:42:02.520 --> 01:42:05.279 you need to make sure and water it the first couple of years. I 1367 01:42:05.319 --> 01:42:09.199 would say, water by hand, just to make sure all the root system 1368 01:42:09.279 --> 01:42:13.000 is getting a soaking, because it takes them a while to get established enough 1369 01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:15.359 where you're not worried about them drying out. Uh. And and but they're 1370 01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:19.720 they're as fine. That's a good Holly. Uh, you're gonna I'm trying 1371 01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:24.000 to think, what is the other one? Oh, Nellie Stevens, that's 1372 01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:28.439 another good one. Nellie Stevens is another good one. There are other plants 1373 01:42:28.479 --> 01:42:33.439 that I just know that evergreen shrubs do muffle the sound a little bit, 1374 01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:36.880 but you know they you're still going to hear the sound through them. They're 1375 01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:42.319 not perfect, but they are nice. They block of you too, which 1376 01:42:42.359 --> 01:42:46.159 is which is good? Okay, well that's close to a perfect answer. 1377 01:42:46.159 --> 01:42:53.279 I appreciate all your health, Skip, I appreciate that. Take care. 1378 01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:59.199 Oh boy, well, have you been to nelson Water Guard? Not? 1379 01:42:59.319 --> 01:43:02.239 And Katie, I'm telling you, we are so lucky here in Houston. 1380 01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:06.600 We just have the best garden centers, the best mom and pop local garden 1381 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:12.640 centers. Nelson's is it's a showplace. It's a destination. Now. Their 1382 01:43:12.760 --> 01:43:15.960 big thing is the water gardens, but they also have a retail garden center. 1383 01:43:16.039 --> 01:43:19.359 I mean you can buy all kinds of plants there as well, but 1384 01:43:19.760 --> 01:43:24.319 the water garden. Do you need a pond you want to have koi or 1385 01:43:24.520 --> 01:43:27.960 some other type of a fishi in. Do you want to have the lily 1386 01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:31.479 pads, you know, the beautiful blooming lilies that are tropical or the kind 1387 01:43:31.560 --> 01:43:35.560 that are very resilient to cold they able to come back. Do you want 1388 01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:42.479 a waterfall? Do you want one of those big beautiful urns that have water 1389 01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:45.479 coming out of the top that it's called a disappearing fountain that goes into the 1390 01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:49.439 ground and recirculates. Well, they invented that and so they know how to 1391 01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:55.560 do it. They can come to your house and add beauty, gargeous beauty 1392 01:43:55.640 --> 01:43:58.680 and the sound of water. And you have to just go to Nelson Water 1393 01:43:58.760 --> 01:44:01.199 Garden to see what I'm talking about. I can sit here and describe it, 1394 01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:04.920 but you just need to go see. You wander through and it's like, 1395 01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:10.439 yes, I need one of everything. You get the sense of the 1396 01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:14.840 sound of water and how peaceful that would be in the background, the beauty, 1397 01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:16.960 the fact that birds will come to that as well. I mean, 1398 01:44:17.000 --> 01:44:19.960 there's a lot of reason to go to Nelson's, but let's just do this. 1399 01:44:20.239 --> 01:44:28.880 Here's their website, Nelson watergardenswith the NSS dot com Nelsonwatergardens dot com and 1400 01:44:29.680 --> 01:44:31.960 where they located. Just head out. I tend to Katie turned north on 1401 01:44:32.119 --> 01:44:36.279 Fort Ben Road and throw a rock from there to Nelson Watergarden. It just 1402 01:44:36.520 --> 01:44:41.600 a little bit down that road. Love to go to that place. I 1403 01:44:43.239 --> 01:44:45.279 highly recommend you go just to see it. Well, it's time for Nicky 1404 01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:50.239 in the news our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome 1405 01:44:50.279 --> 01:44:54.960 back to guard Line. Thanks for listening today. Glad to have you with 1406 01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:58.359 us. What do you want to talk about. Do you want to talk 1407 01:44:58.359 --> 01:45:01.680 about vegetables or fruit or flowers or you name it, houseplants. We can 1408 01:45:01.720 --> 01:45:05.039 talk about that too. I've got some orchids you want to get blooming again. 1409 01:45:05.560 --> 01:45:09.199 Whatever it is, just give us a call on guard line seven one 1410 01:45:09.359 --> 01:45:15.000 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1411 01:45:15.079 --> 01:45:18.640 eight seventy four. When you are doing transplanting, when you're putting a new 1412 01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:25.159 plant in the ground to get it established, I suggest that you do something 1413 01:45:25.279 --> 01:45:29.000 that I basically do all the time, and that is use medina. Has 1414 01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:31.760 to grow. It's a six twelve sixth formula. It's got a good hyphosphorus 1415 01:45:31.800 --> 01:45:38.439 content for getting those roots started. It's important for that. But it also 1416 01:45:38.479 --> 01:45:42.239 has the nitrogen and the potassium in it. But here's what else it has 1417 01:45:42.399 --> 01:45:45.920 has to grow. It's got Medina soil activator to stimulate the biological activity. 1418 01:45:45.960 --> 01:45:50.000 It's got humate humic acid. We already talked about humus and the importance of 1419 01:45:50.079 --> 01:45:55.159 that and what it does. It's got seaweed extract as well. Now you 1420 01:45:55.199 --> 01:45:58.920 can use as a folio application. It's not going to burn plants, but 1421 01:45:59.079 --> 01:46:01.520 I use it to a watering in. That's my favorite use of it. 1422 01:46:02.119 --> 01:46:06.119 Put in a watering can add your water when you plant the plant. That's 1423 01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:11.199 what you water in with. Use has to grow six to twelve six water 1424 01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:14.600 to water in the plant. Then a week later, do it again, 1425 01:46:14.840 --> 01:46:17.199 a week later, do it again, And those three applications over two weeks 1426 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:21.960 give that plant the best start to get established quickly so it can do what 1427 01:46:23.119 --> 01:46:26.800 you planted it to do, whether it's flowering or fruiting. And when I 1428 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:29.920 say plant, I mean any kind of plant. We're talking about vegetables and 1429 01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:33.560 herbs and flowers, we're talking about rose, bushes and shrubs and tree You 1430 01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:38.000 can use this product to water in any kind of plant to help it get 1431 01:46:38.039 --> 01:46:40.560 off to a good start. Now a lot of people will use it in 1432 01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:44.359 an ongoing basis with plants, and like I said, you can do whatever 1433 01:46:44.399 --> 01:46:46.960 you want with it. But this is how I primarily use it is as 1434 01:46:47.039 --> 01:46:51.199 that watering in of a new plant. That's the touch and go time. 1435 01:46:51.319 --> 01:46:56.079 You know that plant has been living the life of riley, being taken care 1436 01:46:56.159 --> 01:46:59.520 of by a grower or a garden center, and now you bring it home 1437 01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:03.039 and plan it into your soil and it's got to get established because summer is 1438 01:47:03.279 --> 01:47:08.079 coming. We want to speed that up. If you haven't done a fertilization 1439 01:47:08.199 --> 01:47:12.560 of your lawn yet and you would like to get a spring green up as 1440 01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:15.960 quick as you can get some green in that grass, well, Nitropos Imperial 1441 01:47:16.199 --> 01:47:20.600 fifteen five to ten it'll do just that. It's a fifteen five to ten, 1442 01:47:20.680 --> 01:47:27.800 which is the ratio of nutrients. That's turf researchers from Texas A and 1443 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:33.600 M to every other LANGRA university across the country throughout the South that have recommended 1444 01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:38.039 because that's what goes into grass. If you take clippings and say what's in 1445 01:47:38.199 --> 01:47:41.760 this? Tell me about the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in these clippings, 1446 01:47:42.079 --> 01:47:45.960 you're going to hear it's a three one two four one two ratio of nutrients. 1447 01:47:45.119 --> 01:47:48.119 And that's why they do this. It's immediately available. You watered in, 1448 01:47:48.399 --> 01:47:51.800 the nutrients are going to dissolve away and be there for your plants. 1449 01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:57.199 Where do you get Imperial, Well, you can get Imperial at Kingwood Ace 1450 01:47:57.279 --> 01:48:00.520 Hardware. You can get it at the Arborgate up in Tombol. If you're 1451 01:48:00.560 --> 01:48:03.319 in South Houston, Shades of Texas out there, on Genoa Red Bluffs southeast 1452 01:48:03.319 --> 01:48:06.960 Houston. They've got Imperial out there as well, so it's easy to find 1453 01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:13.920 night Foss products. Very widely available, so no problem finding those for sure. 1454 01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:21.159 This past week have been working on a couple of wheelbarrows that I have 1455 01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:27.479 for color and vegetables. And also I have a Vego garden bed that's on 1456 01:48:27.600 --> 01:48:30.319 wheels. It's our rolling type of bed, one of the big long oval 1457 01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:38.239 beds, and I planted that too. I love these movable containers because I 1458 01:48:38.319 --> 01:48:42.159 don't know it just it's versatile. So my Vego bed, I've got some 1459 01:48:42.319 --> 01:48:45.640 things that are going to spill over the side, like nearing burgia as one 1460 01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:50.600 of the ones going over the side. You've got the summer alyssums, the 1461 01:48:51.239 --> 01:48:56.439 lobularia like white streams an example of one they'll spill over the side. I've 1462 01:48:56.439 --> 01:49:00.039 got some little petunias that also spill well over the sides, and then some 1463 01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:03.119 plants to go in the middle. So when this thing is looking at its 1464 01:49:03.199 --> 01:49:06.600 best, when it really gets established and gets going, I mean it's just 1465 01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:11.399 going to have color draping over the sides and going up. And there's a 1466 01:49:11.399 --> 01:49:15.800 little strategy people use. It's called the thriller, filler spiller, and what 1467 01:49:15.960 --> 01:49:19.520 that means is in the center of a large container, you have something that 1468 01:49:19.600 --> 01:49:24.159 comes upright. That's the thriller, they call it. It could be an 1469 01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:29.479 ornamental grass. The burgundy colored ornamental grasses work excellent for that. It could 1470 01:49:29.479 --> 01:49:32.000 be a lot of different things. And then the filler goes in around it, 1471 01:49:32.319 --> 01:49:36.239 and it's kind of a medium height plant that also brings color. It 1472 01:49:36.279 --> 01:49:42.800 could be color from the foliage, it could be color from flowers. Maybe 1473 01:49:42.880 --> 01:49:45.600 you've got a planting like this in a shade place. Then that filler would 1474 01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:51.039 be things like impatience or palladiums to kind of fill in around it. And 1475 01:49:51.119 --> 01:49:56.560 then the spiller spills over the side, as the name would imply. And 1476 01:49:56.680 --> 01:50:00.960 there's a number of things. A lot of people like to use the sweet 1477 01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:06.159 potatovine, the Shartruse colored one sweet potato wine as there as their spiller. 1478 01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:12.319 Especially in areas that are a little lower light. It does okay in those 1479 01:50:12.399 --> 01:50:15.079 areas and it will spill over the side. But that strategy is just a 1480 01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:17.920 good one to do. By the way, when you're out and about and 1481 01:50:18.000 --> 01:50:23.960 you're purchasing plants and things, always look for good quality, healthy plants and 1482 01:50:24.239 --> 01:50:28.760 keep that thriller filler spiller in mind. If it's a large container, now 1483 01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:30.680 that doesn't mean you have to do it that way. You can plant one 1484 01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:33.359 plant like a big, large container that could be a beautiful one, maybe 1485 01:50:33.399 --> 01:50:38.640 a hibiscus plant for example, or you've put a rosebush, a small rosebush 1486 01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:42.119 in a container. By the way, RCW rose bushes made me think about 1487 01:50:42.319 --> 01:50:45.720 RCW. They have over two hundred types of rose bushes there. That's the 1488 01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:49.199 nursery. That's where Tumba Parkway comes into belt Way eight. It's real easy 1489 01:50:49.239 --> 01:50:55.119 to get to the website. Let me give you that for I forget RCW 1490 01:50:55.560 --> 01:51:01.359 nurses Plural dot com. RCW Nurseries Calm. They're open Monday through Saturday eight 1491 01:51:01.399 --> 01:51:05.000 to five. They're open today from ten am to five pm, So this 1492 01:51:05.199 --> 01:51:08.520 afternoon it'd be a good time to get out there. And they're going to 1493 01:51:08.560 --> 01:51:12.479 have your herbs and perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants. They grow 1494 01:51:12.520 --> 01:51:15.079 their own trees up in Plantersville, so they have a nice selection of well 1495 01:51:15.119 --> 01:51:18.960 adapted trees. Uh. It's just a good place to go. But I 1496 01:51:19.680 --> 01:51:25.960 last year I went there and was google lying over their occajun hibiscus that they 1497 01:51:26.039 --> 01:51:29.439 have out there, because those are just gorgeous plants. But I love to 1498 01:51:29.479 --> 01:51:31.880 go buy RCW Nursery. They'll also say you the fertilizers that you need for 1499 01:51:32.000 --> 01:51:34.920 your lawn, and they'll sell you the products you need when you're planting a 1500 01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:41.239 woody ornamental like a rosebush or a tree to enhance the rooting and success with 1501 01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:45.239 that plant. What our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 1502 01:51:45.279 --> 01:51:49.479 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Just 1503 01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:51.920 a tip out there. I know some people, uh, you know, 1504 01:51:53.039 --> 01:51:56.520 don't want to wait in line on the phone. Right now. We've got 1505 01:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.600 an open board, so if you'd like to have your chance to get right 1506 01:51:59.680 --> 01:52:01.359 in, this would be a good time to do that. We're about to 1507 01:52:01.359 --> 01:52:03.840 take a break here in about a minute and a half, but when we 1508 01:52:03.920 --> 01:52:08.720 come back from that break, you will be the first ones up that we 1509 01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:15.920 talked to. Honey Bees and other pollinators are very important for our landscapes. 1510 01:52:15.000 --> 01:52:21.399 They're important for pollinating our fruit and vegetables, for example, squash, cucumbers, 1511 01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:28.520 watermelons, cantalopes. There's two different flowers that the bees that pollen has 1512 01:52:28.560 --> 01:52:30.920 to move from and the pollen doesn't walk or fly through the air to get 1513 01:52:30.960 --> 01:52:34.960 there. You need something to take it there, and honey bees are a 1514 01:52:35.000 --> 01:52:39.880 way to do that. The Bee Supply can help you have a little backyard 1515 01:52:39.920 --> 01:52:43.800 high where you produce your own honey. I think that's pretty cool. You 1516 01:52:43.840 --> 01:52:45.159 can do that if you want to do that, if you just want to 1517 01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:51.079 go out and learn about bees. They also have beginning bee keeper classes that 1518 01:52:51.359 --> 01:52:56.960 are absolutely there's so much information you feel like you got to drink out of 1519 01:52:57.039 --> 01:53:00.079 a fire hydrant when you get to I mean really, they really have great, 1520 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:03.680 great classes. The next one's April thirteenth, I believe, uh, 1521 01:53:03.800 --> 01:53:08.439 and then April twenty seventh is another one. You just need to contact them 1522 01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:14.960 vbesupply dot com, vbsupply dot com. Uh. They're always getting bees in 1523 01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:16.560 And for those of you who just want to learn about bees, do one 1524 01:53:16.600 --> 01:53:20.199 of the what they call the I think they call it the Interactive Honey Tour 1525 01:53:20.439 --> 01:53:24.560 where you get to taste honey and learn about bees. They have an observational 1526 01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:29.319 hive where you can actually watch the bees working in the store. Your kids 1527 01:53:29.359 --> 01:53:32.239 have got to see that. That is really really cool. Well, I'm 1528 01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:35.439 gonna have to take a break right now. Those of you who have called 1529 01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:40.720 in Gordon and Ralph, you're the first two up our phone number seven one 1530 01:53:40.800 --> 01:53:45.640 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the garden Line. 1531 01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:48.960 Good to have you with us today. What is the what is the 1532 01:53:49.039 --> 01:53:54.000 broken record that you hear on garden line all the time? What bronze stuff 1533 01:53:54.199 --> 01:53:59.359 before green stuff? What does that mean? That means create the place where 1534 01:53:59.399 --> 01:54:02.840 the plants are going to grow. That is most going to enhance growth. 1535 01:54:03.000 --> 01:54:06.760 That means good drainage. That means it holds water, but it drains well. 1536 01:54:08.159 --> 01:54:13.039 That means good nutrient content. That means all of the stuff fertilizing. 1537 01:54:13.159 --> 01:54:15.199 Fertilizer's part of the browns, part of the soil. Then when you put 1538 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:18.039 the plants in the ground, it makes it look like you have a green 1539 01:54:18.119 --> 01:54:23.560 thumb because you've given them the perfect place to grow. Airloom soils creates that 1540 01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:27.640 kind of soil. Do you need a vegetable and herb mix. They've got 1541 01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:30.159 that. In fact, they've got it in bulk and they also deliver, 1542 01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:32.840 by the way, for a charge. The veggiing herb and bulk is a 1543 01:54:32.920 --> 01:54:38.760 really good deal. It's one hundred and nineteen dollars. One hundred and nineteen 1544 01:54:38.800 --> 01:54:41.239 dollars. You can load it, you can go to the site you haven't 1545 01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:45.359 loaded in your trailer truck. You can get them to deliver a supersack that 1546 01:54:45.560 --> 01:54:49.000 is a big, giant, one cubicyard sack. They have a wide variety 1547 01:54:49.039 --> 01:54:54.279 of products at Airloom Soils and their quality products and they're also available of course 1548 01:54:54.359 --> 01:54:58.640 by bag. Widely available from Heirloom Soils. Now. If you want to 1549 01:54:58.680 --> 01:55:02.119 find out more about Airloom Soils and the products and stuff that they have, 1550 01:55:02.680 --> 01:55:05.720 well you just need to go to their website. And it's not hard to 1551 01:55:05.800 --> 01:55:12.880 find airloom soils on the web. It's Heirloom Soils of Texas, Airlomsols off 1552 01:55:12.920 --> 01:55:15.920 Texas dot com. There's a compost calculator there. I was just recommending it 1553 01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:20.479 to somebody yesterday. Go to the compost calculator. You can find out how 1554 01:55:20.600 --> 01:55:25.760 many five gallon buckets of soil or in a qbcyard, you can say I've 1555 01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:28.319 got an area this big, how much do I need to order? How 1556 01:55:28.399 --> 01:55:31.760 many bags of soil or how many bulk yards? It does it all the 1557 01:55:31.800 --> 01:55:34.640 work it does all the work for you, makes it easy. Airlomsolls off 1558 01:55:34.680 --> 01:55:40.359 Texas dot Com. I'm going to head now out to James and McAllen. 1559 01:55:40.600 --> 01:55:45.560 And James, how are you this morning? Doing great? Partner? Okay? 1560 01:55:45.760 --> 01:55:48.960 Is this McAllen is in the South Texas Valley? Yes, that's where 1561 01:55:49.039 --> 01:55:54.079 we are. Beautiful weather down here. Well, you must not be listening 1562 01:55:54.399 --> 01:56:00.439 on the radio. You must be listening through the computer. Yes, I 1563 01:56:00.760 --> 01:56:03.479 listened to it through the iHeart. Okay, good. How can I help? 1564 01:56:05.079 --> 01:56:10.119 Well, I've planted some periwinkles here, I think that's what they are, 1565 01:56:10.800 --> 01:56:14.319 and white and purple and pink and all, and most of them are 1566 01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:18.119 doing great, and every once in a while there'll be one that the leaves 1567 01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:25.279 just start shriveling up and it dies. I've planted them, but composts in 1568 01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:30.399 there. But some little fertilizer. Well it's in there, you know, 1569 01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:36.000 when I transplanted them into the ground. And I don't know if it has 1570 01:56:36.079 --> 01:56:42.479 a drip system to it and when it dries out, because it does dry 1571 01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:46.600 here pretty good. I'll add a little sprinkler type water from my hose, 1572 01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:51.039 yes, but I don't know if I'm getting too much water, not enough 1573 01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:57.079 water. But most of them are doing great with the same kind of care. 1574 01:56:57.880 --> 01:57:00.600 But every once in a while they just kind of shribble up and die. 1575 01:57:00.760 --> 01:57:03.680 The ones and I don't know if you have any suggestions, Yeah, 1576 01:57:03.680 --> 01:57:06.680 I do. The ones that shrible and dyed. Are they kind of turning 1577 01:57:06.720 --> 01:57:12.560 a chocolate brown to black color the plants, No, not really. The 1578 01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:15.960 leaves just kind of it's almost like it just sucks the life out of it. 1579 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:20.920 They just kind of start curling under and start shriveling up. Okay, 1580 01:57:21.359 --> 01:57:25.800 but there's no blackness to them. Okay, Something's going on down in the 1581 01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:28.680 soil, and I don't know what it is. It could be an insect 1582 01:57:28.720 --> 01:57:34.319 eating the roots. It could be a root rot, which overwatering is mostly 1583 01:57:34.439 --> 01:57:40.279 damaging because it leads to root rots because the roots can't get oxygen and root 1584 01:57:40.359 --> 01:57:45.039 rots. So that just pull up that plant because you get it out of 1585 01:57:45.079 --> 01:57:48.319 there. That's the only thing I can think of. There's a common disease 1586 01:57:48.600 --> 01:57:56.600 of Madagascar periwinkles. People call them vinca too, but I don't think your 1587 01:57:56.720 --> 01:58:00.640 description doesn't fit that. So I would just say watch the water content now, 1588 01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:04.359 feel the soil about three inches deep, you'll know if it's sop and 1589 01:58:04.479 --> 01:58:10.720 wet or if it's too dry and water. Accordingly, those are good, 1590 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:15.800 tough eat tolerant plants for all of Texas, but especially your area. Well 1591 01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:18.479 that's why I'm playing it because when it gets in the summer here, there's 1592 01:58:18.560 --> 01:58:24.439 not much that'll live yeah with the heat. All right, Okay, I 1593 01:58:24.600 --> 01:58:27.479 appreciate your advice. Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate the call. 1594 01:58:27.680 --> 01:58:30.520 Good to visit with you down there. Hey, if you have weeds 1595 01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:35.079 in your lawn that are growing now that are visible, now, those are 1596 01:58:35.159 --> 01:58:41.560 cool season weeds. They're typically broad leaf, primarily nitrophoss fifteen five to ten 1597 01:58:41.960 --> 01:58:45.560 with trimeac will kill those weeds and it will provide you a spring green up 1598 01:58:45.640 --> 01:58:50.119 quick release fertilizer. So if you haven't done a fertilizing yet, if you 1599 01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:55.239 just did a green up, then don't do it again right right away. 1600 01:58:55.720 --> 01:58:59.039 But if you haven't done that, this will be two birds with one stone. 1601 01:58:59.079 --> 01:59:01.600 You get the early green up and you get the broadleaf weed control. 1602 01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:06.000 I just follow the instructions on how to apply it. This is very important. 1603 01:59:06.079 --> 01:59:10.600 They always follow the instructions on how to apply it. And you can 1604 01:59:10.640 --> 01:59:15.359 find it in a lot of different places, but Ace Hardware, lots of 1605 01:59:15.439 --> 01:59:19.239 ACE Hardware are one good way to find nitroposs products. You know, ACE 1606 01:59:19.279 --> 01:59:24.800 Hardware carries everything. They talked about fire ants a minute ago. They have 1607 01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:28.159 every kind of fiant control. I was just describing while ago when I went 1608 01:59:28.199 --> 01:59:32.319 on my little session on fireant management. Do you have mosquito issues? They 1609 01:59:32.399 --> 01:59:35.560 have the repellents, and they have the mosquito dunks because those are coming. 1610 01:59:36.079 --> 01:59:43.680 That's the national bird of Southeast Texas in the summertime. And fertilizers. All 1611 01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:46.039 the fertilizers I talk about are at ACE Hardware. You can go to Acehardware 1612 01:59:46.079 --> 01:59:50.199 dot com. That's the website Acehardware dot Com. Find the store locator. 1613 01:59:50.319 --> 01:59:55.640 There's forty of them in southeast area between Houston's. I'm over in Beaumont Way. 1614 01:59:56.359 --> 01:59:58.840 It's easy to find them, and when you get there, it's easy 1615 01:59:58.880 --> 02:00:01.359 to find what you need for your plants. I'm going to go now to 1616 02:00:01.560 --> 02:00:05.439 Gordon in Cloverleaf. Hello, Gordon, Hey, good morning. How are 1617 02:00:05.439 --> 02:00:13.039 you doing today. I'm good. I'm good good. I just put down 1618 02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:16.920 some the we doonator. I couldn't get through two weeks ago, so I 1619 02:00:17.199 --> 02:00:24.359 decided to put down the weedinator and okay, my question would be I have 1620 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:30.159 a gallon jug of the Medina has to grow for lawns that I didn't get 1621 02:00:30.159 --> 02:00:35.039 to use last year. How long do I have to wait before I could 1622 02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:39.159 use this? You can use it, just go a little light with it. 1623 02:00:39.319 --> 02:00:42.239 Since you have the weedinator down there. The Medina has to grow is 1624 02:00:42.279 --> 02:00:45.880 going to give you a quicker response than the weedonator is made to spread that 1625 02:00:46.000 --> 02:00:49.880 feeding out over time. But if you're looking at your lawn and you don't 1626 02:00:49.920 --> 02:00:54.119 have the color you want, do a light dose of the has to grow 1627 02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:56.640 and keep it around. You're gonna you can use it on a lot of 1628 02:00:56.680 --> 02:01:00.359 different things, including your lawn, so it's not going to go bad on 1629 02:01:00.479 --> 02:01:03.439 you. Yeah, I heard you mentioned something about the the active ingredient for 1630 02:01:03.560 --> 02:01:12.359 the weeds in the microfoss was you said the active ingredient was trimex. One 1631 02:01:12.439 --> 02:01:15.760 of the nitropass products has trimech in it. It's a broad it's three different 1632 02:01:15.840 --> 02:01:20.199 broad leave weed controls mixed together. Okay, so the guy I put down 1633 02:01:20.520 --> 02:01:26.520 has like Diekamba I think was the active ingredient. Those are in the in 1634 02:01:26.600 --> 02:01:29.520 the Nelson product. Those are two different ingredients, but they also work. 1635 02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:32.359 But again, when we're doing those, we gotta have a you want to 1636 02:01:32.399 --> 02:01:39.000 have a wet weed leaf surface so that when you water it, I mean 1637 02:01:39.039 --> 02:01:41.359 so when you put it out, it sticks to the weeds that way it 1638 02:01:41.399 --> 02:01:45.319 gets in there. All right. I did that when the when the morning 1639 02:01:45.439 --> 02:01:47.439 dew was on the ground to be sufficient. Yes, sir, Yes you're 1640 02:01:47.720 --> 02:01:50.399 good. Hey, I'm sorry, I got to run, but I gotta 1641 02:01:50.439 --> 02:01:54.119 move kind of quick here and take a call. Okay, all right, 1642 02:01:54.279 --> 02:01:58.960 thank you, appreciate your help. You bet uh hey route Routh and northwest 1643 02:01:59.000 --> 02:02:02.079 Houston. Yeah, hey, Ralph, I've got about fifty seconds, but 1644 02:02:02.159 --> 02:02:06.239 I wanted to try to get your call. Good. All right, Okay, 1645 02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:13.359 Occajun was really doing good and I appreciate it. But there's a lot 1646 02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:16.079 of people play getting them. Thanks all right, Well, thank you good. 1647 02:02:16.159 --> 02:02:24.279 But it's just slow coming. Is that? Uh something I've done everything 1648 02:02:24.319 --> 02:02:30.199 I thought we just talking about. My god, it's just not vegetable going. 1649 02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:31.920 If you've done what you should. You got the fertilizer, you got 1650 02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:34.560 the water on it and everything. Just give it some time, let the 1651 02:02:34.640 --> 02:02:36.920 soil warm up a little bit more, and I think you're going to see 1652 02:02:36.960 --> 02:02:41.720 good growth. Yes, I don't though, Okay, over all the years. 1653 02:02:41.800 --> 02:02:44.319 Thank you, okay, thank you so much for the call. So 1654 02:02:44.479 --> 02:02:48.079 were so short on time on that segment. Well, here we're putting another 1655 02:02:48.159 --> 02:02:51.159 hour in the books. I will be back for our last hour of the 1656 02:02:51.279 --> 02:02:55.600 day if you'd like to give Josh a call and get on the boards seven 1657 02:02:55.680 --> 02:03:00.079 one three two one two five eight seven zero. I just want to remind 1658 02:03:00.159 --> 02:03:03.920 you next Saturday, I'm going to be at Ciena Moulch. We maytor heard 1659 02:03:04.000 --> 02:03:09.479 Luis from Heirloom Soils call in a little bit earlier talking about the scam going 1660 02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:13.239 on in the grain industry with these things. Well he's going to be there 1661 02:03:13.279 --> 02:03:16.279 too, and so is Andy Tidester from Medina Products. You just heard me 1662 02:03:16.399 --> 02:03:20.319 talking about hastro Grows six twelve six. Well, Andy can answer questions on 1663 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:26.560 any Medina product there is. She does an excellent job. Audiences always love 1664 02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:30.119 to hear from Andy. We're all going to be at Moss Nursery. Jay 1665 02:03:30.319 --> 02:03:33.640 from Texas Gardener Magazine is going to be down there at Moss Nursery as well 1666 02:03:33.720 --> 02:03:38.840 doing this. This is the event is from ten to two. I'll be 1667 02:03:38.920 --> 02:03:42.520 there from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be giving away products from Nelson 1668 02:03:42.560 --> 02:03:45.720 plant food, from heirloom soils, and from Medina products as well. I 1669 02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:50.920 hope you can make it to Ciena Mulch next Saturday, three thirty twenty four. 1670 02:03:53.920 --> 02:03:58.439 KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 1671 02:03:58.479 --> 02:04:03.600 on this program. Welcome to Katy r H Guarden Line with Skip Rictor. 1672 02:04:03.720 --> 02:04:20.319 It's so crazy here Gus trip. Just watch him as so many things to 1673 02:04:20.439 --> 02:04:30.319 supper Brazer Gas. You damost tub back again, not a sun Welcome back 1674 02:04:30.359 --> 02:04:34.920 to guarden Line. Welcome back. What are we going to talk about today? 1675 02:04:35.199 --> 02:04:41.159 You tell me seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1676 02:04:41.199 --> 02:04:43.720 I have a few things I'd like to talk about, but we always like 1677 02:04:43.840 --> 02:04:46.399 to show to be directed and driven by the kind of questions you have, 1678 02:04:46.520 --> 02:04:50.439 because I guarantee you one thing. If you have a question, somebody else 1679 02:04:50.520 --> 02:04:54.720 has that question too. It's a time of year where we're dealing with a 1680 02:04:54.840 --> 02:04:59.399 lot of different things in our yard. You've got I was talking earlier about 1681 02:04:59.760 --> 02:05:04.039 con trolling the weeds that are already in your lawn that are post emergent, 1682 02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:10.159 and we had a color call in asking about the turf Star weedenator, So 1683 02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:14.720 I just want to explain a little bit about that while we're going forward here. 1684 02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:18.800 Turf Star weedenator has a weed control product in it that kills the weeds 1685 02:05:18.920 --> 02:05:25.079 now, but the fertilizer in it is gradual release, to release slowly over 1686 02:05:25.199 --> 02:05:30.159 time and to feed the lawn over the next two or three months. So 1687 02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:33.880 here's what happens. When the spring soil starts to warm up, microbes have 1688 02:05:33.920 --> 02:05:39.960 become active. The nutrients that are in that turf Star weedinator, the slowly 1689 02:05:40.039 --> 02:05:45.159 available water soluble nitrogen and water insoluble nitrogen, both will be released over time 1690 02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:48.439 gradually, and that is a good way to feed the lawn because it gradually 1691 02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:55.720 releases it. A turf Star Weedenator is a product that contains twenty percent total 1692 02:05:55.800 --> 02:05:58.760 nitrogen. But again it's not can all be dumped at once. It can 1693 02:05:58.840 --> 02:06:02.000 be released gradually over time. And if you wet the lawn and then put 1694 02:06:02.039 --> 02:06:06.439 it out, it sticks to the weed leaves the moist wet surface of the 1695 02:06:06.479 --> 02:06:11.600 weed. The turf Star weed enator sticks to that and it soaks in and 1696 02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:15.560 kills the weed. I'd wait about a day or so and then watered in 1697 02:06:15.720 --> 02:06:18.279 to get the fertilizer down in the soil, and there you sort of kill 1698 02:06:18.319 --> 02:06:21.520 two birds with one stone. That's kind of how that works. So your 1699 02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:28.039 broad leaf weeds that you're seeing now, the ones that sprouted last fall, 1700 02:06:29.000 --> 02:06:31.520 they're the ones that the turf Star weed Enator now if you apply it now 1701 02:06:31.640 --> 02:06:35.600 that they're the ones that it's going after, and it works works really really 1702 02:06:35.680 --> 02:06:40.840 well. Our phone number if you would like to be able to call seven 1703 02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:45.760 one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two 1704 02:06:45.800 --> 02:06:53.680 fifty eight seventy four. Have you been down to Jorges Gardens that's done in 1705 02:06:53.800 --> 02:06:56.880 Alvin. I don't know if you've been there for you need to go if 1706 02:06:56.920 --> 02:07:00.000 you haven't. There's a fairly new arrival on the garden center scene, but 1707 02:07:00.119 --> 02:07:04.039 hoge Is it's been actively growing and I'm telling you every time, I'm really 1708 02:07:04.119 --> 02:07:10.359 impressed with the kind of selection that they have. I mean, they were 1709 02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:15.079 loaded up on fruit trees this spring, the Peggy Martin roses, vegetables and 1710 02:07:15.159 --> 02:07:18.359 tomatoes. Yeah, crape myrtles, that's a common and a popular plant. 1711 02:07:18.960 --> 02:07:23.119 Right now, they've got a lot of vegetables available if you'd like to get 1712 02:07:23.159 --> 02:07:27.560 that instant vegetable garden. There you go if you want Mexican heather. I 1713 02:07:27.840 --> 02:07:31.119 love Mexican heather. I have I plant it along the driveway at my house 1714 02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:35.880 and it just forms little bushes with kind of a pinkish flower, pinkish purple 1715 02:07:35.960 --> 02:07:40.840 flower on it. The bees love those flowers. By the way, Mexican 1716 02:07:40.880 --> 02:07:46.239 heather is an excellent bee food be attractor of Speaking of attracting milkweed, jorgez 1717 02:07:46.279 --> 02:07:54.039 milkweed for attracting the monarch caterpillars into your garden. They've got steel plenty fruit, 1718 02:07:54.079 --> 02:07:57.279 they got grapes, they got lots of different kinds of berries. They 1719 02:07:57.319 --> 02:08:00.640 have perennials like salvia. Remember I said, salvia is my face genera. 1720 02:08:00.800 --> 02:08:03.680 Well, Orges got it down at Orges Hidden Gardens. So they're on They're 1721 02:08:03.800 --> 02:08:07.800 in Alvin, Texas. So I those of you down anywhere near that region, 1722 02:08:07.880 --> 02:08:13.239 you need to swing by. They're on Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth Street in 1723 02:08:13.399 --> 02:08:16.159 Alvin, Texas. Go check out Orgey. Tell them tell them we said, 1724 02:08:16.199 --> 02:08:20.079 hey, I want to go. Now we're gonna go to the phones 1725 02:08:20.119 --> 02:08:24.800 and we're going to talk to Matthew and Northwest Houston. Hello, Matthew Hey, 1726 02:08:26.039 --> 02:08:28.720 Skip, how are you doing. I'm good, I'm good. What's 1727 02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.039 up? Well, first off, I wanted to I can't see the praises 1728 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:37.520 of that genesis that you got me started on. I've got my Scotch bonnets 1729 02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:43.800 and orange gusher peppers going in there, and they are just flowering and budding 1730 02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:48.359 like crazy. So I could be happier with that. Well, I'm glad 1731 02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:50.039 to hear that I had the same results. I took a picture and I 1732 02:08:50.119 --> 02:08:52.640 had to end when I posted it to social media. I had to say, 1733 02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:58.560 I have not enhanced this photo. I mean it was emerald green peppers. 1734 02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:01.840 They were, and they were budding like you said. In fact, 1735 02:09:01.960 --> 02:09:07.359 Matthew, I left I forgot a couple of klopenio peppers behind them. When 1736 02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:11.199 I planted all my peppers, they were back behind some other plants. And 1737 02:09:11.279 --> 02:09:15.119 I've pulled them out yesterday and they had three inch long klopenio peppers on them 1738 02:09:15.159 --> 02:09:20.000 all already. So anyway, oh, I must believe it. I am 1739 02:09:20.159 --> 02:09:24.760 a true believer and this is my method going forward. I've never had this 1740 02:09:24.880 --> 02:09:30.039 good result, good good, But I was calling you today. I've got 1741 02:09:30.119 --> 02:09:35.560 a backbed and it's it's a new construction. We've been there about five years, 1742 02:09:35.800 --> 02:09:39.640 and all of a sudden we have had this grass start shooting up through 1743 02:09:39.880 --> 02:09:45.880 the clay and the mulch and the soil. And it must grow about a 1744 02:09:46.000 --> 02:09:50.560 foot a week, and it's it's very thin with lots of little leaves. 1745 02:09:50.319 --> 02:09:56.119 But I had heard you mentioned something for direct applying, like you'd mentioned like 1746 02:09:56.239 --> 02:10:01.239 applying it to a sponge and just swiping it up to kill the grass or 1747 02:10:01.279 --> 02:10:05.319 the weed, yes, without killing the plants around. What was that product? 1748 02:10:05.439 --> 02:10:07.600 Well, if you're going to do it with a wiper applicator, you 1749 02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:11.840 could use a product that kills any weed, broad leaf or grass like a 1750 02:10:11.880 --> 02:10:16.800 glif WI say product would do that. And when you use the applicator, 1751 02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:20.119 you're not spraying it everywhere. You're not getting it on yourself or anything. 1752 02:10:20.199 --> 02:10:24.800 You're using the wiper. I use the little grabber tools to put sponges on 1753 02:10:24.880 --> 02:10:28.560 those for the wiper. But another thing you can do if it's a grassy 1754 02:10:28.640 --> 02:10:33.640 weed is use a grass only killer, and there are a number of them 1755 02:10:33.720 --> 02:10:39.039 on the market. The ingredient begins with the boy's name Seth set So if 1756 02:10:39.079 --> 02:10:43.880 you see a thing that's for grass killing and it starts with seth as the 1757 02:10:43.039 --> 02:10:46.439 ingredient. There's only one product like that, and that's the one you spray 1758 02:10:46.479 --> 02:10:48.800 it. It'll kill your grass, but it won't kill your broad leave. 1759 02:10:48.880 --> 02:10:52.479 So if you get it on your petunias or your roses or whatever, it's 1760 02:10:52.560 --> 02:10:56.840 not going to hurt them like gly would just fly kill them. Yeah, 1761 02:10:56.960 --> 02:11:01.319 okay, so that won't harm me or mentals or anything else. And they're 1762 02:11:01.359 --> 02:11:05.119 perfect. No, not unless it's an ornamental grass. But yeah, that's 1763 02:11:05.239 --> 02:11:09.680 okay, okay, perfect. That answers my question. Thank you very much, 1764 02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:11.520 Thanks for the call. I appreciate that we are now going to go 1765 02:11:11.560 --> 02:11:16.720 to Mary and West Houston. Hello. Mary, Yes, yes, Skip, 1766 02:11:18.279 --> 02:11:24.319 I'm calling with regard to your comments on the toash tar reedonator because I've 1767 02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:31.239 done something that probably shouldn't have done. I've got a severe infestation of weeds 1768 02:11:31.439 --> 02:11:39.720 okay all times, and they got to be properly a cup two three feet 1769 02:11:39.800 --> 02:11:43.960 high, and I've got the homeowners association on me, okay, giving me 1770 02:11:43.079 --> 02:11:50.359 ten days to get them in order. So since I've cut them all down 1771 02:11:50.439 --> 02:11:54.119 in the front yard but not the backyard, you have to wait let them 1772 02:11:54.159 --> 02:11:56.760 grow up again before I can put on the tars tar weedonator or is there 1773 02:11:56.840 --> 02:12:03.840 something else I can use in the meantime, So a turf Star weedenator. 1774 02:12:05.439 --> 02:12:07.560 I don't know which weeds you have, but if they're broad leaf weeds, 1775 02:12:09.479 --> 02:12:13.279 go ahead. I sent you pictures. You said they were broadleaf Oh okay, 1776 02:12:13.399 --> 02:12:16.920 okay, broad leaf weeds. Yeah, so you could use that if 1777 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:20.760 they're that big and it's not in your lawn. Turf Star is made for 1778 02:12:20.920 --> 02:12:24.680 using it in the lawn. Then I would switch over and I'm gonna give 1779 02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:28.000 you a quick product. And I got to run to break. But the 1780 02:12:28.119 --> 02:12:35.239 product is bonn eyed weed beater, Ultra bon eyed weed beater, Ultra weed 1781 02:12:35.399 --> 02:12:39.680 seed, Ultra weed Okay beater, b e A t e R Beater, 1782 02:12:39.920 --> 02:12:46.000 Ultra oh bnad weed beater Ultra Ultra. Use it now, but don't use 1783 02:12:46.079 --> 02:12:48.800 it when the weather heats up. Okay, but but it'll work now. 1784 02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:52.199 Hey, I'm sorry, I do have to run. Thanks for the call, 1785 02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:56.680 Doris, Allen and Steve. You'll be the first up when we come 1786 02:12:56.720 --> 02:13:00.000 back. Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you with us. 1787 02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:03.560 Hey, are you putting out some containers this spring? I hope you 1788 02:13:03.680 --> 02:13:07.119 are. Hope spring and summer containers that would be the flower pots out there 1789 02:13:07.159 --> 02:13:11.159 on the patio driveway wherever you put them. And that's a nice thing about 1790 02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:13.199 them. They're versatile. You have to consider jungle Land. Jungle Land is 1791 02:13:13.199 --> 02:13:18.439 a product distributed by Nitrofoss that is a quality product. Really it holds moisture 1792 02:13:18.600 --> 02:13:22.600 like it should, but it drains the excess away like it should so your 1793 02:13:22.640 --> 02:13:28.279 plants can thrive. When you use jungle end, you're adding a mix of 1794 02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:33.159 Canadian blomb peat with four different sources of aged organic matter, decomposing organic matter, 1795 02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:39.359 and microhizal fungi, and so it just really provides that long lasting vibrant 1796 02:13:39.720 --> 02:13:43.600 color because the soil is so rich, which makes the roots so happy, 1797 02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:46.119 which makes the plant so productive. That's kind of how that works. Indoors. 1798 02:13:46.640 --> 02:13:50.680 Jungle Land with water saving crystals, that's the one that helps when you 1799 02:13:50.880 --> 02:13:56.640 forget to water. You know how that goes. Those crystals whole water and 1800 02:13:56.800 --> 02:14:00.520 they help hold your plants over until you find it. Get back there and 1801 02:14:00.640 --> 02:14:05.520 remember and your plant lets. You have it for being so negligent. Memorial 1802 02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:11.319 Ace Hardware City in the Memorial Area, that's where you can get jungle Land. 1803 02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:16.640 Alvin Stanton Shopping Center that's where you can get jungle and Katie Katie Ace 1804 02:14:16.720 --> 02:14:20.079 Hardware, that's where you can get jungle end and a lot of places. 1805 02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:26.000 In addition to that, let's head out to Austin County and tuck to Doris. 1806 02:14:26.439 --> 02:14:30.359 Hello, Doris, Hello, how are you? I'm well? Thank 1807 02:14:30.439 --> 02:14:37.960 you? Yesterday on your program you gave out a remedy for cut ants. 1808 02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.560 Yes, something about mixing it in a five gallon book. It can you 1809 02:14:41.680 --> 02:14:45.439 repeat that? Please? Well, here's what I want to do. I 1810 02:14:45.560 --> 02:14:48.279 want to if you have any other questions, we can handle that. But 1811 02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:50.640 I want to put you on hold. Have Josh get you my email, 1812 02:14:52.159 --> 02:14:54.960 and if you will email me that I can give you a better answer than 1813 02:14:54.039 --> 02:14:58.640 I can say all this stuff on the air. Okay, describe it. 1814 02:14:58.000 --> 02:15:01.640 I'll give you the very pacifics through an email. Let's let's do it that 1815 02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:05.039 way. Did you have any other things that you want to ask about? 1816 02:15:05.000 --> 02:15:09.319 Yes? I have. I don't know if it's root rott or what. 1817 02:15:09.520 --> 02:15:15.000 But in my backyard where it's wet, it's slow to come up, come 1818 02:15:15.079 --> 02:15:20.479 back green. What can I put on that? A couple of things. 1819 02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:26.720 First of all, if there was a way to make that area not wet 1820 02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:30.319 when we have rainy periods, that would be helpful. That could be an 1821 02:15:30.359 --> 02:15:33.640 underground drain to help with out. It could be putting in some soil to 1822 02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:37.920 raise the area and move the water off of that kind of soil, topsoil, 1823 02:15:39.079 --> 02:15:43.399 a topsoil, or if a dally, a sandy loam topsoil would be 1824 02:15:43.520 --> 02:15:46.680 good for doing that. I wouldn't use just sand, but a top soil, 1825 02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:48.800 sandy loam, okay type soil. You could raise it up. Just 1826 02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:52.439 think about where the water's going to go when you do that, because it 1827 02:15:52.520 --> 02:15:56.720 may just create another wet area somewhere else. If you've got gutters coming off 1828 02:15:56.800 --> 02:16:01.560 the house that are dumping water in that area, those can be redirected to 1829 02:16:01.640 --> 02:16:05.840 a different spot. So fixing the base of the problem would be my first 1830 02:16:05.920 --> 02:16:11.600 thought. Secondly, when you have a low lying area, sometimes that tends 1831 02:16:11.640 --> 02:16:13.359 to be a little soggy, tends to be a little extra wet, and 1832 02:16:13.560 --> 02:16:20.079 so you may need to consider doing an aeration, accompost, top dressing, 1833 02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:24.520 some fertilization to get the grass growing in there. But if the problem is 1834 02:16:24.760 --> 02:16:28.720 primarily just that soggy soil, those in and of themselves are not gonna help 1835 02:16:28.800 --> 02:16:33.600 much. Okay, what kind of fertilizer? What are you used? A 1836 02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:37.959 lawn fertilizer for summertime? And that would be on my schedule. I don't 1837 02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:41.079 know if you peruse the web or not, but I have a website called 1838 02:16:41.200 --> 02:16:46.799 Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip, and on that I have a 1839 02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.520 list of the best fertilizers for our area that tells you when to apply them, 1840 02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:54.159 what the name of them is. So it makes it really easy to 1841 02:16:54.239 --> 02:16:58.799 go shopping and finding them. You're out there, okay, you're out there 1842 02:16:58.840 --> 02:17:03.600 in Austin County. You're just in the back door of Nelson's Fertilizers and they 1843 02:17:03.639 --> 02:17:09.159 have one. They have one called turf Star Slow and Easy, and that 1844 02:17:09.239 --> 02:17:11.479 would be a good one for your lawn. Out there. You're just not 1845 02:17:11.680 --> 02:17:16.040 far away from Nelson's. Just a runner and grab it if you want to. 1846 02:17:16.120 --> 02:17:18.840 Okay, So you don't think it's a disease. It's just too much 1847 02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:22.879 water. I don't think it's a disease. If it were a disease, 1848 02:17:24.200 --> 02:17:28.920 we would we should be seeing symptoms on the leaves, like spots on the 1849 02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:33.760 leaves, or like dying runners. You know, the roots are rotted. 1850 02:17:33.840 --> 02:17:35.840 When you pull a runner up. It's green runner, but it's as rotted 1851 02:17:35.959 --> 02:17:41.120 roots. Those are possibilities, but I just can't diagnose that over the air. 1852 02:17:41.639 --> 02:17:46.319 Okay, all right, all right, thank you so much. Take 1853 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:50.120 a sample into your Austin County Extension office and have them take a look at 1854 02:17:50.159 --> 02:17:52.000 it. Maybe they'll send it up to A and M. I don't know. 1855 02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:54.200 Take a look and see if they can see anything on it. Just 1856 02:17:54.319 --> 02:17:58.600 a four by four inch plug. Slip it into a ziploc bag with some 1857 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:03.079 soil roots and have them take a look at it. Maybe with their eyes 1858 02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:07.079 on it they can they can see a little better. All right, Thank 1859 02:18:07.159 --> 02:18:13.319 you. I appreciate that, Doris. All right, take care. I'm 1860 02:18:13.360 --> 02:18:16.639 going to go to Laporte and we're going to talk to Alan. Hello, 1861 02:18:16.760 --> 02:18:20.120 Alan, good morning, Skip. How are you. I'm well, sir. 1862 02:18:20.319 --> 02:18:26.319 I got a problem with some well established, long established crab grass, 1863 02:18:28.440 --> 02:18:33.399 and I'm just not sure short of digging it up. Is there any other 1864 02:18:33.600 --> 02:18:39.280 solution that you have that I could use? Where is it growing? Typically 1865 02:18:39.639 --> 02:18:43.120 out in between the sidewalk and the curve of the street. Oh okay, 1866 02:18:46.120 --> 02:18:48.840 It's been there for ever since I can remember. I've been in the home 1867 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:52.040 twenty eight years. Okay, and I've been back at for a long time. 1868 02:18:52.920 --> 02:18:58.399 Well, I'm thinking it's not crabgrass. Crabgrass is an annual grass that 1869 02:18:58.520 --> 02:19:05.200 comes from seed, and there are several others. There's Dallas grass, goose 1870 02:19:05.319 --> 02:19:07.000 grass. There's a number of different grasses that could be in a lawn. 1871 02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:11.280 And the problem with killing a grass in a lawn grass is the product that 1872 02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:16.719 does one kills both of them. One technique you can use is and I 1873 02:19:16.879 --> 02:19:22.799 do this. You can get a wiper applicator, you can purchase those certain 1874 02:19:22.879 --> 02:19:26.159 places, but you can also build your own. I use those little grabber 1875 02:19:26.239 --> 02:19:28.680 tools that you grab a jar off a shelf. You know when to come 1876 02:19:28.680 --> 02:19:31.440 about three feet long. And on the end, I take a kitchen sponge, 1877 02:19:31.479 --> 02:19:35.799 cut it in half an attached with a washer to both sides, and 1878 02:19:35.959 --> 02:19:39.399 then you can squirt something on there. You could squirt a grass only killer. 1879 02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:45.000 You could squirt a glyphosate product just on the sponge, and with the 1880 02:19:45.079 --> 02:19:48.159 length of that handle, you can walk through without stooping and just squeeze it 1881 02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:54.079 together. Over one of those grassy weed leaves that's sticking up above your lawn. 1882 02:19:54.479 --> 02:19:56.280 You can squeeze it on that and just pull it up the weed leaf 1883 02:19:56.719 --> 02:20:01.399 and you wipe it right onto the grass. And if you say at it 1884 02:20:01.639 --> 02:20:05.079 like that, you can kill those plants, whether they're annual or perennial, 1885 02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:09.399 it'll work pretty well. So that's that's one solution to how do I kill 1886 02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:13.520 a grass in a grass? Now, if it truly is crabgrass, then 1887 02:20:13.600 --> 02:20:20.000 you're going to want to get a product called barricade and apply it pretty soon 1888 02:20:20.840 --> 02:20:24.479 because crabgrass is already starting to germinate. But each spring, if you get 1889 02:20:24.559 --> 02:20:28.799 my lawn care schedule online, it tells you when to apply it. That 1890 02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:33.559 prevents the seeds from coming up. So a perennial plant, barricade's not going 1891 02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:37.879 to stop it because it stops seeds. But crabgrass is an annual plant, 1892 02:20:37.600 --> 02:20:43.040 and so are other grasses, certain other grasses. So those are a couple 1893 02:20:43.079 --> 02:20:46.959 of combos that you might want to try. Okay, great, great. 1894 02:20:46.840 --> 02:20:52.520 One of the questions. I got a load of what the company called a 1895 02:20:52.719 --> 02:20:58.040 yard mix, and it was it wasn't a sandy loam or anything like that. 1896 02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:03.719 It kills everything that I put it on, and it just seemed like 1897 02:21:03.840 --> 02:21:11.719 it was mostly sand. So I'm curious, is there any type of fertilizer 1898 02:21:11.000 --> 02:21:18.200 or help that I can use on that to bring back my Saint Augustine. 1899 02:21:18.760 --> 02:21:22.760 Well to that is a very strange thing. I don't know a reason why 1900 02:21:22.879 --> 02:21:28.520 putting a sandy soil would kill something unless you smothered it. But that has 1901 02:21:28.600 --> 02:21:33.399 got me a little concerned because I don't know what would do that. If 1902 02:21:33.479 --> 02:21:37.360 I don't know, for whatever reason, the plants that it was on died 1903 02:21:39.280 --> 02:21:43.159 And it's really okay, now, then you could use a quality fertilizer. 1904 02:21:43.319 --> 02:21:48.639 You could mix a little bit of a compost in to the sand to make 1905 02:21:48.680 --> 02:21:50.920 it whole water a little bit better and to release those nutrients to it. 1906 02:21:52.040 --> 02:21:56.079 But then just go ahead with your summer fertilization schedules on those airs. That's 1907 02:21:56.079 --> 02:22:00.760 a very curious thing. By the way, you're down in the Portsher's Hardware 1908 02:22:00.920 --> 02:22:07.159 on Broadway, Pardon. That was my question was if Fisher's Hardware would carry 1909 02:22:07.200 --> 02:22:11.479 those products. Fishers Hardware carries Nitropross products both the one and Laporte on Broadway 1910 02:22:11.559 --> 02:22:18.360 and up in South southeaston on Southmore. Both of those Fishers have that product. 1911 02:22:18.280 --> 02:22:22.639 Okay, great, great, all right, thanks appreciate, appreciate your 1912 02:22:22.719 --> 02:22:26.959 call. All right, thank you for taking it all right, bye bye, 1913 02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:35.440 yeah something sence for time. Down the southern area there top dressing with 1914 02:22:35.559 --> 02:22:39.200 composts. You hear me talk about core aeration and top dressing, and what 1915 02:22:39.479 --> 02:22:43.959 is that. Well, core aeration is pulling plugs of soil out of the 1916 02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:50.280 ground. That opens up a hole in the ground that the nutrients from your 1917 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.520 fertilizers, that composts that's applied to the top can all move down in that 1918 02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:58.239 hole where the roots are going to be down down below the surface, and 1919 02:22:58.559 --> 02:23:01.760 it brings oxygen down, especially into a heavy clay soil, and that helps 1920 02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:09.559 roots to grow better. And core aeration can be followed by fine textured compost 1921 02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:13.920 top dressing, not the standard compost you often sees for sale around in place, 1922 02:23:15.040 --> 02:23:18.120 especially cheap o stuff. Those are chunky wood things. We're not talking 1923 02:23:18.120 --> 02:23:24.200 about that. We're talking about a fine textured quality compost. Now down south, 1924 02:23:24.760 --> 02:23:28.200 you've got a really good operation that can do just that, and it's 1925 02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:33.559 B and B turf Pros. Their websites B and B or an excuse me, 1926 02:23:33.719 --> 02:23:37.959 BB turf Pros dot com, B B Turfpros dot com. Here's a 1927 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:43.600 phone number. You'll please write this down seven one three two three four fifty 1928 02:23:43.719 --> 02:23:48.879 five ninety eight seven three two, three, four, five, five nine 1929 02:23:48.000 --> 02:23:54.520 eight. Listen. Their focus is on customer satisfaction. They do high quality 1930 02:23:54.600 --> 02:23:56.200 work. I've seen the work that they do. I've seen the equipment that 1931 02:23:56.319 --> 02:24:00.760 they use. They bring in equipment that can do the job right, and 1932 02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:05.639 they focus on quality products. They only use products and companies that I own. 1933 02:24:05.680 --> 02:24:09.239 Garden Line Trust, for example, Ciena Mulch that is a local multiplier, 1934 02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:13.520 high quality product. That's one of the things that BnB turf Pros uses. 1935 02:24:13.600 --> 02:24:18.200 They can do the aeration and the compost top dressing. So check them 1936 02:24:18.200 --> 02:24:22.239 out b B turf Pros dot com two or excuse me seven to one, 1937 02:24:22.319 --> 02:24:24.159 three two three, four, five, five nine eight. Those of you 1938 02:24:24.239 --> 02:24:28.799 who live in all the way east to sugar Land, all the way west 1939 02:24:28.879 --> 02:24:31.479 to sugar Land, all the way east to Pearland, all down Highway six 1940 02:24:31.680 --> 02:24:35.719 Missouri City, Yeah, that's up there on ninety Highway six, Presno or 1941 02:24:35.799 --> 02:24:39.479 Colas, Sienna, Iowa, Colony Manville, these are all part of the 1942 02:24:39.559 --> 02:24:46.200 region that BnB turf Pros takes care of and sponsors are serves. Rather, 1943 02:24:46.200 --> 02:24:50.479 when you're doing that kind of product, you're hauling a lot of bulk around, 1944 02:24:50.600 --> 02:24:54.319 so you can't just run all over creation with it. You got to 1945 02:24:54.479 --> 02:24:58.799 kind of stay pretty close to home. Please give them a call. Well, 1946 02:24:58.840 --> 02:25:01.360 we're gonna take a little break here, Steve. I see you there. 1947 02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:05.559 I don't have enough time to justify you know, bringing you right on 1948 02:25:05.760 --> 02:25:07.600 right now, but you'll be the first when we come right back from a 1949 02:25:07.680 --> 02:25:11.200 break, and we're going to turn it over to Nicky and the news. 1950 02:25:11.319 --> 02:25:15.840 If you'd like to call us seven one three two one two ktr H. 1951 02:25:16.799 --> 02:25:20.159 Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We're going 1952 02:25:20.239 --> 02:25:24.879 to go straight to Steve out in Deer Park. Hello, Steve, how 1953 02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:31.879 you doing. I'm well. I have a bridle reef that bloomed really really 1954 02:25:31.959 --> 02:25:37.399 well this year and I was fixing to cut it back, I think, 1955 02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:41.559 uh, And I was going to ask you about if you had any tips 1956 02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:46.959 on that. Yes, I sure do. Uh, bridles wreath. The 1957 02:25:46.079 --> 02:25:50.200 beauty of the plant is its arching branches. You know, they kind of 1958 02:25:50.239 --> 02:25:54.079 come up and out and go down toward the ground. So anything that would 1959 02:25:54.120 --> 02:25:58.280 be like a hedging of the plant would be a big mistake. I would 1960 02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:03.719 look if you if you feel like I don't know what it what the reason 1961 02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:07.159 for pruning it is like if it's getting too big or whatever, I would 1962 02:26:07.200 --> 02:26:09.479 take out the biggest, longest canes all the way back almost to the ground, 1963 02:26:11.360 --> 02:26:13.440 so that when you're through pruning, you still have a beautiful form in 1964 02:26:13.559 --> 02:26:18.760 it, but it doesn't need pruning just as an ongoing basis. So well, 1965 02:26:18.760 --> 02:26:22.200 I wanted to control the size of it, and that would be that 1966 02:26:22.280 --> 02:26:26.959 would be just find those big long arching canes, the biggest, tallest, 1967 02:26:28.000 --> 02:26:31.959 whitest and cut those either back all the way to the ground or cut them 1968 02:26:33.000 --> 02:26:37.360 back to where they join another branch that's not going out of bounds like that. 1969 02:26:37.799 --> 02:26:43.120 Okay, Well I was no shape or anythind Yeah, and so no, 1970 02:26:43.440 --> 02:26:46.719 not really. I mean it has the shape that it has. I 1971 02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:48.879 mean, if you want to if you do cut it back kind of I 1972 02:26:48.920 --> 02:26:52.520 said, don't share it. If you do share it, you're going to 1973 02:26:52.559 --> 02:26:56.360 get new growth. But it just affects that. It's just like a fountain 1974 02:26:56.440 --> 02:27:00.239 of white blooms, as you know from having that place. Okay, we'd 1975 02:27:00.319 --> 02:27:03.159 like to maintain that if we can. Also, it being a spring bloomer, 1976 02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:09.040 spring only bloomer, it sets its bloom buds in late summer and fall, 1977 02:27:09.600 --> 02:27:11.799 so if you prune, it'd be better to go ahead and do it 1978 02:27:11.959 --> 02:27:16.760 now as it finishes its bloom, or you can do it in the summertime, 1979 02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:22.120 but don't do it past about I would say July, because you want 1980 02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:26.719 to have it plenty of time to not only grow a branch to set buds 1981 02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:28.319 on it for next year. Well, I think I'll do like you said, 1982 02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:33.680 just trim the biggest ones back. Yeah. I had another question. 1983 02:27:33.920 --> 02:27:41.399 We got these oak tassels all over our driveway. Huh, and do they 1984 02:27:41.479 --> 02:27:43.399 make a good mulch? They're fine, you can use them for mulch. 1985 02:27:45.440 --> 02:27:48.559 Okay, I won't have a whole bunch of oak trees popping up, I 1986 02:27:48.639 --> 02:27:54.399 guess not from the tassels. No, that's the pollen carrying structures. So 1987 02:27:54.559 --> 02:27:58.440 the acorns is a whole nother thing. That's where the pollen ends up, 1988 02:27:58.559 --> 02:28:03.159 and that's what makes the oak tree. And one more thing, if I 1989 02:28:03.280 --> 02:28:11.079 could, my wife heard you comment about how much fertilizer to put out on 1990 02:28:11.280 --> 02:28:13.959 trees and how to put it out. Do you put the holes around it 1991 02:28:15.000 --> 02:28:18.360 or do you just sprinkle it around it? Or I generally just sprinkle it 1992 02:28:18.440 --> 02:28:24.280 around it. The holes are okay, But you're putting fertilizer in one little 1993 02:28:24.399 --> 02:28:28.280 spot right there, and the roots are everywhere. And so what I do, 1994 02:28:28.600 --> 02:28:33.479 and this is a generalization, and anytime you overgeneralize, there's going to 1995 02:28:33.520 --> 02:28:37.840 be exceptions to the rule. But in general, if you look at a 1996 02:28:37.959 --> 02:28:43.399 young tree, and I don't worry about fertilizing older large trees already as big 1997 02:28:43.440 --> 02:28:46.719 as going to be, but a young tree, take your thumb and how 1998 02:28:46.760 --> 02:28:50.200 many thumbwits across is the trunk. So, using the example of a soft 1999 02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:56.840 drink can, that's about three thumbwits across, and so that would get three 2000 02:28:56.959 --> 02:29:03.159 to six cups of fertilizer. If you use an organic fertilizer, you can 2001 02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:07.680 double or triple that rate because the concentration of nutrients is less than it, 2002 02:29:07.399 --> 02:29:13.440 but you can go higher. But with the centered synthetics, about one to 2003 02:29:13.520 --> 02:29:18.239 two cups per thumbwi going across the trunk. And can you use a lawn 2004 02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:22.280 fertilizer? I do. That's what I use. And in fact, if 2005 02:29:22.280 --> 02:29:26.120 you're fertilizing your lawn, your tree is going to get some benefit from that. 2006 02:29:26.959 --> 02:29:30.440 And so if you don't want a big green, circular area out in 2007 02:29:30.520 --> 02:29:33.319 the yard, you can just let the lawn fertilizer take care of things, 2008 02:29:33.360 --> 02:29:37.239 and it will. The most important thing you do for a young tree that 2009 02:29:37.360 --> 02:29:41.639 you're trying to get growing is to make sure that it doesn't have to fight 2010 02:29:41.799 --> 02:29:46.920 weeds all the time. So the wider you get that mulched base around the 2011 02:29:46.000 --> 02:29:50.639 tree, the better off early growth on that tree is going to be because 2012 02:29:50.639 --> 02:29:54.280 the tree wants to be in a forest where it's covered with leaves and there's 2013 02:29:54.360 --> 02:30:01.159 no grass in there choking out nutrients and water and stuff create a forest floor 2014 02:30:01.280 --> 02:30:05.040 and is wide of an area to make a tree feel at home. Okay, 2015 02:30:05.120 --> 02:30:07.040 well, thank you for that. Thank you, Steve. Have a 2016 02:30:07.079 --> 02:30:09.719 good day, appreciate your call. Good luck with all that. I got 2017 02:30:09.760 --> 02:30:13.840 some projects going there for sure. He was talking about a turf type fertilizer, 2018 02:30:13.959 --> 02:30:20.840 and Superturf is a slow release fertilizer from Nitrofoss. It is the silver 2019 02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:28.520 bag Silver Super Turf NITROFOS nineteen four ten nitros. Superturf is gonna it's the 2020 02:30:28.639 --> 02:30:33.040 chemistry of it is such that it's going to release that nineteen percent nitrogen gradually 2021 02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:37.840 over two or three months going out there. It's got the iron to help 2022 02:30:37.920 --> 02:30:41.920 with green up because those little yellowish areas you may have in your yard that's 2023 02:30:43.000 --> 02:30:46.879 typically iron deficiency, and so super turf will help with that. And you 2024 02:30:46.000 --> 02:30:50.680 can find it in a whole lot of places. It's widely, widely available. 2025 02:30:50.959 --> 02:30:52.719 You go out to the Ice Hard Restoring Kingwood, you go up to 2026 02:30:52.799 --> 02:30:56.000 the arbor Gate Nursery and Tomball, you're going to find it. Shades of 2027 02:30:56.079 --> 02:31:01.479 Texas down on Genoa Red Bluff has it. Saw some of that at the 2028 02:31:01.680 --> 02:31:05.360 arbor Gate. As a matter of fact, easy to find super turf from 2029 02:31:05.479 --> 02:31:09.479 Nitrofoss. Talking about the Arborgate, I was by there the other day and 2030 02:31:09.719 --> 02:31:15.639 just looking at the things coming in and it's like, I don't know how 2031 02:31:15.719 --> 02:31:20.079 they manage to get all the plants in there as often as they do, 2032 02:31:20.239 --> 02:31:24.479 because about the time they stock up, people show up and clean them out, 2033 02:31:24.520 --> 02:31:26.959 and they got to get another truck and bring all the plants in and 2034 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:28.440 get them set up. I know that's what nurseries do, right, that's 2035 02:31:28.520 --> 02:31:33.799 the business. But still they you got to be on your toes to keep 2036 02:31:33.840 --> 02:31:37.520 a stock of the range of things that Arborgate carries. I mean, and 2037 02:31:37.680 --> 02:31:41.399 they have all kinds of things. They have fruit trees, year around. 2038 02:31:41.799 --> 02:31:45.719 They've always got some vegetable, they always got some herbs and flowers. You 2039 02:31:45.840 --> 02:31:50.559 want shrubs, some of the newer developed shrubs from Inrovia and other companies that 2040 02:31:52.000 --> 02:31:56.120 have features that we used to not have in a shrub. You know, 2041 02:31:56.319 --> 02:32:00.319 some of the old glossy abilia that we used to plant when I was kid. 2042 02:32:00.639 --> 02:32:05.079 That thing got huge, like six eight feet tall practically. Well, 2043 02:32:05.159 --> 02:32:09.159 now we've got all these more compact types that have beautiful color, and Arburgate's 2044 02:32:09.159 --> 02:32:13.239 got a great stock of those. They have a great clock on everything they 2045 02:32:13.360 --> 02:32:15.760 carry. While you're out there, first of all, I want to tell 2046 02:32:15.760 --> 02:32:20.239 you you got to use that back parking lot that is easy in and easy 2047 02:32:20.319 --> 02:32:24.719 out. It's so convenient. There's a road called Trischel Road that takes off 2048 02:32:24.760 --> 02:32:30.000 the twenty nine to twenty before arbor Gate and comes back in after Arburgate. 2049 02:32:30.079 --> 02:32:33.479 Whether you're going east or west, you come to Trischel, you come to 2050 02:32:33.600 --> 02:32:37.079 Arburgate, you come back to a Trischel where it comes back in. You 2051 02:32:37.239 --> 02:32:39.000 drive back behind there and the parking lot's there. It's all weather. It's 2052 02:32:39.040 --> 02:32:43.719 really full design and it works well. Also, while you're out there, 2053 02:32:43.000 --> 02:32:50.840 they've got a three part one two three system Organic Food Complete. It's a 2054 02:32:50.200 --> 02:32:56.280 four four to three plus calcium organic food complete for anything with the roots. 2055 02:32:56.680 --> 02:33:01.600 It's got the They have the organic soil Complete that also has expanded jail in 2056 02:33:01.719 --> 02:33:05.159 it, and the Organic compost Complete that also has expanded jail. Now, 2057 02:33:05.399 --> 02:33:11.520 organic matter is important for improving the soil structure, but organic matter does decompose 2058 02:33:11.600 --> 02:33:15.559 over time, So with the shale in there, you're adding a little bit 2059 02:33:15.920 --> 02:33:18.760 to help keep that soil open for a longer period of time. Every time 2060 02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:22.440 you add it, that sheale's going to be left behind, and it's going 2061 02:33:22.520 --> 02:33:24.239 to be there. It's going to help out. That's a nice combination. 2062 02:33:24.399 --> 02:33:28.239 One two three. Out at the Arbigate. For those of you who've been 2063 02:33:28.319 --> 02:33:31.440 living under a rock and don't know where the Arbigate is, twenty nine to 2064 02:33:31.479 --> 02:33:35.239 twenty go west of Tombol on twenty nine to twenty. It's just just not 2065 02:33:35.399 --> 02:33:39.840 too far out of town there on the left hand side, easy to find. 2066 02:33:39.959 --> 02:33:43.520 And I promise you leave yourself an extra thirty minutes to an hour over 2067 02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:48.200 what you thought, because you are gonna you're going to be there a while. 2068 02:33:48.399 --> 02:33:50.760 Trust me, you're going to be there a while. Cyprus to take 2069 02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:54.760 a break. Here we go, I'll be back for our last segment of 2070 02:33:54.840 --> 02:33:58.079 the day seven one three two one two ktrh. And that you'll be our 2071 02:33:58.120 --> 02:34:01.600 first up. If your foot does not tap into that, you do not 2072 02:34:01.719 --> 02:34:05.760 have a pulse. Trust me on this one when you go to the doctor. 2073 02:34:05.360 --> 02:34:09.760 I love that song Footloose. Hey, you're back with guardenline our phone 2074 02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:16.280 number seven one three two one two ktr h. Microlife products are a wide 2075 02:34:16.399 --> 02:34:20.920 range of products, really a wide range of fertilizers and other kinds of products 2076 02:34:20.959 --> 02:34:28.479 that are stock full of microbial organisms. Microbes rule the world, and microbes 2077 02:34:28.559 --> 02:34:31.440 are what helps plants have success. They do a million. We can do 2078 02:34:31.479 --> 02:34:37.479 a whole show just on what microbes do for plants and then some The green 2079 02:34:37.559 --> 02:34:41.559 bag of microlife is the six two four That is an excellent fertilizer for the 2080 02:34:41.680 --> 02:34:43.799 lawns. I actually use it for all kinds of things, not just lawns, 2081 02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:50.040 but that's it's a great lawn fertilizer. Microlife. Humates plus is a 2082 02:34:50.200 --> 02:34:54.639 humate. What is that That is a final decomposing stage of compost. We 2083 02:34:54.760 --> 02:35:00.920 call humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. Put that out as well. 2084 02:35:01.639 --> 02:35:05.920 Not it doesn't have a lot. It doesn't have nitrogen and potassium or phosphorates 2085 02:35:05.959 --> 02:35:07.520 callot potassium in it. But we don't put it out just for the nutrients. 2086 02:35:07.920 --> 02:35:13.159 We put it out for soil structure and for microbial stimulation in the soil 2087 02:35:13.559 --> 02:35:16.879 to have a more effective roots system. And that's what we do it for. 2088 02:35:18.319 --> 02:35:22.680 You put it, don't put in the same hoppers sixty four fertilized with 2089 02:35:22.799 --> 02:35:26.079 one then fertilized with the other. That way you get a good even blend 2090 02:35:26.120 --> 02:35:30.120 all the way across the yard. And doing the hemats plus periodically will help 2091 02:35:30.360 --> 02:35:33.719 your soil over time. Nature bills soil slowly over time. This is a 2092 02:35:33.760 --> 02:35:35.920 little bit of a shortcut. It allows us to get that lawn, turf 2093 02:35:37.079 --> 02:35:41.200 soil in better and better shape as we go. Nitrofoss and excuse me. 2094 02:35:41.360 --> 02:35:46.799 Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That is the that is 2095 02:35:46.920 --> 02:35:50.520 the My brain cells I think are starting to short circuit today. I've talked 2096 02:35:50.559 --> 02:35:54.799 too much. Microlife Fertilizer dot COM's the website where you can find all the 2097 02:35:54.879 --> 02:35:58.399 microlife products and they're widely available. I've seen Microlife in just about ever garden 2098 02:35:58.479 --> 02:36:03.799 center that we talk about. I've seen it in all the Ace hardware stores, 2099 02:36:03.879 --> 02:36:07.760 the feed stores. It's easy to find Microlife and it's a quality product 2100 02:36:07.840 --> 02:36:09.840 too. We're going to go out to Conro now and talk to Annette. 2101 02:36:09.959 --> 02:36:16.719 Hello, Annette, Hi, thank you for taking my call. My problem 2102 02:36:16.040 --> 02:36:20.120 is in my garden bed in the front. I have all this what my 2103 02:36:20.239 --> 02:36:26.600 neighbors called nutgrass that throw out roots. I've had it dug up with a 2104 02:36:26.719 --> 02:36:31.159 fork and pulled out. Yes, I myself try to keep after it. 2105 02:36:31.360 --> 02:36:35.719 I mean, nothing seems to kill this stuff. And it's really a problem. 2106 02:36:35.200 --> 02:36:39.799 Okay, it is hard. It is a problem. Just to tell 2107 02:36:39.840 --> 02:36:45.479 you why that's the case. A nutsedge tuber can have eight or nine buds 2108 02:36:45.639 --> 02:36:48.959 on it, so when you chop it off, it just sends up the 2109 02:36:48.040 --> 02:36:52.559 next bud, and then the next bud and then the next bud. When 2110 02:36:52.600 --> 02:36:54.399 you try to dig it, which is a good thing to do, you 2111 02:36:54.520 --> 02:36:58.239 remove as many tubers as you can, but the little lines break off and 2112 02:36:58.319 --> 02:37:01.440 you leave some of the ground and here it comes back. The thing. 2113 02:37:01.600 --> 02:37:07.799 Let me just give you a philosophical thought about nutsedge. Were I talk about 2114 02:37:07.879 --> 02:37:13.680 specific controls. By the time we get to May one, nutsedge tuber already 2115 02:37:13.719 --> 02:37:18.159 has ten viable daughters. So if when it comes out in spring, you 2116 02:37:18.360 --> 02:37:22.479 dig up everything you see coming up that you can, or you spray it, 2117 02:37:22.559 --> 02:37:26.200 you are stopping it from being ten times worse before we even get to 2118 02:37:26.280 --> 02:37:31.520 summer. And so early management with however you do it is important by the 2119 02:37:31.680 --> 02:37:37.280 time we get into summer. I saw one time that they did a study 2120 02:37:37.360 --> 02:37:41.239 in some sandy soil with very wet and one nutsedge. Tuber by the end 2121 02:37:41.280 --> 02:37:46.399 of a twelve month growing period this is a warmer climate, produced two hundred 2122 02:37:46.520 --> 02:37:50.440 nuts. Oh my gosh, that's what you're up again. That's why that 2123 02:37:50.600 --> 02:37:54.520 was my Okay, that was my philosophy of it. Start early, don't 2124 02:37:54.600 --> 02:37:58.520 let it up for air. Now, the products. There are several products 2125 02:37:58.760 --> 02:38:03.600 from trollt that are labeled for different types of areas. There's one called image 2126 02:38:03.680 --> 02:38:07.879 we primarily use out on the lawn. There's one called Manage that you can 2127 02:38:07.000 --> 02:38:11.799 get that we just read the label on where you can use these the flower 2128 02:38:11.879 --> 02:38:16.479 bed, for example. And there's one called sedge Hammer, which is a 2129 02:38:16.559 --> 02:38:22.360 good name sedge nuts. Sedge is the weeds name. We call it nut 2130 02:38:22.440 --> 02:38:26.239 grass. It's nut said sedge hammer. All of those are widely available. 2131 02:38:28.079 --> 02:38:31.399 You should find those at an ACE hardware store. We got a number of 2132 02:38:31.440 --> 02:38:35.120 places that carried them, some of them in little bitty packets. They're not 2133 02:38:35.319 --> 02:38:39.000 cheap that they work very very well, and those are the ones that you 2134 02:38:39.000 --> 02:38:45.799 would want round up. Will not get rid of it. Well. If 2135 02:38:45.879 --> 02:38:50.319 I bought a groundcover, I heavy groundcover, would that help well? Nutsedge 2136 02:38:50.440 --> 02:38:56.159 tends to show up like a neon sign, you know, and because it's 2137 02:38:56.200 --> 02:38:58.760 got those thin leaves, and you got a broad leaf groundcover, so it 2138 02:39:00.079 --> 02:39:03.479 to help. Another thing you can do with nuts edge is I described earlier 2139 02:39:03.600 --> 02:39:07.879 making a homemade weed wiper using one of the grabber tools you used to get 2140 02:39:07.920 --> 02:39:11.639 a jar off a tall shelf, a high shelf, put a to take 2141 02:39:11.680 --> 02:39:15.600 a kitchen sponge, a standard size sponge, cut it in half, and 2142 02:39:15.760 --> 02:39:18.799 have somebody with a bolt and a washer attach it to each side. And 2143 02:39:18.920 --> 02:39:24.200 you can squirt these products on that sponge and just reach in there without even 2144 02:39:24.239 --> 02:39:28.600 hardly stooping, grab the nut sedge leaves, squeeze and then pull up and 2145 02:39:28.719 --> 02:39:31.479 it wipes the product right on the leaves, with a lot of product very 2146 02:39:31.559 --> 02:39:37.239 concentrated on those leaves. That's very helpful. But again you have to stay 2147 02:39:37.280 --> 02:39:41.239 with it. Once it shows three to five leaves, you better do something 2148 02:39:41.479 --> 02:39:46.040 to it because it's already working on making more. Well. Thank you very 2149 02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:50.639 much. It's one more question though. Lemon tree. Okay, I have 2150 02:39:50.719 --> 02:39:54.399 a lemon tree, and I've lost a couple because of the way the weather's 2151 02:39:54.479 --> 02:39:58.600 been between the snow of a few years ago, I lost that one and 2152 02:39:58.760 --> 02:40:05.079 the in the dryness this last summer. Okay, I was thinking of putting 2153 02:40:05.120 --> 02:40:07.680 it in a pot. Is that really my best bit? It's a good 2154 02:40:07.760 --> 02:40:13.159 idea because you need to make a really large pot. Don't use a whiskey 2155 02:40:13.239 --> 02:40:16.399 barrel because I'll rot out, but about the size of a half whiskey barrel, 2156 02:40:16.159 --> 02:40:20.719 or a little bit smaller initially, but eventually that size. You can 2157 02:40:20.840 --> 02:40:22.719 use a dolly with a strap to go around the pot, and it makes 2158 02:40:22.799 --> 02:40:28.079 moving it indoors into a garage much much easier. But that way you're in 2159 02:40:28.280 --> 02:40:33.280 control of whether that thing freezes or not. You're not out covering it every 2160 02:40:33.360 --> 02:40:37.879 time it starts to get cold. Okay, thank you, thank you very 2161 02:40:37.959 --> 02:40:41.440 much, Thank you very much. Good luck with the nuts edge. You 2162 02:40:41.559 --> 02:40:45.719 got your job out. But just the things I told you, if you 2163 02:40:45.879 --> 02:40:48.760 just remember that it'll help you win the battle. We're going to now head 2164 02:40:50.040 --> 02:40:54.319 Galveston and talk to Bill. Hello. Bill, Hi, got a question 2165 02:40:54.440 --> 02:41:00.319 about about the settings of my law, my spread my lawn. I've got 2166 02:41:00.360 --> 02:41:05.200 a turf builder Mini from scott but when I put out the fertilizer, when 2167 02:41:05.200 --> 02:41:07.000 I put out the barricade, I have no idea how to set it because 2168 02:41:07.000 --> 02:41:13.479 it's not showing on the bag. You got any suggestions, Yes, I 2169 02:41:13.600 --> 02:41:16.079 need to post this to the website. In fact, I'll put this on 2170 02:41:16.159 --> 02:41:22.319 the short list to get it on the website. For fertilizers on the I 2171 02:41:22.360 --> 02:41:26.840 assume you have a walk behind spreader, correct, Okay, On those, 2172 02:41:26.600 --> 02:41:31.920 you want to put it at about a notch or two above halfway. So 2173 02:41:31.040 --> 02:41:35.680 if there were twenty notches on the spreader, eleven or twelve would be the 2174 02:41:35.760 --> 02:41:41.479 setting that you'd use. That's a general guide for fertilizers on fertilizer spreaders. 2175 02:41:41.520 --> 02:41:48.520 Now it's general because different sized fertilizers have different sized particles, but in general 2176 02:41:48.719 --> 02:41:52.079 that's a pretty good place to start. I always go a little low, 2177 02:41:52.239 --> 02:41:56.520 though, because if you're going north south spreading fertilizer and you do much lower, 2178 02:41:56.879 --> 02:42:00.840 then you can go east west spreading fertilize, and you und up with 2179 02:42:00.920 --> 02:42:03.040 a much more even spread. You'd hate to get two thirds of the way 2180 02:42:03.079 --> 02:42:07.719 across the lawn and run out of fertilizer, right, So just just be 2181 02:42:07.879 --> 02:42:11.920 willing to go north, south and east west, in other words, crossways 2182 02:42:13.760 --> 02:42:18.399 to get better even spread. Now, for the herbicide, I assume you're 2183 02:42:18.399 --> 02:42:22.959 talking about barricade. Probably correct, Okat on a walk behind spreader, you're 2184 02:42:24.000 --> 02:42:28.680 going to do a notch above one quarter, So if there were twenty notches, 2185 02:42:28.079 --> 02:42:33.159 five or six would be your setting. That's a general guide that seems 2186 02:42:33.200 --> 02:42:37.079 to work pretty well on these. But again, also with the herbicide, 2187 02:42:39.040 --> 02:42:43.440 don't be afraid to spread it one direction and turn ninety degrees and spread it 2188 02:42:43.559 --> 02:42:46.719 that way too. You get much more even spreading, and if you should 2189 02:42:46.760 --> 02:42:52.079 be off a little bit on the setting, you're not going to be in 2190 02:42:52.159 --> 02:42:54.719 as much of a problem. Okay, Okay, thank you very much. 2191 02:42:54.719 --> 02:42:58.079 I appreciate it all right, Bill, Good luck with that. Sure. 2192 02:42:58.360 --> 02:43:05.319 Yeah, herbicide and fertilizer spreaders, that can be a problem. There's so 2193 02:43:05.399 --> 02:43:09.680 many brands out there, and a lot of fertilizers on the bag. Will 2194 02:43:09.719 --> 02:43:13.360 put settings for different fertilizers, s threaders, And that's wonderful if you can 2195 02:43:13.440 --> 02:43:16.120 do that, But for a lot of people, you know, it's like, 2196 02:43:16.239 --> 02:43:18.840 well they don't have the one I need, and how do I know? 2197 02:43:20.040 --> 02:43:22.040 How do I go about it? Well, that's how you go about 2198 02:43:22.040 --> 02:43:24.399 it. Well, hey, you've listened to another weekend full of garden Line. 2199 02:43:24.680 --> 02:43:28.399 We're about to close things down here. I want to remind you that 2200 02:43:28.520 --> 02:43:33.319 we're here every Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. And if 2201 02:43:33.360 --> 02:43:37.559 you are not able to hear us by radio, you can listen to us 2202 02:43:37.600 --> 02:43:45.000 on the iHeartMedia app. Just look for garden Line KTRH seven forty am garden 2203 02:43:45.079 --> 02:43:46.760 Line. You can listen to me live that way, and you can also 2204 02:43:46.840 --> 02:43:50.639 listen to past shows. So we call that a podcast where you can go 2205 02:43:50.680 --> 02:43:54.239 in later and listen to a show for something that you missed, probably that 2206 02:43:54.440 --> 02:43:56.239 spreader discussion. You may be going, Okay, I didn't have a pen 2207 02:43:56.600 --> 02:43:58.879 first of all, yois listen to guard Line with a pen and paper. 2208 02:44:00.280 --> 02:44:01.719 But if you didn't have it, go ahead and listen to the show and 2209 02:44:01.799 --> 02:44:05.719 then catch up on it that way. I want to remind you that I'm 2210 02:44:05.799 --> 02:44:11.120 going to be next Saturday, that is the thirtieth of March, from eleven 2211 02:44:11.239 --> 02:44:13.760 thirty to one thirty, I'll be at Sienamulch. I'm going to be given 2212 02:44:13.760 --> 02:44:18.079 away Azamida, I'm going to be given away Nitrofoss plant food, niter Nelson 2213 02:44:18.200 --> 02:44:22.200 plant food, and Airline soils and medina as well. We're just going to 2214 02:44:22.280 --> 02:44:24.719 have a good time out there. A lot of folks will be out, 2215 02:44:24.760 --> 02:44:28.520 including Jay White from Texas Gardener magazine. I hope you can join them.