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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip Rictor, so please

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just watching as good morning, good
Sunday morning. It's going to be a

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great day for gardening. I can
tell you that for sure. Hey,

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you're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Rictor, And here

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is a phone number for you to
write down. By the way, when

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you listen to garden Line, always
keep a pen and paper handy, because

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who knows, we'll be giving out
a website or a product name, or

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other kind of information that you just
may want to jot down, like our

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phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

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two and two fifty eight seventy four. Well, we got a lot of

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different things to talk about today,
and at the eight o'clock hour, we're

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gonna have Jay White from Texas Gardener
Magazine in the studio with us, and

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we're gonna talk all kinds of things
about gardening and Texas Gardener Magazine. If

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you're not familiar with it, you
certainly will be after today. But to

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start things off, let's head out
to League City and we are gonna talk

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to John V. Hello, John
V. All right, I'm not getting

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the sound there. I'm gonna put
that back on hold, and if we

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can get John V back, we'll
try that again. Let's see one more

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time. Are you there, John
V? Okay? Well, I was

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I was looking at some fertilizer bags
the other day when I stopped in let's

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see, we're oh Southwest for Yeah, I was at Southwest and just looking

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at the collection of things that they
have and Satha sweet green, and it

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just reminded me of nitrifile sweet green. Last year, the demand was so

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high that, I mean, they
couldn't keep up with it, and this

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year they've got a stock and they're
ready to go. So if you were

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wanting to try it before and you
didn't get a chance to, well,

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here's your chance this summer. We've
got plenty of that around. The sweet

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green is an eleven zero four fertilizer, so it's got a decent amount of

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nitrogen, to say the least for
an organic type fertilizer. It's basically a

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molassa space fertilizer. And so what
happens is you put any kind of a

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sugary substance like that carbon which is
basically contains a carbon molecules on the soil,

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and the microbes go nuts. They
just kick into high gear. They

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break it down, and then as
they go through their life cycles, the

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nutrients are all getting released and your
grass just has a really nice blended feed

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coming out as a result of it. Now you know, the nitrofist products

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are available all over the place.
You're gonna find sweet Green in places we

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all I mentioned Southwest Fertilizer, ace
hardware stores are gonna have it. A

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lot of our home and mom and
pop garden centers are gonna have it.

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But sweet Green is one that if
you're looking for an organic fertilizer a little

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higher nitrogen boost, that's when you
ought to consider it. Works very well,

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Very impressed with that. Let's see, do we have John V ready

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to go? Let me try one
more time? Hey, John V?

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Are you there all right? Well, we will eventually solve that problem.

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We will eventually solve it and figure
out what's going on. Otherwise we're gonna

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have a long monologue today. Get
the collared things working. You don't need

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that much of me, that's for
sure. Okay, well, I'm discovering

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that what happened here is operator error, so we'll get that fixed. Sorry

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about that, folks. Yesterday I
was talking a lot about lawns and some

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of the tips to success with lawns
and some of the things we do that

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loves our lawns too much. In
other words, we create problems overwatering and

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over fertilizing and all that. And
I'm gonna continue to talk about lawns a

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little bit here as we go through
this morning, because I know a lot

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of people are having questions and I
want to go back and discuss a little

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bit about some of the insect and
disease issues that we have to deal with.

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In the meantime. Yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna get to some callers

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here now that we've got the bugs
worked out of the system. Well,

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John V. It's taken an Act
of Congress, but here we are.

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How goodness, skip and garden line, Good morning everybody. Yes, now,

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I bought a plant from the Native
Society of Plants Native Native Society Plant

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People at Unity there Houston on Earth
Day a few years ago, and there

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aren yellow and red buds and they
are for the snap drag the dragonflies and

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the butterflies and all their pollinators.
But I don't know the name of the

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species, but their planet's quite close
together. Should I separate them out?

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Yeah, I'm not figuring out which
plant you're talking about, but let's just

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talk in general. Do you feel
like they're crowding each other out where it's

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just you know, becoming too thick. Yes, And the leaves they're turning

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and um, they feel I feel
like they're they're uh, they need more

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space, all right. And this
is a perennial or shrub. Does it

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die to the ground or does it
come back up? I mean does it

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Is it always above ground like a
normal shrub? Oh, it's above ground.

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Yeah, it's like the kind of
like a shrub, the kind of

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a yes. Yeah. So what
I would do, I would wait number

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one right now, Boy, trying
to move them is a death sentence for

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a lot of plants. And so
because you're gonna no matter how much you

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try, you're not going to get
but a fraction of the root system when

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you dig it. So I would
say, let's hold on and when we

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get to a bout first to November
something like that, maybe late October first

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to November. That would be a
time to wet the soil well so that

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the plant is well hydrated and it's
easier to dig. And then the next

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day this is in the fall,
the next day dig it up, move

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it to its new location, set
it in water in the soil so it

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settles around the root system. Put
it at the same level it was before,

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and it should be just fine.
The distance between plants, you know,

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if you're looking for a head,
you plant them close. If you're

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looking just for individual plants, you
you get them far enough apart. Not

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knowing what plant that is, I
can't tell you how far apart to plant,

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but you're seeing how ye, so
you should kind of get an you

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should have an idea how far you
want them apart. And I can send

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a photograph over next time. But
thank you so much. You'll have a

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blessing, wonderful fun day you as
well, and thank you for the good

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luck with that native plant. I
would like to see if I'm kind of

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curious what on earth that might be. All right, you're listening to garden

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Line this morning, and we're here
to talk gardening. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Now, if you

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live down on south of Houston down
exactly to be exacts, it's on Highway

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three, a few blocks south of
Highway ninety six. We're talking about going

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all the way down in the neighborhoods
of League City, Santa Fe, San

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Leone, Bay Cliff, Clear Lake
City, Elcomina, Reale. You get

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what I'm talking about. And now
where am I talking about? League City

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Feed? League City Feed has been
going since nine or since forty years ago

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when West and Madison Funderbergh's grandfather built
it in what was an old Okrah patch.

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And I always say anything that begins
in an Okra patch can't be a

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bad deal, right Well, League
City Feed is that kind of feed store

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that where you go in, you
know they're carry their bags out of for

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you. First of all, they're
gonna have everything you need. The fertilizers

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we talk about, they're there.
The pest control products that you might need

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are gonna be there. They have
been carrying these quality fertilizers for your lawn

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for a very long time, and
you can just depend on when you go

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in there, they're gonna have what
you need. If you got backyard chickens.

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They've got everything for that, of
course, the feed and the bedding

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and the feeders and waterers and everything
else. They're going to have supplies for

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all your other animals as well,
And so if you get a chance,

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stop in at League City Feed.
They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six,

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so you can swing by there on
your way home from work, which

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is really convenient. And then on
Sundays they're closed. Here's the phone number.

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Write this down so you can give
them a call. Two eight one

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three three two one six one two. We're gonna take a break right now

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and we will be back. Our
phone number in the meantime if you would

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like to get on the boards is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. Well, good Sunday
morning. It's going to be a great

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day for gardening. I can tell
you that. I hope this afternoon you

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got some plans to get out visit
one of our garden centers. I don't

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know, maybe get a little bit
of work done in the yard here and

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there. As you go about it, looking outside it's dark outside. If

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it's dark at your neighbor's house,
time to bang on the door. Tell

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them they're missing garden line. They
will rise up and call you blessed.

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Today, they'll rise up and call
you something else, but eventually they'll rise

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up and call you blessed. Hey, if you're thinking about retiring and you're

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a gardener and you would like to
find a place that is where you can

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continue your active lifestyle and just really
really enjoy life in general, that's going

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to be a Dell Web community,
specifically the Dell Web community down in Full

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Sure. It's just outside of Full
Shure, two miles outside on FM three

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fifty nine. Del Webb's got the
inspired designs we expect from them, a

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lifestyle programs designed around you that we
expect from them, and this one has

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a community garden as well. So
I cannot think of a better setup than

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to have a beautiful home, beautiful
community, just walking pad, just all

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the beauty that comes with Dellweb,
plus the opportunity to be part of a

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community garden where you can enjoy growing
things and visiting with other gardeners. Go

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to dellweb dot com forward Slash Houston
for more information or give them a call

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to eight one four to five nine
zero six zero nine Before break, I

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was mentioning some of the issues that
can happen in our lawns, and this

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is a time of year where chinch
bugs are starting to rear their head.

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Now, if your lawn is dying
or it's you know, going downhill,

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that doesn't mean you have chinch bugs, but it means you could. Chinchbugs

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love hot weather. They typically start
next to a curb, a walkway,

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sidewalk, or a driveway or some
other reflected heat site. They especially like

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it out there between the curb and
that sidewalk where you have that kind of

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useless strip of grass that is out
towards the street. They love it in

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there. And chinch bugs cause a
grass to start looking like it's drought stricken.

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It starts to just die back and
shrivel up, and it just doesn't

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It looks like a kneed's watering you
water and nothing happens. Well, that's

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probably chinch bugs, Especially if it's
on the sign out in an area like

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I described to you want to move
quickly. You can easily go online figure

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out what a chinch bug looks like. They have different looks for the young

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ones and the old ones, and
so you just kind of get a glanse

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at that and then go out there
in the lawn, get on your hands

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and knees in the zone between healthy
and dead part the grass. And if

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chinch bugs are the problem, you're
gonna see a lot of them down in

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there, and then you note a
treat. That's pretty easy. Side web

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warm are very hit and miss.
They're always around. You know, they

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don't arrive from somewhere else. They're
here. But we occasionally have years where

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they're just really bad, and then
a lot of times they have years where

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we don't really notice them at all, or maybe there's a few, but

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it's just not worth worrying about.
And so you just have to watch for

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that when you see the signs that
you're walking across your yard and it's just

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like little moths flying up out of
the grass as you walk, they fly

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a little distance and go back down
and settle in the grass. That's a

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sod web worm behavior, and so
that's probably what you're dealing with. You'll

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also notice them chewing on the leaves. They are primarily nocturnal in the caterpillar

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stage, the damaging stage, and
so you may go out at night and

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see them feeding, whereas during the
day they're not up there on the grass

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where you can see them. You
can put a tablespoon of soap into a

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watering can and add a gallon of
water to it, and then just drench

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it around an area where you think
that it's like the grass is going away,

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that blades are disappearing. Drench it
on there and just watch and you

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will see them coming crawling up That
so poarly irritates them. And when all

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the little caterpillars are coming up out
of the thatch and stuff there you go.

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You know you got them time to
treat for sure. So just a

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couple of tips there on some of
the more common insect issues that we deal

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with in the heat of summer.
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the lawns, we were discussing some of

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the insects that attack our lawns in
the summertime. We also have some diseases

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that we look at at this time
of the year as being things to keep

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an eye out for one of the
common ones. And this occurs more earlier

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in the summer, but it can
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spot and it looks like the name
of the disease. You pick a grass

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blade and it has gray spots with
maybe a purplish surrounding area around the gray

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spot on the grass blade itself,
and when there are a lot of them,

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the grass blade just shrivels up,
because I mean it's it's like the

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spots of essentially taken up all the
grass blade. It looks it looks bad

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for sure. It is made worse
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it really loves shady areas. It
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into a shady area and you keep
it too wet and you push it with

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too much nutrient, you're going to
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the first step is culturally, don't
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and it will often kind of go
away on its own. There are

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also fun decides that you and spray
for it, because when you have it

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right now, you need to shut
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term we're going to culturally avoid predisposing
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Pretty common, pretty common thing that
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of a gradual feed, more of
a natural kind of slow gradual releasing cycling

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of nutrients is important and a product
that works really well for that is Microlife.

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Microlife in the lawn care world of
summer. You think of microlife as

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two bags, a green bag and
a purple bag. The green bag is

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the six two four that is the
standards a number one fertilizer organic fertilizer here

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in the greater Houston area. In
fact, it reaches way beyond the Houston

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area. Microlife green bag provides that
nutrient. It is broken down by microbial

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activity as you put it down into
the soil and it releases even it's organic

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matter that's in it. And then
the humans plus is the purple bag,

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and that is just concentrated compost in
a bag. So you've got a just

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a load of microbes that you're putting
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When you water in a microlife like
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only the sixty three essential minerals that
it provides, but you're also going to

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get a lot of a stimulation in
the root. You can go to Microlife

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Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com
and find out a lot more about it,

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and you can also find out where
you are going to get it.

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And because that's important as well.
Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven
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four. I'm going to continue on
talking about some turf diseases and then maybe

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we moved toward a happier topic than
disease and pestilence. Although disease and pestilence

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does make the phone ring. The
other disease that is really showing up now

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and has been for a while is
take all root rot. Now, its

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name tells you something about it.
It literally rots the roots without roots grass

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dyes, and it can take a
very large area of grass out and just

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flat kill it. It's an opportunist. It needs moisture and order to do

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well, it needs to have a
weakened grass plant in order for it to

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really do its primary job. And
with a weakened grass plant, you are

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going to be able to take all. It's going to be able to move

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in and cause problems. It primarily
infects in the fall, a little bit

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in the spring as well, But
when we get into summer and the demands

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are so high, the fact that
it's taking away the root system at the

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time when the grass needs the most
water. That just leads to brown areas

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in the lawn, large irregular brown
areas. They can be in shade or

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sun. You know, there's not
a shape, there's like the round circle.

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It's not the round circles you see
in the fall. So take all

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the root rot is one that we
have to look out for. I'll talk

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about it a little bit more.
If you thought about putting a tree in

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the yard, and you you know, you're just thinking about, well,

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what's a good kind of tree?
And when is you know what, Where

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can I get a good deal on
a tree? Where can I get a

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quality tree? Where can I find
somebody that knows what they're doing when they

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plant it? Well we're talking about
tree farm and right now they're doing Christmas

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in July sale. So through the
month of July. Guess what, check

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the calendar. You better hurry the
Verdant Tree Farm at all three locations,

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the one out on Barker Cyprus,
the one you know down south in Paarland

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on Broadway, and the one up
and the heights at Yale and ten all

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three. You can get ten to
fifty percent off the tree when you buy

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the install. And you want to
buy the install, you want them to

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do that for you. Go to
Verdant tree farm dot com and find out

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more. Little wake up music from
garden Line. You can thank me loader

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later. Right now, just enjoy
your moment of zen. Turn it up

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loud, wake up the kids and
the neighbors. Hey, you're listening to

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garden Line. We're just having some
fun this morning with music. I'm your

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host, Skip Richter our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. Give us a call. Let's talk about the things that are

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of interest to you. And if
you live out in the Monton Bellevue area,

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I want to tell you about your
hometown feed store, and that's Texas

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Feedstop. I just really enjoy Brian
and Hope Rhodes. First time I met

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him. Did they just make you
feel like you're part of the family,

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Just really welcoming. Feel you'll feel
that as a customer too. I'm not

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kidding when I say your hometown feed
store. It is now. They're out

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there on Highway one forty six,
just a few minutes north of I ten

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out in Baytown. So that's close
enough to where as far as I'm concerned,

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you know, anywhere around the Mont
Bellevue community. I mean, go

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all the way down to Baytown and
they are still your local feed store.

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They're right there. When you go
in, you'll see what I'm talking about.

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They've got everything we talk about.
When it comes to fertilizer, you're

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going to be able to buy it
out there right now. They've got a

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really interesting selection of a lot of
things for those of you that are hunters,

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you know, from the different kinds
of supplements, the different kinds of

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feeders and whatnot, just all the
bling and supplies and whatnot that you need

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getting ready for the upcoming hunting season. But when you look in the store

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overall, you're going to find that
everything you would need to take care of

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your lawn in sex sides, pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, all of that

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is available there. And of course
there are a feed store with the old

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fashioned service carrying the sacks out to
the car for you. They're going to

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have the quality feeds that you're looking
for, and they're going to have everything

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else that you might want for your
home and garden, including things like the

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mosquito dunks that we talk about and
many many other things. Texas Feedstop I

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just enjoy going and you will two
again on Highway one forty six, just

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a few minutes north of I ten
Texas Feedstop out in Mont Bellevue. I

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was talking about some things going on
with the lawns and some of the issues

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that we have to deal with,
and the last one was take all root

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rot. Now, take all root
rot. It literally kills grass. The

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large patch that we get in the
cool season. A lot of folks still

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call that brown patch, that was
an earlier name, but large patch,

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brown patch, whatever you wanna call
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But that rots the leaf off the
runner and then they regreen again when the

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weather warms up in the spring,
so it doesn't flat kill the grass in

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most situations. Take all root rot
kills the grass, and so that's a

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concern. The times to treat for
it are really in the fall and in

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the spring. And I've got two
new schedules coming out. One is the

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lawn care schedule, which is like
you know, the fertilization schedule, when

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to do what, and what your
options are, includes information on mowing and

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watering and you know, just culturally
taking care of your lawn. The other

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one is more of a pest disease
and wheat schedule, and that one is

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going to address take all root rot
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about, such as great leaf spot
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ago, and of course the brown
patch, a large patch that occurs in

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the cool season. But that is
the time, the fall is the time

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when you want to treat for that. Now you're seeing your lawn die now,

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but again it's because the disease has
done its damage and the demands are

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just too high for the grass to
keep up. Sometimes we add insult to

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injury by misusing herbicides on the lawn, especially as the weather gets hotter,

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or we just feel like if a
little is good, a lot is better,

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which is never the case when it
comes to pesticides and herbicides, and

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we can make take a lot worse
because we weaken the patient, the grass

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plant. But anyway, I'll be
telling you more about those schedules as we

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get them posted. But that is
getting really really close and take all.

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That's a mess, but it's also
a reminder that our number one goal in

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gardening is the cultural care that creates
and sustains a healthy plant. Whether it's

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a lawn, a rosebush, a
tomato plant, it doesn't matter. When

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we create the environment where that plant
can thrive. It all begins in the

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soil. But when we create that
environment, then we avoid the majority of

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our plant problems, and if we
have some, they're not as bad.

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When you weaken the patient by not
mowing the lawn right, not fertilizing right,

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not you know, providing the nutrients
that a plant needs, not preparing

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the soil first with a lot of
quality products like a compost and like expanded

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shale and a clay. When we
don't do that, then it's like we're

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on a pesticide treadmill, just constantly
fighting the next problem that's coming along.

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So we start with the cultural We
do the right things to set that grass

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up for success, set that tomato
plant or that rosebush up for success,

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and then it's easy to do the
other It's just really easy. And one

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one example of all that is is
out at Arbogate. They've got their one

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two three system and it's exactly what
I've been talking about here. They've got

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a food that feeds anything with roots, and that would be under all organic

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six orcuse me four four three plus
ten percent calcium four four three plus ten

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percent calcium. It's a it's an
all organic granule. It's going to have

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a lot of the micro microbial activity
as well going on with it, a

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lot of a lot of additional organic
matter as you put that down too.

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Then you follow that with an organic
soil complete for example, that if you're

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wanting to build up beds, if
you're wanting, you know, to add

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to array bed or something that you
have anywhere you need to add soil.

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Organic soil complete is that because it
has compost, it has large particles sand,

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and it has the expanded shale that
lasts and lasts keeping that soil open

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and draining internally well. And then
the organic composts complete. The third part,

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well that's got shale too. And
so I mean just everywhere you go

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here when you use that one system
from arbour Gate, you're setting your plants

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up for success. It's what I
was just talking about. You can go

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to Arborgate dot com. They're out
there by the way in Tomball about a

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mile and a half west of two
forty nine on twenty nine twenty and that's

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where you can get these kinds of
quality products and do what I've been talking

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about, and that's set your plants
up for success. So talking about the

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lawns and the take all and the
root rot and all these different kinds of

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things that we do with. There
are a few other pests that we have

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to deal with occasionally, but generally
they're not much of a problem. You

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know, they're they're kind of easy, kind of easy to handle, not

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a big deal to deal with if
you haven't have a little piece of property

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out there and you would like a
nice tractor to really make work easier,

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or in my opinion, just to
have some fun out there. That is

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the Caboda L twenty five oh one
from lansdown Moody. Now, the combination

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of Lansdowne Moody and Caboda that is
a win win deal. I mean,

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you can go online to LM Tractor
dot com or you can go to Caboda

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USA dot com to find more about
cabodas but LM tractor dot Com will tell

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you about the deal that's going on. Unbelievable. They've extended it zero down,

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zero interest for seven years. That's
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better than that. Combination Lansdown,
Moody and Caboda Tractors, one price,

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one package. All right, we're
gonna take a little break here and when

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we come back, we will take
your calls again. The number is seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four. Well, good, good

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morning, good Sunday morning. It's
a beautiful day. I can already see

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it out there in the skies.
I'd be a good time to be outside

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right at this moment, this afternoon, A good time to get out there

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and get some visits out to your
favorite garden centers, your favorite feed stores,

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and the places we talk about.
I always enjoy going out. You

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know, I've been doing this for
a long a long time, and I

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don't think I ever go into a
garden center that I don't learn something.

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There's always some plant that's like,
okay, what's that? I mean,

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that's a new one. And again, you know, forty something years of

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doing this and learning about plants and
whatnot, I there's always a new one.

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There's always something cool coming along.
There's always I don't know, just

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the products that are out, the
new things that are out to solve our

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problems. The tools. I love
tools, by the way, I just

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I just have to have to have
more toys to play with, and so

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I probably have eight hundred ways to
break up the soil. But you know,

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it's fun, so getting out and
doing that, it's just it's it's

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inspiration. And you know, visiting
a garden center being able to see the

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the types of things that they have
set up in their displays. You know,

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some beautiful displays and maybe multiplant containers
where you just look at it and

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you go, Okay, this just
works. It's beautiful and it gives you

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inspiration. A loot of the garden
centers you know that, well, the

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ones we talk about, the the
mom and pops that were so proud of

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here. They'll take you around and
they'll help you recreate that container, or

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they'll suggest here's here's a couple of
plants. It would be good trailing over

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the edge of a container. Here's
a nice upright plant for the center that's

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really beautiful and striking, and on
and on down the line. You can

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create a container for the blasting heat
of summer, container for the cold weather

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that eventually will get here. We
wish it would come sooner rather than later.

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We're listening to Garden Line. Our
phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four.
I was outside yesterday and just in a

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kind of a garden location, visiting, and I noticed the mosquitoes. I

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guess I don't know where they were
coming from, because we haven't had a

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lot of rain lately. We had
some, but not a lot. But

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somewhere there's some stagnant water. Maybe
it's a saggy roof gutter, maybe it's

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the catch basins under your pots.
I mean, all a mosquito needs about

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a thimbleful of water and a few
days to be able to go from the

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egg to the larva and eventually come
out as the adult. And so all

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we need to do is leave them
a little stagnant water. They don't like

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water that moves. They like water
that is perfect still, and if it

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has rotting organic matter in it,
they're all the more happy. So there's

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your gutters on your house, and
so what do we do? Well,

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we use mosquito dunks. Number one, Remember everything starts cultural. You dump

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out the water every where you can. You don't leave it just sitting there.

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But number two, you use a
mosquito dunk. Maybe you've got a

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little pond of water and you throw
a mosquito dunk in there. It'll dissolve

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over the course of a month.
And it is a disease of mosquitos only,

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and so it won't hurt your pets, it won't hurt your fish,

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it won't hurt the birds that come
out or other wildlife. It only affects

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the mosquitos. But what a wonderful
thing to have it to a mosquito to

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get a disease and die. That's
how I look at it. Mosquito larva

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is what it works on. By
the way, they also have granules,

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So if you've got a really large
area, you can just take a handful

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of granule and scatter them all through
it so that you get the ingredient that

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disease of mosquitos in a wider area
than just a dunk, eventually reaching out

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to all areas. But in general, the dunks super super well, and

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you're gonna find mosquito dunks all over
the place. All our garden centers carry

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them. Ace hardware stores carry them. You know, you can find them

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down Southwest feed for example, or
Southwest fertilizer. I'm sorry, they're they're

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easy to find, not a problem
at all. But I think anytime we

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can avoid a problem culturally, that's
great. Anytime we can choose a product

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that is a target, that is
an arrow, not a grenade, that

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is a good thing. And here's
what I mean by arrows and grenades.

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And by the way, there are
organic arrows and grenades, and they're synthetic

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arrows and grenades, but an arrow. Imagine this crowd of pests and an

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arrow flies through and it hits one
target. A grenade lands in the middle

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and kills everything in the vicinity.
Right, And so we have pesticides that

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basically nuke everything that's there. Organics
there is an organic one or two,

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most of those are gone now off
the market. And then certainly synthetics we

447
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have those kind So when that happens, you throw the balance of nature off

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and then typically what comes back is
a pest problem. And I need to

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talk about that more in detail on
maybe a future show. But when we

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can use an arrow and essentially make
I guess what the army would call a

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surgical strike. You know, we
go in and essentially we're going to get

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the bad guy and try not to
do any collateral. Well, that's what

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you want to do in your gardens, and that's why those mosquito dunks work

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so well, because you know it's
not going to kill all the other good

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things, even the little aquatic life
in the pond, the insects, and

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it's not going to kill those.
It's just going to kill the mosquitoes.

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And BT that we spray on caterpillars
on our foliage is another arrow. In

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fact that the mosquito dunks have a
different strain of BT than the caterpillars do,

459
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but it's basically the same type of
organism. So whenever you can go

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in and just do an arrow,
that's better. And the longer something is

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sticking around, the more like you're
going to get the collateral damage. So

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something like BT, for example,
you sprayed on a leaf and two days

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00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.840
from now, it is not killing
caterpillars anymore. It's done. It doesn't

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last in the environment, it goes
away. But I consider that a good

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thing now. So those are just
some things to think about when we go

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about managing pests and things that are
in our lawns and our gardens, you

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know, in our landscapes and giving
us giving us trouble like that. Who

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want to avoid those? If you
happen to live up in the Tamball area

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and you have a chance to go
out to D and D Feed, you

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are visiting one of the quality feed
stores, our favorite feed stores here throughout

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the Greater Houston area. D and
D. They're about three miles west of

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Highway two forty nine on twenty nine
twenty in Tumball. As you drive out,

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they'll be on the left. Now. The Dover family has been doing

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this since what I think they opened
in nineteen eighty nine. They expanded this

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summer, lots more space. If
you need quality dog food and all kinds

476
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of snacks for dogs. My dogs
always ask if they hear I'm going to

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D and D, would you pick
us up some things from their little dog

478
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deli over there. But they've got
the Origin and the Diamond, the Victor

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starpro of course, gardening, all
the fertilizers we talk about, they carry

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them. The soil products that we
talk about, they carry them seasonally,

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they'll have plants that are that are
all kinds. You know, there's vegetables

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and different kinds of fruit, trees
and citrus and whatnot. They've got all

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that. If you've got pests like
rodents that are up in the attic and

484
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:34.360
getting in, they can take care
of that, and then things to clean

485
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.760
your pool d and d is just
it's got everything you need and it's a

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00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.800
nice friendly experience to stop in and
to be able to enjoy the folks there

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as well. So this morning I
was talking about lawns, were talking about

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some of the common problems that we
have on our lawns. One thing I

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want to mention now is we have
a very interesting cycle of seasons here in

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the greater scenario really the whole region
of Texas always from San Antonio, Louisiana

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and so on. We got this
long blazing summer that laps over into almost

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May and October just about but I
would consider that May and September or almost

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summer months in my opinion. And
then we have this fall season that can

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be very erratic. You know,
cold can come or it can not come

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for a very long time. And
then we have I like to joke and

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say we have five days of winter, we just don't know which five days

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that's gonna be. When a culfron
comes to and it gets really cold.

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That's, of course being facetious,
but it's not too far from the truth,

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and so trying to manage our plants
and take care of things in that

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kind of setting that can be a
little bit of a challenge. And what

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we need to do is time things
right. So when we come back,

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I'm going to talk a little bit
about the vegetable gardening and in fact,

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let me just begin with a couple
of points. Right now, even it's

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blazing hot outside, it's fall gardening
time now that we're not planting broccoli,

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but we're getting the soil ready first, and we need to take time to

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get that right, because if you
fix your soil and create the perfect soil,

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if you do nothing else period,
you're going to have a moderate to

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good amount of success with your vegetables, just for that one one thing,

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and then there's some other things we
need to do. So when we come

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back from break here in a bit, we're going to talk more about vegetable

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gardening and what do you do right
now, whether it's a container garden,

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whether it's a raise bed garden,
whatever. What can we be doing right

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now and how to get that done
so that we have success in the fall.

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That is what we're aiming for.
You're listening to Garden Success. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter, and
our phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Give Josh a call and
he'll get you on the boards and we

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can talk to you when we come
back. I don't know, you get

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some questions about lawns, maybe some
questions about trees, maybe me mentioning vegetables.

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Oh yeah, by the way,
okay, we'll talk about that,

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pest diseases. I don't know,
we even talk about your houseplants. Summers

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00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:17.039
a great time, A great time
to pay attention to your houseplants because you

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know, we need a little excuse
during the middle of the day to get

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inside into the air conditioning, out
of the heat. I talk about little

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00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:30.039
tips for houseplant success as well,
if you would like that. Hey,

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we appreciate you listening to Garden Line. We're about to take our break here

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at the top of the hour,
and remember at eight o'clock. We have

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Jay White with Texas Gardner coming in. We're gonna spend an hour visiting with

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him about all kinds of things gardening. So if you have some questions about

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00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.320
Texas Gardener Texas Gardening, g us
a call during the eight o'clock hour.

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Let's visit with Jay as well.
KATRH garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

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of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KDRH Garden Line

533
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:22.599
with Skip Rictord. Just watch you
well. Good morning. You are listening

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00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.920
to garden Line and we are here
to talk about whatever is of interest to

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00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.159
you. Maybe you have some questions
plants, identification, just some advice on

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00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:36.039
success with success with gardening. That's
why we're here, is to help you

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00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.079
be successful. That that is the
goal. Listen. Gardening is a fun,

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00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:45.440
rewarding hobby and we want you to
have fun and we want it to

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00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.480
be successful. We want you to
feel the rewards of it, and we

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00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.320
can help with that. We can
give you the advice, the direction,

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help you with not only setting things
up right, which is very very important,

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00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.880
but also continuing to care for your
plants and the way that they need

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I mentioned I mentioned that this is
the beginning of the fall gardening season.

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So how can that be, Well, you know it is, and here's

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why. As we go into fall, we are headed toward a traffic jam.

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That traffic jam is it's finally cooling
off enough for some of our warm

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season plants to be able to set
fruit again. And that would be things

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like tomatoes and pepper's, eggplant,
a squash, cucumbers, green beans,

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all of those kinds of things can
have a really nice harvest in the early

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to mid days of fall. Then
the cool season crops are going in like

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broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower. Then
we end up with lettuce and spinach and

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carrots, and you get the idea, all kinds of things coming up in

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the fall. So what do we
do now, Well, if you wait

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until fall to plant a cucumber or
a tomato, you're not going to see

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any harvest. It just doesn't have
time. So we need to be planting

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things in the summer. Like now, it would be a time to get

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some tomatoes out there. Now would
be a time to get eggplant or peppers

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00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:07.400
out there because they need to grow
create a good sized bush that is going

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to have a lot of blooms,
and when it's hot, those blooms will

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fall off. But then as we
get a little break from the weather,

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they start setting and then we have
a wonderful, wonderful harvest time. So

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now's the time to get that done. Now's the time to get the soil

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right, to get that soil built. And you need a quality soil,

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00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:28.000
as we always talk about, a
good quality soil that drains well, that

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00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.400
has good compost content. If you've
got a very heavy black clay, you

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might need to put in a little
bit of shale, expanded shale in there

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as well, and that will also
help with that. So these are the

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preps we're doing now. And I
realize that at twelve o'clock in the middle

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of the day during this time of
the year, not a lot of gardening

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is going to get done. But
by taking it slow and just doing a

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little bit at a time, that's
kind of what I'm doing in my garden.

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I kind of take one bed at
a time and work on it,

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and maybe one bed I'm just cleaning
out all the old stuff and put down

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some compost, and the next time
I get out there, I'll mix it

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in and you know, you get
the idea of what I'm talking about.

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Now's the time to do that.
And I can't think of a better way

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to have a vegetable garden or flowers
or herbs for that matter than a vego

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garden bed. No vego garden beds
what they are, it's it's a it's

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kind of a corrugated metal bed that
is treated to prevent rust and to prevent

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00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:32.480
corrosion of the metal. And they'll
last a very long time, way longer

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than treated wood will last in your
garden. And then on top of that,

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they put an attractive paint that's USDA
certified. By the way, the

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material that's used to stop rust and
to stop corrosion was evaluated at a Texas

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A and M lab. It's a
very very superior way to avoid those kind

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of metal problems in a bed.
So these beds stay cool. People have

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asked me that, well, doesn't
metal get hot? Well not when it's

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very very thin metal and it is
painted. And when I say very thin,

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00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:07.440
I mean thin compared to like an
iron bed that you see some people

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00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:15.760
using. But this is a very
reinforced, sturdy metal bed that you it.

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If I were to if someone calls
and says, Look, I'm going

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to do a garden for the first
time. I got one shot at this.

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What do you recommend do I plow
up to back forty? What do

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I do do? I would say, just do it. Just get a

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Vego bed because Vegos modular. You
can put them together, different shapes and

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00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:36.320
sizes and all that kind of stuff. Very easy to do and very attractive

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00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:43.599
to Go to Vego Garden v egogarden
dot com and you'll see pictures of what

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00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:45.480
they have. And by the way, their beds are available at a number

598
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:51.159
of our local garden centers I've seen. I keep seeing Vegos here and there

599
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:53.239
as I go around, So you
when you're out chopping for plants, you

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can also pick up a bed to
bring home. But it's just a quality

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00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:00.800
product. By the way, it's
it's it's for here in Houston. This

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is a local company and one of
the first things that ever came out in

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ways in the way of a metal
bed, especially here in the US.

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00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:12.960
I believe maybe in the first one
in the United States to come out like

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that. But there's a lot of
fake wannabes out there on the market.

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Vego v Ego that's the one you
want. Wow, we're talking through that

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whole segment there pretty quick. Our
phone number seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.920
If you've thought about retiring, you
want a good quality place where you have

610
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:40.960
a beautiful home, where you have
a wonderful setting, you know, walking

611
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.119
paths and trails, where there's activities
for you to do. Because you know

612
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:49.519
you're not just going out to pasture
and just sitting a rocking chair. I

613
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.960
mean you're going to get out you
continue to enjoy and lead a very full

614
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.159
and active life. Well that we're
talking about Doughweb Communities, the one out

615
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.320
in Full Shirts a couple of miles
outside of downtown Full Shirt on fifty nine.

616
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.639
They are just that it's in the
process of being completed. Now they're

617
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:09.960
gonna have a community garden as part
of that community community garden that I've been

618
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.159
advising them on. If you want
more information, and I hope you will

619
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:17.639
check this out dellweb dot com,
slash Houston or just call to eight one

620
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:22.880
four to five nine zero six zero
nine two eight one four five nine zero

621
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:29.840
six zero nine. I'm going to
remind you again that in the eight o'clock

622
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.360
hour, Jay White from Texas Gardner
Magazine is going to be joining in us.

623
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:37.199
Jay as an old friend, I
just think the world of Jay and

624
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.880
his wife, Sally. He's the
owner, operator, if you will,

625
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.719
of Texas Gardner Magazine and that magazine
has been going on a long time.

626
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:47.639
We're going to talk a little bit
about that. But if you have some

627
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:51.960
questions that you would like to ask
and we'll get Jade a way in with

628
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.800
us here, please do plan on
calling in on the eight o'clock hour when

629
00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:00.159
we will have Jay here. So
that's something I'm really looking I've been looking

630
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.920
forward to this for several weeks.
Actually, a chance to get and you

631
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.119
know, just talk to him,
visit with MJ is just always a wealth

632
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:15.280
of knowledge and a pleasure, a
pleasure to be around the Ace Hardware Group

633
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:22.079
here in Houston has I just think
they have created something really really special.

634
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.079
When I say Ace Hardware Group,
I'm talking about thirty nine locally owned and

635
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:30.760
operated stores. You know in the
greater Houston area around you can find an

636
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.760
Ace Hardware ever where you go.
And that is important because if you need

637
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:38.519
anything that we talk about, like
a fertilizer or a soil mix. If

638
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:45.000
I start mentioning pesticides or herbicides or
fungicides, you know that you might need.

639
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:49.199
They're going to be at your local
Ace Hardware store. They just are

640
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.000
that complete of a store. Of
course, it's a hardware store with all

641
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:57.440
the things hardware. Of course,
they have the coolest barbecue section you'll ever

642
00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:00.519
find in the world, with things
like brands like Webber and Tragger and Big

643
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:06.599
Green Egg and so on. But
when it comes to gardening supplies and products,

644
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:10.840
they've got it there. And ACE
Hardware is everwere Ace Hardware dot Com.

645
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:14.920
Just go there, look at their
store locator you hoving you put your

646
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.760
ZIP code in, for example Ace
Hardware dot Com. I promise you there

647
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:22.440
are two or three Ace Hardware's within
a reasonable drive from where you live,

648
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.280
maybe just across the street. ACE
Hardware is one of those kinds of sponsors

649
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.079
that it's just easy because they have
everything, and I can just tell someone

650
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:36.559
go there and know that they're going
to be treated right that no matter what

651
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.679
they need, even if it's electrical
or plumbing repairs they're trying to do,

652
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:45.400
Ace Hardware is going to be able
to direct them very very well. You

653
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.320
are listening to garden Line and we're
gonna take a break. Our phone number

654
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.400
is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

655
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:57.239
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give Josh a call and he will get

656
00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:05.559
you on the boards. Well,
Kim, tonight, I'd got to feel

657
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:12.239
something, right, I'm so scared
than kids. I follow my chair and

658
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:19.159
don't wanna I'll get down the stairs. Well, the letting me joke as

659
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:23.039
to the right here, I asked, alrighty, we're talking gardening this morning

660
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:29.079
on garden Line and our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight

661
00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.960
seven four and we're gonna head right
out to Santa Fe and talk to Lynn

662
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:37.559
this morning. Morning Lynn, God, good morning, sir. My question

663
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:43.039
is I'm trying to find out word
in the world. Can I find Louisiana

664
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:49.880
velvet olkushad the original, not not
no fight, but the real Louisiana velvet.

665
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:53.440
Well, I'd have to do a
little bit of search. Um,

666
00:48:54.400 --> 00:49:00.119
if it's an older variety like that, you might be able to find it

667
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.320
at Seed Savers Exchange. That is
one company that specializes in keeping some of

668
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:10.039
the old heirloom type things around.
Oh gosh, there's another one that's escaping

669
00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:13.880
me. I'm gonna have to think
about this just a minute, len offhand,

670
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:17.400
I don't know exactly on that specific
variety, but that's all right.

671
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:22.119
I know it's hard to find and
you probably don't have no answer right up

672
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.840
there, get go right? Well, maybe maybe perhaps you do some research

673
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.000
if you can, will and give
me a call back. I think I

674
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:36.000
think you're call answer and man has
my phone number. Well, I'm not

675
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:37.480
gonna be able to call you back. But what I'll do is I'm gonna

676
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.320
find it, and if I can
find it, I'm gonna talk about it

677
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:45.639
this morning on the air. How
about that? Or if y Another option

678
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:50.079
is I can put you on hold
and have Josh I tell you how to

679
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:52.360
get an email over to me,
and then I can. That'll give me

680
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.639
time to hunt it down and I'll
reply to that. If I don't reply

681
00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.559
on the air, I can do
the email. Okay, okay, Now

682
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:02.760
what would you recommend? You want
me to stay on hold or hang up

683
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.880
and then bend this way listen to
the radio. Well, why don't you

684
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.719
hang on hold? Let's get that, Let's get you the email address and

685
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:14.760
just send me your question that way
and that way. I'll I'll see it

686
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:17.360
and remember, you know, tomorrow
two days from now, whenever I'm in

687
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:21.559
the emails working, but I will
try to find it in the meantime and

688
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:25.800
say it on the air. Yes, sir, I'm computer alliterate. I

689
00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:30.920
don't have a computer. I don't
use an email. I'm just the old,

690
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:35.199
regular, old country boy. That's
all. That's one that's good with

691
00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:37.760
me. Lynn. I'm going to
say it on the air then for you.

692
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.599
Okay, okay, yes, sir, thank you there you bet you

693
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:45.159
take care, Bye bye, our
phone number seven one three two one two

694
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:52.239
five eight seventy four. Seven one
three two one two five eight seventy four.

695
00:50:53.000 --> 00:51:00.280
I love I love Oprah kinds of
questions because I love Ora. I

696
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.119
don't know if you guys know this, but I do have a little bit

697
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:07.159
of an obsession when it comes to
Okra This summer. I've got a bunch

698
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.039
of varieties in my garden that I've
bred over the last two or three years,

699
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:15.360
and I'm trying out the different you
know, breeding lines and seeing how

700
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:19.119
they're doing. And I'll pull them
up the minute I know I have.

701
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:21.800
There's not gonna be a good one, pull it up, and just keep

702
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.239
weeding my way down to find some
of the better ones and hopefully we'll come

703
00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:29.760
up with something. I'm trying to
get an okra that is a little more

704
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:32.360
compact, because some okra gets sata
you got to hire a helicopter to come

705
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:36.480
in to pick it. And then
I'm trying to get an ochre that's also

706
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:39.199
very ornamental. So I mean,
if you want to plant along your privacy

707
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:44.559
fence, it would be a beautiful
shrub row along the privacy fence. And

708
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:46.119
in addition to that, of course, you get the okra, which is

709
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:50.880
what it's all about. But anyway, just some things to play around with.

710
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:55.000
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

711
00:51:55.119 --> 00:52:00.639
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know, Dean

712
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:06.960
Nelson started Nelson Plant Food back in
nineteen eighty three. Nineteen eighty three,

713
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:12.599
Wow, I was just finishing up
my master or my bachelor's degree at TEXAM

714
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:17.239
back in those days. He has
created a beautiful professional grade fertilizer line.

715
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:21.599
I mean, you know, they've
got the color Star line, they've got

716
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.599
the Nutrous Star line, which are
just excellent little containers where you know,

717
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:29.679
you get your fertilizer and it's an
little plastic container. So you've got some

718
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:31.960
house plants, you've got some patio
plants. You just want sprinkle it around,

719
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.159
some rose bushes and so on.
They've got that. But they also

720
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:42.039
have the turf Star line of fertilizers, and this includes about six different kinds

721
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.280
of products that are all very good. The one I tend to recommend most

722
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:49.840
in the summer would be there Slow
and Easy. That's a twenty two two

723
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:55.079
ten and it's really a powerhouse blend. And because the way it's designed,

724
00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:00.639
the way they created this fertilizer is
the nitrogen that's in there. Twenty two

725
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:02.920
sounds like a lot of nitrogen.
Well, you don't put as much fertilizer

726
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.159
down. You put about five pounds
per thousand square feet with a twenty two

727
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.239
percent nitrogen fertilizer. But it's going
to gradually release that you know, you

728
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:14.119
get a gully washer rain the day
after you apply it. It's not all

729
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:17.719
gone and washed away. It's still
there because it's a slow release and it's

730
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:23.320
going to feed for weeks and months
going forward. That's Slow and Easy twenty

731
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:27.719
two to ten if you're looking for
the color of the bag, it's a

732
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:32.079
dark blue, beautiful dark blue color
turf star from Nelson. That's the Slow

733
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:40.400
and Easy twenty two to ten.
When we're talking about things getting ready for

734
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:44.760
the fall garden, which has kind
of been a I guess the latest topic

735
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.639
I'm discussing this morning. You want
to get a good planting chart, and

736
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:51.960
there's a number of good ones out
there. I know Angela Chandler the Gardening

737
00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:58.280
Academy, they've got a great planning
chart. I know Bob with Well back

738
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:01.599
back in the day when urban harvest, you know what, it was just

739
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:05.800
getting started, I mean from the
beginning. Really, they've had some really

740
00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:08.000
good when do you plant what schedules, and they're out there, they're available.

741
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:14.440
You can find them the brows or
the Harris County Agrilife Extension Office has

742
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:19.800
a chart I did a long time
ago, and it is also another option.

743
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.679
It just kind of helping you time
things. But you want to pay

744
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:27.119
attention to those kinds of charts because
if you've moved here from another part of

745
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.079
the country, our seasons are just
so different that you really need some time

746
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.679
to get your gardening feet underneath you. When it comes to when to plant

747
00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:38.519
what here in the Houston area,
and that is very important. There are

748
00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:44.079
windows, for example, at the
end of August, we have a window

749
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:49.679
where we can plant potatoes, not
sweet potatoes, but the Irish potato that

750
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.679
you know, the red new potatoes, and we plant those typically using a

751
00:54:52.760 --> 00:55:00.800
whole potato. I saved mine from
spring garden and store them indoor and use

752
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:04.880
the small ones and the fall to
plant because we got this window. And

753
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:07.199
if you plan at the right time
and keep them growing, you will harvest

754
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.920
a nice harvest of potatoes before the
first frost going out forward. So that's

755
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.119
just an example of why we try
to do things at a certain time.

756
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:20.400
Let's go out to Magnolia and we're
gonna talk to Jopo. Am I saying

757
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:29.440
that right, yes, Popo,
how can we help Papo? Well,

758
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:39.079
I would just stall in to ask
you about morning glory trees. Okay,

759
00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:45.000
go ahead. I've got a lot
of those, and I don't know if

760
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:51.199
there's coming to you here in Houston, but let me tell you this morning

761
00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:55.039
glory tree. It's got so many
flowers. I was gone for eight days

762
00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:01.880
game back and they're still alive.
So they they're really good with the heat.

763
00:56:04.239 --> 00:56:09.320
And you were talking about planning,
you know, oh around your finch

764
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:16.280
lines. These morning glory trees would
be really good for that because there's some

765
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:20.719
there. There are probably a lot
of them there about a treets golf Yeah,

766
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.840
yeah, right, well, uh, morning glory tree is a beautiful

767
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:30.639
bloomer and it produces huge clusters of
blooms, and they like a morning glory.

768
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.519
It's going to open. One bloom
is going to open during the morning,

769
00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:37.480
and it's be open during that day
and then it's not. It closes

770
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:42.599
up and it's done, and but
there's a bazilion blooms waiting right behind it.

771
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.239
In some areas, especially you get
down Florida direction and stuff, they

772
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.840
worry about its invasiveness. I have
not noticed that as a big problem here,

773
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.280
but they will recede around. But
boy, they have big, beautiful

774
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:58.760
blooms. The pollinators love them,
kind of a pinkish typically a pinkish color.

775
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:00.800
There is a white form out there
too, But yeah, it's a

776
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:04.360
good one, I think. Using
the term tree, I know, I

777
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:06.559
know, that's one of the names
of it. I'd rather call it a

778
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:09.159
morning glory bush because it typically has
a bunch of a bunch of stems coming

779
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:13.880
up out of the ground. Oh, it definitely have a bunch of them.

780
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:15.960
I call them trees because they get
so big. Yeah, they did,

781
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:19.719
and they kind of trim them down
if you want to. And then

782
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:22.920
you don't want to trim them down
because they got so many blooms and they're

783
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:29.440
so purty. And I got people
driving by my streets and they just ye

784
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:32.920
slow down and look at them.
And yeah, and they probably some people

785
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:38.119
don't know that. They're actually telling
everybody that goes by. They're telling them

786
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:43.679
good morning, you know, they're
telling them. I had I had a

787
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:47.400
state there yesterday, and well my
sister did. We had a lot of

788
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:52.000
a lot of people and I gave
a lot a lot of cuttings and seeds.

789
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:55.559
Yeah, you know, have you
ever seen the seat on those Yes,

790
00:57:55.559 --> 00:58:00.119
I have. They do produce a
lot of seed. Hey, I'm

791
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.039
gonna have to head on here,
but thanks for thanks for bringing that one

792
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:08.239
up. There actually was a semi
compact variety that was found in San Antonio

793
00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:12.119
a number of years ago, and
I don't see it in the trade anymore,

794
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:15.960
but for somebody who do, they
get so darned big. The semi

795
00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:19.800
compact one may be good for some
people, but I appreciate your call for

796
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:23.840
really good, really good. For
the heat, you bet, yeah,

797
00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:28.840
it never it never gets too hot
for that morning glory. By the way,

798
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:31.800
those of you who are nerdy about
plant names, it's Ipomea, Carnia

799
00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:37.880
or carnea. Yeah, Ipomea Carnia. Ipomea is the genus from morning glory.

800
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:45.440
Have you have you been by Buchanans
plants lately, because if you haven't,

801
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:49.519
you need to get by there.
There's always something happening at Buchanans.

802
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:53.400
Just another tip to It is blazing
hot outside, so this afternoon you're gonna

803
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:58.760
get out and shop around. Check
out Buchanans. There's lots of beautiful big

804
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:01.280
shade trees out there. Sure easy
to wander around through there and see all

805
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:05.960
that they have. Their native plant
of the week is Texas sage, which

806
00:59:06.159 --> 00:59:08.800
is grows wild out in you know, west to San Antonio. Out in

807
00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:14.440
that country. It's an evergreen shop. So many varieties have been developed.

808
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:17.599
Some of those are greenish, some
of them are very silvery color. We

809
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.400
call it barometer bush because when you
go through a period of high humidity or

810
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:28.039
hype, soul moisture after a hot, dry period, it will just produce

811
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:30.559
a bunch of blooms that are fragrant. Remember gene Autry, the sage and

812
00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:36.079
blooms smells like no, is that? Now? That was? I think

813
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:38.880
you have a different song. Sage
and bloom smells like perfume. Deep in

814
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:43.480
the heart of Texas, it's not
gene A. Excuse me, I'm in

815
00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:46.360
my own little musical world over here, but yeah, it's it's a wonderful

816
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:50.760
plant. And they've got a Buchanans
and what else do they have? Will

817
00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:53.360
any house plant you can imagine is
going to be there if you need stuff

818
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:58.039
for the shade. They've got a
wonderful selection of shade plants. A beautiful

819
00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:01.360
gift shop too, by the way, so check them out Buchanans Plants dot

820
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:07.280
com. It's six to eleven East
eleven Street in the Heights. I love

821
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:10.320
going by there. It's just always
remember how I said, you go to

822
01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:14.280
a nursery and you always learn something. Every time I go in there,

823
01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:19.119
I probably spend an extra thirty minutes
to an hour just because I stop and

824
01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:21.920
go, oh, what is this? And especially with the natives, they

825
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.800
had a lot of new things that
you're just not gonna find everywhere. I

826
01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:29.039
didn't know that was in the trade. Well it is a Buchanans plants.

827
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:31.719
Well, we're gonna take a break
here our phone number seven one three two

828
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:37.920
one two fifty eight seventy four,
and we're gonna go to news with Nikki.

829
01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:59.000
Well, good morning. You are
listening to Garden Loan and we're here

830
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:01.000
talking gardening. That makes sense,
doesn't it. I'm your host, Skip

831
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:04.360
Rector, and here is a phone
number you want to write this down.

832
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:09.000
Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Let's head out now

833
01:01:09.079 --> 01:01:13.760
to north Shore and we are going
to visit with Donnie. Hello Donnie,

834
01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:20.079
Hello, Skipper. Hing to you
in the crew. I wanted to find

835
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:24.960
out what's your best recommendation to held
as a humidity and heat. But there's

836
01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:32.360
grass that can't take can't take this
heat with all the brown spots appearing.

837
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.400
Oh boy, you know a lot
of things can cause brown spots, and

838
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:39.639
so we probably need to drill down
a little further and figure out what's going

839
01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:44.440
on. How big are they?
Are they very distinct or it just kind

840
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:52.159
of in general? And areas gradually
browning? What are you seeing mostly out

841
01:01:52.199 --> 01:02:00.360
in the front there probably about six
ay, a weapon three to five feet?

842
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:04.559
Oh okay? Are they irregular in
their shape? They're not round or

843
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:08.639
anything long strips or anything like that. Yeah, some of them are.

844
01:02:08.920 --> 01:02:15.360
Okay, alrighty Well, we could
be talking about an insect that's attacking something

845
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:19.599
like a chinch bug, for example. We could be talking about a disease

846
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.599
like take all root rot. It
could be just a spot where, you

847
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:25.280
know, when the sprinkler comes on, that area doesn't get as much water

848
01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:29.920
as other areas that you're long,
just because the sprinkler patterns don't quite overlap

849
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.480
right there. So there's a lot
of different things that can cause that.

850
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:35.960
I think what we probably need to
do done is have you sent me a

851
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.320
picture of it in that way,
if you can show me the thing from

852
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:42.760
a distance and then you know,
kind of come up closer, like you

853
01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:45.639
know, maybe a foot away and
take a picture with your hand in the

854
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:49.000
picture or something to show scale,
like a pencil, you know, for

855
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.639
example, and let me get a
real good close look at it. I

856
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:55.239
think I can do a better job
because right now the possibilities are too wide

857
01:02:55.760 --> 01:03:01.119
for me to know really what to
tell you. Oh okay, all right,

858
01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:06.920
I'll be happy to do that,
all right, send it to this

859
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:08.880
number, Texas to this number.
No, no, I'm gonna put you

860
01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:13.840
on hole right now, and Josh, who who took your call, he's

861
01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:15.519
gonna get back on and he's gonna
tell you how to email me a photo.

862
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.760
Okay, okay, all right,
Just the next question real quick?

863
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:23.239
Yeah, sure, what's the name
of the place you'd be advertising? Uh?

864
01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:29.000
In the heights? Uh? You
can? You can just Native clements.

865
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:32.360
You cannot. Uh, They're they're
easy to find there in the Heights.

866
01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.599
You know, they're on eleventh Street, and it just it's really easy.

867
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:39.519
You can you know, you got
a little maps on your phone or

868
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:44.400
something. You can find them real
easy that way too. Okay, yeah,

869
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.559
all right, you will not be
disappointed. Really fun to walk through

870
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:52.480
there and see all they have.
Okay, all right, I'll do that.

871
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:54.000
All right. Here you go on
hold, and thank you for the

872
01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:59.239
question and hope to help you further. Now we're gonna head out to League

873
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:03.199
City and talk to season. Hello
Susan, good morning, Skip, Good

874
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:09.760
morning, UM. Enjoy your show. I used to listen to Randy called

875
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:14.480
to talk to him several times,
so thank you for continuing the tradition,

876
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:19.639
Thank you and apologize for the street
noise. I'm on a run. Okay,

877
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:24.639
I want to ask you about watering. I'm said, he's going to

878
01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:30.000
start water rationally pretty soon. Okay. I'm talking about watering two three times

879
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:33.199
a week. Okay. And I've
been watering my plants every day. So

880
01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:39.239
how do I do I kind of
start to get them used to the het?

881
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.840
What do I do you do?
What are we talking about a yard?

882
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.119
Are we talk about flower beds or
vegetables? Or what are you?

883
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:48.920
What are you watering? Um?
I have flower beds, I have a

884
01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:53.679
planter, I have young trees in
the ground. Okay, all right,

885
01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:58.800
Well, the restrictions will not affect
your plant or watering. It's going to

886
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:01.360
be more of the beds and in
the lawn and things like that. You

887
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:03.760
can eat, can carry water out
to a plant, or any day you

888
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:05.760
want, as many times a day
as you want. In fact, with

889
01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:10.400
a planter and this kind of heat, we may be depending on how big

890
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:13.440
the plant is and how big the
planter is and the kind of soil in

891
01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:15.920
the planter, you may be watering
once ever two days, or you may

892
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:20.559
be watering twice a day, and
so that's the planter. But actually,

893
01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.800
you know the city doing that is
probably doing you a favor. And here's

894
01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:28.840
why I say that we do not
need to be water in every day or

895
01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:32.480
even every other day. If it's
a lawn, I water my lawn about

896
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:36.039
once a week. You can water
them twice a week. But if you

897
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:40.800
give it a good soaking when you
water and then you don't water for a

898
01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:45.719
while, that water eventually is used
up in the soil and it brings oxygen

899
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:50.000
in the soil and that helps develop
a deep rooted plant that can with stand

900
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:54.400
drought. And so then you give
it a good soaking, you're not letting

901
01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:58.320
it almost die before you water it. You're just letting the soil dry out

902
01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:00.280
a bit before you give it another
good soaking. And I think with a

903
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:03.840
lawn, I would say twice a
week is the most often you should need

904
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:09.800
to mow to water your lawn.
You can also apply that same principle to

905
01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:14.280
flower beds. The deeper rooted the
plant, the less often you have to

906
01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:17.440
water. So a shrub you can
be water in it ever two weeks because

907
01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:23.559
it's got a good big root system
that maybe a little stretching it in the

908
01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:27.239
full sun depending on the species,
but you get the idea. But when

909
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:30.320
you're down to a little, little
tiny flowering plant, you know, six

910
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:32.000
inches high, well yeah, you're
going to water that a little more often,

911
01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:35.280
but still a good soaking is the
best way to do it. Hey,

912
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:40.480
let me tell you you're you're running
around the neighborhood. But if you

913
01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:45.519
can remember, water my yard,
just water my yard all one word.

914
01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:50.800
Dot org org. It's an app
at the Apple Store. It's on Google

915
01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:55.960
Play for Android phones. But are
you can go on your computer water my

916
01:06:56.199 --> 01:07:00.199
yard dot org. You put in
your zip code there and sign up and

917
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:04.880
a local weather station near you that's
measuring all the things that cause plants to

918
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:10.440
use water, like sunlight and humidity
and wind speed and temperature. They will

919
01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:12.840
send you an email. This whole
deal is free. They'll send you an

920
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:15.920
email saying, hey, your lawn
has used you know, three quarters of

921
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:19.000
an inch of water so far.
You need to water it. And it

922
01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:23.960
makes watering really easy. You just
have to coordinate that with your watering days

923
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:29.199
according to the restrictions. Okay,
so um, what do you mean by

924
01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:34.239
a good stopping is turn it on
for thirty minutes? It's not time it's

925
01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:40.519
volume of water. So if you
be talking about sprinklers that you're watering with,

926
01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:45.880
yeah, and I'm talking about watering
my you know, like the young

927
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:48.760
tree that over your So when you
turn on the sprinkler, if you get

928
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:53.119
anything with straight sides, like a
tuna fish can, a cat food can,

929
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:58.239
a you know, a vegetable can
from the pantry, or a rang

930
01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:00.960
gage, and you set it out
in the lawn, how long do you

931
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.920
have to water that? How do
you long do you have to have your

932
01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:08.519
watering system, your sprinklers on to
catch somewhere between a half inch to an

933
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:13.280
inch of water. That's how long
you water. And so you may have

934
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.679
to water a wall, let it
soak, water wall, let it soak

935
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:18.840
on your on your given one.
Let's say you're watering on Tuesdays or something

936
01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:23.159
on that day and early in the
morning you would you would water, let

937
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.079
it soak, water, let it
soak. But once you do that once

938
01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:29.560
and measure it, then you know
how long to run your system, because

939
01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:33.960
everybody's sprinklers are different. Look us
all right, all right, thank you,

940
01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:38.600
thank you, I appreciate the call. Have a good a good run

941
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:42.039
through the neighborhood. Wow, you're
listening to Garden Line. I'm your host,

942
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:46.239
Skip Director. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty

943
01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:53.359
eight seventy four. If you live
in central North part of Houston, anywhere

944
01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:58.000
in that area, Quality Feed and
Garden Company is your hometown feed store.

945
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:02.399
You can go online Quality feed dot
Com there at eighteen thirteen Luzon Street,

946
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:06.680
which is near the intersection of Equipment
and Allusion. For those of you who

947
01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:11.359
are familiar with that area. This
is not the original location I used to

948
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:14.600
go to of a little wall back. They moved, and boy it it's

949
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:17.079
still the great thing. I mean, it's still the same tradition that they've

950
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:23.000
been doing since nineteen twenty eight.
You can find everything we talk about here,

951
01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:27.399
plus much much more. Pretty much
anything you need for your garden is

952
01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:30.600
going to be a Quality Feed and
Garden Center. Just talk to Kenn and

953
01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:32.720
Chris, tell them what you're looking
for and they will take you right to

954
01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:39.760
it. Quality Feed coo dot com. All right, we're gonna go ahead

955
01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:43.840
and take a break. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

956
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:04.960
Well, good Sunday morning. You
are listening to the Garden Line.

957
01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:09.520
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are here to answer gardening questions.

958
01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:14.000
Give us a call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four

959
01:10:14.039 --> 01:10:16.760
if you'd like to visit about something
related to gardening, your yard, your

960
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:21.039
garden, your house, plants,
whatever kind of thing interests you. You

961
01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:26.520
know, Nitrofoss makes a lot of
quality fertilizers. I mean, they really

962
01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:30.039
have an excellent lineup of all kinds
of things, and we love to talk

963
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:34.279
about them here. They you know, they've got their Sweet Green that I

964
01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:38.600
talked about a little bit earlier today. That is an organic fertilizer. It's

965
01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:42.920
eleven zero four. But the thing
I want to mention right now is their

966
01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:46.359
insect products. We've got things like
the bug Out Max. No. Bug

967
01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:50.159
Out Max is something that's a granule. You put it on your yard,

968
01:10:50.199 --> 01:10:54.199
you water it in and if there
are chinch bugs in there, it will

969
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:58.000
get them. If there are side
web worms in there, it will get

970
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:01.720
them. They also have a system
product to it, which is their Nitrofoss

971
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:06.199
fire ant killer, and it works
quick. It doesn't allow the queen to

972
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:11.399
escape, kills the whole colony to
prevent new mounds, and either way you

973
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.800
go. Nitrofosts with the Bugout Max
or the nitro foss fire ant killer.

974
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:18.239
You know that you're going to have
products that are part of the true,

975
01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:25.119
tested, successful program that they call
their Summer Essentials program at nitro Fosts.

976
01:11:25.119 --> 01:11:28.199
Now nitro Fosts is going to be
available in a wide variety of places.

977
01:11:28.279 --> 01:11:30.800
Certainly all the many many ACE hardware
stores are going to carry it. Our

978
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:35.079
mom and pop garden centers are going
to carry nitro FoST products. Not difficult

979
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:42.199
at all defined throughout the Greater Houston
area. This morning, I've been kind

980
01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:45.520
of going through some of the things
to be thinking about this time of year

981
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:49.960
out there and the lawn, the
garden, and the vegetable gardens specifically,

982
01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:54.760
and I was talking about the importance
of planning at the right time. You

983
01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:59.479
need to get things planted at the
right time in order to have success because

984
01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:03.119
there's a win. I mentioned the
potato window is typically about sometime about the

985
01:12:03.159 --> 01:12:06.640
third week of August somewhere, give
or take a week in there to get

986
01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:10.239
those down because you know, it's
hot, hot, hot, and if

987
01:12:10.279 --> 01:12:12.960
you cut potatoes like we do in
the spring and put them in the soil,

988
01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:15.680
they're just rot. So we use
the whole small potato. Just plant

989
01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:19.560
the whole thing and it'll work out. And just find all our vegetables have

990
01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:23.560
the windows like that, and you
need a good quality schedule, and there's

991
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:26.079
a number of them out there you
can use. I'm eventually going to put

992
01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:30.960
one up on garden Line on the
new website that is coming and we will

993
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:33.319
get that out as well. But
for now, just I mentioned several good

994
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:39.520
ones that are out there. Angela
Chandler at the Gardening Academy, the Urban

995
01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:43.840
Harvest has great schedules. Bob Randall
and his book on Gardening in this Area,

996
01:12:43.880 --> 01:12:45.880
which by the way, is a
book you can't live without if you

997
01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:48.640
live in this area. Awesome,
awesome, a lot of good information on

998
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:54.159
window plant what from years of observation
and research. And I tell you something

999
01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:59.319
that I've discovered here that you can
say the Houston area, but it is

1000
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:04.560
a lot of areas. I've done
some research for the lawn sheets lawn care

1001
01:13:04.600 --> 01:13:09.600
sheets that I am in the process
of finishing up. When you look at

1002
01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:13.880
what soil temperature is which affects when
weed seed sprout. If you look at

1003
01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:15.680
you know, you go all the
way up to tom Ball, you go

1004
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:17.920
all the way down towards Galveston,
you know, on the east side are

1005
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:23.760
or in Sugarland and Richmond that area
and so on. It varies a lot.

1006
01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:27.800
And then in Houston it's actually warmer, which a lot of you know

1007
01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:31.840
that. But the actual temperature that
when we would expect a particular weed to

1008
01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:35.640
germinate when it comes to the spring, it's going to happen earlier than it

1009
01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:39.920
does outside the city of Houston.
And't that interesting. Well, folks like

1010
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.560
Bob Randall, they've been here a
long time, they've been paying attention Angela

1011
01:13:43.640 --> 01:13:48.640
two and they understand that, and
they give you a schedule accordingly. Speaking

1012
01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:56.479
of planting and things, enchanted Forest
has got an unbelievable selection of peppers out

1013
01:13:56.520 --> 01:13:59.560
there. I mean, just a
lot of different kinds of peppers. And

1014
01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:02.680
you're thinking, well, peppers are
summer. No, peppers are spring through

1015
01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:06.600
summer and fall. Fall is the
best pepper season of the year. And

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01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:11.399
I mean that if you had pepper
plants, I hope you're holding on to

1017
01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:14.720
them because that bigger plant and fall
is going to produce way more than your

1018
01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:16.720
plant you had in the spring.
If you haven't planted them yet, get

1019
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:19.840
them done right now, and get
those things growing. Don't worry about pepper

1020
01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:25.279
production. Initially, get the plant
growing. Make a big plant peppers or

1021
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:28.880
ornaments. The bigger the Christmas tree, the more ornaments you can hang on

1022
01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:31.000
it. Right, That's how it
is with peppers. And Jenny Forrest has

1023
01:14:31.039 --> 01:14:33.800
that they've they've got some great sales
going on on a lot of their pots.

1024
01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:35.720
I don't know if you've been out
there and seen them, but they

1025
01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:41.359
have the most whimsicle containers. There's
one called a pothead. There's a pot

1026
01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:44.920
leg, not a pothead in that
sense, but like thy head that you

1027
01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:48.640
grow your plant out of pot legs
and pot angels. All they're available.

1028
01:14:48.920 --> 01:14:53.159
It's a really cool line of pottery. Lots of different things going on like

1029
01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:56.359
that. You know. I just
enjoy going out and visiting with Danny and

1030
01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:59.800
Clay. There's always things going on. When I think about pollinator plants,

1031
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:04.600
think about enchanted forest. When I
think about quality, quality employees that can

1032
01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:09.319
help you, that are knowledgeable,
that will take time to walk through with

1033
01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:13.119
you, that is enchanted forest.
So where is inchended forest. Well,

1034
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:16.159
if you were in the Richmond area
and you head toward up towards sugar Land,

1035
01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:19.840
but down south of thirty five.
That is going to be the direction

1036
01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:23.960
you get. You can go online
and find inchanted forests. They're not hard

1037
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:27.640
to find. But right now is
a great time to visit another place with

1038
01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:31.319
giant, beautiful trees. So if
it's a hundred degrees outside, you just

1039
01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:38.960
wander through in just more or less
in the benefit of shade, being able

1040
01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.279
to do all your shopping. So
don't delay, go ahead and get these

1041
01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.479
things going. The peppers need to
be get going as soon as possible.

1042
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:48.000
And it's just one of the bazilion
things that they have. Their their selection

1043
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:51.840
of pollodiners at Chended Forest is like
no other. I mean it really is.

1044
01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:54.840
In fact, I was out the
other day. I was talking with

1045
01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:58.119
Danny and he said, yeah,
people come by and they need some caterpillars.

1046
01:15:58.319 --> 01:16:00.279
They will give them. They can
take them with so you buy.

1047
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:03.239
You're gonna buy a milkweed and they'll
give you a caterpillar to go with it.

1048
01:16:03.319 --> 01:16:06.039
So there you go. You have
a captive audience. You're about to

1049
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:10.039
have a crystalist and a butterfly coming
out of it. And they have all

1050
01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:15.560
kinds the ones that like passion vine, the Gulf fridlery caterpillars. They'll they'll

1051
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:20.199
give you some of those two free
caterpillars with a plant, so you're just

1052
01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:24.000
right and set up. I think
that's a great idea. By the way,

1053
01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:26.520
Well, you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricter,

1054
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:30.960
and we're here to talk about whatever
is of interest to you. Along

1055
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:32.359
with what's of interest to you,
I like to talk about things that I

1056
01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:35.960
think you are or should be interested
in. And one of them is the

1057
01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:41.560
fact that it is hurricane season and
when hurricanes blow through, they can take

1058
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:45.359
a heck of a toll on our
trees. And that's when you discover,

1059
01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:48.279
oh, there was that narrow angle
branch up there that should have been removed

1060
01:16:48.319 --> 01:16:51.920
a long time ago, because now
it's split and it's landed on the power

1061
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:56.399
drop coming into your house, or
worse yet, your house, or worse

1062
01:16:56.520 --> 01:17:00.159
yet, your neighbor's maserati that your
tree limbs over. They might have an

1063
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:04.640
opinion about that. Well. Affordable
Tree Service Martin spoon Moore and his wife

1064
01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:09.880
Joe. I was talking to somebody
about them yesterday. Martin and his wife

1065
01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:14.079
Joe. Affordable Tree Service has been
doing this for a very long time.

1066
01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:18.479
They know what they're doing. They're
they're honest folks that shows up when they

1067
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:21.039
say they're going to show up.
They you know, it's not like,

1068
01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:26.159
well, block your Saturday and wait
all day wondering if we're going to show

1069
01:17:26.239 --> 01:17:29.119
up. No, they give you
a time and they show up then and

1070
01:17:29.319 --> 01:17:30.960
they can do all the things you
need to get your tree ready for that

1071
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:36.560
stormy season. Their phone number seven
one three, six nine nine twenty six

1072
01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:43.399
sixty three seven one three, six
nine nine twenty six sixty three, or

1073
01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:50.319
just go to Afftree Service dot com
Martin Spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service. Maybe

1074
01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:54.680
you need consulting, maybe you need
a bid done, maybe you need some

1075
01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:58.840
deep roof feeding, stump grinding,
whatever it is there where you go.

1076
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:05.359
Before you do anything around an existing
tree, call Affordable Tree first. After

1077
01:18:05.439 --> 01:18:11.199
the damage is done, it is
very difficult to fix and oftentimes with a

1078
01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:15.159
bad printing job, for example,
that's for the life of the tree.

1079
01:18:15.319 --> 01:18:16.920
You can never get back to the
beauty that it once could have been.

1080
01:18:17.640 --> 01:18:23.399
And if Martin knows how to do
that, and he's an expert at taking

1081
01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:28.239
care of those kinds of things.
You are listening to garden Line and I'm

1082
01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:30.960
your host Skip ricter. We're talking
all kinds of things gardening. This morning,

1083
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:35.880
I was out getting some plants established. I had some plants that I

1084
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:39.520
purchased. I was planning this summer. Yes, I plant all through the

1085
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:44.399
summer, and every time I plant
has to grow is something I has to

1086
01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:48.439
do. It's a six twelve six
six twelve six has to grow. I

1087
01:18:48.479 --> 01:18:50.479
mix it up in water and there's
a lot of waste to use. Has

1088
01:18:50.520 --> 01:18:54.479
to grow. I like to use
it in watering and transplants, whether it's

1089
01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:57.960
a rosebush or a little tiny tomato
plant that I'm putting in. That high

1090
01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:02.680
phosphorus content helps the roots. It's
medinas soil activator to stimulate biological activity,

1091
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:08.199
and that is very very important.
Soil very important. It's got humic acid,

1092
01:19:08.239 --> 01:19:12.359
it's got seaweed, it's the whole
deal. And so I put some

1093
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:15.840
in a watering can, add water
to it and just drench in my plants,

1094
01:19:15.840 --> 01:19:18.640
and five to seven days later,
I'd do it again, same plant,

1095
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:21.960
five to seven days later, do
it again. Each time you do

1096
01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:27.119
it, it just helps set that
plan up for success. Has to grow

1097
01:19:27.159 --> 01:19:30.159
six twelve six is something you have
to do when you put in your new

1098
01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:33.680
plants. Whether it's now or going
on into the fall season. Hey,

1099
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:38.159
we're gonna take a break. We
will be back our phone number seven one

1100
01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:42.680
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Give Josh a call. You'll

1101
01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:46.079
get shown the boards. We can
talk about whatever you're interested in. We

1102
01:19:46.119 --> 01:19:50.199
are bumping up on the eight o'clock
hour and that is when Jay White from

1103
01:19:50.239 --> 01:19:55.279
Texas Gardener magazine will be my guest. We're gonna spend a whole hour with

1104
01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:58.359
my friend Jay. We're gonna talk
about all kinds of things gardening. If

1105
01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:00.720
you'd like to give us a call, I hope you will. This is

1106
01:20:00.760 --> 01:20:08.680
your chance to pick the brain of
the publisher owner of the only statewide gardening

1107
01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:14.560
magazine profit you know, first sale
profit gardening magazine in the country. A

1108
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:18.119
lot of magazines have gone by the
wayside, not Texas Gardener. Texas Gardener

1109
01:20:18.279 --> 01:20:25.159
is written by Texas Gardener gardeners like
myself, and it's written for Texas gardeners,

1110
01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:29.199
and that makes a difference. There's
a lot of beautiful, coffee table

1111
01:20:29.279 --> 01:20:32.560
type, pretty flower picture magazines out
there. This one is get down in

1112
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:34.800
the hands, in the dirt and
blow the way. They do have pretty

1113
01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:41.680
pictures too. Hey, stick around, We'll be right back. KTRH Garden

1114
01:20:41.720 --> 01:20:46.239
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1115
01:20:46.439 --> 01:21:08.600
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip
Rictors US watch as well. That

1116
01:21:08.840 --> 01:21:13.279
was a lot of fun. I
always enjoy visiting with my friend Jay from

1117
01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:18.760
Texas Gardener magazine. Always informative and
just I am very grateful that we have

1118
01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:24.159
that magazine here in Texas. We're
really really fortunate. Like I said,

1119
01:21:24.279 --> 01:21:28.560
I read it myself and learn something
every single time with every article that I

1120
01:21:28.640 --> 01:21:31.840
read. We're listening to garden Line
and our phone number is seven one three

1121
01:21:32.239 --> 01:21:36.319
two one two fifty eight seventy four
if you would like to give us a

1122
01:21:36.359 --> 01:21:43.159
call find out maybe some answers to
questions that you have going on about your

1123
01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:47.079
lawn, garden and landscape and so
on. You know, I always brag

1124
01:21:47.119 --> 01:21:51.359
on our mom and pop garden centers
because they're just they're just excellent. I

1125
01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:56.079
mean that that's just the way it
is. They are absolutely outstanding. And

1126
01:21:56.319 --> 01:22:00.840
if you were in the Kingwood area, you are filthy rich with garden centers.

1127
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:04.359
We're talking about Kingwood Garden Center.
We're talking about Warrens Southern Gardens.

1128
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:09.000
Kingdom Garden Centers, by the way, is on Stonehallow Drive. Warrens is

1129
01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:13.960
over there and NorthPark Drive. But
you know at Kingwood right now, that

1130
01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:18.399
would be the place that I would
absolutely go just to check out a beautiful

1131
01:22:18.720 --> 01:22:23.439
gift shop. I mean, above
all the other things going on and all

1132
01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:26.960
the wonderful plants and all the things
they have, they have an amazing,

1133
01:22:27.119 --> 01:22:30.199
outstanding gift shop. I love to
go in there and wander through and see

1134
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:32.279
what's going on. They, by
the way, they are going to be

1135
01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:36.760
also featuring their Texas sage plants.
This time of the year. There's a

1136
01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:42.680
good time for Texas sage, beautiful, fragrant blooms. There's everything. We're

1137
01:22:42.720 --> 01:22:45.319
in green to silver types of sate. American beauty beery now there's a native

1138
01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:48.600
both, by the way, both
these are Texas natives. American beauty berry

1139
01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:51.880
does well as kind of an understory. Maybe you've got some tall trees,

1140
01:22:51.960 --> 01:22:58.640
it's still bright underneath. American beauty
berry has thus beautiful long shoots with clusters

1141
01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:01.880
of attractive berries when the leaves fall
off. It's just a really nice ornamental.

1142
01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:05.760
And again it's a native plant.
If you need. We're talking earlier

1143
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:11.119
about different kinds of products. You
know, the heirloom leafmo compost, you're

1144
01:23:11.159 --> 01:23:14.039
gonna be able to buy it at
Kingwood Garden Center. They're gonna have that.

1145
01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:17.760
They're gonna have you know, Nelson's
cup products and and they like.

1146
01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:23.479
There's a number of quality things that
you can get there. If I talk

1147
01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:26.239
about a fertilizer, they're gonna have
it at Kingwood, and they're gonna have

1148
01:23:26.279 --> 01:23:30.079
it at a Warren Southern Gardens.
If we talk about soils and mixes,

1149
01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:33.640
a herb, the maltas and things, they're gonna have them. There something

1150
01:23:33.640 --> 01:23:40.960
coming up that's kind of cool.
They're having something called the Winding Down Summer

1151
01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:46.000
like Winding Down, but with wine. It's an herb infused garden garden.

1152
01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:53.359
This is hard for me to say
urb infused guartending as in Bartending Summer Series.

1153
01:23:53.760 --> 01:23:57.640
So I mean they only have some
certain availability, so you don't want

1154
01:23:57.640 --> 01:24:00.560
to delay. But it's on August
second, so that just around the corner

1155
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.319
from six pm to seven thirty pm. It's forty five dollars a person.

1156
01:24:04.359 --> 01:24:08.840
But what you're gonna get is you're
going to get the opportunity to learn about

1157
01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:15.600
all kinds of infusions of aromatic herbs
from your garden into various types of spirits

1158
01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:19.319
and craft cocktails. Now there,
there, you're going to get the opportunity

1159
01:24:19.319 --> 01:24:23.920
to create your own little mini herb
garden to take home with you. I

1160
01:24:23.920 --> 01:24:27.680
mean this amazing. They can do
it all for that price, but you'll

1161
01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:30.079
get to take it home, and
then you'll learn as well, all kinds

1162
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:36.920
of different recipes and ideas like a
rich cabernet, a savory chardonnay, a

1163
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:43.399
sultry sangria. I mean this sounds
pretty good. Forty five dollars six pm

1164
01:24:43.479 --> 01:24:45.600
to seven thirty pm. What a
wonderful time of day too, you know,

1165
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:49.039
cooled off and enjoyable to be out
there. That's out at the Kingwood

1166
01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:53.039
Garden Center. But you know,
whether you go to Warren Southern Gardens,

1167
01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:58.920
Kingwood Garden Center just amazing places,
amazing quality. In their August newsletter,

1168
01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:02.720
there's a Heirloo Soils leaf mold compost
sale where you buy three and you get

1169
01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:06.720
one free. So that is a
really good deal there, and it is

1170
01:25:06.800 --> 01:25:12.479
always a time to put leaf mold
compost out. And they make a super

1171
01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.800
quality product at Heirloom Soils that you
can find in Kingwood Garden Center. You

1172
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:21.119
can also find it in Warren's Southern
Garden Well. Our phone number is seven

1173
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:26.239
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We are going to go

1174
01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:29.520
to the phones here in just a
minute, but before we do, I

1175
01:25:29.560 --> 01:25:31.920
just want to mention again that if
you are a gardener and you are looking

1176
01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:38.720
for a wonderful neighborhood for retirement,
a place where you have a beautiful home,

1177
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:44.840
a beautiful neighborhood with walking paths and
those programs designed around you and your

1178
01:25:44.920 --> 01:25:47.239
lifestyle, you know, for active
adults age fifty five and better. That's

1179
01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:53.359
Dellweb down in Fulscher, two miles
from downtown Fulscher on three fifty nine is

1180
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:58.760
a new Dellweb community with a community
garden. If you want more information two

1181
01:25:58.840 --> 01:26:02.560
eight one four five nine zero six
zero nine, or you can go online

1182
01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:09.159
dellweb dot com, forward slash Houston
and you can find out more information there.

1183
01:26:09.439 --> 01:26:12.399
Makes it real, real easy,
and I hope you'll check it out

1184
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:15.920
because I think you will be amazed
at the Dell Weeb difference when you do.

1185
01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:20.319
We're gonna head out now to Mount
Gumer and talk to Jim about watermelons

1186
01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:24.600
I believe, is that right,
Jim, Yes, sir, I was

1187
01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:28.840
just going to comment that that woman
said about starving them for water at the

1188
01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:31.600
end says they get sweeter. Yeah. I've always heard that too. My

1189
01:26:31.680 --> 01:26:34.800
uncle used to grow them out there
in himstead, and that's what he used

1190
01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:40.000
to do. But I guess if
you have him coming to fruition, you

1191
01:26:40.039 --> 01:26:42.159
know, at separate times, I
don't guess, it would be kind of

1192
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:44.520
rough on the little ones. Yeah, it's kind of hard. When do

1193
01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:47.000
you starve when do you not?
Yeah? I mean it is true that

1194
01:26:47.119 --> 01:26:50.399
with different kinds of melons, when
you just get a whole bunch of water

1195
01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:57.960
rain irrigation, you know it's going
to move into the plant and so well,

1196
01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.880
especially with candle ups, I find
a little trouble of that, but

1197
01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:04.880
you know they don't have water.
Yeah. Well, I also wanted to

1198
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:10.479
make a comment about that guy that
was looking for that soil it Nature's way

1199
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:13.920
resources. Yeah. I don't think
he went there because there's a place right

1200
01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:17.920
before there. It's on the feeder
and they have really bad stuff. Yeah,

1201
01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:21.680
but a lot of people turn in
there thinking it's the nature's way,

1202
01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:26.199
But you got to go down a
little further and turn where fourteen eighty eight

1203
01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:29.760
dead ends into forty five. You
know, Jim, then that is a

1204
01:27:29.800 --> 01:27:32.239
good point. I didn't even think
about that, because you know, I

1205
01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:38.159
know, I've never seen anything but
quality come out of Nature's Way. That's

1206
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:41.760
right, and the other places.
You know, I could give it the

1207
01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:45.199
name, but I don't know you
want to do that, But it's it's

1208
01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:49.159
right on the feeder, so it's
like you have to turn off the feeder

1209
01:27:49.239 --> 01:27:54.479
road from going north on forty five
to get to it, and there their

1210
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:58.760
stuff is poor quality. The Nature's
Way. I've never had any problem with

1211
01:27:58.840 --> 01:28:02.520
them. I get all kinds of
stuff from those people, and their compost

1212
01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:05.479
is wonderful. You bet it sure
is. Hey, Jim, thank you

1213
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:09.319
for calling and pointing that out.
I appreciate that very much. Yeah,

1214
01:28:09.319 --> 01:28:13.079
I hope that guy's listening because he
needs to go to Nature's Way because there

1215
01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:17.319
they got the best stuff. All
righty, I think you are on track

1216
01:28:17.479 --> 01:28:20.600
with that right there, that is
for sure. Well, it is about

1217
01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:25.279
time for us to take another break, and we'll do that. If you'd

1218
01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:29.319
like to get on the board,
call Josh seven one three two one two

1219
01:28:29.479 --> 01:28:31.319
fifty eight seventy four. Have him
get you on the board and rich out

1220
01:28:31.399 --> 01:28:40.039
in spring. You will be first
up when we come back. That's what

1221
01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:48.840
Well, good Sunday morning. You
are listening to garden Line and we are

1222
01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:53.039
here to talk gardening. Of course, hey, I used to talk about

1223
01:28:53.079 --> 01:28:55.600
green Parol all the time. You
know, that's a company that does a

1224
01:28:55.800 --> 01:29:00.680
deep aeration, the core aeration,
and then puts a quality leafmo compost top

1225
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:04.079
dressing over the top of it.
That'll transform your lawn. Well, green

1226
01:29:04.119 --> 01:29:09.439
Pro is now called org Lawn.
Not a sale of a company to another

1227
01:29:09.439 --> 01:29:14.279
one. It's just they've expanded and
org Lawn is the new company that we

1228
01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:18.039
used to call green prow. Org
Lawn has a garden Line special. So

1229
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:20.199
here's the deal. Yet, first
of all, you have time you call

1230
01:29:20.239 --> 01:29:26.880
them from garden Line. But the
first application of any recommended liquid for the

1231
01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:31.840
new customers twenty ninety nine plus tax. That's it. And so whatever Orglon

1232
01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:35.239
thinks you need most for your lawn, maybe it is a fertilizer, Maybe

1233
01:29:35.239 --> 01:29:40.520
you need a micronutrient application. Perhaps
you need bug prevention, a deal with

1234
01:29:40.840 --> 01:29:44.039
chinch bugs or something like that.
They you know, figured out what it

1235
01:29:44.199 --> 01:29:47.720
is that first one twenty nine plus
tax. That is a really good deal.

1236
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:51.960
Up to ten thousand square feet of
grass treated. H they're putting out

1237
01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:56.439
seaweed and bug prevention for a lot
of people now that we're in the heat

1238
01:29:56.479 --> 01:30:01.239
of the summer. Now they service
Katie Cypress Houston at Sugarland Richmond. They

1239
01:30:01.359 --> 01:30:06.319
use as many organic inputs as possible. That is our focus on providing a

1240
01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:11.720
quality organic input. Now they can
do other things, but in general they

1241
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:15.399
go for the or fully organic or
an organic hybrid approach. Seven seasons in

1242
01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:21.159
business perfecting their lawn fertilization schedule.
Operated by the same folks as Greenpro.

1243
01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:29.439
You go online org lawn or glawn
dot com or just call eight three two

1244
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:36.039
three five one three two eight three
two three five one zero zero three two.

1245
01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:41.560
We're going to head out now to
Conro and talk to Jennifer. Hello,

1246
01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:46.800
Jennifer, good morning, step Can
you give me some guidance on watering

1247
01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:53.079
Saint Augustine grass? How awesome was
supposed to be doing it? And after

1248
01:30:53.239 --> 01:30:57.279
it's already brown and crispy? Is
there any point or am I just wasting

1249
01:30:57.399 --> 01:31:00.720
water? The grass may be round
and crispy, but check the runners.

1250
01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:04.159
If they're still got some green in
them. They'll bounce back. You can

1251
01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:09.199
bring them back. So that would
be the decision I would make. As

1252
01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:12.239
far as watering it, I watermine
once a week. I would say at

1253
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:15.439
the most you can water twice a
week. If you get past twice a

1254
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:18.800
week, you were you were watering
too little, too often, And so

1255
01:31:19.159 --> 01:31:24.960
once a week a good soaking.
Use whatever rain gage or straight sided can

1256
01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:28.119
out. There is your little mini
rain gauge to check out how long do

1257
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:30.760
you need to run a sprinkler in
order to apply an inch of water?

1258
01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:35.880
And that then going forward, now
you know how long to run the sprinklers

1259
01:31:35.960 --> 01:31:40.720
for your particular long you're gonna not
need water as much in sun I mean

1260
01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:44.640
in shade as as you do in
sun. But if it's all on one

1261
01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.079
system, then you know you gotta
water enough to keep the sunny spots happy.

1262
01:31:48.479 --> 01:31:54.520
All right, inch of water a
week about That's that's what we're hating

1263
01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:57.119
for now. That's in the absence
of rainfall. You know, if it

1264
01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:00.640
rains right a half inch or two
an inch lease, then you know that

1265
01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:05.079
gives you a week a week off, all right, Thank you, thank

1266
01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:09.439
you, you bet, thank you
Jennifer. I appreciate I appreciate that very

1267
01:32:09.520 --> 01:32:13.600
much. If you are planting any
kind of a woody ornamental, you need

1268
01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:16.439
a tree hugger sprinkler. If you
planted one last year, you still need

1269
01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:20.640
a tree hugger sprinkler. And here's
why. Tree hugger sprinklers go around your

1270
01:32:20.720 --> 01:32:25.079
tree. You can set them to
water anything from little, you know,

1271
01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:30.359
tiny one foot circle all the way
out to you know, over twenty feet

1272
01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:34.079
across. Tree hugger sprinkler has the
ability to water a very large area.

1273
01:32:34.399 --> 01:32:40.600
So from the time you plant those
critical first summer of having water regularly and

1274
01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:44.159
small amounts right there on the root
ball to keep it going, and then

1275
01:32:44.239 --> 01:32:46.000
as it gets roots out to water
a little further and a little further.

1276
01:32:46.600 --> 01:32:49.159
You can do it all with a
tree hugger sprinkler. Now you can go

1277
01:32:49.239 --> 01:32:55.399
online tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com find
out what realtor is closer to you.

1278
01:32:55.560 --> 01:32:58.399
I just find them everywhere every time
I'm going in to visit one of our

1279
01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:00.279
sponsors. Seemed like there's a tree
hugger hanging on the wall, so not

1280
01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:04.720
hard to find, but boy,
is it ever a well worth the dollar.

1281
01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:12.560
Insurance policy for those rosebushes and trees
and shrubs and other things like that

1282
01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.800
that you are planting. Let's head
out now to spring and we're gonna talk

1283
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:21.079
to Rich. Hello, Rich,
Good morning Skip. I'm ad I wire

1284
01:33:21.159 --> 01:33:25.880
and I help many neighbors with their
lawns, and a lot of time my

1285
01:33:26.359 --> 01:33:30.479
applications come out of my own pocket. So I'm always looking for a cheap

1286
01:33:30.600 --> 01:33:36.279
source of either insecticides or fertilizers.
And on YouTube I ran across many people

1287
01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:45.319
using diesel exhaust fluid to spoon feed
in the summertime, because you can make

1288
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:51.600
a gallon which does a thousand square
feet for about twenty eight cents and it

1289
01:33:51.720 --> 01:33:55.680
comes out to be a fifteen oo. And I'm wondering, do you know

1290
01:33:55.880 --> 01:34:02.279
anything about that application? No?
I don't and that sounds fishy? Um?

1291
01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:12.920
What is diesel exhaust fluid? UREA
and water? I mean, but

1292
01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:17.279
how do you get diesel exhaust fluid? Are you talking about? It comes

1293
01:34:17.319 --> 01:34:23.199
in a tune, It comes in
two and a half gallon containers at Walmart.

1294
01:34:23.960 --> 01:34:29.159
Many gas stations have it at the
pump and it's it's twenty eight cents

1295
01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:32.319
a gallon. You use ten ounces
and if you do the math, you

1296
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:36.399
can get two and a half gallons
at Walmart for nine bucks. If you

1297
01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:40.840
do the math and it's a ten
ounces per gallon, it comes out to

1298
01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:45.560
be twenty eight cents a gallon for
a thousand square feet. Well, let's

1299
01:34:45.600 --> 01:34:48.439
just say this. A first answer
is I don't know, but I am

1300
01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:53.159
going to find out. Second answer
is that sounds really fishy to me.

1301
01:34:54.319 --> 01:35:00.319
I think, yeah, I let
me look into it before I come any

1302
01:35:00.359 --> 01:35:02.640
further. Okay, okay, I
haven't heard that one, and you know

1303
01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:06.359
we're broadcasting on the radio here.
I don't want someone to people tend to

1304
01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:09.800
hear half of what you say,
not all of what you say. And

1305
01:35:10.199 --> 01:35:13.359
I don't want anybody going home to
day and starting to do that because I

1306
01:35:14.199 --> 01:35:16.000
really need to look that up for
I even have a comment. And that's

1307
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:18.720
why I wanted to talk to you
first. I have not tried it yet.

1308
01:35:18.920 --> 01:35:21.840
Yeah, like I said, many
people on YouTube, but I wanted

1309
01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:26.000
your opinion, so, hey,
reach any input you have would be great,

1310
01:35:26.079 --> 01:35:28.760
you bet Hey, let me can
I put you on hold and let

1311
01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:32.119
Josh give you an email and would
you send me whatever information If you got

1312
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:34.479
a little YouTube club, I'll go
watch that. But I'm just going to

1313
01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:39.920
do a little research on this one
before I thank you very much. I

1314
01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:45.439
appreciate you hanging around for that.
If you are out and about and needing

1315
01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:48.840
any kind of products to help your
long be successful, to make your garden

1316
01:35:48.920 --> 01:35:53.960
more productive, to control insects,
to control diseases, you get the idea.

1317
01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:57.800
Southwest Fertilizer is a place you need
to go. The way I like

1318
01:35:57.880 --> 01:36:00.880
to put it is, if Southwest
Fertilizer does and have it, you don't

1319
01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:03.640
need it. And that is pretty
much true. I was in there in

1320
01:36:03.720 --> 01:36:08.439
the past week and looking around and
I was just amazed at like, do

1321
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:12.760
you want an organic product to control
pests? They probably have four or five

1322
01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:15.239
different versions of the same kind of
thing. I mean, the choices are

1323
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:19.760
amazing there. So whether you're an
organic gardner, synthetic gardener, you name

1324
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.399
it, they've got it. We
always talk about fertilizing your lawn, and

1325
01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:28.640
the best way to know how much
to fertilize of different nutrients is with a

1326
01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:30.960
soil test. So if you haven't
had your soil tested in the last three

1327
01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:34.760
to five years, I'd recommend you
do that. And Bob at Southwest has

1328
01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:40.279
purchased some soil probes where you leave
them a little deposit so the soil probe

1329
01:36:40.319 --> 01:36:44.239
doesn't disappear on him, and he'll
let you take it home and use it

1330
01:36:44.359 --> 01:36:46.800
to take your soul sapp up.
Makes it really easy to get in and

1331
01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:50.560
get a quality soil sample. They've
got that there, You bring it back,

1332
01:36:50.640 --> 01:36:54.079
you get your deposit back, and
you go on about your way,

1333
01:36:54.399 --> 01:36:57.960
and that way you fertilize even more
intelligently. Now. They also have a

1334
01:36:58.000 --> 01:37:00.159
bunch of the kneeling benches that I
love so much. I mean, these

1335
01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:03.760
things when you're going down to your
knees and get back up again, they

1336
01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.000
are perfect for that. If you've
ever worked a day in the garden and

1337
01:37:08.119 --> 01:37:12.279
woken up the next morning in the
fetal position because you got up and down

1338
01:37:12.399 --> 01:37:17.239
so many times, you will sing
songs of phrase about the wonderful kneeling minute

1339
01:37:17.319 --> 01:37:21.520
that Bob has there are those are
super super quality. I need to keep

1340
01:37:21.560 --> 01:37:25.439
talking about those more because they really
are cool. You can sit on them

1341
01:37:25.520 --> 01:37:27.840
or you can kneel on them.
You just gotta go see one. They

1342
01:37:27.880 --> 01:37:30.560
fold up easy storage really cool.
So I mean, I can talk about

1343
01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:33.680
Southwest all day, but let's just
stop it right there. And leave it

1344
01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:38.560
to say that whatever you need and
more, they've got it right there.

1345
01:37:38.720 --> 01:37:43.239
Southwest Fertilizer. I think you should
give them a checkout. It's always fun

1346
01:37:43.279 --> 01:37:44.800
to go in there too. And
by the way, if you have a

1347
01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:46.960
question, you know, maybe you've
got like there's a bug I found in

1348
01:37:47.039 --> 01:37:51.199
my yard, or here's a spot
on a leaf, or here's a picture

1349
01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:55.199
of I don't know what. Take
it in. Let them take a look

1350
01:37:55.239 --> 01:37:57.600
at it. I mean, they
know what they're talking about. Bob and

1351
01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:03.560
his highly trained staff are very good
experts. They know the products, they

1352
01:38:03.680 --> 01:38:12.199
know what works. And boys,
that's really really important. Summertime is getting

1353
01:38:12.239 --> 01:38:15.880
ready for fall time. And one
of the ways we get ready for fall

1354
01:38:15.960 --> 01:38:20.159
time is fall is an excellent time
of year for landscape renovations and for design

1355
01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:25.079
changes and all kinds of stuff like
that. It is the best planting season

1356
01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:28.279
of the year. And if you
want to give Peerscapes a call now,

1357
01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:34.880
they can help you design and install
a beautiful upgrade to your landscape. Maybe

1358
01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:40.279
it's just some flower beds in front
that need a recreation and a beautiful design.

1359
01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:44.319
Maybe you want to create an outdoor
sitting area that everybody you know will

1360
01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:49.640
look forward to coming over and enjoying
those outdoor evenings out there outdoor daytimes too.

1361
01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:53.800
Once we get through this blazing heat, well, now's the time to

1362
01:38:53.840 --> 01:38:56.760
get ready for it. And so
you can give him a call two eight

1363
01:38:56.880 --> 01:39:01.760
one three seven zero fifty sixty.
That's Peerscapes or to Piercescapes dot com and

1364
01:39:01.960 --> 01:39:04.920
you can leave them an online inquiry. They will sit down with you.

1365
01:39:05.079 --> 01:39:09.520
They will listen to what you want, and they will look at the landscape

1366
01:39:09.560 --> 01:39:13.800
pictures and what's going on and come
up with that kind of design. Maybe

1367
01:39:13.840 --> 01:39:18.840
you need outdoor lighting, Oh my
gosh, landscape lighting changes the world in

1368
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:23.800
the evenings when you're out sitting there
and enjoying it. Maybe you need irrigation

1369
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:28.319
improvements. Perhaps the area doesn't drain
well. I mean, I can go

1370
01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:31.720
on and on Pierscapes Jason Garritty and
his team, Bob and Candice and all

1371
01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:36.279
the folks. They can do a
first rate job for you and really turn

1372
01:39:36.399 --> 01:39:41.199
your place into a show place.
I think that's I need that kind of

1373
01:39:41.239 --> 01:39:43.680
help. By the way, I've
joked about this before, but I'm a

1374
01:39:43.840 --> 01:39:47.119
plant person, and so what a
plant people do. They go to garden

1375
01:39:47.199 --> 01:39:50.560
centers and they find plants that they
don't have yet that they can't live without,

1376
01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:55.760
and they buy, remembering them home
plant people. That's me when it

1377
01:39:55.840 --> 01:39:59.760
comes to design. If I didn't
have help, it would look like a

1378
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:02.239
I went off in a garden center
and everything grew where it was planted.

1379
01:40:02.279 --> 01:40:04.720
I mean that, you know,
that's kind of how I go. Well,

1380
01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:08.359
you get the idea. That's why
we need the places like that.

1381
01:40:10.760 --> 01:40:15.399
I've talked about Brinkman before, but
I get really excited when I find about

1382
01:40:15.399 --> 01:40:18.000
a company. Find out about a
company that's been around fifty years and is

1383
01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:21.600
doing a first class job. Number
one, if you are not doing a

1384
01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:25.760
good job and you're not taking care
of your customers, you will not be

1385
01:40:25.840 --> 01:40:30.960
around for fifty years. And if
you were doing an exceptional job, you

1386
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:35.880
may win the twenty twenty two Better
Business Bureau Pinnacle Award like Brinkman did.

1387
01:40:36.239 --> 01:40:40.239
What does that tell you about that
company? That tells me that you can

1388
01:40:40.279 --> 01:40:43.560
trust them. They're not a fly
by night that leaves a business card in

1389
01:40:43.680 --> 01:40:46.680
your door. They live here,
they work here, this is their home

1390
01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:51.720
turf and Jason Brinkman, this company
is just outstanding. You can go to

1391
01:40:53.000 --> 01:40:58.640
Brinkman quality dot com. That's Brinkman
with two ms at the ends. At

1392
01:40:58.680 --> 01:41:03.479
the end Brinkman Quality dot com or
callum at two eight one four eight zero

1393
01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:09.760
seven six six three breakwind quality roofing. By the way, they'll also do

1394
01:41:10.000 --> 01:41:14.840
a solar shingle on your roof.
And the solar shingle isn't this big solar

1395
01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:16.479
panel on the roof. It is
the roof. And I think they're quite

1396
01:41:16.479 --> 01:41:20.840
attractive and really amazing that the way
that technology has moved forward. So instead

1397
01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:25.600
of griping about sunny days of blazing
sign in one hundred degrees, you can

1398
01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:30.399
go, hey, I'm making money
off this deal I'm getting I'm getting electricity

1399
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:32.520
out of this year. That is
cool. Yeah, other people are praying

1400
01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:38.479
for rain and cloudy weather and you're
going, no, all right, Nikki,

1401
01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:42.279
we got news coming up here.
And I think I heard that you

1402
01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:46.760
were talking about maybe rainfall in the
forecast to ye. Yes, okay,

1403
01:41:46.920 --> 01:41:51.680
Well other than solar shingle people,
we're pretty excited about that, Yes we

1404
01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:54.840
are. We'll talk about it,
all right. We'll give us some news.

1405
01:41:54.880 --> 01:41:58.760
Hey our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1406
01:42:00.720 --> 01:42:10.760
I saw my miles Jason All the
Stars. I've been the guy I

1407
01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:20.199
saw Miles Miles Jackson Radio show.
Do you get a little bit of yodeling,

1408
01:42:20.359 --> 01:42:25.880
a little bit of Western swing,
some funky stuff, seventies rock,

1409
01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:30.640
Well, we have fun at least. Hey, you are listening to garden

1410
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:33.840
Line our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four,

1411
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:38.920
and we are going to head up
to Cyprus and talk to Melanie. Hello

1412
01:42:39.039 --> 01:42:44.760
Melanie, Good morning Skip. So
I took your advice yesterday on the bugout

1413
01:42:44.840 --> 01:42:48.119
and went and got from an ace
and sure enough, I've been kind of

1414
01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:50.600
worried. I thought maybe it was
a lack of water, you know,

1415
01:42:51.159 --> 01:42:56.600
but I have about a five foot
strip and it's between the pavement and the

1416
01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:00.119
sidewalk, and there was a couple
of patches of grass. So I went

1417
01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:05.000
ahead and put the bug out all
along that area and like lightly water to

1418
01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:11.079
the end. And now I just
I want to know if I need to

1419
01:43:11.119 --> 01:43:14.760
do any follow up with like another
maybe a couple of weeks, like a

1420
01:43:14.840 --> 01:43:17.319
spray of byfinder in or just watch
and seeing what it does. No.

1421
01:43:17.439 --> 01:43:23.239
Byfincern's pretty persistent, and so you
should be good for a few weeks there

1422
01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:26.920
just kind of watch it. We'll
see watch your grass, see if it's

1423
01:43:27.159 --> 01:43:30.920
any areas you're getting worse. You
also might want to apply it right across

1424
01:43:30.960 --> 01:43:35.439
that sidewalk to the other grass,
because typically Chinas did that too. Okay.

1425
01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:40.239
And I'm a little worried about my
neighbor because I think they're in heard

1426
01:43:40.640 --> 01:43:43.640
okay, and I don't think he's
doing anything about it. But I'm fixing

1427
01:43:43.680 --> 01:43:45.479
to go talk to him about it. Yeah, I think we both need

1428
01:43:45.560 --> 01:43:48.680
to do it. Well, maybe
so just and just get down. You

1429
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:54.079
can look for him yourself, but
I'm not very good at finding them.

1430
01:43:54.159 --> 01:43:57.640
But I thought, well, it
doesn't hurt preventative either, does it to

1431
01:43:57.680 --> 01:44:00.720
put that on? No, it
doesn't. Know. The thing you can

1432
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:09.159
do if you get a watering can
and you put one tablespoon of soap per

1433
01:44:09.239 --> 01:44:13.760
gallon of water and the can okay, and then you just drench an area,

1434
01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:17.159
not a dead grass area, not
a perfectly healthy area, but that

1435
01:44:17.399 --> 01:44:23.479
zone in between living and dead,
drenched that with soap. That soapy water

1436
01:44:23.600 --> 01:44:27.199
irritates the heck out of insects and
they'll come crawling up out of there and

1437
01:44:27.359 --> 01:44:30.640
you can you can see them,
and that that works beside web worms.

1438
01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:33.560
It works pretty well with chinch bugs
too. They do not like that.

1439
01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:38.119
It just takes a quantity of water. You really got drench it down in

1440
01:44:38.199 --> 01:44:43.000
a spot, okay, and then
just see but it's not in the spot.

1441
01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:45.600
You got to go outside the Yeah. Yeah, the chinch bugs have

1442
01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:49.399
moved on from the dead. There
is nothing, no juices to suck on

1443
01:44:49.640 --> 01:44:55.039
and consume. They've got to move
out into healthier grass and start taking it

1444
01:44:55.199 --> 01:45:00.520
down. And if I see them, if I see them, and UM

1445
01:45:00.960 --> 01:45:04.000
said, I maybe in two weeks, because I've thought a bottle of that

1446
01:45:04.239 --> 01:45:09.199
concentrated by fender, and should I
try doing a spray of that? Maybe

1447
01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.840
do there too, or just check
the bottle make sure, yeah, make

1448
01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:16.000
sure your bottle is labeled for use
on lawns. Uh, there's some product

1449
01:45:16.079 --> 01:45:23.159
okay, because by fencing is used
by pest control operators and houses and stuff,

1450
01:45:23.239 --> 01:45:26.279
and so yeah, if it's labeled
for lawns, you could do that.

1451
01:45:27.319 --> 01:45:29.520
You know. The bugout is simple
and easy to put out. You

1452
01:45:29.560 --> 01:45:31.079
don't have to make anything up.
I'm hoping this will do it, but

1453
01:45:31.119 --> 01:45:33.319
I'm going to be prepared. By
the way. I wanted to tell you

1454
01:45:33.399 --> 01:45:36.680
one other thing I loved your chip
you gave back in the screen about the

1455
01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:41.680
tumbling tom tomatoes, Okay, And
I put them in a big pot.

1456
01:45:41.840 --> 01:45:46.479
There were like like three of them, and they produced wonderfully. Then it

1457
01:45:46.640 --> 01:45:49.439
got so hot and I really thought
I was going to lose them. But

1458
01:45:49.479 --> 01:45:54.479
I went out every day and I
have it in a big container. I

1459
01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:57.720
watered them. I'm still getting a
few. Yeah, you know not,

1460
01:45:58.079 --> 01:46:01.439
but there's there's there's a there's flowers
on them, like, there's going to

1461
01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:06.039
be more. Okay, how long
you keep going, well, as long

1462
01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.359
as the foliage is Yeah, as
long as the foliage is healthy and not

1463
01:46:10.640 --> 01:46:15.359
chewed up by or taken down by
spider mites or diseases, they'll come back

1464
01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:17.720
in the fall and you'll get more. You can also cut some of the

1465
01:46:17.800 --> 01:46:21.760
tips out of those shoots, the
longer ones that are trailing over. They

1466
01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:26.680
slash them in you know, sink
full of water. Just slash them vigorously

1467
01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:30.479
like you're washing off all those spider
mites that are hiding under there, and

1468
01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:33.000
then stick them in a glass of
water and they'll root, and then you

1469
01:46:33.119 --> 01:46:39.760
can replant new containers for fall.
But they'll root within a week or two

1470
01:46:39.760 --> 01:46:43.720
you're gonna have lots of roots and
you just plant them up. Oh,

1471
01:46:44.000 --> 01:46:46.119
thank you very much. My god, I'm not going to find any probably

1472
01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:48.800
this time of year at the nursery, so I'll go do that. That

1473
01:46:48.960 --> 01:46:51.560
is probably true, Yes, that
is probably true. Okay, well,

1474
01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:54.960
thank you very much. I appreciate
your help. All right, thank you,

1475
01:46:55.039 --> 01:47:00.439
Melanie, appreciate it. Okay.
When someone starts off a sentence and

1476
01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:05.000
says, well, back and when
you told me to do such and such,

1477
01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:10.319
I just think, oh, where's
this gonna go? And it's always

1478
01:47:10.319 --> 01:47:15.159
a relief to go. And it
worked. That's good. Not that I

1479
01:47:15.239 --> 01:47:18.039
don't think what I recommend works,
but you know, there is operator error

1480
01:47:18.159 --> 01:47:23.680
out there too, so I can't
take full credit or responsibility. Oh my

1481
01:47:23.800 --> 01:47:28.560
gosh. Hey, speaking of that, as you're talking about the nitrofis,

1482
01:47:28.800 --> 01:47:32.920
the bugout Max is just a good
quality insecticide in terms of killing a lot

1483
01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:35.399
of different kinds of insects that you
might have out there. I mean,

1484
01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:39.600
you know, if you've got the
chinch bugs, certainly works on that,

1485
01:47:39.760 --> 01:47:45.199
works on the sideweb worms, and
you know other kinds of insect pests.

1486
01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:47.680
It's it's really easy to apply.
It's a granularity to put it out there

1487
01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:51.000
and water it in. He'll do
the trick for you. Also for fiance

1488
01:47:51.119 --> 01:47:56.760
nitrofiles has that fiance killer that again, it works quick, it doesn't allow

1489
01:47:56.800 --> 01:48:00.319
that queen to escape. It kills
the colony to prevent new mounds, and

1490
01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:02.680
it's real simple. And you know, nitro FoST you're going to find them

1491
01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:06.119
all over the place. I's talking
about Southwest Fertilizer, while Goo there,

1492
01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:11.079
they're gonna have nitro FoST products,
lots of them there. All the Ace

1493
01:48:11.159 --> 01:48:15.479
hardware stores are going to carry nitro
FoST products. And you know most of

1494
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:18.199
the mom pop garden centers I go
into just have plenty of nitro FoST products

1495
01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:23.199
as well, So it's not hard
to find those there. Let's say ubiquitous.

1496
01:48:23.479 --> 01:48:27.119
So if you're dealing with some summer
passing the lawn, that is a

1497
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:31.840
good option for managing those kind of
challenges. Well, you're listening to garden

1498
01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:38.640
Line our number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

1499
01:48:38.800 --> 01:48:45.000
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. You know, Ace Hardware stores

1500
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:50.119
are another thing that's you bequitous.
Here in the Houston area thirty nine locally

1501
01:48:50.159 --> 01:48:55.159
owned and operated stores in the Greater
Houston area. You can go online to

1502
01:48:55.319 --> 01:48:59.720
ACE Hardware dot Com find their store
locator and just see what I'm talking about.

1503
01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:01.840
They are everywhere. I'm looking to
map right now of the Greater house

1504
01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:04.479
Scenaria and this is I read dots
everywhere. I mean, it is so

1505
01:49:04.640 --> 01:49:09.479
easy to find an ACE and ACE
carries all the fertilizers we brag on,

1506
01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:13.800
they carry the soil products, They
carry a wide variety of pest control products,

1507
01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:17.680
pest management, weed management, and
then everything else that you know from

1508
01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:23.000
a quality hardware store. I just
love a place where you go in and

1509
01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:28.159
you're greeted and a friendly person.
They take you right to the product you

1510
01:49:28.279 --> 01:49:30.239
need, and they can even assist
you with how do you go about using

1511
01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:34.319
it? That's ACE Hardware. That's
the difference when it comes to a quality

1512
01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:39.000
store like an ACE Hardware. Ace
Hardware dot Com find one near you.

1513
01:49:42.239 --> 01:50:00.199
Yea, Hey, you're listening to
Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip

1514
01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:03.720
Richter, and we are here to
answer gardening questions. Our last few minutes

1515
01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:08.159
is coming up here. We got
a couple of callers on holes, so

1516
01:50:08.319 --> 01:50:12.800
we're gonna We're gonna leave it at
that. You know if you've got if

1517
01:50:12.840 --> 01:50:15.840
you've got plants in the house,
if you've got plants on the patio,

1518
01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:17.680
you know, container plants, color
plants, those kind of things. I

1519
01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:21.479
want to say about two liquid products
from Microlife that you need to have.

1520
01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:28.159
First of all, indoor orange label. It's called Microlife Biomatrix. It's a

1521
01:50:28.279 --> 01:50:31.800
seven one three fertilizer. Got a
high nitrogen level there, and that's important

1522
01:50:31.960 --> 01:50:38.520
because our house plants are basically foliage
plants for the most part, and you

1523
01:50:38.600 --> 01:50:41.800
need good vigor and they do that. It also has a lot of beneficial

1524
01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:46.000
microbes and microbes they work with the
roots. They are the secret sauce of

1525
01:50:46.119 --> 01:50:50.560
the soil. They protect roots from
disease, They help break down nutrients and

1526
01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:54.840
provide them to the roots. I
mean, we've spend a whole show just

1527
01:50:55.000 --> 01:51:00.159
talking about why microbes are critical for
success. And it's in the orange label

1528
01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:05.079
Biomatrix seven one three. When I
go outside looking at plants on my patio,

1529
01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:09.840
well that's when we switch over to
the blue label. That's an Ocean

1530
01:51:09.960 --> 01:51:14.680
Harvest. It's a fish based fertilizer. It's a four two three and it

1531
01:51:14.880 --> 01:51:17.000
just does an excellent job. You
can dilute it down and fold your spray.

1532
01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:20.880
It's not going to burn your plants
just as and you know we say

1533
01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:24.720
four two three, Well, when
you're looking at an organic product, it's

1534
01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:27.560
got a lot of other stuff in
there. Those are just the three numbers

1535
01:51:27.600 --> 01:51:30.359
that have to be on a fertilizer
bag. But there's a lot more to

1536
01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:35.399
Microlife natural fertilizers in just the three
numbers, and that is important. Hey,

1537
01:51:35.479 --> 01:51:41.079
Microlife fertilizer, you can find it
everywhere. If you go online Microlife

1538
01:51:41.279 --> 01:51:45.840
Fertilizer dot com, you can find
out where to buy Microlife in your area.

1539
01:51:45.239 --> 01:51:49.079
And you can also learn more about
this orange label and blue label that

1540
01:51:49.119 --> 01:51:56.000
I keep bragging about, the Orange
Biomatrix and the Blue Ocean Harvest. Check

1541
01:51:56.039 --> 01:51:59.000
them out. I think you will
find, as I did, that your

1542
01:51:59.039 --> 01:52:02.319
plant performance is just really going to
excel as a result. Let's go to

1543
01:52:02.439 --> 01:52:06.800
North Houston and we're gonna talk to
league. Hello. Lee, Hello,

1544
01:52:06.920 --> 01:52:11.439
how are you doing? I'm well, thanks. I have to put you

1545
01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:14.359
on faker phone because I can't I
can't hear good okay, so it might

1546
01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:17.399
be hard for you to hear me
alrighty, But what it is is I've

1547
01:52:17.479 --> 01:52:23.479
got I take my I have an
inside bunol and you know, naturally have

1548
01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:27.680
to take him out to go the
bathroom, and you know he gets full

1549
01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:36.479
of pleas and I can wash him
and dolls recommend anything in the yard that

1550
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:40.880
will get rid of them. Yeah, you gotta go all out. You

1551
01:52:41.000 --> 01:52:46.720
need treat the yard. Uh and
something like the Bugout Max by nitrofis sprinkled

1552
01:52:46.760 --> 01:52:51.000
out in the yard and watered in. That would be one step. You

1553
01:52:51.159 --> 01:52:55.840
need to make sure you don't get
the fleas in the house too. And

1554
01:52:56.039 --> 01:53:00.039
there are that's the problem are here
too. But I bought them and I

1555
01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:02.479
forgot what kind of powder it is, but my nephew used it outside and

1556
01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:06.119
everything. Yeah, but I ain't
sprinkled it all in my carpet. Yeah,

1557
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:12.800
okay, and it's not killing them. Okay. Well, there's there's

1558
01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:15.159
two ways to go buy it,
but you really got to kind of do

1559
01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:17.000
it all at once. You don't
want to play whackam You don't want to

1560
01:53:17.000 --> 01:53:23.399
play whackamole with fleas. Uh.
So treating the yard outside wherever flea outside

1561
01:53:23.520 --> 01:53:27.840
is getting a treatment. And then
you're you're using the little products that you

1562
01:53:27.920 --> 01:53:31.520
put on a dog. Typically it's
an oil product. Vetan narians can sell

1563
01:53:31.560 --> 01:53:34.000
it to you. Uh, you
can also buy it over the counter.

1564
01:53:34.399 --> 01:53:40.079
That is like drops you put back
behind their neck, on top of their

1565
01:53:40.119 --> 01:53:43.399
back, but where their shoulder blades
I guess come together. You put it

1566
01:53:43.479 --> 01:53:45.680
right there. It soaks in and
it is a systemic within their body.

1567
01:53:46.199 --> 01:53:50.079
That is, when the feet fleas
feed on the dog, it kills the

1568
01:53:50.159 --> 01:53:55.560
flea and and those are very successful. And then there's things called insect growth

1569
01:53:55.680 --> 01:53:59.479
regulators that you can put in your
house if you want, and they just

1570
01:53:59.640 --> 01:54:04.039
they don't kill fleas, they prevent
them from developing normally. So if fleas

1571
01:54:04.119 --> 01:54:08.479
drop eggs and they're starting to hatch
out and they are a larva, they're

1572
01:54:08.520 --> 01:54:11.920
never going to grow up into a
flea, So you can I would go

1573
01:54:12.000 --> 01:54:15.199
to an ACE Hardware near you and
tell them what you're after and tell them

1574
01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:19.039
you need a multifaceted approach. But
remember you gotta do it all because if

1575
01:54:19.039 --> 01:54:21.760
you just kill them in the yard, your dog's just going to car him

1576
01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:26.000
around and drop more in the yard. If you just kill him the dog

1577
01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:28.199
he's going to run out in the
yard and pick up more. You get

1578
01:54:28.239 --> 01:54:30.119
the idea, you've been through that
rodeo. Yes, sir, well I've

1579
01:54:30.119 --> 01:54:36.199
got NightWare. I got a kind
of dogs. Yeah, but I tried

1580
01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:42.319
to just walk him, uh in
my yard. You know, are just

1581
01:54:42.520 --> 01:54:46.239
down just enough, they're going bring
them right back in. He don't stay

1582
01:54:46.239 --> 01:54:49.720
outside because he's a bulldog, you
know, and he don't like dogs.

1583
01:54:49.760 --> 01:54:53.920
He will kill them. So you
know, I keep them on the leash,

1584
01:54:54.359 --> 01:54:56.319
okay, you know when I take
him out. You know, I'm

1585
01:54:56.359 --> 01:55:00.439
a responsible pan on them. Yeah, okay, well you're do And you

1586
01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:04.640
know you got the idea just that
stuff I'm saying that the little little tiny

1587
01:55:04.720 --> 01:55:08.520
tube of stuff and you just put
some drops back on the top of the

1588
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:11.920
dog back there. Uh. Then
when the dog runs down the street and

1589
01:55:11.960 --> 01:55:15.840
picks up a flea on the way
home, that flea bites him and that

1590
01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:19.600
flee is getting you know, it's
getting killed as a result of that.

1591
01:55:19.880 --> 01:55:23.399
So that that is an important part
of that. But go to an ACE

1592
01:55:23.479 --> 01:55:26.119
Hardware. They're gonna have the whole
nine yards and they're gonna be able to

1593
01:55:26.159 --> 01:55:29.479
set you up. You can get
a good quality a good quality feed store

1594
01:55:29.560 --> 01:55:30.760
too. I bet you if you
went into quality feed. I don't know

1595
01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:34.359
where in Northeastern yard, but they're
not too far from you. Quality feeds.

1596
01:55:35.800 --> 01:55:40.159
Yeah, there's an ice that I
don't know maybe same right miles from

1597
01:55:40.960 --> 01:55:44.920
Sorry, ice hardware. Okay,
well, all right, that's good.

1598
01:55:45.159 --> 01:55:47.600
That's good. But a lot of
a lot of good options. Hey,

1599
01:55:47.680 --> 01:55:50.840
good luck with that, all right. I'm sure they appreciate it. Sorry

1600
01:55:51.319 --> 01:55:55.800
very much, Thank you for call, Thanks for being a listener. Let's

1601
01:55:55.840 --> 01:55:58.840
head out to the galleria area and
we're gonna talk to Carrie. Hello,

1602
01:55:58.960 --> 01:56:01.760
Carrie, Hi, can you hear
me? Okay? Do we still have

1603
01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:06.560
carry there? I'm here? Hey, how can we help today? Hi?

1604
01:56:08.000 --> 01:56:13.279
I have a beautiful persimmetry and I've
been trying to amend the soil,

1605
01:56:13.399 --> 01:56:17.359
finding lots of grubs, but I'm
afraid to put stuff down there because I

1606
01:56:17.399 --> 01:56:21.560
don't know what's good, you know, because it's inheaedible fruit. Okay,

1607
01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:27.000
So I'm gonna make your life easier
today. Don't worry about it. Don't

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worry about them. Grubs are not
a major pesta percimmons. They prefer to

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01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:34.159
chew on the roots of grasses.
Uh, and that's their favorite thing.

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01:56:34.239 --> 01:56:38.720
But you are not going to have
a fruit tree that goes downhill because our

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01:56:38.760 --> 01:56:42.359
scrubs in the ground. You're just
not really Yeah, you can, you

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01:56:42.439 --> 01:56:49.279
can sleep sleep well. Well,
Um, what I have is bugout Max.

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01:56:49.359 --> 01:56:53.680
Would that fee that will kill him? That will kill him? It's

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01:56:53.760 --> 01:56:59.840
got fan go ahead, yes,
yes, it's by panthern and um would

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01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:04.039
harm the fruit? No, No, it's not going to be systemic.

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01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:11.039
Bugout Max is not going to go
up in the plant and therefore be president

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01:57:11.119 --> 01:57:13.159
in fruit. So you don't have
to worry about that. But yeah,

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01:57:13.159 --> 01:57:16.119
I'll kill grubs you just you need
to. We're getting kind of late in

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01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:20.840
the season, but go ahead and
get it done sooner rather than later.

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01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:26.119
Right, And they're little, they're
the little ones that are really hungry,

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01:57:26.479 --> 01:57:30.760
that's the ones we're after there.
They tend to go down deeper by the

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01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:33.439
time it gets this hot in this
light. But yeah, that's you can

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01:57:33.520 --> 01:57:36.600
take care of them. My new
schedules that are coming out are going to

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01:57:36.680 --> 01:57:41.640
have an insect control schedule and it'll
talk about the different times to treat grubs

1625
01:57:42.359 --> 01:57:45.840
in the different ways we can go
about that. So but yeah, you

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01:57:45.880 --> 01:57:49.439
can treat them. It just just
know that it's not the fact that there's

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01:57:49.479 --> 01:57:54.520
grubs there. There is of no
concern to your fruit tree. Well,

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01:57:54.640 --> 01:58:02.520
but also we have possums and m
armagil ah. Okay, well there's a

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01:58:02.600 --> 01:58:06.800
whole whole other deal. Yeah,
I haven't seen them doing that, but

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01:58:08.239 --> 01:58:12.640
um, you know it could happen. That's true. Though. They're grubs

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01:58:12.680 --> 01:58:15.119
are tasty, and I know it's
hard to imagine as a human, but

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01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:19.119
Normadella will cross Interstate forty five taking
its chances with the eighteen wheelers to get

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01:58:19.159 --> 01:58:24.600
to a grub. Well, thanks
for your health, Thank thanks for the

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01:58:24.640 --> 01:58:27.960
call. I appreciate that. Have
fun with those percimmons. Well, I

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01:58:28.039 --> 01:58:31.720
love persimmons. Percimmon bread is one
of my favorite, you know, in

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01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:38.399
the fall. I don't know,
they're just it's just something about just the

1637
01:58:38.640 --> 01:58:42.199
sticky, gooey It's like you're eating
a bag of jelly when you eat a

1638
01:58:42.279 --> 01:58:45.039
good rite percimmon. I just love
those things. And boy, they're good

1639
01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:49.319
in baking types of things too.
I used to I lived in Missouri for

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01:58:49.359 --> 01:58:53.039
a little while in the southern Ozarks, and they had the wall per simmons

1641
01:58:53.079 --> 01:58:56.000
out there like we do here,
and I would just pick them when they

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01:58:56.039 --> 01:58:59.119
were just about to, you know, fall off the tree. Just you're

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01:58:59.159 --> 01:59:01.960
already that they're no longer firm,
because boy, you do not want to

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01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:05.600
eat in a stringent per simmon.
You will learn with the word a stringent

1645
01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:11.000
means that'll bucker your mouth up.
But I'd pick them and just throw them

1646
01:59:11.039 --> 01:59:14.239
in a shoe box that I carried
around in the pickup seat with me and

1647
01:59:14.439 --> 01:59:15.960
in the fall, and you're gonna
watch them and you can kind of see

1648
01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:18.520
something go pretty far. It's like, oh my gosh, this thing is

1649
01:59:18.600 --> 01:59:24.119
just about to turn into just a
sack, a loose sack of jelly.

1650
01:59:24.159 --> 01:59:27.319
Well, that would be a good
per simmon. Also, And when it

1651
01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:30.279
freezes, they're going through that cold
freeze and then thawing out in cold freeze.

1652
01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:33.680
That helps take some of the astringency
out of them too. But I

1653
01:59:33.800 --> 01:59:38.760
mean, I'm ending up talking per
Simmons here, Old David. It's I

1654
01:59:38.920 --> 01:59:42.439
love that fruit. It's a good
fruit. It's a fruit that I used

1655
01:59:42.439 --> 01:59:45.399
to tell people. You know,
there are stringent types that you do need

1656
01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:48.319
to let it fully fully, fully
soft and ripe, and that you want

1657
01:59:48.399 --> 01:59:53.760
to enjoy that way. And then
there's anna stringent types. You just about

1658
01:59:53.760 --> 01:59:57.079
to eat them when they're crunchy and
they do okay, you get the idea

1659
01:59:57.560 --> 02:00:00.920
well, we've run out of time
for today's It's like it's about time to

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02:00:00.960 --> 02:00:03.439
start the music. There were good, but yeah, I enjoyed percentage.

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02:00:03.960 --> 02:00:11.640
I like the stringent types over the
firm, non astringent types for flavor wise.

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02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:15.119
But here's what you gotta do.
You gotta get in the bathtub and

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02:00:15.279 --> 02:00:20.520
have your significant other hand you the
per semon because when you get through eating

1664
02:00:20.600 --> 02:00:25.239
a fully ripe, mushy percimmon,
it's going to be dripping off your elbows

1665
02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:28.359
and oh it's a wonderful experience.
And then you can just turn on the

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02:00:28.439 --> 02:00:30.000
shower and clean up and you're ready
to go. How does that sound like

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02:00:30.159 --> 02:00:33.800
for like a plan? Well,
I don't know if that's scientific advice,

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02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:38.279
but it's kind of advice we give
out here on garden Line. Thanks for

1669
02:00:38.359 --> 02:00:41.279
being a listener and thanks for hanging
out with us today. We will be

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02:00:41.399 --> 02:00:45.079
back again next week on Saturday and
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1671
02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:49.159
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1672
02:00:49.520 --> 02:00:55.239
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1673
02:00:55.319 --> 02:00:56.720
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