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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor

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It's crazy Trim. Just watch him
as maybe things to see black day not

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a sad good morning, good Saturday
morning, and hey, thanks for listening.

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First thing this morning, congratulations on
getting both eyes open or at least

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one and a half. Maybe a
cup of coffee is helping that you're listening

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to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to

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do what We're here to help you
have a more beautiful landscape and a more

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bountiful garden. That's the goal.
And also you know what else we're here

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for. We're helped. We're here
to help you have fun out there in

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the garden. You know, gardening
is not rocket science. It is not.

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And I know you may feel like, well, Grandma had a green

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thumb, I've got a brown thumb. No you don't. If you feel

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that way, then you just have
an uninformed thumb. And we're going to

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inform that thumb. Because the only
reason Grandma could grow everything seem like if

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she dropped a pencil it would root
and start growing a pine tree. The

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reason for that is Grandma knew what
plants wanted, she knew how to take

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care of Maybe she didn't even know
why she knew, she just kind of

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had a knack for it. But
that's why the plants were happy at Grandma's

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house, and they can be happy
at your house too. So the bottom

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line is, hey, let's have
some fun, let's learn some things,

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and let's make sure that you have
more success in your lawn and in your

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garden. One way we go about
that, just starting right off the bat

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here, is talk about lawns.
Everybody just about seems to have a lawn

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these days, and everybody cares about
having a beautiful one. And one way

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that you can make sure you have
a nice, even beautiful green turf through

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the summer season is with Nitrofoss Superturf. Superturf is the silver bag. You've

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heard me talk about super turf before
the silver bag, the nineteen four to

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ten by Nitrofoss. Half of that
nitrogen is in a slow release form,

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so it's going to gradually, over
the next three or four months, release

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that nitrogen a little at a time
to give you nice, even growth,

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So you don't have this thing where
you're mowing every day trying to keep up

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with the grass because you've overdone the
nitrogen. No, it spreads it out.

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You also have a good deep root
system because you haven't overdone nitrogen.

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You've spread it out, and that
is what superturf does. You can find

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Superturf at Bearings Hardware both on Bisonette
and the one on West Teimer. You

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can find it at Plantation Ace Hardware
out there in Richmond Rosenberg as well as

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Hiding and Feed up on stubenor Airline. We're gonna head straight to the phones

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today. I want to get out
here and get going with things. So

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if you'd like to give us a
call seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four that's the number.
Let's head out now to Huffman and talk

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to Mike. Hello, Mike,
how's it going today. I'm doing well?

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Thank you good. Yes, sir, listen, I've got a bamboo

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infestation and uh, what's the quickest
easiest way to get rid of that,

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short of burning down the neighborhood.
Well, the quickest easiest is to call

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a realtor and put your house on
the market and find you a new one.

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The second, the second would be
would be a backo, and the

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third would be getting a product that
kills bamboo, that kills grass, bamboos

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a grass that kills grass. There
are grass only killers out there, and

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then there's things that are general purpose, like like Glyphas, which round ups

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the name everybody knows, but there
are many brands brands of glyphas. You

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just got to get it on the
tissues of the of the weed, the

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above ground tissues, and the bamboo
needs to be in an actively growing state,

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not like rout stressed and barely hanging
on. You know. No,

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it's doing fine, believe me.
Yeah, and you you're gonna have to,

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Mike, You're gonna need to be
ready to do it or than once

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probably too. It's probably not a
one off. Yeah, oh man,

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Okay, well just give that a
shot. Then I'm gonna get my chainsaw

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and whag it down, you know, to uh? Or do I need

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to leave the leaves and everything on
there? Can I go cut? Is

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there is there anything desirable around it? Like if you were to spray something

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on the bamboo, would it would
the spray get on stuff you don't want

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to kill? No? I want
to kill all that stuff around there,

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Okay, I would. I would
go ahead then and spray it first.

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If it's actively growing, as you're
saying it is, then then go ahead

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and spray first. It's gonna take
I'd give it a couple of weeks to

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make an assessment. Then if you
want to cut it back to the ground,

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you can, and when the new
growth comes up, when it gets

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about knee high, you can hit
it again. Okaypreciated man, y'all have

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a good day. All right,
Mike, You're gonna win this one,

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believe me. Oh trust me.
I hate this stuff, all right,

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take care, appreciate the call,
Yes, sir, Yeah. Bamboo you

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know, bamboo is It is one
of the most amazing plants I think in

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the world. People build houses out
of bamboo. We make fabric. The

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first time I heard that there were
bamboo socks, I thought, oh my

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gosh, I'm gonna have splinters in
my feet if I wear something like that.

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No, it is unbelievably soft fabric, bed sheets and socks and everything

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else made out of bamboo. You
were in the band as a kid growing

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up in school and played a wind
instrument. That little reed that we at

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least we used to use. They
probably have synthetic ones now. Was made

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out of bamboo. I mean,
bamboo is a cool, cool plant.

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It can be a beautiful plant if
you have a clumping type that doesn't take

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over the world. It stays more
in a clump. Those kind are gorgeous.

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They make a nice screen. I
like the sound of a real tall

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bamboo, the wind going through the
leaves because the leaves are very stiff and

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papery, and when the breeze blows
through bamboo, it sounds like it's raining.

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It's a really cool, peaceful effect
out there. And we used to

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have in an old office I worked
in, there was a little outdoor sitting

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place that was surrounded by bamboo,
and you were just in this nice little

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enclosure enjoying the shade of the bamboo, but listening to the sound of it.

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But the running types of bamboo,
if you do not have a way

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to contain them, oh boy,
you end up in the situation. Mike

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was just describing where you got to
get rid of that, because it does

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take over. Think about bermuda grass
and how it takes over the world.

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It moves into flower beds and everything
else. Well, if the soil is

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good and moist, bermuda is going
to take over. And if the soil

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is good and moist, bamboo is
going to run. It's going to run

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like a like a preschooler on the
first day of school head for the hills.

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So you got to be able to
control it and manage that. If

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you'd like to give us a call, our number is seven one three,

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

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seventy four. You know, out
of enchanted gardens in Richmond, there's always

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there's always something to see, always
something new. Oh with something going on

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right now. They are set up
for Father's Day. I mean they have

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gifts in the gift shop for dad
that of course have all kinds of plants

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and things that dad would enjoy.
Uh, just you name it, whatever

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kind of gardening your dad may be
interested in. Urfy just enjoys having some

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beautiful things around. Maybe a beautiful
outdoor patio sitting area could use some really

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nice things to feature, like a
plumbago for example. Well, they've got

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all that and more. Enchanted gardens
in Richmond. They're on the Katie fullsher

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side. So if you're in Richmond, you head north. Here's the website,

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Enchanted garden Richmond dot com. Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open

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Monday through Saturday eight to five.
Tomorrow they'll be open from ten am to

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four pm. So I would encourage
you to go out there and check it

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out. How about an outdoor wind
chime for dad? How about a fountain,

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some kind of whimsical garden art.
They've got that out there, Beautiful,

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beautiful plants and exceptionally knowledgeable stuff.
That's very important when you choose a

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garden center. You want people that
know what they're talking about, that can

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direct you right, and that's what
you'll get at Enchanted Gardens out there in

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Richmond. We're gonna take a little
break here. I'll be right back.

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Our phone number in the meantime seven
one three two one two KTRH. All

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right, welcome back to guarden Line. Starting to see the slight glow of

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a brand new day coming up.
It's going to be a good one out

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there, a good day to get
outside and get some gardening activities done.

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Have you ever looked at your landscape
beds and just thought, you know,

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oh, there's got to be a
better way to do that. There's got

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to be something to make it look
better. I mean, I buy plants.

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I go to the garden center.
I buy some plants. I think

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they're pretty flowers sitting there on the
shelves at the garden center on the tables,

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But then I come home and I
plant them, and I don't know,

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it just doesn't work quite as well
for me. Well, one of

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the things that we have to keep
in mind when we're gardening here is number

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one. You got to get the
soil right. That you hear me say

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that all the time. Soil comes
first, brown stuff before green stuff.

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That's the way I like to put
it. Helps it make it easy to

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remember. Get the soil right,
so when the plants come in, they're

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going to be happy. Second,
you want plants that want to grow here

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and grow here in this season where
you're growing them. So, for example,

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right now now, I think that
pansies are beautiful plants in the cool

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season, but they would just turn
to toast in our landscapes at this time

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of the year. And so each
plant has its time when it does best.

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Some will go season long. A
lot of them have a very narrow

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window, and some have most of
them have a moderate size window. When

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we come out in spring, we
have a lot of flowers that look good,

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and then they can start to look
not so good by the time summer

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gets there, and it may be
time to switch over to something that can

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take hotter weather. You can also
just plant that stuff right up front in

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the springtime, but there's a transition. When fall comes, we'll have another

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transition. And then in the cool
season, for example, things that can

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take the cool weather that transition.
Keeping up with that is the way you

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keep a landscape bed beautiful the whole
time in general, just as a guide.

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In general, what you're going to
want to do is depend mostly on

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things like shrubs and trees, perennials
that are going to be there, the

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foundational kinds of plants, things that
maybe an evergreen that always looks good twelve

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months out of the year, those
sort of plants. Then put in some

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perennials that each have their season,
and think about that when you buy them.

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Look at your landscape bed and say, what's going to be blooming in

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March, what's going to be blooming
in August, what's going to be blooming

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in October? And you can mix
your plants to have a nice season long

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color, and then your annuals.
Those are the ones you're trading in and

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out season by season. Those are
the icing on the cake. And you

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can put all your money in annuals, but then you're redoing the whole bed.

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It's more expensive, but it can
be gorgeous, beautiful botanical gardens,

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or just have huge beds full of
that of course, but think about how

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you want to do it. But
that's just one tip. Start with the

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foundational plants, the things that are
going to be there all the time looking

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good. Put in some perennials of
seasonal interest, and then have your annuals

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that you trade out so you always
have something looking good and color. When

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you drive home from the garden center. You've already got the plants in hand

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to go ride in the beds and
start looking good right away. Now that

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is the approach that I would suggest
to take. If you need help doing

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that, peer Scape can help you
do that. You know, Pierscapes has

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a service which is their quarterly maintenance
of your beds. So here's what happens.

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You say, you sign up and
you go, okay, I want

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you to come out quarterly, and
I want you to take care of the

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beds around my landscape. And they're
going to do trimming, they're going to

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do weeding and fertilizer, check the
irrigation system, make sure everything's working right.

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Any kind of mulch additions that are
needed, and we need to always

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keep mulch on those, they're going
to be there. And then finally a

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seasonal color changes. Do you want
two changes a year winter summer? Do

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you want four changes a year?
You can do that, just you work

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that out with them. But Piercecapes
they number one. We know them because

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they do unbelievable landscape designs, gorgeous
designs. And here's what I want you

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to do. Write this website down
and just go look at the work they

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do. It is inspirational. Pierscapes
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two eight, one three seven fifty
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Anything that you can imagine to beautify,

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to landscape lighting, to hard escapes, to on and on and on improving

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drainage, they do it. But
ask them about that quarterly maintenance especially that

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is really handy to be able to
have that to help you do that.

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I was out in the outdoors around
my house this week getting some work done,

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and boy is it ever hot out
there. I'm trying to get most

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of it done in the morning hours, but it's it's I just have a

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lot of projects that I'm working on
all at once, unfortunately, but uh,

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swatting mosquito is away. Oh gosh, they're there and they love me

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because you know what happens when a
mosquito feeds on you. They need the

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blood. They're like a little vampires. That's what they are, flying vampires.

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They need your blood the protein in
it to be able to lay the

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eggs. And it's the female mosquito
that bites you, not the male.

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Now I'm not gonna I'm gonna let
that and go, but I could run

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with that. But anyway, the
female mosquito is the one that feeds on

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you, and your blood protein helps
them to lay the eggs that give you

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more mosquitos. Do you know that
you have a like a bottle cap full

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of water sitting outside, Mosquitoes can
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and fly out of there as adult
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of water. So we got to
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the place. But anywhere you have
water, you need to put a mosquito

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dunk in it. If you've got
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bird bath and you're not wanting to
wash it out every few days, you

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know, clear out all the old
water. Put them mosquito one, crumble

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one up, make granules out of
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put them out there. Mosquito dunks
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hurt nothing else that we would care
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pet, the family cat and their
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You put them in the water for
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mosquitos into the water, and any
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like this, kind of like BT
with caterpillars. We put BT out for

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caterpillars. It's a different kind of
BT. They put in a mosquito dunk,

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and that I think is pretty cool
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one dunk covers about one hundred square
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You can find them at ACE hardware
stores. Have them your independent nurseries

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and garden centers I talk about here
on Guardenline, and feed stores. Mosquita

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dunks are easy to find, but
have some on hand because it is mosquito

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season and they have plans. They
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those plants. If you'd like to
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about gardening or discuss something related to
identifying a plant, perhaps you can do

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that. Just dial seven to one
three two one two KTRH seven to one

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three two one two kt RH.
That is our the way that you get

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hold of us. League City Feed
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old time feed stores. I just
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And here's why. Number one,
the service. You know, they're going

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to carry your bags out for you, your sacks of feed and things.

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They just provide that kind of service. I just like going in and shopping

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and there's just a I don't know, there's what an ambiance or something to

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an old time feed store that I
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is exactly like that. The Thunderberghs
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now, and if you go on
a Saturday, you might even catch Madison's

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dalmatian Roschak running around there. I
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a Dalmatian that you can think about. You just stare at the dog and

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you know what do you see?
Well? Anyway, they're on Highway three,

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a few blocks south of Highway ninety
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the communities all around League City,
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Baycliff, Webster, el Comuna Real, Clear Lake City, all those communities

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down in that region, this is
your hometown feed store. They've got every

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fertilizer you hear me talk about on
garden Line, whether it's nitrophoss or the

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microlife fertilizers you hear me talk about
Nelson and as Am and on and on.

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They've got all of that there at
League City feet They also have things

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to control pest weeds and diseases.
They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to

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six, so it's easy to swing
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If you want to give them a
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eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three three two sixteen

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twelve. I you know, when
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find that I spend a little extra
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you know, through the shelves,
what do they have, what's going,

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what is here, and whatnot.
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talking to the folks that I work
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it's just a it's a good place
to hang out. In fact,

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they need to set some hay bales
up on the front porchs there so you

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can just kind of go hang out
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bit of time with them. That's
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we had a feed store like that. I always remember that. Well,

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you are listening to Gardenline. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

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here to answer your gardening questions.
If you'd like to give us a call

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and get on the boards seven one
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or if you like dialing by letter
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t R H. I want to
remind you that my lawn care schedule and

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my lawn pest disease and weed management
schedule are both online at gardening with Skip

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dot com. It's a real easy
website. Me Gardening with Skip Gardening with

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me dot com Gardening with Skip dot
com. You go on there and you

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can print those up and they basically
they are a big checkerboard chart that goes

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from January to December across the page, and for example, on the lawn

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care schedule, that's all the things
you do to make your lawn grow,

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fertilize, water, mow, all
of the different products and when to apply

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this, when to apply that.
Everything you need to know is right there

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on the schedule. If you go
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schedule, what you find there is
the insects January through December, what occurs

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when and what to do about it. Diseases, same thing. Preventing weeds

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that would be called a pre emergent. Killing existing weeds that's called a post

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emergent. All the products are there
and with both schedules, there's both the

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organic and the synthetic option, so
you take your pick however you want a

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garden, that's your business. You
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really easy to do. We're going
to take a little break here for a

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little bit of news and I will
be right back in the meantime. If

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you'd like to call Christen, get
on the lines. Just dial seven to

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one three two one two KTRH.
I said the word dial nobody. We

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don't dial anymore, dew. We
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Make your phone call seven one three
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right back. Welcome back to the
Garden Line. Good to have you with

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us this morning. And the sun
glow is shining across the buildings and downtown

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Houston. That means we are about
to have another beautiful day. I'm looking

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outside and seeing some clear skies,
so this morning would be a good time.

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Throw your phone in your pocket.
You know you can listen to Garden

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Line on your phone on the iHeartMedia
app and just go on there listen live.

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Throw it in your pocket and head
out in the garden. Let's get

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some stuff done this morning. If
you get a question, to give me

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a call, we'll we'll talk you
through it. Our phone number seven one

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

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eight seven four. The folks at
Medina. You know, Medina has been

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around for a very long time.
You know Garden Line as a show goes

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back to the days of Dewey Compton
when it was more of a farm type

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report and Dewey Compton built Ziac John
burrowsers. There's a lot of different folks

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that have been part of this long
history of the show, including Randy Lemon.

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For the last twenty six twenty seven
years, I believe Randy sat in

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the chair hosting garden Line and Medina's
been a sponsor Gardline for that whole time.

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They have been for a very very
long time, and they keep coming

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out with new products and one of
the newest things, in fact, I

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guess it would be the newest that
they've come up with, and it's probably

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the product I'm maybe the one I'm
most excited about. It's the Supergrow Plus.

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It's a hash to grow Supergrow Plus
from Medina. Now what is it

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and why I'm excited, Well,
it's a sixteen zero two fertilizer, so

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it has very like a zero phosphorus
content, which in some parts of the

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country, you know, phosphorus is
enough of a concern where they're actually requiring

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like a prescription to be able to
put phosphorus on your lawn because they're worried

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about it Washingtonto bays and estuaries and
things like that. Well, bottom line

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is Supergrow Plus has a pack of
different kinds of ingredients. That is such

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a nice it's such a nice mix. And here's why. A portion of

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that sixteen percent nitrogen is even slow
release, which is good. It also

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has kelated iron in it, which
is important. That's when your lawn starts

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yellowing in places almost always, that's
due to a lack of iron available to

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the plant. And when you put
the Supergirl Plus on it helps with that.

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It's got seaweed extract, it's got
molasses, it's got humic acid in

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it. It's just a good blend
of all kinds of things. One quart

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bottle which hooks up to your garden
hoset, covers four thousand square feet.

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Really easy to do, ten minutes, you're done, really easy to do.

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Now I'm going to be giving some
of that away today, by the

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way, Today after the show from
eleven to one, I'm going to be

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at the Wildbird's Unlimited store wild Birds
Unlimited in bel Air, so that is

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bel Air Boulevard. It's real easy. I'll talking about that in a little

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bit. But the bottom line is
it's real close to where Stella Link and

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Beller Boulevard come together. Wallbird's Unlimited
store, and I'll be giving away some

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has to Grow super Grow Plus,
some of the quartz Mendina's donating that I'm

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going to be giving away some other
things. I've got some of their growing

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Green fertilizer bags, the small bags
that we're going to be given away that,

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some samples and other things, and
as well as something from Walberds.

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We're going to be providing for you. So you just need to get by

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there. Remember, has to Grow
Supergrow Plus will be given those away,

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But sixteen zero two, you need
to get some of that and give it

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a try. If you are returning
your clippings, which I hope you are,

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you can do that maybe once or
twice during the season and it kind

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of carries you through pretty well.
If you're not, you can do it

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even monthly anytime you need to green
things up, and it works on all

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kinds of stuff too. I've got
some plants that I planted a while back

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that need to boost. There are
ornamentals in a flower bed and I'm just

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going to hit them with those super
Grow Pluses this next week. I was

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just thinking about that a little bit
earlier. Even though it's primarily something we

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think about for lawns, it is
excellent for giving a little boost to your

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vegetable gardens or your flower beds or
whatever you have. Just hook it up

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to the garden hose. You can't
get any easier easier than that super Grow

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Plus by Medina. I always like
it when we get new products that I

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think really fit a special niche that
we have where we have a need for

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something that works, and this absolutely
is an example of that. You are

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listening to garden Line and instead of
me talking, lets you talk. What

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do you want to talk about today? Seven to one three two one two

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kt r H seven to one three
two one two kt r H. When

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I talk about gardening, I always
tell you that the brown stuff comes first,

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brown stuff before green stuff, because
in order for a plant to be

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successful, you need a foundation,
a soil or root system that is well

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are that wholes soil, but that
drains well, that holds nutrients and keeps

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them in a good balance. Well. Airloom soils is designed to provide that.

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And I don't care what kind of
plant you're talking about. If you're

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looking at a vegetable garden veggian herb
mix. Do you have some succulents or

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cacti that you're growing, you need
something grittier that drains even better, that

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would be a cactine succulent mix from
Heirloom Soils. They have the works Potting

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Soil outstanding potting soil for all kinds
of plants. If you don't grow vegetables

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or flowers on the patio, the
works Potting soil is an outstanding choice for

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that. They've got Roses and Bloomers
Blend. Roses and Bloomers Blend is a

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type of multipurpose rose soil, but
not just for roses. It works for

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a lot of other kinds of plants, but all of that as well as

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many many more options from Heirloom Soils. Heirloom Soils of Texas go to the

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website Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. They have
a very good compass calculator on there will

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help you know exactly what you need. I mean even down to five gallon

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buckets, how many five gallon buckets
or a qubic yard. Well, go

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on the gool Airloom Soils or Texas
dot com you'll find out. So when

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you're gonna put a bed in and
you need to know, well I need

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but I don't know how much to
order. Well, there you go.

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You can go pick it up at
porter. You can have them deliver it

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in bulk. You can have them
put a supersack on your driveway, big

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old sack that comes out holes a
qbyard sits on your driveway. It's real

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neat and easy, real easy way
to go about it. Or you can

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just go to one of about a
million different places where you'll find heirloom soils

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for sale and buy it by the
bag. Makes it really really easy to

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do. I was this past week
spending some time working on a bed that

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has really poor soil in it.
And you know how I am about getting

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the soil right now. But we
first we excavated some horrible clay, I

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mean just the nastiest, stickiest stuff
in the world to get that out of

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there, and then I put in
a lot of expanded shale. Expanded shale

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is like the way I like to
describe it is think of kitty litter.

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Remember the old gray kitty litter.
There was kind of dusty stuff. Imagine

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putting that in a hot oven and
heating it up, maybe with some steam

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or something to expand those particles.
When I'm talking about thousand degrees, you

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know, heat it up. And
now you have a very lightweight, porous

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rock type material that you put in
the soil and it keeps that soil open

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and organic matter does the same thing
compost does, but compost decomposes a way

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over time. Expanded show kind of
keeps its rock like structure for a pretty

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good long time. So anyway,
we were adding that to it. And

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I've been using all kinds of blends
and things. You know, I tell

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you I always use everything. If
you hear me talk about a product on

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garden Line, I've used it in
my garden. I've watched how it works

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or doesn't work. And that way
when I take on a sponsor, when

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I talk about a product, it's
something that I first had knowledge with and

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that's what we try to do.
And that's what I've been doing, so

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a lot, a lot of soil
work. Probably over a week now,

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I've been working on getting that soil
right because I'm about to plant, but

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you want to get it right first. Well, it's time for us to

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take another little break I will be
right back again the number seven to one

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three two one two KTRH. Welcome
back to the garden Line. Good to

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have you with us today. We
are talking about all kinds of things regarding

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the garden and landscaping. I just
kind of discussing a few of the things

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that I've been working on this week. Perhaps some of you are doing the

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same things, are planning on doing
the same kinds of things, So let's

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talk about that a little bit.
The area. We have a spot around

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our house where I'm putting in a
little bit little orchard. Now it is

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a little like three or four fruit
trees max. But anyway, that area

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has got some noxious weeds in it. The Meermuda grass has been in that

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area. We had there was a
lawn there at one time, and I

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decided I didn't want to mow it
over there because it was just grass existing

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for the same of grass, and
I don't need to water something that I

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get no enjoyment out of or don't
have any time on. So anyway,

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we're getting rid of that. And
I just saw this permuters growing in there

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and it has nuts edge in it
as well. Oh boy, nuts edge,

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And so I've been working on getting
rid of those weeds before I put

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the orchard in. And it's always
better when you can to get rid of

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weeds prior to planting. Now,
a lot of weeds are annuals. Those

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are easy throw multch on top of
the ground. You took care of it.

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The seeds have to have light to
germinate and establish successfully. And when

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you mulch with a good thick three
inch l aira mulch, you've taken care

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of those weeds. But perennial weeds
nutsedge. I've seen nutsedge push up fresh

428
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laid asphalt. I did in Montgomery
County Extension Office many years ago when they

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put the brand new parking lot in
in front. They put that asphalt down,

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and I don't know how long after
they put it down, it wasn't

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very long. All of a sudden
I saw over in a corner it was

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lifting up and I looked and it
was a nutsedge shoot up out of the

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ground, pushing pushing up that fresh
laid asphalt. So that is a weed

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that you got to deal with.
And Bermuda again, is that way stay

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with them if you're going to hand
dig them, hand dig them and then

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watch because they will be back.
You won't get it all. Hand dig

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00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:19.039
it again, and hand dig it
again. Just stay on it, don't

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ever let it up for air.
When if you're going to spray, spray

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it and then give it some time, you might want to mix the soil

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up a little bit. If you've
got a rotortiller or spade, whatever you're

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useing, just loosen it up water. You will see re sprouting. Then

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you go after it again. You
want to eradicate all that you possibly can

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before you plant, because once you
have a vegetable garden or a flower bed,

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or in my case, even the
fruit trees in there, you don't

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want to have to be in there
trying to spray and get rid of stuff

446
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.839
because you're liable to hurt a desirable
plant when you do that. And so

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that's what I've been working on for
a while now, and I've seen a

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lot of approaches to getting rid of
these. I was surprised when I was

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in grad school. I did some
time doing a study at a peach orchard

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in Ruston, Louisiana, and the
fellow theres he just is outstanding peach grower,

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been for decades there. He would
take a Bermuda grass field, and

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he would plow it repeatedly all through
the summer and basically kill the vast majority

453
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of the bermuda grass. So,
in other words, it would sprout,

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he would plow it over, and
it would dry out in the hot Louisiana

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summer sun. You'd get a little
bit of rain on it, and it

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would try. The things that survived
would re sprout. He would plow it

457
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again, and I mean he would
just repeatedly disking that field, and essentially

458
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when he got done, there was
very little bermuda left. I mean he

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00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.240
could go in there and it's real
easy for them to take out the escapes

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that had gotten by before they put
the peaches in. And I learned from

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00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.279
that now, repeated plowing through the
summer is not a good thing for the

462
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.640
soil. I mean, you're burning
up organic matter and you're affecting soil structure

463
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.319
and so on. But just as
a weed control technique, that is what

464
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they were doing, and it really
worked well. But just keep in mind

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that if you plant in an area
that has problem weeds, you are now

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going to be dealing with those weeds
in a much more difficult situation than had

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you done it before. You put
the plants in, just something to think

468
00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:25.079
about we're out there. One of
the common questions that I've gotten in these

469
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:31.519
past couple of weeks has been about
peppervine. Pepper vine is a little vine,

470
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has a multiple it's a compound leaf, and some people think, well,

471
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.319
maybe it's poison ivy. It didn't
really look anything like poison ivy except

472
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that it's a vine and it has
a compound leaf. But peppervine will pop

473
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.039
up, it'll come out of the
ground. When I lived up in the

474
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Cypress area, we had some that
was coming in from a drainway behind our

475
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:57.400
fence, and so it would come
under our fence and pop up in the

476
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yard. We kept having to deal
with it, and it is a problem

477
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.599
to deal with again. Hand digging
is an option for that, But if

478
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you're gonna treat it, there's a
product ingredient called Triclo peer tri c l

479
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:17.559
O p y R. And if
you're dealing with a woody weed, if

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00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:24.839
you're in a witty weed, would
be let's see the hackberry seeds that sprout

481
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:30.000
and come up in your fence lines
because a bird stopped and pooped because it

482
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:34.720
ate the berries and it pooped the
seeds out, and now you got poison

483
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.519
ivy in the fence line and hackberry
in the fence line. That's how they

484
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.960
that's how they get there because they
come from birds anyway, when it sprouts

485
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.960
up, triclo peer works well on
those. But rather than spray it and

486
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.599
get it all over everything, because
it's not it will hurt your lawn and

487
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.319
it will hurt other broad leaf plants, desirable ones. You can take those

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00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.519
vines and just sort of paint it
on the stem of a vine. Or

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00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:05.519
you can cut the thing off near
the ground and immediately paint the surface that

490
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:09.440
you cut and then the stem that's
right below that. So just as a

491
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:13.559
case of example, you got a
hackberry coming up in a fence line,

492
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you cut it off about four inches
high, and you take a little spongebrush

493
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on a wooden stick, you know
the kind you buy at a paint store,

494
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:25.039
a little spongebrush, and you dab
it on the surface, directly on

495
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:30.559
the surface, and then wipe a
little bit on the sides of the young

496
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.239
thin vine tissues and it moves down
and it does a good job, and

497
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.239
you didn't have to spray it.
You put a minimum aunt of pesticide out

498
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:40.599
there into the environment. But you
did something that'll work. Because I know

499
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we think round up kills everything.
No, it does not. There are

500
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.039
many things that are just not it's
not strong enough to work on them,

501
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.480
it's not targeted enough to work on
them. Trico pair is a better way

502
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.719
to go. And I do like
the way of not spring it because number

503
00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:00.840
one, it works better to just
dab it on a fresh cat. But

504
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:05.239
also if you're gonna if you are
going to try to avoid hurting other good

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00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.639
plants nearby, that's a good way
to do it. All Right, we

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00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:13.480
are let's see here, we're coming
up pretty close to taking a low break

507
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:17.639
of the news. I wanted to
just mention that you hear me talk about

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00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.760
Southwest fertilizer all the time. Southwest
fertilizers at the corner of Byssinet and Runwick.

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And the way I always put it
is if Southwest doesn't have it,

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you don't need it. And the
reason I say it that way is because

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they have it. They have everything. When you're looking for a pesticide and

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00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.400
insecticide, a fungicide, if you're
looking for any fertilizer I talk about,

513
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.960
and then some if you're looking for
any kind of tool you might need for

514
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.840
your lawn, your garden, your
landscape. Do you need a fertilizer spread

515
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.440
er, Do you need some looppers? Do you need a rake? Do

516
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.800
you need whatever? They've got it
there at Southwest Fertilizer. I was just

517
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:58.760
talking about, you know, the
new Medina product, this super Grow plus

518
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:01.679
the sixteen zero two you hook up
to a garden hose. Bob's got that

519
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:06.400
at Southwest Fertilizer. But you would
expect that he would, of course he

520
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:08.360
would. Anything that comes out new
that's going to be effective in work,

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00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:13.119
they're going to have it on the
shelf there. And so it's a one

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00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.159
stop shop. It's easy to do
the corner Abyssinet and run Wick. Here's

523
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:20.119
the here's the website. If you
want to go to the website, it's

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00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:25.400
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer
dot com. Stop by there. And

525
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.519
if you're an organic gardener, you're
gonna you are not going to find a

526
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:34.039
better selection of organic products. Then
you have it. Southwest Fertilizer. They

527
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.000
have everything synthetic and organic. Because
remember, if they don't have it,

528
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.760
you don't need it. And that
just makes it really really easy to keep

529
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:47.079
track of I was in there the
other I go periodically into Southwest just to

530
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:52.000
see what's on the shelf. Because
you know these companies, all the Monterey

531
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:54.880
and Boneyed and High Yield and all
the different ones making all these different products.

532
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.280
They don't notify me when something new
comes up. I wish they would.

533
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:04.079
They don't, So I have to
go see what's on the shelves and

534
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.920
that's the way I learn about things. That and talking to the company reps

535
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:13.800
kind of grilling them about how to
do it. Well, don't forget today.

536
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.719
I hope you will come out to
the Wallbirds Unlimited in bel Air.

537
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:21.199
I'll be there from eleven am to
one pm. Hey, this is an

538
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:24.760
opportunity to bring in a sample of
a plant in a ziplock bag or a

539
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:30.320
closed bag, to bring photos on
your phone. Let's talk about how to

540
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.760
hope you have success. But while
you're there, plan on doing your Father's

541
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:42.639
Day shopping because they have an outstanding
selection of options for Father's Day shopping right

542
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.920
there at Wabirds. And I'll be
at the one again in bel Air.

543
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:50.840
If you haven't been there before,
it's really close to where Bella or Boulevard

544
00:37:51.000 --> 00:38:00.639
and Celement Road come together in SATs. Welcome to KTRH garden Line with Skip

545
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:23.119
Ricker. It's just watch him as
things. Hey, welcome back to the

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garden line. Look outside, we
got some sunshine and a beautiful sky.

547
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.519
This is gonna be a good morning. I hope you're already outside getting a

548
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:37.960
little bit of puttering done around the
landscape and the garden. Make plans this

549
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:40.920
afternoon to go out and get some
plants. You know, it's still a

550
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.760
good time to plant and put in
vegetables, various kinds of vegetables, take

551
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:50.920
the summer heat, beautiful flowers and
things. Plants for All Seasons is stocked

552
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:55.199
up ready to go if you're interested. They're on Highway two forty nine Tomball

553
00:38:55.239 --> 00:39:00.199
Parkway. If you're going north from
Houston toward Tomball, you just exit Luetta

554
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.679
and it's right across the other side
of Luetta right there on two forty Nine's

555
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.000
easy to get to. Been around
since nineteen seventy three. And when you

556
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:10.760
go into Plants for All Seasons,
you know you're going to find a good

557
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:16.400
selection. They've got some gorgeous baskets
right now, kind of mixed containers mixed

558
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:22.559
baskets where you have all the different
kinds of flowers all blended together. That

559
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.840
is just a beautiful, stunning effect. And you can just bring those in

560
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:30.079
there ready to go like you got
a patio party tonight. You can have

561
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:37.559
instant beauty and color just from that. They also have a selection of all

562
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:43.559
the different products that you need for
making sure your plants are beautiful, your

563
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:49.000
lawn is dense and beautiful, that
your flowers are productive and continuing to bloom.

564
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.840
For example, they have Microlife Microlife
products at Plants for All Seasons.

565
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.039
You can go to Plants for All
Seasons dot com. That's a website,

566
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.199
or you can just give them a
call to eight one, three, seven

567
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:02.639
six sixteen forty six. If you
haven't gotten your summer fertilizing done, swing

568
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:07.280
by there and grab some of the
options that they give you, like the

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Microlife Microlife that's the green bag,
the sixty four that's our summer fertilizer for

570
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:20.360
organic gardening, beautiful, beautiful results. I've used it myself, The Microlife

571
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.599
Purple bag that is the Humanates plus. It works very very well in adding

572
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:31.760
a concentrated form of compost. Compost
that is concentrated down toward the humous form.

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00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:35.800
That is the final stage of it, and when you put that out,

574
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:40.280
it improves soil structure. It it
enhances the microbial activity as well because

575
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:46.079
it's loaded. Microlife products are loaded
with microbes themselves. They're purposefully added into

576
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:52.639
there and they will help create that
thriving environment for the roots to give you

577
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.480
good success. You can go to
Microlifefertilizer dot com find out more about their

578
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.760
other products. Also, I'm going
to start off by going out now to

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Francis. Hello, Francis, Welcome
to Guardenline. Hello, thank you.

580
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I wanted to ask about building up
a new vegetable bed, a new raised

581
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and I was trying to decide if
my best option would be to use wood

582
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:35.480
or to invest in one of the
metal kind of yeah. Yeah, the

583
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.519
beds, uh huh. You know, Francis, I've done them both ways.

584
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:43.079
And I've built beds that had no
sides. They were just mounds of

585
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.920
dirt, you know, and those
are road away on the sides. But

586
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.480
that's the cheapest way to get a
bed out there. I've used treated wood

587
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.679
before, it will rot in time. I just took out a bed this

588
00:41:54.760 --> 00:42:00.639
year that someone who owned the house
before us had put in treat would for

589
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.119
the bed and it was rotting away. Even treated wood rots in time.

590
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:07.719
The thing I like about the metal
it's more of an investment up front,

591
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.679
but it lasts a very, very
long time. And for those gardeners who

592
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:17.599
would rather not use treated wood,
maybe you're an organic gardener or just would

593
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:24.920
rather not, then the metal beds
provide a nice option that avoids needing to

594
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:32.320
use the treated wood chemicals. Okay, is there any particular one that you

595
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:37.360
would recommend. Yeah, I recommend
and the ones I use at my house

596
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:42.840
are Vego garden beds. Yes,
I've heard you talk about that. Yeah,

597
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:46.159
when you first started well garden line. Yeah, I like because Vego

598
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:50.960
number one, it's a Houston company. It was the first one to come

599
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:55.480
up with these beds here in the
United States, these metal corrugated metal beds.

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They've done all the work in terms
of homework. I was talking to

601
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:04.119
somebody the other day that was up
at the corrosion lab at Texas A and

602
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.119
M where they test metals. They
go ran all their metals through the corrosion

603
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.760
lab to make sure these are things
that are We've got them coated in a

604
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.079
way. We've got them treated in
a way that's going to hold up and

605
00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:16.440
not rust out and stuff, and
it's just a quality bed. We just

606
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:20.480
put another one in this spring.
As a matter of fact. Okay,

607
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:30.000
I don't live in Houston any longer, unfortunately, and I'm having a terrible

608
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:39.440
time finding good soil. Okay,
okay, And I know, I at,

609
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:44.559
I don't know. I think I've
heard you talk about working in the

610
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:52.719
central Texas area at some point.
Do you do you have any suggestions for

611
00:43:52.960 --> 00:44:00.800
how to find some really good soil
or I just heard you in earlier segment

612
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:07.719
talk about working to a new bed
to get good yes, so well,

613
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:10.639
yes, okay. So here's what
I would do. It's been a while

614
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.719
since I've been over there. On
the east side of Austin is the Dillo

615
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:22.000
Dirt Factory. That's where all of
that comes from. Those are composts that

616
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.880
are made there are a sewage sledge
based compost, and so people use those

617
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:29.360
for like top dressing a yard or
whatever, but not in a vegetable bed.

618
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.840
But I would do two things.
I would call the County Extension office

619
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.800
in Bastrup County and talk to one
of the master gardeners there and say where

620
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:39.599
do you guys get your soil,
because they're going to know there's gonna be

621
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:44.559
new places that have popped up since
I was there, and they can tell

622
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:49.800
you. If you don't have success
with that, call Natural Gardener. Natural

623
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:54.280
Gardener is on the southwest side of
Austin. They specialize in organic gardening and

624
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:59.000
whatnot. And just say, hey, I'm in Bastrop, can you suggest

625
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.800
a good soil source for me over
here? And they're gonna know too.

626
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:09.039
Okay, Yeah, And if I
built, if I put my own soil

627
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:14.440
together, what kind of things should
I throw in there? Uh? You

628
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.039
mean as far as blending a soil
mix, yes, I would. Uh.

629
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.920
Now in Bastrup, you do You
probably have some kind of sandy lum

630
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.480
soils there in a lot of those
areas because the river goes right through there.

631
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:30.480
Well, my my yard is clay
play. Then I would use probably

632
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:38.400
about twenty five percent by volume compost
composted organic matter in the clay, and

633
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:43.119
I would cut about two inches.
If you can find an expanded shale,

634
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:45.199
I would put two or three inches
of expanded shale down and mix it as

635
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:50.920
deeply as you can in the clay. A combination of the shale and the

636
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:54.440
twenty five percent organic matter will turn
that clay into a really nice soil.

637
00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.719
Or or just buy it. Just
have them bring a big truck and dump

638
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.239
it on the driveway and fill the
beds with that. That's the easiest,

639
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:08.599
fastest one. Yeah, okay,
all right, appreciate your help. All

640
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.440
right, thank you very much.
I appreciate your call. We're gonna take

641
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:14.679
a little quick break here. When
we come back, Ron, you will

642
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.000
be first up, and then David. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good

643
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.679
to have you with us today.
Let's see, we're gonna head straight out

644
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.360
to Cleveland, Texas and talk to
Ron. Hello. Ron, Good,

645
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:30.440
Warren Skip, Good morning. Hey. I've been working on getting my Bermuda

646
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:34.639
grass to fill in. I'm out
here in Cleveland. Of course, I've

647
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:38.599
got a like a thirty year old
roadary more that's starting to wear out,

648
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:43.760
you know. Uh, so I'm
looking at possibly getting a real more,

649
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:46.639
but I'm kind of wanting to get
thoughts on is it like a high maintenance

650
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:51.280
piece of equipment? Do I got
in love with the lawn? Any pros

651
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.480
and cons in your thoughts and that
I appreciate. Yeah, good, good,

652
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:59.280
questions real moors, I have never
well, I have owned one.

653
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:01.400
It's been a long time. I
was a little hand push more, but

654
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:06.719
they they are. They do take
You've got to get the blade very sharp

655
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:12.280
and they do take some adjusting sometimes
to get it get it right. As

656
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:17.119
far as maintenance, are you talking
about a push of human powered? Are

657
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.559
you talking about of the little gas
engine on it? I was going to

658
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:24.480
go with I'm thinking a gas engine. I'm on a one acre a lot,

659
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:30.280
but I don't have I've still got
my riding hustler more that I'm going

660
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:32.719
to use on the bigger areas.
Yeah, but up closer around the house

661
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:37.840
I was gonna use. I was
thinking about getting a gas powered I'm not

662
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:39.800
too worried about the gas part about
it, but like the real part,

663
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:45.960
you know, I'll hear about this
grinding the blade and back lapping and having

664
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.280
the mow several times a week.
I'm still working forty fifty hours a week,

665
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.239
so you know, I'm just like, if I buy one, I'm

666
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.880
not gonna be able to mow it
but once a week, you know.

667
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:00.440
Yeah. What kind of permuter do
you have? Is it a dwarf type

668
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:06.119
like Tiff or no, it's just
common bermuda that was coming in and then

669
00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.400
I just caught seed from home depot. And you know, I really prefer

670
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:13.400
it over the same in Augustine because
you know, I don't have a sprinkler

671
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:16.360
system. It's more drought tolerant,
you know, and I've got it pretty

672
00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:20.719
dense in quite a few areas,
okay, you know, and it really

673
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.760
chokes everything out. So just in
a kind of a quick answer way,

674
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:28.440
yes, you do have to mow
regularly with a real It's not like with

675
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:30.760
a propeller blade mower where it can
get ahead of you. Because you've had

676
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:34.880
a two weeks of rain and now
you're having to go back in there.

677
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.639
That's very difficult with the real mower. So you do need to mow regularly.

678
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:44.079
And but with bermuda, if you
don't mow it regularly, you end

679
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:47.960
up it doesn't look good after you
mow it. I like to compare bermuda

680
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.000
like you're over there in Cleveland like
a pine forest where all the green is

681
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:54.440
up on top of the pine trees. And if you were to go through

682
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:58.719
a pine forest and cut everything off
at twenty feet high, you just have

683
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:02.320
a bunch of brown sticks and That's
what happens when you let bermuda grow and

684
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:06.679
then cut it way back. Now, it bounces right back and it fills

685
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:10.079
back in, but it looks like
heck for a while. So a regular

686
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:14.719
mowing schedule, whether you use a
reel or a propeller mower, is the

687
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:19.119
way to have the prettiest bermuda on. Yeah. Yeah, I'm you know,

688
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.079
I'm pretty much a weekend mower,
okay, because so much, you

689
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:27.480
know, I'm thinking set it a
little bit higher and go with your propeller

690
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:31.039
blade. In my opinion, just
based on all the factors you're telling me,

691
00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:35.719
I think I think that circumstances are
going to catch up to you,

692
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.840
from rainy days to you stand a
little too busy at times, and sometimes

693
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:44.639
the rainy it gets, sometimes you
can't bowl. So oh yeah yeah,

694
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.199
and then you know how life is. We get you're going to mow tomorrow,

695
00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:51.760
but something happens in the family or
whatever, and you know, so

696
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.119
I I think you're going to be
happier based on what you're telling me.

697
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.519
With a with a propeller mow,
right, keep the blade sharp and go

698
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.239
for it, keep it very sharp. Yes, And the shorter you mo

699
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.840
the more often you have to mow. So if you can get your permute

700
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.760
up to about two and a half
inches, that are two two and a

701
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.280
half inches, that's probably about the
right height with your propeller more. All

702
00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:15.440
right, appreciate you, appreciate your
show. Thank you. Ron, appreciate

703
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.880
the call very much. We're going
to head out now to David in Spring

704
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:24.360
Branch. Hello, David, Welcome
to garden. Good morning, Skip.

705
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:30.880
I got a couple of oak trees
that are getting this webbing on the leaves.

706
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:37.039
It looks just like somebody wrapped it
with his white webbing. It's on

707
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:44.159
kind of the lower leaves, so
I think it might be insects. I'm

708
00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:47.639
not really sure. Yeah, it's
definitely insects. It's probably something called the

709
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.000
fall webworm. And don't let the
word fall fool you. It occurs.

710
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:57.199
They have three generations a year here. Some years you don't even hardly notice

711
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.440
them until late summer, and other
years like this year, this is one

712
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:06.119
of the worst early infestations I've seen
in a long time. We're seeing a

713
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:08.519
lot of them everywhere. The thing
about them is they, you know,

714
00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:13.280
a little moth lazy eggs. The
caterpillars hatch out they form the webbing to

715
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:19.800
protect themselves, and then they go
through a pupil stage, just like any

716
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.920
butterfly or mothwood, and they come
back out as adults later to do it

717
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.159
again. And they can do that
three times during the season, generally speaking.

718
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:31.920
Here in our area. Now,
I've noticed that a lot of the

719
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:37.280
ones, if kind of they're kind
of winding up their first generation in most

720
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.000
places, and so it's we're hitting
a point where is it worth spraying forum

721
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.559
or not. If you've got a
pretty new infestation, I definitely would spray

722
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:50.480
with an insecticide, but you've got
to get it through the web to get

723
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:55.000
to the foliage where they're feeding.
There's there's a product called spinosid that's natural,

724
00:51:55.760 --> 00:52:00.400
very low tox and I would I
would consider that. Having said that,

725
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:05.800
though, if you're looking at pretty
good sized caterpillars, I'll say those

726
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:10.000
caterpillars are over an inch or more
long, I might just let it go

727
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.360
for now and be watching, and
when they start to show up again,

728
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:20.840
spray promptly at the beginning of the
next generation. Which how long would that

729
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.079
be do you think? You know? You just I don't know. I

730
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:30.480
would say probably about a month before
we would see them again. But the

731
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:34.039
weather, it's it's all about the
weather and their predators. You know,

732
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:37.119
if the predators built up enough this
generation, the next one may not be

733
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:42.079
very bad. But in general,
the worst one is the one that occurs

734
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.400
at the end of summer August September. Is that's why they call them full

735
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:51.480
webworms, because that's the bad generation
that tends to be the most popular,

736
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:57.280
most damaging. Would NEMO work on
them? Nemo oil is not going to

737
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:02.159
help much with them. If you
used NEME that not the oil form,

738
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:06.880
but the asidirectin form, and got
it on the tissues of the leaves,

739
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:10.760
it probably would be pretty effective,
but not the oil, not for them.

740
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:17.599
The spinosad is that sold under that
name, well, yeah, it's

741
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:22.760
a you know, there's a Captain
Jack's version of it. There's pretty much

742
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:29.559
every company selling garden products is going
to have a form of spinosid. I

743
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:34.920
know that Monterey does, and I
know that Bonie does, and so it's

744
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:40.000
it's fertil on probably does, so
that's the ingredient. But you can use

745
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:45.800
anything. I tend to stay away
from stuff that is going to kill all

746
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:51.880
kinds of insects because that way,
you're killing beneficials as well as the bad

747
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.920
pests that you're after, and it's
better if you can target it. That's

748
00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:00.440
why I like using the spinosid.
If it's does and eat a leaf spinosa,

749
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:05.960
it's probably not going to kill it. Okay, all right, Chip,

750
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.679
thank you sir, all right,
good luck. Appreciate that. Appreciate

751
00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:14.440
that very much. Speaking of trees
and things, if you've got tree issues

752
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.960
and you need some help with them, Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore,

753
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:21.360
they're the ones you need to call. Now. You know, we just

754
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:25.519
went through those storms and wow,
did they ever do some damage. Now

755
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:30.400
we're in hurricane season started in June, goes through November, and that just

756
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.760
means more storms will be on the
way. In fact, they're predicting this

757
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.079
to be one of the bigger hurricane
seasons we've had in a while. Having

758
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:42.320
Martin come out, take a look
at your trees or their dead limbs or

759
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:46.559
there's some weakened limbs that need to
come out. Doing that. Selective printing

760
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:52.239
is important. I can't express enough
the importance of proper tree care when we

761
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:58.039
go into a storm season, because
a properly prune tree is going to be

762
00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:01.000
a tree better able to take the
wind and withstand it and not drop those

763
00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:06.519
giant limbs or the whole tree itself
on something of value to you, like

764
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:08.679
a home or your neighbors. Maserati, the one he parks in the in

765
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:14.760
the driveway. Give Martin a call. Martin's phone number here it is seven

766
00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:17.800
one three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three. I'm gonna give you that

767
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:23.440
again. Seven one three six nine
nine twenty six sixty three. The web

768
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:34.239
site afftree service dot com. Afftree
service dot com. Check them out.

769
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:36.920
He does more than just pun your
trees. I mean he can come out

770
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:39.840
and do some deep roof of eating. He can do all kinds of things

771
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:45.440
in terms of advising, getting trees
planted and cared for and whatnot. Martin

772
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:49.480
will charge one fifty to come out
to the property, and then when you

773
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:53.400
hire him to do whatever he assessed
might be needed, then that goes right

774
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:55.840
into your bill. So it's just
something to say, hey, are you

775
00:55:55.880 --> 00:56:00.599
really serious here? And he's an
expert and he knows been doing it a

776
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:02.719
long time, So don't trust your
trees to some guy who happens to own

777
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:07.519
a pick up a chainsaw and bought
some business cards to stick in your door.

778
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:10.800
That is not the way to go
about it. Bad tree work is

779
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:16.559
forever. Don't mess with that.
Call Martin. All right, let's go

780
00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:21.800
to Jersey Village and we're gonna talk
to Bob. Hello, Bob, Hey,

781
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:25.239
Skip Hey. I've been out of
town for a while. Finally got

782
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:31.079
back to the where my wife lives, and I come in and oak trees

783
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:37.039
have been raped for a long time, and now the oak leaves are embedded

784
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:42.480
in the grass, fell in the
grass, and I need to recede the

785
00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:50.400
entire yard. I removed as much
as leaves as I can, but they're

786
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:55.320
still a bunch embedded. So you're
talking about live oak leaves, just oak

787
00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:00.400
leaves, your pin oak or whatever
oak, small oak leaves. There's a

788
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.559
small oak, okay, Well,
then being down in the grass is not

789
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:07.679
as big of a problem. And
when they're on the grass and shading the

790
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:12.280
grass, that that is something you
want to do. If you got to

791
00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.079
do. You have a mulching mower
and a bagger where you could go through

792
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:16.800
there and mow a little lower and
just kind of suck a bunch of that

793
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:23.960
up and get it out of there. Not really well, I think the

794
00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:28.840
problem, Bob, is not so
much the oak leaves that landed on the

795
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:31.800
ground, although again, if you
have enough of them to where the grass

796
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:37.079
can't get sunlight, yes that would
be a problem. But the problem is

797
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:42.440
just the shade itself from the oak
trees. When grass can't get good,

798
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:46.199
full direct sunlight, it's going to
have problems. And I suspect that your

799
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:50.880
situation may be a combination of things. You know, it could be anything

800
00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:57.599
from drought to a disease, to
insect issues to most likely though the shade

801
00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:00.679
is going to be one of the
biggest factors. If I overseed the yard

802
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:06.760
I need, or is the grass
going to overtake the uh oak leaves that

803
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:10.280
are invaded, or or I after
I get those out out out of the

804
00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:21.199
out of the well. If you
overseed and you have enough leaf area laying

805
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.000
on top over through the soil,
you probably are not gonna have real good

806
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:30.039
success in getting those over those seeds
up and growing. I don't know what

807
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:32.960
you would use, though, in
general, I don't recommend overseeding. Is

808
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:39.400
your lun, I'm miss this is
your lun, Saint Augustine as mostly okay,

809
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:44.440
you know what I'm the We've got
the news coming up right now.

810
00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:47.119
Bob, will you hold on and
I'll continue this discussion. If you need

811
00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:51.719
to run, I'll make some comments
when I come right back. Seven one

812
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:53.840
three two one two K t R
H. If you'd like to give us

813
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:57.639
a call, I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have

814
00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:00.920
you with us, Glad you're here
today. We are now talking to Bob

815
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:05.079
in a Jersey village, and Baba, I wanted to come back to you

816
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:13.800
and continue that discussion. If if
your lawn is a Saint Augustine and or

817
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:19.719
a Zoisio grass, I just don't
know how you would do the overseating or

818
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.519
what you would use for seeding in
Bermuda grass. We do have some semi

819
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:29.480
dwarf seating options that we can do, but the other two I'm not sure

820
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:35.360
what would be an appropriate thing to
use for an overseed right now. So

821
00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:38.960
probably the best thing to do is
is maybe find either a bunch of kids

822
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:45.519
with rakes or a power rates that's
try to get to yes leaves out between

823
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:49.480
the grass. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah you could. And

824
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.360
you know, I'm just thinking though
I've never had a problem with this,

825
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.360
and okay, I do understand too
many leaves on the surface in the fall,

826
00:59:55.480 --> 00:59:59.920
you know when it hits the ground, But in general, if they're

827
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:04.320
falling down in between and the blades
can still get sunlight, the leaves themselves

828
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.639
are generally not the big option.
One thing you need to be aware of,

829
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:09.679
though, is you rake them all
out. If that grass was then

830
01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:14.639
now you've got some areas where sunlight
can hit the soil because you've removed the

831
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:17.360
leaves that were down in there,
kind of helping to partially shade it,

832
01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:23.159
and you may have to be watching
for some weed sprouting that will occur once

833
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:30.639
the sunlight gets through there. My
backyard is completely shade. Is there anything

834
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.480
I can grow in way of grass
back there? No? Saint Augustine is

835
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.519
as close as you get, and
in enough shade, it's not going to

836
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:40.840
do well. You can do you
can do things like this didn't grass,

837
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:45.360
but monkey grass mondo grass. There
is a dwarf type for small areas.

838
01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:49.559
You can put a whole bunch of
that in and make a nice little tight

839
01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:52.679
lawn that can take a lot of
shade. But when you start looking at

840
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:57.679
any area of any size at all, it takes a Brazilian little dwarf mondo

841
01:00:58.039 --> 01:01:01.960
plants to fill it, and so
that's not practical. All right, that's

842
01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:05.719
what I need to know. And
you're always the best, Bob. Thanks,

843
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.079
I appreciate your call. Good luck
with getting that under control, all

844
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:10.599
right, thank you. Yeah,
you take care, that's for sure.

845
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:17.559
Landscaper's Pride is a company that has
first of all the local company there.

846
01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:22.719
They've been here in this region for
a good long time. And when it

847
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.400
comes to Landscaper's Pride, you're looking
at a wide variety of products too.

848
01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:30.360
You know, they basically are turning
organic matter into stuff that makes your lawn,

849
01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:35.599
your garden, and even container plants
thrive. But right now we're hitting

850
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:39.880
summer, and summer means got to
get the mulch down. Mulch stops weed

851
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:44.480
seeds from getting established, which means
you have less work. You're gonna pull

852
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:47.159
weeds when it's one hundred degrees outside. I think, so neither do I.

853
01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:51.119
So get a mulch down. Put
a pine bark maltz. That's the

854
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:54.000
most popular one. Pine bark maltz
decomposes kind of slowly, so it's a

855
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:58.679
pretty low mulch. Nice one.
A lot of people like the hardwood mulch

856
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:02.280
I do too. Example, it
is not made out of pallettes like a

857
01:02:02.280 --> 01:02:07.119
bunch of cheap old you know,
mass packaged mulches can be that grind up

858
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:12.760
wooden pallets and call that a maltz. No, this is truly a hardwood

859
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:15.400
based malt It's good for walkways,
it's good for flower beds, however you

860
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:19.880
want to use it. Black velvet
is one of the prettiest malts you'll find.

861
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:23.760
It is from Landscaper's Pride. It
is not dyed. It is naturally

862
01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:29.639
dark, dark, velvety, dense, beautiful material, makes a really nice

863
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:32.400
service molts. They also have cedar
molts. They also have Cypress molts for

864
01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:37.960
example. A lot of different options
out there for some quality mulches that are

865
01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:43.880
beautiful and they do the job.
Landscaper's Pride is where you're going to find

866
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.599
that. If you go to Landscaperspride
dot com you can find out all the

867
01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:51.440
many places where you can pick up
they're bagged Moltz products. By the way,

868
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:53.840
they are also available by mulk by
bulk. Excuse me, go to

869
01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:59.679
Landscaperspride dot com. We're going to
go now to Cypress and talk to Ed

870
01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:05.519
Hello, Ed, Good morning.
I sent you a couple of pictures of

871
01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:10.440
the measures I'm having with some tomato
plants their celebrity. I put them in

872
01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:15.679
in time this year and got a
nice crop of tomatoes, but as it's

873
01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:23.480
getting warmer, I'm having disease problems. I guess that their leaves and stems

874
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:28.000
are yellowing, have black dots on
them, and then on some of the

875
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:32.239
leaves it's got some kind of a
cocoon looking thing on them. Did you

876
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:37.480
get those photos? I did,
so. The little black spots are some

877
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.840
sort of a disease. Probably it
could be fungal or bacterial, I can't

878
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:46.159
tell which. At this point in
the season, you know, it's fixing

879
01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:52.039
to really heat up, and our
tomato production just crashes. So I'm a

880
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:57.679
little bit hesitant to do a whole
lot to these plants, just because I

881
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:00.679
don't know that you're going to get
a lot more production out of them at

882
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:04.320
this point. But you certainly could
use a product. I would probably try

883
01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:09.920
something that is a copper based spray, copper base. There's a number of

884
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.119
them where you go and do your
shopping, you know, for your gardening

885
01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:16.079
supplies. A copper based sprays you're
up there in the Cypress area. You

886
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:19.760
know you've got you've got Cypress ace
hardware. You've got M and D a

887
01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:24.000
little a little bit up further north
and Langham Creek as you go a little

888
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:28.760
south from you, those ace hardware
stores are all going to have your copper

889
01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:33.039
base, a copper based fungicide type
spray, the stuff you described sitting on

890
01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:36.599
the leaf. And I see in
the picture that is caterpillar poop, and

891
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:42.599
you are you have a tomato hornworm
somewhere above that on the plant that is

892
01:04:42.639 --> 01:04:46.960
eating the leaves, A big,
all fat caterpillar, big as your little

893
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:54.320
finger. I haven't seen them,
but I guess I'm not up there at

894
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:59.559
the time there there. Yeah,
well I do have an issue with those

895
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:06.119
legged Yes, yeah, I've kind
of I read someplace that you could vacuum

896
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:10.000
him up, so I just bought
a handheld vacuum and vacuum up. Yeah

897
01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:12.679
you can. You can't. And
when you catch them young, they can't

898
01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:15.400
fly away. Once they're older.
You kind of got to got out there

899
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:18.320
with your vacuum early in the morning
sneak up on them. But yeah,

900
01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:21.639
there's nothing wrong with that other than
the neighbors are going to talk about you.

901
01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:29.000
But they're doing that already. You
know. Mildred's Mildred. He's out

902
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.840
there vacuuming his tomato plants. He's
gone off the deep end. So yeah,

903
01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:38.039
all right, all right, well, I appreciate it, Thank you,

904
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:43.559
sir, appreciate your call. Take
care, thank you. Oh yeah,

905
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.360
that's true. Yeah, tomatoes,
it's getting warm enough to where they're

906
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:51.639
they're having a hard time getting getting
uh uh tomatoes set. Once we get

907
01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:56.880
into the nineties during the day and
then our night times are up around eighty

908
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.119
up in the upper seventies, even
we start to lose our ability for the

909
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:04.559
large fruited tomatoes, especially to set. Fruit cherries and grapes are a little

910
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:09.679
bit better about that. We're gonna
go now to Parlant and talk to Kevin.

911
01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:13.199
Hey, Kevin, Hey, good
morning, Skip morning man. Just

912
01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:18.679
a courtesy announcement for for anyone as
a homeowner, trim back your trees from

913
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:24.360
rubbing on the roof and clean out
your gutters. Good idea. I can't

914
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:28.719
how many roofs I've been on in
the past month because of these storms.

915
01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:34.480
Yep, you know, tree branches
cause what's called mechanical damage insurance companies do

916
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:38.760
not cover that, and they're going
to scrutinize the rest of the roof too.

917
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:43.679
That's good. If your gutters have
trees growing out of them, not

918
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.000
a good thing. I can guarantee
that. Yeah, that's true. That's

919
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:49.440
well, that's good. I appreciate
that advice, Kevin. I may elaborate

920
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:53.719
on our hair in a little bit. It's good. Good word you take

921
01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:58.480
care. Yeah, I've noticed that
in addition to that, some species of

922
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:02.719
mosquitoes like to live in decaying organic
matter of water. So you got,

923
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:05.840
you know, leaves that are rotting
in the water. And remember it only

924
01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:11.199
takes a bottle capful of water to
raise a mosquito. Well, what Kevin

925
01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:15.119
is saying is true. That rotting
leaves a little bit of a sagging spot

926
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:18.079
in your gutter, and now you
are just setting yourself up for even more

927
01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:21.679
mosquito problems. So thank you,
Kevin, those good advice. Appreciate that

928
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:25.360
very much. We're gonna take a
little break here and I'll be right back.

929
01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:28.639
Our phone number if you'd like to
give a producer a call seven one

930
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.239
three two one two k t R
H. You'll get you on the board

931
01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:34.559
and we'll talk to you right after
we talked to Terry from fulsher when we

932
01:07:34.639 --> 01:07:41.239
come back. Welcome back to garden
Line. Good have you with us today.

933
01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:45.239
When was the last time you went
out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery.

934
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.639
That's out in Katie, Texas.
That's our West that's your West Houston

935
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:53.840
Garden Center. It's the one you
need to know about. You need to

936
01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:56.000
get out there and check it out. It's a beautiful place. I was

937
01:07:56.039 --> 01:08:00.159
out just recently visiting a throw off
out there and checking out all all the

938
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:02.079
new plants that they've gotten in,
and man, they had a really nice

939
01:08:02.119 --> 01:08:05.599
selection of things. Now, of
course, you know Nelson's is a place

940
01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:10.840
for water gardens. I mean,
do you want a beautiful, let's say,

941
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:15.719
a waterfall designed, a rock waterfall
put into your landscape. There's nothing

942
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:17.920
more soothing and beautiful than that.
They can do that for you. They

943
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:21.199
can even advise you if you do
it yourself. Or they have the big

944
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:28.319
giant urns that are a glazed pottery, just beautiful with the water tumbling out

945
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:31.319
of the top or or running over
the sides of it, a beautiful sound.

946
01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:35.560
It's called a disappearing fountain because the
water goes down into gravel or rock

947
01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:41.119
underneath the urn, and then it
comes right back up through it and it's

948
01:08:41.560 --> 01:08:45.079
it's just a wonderful, wonderful effect. When you go there and you see

949
01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:47.960
the things they have, you will
be inspired and you'll want some. So

950
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:51.279
I'd tell you to take your friends
when you go, because it really is

951
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:56.159
an inspiring place and they've got a
great selection of all kinds of things.

952
01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:58.520
They're just out there and Katie,
So it's just a hop, skip and

953
01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.079
a jump outside of Houston. You
just run right out there on Katie Fort

954
01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:04.960
Ben Road, turn north and it's
just a hop, skip and a jump.

955
01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:10.520
Here. I am using all these
colloquialisms, but it's the truth.

956
01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:15.399
Nelson Water Garden beautiful place to go, inspiring, definitely a destination place.

957
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:18.159
You're going to find the plants you
need, and you're going to find a

958
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:23.760
lot of really cool inspiration out there
as well. I'm going to head out

959
01:09:23.800 --> 01:09:26.680
now to fullsher and we're going to
talk to Terry. Hello, Terry,

960
01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:29.920
good morning, Skip. How are
you today? I'm good, sir.

961
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:33.680
How can we help? I'm having
some yard work done. Actually, what

962
01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:39.000
we had we had some drainage issues
in a new build area, and so

963
01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:44.199
we've had that corrected and the landscapers
have come in and put in some new

964
01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:48.159
SOD. My question is is when
should I start fertilizing that new sawd area.

965
01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:53.159
It can do fine for about a
month and then you can begin to

966
01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.920
fertilize it. You can actually go
a little longer than that. The SOD

967
01:09:57.079 --> 01:10:01.039
comes in with a pretty good amount
of nutrient and the first job of that

968
01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:04.640
side is to get roots down,
and so for the first few weeks,

969
01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:08.880
that is what it's focusing on,
is getting roots down in the ground.

970
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:15.159
Then it's got the root system to
take up nutrient and to support growth.

971
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.359
So you continue to build the density
or maintain the density of it. So

972
01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:23.560
I would say you don't need to
fertilize any sooner than a month after you

973
01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:27.720
plant. You could even wait to
look, okay, well I followed ready

974
01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:32.439
lemons of the nitrofoss schedule. Anyways, I just infertilized like last month.

975
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:38.119
So I would even just waiting until
the next feeding time. Yeah, stand

976
01:10:38.119 --> 01:10:41.359
on the schedule. Yeah, what
did you did you use a slow release?

977
01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:45.319
Yeah? Yes, yes, silver
bag will carry you all the way

978
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:49.079
into fall. Yeah, you can
do your next fertilization and fall. In

979
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:54.600
the meantime, return those clippings when
you're mowing and they slowly. Yeah,

980
01:10:55.079 --> 01:10:58.920
I always do. You'll be all
right, all right, Thank you so

981
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:00.920
much for your all right, y, thanks a lot, appreciate that.

982
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:05.520
Yep, those schedules are very important. I just want to remind you I

983
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:10.520
got mine online too, if you
would like to go to gardening with Skip

984
01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:15.359
dot com. Gardening with Skip dot
Com. I have elaborated on the schedules

985
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.359
a little bit there. I've got
a lawn schedule and a pest disease and

986
01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:23.600
weed schedule that I encourage you to
print out take a look at when you're

987
01:11:23.640 --> 01:11:28.479
out there doing that. Whenever our
clay soils get wet, they swell,

988
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:31.720
and when they get dry they shrink. They actually do. That's why there's

989
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:35.000
those giant cracks in the backyard.
Have you ever been in a yard of

990
01:11:35.079 --> 01:11:40.399
clay soil and it was super dry
and the cracks are so large you could

991
01:11:40.439 --> 01:11:44.279
lose a chihuahua down in the ground, I mean, the big old giant

992
01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:48.239
cracks. Well, that's what happens
to our soil, which recks havoc on

993
01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:56.600
your landscape, on your hard scapes. Rather your sidewalks, your driveways,

994
01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.359
and most importantly, the foundation of
your home. Fix my slab foundation repair.

995
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:03.479
Ty Strickland, he's the owner.
He's been doing this for twenty three

996
01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:08.279
years. He knows how to fix
it right. And Tye he's got the

997
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:12.920
expertise and he's got the experience.
And if you see maybe a door is

998
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:15.399
sticking that used to not stick,
or there's a crack in the sheet rock

999
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:18.920
or on the outside you see a
crack in the brick, that's a reason

1000
01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:23.479
to quickly go ahead and call ty. Don't put this kind of thing off.

1001
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:27.159
Listen. These situations definitely don't get
better, they get worse, and

1002
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:30.760
so do something soon. Tell them
you're a guarden line listener. I'll give

1003
01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:38.000
you a free estimate for gardenline listeners. The things I most appreciate about Tie

1004
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:42.000
and Fix my Slab is the fact
that they show up on time. He

1005
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.279
prices things in a fair way and
he fixes it right. And what more

1006
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:49.520
can you ask for from any kind
of a service provider than that show up

1007
01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:55.399
on time, fair price, fix
it right, fix myslab dot com,

1008
01:12:55.439 --> 01:13:01.000
Fix my slab dot com two eight
one two five five two eight one two

1009
01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:04.880
five five four nine four nine.
We're going to go now to Ray in

1010
01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:11.920
Spring, Texas. Hello, Ray, good morning, Good morning. I

1011
01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:16.039
want to see if you can help
me. I have two Japanese blue bears

1012
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:20.079
about five feet tall that I have
put in in twenty one right up to

1013
01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:27.439
the big freeze, okay, and
one of those blue bearers is turning yellow

1014
01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:30.600
and the leaves will fall in off
and I don't really know what the problem

1015
01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:34.199
is. I don't want to lose
it. And if there's anything you can

1016
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:36.880
tell me that I can do to
save it, I would appreciate it.

1017
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:41.279
Yeah, it's not unusual on a
Japanese blueberry they get into a little bit

1018
01:13:41.279 --> 01:13:44.479
of stress, or just as they
grow, the older leaves a little further

1019
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:47.439
down the line from the ends of
the shoots, you'll see yellowing. They'll

1020
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:53.279
even turn a pretty low red color
sometimes before they drop off. And that

1021
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:57.600
that is either related to just its
older leaves that are being cast off,

1022
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:01.439
which it does periodically, or it's
a stress and the stress could be soggy

1023
01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:04.439
wet soil, poor drainage, it
could be lack of water. I think

1024
01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:08.840
it would be root road over watering. You know we didn't getting a lot.

1025
01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:11.279
Well, that's that's what I'm saying. Yeah, too much, too

1026
01:14:11.359 --> 01:14:14.680
much water, poor drainage. You
know, the problem with too much water

1027
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:16.279
isn't the fact that there's a lot
of water. It's the fact that the

1028
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:21.279
roots can't get oxygen and so yes, that can stress them. You can

1029
01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:26.920
get a root rod in them.
So either water extreme can cause a problem

1030
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:29.840
with them. You just have to
get out. I would say, get

1031
01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:32.119
a little hand draut, dig down
about four inches and feel the soil and

1032
01:14:32.159 --> 01:14:36.000
if it's moist, you don't need
to water. And once a tree is

1033
01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:42.039
established, once a shrub like that
is established, it should not have been

1034
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.880
water and it's just a rain that's
doing it, you know. Yeah,

1035
01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:48.840
yeah, but I will do that. I'll dig down because I was wondering

1036
01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:53.640
if there may be some root rods
there since it's been getting a lot of

1037
01:14:53.680 --> 01:14:56.479
water. Where it is, one, I will get the other one.

1038
01:14:56.479 --> 01:14:59.640
That's fine. Yeah, Well if
it's if it's not you water and it's

1039
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:03.000
too you might want to relook at
where's this water coming from. Maybe there's

1040
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:10.079
a downspout of the house that could
be redirected somewhere so you can avoid or

1041
01:15:10.199 --> 01:15:13.359
minimize the amount of water that goes
to that area. If there's something in

1042
01:15:13.399 --> 01:15:15.960
your power to do, I would
do it. I think so Okay,

1043
01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:18.439
thank you so much. Appreciate it. I try that. I think it's

1044
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:23.880
maybe my down spout. Okay,
sounds real good. Appreciate that. Thank

1045
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:28.439
you so much. You take care. Yep, we appreciate that very very

1046
01:15:28.520 --> 01:15:31.840
much. Let's see we want to
I want you to mention Ciena Molts.

1047
01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:35.960
They're down south of Houston. I
talk about them all the time because Cinamalts

1048
01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:40.439
is a place you go to get
quality materials. You know how I say

1049
01:15:40.479 --> 01:15:44.439
brown stuff first. If you want
to make all the brown stuff as good

1050
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:47.800
as it can be for the plants
to succeed, Cnmalts will get They got

1051
01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.119
you covered. They carry all the
fertilizers I talk about on garden line,

1052
01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:55.600
all of them. They have them
there. So that's part of getting the

1053
01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:59.720
nutrients in your soil. They carry
composts, they carry bed mix. It's

1054
01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:02.319
like, for example, they have
the veggie and herb mix from heirloom soils

1055
01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:08.199
down there. They have all kinds
of premium mulches, premium mulches, all

1056
01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:11.560
all kinds of options for you.
You can buy things in bulging, buy

1057
01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:15.920
things in bags. You can go
get it yourself if you're within twenty miles,

1058
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:18.720
so deliver it to you there Sienna
multch dot com. Go to that

1059
01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:23.000
website and find out more about them. They're north of roch Sheron, near

1060
01:16:23.079 --> 01:16:27.720
where Highway six and two eighty eight
are there FM five point twenty one.

1061
01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:32.279
They're open till five o'clock Monday through
Friday and on Saturday until two, so

1062
01:16:32.439 --> 01:16:34.600
you need to go ahead and give
them a call or swing by there.

1063
01:16:35.079 --> 01:16:41.720
Make sure that you're ready to go. Cennamultch Love Cenamulf. Hey, guess

1064
01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:44.600
where I'm going to be after the
show today? And I hope you are

1065
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:48.560
too. Going to be at the
wild Birds Unlimited in bell Air. Wildbirds

1066
01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:53.399
Unlimited in bell Air. It's easy
to get there, you know. They're

1067
01:16:53.399 --> 01:16:58.640
down where Stella Link comes into bel
Air Boulevard, kind of southwest Houston.

1068
01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:02.760
Real easy to get to come by
there. Bring me some plants and pictures

1069
01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:06.079
and things. Let's talk about how
to have a beautiful lawn, how to

1070
01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:10.920
have a bountiful garden, a beautiful
landscape. We can do all that kind

1071
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:15.479
of thing there. And while you're
there, plan on grabbing some Father's Day

1072
01:17:15.520 --> 01:17:18.319
gift for your Dad. They got
a lot of cool stuff. One of

1073
01:17:18.359 --> 01:17:24.359
the things that I am probably my
favorite product that they have is their scroll

1074
01:17:24.439 --> 01:17:26.920
proof feeder. Come by and I'll
show it to you. I want you

1075
01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:33.399
to see this saying it's amazing.
I love my Welcome to kt r H

1076
01:17:33.520 --> 01:18:02.720
Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's
just watch him as Hey, welcome back.

1077
01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:06.880
Let's get going here. We've got
some more garden line to do,

1078
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:11.800
lots of things to talk about because
we want you to have success with your

1079
01:18:11.840 --> 01:18:15.359
garden and your landscape. If you
live up in the Montgomery area, do

1080
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.319
you know about A and A Plants
and produce. You drive by them all

1081
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:21.920
the time. They're right there on
Highway one oh five on the east side

1082
01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:27.800
of Montgomery. So all of you
up at the various lake neighborhoods up around

1083
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:30.640
Lake Conroe, you know Del Lago
and Walden and all the other neighborhoods up

1084
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:36.439
there, this is your hometown garden
center. Just always stock full of everything

1085
01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:41.479
you need. When we're planting vegetables
during those seasons, they've got them.

1086
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:44.479
When we have flowers, they've got
them, shrubs, trees, vines.

1087
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:47.800
Do you need blame to go in
the landscape maybe a chimenea for the patio

1088
01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:53.720
or some sort of artwork for out
in the garden. They've got some really

1089
01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:55.680
cool stuff. Yes, they have
to go in the store and see.

1090
01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:59.319
I mean they look up, look
up. A lot of it's hanging up

1091
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:02.600
in the rafter is there. It
is really cool stuff. And they've got

1092
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:06.640
every fertilizer I talk about, and
I do mean every fertilizer, every one

1093
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:11.640
of the major brands that we talk
about on Garden Line, including the soil

1094
01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:15.399
products as well from airloom soils in
Nature's Way. They've got all of that

1095
01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:18.239
right there at Ana Plants and Produce. It makes it really easy. Their

1096
01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:23.439
expert landscape crew does some clean up
around Lake Conroy area. If you need

1097
01:19:23.439 --> 01:19:26.640
a little work done on that get
things spruced up, they're set up for

1098
01:19:26.680 --> 01:19:30.680
that as well. They usually keep
my schedule at the checkout counter there at

1099
01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:33.359
Ana Plants and Produce on the east
side of Montgomery on one oh five.

1100
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:36.920
But if they don't, just go
ahead and print it out, take it

1101
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:40.920
yourself, bring it in there,
and that way you can point at the

1102
01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:44.279
product that you're looking for, make
sure you go home with the right one.

1103
01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:46.239
We're going to go now to Cypress
and talk to Leanne. Hello,

1104
01:19:46.359 --> 01:19:54.560
Leanne, good morning, Good morning. Problem with nutsedge that has invaded my

1105
01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:58.239
vegetable garden, and thought I had
it under control, but it was being

1106
01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:03.640
hidden by my Now it's a big
problem, okay. And I've read if

1107
01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:09.920
she on edgehammer, and of course
is don't spray on vegetable, right,

1108
01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:15.239
But my question is how close can
I get? Because I've got some that

1109
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:24.720
has invaded, like under the canopy
of this cute meatball basil, and I've

1110
01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:30.680
been pulling up arugula to get to
it because I know I can't avoid spraying

1111
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:35.520
the arugula. I mean, it's
it's all so infiltrated under theirs. Yeah.

1112
01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:42.840
I think there's just not a great
solution in a vegetable garden like that

1113
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:47.000
because the image and the manage and
the sedge hammer and all those are not

1114
01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:54.239
labeled for vegetable gardens. Glyfa sade
is round up glyphasade is, but it

1115
01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:58.600
doesn't do as good of a job
on nutsedge as the others do. If

1116
01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:00.199
it were my garden, I think
I would do one or two things.

1117
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:04.840
I would either the nutsedge tends to
come up above the foliage of the plants

1118
01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:11.800
you're talking about, and you could
wipe a product onto that nuts edge foliage

1119
01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:15.600
and avoid spraying and killing your vegetables
with it. That would be one option.

1120
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:20.560
The other would be that whenever you
transition, which in a vegetable garden

1121
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:25.159
you're transitioning several times, that arugula
is not going to be there a long

1122
01:21:25.239 --> 01:21:30.039
time when you transition, go ahead
and take those nutsedge plants, follow them

1123
01:21:30.039 --> 01:21:34.359
down and get the tubers out as
much as you can, and just kind

1124
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:43.439
of regularly do the digging along with
your when you're able to do the treatment.

1125
01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:47.439
But use a wiper applicator rather than
a spray applicator. Okay, so

1126
01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:51.359
you're saying it could contaminate the soil, then no, it won't contaminate the

1127
01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:58.439
soil. It's okay. So a
lot of those products aren't labeled for use

1128
01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:01.439
in the garden, and I cannot
recommend and use of a product outside the

1129
01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:04.359
label like that. You know,
I can't tell you I just go do

1130
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:09.039
it anyway. I'm not going to
do that. But whatever you use in

1131
01:22:09.079 --> 01:22:14.039
a vegetable garden to put on the
nut's edge, if you apply it with

1132
01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:18.079
a wiper as opposed to a spray, then you avoid it getting on a

1133
01:22:18.119 --> 01:22:25.760
desirable plant in the garden as well. Does that make sense? It does.

1134
01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:28.720
I've kind of devised where I took
a sola cup and put an X

1135
01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:30.880
on the bottom and put that over
the head of the spray. Or you

1136
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:38.279
can do that spray under just that
cup so it doesn't get out from underneath

1137
01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:42.159
it. Yeah, you could,
you could do that, Okay, Yeah,

1138
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.840
but I think the wiper is even
better. And I use you.

1139
01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:47.960
I've seen people use different things.
If you're in a vegetable garden, you

1140
01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:54.079
don't mind doing hands and knees by
the cheapest set of tongs, barbecue tongs

1141
01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:58.800
you can find, you know,
just those little thin metal things that no

1142
01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:03.760
fancy gripsure thing. And if you
can figure out how to drill a hold

1143
01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:10.159
in one and attach a sponge to
each side, or use super not super

1144
01:23:10.199 --> 01:23:13.840
blue hot glue or whatever whatever it
takes to get a little piece of sponge

1145
01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:16.399
on each side, you just put
the product on the sponge and you reach

1146
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:21.239
down and squeeze the nuts edge leaf
and pull up and it wipes right on

1147
01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:26.319
the leaf and you get it on
nothing else. I've made those out of

1148
01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:29.960
the things you grab a jar off
a shelf with too those little grabber tools.

1149
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:32.560
You can put a sponge on those. But whatever you do, you're

1150
01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:38.640
applying it just to the nuts sedge. Got it, all right, thank

1151
01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:41.279
you very much. Yeah. The
last last tip there, Leanne, is

1152
01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:45.119
don't once it gets three to five
leaves, you need to be doing something,

1153
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:50.680
digging it or treating it, because
otherwise it's creating. I know,

1154
01:23:50.840 --> 01:23:55.279
it's a mess. I found some
last night there were two feet tall.

1155
01:23:55.600 --> 01:23:59.119
Yeah, yeah, well, okay, but what happens when that happens is

1156
01:23:59.119 --> 01:24:02.079
they've already got a daughter plants that
now you're gonna deal with. But that's

1157
01:24:02.119 --> 01:24:06.000
okay. Just stay on them,
keep your eyes peeled. Yeah, my

1158
01:24:06.119 --> 01:24:10.640
rugo is quite prolific, all right. See, and I just let it

1159
01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:13.359
go because I love it so much. All right, Well, there you

1160
01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:16.720
go. All right. I think
you're armed with the right with the right

1161
01:24:17.279 --> 01:24:19.760
process right now, and you can
do that. And by the way,

1162
01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:23.680
you're up there in Cyprus. You
know you got Ace hardware stores all over

1163
01:24:23.720 --> 01:24:26.960
the place. Up in your area. There's two or three real close to

1164
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:30.760
you where you can get all these
kinds of products. And sometimes I'm in

1165
01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:33.760
tumble, so go to D and
D Feeds. Oh yeah, they have

1166
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:36.439
it. They have that stuff up
there too. All right, thanks a

1167
01:24:36.439 --> 01:24:41.520
lot, appreciate it, appreciate it. Take care. Yeah, I was

1168
01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:45.039
talking about ACE Hardware. You know, Aacet Hardware is a place for the

1169
01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:48.920
Father's Day gift that your dad will
love. I mean, think about it.

1170
01:24:49.560 --> 01:24:54.840
Ace Hardware. They have all kinds
of gadgetry for the lawn, for

1171
01:24:54.920 --> 01:24:57.920
the garden. I mean we're talking
about, you know, a new chainsaw,

1172
01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:01.720
one of these electric powered tools and
products that are available, a string

1173
01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:08.359
of lights to turn that outdoor sitting
area into just a beautiful little ambiance place.

1174
01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:11.039
I mean on her own. How
about a barbecue. Oh my gosh.

1175
01:25:11.359 --> 01:25:15.920
Ace has barbecue pits, the highest
quality, the best brands, and

1176
01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:17.880
all the accessories you need to go
with them. I mean they do.

1177
01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:21.720
Ace Hardware is the place, and
when it comes to a Father's Day gift,

1178
01:25:21.840 --> 01:25:27.439
I cannot imagine a better place.
No matter what your dad's interested in,

1179
01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:31.159
ACE Hardware is going to have some
really cool stuff. Everyone is independently

1180
01:25:31.199 --> 01:25:34.800
owned, and each one is different. Some have certainly one of them may

1181
01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:39.039
have a fudge bar or something like
that. Someone may have another one that

1182
01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:45.199
does etching on some sort of a
tool or cutting board or what. Every

1183
01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:48.239
Ace Hardware is different, So go
into your local Ace Hardware and see what

1184
01:25:48.279 --> 01:25:50.640
they have, and you're going to
see stuff that's like, you know,

1185
01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:55.239
I never would have thought of that, but that's perfect for my dad.

1186
01:25:55.640 --> 01:25:59.880
And I guarantee you you go to
Ace Hardware and you're going to find something

1187
01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:02.359
for Dad for this weekend. And
by the way, this weekend is Father's

1188
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:08.079
Day weekend, right, So get
over to your local Ace Hardware. You

1189
01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:13.000
can find it by going to Acehardware
dot com, forward slash Houston, Acehardware

1190
01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:17.720
dot Com forward slash Houston and there's
what forty stores. It's going to be

1191
01:26:17.760 --> 01:26:21.640
really easy to find one near you
in the greater Houston area for Ace Hardware.

1192
01:26:21.680 --> 01:26:27.359
So don't don't delay on this.
I mean Father's Days tomorrow. Let's

1193
01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:30.079
go. Let's get this done.
You're going to find something cool Today's hardware.

1194
01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:34.039
It is time for me to take
a break here. I realized I

1195
01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:38.640
just talked myself into a little bit
of a break time. Diana and Dave,

1196
01:26:38.680 --> 01:26:41.159
you'll be the first two up when
we come right back. The phone

1197
01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:44.520
number if you'd like to give Chris
a call and get on the boards seven

1198
01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:48.439
one three two one two kt rh. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.

1199
01:26:48.520 --> 01:26:51.359
Good to have you with us today. A little bit of mix there

1200
01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:55.359
on the music. You know,
we try to mix things up a little

1201
01:26:55.359 --> 01:26:59.319
bit here on Garden Line. Get
your fix for all kinds of different things.

1202
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:03.720
If you've not fertilized you're on this
summer, you ought to consider sweet

1203
01:27:03.720 --> 01:27:10.600
green. Sweet green is a product
from Nitrofoss. Sweet Green is a base.

1204
01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:16.760
It's based on a molasses material with
microbial activity turning it into an eleven

1205
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:21.399
percent nitrogen fertilizer. Now, whenever
you put molasses on the soil that carbon

1206
01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:26.439
microbes need carbon to thrive, and
I mean it kicks them into high gear.

1207
01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:30.600
They really take off. And that's
part of the creating a rich environment

1208
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:35.800
around the plant roots with beneficial microbes
to help support that grass plant. Sweet

1209
01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.880
greens available in a lot of different
places. You can go out to enchanted

1210
01:27:39.920 --> 01:27:43.960
forest in a Richmond Rosenberg area and
find it growers Outlet up and Willis has

1211
01:27:43.960 --> 01:27:48.000
it. RCW Nursery on Topball Parkway
is another place like many where you're going

1212
01:27:48.079 --> 01:27:53.439
to find sweet green from Nitrofos.
Go ahead and get it down now you're

1213
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:56.920
going to want to plan it now. If you have not fertilized this summer,

1214
01:27:57.279 --> 01:28:00.399
if you're already fertilized, hold off. But if you haven't put this

1215
01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:03.760
week green now now about six weeks, eight weeks from now, you could

1216
01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:08.439
do it again. And that'll carry
you all the way up until we get

1217
01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:13.560
our first full fertilization schedule, which
is coming up pretty soon in a while,

1218
01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.199
pretty soon, it's coming up in
the fall. But the sweet green

1219
01:28:16.239 --> 01:28:19.439
will carry you all the way to
that. Always return your clippings when you're

1220
01:28:19.439 --> 01:28:25.720
fertilizing, because clippings are full of
nutrients, and if you don't return them,

1221
01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:29.840
you're just renting fertilizer. Let's head
out now to Jersey Village and talk

1222
01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:33.199
to Diana. Hello Diana, thanks
for waiting, Good morning, Skip.

1223
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:40.680
What is the best way to root
azelias from a cutting? H Okay,

1224
01:28:40.800 --> 01:28:44.760
you the best? First of all, the best type of material you want

1225
01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:48.079
is in the springtime we get all
the fresh new growth and then it kind

1226
01:28:48.079 --> 01:28:53.479
of slows down and we say it
hardens off. It kind of goes from

1227
01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:57.640
succulent to a little on the woody
side, you know. And so about

1228
01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:00.680
now about June, that spring growth
is hardened and matured, so now's an

1229
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:04.800
excellent time to take that cutting.
I usually would take a cutting about the

1230
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:08.439
with them a hand, So if
you were to reach up and grab the

1231
01:29:08.560 --> 01:29:11.359
end of a shoot, cut it
off at the at the bottom of your

1232
01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:14.079
hand, in other words, a
width of your hand long. Cut the

1233
01:29:14.079 --> 01:29:17.039
shoots off, take the bottom two
or three leaves off, and then dip

1234
01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:20.560
them in a rooting hormone, which
you can get, you know, from

1235
01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:25.359
your local ace hardware store, from
a garden center, even though some of

1236
01:29:25.359 --> 01:29:29.279
our feed stores will carry those.
Dip them in the rooting hormone, and

1237
01:29:29.319 --> 01:29:33.359
then put them in a mix that
is about fifty percent pete and fifty percent

1238
01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:39.319
pearlte parlts, a little white stuff
that's real chunky and loose and airy.

1239
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.520
If you put them in just potting
soil, you may have success, but

1240
01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:46.840
it also may stay a little too
wet, and with the pearlite high content

1241
01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:50.720
of prolite in there, it's just
looser and drains better. And then cover

1242
01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:55.720
them with something clear so they can
get light. But don't put them in

1243
01:29:55.760 --> 01:29:59.079
the sun. You don't want them
in the direct sun. You want them

1244
01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:03.159
in a very bright and that sort
of creates this little mini greenhouse that they

1245
01:30:03.239 --> 01:30:11.239
root really well in. Okay,
alrighty, So once they generally how long

1246
01:30:11.279 --> 01:30:14.479
does it take for them to root? It depends on the condition of the

1247
01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:16.840
cutting, and it depends on the
temperatures and other things. But you should

1248
01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:21.119
get something in a few weeks.
I would say, you know, within

1249
01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:25.000
about a month, you should be
able to check and if you see new

1250
01:30:25.079 --> 01:30:28.439
growth occurring, that means it has
a root. It's not going to push

1251
01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:31.239
new growth if it doesn't have a
root. Okay, So once it has

1252
01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:35.000
the roots, then should I I
plant them in like say a pot What

1253
01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:38.800
type of a medium would I use? Then? Then I would lift them

1254
01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:42.840
up carefully out of there. I
will use a spoon or whatever to go

1255
01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:45.560
underneath them and kind of lift them
up, because if you just grab the

1256
01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:47.720
cutting and pull on it, you
may rip off some roots getting it out

1257
01:30:47.720 --> 01:30:51.560
of there, and then pot it
up into a mix. You can use

1258
01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:56.760
a potting soil if you would like
to do that. That would work just

1259
01:30:56.840 --> 01:31:01.960
fine. A rose soil works really
well for azelius too. So many of

1260
01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:06.720
our you hear me talk about our
rose soil mixes that are available here in

1261
01:31:06.720 --> 01:31:12.640
the Houston area. Those are excellent
for potting up in Azalia. Great,

1262
01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:15.039
thank you so very much. All
right, Dan, thank you for the

1263
01:31:15.079 --> 01:31:18.039
call. Appreciate that very much.
We're going to go now to Dave in

1264
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:25.239
Spring. Hello Dave, and good
morning morning. I had a question about

1265
01:31:25.640 --> 01:31:30.279
Virginia button weed and is it too
late, we are we doomed? Or

1266
01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:35.319
does celsius actually work? Celsius works
pretty good. Button wheat is persistent and

1267
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:40.319
no one product, one time is
going to do it. So I would

1268
01:31:40.439 --> 01:31:43.079
use Celsius, but I would do
it early in the morning. Even though

1269
01:31:43.119 --> 01:31:45.800
Celsius can be used at a little
warmer temperatures than a lot of the other

1270
01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:50.920
broad leaf post emergence can I still
wouldn't wait until it's one hundred degrees in

1271
01:31:50.960 --> 01:31:54.760
the middle afternoon and try to put
the Celsius on. That. I would

1272
01:31:54.760 --> 01:31:58.039
go ahead and get it done early
in the morning, when we're around eighty

1273
01:31:58.079 --> 01:32:03.399
degrees preferably, and that that will
give you your best shot. You're probably

1274
01:32:03.560 --> 01:32:06.640
six weeks later, eight weeks later, you may need to be going back

1275
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:11.680
in and doing it again next year. Start a little bit earlier on the

1276
01:32:11.840 --> 01:32:16.560
on the battle. Now that next
as a spray or it's a sp it's

1277
01:32:16.560 --> 01:32:19.880
a spray. It comes in a
little packet. Uh. It's a little

1278
01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:24.079
cardboard thing that hangs on the shelf
at the garden center, at the feed

1279
01:32:24.119 --> 01:32:28.239
store or the you know, Southwest
Fertilizer wherever you get your stuff. Uh,

1280
01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:30.640
and it and it's a little clear
bubble Packet's got a little envelope in

1281
01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:39.000
there that you follow the label.
Yeah, good luck with it. I

1282
01:32:39.000 --> 01:32:45.279
wish we could eat button weed and
other than that seems like too. Just

1283
01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:49.960
after three or four years of putting
down compost in a grassy area that has

1284
01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:55.319
it, you usually get rid gets
rid of it. Is that logical or

1285
01:32:55.359 --> 01:32:59.880
not crazy? I don't think that'll
work. Button weed likes wet condition,

1286
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:05.760
and so if you are in control
of moisture, don't keep it wet.

1287
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:11.319
That would be our irrigation. That
would be maybe you got a drainage coming

1288
01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:15.159
out of a drought down pipe that
could be redirected. Anything that's in your

1289
01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:16.720
power. To let it dry out
a little bit. It won't kill the

1290
01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:21.520
button weed, but it'll just keep
it from proliferating. Buttonweed and dollar weed

1291
01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:27.520
both just love it when we keep
it soggy, wet, real good.

1292
01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.840
All right, take care you bet? Thank you day. Yeah, some

1293
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:33.600
of these weed I wish, I
wish we could eat but weed. Do

1294
01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:38.920
you know? You can eat nuts
edge, yellow nutsedge, tubers. I'm

1295
01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:43.039
in the final stages of getting a
nuts edge right up on the web,

1296
01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:46.000
and one of the things I talk
about in there is that you can eat

1297
01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:50.439
yellow nuts edge. The Okay,
this is nerd alert. Sorry for those

1298
01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:55.079
of you who just want the facts, ma'am, no details. Well here's

1299
01:33:55.079 --> 01:34:02.000
the details. Nutsedge is called cyperus
esculentis. Esculentis means you can eat it.

1300
01:34:02.279 --> 01:34:08.439
That is a rough translation of esculentis
from Latin. Yep. The Egyptian

1301
01:34:08.479 --> 01:34:13.720
pharaohs were buried with their chufa nuts, which is cyperus esculentis. And so

1302
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:15.920
you go into the into the tombs
of the pharaohs, and you know,

1303
01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:19.920
within arm's reach they had some nuts
edge to snack on. Doesn't that sound

1304
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:24.079
Wouldn't you like to be buried with
your nut's edge? I think I want

1305
01:34:24.079 --> 01:34:27.920
to be buried with my fire ants. Maybe that would be another good crazy

1306
01:34:28.039 --> 01:34:30.640
stuff. Yep, you can eat
it, all right, end of the

1307
01:34:30.680 --> 01:34:35.960
nerd alert. Let's go now to
a Teskesina and we're going to talk to

1308
01:34:36.039 --> 01:34:41.720
Chris, Chris, are you there? Yes? I am all right.

1309
01:34:41.720 --> 01:34:45.079
How can we help? Hey?
Sounds like you got a party going on

1310
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:49.199
over there. I did not get
an invitation, but oh well, it's

1311
01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:53.239
a weight watchers party. So if
you want to come, Okay, that's

1312
01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:57.880
good. How can we help today? Hey? So I have all these

1313
01:34:58.359 --> 01:35:04.439
little white pillars that are invading my
entire yard. They're they're creating webs on

1314
01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:11.039
the trees. They're all over my
flowers. Yeah, how do I what

1315
01:35:11.079 --> 01:35:15.239
do I do with them? Are
webworms and they've been in the trees creating

1316
01:35:15.279 --> 01:35:18.600
the webs. And like any caterpillar, whether it's going to become a moth

1317
01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:20.840
or a butterfly. By the way, these are going to be moths.

1318
01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:28.000
Uh, they go through their stage
where they're growing and feeding and then they

1319
01:35:28.039 --> 01:35:31.840
move off to make their cocoons to
complete the life cycle. These have dropped

1320
01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:35.279
out of the trees and they're just
crawling around. They may munch a little

1321
01:35:35.279 --> 01:35:40.159
on something, but basically they're finding
a place to make their cocoon and do

1322
01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:45.119
that. So you could ignore them. If they're eating something you like,

1323
01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:49.039
just spray the with an insectus.
Any insecticide will kill the webworm. Caterpillar

1324
01:35:49.319 --> 01:35:53.560
if you spray it on the on
the leaves that it's eating. But I'll

1325
01:35:53.560 --> 01:35:56.920
tell you most of them, they're
just on their way now to move to

1326
01:35:57.000 --> 01:36:04.119
the next life stage. Okay,
So I also have these it looks like

1327
01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:08.720
chia seeds all over my driveway.
Is that? What is that from the

1328
01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:15.560
same webworm? It's it's from something
up in the It's probably from a caterpillar

1329
01:36:15.720 --> 01:36:19.680
up in the trees. Yeah,
caterpillars. They they drop their droppings and

1330
01:36:19.720 --> 01:36:24.520
they tend to be little dry pellets. Depending on the size of the caterpillar,

1331
01:36:24.560 --> 01:36:29.600
you got different sized droppings. It's
probably not a beetle if it's if

1332
01:36:29.640 --> 01:36:32.840
you're seeing it like that on the
driveway. Okay, So how what's the

1333
01:36:33.079 --> 01:36:40.640
what's the lifespan for this for the
webworm? Webworm? Yeah, they we

1334
01:36:40.720 --> 01:36:45.960
start off in late spring with our
first generation. Most years, many years

1335
01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:48.720
it's not even noticeable. This year
is one of the worst for the first

1336
01:36:48.760 --> 01:36:55.279
generation I've seen. Uh. Then
they go through a second life cycle and

1337
01:36:55.279 --> 01:36:59.520
then typically a third that hits about
August September, and that's the one that's

1338
01:36:59.560 --> 01:37:03.319
the worst. That's why they call
it fall webworm because that's the worst generation.

1339
01:37:03.720 --> 01:37:08.760
For it. So just watch and
if you're looking up in your trees

1340
01:37:08.840 --> 01:37:13.439
periodically, when you first start to
see webbing, that's the time to spray

1341
01:37:13.479 --> 01:37:15.920
the foliage so that when they eat
it, it kills them. And there

1342
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.880
are a couple of organic products.
There's certainly many synthetic products that will kill

1343
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:25.560
them. Okay, So what's a
good product to use if you want something

1344
01:37:25.600 --> 01:37:36.199
that's natural. Spinosid spi nosad BT
will also kill webworm caterpillars, both spinosid

1345
01:37:36.279 --> 01:37:42.720
and BT or organic. And then
when it comes to synthetics, there's a

1346
01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:45.640
lot of synthetic perithoids it will also
kill them. Just remember, when you're

1347
01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:49.000
spraying for webworms, you got to
get the spray to the leaves they're eating,

1348
01:37:49.079 --> 01:37:53.399
so that may mean breaking up the
web if you wait too long,

1349
01:37:53.479 --> 01:37:59.960
and now they've got a big web
protecting themselves. Okay, okay, wonderful,

1350
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:03.359
Thank you so much. I appreciate
your health. You take care all

1351
01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:06.880
right. You're listening to guarden Line. Our phone number is seven to one

1352
01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:14.359
three two one two k t RH
seven one three two one two k t

1353
01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:16.439
r H. We're gonna take a
little break for the news. I'll be

1354
01:38:16.600 --> 01:38:20.920
right back all right, welcome back
to guard Line. Good have you with

1355
01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:26.359
us today. We got a lot
to talk about. I'll get going here.

1356
01:38:26.520 --> 01:38:30.319
Hey, I'm going to be at
Wallbird's Unlimited. I'm going to be

1357
01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:34.399
at the store that is in bell
Air, that is Southwest Houston, the

1358
01:38:34.439 --> 01:38:38.319
bell Air store. And I'll be
doing that at eleven o'clock to day.

1359
01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:41.920
When I finish here on the show, ten o'clock shows over, I'm heading

1360
01:38:41.960 --> 01:38:44.760
over that way. I'll be there
till one. Bring me some samples and

1361
01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:47.800
pictures. Let's meet, let's talk
by the way. While you're at Wallbirds,

1362
01:38:47.920 --> 01:38:55.359
it is an excellent opportunity to get
something for dad. They have some

1363
01:38:55.600 --> 01:38:59.760
really cool stuff. Uh. For
example, I would highly recommend that you

1364
01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:05.800
get the Eliminator squirrel proof feeder.
That one is a Cadillac. It works

1365
01:39:05.880 --> 01:39:10.960
so well. The squirrels at my
house they just sit in the tree and

1366
01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:14.840
they say, I can't repeat the
words I say on the air. They

1367
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:17.600
hate the fact they can't get into
it. I love that fact. The

1368
01:39:17.640 --> 01:39:20.399
birds love it too. They can
get in and get everything they need.

1369
01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:25.640
While you're Wallbirds, there are bird
feeders, there's bird houses, there's you

1370
01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:28.680
know, there's books, there's all
kinds of things. How about a little

1371
01:39:29.239 --> 01:39:32.920
bird water bath, a little water
bath, and they have gadgetry that you

1372
01:39:32.920 --> 01:39:38.640
can get that even helps control things
like mosquitoes that might be a problem there.

1373
01:39:38.880 --> 01:39:41.800
While Bird's Unlimited, they're all over
Houston. There's six of them in

1374
01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:45.199
the greater Houston area. All you
have to do is go to WBU dot

1375
01:39:45.239 --> 01:39:53.640
com. WBU stands for wild Birds
Unlimited, WBU dot com forward slash Houston

1376
01:39:53.760 --> 01:39:57.119
and it'll show you right where the
stores are, including how to get to

1377
01:39:57.199 --> 01:40:00.079
the one in bel Air where I'll
be today from eleven to one o'clock.

1378
01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:03.279
Hope you'll come on and see me. Really looking forward to seeing you out

1379
01:40:03.319 --> 01:40:09.600
there. We're going to head now
to northwest Houston and talk to Ralph.

1380
01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:13.720
Hello, Ralph, good morning.
I'm glad to have you. Yeah.

1381
01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:18.760
Well, I got my bird feeders
out and then the big old well other

1382
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:25.640
birds come here on a little bird
get and I'll do fine. I'm talking

1383
01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:30.920
about my Saint Augustine in front.
It is running big long runners on top

1384
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:34.119
and my back yards all right,
But why what is called in debt with

1385
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:41.359
the Saint Augustine runs all on the
south. It does that sometimes, especially

1386
01:40:41.359 --> 01:40:45.319
when the lung gets a little thick
and the runner it sort of gets up

1387
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.800
on top and it you know,
it doesn't have the doesn't have a mind

1388
01:40:48.800 --> 01:40:51.039
of its own where it goes.
Hey, I need to turn south and

1389
01:40:51.079 --> 01:40:55.439
go down towards the soil. And
so it's like the grass, the other

1390
01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:59.640
runners and grass blader just holding it
up above the ground. And when you

1391
01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:03.399
mow usually those lift up underneath the
mower and get cut off. But in

1392
01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:08.279
general, it's not something to worry
about, not something you can do a

1393
01:41:08.279 --> 01:41:13.039
lot of. Just make sure you're
not overwatering and overfertilizing ralph because the more

1394
01:41:13.239 --> 01:41:16.479
growth you get, the more of
that thatchy runner growth you're going to have.

1395
01:41:16.600 --> 01:41:23.199
And so just keep it at a
moderate rate on the fertilizing. All

1396
01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:27.800
right. Another question, I got
a lot on my neighbor's got a bushy

1397
01:41:28.720 --> 01:41:31.760
line it and it all comes under
my fence and it comes over to my

1398
01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:35.359
yard and I almost got into my
garden and I'll pull it up. But

1399
01:41:35.760 --> 01:41:42.840
yeah, what is best way to
stop it? Oh? But have to

1400
01:41:42.840 --> 01:41:44.880
see a picture of it to kind
of know what we're dealing with. Is

1401
01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:47.319
probably got a broad leaf plants,
kind of a vining thing. You're saying,

1402
01:41:48.119 --> 01:41:55.119
yes, it's a vining. Yeah, is it coming is it in

1403
01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:59.279
stuff that you don't want to spray
and hurt the stuff that's in or is

1404
01:41:59.279 --> 01:42:00.520
it in a spot where you can
just spray it and not have to worry

1405
01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:06.520
about it. Well, I'm just
want to keep it from their yard my

1406
01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:11.880
yard, and it's run under my
fence and now I'll pull it. I

1407
01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:15.479
left it alone for a while,
but then it runs all the way to

1408
01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:19.960
my my guard. Okay, Well, you can either either just cutting it

1409
01:42:20.000 --> 01:42:24.680
off there where it's coming through,
regularly cutting it off, or spraying it

1410
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:30.680
with something that contains tri clo peer
tri clo pere t r I c l

1411
01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:33.840
O P y R. And if
you apply that to it, it will

1412
01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:39.119
it will move in it and it'll
kill it. Okay, all right,

1413
01:42:39.279 --> 01:42:41.920
thank you, great program. Hey, Ralph, thanks for the call.

1414
01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:46.720
Appreciate that a lot. For those
of you who are who have not been

1415
01:42:46.760 --> 01:42:49.640
to r CW Nursery lately, you
need to go check them out. They've

1416
01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:55.239
got a lot of good stuff on
on hand, I mean in stock right

1417
01:42:55.279 --> 01:42:58.880
now. They've got some special deals
going. I mean I'm talking about roses,

1418
01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:03.520
I'm talking about shrubs, about trees, significant percentages off on all those

1419
01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:08.119
different products, and it just gets
you ready to go for summer. You

1420
01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:11.119
know, it's still okay to get
stuff planted now. You just want to

1421
01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:14.439
kind of watered a little bit day
by day as you're going through help it

1422
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:16.359
get established. But you can do
it right now, and now is a

1423
01:43:16.479 --> 01:43:19.439
great time to pick up a really
good deal on it. They've got some

1424
01:43:19.640 --> 01:43:24.359
interesting signage too. I like some
of the humorous signs that they have.

1425
01:43:24.479 --> 01:43:27.560
Maybe Dad would like one of those
too, by the way, they've got

1426
01:43:27.560 --> 01:43:29.880
some of that. And of course
when you go to RCW, know you're

1427
01:43:29.880 --> 01:43:32.479
going to get the fertilizers that I
talk about here on Guardline to take care

1428
01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:36.479
of your lawn as well. Now
they grow their own trees up there in

1429
01:43:36.560 --> 01:43:41.399
Plantersville, and so when you go
to RCW and buy a tree, you

1430
01:43:41.439 --> 01:43:44.880
know you're going to get one that
a the species grows here, because that's

1431
01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:47.359
what they sell, things that want
to grow here. Secondly, one that's

1432
01:43:47.359 --> 01:43:51.359
been grown properly and they can come
out and plant it properly for you,

1433
01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:56.199
so you can be off to a
good start now. The best time to

1434
01:43:56.239 --> 01:43:59.960
plant a tree is forty years ago. Second best times today, So don't

1435
01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:02.239
delay anymore, go ahead and get
it out, because what is our goal

1436
01:44:02.279 --> 01:44:05.199
when we plant a tree? How
soon can I hang a hammock out there?

1437
01:44:05.399 --> 01:44:11.039
Right? Well, let's get that
tree going. And RCW right now

1438
01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:15.880
has got a really some really good
deals for you as well as those excellent

1439
01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:20.800
cultivars and varieties that you would want
to have and plant again if you haven't

1440
01:44:20.840 --> 01:44:25.119
been there, that's the garden center. That is where Tomball Parkway comes into

1441
01:44:25.119 --> 01:44:30.960
Beltway eight. The website is rcwnurseries
dot com. Easy to get in,

1442
01:44:30.119 --> 01:44:33.159
easy to get out, and easy
to find what you're looking for. If

1443
01:44:33.159 --> 01:44:36.039
they don't have it, they probably
can get it. That's why I call

1444
01:44:36.119 --> 01:44:40.239
them to get it. Got it
nursery. We're going to go now to

1445
01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:44.840
Marene. Hello Marene, Oh,
good morning, thanks for taking my call.

1446
01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:47.439
Good morning. I have I have
a question. I have about a

1447
01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:54.399
thirty five year old American elm and
it started dropping leaves and they're dark,

1448
01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:59.560
they have dark spots on them.
And I called out a professional tree service

1449
01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:03.920
and they diagnosed it as a fungus
and they said there's really nothing we can

1450
01:45:03.960 --> 01:45:08.680
do about it. And I just
kind of wanted to know your opinion.

1451
01:45:08.800 --> 01:45:13.279
If there's something I can do for
this fungus on this American elm. How

1452
01:45:13.279 --> 01:45:17.079
big are these spots? Well,
some of them are like half of a

1453
01:45:17.159 --> 01:45:24.880
leaf. Okay, I don't know
what that is. That is not a

1454
01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:29.840
Elms just basically don't have leaf disease
problems. They have a thing called Dutch

1455
01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:32.800
elm disease, which kills whole shoots
and trees. But as far as like

1456
01:45:32.840 --> 01:45:38.319
I got spots on my leaves,
there is there is one fungus that's very

1457
01:45:38.399 --> 01:45:43.560
uncommon that causes small yellow spots that
eventually can kind of get a black coloring

1458
01:45:43.600 --> 01:45:46.760
to them, And there's a handful
of others. But in general, elm

1459
01:45:46.960 --> 01:45:51.439
leaf diseases are not a problem.
If you would like to take a picture

1460
01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:56.439
of some leaves and send it to
me, maybe i'll see something other than

1461
01:45:56.439 --> 01:46:00.399
that. But I'm not going to
recommend any fungicide sprays because I'm not sure

1462
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:03.039
what you're dealing with. There.
Oh, I'm gonna put you. I'm

1463
01:46:03.039 --> 01:46:10.520
gonna put you on home Marene and
the producer will pick up the phone and

1464
01:46:10.680 --> 01:46:15.000
give you an email. Make sure
you attach the photos, don't embed them

1465
01:46:15.039 --> 01:46:18.680
in the text, attach them to
the email, and then either I can

1466
01:46:18.720 --> 01:46:24.680
answer it online, or if you
like to call back tomorrow, we can

1467
01:46:24.840 --> 01:46:27.319
we can take a look at that. We're kind of running a little shorter

1468
01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:30.760
on time today, but if I
get them fast enough, I'll talk about

1469
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:32.640
him on the air. Okay,
okay, thank you so much, all

1470
01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:36.600
right, goodbye, goodbye, Thanks
a lot. Appreciate that. Yeah,

1471
01:46:36.600 --> 01:46:41.840
that's interesting. Lots of lots of
things can be going on out there in

1472
01:46:41.960 --> 01:46:46.039
nature, but I am not aware
of an elm fungal leaf disease that warrants

1473
01:46:46.319 --> 01:46:50.680
spraying. That would be a new
one for me, but it could happen.

1474
01:46:51.399 --> 01:46:56.560
If you're having the Tomball area and
you need a local feed store out

1475
01:46:56.600 --> 01:47:00.880
west to Tomball on twenty nine to
twenty is D and D Feed has been

1476
01:47:00.079 --> 01:47:04.920
providing quality products for the lawn and
garden for a long time. Yes they

1477
01:47:04.920 --> 01:47:09.079
are a feed store, and yes
they have super high quality pet feed.

1478
01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:15.439
They really really carry an excellent selection
of different feed supplies and things from whatever

1479
01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:18.880
you need. But they've also got
everything you need for the lawn, garden

1480
01:47:18.920 --> 01:47:24.840
and landscape. I'm talking about fertilizers. I talk about these brands a fertilizer

1481
01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:27.560
and this one is a good one, and that one. If I talk

1482
01:47:27.560 --> 01:47:30.520
about it on guardenline, they've got
it there. If you're looking for age,

1483
01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:33.279
leaf, mold, compost or rose
soil or fruit berry and citrus and

1484
01:47:33.359 --> 01:47:38.279
veggie and herb, all of those
are from heirloom soils. They've got those

1485
01:47:38.399 --> 01:47:42.960
as well. They keep a stock
of plants around also. And if it

1486
01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:45.560
comes to pests, diseases, and
weeds, D and D feed again,

1487
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:49.159
three miles west of tumbul on two
forty nine, or excuse me, twenty

1488
01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:53.600
nine to twenty. They're west of
two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty,

1489
01:47:53.720 --> 01:47:58.439
about three miles out there. They're
going to have those things as well.

1490
01:47:58.760 --> 01:48:00.359
Just show up out there, you'll
see what I'm talking about. D

1491
01:48:00.439 --> 01:48:06.680
and D feed two eight one three
five one seven one four four two eight

1492
01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:12.279
one three five one seven to one
four four D and D feed your hometown

1493
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:16.039
feed store. Well, let's see
here. I believe it's time for me

1494
01:48:16.079 --> 01:48:18.720
to take another low break. We're
going to do that, and I will

1495
01:48:18.720 --> 01:48:21.119
be right back in the meantime.
If you want to get on the board,

1496
01:48:21.479 --> 01:48:26.000
just give Chris a call. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight

1497
01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:30.640
seventy four. All right, I've
got a little bit of they might be

1498
01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:33.199
giants. I can mix it up
for you a little bit here on garden

1499
01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:38.800
line. Well, let's see here. As might is something you hear me

1500
01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:44.520
talk about often when it comes to
lawns, because a ismite provides trace minerals,

1501
01:48:44.800 --> 01:48:47.079
and there's a little bit of confusion
when it comes to what is a

1502
01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:50.840
fertilizer and what does this mean as
mite? If I fertilize, I need

1503
01:48:50.880 --> 01:48:56.199
as mite. Here's a deal.
The typical things we think of as fertilizer

1504
01:48:56.239 --> 01:49:00.680
for the lawn. They contain the
three big the big three, nitrogen,

1505
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:03.399
phosphorus, potassium, always in that
order, the three numbers on the bag.

1506
01:49:03.880 --> 01:49:06.720
They also may have some other nutrients
in them, especially in organics,

1507
01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:11.159
so you're gonna have some micros in
those as well. But those are the

1508
01:49:11.199 --> 01:49:15.319
ones, the big three we put
down in order to support good vigor,

1509
01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:18.319
growth and everything like that. But
they're also trace minerals, things we need

1510
01:49:18.399 --> 01:49:24.199
tiny amounts of, but we need
them. They're essential. For example,

1511
01:49:24.239 --> 01:49:28.000
how many times has someone gone and
said, I need to put some selenium,

1512
01:49:28.079 --> 01:49:31.840
manganese, and I don't know what
else on my lawn. Well,

1513
01:49:32.319 --> 01:49:36.520
never they never heard that. But
those are essential minerals, and so if

1514
01:49:36.560 --> 01:49:42.960
you could take all of the manganese
particles out of the soil, a plant

1515
01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:47.560
could not live because manganese is essential, zinc is essential, iron is essential.

1516
01:49:48.439 --> 01:49:53.199
There are a lot of those,
like twenty something nutrients that plants have

1517
01:49:53.239 --> 01:49:58.680
to have and trace minerals from azamite
or part of that package. So that's

1518
01:49:58.720 --> 01:50:01.479
why we do that. You can
do your fertilization, but you also need

1519
01:50:01.479 --> 01:50:05.159
to consider about the micros and that's
what that's what azemite's about. You can

1520
01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:10.359
go to azamite Texas dot com find
out more about it. Azamite's widely available.

1521
01:50:10.479 --> 01:50:14.359
All the feed stores, garden centers, you hear me talk about ACE

1522
01:50:14.399 --> 01:50:18.079
hardware stores, a Southast fertilizer,
all those places are going to have azomite

1523
01:50:18.439 --> 01:50:21.159
and that is something about once a
year. You're going to want to put

1524
01:50:21.159 --> 01:50:24.439
that out. You can do it
at the same time you fertilize. Just

1525
01:50:24.479 --> 01:50:28.840
do it in a separate application,
don't mix it with your fertilizer when you're

1526
01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:31.399
putting it in the hopper, and
you'll be just fine. Works really really

1527
01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:35.039
well. We're going to go now
to League City and talk to Dina.

1528
01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:40.520
Hello, Dina, how are you. Well, I'm good. How are

1529
01:50:40.520 --> 01:50:44.119
you. I'm doing great, Thank
you. I just want to give a

1530
01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:48.239
shout out to for A Gardens also
known as Texas Landscape or I got several

1531
01:50:48.319 --> 01:50:55.079
quotes for cleaning out a very very
big flower bed with lots of flowers and

1532
01:50:56.199 --> 01:51:00.680
crab apple trees, and he had
the best quote and they did a superb

1533
01:51:00.880 --> 01:51:03.880
job. You do a good job. I'm always glad to hear that.

1534
01:51:04.199 --> 01:51:08.680
I appreciate that. Thank you.
It was very professional, that came on

1535
01:51:08.800 --> 01:51:11.600
time, and I just wanted to
give a shout out. Well, I

1536
01:51:11.640 --> 01:51:15.760
appreciate you giving a positive report about
that. We we do, you know,

1537
01:51:16.199 --> 01:51:19.279
take a good close look at our
sponsors before I put my name on.

1538
01:51:19.399 --> 01:51:21.720
Hey, this is a good one. So it's good to hear that.

1539
01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:26.720
Buy several fruit trees from them and
flowers and stuff, and they're all

1540
01:51:26.840 --> 01:51:30.000
quality plants. So it'll let you
know. Well, that sounds wonderful.

1541
01:51:30.039 --> 01:51:33.640
Thank you. I appreciate that call. Thanks bye bye, bye bye,

1542
01:51:33.920 --> 01:51:36.600
very very good to hear. Hey, by the way, while I'm while

1543
01:51:36.600 --> 01:51:40.479
I'm mentioning or, Hey, the
summer hours, I need to give you

1544
01:51:40.520 --> 01:51:43.399
all his summer hours. And by
the way, for those of you are

1545
01:51:43.399 --> 01:51:46.439
going. Who's Horey's what is she
talking about? Down in Alvin, Texas

1546
01:51:46.479 --> 01:51:50.600
where he's heading gardens. They're up
and now on Friday the hour the new

1547
01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:55.800
hours for Fridays or nine through three, and then on Saturday and Sunday it's

1548
01:51:55.840 --> 01:52:00.479
eight am to four pm, nine
to three on Fridays. That's new breaking

1549
01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:02.159
news there. I want to let
you know if you want to head out

1550
01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:06.640
that way, we are going to
now go to Hempstead and talk to Jerry.

1551
01:52:06.720 --> 01:52:10.520
Hello, Jerry, Hey, how
are you today? I'm good,

1552
01:52:10.560 --> 01:52:15.319
sir. How can we help?
I've got grasshoppers all over my tomato plants

1553
01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:17.520
and they're eating the leaves. I'm
trying to figure out what's the best course

1554
01:52:17.520 --> 01:52:24.560
of action. Oh boy, well, we're kind of getting toward the end

1555
01:52:24.560 --> 01:52:28.680
of tomato season, so you know, i'd give a close assessment, and

1556
01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:33.880
you know how much spraying and protecting
is worth it. But you can you

1557
01:52:33.920 --> 01:52:39.760
can spray any kind of an insecticide
on the tomatoes that's labeled for put on

1558
01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:43.319
putting on tomatoes, and it should
kill the grasshoppers. There's a number of

1559
01:52:43.359 --> 01:52:47.119
things out there, everything from seven
a bill of known seven US for a

1560
01:52:47.199 --> 01:52:51.439
long time. Normally I wouldn't recommend
putting that on tomatoes because it causes spidermight

1561
01:52:51.520 --> 01:52:56.880
outbreaks. But if you're trying to
save the leaves, then you know,

1562
01:52:57.199 --> 01:53:00.520
I would say that's an option.
There are other products out there, but

1563
01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:09.359
grasshoppers are just voracious. Yeah.
Yeah, And I've got tons of young

1564
01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:14.239
tomatoes still on the on the plants. Oh okay, yeah, well then

1565
01:53:14.279 --> 01:53:18.359
you definitely yeah grapes and it'll keep
producing grapes on into the heat. Yeah.

1566
01:53:18.399 --> 01:53:20.279
So it's, uh, that's what
I'm trying to save, is the

1567
01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:24.960
grape tomatoes. Yeah. Just just
go, you know, Jerry, go

1568
01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:30.319
wherever you shop for your products and
find something that's labeled for tomatoes that's an

1569
01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:35.319
insecticide, and that should help the
problem is it. Just check how persistent

1570
01:53:35.399 --> 01:53:40.880
the thing is, because if it
if it's not gonna last, you're gonna

1571
01:53:40.880 --> 01:53:45.840
have to reapply it periodically, and
if it's a little more persistent, you

1572
01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:48.960
won't have to apply it quite as
much. All right, appreciate your time,

1573
01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:51.920
all right, thank you very much. Appreciate that you will you as

1574
01:53:51.960 --> 01:53:57.159
well very much. Hey have you
been to Buchanans Plants and the heights?

1575
01:53:57.439 --> 01:54:00.960
Oh my gosh, bu Cannons is
I just I love going in there Number

1576
01:54:01.039 --> 01:54:06.159
one. It's just a wonderful place
to go and to visit to see the

1577
01:54:06.199 --> 01:54:11.159
different things they have going on.
They always have new plants coming in,

1578
01:54:11.239 --> 01:54:15.720
you know. They Buchanan's Native Plants. They specialize in natives and they also

1579
01:54:16.159 --> 01:54:20.199
do an excellent job in terms of
plants for pollinators. So if you go

1580
01:54:20.319 --> 01:54:24.840
in there and you've got a challenge, let's say you've got hey, I

1581
01:54:24.960 --> 01:54:29.960
need I've got a shady area and
I want to which already limits things right,

1582
01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:32.640
and I need a pollinator that will
grow in a shady area, and

1583
01:54:32.680 --> 01:54:36.199
I'd like something that's native, or
maybe you don't care, just a mix.

1584
01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:41.560
Buchanans has a list for just that. They can provide you the plants

1585
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:45.399
you need for a unique situation like
that. Of course, it's Father's Day

1586
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:47.680
shopping, so great time to go
in and buy something for Dad. They

1587
01:54:47.680 --> 01:54:51.319
have a wonderful little gift shop there
too, and some really cool plants.

1588
01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:56.199
Buchanans Plants is always good to visit. I love going by there. East

1589
01:54:56.199 --> 01:55:01.520
eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplants
dot Com. East eleventh Well looks like

1590
01:55:01.840 --> 01:55:06.159
here we go, we are already
hitting the top of another hour. When

1591
01:55:06.199 --> 01:55:10.680
we come back, Donald up in
Northwest Houston you'll be first up, and

1592
01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:15.279
George and Jersey Village. Yeah,
we do take calls from California. You'll

1593
01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:18.319
be right after Donald when we come
back. Don't forget. Today I'm going

1594
01:55:18.399 --> 01:55:23.560
to be at the Wallbird's Unlimited store
in bel Air. And by the way,

1595
01:55:23.560 --> 01:55:26.880
while I'm there, we've given away
some stuff from Wallbirds. We're also

1596
01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.800
going to be giving away some super
Grow Plus for your lawn or whatever you

1597
01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:33.359
want to spread on. It'll do
good for Medina. We're got some bottles

1598
01:55:33.359 --> 01:55:38.199
of that. I've got some other
Medina product to give away. I'll be

1599
01:55:38.199 --> 01:55:41.479
giving away some of their growing green, the little five pound bags of that,

1600
01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:45.479
and oh gosh, hopefully visiting with
you, meeting the listeners and answering

1601
01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:51.800
your gardening questions eye to eye.
We'll be right now. Welcome to kt

1602
01:55:53.039 --> 01:56:25.119
RH Guarden Line with Scape Richt.
It's just watch him as the world All

1603
01:56:25.279 --> 01:56:28.600
right. Here we go again.
We got our last hour of the day

1604
01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:31.079
coming up here. Don't forget.
At the end of the show today,

1605
01:56:31.079 --> 01:56:36.399
I'm heading over to Wallbirds Unlimited in
bel Air, Texas. Wild Birds Unlimited

1606
01:56:36.439 --> 01:56:40.840
in bel Air. I hope you've
come over and see me if you hadn't

1607
01:56:40.840 --> 01:56:43.119
been to that wall birds before.
It's really easy to get to it.

1608
01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:48.720
It's where Belair Boulevard comes together with
what's outside. Treat the Stellar Link right

1609
01:56:48.760 --> 01:56:53.079
bell Air and Stellar Link right there
in that area, easy to get to.

1610
01:56:54.039 --> 01:56:59.239
We are gonna take off this hour
by talking a little bit about turf

1611
01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:01.840
before I head to the phones.
Real quick. If you've not done your

1612
01:57:01.840 --> 01:57:06.479
summer turf application of fertilizer, go
ahead and get it done now. It

1613
01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:12.840
is time to get that going.
And you've got a really quality product by

1614
01:57:12.880 --> 01:57:15.680
Nelson Plant Food that I want to
tell about. It's part of their Turf

1615
01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:18.399
Star line. It's called Slow and
Easy, and boy is it ever slow

1616
01:57:18.439 --> 01:57:23.960
and easy. It will give you
a release of nutrients now, but then

1617
01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:30.279
gradually just continue to release and release
and release that nitrogen four months or so

1618
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:32.960
down the line. So when you
put Slow and Easy down for summer,

1619
01:57:33.479 --> 01:57:38.479
you don't have to fertilize again until
fall. It carries you all the way

1620
01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:43.039
to fall. It is an acidifying
fertilizer, so it is going to slightly

1621
01:57:43.079 --> 01:57:46.800
acidify that surface area which is where
the runners are, which is where take

1622
01:57:46.840 --> 01:57:50.680
all root rot which hates acidic conditions. By the way, where it is

1623
01:57:50.760 --> 01:57:55.680
most active, and the slow and
easy is just a good way to get

1624
01:57:55.720 --> 01:58:00.279
a nice, smooth release of nitrogen. Keeps your long green, keeps your

1625
01:58:00.319 --> 01:58:03.119
lawn dense, keeps your long healthy
without overdoing it. Where you're having a

1626
01:58:03.199 --> 01:58:09.199
momo mode, try to keep up, or whether where the excessive nitrogen would

1627
01:58:09.279 --> 01:58:14.239
cause a problem with not a good
root system. Yep, overdoing nitrogen results

1628
01:58:14.359 --> 01:58:17.119
in a less than ideal root system
for your turf. Isn't that strange.

1629
01:58:17.199 --> 01:58:21.680
It's counter intuitive sort of, but
it's how it works. Slow and easy

1630
01:58:23.000 --> 01:58:27.000
gives you the gradual feed that avoids
that. So it's as simple as that.

1631
01:58:27.319 --> 01:58:30.479
Just put it down and don't worry
about it. Return your clippings as

1632
01:58:30.479 --> 01:58:32.319
your mow and you're good to go. Nelson's got a lot of products,

1633
01:58:32.359 --> 01:58:34.960
you know, their nutri Star line. They have the Plume area, which

1634
01:58:35.000 --> 01:58:40.520
is good for all flowering tropicals that
you might have. They've got their Palm

1635
01:58:40.600 --> 01:58:44.239
line. It's part of the nutri
Star too, and which works well on

1636
01:58:44.399 --> 01:58:47.600
ornamental grasses, which palm basically is
a grass plant, and the nutri Star

1637
01:58:47.720 --> 01:58:51.600
rose. Just I could sit here
just for an hour and talk about all

1638
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:56.000
the different Nelson products that are out
there on the market that are excellent for

1639
01:58:56.039 --> 01:59:00.279
our plants. Well, there you
go. That's a good start. Easy

1640
01:59:00.319 --> 01:59:02.960
to find Nelson all over town.
For example, Ace Hardware stores carry him.

1641
01:59:03.199 --> 01:59:08.279
Ace Hardware stores are going to be
the place where you get anything that

1642
01:59:08.359 --> 01:59:11.840
you need. I mean, it
doesn't matter if it's for your lawn and

1643
01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:15.720
garden, you got it at Ace
Hardware. But I'm telling you right now,

1644
01:59:15.880 --> 01:59:18.960
I cannot think of a better place
to get Dad a gift for Father's

1645
01:59:19.039 --> 01:59:25.359
Day, which is tomorrow for those
of you who aren't keeping track, than

1646
01:59:25.399 --> 01:59:28.640
Ace Hardware. I mean, what
is Dad interested in it? What kind

1647
01:59:28.640 --> 01:59:31.079
of gadget is he interested in?
Whether it's Karen for the lawn, whether

1648
01:59:31.119 --> 01:59:35.680
it's barbecuing, whether it's you know, creating that beautiful outdoor how about you

1649
01:59:35.720 --> 01:59:42.600
know, a beautiful outdoor lighting set
or any barbecue. Is the thing I

1650
01:59:42.640 --> 01:59:45.920
can't get my mind off of,
because this is just the season for that.

1651
01:59:45.680 --> 01:59:50.520
Everything like that. You can imagine
and stuff and listen to this stuff

1652
01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:54.640
you've not thought of yet. For
Dad. You're gonna find it Ace.

1653
01:59:54.920 --> 01:59:57.760
You're going to walk into Ace.
You're gonna look around or you're gonna go.

1654
01:59:58.159 --> 02:00:00.960
I didn't even know that that existed. I didn't know A's carried it.

1655
02:00:00.960 --> 02:00:03.079
Well, of course ACE carries it. ACE is the place. Go

1656
02:00:03.119 --> 02:00:06.760
in there, get some inspiration,
and I guarantee you you can find something

1657
02:00:06.800 --> 02:00:10.840
that. I don't care who you
are, what your dad's interested in.

1658
02:00:11.000 --> 02:00:15.159
ACE Hardware is going to have it. Acehardware dot Com is the website.

1659
02:00:15.279 --> 02:00:19.119
You can find the store locator,
which will help you find forty stores in

1660
02:00:19.159 --> 02:00:24.560
the Greater Houston area. We're going
to go now to Northwest Houston and talk

1661
02:00:24.600 --> 02:00:30.680
to Donald Hello. Donald Hello,
We're back again. And I can verify

1662
02:00:30.720 --> 02:00:34.319
that ACE is the place because when
Radio Shack went away and Sears went away,

1663
02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:41.079
ACE is still there. And I
have fixed more inordinate crazy things by

1664
02:00:41.079 --> 02:00:44.279
going to ACE and say here's what
I'm looking for, something like this,

1665
02:00:45.079 --> 02:00:46.760
and sure enough you'll say, oh, I got that right here. They

1666
02:00:46.800 --> 02:00:51.039
always know where everything is, of
course they do, all right, And

1667
02:00:51.039 --> 02:00:55.319
this is this is the ACE store
that's on Guessner over here. Oh is

1668
02:00:55.319 --> 02:00:59.319
that the way you get to Okay, good, my pine tree that has

1669
02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:01.479
the roots grow and above the lawn. Okay, we're going to skip on

1670
02:01:01.520 --> 02:01:04.960
that now and there's still the way
they are. But however, years ago,

1671
02:01:05.479 --> 02:01:13.920
maybe ten years ago, there were
pine pine tree bark beetles that would

1672
02:01:13.920 --> 02:01:15.880
eat into the tree, and I
know there was a big killing of pine

1673
02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:18.520
trees. I don't know if you
remember that blight, if you want to

1674
02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:25.359
call it that, yes, okay, okay. So now this pine tree

1675
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:28.840
that is at least thirty years old, and I want to ask you,

1676
02:01:28.880 --> 02:01:30.960
how do I measure it to tell
you how big it is? Like a

1677
02:01:30.199 --> 02:01:33.720
measure around like you're measuring for a
belt about chest. Hie, yeah,

1678
02:01:33.920 --> 02:01:39.359
no, measure give me the diameter
across. Well, so just look at

1679
02:01:39.359 --> 02:01:44.359
it from the front and like with
the yardstick. Yeah, okay, all

1680
02:01:44.439 --> 02:01:45.560
right, well either way, okay, I'll have to measure it. But

1681
02:01:45.600 --> 02:01:49.439
I know it's pretty damp big.
But yeah, however, so I have

1682
02:01:49.479 --> 02:01:51.920
a couple of holes in this side
of this tree. I look at it

1683
02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:56.039
every so often because we have a
garden around the tree, and I see

1684
02:01:56.039 --> 02:01:58.479
these holes and I'm like, oh, I hope this is not the pine

1685
02:01:58.479 --> 02:02:01.920
tree beetle attack again. So I
don't know what to do. Uh,

1686
02:02:02.079 --> 02:02:04.960
poke a little something in the hole
there to see what's going on. But

1687
02:02:05.159 --> 02:02:09.800
you know, it's not soft or
anything, but and it's just holes here

1688
02:02:09.840 --> 02:02:12.399
and there. And about what's the
diameter of the hole we're talking about,

1689
02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:15.560
like a pencil racer or something batter? Yeah, like yeah, like yeah,

1690
02:02:15.960 --> 02:02:17.800
uh like a three eighths of an
inch hole or so yeah, about

1691
02:02:17.800 --> 02:02:21.359
like a pencil's in there. And
they're the ones that I can see here

1692
02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:26.079
right at at face level, you
know, about six feet off the ground

1693
02:02:26.079 --> 02:02:29.600
here. Okay, is there any
sap coming out of them? No?

1694
02:02:29.800 --> 02:02:31.640
When you look at when you look
up in the canopy of the pine tree

1695
02:02:31.720 --> 02:02:35.000
or the needles green. Yeah.
Oh, I had this pine tree by

1696
02:02:35.000 --> 02:02:39.840
the way, by your advice and
everybody's advice in Lewis floor and all with

1697
02:02:39.960 --> 02:02:43.800
the tornado went right right through the
front of my house there, ripped the

1698
02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:47.399
screens off and everything. But I
had this tree thinned out. When when

1699
02:02:47.399 --> 02:02:51.000
the tree guys and find it out
so I can see through it, you

1700
02:02:51.039 --> 02:02:55.439
know, have to explain to them. And so when the wind comes doesn't

1701
02:02:55.479 --> 02:02:58.279
rip everything. You know, the
more branches you have up there, the

1702
02:02:58.279 --> 02:03:00.119
more wind pressure you have on the
tree. So cleared out all right,

1703
02:03:00.119 --> 02:03:03.720
and they did a wonderful job so
you can still get shave. Non I'm

1704
02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:06.439
gonna I'm gonna jump in. I've
got about thirty seconds and I want to

1705
02:03:06.479 --> 02:03:10.840
be able to answer your question.
Uh, don't worry about it. Those

1706
02:03:10.920 --> 02:03:15.039
holes are not something that's threatening the
life of your pecan tree? Are pine

1707
02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:17.079
tree? Sorry? Sor right?
Uh? Anything in there? No,

1708
02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:20.840
don't don't worry about it. If
they if if they were in the inner

1709
02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:25.119
sap of the tree where they can
do the damage, you would have sap

1710
02:03:25.239 --> 02:03:28.600
coming out of that tree. Okay, And so yeah, don't worry about

1711
02:03:28.600 --> 02:03:30.920
it. I don't know what made
them, but that's not what we're looking

1712
02:03:30.960 --> 02:03:33.239
for. I think you're okay on
that. It should be good to go.

1713
02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:36.159
Sorry to have to run short,
but we got to go to a

1714
02:03:36.239 --> 02:03:40.000
break here. I'll stick a little
probe in there every so and to see

1715
02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:41.880
if it's wet. All right,
there you go on. All right,

1716
02:03:41.960 --> 02:03:44.880
thanks sir, appreciate that call George, and we come back. You'll be

1717
02:03:44.920 --> 02:03:46.159
our first up. We're gonna take
a quick break here if you want to

1718
02:03:46.199 --> 02:03:48.920
get on the boards to talk.
This is our last hour of the day

1719
02:03:49.319 --> 02:03:53.520
seven one three two one two kt
r H. I'll be right back.

1720
02:03:53.680 --> 02:03:57.600
Welcome back to garden Line. Good
to have you with us. We got

1721
02:03:57.640 --> 02:04:00.079
plenty talked about, and looks from
the look of the boards, a lot

1722
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:04.359
of people want to talk too.
If you've been to Enchanted Forest recently,

1723
02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:10.600
that's the garden center that's down in
the Richmond Rosenberg slash Sugarland area. In

1724
02:04:10.680 --> 02:04:14.680
other words, if you are in
Richmond and you're heading up towards sugar Land,

1725
02:04:14.720 --> 02:04:17.920
it's off to the right and Chenned
Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty

1726
02:04:18.000 --> 02:04:23.359
nine. But let me tell you
this place always is stocked full of quality

1727
02:04:23.439 --> 02:04:28.880
plants. Right now, they have
an excellent supply of many beautiful crape myrtles.

1728
02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:30.760
By the way, if you're going
to pick out a crape myrtle,

1729
02:04:30.159 --> 02:04:33.279
you want to get one that's got
some disease resess since it possible. You

1730
02:04:33.359 --> 02:04:38.800
want one that's the right color.
But almost most importantly, you want one

1731
02:04:38.880 --> 02:04:41.920
gets the size you want. Do
you want it to be thirty five feet,

1732
02:04:42.119 --> 02:04:44.600
then buy one that gets that big. Do you want it to be

1733
02:04:44.720 --> 02:04:47.319
fifteen feet, Then buy one that
gets that big. That's what I'm saying

1734
02:04:47.600 --> 02:04:50.800
by the size. And they've got
a good selection there an Enchanted Forest,

1735
02:04:50.920 --> 02:04:56.359
a really good selection. It is
a beautiful pottery too, some of the

1736
02:04:56.560 --> 02:05:00.880
stoneware, the Talavera types of pottery. It's just so colorful. It's it's

1737
02:05:01.039 --> 02:05:08.399
gorgeous, absolutely beautiful, beautiful stuff. They have an excellent, excellent selection

1738
02:05:09.000 --> 02:05:14.199
of things that attract butterflies. Whether
it's for the larval food sources or for

1739
02:05:14.319 --> 02:05:18.000
the adult nectar sources, they've got
them. And it's no surprise. Intended

1740
02:05:18.079 --> 02:05:21.640
Forest is a fun place to visit. It is the kind of place you

1741
02:05:21.720 --> 02:05:26.319
want to take your friends and go, allow yourself some time to wander around.

1742
02:05:27.279 --> 02:05:30.239
Quality staff, people that know what
they're talking about. They can get

1743
02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:32.479
you set up so that you can
have success no matter what kind of gardening

1744
02:05:32.800 --> 02:05:35.319
that you want to do. That's
intended for us. It's on FM twenty

1745
02:05:35.399 --> 02:05:41.199
seven fifty nine down in the Richmond
Rosenberg area and you will enjoy your trip

1746
02:05:41.239 --> 02:05:43.920
there. I guarantee you will.
It is that kind of I always look

1747
02:05:43.960 --> 02:05:46.079
forward to be able to go down
there. We're going to go now to

1748
02:05:46.399 --> 02:05:50.279
George in Jersey Village. Hello,
George, Yeah, good morning, Skip

1749
02:05:50.479 --> 02:05:54.800
is good talking to you. So
anyhow, I've been saying your praises to

1750
02:05:54.840 --> 02:05:57.880
the sky to my brother who lives
in Englewood, which is not far from

1751
02:05:58.520 --> 02:06:02.600
Lax and I wonder do you take
calls from southern California and stuff like that.

1752
02:06:02.840 --> 02:06:06.119
We get calls from all over the
country, and so yes, we

1753
02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:11.199
can now my ability to help somebody
in another area, depending on what their

1754
02:06:11.279 --> 02:06:15.640
question is. You know, maybe
we're limited, but yes, we do

1755
02:06:15.800 --> 02:06:18.119
take calls from him. Do you
can he listened to your program on the

1756
02:06:18.199 --> 02:06:24.960
website a website somewhere. He can
listen to the kt r H website or

1757
02:06:25.479 --> 02:06:29.279
the best way for someone to listen
to our program, I think, unless

1758
02:06:29.279 --> 02:06:33.720
they're just sitting at a computer,
would be to do an app like the

1759
02:06:33.880 --> 02:06:39.119
iHeart Media app. If you go
there, you can look at Guardline and

1760
02:06:39.199 --> 02:06:42.399
you can listen live. But you
can also listen to past shows because we

1761
02:06:42.479 --> 02:06:46.039
put them up online as a podcast
every time. Yeah. Good, I'll

1762
02:06:46.039 --> 02:06:48.319
tell him all about you. He
wants to hear you. He's eager to

1763
02:06:48.399 --> 02:06:50.640
hear you. All right, good, Well, we'll see if we can

1764
02:06:50.680 --> 02:06:55.279
help him out there in LA.
They don't have any hard right, I

1765
02:06:55.319 --> 02:06:59.039
don't think so. I don't know
if that's going to work. All right?

1766
02:07:00.000 --> 02:07:01.800
Thanks year, Thanks George. I
appreciate thanks for being patient waiting.

1767
02:07:01.840 --> 02:07:04.439
I know you had to sit there
a little while. Uh, let's go

1768
02:07:04.560 --> 02:07:09.399
now to East Texas wherever East Texas
is and talk to Joshua Hey, Josh,

1769
02:07:10.840 --> 02:07:15.039
yes, sir, Hey, So
I'm I'm actually about two hours uh

1770
02:07:15.239 --> 02:07:19.119
east of Houston, okay, up
north of Lumberton. North of Lumberton.

1771
02:07:19.159 --> 02:07:25.800
Form My question is I have a
live I live rural, and at the

1772
02:07:26.279 --> 02:07:30.039
when I built my house, we
didn't have enough pasture for a horse.

1773
02:07:30.479 --> 02:07:33.119
So I said, well, I'll
just see my front yard with behayo.

1774
02:07:33.600 --> 02:07:38.600
Uh huh. Well, now now
after two days after you mow your grass,

1775
02:07:38.680 --> 02:07:43.800
you've got one foot behave at that
seems like is there any way to

1776
02:07:43.880 --> 02:07:46.479
get rid of the behavior and not
kill the rest of the grass that's seeing

1777
02:07:46.520 --> 02:07:53.720
augustine and the whatever native grass is
there? Well? Yes, and I'm

1778
02:07:53.760 --> 02:07:56.760
trying to think of the name.
Oh my gosh, I might have to

1779
02:07:57.000 --> 02:08:00.279
hang on just a second here,
Uh, there is a product that we'll

1780
02:08:00.560 --> 02:08:07.880
control bajea. Oh gosh, what
is the name of that grass? And

1781
02:08:07.399 --> 02:08:13.960
jeesh, let's see. I think
I want to say that Celsius does.

1782
02:08:15.119 --> 02:08:18.800
Let me check and make sure I
know. One called fahrenheit is pretty good

1783
02:08:20.079 --> 02:08:24.079
about that. But it depends that
fahrenheit isn't labeled for every kind of grass.

1784
02:08:24.079 --> 02:08:31.039
Gimme just one second here. Yeah, fahrenheit is save for Saint Augustine.

1785
02:08:31.119 --> 02:08:35.479
So fahrenheit and it's not gonna be
one that's easy to find. Fahrenheit

1786
02:08:35.600 --> 02:08:41.520
is not one that's just available everywhere, but if you find it, it's

1787
02:08:41.880 --> 02:08:46.640
gonna work on behea and be labeled
for Saint Augustine. There is another one

1788
02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:54.520
called manor m ano R Manner herbicide
that will kill bhea and can be used

1789
02:08:54.560 --> 02:09:00.439
in Saint Augustine. But when you
use Manner or Fahrenheit, you need to

1790
02:09:00.560 --> 02:09:05.039
follow the label really carefully as to
how and when it's applied, and you

1791
02:09:05.159 --> 02:09:09.319
need to not over apply it,
not over apply it. Uh, and

1792
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:13.399
it doesn't It doesn't do well when
you do it in super super hot weather,

1793
02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:18.479
So get it done early in the
morning and be careful because it will

1794
02:09:18.520 --> 02:09:22.079
also damage trees and shrubs. And
people that think if a teaspoon's good,

1795
02:09:22.119 --> 02:09:24.640
a tablespoon's better and they drench it
on they end up with damage to their

1796
02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:30.920
trees and shrubs. So follow the
label real carefully and either of those will

1797
02:09:31.000 --> 02:09:35.960
control behand. Okay, thank you
so much. Manner and Fahrenheit manner M

1798
02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:37.520
A n O. R. Manner
is probably going to be the easier one

1799
02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:41.520
to find, but depending on where
you are and what's available out there in

1800
02:09:41.640 --> 02:09:48.359
your area specifically, you may have
to search around a little bit. Okay,

1801
02:09:48.520 --> 02:09:52.079
thank you so much, you bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate that.

1802
02:09:52.199 --> 02:09:58.039
Appreciate your call very much. Nature's
Way Resources is having their summer sale.

1803
02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:03.159
Do you know that through July first? July first, you can get

1804
02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:07.680
thirty percent off of most of their
plants. Now excluded from that are native

1805
02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:11.840
sun perennials, but that's the only
thing excluded, Native sun perennials. The

1806
02:10:11.960 --> 02:10:15.000
rest thirty percent off their plants,
and they have a really good selection of

1807
02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:18.640
Texas native They have an excellent selection
of plants for pollinators. Yeah, I

1808
02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:22.720
know Nature's Way. We think of
soil and soil blends, and yes,

1809
02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:26.680
of course they're the place for that, but they've also got a nice selection

1810
02:10:26.800 --> 02:10:30.159
of natives. Now, this is
important you need to listen to carefully.

1811
02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:33.439
If you tell them that you hear
about them on garden Line, you can

1812
02:10:33.520 --> 02:10:41.239
get twenty percent off of all compost
products, multch products, and soil blends.

1813
02:10:41.920 --> 02:10:45.760
That is a good deal. Twenty
percent off all composts, mulches,

1814
02:10:45.800 --> 02:10:48.600
and soil blends, Nature's Way resources. You got to just tell them,

1815
02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:50.880
hey, I heard about your guardline. I'd like to get that twenty percent

1816
02:10:50.920 --> 02:10:54.840
off discount on all those kinds of
products. And they can get you all

1817
02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:58.560
set up. We're talking about book, we're talking about bags and so on.

1818
02:10:58.199 --> 02:11:03.159
Nature's Way Reace sources are up there
toward Tomball off Interstate forty five R

1819
02:11:03.279 --> 02:11:07.800
where fourteen eighty eight comes together.
You need to check them out. Super

1820
02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:11.479
super quality products and with a deal
like this, don't pass this up.

1821
02:11:11.760 --> 02:11:15.960
This is a good deal. You
need to jump on. We're going to

1822
02:11:16.039 --> 02:11:20.199
head now to Richmond and talk to
Roy. Hello Roy, Hey, good

1823
02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:22.439
morning, Skip. How you doing
well, sir? Thank you? How

1824
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:28.319
can we help? Hey? Skip? We planted some tomatoes, some beef

1825
02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:31.119
steak tomatoes, so roma tomatoes,
and for some reason, last year our

1826
02:11:33.119 --> 02:11:37.560
our fruits were very large, and
this year they are like half the size,

1827
02:11:39.079 --> 02:11:43.000
okay, three side smaller. Is
there anything we can add to the

1828
02:11:43.079 --> 02:11:46.439
soil, you know the main there's
two things that help with fruits, well,

1829
02:11:46.680 --> 02:11:50.479
three things that work on fruit size. Number one is the cultivar.

1830
02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:56.960
Each variety has a different genetic tendency
to be big or smaller medium. That's

1831
02:11:56.039 --> 02:12:01.399
one. Number Two. Is the
plant stressed or not. And if the

1832
02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:05.199
plants are struggling, and it could
be struggling from too much water, from

1833
02:12:05.239 --> 02:12:09.920
not enough water, from lack of
sunlight, from diseases, you know,

1834
02:12:09.279 --> 02:12:13.920
anything that's stress in the plant will
affect fruit size. And then finally the

1835
02:12:15.640 --> 02:12:20.279
fruit load on the plant. If
you, you know, take out the

1836
02:12:20.399 --> 02:12:24.920
suckers where you're kind of pruning your
tomatoes and limiting the number of clusters,

1837
02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:26.600
you're gonna have larger fruit. And
if you get a really heavy fruits that

1838
02:12:26.640 --> 02:12:31.359
you're gonna have larger or smaller fruit. And so though it's going to be

1839
02:12:31.439 --> 02:12:37.760
one of those things roy that's working, So does it need more vigor fertilize

1840
02:12:37.800 --> 02:12:41.760
it, Does it need so moisture
water? Does it need better drainage?

1841
02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:46.479
Don't overwater, you know, and
something along those lines. Now that we've

1842
02:12:46.600 --> 02:12:50.920
gotten as far into the season as
we are, all those larger tomatoes,

1843
02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:54.439
the slicers and the aromas and things, they're not going to set well.

1844
02:12:56.239 --> 02:13:01.359
The cherries and grapes do okay in
the heat. But I think your next

1845
02:13:01.439 --> 02:13:05.079
good fruit set's going to come in
the fall on your slicers. All right,

1846
02:13:05.800 --> 02:13:07.880
all right, gi Hey, thank
you for the information. I have

1847
02:13:07.920 --> 02:13:11.920
a good day, yes, sir, good luck. Appreciate that. Appreciate

1848
02:13:11.000 --> 02:13:16.119
that very much. We're gonna now
go to Houston. Talk to Susie.

1849
02:13:16.199 --> 02:13:18.960
Hey, Susie, Hi, sir, thank you so much for taking my

1850
02:13:20.039 --> 02:13:24.800
call. I appreciate your knowledge.
I have about twenty cypress trees are about

1851
02:13:24.439 --> 02:13:28.000
four feet tall three and a half
feet four refeet tall. I planted them

1852
02:13:28.039 --> 02:13:33.840
about a year ago. These were
replacement because sadly I lost the same amount

1853
02:13:33.880 --> 02:13:37.199
in the trout, okay, and
they were insured. So this is the

1854
02:13:37.279 --> 02:13:39.439
second I don't know if that makes
a difference what I'm sharing with you.

1855
02:13:39.199 --> 02:13:43.359
I have been noticing that on some
of the branches, about every fourth or

1856
02:13:43.520 --> 02:13:50.880
fifth tree, it's a beautiful rust
colored. You know, it turns the

1857
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:54.279
branches, you know, some of
the I guess leaves, for lack of

1858
02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:58.760
a better word, I know with
cypress trees a rust colored. And it's

1859
02:13:58.840 --> 02:14:01.880
not on all of them, but
it gives me a little PTSD from that

1860
02:14:01.039 --> 02:14:05.239
drought because that's the color of them. When they were dropped dye. I

1861
02:14:05.439 --> 02:14:09.359
fertilized them actually at a hardware I
went there and I got some fertilizer.

1862
02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:13.319
Okay, and about three weeks ago
I put fertilizer on them. Okay,

1863
02:14:13.560 --> 02:14:16.960
but you know they're still there.
I just don't know. Can I do

1864
02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:20.479
something. They're on a sprinkler system. Am I using not enough? Too

1865
02:14:20.600 --> 02:14:22.520
much water? What are your suggestions? It's kind of hard to overwater a

1866
02:14:22.640 --> 02:14:28.119
cypress because they grow on a swamp. It's yeah, I wouldn't encourage overwater

1867
02:14:28.159 --> 02:14:31.079
in them, but if you're if
you're keeping them fairly moist, I would

1868
02:14:31.119 --> 02:14:33.520
say when you water, give them
a good soaking, let it dry out

1869
02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:37.880
just a little bit. That's a
pretty good schedule for them. Rusting of

1870
02:14:37.960 --> 02:14:41.399
the leaves we call it. I
call it bronzing of the foliage. That

1871
02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:46.079
is typical of a stress cypress.
Typically we see that towards the end of

1872
02:14:46.119 --> 02:14:48.600
summer, when it's been hot for
a long time, it gets a little

1873
02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:52.479
on the dry side. They usually
bounce back from it. Cypress are pretty

1874
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.560
resilient. And I agree your plants
are young and they don't have the root

1875
02:14:56.640 --> 02:15:00.439
system development yet. You know,
they came in a container and now the

1876
02:15:00.600 --> 02:15:05.239
roots are trying to establish and fill
a large volume of soil. So it

1877
02:15:05.319 --> 02:15:09.560
becomes a resilient plant, and in
this meantime, you're more prone to like

1878
02:15:09.760 --> 02:15:18.079
a drought injury kind of symptom because
the roots zone is so limited. Okay,

1879
02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:20.720
so maybe a little bit more,
a little bit more water and then

1880
02:15:20.800 --> 02:15:24.279
let it try out and water it
again. Yeah, just just kind of

1881
02:15:24.359 --> 02:15:28.000
dig down about four inches. But
remember that cylinder that they came in.

1882
02:15:28.359 --> 02:15:35.079
The roots are mostly still there.
They're slowly venturing out, but that's where

1883
02:15:35.119 --> 02:15:39.039
you need to focus your watering on
until it gets that root system spread out

1884
02:15:39.119 --> 02:15:41.960
wider. Okay, good, all
right, Susan. I appreciate it,

1885
02:15:43.159 --> 02:15:46.960
you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate your call. You know,

1886
02:15:46.039 --> 02:15:50.399
the folks at the arbor Gate they
always have every plant you need.

1887
02:15:50.640 --> 02:15:54.479
The Arborgate is the place to go
when you need expert advice. It's a

1888
02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.239
place to go when you need something
unusual. If you're trying to buy a

1889
02:15:58.359 --> 02:16:01.760
gift for Dad. Oh my god, they have gift shops galore. They've

1890
02:16:01.840 --> 02:16:05.680
got bling for the landscape, and
they have really cool plants. Maybe Dad's

1891
02:16:05.720 --> 02:16:09.800
into fruit trees, do you know? Arburgate sells fruit trees year round.

1892
02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:13.439
They've got their one two three easy
system, A soil a fertilizer and a

1893
02:16:13.560 --> 02:16:18.119
compost material all together. Three bags. You buy them when you buy your

1894
02:16:18.199 --> 02:16:22.079
plants, because that is going to
help create that foundation for your plants to

1895
02:16:22.119 --> 02:16:26.000
have success. Arbrogates outside of Tomball
those you haven't been remember, go out

1896
02:16:26.159 --> 02:16:31.559
round back on Trishal Road for your
parking and everything you need will be there

1897
02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:35.959
at Arbrogate. And by the way, I think on think on Dad's Day,

1898
02:16:35.959 --> 02:16:39.399
they're even having like jack and coke
or something like that. They're offering.

1899
02:16:39.559 --> 02:16:41.840
What a deal. I saw that
one the other day. It's like,

1900
02:16:41.000 --> 02:16:45.079
Okay, there's a reason to go
right there alone. Hey, we're

1901
02:16:45.079 --> 02:16:46.159
gonna take a break, time for
the news. I'll be right back.

1902
02:16:46.840 --> 02:16:52.120
Welcome back to garden Line. Good
have you with us today? What do

1903
02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:54.079
we want to talk about? You
give us a call, we will talk

1904
02:16:54.319 --> 02:16:58.440
about it. Let's jump right out
there to the phones. We're going to

1905
02:16:58.479 --> 02:17:01.760
go to West Houston and talk to
Ram. Hello, Randy, Hey,

1906
02:17:01.840 --> 02:17:03.479
good morning, Skip, Hope you're
doing well this morning. Thank you.

1907
02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:09.000
I've I've started on a long term
project here that I want to get your

1908
02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:16.440
opinion on. I've started heart or
started digging up a number of these oak

1909
02:17:16.520 --> 02:17:20.360
tree saplings that are starting to come
up from all the acorns that have been

1910
02:17:20.479 --> 02:17:26.799
dropping the last six or seven months, and I've been putting them into Dixie

1911
02:17:26.840 --> 02:17:31.280
cups that got holes in the bottom
so that they're well watered and then drained,

1912
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:37.959
and I've been using uh Medina once
a week on them. And so

1913
02:17:37.159 --> 02:17:43.959
my my next question is is how
much direct sun should they be getting each

1914
02:17:43.159 --> 02:17:50.079
day while they're in this process,
And what's the next size of container I

1915
02:17:50.159 --> 02:17:54.200
should be considering. Okay, full
full son is what you want now if

1916
02:17:54.239 --> 02:17:58.120
you're I don't know how serious you
are about the project or how many you

1917
02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:01.360
want to grow. If you're just
a few, that's one thing. If

1918
02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:03.360
you're going to do more, there
are actually some special pots you can buy

1919
02:18:05.079 --> 02:18:11.079
that prevent the roots from going in
circles around the container. They have holes

1920
02:18:11.159 --> 02:18:13.840
in the sides where the roots go
out, and we say they burn off,

1921
02:18:13.000 --> 02:18:18.959
meaning the air causes a pruning of
the root and it makes a denser

1922
02:18:18.319 --> 02:18:24.239
root system and the container. Those
would be the way to go for if

1923
02:18:24.280 --> 02:18:26.680
you were going to do a lot
of this, if you're just doing it

1924
02:18:26.760 --> 02:18:30.040
on your own. I used to
use the little square milk cartons. You

1925
02:18:30.079 --> 02:18:33.239
remember those days when you can buy
a little like a quart milk carton or

1926
02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:37.280
not even a half gallones a little
quart size or pint. Anything that creates

1927
02:18:37.639 --> 02:18:43.159
something that's not round that the root
will hit the corners and go down is

1928
02:18:43.280 --> 02:18:50.360
better if you have whatever it is
without a bottom sitting on mesh on like

1929
02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:54.559
a quarter and tardark cloth or anything
that's just a mesh. The roots will

1930
02:18:54.639 --> 02:18:58.719
hit the bottom and they will also
air prune down there. And so as

1931
02:18:58.760 --> 02:19:01.879
you move them from the dixie cup
to something else, cut any roots that

1932
02:19:03.000 --> 02:19:07.079
are going in a circle and they
will rebranch and put them in a new

1933
02:19:07.120 --> 02:19:11.639
container that where they're going to go
down and root. That's the biggest challenge

1934
02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:13.760
on new trees that are grown in
something small. As you get a root

1935
02:19:13.799 --> 02:19:16.559
that goes in a circle, and
as you keep bumping it up, that

1936
02:19:16.719 --> 02:19:20.680
root gets bigger and the trunk gets
bigger, and before long, when it's

1937
02:19:20.719 --> 02:19:24.600
in the landscape, you start to
see it decline because the trunk now is

1938
02:19:24.680 --> 02:19:30.920
being strangled by the root like a
like an anaconda wrapped around something, strangling

1939
02:19:30.959 --> 02:19:33.799
it to death. So that's what
you want to avoid by that root pruning

1940
02:19:33.920 --> 02:19:37.520
or by trimming the roots when you
bump them from the dixie cup on up.

1941
02:19:39.559 --> 02:19:45.239
So should I take them out of
the dixie cup now and find these

1942
02:19:45.319 --> 02:19:48.639
type of pots that you're talking about? Would that be best? You could?

1943
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:52.360
It would be best if you could
do that, And depending on you

1944
02:19:52.440 --> 02:19:56.040
know your level of do it yourself
for I mean, people will build things

1945
02:19:56.200 --> 02:20:01.200
to grow them in. Uh,
but you can also buy it. There's

1946
02:20:01.879 --> 02:20:05.399
a number of places that will just
sell you containers online. There's a place

1947
02:20:05.440 --> 02:20:11.520
called Greenhouse Superstore out there and lives
in California that will sell containers for people

1948
02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:15.040
that are in the growing stuff in
greenhouses and things. But they also have

1949
02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:20.079
those air pruning root containers out there. All right, air pruning that's what

1950
02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:24.319
I was saying. Air printing container. Yeah, yeah, air pruning container.

1951
02:20:24.959 --> 02:20:28.319
But it's real simple. It's like
instead of a slick round container,

1952
02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:31.719
slick slided round container, it's gonna
either have holes in the sides, it's

1953
02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:37.159
gonna have fins that direct the root
from just continuing to circle it hits the

1954
02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:41.840
wall and has to go down because
a fin is sticking out inside the container.

1955
02:20:41.920 --> 02:20:46.000
Just do some online searching and you're
gonna find what I'm talking about.

1956
02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:48.559
No, that's perfect, No,
because I'm doing about one hundred of these.

1957
02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:50.760
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you got to buy some containers.

1958
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.719
You gotta buy some and you can
buy a small one. There's a lot

1959
02:20:54.760 --> 02:21:01.319
of forms of them. They all
work as long as they prevent the circling

1960
02:21:01.479 --> 02:21:05.719
route. Okay, super, okay, good luck. Look, thank you

1961
02:21:05.879 --> 02:21:09.399
very much. You take care by
Let's see here. We're gonna now go

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02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:15.959
to Jason. Hello, Jason,
how can we help today? Good morning,

1963
02:21:16.040 --> 02:21:20.600
sir. Yeah. So, the
so my grandfather he recently passed away,

1964
02:21:20.639 --> 02:21:24.479
and he had about three crate myrtles
back in I guess it was last

1965
02:21:24.559 --> 02:21:28.680
year of the year prior he had
somebody to try to come prove them and

1966
02:21:28.760 --> 02:21:31.079
they just destroyed them. And I
know about the creat myrtle murder and all

1967
02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:35.479
this odd what have you from,
Randy the I wanted to see if you

1968
02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:39.360
had any recommendation on a professional service
because I'm not really too familiar on bringing

1969
02:21:39.399 --> 02:21:43.760
them back or revising them. So
I wanted to see if you had any

1970
02:21:43.840 --> 02:21:48.760
recommendations on professionals they might be able
to come out to help me. Yeah.

1971
02:21:48.879 --> 02:21:52.280
Well, Martin spoon Moore at Affordable
Tree, he knows how to print

1972
02:21:52.319 --> 02:21:56.680
a crepe myrtle so I would you
know, that would be that would be

1973
02:21:56.719 --> 02:22:01.040
who I would call to have him
come out when you've got one that's been

1974
02:22:01.120 --> 02:22:03.440
butchered by the way. First of
all, I'm I'm sorry to hear about

1975
02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:09.399
the loss of your grandpa. But
the uh, the when they've been butchered,

1976
02:22:09.840 --> 02:22:13.239
they're again. What happens is people
cut them off. They look like

1977
02:22:13.319 --> 02:22:16.120
the top of a fence post,
and now they re sprout and you get

1978
02:22:16.159 --> 02:22:18.239
this what we call a crow's foot, all these shoots coming straight up.

1979
02:22:18.920 --> 02:22:24.879
If you can thin all of those
out and leave one or two shoots where

1980
02:22:24.920 --> 02:22:28.479
instead of one branch, now it's
forked into two, instead of turned into

1981
02:22:28.520 --> 02:22:31.959
a crows foot, like you you
pointed all your fingers straight up. You

1982
02:22:31.040 --> 02:22:35.840
know, that's kind of what it
looks like when when we don't prove them

1983
02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:41.079
right. You can thin those out
and do it yourself. But if it's

1984
02:22:41.120 --> 02:22:43.639
a bigger tree, it's a little
bit, you know, you need something

1985
02:22:43.639 --> 02:22:46.200
a little more on a on a
professional level, I would I would call

1986
02:22:46.319 --> 02:22:50.840
Martin at the Affordable Tree. Do
you need a phone number for him or

1987
02:22:50.840 --> 02:22:54.920
a website? Serious? Well,
I just wrote down Affordable Tree. That's

1988
02:22:54.440 --> 02:23:00.719
that's in Houston. Yeah, it's
Afordable Tree in Houston. Aff Tree Service

1989
02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:05.040
is the website aff Tree Service dot
com and the phone number is seven to

1990
02:23:05.040 --> 02:23:11.399
one three six nine twenty six sixty
three. He knows how to print a

1991
02:23:11.479 --> 02:23:16.280
tree and he can certainly take care
of it. And there's no big rush

1992
02:23:16.319 --> 02:23:18.600
on it. I mean, you
want to get it done sooner rather than

1993
02:23:18.680 --> 02:23:22.159
later, but it's not like it
has to be done this week. Yes,

1994
02:23:22.239 --> 02:23:24.159
sir, no, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for your

1995
02:23:24.200 --> 02:23:26.719
time. All right, good luck, wish you well with that. Thank

1996
02:23:26.760 --> 02:23:30.559
you, Thank you, sir.
Bye bye. All right, let's see

1997
02:23:30.600 --> 02:23:33.040
here. Well we're going to go
now out to Cleveland and talk to Sonny.

1998
02:23:33.079 --> 02:23:37.399
Hello, Sonny, Yes, sir, good morning. How are you

1999
02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:41.680
doing today, sir? I'm good, thank you. I had lots of

2000
02:23:41.799 --> 02:23:45.079
palm trees that died a couple of
years back, well three years now,

2001
02:23:45.120 --> 02:23:48.680
and we had a high hard freeze, and you know, it look pretty

2002
02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:52.440
everything else, and I was thinking
you'll be replacing. Can I replace with

2003
02:23:52.600 --> 02:23:56.799
the date trees and maybe coconut trees. You will really produce fruits in this

2004
02:23:56.920 --> 02:24:01.280
weather. Coconuts too cold, hardy
or two call tender for us a date.

2005
02:24:01.520 --> 02:24:05.639
There is a palm called a Pindo
palm. It's a type of date

2006
02:24:05.719 --> 02:24:09.680
palm that is moderately hearty. It's
not the hardiest palm trees that you have,

2007
02:24:09.879 --> 02:24:13.760
but it's but it's there. Now, I know you're out. Pardon

2008
02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:22.600
p I n d o Pindo pendo
palm. Uh. It's it's a moderately

2009
02:24:22.760 --> 02:24:26.840
heardy date palm. Uh. Now, if I were you, I would

2010
02:24:28.200 --> 02:24:33.879
I would probably call Verdant Tree Farm. Verdont has three locations in Houston.

2011
02:24:33.959 --> 02:24:37.559
There's one probably the one closest to
you is going to be the one in

2012
02:24:37.639 --> 02:24:41.520
the Heights, which is where I
ten and ye'll come together. But vert

2013
02:24:41.920 --> 02:24:48.120
Patrick there they specialize in palms,
and they know the different types, they

2014
02:24:48.200 --> 02:24:52.440
know the heartiness, and he could
really point you to what would probably be

2015
02:24:52.559 --> 02:24:56.479
the best for here. He might
even I suspect he probably carries Pindo palm.

2016
02:24:56.040 --> 02:25:00.639
But you're, you know, being
up in Cleveland, you're it's it's

2017
02:25:00.680 --> 02:25:03.639
a little bit of a challenge because
there's going to be one of those winners

2018
02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:07.079
that comes by. I move,
I move now, and I'm an humble

2019
02:25:07.360 --> 02:25:11.280
Okay, well a little bit.
It's still you know, it's it gets

2020
02:25:11.360 --> 02:25:16.120
cold sometimes and you just got to
accept the fact that when we have one

2021
02:25:16.120 --> 02:25:20.920
of those doozy winters, Uh,
it affects even hearty things here. But

2022
02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:24.639
uh, Verdant Tree Farm is the
website v E R d a n T.

2023
02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:28.600
Verdant Tree Farm. You can go
online and look at them. I

2024
02:25:28.680 --> 02:25:31.360
would go to the website because when
you go there, what you're going to

2025
02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:35.559
find is they have a list of
all these trees and include in a different

2026
02:25:35.639 --> 02:25:39.000
list for all the palms where you
can scroll through it and it will show

2027
02:25:39.040 --> 02:25:43.600
you each type of palm tree and
it will tell you about it and how

2028
02:25:43.680 --> 02:25:48.360
well it does and stuff. But
I definitely would call them because appreciate it.

2029
02:25:48.479 --> 02:25:54.120
They're experts and they're going to have
the details you're looking for. Awesome.

2030
02:25:54.200 --> 02:25:58.120
Thank you so much for you take
care of them else. Uh.

2031
02:25:58.479 --> 02:26:03.280
If you've got issues that are problems
in your lawn, like with bugs,

2032
02:26:03.399 --> 02:26:07.719
well nitrofoss bug out Max is an
excellent product for that. We're entering chinchbug

2033
02:26:07.799 --> 02:26:11.799
season, we will soon be coming
into sideweb worm season. Do you have

2034
02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:16.680
fleas, do you have ticks that
are down in the lawn or even ants

2035
02:26:16.719 --> 02:26:18.600
crawling on the surface. Bug out
Max is going to kill about one hundred

2036
02:26:18.600 --> 02:26:22.399
and thirty different kinds of insects.
I'd say that's a lot. Just doing

2037
02:26:22.479 --> 02:26:26.120
you me a lot and within forty
eight hours when you put it down,

2038
02:26:26.399 --> 02:26:30.239
wash it in with a little bit
irrigation, it's going to do its job.

2039
02:26:30.600 --> 02:26:33.639
Bug Out Max is widely available.
You know, it's a nitrofoss product,

2040
02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:35.840
so you're going to find it all
kinds of places. All our ace

2041
02:26:35.879 --> 02:26:39.959
hardware stores are going to carry nitrofoss
a bug Out Max. You're gonna find

2042
02:26:39.000 --> 02:26:45.680
it down in Southwest feed and Fertilizer. There many many other places like nitrofoss

2043
02:26:45.719 --> 02:26:48.159
products. They're easy to find.
Well, it's time for me take a

2044
02:26:48.200 --> 02:26:52.760
little quick break before we go into
our last segment of the day. I'll

2045
02:26:52.799 --> 02:26:56.479
be here right back. Welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to

2046
02:26:56.520 --> 02:27:00.440
have you with us. We are
looking forward to visiting with you about the

2047
02:27:00.559 --> 02:27:05.319
things that interest you. I want
to tell you about something. You know

2048
02:27:05.559 --> 02:27:07.280
that we have storms here. You
know it's hurricane season. You know,

2049
02:27:07.680 --> 02:27:11.479
even without hurricanes, storms can knock
out power like it just did for us

2050
02:27:11.520 --> 02:27:16.680
a while back. Generic generators are
quality. They are quality products that do

2051
02:27:18.079 --> 02:27:22.680
the trick. They are automatic standby
versions where power goes off, it just

2052
02:27:22.760 --> 02:27:28.280
comes on. It automatically handles that. But what is most important is that

2053
02:27:28.399 --> 02:27:33.479
you buy them from a place that
has the reputation, that has the customer

2054
02:27:33.639 --> 02:27:37.879
service, that knows how to treat
you right and how to be dependable,

2055
02:27:37.040 --> 02:27:41.840
and that is Quality Home Products of
Texas. I would not buy a generic

2056
02:27:41.959 --> 02:27:48.760
generator from any place other than Quality
Home Products of Texas because of what Quality

2057
02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:50.520
Home offers. First of all,
there's three hundred and fifty dollars off all

2058
02:27:50.559 --> 02:27:54.440
their generators right now. They also
have a free tenure warranty on the air

2059
02:27:54.520 --> 02:27:58.520
cooled units that they have. But
when you call Quality Home, they come

2060
02:27:58.600 --> 02:28:03.319
out, They work with you.
They make sure you have the generator you

2061
02:28:03.399 --> 02:28:05.040
need. You can go in the
store and sit down with them, you

2062
02:28:05.079 --> 02:28:07.920
can visit you just talk to them. They'll figure that out. They'll come

2063
02:28:07.959 --> 02:28:11.159
out. They'll look at what do
you need. Do you need just to

2064
02:28:11.319 --> 02:28:15.159
keep the freezer going so the food
doesn't go bad. Do you have a

2065
02:28:15.239 --> 02:28:18.479
work from home business and you need
more than just you know, keep the

2066
02:28:18.520 --> 02:28:22.520
freezer going. They'll get to the
generator you need. They won't oversell you

2067
02:28:22.680 --> 02:28:28.159
something you don't need. They'll work
with you. On all the paperwork.

2068
02:28:28.280 --> 02:28:31.440
In other words, you know,
maybe you're hoa or somebody else has got

2069
02:28:31.520 --> 02:28:35.319
regulations and you got to go through
a jump a hoop or two. They'll

2070
02:28:35.399 --> 02:28:39.440
jump those hoops. They'll put out
the slab, they'll put out the generator.

2071
02:28:39.879 --> 02:28:43.959
After it's set up and running,
they are still with you three hundred

2072
02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:46.680
and sixty five days out of the
year, twenty four hours a day.

2073
02:28:46.120 --> 02:28:50.319
That is why fourteen thousand people have
given them, actually over fourteen thousand a

2074
02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:56.159
five star rating. That is why
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2075
02:28:56.600 --> 02:29:01.479
customer service. The award winning customer
service Quality Home has to offer eight times.

2076
02:29:01.520 --> 02:29:07.399
They've won the Better Business Bureau's most
Prestigious Customer Service Award. I know

2077
02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:09.760
I'm going on and on about this, but this is this is important.

2078
02:29:11.200 --> 02:29:15.040
It's not just which generator do you
want, Yes, you want a generat

2079
02:29:15.200 --> 02:29:20.079
generator. But Quality Home is the
whole deal. It's the full package.

2080
02:29:20.159 --> 02:29:26.000
Financing is available. This family owned
company has been around here since nineteen eighty

2081
02:29:26.120 --> 02:29:31.520
nine. They know what they're doing. Here's the website, Quality tx dot

2082
02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:37.840
com, qualitytx dot com. The
phone number seven one three Quality Listen.

2083
02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:41.360
Give them a call there's a process
involved in getting all this done. A

2084
02:29:41.479 --> 02:29:45.840
generator set up for you. Storm
season is here. Don't wait until the

2085
02:29:45.959 --> 02:29:50.159
hurricanes in the Gulf to call quality
home. Go ahead and get it done

2086
02:29:50.159 --> 02:29:52.440
ahead of time. But I'm telling
you this is a company that I would

2087
02:29:52.479 --> 02:29:58.559
trust absolutely because of this kind of
service that they offer and of course quality

2088
02:29:58.600 --> 02:30:03.559
product. We're gonna go out to
Angleton now and talk to Jason next.

2089
02:30:03.639 --> 02:30:07.600
Hello, Jason, Hey, Skip, are you? I'm good, sir?

2090
02:30:07.719 --> 02:30:13.319
What's up? Oh man? I've
watched it eat a big breakfast here,

2091
02:30:13.479 --> 02:30:16.680
So what my question? As Skip, I built a house here in

2092
02:30:16.760 --> 02:30:20.079
Angleton, right on at the land. So I built it up, Son't

2093
02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:24.600
what's just out in this field?
I went around the perimeter of it was

2094
02:30:24.719 --> 02:30:28.360
like native. My theme was going
to be native evergreen. Did some oak

2095
02:30:28.399 --> 02:30:31.680
trees, pine trees, stuff like
that, yo, pun. But on

2096
02:30:31.799 --> 02:30:35.959
the internal part of the yard,
I don't. I don't want to go

2097
02:30:35.040 --> 02:30:39.440
willy nilly and just oh, let
me just throw red tipped potini over here

2098
02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:43.479
or something. I want somebody that
can lay this out, but I want

2099
02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:48.479
it to be more like a I
need something very specialized, like a zoo

2100
02:30:48.600 --> 02:30:50.440
thing. Well, you go into
the Houston Zoo. You got raised beds,

2101
02:30:50.639 --> 02:30:56.479
drainages and mine. You have sidewalks, water garden. Who in the

2102
02:30:56.600 --> 02:31:03.680
heck is knowledgeable enough design your outside
landscape? But incorporate the sidewalks, the

2103
02:31:03.719 --> 02:31:09.520
flower bed water. You're going to
have a backyard patio, Yeah, or

2104
02:31:09.719 --> 02:31:13.239
rocks, but that's something I just
have to have in my mind. Yeah,

2105
02:31:13.760 --> 02:31:18.159
you know, I just I don't
know the landscapers down in your area,

2106
02:31:18.319 --> 02:31:24.079
specifically down here to tell out here
until you're garding up. I mean,

2107
02:31:24.159 --> 02:31:28.479
yeah, I put some rocks in, it'll throw some plants from Yeah,

2108
02:31:28.520 --> 02:31:33.559
but you're you're wanting more. I
used to work with and college station

2109
02:31:33.680 --> 02:31:37.760
when I was going to school up
there, so I mean, and I'm

2110
02:31:37.799 --> 02:31:39.639
older, so I just don't I
don't have the back for doing that,

2111
02:31:39.840 --> 02:31:43.559
but I want to get to another
level, if you understand. So I

2112
02:31:43.639 --> 02:31:48.600
figured maybe in the Houston area it
would be somebody. Well we got some

2113
02:31:48.799 --> 02:31:52.360
we got some good Yeah, we
got some good ones. The one that

2114
02:31:52.440 --> 02:31:56.360
I'd like to recommend for you is
Pierce Scapes. But they just don't go

2115
02:31:56.440 --> 02:32:01.159
down that far south. They stop
at about I ten uh, maybe a

2116
02:32:01.200 --> 02:32:03.479
little below item, but not not
all the way down to Engleton. Uh,

2117
02:32:03.600 --> 02:32:07.200
you know, so, I mean, actually Pierre Pierce will go a

2118
02:32:07.239 --> 02:32:11.639
little wider than that, a little
further than I ten. But my point

2119
02:32:11.760 --> 02:32:15.000
is just there there. I don't
think they're gonna come down as far as

2120
02:32:15.079 --> 02:32:16.760
you are. You could try giving
them a call. You could try giving

2121
02:32:16.799 --> 02:32:20.079
them a call. Maybe they would
know someone down in that area they'd recommend

2122
02:32:20.159 --> 02:32:24.000
to you. They might, they
might somebody League City gals, And I

2123
02:32:24.040 --> 02:32:26.079
think they would travel over here.
We're not that far away, yeah,

2124
02:32:26.319 --> 02:32:33.239
from either over those areas, and
you know the internet well and and some

2125
02:32:33.879 --> 02:32:37.760
something else you might want to do. Uh, you may want to call,

2126
02:32:37.959 --> 02:32:41.879
like calling Enchanted Forest, which is
just you know, just kind of

2127
02:32:41.959 --> 02:32:48.159
a little bit south of Richmond,
Sugarland area, uh And and they they're

2128
02:32:48.280 --> 02:32:50.879
pretty close to you, and just
say, hey, do you know any

2129
02:32:50.920 --> 02:32:56.200
good landscapers it would service this area
because that's a quality garden center that's gonna

2130
02:32:56.239 --> 02:33:03.440
know. And you might I might
even call Sienna Mulch and they're just north

2131
02:33:03.520 --> 02:33:07.799
of you and say, hey,
do you got a landscaper that you would

2132
02:33:07.879 --> 02:33:11.200
recommend and tell them what you want
And they're just up the road from you.

2133
02:33:11.319 --> 02:33:15.920
Sienna is and so they could probably
keep it. But before you start

2134
02:33:15.920 --> 02:33:18.239
a landscape, when you need to
lay it out. So he's gonna lay

2135
02:33:18.360 --> 02:33:22.520
that design out, Yeah, you
need somebody that's gonna draw it out.

2136
02:33:22.120 --> 02:33:28.200
Somebody. Yeah, I just go
to a landscape. There's landscape designers and

2137
02:33:28.360 --> 02:33:31.840
landscape architects. Well, I mean, if you're talking about doing the taj

2138
02:33:31.959 --> 02:33:35.559
Mahal here, yes, I would
hire a la a landscape architect, a

2139
02:33:35.639 --> 02:33:39.200
landscape designer in there. If you're
just talking about a standard you know,

2140
02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:46.120
kind of home landscape, a good
quality landscaping company that offers that service,

2141
02:33:46.159 --> 02:33:48.479
ought to be able to draw something
out for you. Now, you know,

2142
02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:54.360
like I said, give give Piercecapes
a call, knowing that they're probably

2143
02:33:54.399 --> 02:33:58.280
too far north. Maybe they would
do the drawing if you send them some

2144
02:33:58.360 --> 02:34:05.479
picture. I don't know, but
yeah, but just basically that's it.

2145
02:34:05.840 --> 02:34:11.680
You got it. I appreciate all
right there, all right, Jason,

2146
02:34:11.920 --> 02:34:15.159
thank you appreciate that call. Hey, I'm going to run over here to

2147
02:34:15.959 --> 02:34:20.079
Turker and Conro. Can we do
this in a few seconds here? We

2148
02:34:20.239 --> 02:34:24.000
can? We can? Yeah?
Yes, sir, so I got got

2149
02:34:24.200 --> 02:34:28.239
Thank you And also a quick question, thank you because last time I called

2150
02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:31.559
you, I had a I live
up in Dallas and I asked for a

2151
02:34:33.120 --> 02:34:35.159
I asked for a recommendation and who
to go through for landscaping. And you

2152
02:34:35.319 --> 02:34:41.040
recommended me to Scotti Rigsby and he's
great. Yeah, he came and hey,

2153
02:34:41.079 --> 02:34:43.719
I'm afraid, I'm I'm afraid you're
gonna run out of time. How

2154
02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:50.639
can I help you with this Bermuda
Bermuda heights cutting heights two inches. I

2155
02:34:50.680 --> 02:34:56.559
couldn't decide on the blade height.
I'm sorry, We're in a time.

2156
02:34:56.639 --> 02:35:00.280
Two inches is what I would recommend. That's the easiest level to main contain.

2157
02:35:00.440 --> 02:35:03.159
You can go a little lower if
you need to. That's a busy hour.