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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
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor

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It's sho crazy watch Trim. Just
watch him as so many good things to

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see that crazy gas back again not
sord sun Beamon of Tweet. Good morning

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on a what is going to be
an awesome Sunday. This is this weather,

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This weekend has just been standing.
I'm excited. I'm ready to go.

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I hope this afternoon you got plans
to get out about and do some

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maybe plant acquiring, so you're ready
to go at the house. Boy,

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I tell you I was out at
two different nurseries yesterday and just wandering around

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seeing what's going on. And boy, it's exciting seeing all new plants coming

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in. Everybody's ready to go.
By the way, thanks to A and

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A Plants up in Montgomery for having
me out. That was a great time.

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We had a lot of folks come
out, and boy, you guys

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warmed me out with questions. I
think I talked for a couple of at

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least a couple of hours just answering
questions. And I love that. I

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enjoy getting interact with people and helping
them have a more successful garden. But

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we had a good time out there, and thanks again for folks at A

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and A for having us out.
I was thinking about, you know,

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we were having a discussion one person
and myself just about you know, how

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do you know when it's time to
plant tomatoes? And you don't. That's

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the bottom line, as you don't. We have this thing called average frost

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date. Yeah, we say,
well, wait till after that. Well,

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okay, that's a good general guide. Some years it quits freezing and

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frosting before the last average day.
Some years it's later. I think you

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should just get out there, plan
them when you want to plant them,

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but be ready to cover them up. Even if you wait till after the

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date, just know that you're gonna
have to throw a cover over them.

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And the kind of frosts and freezes
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that last average frost date, those
are what we would call light frosts or

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certainly light freezes, where the temperature
dips down at the end of the night

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below freezing, and maybe then it
comes up within an hour after the sun's

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coming up, it's already above so
all he had to do is protect him

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for just a little while. This
isn't the same kind of protecting, so

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even throwing a sheet over them can
help. I like to use plastic on

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PBC hoops in my garden because it's
easy to pull it over the hoops and

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put it on and easy to get
it off. And plastic cosy air dead

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space, so that works good too. But yeah, it's a gamble.

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Some people are gamblers, you know, they take chances and so go for

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it. Other people are very conservative. They were a built end suspenders just

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in case, and those kind of
folks. We'll wait till later, but

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just remember don't wait till too late, because summer comes, and when it

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does, when it gets hot,
the tomatoes quit setting. So you want

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to get as much tomato harvest as
you can. In the meantime, I'm

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going to head out to Full Sure
and we're going to talk to JD to

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start off the day. Hello,
JD, do we have JD? Are

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you there? You go? Morning? How to skip? Good morning?

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How are you? I'm well,
thank you good, thanks for taking a

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call. So I got a couple
of tree questions to start things off this

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morning. Okay, and this is
something I had emailed you on earlier in

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the week. Yes, the issue
number one is I've got some water oaks.

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So my house is about fifteen months
old and got some builders grade trees

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installed, so they did water oaks
and they I didn't know about this terminology,

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so forgive me, but I don't
know that you've used it a whole

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lot. But I definitely heard Randy
use it the mulch volcanoes, yes,

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and so i'd heard that and then
been listening and reading, and I figured,

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you know what, I need to
try to drive these roots down into

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the ground, because I could already
tell that they were going more horizontal than

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they were vertical. So I've dug
out some of the dirt and these two

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oaks in my front yard to try
to drive them down. We will be

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mulching soon. And actually I live
in a fifty five and up community,

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so kind of mulch is included in
the price of the landscaping for the front

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yard. But I was wondering,
because some of these roots are now exposed,

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should I put some dirt back on
top of them and then mulch during

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the next couple of weeks. All
right, let me address those yes,

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you're right to pull that mulch away. It is ridiculed that people make multip

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volcanoes. There is no horticulture reason
for it. It's one of those things

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that got started because it looks neat
to people, and it is a bad

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horticulture practice. You're not going to
drive the roots down. Roots are going

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to grow wherever there's oxygen in the
soil. So in a sandy soil they'll

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be They can go a little deeper
in a clay soil. Pretty much in

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all soils, the vast majority of
roots are in the top foot of soil,

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the vast majority. So you do
want to pull that back. And

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what you want to do is go
down the trunk. And in the picture

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where you have pulled it back,
you see how the trunk flares out at

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the base. A tree trunk,
you know, it can be essentially the

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same size going down and then right
at the base it flares out. And

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if you don't see a trunk flare, the tree is planted too deeply.

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I help somebody out at Ana yesterday
with a photo and that tree went in

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the ground. It looked like the
way a telephone pole goes in the ground.

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You know, telephone poles the same
size all the way until it disappears

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in the soil. That tells you
a tree was planted too deeply, and

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in the case of these, the
mult made it too deep. So pull

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it back to you see the flare. If there are roots that are like

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coming out of the soil and going
back down or something, you could cut

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those if you want. It won't
hurt the tree. But if you just

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see the roots, don't worry about
it. Just throw a mulch over them.

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That'll be okay. They're not where
they are is where there'll always be.

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You know, a root that's up
at the surface is not going to

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somehow become lower in the soil.
One thing I do notice, I want

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to say for I forget is the
very first picture that tree was planted way

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too close to the sidewalk. There
is not a long term future there.

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There's problems. So I don't know. I know, you can't tell them

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to come replant it because I guess
the agent the builder hired them. Right.

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Well, Fortunately, that very first
picture that's close to the sidewalk,

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that's one of my neighbors. Unfortunate
for them, yes, but I took

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that picture as example of what they
were doing from them. So those other

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two trees, those are mine.
So they're kind of almost right in the

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middle between the sadewalk or the walkway
into the house and the sadwalk. Yeah

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okay, well, good good,
Yeah, Well your neighbor needs to change

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act because there is no future for
that, I mean, and it's not

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going to take long before they're going
to wish they hadn't had the tree there.

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But yes, pull the mault back, put a regular mulch down.

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Get you some shredded hardwood mulch,
and uh, you know, just put

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it down over the surface of the
trees. Like it looks like you've got

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a wider area of soil than that
first picture tree. But the wider you

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mulch, the better for the tree. And I know, at some point

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esthetically it's not acceptable. You don't
want a twenty foot wide circle around trees.

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But the wider you can get it, the better off it is for

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the tree getting started and doing well. And even on the one that you

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pull the mulch back, it looks
like I hardly see a flag there,

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so you might want to go check
you They need to pull some soil bake

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as well a little bit okay,
but yeah, that it'll get them a

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little okay. There's definitely a swaar
on that that. I guess that middle

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picture and then one more so JD
hang on, hang on, I'm gonna

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I'm gonna have to take a break. I know you have a follow up.

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Just hang on and we'll come back
to you. All right, Okay,

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thank you, you bet all right, We're gonna take a little break

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here. Our number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

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Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us today. We're

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going to talk about a lot of
things on the show. We I want

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to discuss some lawns a little bit
later. We've got some other business to

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take care of in terms of what
to do now with your plants. Uh,

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if you are wanting to put out
some fertilizer that is an organic fertilizer

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that provides the most nitrogen just about
that you're going to find in any natural

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product. Nitrofuss has one called sweet
Green. Sweet Green is about eleven percent

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on the nitrogen and it's basically a
molasses based fertilizer with a microbial activity that

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really kicks up into high gear.
Microbes like sugars, carbohydrates, especially the

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bacteria. They love. Those.
The beneficial bacteria that are in the soil

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help in your roots. When you
put sweet green down, you are going

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to have a very strong beneficial effect
on increasing that population and creating that environment

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that promotes the optimum health for your
plants, your plant root system. Plants

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live in the roots. We've got
to keep the plants happy by making the

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roots happy. That's kind of how
it works. Sweet green smell is really

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good too. I mean it's named
right. I'm even just imagine something based

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on molasses, Well that was smell
like, Well, there you go,

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that's what it is. Now.
Nit Fuss is available all over the place.

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You know, I have any trouble
finding it here there Yonder You can

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find nitrofacet Fisher's Hardware done in Baytown
or maybe Lake Hardware down in excuse me,

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Lake Carbrea not in Angleton. Find
it in D and D feed up

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in tom as well. Easy to
find nitroposs and the sweet green product.

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Now we're visiting with JD today talking
about some things related to some of his

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trees, and we're going to go
back. Hey, JD, think you

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had a follow up, was it
on crapes, Yes, sir, so

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good news and bad news. So
good news, and thank you for last

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fall encouraging me to wait till late
in the season to transplant a crape myrtle,

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which I did and it looks like
everything is working well with it.

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But both of my crapes had some
black city mold last fall. I had

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applied some something, some kind of
I can't remember, some kind of soap

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okay to try to kill but it
doesn't look like it worked. That's those

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last two pictures I had emailed you. Yeah, just I'm going to be

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trimming them today. But I was
wonder many suggestions to get rid of that

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black city mold. All right,
well, yeah, you do want to

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trim them. You want to cut
off all the twiggy stuff down there because

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you're just getting started on those developing
a beautiful structure. It looks like you

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may have too many trunks too,
in the sense that they're too close together,

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So you may want to find that
out a little bit. Just think

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longer term as to what that's going
to look like. As far as the

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scale, here's the problem with scale. Systemics will get into the nectar of

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the blooms, and that takes a
toll on honey bees in the summer because

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honey bees love crep myrtles in the
summer, that's one of the few flowers

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that they have access to. So
the other alternative is to deal with the

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scale when they're young. Excuse me. The young crawlers are going to come

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out in March or April, depending
on the weather and where you live.

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And if you can catch them at
that stage, that's the baby's crawling out

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from the mother scale. They're unprotected, they have no covering to protect them,

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and it's really easy to kill them. I think this is a little

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more trouble than most people want to
go to. But if you will go

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out to the branches where you see
the little white spots, that's the scale,

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and put some double sided, double
sided sticky tape around a branch and

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then watch it for you know,
each day, just check on it.

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Ever a couple of days, check
on it and if you see little pinkish

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crawlers that have stuck to that,
that tells you the scale are out and

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active. And then you can apply
a horticultural oil spray, or you can

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apply a standard insecticide to kill them
at that vulnerable stage. But the problem

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is timing it right. And the
double sided sticky tape helps. You may

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have to redo the tape because it'll
get dust and stuff on it and no

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longer be sticky, but that's the
best way to monitor. So you know

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in your yard in twenty twenty four
when those scale are going to be ready

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to spray. Okay, and the
spray is an oil or use of the

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other. Yeah, you could use
horticultural oil or or an insecticide by Fentherren

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is a common one available and it
sticks around a while. But you're just

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spraying the branches. You don't need
because the scale is all on the branches.

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You don't have to spray the leaves
and everything on the plant. But

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either way, if you use an
oil or either way, coverage is very

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important. So every spot on a
branch needs to have the product on it,

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so you can't just spray like from
the north side, then the south

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side of the branches the scale go
free over there. All right, All

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right, thanks so much, appreciate
it. You bet, I appreciate the

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call. Good luck with that.
You know, talking about trees, a

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vertin tree Farm is an outstanding source
of a wide variety of types of trees.

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If you're thinking about a palm,
well, they absolutely have a wonderful

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selection of palms that do well here
in this area and they can guide you,

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you know, which are the heartier
ones, which you know ones might

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be a better feature for a certain
setting in the landscape. They can help

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you with that. The website is
easy. It's Verdanttreefarm dot com. Verdant

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Treefarm dot com. There's a Houston
three Houston area locations. One is down

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in Pairland on Broadway Street, one
is in West Houston on Barker Cypress,

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and one is where Yale and I
ten come together kind of in the Heights

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area General Heights area. And really
the thing I like about Verdon Tree is

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that they number one. They have
really large trees. So if you want

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instant tree, they can do that
up to seven hundred gallon trees. They

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do hand what we call a turnkey
service. You go there, you pick

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the tree you want. They don't
just tell you we're going to bring a

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tree to you. You get to
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they bring it to your house,
they plant it and if they've come

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out and you know, they've done
the installation. They offer a one year

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warranty on your tree. And the
sooner you get this done, the better,

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because summer is coming and that's a
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So let's give it a little more
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make that decision and get those trees. Trees are long term value to your

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landscape. When you sell a home, the quality of the trees is a

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huge factor, and it's selling and
what it sells for. Talk to the

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folks at Verdant Tree and get set
up and enjoy the shade or the blooms

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or whatever you choose the tree for
for years and years to come. You're

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listening to garden Line. Our number
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up at A and A Plants yesterday
when I was up there doing an appearance

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and visiting with folks, the folks
at Nelson's were nice enough to give us

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some turf Star weedenator to give away. Now, Weedonator, I don't know

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if you're familiar with that or not, but it is a product that kills

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existing weeds. It's not a pre
emergent only that just prevents weeds, but

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if you've got weeds there, it
will kill them. And it also has

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a very release fertilizer, so it's
going to feed for weeks and weeks and

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weeks going forward. At the same
time, it's not an immediate release like

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our green ups. It's a slower
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You have hand bit and chickweed and
other weeds in your yard. You

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sprinkle enough to just wet the weed
leaves. You don't have to water the

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soil, just wet the surface of
the leaves. Put the turf Star weedinator

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out. It sticks the granule stick
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in. Wait about a day or
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what that's going to do is move
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all those nutrients can then be available
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the nutrients begin to release. That's
how weed Nator works. And we gave

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way several bags of it out there, and you know, it's a it's

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a hot item. I've talked to
a number of garden centers that the people

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are really asking for and there's a
reason. There is a reason for that.

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With the turf Star Whetenator, I
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and I don't know if you were
listening yesterday, but I have some areas.

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When I took a little trip last
year, it's like chinchbugs were waiting

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around the corner, and when I
drove around the corner, they came to

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my house. They did something to
the irrigation system that was coming on regularly

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and quit during the two weeks I
was gone. This is the worst time

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of summer, and when I got
home, it was like a blow torch

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it hit that yard. I might
have to be replanting the yard in that

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area. And so some of you
are in that same boat and just realize

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that now is a great time to
pick a good grass and start over.

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I'm going to do some experiments,
try some different types of newer Saint Augustine's

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and Zosia's as well, by the
way, just to kind of have a

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little bit of an experiment going on. I guess at the house, I'm

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doing it in a way where it
doesn't look like a hodgepot, but I

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want to learn about the new things. It's hard to keep up on all

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the new plants that are coming out, but I try to do the best

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I can. I don't know if
you have been to Plants for All Seasons

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lately, but I was checking them
out and listen, they just got all

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their proven winters in. I don't
know if you know about proven winners,

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but that is a national program of
super gorgeous plants that just perform. They

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do super well, and they have
all kinds of pansies. They've got calibri

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coas and all kinds of different beautiful
plants that are in now and ready to

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go. And their selection of pots
is really gorgeous. Last year we bought

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a couple of really beautiful ceramic pots
from the folks at Plants for All Seasons,

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and they just really set off the
landscape. And if you do the

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combo of some flowers and a gorgeous
pot, it is just a it's a

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show stopper, it really is.
And they can get y'all set up for

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that. And you know, Plants
for All Seasons, they're the ones just

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north of Luetta on Highway two forty
nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta.

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You can take pictures and you can
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with all that. They'll direct you
to plants, they'll tell you how to

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take care of them. They'll even
after the sale. Of course, you

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come back in you say I've got
a problem with this, or hey,

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I need something. Here's a picture
in my yard. They can direct you

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to that because they only carry things
that grow here, and they know what

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works and how to fix problems when
problems occur. Plants for all seasons.

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Dot com or call them up.
Write this down you want this number two

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eight one, three, seven,
six, sixteen forty six two eight one

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three seven six one six four six
and I get back this week. I

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am going to get really busy planting
peppers and tomatoes outside. I've decided,

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Nikki, it is time to get
those apes. That time year, it

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is time to get a planted.
Our garden centers are just burgeoning with peppers

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and is burgeoning a word? Did
I make that up? Burgeoning with peppers

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and tomatoes, And it's an exciting
time. Tomato is the queen of the

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garden. You know. I don't
remember ever getting a call at the extension

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office or here on garden line where
someone asks me about Cole Robbie our regular

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or something. But tomatoes. Tomatoes, they rule, Yes, indeed they

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do. Okay, if you just
close your eyes, can you imagine a

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fresh sliced tomato or popping a cherry
tomato in your mouth and it's like a

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water balloon full of sugar, just
explodes with flavor. Oh, it's what's

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for breakfast. It is what's there
to go? And I've decided it's time.

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I know how to cover a plant
if I'm wrong about the weather.

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But I've just said, okay,
we're done. We're going to plant.

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Oh it's time for Nicky and the
news our number seven to one three two

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one, two, five eight seven
four. Welcome back to garden Line.

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Hey, look outside, it's starting
to glow in the eastern sky. Now,

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if your lights are still off at
the neighbor's house, go bang on

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the door. Tell me you're missing
garden Line for crying out loud. Get

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up, man. They will rise
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morning. Well maybe not this morning, but they'll appreciate it later. Hey,

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I want to tell you if you
have a landscape that has been hammered

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by last year's drought in the summer
and heat, intense heat and drought.

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That combo is a killer. You
need to call the folks at Pierce Scapes

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and here's why. They can do
several things that help with that. Number

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One, you may need plants replaced. You may decide you want to redo,

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redesign a bed, or add a
bed somewhere where you don't have one,

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and you want to tell them,
I'd like some plants that are a

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little bit more resilient than these that
I've been trying to keep alive with water

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for all these years. Secondly,
your irrigation system may not be very efficient.

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They come out and they can check
it and they can do a tune

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up for it. If you have
sprinkler heads that aren't reaching at the proper

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distance between heads, that happens a
lot a lot of poorly designed systems.

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They can evaluate that and help because
here's what happens when you have an inefficient

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system. You waste water because you
run the water more than you need to

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trying to keep the driest spots in
the yard wet while others are getting overwatered.

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Why not have them come out.
You need to give them a call.

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They stay very busy, but the
sooner you call them the schooner.

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They can get you on the schedule
to come out and do all those kinds

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of things. How about a beautiful
patio, how about landscape lighting? Pierce

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escape, Pierce Capes can do all
of that stuff. Go to the website

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and look at the kind of work
they do pierscapes dot com. Now you'll

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see some taj mahals, but I
don't care. If you live in a

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double wide, they can come out
and put a beautiful landscape in around.

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Don't be thrown off by you know, I've got to have you know whatever

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to have that kind of Do you
want a water feature, you can do

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that. They can create that for
you. I just like the versatility.

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I like the fact that they can
go from A to Z and get all

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kinds of landscaping stuff done. Hey, here's the number two eight, one,

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three seven o five zero six zero. They have a service and they

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have an ability to take any place
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you want to spend more time outside, that's Puerce Scapes is good at that.

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That is what they specialize in.
You're listening to Garden Lined, I'm

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your host, Skiprector and Our phone
number is seven to one three two one

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two five eight seven four seven one
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I if you I was talked earlier
about getting some trees planted in things.

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I've had a number of people that
have either talking to me at appearances

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or in calls or putting in a
tree or they they just put in a

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tree. And what you see around
town as you see these trees that are

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that they use the guy wires.
The wires where they put a strap around

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a branch and they tie it to
a steak on the ground, or maybe

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they hammer in an iron post and
they do them on like three corners of

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the tree. So now you get
these wires to trip over and that are

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sticking, you know, out in
the yard. And wires can hold from

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the tree going away from them,
but if the blows twittum, well they

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don't hold that. A wire doesn't
pulls, it doesn't push. Maybe that's

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why I should put it. That's
why the folks at three sixty Tree Stabilizer

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invented the product they invented, and
it is a good one. It's a

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very very sturdy composite plastic arm that
holds onto the tree and holds onto the

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steak. It's made to go on
a T post. It's got the ridges

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in it to hold firmly to a
T post, and it has a strap

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so you can put it on a
regular fence post to attach it to hold

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the tree. You can just put
one on the tree. In many cases

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that's all you need. If you
got a lot of wind blown from different

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directions, you can put a second
one at a ninety degree angle. And

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the strap allows movement, and that
is important. A tree needs to move

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a little bit because movement strengthens the
trunk. And so for you just to

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honker a tree down like I see
these guy wire trees often done where it's

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like there it's a rock and they're
afraid it's going to take off. No,

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it needs to move. Movement creates
strength in plants. That's just a

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principle of horticulture and tree stable edders
is designed for that in mind. Where

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can you get them, Well,
you can get them at Southwest Fertilizer.

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Now they started carrying them Jorges Hidden
Gardens way down South Plants for all seasons,

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Arborgate, Buchanans RCW Nursery and there's
more to come that this is going

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to be a widely available product,
and there's a reason for it. They

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last a long long time. So
you buy one. When you're done with

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it, just hang it up in
the garage. Next time you need one,

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you can put it out there.
And that's true with multi trunk crape

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myrtles too, like we were talking
about earlier today, I'm going to go

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to the phones. Now we're going
to head up to Tomball and talk to

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Clint. Hello, Clint, good
morning morning. My question is my favorite

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plan is pair of wheels? Is
what pair whekles? Oh? Yes?

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And the ground here very rocky.
Yeah, So I thought that maybe buil

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a flower box maybe six feet long, three feet wide. How deep should

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I would that have to be?
Well, you could do You could do

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a box on the ground, or
you could just put a mound of soil

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and create a raised bed. You
could do it either way. Periwinkles don't

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need that much soil, And so
I would say, you know, what

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do you how much do you want? Do you want a four foot wide

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bed or do you want just a
row of periwinkles. You could do that

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in a foot and a half wide
bed. It just kind of depends on

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what you want to look at.
But they are a very good plant for

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summer, the Madagascar periwinkle. People
call them vinka, but I prefer Madagascar

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prairiewinkle for a name. Okay,
do they mix well with other plants?

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They do. Just you have to
think anytime you're putting two plants together,

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how big does each one want to
get? And then you need to plant

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them accordingly, you know, so
you don't over proud them or you don't

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have all this gap and it looks
like they're just scattered out in the bed.

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I'm glad I found your program.
Well I'm glad you did too,

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And boy are you ever lucky to
be up? And then Tomball there,

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which way north south east west?
Are you from Tombull? Oh? Are

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you in town or outside? Oh? Okay, good, Well you have

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to drive by Arbrogate every day.
That's a yeah, arbigade. Yeah,

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I gotta go by there. Oh
my, I was just out there yesterday,

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and boy does it look good.
They got a lot of stuff coming

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in out there at Arbrogate. It
is is a beautiful place. I always

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like to visit. I always liked
to Well, I got to make sure

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I got some cash cause I get
botting plants. I go crazy. Yeah,

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I know, but that's you know
what it could be worse. You

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could you could have a hunting lease
or a bass boat. So you're saving

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money by growing plants. Oh yeah, it's a good it's a good hobby.

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Thank you tell you my call.
All right, Well you take care

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of Say hi to them out there
at Arburgate next time you go out.

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Thanks a lotle. I appreciate that
that. I was just visiting with them.

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Man, they're getting a lot of
color in and they can't keep it

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on the shelf. I mean there
are these big racks coming off trucks and

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the tables. People are hauling them
off the tables, and it's like,

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yep, that's the place to go. I mean, if you want a

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good selection, they have it.
And by the way, I don't know

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if I forgot to tell you or
not, but earlier they do have the

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new parking lot and you've got to
do I did it. I drove by

407
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.880
Arbigate yesterday and the parking lot was
full in front. Because it's a great

408
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.119
place and people know about it.
And I just drove down to Trishel Road.

409
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.240
It goes behind Arburgate. So whether
you do before you get there,

410
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.480
after you get there, it doesn't
matter. You can't miss it. Turned

411
00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.599
on Trashel it goes round behind Arburgate
and oh my gosh, the parking lot

412
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is great. It's one of these
naturally. It just takes water right through

413
00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.079
and goes to the ground and you're
just high and dry, walk right in

414
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.720
the back. Easy access. Yeah. Get you got to go out and

415
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:07.640
check that out. Pretty cool stuff. Let's see where we're going to go

416
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.279
next. We are gonna go,
Oh why I tell you what we're gonna

417
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.079
do. We're gonna go take a
break. When we come back from break,

418
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Crag and Chris, you're gonna be
the first two up our number seven

419
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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line.

420
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.440
Glad you're listening today. We got
lots to talk about. Hey.

421
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.839
One thing we do need to talk
about, though, is the summer weeds

422
00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:34.039
are coming. They are sprouting.
They like warming temperatures. When the soil

423
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.160
hits about fifty five degrees, we
start to see the summer weeds begin to

424
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.000
pop up. Some of them.
Wait a little bit later, but that

425
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.359
that's when we need to be putting
anything. If you're going to put a

426
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.640
primergent down to prevent them, you
need to do it now. Now is

427
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.480
the time. Don't delay any longer, especially for those of you in the

428
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.279
southern part of our listening area.
It's time. It's time to get it

429
00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.880
out. Night of Fuss has a
product called Barricade. Barricade shuts down weeds

430
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.119
by putting a barricade on the soil
surface. You put it out at the

431
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:08.279
label rate, follow the label always
and then immediately go ahead. Well then

432
00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.559
have to be immediately. But after
that you need to water it in with

433
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:15.519
about a half inch of water or
third of an inch of water even just

434
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.559
to move it to the soil surface. That's all we're trying to do is

435
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.680
just get it down in the soil
surface, because until you do that,

436
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.119
that product is not down there,
and when a weed tries to germinate,

437
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.920
there's no product around to stop it. And so that's why incorporating it with

438
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:34.240
water is very important. Now.
Night Fuss Barricade can be purchased all over

439
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.880
town. Night Fuss products are available
everywhere. It makes it really easy to

440
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:44.599
find them. Lake Jackson Lake Hardware
down in Kluke Lake Jackson. That is

441
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:47.480
a good place to find a lot
of those products. A task Asida.

442
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.440
Ace Hardware also has the nitroposs products. You can go out to Sinko Ranch

443
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:56.039
and Ace Hardware out there also has
nitro fuss products like barricade. Makes it

444
00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:59.319
easy. We're going to run out
now to pair Land and talk to Craig.

445
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.799
Good morning, Skip, Thanks for
taking my call. Yes, sir,

446
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:10.039
I have a couple of questions.
One I called late last year about

447
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.640
fringe tree and I wrote some of
the stuff down, but unfortunately I forgot

448
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:17.319
some of the things you told me. So we're looking the planet a couple

449
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:21.000
of fringe trees in our yard on
the west northwest side, and I believe

450
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.960
you told us the plane about twenty
feet apart, but I could remember where

451
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.240
you suggested coming from Peerland where we
look to buy them. You know,

452
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.880
we don't have any of those nurseries
you speak about on your website, And

453
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:40.400
is there any nursery in particular that
you think would have this tree, because

454
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.279
I don't see a lot in our
neighborhoods or anywhere really, so I don't

455
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:47.279
know how easy they are to find. Yeah, I think down in Proland

456
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:52.759
you might be able to find those
at Moss Nursery. They are over in

457
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.920
Seabrook, so it's a little bit
of a distance but not too far.

458
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:59.720
It's worth going anyway because it's a
cool place to visit. You might find

459
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:05.079
them on there. I don't know
if Jorge has them at Jorges Hidden Gardens.

460
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.880
He might, but that would be
another one. And Jorge is over

461
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:14.200
in the Alvin area, so that's
also pretty close to you, but I

462
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.079
would I would check with him first. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.

463
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:22.200
You can do just go to a
Maps and look for j O. R.

464
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.720
G. E. Jorges Hidden Gardens
and he may have those as well,

465
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:29.480
or maybe he can get them in
for you if he doesn't. Right,

466
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.839
how big of a pot size would
it would I expect to when I

467
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.920
buy these things or whatever size you
want. I mean, it doesn't I'm

468
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.279
going to say it doesn't matter in
terms of you having a tree. The

469
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.200
difference is you get a bigger pot, you get a bigger tree. It's

470
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.680
larger to start with, But if
you wanted to save some money a smaller

471
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:52.119
pot, it's still going to turn
out to be the same kind of tree.

472
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:55.519
But yeah, it depends on the
garden center and what sizes they're carrying.

473
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.359
Right, and we've heard of your
your advice planning to anything special for

474
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:05.519
this particular tree once it's planned,
as far as new tree is concerned,

475
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:07.440
no, just treat it. Just
treat it like a tree. I mean,

476
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:13.000
there are a lot of good options
out there. I you could use

477
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:17.599
a lawn fertilizer on it. You
know, I use a lawn fertilizer on

478
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.440
a lot of my things just for
trees. You know, in general,

479
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.480
that would work just fine. Uh, They're just you got a lot of

480
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.160
options. It's not just a you
know, you have to have a certain

481
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:34.200
kind of fertilizer. Now you know, our different companies they'll make a specific

482
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.200
fertilizer that you know, they design
it, they create it for a specific

483
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:43.000
kind of plant, and those are
fine too. But in general, you

484
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.200
can also in a pinch, just
quade and use your lawn fertilizer on it.

485
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.279
It'll do just you know what I
was on what I was on hold,

486
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.519
I thought of one other question.
Okay, we're planning on planning of

487
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.319
a crepe myrtle white match has,
which I believe is a medium size Okay,

488
00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:59.960
and it's going on the side of
the yard where there were two pumped

489
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.039
trees. Previously, they were both
killed by freezes, et cetera. How

490
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:08.159
far away from the original trunk or
stump should the crape myrtle be planted so

491
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.880
that its roots are impacted. I'm
sorry, what kind of tree was there

492
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:17.119
before palm trees? I think there
were Florida sables. You know, I

493
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.079
just moved by the Yeah, I
would just move over. You got to

494
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.920
get enough away to make it easier
to dig. But you know, just

495
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:29.400
move a two or three feet over
and you'll be fine, except for the

496
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.280
fact that you don't have to be
digging. But hey, listen, white

497
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.760
Natches is not a medium size.
It will get thirty feet thirty five feet

498
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.320
tall, so you might want to
look if you don't want one that big,

499
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:44.719
you might want to look for a
smaller one. Natches is a wonderful

500
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:49.000
crape, but it's not a small
crape. Yeah, it's well, the

501
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.920
space is not an issue. We'll
double check all the sizes. We thought

502
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:54.239
it was kind of like a like
you right, maybe it's twenty to thirty

503
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:58.480
foot tree. Okay, okay,
thank you very much, Thank you.

504
00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.360
Craig appreciate, appreciate your all.
Yeah, for those of you who haven't

505
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.159
been out to Jorges Hidden Gardens,
you gotta check it out. He's got

506
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.360
avocado trees, got hibiscus in.
They just got a bunch of those in.

507
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:10.599
They're loaded veggies and herbs. And
when it comes to fruit, blackberries,

508
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:14.760
blueberry, strawberries, raspberry. They
even have elderberries. You know,

509
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.199
you could buy an elderberry. That's
right. They have mulberries as well too.

510
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.280
Jeges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Street
in Alvin, just south of Highway

511
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.039
six. So those of you in
Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson, Hillcrest,

512
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.800
you know, Arcadia, Alta Loma. I'll go all those communities.

513
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.920
This is your backyard garden center right
there. And boy, they have a

514
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:37.679
lot of other things. Peggy Martin, roses and on and on down there

515
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:39.840
at Jorges Hidden Gardens. You gotta
give him a give him a checkout.

516
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:44.320
I think you'll enjoy it. Let's
see, we're going to go now to

517
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:49.400
Chris in Jersey Village. Hello,
Chris, Yeah, good morning, good

518
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:53.280
morning. I have a great neighbor. He's wonderful. He invites me to

519
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:57.480
a Super Bowl party, as we
get along grat but he just does not

520
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.719
want to take care of his yard. And last year the same thing happened

521
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.719
to me. Skip the chinch bugs
and the root run. I think the

522
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:12.840
combination wiped out his yard and then
croak creaked over into mine. And you

523
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:16.639
know, our lawns share, you
know, the common dirt and everything.

524
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:23.280
Is there any any kind of barrier, skip that I could put between my

525
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:28.760
grass and his grass to maybe keep
you know, things from spreading over to

526
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.920
mine. I mean, I've tried
taking care of his grass, and you

527
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.880
know it's it's more expensive to water
it and to fertilize it and do everything

528
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.000
that you need to do. It's
a large patch of grass that owns.

529
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:45.639
But he'll come over with his lawnmower
and just scalp it, you know when

530
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.639
he mows it once every month,
you know, and just gets it down

531
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:54.320
to the ground where you know,
myne grass is the lawnmower sittings all the

532
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.480
way up. So I didn't know
if you had any suggestions, Well let

533
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.039
me, let me, let me
just cut to it. Isn't There's not

534
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:04.880
a barrier. So what you would
do is if you see like chinchbug activity

535
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:08.199
in his lawn. Just spray a
swathe through that side of your lawn to

536
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.840
create that barrier. You can ask
him if he minds if you spray a

537
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.760
little over into his side, that
would even be better. But that would

538
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:21.559
be the option there. And as
far as diseases, they're kind of ubiquitous

539
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:24.920
and so it's not like takeoff patch
is going to go from his lawn to

540
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.519
your lawn. It's out there and
when grass gets stressed, it gets that

541
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.280
disease, and his lack of care
for it is probably part of the reason

542
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.679
why that it's it's doing that.
So so spraying is going to Spraying a

543
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:43.039
barrier is going to be what you
have to do. Okay, scared,

544
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.800
that's kind of what I figure.
Yeah, I give you a call this

545
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:49.199
morning. Yeah, thanks for the
call. Thanks for the call. Appreciate

546
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.079
that very very much. You know, we talk about putting out fertilizers this

547
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.639
time of year. You can put
out azamite anytime of year. Fertilizers the

548
00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.559
kind you know, the ones with
the three numbers on the back, Those

549
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:07.320
we put out in larger quantities to
promote grass growth. Azamite is a trace

550
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.920
mineral supplement that you're putting it out
to put a bank account in the soil

551
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.719
of the things grass needs and tiny
amounts but are essential to the grass.

552
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.320
That's what azemite is. It's a
trace mineral or micronutrient product. Ten pounds

553
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:24.400
will cover one thousand square feet of
your vegetable garden. By the way,

554
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:29.800
a forty four five bag will cover
like six to twelve thousand feet long.

555
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.079
Because we're not putting a lot of
this out, just a little. But

556
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:36.960
the fact that it's a little doesn't
mean that it's not very very important.

557
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:44.119
Asmite Texas dot com. Just to
go to azimite Texas dot com. Well

558
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.400
here we put an hour in the
books. This morning sun is just about

559
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:51.119
to peek up above the horizon.
I can't wait for a great day.

560
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:53.000
I hope you're ready to go on
that. Hey, I want to tell

561
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:59.360
you about rom will be next weekend
next weekend up in Montgomery County, the

562
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.000
Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. It's going to be at the Lone

563
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:06.840
Star Convention Center. I've been up
there a couple of times for these,

564
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:08.079
and I'm really looking forward to it. We're going to be giving away some

565
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:13.639
Nelson fertilizer up there, actually I
think no, we're going to be giving

566
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.440
away the Genesis. I'll tell you
more about Genesis when we come back,

567
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:22.519
but the Nelson Genesis giveaways. I'll
be giving a presentation up there and then

568
00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:27.360
answering your gardening questions. Now that's
next weekend. The show is March second

569
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.559
and third. I'll be there on
Saturday after I get done with the radio

570
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:37.639
show. Here. I hope you
can come up and see me. Kt

571
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.920
RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

572
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:54.519
this program. Welcome to Katy r
H Garden Line with Scamp Richter's trip.

573
00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:09.119
Just watch him as world. So
many things to welcome back to Garden Line.

574
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:15.199
Look outside, I see a little
sliver of sunlight coming across the sky.

575
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.920
This is a good news because today
is going to be one of those

576
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.159
awesome days. I hope this afternoon
you got plants to get out, do

577
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.719
a little yard work, maybe pick
up some plants, pick up some supplies.

578
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.599
Remember when we're taking care of our
plants, we need to do the

579
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.880
brown stuff before the green stuff,
Right you ever heard me say that before?

580
00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:37.199
If you're listening to the Garden Line
once even once you have and why

581
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:38.280
do we say that. Well,
you know, when you go to a

582
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:43.920
garden center, it's easy to get
excited about the tomato plants and picture and

583
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:45.760
the tomatoes are going to grow.
You can taste them before you can put

584
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:50.599
the plant in the ground. It's
easy to get excited about flowers and all

585
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:53.880
kinds of things. But it's the
soil that makes all that happen. And

586
00:40:53.960 --> 00:41:00.320
if you go PLoP a plant into
an unprepared plot Peter Piper picked a peckers,

587
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.400
you're not gonna have success. It
could be a great plant, but

588
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.639
you're not gonna have success. It
needs to be in a soil where the

589
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:13.199
plant roots can thrive and er.
You know, I find that when you

590
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.599
have a really quality mix, it
makes it look like you have a green

591
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:21.320
thumb because you're giving the plants everything
they want. Remember that no brown thumbs.

592
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.199
There's only an informed thumbs. And
I'm informing you if you go to

593
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:30.280
Ciana Maltz yep Cienamlts down there Nurse
North the Road, Sharon, They're on

594
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.800
FM five twenty one down south,
you're gonna find the kind of soils and

595
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:39.320
fertilizers that make the brown stuff come
alive and the roots will thrive and the

596
00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:44.320
plants will thrive, and you will
be very happy and you'll be very impressed

597
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.360
too. By the way, CINMLS
has lots of quality, quality materials.

598
00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:52.360
We're talking about composts, we're talking
about bed mixes, we're talking about mulching

599
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.840
materials. If I talk about a
fertilizer on guard line, it's at Cienamltch.

600
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:59.480
They carry all of those, all
of the lines. So when you

601
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.599
leave namlts or you call it,
whether you call them and have them to

602
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:07.719
deliver within about twenty miles their bulk
materials, or if you just go there

603
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.079
and get it yourself, when you
leave, you're gonna have everything you need

604
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:15.719
to set your plants up for success. That is what Cennamulch is about.

605
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:22.320
Here's the website, Sienna multch dot
com, Sienna multch dot com. Go

606
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.440
there and take a look. And
when you're there physically, by the way,

607
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:30.079
check out their rock materials. Their
stone there, they're flagstone, and

608
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:34.199
it just it's a wide variety of
things and when you look at them,

609
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.639
you're gonna you're gonna picture something in
your backyard where you could use those to

610
00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:44.440
create that little patio or oasis that
you're looking for. Cienamultch dot com makes

611
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.119
it easy. Let's head up to
Cyprus, Texas and we're gonna talk to

612
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:52.920
Melanie. Hello, Melanie. Hi. Yeah, I've already bought my weed

613
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:54.960
and etter and I'm gonna got to
get it out this week. I've heard

614
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.519
all your how to dos on that. Do I put the pre emergent down

615
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:07.719
before I do the whedonator? You
could? I'm trying to think about that.

616
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.719
Yes, you could put it down. And what you're going to want

617
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:15.559
to do though, is both both
of them need to be watered in,

618
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:21.719
but at different times, so you're
gonna I would I would do the pre

619
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:24.480
emergent down on the ground. Uh, then I would I would wet the

620
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:30.320
soil and then do the whedonator and
then one more light about third of an

621
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.960
inch to wash. So I kind
of thought i'd do one other question.

622
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:38.920
You talked about the tumbling tongue.
Yes, and plants for all seasons.

623
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:43.760
You had it last year and I
bought it and they were great. Aren't

624
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:49.840
they unbelievable? They're unbelievable. It
was a hanging basket of three plants and

625
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:54.360
then I transplanted them into like a
big It was about a ten gallon big

626
00:43:55.159 --> 00:44:00.440
container and they did great. But
now I'm going to try to find them

627
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:04.159
again. I'm going to try to
see if they've got it this year.

628
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.280
I've got good news for you.
They might. You can check them out.

629
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.719
I was at Arborgate yesterday and they
had a few and hanging baskets they

630
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.840
did. No. No, if
you're you know, wherever you like shop,

631
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.400
you can do that. I just
happened to see those yesterday when I

632
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.559
was out there. But that is
a plant that I thought it was gone.

633
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.679
I thought that variety was gone,
and so I was so excited when

634
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.719
I saw those that we did.
We did a trial. Yeah, we

635
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.840
did a trial in Harris County at
the old Extension office when it was at

636
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:38.519
Bear Creek Park. I had seven
gallon buckets and I put all like twenty

637
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.159
different kinds of tomatoes in them,
and we replicated it like three buckets of

638
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.639
each tomato. Tumbling tom won hands
down, and it was like an average

639
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.559
of two hundred fruit off a plant. Now you got to water and fertilize

640
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.159
them. And a little hanging basket's
a smaller container. So I'm not saying

641
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.719
you're going to get two hundred.
But I'm saying, if you really keep

642
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.159
it moist, don't let it dry
out, and you keep fertilizing it,

643
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:05.280
that is a really productive little tomato. Well here's my question too on that.

644
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.760
Do I need Like I still have
this container full of dirt from last

645
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:14.800
year, but do I need to
change that out with the tomatoes. You

646
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.519
don't need amend it. You don't
need to, you can amend it.

647
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:22.199
You definitely want to work in some
kind of a nutrient type of material into

648
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:27.519
it. That that's important to you
know, beef it up because a limited

649
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:31.119
root system has to have all the
water and nutrients it needs for the plants

650
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:35.719
to thrive. And so that's what
you got to create in that smaller container

651
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.920
with jungle land. Would that be
a good thing? Jungle is, Yeah,

652
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:45.400
jungle land is an excellent potting mix. Nitrous nitrofuss will distribute that all

653
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:50.880
around. And jungle Land it's got
the you know, the blends of the

654
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.239
Canadian blondb pede. It's got microhizo
fungi and four different types of decomposed organic

655
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:58.800
material. That's the outdoor. That's
the outdoor jungle Land, and they have

656
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:01.559
the indoor one that's called junger Land
water Saving soil. But I think you're

657
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:06.480
talking about tomatoes you would want to
go. Yeah, the outside, Yeah,

658
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:09.400
the label will say something like jungle
Land Flour and Vegetable Potting Soil.

659
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:13.760
But that would be an excellent one
to use. And you know you're there

660
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:15.719
in Cyprus, so you're going to
be able to go. I don't know

661
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.719
which of the garden centers are carrying
it up there, but I know you

662
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:22.599
can find it at the ACE hardware
stores around you. You've got the ACE

663
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.159
on Jones Road Plants Well Seasons,
Oh, Plants Troll Seasons. That's great,

664
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:29.239
Okay, go for it. Yeah, yeah, that's a good good

665
00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:30.880
mix. But when you buy that, also buy while you're there. At

666
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:36.480
Plants for All Seasons, they're going
to have the little canisters of the fertilizers

667
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:42.079
that you can mix into the soil
as well to provide the nutrients that you

668
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.159
need. You want to beef that
up. The little canisters. Who oh,

669
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:51.440
well, Nelson's Plant Food and Nitrofs, Plant Food and Microlife all will

670
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:57.000
sell you little jars of fertilizer and
they may be for vegetables or hibiscus or

671
00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.280
you know what I'm saying, yeah, you could refill them too, right,

672
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.920
and you can. You can some
of those in some places. Yeah,

673
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.840
but I think they do have a
refill station at plants for all seasons.

674
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:14.400
For I believe they have the Nelson
and the the microlife refill. But

675
00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:17.000
just to ask them, I could
be wrong about. What about that Genesis

676
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.320
thing? Would that be good to
put in there? Oh? Yeah,

677
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:24.119
that'd be excellent to put in there. That, Well, you got to

678
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:28.960
give it a try. I don't. I'm not sure if they're carrying it

679
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:30.639
there. They may well be,
but call them first and ask them if

680
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:35.719
they have it or can get it. But Genesis is by Nelson. Pardon,

681
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.039
so I know they have the wednater
plants for all season? Has that

682
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:44.079
Okay, Well they may have it, and Genesis is in the jars too,

683
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:47.280
the plastic jars. Oh it is, Yes, Yes, that's what

684
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.000
I'll get. Yeah, it's a
it's a good boy. We've talked about

685
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:55.960
every fertilizer under the sun and this
one call. So thank you so much.

686
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.960
I'm ready to go to work all
right now. You know the rule

687
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.079
on guard Line is I don't charge
for this advice, but I do expect

688
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:06.280
at least half the tomatoes that that
tumbling tom produces. Just drop them off

689
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.360
at the station that you're convenient.
I'll have to do that. Thank you.

690
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:14.079
I appreciate your help. Thank you. Melanie. Yeah. Yeah.

691
00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:17.239
That nutri star genisis. It's a
six y one three fertilizer and it's got

692
00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:22.599
the indo and Ectomycrohisa fungiant humates and
I've used it and I'm very impressed.

693
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:27.400
You mix it into the soil you're
going to transplant your plants into and it

694
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.280
works super super well. We're gonna
take a little break. It's time for

695
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:36.000
that seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Okay, Josh,

696
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.760
you're cracking me up. I used
to be a county extension agent,

697
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:44.400
and most people don't know what a
county extension agent is. Every state has

698
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:49.119
has a Langrane University here in Texas's
tex A and m LSU's over in Louisiana,

699
00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:52.280
Oklahoma State Cornell up in New York. Anyway, they have county extension

700
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.559
agents and most people don't know what
they are. But anybody who watched Green

701
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.679
Acres knows that there's such a thing
called a county extension agent. Those of

702
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:06.159
us who were one would rather you
don't think of the County Extension agent on

703
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.559
Green Acres when you think about because
he was he was a mess, that

704
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:14.000
is for sure. You're listening to
garden Line. Our phone number is seven

705
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:19.360
to one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

706
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:23.079
two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I was just visiting with Melanie who

707
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:28.760
basically took me through the history of
all fertilizer in terms that we just talked

708
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:31.960
about every fertilizer under the sun.
And I uh, we were talking about

709
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:37.320
Melanie were talking about going by plants
roll seasons, and I said, I

710
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.119
didn't know if they had the Nelson
genesis, and they do. I just

711
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.000
heard from them, Sherry, and
they do carry that over there too.

712
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:49.480
So you can just kind of kill
two birds, I guess with one stone.

713
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.440
That is a It is an excellent, excellent product for sure, if

714
00:49:54.480 --> 00:50:00.280
you are wanting to attract bluebirds and
purple martins to your home. You know,

715
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:06.000
birds eat insects, right, and
they are a beneficial creature in that

716
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:09.880
regard eating insects in our landscapes.
And when it comes to nesting time,

717
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:14.679
they need a lot of caterpillars to
feed their young. That high protein,

718
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.639
high fat caterpillar. Can't you just
imagine how wonderful that tastes. Well.

719
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.880
They eat a lot of those,
and that's important for their nesting time,

720
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:23.920
and that's coming up. But you
got to get ready for that now by

721
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:28.679
putting out a bird house, a
bluebird house, a special kind of house

722
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:31.559
for bluebirds. And you also need
to put up a Purple Martin house because

723
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:36.280
the scouts are out looking right now
for a place to set up home.

724
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:39.119
And the folks at Wildbirds have you
set up on both of those and they

725
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:45.199
have some wonderful designs, beautiful houses
really everything you need, even one that

726
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:49.559
one of the Purple Martin houses that
will drop down. You don't have to

727
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.079
take the whole pole down. It'll
just kind of come down where you can

728
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.920
get to it real easily and put
it back up very very good. You

729
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.920
know, there's six Wildbirds locations around
the Greater Houston area. Go to dub

730
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:07.480
b U dot com, WBU dot
com, forward Slash Houston, WBU dot

731
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.760
Com forward Slash Houston find the one
near you, and when you go in

732
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:13.639
there, you definitely need to go
home with some of their bird seed.

733
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.719
Their bird seed is one hundred percent
bird food, a lot of cheap bird

734
00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:22.199
seeds with all the little redbebes that
birds kick out. You may think that's

735
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:27.039
a cheaper seed, it's not because
half the seed that you're putting out there,

736
00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:29.800
the birds aren't gonna eat, so
you're paying double the price just for

737
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.480
that. So while you're in wild
Birds, make sure and pick up some

738
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:37.480
of the quality bird seed blends that
they have. Uh that blends for all

739
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:42.039
kinds of different birds as well.
Well. You are listening to Gardenline and

740
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:46.119
our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven

741
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:52.199
one three two one two five eight
seven four makes it really really easy.

742
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:57.440
Uh. Just a while back,
I was down in Seabrook. In fact,

743
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.239
I've gone twice recently. I've had
to go down there for a couple

744
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.480
of different things. But I stop
by Moss Nursery, And if you've never

745
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:12.000
been to Moss you really need to
go. It is acres of wandering through

746
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.679
a plant wonderland. You're going to
encounter all kinds of things. They have

747
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:21.000
an unbelievable selection of pots. For
example, and you know, whatever,

748
00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:23.039
what size pot do you want,
Well they've got it. They're just all

749
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:28.280
over the place. When you walk
through, it's just like it's like you're

750
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.519
walking through a botanical garden. You
know, at every turn it's like,

751
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:35.119
oh wow, what's that. That's
cool? Well, go into the houseplant

752
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:40.000
greenhouse and check out the cacti and
succulents. Un believable, the selection,

753
00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:44.840
I'm telling you. They they're on
tables, they're on the shelves, they

754
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.360
are on the ground, they're hanging
from the rafters. That place is packed

755
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:52.400
with all kinds of cool succulents.
We picked up a string of tears.

756
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:57.000
My wife lies likes string of plants, and so I grabbed me one of

757
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.519
those when I was there the last
time. Listen, here's an number you

758
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:05.480
need this two eight one four seven
four twenty four eighty eight. Two eight

759
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:09.519
one four seven four twenty four eighty
eight. They're on Toddville Road down in

760
00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:15.119
Seabrook. If you haven't been,
I've got a great outing for you this

761
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:19.440
afternoon. You need to go check
it out. Lots of plants, patio

762
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:22.920
plants, plants for in the ground, plants for pots. They've got them

763
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.599
all by the way. When you're
there, they've got some really cool peppers

764
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.679
in. Two of my favorite peppers. One of them is called fool to

765
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:31.679
youew it has no heat at all. Now, why would you want a

766
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:37.920
no heat klopennio. Here's why.
You can add a hot halopeno to it

767
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.039
when you're making salsa, and you
can make it as hot or mild as

768
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:45.039
you want. Think about that.
You want three mild klopenios with a and

769
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:47.679
then one hot one, or vice
versa for the hot ones. I would

770
00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:51.239
recommend you check out and they have
this one there too. By the way,

771
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:55.119
Mucho Nacho, does that name not
tell you? It's a big old,

772
00:53:55.360 --> 00:54:00.360
thick walled klopennia. I love peppers. We're going to go out to

773
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:05.599
Sugarland now and we're going to talk
to Ruben. Hello, Ruben, Hello,

774
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:10.679
are you I'm doing well? Sir? Yes, sir, good morning.

775
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:15.119
But based on that last phone call, I was warning like some gardening

776
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:22.519
one on one tips about planning tomatoes. Okay, what's soil? What's the

777
00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:27.559
best seeds in the best season plant? Okay? Well, you're down there

778
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.320
in Sugarland, so you've got a
lot of places pretty close to you where

779
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:36.639
you can pick up some really quality
materials you might want to try. Heirloom

780
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:42.360
soil has a veggie an herb mix, and you can find that if you

781
00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:46.599
go down to the the Anchinna Gardens
and Channet Forest down toward the Richmond Way.

782
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:52.639
If you go up to Southwest Fertilizer
Bess and that and Runwick just into

783
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.320
Houston, you're kind of close to
both of those and they'll carry those kinds

784
00:54:55.360 --> 00:55:00.400
of blends for you that also carry
the fertilizer to go with them that you

785
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.960
want to mix into the soil.
Because here's the key to success. You

786
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:07.519
create a beautiful soil blend, you
mix a good quality fertilizer into it,

787
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:13.840
and that tomato they just thrive well. As they say, just add water.

788
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.280
You just add water, right and
it's going to be happy. And

789
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:21.639
I know all those places are going
to have a great selection of tomatoes right

790
00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:25.400
now. I was checking out the
folks at Engented Forest. They built a

791
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:31.519
new herb and tomato structure last year
and that thing is packed with lots of

792
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:36.280
good options. So you're fortunate.
You're kind of like right in the middle

793
00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:39.480
of a lot of good places to
get plants and products and things like that.

794
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:45.679
Awesome, all right, when you
do, you want to plant them

795
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:49.880
soon, and if you have to
cover them, cover them up, but

796
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:54.159
just try to get them in.
Don't delay too much because you want to

797
00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:59.480
get that tomato harvest before it gets
too hot. Oh, I got you

798
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.239
all right. That's good, sir, Thank you so much. Thanks for

799
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:06.960
the call. Appreciate that. Good
to talk to you, that is for

800
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:13.280
sure. In the lawns, I've
had a last yesterday talking to people out

801
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:17.400
at a anda. Tons of questions
about lawns. People care about their lawns.

802
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:21.079
At the extension office, we used
to say the three things that make

803
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:23.119
our phone ring are trees, turf, and tomatoes. The three t's.

804
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:28.800
Turf is a big one, probably
the biggest one of those three. Nitropos

805
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:31.880
has an Imperial fifteen five ten.
And if you look at my gardening schedule

806
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:37.920
you'll see there's a spring green up
that's optional. And what that is about

807
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:43.400
is we put an immediately available fertilizer
on the soil about now in order to

808
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:47.440
get that grass to green up.
It looks prettier and it's a stronger plant.

809
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:51.880
As the weather warms, that grass
is going to start growing. The

810
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.440
temperature controls whether it's able to take
off growing or not. But when it's

811
00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:59.639
ready to take off growing, you
want nutrients in the soil that are there

812
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:04.280
to boot that growth. And that's
what Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten is

813
00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:07.519
all about. It works very well. It's designed. You know, eight

814
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.239
years ago Texas and m did research
and found out that a three one two

815
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:15.159
ratio like of the fifteen five to
ten is what you need in order to

816
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.920
get the best growth out of your
grass. Now where do you get Where

817
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:22.679
are you going to find it?
Well, lots of places bearing hardware both

818
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:28.119
on Bessinette and Westheimer carries Nitrofoss fifteen
five to ten. It's called Imperial.

819
00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:30.760
It's a red bag. By the
way, Plantation Ace Hardware out there in

820
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:36.880
the Richmond Rosenberg area carries it,
and Hiden and Feed on I forty five

821
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.440
north on Stubor Airline they have it
too up there. It's real easy to

822
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:43.199
find. But now the time to
get that down. We get a little

823
00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:46.280
bit later we're going to start putting
slower release fertilizers out. But now's the

824
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:51.239
time for the quick greenup. We're
going to go. Now, let's see,

825
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.119
we're going to go to trying to
see who's been on the longest.

826
00:57:53.719 --> 00:58:01.119
Doctor Ruben In Sugarland. Hello,
Reuben, we have Reuben in sugar Land.

827
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:06.320
Okay, I'll tell you what I'm
going to put Ruben on hold.

828
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:10.480
We'll come back to you. Let's
try Martha up in Cyprus. Hello Martha,

829
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.000
Hi, Hi, Skip. I
have a live ol tree. It's

830
00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:22.639
about twenty years old, and it
was trimmed in November by the one you

831
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:30.280
recommend, and now it's dropping leaves
like crazy. It ever dropped acorns like

832
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:37.639
all the other trees around here did, and now it's just losing the leaves

833
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:42.519
like terrible, and the other trees
around here aren't okay. That is okay.

834
00:58:43.519 --> 00:58:50.880
You can rest easy, basically,
And there's there's differences in years,

835
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:54.960
but there's also differences in genetics between
trees. But live oaks, we think

836
00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.800
of them as an evergreen, but
they go through a transition. And I

837
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.519
to have two live oaks in my
front yard, and one of them it's

838
00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:07.880
like it stayed green the whole time. The other one almost went there dropping

839
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:12.320
leaves before the new leaves came on. That's the transition of kicking off the

840
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:15.960
old leaves because the new growth is
coming on. And again, it can

841
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:20.400
vary a lot between trees, but
that your tree is going to green back

842
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:24.199
out. It's just fine. Okay, Okay, Now I'm you know,

843
00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:29.239
I'm assuming. I'm assuming that you
know, you didn't nuke it with a

844
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:32.719
tree killing herbicide or some other thing
is going on. But I didn't do

845
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:37.960
anything to it. And Jack,
I haven't been watering since the you know,

846
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:40.239
the when we had the really old
I turned my sprinkler off, so

847
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.920
I haven't watered. Okay, Well, it's fine. We've had plenty of

848
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:49.159
rain for a live oak, that's
for sure. Yeah. I can't think

849
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.039
of any other thing, and that
is a very normal thing. So you

850
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:58.920
know, we're going to assume it's
the obvious why my tree doesn't drop acrunt,

851
00:59:59.119 --> 01:00:01.719
some of the trees drop and like
crazy, well it varies, it

852
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:07.199
also varies. It just it's we
The fancy word is, it's the vicissitudes

853
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.760
of nature, Martha, And that's
just kind of how nature is. So

854
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:16.400
don't don't worry about it. You'll
be okay. Try orients, you bet,

855
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:20.960
you bet. While ago, you
know, I've been talking about these

856
01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:25.199
fertilizers and weed control products, and
a while ago we were visiting with Ruben

857
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:31.119
down or not Ruben. Somebody done
in sugar Land. I'm we were talking

858
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.800
about Southwest Fertilizer being a place where
you could go and get things. Bob

859
01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:42.880
at Southwest he specializes in making sure
they have everything you could need. Every

860
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:46.039
fertilizer I talk about and more,
it's there. Do you like synthetic,

861
01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:51.320
it's there. Do you want organic, it's there. And that also applies

862
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:57.559
to insecticides and fungicides and herbicides to
kill weed, synthetic and organic. Eighty

863
01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:00.599
foot long wall of tools. I
mean, they got a sharp shop in

864
01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:02.679
the back. It's just it's a
one stop shop. But I can tell

865
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:07.559
you this, if you don't find
it at Southwest, you don't need it

866
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:10.559
because they have everything that you could
need. Every time I go in there,

867
01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:15.199
I'm surprised, Oh wow, now
you've got some new stuff. This

868
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:17.800
only place I know that has what
you have on the shelf. That is

869
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:22.000
the kind of place At Southwest.
They're in the corner of Bisinet and Renwick,

870
01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:25.800
Bisnette and Renwick. I would recommend
you just go to the website Southwest

871
01:01:27.039 --> 01:01:30.679
Fertilizer dot com. You can find
out everything you want to know. And

872
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:34.960
hey, this afternoon be a good
time to stop in and check them.

873
01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.840
Out there. Well, we are
about to hit another hard break here for

874
01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:42.400
the News and Ruth in spring.
You will be our first stup when we

875
01:01:42.440 --> 01:01:44.559
come back for the rest of you, if you'd like to get on the

876
01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:50.199
boards seven one three two one two
k t R eight seven one three two

877
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:54.079
one two k t RH. We
look forward to talking with you, helping

878
01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:58.039
you with whatever kinds of questions that
you might have. Hey, we want

879
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:01.719
everybody to have success with gardening.
That's why we're here. I've even heard

880
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:06.840
reports that if you listen to garden
Line, your plants start greening up in

881
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:08.719
the other room just hearing it.
They can hear it too. Do you

882
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:13.280
believe that, Nikki? I thoroughly
believe. I believe all right, it's

883
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:17.280
all yours. All right, we're
hopping today on garden Line. Look,

884
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:22.840
I love sock hopping today. For
those of you who remember the oldies from

885
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.079
the fifties, we are. We're
answering all kinds of questions about gardening.

886
01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:30.800
We're talking about everything you need to
do right now when it comes to gardening.

887
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:34.119
And when it does come to gardening, you want to make sure you

888
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.320
are taking good, good care of
plants before you even put them in the

889
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.599
ground by giving them a good place
to live. That's what we like to

890
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.320
focus on. I want to head
right now out to Spring and we're going

891
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.840
to talk to Ruth. Hello,
Ruth, Good morning, Chip. I'm

892
01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:53.840
not in Spring anymore. I'm now
in Montgomery. Okay, all right,

893
01:02:54.360 --> 01:03:00.360
But my question is we've got our
flower beds and the armadillos are just airing

894
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:07.119
them up. Okay, we'd like
to do something with succulent desert desert escape

895
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:12.079
or yeah, something like that,
Okay, and we'd like to know where

896
01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:19.280
to get stuff and how to prepare
our beds. Okay. Well, first

897
01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:21.920
of all, no matter what your
plant, armordlers are going to be a

898
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:25.559
problem, and what you're probably going
to have to do ultimately is do a

899
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:30.760
live trap and relocate. There's a
way to go about that. I know

900
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:32.760
you don't want to have to go
through that, but either that or a

901
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:37.079
fence to keep them from wandering in
would be your two options on them.

902
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:40.639
As far as succulents, you're close
to ana plants and produce. I was

903
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:45.960
out there yesterday and they have a
wide variety of different kinds of plants out

904
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.280
there, and as the weather warms
up, they're just gonna be getting more

905
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:52.239
and more and more things in.
And I would talk to them and see,

906
01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:55.639
you know, if you know what
you're looking for, let them know,

907
01:03:55.719 --> 01:03:59.239
see if they can get that in
if they don't already have it,

908
01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:01.559
and if you don't, talk to
them and they can give you some good

909
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:04.719
ideas. You know, Succulents can
be a wide variety of things. I

910
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:09.400
mean even I guess you could even
consider inn agave a succulent, those big

911
01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:14.239
oldagave plants. And there's some really
nice small ones that are just beautiful on

912
01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:19.639
down to the little houseplant size succulents. Okay, dude, you said A

913
01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:25.800
and E on Is that one oh
five? H Yes, A N A

914
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:30.199
is on one oh five in Montgomery, and there they do all kinds of

915
01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:33.320
things. I mean, they'll they
have a landscape crew that'll come to a

916
01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:38.800
spring clean up around your home.
Uh. They do carry my launch care

917
01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:41.480
schedule at the desk. By the
way, they have all the fertilizers I

918
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.519
talk about here on garden Line,
but sea potatoes. I was out just

919
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.599
yesterday that onion sets out there.
You can get your fruit trees and stuff

920
01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:51.920
that lots of real cool gardening bling. So I always love to go to

921
01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:56.920
an a awesome We'll check them out
then, thank you very much. Just

922
01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:00.239
on the east side of Montgomery,
just on the edge of town, like

923
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:06.039
you're heading to Lake Conrad. Appreciate
that, Ruth. Yep, that is

924
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:12.280
a cool place. That is for
sure, I wanted to talk about just

925
01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:15.760
for a moment, Star of Hope. I was at an event by Star

926
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:20.559
of Hope just a couple of weeks
ago and was able to hear from people

927
01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:27.000
that have been benefited by the programs
of Star of Hope. You know,

928
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.719
Star of Hope is one of the
oldest and largest homeless shelters in this whole

929
01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.800
country. They provide services for more
than a thousand homeless people a day,

930
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:39.760
and they have places for men and
women, a men's shelter, they have

931
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:44.000
a women child they have a family
area. When they bring someone into Star

932
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:46.360
Hope. It's not like we used
to say three hots and a cop meaning

933
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:48.559
I'm going to feed you three times, give you a place to sleep,

934
01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:54.159
and a good luck. No,
you can. You can take a pathway

935
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:59.559
to turning your life around and turning
your children's future around. For example,

936
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:03.880
job training, a place to live, care for the children, food interview

937
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:09.280
training, even clothing to get,
you know, dressed up and ready to

938
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:15.000
go present yourself for an interview.
Spiritual training. Star of Hope Mission changes

939
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:18.440
lives. It's as simple as that
they change lives. And I'm telling you

940
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:24.440
the stories that I heard. It
was hardly a dry eye in the room.

941
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:30.239
Because you know you're a compassion I
know you have compassion, and this

942
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:33.360
is a way to put your compassion
into action. A dollar given to Star

943
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:36.679
of Hope does a lot. In
fact, for two dollars and eighty cents

944
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:41.960
two dollars and eighty cents cost of
a cup of coffee, you can buy

945
01:06:41.960 --> 01:06:48.480
someone a meal by given to Star
of Hope Shmission dot org sh Mission dot

946
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:51.960
org. I believe in it.
My wife and I support it. We

947
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:57.880
have for a long time. And
I'm telling you this, This makes a

948
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.519
difference. Paul, what a what
the need exists for that? Let's set

949
01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:05.320
out to Kingwood now. I want
to visit with Joe. I think Joe

950
01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:10.199
has some questions out in Kingwood.
Hey Joe, good good morning, Skip.

951
01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:14.440
I have a couple of questions regarding
spring clean up for a while.

952
01:07:14.559 --> 01:07:17.960
You have the advised that we not
go ahead and trim back our winter kill.

953
01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:21.719
Yes, in case whether turned and
we got in their freeze and did

954
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:26.920
want to stimulate new growth to be
prone to getting nipped by the cold,

955
01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:30.360
do we have the green light go
ahead and clear off all the winter kill?

956
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.159
Now? Yeah, I think you
do. I mean, you know,

957
01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:36.400
if you look at the last twenty
years average, we're just about there

958
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:40.920
on a lake frost. But by
the time something gets stimulated and growing and

959
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:43.440
stuff, I think we're going to
be in the clear. So I would

960
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:49.119
go ahead. Great. And then
regarding when do you advise putting out mulch

961
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:53.880
in the spring, is there a
calendar date you go by, or is

962
01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:58.440
there a temperature trigger or what do
you go by? For when do you

963
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:00.079
put out your moult in the spring? Months out of the year is a

964
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:04.760
good time to put out mulch?
It really is, because your mulch in

965
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:09.760
the winter time, it's it's moderating
soil temperatures, it's protecting the soil,

966
01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:15.079
and it's slowly decomposing to release nutrients
where it contacts the soil. In the

967
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:19.359
summertime, it's doing that plus you
know, moderating that heat levels in the

968
01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:23.239
soil. And you know, any
time of the year we can get a

969
01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:27.119
weed seed sprout, and so you
don't want to leave the soil where sunlight

970
01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:30.720
can reach the soil or nature will
put a weed there. So twelve months

971
01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:33.800
out of the year is okay,
no problem doing it now? Great,

972
01:08:34.119 --> 01:08:38.319
all right, skip, Thank you
appreciate the advice. All right, you

973
01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:43.359
bet, I appreciate your call.
Thanks a lot for that. Yeah,

974
01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:49.760
it's always you know, mulching is
something that you just want to always make

975
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:55.680
sure that you've got a coating on
the soil, that that kind of thing.

976
01:08:56.720 --> 01:09:00.479
It's just important for all the reasons
I gave, and even some additional

977
01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:03.800
reasons as well. You know,
the folks at airloom soils they have a

978
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:09.039
wide variety of things like malts.
For example, do you need a leaf

979
01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:12.479
more compost? That's something we If
you were going to say, multch the

980
01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:15.199
lawn, I don't know if that's
a right way to put it. But

981
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:17.720
a leaf mo compost is a compost
top dressing that we put in the lawn.

982
01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:21.560
And anytime you put some organic matter
over the soil, that's a little

983
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:26.159
less sunlight to hit the soil.
Plus, the main reason we do it

984
01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:30.800
isn't for that reason. It's because
it releases nutrients over time as that moves

985
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:32.840
into the soil and helps to build
the soil better and better and better.

986
01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:38.520
They've got the works Potting soil now. The works is widely available. You're

987
01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.800
going to find it a kDa Hardware, Nelson's Water Gardens out there, and

988
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.680
Katie has it as well. Mid
County Farm Innederland. Those of you up

989
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:49.560
in Huntsville, shout out to you. Huntsville Farm Supply carries airloom soil products

990
01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:54.880
like the Works potting soil up there. Airloom Soils. I was talking earlier

991
01:09:54.880 --> 01:10:00.880
about their vegetable and herb soil really
really quality, mixed a lot of things.

992
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:03.239
Just go here do this. Just
go to the website and look at

993
01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:06.800
it. Heirlooms Soils off Texas dot
Com. You're going to find a soil

994
01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:13.359
mulch calculator there. So whether you're
buying you know, a compost volume,

995
01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:16.279
a soil volume, a mult volume, you can go into the calculator and

996
01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:19.840
put in the dimensions of the area
you need to cover and it'll tell you

997
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:25.079
exactly how many cubiccards you need.
And they have the supersacks, the qbcard

998
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:28.920
supersacks which can be dropped right on
your on your driveway, nice and neat

999
01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:31.720
and clean. You can go pick
things up at porter location for bulk.

1000
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:34.640
You can have them deliver it or
you can buy it by the bag.

1001
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:40.800
And heirloom soils are widely available around
the Greater Houston area. By the bag

1002
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:44.439
makes it really easy to just run
in, even with a car and a

1003
01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:48.279
trunk and bring some things home.
You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your

1004
01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:50.520
host, Skip Richer, and we're
about to take a break. It's time

1005
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:56.640
for that. Our phone number seven
one three two one two KTRH. Give

1006
01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:59.079
Josh a callin. You can be
the first step when we come back.

1007
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:04.119
Have you ever heard of the jitterbug? That's what you do to that song?

1008
01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:09.119
You do the jitterbug. All right, we are here on Guardline,

1009
01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:11.960
ready to talk to you about what
you're interested in. We got some folks

1010
01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:15.840
on the phones. I did want
to mention that I was talking to David

1011
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:20.079
at RCW Nursery just a couple of
days ago and discussing their trees and stuff.

1012
01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:24.760
They grow trees out at Plannersville and
they have a wide variety of things,

1013
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:28.479
and they grow things that belong in
Houston. You know, it's not

1014
01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:30.640
like going to some of these big
box stores where who knows what they're going

1015
01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:34.720
to sell you. They grow things
that need to be grown here and planted

1016
01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:40.159
here, and they have a really
wide selection of some super quality trees.

1017
01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:43.640
Several times I've been surprised, like, oh, you have that. I'd

1018
01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:45.920
love to be able to recommend that
tree, but I didn't know it was

1019
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:48.680
that available here. That is good
to know. That's what they do now

1020
01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:53.479
at the nursery. Oh my gosh, the trees are there. Of course

1021
01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:56.279
you can buy them there. They'll
go plan them for you. Their rose

1022
01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:01.560
selection is unbelievable. I mean I
can't think of a rose that they don't

1023
01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:04.920
have. They just really, really
really have a good rose. They got

1024
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:11.720
roses from weeks roses and star roses
and then some you know, anti croses.

1025
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:15.760
They are modern roses, shrub roses, hybrid tea roses. They've got

1026
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.880
it all and they got the products
you need to plant the roses and have

1027
01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:24.920
success with them. They got those
kind of fertilizers and other materials that we

1028
01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:28.760
put in the ground to make success
with the roses. Now do they have

1029
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:31.000
other things, Yes, they have
everything. They have annuals and perennials and

1030
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.960
vegetables and herbs and you name it. But you just need to stop buy

1031
01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:40.800
RCWS where two forty nine comes into
Beltweg eight. It's really easy to get

1032
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:44.439
to there. Just go to the
website and that would be the fastest way

1033
01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:49.000
to find out what you need.
R c W Nurseries dot com. RCW

1034
01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:54.239
Nurseries dot com and you need to
go check them out in this afternoon will

1035
01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:56.800
be a good time to do just
that. I want to run out to

1036
01:12:56.880 --> 01:13:00.520
College Station and talk to Bill.
Hello, Bill, Hello, Skip,

1037
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:02.840
how are you? I'm well,
sir. How can we help today?

1038
01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:09.880
I have a question. Where can
I find the essentially the Southwest Fertilizer of

1039
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:13.039
Brian College Station a place where I
can get good roast soil, compost,

1040
01:13:13.199 --> 01:13:15.279
molds, fertilizer, et cetera.
The best thing you got in College Station

1041
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:20.720
is Producers co Op and North of
Brian. They have everything. They for

1042
01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:25.640
example, they even have the like
micro life fertilizers I've seen up there at

1043
01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:30.960
Producers co Op and North Brian co
Op. Well, thank you very much,

1044
01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:33.319
you bet you bet. That's a
that's a fun place to go through.

1045
01:13:33.439 --> 01:13:36.920
Thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. Yeah, Microlife.

1046
01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:41.159
You know, they've got the standard
for your lawn. And that's the sixty

1047
01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:44.720
four of the green bag. What
I'm trying to talk people into giving a

1048
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.720
good hard look at and actually doing
now is the Microlife Humates plus. Now,

1049
01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:51.079
you can put that on any time
of the year you want. Now

1050
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:55.279
is fine to do that. It's
got a little potassium in it, but

1051
01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:59.880
you're not putting it on for a
fertilizer. It's not in lieu of fertilizing.

1052
01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:04.880
It's essentially think of it as composted
compost. Concentrated compost in a bag.

1053
01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:09.640
You take compost to its fully decomposed
state. That's humus. That's what

1054
01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:15.199
this is. It's loaded with microbes
and it helps microbes. It provides the

1055
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:17.880
microizal fungi, the essential microbes that
are needed, but the ones that are

1056
01:14:17.880 --> 01:14:20.720
already there in the soil, it's
good for them. It helps loosen to

1057
01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:26.800
clay soil. Humus is very beneficial
for improving a lot of things in the

1058
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:30.720
soil and microlights Microlife h mates plus. That's a purple bag by the way.

1059
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:32.880
It has just out and yeah,
you can get it a producer's cop

1060
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:40.920
in Brian, Texas. Let's go
now to Orlando and Spring Branch. Hey,

1061
01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:44.640
Orlando, good morning, skeep,
thank you so much for your show.

1062
01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:53.279
I have a quick question about two
weekends ago, I spread some pre

1063
01:14:53.840 --> 01:15:01.000
emerged herbicide. Yes, and last
weekend I spread so compost. Is it

1064
01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:05.039
okay to put some greenaup right now? Yeah? You can, there's no

1065
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:09.399
problem with that. Or should I
or should I wait? Or should no?

1066
01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:12.479
No? The idea and green up
a spring green up. It's an

1067
01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:16.159
optional thing. But the reason people
do that is because they wanted the lawn

1068
01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:19.960
to get green early. And you've
got a good healthy grass plant, You've

1069
01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:24.199
given it some nutrient, and when
the weather warms up, it's ready to

1070
01:15:24.279 --> 01:15:28.760
get growing and it provides that early
greenup. And the compost is not going

1071
01:15:28.840 --> 01:15:31.199
to do that. A slow release
fertilizer like we use in summer is not

1072
01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:34.880
going to do that as much.
And that's why we do a fast release

1073
01:15:34.920 --> 01:15:39.920
something that dissolves and gets right down
there to the root system for the spring

1074
01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:45.119
greenup. Yeah. Great, great? Have you have you happened to go

1075
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.760
to my website and see the schedules
on there or not? I I printed

1076
01:15:47.800 --> 01:15:51.439
this case. Yeah, and so
it's just right now that between here and

1077
01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:56.880
between March and April. Yes,
put some greenup, I think, yes,

1078
01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.520
it is uh huh the fast release, and that's in the yellow bar,

1079
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.880
and it has a list of them
right down below. Just it makes

1080
01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:05.880
the schedule if you just kind of
look at it a little bit, it

1081
01:16:05.960 --> 01:16:09.920
makes a lot of sense and it's
easy to find stuff. So yeah,

1082
01:16:10.439 --> 01:16:12.880
now it would be the time.
So for example, this would be a

1083
01:16:12.920 --> 01:16:16.199
good time to put out a Nitropuss
Imperial. That's the red bag and it's

1084
01:16:16.279 --> 01:16:20.920
fifteen five ten. It dissolves away
quickly, it goes to the roots and

1085
01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:24.760
it's it would be called the spring
green up, and you'll see that on

1086
01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:27.880
the schedule. There's a little gap
between that and when we start our summer

1087
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:30.760
first. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right,

1088
01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:34.199
excellent, all right, and something
really quick. So I had some three

1089
01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:41.960
years ago I got some Cherokee roses
and I have planned them in the ground

1090
01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:45.760
up against the fans. They were
getting a lot of song, but they

1091
01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:48.800
were never bloom, and so I
decide that I was going to put them

1092
01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:54.199
out of the ground and put them
in that big pot. And so when

1093
01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:59.520
I took the roots looked really really
really like sad you know, so I

1094
01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:02.439
just put some roast soil in the
pot and I planned them. I put

1095
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:05.840
a little bit of fertilizer. But
I've improved them. Should I improve them?

1096
01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:08.800
Oh? Yeah that way. Yeah, in a pot, you're going

1097
01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:11.960
to need to cut them back considerably. I would. I would cut them

1098
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:14.279
back probably When did you put them
in the pot? How long ago?

1099
01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:17.800
Last weekend? Yeah? Yeah,
i'd I'd print them. I'd print them

1100
01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:21.159
by half. Yeah, okay about
half? Yeah, cut them half back.

1101
01:17:21.760 --> 01:17:25.640
Take all the little twiggy growth,
take all the twiggy growth out,

1102
01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:29.880
and cut the big canes back behalf
okay, all right, and keep feeding

1103
01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:31.399
them. Yes, sir, all
right, thank you. I appreciate that

1104
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:34.439
call. Good luck, good luck
with all those things. I appreciate that.

1105
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:38.800
You know all these supplies we're talking
about, Where do you get them?

1106
01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:41.880
Well, you live near in Ace
Hardware. I don't care where you

1107
01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:45.880
are. You live near there's forty
ACE Hardware stores here. Go to acehardware

1108
01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:49.399
dot com and find the store locator, put in your zip code or let

1109
01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:53.399
it just says, can we look
at where you are? And it'll tell

1110
01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:56.720
you a map of all of them, And at ACE you're going to get

1111
01:17:56.760 --> 01:17:59.880
every fertilizer I talk about here.
You're going to get the products to control

1112
01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:04.800
weeds and disease and also insects on
your plants. You're going to find everything

1113
01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:09.600
you need for your lawn and garden. You're going to find everything for backyard

1114
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:14.720
enjoyment, including barbecue and things like
that. ACE is the place for everything

1115
01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:17.479
you need. And with spring springing, which is what's happening on us,

1116
01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:21.840
ACE is going to be a great
place to find all the supplies, all

1117
01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:26.319
the products, even tools and things
that you need for your lawn and for

1118
01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:30.479
your garden. We're going to head
now out to Porter and talk to Jim.

1119
01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:36.319
Hello Jim, Thanks Chip. How
can we have Well, I got

1120
01:18:36.359 --> 01:18:42.399
a bunch of broad leaf and my
sane augustine grass. Okay? Can I

1121
01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:46.119
use on that safely? You can? And it's also in a product called

1122
01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:53.239
Trimac, so uh. Trimec has
three different herbicides that include two forty,

1123
01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:56.359
But you want to use those before
it gets hot. Once the temperatures are

1124
01:18:56.399 --> 01:19:00.479
in the upper eighties and certainly the
low nineties, those products are stressful to

1125
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:02.680
Saint augustine, but when it's cool
they're not. Just follow the label,

1126
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:09.000
don't overdo it if you want.
You could do a combination product. Nitrofoss

1127
01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:14.399
makes a fifteen to five ten fertilizer
that has trimec and it's an early greenup

1128
01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:17.239
fertilizer, So now would be the
time to apply it. I would wet

1129
01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:23.760
the grass first, so the granules
stick to the leaves of the weeds and

1130
01:19:24.119 --> 01:19:27.720
that allows them to move in.
Yeah, put it with it's a fertilizer.

1131
01:19:27.800 --> 01:19:30.199
Put it with a spreader, but
you have to have wet leaves so

1132
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.760
they stick to it. And then
wait probably a day or two, probably

1133
01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:39.000
two days if it were me,
and then give it a good watering and

1134
01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.319
that'll move the fertilizer down into the
soil and you'll have done two things.

1135
01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:45.439
You'll have dealt with all the broad
leaf weeds and you will also have given

1136
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:49.000
the spring green up fertilization, which
is on my long cair schedule that we

1137
01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:58.000
do and especially from late late February
on into March. That's one of the

1138
01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:01.640
problems I have on that except exist
and so I'd have to turn it off

1139
01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:06.039
in order to do that. Well, it just needs to go off for

1140
01:20:06.079 --> 01:20:09.760
a day. I mean, you
know, if it just went off for

1141
01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:13.640
a day, that that's all it
would need to be. That'd be sufficient.

1142
01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:16.000
Yeah, that'd be sufficient. I
don't know what time it comes on,

1143
01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:18.640
but if it comes on in the
morning, after it goes off,

1144
01:20:18.760 --> 01:20:21.319
run out there and do the do
what we were just talking about while the

1145
01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:25.760
leaves are wet. All right,
just have to go on at midnight.

1146
01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:32.359
Oh you need headlights on your fertilizer
spreader. That's chilled. It's chilled and

1147
01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:36.239
damp with okay, stamp in the
morning and all right, all right,

1148
01:20:36.359 --> 01:20:40.920
sunlights up, all right, you
take care of Jim. Thanks for the

1149
01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:44.760
call. I appreciate that. Appreciate
that a lot. We're listening to Guardenline

1150
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:47.159
and here we do putting another hour
in the books. It's just about time

1151
01:20:47.239 --> 01:20:50.680
for news and weather and all that
and traffic. I'll be back our phone

1152
01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:56.239
number seven one three two one two
kt r H. You'd be the first

1153
01:20:56.359 --> 01:21:00.000
up when we come back. Kt
All right. Each Garden Line does not

1154
01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:05.600
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

1155
01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:18.159
Katie r H. Garden Line with
Skip Richard. It's crazy. Just watch

1156
01:21:18.279 --> 01:21:36.039
you as so many things crazy again. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden

1157
01:21:36.119 --> 01:21:45.439
Line on a wonderful day for gardening. I'm telling you outside, this is

1158
01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:47.920
it. This is the best kind
of weather we can have. It doesn't

1159
01:21:47.920 --> 01:21:51.880
get too hot, not too cold, just a pleasant day to be I

1160
01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:58.760
hope this afternoon that you will take
advantage of this and get some of gardening

1161
01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:02.520
done, you know, get some
vegetables, planet or flowers, or certainly

1162
01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:06.640
trees and shrubs. Now's the time
to get those done. You really need

1163
01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:11.159
to get ahead of things with the
trees and shrubs, because listen, the

1164
01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:16.960
cold weathers passed. Unless we just
have a little surprise, which we've asked

1165
01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:20.319
the weather man not to let any
of that, let any of that go

1166
01:22:20.520 --> 01:22:25.920
through. But the hot weather is
on the way, and I hate to

1167
01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:30.000
be a bummer about it, but
it's true. You know, when we're

1168
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:34.479
starting to look at things like,
you know, the drafts of last summer

1169
01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:38.359
and the heat of last summer,
those things are in the future. They're

1170
01:22:38.399 --> 01:22:42.439
coming. Hopefully this summer is going
to be better. Though. We need

1171
01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:45.720
a break and we are sure hoping
for that one. But whatever kind of

1172
01:22:45.760 --> 01:22:49.600
summer we have, we have summer, and when summer comes, the demands

1173
01:22:49.640 --> 01:22:54.199
on plants go up, and established
plants have a good root system where they

1174
01:22:54.239 --> 01:22:58.039
can handle that with a good soaking
every now and then. But a new

1175
01:22:58.119 --> 01:23:01.520
plant still has most of its roots
in the container cylinder that went into the

1176
01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:08.319
ground. Roots start to venture out
immediately they begin growing, but it takes

1177
01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:15.239
time to create that nice, extensive
root system that makes a plant as resilient

1178
01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:18.920
as that species can be. And
so the earlier you plant, the better

1179
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:23.119
off you are. So don't delight
this weekend. If you need a rose

1180
01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:25.800
bush, get it done. If
you want to get a tree, get

1181
01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:28.600
it done. Let's get that done. We can plant twelve months out of

1182
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:31.720
the year here. Some months are
more challenging than others, so take advantage

1183
01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:35.600
and make it easier on yourself by
going ahead and getting that done. I

1184
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:41.439
think you will. You will appreciate
that. I'm gonna talk now to Anna

1185
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.439
out in Kingwood. Hello, Anna, Hello, I'd like to know what

1186
01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:50.560
to do about red wasps, mud
daubers and mosquitoes. Okay, well,

1187
01:23:53.920 --> 01:24:00.800
red wasps, you just have to
use one of those sprays that shoots a

1188
01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:04.920
steady stream right out to the nest
and it basically kills them instantly. It's

1189
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:09.039
a freezing kind of killing thing.
You just won't be careful don't get those

1190
01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:14.560
sprays on plants because they're a petroleum
type spray and that they can leave some

1191
01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:17.520
little brown dead spots on your plant
where they land on the leaves. I

1192
01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:23.600
would make a case that if you're
allergic to red wasp that's a big concern.

1193
01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:27.039
If they're not near you, if
they're you know, like they're not

1194
01:24:27.159 --> 01:24:30.119
right by the front door kind of
thing. They're over around the side of

1195
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:33.560
the house under the eaves. Know
that all day they're capturing caterpillars and bringing

1196
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:36.600
them back to the nests. That's
our number one feed. So if you've

1197
01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:42.560
got garden plants that caterpillars feed on, red wasps are helping keep those under

1198
01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:45.800
control. That's the benefit that they
do. Now. Mud daubers are primarily

1199
01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:50.560
catching spiders. That's their main food, and they build those darn nests underneath

1200
01:24:51.199 --> 01:24:56.960
the eaves, and just catching them
early and blasting that nest off with water

1201
01:24:57.159 --> 01:25:00.680
as they're getting started on it is
probably the best that you can do.

1202
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:06.039
There are some products that home pest
control operators can put out there. I

1203
01:25:06.119 --> 01:25:12.640
don't know how effective that would be
on the mud dabbers, but that's what

1204
01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:16.840
they're about. What was The third
thing that you said mosquito mosquitoes, Well,

1205
01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:21.079
you just got all kinds of insects
bugging out there. The mosquitos.

1206
01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:26.600
You know, there are a few
things. First, Culturally, wherever they're

1207
01:25:26.600 --> 01:25:30.760
standing water, mosquitoes breed and they
can do a generational turnaround in a couple

1208
01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:32.840
of weeks, I mean two or
three weeks. It's pretty fast. So

1209
01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:36.680
if you've got catch basins under your
plants, if you've got gutters at sag

1210
01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:42.399
and whole water for a little while
after a rain, those kinds of things

1211
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:49.479
you need to fix or put some
granules or mosquito dunks in there. That

1212
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:57.159
the dunks and granules have a natural
disease of mosquitos and they work very well.

1213
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:01.439
So the other thing would be,
uh, you know it. You

1214
01:26:01.720 --> 01:26:04.680
you can use a foger if you
need to go outside and have a little

1215
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:09.840
garden party and outside, you can
use a foger. Uh. When you

1216
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:13.680
do that, you're killing every insect, and so there's there's some things you

1217
01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:15.880
don't want to kill that will get
killed. But at least you can have

1218
01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:19.439
your outdoor party without people being eaten
up. Is there a company that would

1219
01:26:19.439 --> 01:26:29.039
be good to deal with all three
of these trying to think who would on

1220
01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:35.680
the on the mosquito control. Uh
McGrath pest Control, I believe can do

1221
01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:39.520
things like that. I would talk
to them. Let's see if I have

1222
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:43.399
a number here for them, Yeah, I do, Hang on just a

1223
01:26:43.560 --> 01:26:55.199
second. The pest control is let's
see two eight one four six' nine

1224
01:26:56.279 --> 01:27:00.600
eighty two forty. Or you can
go to the website met grathpestcontrol dot com.

1225
01:27:01.000 --> 01:27:03.319
You can go you can go out
that way too. I would talk

1226
01:27:03.359 --> 01:27:08.720
to them and see see if you
know what they can what they can do

1227
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:12.000
for you. All right, okay, thank you so much, Thank you.

1228
01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.279
I appreciate your call very much.
Uh let's see, we're gonna go

1229
01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:20.000
now to Mic in the Heights.
Hello, Mike, Hi, how can

1230
01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:28.439
we help? I have a stingweed
or plant that's growing all over my backyard.

1231
01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:30.760
It stings. You're pretty good,
And I have a couple of chickens

1232
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:35.039
in my backyard and I wanted to
know what I could use to kill that

1233
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:42.279
sting grass that will not hurt my
chickens. Well, uh, you know,

1234
01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:47.079
when it comes to toxicity of things
to chickens, I'm not going to

1235
01:27:47.079 --> 01:27:51.680
be able to help you on on
that uh. I would in general not

1236
01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:56.239
worry a lot about it. If
it's not something that chickens can peck and

1237
01:27:56.439 --> 01:28:00.119
swallow, so a granule, they
might be tempted to pay and swallow it.

1238
01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:04.640
I don't know that they would,
but that that would be a possibility.

1239
01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:11.920
I would probably get a product called
there's a couple of them, different

1240
01:28:11.960 --> 01:28:18.159
companies have them. Bonnyde has one
called weed Beater Ultra, and I would

1241
01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:26.079
use it as a spray and just
target spray the nettle where you're seeing them,

1242
01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:30.239
the little stinging weeds where you're seeing
them, and that's a broad leaf

1243
01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:35.640
problem, and that product I mentioned
Bonnde weed Beater Ultra will kill them.

1244
01:28:36.520 --> 01:28:41.199
But you won't do that for the
weather heats up and so the sooner the

1245
01:28:41.319 --> 01:28:45.760
better that you can get that out. Alright, I appreciate it, all

1246
01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:49.880
right, take care of all right, you take care of Mike. I

1247
01:28:50.000 --> 01:28:56.199
appreciate that. You know. I've
talked about before how gardening is more than

1248
01:28:56.319 --> 01:29:00.880
just visual. When we think of
if I say the word garden, in

1249
01:29:00.000 --> 01:29:05.439
your mind's eye, you're picturing either
vegetables or flowers, or you're picturing a

1250
01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:13.119
garden. But gardening is also smells
nice fragrances from fragrant plants. That is

1251
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:19.920
another another one of our senses that
gardening really can create enjoyment with. Another

1252
01:29:20.039 --> 01:29:27.399
one is sound. The sound of
birds is wonderful outdoors to enjoy that.

1253
01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:32.079
But the sound of water, that
is so simple to have because we can

1254
01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:35.960
put in fountains, we can put
in a little waterfall fountain, you can

1255
01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:43.079
you can put in a disappearing fountain. And the folks at Nelson Water Garden

1256
01:29:43.119 --> 01:29:48.920
out in Katie, they actually pioneered
the disappearing fountain container. So imagine this

1257
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:57.039
beautiful glazed container that is just showstopper
attractive itself and has water coming out of

1258
01:29:57.079 --> 01:30:00.279
the top and running over the sides, and then it goes down into a

1259
01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:03.359
rockbed where there's a basin and the
water's pumped back up through the container.

1260
01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:06.680
And it's called a disappearing fountain.
It's like it goes into the in the

1261
01:30:06.760 --> 01:30:12.359
ground and where did it go,
Well, it's cycling. Nelson ploneered those

1262
01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:16.560
and they have sets of pottery that
I've never seen anything so beautiful in my

1263
01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:20.319
life. They are absolutely gorgeous and
they're out there in Katie. If you're

1264
01:30:20.359 --> 01:30:25.399
heading out on I ten when you
get to Katie Fort Ben Road. Katie

1265
01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:28.680
Fort Benroad, you go north and
it's a stone's throw up north of there.

1266
01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:33.199
You can go to the website Nelson
Gardens dot com Nelson Gardens dot com

1267
01:30:33.560 --> 01:30:38.039
and you need to go check that
out their pots. If you want to

1268
01:30:38.079 --> 01:30:43.039
do a watergarden like koi and water
plants, they specialize in that, but

1269
01:30:43.079 --> 01:30:45.000
they also have a nursery out there
of all kinds of plants. You just

1270
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:49.319
need to go see it and take
people with you because everybody will be amazed

1271
01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:53.640
and wowed and the kids will love
seeing the koi and the other fish that

1272
01:30:53.720 --> 01:30:56.680
they have too at Nelson Water Gardens. We're going to take a break.

1273
01:30:56.760 --> 01:31:00.680
It's time for that and I'll be
right back. Welcome back to guard Line.

1274
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:04.600
Glad you're listening today. Hey,
spring is here, and what a

1275
01:31:04.680 --> 01:31:10.039
spring means. Spring means new growth, Spring means flowers, and spring means

1276
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:12.640
a return of the bees. And
when you have flowers, you're gonna have

1277
01:31:12.760 --> 01:31:15.840
bees showing up. And bees are
important pollinators. If you want to have

1278
01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:20.359
a successful productive garden. One of
the factors in that is good pollination.

1279
01:31:20.680 --> 01:31:25.880
Some of our crops like melons and
squash just being examples cucumbers. They need

1280
01:31:25.960 --> 01:31:30.199
bees to pollinate them, and having
honey bees in your backyard is a win

1281
01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:33.399
win because not only do you have
better pollination, but you also get honey.

1282
01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:38.439
What a deal. The folks at
the bee supply out and Dayton they

1283
01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:44.920
are taking orders right now for bees
to be sent and picked up rather between

1284
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:47.560
April eleventh and May twenty fourth,
So go ahead and get the order in

1285
01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:49.760
if you want to get those.
They have two different strains of bees that

1286
01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:55.279
they carry. After mid May,
you can actually buy the whole hive from

1287
01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:58.439
them. I'm talking about a box
with ten frames. It's got a queen

1288
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:02.159
in it. They're already raising brood
baby bees that is that are in the

1289
01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:09.600
box. All of this is available
at vbsupply dot com. Vbsupply dot com

1290
01:32:09.960 --> 01:32:14.239
and listen. If you're not interested
in starting beekeeping, at least go out

1291
01:32:14.279 --> 01:32:17.800
there and do the honey tours.
The honey tours are wonderful. You get

1292
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:24.720
to taste all kinds of honey like
wildflour and clover and orange and BlackBerry and

1293
01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:28.600
on and on, and you learn
all about bees in the process. For

1294
01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:31.079
those of you who want to learn
beekeeping, the classes are underway. Now.

1295
01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:33.920
The next class you have to call
them see if it's full yet,

1296
01:32:34.479 --> 01:32:39.279
is March ninth. Then there's one
on March twenty third April thirteenth, so

1297
01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:42.520
you can see. They're about two
weeks apart. It's a six hour class.

1298
01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:45.640
They cover everything. You get to
go out and work with bees with

1299
01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.039
their protective equipment they'll provide for and
I'm just telling you it is. It

1300
01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:55.560
is really cool and you'll get hooked
because bees are really literally that cool.

1301
01:32:55.600 --> 01:33:00.319
All at the bee Supply just remember
thebsupply dot com. I'm want to go

1302
01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:04.279
out now to Richmond and we're going
to talk to Michelle. Hello, Michelle,

1303
01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:11.319
Hello, good morning morning. I
have a question about crane flies.

1304
01:33:13.720 --> 01:33:17.399
They're I'm being inundated by them.
I can't walk through the lawn without them

1305
01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:23.920
come springing all over. Yeah.
I think their larvae is what I should

1306
01:33:23.960 --> 01:33:27.399
be concerned about. Is that correct? That they may I'm worried they may

1307
01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:30.680
chew up my lawn. No,
they're they're not gonna They're not gonna hurt

1308
01:33:30.720 --> 01:33:34.800
your lawn. It's okay. Uh, They're just they're a temporary pests that

1309
01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:38.159
we deal with. I mean,
they can occur different times. A year.

1310
01:33:38.239 --> 01:33:41.840
But uh, they're generally not like
you're seeing them right now, so

1311
01:33:41.960 --> 01:33:45.279
I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about them. Okay, so not even their larvae

1312
01:33:45.479 --> 01:33:48.680
that I guess is in the soil. Yeah, they do have larvae,

1313
01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:53.600
but you know, it's not like
if you were to go to a turf

1314
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:59.119
university kind of tell me all the
diseases and Pestsive lawns, crane flies are

1315
01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:00.840
not on the list. They're not
even anywhere on the list. So don't

1316
01:34:00.840 --> 01:34:04.760
worry about that, right, Okay, they just seem awfully bad this year.

1317
01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:10.520
So yeah, Well, I'm not
an entomology specialist, so I can't

1318
01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:15.600
tell you exactly what food they're eating. I know the adults aren't eating anything

1319
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:18.720
that would concern you, but yeah, they're everywhere, and I know people

1320
01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:24.800
the creepy crawleys alarm people and stuff. But if you can, if you

1321
01:34:24.880 --> 01:34:28.560
can just close your eyes and ignore
it, that would that would be the

1322
01:34:28.640 --> 01:34:30.600
best, because there's no need to
get out there and nuke the yard.

1323
01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:34.399
Well good, great, great,
I didn't want to have to deal with

1324
01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:38.880
all that. Okay, Hey,
thanks, Skip, appreciate it all right,

1325
01:34:39.159 --> 01:34:43.159
thank you, Michelle, appreciate the
call very much. Hey, those

1326
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:46.680
of you in the central part of
Houston and North, Buchanan's Nursery is just

1327
01:34:46.840 --> 01:34:49.039
around the corner for you. And
you know, I can tell you this.

1328
01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:51.920
I've been to bu kin As many, many times, and I meet

1329
01:34:51.960 --> 01:34:57.000
people there that have driven from some
distance to go because it's that kind of

1330
01:34:57.159 --> 01:35:01.000
destination nursery. Like right now,
they always have something. They specialize in

1331
01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:06.520
native plants, and that's the name, not Buchanans Nursery, Buchanans Native Plants.

1332
01:35:06.680 --> 01:35:11.199
They are a nursery, they are
a garden center. Buchanans Native Plants

1333
01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:15.520
specializes in that. And I don't
care what kind of plant you need.

1334
01:35:15.640 --> 01:35:17.640
Do you want a spring flowering tree? They've got four or five or six

1335
01:35:18.119 --> 01:35:21.000
that you can choose from. Do
you want stuff for the shade? Do

1336
01:35:21.039 --> 01:35:25.399
you want stuff for sun? Do
you want things that have blooms that attract

1337
01:35:25.439 --> 01:35:28.720
beneficial insects? Every kind of native
you can imagine. They're going to have

1338
01:35:28.800 --> 01:35:31.119
their at Buchanans the best ones.
And listen. You got to go to

1339
01:35:31.199 --> 01:35:38.359
the website Buchanansplants dot com. They
have educational materials on there. You gotta

1340
01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:43.479
sign up for the newsletter because you
will be amazed at all of the information

1341
01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:47.960
you'll learn and the inspiration that you
get just from signing up for that newsletter.

1342
01:35:48.039 --> 01:35:53.840
At Buchanansplants dot com, they're loaded
up with peppers and tomatoes right now.

1343
01:35:54.399 --> 01:35:57.800
They have roses in. I mean, it's just all kinds of things

1344
01:35:57.880 --> 01:36:00.239
about mid March. I'm going to
be out there for an apparent. I'll

1345
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:02.520
tell you more about that later,
but you got to go to Buchanan's Plants.

1346
01:36:02.640 --> 01:36:09.479
It really is a wonderland of all
kinds of things that are really really

1347
01:36:09.560 --> 01:36:13.560
cool. Every time I go,
I love it, And every time I

1348
01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:16.880
go, I learned something because they
don't just have your standard meat and potatoes.

1349
01:36:16.920 --> 01:36:20.039
They got that, but they've got
stuff that you never heard of,

1350
01:36:20.439 --> 01:36:23.960
and you learn about and you go, oh my gosh, where's this plant?

1351
01:36:24.039 --> 01:36:28.760
Been my whole life for time I've
ever said that that way. Well,

1352
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:31.840
Buchanan's Plants. Just go check them
out. It's got to Bay Cliff.

1353
01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:34.600
We're going to talk to Joan.
Hey, Joan, I'm amusing myself

1354
01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:40.199
this morning. I don't know what
that means. Good morning, Hey,

1355
01:36:40.279 --> 01:36:45.039
good morning. I have a Joey
avocado that I bought last fall. It

1356
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.720
made it through the freeze or a
little greenhouse. But it's ready to get

1357
01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:53.640
out now. I think some of
the lower leaves or get yellow and the

1358
01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:57.439
new growth at the top is looking
very healthy. But I want to know

1359
01:36:57.640 --> 01:37:02.079
what is the best soil and how
is your hair for getting it into the

1360
01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:08.239
ground. Okay, uh airlom CS
makes a fruit soil, a soil for

1361
01:37:08.359 --> 01:37:12.399
like citrus and fruits and things like
that. You could also use the veggie

1362
01:37:12.399 --> 01:37:16.720
and herb soil for that avocado.
The bigger of an area you can amend,

1363
01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:20.119
the better, So don't just dig
a hole and put the soil in

1364
01:37:20.199 --> 01:37:26.199
the hole. You want to mix
it in to a large area. If

1365
01:37:26.279 --> 01:37:30.479
you can't do a lot of mixing
like a rototilling spading, then at least

1366
01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:32.840
set it down and then just kind
of crack up the soil a little bit

1367
01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:36.680
with a spade to blend what you
just laid down with the soil below it,

1368
01:37:38.039 --> 01:37:41.439
and then fill up the rest of
the height of the bed with the

1369
01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:44.720
mix that you purchase. One of
the ones we were just talking about,

1370
01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:50.039
anom an heirloom. Yeahoom heirloom soils, they can they can get you you

1371
01:37:50.119 --> 01:37:55.800
set up for they're widely up.
You can go to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com and

1372
01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:59.159
you can find out down in your
area where can you buy bags of heirloom

1373
01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:02.640
Okay, all right, thank you
very much. All right, you take

1374
01:38:02.720 --> 01:38:09.760
care. Yeah, Joan, are
you still there? You already hung up?

1375
01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:13.479
Oh I missed? Okay, that's
all right. Also, Joan,

1376
01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:16.720
if you're still listening, Uh,
you are not too terribly far away from

1377
01:38:16.800 --> 01:38:20.399
Sienna. I don't have a little
mileage marker on my computer screen here,

1378
01:38:21.159 --> 01:38:27.079
but they do deliver pretty pretty close
to where they are road sharing area,

1379
01:38:27.800 --> 01:38:30.760
and so that may be a possibility
to that may be a little outside the

1380
01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:34.159
area, but you might want to
give them at Ciena mulch Cina multa call

1381
01:38:34.239 --> 01:38:40.680
see what they if they can reach
out as far as that area. When

1382
01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:45.159
whenever I'm planting transplants, one of
my favorite products to use to water those

1383
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:50.640
plants in is the Medina Plus.
Medina Plus has in it. First of

1384
01:38:50.680 --> 01:38:55.159
all, it's a six twelve six
fertilizer. It's a liquid liquid. You

1385
01:38:55.640 --> 01:38:58.880
you you mix it up and I
put it in a watering can and then

1386
01:38:58.920 --> 01:39:01.760
I water with it. It's got
the six twelve six, it's got Medina

1387
01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:08.479
soil activator which stimulates biological activity.
You've got the humic acid in it and

1388
01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:12.279
you have seaweed extracts in it as
well, So it's good not just for

1389
01:39:12.439 --> 01:39:14.960
watering implants. You can mix it
up, put in in a sprayer and

1390
01:39:15.079 --> 01:39:18.960
spray is a folier feed for your
plants. So those plants that were hammered

1391
01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:23.319
by the cold weather that we had
that would kind of kill back as they're

1392
01:39:23.319 --> 01:39:26.720
putting out new growth and stuff,
a little follier feeding as they get going

1393
01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:30.840
certainly would be helpful for them as
well. It's one of the many products

1394
01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:36.880
you can get from the folks at
Medina Medina Medina excuse me, my Medina

1395
01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:42.920
Plus. I couldn't say that.
Medina plus is widely available. Widely available,

1396
01:39:43.159 --> 01:39:47.479
as are the other products for Medina
like horticulture molasses and the humate liquid

1397
01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:51.960
humus, and the seaweed and the
fish blend, lots of quality products and

1398
01:39:53.039 --> 01:39:58.880
many many more as well. So
are you going to plan a tomato plant,

1399
01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:00.439
are you going to put in a
row or whatever you're going to plant,

1400
01:40:00.840 --> 01:40:03.560
Just mix that up and when you
plant it watered in with that.

1401
01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:06.680
I would do it twice more too, by the way, I usually like

1402
01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:13.000
to do a three time watering when
I'm transplanting, watering at planting, watering

1403
01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:16.039
a week later with the solution,
watering a week after that with the solution,

1404
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:20.199
and by then there ought to be
roots going and your other fertilizations and

1405
01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:27.039
things can kind of take over.
That is helpful information. I think our

1406
01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:30.880
phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

1407
01:40:31.039 --> 01:40:38.199
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. The folks at Nitrofoss have a

1408
01:40:38.319 --> 01:40:43.439
product called sweet Green. It is
a sweet smelling fertilizer because it's made from

1409
01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:47.720
molasses. So just think about what
molasses smells like. Sweet Green is excellent

1410
01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:53.720
at really kicking the microbes into high
gear. Microbes like carbohydrate sugar, simple

1411
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:59.039
sugars, and sweet Green does that. It's one of the highest level nitrogen

1412
01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:03.079
contents of a natural fertilizer of an
organic fertilizer. So the eleven percent nitrogen

1413
01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:06.640
is a very good boost. And
where do you get sweet Green? Well,

1414
01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:11.479
you can go out to Growers Outlet
and Willis and get sweet green.

1415
01:41:11.560 --> 01:41:14.680
You can go to Enchanted Forest down
in Richmond Rosenberg. Yep, they got

1416
01:41:14.760 --> 01:41:19.560
sweet Green down there as well.
RCW Nursery where Tombo Parkway comes into bout

1417
01:41:19.560 --> 01:41:25.840
Way eight. They carry Sweet Green
also as well as other nitropost products.

1418
01:41:27.319 --> 01:41:31.880
I like the smell. It's just
it's just a nice, nice smell as

1419
01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:36.520
well. On the broken record,
when it comes to brown stuff over green

1420
01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:42.079
stuff, brown stuff over green stuff
and so Nature's Way Resources, you know,

1421
01:41:42.840 --> 01:41:47.039
John Ferguson at Nature's Way created a
lot of the fertilizers that are now

1422
01:41:47.119 --> 01:41:51.960
available from all kinds of places.
Fertilizers soa blends around town. So when

1423
01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:57.239
we say Leipmo compost, that's something
he started marketing. When we say rose

1424
01:41:57.279 --> 01:42:00.000
soil, that's something he started marketing
with the Houston Roast Society helping him with

1425
01:42:00.119 --> 01:42:03.399
that design. Well, they've a
Nature's Way. You can buy bags,

1426
01:42:03.479 --> 01:42:08.920
you can order bulk two of these
and many many, many other products.

1427
01:42:09.359 --> 01:42:14.079
Now on March ninth, they're having
their Spring Garden Festival, and that's something

1428
01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:17.000
you definitely want to go to.
There'll be education there, the gardening education

1429
01:42:17.199 --> 01:42:23.399
talks, stuff for the kids to
do. They'll have spring sangria, they'll

1430
01:42:23.399 --> 01:42:26.399
have local vendors out. It's going
to be fun. Write this on your

1431
01:42:26.439 --> 01:42:30.479
calendar. March ninth, nine to
two PM Nature's Way resources. So go

1432
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:34.159
up forty five. If you're in
Houston, go up forty five where fourteen

1433
01:42:34.199 --> 01:42:38.439
eighty eight comes in from the left, turn right, go across the railroad

1434
01:42:38.479 --> 01:42:42.079
tracks and you're there. It's as
easy as that. Leave your car open

1435
01:42:42.119 --> 01:42:44.800
because you're going to want to buy
some native plants from them as well.

1436
01:42:45.079 --> 01:42:46.239
Well, it's time for a break. I'm just going to turn it right

1437
01:42:46.319 --> 01:42:50.920
over to Nikki. Welcome back to
guard Line. Good to have you with

1438
01:42:51.039 --> 01:42:54.720
us today. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we are just talking

1439
01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:58.359
about everything gardening, including what do
you want to talk about. The phone

1440
01:42:58.399 --> 01:43:02.640
number is seven one three one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

1441
01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:09.560
one two fifty eight seventy four.
I'm gonna head straight out to Memorial and

1442
01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:12.319
now excuse me, Buffalo, excuse
me. We're going to talk to Carrie

1443
01:43:12.479 --> 01:43:18.640
first. Hello, carry I Skip. I've got some plants that I've never

1444
01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:23.920
had before that has some freeze damage, and everything I've read online said to

1445
01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:30.319
cut them back immediately to the ground. It's by text esperanza Confederate roads and

1446
01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:35.359
rows of sharing. Do they do? I cut them back? Just cut

1447
01:43:35.399 --> 01:43:40.680
them back to where there's no dead
Well, how do I do. I've

1448
01:43:40.720 --> 01:43:44.399
never had these plants. Yeah,
no problem. I'm surprised that vi texts

1449
01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:48.119
is is killed back. What you
do on all plants is you take your

1450
01:43:48.239 --> 01:43:53.800
little pocket knife for a thumbnail and
scratch the bark and it'll either be a

1451
01:43:53.880 --> 01:43:59.359
pecan brown paper sack brown color underneath, which means it's dead, that branch

1452
01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:01.880
is dead, or it'll be kind
of a creamy white or maybe a little

1453
01:44:01.880 --> 01:44:05.199
bit of a green light green in
there. That means it's alive. And

1454
01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:10.279
that tells you where you need to
prune back too. I would expect the

1455
01:44:10.359 --> 01:44:15.079
Confederate Rose. I'm trying to remember
what else, the Esperanza and there was

1456
01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:19.199
something those two. Yeah, those
two were probably killed back to the ground.

1457
01:44:20.039 --> 01:44:24.159
But I like to just let the
plants tell me where to prune.

1458
01:44:24.279 --> 01:44:27.560
And what I mean by that is
you just wait and watch where the growth

1459
01:44:27.640 --> 01:44:30.720
starts coming out, and then if
the ends of the branches are dead not

1460
01:44:30.920 --> 01:44:34.000
growing, and then you have buds
coming out down lower, cut it off

1461
01:44:34.119 --> 01:44:38.600
right above those buds, and that
is a lot easier way to manage it.

1462
01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:43.840
So that's the approach that I would
take if I were you. But

1463
01:44:44.359 --> 01:44:48.039
the Vitex I'm a little surprised that
it had much damage. The rows of

1464
01:44:48.159 --> 01:44:54.399
Sharing some, but again it's a
pretty tough plant. And then the other

1465
01:44:54.439 --> 01:44:58.359
two I would expect more significant damage, but it could be different at your

1466
01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:00.359
house here, your way up there. I'll just realizing now you're way up

1467
01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:04.239
there in Buffalo, you got a
lot colder. We were, yeah,

1468
01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:10.319
we were in We didn't get above
twenty for over five days. Okay,

1469
01:45:10.920 --> 01:45:14.640
okay, Well, the same thing
about the first two. But I'm telling

1470
01:45:14.680 --> 01:45:18.680
you rows of Sharon can take twenty, but it depends on did it go

1471
01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:23.479
into the twenty hardened off and ready
or not, and if it didn't,

1472
01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:27.760
then damage to it. But yeah, just let's let the plants tell you

1473
01:45:27.800 --> 01:45:31.000
where to prune or do the scratch
test a lot and make your decisions that

1474
01:45:31.119 --> 01:45:34.560
way. Are you listening to Guardline
on the radio or how are you listening?

1475
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:40.279
I heart, I heart Okay,
yeah, I'm always curious for people

1476
01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:44.239
a little further out, you know, if they're getting the signal there or

1477
01:45:44.279 --> 01:45:46.920
what. All right, thank you, Carrie. I do somewhat, but

1478
01:45:47.039 --> 01:45:49.760
it's too sketchy, so I just
go with iHeart. There you go,

1479
01:45:50.000 --> 01:45:54.039
all right? All right? All
right, say hi to the folks up

1480
01:45:54.079 --> 01:45:58.039
at Bobo's Nursery up there, I
will do. I'm there quite frequently.

1481
01:45:58.159 --> 01:46:00.880
You've got a good county extension agent
and Richard Parish to tell him, Skip

1482
01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:06.279
said high as well, good to
talk to him. Well bye bye,

1483
01:46:08.039 --> 01:46:11.680
bye bye. Have you guys ever
been listening? Have you ever been to

1484
01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:17.479
Emerald Forest and Richmond Emerald Forest?
And it's a wonderful It's a wonderland.

1485
01:46:17.560 --> 01:46:21.239
It's just a beautiful, beautiful place
to go. It's a destination nursery.

1486
01:46:21.319 --> 01:46:27.000
We haven't We are fortunate to have
destination nursery here and this is definitely a

1487
01:46:27.119 --> 01:46:30.039
destination nursery. They're on FM twenty
seven fifty nine. So if you're in

1488
01:46:30.119 --> 01:46:34.359
Richmond going towards sugar Land, it's
off to the right for the south of

1489
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:39.840
fifty nine if you will. And
it's on FM twenty seven fifty nine,

1490
01:46:40.079 --> 01:46:43.880
twenty seven fifty nine. So,
uh, you every weekend they've got talks

1491
01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:47.359
ad Mike Saran out the other day
talking about organic gardening. There's always something

1492
01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:51.000
going on like that out there.
Destine's going to be out there talking about

1493
01:46:51.000 --> 01:46:56.760
springtime gardening March the second. Uh
and so what did I just say?

1494
01:46:57.119 --> 01:47:02.159
An emerald. Where am I?
That's a whole nother thing, enchanted forest?

1495
01:47:02.479 --> 01:47:04.640
Where? How did that come out
of my mouth? I think it's

1496
01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:10.359
time. It's time for me to
go take a nap. Enchanted forest.

1497
01:47:10.399 --> 01:47:14.079
Thank you Josh for catching me on
that one. Right now, they've got

1498
01:47:14.239 --> 01:47:17.039
red buds. Oh my gosh,
you think red bud is one plant?

1499
01:47:17.279 --> 01:47:20.680
No, no, no, no
no. They have over a dozen different

1500
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:25.319
kinds of red bud. Have you
ever heard a bubblegum red bud? Have

1501
01:47:25.439 --> 01:47:29.119
you ever heard of burgundy heart red? How about forest pansy red bud with

1502
01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:33.920
beautiful burgundy leaves? How about rising
sun with golden orange and yellowly? I

1503
01:47:33.960 --> 01:47:36.399
mean, you see what I'm talking
about. In the Texas red bud,

1504
01:47:36.439 --> 01:47:41.760
the native that is very drop and
heat tolerant as well, they've got that.

1505
01:47:42.039 --> 01:47:45.680
Of course, you're going to find
a great selection of vegetables and herbs

1506
01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:48.479
and roses and every other kind of
plant in the world. You just need

1507
01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:51.880
to go out to. You need
to go, just go to enchanted forest

1508
01:47:53.079 --> 01:47:59.520
out in Richmond there again, FM
twenty seven fifty nine, just heading northward,

1509
01:48:00.079 --> 01:48:03.560
Sugarland off to the right. I
don't know where emerald came from.

1510
01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:08.199
All right, we are going to
now go where we're going next, We're

1511
01:48:08.239 --> 01:48:13.359
heading out to Memorial to talk to
Elaine. Hello Elayne, good morning,

1512
01:48:13.439 --> 01:48:16.920
Skip. How are you. I'm
good. How can we help? Oh?

1513
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:20.439
Well, I think the previous you
just answered my question with the previous

1514
01:48:20.560 --> 01:48:28.600
caller. Okay, I have enjoyed
Virginia Creeper in my courtyard climbing up the

1515
01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:31.159
walls for a few years, but
it really has gotten you out of control,

1516
01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:34.960
and of course, being a deciduous
vine, it looks terrible now.

1517
01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:40.399
Yes, so I just wondered how
far can I cut that back? Yes,

1518
01:48:41.159 --> 01:48:45.920
well, that's such a there's so
many branches and vines crawling all over

1519
01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:49.319
the place. Doing the scratch test
is a little too tedious. Those things

1520
01:48:49.359 --> 01:48:54.279
are all mixed up. It's not
like a little shrub or tree. I

1521
01:48:54.359 --> 01:48:57.319
would just wait and let it tell
you it's gonna take. Then need to

1522
01:48:57.479 --> 01:49:00.479
warm up a little bit before Virginia
Creeper is going to want and I'll really

1523
01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:02.000
tell you. Okay, here's where
I'm alive and here's what I'm dead.

1524
01:49:02.920 --> 01:49:05.439
But I think you're going to need
to wait on that to be sure.

1525
01:49:05.920 --> 01:49:11.279
Okay, that is the one that
has aspirations of takeing over the world.

1526
01:49:11.399 --> 01:49:16.319
But it is a nice ever it's
a nice green foliage vine to have well,

1527
01:49:16.399 --> 01:49:19.520
and it does have color in the
fall. It does. It does.

1528
01:49:20.199 --> 01:49:23.960
The only way you can have color
in Houston and the fall is to

1529
01:49:24.079 --> 01:49:30.640
take a flame plain flight to the
northeastern United States. I'm over stating it,

1530
01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:34.239
but yes, Virginia Creeper does have
great color. Yeah, all right,

1531
01:49:34.399 --> 01:49:36.920
well, thank you so much.
You have a wonderful day. All

1532
01:49:38.000 --> 01:49:41.880
right, all right, before you
start emailing me or calling or something,

1533
01:49:41.960 --> 01:49:45.039
I know we have fall colored plants
here. It's just not as many as

1534
01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:48.119
I wish we had, that's for
sure. Let's see, we are heading

1535
01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:51.560
up against a break. When I
come back, Chris and Sue, you'll

1536
01:49:51.600 --> 01:49:56.399
be the first two up our phone
numbers seven one three, two one two,

1537
01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:01.399
five eight seven four. Welcome back
to Garden Line. Glad to have

1538
01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:06.119
you willis today. I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and I'm operating here

1539
01:50:06.239 --> 01:50:10.880
with at least most of the brain
stells functioning. Still, we'll put that

1540
01:50:11.039 --> 01:50:15.279
to the test. My first thing
running right out to Pearland and talking to

1541
01:50:15.399 --> 01:50:18.079
Chris. Hello, Chris, Yes, sir, good morning, Good luck

1542
01:50:18.159 --> 01:50:23.279
with the brain cells there, I
know that I tell somebody the other day

1543
01:50:23.319 --> 01:50:25.680
at the end of the talk out
of A and A Plants, I tucked

1544
01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:28.600
on the radio all day and talked
out there for two hours. I had

1545
01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:30.840
three brain cells left. One was
having my heart beating, one was helping

1546
01:50:30.880 --> 01:50:35.199
my lungs breathe, and the other
was trying to do everything else that's going

1547
01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:40.840
on. Well, you're doing better
than I am some days, all right,

1548
01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:43.880
how can we help? Yes,
sir, my friend, I'm calling

1549
01:50:43.920 --> 01:50:46.239
on the half of my beautiful girlfriend. She is asking about cedar mulch.

1550
01:50:46.800 --> 01:50:50.760
Is it true that it may repel
termites, mosquitoes or any other you know,

1551
01:50:51.119 --> 01:50:55.439
insects that we may not want either
in the house or around the backyard.

1552
01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:58.279
Right, Well, first, good
call on that description. You are

1553
01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:02.640
a smart man. Secondly, cedar
molts has some repellent properties when it's fresh

1554
01:51:03.199 --> 01:51:08.560
for past That's why we make cedar
trunks to keep the moths out right of

1555
01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:14.399
our sweaters and things, or cedar
closet sometimes. But as it ages,

1556
01:51:15.039 --> 01:51:17.520
that starts to go down and it's
not like you got to melt down here,

1557
01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:21.199
and so you know, pests are
going to go flying to the neighborhood

1558
01:51:21.319 --> 01:51:27.880
yard. Neighbors yard. But it
does termites though they're in nature. Anywhere

1559
01:51:27.880 --> 01:51:30.600
there's organic materials that hit the ground, you're going to find them. I

1560
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:34.640
find them in old cornstalk sometimes chewing
on the fibers in there, the piece

1561
01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:38.880
of wood laying on the ground.
So we don't worry about those. We

1562
01:51:39.000 --> 01:51:43.000
just want them to not be in
our house. Trid, trid. Yeah,

1563
01:51:43.520 --> 01:51:45.479
okay, well let's see answer we
needed to hear. All right,

1564
01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:49.640
thank you for the call. Appreciate
that very much. Good to visit with

1565
01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:56.159
you. For those of you who
have a lawn that got thin last summer,

1566
01:51:56.880 --> 01:52:00.520
and a lot of people fall into
that category. Now, sunlight is

1567
01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:05.239
hitting the soil in between what should
be a good dense turf. It's thin.

1568
01:52:05.600 --> 01:52:10.079
Sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants
a weed. That's how it works.

1569
01:52:10.640 --> 01:52:14.960
And during the time you're working to
build a dense lawn again, with

1570
01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:17.680
proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing, you can put down a pre emergent

1571
01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:23.840
product called barricade that's by nitrofoss.
Now you put a little bit of water

1572
01:52:23.960 --> 01:52:26.520
on it, just a third of
an inch half an inch to move it

1573
01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:30.279
down into the soil and it forms
a barricade. On the soil surface,

1574
01:52:30.720 --> 01:52:34.279
so grassy weeds that are about to
come up, crab grass, grassper for

1575
01:52:34.359 --> 01:52:39.439
example. It prevents those broad leaf
weeds that are about to come up through

1576
01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:43.000
the summer, the warm season weeds. It prevents those and it'll give you

1577
01:52:43.159 --> 01:52:45.680
two months, two and a half
months, sometimes longer. It depends on

1578
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:51.199
the weather and stuff of protection against
those germinating and that Nitrofoss barricade it's one

1579
01:52:51.199 --> 01:52:55.760
of the widely available products by Nitrofoss. And you know, nitrofoss products are

1580
01:52:55.760 --> 01:53:00.439
available in a wide variety of places. I mean it's easy to findfics.

1581
01:53:00.479 --> 01:53:02.920
If you go to an ace hardware
store, you're going to find nitrofos in

1582
01:53:02.960 --> 01:53:06.359
a place like that. If you
go down to Southwest Feed and Fertilizer,

1583
01:53:06.479 --> 01:53:10.399
you're going to find nitrofoss in a
place like that. Many of our garden

1584
01:53:10.520 --> 01:53:15.319
centers as well are going to carry
nitropos barricade. But remember this, those

1585
01:53:15.359 --> 01:53:20.079
things are germinating now and you've got
to get it down before they establish little

1586
01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:25.239
plants. So if you're going to
do that, don't delay. I would

1587
01:53:25.279 --> 01:53:28.199
say this afternoon, go ahead and
get it. Even if you can't put

1588
01:53:28.239 --> 01:53:30.319
it down today, have it there. So if tomorrow or the next day

1589
01:53:30.319 --> 01:53:32.239
you can get it down, you
can go ahead and get it down,

1590
01:53:32.680 --> 01:53:36.760
because that's how the product works,
that's the strength of it, and so

1591
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:40.640
you need to make sure and be
ahead of things. I want to head

1592
01:53:40.680 --> 01:53:44.239
out now to Lake Jackson and we're
going to talk to Sue. Hello,

1593
01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:49.560
Sue Hi. I was calling about
my granddaughter. She lives in Anglton,

1594
01:53:50.279 --> 01:53:56.720
of Anglton, and she has three
Exoria plants which she had in their south

1595
01:53:56.840 --> 01:53:59.600
in the south side of her house. She covered them in the winter and

1596
01:53:59.640 --> 01:54:01.560
I told her they'll be okay,
Okay. I go over there and all

1597
01:54:01.600 --> 01:54:05.960
of the leaves have turned brown on
them, and I scratched the bark and

1598
01:54:06.600 --> 01:54:11.319
that's still is green. Okay,
good. Should she yank come out and

1599
01:54:11.439 --> 01:54:13.760
replant them or that's what she's wanted
to do, but I said no,

1600
01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:16.319
leave them. So to see what's
your opinion on Now, if you like

1601
01:54:16.439 --> 01:54:21.159
Exoria and you've got green, green
branches, trunks, whatever I would,

1602
01:54:21.279 --> 01:54:26.800
I would leave them. I think
that's what I had. You may have

1603
01:54:27.119 --> 01:54:30.079
some dead ends of branches or things, and you could wait and when they

1604
01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:33.560
start to put growth, you'll know
to nip that out. But that's a

1605
01:54:33.600 --> 01:54:36.279
good sign that you've got green under
the bark. I think they're okay,

1606
01:54:36.720 --> 01:54:40.000
those are nice plant. I we
can't give up on them unless you just

1607
01:54:40.039 --> 01:54:43.279
don't like that flower. That's what
I told her. I said, you

1608
01:54:43.359 --> 01:54:45.199
know, those brown leaves will fall
off and you'll get new ones. So

1609
01:54:45.520 --> 01:54:49.920
and this is your your daughter?
Is this your daughter or granddaughter? Granddaughter?

1610
01:54:50.039 --> 01:54:54.520
Oh? Granddaughter? Okay, well
that's that's one of the come to

1611
01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:59.159
grandma. I know they do you
well when you know, I sound like

1612
01:54:59.199 --> 01:55:00.319
you were going to say, she
listening to you, and that would be

1613
01:55:00.399 --> 01:55:04.079
a daughter, right, not a
grind daughter. No, she covered.

1614
01:55:04.079 --> 01:55:09.159
I'm good and she and you know, with the material and stuff. But

1615
01:55:10.039 --> 01:55:13.319
they even on the south side,
it still got the you know, they

1616
01:55:13.399 --> 01:55:16.159
turn round. So uh, she
may have left them covered too long.

1617
01:55:16.239 --> 01:55:19.159
I don't know, but anyway,
I don't they're you know, their expensive

1618
01:55:19.199 --> 01:55:21.439
plants. And I told her,
I said, no hold off on them.

1619
01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:25.800
So, yeah, they're a wonderful
plant, wonderful plant down south especially.

1620
01:55:26.039 --> 01:55:28.359
Yeah, but I wanted to talk
to an expert on that. So

1621
01:55:28.439 --> 01:55:30.720
all right, well you know what, I enjoy your enjoy your show,

1622
01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:33.960
all right, Thank you very much, Bye bye. I appreciate that.

1623
01:55:34.479 --> 01:55:38.520
And for my daughters. I've got
a couple of daughters or more that probably

1624
01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:41.960
listened to this show some You know, I'm just kidding, but you also

1625
01:55:42.039 --> 01:55:45.840
know what I'm talking about, So
just leave it at that. We're We're

1626
01:55:45.920 --> 01:55:48.720
glad you are listening to guarden Line
today. I want to talk about a

1627
01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:53.319
few different things. I got a
little time here. Do some visiting.

1628
01:55:53.359 --> 01:55:55.439
By the way, if you like
to give us a call seven one three

1629
01:55:55.560 --> 01:55:59.720
two one two kat r H.
If you haven't been to my website,

1630
01:55:59.800 --> 01:56:03.800
I want you to bookmarket. It
is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening

1631
01:56:03.880 --> 01:56:08.520
with Skip dot com right now on
there. The most important things on the

1632
01:56:08.600 --> 01:56:13.000
site for you are the lawn Pest
Disease and Weed management schedule and the lawn

1633
01:56:13.199 --> 01:56:16.720
care schedule. Lawn care schedule is
mowing, watering, and fertilizing and it

1634
01:56:16.920 --> 01:56:21.680
lists every period of time from January
to December you need to be doing something

1635
01:56:21.800 --> 01:56:25.960
like that to your lawn. And
it lists all the products. So if

1636
01:56:26.000 --> 01:56:29.279
you want to do it organically,
you'd want to do it synthetically or whatever.

1637
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:32.920
All the products are on there that
I would suggest to use for those

1638
01:56:33.000 --> 01:56:38.239
times. The lawn pest disease and
weed management schedule is the same thing,

1639
01:56:38.479 --> 01:56:43.920
except this is what are the lawn
problems? What insects occur in your lawn

1640
01:56:44.159 --> 01:56:46.880
and when do they occur? And
then what are the products organic and synthetic

1641
01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:51.640
that control them. What diseases occur
in our lawns here in this area,

1642
01:56:53.039 --> 01:56:57.319
and what are the products for that. What weeds occur and when do you

1643
01:56:57.439 --> 01:57:00.439
treat and what do you use at
different times of the year, because it

1644
01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:03.439
changes if you're killing an existing weed
or if you're killing a weed that hadn't

1645
01:57:03.439 --> 01:57:08.600
sprouted yet, like we're just talking
about barricade on preventing weed seeds well.

1646
01:57:08.880 --> 01:57:13.199
And then across the bottom is all
the products that you need for all of

1647
01:57:13.239 --> 01:57:15.119
that, And I would encourage you
to bookmark that's free. It's all free,

1648
01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:18.520
and print it up. Some people
print them and take them to the

1649
01:57:18.600 --> 01:57:21.359
store and say they point at it
and go, I want one of these

1650
01:57:21.560 --> 01:57:25.840
right here, and they can get
you fixed up on that as well.

1651
01:57:26.600 --> 01:57:30.359
One other thing I wanted to mention
is for those of you who are interested

1652
01:57:30.920 --> 01:57:35.439
in research based information on topics like
local food and Texas wine growing food,

1653
01:57:36.319 --> 01:57:41.960
creating a supportive community for learning about
all those things. The folks at the

1654
01:57:42.000 --> 01:57:45.840
TEXA A and M Horticulture Department are
going to create or are going to have

1655
01:57:45.560 --> 01:57:51.479
an event called Texas three sixty Freshness
Meets the Table. It's March fifteenth and

1656
01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:58.359
sixteenth, So it starts off March
fifteenth with Texas Wines and appetizers and they're

1657
01:57:58.399 --> 01:58:02.399
going to be in the gardens at
an that's the garden in the West Campus

1658
01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:05.159
at A and M. Beautiful place
to walk through. If you haven't been

1659
01:58:05.199 --> 01:58:09.439
there, you need to go up
just to see that. And they're going

1660
01:58:09.520 --> 01:58:12.640
to be wine and appetizer pairings and
the gardens, and then they're going to

1661
01:58:12.680 --> 01:58:16.159
have a farm to table dinner at
Messina Haw Fineyard up in Bryan on Saturday.

1662
01:58:16.199 --> 01:58:21.119
The next day they'll have a full
day of educational activities nineteen breakout sessions

1663
01:58:21.279 --> 01:58:28.399
that you can attend three workshops to
choose from both in person and virtual.

1664
01:58:28.520 --> 01:58:30.600
So like if you want to do
it online, you can't drive up there,

1665
01:58:30.800 --> 01:58:34.199
you can do it that way too. The educational sessions are going to

1666
01:58:34.239 --> 01:58:41.239
have garden inspired cocktails and mocktails along
with the selection of shark tery. Finding

1667
01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:46.600
that perfect opportunity for networking community building. If you want more information you need

1668
01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:50.359
to First of all, you need
to register, and the deadline is really

1669
01:58:50.560 --> 01:58:54.880
upon us. It's February twenty eighth, so we only have a little bit

1670
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:58.439
of time left for you to register. To pre register, but where you

1671
01:58:58.520 --> 01:59:03.479
want to go is Taste three sixty
three six oh dot t A m U

1672
01:59:04.000 --> 01:59:10.439
dot E d U t A m
U as in Texas a m University t

1673
01:59:10.640 --> 01:59:14.920
A m U Taste three sixty at
TAMUD. I think you'll find that interesting.

1674
01:59:15.079 --> 01:59:17.640
It is very kind of a fun
and not just educational, but sounds

1675
01:59:17.680 --> 01:59:23.000
like a whole lot of fun as
well. I want to remind you that

1676
01:59:23.399 --> 01:59:28.680
I am going to be this coming
Saturday, Saturday, the third of March

1677
01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:32.000
from twelve to two at the Montgomery
County Home and Garden Show. So all

1678
01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:40.279
of you up there in Willis,
Montgomery, Conroe for sure, just anywhere

1679
01:59:40.319 --> 01:59:43.720
up in that region, the woodlands
for sure too. Come up to the

1680
01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:46.119
Montgomery County County Home and Gardens.
It's a really good garden show. I'm

1681
01:59:46.119 --> 01:59:49.239
going to be giving a taco up
there, and I'm going to be answering

1682
01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:53.199
your gardening question. So yeah,
you can bring me samples and pictures and

1683
01:59:53.279 --> 01:59:56.840
we can go through all of that, I'll also be giving away some of

1684
01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:03.640
Nelson's genesis. That is the nutrient
supplement that you put into a potting mix

1685
02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:09.279
as you're repotting your plants and it
works really well. Go to the garden

1686
02:00:09.319 --> 02:00:12.239
Line Facebook page. Croll down,
do you see a pepper plant and read

1687
02:00:12.279 --> 02:00:15.279
what I said about it there.
I used it on some pepper plants really

1688
02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:20.119
really working well. But that's next
Saturday, March the second, twelve to

1689
02:00:20.279 --> 02:00:24.800
two at the Montgomery County Home and
Garden Show. I hope to see you

1690
02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:28.760
there. I always love to meet
the folks that listen to garden Line.

1691
02:00:28.840 --> 02:00:32.439
That makes it kind of cool.
Well, we're about to put another hour

1692
02:00:32.520 --> 02:00:35.119
in the books here. We will
be back the next hour. If you

1693
02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:39.000
want to get on the boards with
Josh, you can be the first up.

1694
02:00:39.319 --> 02:00:48.000
Seven one three two one two.
KTRH talking about KTRH Garden Line does

1695
02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:54.800
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1696
02:00:55.000 --> 02:01:06.880
to KTRH Garden Line with Scamp Rict. It's so trim. Just watch him

1697
02:01:08.159 --> 02:01:15.000
as a world. Welcome back to
guard Line. Hey, it's good to

1698
02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:18.560
have you listening today. What do
you want to talk about give us a

1699
02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:25.199
call. Number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

1700
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:29.520
one three two one two five eight
seven four. It makes it really easy

1701
02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:31.680
to get ahold of us. We're
here to help you turn a brown thumb

1702
02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:35.279
green. Because if you've heard me
say this before, here we go again.

1703
02:01:36.279 --> 02:01:40.800
There's no such thing as a brown
thumb. There's an uninformed thumb.

1704
02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:45.920
And when you learned the simple principles
of horticulture, the simple things that we

1705
02:01:46.039 --> 02:01:49.960
need to know to have successful plants, suddenly it's like you got a brown

1706
02:01:50.039 --> 02:01:54.840
thumb, right, That's how that
works. And so our goal is to

1707
02:01:54.920 --> 02:01:57.399
help you turn a brown thumb green. That's the way I like to put

1708
02:01:57.439 --> 02:02:00.079
it, uh, because it just
I think it. It helps us understand

1709
02:02:00.199 --> 02:02:04.239
that some people think they as a
person, I just can't grow plants.

1710
02:02:04.319 --> 02:02:09.399
No, that is not true.
That is absolutely not true. You can

1711
02:02:09.520 --> 02:02:12.880
grow plants, and we can help
you do it. That's what we're here

1712
02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:17.479
for. If you haven't been out
the antiq Rosenporium ever, you absolutely have

1713
02:02:17.640 --> 02:02:24.640
to go. It is a destination
place that is so cool. I love

1714
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:28.000
going out there. People. You
know that whole region that's where the blue

1715
02:02:28.039 --> 02:02:31.039
bonnet trails are up toward Brunham.
Actually, Antiguros is north of Brenham,

1716
02:02:31.479 --> 02:02:36.399
and you can just enjoy that.
I know, April's like big blue bonnet

1717
02:02:36.479 --> 02:02:41.199
time, but don't wait till April
go now. I mean, they have

1718
02:02:41.640 --> 02:02:47.279
a wonderful selection, the best I
know of antique roses in the whole region.

1719
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:53.159
They're well known across the country.
Really, the place is just a

1720
02:02:53.239 --> 02:02:56.279
destination. When you go there,
you see what I'm talking about. They've

1721
02:02:56.359 --> 02:03:00.479
designed it to be a destination and
events are held there. In fact,

1722
02:03:00.520 --> 02:03:04.119
coming up coming up pretty soon is
their spring celebration March ninth and tenth.

1723
02:03:04.279 --> 02:03:09.560
I'll be out there on Saturday giving
a little talk. They're gonna have speakers

1724
02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:13.319
and artists in market, food trucks
and of course all the plants and listen.

1725
02:03:13.439 --> 02:03:16.960
It's called antiqurosen for him. And
they absolutely are roses, but they

1726
02:03:17.000 --> 02:03:21.039
are so so much more. Do
you need certain kinds of native plants and

1727
02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:26.479
perennials and salvias and purple cone flower
and white lantana, pink skull cap,

1728
02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:29.760
coral, honeysuckle. Do you see
what I'm talking about? On and on

1729
02:03:29.880 --> 02:03:32.119
and on down the list, you're
gonna find a lot of things out there,

1730
02:03:32.600 --> 02:03:36.800
and it's fun to go. Bring
bring family and friends and neighbors.

1731
02:03:36.920 --> 02:03:40.840
If you've got a little garden club
or a master gardener group, or a

1732
02:03:40.960 --> 02:03:43.800
church group or whatever. In fact, that'd be a great thing to do

1733
02:03:44.279 --> 02:03:47.840
on a Sunday afternoons to head out
to the antique rosing for hum and just

1734
02:03:48.159 --> 02:03:53.079
walk around and look. Make sure
your car has some empty space ouver because

1735
02:03:53.079 --> 02:03:59.600
you're gonna want to bring back a
lot of plants. Antique Roseemporium dot com.

1736
02:04:00.279 --> 02:04:03.199
That's simple, antiqu Rozenborium dot com. Here's a number. I write

1737
02:04:03.239 --> 02:04:11.079
this down nine sevent nine eight three
six five five four eight and put March

1738
02:04:11.199 --> 02:04:15.680
ninth and tenth on your calendar.
We're going to head out now to clear

1739
02:04:15.760 --> 02:04:18.000
Lake City and talk to Mark.
Hello, Mark, Good morning, sir.

1740
02:04:18.079 --> 02:04:23.079
Hope you're enjoying this beautiful weather.
We don't get an awful lot of

1741
02:04:23.119 --> 02:04:27.520
opportunity to play in. I am. I'm sitting like a goldfish and aquarium

1742
02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:30.319
looking out the window at the world. While I'm sitting here talking on a

1743
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:33.560
microphone, I can't wait to get
outside. I'm watching all kind of birds

1744
02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:36.960
coming to the feeders. There you
go, it's really great. A while

1745
02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:44.279
back, collars back. You're talking
about fall color, and you actually can

1746
02:04:44.399 --> 02:04:49.840
get a lot of cold tolerant fall
color right now at hobby lobby. Oh

1747
02:04:49.920 --> 02:04:56.159
is that right? Yeah, live
plants. No, Oh, you're talking

1748
02:04:56.199 --> 02:05:00.079
about the silk flowers. You know, someone joking, they told me one

1749
02:05:00.119 --> 02:05:02.479
time, he goes, I'm tired
of pests. I'm going to buy silk

1750
02:05:02.520 --> 02:05:05.439
flowers. And I go, well, they get dust mites and they and

1751
02:05:05.600 --> 02:05:10.279
they get and they also go I
don't know, maybe silkworms would eat them.

1752
02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:13.199
I don't know. Anyway, enough
of that mindsense, How can we

1753
02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:16.119
help you today? Okay, by
the way, in terms of anti crows

1754
02:05:16.159 --> 02:05:20.439
and porn, they were out at
the gardens gardens a couple of weeks ago

1755
02:05:20.960 --> 02:05:26.840
for us terrific, terrific talk about
roses. The best talk I've ever heard

1756
02:05:29.319 --> 02:05:31.079
our own root. You know,
they don't have grafted roses, so,

1757
02:05:31.199 --> 02:05:35.640
yes, they're hardier. I sent
you a picture of what I think may

1758
02:05:35.680 --> 02:05:40.720
be called sticky weed. Yes,
I got it. Is that sticky weed.

1759
02:05:41.119 --> 02:05:43.760
Well, it's got a bunch of
names and facts, got more names

1760
02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:48.359
than a criminal on the run.
The common name that's most used around the

1761
02:05:48.439 --> 02:05:55.239
country is catchweed bed straw, catchweed
bed straw, but it's also called cleavers

1762
02:05:55.399 --> 02:05:58.720
and velcrow plant for reasons that you
know, if you've dealt with it,

1763
02:05:58.800 --> 02:06:02.000
it's like velcrow, very very sticky. It makes for those of listening that

1764
02:06:02.079 --> 02:06:04.359
are going, okay, I didn't
see the picture. Well, it's it's

1765
02:06:04.439 --> 02:06:10.199
these long strands that go across the
yard, just sprawling over the grass,

1766
02:06:10.439 --> 02:06:14.600
and they going up the stem.
They are little whirls of skinny strappy leaves

1767
02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:19.000
in sections going up the stem.
But the main thing is the belcroy nature

1768
02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:25.680
of it. And at this stage
you could spray it with a broad leaf

1769
02:06:25.880 --> 02:06:30.000
post emergent product. But looking at
your pictures, I can't even see the

1770
02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:33.039
grass underneath it because there's so much
of it. And that's how this we

1771
02:06:33.279 --> 02:06:39.680
does. What I've done is I
will rake the with a like a leaf

1772
02:06:39.800 --> 02:06:43.800
rake, and as you do,
as you pull those strands, you'll see

1773
02:06:43.880 --> 02:06:45.840
kind of where a little tiny root
is going in the ground, and you

1774
02:06:45.920 --> 02:06:49.800
can reach down and pull it there
and then rake a little more and pull,

1775
02:06:49.920 --> 02:06:51.920
you know, pull the root,
and you just rake it up into

1776
02:06:51.960 --> 02:06:57.800
this big ball and shove it in
a trash can. But the the weed

1777
02:06:57.880 --> 02:07:03.119
itself is about to set a bazillion
kinds of seed or numbers of seed.

1778
02:07:03.159 --> 02:07:06.239
In fact, it's already your weeds
are already blooming and starting to set.

1779
02:07:06.680 --> 02:07:10.760
So I would get it out yesterday
if you can. If not, go

1780
02:07:10.800 --> 02:07:14.039
ahead and do it today. Well, I can pull them out. I

1781
02:07:14.119 --> 02:07:16.039
can reach down and find the ball, but there is so much of it,

1782
02:07:16.159 --> 02:07:19.880
and it's growing within other garden things
that I want to keep, and

1783
02:07:20.000 --> 02:07:25.039
so the rake is it's kind of
dangerous to use, especially my age.

1784
02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:28.199
So I was hoping there were some
I could paint on them, like the

1785
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:31.720
Tricliss fear pier. Well, I
wouldn't do track repair, but you could

1786
02:07:31.760 --> 02:07:39.920
do a broadly we control like Bonne
eye. But if you got other plants

1787
02:07:39.960 --> 02:07:43.600
that are desirable, I wouldn't do
a spray on that weed because you're going

1788
02:07:43.640 --> 02:07:46.359
to have if you're careful with the
rake in your hands, and I know

1789
02:07:46.439 --> 02:07:51.680
it's work, but you can get
it out of there without damaging other plants.

1790
02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:55.359
You might have to do some pulling. It breaks off real easy,

1791
02:07:55.479 --> 02:07:59.199
so you know it takes a while
to get it. But at this stage

1792
02:07:59.239 --> 02:08:03.560
of the game where you are right
now, uh it is you just need

1793
02:08:03.640 --> 02:08:07.079
to physically get it out of there. That's your best bet. Okay,

1794
02:08:07.359 --> 02:08:09.319
Well we'll put on some bluzz and
give that a try. Okay. Well,

1795
02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:13.199
I hate to be the bear of
bad news, but well they don't

1796
02:08:13.199 --> 02:08:15.840
shoot the messager these days. So
yeah, And if you go online and

1797
02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:18.880
google it, I think they make
some sort of a tea tincture. And

1798
02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:22.760
I don't know what it's for out
of it, but uh, life gives

1799
02:08:22.800 --> 02:08:26.279
you lemons, make lemonade, mark
you could actually use that stuff for food

1800
02:08:26.399 --> 02:08:30.079
value of it. Well, I
wouldn't use the word food, but uh,

1801
02:08:30.640 --> 02:08:33.000
tea sometimes. I don't know.
I'm not an herbalist. You'd have

1802
02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:35.399
to go look it up. But
I saw that one time and I thought,

1803
02:08:35.479 --> 02:08:37.720
well that's it. That's true.
I've got enough of it to produce

1804
02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:41.359
an awful lot of tea. Well
there you go. Well I'm a believer.

1805
02:08:41.439 --> 02:08:43.399
And if you can't beat them,
eat them. And I know a

1806
02:08:43.479 --> 02:08:46.039
lot of vegetable a lot of weeds, dandylion and chickweed are edible. So

1807
02:08:46.279 --> 02:08:50.880
so is amaranth and Lamb's quarter.
Hey, thanks for the call. I

1808
02:08:50.960 --> 02:08:54.960
appreciate that a lot. We're going
to take a quick break here. When

1809
02:08:54.000 --> 02:08:58.960
we come back. Tim and Robert
you'll be the first two up. Welcome,

1810
02:09:00.000 --> 02:09:03.520
come back to guard Line. Good
heavy listening. We're talking about all

1811
02:09:03.600 --> 02:09:07.479
kinds of things gardening today. This
is the time to get out and pot

1812
02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:11.720
up some plants for the patio,
pot up some plants for indoors. When

1813
02:09:11.800 --> 02:09:15.079
you do, you need to think
about jungle land. Jungle Land is distributed

1814
02:09:15.119 --> 02:09:18.520
by nitroposs and so you're going to
find it in all kinds of places.

1815
02:09:18.960 --> 02:09:22.920
But basically what it is, there's
two versions of it. One is called

1816
02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:28.039
jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Planting soil, the other one Jungle and Water Saving

1817
02:09:28.079 --> 02:09:31.479
Potting soialt. Now the flower and
vegetables for outside, you put it in

1818
02:09:31.600 --> 02:09:35.079
your containers whether you're growing blooms,
vegetables. You can grow herbs in it

1819
02:09:35.159 --> 02:09:39.039
as well. It's got Canadian peat, four different types of aged organic matter

1820
02:09:39.159 --> 02:09:45.840
that's decomposed and microhizal fungi as well, and it just gives you the perfect

1821
02:09:46.039 --> 02:09:52.079
draining and also water holding ability that's
just right for plant roots. Now for

1822
02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:56.800
the indoors, the Jungle and Water
Saving Potting soil has the crystals that absorb

1823
02:09:56.960 --> 02:10:00.199
water. So if you forget to
water your plants and they start to get

1824
02:10:00.199 --> 02:10:03.520
a little on the dry side.
There's still water in those crystals the plants

1825
02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:05.880
can get and it kind of makes
it let's just say a little more forgiving

1826
02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:09.960
if you tend to be forget full. That's how that works. I know

1827
02:10:11.159 --> 02:10:15.239
it is. I've more than once
walked into a room and looked at a

1828
02:10:15.319 --> 02:10:18.359
plant and went, oh, forgot
about that one. Well, where do

1829
02:10:18.439 --> 02:10:22.159
you get these things? How about
enchanted gardens out in Richmond. How about

1830
02:10:22.199 --> 02:10:26.720
shades of green up in the woodlands. That's another good place you can get

1831
02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:28.840
these. You can even go down
to Fisher's Hardware. There's one in South

1832
02:10:28.880 --> 02:10:33.159
Houston, there's one in the Port. Lots of places you can find jungle

1833
02:10:33.239 --> 02:10:39.199
land and other nitrofost products as well. You know, one of my favorite

1834
02:10:39.760 --> 02:10:46.640
charities, absolutely hands down is starf
Hope Mission. And it's because I believe

1835
02:10:46.720 --> 02:10:50.279
in what they do and I believe
in how they do it. And I

1836
02:10:50.319 --> 02:10:54.159
don't know, some of you probably
listening to me this morning on the way

1837
02:10:54.159 --> 02:10:56.800
to church, and you have a
compassion and you want to see that compassion

1838
02:10:56.920 --> 02:11:01.560
and action in a way that matters. Well, you don't want to throw

1839
02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:03.039
your money away just to hand out
and who knows what they're going to do

1840
02:11:03.119 --> 02:11:07.000
with a dollar or what a five
or ten or whatever you hand out,

1841
02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:11.039
why not invest it into a program
that really changes lives. Star Hope is

1842
02:11:11.079 --> 02:11:15.039
that way. Recently, I was
at an event and I heard a couple

1843
02:11:15.119 --> 02:11:18.760
of testimonies from people that Starve Hoope
had turned their lives around and the lives

1844
02:11:18.800 --> 02:11:24.439
of their kids to That is important
because with Starve Hope people can come in

1845
02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:28.560
and become part of their program to
change lives. That includes a place to

1846
02:11:28.640 --> 02:11:33.560
live, that includes food, that
includes clothing, to go out and get

1847
02:11:33.560 --> 02:11:37.520
a job, to interview, training
on interviewing, training on life skills,

1848
02:11:37.920 --> 02:11:43.439
breaking habits like drug abuse and other
struggles in life, spiritual training for the

1849
02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:46.720
whole person. Starf Hope does all
of that. They commit to the person

1850
02:11:48.079 --> 02:11:52.119
that will commit to going through the
program, and I'm telling you it makes

1851
02:11:52.159 --> 02:11:56.399
a difference that lasts and that not
only benefits them and their kids, which

1852
02:11:56.520 --> 02:12:00.920
is it's all about that, but
it also benefits our community. And Starve

1853
02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:03.479
Up is that kind of place.
You can go to s o hmission dot

1854
02:12:03.680 --> 02:12:07.680
org, s o H mission dot
org and find out a whole lot more,

1855
02:12:07.840 --> 02:12:11.279
And I encourage that you would We're
gonna go now to Tomball and talk

1856
02:12:11.319 --> 02:12:16.359
to Tim. Hello, Tim,
good Morning's good love your show. Thank

1857
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:24.520
you, sir. I have an
overabundance of monkey grass growing throughout my front

1858
02:12:24.600 --> 02:12:28.920
lawn. They were planted around trees
that are no longer there. I'm trying

1859
02:12:28.960 --> 02:12:35.800
to figure out what the best way
to kill that off without killing the grass

1860
02:12:35.760 --> 02:12:41.359
or the nearby trees. Wow,
that's a good question. I don't know.

1861
02:12:43.000 --> 02:12:46.840
I've never tried to spray kill monkey
grass, and I have a feet

1862
02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:48.960
on. It's not going to be
easy to control. You definitely don't want

1863
02:12:48.960 --> 02:12:52.640
to use a grass killer. It
is not a grass, even though the

1864
02:12:52.760 --> 02:12:56.880
words of its name say that it's
not a grass. It's kin to theriopy

1865
02:12:58.199 --> 02:13:03.600
and aztec grass, which is also
auto grass. I've read online that perhaps

1866
02:13:03.000 --> 02:13:07.600
round up for poison ivy might be
inappropriate selection, but I wanted to get

1867
02:13:07.640 --> 02:13:13.680
your opinion on that. Will round
up, as Glycas say, If there's

1868
02:13:13.720 --> 02:13:16.359
a product called round up for poison
ivy, I'm wondering if it has tricle

1869
02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:20.560
app here in it. But I
don't. I don't have to look up

1870
02:13:20.640 --> 02:13:26.720
that product, you know. Let
me investigate that one. The only way

1871
02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:28.800
I know to deal with it.
You don't want to hear, and that's

1872
02:13:28.880 --> 02:13:33.720
digging it up. And I know
that I know that it is. Yeah,

1873
02:13:33.800 --> 02:13:39.680
yeah, and a lot of people
love that plant. Maybe you need

1874
02:13:39.760 --> 02:13:43.119
to just put a sign out free
free nuts, edge plants. Just drop

1875
02:13:43.520 --> 02:13:46.960
drop off a pound cake or something
like that. We'll let you have all

1876
02:13:48.039 --> 02:13:52.600
you want, kind of a pick
your own place for groundcover. So joking

1877
02:13:52.680 --> 02:13:56.279
aside, Tim, let me look
into that and I will do some hunting

1878
02:13:56.359 --> 02:14:00.960
and probably if I find a good
solution, i'll say it on the air.

1879
02:14:01.399 --> 02:14:03.520
I don't want to guess at what
I think my first thoughts would be,

1880
02:14:03.640 --> 02:14:09.439
because I don't know that that's right. But h ok, yeah,

1881
02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:13.319
appreciate it. Yeah, I would
say shade it out, but I think

1882
02:14:13.399 --> 02:14:16.840
it would grow underneath the peer and
beam house. I mean it grows underneath

1883
02:14:16.840 --> 02:14:20.399
the magnolia tree. For crying out
loud. You can't have more shade than

1884
02:14:20.439 --> 02:14:22.600
that. Yeah, No, it's
certainly. With the drought last summer,

1885
02:14:22.720 --> 02:14:26.560
it was the only thing that was
agreen on the entire long stone. Now,

1886
02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:31.119
one other option would be to just
do what it takes to kill it,

1887
02:14:31.680 --> 02:14:33.279
and if that kills along, so
be it in that area. And

1888
02:14:33.399 --> 02:14:37.800
then put put long back in.
That would probably be simpler. But let

1889
02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:41.800
me see if I can play.
I'm inclined to do that at this point

1890
02:14:41.840 --> 02:14:45.159
because I'm going to have to come
back and resab where I kill the monkey

1891
02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:48.840
grass anyway. So yeah, I
will let me see what I can find.

1892
02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:50.000
If I come up for something,
I'll talk about it on the air

1893
02:14:50.000 --> 02:14:54.279
because I need to know that myself. All right, thank you, I

1894
02:14:54.319 --> 02:14:56.840
appreciate it. Thank you. I
appreciate your call very much. For those

1895
02:14:56.880 --> 02:15:01.960
of you out in the Kingwood area, you know, you got Kingwood Garden

1896
02:15:01.039 --> 02:15:05.920
Center and you've got worn Southern gardens
out there in that same area, not

1897
02:15:05.039 --> 02:15:09.000
that far apart, and it's just
a pleasure to visit the nurseries because they

1898
02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:13.880
always are loaded up with the plants
that you need, the color, the

1899
02:15:15.079 --> 02:15:20.279
containers they are. They really do
good at those combo containers, you know,

1900
02:15:20.319 --> 02:15:22.399
where you have a larger container,
but you plant it with different plants.

1901
02:15:22.840 --> 02:15:26.279
So it's just a lot to look
at. It's really beautiful. They're

1902
02:15:26.319 --> 02:15:31.079
good at that. Right now.
They've got a lot of wonderful spring blooming

1903
02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:37.560
trees, and we have four seasons
here, and spring is a great time

1904
02:15:37.680 --> 02:15:39.840
to have a blooming tree. So
red buds, this thing warm up a

1905
02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:43.840
little bit more. Here come the
red buds Chinese friends. Another one that

1906
02:15:43.920 --> 02:15:48.399
comes out in the spring, saucer
magnolias. I mean right now, that's

1907
02:15:48.479 --> 02:15:52.560
the first harbinger of spring. And
are they beautiful. It's a deciduous tree.

1908
02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:56.359
It's not like a southern Magnoia's deciduous. And in the spring on all

1909
02:15:56.399 --> 02:16:01.359
those bare branches early early spring,
boom, these ballooms come out that are

1910
02:16:01.439 --> 02:16:05.520
like saucers, like pink saucers,
gorgeous on the plants. They've got those,

1911
02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:07.520
so now's the time to get them. Now's the time to get them

1912
02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:11.640
planted asap. Go to warrants.
You'll get those. Do you want a

1913
02:16:13.479 --> 02:16:16.479
citrus? Do you need fruit trees? They've got that. And don't forget

1914
02:16:16.520 --> 02:16:20.159
that leapier sale that we were talking
about before. It continues until the third

1915
02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:24.840
of March. So we're just around
the corner on making sure you get the

1916
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:28.960
leap here. So we get a
combination of different products on really good specials

1917
02:16:30.119 --> 02:16:33.239
like you buy two or you buy
three, and you just get a really

1918
02:16:33.559 --> 02:16:35.639
really great discount on those. And
that would include you know, that would

1919
02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:41.319
include things like azemite, for example. You heard me talking about azumite earlier.

1920
02:16:41.719 --> 02:16:46.840
Amite is a nutrient supplement for trace
minerals that we've put out. Well,

1921
02:16:46.879 --> 02:16:50.360
they've got that and they got a
really really good special on it as

1922
02:16:50.440 --> 02:16:52.639
well, so I would encourage you
to go out there and take advantage of

1923
02:16:52.680 --> 02:16:58.239
it. They got the heirloom soils, rose soil on that Leapier special if

1924
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:03.319
you like, canisters of Microlife or
Nelson products, and they have refill stations

1925
02:17:03.360 --> 02:17:05.559
two for them, by the way, they've got those on special out there

1926
02:17:05.600 --> 02:17:09.040
as well. It's all part of
the leap eerstyle, but only good until

1927
02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:15.559
March third at Warren's Southern Gardens out
there in Kingwood. We're going to head

1928
02:17:15.600 --> 02:17:20.399
out to North Houston now and talk
to Robert. Hello, Robert, Hello,

1929
02:17:20.600 --> 02:17:24.559
Skip, How you doing good?
Okay? Look, I's that an

1930
02:17:24.600 --> 02:17:28.319
Asian market in an Asian grocery store. I was going through the produce section

1931
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:35.559
and they had it, said elephantearsaid, it's just a stalk in the produce

1932
02:17:35.680 --> 02:17:39.719
section and it didn't have the leaves
on it, it just had the stalks.

1933
02:17:39.600 --> 02:17:45.000
Are they edible? There's a there
are edibles in that group of plants.

1934
02:17:45.040 --> 02:17:48.600
There's one plant called tarot. That
tarot root is edible. Uh.

1935
02:17:48.840 --> 02:17:54.280
And so with the elephant airs you
got allocations and colorcasias and other elephant regular

1936
02:17:54.319 --> 02:17:58.799
elephant ears. There's lots of different
plants like that. But if you find

1937
02:17:58.840 --> 02:18:01.959
it in a market like that,
yes it is edible, and yes it's

1938
02:18:01.040 --> 02:18:05.360
gonna look like what you think it's
gonna look like. We didn't have the

1939
02:18:05.399 --> 02:18:09.559
botanical name. We just had elephant
here, so I was going, well,

1940
02:18:09.440 --> 02:18:13.319
what you know it'd be. There's
a lot of difference. You know,

1941
02:18:13.399 --> 02:18:16.159
genus is a species, so I'm
going which one is it? But

1942
02:18:16.559 --> 02:18:20.079
yeah, anyway, okay, yeah, uh, And it's a it's a

1943
02:18:20.200 --> 02:18:24.959
very starchy material. I have never
eaten one myself. I need to do

1944
02:18:26.120 --> 02:18:30.600
that sometime. I just I just
never had one to try and eat.

1945
02:18:30.760 --> 02:18:33.639
But anyway, uh, people do. And then especially in an Asian market,

1946
02:18:33.680 --> 02:18:39.879
you're gonna find those kind of things
for sale that it's it's kind of

1947
02:18:39.959 --> 02:18:45.639
cool. Do you think the whole
genus that colloccasion would be edible? Uh?

1948
02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:50.920
Okay. Among the many Colocasia species, there's tarot, which is Colocasia

1949
02:18:50.239 --> 02:18:56.479
esculenta, and the Latin word esculenta
means it's edible. That's basically the one.

1950
02:18:56.079 --> 02:19:00.799
Uh. Now, I think there's
some others that you can There's a

1951
02:19:00.959 --> 02:19:05.760
genus zen Zentha, soma something like
that. And then the allocacious to have

1952
02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:11.200
been a staple uh for edibles in
a lot of those countries. I would

1953
02:19:11.319 --> 02:19:13.639
I would go online before I send
you out to eat everything under the sun.

1954
02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:18.440
I would go online and you with
a search you can easily find the

1955
02:19:18.520 --> 02:19:22.479
specifics. But there are edibles in
the collocations and in the allocations, and

1956
02:19:22.639 --> 02:19:26.799
specifically taro, which is one of
the most popular. That's colocasia escalenta.

1957
02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:33.639
The allocations are air shape leaves that
tend to point upward like an arrow point.

1958
02:19:33.239 --> 02:19:37.079
The collocations tend to hang down,
and that's the one we usually think

1959
02:19:37.159 --> 02:19:43.360
of as elephant ear uh. And
so allocate for The easy way to remember

1960
02:19:43.639 --> 02:19:46.879
is allocacia is an a and an
A points upward. A capital a points

1961
02:19:46.959 --> 02:19:52.000
upward. Okay, all right,
I've been reading your article in Texas Order

1962
02:19:52.120 --> 02:19:54.360
for years. Yes, sir,
thank you, I'm glad glady on air

1963
02:19:54.479 --> 02:19:56.879
now you know your resource. Thank
you so much. Thanks, sir,

1964
02:19:56.959 --> 02:20:01.319
I appreciate your kindness to the call. Take care. Well, let's see

1965
02:20:01.360 --> 02:20:05.440
here. I want to talk a
little bit about spring greenup. If you

1966
02:20:05.520 --> 02:20:09.360
go to my schedule at gardening with
Skip dot com, the lawn care schedule

1967
02:20:09.559 --> 02:20:13.760
is telling you that late February and
into the first two or three weeks in

1968
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:16.719
March would be our spring greenup season. That makes the long green before it

1969
02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:20.639
gets warm enough for it to really
grow fast. It will green it up.

1970
02:20:20.719 --> 02:20:24.079
And that's an optional application, but
it's what a lot of people like

1971
02:20:24.200 --> 02:20:28.000
to do. It strengthens that grass
getting ready to grow. Nitrofos has an

1972
02:20:28.040 --> 02:20:33.600
Imperial product that's the red bag.
It says fifteen five to ten. That's

1973
02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:37.760
the ratio that was determined by A
and M. And actually a lot of

1974
02:20:37.840 --> 02:20:43.559
different Langa universities in their turf research
over the years have proven that that works,

1975
02:20:43.600 --> 02:20:46.760
and it works in our soils,
it works in our region. Nitrofos

1976
02:20:46.879 --> 02:20:50.120
Imperial is a fifteen five to ten
product and you can find nitro fuss and

1977
02:20:50.200 --> 02:20:54.440
a lot of places around town.
For example, you can go out to

1978
02:20:54.799 --> 02:20:58.639
Kingwood Ace Hardware and they're going to
have it. You can go to the

1979
02:20:58.799 --> 02:21:01.280
Arbor Gate up in Tomball they're going
to have it. Shades of Texas down

1980
02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:07.559
in southeaston on Genoa Redbluff. They're
going to have nitrofoss products like the Imperial

1981
02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:11.120
as well. Well, it's about
time to take a break here, so

1982
02:21:11.360 --> 02:21:13.360
Lynn, I see you out there. We're going to take you first when

1983
02:21:13.399 --> 02:21:16.239
we come back from break, because
I'm gonna be able to have time to

1984
02:21:16.520 --> 02:21:20.680
give your question the time that it
needs. I mentioned that schedule just now,

1985
02:21:20.840 --> 02:21:24.719
and for those of you who haven't
checked it out yet, go to

1986
02:21:24.959 --> 02:21:28.760
Gardening with Skip dot com. That's
where both schedules are. They're free.

1987
02:21:28.959 --> 02:21:35.280
It's multicolor January through February. Everything
you do, the products you need,

1988
02:21:35.959 --> 02:21:41.159
and if you're organic or synthetic,
there's options for everybody out there on those

1989
02:21:41.280 --> 02:21:45.639
two schedules at Gardening with Skip dot
Com. Well, we're going to stop

1990
02:21:45.680 --> 02:21:48.280
here. I'm gonna quit talking.
Uh. It is a phone number you

1991
02:21:48.319 --> 02:21:52.680
want to write down, and that
is seven one three two one two k

1992
02:21:52.840 --> 02:21:54.360
t r H. Give us a
call right now. It's Nicky in the

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02:21:54.479 --> 02:21:58.600
news. Nice, welcome back to
Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter.

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02:21:58.719 --> 02:22:01.040
Hey, what do we want to
talk about today? You tell me.

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02:22:01.319 --> 02:22:05.879
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02:22:15.000 --> 02:22:18.680
make your root zone perfect for plants
to survive and thrive, things like their

1998
02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:22.760
potting soils and all purpose potting soil
age, pine bark, humous material.

1999
02:22:24.200 --> 02:22:28.200
It just it just creates that environment
that plants are going to thrive in.

2000
02:22:28.360 --> 02:22:31.639
I like to take it and even
amend it. You can throw some shale

2001
02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:35.520
into it if you want to get
a little grittier for maybe succulents and things

2002
02:22:35.639 --> 02:22:39.280
like that. So it's a very
variable product. You can just use it

2003
02:22:39.360 --> 02:22:43.079
as it is. Pot dirt is
an OMRI certified organic soil. It's packed

2004
02:22:43.079 --> 02:22:46.399
with nutrients, got worm castings,
it's got sand of vermiculi and more so

2005
02:22:46.479 --> 02:22:50.159
if you're doing annual color changes in
beds where you really want to pop of

2006
02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.959
color which welcome to spring, Yes, we do pot dirt it's a good

2007
02:22:54.040 --> 02:22:58.280
choice for that. The landscapers mix
excellent internal drainage. So if you've got

2008
02:22:58.319 --> 02:23:03.680
an existing landing bed and you want
to kind of renovate it up and add

2009
02:23:03.799 --> 02:23:07.239
some material up into it. With
the fresh pine bark, the rice holes,

2010
02:23:07.719 --> 02:23:11.600
the pearlite, even a slow release
fertilizer in that landscaping mix, it's

2011
02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:15.040
got it. And then then of
course the rose mix very effective for any

2012
02:23:15.079 --> 02:23:20.200
woody plant, but designed for roses
as well as other woody plants, fresh

2013
02:23:20.280 --> 02:23:24.799
and composted bine, pine bark combined. It's got sphagnum moss in it,

2014
02:23:24.879 --> 02:23:28.079
and it also has a slow release
burtle. It makes it really really easy.

2015
02:23:28.639 --> 02:23:33.120
Just go to do this, go
to Landscaperspride dot com. Landscaperspride dot

2016
02:23:33.200 --> 02:23:35.959
com. When you go there,
you'll find out where you can get it,

2017
02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:39.319
and it's widely available here in the
Houston area. By it, I

2018
02:23:39.479 --> 02:23:43.719
mean all of the Landscaper's Pride quality
products that make your plants happy, make

2019
02:23:43.760 --> 02:23:48.600
the roots happy, make the plants
happy. Brown stuff then green stuff.

2020
02:23:48.200 --> 02:23:54.159
Really simple, simple formula. We're
going to go out here to Santa Fe

2021
02:23:54.399 --> 02:23:58.440
and talk to Lynn. Hello Lynn. Oh yeah, good, More on

2022
02:23:58.559 --> 02:24:03.879
scale. I have a question about
a magnolia tree that got burnt up by

2023
02:24:03.959 --> 02:24:11.600
that summer drought last year. Yes, and it's about ten foot tall in

2024
02:24:11.719 --> 02:24:16.360
about seven foot diameter anyway, and
it's about three quarters of it burnt up

2025
02:24:16.600 --> 02:24:22.000
from that drought. And what do
you recommend I should do skiff, Should

2026
02:24:22.040 --> 02:24:26.680
I tune it back? Or yeah? A good question. Good question,

2027
02:24:26.840 --> 02:24:31.399
Linn. We've seen all versions of
damage on southern magnolia this past summer.

2028
02:24:33.159 --> 02:24:37.959
Some plants killed out right, some
burned just here and there where you can

2029
02:24:37.000 --> 02:24:41.639
prune them and then keep going,
and some burn back enough to where they're

2030
02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:45.760
so disfigured it's just not the plant
you want and it never will be,

2031
02:24:45.920 --> 02:24:48.040
and so you just pull it and
put a new one in. You can

2032
02:24:48.120 --> 02:24:52.959
scratch the bark. The leaves may
be brown, but the bark could be

2033
02:24:52.040 --> 02:24:56.680
alive, so you can scratch the
bark to see, or you can wait

2034
02:24:56.760 --> 02:25:01.200
for new spring growth to see where
it starts to grow going from and prune

2035
02:25:01.239 --> 02:25:05.879
it back to that if you if
you're thinking I may want to replace it,

2036
02:25:05.120 --> 02:25:07.360
if it's not going to make it, then I would get a little

2037
02:25:07.399 --> 02:25:11.399
knife or thumbnail and get out there
and start scratching bark, looking to see

2038
02:25:11.440 --> 02:25:16.000
if it's like a paper sack underneath
brown which is dead, or if you

2039
02:25:16.120 --> 02:25:22.120
got a creamy white or a light
green which is alive, and then make

2040
02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:24.680
an assessment. You know, I
mean if the whole top half of it

2041
02:25:24.840 --> 02:25:28.479
died, well, magno user trees
not bushes, and so you know that

2042
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:33.200
would not be that'd be so disfigured. I wouldn't keep it, okay,

2043
02:25:33.639 --> 02:25:35.959
I said, well, I'll I'll
do what you said, and I'll just

2044
02:25:37.120 --> 02:25:41.559
kind of like wait until wait a
little while to makee spring time comes.

2045
02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:43.760
You'll see what happened. Yeah.
The only the only reason to get ahead

2046
02:25:43.760 --> 02:25:46.760
and do the scratching is if you're
going to replant, well, it be

2047
02:25:46.799 --> 02:25:50.879
better to plant sooner rather than later, so it make you help you make

2048
02:25:50.920 --> 02:25:54.479
the decision earlier. Otherwise just wait, you can do that too. Thank

2049
02:25:54.520 --> 02:26:00.600
you. I appreciate your call,
sir. All right, Uh, have

2050
02:26:00.719 --> 02:26:05.079
you been to Chenni Gardens in Richmond. You need to because it's another showplace

2051
02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:11.239
garden center that we have downe here. It sprawls out with color and vegetables

2052
02:26:11.440 --> 02:26:16.159
and roses and trees and shrubs and
pottery and all kinds of yard bling.

2053
02:26:16.319 --> 02:26:18.959
I love the yard bling too.
That is it. Now? In Chenni

2054
02:26:20.000 --> 02:26:22.600
Gardens, you're going to find very
knowledgeable staff people that know what they're talking

2055
02:26:22.600 --> 02:26:26.879
about. So when you're walking around, des grab somebody. They're all over

2056
02:26:26.920 --> 02:26:30.159
the place and they're there to help
you and eager to help you and friendly

2057
02:26:30.719 --> 02:26:33.319
and they will they will direct you
to a plant that fits the situation.

2058
02:26:33.559 --> 02:26:37.520
That you're asking about that will help
you combine a bunch of flowers into a

2059
02:26:37.600 --> 02:26:39.920
container. When I say help you, they're not going to come to your

2060
02:26:39.959 --> 02:26:43.319
house, of course, but you
can say, look, I want to

2061
02:26:43.360 --> 02:26:46.120
do a combo container and maybe you
get one of their containers and it's this

2062
02:26:46.239 --> 02:26:50.840
big and what would you suggest for
annuals and they'll give you some things you

2063
02:26:50.879 --> 02:26:56.000
can put in it to create a
beautiful combination. That's how they do things

2064
02:26:56.040 --> 02:27:01.399
there. The London and family has
been in that community since nineteen and that's

2065
02:27:01.440 --> 02:27:05.680
when in Chinnit Garden first opened.
That's when the garden center first opened.

2066
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:09.440
And they there's a reason that it
just keeps growing and getting better. It's

2067
02:27:09.440 --> 02:27:13.959
because people know about it and people
love to go to in Chanit Gardens.

2068
02:27:13.000 --> 02:27:18.159
They're on FM three fifty nine,
so if you're in Richmond heading toward full

2069
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:22.559
cir Kadie direction, FM three point
fifty nine is where it is. Or

2070
02:27:22.639 --> 02:27:28.799
go to the website and make it
easy on yourself Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

2071
02:27:28.959 --> 02:27:31.440
By the way, they're open today
from ten am to four pm.

2072
02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:35.319
So hey, I'm just saying,
good thing to do this afternoon head out

2073
02:27:35.360 --> 02:27:39.479
to Enchanit gardens get a little bit
of inspiration and hopefully some plants by the

2074
02:27:39.520 --> 02:27:43.639
way they carry. Our fertilizers recommend
and soils would recommend also out there.

2075
02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:46.559
We're going to go to northeast Houston
down and talk to Fred. Hey,

2076
02:27:46.639 --> 02:27:52.639
Fred, how you doing. I'm
good. I got two questions. One

2077
02:27:52.639 --> 02:27:56.760
of my yard for the weeds or
what's what's what I need to do to

2078
02:27:56.799 --> 02:28:01.239
control them? And you say,
a while back lady had some lights on

2079
02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:05.440
some plants that kept them on that
keep from freezing. Yes, yes,

2080
02:28:07.079 --> 02:28:09.959
can you do you remember? Uh, well, let's start about Let's start

2081
02:28:11.000 --> 02:28:16.159
with the weeds. If you see
weeds, now those are existing weeds.

2082
02:28:16.600 --> 02:28:18.760
Most of them are broad leaf weeds, and you need to use a broad

2083
02:28:18.879 --> 02:28:24.239
leaf post emergent weed control. And
one example of that. There there are

2084
02:28:24.399 --> 02:28:28.920
a number of good things out there
on the market, but one example is

2085
02:28:28.079 --> 02:28:33.600
a product by nitrofoss and it is
a fifteen five ten fertilizer. So it's

2086
02:28:33.639 --> 02:28:37.079
a fertilizer and it has trun it
has trimic in it. And that what

2087
02:28:37.280 --> 02:28:39.399
you have to do though for it
is you got to you gotta get a

2088
02:28:39.399 --> 02:28:43.120
sprinkler out there and turn it on
just enough to wet the weed leaves just

2089
02:28:43.319 --> 02:28:46.000
enough. You don't you're not water
in your lawn. You're just wetting the

2090
02:28:46.079 --> 02:28:52.120
weeds and have your product ready to
go, and you fertilize the lawn and

2091
02:28:52.319 --> 02:28:56.159
that granule sticks to those wet leaves
and it goes in. The chemical goes

2092
02:28:56.200 --> 02:29:01.760
in and kills the weed. And
then a couple of days later then if

2093
02:29:01.799 --> 02:29:05.440
you want a water it's a good
idea because you washed the fertilizer down into

2094
02:29:05.520 --> 02:29:11.559
the soil and that is going to
feed your early feed of your spring green

2095
02:29:11.680 --> 02:29:13.040
up. And so you kind of
can do both at the same time.

2096
02:29:13.559 --> 02:29:18.360
Those weeds are going to be setting
seeds soon and once they do that,

2097
02:29:18.559 --> 02:29:22.120
they're hard to kill. Plus you
have, you know, twenty years of

2098
02:29:22.159 --> 02:29:26.159
weeding that you've just added to the
to the soil from all those weed seeds.

2099
02:29:26.959 --> 02:29:33.239
Now the lights go ahead, n
fifteen five can Yeah, it's a

2100
02:29:33.280 --> 02:29:39.079
fifteen to five to ten with TRIMEC, tri I MEC tr MEC. That's

2101
02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:43.680
three different harbicides that are in that
granule. And you can do it without

2102
02:29:43.280 --> 02:29:48.760
now the lights to warm things up. The lights and I'm gonna have to

2103
02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:50.600
run here, so I got to
do this quick. But you just get

2104
02:29:50.799 --> 02:29:56.000
one of those clamp light aluminum lights
and get you either one hundred and fifty

2105
02:29:56.040 --> 02:30:00.319
watt flood light bulb or if you
really need to heat up a heat the

2106
02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:03.079
red heat lamp bulbs and that creates
a lot of heat and you put it

2107
02:30:03.200 --> 02:30:07.079
underneath the cover to keep that heat
in and to protect your plants when it's

2108
02:30:07.159 --> 02:30:11.159
cold. I'm sorry I got to
run, but I'm up against a hard

2109
02:30:11.239 --> 02:30:13.879
break here. But I do thank
you very much for that call. We'll

2110
02:30:13.920 --> 02:30:18.680
be right back. Welcome back to
garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're

2111
02:30:18.680 --> 02:30:24.239
with us today. We are entering
our last segment of the weekend. You

2112
02:30:24.319 --> 02:30:26.799
know, we're here every Saturday from
six am to ten am and every Sunday

2113
02:30:26.840 --> 02:30:31.280
from six am to ten am to
answer your gardening questions. You can listen

2114
02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:33.680
to past shows on the podcast if
you would like to go about that way,

2115
02:30:33.719 --> 02:30:39.479
get you iHeart Media app. And
actually you can listen to live shows

2116
02:30:39.520 --> 02:30:41.440
on the podcast too. We have
folks from way outside the listening area that

2117
02:30:41.559 --> 02:30:48.079
listen that way as well. I
want to just remind you for those of

2118
02:30:48.159 --> 02:30:54.719
you who are up and let's just
say North area up beyond Houston towards spring

2119
02:30:54.200 --> 02:30:58.600
Well, Spring Creek Feed, Spring
Creek Feed. They're in the Magnolia area

2120
02:31:01.000 --> 02:31:03.680
on FM twenty nine seventy eight.
I want to remind you that they're there

2121
02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:07.559
because that's your hometown feed straw right
up in that area, and Spring Creek

2122
02:31:07.639 --> 02:31:11.639
Feed carries everything that you need.
Of course, they have feed for animals,

2123
02:31:11.680 --> 02:31:15.079
they have feed for pets, quality
feeds. By the way, for

2124
02:31:15.200 --> 02:31:18.799
those friendly courteous staff always like to
go in there. They greet you and

2125
02:31:18.920 --> 02:31:22.760
they make sure you get helped and
you find what you need. They've gotten

2126
02:31:22.799 --> 02:31:26.399
a lot of shipment of some new
betting plants in. They've got a load

2127
02:31:26.559 --> 02:31:31.040
of different products that we recommend on
garden line fertilizers, all the different fertilizers

2128
02:31:31.040 --> 02:31:33.959
that we talk about, you're going
to find them there at Spring Creek Feed.

2129
02:31:33.760 --> 02:31:37.879
If you need pest disease and weed
control, yep, they got that

2130
02:31:37.000 --> 02:31:41.799
as well. You can find that
there. If you need any supplies for

2131
02:31:41.879 --> 02:31:45.000
your back eared chickens, they can
get you fixed up on that. But

2132
02:31:45.079 --> 02:31:50.120
I think you're going to be really
surprised they've expanded their horticultural slash gardening area

2133
02:31:50.360 --> 02:31:54.440
in terms of products and plants and
other things, and it's really nice again.

2134
02:31:54.479 --> 02:31:58.040
They're on FM twenty nine to twenty, just minutes away from Grand Parkway

2135
02:31:58.399 --> 02:32:03.559
and Highway. Spring Creek Feeds and
you can't miss it when you're dry,

2136
02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:07.840
big old barn, beautiful place,
love to go inside, lots of cool

2137
02:32:07.879 --> 02:32:09.680
stuff with the home too inside there. You need a little of that extra

2138
02:32:11.200 --> 02:32:15.079
farmhouse tot bling. They will get
you fixed up. We're going to go

2139
02:32:15.159 --> 02:32:20.159
now to Rosenberg and talk to Evan. Hello, Evan, are you there?

2140
02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:26.879
Yes, I mispronounced your name,
Yvonne. Thank you, yeah,

2141
02:32:26.159 --> 02:32:28.840
now it's fine, Thank you,
Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call.

2142
02:32:31.559 --> 02:32:33.600
So I have pretty much more weeds
than the lawn going on, and

2143
02:32:35.040 --> 02:32:39.280
our intent was last summer to really
put the effort into our lawn to fix

2144
02:32:39.360 --> 02:32:41.000
it, and of course we hit
the drought, so that stopped everything.

2145
02:32:41.040 --> 02:32:45.799
And then I've been traveling this whole
spring, and so today's the day to

2146
02:32:46.000 --> 02:32:50.360
get started. And I just heard
your last call talk about the nitrofoss fifteen

2147
02:32:50.399 --> 02:32:54.840
to five to ten with the TRIMEC. So I'm assuming that's my first step.

2148
02:32:54.959 --> 02:32:58.440
Is that correct? Well, that
would be for the broadly feeds that

2149
02:32:58.479 --> 02:33:01.520
are in your lawn right now,
the existing weeds that would help kill them.

2150
02:33:03.040 --> 02:33:07.799
They're going to be going to seed
and going downhill and giving way to

2151
02:33:07.879 --> 02:33:11.079
the warm season weeds. And as
long as you have a thin lawn.

2152
02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:15.600
While you're doing that, other nit
frosh you buys, will grab a bag

2153
02:33:15.680 --> 02:33:20.719
of barricade and put that down that
needs to be watered in. The first

2154
02:33:20.799 --> 02:33:24.959
one, we wet the weed,
just wet it, and then we put

2155
02:33:24.000 --> 02:33:30.479
the fertilizer slash broad leaf control out
and the granu'll stick to the weeds and

2156
02:33:30.600 --> 02:33:33.239
that's how the chemical gets in the
weed. After a couple of days,

2157
02:33:33.559 --> 02:33:39.040
then you can water the lawn.
And before you do that, I would

2158
02:33:39.040 --> 02:33:43.520
put out the barricade and then water
in and you get all of it done

2159
02:33:43.559 --> 02:33:46.120
at once. You move the fertilizer
into the soil and you move the barricade

2160
02:33:46.159 --> 02:33:50.959
into the soil surface. Because here's
what's going to happen. Soon. The

2161
02:33:50.079 --> 02:33:54.399
weeds you see now will give way
to things like grassperers and crabgrass and other

2162
02:33:54.559 --> 02:34:00.719
warm season weeds that are in the
process of sprouting, and we got to

2163
02:34:00.799 --> 02:34:03.879
stop them at that stage. If
you wait too long, the barricade isn't

2164
02:34:03.920 --> 02:34:09.360
designed to work on existing weeds.
Okay, So when you say a few

2165
02:34:09.440 --> 02:34:13.559
days between doing the nitrofossima barricade.
Are we talking seriously a few days,

2166
02:34:13.639 --> 02:34:16.479
like three days or like from weekend
to weekend. No, no, let

2167
02:34:16.559 --> 02:34:22.959
me let me clarify that I probably
wouldn't clear the we the weeds. Put

2168
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:28.600
down the fertilizer with trimec. It's
a fifteen five to ten with trimac.

2169
02:34:28.680 --> 02:34:33.840
It's like either a blue, bluish, purplish colored bag and it sticks to

2170
02:34:33.879 --> 02:34:37.440
the weeds. And then you just
wait, because you've wet the weeds.

2171
02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:39.520
You put the granules they touch the
weeds, and give it a day or

2172
02:34:39.600 --> 02:34:45.159
two and then you're going to want
to water it. But before you water,

2173
02:34:45.479 --> 02:34:48.959
put the barricade down. So when
you water, you not only move

2174
02:34:48.040 --> 02:34:52.639
the barricade into the soil, you
move the fertilizer into the soil. Is

2175
02:34:52.680 --> 02:34:56.079
that actually a few days? Okay? Well two days? Two days is

2176
02:34:56.239 --> 02:35:01.319
enough between the two One day maybe
enough, But I'd like to give it

2177
02:35:01.399 --> 02:35:05.440
a day or two, and so
you could put the barricade down right away.

2178
02:35:05.239 --> 02:35:09.040
But both in and the fertilizer are
gonna need to be watered in more

2179
02:35:09.079 --> 02:35:13.159
than just wetting the leaves, which
was the first step. Now we're going

2180
02:35:13.239 --> 02:35:16.079
to put like a third or a
half an inch of water to move it

2181
02:35:16.159 --> 02:35:20.799
down in the soil surface. Okay, Now the weeds are good, nice

2182
02:35:20.840 --> 02:35:24.559
little tufts of you know, big
puffs everywhere. Do I need to mow

2183
02:35:24.639 --> 02:35:26.200
them down? Or just leave them
as as they're right now? To put

2184
02:35:26.200 --> 02:35:30.159
the nice fuss for the for the
first step. You don't want to mow

2185
02:35:30.239 --> 02:35:33.399
them. You want those leaves up
there to catch a lot of granules,

2186
02:35:33.479 --> 02:35:37.959
stick to the weed and kill the
weed. Okay, Now I have dogs,

2187
02:35:37.239 --> 02:35:41.719
Do I need to keep them away
from the stuff or I mean,

2188
02:35:43.440 --> 02:35:46.959
well, while the granules are sitting
out there, I guess you could.

2189
02:35:46.040 --> 02:35:50.399
You don't want them tracking that stuff
around or rolling around in it, getting

2190
02:35:50.399 --> 02:35:52.680
in a fur. I mean,
it's not like dog poison. You know,

2191
02:35:52.840 --> 02:35:56.040
the dogs are gonna croak when they
touch it. It's just would I

2192
02:35:56.040 --> 02:36:00.000
would keep them off during that time. I know dogs have to go outsie

2193
02:36:00.200 --> 02:36:03.319
every day, so they can trapes
out there and do their business and come

2194
02:36:03.360 --> 02:36:07.399
home, come back in or something. But okay, all right, and

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02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:11.479
then after that point, just keep
I've got both your lawn schedule, care

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schedule and the weed management schedule cutted
out, So then just pick up where

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they need to be at that point. Is that correct? Yes, Because

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what you will have done with everything
I just said, you will have done

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your spring early greenup. That's the
first thing on the schedule top left corner

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that you see. Okay, okay, all right, all right. I

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appreciate the information. Thank you very
much. I love listening to your show.

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It's been fantastic. And Enchanted Gardens
is my one I go to down

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the street here, Oh my god, down the street. You're lucky.

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I know. I love that place. Say hi to them when you're in

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there. Thanks for the call.
I appreciate that. You know, the

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Ace Hardware stores are where you can
buy any of these products you've been hearing

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02:36:48.840 --> 02:36:52.120
me talk about all day. I
mean the fertilizers, the soil blends,

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you know, the bags of soil, composts and molts, things like that.

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They've got everything, and there Ace
near you. Acehardware dot Com.

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That's the website. Look at the
store locator and you know, put in

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your zip and it'll give you all
these stores that are everywhere nearby that you

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can go to. And if you
hear me talk about it on guardline,

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you're gonna find it at Ace Hardware
that that's how we work. I mean,

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we've communicate with them and here's what
we're going to recommend and stuff,

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and they make sure and have it
stocked up. Things like ASMIT for example.

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That'd be another one you can find
at ACE hardware stores. And when

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you're there, you're going to find
tools. You're going to find pesticides,

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you know, for insects and diseases
and weeds. You can find all of

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that and a lot of other things
to create a beautiful outdoor area that you

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can enjoy. And that's what it's
about. One of the fertilizers say carry

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is the Microlifeline and they have a
wide variety of microlife products. For example,

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I've been talking today about the purple
bag the Humates plus, which is

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a zero zero four, so it's
not you know, there's not nitrogen and

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02:37:58.239 --> 02:38:01.479
phosphors and if there's a little potasse, but we're not putting it down just

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02:38:01.600 --> 02:38:05.959
with the nutrient. We're putting it
down because it is a humous product,

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02:38:05.079 --> 02:38:11.440
the final stage of decomposing organic matter. And so we call it compost in

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02:38:11.479 --> 02:38:13.680
a bag. So if you can
imagine, you know that you had like

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five bags a compost and you just
are ten bags, and you compost it

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all the way down to its final
stage of humus. That's a bag of

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microlife Humantes plus, and you put
that out. It helps with the microbial

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activity in the soil, but it
helps with soil structure, and that is

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important. And this isn't like you
put it out and tomorrow everything's different.

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No, you put it out and
you make this part of your ongoing care.

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That's how nature takes care of things. Nature makes soil better and better

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02:38:41.799 --> 02:38:46.959
over time, and you can shortcut
that with something like microlife products like the

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humates plus, like the six two
four fertilizer that we're going to be talking

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02:38:50.879 --> 02:38:56.159
about soon putting out as a fertilizer
for your lawn, and it's just an

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ongoing process. Return your clippings too. By the way, when you return

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02:39:01.479 --> 02:39:07.520
your grass clippings, you are taking
exactly the combination of every nutrient that grass

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needs. It's in the clipping and
you're cutting them off and you're either dropping

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under the soil or you're paying somebody
to haul them away. I call the

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latter. Renting fertilizer. Don't be
a fertilizer renter. If you buy fertilizer,

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02:39:22.239 --> 02:39:26.280
keep your fertilizer on site by returning
the clippings. Do you know that

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02:39:26.399 --> 02:39:30.040
if you were to take all the
grass clippings, Oh my gosh, here's

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02:39:30.040 --> 02:39:33.000
the music. I'll make this fast. If you're to take the whole grass

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02:39:33.120 --> 02:39:37.200
clippings of all your mowings through the
whole season, send them to the labid

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02:39:37.239 --> 02:39:39.719
A and m what's in these?
I want the whole list of nutrients and

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02:39:39.840 --> 02:39:46.319
how much is there? Your lawn
mower puts out more fertilizer than your fertilizer

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02:39:46.399 --> 02:39:50.000
spread er. Does I mean it? Even if you're fertilized three times a

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year, it does. Does that
mean you don't need to fertilize now?

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It doesn't. It just means that
why waste that quality nutrient? Because if

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02:39:58.639 --> 02:40:01.040
you get rid of your clip things, you just got to add more fertilizer.

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02:40:01.200 --> 02:40:05.680
And they clippings have all the micro
nutrients and things like that and them

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02:40:05.680 --> 02:40:09.040
too, So don't send those down
the street in a plastic bag. It

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just makes sense. It's called don't
bag it. By the way, I

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helped with our one of our turf
spatialists, doctor Kanoop, when he was

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02:40:16.639 --> 02:40:20.239
doing the the uh Don't Bag It
program in Texas. Anyway, we're out

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02:40:20.280 --> 02:40:22.319
of time for today. Hey,
I've had a good time. I hope

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you have too. We'll see you
next Satay.