Katie r h Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor
It's sho crazy watch Trim. Just watch him as so many good things to
see that crazy gas back again not sord sun Beamon of Tweet. Good morning
on a what is going to be an awesome Sunday. This is this weather,
This weekend has just been standing. I'm excited. I'm ready to go.
I hope this afternoon you got plans to get out about and do some
maybe plant acquiring, so you're ready to go at the house. Boy,
I tell you I was out at two different nurseries yesterday and just wandering around
seeing what's going on. And boy, it's exciting seeing all new plants coming
in. Everybody's ready to go. By the way, thanks to A and
A Plants up in Montgomery for having me out. That was a great time.
We had a lot of folks come out, and boy, you guys
warmed me out with questions. I think I talked for a couple of at
least a couple of hours just answering questions. And I love that. I
enjoy getting interact with people and helping them have a more successful garden. But
we had a good time out there, and thanks again for folks at A
and A for having us out. I was thinking about, you know,
we were having a discussion one person and myself just about you know, how
do you know when it's time to plant tomatoes? And you don't. That's
the bottom line, as you don't. We have this thing called average frost
date. Yeah, we say, well, wait till after that. Well,
okay, that's a good general guide. Some years it quits freezing and
frosting before the last average day. Some years it's later. I think you
should just get out there, plan them when you want to plant them,
but be ready to cover them up. Even if you wait till after the
date, just know that you're gonna have to throw a cover over them.
And the kind of frosts and freezes we typically have once we get close to
that last average frost date, those are what we would call light frosts or
certainly light freezes, where the temperature dips down at the end of the night
below freezing, and maybe then it comes up within an hour after the sun's
coming up, it's already above so all he had to do is protect him
for just a little while. This isn't the same kind of protecting, so
even throwing a sheet over them can help. I like to use plastic on
PBC hoops in my garden because it's easy to pull it over the hoops and
put it on and easy to get it off. And plastic cosy air dead
space, so that works good too. But yeah, it's a gamble.
Some people are gamblers, you know, they take chances and so go for
it. Other people are very conservative. They were a built end suspenders just
in case, and those kind of folks. We'll wait till later, but
just remember don't wait till too late, because summer comes, and when it
does, when it gets hot, the tomatoes quit setting. So you want
to get as much tomato harvest as you can. In the meantime, I'm
going to head out to Full Sure and we're going to talk to JD to
start off the day. Hello, JD, do we have JD? Are
you there? You go? Morning? How to skip? Good morning?
How are you? I'm well, thank you good, thanks for taking a
call. So I got a couple of tree questions to start things off this
morning. Okay, and this is something I had emailed you on earlier in
the week. Yes, the issue number one is I've got some water oaks.
So my house is about fifteen months old and got some builders grade trees
installed, so they did water oaks and they I didn't know about this terminology,
so forgive me, but I don't know that you've used it a whole
lot. But I definitely heard Randy use it the mulch volcanoes, yes,
and so i'd heard that and then been listening and reading, and I figured,
you know what, I need to try to drive these roots down into
the ground, because I could already tell that they were going more horizontal than
they were vertical. So I've dug out some of the dirt and these two
oaks in my front yard to try to drive them down. We will be
mulching soon. And actually I live in a fifty five and up community,
so kind of mulch is included in the price of the landscaping for the front
yard. But I was wondering, because some of these roots are now exposed,
should I put some dirt back on top of them and then mulch during
the next couple of weeks. All right, let me address those yes,
you're right to pull that mulch away. It is ridiculed that people make multip
volcanoes. There is no horticulture reason for it. It's one of those things
that got started because it looks neat to people, and it is a bad
horticulture practice. You're not going to drive the roots down. Roots are going
to grow wherever there's oxygen in the soil. So in a sandy soil they'll
be They can go a little deeper in a clay soil. Pretty much in
all soils, the vast majority of roots are in the top foot of soil,
the vast majority. So you do want to pull that back. And
what you want to do is go down the trunk. And in the picture
where you have pulled it back, you see how the trunk flares out at
the base. A tree trunk, you know, it can be essentially the
same size going down and then right at the base it flares out. And
if you don't see a trunk flare, the tree is planted too deeply.
I help somebody out at Ana yesterday with a photo and that tree went in
the ground. It looked like the way a telephone pole goes in the ground.
You know, telephone poles the same size all the way until it disappears
in the soil. That tells you a tree was planted too deeply, and
in the case of these, the mult made it too deep. So pull
it back to you see the flare. If there are roots that are like
coming out of the soil and going back down or something, you could cut
those if you want. It won't hurt the tree. But if you just
see the roots, don't worry about it. Just throw a mulch over them.
That'll be okay. They're not where they are is where there'll always be.
You know, a root that's up at the surface is not going to
somehow become lower in the soil. One thing I do notice, I want
to say for I forget is the very first picture that tree was planted way
too close to the sidewalk. There is not a long term future there.
There's problems. So I don't know. I know, you can't tell them
to come replant it because I guess the agent the builder hired them. Right.
Well, Fortunately, that very first picture that's close to the sidewalk,
that's one of my neighbors. Unfortunate for them, yes, but I took
that picture as example of what they were doing from them. So those other
two trees, those are mine. So they're kind of almost right in the
middle between the sadewalk or the walkway into the house and the sadwalk. Yeah
okay, well, good good, Yeah, Well your neighbor needs to change
act because there is no future for that, I mean, and it's not
going to take long before they're going to wish they hadn't had the tree there.
But yes, pull the mault back, put a regular mulch down.
Get you some shredded hardwood mulch, and uh, you know, just put
it down over the surface of the trees. Like it looks like you've got
a wider area of soil than that first picture tree. But the wider you
mulch, the better for the tree. And I know, at some point
esthetically it's not acceptable. You don't want a twenty foot wide circle around trees.
But the wider you can get it, the better off it is for
the tree getting started and doing well. And even on the one that you
pull the mulch back, it looks like I hardly see a flag there,
so you might want to go check you They need to pull some soil bake
as well a little bit okay, but yeah, that it'll get them a
little okay. There's definitely a swaar on that that. I guess that middle
picture and then one more so JD hang on, hang on, I'm gonna
I'm gonna have to take a break. I know you have a follow up.
Just hang on and we'll come back to you. All right, Okay,
thank you, you bet all right, We're gonna take a little break
here. Our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We're
going to talk about a lot of things on the show. We I want
to discuss some lawns a little bit later. We've got some other business to
take care of in terms of what to do now with your plants. Uh,
if you are wanting to put out some fertilizer that is an organic fertilizer
that provides the most nitrogen just about that you're going to find in any natural
product. Nitrofuss has one called sweet Green. Sweet Green is about eleven percent
on the nitrogen and it's basically a molasses based fertilizer with a microbial activity that
really kicks up into high gear. Microbes like sugars, carbohydrates, especially the
bacteria. They love. Those. The beneficial bacteria that are in the soil
help in your roots. When you put sweet green down, you are going
to have a very strong beneficial effect on increasing that population and creating that environment
that promotes the optimum health for your plants, your plant root system. Plants
live in the roots. We've got to keep the plants happy by making the
roots happy. That's kind of how it works. Sweet green smell is really
good too. I mean it's named right. I'm even just imagine something based
on molasses, Well that was smell like, Well, there you go,
that's what it is. Now. Nit Fuss is available all over the place.
You know, I have any trouble finding it here there Yonder You can
find nitrofacet Fisher's Hardware done in Baytown or maybe Lake Hardware down in excuse me,
Lake Carbrea not in Angleton. Find it in D and D feed up
in tom as well. Easy to find nitroposs and the sweet green product.
Now we're visiting with JD today talking about some things related to some of his
trees, and we're going to go back. Hey, JD, think you
had a follow up, was it on crapes, Yes, sir, so
good news and bad news. So good news, and thank you for last
fall encouraging me to wait till late in the season to transplant a crape myrtle,
which I did and it looks like everything is working well with it.
But both of my crapes had some black city mold last fall. I had
applied some something, some kind of I can't remember, some kind of soap
okay to try to kill but it doesn't look like it worked. That's those
last two pictures I had emailed you. Yeah, just I'm going to be
trimming them today. But I was wonder many suggestions to get rid of that
black city mold. All right, well, yeah, you do want to
trim them. You want to cut off all the twiggy stuff down there because
you're just getting started on those developing a beautiful structure. It looks like you
may have too many trunks too, in the sense that they're too close together,
So you may want to find that out a little bit. Just think
longer term as to what that's going to look like. As far as the
scale, here's the problem with scale. Systemics will get into the nectar of
the blooms, and that takes a toll on honey bees in the summer because
honey bees love crep myrtles in the summer, that's one of the few flowers
that they have access to. So the other alternative is to deal with the
scale when they're young. Excuse me. The young crawlers are going to come
out in March or April, depending on the weather and where you live.
And if you can catch them at that stage, that's the baby's crawling out
from the mother scale. They're unprotected, they have no covering to protect them,
and it's really easy to kill them. I think this is a little
more trouble than most people want to go to. But if you will go
out to the branches where you see the little white spots, that's the scale,
and put some double sided, double sided sticky tape around a branch and
then watch it for you know, each day, just check on it.
Ever a couple of days, check on it and if you see little pinkish
crawlers that have stuck to that, that tells you the scale are out and
active. And then you can apply a horticultural oil spray, or you can
apply a standard insecticide to kill them at that vulnerable stage. But the problem
is timing it right. And the double sided sticky tape helps. You may
have to redo the tape because it'll get dust and stuff on it and no
longer be sticky, but that's the best way to monitor. So you know
in your yard in twenty twenty four when those scale are going to be ready
to spray. Okay, and the spray is an oil or use of the
other. Yeah, you could use horticultural oil or or an insecticide by Fentherren
is a common one available and it sticks around a while. But you're just
spraying the branches. You don't need because the scale is all on the branches.
You don't have to spray the leaves and everything on the plant. But
either way, if you use an oil or either way, coverage is very
important. So every spot on a branch needs to have the product on it,
so you can't just spray like from the north side, then the south
side of the branches the scale go free over there. All right, All
right, thanks so much, appreciate it. You bet, I appreciate the
call. Good luck with that. You know, talking about trees, a
vertin tree Farm is an outstanding source of a wide variety of types of trees.
If you're thinking about a palm, well, they absolutely have a wonderful
selection of palms that do well here in this area and they can guide you,
you know, which are the heartier ones, which you know ones might
be a better feature for a certain setting in the landscape. They can help
you with that. The website is easy. It's Verdanttreefarm dot com. Verdant
Treefarm dot com. There's a Houston three Houston area locations. One is down
in Pairland on Broadway Street, one is in West Houston on Barker Cypress,
and one is where Yale and I ten come together kind of in the Heights
area General Heights area. And really the thing I like about Verdon Tree is
that they number one. They have really large trees. So if you want
instant tree, they can do that up to seven hundred gallon trees. They
do hand what we call a turnkey service. You go there, you pick
the tree you want. They don't just tell you we're going to bring a
tree to you. You get to pick it out and then they tag it,
they bring it to your house, they plant it and if they've come
out and you know, they've done the installation. They offer a one year
warranty on your tree. And the sooner you get this done, the better,
because summer is coming and that's a tough time for a new tree.
So let's give it a little more time and go ahead and the bullet and
make that decision and get those trees. Trees are long term value to your
landscape. When you sell a home, the quality of the trees is a
huge factor, and it's selling and what it sells for. Talk to the
folks at Verdant Tree and get set up and enjoy the shade or the blooms
or whatever you choose the tree for for years and years to come. You're
listening to garden Line. Our number is seven to one three two one two,
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up at A and A Plants yesterday when I was up there doing an appearance
and visiting with folks, the folks at Nelson's were nice enough to give us
some turf Star weedenator to give away. Now, Weedonator, I don't know
if you're familiar with that or not, but it is a product that kills
existing weeds. It's not a pre emergent only that just prevents weeds, but
if you've got weeds there, it will kill them. And it also has
a very release fertilizer, so it's going to feed for weeks and weeks and
weeks going forward. At the same time, it's not an immediate release like
our green ups. It's a slower release. So here's here's what's going on.
You have hand bit and chickweed and other weeds in your yard. You
sprinkle enough to just wet the weed leaves. You don't have to water the
soil, just wet the surface of the leaves. Put the turf Star weedinator
out. It sticks the granule stick to those wet leaf droplets and it soaks
in. Wait about a day or two, and then water again. And
what that's going to do is move all that material down into the soil where
all those nutrients can then be available for plant roots as it warms up and
the nutrients begin to release. That's how weed Nator works. And we gave
way several bags of it out there, and you know, it's a it's
a hot item. I've talked to a number of garden centers that the people
are really asking for and there's a reason. There is a reason for that.
With the turf Star Whetenator, I was looking at my own yard,
and I don't know if you were listening yesterday, but I have some areas.
When I took a little trip last year, it's like chinchbugs were waiting
around the corner, and when I drove around the corner, they came to
my house. They did something to the irrigation system that was coming on regularly
and quit during the two weeks I was gone. This is the worst time
of summer, and when I got home, it was like a blow torch
it hit that yard. I might have to be replanting the yard in that
area. And so some of you are in that same boat and just realize
that now is a great time to pick a good grass and start over.
I'm going to do some experiments, try some different types of newer Saint Augustine's
and Zosia's as well, by the way, just to kind of have a
little bit of an experiment going on. I guess at the house, I'm
doing it in a way where it doesn't look like a hodgepot, but I
want to learn about the new things. It's hard to keep up on all
the new plants that are coming out, but I try to do the best
I can. I don't know if you have been to Plants for All Seasons
lately, but I was checking them out and listen, they just got all
their proven winters in. I don't know if you know about proven winners,
but that is a national program of super gorgeous plants that just perform. They
do super well, and they have all kinds of pansies. They've got calibri
coas and all kinds of different beautiful plants that are in now and ready to
go. And their selection of pots is really gorgeous. Last year we bought
a couple of really beautiful ceramic pots from the folks at Plants for All Seasons,
and they just really set off the landscape. And if you do the
combo of some flowers and a gorgeous pot, it is just a it's a
show stopper, it really is. And they can get y'all set up for
that. And you know, Plants for All Seasons, they're the ones just
north of Luetta on Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta.
You can take pictures and you can take samples in. They'll help you
with all that. They'll direct you to plants, they'll tell you how to
take care of them. They'll even after the sale. Of course, you
come back in you say I've got a problem with this, or hey,
I need something. Here's a picture in my yard. They can direct you
to that because they only carry things that grow here, and they know what
works and how to fix problems when problems occur. Plants for all seasons.
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three seven six one six four six and I get back this week. I
am going to get really busy planting peppers and tomatoes outside. I've decided,
Nikki, it is time to get those apes. That time year, it
is time to get a planted. Our garden centers are just burgeoning with peppers
and is burgeoning a word? Did I make that up? Burgeoning with peppers
and tomatoes, And it's an exciting time. Tomato is the queen of the
garden. You know. I don't remember ever getting a call at the extension
office or here on garden line where someone asks me about Cole Robbie our regular
or something. But tomatoes. Tomatoes, they rule, Yes, indeed they
do. Okay, if you just close your eyes, can you imagine a
fresh sliced tomato or popping a cherry tomato in your mouth and it's like a
water balloon full of sugar, just explodes with flavor. Oh, it's what's
for breakfast. It is what's there to go? And I've decided it's time.
I know how to cover a plant if I'm wrong about the weather.
But I've just said, okay, we're done. We're going to plant.
Oh it's time for Nicky and the news our number seven to one three two
one, two, five eight seven four. Welcome back to garden Line.
Hey, look outside, it's starting to glow in the eastern sky. Now,
if your lights are still off at the neighbor's house, go bang on
the door. Tell me you're missing garden Line for crying out loud. Get
up, man. They will rise up and call you blessed on this wonderful
morning. Well maybe not this morning, but they'll appreciate it later. Hey,
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for all these years. Secondly, your irrigation system may not be very efficient.
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Why not have them come out. You need to give them a call.
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That is what they specialize in. You're listening to Garden Lined, I'm
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I if you I was talked earlier about getting some trees planted in things.
I've had a number of people that have either talking to me at appearances
or in calls or putting in a tree or they they just put in a
tree. And what you see around town as you see these trees that are
that they use the guy wires. The wires where they put a strap around
a branch and they tie it to a steak on the ground, or maybe
they hammer in an iron post and they do them on like three corners of
the tree. So now you get these wires to trip over and that are
sticking, you know, out in the yard. And wires can hold from
the tree going away from them, but if the blows twittum, well they
don't hold that. A wire doesn't pulls, it doesn't push. Maybe that's
why I should put it. That's why the folks at three sixty Tree Stabilizer
invented the product they invented, and it is a good one. It's a
very very sturdy composite plastic arm that holds onto the tree and holds onto the
steak. It's made to go on a T post. It's got the ridges
in it to hold firmly to a T post, and it has a strap
so you can put it on a regular fence post to attach it to hold
the tree. You can just put one on the tree. In many cases
that's all you need. If you got a lot of wind blown from different
directions, you can put a second one at a ninety degree angle. And
the strap allows movement, and that is important. A tree needs to move
a little bit because movement strengthens the trunk. And so for you just to
honker a tree down like I see these guy wire trees often done where it's
like there it's a rock and they're afraid it's going to take off. No,
it needs to move. Movement creates strength in plants. That's just a
principle of horticulture and tree stable edders is designed for that in mind. Where
can you get them, Well, you can get them at Southwest Fertilizer.
Now they started carrying them Jorges Hidden Gardens way down South Plants for all seasons,
Arborgate, Buchanans RCW Nursery and there's more to come that this is going
to be a widely available product, and there's a reason for it. They
last a long long time. So you buy one. When you're done with
it, just hang it up in the garage. Next time you need one,
you can put it out there. And that's true with multi trunk crape
myrtles too, like we were talking about earlier today, I'm going to go
to the phones. Now we're going to head up to Tomball and talk to
Clint. Hello, Clint, good morning morning. My question is my favorite
plan is pair of wheels? Is what pair whekles? Oh? Yes?
And the ground here very rocky. Yeah, So I thought that maybe buil
a flower box maybe six feet long, three feet wide. How deep should
I would that have to be? Well, you could do You could do
a box on the ground, or you could just put a mound of soil
and create a raised bed. You could do it either way. Periwinkles don't
need that much soil, And so I would say, you know, what
do you how much do you want? Do you want a four foot wide
bed or do you want just a row of periwinkles. You could do that
in a foot and a half wide bed. It just kind of depends on
what you want to look at. But they are a very good plant for
summer, the Madagascar periwinkle. People call them vinka, but I prefer Madagascar
prairiewinkle for a name. Okay, do they mix well with other plants?
They do. Just you have to think anytime you're putting two plants together,
how big does each one want to get? And then you need to plant
them accordingly, you know, so you don't over proud them or you don't
have all this gap and it looks like they're just scattered out in the bed.
I'm glad I found your program. Well I'm glad you did too,
And boy are you ever lucky to be up? And then Tomball there,
which way north south east west? Are you from Tombull? Oh? Are
you in town or outside? Oh? Okay, good, Well you have
to drive by Arbrogate every day. That's a yeah, arbigade. Yeah,
I gotta go by there. Oh my, I was just out there yesterday,
and boy does it look good. They got a lot of stuff coming
in out there at Arbrogate. It is is a beautiful place. I always
like to visit. I always liked to Well, I got to make sure
I got some cash cause I get botting plants. I go crazy. Yeah,
I know, but that's you know what it could be worse. You
could you could have a hunting lease or a bass boat. So you're saving
money by growing plants. Oh yeah, it's a good it's a good hobby.
Thank you tell you my call. All right, Well you take care
of Say hi to them out there at Arburgate next time you go out.
Thanks a lotle. I appreciate that that. I was just visiting with them.
Man, they're getting a lot of color in and they can't keep it
on the shelf. I mean there are these big racks coming off trucks and
the tables. People are hauling them off the tables, and it's like,
yep, that's the place to go. I mean, if you want a
good selection, they have it. And by the way, I don't know
if I forgot to tell you or not, but earlier they do have the
new parking lot and you've got to do I did it. I drove by
Arbigate yesterday and the parking lot was full in front. Because it's a great
place and people know about it. And I just drove down to Trishel Road.
It goes behind Arburgate. So whether you do before you get there,
after you get there, it doesn't matter. You can't miss it. Turned
on Trashel it goes round behind Arburgate and oh my gosh, the parking lot
is great. It's one of these naturally. It just takes water right through
and goes to the ground and you're just high and dry, walk right in
the back. Easy access. Yeah. Get you got to go out and
check that out. Pretty cool stuff. Let's see where we're going to go
next. We are gonna go, Oh why I tell you what we're gonna
do. We're gonna go take a break. When we come back from break,
Crag and Chris, you're gonna be the first two up our number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line.
Glad you're listening today. We got lots to talk about. Hey.
One thing we do need to talk about, though, is the summer weeds
are coming. They are sprouting. They like warming temperatures. When the soil
hits about fifty five degrees, we start to see the summer weeds begin to
pop up. Some of them. Wait a little bit later, but that
that's when we need to be putting anything. If you're going to put a
primergent down to prevent them, you need to do it now. Now is
the time. Don't delay any longer, especially for those of you in the
southern part of our listening area. It's time. It's time to get it
out. Night of Fuss has a product called Barricade. Barricade shuts down weeds
by putting a barricade on the soil surface. You put it out at the
label rate, follow the label always and then immediately go ahead. Well then
have to be immediately. But after that you need to water it in with
about a half inch of water or third of an inch of water even just
to move it to the soil surface. That's all we're trying to do is
just get it down in the soil surface, because until you do that,
that product is not down there, and when a weed tries to germinate,
there's no product around to stop it. And so that's why incorporating it with
water is very important. Now. Night Fuss Barricade can be purchased all over
town. Night Fuss products are available everywhere. It makes it really easy to
find them. Lake Jackson Lake Hardware down in Kluke Lake Jackson. That is
a good place to find a lot of those products. A task Asida.
Ace Hardware also has the nitroposs products. You can go out to Sinko Ranch
and Ace Hardware out there also has nitro fuss products like barricade. Makes it
easy. We're going to run out now to pair Land and talk to Craig.
Good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir,
I have a couple of questions. One I called late last year about
fringe tree and I wrote some of the stuff down, but unfortunately I forgot
some of the things you told me. So we're looking the planet a couple
of fringe trees in our yard on the west northwest side, and I believe
you told us the plane about twenty feet apart, but I could remember where
you suggested coming from Peerland where we look to buy them. You know,
we don't have any of those nurseries you speak about on your website, And
is there any nursery in particular that you think would have this tree, because
I don't see a lot in our neighborhoods or anywhere really, so I don't
know how easy they are to find. Yeah, I think down in Proland
you might be able to find those at Moss Nursery. They are over in
Seabrook, so it's a little bit of a distance but not too far.
It's worth going anyway because it's a cool place to visit. You might find
them on there. I don't know if Jorge has them at Jorges Hidden Gardens.
He might, but that would be another one. And Jorge is over
in the Alvin area, so that's also pretty close to you, but I
would I would check with him first. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.
You can do just go to a Maps and look for j O. R.
G. E. Jorges Hidden Gardens and he may have those as well,
or maybe he can get them in for you if he doesn't. Right,
how big of a pot size would it would I expect to when I
buy these things or whatever size you want. I mean, it doesn't I'm
going to say it doesn't matter in terms of you having a tree. The
difference is you get a bigger pot, you get a bigger tree. It's
larger to start with, But if you wanted to save some money a smaller
pot, it's still going to turn out to be the same kind of tree.
But yeah, it depends on the garden center and what sizes they're carrying.
Right, and we've heard of your your advice planning to anything special for
this particular tree once it's planned, as far as new tree is concerned,
no, just treat it. Just treat it like a tree. I mean,
there are a lot of good options out there. I you could use
a lawn fertilizer on it. You know, I use a lawn fertilizer on
a lot of my things just for trees. You know, in general,
that would work just fine. Uh, They're just you got a lot of
options. It's not just a you know, you have to have a certain
kind of fertilizer. Now you know, our different companies they'll make a specific
fertilizer that you know, they design it, they create it for a specific
kind of plant, and those are fine too. But in general, you
can also in a pinch, just quade and use your lawn fertilizer on it.
It'll do just you know what I was on what I was on hold,
I thought of one other question. Okay, we're planning on planning of
a crepe myrtle white match has, which I believe is a medium size Okay,
and it's going on the side of the yard where there were two pumped
trees. Previously, they were both killed by freezes, et cetera. How
far away from the original trunk or stump should the crape myrtle be planted so
that its roots are impacted. I'm sorry, what kind of tree was there
before palm trees? I think there were Florida sables. You know, I
just moved by the Yeah, I would just move over. You got to
get enough away to make it easier to dig. But you know, just
move a two or three feet over and you'll be fine, except for the
fact that you don't have to be digging. But hey, listen, white
Natches is not a medium size. It will get thirty feet thirty five feet
tall, so you might want to look if you don't want one that big,
you might want to look for a smaller one. Natches is a wonderful
crape, but it's not a small crape. Yeah, it's well, the
space is not an issue. We'll double check all the sizes. We thought
it was kind of like a like you right, maybe it's twenty to thirty
foot tree. Okay, okay, thank you very much, Thank you.
Craig appreciate, appreciate your all. Yeah, for those of you who haven't
been out to Jorges Hidden Gardens, you gotta check it out. He's got
avocado trees, got hibiscus in. They just got a bunch of those in.
They're loaded veggies and herbs. And when it comes to fruit, blackberries,
blueberry, strawberries, raspberry. They even have elderberries. You know,
you could buy an elderberry. That's right. They have mulberries as well too.
Jeges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway
six. So those of you in Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson, Hillcrest,
you know, Arcadia, Alta Loma. I'll go all those communities.
This is your backyard garden center right there. And boy, they have a
lot of other things. Peggy Martin, roses and on and on down there
at Jorges Hidden Gardens. You gotta give him a give him a checkout.
I think you'll enjoy it. Let's see, we're going to go now to
Chris in Jersey Village. Hello, Chris, Yeah, good morning, good
morning. I have a great neighbor. He's wonderful. He invites me to
a Super Bowl party, as we get along grat but he just does not
want to take care of his yard. And last year the same thing happened
to me. Skip the chinch bugs and the root run. I think the
combination wiped out his yard and then croak creaked over into mine. And you
know, our lawns share, you know, the common dirt and everything.
Is there any any kind of barrier, skip that I could put between my
grass and his grass to maybe keep you know, things from spreading over to
mine. I mean, I've tried taking care of his grass, and you
know it's it's more expensive to water it and to fertilize it and do everything
that you need to do. It's a large patch of grass that owns.
But he'll come over with his lawnmower and just scalp it, you know when
he mows it once every month, you know, and just gets it down
to the ground where you know, myne grass is the lawnmower sittings all the
way up. So I didn't know if you had any suggestions, Well let
me, let me, let me just cut to it. Isn't There's not
a barrier. So what you would do is if you see like chinchbug activity
in his lawn. Just spray a swathe through that side of your lawn to
create that barrier. You can ask him if he minds if you spray a
little over into his side, that would even be better. But that would
be the option there. And as far as diseases, they're kind of ubiquitous
and so it's not like takeoff patch is going to go from his lawn to
your lawn. It's out there and when grass gets stressed, it gets that
disease, and his lack of care for it is probably part of the reason
why that it's it's doing that. So so spraying is going to Spraying a
barrier is going to be what you have to do. Okay, scared,
that's kind of what I figure. Yeah, I give you a call this
morning. Yeah, thanks for the call. Thanks for the call. Appreciate
that very very much. You know, we talk about putting out fertilizers this
time of year. You can put out azamite anytime of year. Fertilizers the
kind you know, the ones with the three numbers on the back, Those
we put out in larger quantities to promote grass growth. Azamite is a trace
mineral supplement that you're putting it out to put a bank account in the soil
of the things grass needs and tiny amounts but are essential to the grass.
That's what azemite is. It's a trace mineral or micronutrient product. Ten pounds
will cover one thousand square feet of your vegetable garden. By the way,
a forty four five bag will cover like six to twelve thousand feet long.
Because we're not putting a lot of this out, just a little. But
the fact that it's a little doesn't mean that it's not very very important.
Asmite Texas dot com. Just to go to azimite Texas dot com. Well
here we put an hour in the books. This morning sun is just about
to peek up above the horizon. I can't wait for a great day.
I hope you're ready to go on that. Hey, I want to tell
you about rom will be next weekend next weekend up in Montgomery County, the
Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. It's going to be at the Lone
Star Convention Center. I've been up there a couple of times for these,
and I'm really looking forward to it. We're going to be giving away some
Nelson fertilizer up there, actually I think no, we're going to be giving
away the Genesis. I'll tell you more about Genesis when we come back,
but the Nelson Genesis giveaways. I'll be giving a presentation up there and then
answering your gardening questions. Now that's next weekend. The show is March second
and third. I'll be there on Saturday after I get done with the radio
show. Here. I hope you can come up and see me. Kt
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Just watch him as world. So many things to welcome back to Garden Line.
Look outside, I see a little sliver of sunlight coming across the sky.
This is a good news because today is going to be one of those
awesome days. I hope this afternoon you got plants to get out, do
a little yard work, maybe pick up some plants, pick up some supplies.
Remember when we're taking care of our plants, we need to do the
brown stuff before the green stuff, Right you ever heard me say that before?
If you're listening to the Garden Line once even once you have and why
do we say that. Well, you know, when you go to a
garden center, it's easy to get excited about the tomato plants and picture and
the tomatoes are going to grow. You can taste them before you can put
the plant in the ground. It's easy to get excited about flowers and all
kinds of things. But it's the soil that makes all that happen. And
if you go PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot Peter Piper picked a peckers,
you're not gonna have success. It could be a great plant, but
you're not gonna have success. It needs to be in a soil where the
plant roots can thrive and er. You know, I find that when you
have a really quality mix, it makes it look like you have a green
thumb because you're giving the plants everything they want. Remember that no brown thumbs.
There's only an informed thumbs. And I'm informing you if you go to
Ciana Maltz yep Cienamlts down there Nurse North the Road, Sharon, They're on
FM five twenty one down south, you're gonna find the kind of soils and
fertilizers that make the brown stuff come alive and the roots will thrive and the
plants will thrive, and you will be very happy and you'll be very impressed
too. By the way, CINMLS has lots of quality, quality materials.
We're talking about composts, we're talking about bed mixes, we're talking about mulching
materials. If I talk about a fertilizer on guard line, it's at Cienamltch.
They carry all of those, all of the lines. So when you
leave namlts or you call it, whether you call them and have them to
deliver within about twenty miles their bulk materials, or if you just go there
and get it yourself, when you leave, you're gonna have everything you need
to set your plants up for success. That is what Cennamulch is about.
Here's the website, Sienna multch dot com, Sienna multch dot com. Go
there and take a look. And when you're there physically, by the way,
check out their rock materials. Their stone there, they're flagstone, and
it just it's a wide variety of things and when you look at them,
you're gonna you're gonna picture something in your backyard where you could use those to
create that little patio or oasis that you're looking for. Cienamultch dot com makes
it easy. Let's head up to Cyprus, Texas and we're gonna talk to
Melanie. Hello, Melanie. Hi. Yeah, I've already bought my weed
and etter and I'm gonna got to get it out this week. I've heard
all your how to dos on that. Do I put the pre emergent down
before I do the whedonator? You could? I'm trying to think about that.
Yes, you could put it down. And what you're going to want
to do though, is both both of them need to be watered in,
but at different times, so you're gonna I would I would do the pre
emergent down on the ground. Uh, then I would I would wet the
soil and then do the whedonator and then one more light about third of an
inch to wash. So I kind of thought i'd do one other question.
You talked about the tumbling tongue. Yes, and plants for all seasons.
You had it last year and I bought it and they were great. Aren't
they unbelievable? They're unbelievable. It was a hanging basket of three plants and
then I transplanted them into like a big It was about a ten gallon big
container and they did great. But now I'm going to try to find them
again. I'm going to try to see if they've got it this year.
I've got good news for you. They might. You can check them out.
I was at Arborgate yesterday and they had a few and hanging baskets they
did. No. No, if you're you know, wherever you like shop,
you can do that. I just happened to see those yesterday when I
was out there. But that is a plant that I thought it was gone.
I thought that variety was gone, and so I was so excited when
I saw those that we did. We did a trial. Yeah, we
did a trial in Harris County at the old Extension office when it was at
Bear Creek Park. I had seven gallon buckets and I put all like twenty
different kinds of tomatoes in them, and we replicated it like three buckets of
each tomato. Tumbling tom won hands down, and it was like an average
of two hundred fruit off a plant. Now you got to water and fertilize
them. And a little hanging basket's a smaller container. So I'm not saying
you're going to get two hundred. But I'm saying, if you really keep
it moist, don't let it dry out, and you keep fertilizing it,
that is a really productive little tomato. Well here's my question too on that.
Do I need Like I still have this container full of dirt from last
year, but do I need to change that out with the tomatoes. You
don't need amend it. You don't need to, you can amend it.
You definitely want to work in some kind of a nutrient type of material into
it. That that's important to you know, beef it up because a limited
root system has to have all the water and nutrients it needs for the plants
to thrive. And so that's what you got to create in that smaller container
with jungle land. Would that be a good thing? Jungle is, Yeah,
jungle land is an excellent potting mix. Nitrous nitrofuss will distribute that all
around. And jungle Land it's got the you know, the blends of the
Canadian blondb pede. It's got microhizo fungi and four different types of decomposed organic
material. That's the outdoor. That's the outdoor jungle Land, and they have
the indoor one that's called junger Land water Saving soil. But I think you're
talking about tomatoes you would want to go. Yeah, the outside, Yeah,
the label will say something like jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Potting Soil.
But that would be an excellent one to use. And you know you're there
in Cyprus, so you're going to be able to go. I don't know
which of the garden centers are carrying it up there, but I know you
can find it at the ACE hardware stores around you. You've got the ACE
on Jones Road Plants Well Seasons, Oh, Plants Troll Seasons. That's great,
Okay, go for it. Yeah, yeah, that's a good good
mix. But when you buy that, also buy while you're there. At
Plants for All Seasons, they're going to have the little canisters of the fertilizers
that you can mix into the soil as well to provide the nutrients that you
need. You want to beef that up. The little canisters. Who oh,
well, Nelson's Plant Food and Nitrofs, Plant Food and Microlife all will
sell you little jars of fertilizer and they may be for vegetables or hibiscus or
you know what I'm saying, yeah, you could refill them too, right,
and you can. You can some of those in some places. Yeah,
but I think they do have a refill station at plants for all seasons.
For I believe they have the Nelson and the the microlife refill. But
just to ask them, I could be wrong about. What about that Genesis
thing? Would that be good to put in there? Oh? Yeah,
that'd be excellent to put in there. That, Well, you got to
give it a try. I don't. I'm not sure if they're carrying it
there. They may well be, but call them first and ask them if
they have it or can get it. But Genesis is by Nelson. Pardon,
so I know they have the wednater plants for all season? Has that
Okay, Well they may have it, and Genesis is in the jars too,
the plastic jars. Oh it is, Yes, Yes, that's what
I'll get. Yeah, it's a it's a good boy. We've talked about
every fertilizer under the sun and this one call. So thank you so much.
I'm ready to go to work all right now. You know the rule
on guard Line is I don't charge for this advice, but I do expect
at least half the tomatoes that that tumbling tom produces. Just drop them off
at the station that you're convenient. I'll have to do that. Thank you.
I appreciate your help. Thank you. Melanie. Yeah. Yeah.
That nutri star genisis. It's a six y one three fertilizer and it's got
the indo and Ectomycrohisa fungiant humates and I've used it and I'm very impressed.
You mix it into the soil you're going to transplant your plants into and it
works super super well. We're gonna take a little break. It's time for
that seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Okay, Josh,
you're cracking me up. I used to be a county extension agent,
and most people don't know what a county extension agent is. Every state has
has a Langrane University here in Texas's tex A and m LSU's over in Louisiana,
Oklahoma State Cornell up in New York. Anyway, they have county extension
agents and most people don't know what they are. But anybody who watched Green
Acres knows that there's such a thing called a county extension agent. Those of
us who were one would rather you don't think of the County Extension agent on
Green Acres when you think about because he was he was a mess, that
is for sure. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven
to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I was just visiting with Melanie who
basically took me through the history of all fertilizer in terms that we just talked
about every fertilizer under the sun. And I uh, we were talking about
Melanie were talking about going by plants roll seasons, and I said, I
didn't know if they had the Nelson genesis, and they do. I just
heard from them, Sherry, and they do carry that over there too.
So you can just kind of kill two birds, I guess with one stone.
That is a It is an excellent, excellent product for sure, if
you are wanting to attract bluebirds and purple martins to your home. You know,
birds eat insects, right, and they are a beneficial creature in that
regard eating insects in our landscapes. And when it comes to nesting time,
they need a lot of caterpillars to feed their young. That high protein,
high fat caterpillar. Can't you just imagine how wonderful that tastes. Well.
They eat a lot of those, and that's important for their nesting time,
and that's coming up. But you got to get ready for that now by
putting out a bird house, a bluebird house, a special kind of house
for bluebirds. And you also need to put up a Purple Martin house because
the scouts are out looking right now for a place to set up home.
And the folks at Wildbirds have you set up on both of those and they
have some wonderful designs, beautiful houses really everything you need, even one that
one of the Purple Martin houses that will drop down. You don't have to
take the whole pole down. It'll just kind of come down where you can
get to it real easily and put it back up very very good. You
know, there's six Wildbirds locations around the Greater Houston area. Go to dub
b U dot com, WBU dot com, forward Slash Houston, WBU dot
Com forward Slash Houston find the one near you, and when you go in
there, you definitely need to go home with some of their bird seed.
Their bird seed is one hundred percent bird food, a lot of cheap bird
seeds with all the little redbebes that birds kick out. You may think that's
a cheaper seed, it's not because half the seed that you're putting out there,
the birds aren't gonna eat, so you're paying double the price just for
that. So while you're in wild Birds, make sure and pick up some
of the quality bird seed blends that they have. Uh that blends for all
kinds of different birds as well. Well. You are listening to Gardenline and
our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four makes it really really easy.
Uh. Just a while back, I was down in Seabrook. In fact,
I've gone twice recently. I've had to go down there for a couple
of different things. But I stop by Moss Nursery, And if you've never
been to Moss you really need to go. It is acres of wandering through
a plant wonderland. You're going to encounter all kinds of things. They have
an unbelievable selection of pots. For example, and you know, whatever,
what size pot do you want, Well they've got it. They're just all
over the place. When you walk through, it's just like it's like you're
walking through a botanical garden. You know, at every turn it's like,
oh wow, what's that. That's cool? Well, go into the houseplant
greenhouse and check out the cacti and succulents. Un believable, the selection,
I'm telling you. They they're on tables, they're on the shelves, they
are on the ground, they're hanging from the rafters. That place is packed
with all kinds of cool succulents. We picked up a string of tears.
My wife lies likes string of plants, and so I grabbed me one of
those when I was there the last time. Listen, here's an number you
need this two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. Two eight
one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. They're on Toddville Road down in
Seabrook. If you haven't been, I've got a great outing for you this
afternoon. You need to go check it out. Lots of plants, patio
plants, plants for in the ground, plants for pots. They've got them
all by the way. When you're there, they've got some really cool peppers
in. Two of my favorite peppers. One of them is called fool to
youew it has no heat at all. Now, why would you want a
no heat klopennio. Here's why. You can add a hot halopeno to it
when you're making salsa, and you can make it as hot or mild as
you want. Think about that. You want three mild klopenios with a and
then one hot one, or vice versa for the hot ones. I would
recommend you check out and they have this one there too. By the way,
Mucho Nacho, does that name not tell you? It's a big old,
thick walled klopennia. I love peppers. We're going to go out to
Sugarland now and we're going to talk to Ruben. Hello, Ruben, Hello,
are you I'm doing well? Sir? Yes, sir, good morning.
But based on that last phone call, I was warning like some gardening
one on one tips about planning tomatoes. Okay, what's soil? What's the
best seeds in the best season plant? Okay? Well, you're down there
in Sugarland, so you've got a lot of places pretty close to you where
you can pick up some really quality materials you might want to try. Heirloom
soil has a veggie an herb mix, and you can find that if you
go down to the the Anchinna Gardens and Channet Forest down toward the Richmond Way.
If you go up to Southwest Fertilizer Bess and that and Runwick just into
Houston, you're kind of close to both of those and they'll carry those kinds
of blends for you that also carry the fertilizer to go with them that you
want to mix into the soil. Because here's the key to success. You
create a beautiful soil blend, you mix a good quality fertilizer into it,
and that tomato they just thrive well. As they say, just add water.
You just add water, right and it's going to be happy. And
I know all those places are going to have a great selection of tomatoes right
now. I was checking out the folks at Engented Forest. They built a
new herb and tomato structure last year and that thing is packed with lots of
good options. So you're fortunate. You're kind of like right in the middle
of a lot of good places to get plants and products and things like that.
Awesome, all right, when you do, you want to plant them
soon, and if you have to cover them, cover them up, but
just try to get them in. Don't delay too much because you want to
get that tomato harvest before it gets too hot. Oh, I got you
all right. That's good, sir, Thank you so much. Thanks for
the call. Appreciate that. Good to talk to you, that is for
sure. In the lawns, I've had a last yesterday talking to people out
at a anda. Tons of questions about lawns. People care about their lawns.
At the extension office, we used to say the three things that make
our phone ring are trees, turf, and tomatoes. The three t's.
Turf is a big one, probably the biggest one of those three. Nitropos
has an Imperial fifteen five ten. And if you look at my gardening schedule
you'll see there's a spring green up that's optional. And what that is about
is we put an immediately available fertilizer on the soil about now in order to
get that grass to green up. It looks prettier and it's a stronger plant.
As the weather warms, that grass is going to start growing. The
temperature controls whether it's able to take off growing or not. But when it's
ready to take off growing, you want nutrients in the soil that are there
to boot that growth. And that's what Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten is
all about. It works very well. It's designed. You know, eight
years ago Texas and m did research and found out that a three one two
ratio like of the fifteen five to ten is what you need in order to
get the best growth out of your grass. Now where do you get Where
are you going to find it? Well, lots of places bearing hardware both
on Bessinette and Westheimer carries Nitrofoss fifteen five to ten. It's called Imperial.
It's a red bag. By the way, Plantation Ace Hardware out there in
the Richmond Rosenberg area carries it, and Hiden and Feed on I forty five
north on Stubor Airline they have it too up there. It's real easy to
find. But now the time to get that down. We get a little
bit later we're going to start putting slower release fertilizers out. But now's the
time for the quick greenup. We're going to go. Now, let's see,
we're going to go to trying to see who's been on the longest.
Doctor Ruben In Sugarland. Hello, Reuben, we have Reuben in sugar Land.
Okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to put Ruben on hold.
We'll come back to you. Let's try Martha up in Cyprus. Hello Martha,
Hi, Hi, Skip. I have a live ol tree. It's
about twenty years old, and it was trimmed in November by the one you
recommend, and now it's dropping leaves like crazy. It ever dropped acorns like
all the other trees around here did, and now it's just losing the leaves
like terrible, and the other trees around here aren't okay. That is okay.
You can rest easy, basically, And there's there's differences in years,
but there's also differences in genetics between trees. But live oaks, we think
of them as an evergreen, but they go through a transition. And I
to have two live oaks in my front yard, and one of them it's
like it stayed green the whole time. The other one almost went there dropping
leaves before the new leaves came on. That's the transition of kicking off the
old leaves because the new growth is coming on. And again, it can
vary a lot between trees, but that your tree is going to green back
out. It's just fine. Okay, Okay, Now I'm you know,
I'm assuming. I'm assuming that you know, you didn't nuke it with a
tree killing herbicide or some other thing is going on. But I didn't do
anything to it. And Jack, I haven't been watering since the you know,
the when we had the really old I turned my sprinkler off, so
I haven't watered. Okay, Well, it's fine. We've had plenty of
rain for a live oak, that's for sure. Yeah. I can't think
of any other thing, and that is a very normal thing. So you
know, we're going to assume it's the obvious why my tree doesn't drop acrunt,
some of the trees drop and like crazy, well it varies, it
also varies. It just it's we The fancy word is, it's the vicissitudes
of nature, Martha, And that's just kind of how nature is. So
don't don't worry about it. You'll be okay. Try orients, you bet,
you bet. While ago, you know, I've been talking about these
fertilizers and weed control products, and a while ago we were visiting with Ruben
down or not Ruben. Somebody done in sugar Land. I'm we were talking
about Southwest Fertilizer being a place where you could go and get things. Bob
at Southwest he specializes in making sure they have everything you could need. Every
fertilizer I talk about and more, it's there. Do you like synthetic,
it's there. Do you want organic, it's there. And that also applies
to insecticides and fungicides and herbicides to kill weed, synthetic and organic. Eighty
foot long wall of tools. I mean, they got a sharp shop in
the back. It's just it's a one stop shop. But I can tell
you this, if you don't find it at Southwest, you don't need it
because they have everything that you could need. Every time I go in there,
I'm surprised, Oh wow, now you've got some new stuff. This
only place I know that has what you have on the shelf. That is
the kind of place At Southwest. They're in the corner of Bisinet and Renwick,
Bisnette and Renwick. I would recommend you just go to the website Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. You can find out everything you want to know. And
hey, this afternoon be a good time to stop in and check them.
Out there. Well, we are about to hit another hard break here for
the News and Ruth in spring. You will be our first stup when we
come back for the rest of you, if you'd like to get on the
boards seven one three two one two k t R eight seven one three two
one two k t RH. We look forward to talking with you, helping
you with whatever kinds of questions that you might have. Hey, we want
everybody to have success with gardening. That's why we're here. I've even heard
reports that if you listen to garden Line, your plants start greening up in
the other room just hearing it. They can hear it too. Do you
believe that, Nikki? I thoroughly believe. I believe all right, it's
all yours. All right, we're hopping today on garden Line. Look,
I love sock hopping today. For those of you who remember the oldies from
the fifties, we are. We're answering all kinds of questions about gardening.
We're talking about everything you need to do right now when it comes to gardening.
And when it does come to gardening, you want to make sure you
are taking good, good care of plants before you even put them in the
ground by giving them a good place to live. That's what we like to
focus on. I want to head right now out to Spring and we're going
to talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth, Good morning, Chip. I'm
not in Spring anymore. I'm now in Montgomery. Okay, all right,
But my question is we've got our flower beds and the armadillos are just airing
them up. Okay, we'd like to do something with succulent desert desert escape
or yeah, something like that, Okay, and we'd like to know where
to get stuff and how to prepare our beds. Okay. Well, first
of all, no matter what your plant, armordlers are going to be a
problem, and what you're probably going to have to do ultimately is do a
live trap and relocate. There's a way to go about that. I know
you don't want to have to go through that, but either that or a
fence to keep them from wandering in would be your two options on them.
As far as succulents, you're close to ana plants and produce. I was
out there yesterday and they have a wide variety of different kinds of plants out
there, and as the weather warms up, they're just gonna be getting more
and more and more things in. And I would talk to them and see,
you know, if you know what you're looking for, let them know,
see if they can get that in if they don't already have it,
and if you don't, talk to them and they can give you some good
ideas. You know, Succulents can be a wide variety of things. I
mean even I guess you could even consider inn agave a succulent, those big
oldagave plants. And there's some really nice small ones that are just beautiful on
down to the little houseplant size succulents. Okay, dude, you said A
and E on Is that one oh five? H Yes, A N A
is on one oh five in Montgomery, and there they do all kinds of
things. I mean, they'll they have a landscape crew that'll come to a
spring clean up around your home. Uh. They do carry my launch care
schedule at the desk. By the way, they have all the fertilizers I
talk about here on garden Line, but sea potatoes. I was out just
yesterday that onion sets out there. You can get your fruit trees and stuff
that lots of real cool gardening bling. So I always love to go to
an a awesome We'll check them out then, thank you very much. Just
on the east side of Montgomery, just on the edge of town, like
you're heading to Lake Conrad. Appreciate that, Ruth. Yep, that is
a cool place. That is for sure, I wanted to talk about just
for a moment, Star of Hope. I was at an event by Star
of Hope just a couple of weeks ago and was able to hear from people
that have been benefited by the programs of Star of Hope. You know,
Star of Hope is one of the oldest and largest homeless shelters in this whole
country. They provide services for more than a thousand homeless people a day,
and they have places for men and women, a men's shelter, they have
a women child they have a family area. When they bring someone into Star
Hope. It's not like we used to say three hots and a cop meaning
I'm going to feed you three times, give you a place to sleep,
and a good luck. No, you can. You can take a pathway
to turning your life around and turning your children's future around. For example,
job training, a place to live, care for the children, food interview
training, even clothing to get, you know, dressed up and ready to
go present yourself for an interview. Spiritual training. Star of Hope Mission changes
lives. It's as simple as that they change lives. And I'm telling you
the stories that I heard. It was hardly a dry eye in the room.
Because you know you're a compassion I know you have compassion, and this
is a way to put your compassion into action. A dollar given to Star
of Hope does a lot. In fact, for two dollars and eighty cents
two dollars and eighty cents cost of a cup of coffee, you can buy
someone a meal by given to Star of Hope Shmission dot org sh Mission dot
org. I believe in it. My wife and I support it. We
have for a long time. And I'm telling you this, This makes a
difference. Paul, what a what the need exists for that? Let's set
out to Kingwood now. I want to visit with Joe. I think Joe
has some questions out in Kingwood. Hey Joe, good good morning, Skip.
I have a couple of questions regarding spring clean up for a while.
You have the advised that we not go ahead and trim back our winter kill.
Yes, in case whether turned and we got in their freeze and did
want to stimulate new growth to be prone to getting nipped by the cold,
do we have the green light go ahead and clear off all the winter kill?
Now? Yeah, I think you do. I mean, you know,
if you look at the last twenty years average, we're just about there
on a lake frost. But by the time something gets stimulated and growing and
stuff, I think we're going to be in the clear. So I would
go ahead. Great. And then regarding when do you advise putting out mulch
in the spring, is there a calendar date you go by, or is
there a temperature trigger or what do you go by? For when do you
put out your moult in the spring? Months out of the year is a
good time to put out mulch? It really is, because your mulch in
the winter time, it's it's moderating soil temperatures, it's protecting the soil,
and it's slowly decomposing to release nutrients where it contacts the soil. In the
summertime, it's doing that plus you know, moderating that heat levels in the
soil. And you know, any time of the year we can get a
weed seed sprout, and so you don't want to leave the soil where sunlight
can reach the soil or nature will put a weed there. So twelve months
out of the year is okay, no problem doing it now? Great,
all right, skip, Thank you appreciate the advice. All right, you
bet, I appreciate your call. Thanks a lot for that. Yeah,
it's always you know, mulching is something that you just want to always make
sure that you've got a coating on the soil, that that kind of thing.
It's just important for all the reasons I gave, and even some additional
reasons as well. You know, the folks at airloom soils they have a
wide variety of things like malts. For example, do you need a leaf
more compost? That's something we If you were going to say, multch the
lawn, I don't know if that's a right way to put it. But
a leaf mo compost is a compost top dressing that we put in the lawn.
And anytime you put some organic matter over the soil, that's a little
less sunlight to hit the soil. Plus, the main reason we do it
isn't for that reason. It's because it releases nutrients over time as that moves
into the soil and helps to build the soil better and better and better.
They've got the works Potting soil now. The works is widely available. You're
going to find it a kDa Hardware, Nelson's Water Gardens out there, and
Katie has it as well. Mid County Farm Innederland. Those of you up
in Huntsville, shout out to you. Huntsville Farm Supply carries airloom soil products
like the Works potting soil up there. Airloom Soils. I was talking earlier
about their vegetable and herb soil really really quality, mixed a lot of things.
Just go here do this. Just go to the website and look at
it. Heirlooms Soils off Texas dot Com. You're going to find a soil
mulch calculator there. So whether you're buying you know, a compost volume,
a soil volume, a mult volume, you can go into the calculator and
put in the dimensions of the area you need to cover and it'll tell you
exactly how many cubiccards you need. And they have the supersacks, the qbcard
supersacks which can be dropped right on your on your driveway, nice and neat
and clean. You can go pick things up at porter location for bulk.
You can have them deliver it or you can buy it by the bag.
And heirloom soils are widely available around the Greater Houston area. By the bag
makes it really easy to just run in, even with a car and a
trunk and bring some things home. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richer, and we're about to take a break. It's time
for that. Our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. Give
Josh a callin. You can be the first step when we come back.
Have you ever heard of the jitterbug? That's what you do to that song?
You do the jitterbug. All right, we are here on Guardline,
ready to talk to you about what you're interested in. We got some folks
on the phones. I did want to mention that I was talking to David
at RCW Nursery just a couple of days ago and discussing their trees and stuff.
They grow trees out at Plannersville and they have a wide variety of things,
and they grow things that belong in Houston. You know, it's not
like going to some of these big box stores where who knows what they're going
to sell you. They grow things that need to be grown here and planted
here, and they have a really wide selection of some super quality trees.
Several times I've been surprised, like, oh, you have that. I'd
love to be able to recommend that tree, but I didn't know it was
that available here. That is good to know. That's what they do now
at the nursery. Oh my gosh, the trees are there. Of course
you can buy them there. They'll go plan them for you. Their rose
selection is unbelievable. I mean I can't think of a rose that they don't
have. They just really, really really have a good rose. They got
roses from weeks roses and star roses and then some you know, anti croses.
They are modern roses, shrub roses, hybrid tea roses. They've got
it all and they got the products you need to plant the roses and have
success with them. They got those kind of fertilizers and other materials that we
put in the ground to make success with the roses. Now do they have
other things, Yes, they have everything. They have annuals and perennials and
vegetables and herbs and you name it. But you just need to stop buy
RCWS where two forty nine comes into Beltweg eight. It's really easy to get
to there. Just go to the website and that would be the fastest way
to find out what you need. R c W Nurseries dot com. RCW
Nurseries dot com and you need to go check them out in this afternoon will
be a good time to do just that. I want to run out to
College Station and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Hello, Skip,
how are you? I'm well, sir. How can we help today?
I have a question. Where can I find the essentially the Southwest Fertilizer of
Brian College Station a place where I can get good roast soil, compost,
molds, fertilizer, et cetera. The best thing you got in College Station
is Producers co Op and North of Brian. They have everything. They for
example, they even have the like micro life fertilizers I've seen up there at
Producers co Op and North Brian co Op. Well, thank you very much,
you bet you bet. That's a that's a fun place to go through.
Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Yeah, Microlife.
You know, they've got the standard for your lawn. And that's the sixty
four of the green bag. What I'm trying to talk people into giving a
good hard look at and actually doing now is the Microlife Humates plus. Now,
you can put that on any time of the year you want. Now
is fine to do that. It's got a little potassium in it, but
you're not putting it on for a fertilizer. It's not in lieu of fertilizing.
It's essentially think of it as composted compost. Concentrated compost in a bag.
You take compost to its fully decomposed state. That's humus. That's what
this is. It's loaded with microbes and it helps microbes. It provides the
microizal fungi, the essential microbes that are needed, but the ones that are
already there in the soil, it's good for them. It helps loosen to
clay soil. Humus is very beneficial for improving a lot of things in the
soil and microlights Microlife h mates plus. That's a purple bag by the way.
It has just out and yeah, you can get it a producer's cop
in Brian, Texas. Let's go now to Orlando and Spring Branch. Hey,
Orlando, good morning, skeep, thank you so much for your show.
I have a quick question about two weekends ago, I spread some pre
emerged herbicide. Yes, and last weekend I spread so compost. Is it
okay to put some greenaup right now? Yeah? You can, there's no
problem with that. Or should I or should I wait? Or should no?
No? The idea and green up a spring green up. It's an
optional thing. But the reason people do that is because they wanted the lawn
to get green early. And you've got a good healthy grass plant, You've
given it some nutrient, and when the weather warms up, it's ready to
get growing and it provides that early greenup. And the compost is not going
to do that. A slow release fertilizer like we use in summer is not
going to do that as much. And that's why we do a fast release
something that dissolves and gets right down there to the root system for the spring
greenup. Yeah. Great, great? Have you have you happened to go
to my website and see the schedules on there or not? I I printed
this case. Yeah, and so it's just right now that between here and
between March and April. Yes, put some greenup, I think, yes,
it is uh huh the fast release, and that's in the yellow bar,
and it has a list of them right down below. Just it makes
the schedule if you just kind of look at it a little bit, it
makes a lot of sense and it's easy to find stuff. So yeah,
now it would be the time. So for example, this would be a
good time to put out a Nitropuss Imperial. That's the red bag and it's
fifteen five ten. It dissolves away quickly, it goes to the roots and
it's it would be called the spring green up, and you'll see that on
the schedule. There's a little gap between that and when we start our summer
first. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right,
excellent, all right, and something really quick. So I had some three
years ago I got some Cherokee roses and I have planned them in the ground
up against the fans. They were getting a lot of song, but they
were never bloom, and so I decide that I was going to put them
out of the ground and put them in that big pot. And so when
I took the roots looked really really really like sad you know, so I
just put some roast soil in the pot and I planned them. I put
a little bit of fertilizer. But I've improved them. Should I improve them?
Oh? Yeah that way. Yeah, in a pot, you're going
to need to cut them back considerably. I would. I would cut them
back probably When did you put them in the pot? How long ago?
Last weekend? Yeah? Yeah, i'd I'd print them. I'd print them
by half. Yeah, okay about half? Yeah, cut them half back.
Take all the little twiggy growth, take all the twiggy growth out,
and cut the big canes back behalf okay, all right, and keep feeding
them. Yes, sir, all right, thank you. I appreciate that
call. Good luck, good luck with all those things. I appreciate that.
You know all these supplies we're talking about, Where do you get them?
Well, you live near in Ace Hardware. I don't care where you
are. You live near there's forty ACE Hardware stores here. Go to acehardware
dot com and find the store locator, put in your zip code or let
it just says, can we look at where you are? And it'll tell
you a map of all of them, And at ACE you're going to get
every fertilizer I talk about here. You're going to get the products to control
weeds and disease and also insects on your plants. You're going to find everything
you need for your lawn and garden. You're going to find everything for backyard
enjoyment, including barbecue and things like that. ACE is the place for everything
you need. And with spring springing, which is what's happening on us,
ACE is going to be a great place to find all the supplies, all
the products, even tools and things that you need for your lawn and for
your garden. We're going to head now out to Porter and talk to Jim.
Hello Jim, Thanks Chip. How can we have Well, I got
a bunch of broad leaf and my sane augustine grass. Okay? Can I
use on that safely? You can? And it's also in a product called
Trimac, so uh. Trimec has three different herbicides that include two forty,
But you want to use those before it gets hot. Once the temperatures are
in the upper eighties and certainly the low nineties, those products are stressful to
Saint augustine, but when it's cool they're not. Just follow the label,
don't overdo it if you want. You could do a combination product. Nitrofoss
makes a fifteen to five ten fertilizer that has trimec and it's an early greenup
fertilizer, So now would be the time to apply it. I would wet
the grass first, so the granules stick to the leaves of the weeds and
that allows them to move in. Yeah, put it with it's a fertilizer.
Put it with a spreader, but you have to have wet leaves so
they stick to it. And then wait probably a day or two, probably
two days if it were me, and then give it a good watering and
that'll move the fertilizer down into the soil and you'll have done two things.
You'll have dealt with all the broad leaf weeds and you will also have given
the spring green up fertilization, which is on my long cair schedule that we
do and especially from late late February on into March. That's one of the
problems I have on that except exist and so I'd have to turn it off
in order to do that. Well, it just needs to go off for
a day. I mean, you know, if it just went off for
a day, that that's all it would need to be. That'd be sufficient.
Yeah, that'd be sufficient. I don't know what time it comes on,
but if it comes on in the morning, after it goes off,
run out there and do the do what we were just talking about while the
leaves are wet. All right, just have to go on at midnight.
Oh you need headlights on your fertilizer spreader. That's chilled. It's chilled and
damp with okay, stamp in the morning and all right, all right,
sunlights up, all right, you take care of Jim. Thanks for the
call. I appreciate that. Appreciate that a lot. We're listening to Guardenline
and here we do putting another hour in the books. It's just about time
for news and weather and all that and traffic. I'll be back our phone
number seven one three two one two kt r H. You'd be the first
up when we come back. Kt All right. Each Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's crazy. Just watch
you as so many things crazy again. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden
Line on a wonderful day for gardening. I'm telling you outside, this is
it. This is the best kind of weather we can have. It doesn't
get too hot, not too cold, just a pleasant day to be I
hope this afternoon that you will take advantage of this and get some of gardening
done, you know, get some vegetables, planet or flowers, or certainly
trees and shrubs. Now's the time to get those done. You really need
to get ahead of things with the trees and shrubs, because listen, the
cold weathers passed. Unless we just have a little surprise, which we've asked
the weather man not to let any of that, let any of that go
through. But the hot weather is on the way, and I hate to
be a bummer about it, but it's true. You know, when we're
starting to look at things like, you know, the drafts of last summer
and the heat of last summer, those things are in the future. They're
coming. Hopefully this summer is going to be better. Though. We need
a break and we are sure hoping for that one. But whatever kind of
summer we have, we have summer, and when summer comes, the demands
on plants go up, and established plants have a good root system where they
can handle that with a good soaking every now and then. But a new
plant still has most of its roots in the container cylinder that went into the
ground. Roots start to venture out immediately they begin growing, but it takes
time to create that nice, extensive root system that makes a plant as resilient
as that species can be. And so the earlier you plant, the better
off you are. So don't delight this weekend. If you need a rose
bush, get it done. If you want to get a tree, get
it done. Let's get that done. We can plant twelve months out of
the year here. Some months are more challenging than others, so take advantage
and make it easier on yourself by going ahead and getting that done. I
think you will. You will appreciate that. I'm gonna talk now to Anna
out in Kingwood. Hello, Anna, Hello, I'd like to know what
to do about red wasps, mud daubers and mosquitoes. Okay, well,
red wasps, you just have to use one of those sprays that shoots a
steady stream right out to the nest and it basically kills them instantly. It's
a freezing kind of killing thing. You just won't be careful don't get those
sprays on plants because they're a petroleum type spray and that they can leave some
little brown dead spots on your plant where they land on the leaves. I
would make a case that if you're allergic to red wasp that's a big concern.
If they're not near you, if they're you know, like they're not
right by the front door kind of thing. They're over around the side of
the house under the eaves. Know that all day they're capturing caterpillars and bringing
them back to the nests. That's our number one feed. So if you've
got garden plants that caterpillars feed on, red wasps are helping keep those under
control. That's the benefit that they do. Now. Mud daubers are primarily
catching spiders. That's their main food, and they build those darn nests underneath
the eaves, and just catching them early and blasting that nest off with water
as they're getting started on it is probably the best that you can do.
There are some products that home pest control operators can put out there. I
don't know how effective that would be on the mud dabbers, but that's what
they're about. What was The third thing that you said mosquito mosquitoes, Well,
you just got all kinds of insects bugging out there. The mosquitos.
You know, there are a few things. First, Culturally, wherever they're
standing water, mosquitoes breed and they can do a generational turnaround in a couple
of weeks, I mean two or three weeks. It's pretty fast. So
if you've got catch basins under your plants, if you've got gutters at sag
and whole water for a little while after a rain, those kinds of things
you need to fix or put some granules or mosquito dunks in there. That
the dunks and granules have a natural disease of mosquitos and they work very well.
So the other thing would be, uh, you know it. You
you can use a foger if you need to go outside and have a little
garden party and outside, you can use a foger. Uh. When you
do that, you're killing every insect, and so there's there's some things you
don't want to kill that will get killed. But at least you can have
your outdoor party without people being eaten up. Is there a company that would
be good to deal with all three of these trying to think who would on
the on the mosquito control. Uh McGrath pest Control, I believe can do
things like that. I would talk to them. Let's see if I have
a number here for them, Yeah, I do, Hang on just a
second. The pest control is let's see two eight one four six' nine
eighty two forty. Or you can go to the website met grathpestcontrol dot com.
You can go you can go out that way too. I would talk
to them and see see if you know what they can what they can do
for you. All right, okay, thank you so much, Thank you.
I appreciate your call very much. Uh let's see, we're gonna go
now to Mic in the Heights. Hello, Mike, Hi, how can
we help? I have a stingweed or plant that's growing all over my backyard.
It stings. You're pretty good, And I have a couple of chickens
in my backyard and I wanted to know what I could use to kill that
sting grass that will not hurt my chickens. Well, uh, you know,
when it comes to toxicity of things to chickens, I'm not going to
be able to help you on on that uh. I would in general not
worry a lot about it. If it's not something that chickens can peck and
swallow, so a granule, they might be tempted to pay and swallow it.
I don't know that they would, but that that would be a possibility.
I would probably get a product called there's a couple of them, different
companies have them. Bonnyde has one called weed Beater Ultra, and I would
use it as a spray and just target spray the nettle where you're seeing them,
the little stinging weeds where you're seeing them, and that's a broad leaf
problem, and that product I mentioned Bonnde weed Beater Ultra will kill them.
But you won't do that for the weather heats up and so the sooner the
better that you can get that out. Alright, I appreciate it, all
right, take care of all right, you take care of Mike. I
appreciate that. You know. I've talked about before how gardening is more than
just visual. When we think of if I say the word garden, in
your mind's eye, you're picturing either vegetables or flowers, or you're picturing a
garden. But gardening is also smells nice fragrances from fragrant plants. That is
another another one of our senses that gardening really can create enjoyment with. Another
one is sound. The sound of birds is wonderful outdoors to enjoy that.
But the sound of water, that is so simple to have because we can
put in fountains, we can put in a little waterfall fountain, you can
you can put in a disappearing fountain. And the folks at Nelson Water Garden
out in Katie, they actually pioneered the disappearing fountain container. So imagine this
beautiful glazed container that is just showstopper attractive itself and has water coming out of
the top and running over the sides, and then it goes down into a
rockbed where there's a basin and the water's pumped back up through the container.
And it's called a disappearing fountain. It's like it goes into the in the
ground and where did it go, Well, it's cycling. Nelson ploneered those
and they have sets of pottery that I've never seen anything so beautiful in my
life. They are absolutely gorgeous and they're out there in Katie. If you're
heading out on I ten when you get to Katie Fort Ben Road. Katie
Fort Benroad, you go north and it's a stone's throw up north of there.
You can go to the website Nelson Gardens dot com Nelson Gardens dot com
and you need to go check that out their pots. If you want to
do a watergarden like koi and water plants, they specialize in that, but
they also have a nursery out there of all kinds of plants. You just
need to go see it and take people with you because everybody will be amazed
and wowed and the kids will love seeing the koi and the other fish that
they have too at Nelson Water Gardens. We're going to take a break.
It's time for that and I'll be right back. Welcome back to guard Line.
Glad you're listening today. Hey, spring is here, and what a
spring means. Spring means new growth, Spring means flowers, and spring means
a return of the bees. And when you have flowers, you're gonna have
bees showing up. And bees are important pollinators. If you want to have
a successful productive garden. One of the factors in that is good pollination.
Some of our crops like melons and squash just being examples cucumbers. They need
bees to pollinate them, and having honey bees in your backyard is a win
win because not only do you have better pollination, but you also get honey.
What a deal. The folks at the bee supply out and Dayton they
are taking orders right now for bees to be sent and picked up rather between
April eleventh and May twenty fourth, So go ahead and get the order in
if you want to get those. They have two different strains of bees that
they carry. After mid May, you can actually buy the whole hive from
them. I'm talking about a box with ten frames. It's got a queen
in it. They're already raising brood baby bees that is that are in the
box. All of this is available at vbsupply dot com. Vbsupply dot com
and listen. If you're not interested in starting beekeeping, at least go out
there and do the honey tours. The honey tours are wonderful. You get
to taste all kinds of honey like wildflour and clover and orange and BlackBerry and
on and on, and you learn all about bees in the process. For
those of you who want to learn beekeeping, the classes are underway. Now.
The next class you have to call them see if it's full yet,
is March ninth. Then there's one on March twenty third April thirteenth, so
you can see. They're about two weeks apart. It's a six hour class.
They cover everything. You get to go out and work with bees with
their protective equipment they'll provide for and I'm just telling you it is. It
is really cool and you'll get hooked because bees are really literally that cool.
All at the bee Supply just remember thebsupply dot com. I'm want to go
out now to Richmond and we're going to talk to Michelle. Hello, Michelle,
Hello, good morning morning. I have a question about crane flies.
They're I'm being inundated by them. I can't walk through the lawn without them
come springing all over. Yeah. I think their larvae is what I should
be concerned about. Is that correct? That they may I'm worried they may
chew up my lawn. No, they're they're not gonna They're not gonna hurt
your lawn. It's okay. Uh, They're just they're a temporary pests that
we deal with. I mean, they can occur different times. A year.
But uh, they're generally not like you're seeing them right now, so
I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about them. Okay, so not even their larvae
that I guess is in the soil. Yeah, they do have larvae,
but you know, it's not like if you were to go to a turf
university kind of tell me all the diseases and Pestsive lawns, crane flies are
not on the list. They're not even anywhere on the list. So don't
worry about that, right, Okay, they just seem awfully bad this year.
So yeah, Well, I'm not an entomology specialist, so I can't
tell you exactly what food they're eating. I know the adults aren't eating anything
that would concern you, but yeah, they're everywhere, and I know people
the creepy crawleys alarm people and stuff. But if you can, if you
can just close your eyes and ignore it, that would that would be the
best, because there's no need to get out there and nuke the yard.
Well good, great, great, I didn't want to have to deal with
all that. Okay, Hey, thanks, Skip, appreciate it all right,
thank you, Michelle, appreciate the call very much. Hey, those
of you in the central part of Houston and North, Buchanan's Nursery is just
around the corner for you. And you know, I can tell you this.
I've been to bu kin As many, many times, and I meet
people there that have driven from some distance to go because it's that kind of
destination nursery. Like right now, they always have something. They specialize in
native plants, and that's the name, not Buchanans Nursery, Buchanans Native Plants.
They are a nursery, they are a garden center. Buchanans Native Plants
specializes in that. And I don't care what kind of plant you need.
Do you want a spring flowering tree? They've got four or five or six
that you can choose from. Do you want stuff for the shade? Do
you want stuff for sun? Do you want things that have blooms that attract
beneficial insects? Every kind of native you can imagine. They're going to have
their at Buchanans the best ones. And listen. You got to go to
the website Buchanansplants dot com. They have educational materials on there. You gotta
sign up for the newsletter because you will be amazed at all of the information
you'll learn and the inspiration that you get just from signing up for that newsletter.
At Buchanansplants dot com, they're loaded up with peppers and tomatoes right now.
They have roses in. I mean, it's just all kinds of things
about mid March. I'm going to be out there for an apparent. I'll
tell you more about that later, but you got to go to Buchanan's Plants.
It really is a wonderland of all kinds of things that are really really
cool. Every time I go, I love it, And every time I
go, I learned something because they don't just have your standard meat and potatoes.
They got that, but they've got stuff that you never heard of,
and you learn about and you go, oh my gosh, where's this plant?
Been my whole life for time I've ever said that that way. Well,
Buchanan's Plants. Just go check them out. It's got to Bay Cliff.
We're going to talk to Joan. Hey, Joan, I'm amusing myself
this morning. I don't know what that means. Good morning, Hey,
good morning. I have a Joey avocado that I bought last fall. It
made it through the freeze or a little greenhouse. But it's ready to get
out now. I think some of the lower leaves or get yellow and the
new growth at the top is looking very healthy. But I want to know
what is the best soil and how is your hair for getting it into the
ground. Okay, uh airlom CS makes a fruit soil, a soil for
like citrus and fruits and things like that. You could also use the veggie
and herb soil for that avocado. The bigger of an area you can amend,
the better, So don't just dig a hole and put the soil in
the hole. You want to mix it in to a large area. If
you can't do a lot of mixing like a rototilling spading, then at least
set it down and then just kind of crack up the soil a little bit
with a spade to blend what you just laid down with the soil below it,
and then fill up the rest of the height of the bed with the
mix that you purchase. One of the ones we were just talking about,
anom an heirloom. Yeahoom heirloom soils, they can they can get you you
set up for they're widely up. You can go to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com and
you can find out down in your area where can you buy bags of heirloom
Okay, all right, thank you very much. All right, you take
care. Yeah, Joan, are you still there? You already hung up?
Oh I missed? Okay, that's all right. Also, Joan,
if you're still listening, Uh, you are not too terribly far away from
Sienna. I don't have a little mileage marker on my computer screen here,
but they do deliver pretty pretty close to where they are road sharing area,
and so that may be a possibility to that may be a little outside the
area, but you might want to give them at Ciena mulch Cina multa call
see what they if they can reach out as far as that area. When
whenever I'm planting transplants, one of my favorite products to use to water those
plants in is the Medina Plus. Medina Plus has in it. First of
all, it's a six twelve six fertilizer. It's a liquid liquid. You
you you mix it up and I put it in a watering can and then
I water with it. It's got the six twelve six, it's got Medina
soil activator which stimulates biological activity. You've got the humic acid in it and
you have seaweed extracts in it as well, So it's good not just for
watering implants. You can mix it up, put in in a sprayer and
spray is a folier feed for your plants. So those plants that were hammered
by the cold weather that we had that would kind of kill back as they're
putting out new growth and stuff, a little follier feeding as they get going
certainly would be helpful for them as well. It's one of the many products
you can get from the folks at Medina Medina Medina excuse me, my Medina
Plus. I couldn't say that. Medina plus is widely available. Widely available,
as are the other products for Medina like horticulture molasses and the humate liquid
humus, and the seaweed and the fish blend, lots of quality products and
many many more as well. So are you going to plan a tomato plant,
are you going to put in a row or whatever you're going to plant,
Just mix that up and when you plant it watered in with that.
I would do it twice more too, by the way, I usually like
to do a three time watering when I'm transplanting, watering at planting, watering
a week later with the solution, watering a week after that with the solution,
and by then there ought to be roots going and your other fertilizations and
things can kind of take over. That is helpful information. I think our
phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. The folks at Nitrofoss have a
product called sweet Green. It is a sweet smelling fertilizer because it's made from
molasses. So just think about what molasses smells like. Sweet Green is excellent
at really kicking the microbes into high gear. Microbes like carbohydrate sugar, simple
sugars, and sweet Green does that. It's one of the highest level nitrogen
contents of a natural fertilizer of an organic fertilizer. So the eleven percent nitrogen
is a very good boost. And where do you get sweet Green? Well,
you can go out to Growers Outlet and Willis and get sweet green.
You can go to Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg. Yep, they got
sweet Green down there as well. RCW Nursery where Tombo Parkway comes into bout
Way eight. They carry Sweet Green also as well as other nitropost products.
I like the smell. It's just it's just a nice, nice smell as
well. On the broken record, when it comes to brown stuff over green
stuff, brown stuff over green stuff and so Nature's Way Resources, you know,
John Ferguson at Nature's Way created a lot of the fertilizers that are now
available from all kinds of places. Fertilizers soa blends around town. So when
we say Leipmo compost, that's something he started marketing. When we say rose
soil, that's something he started marketing with the Houston Roast Society helping him with
that design. Well, they've a Nature's Way. You can buy bags,
you can order bulk two of these and many many, many other products.
Now on March ninth, they're having their Spring Garden Festival, and that's something
you definitely want to go to. There'll be education there, the gardening education
talks, stuff for the kids to do. They'll have spring sangria, they'll
have local vendors out. It's going to be fun. Write this on your
calendar. March ninth, nine to two PM Nature's Way resources. So go
up forty five. If you're in Houston, go up forty five where fourteen
eighty eight comes in from the left, turn right, go across the railroad
tracks and you're there. It's as easy as that. Leave your car open
because you're going to want to buy some native plants from them as well.
Well, it's time for a break. I'm just going to turn it right
over to Nikki. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with
us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are just talking
about everything gardening, including what do you want to talk about. The phone
number is seven one three one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm gonna head straight out to Memorial and
now excuse me, Buffalo, excuse me. We're going to talk to Carrie
first. Hello, carry I Skip. I've got some plants that I've never
had before that has some freeze damage, and everything I've read online said to
cut them back immediately to the ground. It's by text esperanza Confederate roads and
rows of sharing. Do they do? I cut them back? Just cut
them back to where there's no dead Well, how do I do. I've
never had these plants. Yeah, no problem. I'm surprised that vi texts
is is killed back. What you do on all plants is you take your
little pocket knife for a thumbnail and scratch the bark and it'll either be a
pecan brown paper sack brown color underneath, which means it's dead, that branch
is dead, or it'll be kind of a creamy white or maybe a little
bit of a green light green in there. That means it's alive. And
that tells you where you need to prune back too. I would expect the
Confederate Rose. I'm trying to remember what else, the Esperanza and there was
something those two. Yeah, those two were probably killed back to the ground.
But I like to just let the plants tell me where to prune.
And what I mean by that is you just wait and watch where the growth
starts coming out, and then if the ends of the branches are dead not
growing, and then you have buds coming out down lower, cut it off
right above those buds, and that is a lot easier way to manage it.
So that's the approach that I would take if I were you. But
the Vitex I'm a little surprised that it had much damage. The rows of
Sharing some, but again it's a pretty tough plant. And then the other
two I would expect more significant damage, but it could be different at your
house here, your way up there. I'll just realizing now you're way up
there in Buffalo, you got a lot colder. We were, yeah,
we were in We didn't get above twenty for over five days. Okay,
okay, Well, the same thing about the first two. But I'm telling
you rows of Sharon can take twenty, but it depends on did it go
into the twenty hardened off and ready or not, and if it didn't,
then damage to it. But yeah, just let's let the plants tell you
where to prune or do the scratch test a lot and make your decisions that
way. Are you listening to Guardline on the radio or how are you listening?
I heart, I heart Okay, yeah, I'm always curious for people
a little further out, you know, if they're getting the signal there or
what. All right, thank you, Carrie. I do somewhat, but
it's too sketchy, so I just go with iHeart. There you go,
all right? All right? All right, say hi to the folks up
at Bobo's Nursery up there, I will do. I'm there quite frequently.
You've got a good county extension agent and Richard Parish to tell him, Skip
said high as well, good to talk to him. Well bye bye,
bye bye. Have you guys ever been listening? Have you ever been to
Emerald Forest and Richmond Emerald Forest? And it's a wonderful It's a wonderland.
It's just a beautiful, beautiful place to go. It's a destination nursery.
We haven't We are fortunate to have destination nursery here and this is definitely a
destination nursery. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in
Richmond going towards sugar Land, it's off to the right for the south of
fifty nine if you will. And it's on FM twenty seven fifty nine,
twenty seven fifty nine. So, uh, you every weekend they've got talks
ad Mike Saran out the other day talking about organic gardening. There's always something
going on like that out there. Destine's going to be out there talking about
springtime gardening March the second. Uh and so what did I just say?
An emerald. Where am I? That's a whole nother thing, enchanted forest?
Where? How did that come out of my mouth? I think it's
time. It's time for me to go take a nap. Enchanted forest.
Thank you Josh for catching me on that one. Right now, they've got
red buds. Oh my gosh, you think red bud is one plant?
No, no, no, no no. They have over a dozen different
kinds of red bud. Have you ever heard a bubblegum red bud? Have
you ever heard of burgundy heart red? How about forest pansy red bud with
beautiful burgundy leaves? How about rising sun with golden orange and yellowly? I
mean, you see what I'm talking about. In the Texas red bud,
the native that is very drop and heat tolerant as well, they've got that.
Of course, you're going to find a great selection of vegetables and herbs
and roses and every other kind of plant in the world. You just need
to go out to. You need to go, just go to enchanted forest
out in Richmond there again, FM twenty seven fifty nine, just heading northward,
Sugarland off to the right. I don't know where emerald came from.
All right, we are going to now go where we're going next, We're
heading out to Memorial to talk to Elaine. Hello Elayne, good morning,
Skip. How are you. I'm good. How can we help? Oh?
Well, I think the previous you just answered my question with the previous
caller. Okay, I have enjoyed Virginia Creeper in my courtyard climbing up the
walls for a few years, but it really has gotten you out of control,
and of course, being a deciduous vine, it looks terrible now.
Yes, so I just wondered how far can I cut that back? Yes,
well, that's such a there's so many branches and vines crawling all over
the place. Doing the scratch test is a little too tedious. Those things
are all mixed up. It's not like a little shrub or tree. I
would just wait and let it tell you it's gonna take. Then need to
warm up a little bit before Virginia Creeper is going to want and I'll really
tell you. Okay, here's where I'm alive and here's what I'm dead.
But I think you're going to need to wait on that to be sure.
Okay, that is the one that has aspirations of takeing over the world.
But it is a nice ever it's a nice green foliage vine to have well,
and it does have color in the fall. It does. It does.
The only way you can have color in Houston and the fall is to
take a flame plain flight to the northeastern United States. I'm over stating it,
but yes, Virginia Creeper does have great color. Yeah, all right,
well, thank you so much. You have a wonderful day. All
right, all right, before you start emailing me or calling or something,
I know we have fall colored plants here. It's just not as many as
I wish we had, that's for sure. Let's see, we are heading
up against a break. When I come back, Chris and Sue, you'll
be the first two up our phone numbers seven one three, two one two,
five eight seven four. Welcome back to Garden Line. Glad to have
you willis today. I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and I'm operating here
with at least most of the brain stells functioning. Still, we'll put that
to the test. My first thing running right out to Pearland and talking to
Chris. Hello, Chris, Yes, sir, good morning, Good luck
with the brain cells there, I know that I tell somebody the other day
at the end of the talk out of A and A Plants, I tucked
on the radio all day and talked out there for two hours. I had
three brain cells left. One was having my heart beating, one was helping
my lungs breathe, and the other was trying to do everything else that's going
on. Well, you're doing better than I am some days, all right,
how can we help? Yes, sir, my friend, I'm calling
on the half of my beautiful girlfriend. She is asking about cedar mulch.
Is it true that it may repel termites, mosquitoes or any other you know,
insects that we may not want either in the house or around the backyard.
Right, Well, first, good call on that description. You are
a smart man. Secondly, cedar molts has some repellent properties when it's fresh
for past That's why we make cedar trunks to keep the moths out right of
our sweaters and things, or cedar closet sometimes. But as it ages,
that starts to go down and it's not like you got to melt down here,
and so you know, pests are going to go flying to the neighborhood
yard. Neighbors yard. But it does termites though they're in nature. Anywhere
there's organic materials that hit the ground, you're going to find them. I
find them in old cornstalk sometimes chewing on the fibers in there, the piece
of wood laying on the ground. So we don't worry about those. We
just want them to not be in our house. Trid, trid. Yeah,
okay, well let's see answer we needed to hear. All right,
thank you for the call. Appreciate that very much. Good to visit with
you. For those of you who have a lawn that got thin last summer,
and a lot of people fall into that category. Now, sunlight is
hitting the soil in between what should be a good dense turf. It's thin.
Sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed. That's how it works.
And during the time you're working to build a dense lawn again, with
proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing, you can put down a pre emergent
product called barricade that's by nitrofoss. Now you put a little bit of water
on it, just a third of an inch half an inch to move it
down into the soil and it forms a barricade. On the soil surface,
so grassy weeds that are about to come up, crab grass, grassper for
example. It prevents those broad leaf weeds that are about to come up through
the summer, the warm season weeds. It prevents those and it'll give you
two months, two and a half months, sometimes longer. It depends on
the weather and stuff of protection against those germinating and that Nitrofoss barricade it's one
of the widely available products by Nitrofoss. And you know, nitrofoss products are
available in a wide variety of places. I mean it's easy to findfics.
If you go to an ace hardware store, you're going to find nitrofos in
a place like that. If you go down to Southwest Feed and Fertilizer,
you're going to find nitrofoss in a place like that. Many of our garden
centers as well are going to carry nitropos barricade. But remember this, those
things are germinating now and you've got to get it down before they establish little
plants. So if you're going to do that, don't delay. I would
say this afternoon, go ahead and get it. Even if you can't put
it down today, have it there. So if tomorrow or the next day
you can get it down, you can go ahead and get it down,
because that's how the product works, that's the strength of it, and so
you need to make sure and be ahead of things. I want to head
out now to Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Sue. Hello,
Sue Hi. I was calling about my granddaughter. She lives in Anglton,
of Anglton, and she has three Exoria plants which she had in their south
in the south side of her house. She covered them in the winter and
I told her they'll be okay, Okay. I go over there and all
of the leaves have turned brown on them, and I scratched the bark and
that's still is green. Okay, good. Should she yank come out and
replant them or that's what she's wanted to do, but I said no,
leave them. So to see what's your opinion on Now, if you like
Exoria and you've got green, green branches, trunks, whatever I would,
I would leave them. I think that's what I had. You may have
some dead ends of branches or things, and you could wait and when they
start to put growth, you'll know to nip that out. But that's a
good sign that you've got green under the bark. I think they're okay,
those are nice plant. I we can't give up on them unless you just
don't like that flower. That's what I told her. I said, you
know, those brown leaves will fall off and you'll get new ones. So
and this is your your daughter? Is this your daughter or granddaughter? Granddaughter?
Oh? Granddaughter? Okay, well that's that's one of the come to
grandma. I know they do you well when you know, I sound like
you were going to say, she listening to you, and that would be
a daughter, right, not a grind daughter. No, she covered.
I'm good and she and you know, with the material and stuff. But
they even on the south side, it still got the you know, they
turn round. So uh, she may have left them covered too long.
I don't know, but anyway, I don't they're you know, their expensive
plants. And I told her, I said, no hold off on them.
So, yeah, they're a wonderful plant, wonderful plant down south especially.
Yeah, but I wanted to talk to an expert on that. So
all right, well you know what, I enjoy your enjoy your show,
all right, Thank you very much, Bye bye. I appreciate that.
And for my daughters. I've got a couple of daughters or more that probably
listened to this show some You know, I'm just kidding, but you also
know what I'm talking about, So just leave it at that. We're We're
glad you are listening to guarden Line today. I want to talk about a
few different things. I got a little time here. Do some visiting.
By the way, if you like to give us a call seven one three
two one two kat r H. If you haven't been to my website,
I want you to bookmarket. It is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
with Skip dot com right now on there. The most important things on the
site for you are the lawn Pest Disease and Weed management schedule and the lawn
care schedule. Lawn care schedule is mowing, watering, and fertilizing and it
lists every period of time from January to December you need to be doing something
like that to your lawn. And it lists all the products. So if
you want to do it organically, you'd want to do it synthetically or whatever.
All the products are on there that I would suggest to use for those
times. The lawn pest disease and weed management schedule is the same thing,
except this is what are the lawn problems? What insects occur in your lawn
and when do they occur? And then what are the products organic and synthetic
that control them. What diseases occur in our lawns here in this area,
and what are the products for that. What weeds occur and when do you
treat and what do you use at different times of the year, because it
changes if you're killing an existing weed or if you're killing a weed that hadn't
sprouted yet, like we're just talking about barricade on preventing weed seeds well.
And then across the bottom is all the products that you need for all of
that, And I would encourage you to bookmark that's free. It's all free,
and print it up. Some people print them and take them to the
store and say they point at it and go, I want one of these
right here, and they can get you fixed up on that as well.
One other thing I wanted to mention is for those of you who are interested
in research based information on topics like local food and Texas wine growing food,
creating a supportive community for learning about all those things. The folks at the
TEXA A and M Horticulture Department are going to create or are going to have
an event called Texas three sixty Freshness Meets the Table. It's March fifteenth and
sixteenth, So it starts off March fifteenth with Texas Wines and appetizers and they're
going to be in the gardens at an that's the garden in the West Campus
at A and M. Beautiful place to walk through. If you haven't been
there, you need to go up just to see that. And they're going
to be wine and appetizer pairings and the gardens, and then they're going to
have a farm to table dinner at Messina Haw Fineyard up in Bryan on Saturday.
The next day they'll have a full day of educational activities nineteen breakout sessions
that you can attend three workshops to choose from both in person and virtual.
So like if you want to do it online, you can't drive up there,
you can do it that way too. The educational sessions are going to
have garden inspired cocktails and mocktails along with the selection of shark tery. Finding
that perfect opportunity for networking community building. If you want more information you need
to First of all, you need to register, and the deadline is really
upon us. It's February twenty eighth, so we only have a little bit
of time left for you to register. To pre register, but where you
want to go is Taste three sixty three six oh dot t A m U
dot E d U t A m U as in Texas a m University t
A m U Taste three sixty at TAMUD. I think you'll find that interesting.
It is very kind of a fun and not just educational, but sounds
like a whole lot of fun as well. I want to remind you that
I am going to be this coming Saturday, Saturday, the third of March
from twelve to two at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show. So all
of you up there in Willis, Montgomery, Conroe for sure, just anywhere
up in that region, the woodlands for sure too. Come up to the
Montgomery County County Home and Gardens. It's a really good garden show. I'm
going to be giving a taco up there, and I'm going to be answering
your gardening question. So yeah, you can bring me samples and pictures and
we can go through all of that, I'll also be giving away some of
Nelson's genesis. That is the nutrient supplement that you put into a potting mix
as you're repotting your plants and it works really well. Go to the garden
Line Facebook page. Croll down, do you see a pepper plant and read
what I said about it there. I used it on some pepper plants really
really working well. But that's next Saturday, March the second, twelve to
two at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show. I hope to see you
there. I always love to meet the folks that listen to garden Line.
That makes it kind of cool. Well, we're about to put another hour
in the books here. We will be back the next hour. If you
want to get on the boards with Josh, you can be the first up.
Seven one three two one two. KTRH talking about KTRH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
to KTRH Garden Line with Scamp Rict. It's so trim. Just watch him
as a world. Welcome back to guard Line. Hey, it's good to
have you listening today. What do you want to talk about give us a
call. Number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. It makes it really easy
to get ahold of us. We're here to help you turn a brown thumb
green. Because if you've heard me say this before, here we go again.
There's no such thing as a brown thumb. There's an uninformed thumb.
And when you learned the simple principles of horticulture, the simple things that we
need to know to have successful plants, suddenly it's like you got a brown
thumb, right, That's how that works. And so our goal is to
help you turn a brown thumb green. That's the way I like to put
it, uh, because it just I think it. It helps us understand
that some people think they as a person, I just can't grow plants.
No, that is not true. That is absolutely not true. You can
grow plants, and we can help you do it. That's what we're here
for. If you haven't been out the antiq Rosenporium ever, you absolutely have
to go. It is a destination place that is so cool. I love
going out there. People. You know that whole region that's where the blue
bonnet trails are up toward Brunham. Actually, Antiguros is north of Brenham,
and you can just enjoy that. I know, April's like big blue bonnet
time, but don't wait till April go now. I mean, they have
a wonderful selection, the best I know of antique roses in the whole region.
They're well known across the country. Really, the place is just a
destination. When you go there, you see what I'm talking about. They've
designed it to be a destination and events are held there. In fact,
coming up coming up pretty soon is their spring celebration March ninth and tenth.
I'll be out there on Saturday giving a little talk. They're gonna have speakers
and artists in market, food trucks and of course all the plants and listen.
It's called antiqurosen for him. And they absolutely are roses, but they
are so so much more. Do you need certain kinds of native plants and
perennials and salvias and purple cone flower and white lantana, pink skull cap,
coral, honeysuckle. Do you see what I'm talking about? On and on
and on down the list, you're gonna find a lot of things out there,
and it's fun to go. Bring bring family and friends and neighbors.
If you've got a little garden club or a master gardener group, or a
church group or whatever. In fact, that'd be a great thing to do
on a Sunday afternoons to head out to the antique rosing for hum and just
walk around and look. Make sure your car has some empty space ouver because
you're gonna want to bring back a lot of plants. Antique Roseemporium dot com.
That's simple, antiqu Rozenborium dot com. Here's a number. I write
this down nine sevent nine eight three six five five four eight and put March
ninth and tenth on your calendar. We're going to head out now to clear
Lake City and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, Good morning, sir.
Hope you're enjoying this beautiful weather. We don't get an awful lot of
opportunity to play in. I am. I'm sitting like a goldfish and aquarium
looking out the window at the world. While I'm sitting here talking on a
microphone, I can't wait to get outside. I'm watching all kind of birds
coming to the feeders. There you go, it's really great. A while
back, collars back. You're talking about fall color, and you actually can
get a lot of cold tolerant fall color right now at hobby lobby. Oh
is that right? Yeah, live plants. No, Oh, you're talking
about the silk flowers. You know, someone joking, they told me one
time, he goes, I'm tired of pests. I'm going to buy silk
flowers. And I go, well, they get dust mites and they and
they get and they also go I don't know, maybe silkworms would eat them.
I don't know. Anyway, enough of that mindsense, How can we
help you today? Okay, by the way, in terms of anti crows
and porn, they were out at the gardens gardens a couple of weeks ago
for us terrific, terrific talk about roses. The best talk I've ever heard
our own root. You know, they don't have grafted roses, so,
yes, they're hardier. I sent you a picture of what I think may
be called sticky weed. Yes, I got it. Is that sticky weed.
Well, it's got a bunch of names and facts, got more names
than a criminal on the run. The common name that's most used around the
country is catchweed bed straw, catchweed bed straw, but it's also called cleavers
and velcrow plant for reasons that you know, if you've dealt with it,
it's like velcrow, very very sticky. It makes for those of listening that
are going, okay, I didn't see the picture. Well, it's it's
these long strands that go across the yard, just sprawling over the grass,
and they going up the stem. They are little whirls of skinny strappy leaves
in sections going up the stem. But the main thing is the belcroy nature
of it. And at this stage you could spray it with a broad leaf
post emergent product. But looking at your pictures, I can't even see the
grass underneath it because there's so much of it. And that's how this we
does. What I've done is I will rake the with a like a leaf
rake, and as you do, as you pull those strands, you'll see
kind of where a little tiny root is going in the ground, and you
can reach down and pull it there and then rake a little more and pull,
you know, pull the root, and you just rake it up into
this big ball and shove it in a trash can. But the the weed
itself is about to set a bazillion kinds of seed or numbers of seed.
In fact, it's already your weeds are already blooming and starting to set.
So I would get it out yesterday if you can. If not, go
ahead and do it today. Well, I can pull them out. I
can reach down and find the ball, but there is so much of it,
and it's growing within other garden things that I want to keep, and
so the rake is it's kind of dangerous to use, especially my age.
So I was hoping there were some I could paint on them, like the
Tricliss fear pier. Well, I wouldn't do track repair, but you could
do a broadly we control like Bonne eye. But if you got other plants
that are desirable, I wouldn't do a spray on that weed because you're going
to have if you're careful with the rake in your hands, and I know
it's work, but you can get it out of there without damaging other plants.
You might have to do some pulling. It breaks off real easy,
so you know it takes a while to get it. But at this stage
of the game where you are right now, uh it is you just need
to physically get it out of there. That's your best bet. Okay,
Well we'll put on some bluzz and give that a try. Okay. Well,
I hate to be the bear of bad news, but well they don't
shoot the messager these days. So yeah, And if you go online and
google it, I think they make some sort of a tea tincture. And
I don't know what it's for out of it, but uh, life gives
you lemons, make lemonade, mark you could actually use that stuff for food
value of it. Well, I wouldn't use the word food, but uh,
tea sometimes. I don't know. I'm not an herbalist. You'd have
to go look it up. But I saw that one time and I thought,
well that's it. That's true. I've got enough of it to produce
an awful lot of tea. Well there you go. Well I'm a believer.
And if you can't beat them, eat them. And I know a
lot of vegetable a lot of weeds, dandylion and chickweed are edible. So
so is amaranth and Lamb's quarter. Hey, thanks for the call. I
appreciate that a lot. We're going to take a quick break here. When
we come back. Tim and Robert you'll be the first two up. Welcome,
come back to guard Line. Good heavy listening. We're talking about all
kinds of things gardening today. This is the time to get out and pot
up some plants for the patio, pot up some plants for indoors. When
you do, you need to think about jungle land. Jungle Land is distributed
by nitroposs and so you're going to find it in all kinds of places.
But basically what it is, there's two versions of it. One is called
jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Planting soil, the other one Jungle and Water Saving
Potting soialt. Now the flower and vegetables for outside, you put it in
your containers whether you're growing blooms, vegetables. You can grow herbs in it
as well. It's got Canadian peat, four different types of aged organic matter
that's decomposed and microhizal fungi as well, and it just gives you the perfect
draining and also water holding ability that's just right for plant roots. Now for
the indoors, the Jungle and Water Saving Potting soil has the crystals that absorb
water. So if you forget to water your plants and they start to get
a little on the dry side. There's still water in those crystals the plants
can get and it kind of makes it let's just say a little more forgiving
if you tend to be forget full. That's how that works. I know
it is. I've more than once walked into a room and looked at a
plant and went, oh, forgot about that one. Well, where do
you get these things? How about enchanted gardens out in Richmond. How about
shades of green up in the woodlands. That's another good place you can get
these. You can even go down to Fisher's Hardware. There's one in South
Houston, there's one in the Port. Lots of places you can find jungle
land and other nitrofost products as well. You know, one of my favorite
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And I encourage that you would We're gonna go now to Tomball and talk
to Tim. Hello, Tim, good Morning's good love your show. Thank
you, sir. I have an overabundance of monkey grass growing throughout my front
lawn. They were planted around trees that are no longer there. I'm trying
to figure out what the best way to kill that off without killing the grass
or the nearby trees. Wow, that's a good question. I don't know.
I've never tried to spray kill monkey grass, and I have a feet
on. It's not going to be easy to control. You definitely don't want
to use a grass killer. It is not a grass, even though the
words of its name say that it's not a grass. It's kin to theriopy
and aztec grass, which is also auto grass. I've read online that perhaps
round up for poison ivy might be inappropriate selection, but I wanted to get
your opinion on that. Will round up, as Glycas say, If there's
a product called round up for poison ivy, I'm wondering if it has tricle
app here in it. But I don't. I don't have to look up
that product, you know. Let me investigate that one. The only way
I know to deal with it. You don't want to hear, and that's
digging it up. And I know that I know that it is. Yeah,
yeah, and a lot of people love that plant. Maybe you need
to just put a sign out free free nuts, edge plants. Just drop
drop off a pound cake or something like that. We'll let you have all
you want, kind of a pick your own place for groundcover. So joking
aside, Tim, let me look into that and I will do some hunting
and probably if I find a good solution, i'll say it on the air.
I don't want to guess at what I think my first thoughts would be,
because I don't know that that's right. But h ok, yeah,
appreciate it. Yeah, I would say shade it out, but I think
it would grow underneath the peer and beam house. I mean it grows underneath
the magnolia tree. For crying out loud. You can't have more shade than
that. Yeah, No, it's certainly. With the drought last summer,
it was the only thing that was agreen on the entire long stone. Now,
one other option would be to just do what it takes to kill it,
and if that kills along, so be it in that area. And
then put put long back in. That would probably be simpler. But let
me see if I can play. I'm inclined to do that at this point
because I'm going to have to come back and resab where I kill the monkey
grass anyway. So yeah, I will let me see what I can find.
If I come up for something, I'll talk about it on the air
because I need to know that myself. All right, thank you, I
appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate your call very much. For those
of you out in the Kingwood area, you know, you got Kingwood Garden
Center and you've got worn Southern gardens out there in that same area, not
that far apart, and it's just a pleasure to visit the nurseries because they
always are loaded up with the plants that you need, the color, the
containers they are. They really do good at those combo containers, you know,
where you have a larger container, but you plant it with different plants.
So it's just a lot to look at. It's really beautiful. They're
good at that. Right now. They've got a lot of wonderful spring blooming
trees, and we have four seasons here, and spring is a great time
to have a blooming tree. So red buds, this thing warm up a
little bit more. Here come the red buds Chinese friends. Another one that
comes out in the spring, saucer magnolias. I mean right now, that's
the first harbinger of spring. And are they beautiful. It's a deciduous tree.
It's not like a southern Magnoia's deciduous. And in the spring on all
those bare branches early early spring, boom, these ballooms come out that are
like saucers, like pink saucers, gorgeous on the plants. They've got those,
so now's the time to get them. Now's the time to get them
planted asap. Go to warrants. You'll get those. Do you want a
citrus? Do you need fruit trees? They've got that. And don't forget
that leapier sale that we were talking about before. It continues until the third
of March. So we're just around the corner on making sure you get the
leap here. So we get a combination of different products on really good specials
like you buy two or you buy three, and you just get a really
really great discount on those. And that would include you know, that would
include things like azemite, for example. You heard me talking about azumite earlier.
Amite is a nutrient supplement for trace minerals that we've put out. Well,
they've got that and they got a really really good special on it as
well, so I would encourage you to go out there and take advantage of
it. They got the heirloom soils, rose soil on that Leapier special if
you like, canisters of Microlife or Nelson products, and they have refill stations
two for them, by the way, they've got those on special out there
as well. It's all part of the leap eerstyle, but only good until
March third at Warren's Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood. We're going to head
out to North Houston now and talk to Robert. Hello, Robert, Hello,
Skip, How you doing good? Okay? Look, I's that an
Asian market in an Asian grocery store. I was going through the produce section
and they had it, said elephantearsaid, it's just a stalk in the produce
section and it didn't have the leaves on it, it just had the stalks.
Are they edible? There's a there are edibles in that group of plants.
There's one plant called tarot. That tarot root is edible. Uh.
And so with the elephant airs you got allocations and colorcasias and other elephant regular
elephant ears. There's lots of different plants like that. But if you find
it in a market like that, yes it is edible, and yes it's
gonna look like what you think it's gonna look like. We didn't have the
botanical name. We just had elephant here, so I was going, well,
what you know it'd be. There's a lot of difference. You know,
genus is a species, so I'm going which one is it? But
yeah, anyway, okay, yeah, uh, And it's a it's a
very starchy material. I have never eaten one myself. I need to do
that sometime. I just I just never had one to try and eat.
But anyway, uh, people do. And then especially in an Asian market,
you're gonna find those kind of things for sale that it's it's kind of
cool. Do you think the whole genus that colloccasion would be edible? Uh?
Okay. Among the many Colocasia species, there's tarot, which is Colocasia
esculenta, and the Latin word esculenta means it's edible. That's basically the one.
Uh. Now, I think there's some others that you can There's a
genus zen Zentha, soma something like that. And then the allocacious to have
been a staple uh for edibles in a lot of those countries. I would
I would go online before I send you out to eat everything under the sun.
I would go online and you with a search you can easily find the
specifics. But there are edibles in the collocations and in the allocations, and
specifically taro, which is one of the most popular. That's colocasia escalenta.
The allocations are air shape leaves that tend to point upward like an arrow point.
The collocations tend to hang down, and that's the one we usually think
of as elephant ear uh. And so allocate for The easy way to remember
is allocacia is an a and an A points upward. A capital a points
upward. Okay, all right, I've been reading your article in Texas Order
for years. Yes, sir, thank you, I'm glad glady on air
now you know your resource. Thank you so much. Thanks, sir,
I appreciate your kindness to the call. Take care. Well, let's see
here. I want to talk a little bit about spring greenup. If you
go to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, the lawn care schedule
is telling you that late February and into the first two or three weeks in
March would be our spring greenup season. That makes the long green before it
gets warm enough for it to really grow fast. It will green it up.
And that's an optional application, but it's what a lot of people like
to do. It strengthens that grass getting ready to grow. Nitrofos has an
Imperial product that's the red bag. It says fifteen five to ten. That's
the ratio that was determined by A and M. And actually a lot of
different Langa universities in their turf research over the years have proven that that works,
and it works in our soils, it works in our region. Nitrofos
Imperial is a fifteen five to ten product and you can find nitro fuss and
a lot of places around town. For example, you can go out to
Kingwood Ace Hardware and they're going to have it. You can go to the
Arbor Gate up in Tomball they're going to have it. Shades of Texas down
in southeaston on Genoa Redbluff. They're going to have nitrofoss products like the Imperial
as well. Well, it's about time to take a break here, so
Lynn, I see you out there. We're going to take you first when
we come back from break, because I'm gonna be able to have time to
give your question the time that it needs. I mentioned that schedule just now,
and for those of you who haven't checked it out yet, go to
Gardening with Skip dot com. That's where both schedules are. They're free.
It's multicolor January through February. Everything you do, the products you need,
and if you're organic or synthetic, there's options for everybody out there on those
two schedules at Gardening with Skip dot Com. Well, we're going to stop
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about seven foot diameter anyway, and it's about three quarters of it burnt up
from that drought. And what do you recommend I should do skiff, Should
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Linn. We've seen all versions of damage on southern magnolia this past summer.
Some plants killed out right, some burned just here and there where you can
prune them and then keep going, and some burn back enough to where they're
so disfigured it's just not the plant you want and it never will be,
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better to plant sooner rather than later, so it make you help you make
the decision earlier. Otherwise just wait, you can do that too. Thank
you. I appreciate your call, sir. All right, Uh, have
you been to Chenni Gardens in Richmond. You need to because it's another showplace
garden center that we have downe here. It sprawls out with color and vegetables
and roses and trees and shrubs and pottery and all kinds of yard bling.
I love the yard bling too. That is it. Now? In Chenni
Gardens, you're going to find very knowledgeable staff people that know what they're talking
about. So when you're walking around, des grab somebody. They're all over
the place and they're there to help you and eager to help you and friendly
and they will they will direct you to a plant that fits the situation.
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container. When I say help you, they're not going to come to your
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So hey, I'm just saying, good thing to do this afternoon head out
to Enchanit gardens get a little bit of inspiration and hopefully some plants by the
way they carry. Our fertilizers recommend and soils would recommend also out there.
We're going to go to northeast Houston down and talk to Fred. Hey,
Fred, how you doing. I'm good. I got two questions. One
of my yard for the weeds or what's what's what I need to do to
control them? And you say, a while back lady had some lights on
some plants that kept them on that keep from freezing. Yes, yes,
can you do you remember? Uh, well, let's start about Let's start
with the weeds. If you see weeds, now those are existing weeds.
Most of them are broad leaf weeds, and you need to use a broad
leaf post emergent weed control. And one example of that. There there are
a number of good things out there on the market, but one example is
a product by nitrofoss and it is a fifteen five ten fertilizer. So it's
a fertilizer and it has trun it has trimic in it. And that what
you have to do though for it is you got to you gotta get a
sprinkler out there and turn it on just enough to wet the weed leaves just
enough. You don't you're not water in your lawn. You're just wetting the
weeds and have your product ready to go, and you fertilize the lawn and
that granule sticks to those wet leaves and it goes in. The chemical goes
in and kills the weed. And then a couple of days later then if
you want a water it's a good idea because you washed the fertilizer down into
the soil and that is going to feed your early feed of your spring green
up. And so you kind of can do both at the same time.
Those weeds are going to be setting seeds soon and once they do that,
they're hard to kill. Plus you have, you know, twenty years of
weeding that you've just added to the to the soil from all those weed seeds.
Now the lights go ahead, n fifteen five can Yeah, it's a
fifteen to five to ten with TRIMEC, tri I MEC tr MEC. That's
three different harbicides that are in that granule. And you can do it without
now the lights to warm things up. The lights and I'm gonna have to
run here, so I got to do this quick. But you just get
one of those clamp light aluminum lights and get you either one hundred and fifty
watt flood light bulb or if you really need to heat up a heat the
red heat lamp bulbs and that creates a lot of heat and you put it
underneath the cover to keep that heat in and to protect your plants when it's
cold. I'm sorry I got to run, but I'm up against a hard
break here. But I do thank you very much for that call. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're
with us today. We are entering our last segment of the weekend. You
know, we're here every Saturday from six am to ten am and every Sunday
from six am to ten am to answer your gardening questions. You can listen
to past shows on the podcast if you would like to go about that way,
get you iHeart Media app. And actually you can listen to live shows
on the podcast too. We have folks from way outside the listening area that
listen that way as well. I want to just remind you for those of
you who are up and let's just say North area up beyond Houston towards spring
Well, Spring Creek Feed, Spring Creek Feed. They're in the Magnolia area
on FM twenty nine seventy eight. I want to remind you that they're there
because that's your hometown feed straw right up in that area, and Spring Creek
Feed carries everything that you need. Of course, they have feed for animals,
they have feed for pets, quality feeds. By the way, for
those friendly courteous staff always like to go in there. They greet you and
they make sure you get helped and you find what you need. They've gotten
a lot of shipment of some new betting plants in. They've got a load
of different products that we recommend on garden line fertilizers, all the different fertilizers
that we talk about, you're going to find them there at Spring Creek Feed.
If you need pest disease and weed control, yep, they got that
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stuff with the home too inside there. You need a little of that extra
farmhouse tot bling. They will get you fixed up. We're going to go
now to Rosenberg and talk to Evan. Hello, Evan, are you there?
Yes, I mispronounced your name, Yvonne. Thank you, yeah,
now it's fine, Thank you, Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call.
So I have pretty much more weeds than the lawn going on, and
our intent was last summer to really put the effort into our lawn to fix
it, and of course we hit the drought, so that stopped everything.
And then I've been traveling this whole spring, and so today's the day to
get started. And I just heard your last call talk about the nitrofoss fifteen
to five to ten with the TRIMEC. So I'm assuming that's my first step.
Is that correct? Well, that would be for the broadly feeds that
are in your lawn right now, the existing weeds that would help kill them.
They're going to be going to seed and going downhill and giving way to
the warm season weeds. And as long as you have a thin lawn.
While you're doing that, other nit frosh you buys, will grab a bag
of barricade and put that down that needs to be watered in. The first
one, we wet the weed, just wet it, and then we put
the fertilizer slash broad leaf control out and the granu'll stick to the weeds and
that's how the chemical gets in the weed. After a couple of days,
then you can water the lawn. And before you do that, I would
put out the barricade and then water in and you get all of it done
at once. You move the fertilizer into the soil and you move the barricade
into the soil surface. Because here's what's going to happen. Soon. The
weeds you see now will give way to things like grassperers and crabgrass and other
warm season weeds that are in the process of sprouting, and we got to
stop them at that stage. If you wait too long, the barricade isn't
designed to work on existing weeds. Okay, So when you say a few
days between doing the nitrofossima barricade. Are we talking seriously a few days,
like three days or like from weekend to weekend. No, no, let
me let me clarify that I probably wouldn't clear the we the weeds. Put
down the fertilizer with trimec. It's a fifteen five to ten with trimac.
It's like either a blue, bluish, purplish colored bag and it sticks to
the weeds. And then you just wait, because you've wet the weeds.
You put the granules they touch the weeds, and give it a day or
two and then you're going to want to water it. But before you water,
put the barricade down. So when you water, you not only move
the barricade into the soil, you move the fertilizer into the soil. Is
that actually a few days? Okay? Well two days? Two days is
enough between the two One day maybe enough, But I'd like to give it
a day or two, and so you could put the barricade down right away.
But both in and the fertilizer are gonna need to be watered in more
than just wetting the leaves, which was the first step. Now we're going
to put like a third or a half an inch of water to move it
down in the soil surface. Okay, Now the weeds are good, nice
little tufts of you know, big puffs everywhere. Do I need to mow
them down? Or just leave them as as they're right now? To put
the nice fuss for the for the first step. You don't want to mow
them. You want those leaves up there to catch a lot of granules,
stick to the weed and kill the weed. Okay, Now I have dogs,
Do I need to keep them away from the stuff or I mean,
well, while the granules are sitting out there, I guess you could.
You don't want them tracking that stuff around or rolling around in it, getting
in a fur. I mean, it's not like dog poison. You know,
the dogs are gonna croak when they touch it. It's just would I
would keep them off during that time. I know dogs have to go outsie
every day, so they can trapes out there and do their business and come
home, come back in or something. But okay, all right, and
then after that point, just keep I've got both your lawn schedule, care
schedule and the weed management schedule cutted out, So then just pick up where
they need to be at that point. Is that correct? Yes, Because
what you will have done with everything I just said, you will have done
your spring early greenup. That's the first thing on the schedule top left corner
that you see. Okay, okay, all right, all right. I
appreciate the information. Thank you very much. I love listening to your show.
It's been fantastic. And Enchanted Gardens is my one I go to down
the street here, Oh my god, down the street. You're lucky.
I know. I love that place. Say hi to them when you're in
there. Thanks for the call. I appreciate that. You know, the
Ace Hardware stores are where you can buy any of these products you've been hearing
me talk about all day. I mean the fertilizers, the soil blends,
you know, the bags of soil, composts and molts, things like that.
They've got everything, and there Ace near you. Acehardware dot Com.
That's the website. Look at the store locator and you know, put in
your zip and it'll give you all these stores that are everywhere nearby that you
can go to. And if you hear me talk about it on guardline,
you're gonna find it at Ace Hardware that that's how we work. I mean,
we've communicate with them and here's what we're going to recommend and stuff,
and they make sure and have it stocked up. Things like ASMIT for example.
That'd be another one you can find at ACE hardware stores. And when
you're there, you're going to find tools. You're going to find pesticides,
you know, for insects and diseases and weeds. You can find all of
that and a lot of other things to create a beautiful outdoor area that you
can enjoy. And that's what it's about. One of the fertilizers say carry
is the Microlifeline and they have a wide variety of microlife products. For example,
I've been talking today about the purple bag the Humates plus, which is
a zero zero four, so it's not you know, there's not nitrogen and
phosphors and if there's a little potasse, but we're not putting it down just
with the nutrient. We're putting it down because it is a humous product,
the final stage of decomposing organic matter. And so we call it compost in
a bag. So if you can imagine, you know that you had like
five bags a compost and you just are ten bags, and you compost it
all the way down to its final stage of humus. That's a bag of
microlife Humantes plus, and you put that out. It helps with the microbial
activity in the soil, but it helps with soil structure, and that is
important. And this isn't like you put it out and tomorrow everything's different.
No, you put it out and you make this part of your ongoing care.
That's how nature takes care of things. Nature makes soil better and better
over time, and you can shortcut that with something like microlife products like the
humates plus, like the six two four fertilizer that we're going to be talking
about soon putting out as a fertilizer for your lawn, and it's just an
ongoing process. Return your clippings too. By the way, when you return
your grass clippings, you are taking exactly the combination of every nutrient that grass
needs. It's in the clipping and you're cutting them off and you're either dropping
under the soil or you're paying somebody to haul them away. I call the
latter. Renting fertilizer. Don't be a fertilizer renter. If you buy fertilizer,
keep your fertilizer on site by returning the clippings. Do you know that
if you were to take all the grass clippings, Oh my gosh, here's
the music. I'll make this fast. If you're to take the whole grass
clippings of all your mowings through the whole season, send them to the labid
A and m what's in these? I want the whole list of nutrients and
how much is there? Your lawn mower puts out more fertilizer than your fertilizer
spread er. Does I mean it? Even if you're fertilized three times a
year, it does. Does that mean you don't need to fertilize now?
It doesn't. It just means that why waste that quality nutrient? Because if
you get rid of your clip things, you just got to add more fertilizer.
And they clippings have all the micro nutrients and things like that and them
too, So don't send those down the street in a plastic bag. It
just makes sense. It's called don't bag it. By the way, I
helped with our one of our turf spatialists, doctor Kanoop, when he was
doing the the uh Don't Bag It program in Texas. Anyway, we're out
of time for today. Hey, I've had a good time. I hope
you have too. We'll see you next Satay.