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

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

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it's Crazy Trim, just watch him
as well. Spain. Welcome to garden

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Line. Good to have you with
us this morning. Congratulations everybody who is

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awake. Maybe a cup of coffee
or tea or something helping you along there.

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We're glad to have you with us. Now. We are a call

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in show. That means you can
call in and ask whatever questions you want

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to ask, as long as it's
related to gardening. We'll try to stay

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We'll try to limit it that way. Our phone number is seven one three

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

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seven four. I was just checking
out Vernant Tree Farm. They Vernant has

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unbelievable selection trees. I think they
planted over two hundred thousand trees here in

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the Greater Houston area. They're the
largest tree farm here inside the Houston area.

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And if you go to their website, you ought to do that.

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By the way, it's a Verdant
v er da nt treefarm dot com.

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You're going to find on their website
awesome information. If you want to learn

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about the different trees. They have
pages and pages of descriptions of each of

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the different trees, including the palm
trees, lots of palms. Verden is

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well known for their palms, and
let me tell you they have established palms

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all over the area. They know
how to do all of this. You

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go there, you pick out your
tree or trees, and you tag them,

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and they bring them and they plan
them. And if they plan them,

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they give you a one year warranty
guaranteed with the nation. Now that's

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a big deal. That is a
very big deal if you are military or

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first responders. Tempersent discount for their
Verdant Tree Farm. But if you're looking

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to establish a tree, and I
hope you are, we need to get

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those done soon. The sooner the
better, just get Just check out Verdant

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be E R D A N T
treefarm dot com. In West Houston Parker

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Cypress and Heights area where Yale and
I ten come together, and then down

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in Perland on Broadway Street. We're
going to go to the phones first thing

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this morning here and we're going to
talk to Cindy. Good morning, Cindy,

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good morning. How can we help
you? Yes, I would like

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to address that email that was sent
to you about the skinny pine tree.

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Oh, yes, yes, what
that is? What that was, Cindy,

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I got that. That is a
type of a juniper or arbor idy

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tho. It's probably the one it's
called Italian cypress. But they are very

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tall. You know, if you
see pictures of a Mediterranean villa, typically

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they have those lining the drive going
up to it. And they they're a

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beautiful, a very unique structured tree. The problem with them here is if

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bagworms get on them and chew out
a bunch of leaves, which they can,

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then you have this hole in the
plant and it's just going to stay

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there unless there's greenly green little foliage
the scaly foliage leaves they have. Unless

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there's some of those there to re
sprout and fill that area in a hole

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in one of those, it's going
to stay a hole in one of those.

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There's some foliage diseases in our rainy
climate that can hit them as well

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and do the same thing, and
you know, it's just that's the problem

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with them is once you've got them
marred or taken chunks out of them or

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one side out of it. It's
not very beautiful anymore. And I think

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yours are in the early stages of
some of that happening. So what do

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we do to correct it? Well, there there essentially is no getting foliage

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back. The only place that those
trees can send out a bud to fill

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in is from green foliage. So
when you've got a large section that goes

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all the way to the trunk and
there's no green there, the only way

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it can fill in is from the
sides coming in, and that usually is

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a very very slow process, if
at all, If you knew ahead of

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time what the problem was going to
be, you know, you could reach

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out and get it early, whether
it's bagworms or a foliage disease. But

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at this point after the fact,
yeah, not very practical to try to

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spray it. Well, I didn't
see bagworms on it, okay at all?

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Okay, Well, chances are it's
it's a foliage disease. There are

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some bungle things that attack those.
Spider mites can also attack group of plants,

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but that tends you see the foliage
sort of go from green wis almost

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a silvery gray and then and then
just die prosily. You know, with

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those Italian Cyprus types of plants,
it's hard to get a spray wand that'll

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reach up and really cover the foldo
that that was the problem to. So

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what do you suggest take it out? Well, you know, if you

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can live with it, with the
look of it, I would live with

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the look of it for now.
You can take it out, but you're

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not going to find a plant that
adequately fills that shape. There are some

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narrow plants youpon and other things that
speak certain varieties that are narrow, but

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they're not going to be that high, that tall, and they have issues

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get a little bit older with the
shape. Okay, well, I guess

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either we live with it or we'll
take it out. Okay, all right.

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Anyway, hate to be the bearer
of bad news, but that's one

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of the reasons why you won't hear
me recommending those plants. When they're gorgeous,

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they're gorgeous. But when they're not, they're not. Yeah, they're

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not. It takes a long time
for them to return gorgeous. Absolutely,

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that is so true. All right, Well, thank you very much for

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the call, and again I wish
you the best with that. Thank you

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all right, take care. Yeah, that is a challenge with those kind

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of plants. I hope you're doing
some potting up, creating some containers outside

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on the patio. Oh my goodness, this is a time. There's all

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kinds of color options right now,
but you want to start with the foundation

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of good growing media. That's the
brown stuff we keep talking about. Well,

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in the case of a container,
we're talking about jungle in jungle Lends,

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a product by nitrofoss It absolutely is
just well designed to do the things

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you most need out of a growing
mix, and that is you want to

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hold water for a while, so
you don't have the water them twice a

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day. You want to drain access
water so they don't become water logged.

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And you want them to be able
to hold on to the nutrients so when

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you fertilize, that nutrient is in
there and it's going to stick around for

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a while. And jungle Land does
all the above. It's got a blend

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of Canadian blonde pete with four ages, four different sources of aged organic matter.

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It's got the microhizal fungi in it
that work with the roots of the

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plant, and you're gonna find it
in a lot of different places. You'll

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find jungle Land, for example,
at Barings Hardware both Bessonette and West Teimer.

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You're going to find it at Plantation
Ace Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg.

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And you're also going to find it
at Hiden and feed Up I forty

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five North Area Memorial Memorial Drafts,
excuse me, Stuben or Airline. There

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we go on jungle Land. Let's
see, we're gonna have to run to

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a break here. Robert, you'll
be the first when we come back.

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Just hang on, we'll be right
back with you. Welcome back to Gardenline.

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Good to have you with us today. A while ago, I was

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just talking about jungle land and using
it in containers for color. Well,

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tell you what, if you're looking
for color, you're not in the Kingwood

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area anyone or anywhere around that region. You ought to check out Warren Southern

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Gardens. Both Warren Southern Gardens and
Kingwood Garden Center. They stay in stock

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of wonderful color. Right now,
they've got a deal on their baskets of

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Calibrica Warren Southern Gardens and a really
good deal where they've cut them significantly in

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the price and Calibrica. It looks
like a little pansies. If you haven't

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seen Calibrica before, just think of
little pansies. That's what they look like.

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They also have a deal on a
color Star from Nelson's. And you

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know, here's the combination. We
got good potting mix, we've got good

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plants to go in it, and
we fertilize with a good fertilizer to keep

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it going. And one of the
reasons we do that is because you need

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vegetative growth. That's what fertilizer can
push, especially the nitrogen to catch the

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sun and produce more flows blooms and
their for more flowers. And that's why

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it's important to use a product like
that like Noson Color Star in your beds.

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And you can get it on a
really good price. Actually out at

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Warren's Southern Guards. Now, I
just mentioned a couple of things, but

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what are you looking for? What
do you need? They still just stock

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and restock and restock, and it's
always a good time to go out there

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and see really unusual things too.
Having a gave that is called Silver Star,

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and you just got to see it. It's green and silvery white and

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kind of a also has kind of
a yellowish hue when you look at the

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sun coming through beautiful Agave, gorgeous. That's just an example. You never

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know what you're going to see out
there because they are always getting in something

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cool and new at Warren Southern Gardens
out in Kingwood. We're going to go

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now out to Spring Branch and talk
to Robert. Hello, Robert, hold

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on just one moment, Robert.
It helps a lot if I hit the

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right button. How you doing this
morning? I'm doing well, sir,

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but I'm not in Spring Branch anymore. I'm over at the waffle house at

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Highway six and I ten tell everybody
the last quick question, simple, Yes,

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No, I got a beer keg
in the back of my truck and

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it's over half full, and beer's
been in there for about three years,

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sitting through several seasons, freezes and
lots of heat. And I know when

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I cut that thing open, I'm
gonna cut it in the middle like a

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keg and turn it into a couple
of planters, be nice stainless steel planters.

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Right. So, anyway, when
I open that thing up, it's

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gonna stink and it's gonna have some
rotten beer in there. Would that be

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conducive to my compost pile or is
that going to hurt my compost pile because

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I need to play to hide that
stinky beer, and my neighbors are going

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to kick my You know what if
I just dump it in the street there?

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Okay, Well, Robert, I
want to congratulate you. You get

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an award. I've been answering gardening
questions for almost forty years and I've never

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had this one. So that's the
new Question of the Week award. Well,

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the other thing is I'm on my
way to the race is but we

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won't talk about that. I used
to get in trouble with Randy for telling

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him where I was headed in the
morning, so we'll leave it at that.

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So this is the first for me
too. But I really do I

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want to turn the stainless keg into
a couple of planters by doing the same

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thing we do with the cask.
But down at the beach house, I've

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had so much trouble keeping planters of
any kind because the sun and everything else

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tears them up. With the saltaires, I figured this stainless may last a

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little while, all right. Well, uh, as far as putting beer

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on compost, piles and things like
that. There's no problem with that at

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all. It'll be just fine.
I mean, it's it's not going to

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hurt anything. You know, the
microbes may wake up with a headache the

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next morning, but other than that, I don't see a negative to it.

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You know, when you talk about
it being all yucky and stinky,

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I'm kind of curious if that'll be
the case when you open it up.

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But I guess I'm trying to sit
here and think of what could go wrong

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over time with beer. I wouldn't
worry about it. I would just use

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it, Okay. I don't make
the poletry SAGGI. I don't know what

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the beer turns into after it's been
there that long. But we opened up

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a pony keg some years back and
split it the same way, and it

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was rank and it had only been
in there for a month or two.

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Okay, But I well, I
would use it. I would use it

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sparingly. You know. I wouldn't
just inundate the pile with it. But

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I think it ought to be.
Okay. Well that's my that's me shooting

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from the hell because trust me,
there's no research on this. Well,

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i'll tell you what, I'll give
you some feedback. If it hurts my

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compost, I'll let you know.
And if everything that comes out of there

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in the next few months is uh
is doing great, then I'll let you

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know. On to well what I
need Yeah, yeah, what I need

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you to do though, is in
the future. Uh. Don't don't let

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beer go unconsumed like that. Come
on, man, it was that come

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from my backyard. But anyway,
I was helping to clean out and he

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goes, you know, I forgot
that was back there. I said,

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well, let me have it.
I got to use for it. Anyway,

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you have, Thanks you too,
Thanks a lot. Oh boy,

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you never know, you never know
when the phone rings. Uh. Sometimes

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I ought to do a show and
just go through all of the questions that

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you just wouldn't expect that I've had
over the years, but never that one.

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So no word to Robert on that
ACE Hardware Stores or your go to

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place, they are they what do
you need? Well, right now,

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you need fertilizer for your lawn.
You need things to control weeds for your

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lawn or for your flower bed.
You need things that are going to control

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insects or diseases. ACE has all
of that fire ants. We are entering

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big time fire ants season. Start
with a bait and ACE has a number

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of baits. You have a nice
selection of baits. It's used at a

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very low rate. Any that escaped
out give it a couple of weeks and

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just look. And any that escaped
the bait then hit them with individual mound

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treatment and ACE has a wide variety
of those as well. Mosquito season is

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here. Boy. I was out
in the garden the other day working on

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pulling some things out and the mosquitoes
were all over me and I just not

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noticed them that much. Well,
they got mosquito repellent, and they've got

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things to control mosquitos, like the
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to help kill them. Ace Hardware
forty stores in the area. Go to

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Acehardware dot com and find the store
locator and you'll see the stores that are

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close to you. We're going to
go to southeaston now and talk to park

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Or Hello Parker, good morning,
Skip Now are you sir? I'm well,

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thank you. A beautiful weekend to
get out and enjoy the outdoors.

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Coming up it is. He got
a quick question for you. I was

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raised to mow the yard directionally up
and down or you know, one direction

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up and back versus. I've seen
many people cutting alowns in the square technique,

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which the is there a proper way? And then of course the other

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question is about, uh, what
do I spray the mowers with to make

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sure that their disease free underneath?
There's no spray to put on a mower

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and no real need to do that
that Okay, okay, some of our

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diseases, gray leaf spot, brown
patch and things, those are those are

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rather you bick with us, and
so you're not like causing it to come

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in a different areas. They're they're
waiting for the right conditions. So okay,

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I would It's always a good idea
to clean out your more the old

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clippings and things like that, but
uh, don't don't worry about spraying them.

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As far as both both of my
neighbors have landscapers coming in and I

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know, you know, from different
yards they're bringing. You know, is

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it possible to bring different diseases?
Well, I guess technically if there were

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some grass blades stuck up underneath there
the hed gray leaf spot, for example,

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just pick one disease you could then
be bringing that in. But it's

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it's a spore. It's going to
be floating on the air, So okay

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about that. It's not a bad
idea though, to ask them to just

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clear glow that out. They may
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would just be the only thing I
would think. Yeah, they're on both

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sides of me, so uh,
they both the landscape is okay, Well,

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I would directs a cross hatch.
You can do that. The most

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beautiful lawns you see are a cross
mode, you know, the golf courses

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and things like that, golf course
screens and whatnot. But if you don't

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do that, you'll still have a
beautiful lawn, so that there's no harm.

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I've always done it that way,
or that's how my father taught me,

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but now you know, it's you. I see different different ways of

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doing it. So just making sure
that I'm not creating a monster there.

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All right, thank you for the
call. Park appreciate that. Yeah,

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that's an interesting question. Nelson's has
created a fertilizer that is called slow and

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Easy. Slow with the letter in
and easy. What is slow and easy?

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It is a fertilizer that the chemistry
of the fertilizer is designed to be

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very long lasting and gradually feed your
lawn over time. That is how lawns

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take up nutrients a little bit each
day, and so with Slow and Easy,

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even if you put quite a bit
on, you know that for months

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you're going to have that fertilizer releasing
into your soil the nutrients, especially the

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nitrogen. That's the primary slow release
part. It also contains sulfur to help

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balance the sole pH when your lawn
has these yellowish spots and they may come

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and go, that's a lack of
sulfur. Now it's in this Slow and

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Easy as well. It's a blue
bag from turf Star and it also,

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by the way, the bag is
forty pounds and it covers five thousand square

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feet. When you promote slow even
growth, you help create a deeper riot

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system in your lawn along with regular
mowing, and that helps reduce water consumption

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or less say, makes it more
drought resilient. That slow even growth is

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very important and Slow and Easy does
just that. From Nelson. Slow and

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Easy it's a twenty two two ten
fertilizer and that twenty two is going to

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be gradually released over months. It's
a good way to go about it.

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

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

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four it. There is still time
to get shrubs and trees planted. There

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is, and that includes roses.
By the way, if you would love

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to have beautiful roses, you get
one planted. Now you're gonna get some

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blooms on it as we go through
summer, but especially in the fall,

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the show will be outstanding, and
then of course next spring it'll be right

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back again. RCW Nursery is really
the leader in roses. The last time

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I did a count of the of
the page at RCW Nursery, I think

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there are two hundred and thirty six
roses that they carry. Now, things

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come and go, supply comes and
goes, customers come in and clean them

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out. So I'm not saying on
hand at any given time there's every rose

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they carry, But just give them
a call because RCWS get it, got

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it Nursery? What does that mean? That means that they don't have it,

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they'll get it for you if they
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that is one of the nice things. At RCW Nursery. They grow their

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own trees up in Williamson Tree Farm
up there in Plannersville area, so they

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have the best culls of ours for
growing in this area. The website is

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RCW Nurseries dot com. That's the
garden center. That is where Belty eight

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comes into Tomball Parkway right there.
Super easy to get to RCW Nurseries.

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I was redoing some landscape better.
Actually, I'm getting ready to redoce some

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landscape beds where I had to put
in some drainage and other things and wanted

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to get all those you know,
fixed up and looking good. Well,

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it is very important, you know, to get that soil right. And

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the folks at Nature's Way they know
how to make soil. John Ferguson's been

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making soil for many years now.
When you think about things like rose mix,

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the rose bed mix, rose soil. If you think about things like

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leaf mold composts, you know that
started. They're at Nature's way, uh

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a Nature's way. If you want
to get the fine textured compost for top

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dressing your lawn, they can get
it. And now's a good time to

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put it out. If you're doing
it yourself or Nature's Way Resources can get

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you set up on just that.
Their phone number is nine three six three

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two one sixty nine ninety. Now
when you go out there, you can

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go out there with a trailer and
pick up bulk or with with your car

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pick up bags if you want to
do it that way. Check out the

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plants. They have a very nice
two acre nursery and garden center. They

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got the fruit trees, native perennials, and many many other things at Nature's

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Way. We're going to take a
break and hand the mic over to Nikki

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for the news and here, well, here we go. Welcome back to

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guard Line. Good to have you
with us today. Earlier I was talking

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about that now is the time to
get those trees planted before the heat of

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summer arrives. The sooner you get
them in, the more time they have

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to begin establishing that root system.
You know, when you put the tree

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on the ground, it's coming out
of the container and it's basically a cylinder

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of roots and you put it in
the ground and that's where the roots still

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are. Of course, right after
planting, it takes time for those roots

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to move out into the surrounding soil. So Initially, you're watering pretty much

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where you were watering when it was
in the container, that cylinder of roots

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and a little beyond that. And
it's important that it never dries out and

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also doesn't stay soggy wet an underground
bathtub roots submerged in that. Very few

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species can tolerate that, so do
that. The other thing to think about

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is that cylinder doesn't have the roots
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So you need to do something to
stabilize the tree. Now, traditionally people

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have used, you know, the
three iron posts with wire rods or wire

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cable sticking out in all directions.
That's extra expense, it's extra trouble you

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trip over them. It just isn't
It isn't necessary anymore. We have a

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product called three sixty Tree Stabilizer.
It's a stiff plastic arm that is very

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strong. It grabs a hold of
a post and it grabs a hold of

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the tree and it makes sure that
it doesn't move. Now, you can

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put two of those on, one
from let's say north south and one from

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east west, and that way,
no matter which way the wind blows,

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you're going to have a very very
stable tree. Tree stabilizers are widely available

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here. I mean if you're done
out in Alvin or Hayes Hidden Gardens or

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Southwest Fertilizer in Houston plants for all
seasons up at RCW Nurses and be Cannon's

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down Central and Arbigate up and Tumble. It's easy to get them. You

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just need to know that you want
to stabilize that tree a little bit so

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that the roots can get established well
and the tree doesn't end up now being

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slanted. And you've seen trees like
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They're leaning and they finally establish,
but then you have a leaning tree.

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So anyway, three sixty tree stabilizer
will do just that. The nice thing

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that I like, and you need
to remember, is the strap that goes

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around the tree. Keep it a
little on the loose side because you want

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the tree to move a little bit. That kind of movement helps strengthen the

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trunk, so don't just honker it
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like a rocket. That is true. If you would like a way to

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have your beds maintained through the year
professionally where they're always looking good, you

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ought to call the Pierscape spokes.
Pierscapes has a quarterly maintenance deal. So

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you know, you sign up for
this and they're going to come in.

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They're going to molt your beds or
pull the weeds, and then most they're

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going to provide seasonal color. They're
different. You know, you can do

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color change twice a year or up
to three or four times a year.

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I mean you can do that.
They're going to fertilize. They're going to

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trim anything that needs trimmed, and
then inspect the irrigation system make sure it's

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working properly, just to check.
And that is the Peerscape spokes. Now,

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I know when you think Piercescapes,
you're thinking about constructing landscapes and hard

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escapes and providing drainage solutions to wet
areas and irrigation and paths and lighting and

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everything like that. Well, Pierscapes
also will do that quarterly maintenance. And

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I encourage you to call them.
Listen a quality landscaper. Peerscapes. They

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stay busy and call. Don't delay, go ahead and call and get on

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the board so that they can sign
you up. Depending on what you need

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done, they'll give you a date
where they'll try to get out there and

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just go to the website peerscapes dot
com or three, excuse me, here's

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the phone number two eight one three
seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three

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seven five zero six zero for pierscapes
in the yard. This past week I

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was doing a little bit of trimming
on a y text that I have at

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the house, and it was by
text doesn't know what it wants to be.

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I think of it as a tree, but it has a unique growth

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habit. It's kind of difficult to
make it into a tree form, although

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you can typically a multi stem tree
is maybe a better way to describe it.

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Or you can just prune the heck
of it a lot and have a

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giant bush. I like them because
they bloom and the summertime. But I

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noticed in the trimming and getting all
the stuff cleared out that the new growth,

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of course, had already begun.
Yes, I should have done the

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printing a lot before, but I
just noticed that thing of you know,

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how do you shape a bye tex? It's kind of up to year.

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It's like any plant, what do
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you do. I'm going to go
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talk to Michael. Hello Michael,
good morning, Skip. How are you

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this morning? I'm well, sir, so am I listen. I've got

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a problem, and I know you're
the guy answered these questions for me.

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It's a three I guess you say
a three point question. I have had

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a neighbor move in behind Neil next
to me, and they let the yard

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go crazy. I've been on the
schedule now for the last five years,

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had no problem with my Saint Augustine. But now all of a sudden,

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I've got a huge bermuda infestation which
has really taken over about forty feet of

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my Saint Augustine. Here's my question. I want to take that whole section

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out and replace it with Saint Augustine. What I need to know is what

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is the best way to just to
rid the whole area of the bermuda.

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Well, the best way, I
mean hand digging, is the non sprayway,

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which was ridiculously unpractical for your area
there. The best way would be

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to spray it with a product that
has a grass killer or a vegetation killer

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in it, like Life Essay.
It would be the round up version.

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The grass version. There's a couple
of different chemicals that will do that.

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One of them begins with the boys
name Seth set H. That's the ingredient.

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I think the glass would work better
on it. What you're going to

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find is you're gonna spray it according
to the label, and then you're going

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to wait a while and maybe even
you know, mix up the soil a

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little bit, like you're preparing for
grass planting. Wait a while because you

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won't get it all and you want
to hit it again, and you may

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even wait a little longer and do
it a third time. After a couple

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of weeks. Once we get warm
weather, it's going to be popping out

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of the ground and you want to
eradicate it. Otherwise you're just it's a

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time bomb waiting to reinfest. Okay, so what is the name of the

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product that you're suggesting? Well,
well, it round up is the brand.

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Everybody knows. Lifeless say is the
product. But it kills anything.

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It's green that you spray it on
pretty much, and it moves down and

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it does a good job of getting
down in the roots and the rhizomes underground.

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Okay, after you said I should
wait, what maybe a week or

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so or how much longer. Well, you want to wait until it pops

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back. And I would watch it
a couple of weeks really and see if

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you miss some they'll probably start to
stick their head up. And just be

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patient, because again, you don't
want to be doing this again three years

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from now. What can I prime
the soil where to help speed up the

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the fertility and the ability to put
that Saint Augustine back out? Uh?

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Well, you could you could do
a soil test and find out what's needed

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all across your lawn, or you
could just you could put a light dose

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of a lawn fertilizer down if you're
gonna mix it in really well, uh

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in the soil. If you get
any low spots or need to bring in

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fill soil, you know, do
that also at that time. And then

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when you put your new Saint Augustine
down, you're gonna water it in.

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And I would wait about two weeks
before I even think about fertilizing. It

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could be a little longer even if
you want so so nothing like Medina has

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you know, Uh so I'll fertilize
or anything interm in between. Just you

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could, you know, you could
that has to go for lawn is a

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hose in application and give the Saint
Augustine a week maybe to just right early

407
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on. All that grass needs is
a constant supply of water so you can

408
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get some roots in the ground.
Uh. And at that point you could

409
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do a hash to grow and it's
not going to burn it or anything like

410
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that. Hey, Michael, I've
got to run. If you have a

411
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follow up, you're welcome to stick
around. We're going to head off to

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a break here. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

413
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eight seventy four. Welcome back to
guard Line. Glad you're listening with us.

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Boy. The glow is starting in
the eastern sky. Is that sun

415
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is getting ready to make its appearance
today on what's going to be a wonderful

416
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day for getting outside and getting some
things done. Are you at the stage

417
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where you're doing quick clean up or
are you at the stage where you're doing

418
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planting. You're ready to go,
You're ready to put things in wherever you

419
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:42.759
are in the process. Today is
a good day for getting that done,

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as well as for going out and
shopping for the things that you need.

421
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For those of you down in the
Richmond area, Richmond Rosenberg, that whole

422
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.480
area of sugar Land in Chenny Garden's
Garden Center. They are on the Katie

423
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Folscher side of Richmond and it's on
FM fifty nine. That's where it's located.

424
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If you haven't been there, you
really need to go. It is

425
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quite the showplace and Chandy Gardens has
everything that you could possibly need right now.

426
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.200
They have a supply of some of
the string house plants like string of

427
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.240
turtles and string of hearts, and
the hoya that's called the heart shape heart

428
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.200
heart hoya. Yep, there,
it just looks like a heart each of

429
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the leaves. They have, of
course, things for pollinating plants. They've

430
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.920
got an unbelievable selection of pottery,
just gorgeous pottery that you'll find there.

431
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:36.400
So you're gonna find everything there,
you really are. I mean, it's

432
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still time to get your boog and
vas, your mandavillas. They have a

433
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.680
beautiful stock of those for seasonal color
that just never never gets too hot for

434
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.359
those things. In Chandi Gardens,
I would consider it one of those show

435
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.400
placed destinations that people come from all
over to go to. I love to

436
00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:57.799
go out there. Every time I
go out there, I see things I

437
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:04.279
didn't know they carried because they're always
growing and always changing with the seasons that

438
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we have. Monday through Saturday eight
to five, Sunday ten am to four

439
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:15.519
pm. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com
again they're on FM three fifty nine north

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00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:17.880
of Richmond, h If you would
like to give us a call, our

441
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:23.440
phone number is seven to one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

442
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:30.440
one three two one two five eight
seven four. What kind of questions do

443
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:36.480
you have? Do you perhaps struggling
to get your lawn in shape? Last

444
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.640
summer was brutal. I think lawns
are the number one question we get on

445
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:44.680
garden Line. I think that's an
easy first place when it comes to question

446
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:51.000
topics. Because last summer is so
hot and dry, lawns dyed of chinch

447
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:53.920
bugs and diseases and all that comes
in. You want to create the most

448
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.200
healthy lawn you can. And the
folks at Nitrofoss they've got something called super

449
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.599
turf. Now you've heard me talk
about it before. It's a silver bag

450
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:07.160
of Nitrofos Superturf nineteen four to ten. It's got half the nitrogen in that

451
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.559
slow release form that's what we want. We want a gradual release of nitrogen

452
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.680
over time. It also has four
percent iron to promote a nice uniform green

453
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:22.400
color for those yellow areas. Nitrofos
Superturf is one of those products from Nitrofoss

454
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:29.400
that is widely widely available. If
you go out to enchanted gardens in Richmond,

455
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:30.920
they're going to have it there.
If you go to the growers outlet

456
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:37.440
in Willis or RCW Nursery up on
where two forty nine comes into Beltway eight,

457
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:42.440
you're going to find your Nitrofoss Superturf
fertilizer at all those places. We're

458
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:45.759
going to now go up to Northwest
Houston and talk to Ed. Hello,

459
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:52.200
Ed morning, Sir Marning. Got
a real concern with some thirty year old

460
00:33:52.400 --> 00:34:00.440
boxwood beds that's on either side of
my entry in front of the house with

461
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.279
some other shrubs behind them between the
wall of the house and the boxwood rope.

462
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:13.320
Last weekend I was cutting them back
and discovered within a lot of the

463
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:21.559
inner growth was dying out. Got
really concerned. Ran up to one of

464
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:28.599
the well known nurseries, Lady Advisement. She thinks that it's boxwood blight.

465
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:35.000
Okay, and that's scary, she
said, because not much you can do

466
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:37.719
for it. Can you give me
any advice? Okay, when you looked

467
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.599
at the shrubs before you got up
close and saw what you saw, did

468
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:47.199
they look uniformly green all the way
across? Oh? They were very healthy

469
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:52.760
because they had a very good growth
that I had not trimmed back for the

470
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.960
spring yet. And when I started
trimming that back, that's when this stuff

471
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.320
popped up on me. Yeah.
I can't diagnose a disease based on just

472
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:07.280
a conversation, but I would put
about eighty five percent, maybe ninety percent,

473
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.880
that what you're seeing is the interior
shaded branches dying out and not boxwood

474
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.800
blake, because boxwood blake you would
have sections of branches that are dying.

475
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.320
So you stand back at the road
and you can see the big brown sections

476
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:27.159
any shrub, any shrub that sheared. Shearing makes more and more density once

477
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.840
you get past that outer layer of
leaves, it's all twigs and brown inside

478
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.360
because there's no light for the leaves
to grow in there. So I think

479
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.679
that I think that's what you're looking
at. Well, she suggested that i'd

480
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:43.880
look for a product called Subdue.
Yes, how I die, She said

481
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.840
it was. I couldn't find it. Went to Carnelians and they gave me

482
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:55.119
something called moder Ray Garden foss EHOs
okay, and they said put that on

483
00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.239
the roots because it's a roof thing
to treat. What's your suggest and not

484
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.119
do? If anything? Well,
if you got it, you can certainly

485
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:08.159
use it. Follow the label very
carefully. Yeah, boxwoods. There's a

486
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:14.000
number of things that can happen to
them, from nematodes to cold damage,

487
00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:17.000
believe it or not at times,
to the blights like you're talking about.

488
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:21.280
Uh So, if you got the
product, give it a shot, just

489
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.239
as an extra insurance measure. But
I think you're going to be okay here,

490
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.920
okay, And I use all microlife
products for Ferdi lives. Is it

491
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.920
okay to fertilize after I put that
down because I'm getting ready to do yard

492
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:39.519
work today. Yes, you can
fertilize anything you want right now. Yep,

493
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:45.559
that's okay, fair enough? All
right? Any suggestions on spraying it

494
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:52.000
with as far as the foliage goes, No, I wouldn't. I don't

495
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.159
think there is anything that you need
to spray for. I got you,

496
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:01.039
okay, good luck, Thank you
right. I hope my crystal ball is

497
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:06.320
right on that. I'm ninety percent
sure it is. I may be called

498
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.400
in you for a consult. If
it doesn't work all right, well I

499
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:13.800
can also show up and do last
rites. So but that's a fee.

500
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:19.760
I'm hey, thanks man, thank
you, by bye. We love feed

501
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.519
stores here on garden Line, and
Spring Creek Feed is up in Magnolia.

502
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.440
It's on FM twenty nine seventy eight. If you've been out there. It's

503
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:31.840
a big thoroughfare through there, just
minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to forty

504
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:37.320
nine. Sprint Creek Feed stocks the
fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardline.

505
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.800
They've stock pest and disease and weed
management products. Of course, they

506
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.119
have high quality feed for your pets
and for your other animals. But I

507
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.880
just find it. I always like
to go in because it makes feel good

508
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.159
to be greeted by friendly and courteous
staff, and they really have that at

509
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.559
Spring Creek Feed. By the way, they also have things for ponds.

510
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.239
If you need to put product in
your ponds for various like weeds, they've

511
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:05.880
got that covered too. They just
you know, they make sure and stay

512
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.480
on top of things, and they
even will do special ordering if you need

513
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.199
something they don't have in stock,
and they have a delivery service too.

514
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:19.679
You can ask them about Spring Creek
Feed. They're located in Magnolia on FM

515
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:27.639
twenty nine seventy eight eight. They
expanded their their garden product area and they

516
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.280
even added some plants and things in
this year. I was visiting with them

517
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.599
a while back and they were telling
me about all the plans and I was

518
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.000
seeing it too in the store there. Well, we're about to take a

519
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.280
break here for the top of the
hour. First hour is in the books.

520
00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:47.719
Here on garden Line, I am
going to be at Let's See a

521
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:53.599
Chanted Forest Enchanted Forest today from eleven
thirty to one thirty. So when garden

522
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.559
Line's over, I'm heading that way. I hope you'll come out to see

523
00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.400
me. We're going to be giving
away a number of by Medina, like

524
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.239
the hast Grow six twelve six that
I talk about for transplanting, the has

525
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.280
to Grow on We were just had
a conversation about that a minute ago.

526
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:13.280
Has to Grow super Grow sixteen oh
two. That is a brand new fertilizer.

527
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:16.320
It is. It's really cool.
I'll be I'm going to be talking

528
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:21.719
about that a little bit later.
Medina plus the liquid fish blend and a

529
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.639
lot of little sample bottles of various
things, and just come out all those

530
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:29.480
giveaways. I'll be answering your gardening
questions from eleven thirty to one thirty.

531
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Add Enchanted for Us en Richmond,
Enchanted Forest in Richmond if you have not

532
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:40.440
been out there before. The location
is FM twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond,

533
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:45.920
Texas. While you're there, you're
going to see all of the reasons

534
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.920
why I brag about Enchanted for Us
every weekend on garden Line. I hope

535
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.159
you can make it out there today. We'll be right back to answer your

536
00:39:53.199 --> 00:40:00.159
gardening question. KATRH Garden Line.
It's not necessarily endorse any of the products

537
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:07.119
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line

538
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:23.400
with Skip Rictor. It's crazy.
Just watch him as well us so many

539
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:37.800
things again, not a sad Welcome
back to guarden Line. Good to have

540
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.159
you with us today. If you'd
like to give us a call, that's

541
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:42.639
why we're here. By the way, you'd like to give us a call,

542
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:46.280
it is seven one three two one
two k t r H. Easy

543
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:50.800
to get a hold of us.
We will talk about the things you're interested

544
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.800
in talking about, like your lawns
and trees and shrubs and herbs. And

545
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:59.440
I don't know what what is of
interest to you, what piques your interest?

546
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.320
What issues or you haven't in your
lawn? I bet there are some.

547
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.679
It is really common to have a
lawn that has issues in it,

548
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:13.000
because nature has a way sometimes of
not like in the idea that we want

549
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.920
to have turf. I don't know
why it feels that way. Lawn is

550
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:23.039
a contributor to a cooler environment around
your house, like a actually turf.

551
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:32.639
The amount of bt us of heat
that turf absorbs solar radiation is amazing significantly.

552
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.920
For example, in large cities,
we have what we call a heat

553
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:44.159
island effect. That's all the concrete
basically and asphalt and everything else that's absorbing

554
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:47.159
and reflecting heat everywhere, just hotter
in the city than it is outside the

555
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.880
city. Turf around a home is
part of that. Plant canopy tree canopies

556
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.679
are important in the same kind of
way. You want to take care of

557
00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.400
your turf. You want to keep
it well fed. But think of feeding

558
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.679
your turf not just as one thing
you do, but it's something you do

559
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.639
building the soil over time. Microlife
is designed for that kind of thing.

560
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.719
They're a green bag. That's the
six to four for microlife. That bag

561
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.920
is the standard for your lawn fertilizing
in an organic type system. They have

562
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.440
designed it that way. It's loaded
with microbes, micro all kinds of microbes

563
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.840
that interact with your soil roots to
create that environment. Did you know that

564
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:35.199
if you were to take all the
microbes out of the soil, plants would

565
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:40.159
have an extremely difficult, maybe impossible
time of surviving in many cases because they

566
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:45.360
do so many things for the plants. Microbes make the world. They run

567
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.320
the world. They really do.
They are in charge. Microlife also has

568
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.800
a humans plus that's a purple bag
and that is loaded with microbial content.

569
00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.840
But what is humates. Well,
think of a pile of leaves and then

570
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:05.400
you decompose them and you have compost. Think of compost and it continues to

571
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:08.840
decompose away and you have humus.
That's kind of the process. So humous

572
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:15.360
is a substance that is excellent for
building your soil structure, for creating a

573
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.719
healthier soil environment. The aeration,
the drainage, all the things that we

574
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.519
want we build over time by the
way we care for our ones, and

575
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:29.480
microlife folks have designed a number of
products for just that purpose. If you

576
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:31.559
want to find out more like where
to get them, well, go to

577
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:37.480
Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlifefertilizer dot com
and you'll find there a list of the

578
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:44.039
places where you can get Microlife.
I was talking a minute ago about my

579
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:50.519
flower beds and starting to get those
revamped now that the turf project is behind

580
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:53.599
me, and boy, the turf
project eight about three weeks because I had

581
00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:58.280
to do so many things to get
ready for the turf I have. The

582
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:02.440
home we moved into is blast I
think, with three cypress trees. I

583
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:07.119
love cypress trees, but these trees
in the soil we have, which is

584
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.079
not well drained. The soil itself, we'll send up knees everywhere, and

585
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.599
that's my lawnmower targets. And instead
of playing whack a mole, I just

586
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:20.000
mow the heads off the moles when
they pop up, and that's the cypress

587
00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.679
tree. I got two and a
half wheel barrows of cypress knees just to

588
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:25.719
get them out of the area so
that I could have a head start at

589
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:30.280
least on getting that lawn in and
growing. There are a lot of other

590
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.000
activities, but now it's onto the
flower beds and I'm excited about that part.

591
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.480
We're also doing containers. We just
planted some My wife planted some klaliies

592
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:44.159
and a container a little bit back
ago, and we've got other containers that

593
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:46.760
are waiting for me to get to
them to get things planted. Jungle Land

594
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:52.639
distributed by Nitrophoss. Jungle Land is
a quality soil mix that drains well and

595
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:57.039
it also holds moisture. So it
doesn't hold excess moisture, but it holds

596
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:01.199
moisture. It is the kind of
mix that you just add your fertilizer to

597
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:07.800
and you're going to have a success
with your plants. Don't cut corners on

598
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:12.719
cheap, low budget mixes. Make
sure that you go with jungle Land for

599
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:16.199
your outdoor containers. There's also an
indoor version called jungle Land water Saving Potting

600
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.199
soil. I'll talk about that in
another time. Well, you can get

601
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.519
jungle Land at a lot of different
places. For example, OspA ace up

602
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:28.800
in the Woodlands. Container carries the
jungle Land plants for all seasons on two

603
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.880
forty nine carries it in, so
does plants and things up in Brunham.

604
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.679
Well, I'm going to quit talking
for just a moment here and we're going

605
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to go up to Spring Branch and
talk to Hurda. Hey it turn off

606
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.679
the radio and let's figure out what
we can do for today. Thank you,

607
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:53.760
Thank you for being there for Kip. I have my thea are putting

608
00:45:53.840 --> 00:46:02.159
on new leaves, but they have
a few yellow leaves. Is that lack

609
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:09.280
of iron? If you look at
an azalea branch, if the yellowing is

610
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:14.079
on the end of the branch,
those leaves that are brand new coming out,

611
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:17.639
that's the worst yellowing there. That's
iron. If you go back the

612
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.239
branch and it's the oldest leaves on
the branch that are turning yellow, that's

613
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.480
not It could be a lack of
nitrogen, but it also could just be

614
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.440
that they're getting old, they're getting
shaded more back in there, and they're

615
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:36.719
falling off. So do you happen
to know which it is? I think

616
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.679
it's the new leaves. Okay,
Well, what you need to do is

617
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:45.440
you need to get a fertilizer that
is for acid loving plants like azilias.

618
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:51.519
Camellias and blueberries for example. Oh
yes, okay, and fertilized. Start

619
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.519
fertilizing with that. You might want
to put a kelated iron product on.

620
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.800
And there's some products I know.
Nitrophoss has one in a are the keylated

621
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:07.400
iron that you can put down.
And what keylated means is it's like it's

622
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.119
got a bodyguard around a claw.
Like you grab a tennis ball with your

623
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:15.679
hand. Your hand is your hand
is the keylated. The tennis ball is

624
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.599
the iron that your hand is the
kelation that doesn't let the source steal it

625
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.480
away, but lets the roots have
it. It just gives it more time

626
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:28.360
to get in the roots. All
right, all right, and let's see,

627
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:35.440
Uh I had a mallow zerr in
too small a pot and it also

628
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:40.679
had a little one of those saucers
at the bottom, okay part and it

629
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:50.199
was just having too much water okay, but transported it and the roots were

630
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.960
going in a circle. I kind
of by hand loosened them. Yeah,

631
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.719
hey, I heard. I'm sorry
to interrupt you, but I'm going to

632
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:00.760
need to go to a break.
Can you tell me what your basic question

633
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:05.440
is on that is on that aloe? Hey? Yes, yes, sir,

634
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.280
thank you, Okay, thank you
for the call. I appreciate that

635
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:13.440
very much. We're going to have
to go to our break today and I'll

636
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.559
be right back. Welcome back to
the garden line. The sky is glowing

637
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.599
with the promise of some sunshine here
just a little bit, and today's the

638
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:24.199
day you got to get out and
get some things done in the lawn and

639
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:30.079
garden. You're not going to find
better weather than we got today. Trees.

640
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:31.800
Let's talk about trees. I said
turf is the number one thing that

641
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:37.199
makes the phone ring. Trees are
number two. Affordable tree service. Martin

642
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:42.960
Spoon Moore and his wife, they
have been doing treecare for a long long

643
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:45.559
time here in the Houston area,
over thirty years. They know what they're

644
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:49.400
doing, they know how to do
it right. And if you have any

645
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.519
tree care that is needed, maybe
you need to do some pruning because you

646
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:57.039
know storm season will come here and
we're gonna have to be dealing with that.

647
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.679
Maybe you need some early training of
your trees to get him off to

648
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:04.360
a good start. Maybe you need
to do something around the tree, like

649
00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:08.119
trenching, and you need Martin In
there to advise you on whether or not

650
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:12.800
to do it. Some alternative options
and how to care for your trees.

651
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.519
He does all that seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three

652
00:49:16.840 --> 00:49:21.880
seven one three, six nine twenty
six sixty three. He'll do deep root

653
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.800
feeding for your trees as well.
Pretty much anything you need have him come

654
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.320
out to do a consultation, he'll
come out and he'll do that. Martin

655
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:35.159
has the knowledge, he understands what
he's doing. By the way, another

656
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:40.000
way you can reach out to them
is afftree Service dot com two fs Afftree

657
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.800
Service dot com. Hurder. Let's
see if we can wrap this alo question

658
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.960
up. So you were it was
in a pot and kind of water logged,

659
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:54.400
and where do we go from here? World? The US? It

660
00:49:54.599 --> 00:50:01.000
was real pale green, but it's
gotten more color now, but it has

661
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:07.039
a couple of tips that light brown. Do I just wait longer? Yeah,

662
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:12.039
just wait longer. There's nothing you
can do to fix that, and

663
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.199
it'll just keep keep growing, especially
if you give a little more space.

664
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.880
I got to run to another collar
here, but thank you very much for

665
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.280
that call. We're going to go
now out to Girardo and Meadows Place.

666
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:28.960
Hello, Girardo, Hey Skipiting,
good morning to you. A question I

667
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:37.000
have I bought Dorset golden apple tree
last year, and I was actually surprised

668
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.599
that came in the summer gallon pot
and it started the fruit and so forth.

669
00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:43.639
I cut all the fruit off.
It probably produced like about six seven

670
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:45.880
apples. I cut it off.
I put it in, put it in

671
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:50.280
the ground, actually a redbed,
raised bed, put it in the ground.

672
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:55.159
And this year it's producing pretty much. I come in like twenty five

673
00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.639
apples. My question is still a
couple of questions. How old are the

674
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:07.400
trees will lose you when you buy
them from a nursery, and the should

675
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:12.000
I actually cut off the fruit?
Yeah, okay. Age varies depends on

676
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:15.639
the nursery you buy them from and
whether they whether they Some nurseries will grow

677
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:19.880
their own things. Some nurseries will
buy the men. Usually fruit trees are

678
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:24.000
purchased in uh and so I can't
say exactly how old they are. But

679
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:28.559
when you graft a fruit tree,
the graft wood you put on it,

680
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:32.119
or the bud wood you put on
it is already mature. And so that's

681
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:37.760
why with fruit sometimes we get a
little bit earlier production. If you could

682
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.639
pull most of those off, I
would like to tell you in an ideal

683
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:43.119
world. Pull them all off and
give the tree another year to grow.

684
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.440
Pull most of them off, maybe
leave yourself, you know, five or

685
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.719
so apples on it so you can
enjoy those, and it just will put

686
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:53.440
all that energy that went into fruit, it'll put them put it into branches

687
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:58.000
and growing bigger. So you can
hang a lot of apples next year on

688
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.440
those trees. But anyway, that
that's for your choice to do. I

689
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:06.920
can't remember the second half of your
question. What was that now you basically

690
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:09.199
answered it. I wondered I was
going to cut them all off, and

691
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:14.519
I'll do suggestion. I was thinking
in my head, like, okay,

692
00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:19.119
let me cut off most of them
except for a few. Yeah. You

693
00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:21.519
know, if you read the books, it says you got to cut them

694
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:25.599
all off for two or three two
years at least. But I understand you're

695
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.960
looking at potential taste. But cut
them off soon because the more time and

696
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:36.320
energy that goes into producing those twenty
five apples, the less growth you're going

697
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.559
to get out of that tree as
a result. So cut them off.

698
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:43.039
Okay, appreciate it, Thank you
so much. Good have a good morning.

699
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.639
You bet, thanks a lot for
that call. I appreciate that.

700
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:52.440
Moss Nursery is down to Seabrook,
Texas, and it is a place where

701
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.199
I don't know, it's almost like
going to the park or going to a

702
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.719
museum. I mean, they've got
artifacts. The gym brings in from all

703
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:06.199
over the world. It's really cool. If you want to add a tropical

704
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:09.119
look, a tropical field to your
garden, for example, well what about

705
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.280
some palms. Moss probably has eight
to ten kinds of palms or so.

706
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.119
And the bay it take home size, you know, like the two to

707
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:22.880
eight foot range where it's still manageable. Of course, they have hibiscus and

708
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.400
bougainvillia. They always have that other
tropical foliage. Oh my gosh, the

709
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:32.199
leaves of tropicals, elephant ear plants, ten to twelve different kinds of elephant

710
00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:36.400
ear. Did you know there were
that many bananas, five to six frities

711
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:38.239
bananas that he's got. And then
the bird of paarad ice I'm talking about

712
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:45.000
that orange and blue flower version and
ligularia that's those big, old, giant

713
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:47.440
above ground lily pads, if you
will. They sort of look like big

714
00:53:47.519 --> 00:53:52.400
lily pads, gingers and philodendron.
Listen, Moss isn't just another garden Center.

715
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:59.639
It's a seventy year old, family
operated eight acre source for everything that

716
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:04.079
you need, and I really need
everything that you might need. There on

717
00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:07.760
Toddville Road down there in Seabrook.
You can go to the website Moss m

718
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:12.880
a a s nursery dot com.
We're going to go now to Martin in

719
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:22.159
Sugarland. Hello Martin, there we
go. How can I help today?

720
00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:25.280
Hey? I was I was going
to put out some high yield Uh.

721
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:34.079
I don't know if you could talk
on get cut out there. I heard

722
00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:37.079
the word high yield and nothing after
that. Yeah, I was. I

723
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:42.639
was wanting to mix. Uh.
I want to know the mix with the

724
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:50.480
high yield weed killer for Saint Augustine. And and they have another ingredient that

725
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:54.800
helps stick uh that it helps stick
the high yield on the lead on the

726
00:54:54.880 --> 00:55:00.599
weeds. I was wondering if you
knew what the mixture was. I don't.

727
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.559
You have to read the label for
the mixture, Okay, and that's

728
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.719
the right. And if you don't
have the label still for some reason,

729
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:14.159
then go online and do a yield
a high yield label search, you know,

730
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:16.840
and that that'll get you the mix
that you need. What you're talking

731
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:22.760
about on sticking. That's a surfactant
and you can buy you can buy surfactants.

732
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:28.199
You're done there in sugar Land,
you probably well, Uh, Southwest

733
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.480
Fertilizers just up the road from you
just a little bit. I would go

734
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.159
in there and tell Bob Bob,
I need a surfactant. Uh. And

735
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.760
he even has that heightened product on
the shelf where you could look at a

736
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.119
label from his product if you want
to do that. And where is that,

737
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:45.719
uh, Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer
is at the corner of Bissonet in

738
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:52.519
Renwick, Bissonet and Baguet in Southwest
Houston. So just head up, head

739
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:57.840
up eighty nine. Hey, can
you do that with a hose? Can

740
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.960
you apply it with a hose prayer? Not knowing the ingredient? What are

741
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:06.400
you going? Are you trying to
prevent weeds or kill existing weeds? Existing

742
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:12.719
weeds? Okay? You I wouldn't
generally do that with a hose in sprayer.

743
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.119
And the reason is all we got
to do is get the leaves a

744
00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:17.960
little wet. You start drenching things
and washing it down in the soil,

745
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.639
and you got other issues. If
you could do it spot. Yeah,

746
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:25.840
spot spot treatment will a little pump
up. All right, that's good,

747
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:29.559
Dan. I appreciate your help.
All right, Martin, thank you appreciate

748
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:36.639
that call. We love feedstorce here
on Garden Line, and one of my

749
00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:40.239
favorite stores is Grimes County Feeding Farm
up in Carlos, Texas. I love

750
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:45.119
driving out to the Carlos, Texas
area. I just think of that as

751
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:47.480
a God's country, just beautiful out
there. So all of you that are

752
00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:52.079
listeners of Garden Line that live in
maybe king Oaks or Murewood Subdivision, or

753
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:58.000
in communities like Curtain and Iola and
Reliance, Romees, Prairie, Shiro,

754
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:02.039
Beat Eyes, Richard's and all those
communities out there, this is your hometown

755
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:06.239
feed store, even up in the
Brian College Station area. It is not

756
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:10.559
a far drive out Highway thirty to
Carlos, Texas and Grimes County Feed They're

757
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:16.880
two miles west of two forty four. The Roy family has owned and operated

758
00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:22.320
this since the beginning, and they
just treat you like family. And they're

759
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:29.079
active in the community. And we're
talking about everything from past law enforcement careers

760
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.320
and fire careers to you name it. They are active in their community and

761
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:37.559
they carry all the fertilizers I'll talk
about here on garden line and things to

762
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.519
control paths, and they bring in
fish periodically. If you want to stalk

763
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:46.320
upon talk to them at Grimes County
Feet. I'm going to head out now

764
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:52.800
to sugar Land and talk to Susan. Hello, Susan sky Skip. I'm

765
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:55.760
on my way to the nursery.
But I have three questions quick. One,

766
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.880
I cannot find a setting for my
got spreader for sweet green fertilizer.

767
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:12.920
Okay, if you don't know how
much to put out on a fur laser

768
00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:16.760
like that, we generally put it
out a notch or two above halfway.

769
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:21.280
This is a push one with wheels, right, we're talking about ye.

770
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:27.840
Yes. So let's say that your
spreader had ten settings for just as an

771
00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:30.079
example, Well, five would be
in the middle, so maybe six.

772
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:35.559
I would probably do six on that. And if you had twenty notches,

773
00:58:35.679 --> 00:58:38.320
maybe eleven or twelve you'd put it
down. But if you think it's too

774
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:42.239
much, you can drop you can
drop it. But that's the best guess

775
00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.079
because there's a lot of particle sizes
and even the way the particles kind of

776
00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:51.280
sift down and move from different kinds
of things. It's hard to be exact,

777
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:55.679
and I know that's confusing, but
go for it really hard. I

778
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.119
can't find it setting on any of
the websites. That answers my question.

779
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:05.039
But the other thing I asked wanted
to ask is pill bugs. I've heard

780
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:09.559
a slugo and that I have ve
here. What's better to use? Dietamacious

781
00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:15.519
earth is not that great out there
in the environment where the dew and rainfall

782
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:20.880
and stuff like that get on it. Slugo and there's a slug o plus

783
00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:24.559
I think it's called plus. There's
something in addition to slugo on the name.

784
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:29.719
Those two products put out would be
a good approach. But remember pill

785
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:34.519
bugs are out there in the mult
They're primarily wanting to decompose, eat that

786
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:39.000
decomposing material, unless it's my yard
where they eat the bottoms off every strawberry

787
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.760
in my patch. Yes, yes, well that's my problem. My deal

788
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:49.719
is like no more. And then
the other quick question was a good bag

789
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:53.400
soil that I can put in my
raised beds to refresh them before I put

790
00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:59.440
my herbs in. I would get
heirloom soils, veggie and herb mix because

791
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:04.519
it's why available. It's can be
easy to find in your area. I

792
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:08.360
suspect it's a Southwest fertilizer because they
carry everything. Uh. And if you

793
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:14.119
go down to your two nurseries down
there in Richmond and Chennant Forest Enchanted Gardens,

794
01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:16.880
they're going to have it. Okay, okay, so heirloom Okay,

795
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:22.280
thank you Reggie and herb mix from
Heirlooms. Okay, yep, very good.

796
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:25.400
Thanks for your help, your show. Thank you. I appreciate that.

797
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:30.039
Well, it's good to talk to
you today. I am going to

798
01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:32.599
turn the mic over here to Nikki
for the news, but I just wanted

799
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.639
to add that, don't forget.
I'm going to be down at Enchanted Forest

800
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:43.000
Garden Center in Richmond, actually just
outside toward trigger Land. I'll be there

801
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:46.599
today from eleven thirty to one thirty
answering your gardening question. So I hope

802
01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:51.039
you can join us. All right, Nikki, it's all yours. Welcome

803
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:55.360
back to guard Line on what is
already a beautiful day to get out in

804
01:00:55.400 --> 01:01:00.199
the garden. Let's do something.
Hey, here's an idea. Have you

805
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:04.159
ever grown vegetables in a container?
You ought to try it. Container.

806
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:08.880
I'd go for one maybe five gallon
size for most of the smaller statued vegetables,

807
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:13.000
or it can always be larger.
Or if you're going to do tomatoes,

808
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.559
get up at least ten gallons and
you will have better success with that

809
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.639
as well. But it would be
a good thing to be out and about

810
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:23.199
doing today. Give it a try. It's fun to grow your own food.

811
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:28.199
It's just I don't know, it's
just rewarding in a deep, deep

812
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:34.000
sense. While Ago I was talking
about slugo, we were discussing dealing with

813
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:38.960
some pill bugs and things. I
want to clarify a little bit about about

814
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:44.920
that bait, Slugo. Standard Slugo
is an iron phosphate bait. That's the

815
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:49.800
ingredient iron phosphate. And what happens. It's a bait. So the slugs

816
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:52.880
and snails and saw bugs or whatever, they're going to eat that, and

817
01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:59.360
when they eat it, it causes
a terminal case of constipation. Okay,

818
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:04.880
I'm sorry. That is as nice
as I can put it, terminal case

819
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:07.239
of confimation, and it kills them
that way. Well, they've taken slugo

820
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:12.440
bait, the iron phosphate, and
they've added spinosid to it, which is

821
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:19.840
an organic and scticide, and it
gives additional control. So it's called Slugo

822
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:22.559
plus. That's the two. And
this isn't a commercial slugo. It's I'm

823
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:28.719
just telling you these two and how
they work well. When it's ingested by

824
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:31.760
slugs and snails. You know,
first of all, they they quit feeding

825
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:36.880
and that's that is the important thing
right there. So if you want to

826
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:40.320
expand it the SLUGO from slugs and
snails to a lot of other things,

827
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.760
I would go with the Slugo plus
uh. And it's widely available of seen

828
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:47.840
it on shelves all over the Houston
area, so not hard to find.

829
01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:53.440
Our phone number is seven to one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

830
01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:58.559
or if you want to dial by
letter seven one three two one two

831
01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:02.119
ktr H. That's easy to remember
when it was the last time you were

832
01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:07.920
at the Antique rose Emporium, the
Antiqurosenporum. That is one of my favorite

833
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:15.039
places to go because there is always
something going on and because of the experience

834
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:19.559
of being out there. When you
go to the antiqu Rosenmporium, it's like

835
01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:22.599
you've gone back in time and it
is just beautiful and boy, this time

836
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:27.320
of year is a great time to
go and get out there. You're going

837
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:32.039
to see a lot of different display
gardens that are beautiful. Certainly when it

838
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:36.960
comes to antique roses, I mean
they have them in space. They people

839
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:40.159
all over the country by roses from
antiquros and Porum. They're well known.

840
01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:44.119
They grow them in three gallon pots, which makes for a little more robust

841
01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:47.719
plant, a little better putting it
out and getting a good headstart. You

842
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:55.400
can find out more at Antique Roseemporium
dot com Antique Roseemporium dot com. That

843
01:03:55.599 --> 01:04:00.559
is one thing that I would suggest
today be a good day to get out

844
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:04.199
and do that. By the way, they're having educational workshops with the Native

845
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:10.159
Plant Partner Program from ten am to
two pm two day out at Antique Rose

846
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.960
and Porium and the Tinker Garden.
That's where the children. It's a children's

847
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.360
gardening program. That's a good name
for it. This will be a six

848
01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:23.760
week curriculum starting April nineteenth and twentieth
at one pm, goes through mid May

849
01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:28.760
and the kids are going to learn
all kinds of fun things. Go out

850
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:31.199
there, check it out. It
is pretty cool. I'm going to go

851
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.119
now to San Leone and we're going
to talk to Terry Hello, Terry.

852
01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:43.119
Yeah, hey, my grandson.
I have a gardener in my backyard and

853
01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:46.119
I had my grandson over and we
had dinner the other night and I had

854
01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:54.000
avocados, jalapenos, tomatoes, and
I threw them into garbage. Well,

855
01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:57.639
my grandson, when I was into
the bathroom, went and he dug all

856
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.000
those things out and he buried it. He's me working in the garden,

857
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:05.159
and he said, Papa Berry,
does all that all those seeds in your

858
01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:13.719
garden over there and just all a
mixed bag right there in the middle.

859
01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.440
You show me where you dug it
up. Can I just let that go

860
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.800
for him and see what happened?
Yeah, you can. You can.

861
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:23.920
You know if if all the peppers
came up in one spot, well your

862
01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:28.519
peppers will be they will grow,
they will produce peppers, but it it

863
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:33.679
will be a different version of the
pepper you planted. Most peppers are hybrids.

864
01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:38.519
There are a lot of self pollinating
So if it was a self pollinating

865
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:43.280
variety, it's going to be pretty
much like the one that you picked or

866
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:47.599
bought or whatever. Is he gonna
make that tomatoes like spicy? No,

867
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:50.719
No, not at all, not
at all. No, there's no between

868
01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:55.840
species. There's none of that stuff
going on in the vegetable garden. Oh

869
01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:59.920
all right, So I just let
it go and let him enjoy it.

870
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:03.320
There you go make a new man
out of well. And you can cheat

871
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:06.280
a little bit. You can kind
of scoop up a young plant if it's

872
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:10.679
too close together, you know,
like a pepper and a tomato that are

873
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.639
three inches apart. I think you
got to move one and put it in

874
01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:15.400
the other area, and nobody will
know the difference. And I won't tell

875
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:19.159
him, I promise. I appreciate. I love your show. Thank you,

876
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:23.480
Thank you, Terry. I appreciate, appreciate that very much. If

877
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:30.119
you're looking to have a beautiful yard, your yard is needing a supply of

878
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:35.519
nitrogen. Supplementally additional nitrogen through the
growing season, and lawns grow like crazy.

879
01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:40.719
Our southern turf grass is the big
three, Saint Augustine, Zysio grass

880
01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:45.400
and Bermuda grass. They grow like
crazy if they have water going through this

881
01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:49.360
warm season or hot season. Super
Turf nineteen four to ten Super turf the

882
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:54.960
silver bag from nitrofoss. It has
half its nitrogen in a slow release form,

883
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:58.159
so it's going to gradually feed over
time. And it also has four

884
01:06:58.239 --> 01:07:01.639
percent iron. Now, when you
see yellowing of the grass, oftentimes it's

885
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:05.559
an iron deficiency. And with the
adding the four percent iron in here,

886
01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:12.360
that is just a really good extra
touch from the folks at Nitrofoss. Nitropross

887
01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:16.119
Fertilizers are going to find them widely
available. ACE Hardware on Memorial Drive they've

888
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:20.639
got them down there, Katie Hardware, Ace out on Pinnock they've got them

889
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:25.679
there as well. Our Stanton Shopping
Center down in Alvin are all places you

890
01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.159
can get this Nitrofoss Super Turf,
the silver bag. We're going to go

891
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:34.119
now to Jersey Village and talk to
Ed. Hello, Ed, Good morning,

892
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:39.760
Skip Kip. I've got a rose
I've got a rose bush issue.

893
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:46.079
Okay, this rose bush. It's
in about a fifteen gallon plot, five

894
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:53.159
six years old, maybe older,
but it makes beautiful roses. These first

895
01:07:53.199 --> 01:07:58.599
ones that have come out just fantastic, planted properly like we do, color

896
01:07:58.679 --> 01:08:04.559
Star fertilizer. Been feeding them.
But the leaves, the new growth,

897
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:10.639
new leaves up toward the buds,
and the buds are turning gnarly, wrinkled

898
01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:16.640
like it's got a fungus. I've
and ends up making up affecting the bud.

899
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:23.560
They don't bloom out good. There
are red rose get dark red almost

900
01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:28.640
just don't. Then my next other
bush is just beautiful. I don't know

901
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:33.640
what's on these on this bush.
Okay, do you notice the new shoots

902
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:40.600
are are very red with lots of
little thorns more than normal? No?

903
01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:45.399
Would you? And I tell you
what there? Because there's a disease that's

904
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:49.000
very significant for roses. I want
to I want to take a look before

905
01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:56.399
I speculate. You can gnarly growth
can be caused by a hormone type heerbicide

906
01:08:56.560 --> 01:09:00.840
like two four D, which is
in TRIMEC mixes if you get on roses,

907
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:05.920
and that is a possibility. But
there's also a disease called rose rosette.

908
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:09.840
Would you take a picture of the
bush and then take a picture,

909
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.880
maybe two or three pictures up really
close, but make sure they're in sharp

910
01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:16.840
focus of what you're seeing already.
Okay, And I'm going to put you

911
01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:21.920
on hold and Josh will give you
the email to send them to. All

912
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:26.680
Right, thanks a lot, we'll
talk about them later. I'll talk about

913
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:29.159
them later on the show if I
get them and have a chance to look

914
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:31.000
at them before the end of the
show. All right, thanks a lot.

915
01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:35.000
Yeah, yeah, you don't want
to mess around with rose rosette.

916
01:09:35.199 --> 01:09:44.760
That is a very contagious and very
devastating disease. I was in my yard

917
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:48.279
this past week. It was early
in the morning. In fact, it

918
01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:51.680
even started in the house. I
was having coffee with my wife who were

919
01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:57.680
sitting there, and I just talking
about how much I love the sound of

920
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:01.039
like birds in the morning, just
early early in the morning. You can

921
01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:03.960
hear them come out and they start
singing. And to go out and sit

922
01:10:04.039 --> 01:10:08.439
on a patio and have a cup
of coffee, and are you know you

923
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:12.479
don't have to have coffee to do
this, but to just enjoy that early

924
01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:16.199
morning. It's cool. It's everything's
waking up for the day. And boy,

925
01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:19.920
the birds are their loud mouths first
thing in the morning, they really

926
01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:25.319
are. I enjoy that. And
it's because you know, we've got feeders

927
01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:28.800
out and we put the kind of
feed that birds like, so they come

928
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:30.560
to our house. We give them
water. We got plenty of water stores

929
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:35.159
there for them and Wildbird's Unlimited can
get you set up on all of the

930
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:41.600
above and more. They have quality
feeds like the nesting super blend. That's

931
01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:45.600
an important one in the spring because
birds are raising young and it provides the

932
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:53.119
nutrients in a very very i'm say
a concise form, meaning there's not debris

933
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:56.640
and waste. When you open a
bag of wild Birds, you get a

934
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.960
bag of bird food. There's not
those little red bebes that are in cheap

935
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:05.079
bird feed. That's not in Wildbirds
Unlimited. If you go to Walbirds Unlimited's

936
01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:12.840
website WBU dot com and then a
forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash

937
01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:15.600
Houston, you can find out all
about them. I'm going to be doing

938
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:19.239
some Waldbirds appearances here a little a
little later in the season, and I

939
01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:24.039
hope you will check them out online
and then go to a store. It's

940
01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:26.640
time to take a break. We'll
be right back. Our phone number is

941
01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:30.760
seven one three two point two.
Ktr Well, welcome back to Garden Line

942
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:35.319
on a wonderful day. I bet
some of you may even be sitting outside

943
01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:38.479
listening to the show. By the
way, you can listen to the show

944
01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:41.439
by radio, right. That's that's
what we are as a radio show.

945
01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:45.800
Ktright seven ninety And it goes far
and wide, and it goes web past

946
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:50.760
Brian Collis station area, and it
just covers a very wide area. I've

947
01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:56.800
even heard that station over at Interstate
thirty five like New Bronfuls. The direction,

948
01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:00.119
Uh, it's a wide, wide
ride. But you can all so

949
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:04.720
listen in your computer, or you
can get the iHeartMedia app and sign up,

950
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:09.680
sign into garden Line and follow it
and you can listen to it live.

951
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.880
You can listen to past shows because
we make it a podcast each show.

952
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:16.159
Lots of ways to listen to garden
Line, So tell your friends about

953
01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.760
it. We always love to have
new listeners and if we can help them

954
01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:25.399
have a more bountiful garden and a
more beautiful landscape, we'll do just that.

955
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:29.960
One of the ways you have a
bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape is

956
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.720
to start with the soil. Start
with the soil. I know, you

957
01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:35.760
go to the garden center, there's
pretty plants, big old flowers on them.

958
01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:40.239
You want to take that home,
but just know this, you're either

959
01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:45.520
going to PLoP it into the plant
into an unprepared plot, or you're going

960
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:47.720
to fix the soil first so that
when you put that plant you bought in,

961
01:12:48.039 --> 01:12:54.359
it thrives. CNA Maltch down south
south of the Houston area. Ciena

962
01:12:54.439 --> 01:12:58.720
malt down the Sienna area. They
are a place where you can get all

963
01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:01.840
kinds of things to make your round. Stuff really affective for plants. By

964
01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:05.319
the way, They're on FM five
point twenty one just north of Roast Sharon.

965
01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:11.520
The website is cienamult dot com.
They just got in bulk of some

966
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.239
of the airlom soil leaf mold composts. They also carry the veggie and herb

967
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:19.359
mix. I was telling somebody about
that a little bit ago for building up

968
01:13:19.399 --> 01:13:24.560
a bit. Sienna Maltz has what
you need, including every fertilizer I talk

969
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:28.720
about on guarden Line, and a
lot of pest control as well. Cienamultch

970
01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:32.880
We're going to now go to Richmond
and talk to Sean. Hello. Sean,

971
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:40.039
Hey, So I'm currently I recently
bought a home and the lawn wasn't

972
01:13:40.039 --> 01:13:44.000
in that grade of a condition.
I've got about one hundred square feet of

973
01:13:44.359 --> 01:13:49.359
the lawn that really needs to be
either resawed for meat a seed, and

974
01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:53.079
I started to go ahead and see
with the Bermuda, but I'm kind of

975
01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:56.439
trying to figure out what the best
soil mix would be to kind of top

976
01:13:56.520 --> 01:14:00.039
the soil off to ensure that it
stays moist and kind of get washed away

977
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:04.479
for many rain well, you know, the wash away when the soils bear.

978
01:14:05.159 --> 01:14:09.760
Nothing's going to stop that, especially
if it's a slope. But I

979
01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:13.199
would go with some type of the
top soil to fill in those areas.

980
01:14:13.279 --> 01:14:16.720
You want something reasonably close to the
lawn that the soil you already have,

981
01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:21.920
and to fill in those areas.
I wouldn't put in a compost unless you're

982
01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:28.199
gonna rototillot into the soil surface.
But in general, just a good top

983
01:14:28.279 --> 01:14:31.760
soil is probably the best way to
go. Okay, do you recommend any

984
01:14:32.119 --> 01:14:39.159
any particular brand of top soil or
any any particular store that would be good

985
01:14:39.199 --> 01:14:43.880
to use. The war On Rock
and Malt is up in the Porter area.

986
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:47.960
I don't know if you've been up
to Warren Rock and Molts before,

987
01:14:48.479 --> 01:14:53.720
but I think I think that that
would be a pretty good source for you.

988
01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:56.920
I realize you're really close to it. You know, you're in a

989
01:14:57.039 --> 01:14:59.520
task asta, so all you got
to do is drive up the street a

990
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:05.000
little f their deporter and go to
Warren's Rock and Mulch and they can FoST

991
01:15:05.039 --> 01:15:10.199
you up on a lot of different
things. Perfect. And as far as

992
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:14.920
fertilizing after putting the seed down,
is there any particular fertilizer you recommend to

993
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:20.239
get the seeds grown, just a
lawn fertilizer. But early on they don't

994
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:25.319
have the roots and don't need the
fertilizing. They need to establish some sort

995
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:29.560
of a plant before you start fertilizing
them. So you got some time after

996
01:15:29.720 --> 01:15:34.039
seeding those little spindley seedlings. Yeah, don't fertilize those. Just just wait

997
01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:39.439
until it gets established and has a
good root system and then you can do

998
01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:43.760
that. All right, okay,
And last question I have is regarding nitro

999
01:15:43.840 --> 01:15:47.640
false fertilizers. I know you recommend
those quite a bit. What would be

1000
01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:55.199
the closest location for me to find
those products? Nitrophos is widely available,

1001
01:15:55.399 --> 01:16:00.680
you see. Where are you Richmond, Texas? Where are you closest to

1002
01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:04.479
Oh? I had I had,
I said you're inn Ataska seed a while

1003
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:11.279
ago. I'm sorry you're not Richmond. I think Ciena Mulch may be the

1004
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:14.720
closest for you to get some things
like that. Okay, I'll give them

1005
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:17.920
a cry, thank you, take
care, bye bye? All right,

1006
01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:21.960
We appreciate you listening to garden Line
and Hosts. Got a little crossed over

1007
01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:28.199
there. Enchanted Forest is and literally
an enchanting place. That's where I'm going

1008
01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:31.399
to be today from eleven thirty to
one pm. When you go to Enchanted

1009
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:34.640
Forests, You're going to find everything
you need. Do you want flowers,

1010
01:16:34.680 --> 01:16:38.800
you want vegetables and herbs? They
have all of that, a lot of

1011
01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:41.520
all of that. Do you want
shrubs and trees, Yes, they have

1012
01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:46.640
that as well. Containers. That
little gift shops really cool too. If

1013
01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:51.319
you are looking for anything for your
plants and gardens and whatnot, check out

1014
01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:56.239
Enchanted Forest. When it comes to
pollinator gardens, boy, that is a

1015
01:16:56.359 --> 01:17:00.720
hot thing right now. They have
a super white selection, including for butterfly

1016
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:06.560
plants, super wide selection of plants
that help you create that special kind of

1017
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:12.079
garden that you're trying to create.
We're going to go now to a Tascasida

1018
01:17:12.199 --> 01:17:17.520
and talk to Judith. Hello Judith, Hi, Hi, Skip. I've

1019
01:17:17.600 --> 01:17:27.840
been trying to remember for years what
it is? Is it hummus or you?

1020
01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:30.720
Ye know? I don't know what
it is and I can't find my

1021
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:36.800
notes. Okay, what to do? There's a neglected lawn across the street

1022
01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:46.119
and it has waves of golden waves
of sandburs in it that you know,

1023
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:54.159
cats, sneakers, bikes, everybody
gets them in their feet. You drag

1024
01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:58.680
them into your house, the whole
thing, and there's something to pour on

1025
01:17:58.840 --> 01:18:02.239
there that it will stop it.
I mean, it's not my house,

1026
01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:08.479
but it's hurting the whole neighborhood.
Right, If you can get a product

1027
01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:13.039
out before they come up, which
I suspect they're already sprouting out there and

1028
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:15.239
you're, oh, yeah, I
used to dig them out, but now

1029
01:18:15.359 --> 01:18:21.159
somebody's renting it. Yeah. Yeah, the pre emergence is important. Let

1030
01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:26.880
me just mention this on my website, gardening with skip dot com. I

1031
01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:31.560
have my pest disease and we'd management
schedule look at it and next spring it'll

1032
01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:36.960
tell you when to apply these products
to stop December. Other than that,

1033
01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:42.840
you could spray a grass only killer
and that would kill anything grassy that you

1034
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.520
spray it on. Over there.
It's not a lawn, right, it's

1035
01:18:45.640 --> 01:18:50.720
just weeds. Well, it's the
front strip, you know, the the

1036
01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:57.439
access strip. Oh so there is
turf there. No, Now it's all

1037
01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:02.159
sand, okay and weeds, nothing
but sand and weeds. So another option

1038
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:05.880
would be, if you're gonna kill
all the weeds, a product containing Life

1039
01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:12.000
of State does that Life that's a
round up type product, many brands of

1040
01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:15.000
that. If you want to kill
just the grass, grassy weeds, there

1041
01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:18.399
are products out there that control grass, and if you go to a good

1042
01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:21.680
garden center, they can direct you
to that. Go out to Kingwood Garden

1043
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.319
Center or Warren Southern Gardens, they
can direct you to it. And there

1044
01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:30.359
you would use something and the ingredient
begins with the boy's name SETH s E

1045
01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:35.319
T H. Look for something that
starts with seth. That's for grassy weeds,

1046
01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:40.640
and that ought to get you in
business. Hey, I'm I'm gonna

1047
01:19:40.680 --> 01:19:43.479
have to run here pretty quick,
but I hope that Okay, good luck,

1048
01:19:44.479 --> 01:19:47.760
thank you, good luck with that. We're going to go to Marty

1049
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:53.359
in Fairfield. Hey, Marty,
what's up? Hey? And I have

1050
01:19:53.840 --> 01:20:00.439
to break Ye're up against a break
in two minutes on the date read the

1051
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:04.560
side bed. Put a race bed
against a brick wall that it's already time

1052
01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:10.279
high up against the reapholes. Okay, what can I between the bed and

1053
01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:14.439
the wheelholes to keep the dirt from
going into the whols. Ah, boy,

1054
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:17.800
I wouldn't do that approach. I
would. I would put a board

1055
01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:21.239
whatever the bed border you want to
use, put a board or whatever,

1056
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:25.920
you know, a few inches away
from the house there, because you need

1057
01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:28.600
to be able to see. You
need to be able to have access to

1058
01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:31.479
the foundation. When someone's coming out
and checking for termites and stuff, they're

1059
01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:35.159
looking for the little mud runs that
come up the wall and think they need

1060
01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:39.800
to be able to see that and
have access to it. Right, But

1061
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:45.039
what can I put down there to
keep the dirt away from them? Oh?

1062
01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.000
Well, I mean you could.
You could use whatever you would use

1063
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:50.560
to border a bed. I mean, it could be treated with timbers,

1064
01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:55.239
it could be a fancy bedding material
could I mean, it could be rocks

1065
01:20:55.319 --> 01:21:00.279
cemented in or there's a lot of
ways to go about it. Okay,

1066
01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:03.640
well that's not that wide. So
I was just trying to figure out.

1067
01:21:03.640 --> 01:21:08.359
Okay, no, frost are great, I have plenty, all right,

1068
01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:13.279
Thank you, Marty. Appreciate that
a lot. Uh Yeah, always leave

1069
01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:16.439
those wheepoles open. People will malt
a garden bed and the mault comes up

1070
01:21:16.479 --> 01:21:20.479
above the wheepole, and you're just
you're just asking for problem that Marty knows

1071
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:25.319
that that's why she called asks the
question, but a lot of people don't

1072
01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:29.039
pay attention to that, and it
is important that you do pay attention to

1073
01:21:29.119 --> 01:21:31.119
that. Maybe you get away with
it for a little while, but eventually

1074
01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:35.920
it's going to catch up to you. You're listening to Garden Line and we're

1075
01:21:36.000 --> 01:21:42.000
here every Saturday and Sunday from six
am to ten am, and our phone

1076
01:21:42.039 --> 01:21:44.479
number if you'd like to give us
a call. Coming back from the break,

1077
01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:47.039
you can get on the board with
Josh seven to one three two one

1078
01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:54.520
two kt r H seven one three
two one two k t r H.

1079
01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:59.119
Putting another hour in the books here. We'll be right back after the news.

1080
01:21:59.239 --> 01:22:02.039
It's the hour and we'll be talking
about your gardening questions and a few

1081
01:22:02.119 --> 01:22:08.359
things I'd like to throw in as
well. Oh, I also should tell

1082
01:22:08.359 --> 01:22:11.319
you just one more time. I
know people tune in and are out at

1083
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:16.279
different times. I'm going to be
at the Enchanted Forest Garden Center. Enchanted

1084
01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:21.359
Forest, that's the one out in
Richmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine.

1085
01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:25.199
So if you're in Richmond, you're
heading up to a trigger land. It's

1086
01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:29.359
off to the right twenty seven fifty
nine enchanted forests. I'm going to be

1087
01:22:29.520 --> 01:22:33.720
entering gardening question. I'm going to
be giving away a lot of Medina products,

1088
01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:38.319
things like has to Grow six twelve
six, that's the one I always

1089
01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:42.239
talk about for transplanting, hast to
Grow Lawn twelve four to eight, Medina

1090
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.760
super Grow which is a new one
sixteen zero two Medina, plus the liquid

1091
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:49.840
Fish Blend, and a lot of
those small sample bottles, and most of

1092
01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:54.640
all, I'll be answering your gardening
question. Hope to see you then.

1093
01:22:57.079 --> 01:23:00.680
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

1094
01:23:00.720 --> 01:23:10.279
this program. Welcome to kt r
H Guarden Line with Skip Rictor It's crazy

1095
01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:31.560
Trim. Just watch him as maybe
says, all right, let's get going

1096
01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:34.039
again. Here. We got a
lot to talk about when it comes to

1097
01:23:34.159 --> 01:23:40.359
gardening, including your calls. You
can be you can have the opportunity to

1098
01:23:41.119 --> 01:23:45.800
discuss maybe some projects you're working on
with me. Uh, maybe you've got

1099
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:48.159
a pest you're trying to battle,
or you're looking for a good plant that

1100
01:23:48.239 --> 01:23:53.039
fits into the situation, or maybe
just have something identified. Give me a

1101
01:23:53.119 --> 01:23:58.800
call at seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three

1102
01:23:58.880 --> 01:24:05.439
two one two k trh on garden
line, I always say brown stuff before

1103
01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:10.920
green stuff. And what that means
is that sounds simple to me. I

1104
01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:15.319
like it. But anyway, it
means that get the soil right before you

1105
01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:19.319
put the plant in. You can
buy soils and plants at all of our

1106
01:24:19.520 --> 01:24:24.520
great garden centers around the area here, but get the soil right, and

1107
01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:30.479
that includes both soil bed amendments,
but it also includes nutrition and microlife.

1108
01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:35.359
Fertilizers are designed in fact, they're
packed with microbial content and they're designed to

1109
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:42.560
decompose into the soil. As microbes
get a hold of that microlife granule if

1110
01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:45.359
you will, they release the nutrients
out of it. And the six two

1111
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:48.960
four fertilizer fur lawns. That's how
that works, That's how all their products

1112
01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:55.760
work. You get an enhancement of
microbial growth because not only does this product

1113
01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:58.920
have microbes in it, but your
soil has microbes in it, and it

1114
01:24:59.039 --> 01:25:04.560
feeds and absolutely sets those plants root
systems up for success. That is important.

1115
01:25:05.079 --> 01:25:09.880
Now for the lawns, hu Mates
plus zero zero four that would be

1116
01:25:09.920 --> 01:25:13.680
a good one to add periodically because
every time you add it, you're contributing

1117
01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:18.680
toward building so structure out there,
and you're also giving microbes a very good

1118
01:25:18.760 --> 01:25:21.920
place where they thrive. And that's
that's how it works. The humans talking

1119
01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:27.880
to somebody earlier wanted acid loving plants. Microlife has a kind of a pink

1120
01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:31.800
bag, bright pink bag that is
for acid loving plants. You can find

1121
01:25:31.800 --> 01:25:38.880
out more at microlifefertilizer dot com.
Microlifefertilizer dot com makes it real easy to

1122
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:41.960
find it and get it. We're
going to go now to Katie and talk

1123
01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:45.239
to John. Hello, John,
Hey, good morning. Just wanted to

1124
01:25:45.319 --> 01:25:51.479
make a quick common plask my question. You're talking about the Hosta Grow.

1125
01:25:53.840 --> 01:25:58.359
Those products are awesome. My neighbor
across the street he said, last year,

1126
01:25:58.560 --> 01:26:01.600
the tomatoes once they get to a
certain temperature, they stopped producing.

1127
01:26:01.760 --> 01:26:08.520
Mine. I was using the Hosta
Grow fertilizer for my tomatoes. They just

1128
01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:12.399
never stopped producing until like October.
I mean it's nuts good. Well,

1129
01:26:12.439 --> 01:26:15.840
there's several different great has to grow
products from Medina that are out there,

1130
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:19.560
and the ones I've tried so far. I'm about to try the sixteen O

1131
01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:23.720
two and that's a new one.
But the ones I've tried so far are

1132
01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:28.760
just awesome. They work, Yes, they do, so shout out to

1133
01:26:28.840 --> 01:26:31.560
them. So my question is,
I got a nineteen year old lawn in

1134
01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:35.319
Katie. We have some big oak
trees with some shade, and the Saint

1135
01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:40.159
Augustine's kind of thinned out, so
I'm looking to put some grass seed in

1136
01:26:40.239 --> 01:26:43.439
there to cover and fill in the
bary spots. What kind of grass do

1137
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:45.359
you recommend? Because there's so many
different types. Did you say you're wanting

1138
01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:50.399
to seed grass or just put the
put the grass maybe plugs or side pieces

1139
01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:58.760
in just the grass seed. There's
bermuda and Zoosha and rye and rescue and

1140
01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:04.279
for the warm season here, there
isn't a grass seed for a shady spot.

1141
01:27:04.479 --> 01:27:09.319
Saint Augustine is a shady, taller
shade tolerance we're going to get and

1142
01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:13.880
there's not a seed available for it. So you would be looking at purchasing

1143
01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:17.359
some either siding the whole thing or
putting some pieces, take up side pieces

1144
01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:21.960
and cut them into strips and plant
those strips to make your dollar go a

1145
01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:27.880
little further. But if it may
be too shady even for Saint Augustine to

1146
01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:32.399
thrive, in which case the only
solution is to brighten the shade by removing

1147
01:27:32.600 --> 01:27:38.479
some of the canopy of the tree, and that is a very temporary solution

1148
01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:44.880
that generally I don't like to recommend. Okay, what about sunny spots,

1149
01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:48.760
what kind of like close to the
street where there's no shade cover in your

1150
01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:55.479
lawn? Is Saint Augustine? Correct? Okay, Well, if you don't

1151
01:27:55.520 --> 01:27:59.600
mind a mix, there are Bermuta
seeds, but it will be invasive and

1152
01:27:59.680 --> 01:28:03.560
it will and have it all through
your lawn and it will you'll have that

1153
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:08.600
mix a very different looking grass.
So I don't know that you would want

1154
01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:12.279
to give that a try, as
long as it's green. Okay, Well,

1155
01:28:12.399 --> 01:28:15.760
that would be an option. There
also also are some Zoizia seeds.

1156
01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:21.439
Have you ever considered azoysia a variety
before? I'm looking at the different ones,

1157
01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:26.880
and that is one of the types
on the home people website. Okay,

1158
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:32.720
well, I would I would consider
that. There's a website it's Aggie

1159
01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:41.079
Turf dot t a m U dot
e ed u Aggie Turf dot TAMU dot

1160
01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:45.359
e d u And if you go
there, there's a section for Texas turf

1161
01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:49.119
grasses and you can click on zoysia
and what it will will have as you

1162
01:28:49.199 --> 01:28:55.359
scroll down. Is there's a number
of different varieties of zoysia that are available.

1163
01:28:55.800 --> 01:29:00.920
I don't know azoisia that well.
There there are actually there's two on

1164
01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:04.920
there that apparently can be purchased by
seed. May be hard to find.

1165
01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:08.840
I don't know. I've never tried
that before, but there are two voyages

1166
01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:13.039
on that list of recommended ones.
All right, Hey, I'm going to

1167
01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:15.439
have to have to run, John, Thanks for the CALLI appreciate that a

1168
01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.520
lot. You know, I was
talking about the microlife and building the soil.

1169
01:29:18.600 --> 01:29:23.079
Well, another big part of building
the soil is to bring in some

1170
01:29:23.399 --> 01:29:28.319
type of decomposed organic matter, whether
it is a compost top dressing, which

1171
01:29:28.439 --> 01:29:33.640
the folks at Nature's Way have a
wonderful supply of screened compost excuse me,

1172
01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:41.439
screened compost top dressing with leaf mold
composts, and that would be great on

1173
01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:44.239
your lining put in the soil if
you want. But they also have bed

1174
01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:48.520
mixes like things for vegetables or things
for fruit or just flowers. Whatever you

1175
01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:51.640
want to grow, you're going to
find it in Nature's Way. That's the

1176
01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:57.840
gardens, the nursery. And actually
I say that because they do have a

1177
01:29:57.880 --> 01:30:00.880
lot of plants available too. You
need to check that out. But that's

1178
01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:03.720
the one up north on the State
forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in

1179
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:09.520
from the west side. You turn
right across the railroad tracks and you're there.

1180
01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:14.239
Here's the phone number nine three six
three two one sixty nine to ninety.

1181
01:30:14.399 --> 01:30:17.760
Remember on Fridays they have Fungal Friday
sale, which is ten percent off

1182
01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:24.640
the bag product and twenty percent off
the bulk product of fungal composts. We

1183
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:28.800
are going to head back to the
phones now and go to Jersey Village.

1184
01:30:28.880 --> 01:30:31.239
Talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, good morning, Gip.

1185
01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:35.960
How thing's going with you? Going
well? Thanks? I've had two opinions

1186
01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:41.640
on when to harvest some yukongo potatoes. It one was that one of the

1187
01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:44.840
flowers appear. The other one was
one day the plant starts to die.

1188
01:30:44.960 --> 01:30:48.600
So which one is accurate? Oh, I don't go by the flowers when

1189
01:30:48.640 --> 01:30:51.600
the plant starts declining. I do, but you know, you can steal

1190
01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:57.119
potatoes off in the short term in
there kind of like the red new potatoes.

1191
01:30:57.159 --> 01:31:00.079
You kind of dig down and find
a big one and remove it and

1192
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:02.439
let the plant keep going with the
rest of them, I give you a

1193
01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:06.359
headstart. All right, okay,
thanks very much, thank you much.

1194
01:31:06.640 --> 01:31:10.520
I appreciate that we're gonna have to
take a break right here. Those of

1195
01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:13.840
you that are on hold, we
will get to you first when we come

1196
01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:16.159
back. Welcome back to the Guardenline. Good to have you with us today.

1197
01:31:16.439 --> 01:31:20.239
Listen. If you haven't been an
RCW nursery to check out their selection

1198
01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:25.039
of plants, you need to do
that. Rcw's the nursery where Tambo Parkway

1199
01:31:25.319 --> 01:31:29.079
FM two forty nine comes in to
belt Way eight. It's easy access,

1200
01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:33.520
easy get to their row selection pages
and pages over two hundred and thirty roses

1201
01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:39.279
that they can carry there at RCW. Always call to find the roads you

1202
01:31:39.319 --> 01:31:42.359
want and then call do you have
the men stock? And like all their

1203
01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:45.840
plants. If they don't have it, they can probably order it and bring

1204
01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:48.159
it in if it's available. That's
why we call RCW. They get it.

1205
01:31:48.399 --> 01:31:54.880
Got it nursery RCW nurseries dot com. You need to check it out.

1206
01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.479
You need to go there. And
of course the fertilizers you hear me

1207
01:31:57.560 --> 01:32:00.520
talk about here on garden Line and
many other products of well are available there

1208
01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:05.800
at RCW. We are now going
to go to Bjata in Baytown. Hello,

1209
01:32:05.960 --> 01:32:14.600
bj Hi. I planted some four
o'clock flowers from seeds. They are

1210
01:32:14.880 --> 01:32:18.479
just beautiful, but they're not blooming. What do I do when it comes

1211
01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:21.800
from seed? It takes a little
while to establish. That's actually a perennial

1212
01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:27.319
type plant. It has underground storage
roots and so it may be a little

1213
01:32:27.359 --> 01:32:30.359
slower, but it should It should
do fine. Is it getting plenty of

1214
01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:34.920
sun? Oh? Definitely yes.
And the steams are just beautiful, but

1215
01:32:35.119 --> 01:32:43.079
nows Okay, Well, I would
say time, don't push them with extra

1216
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:47.159
nitrogen just yeah, just you know
that that's the one probably that's not going

1217
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:50.520
to help a lot right now.
If they're growing and looking good, I

1218
01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:56.159
would just hold off on that and
then you can use a flower type fertilizer

1219
01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.600
later on in the season. Thank
you, all right, Thanks appreciate that.

1220
01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:09.279
Four o'clocks are a really cool old
time flower, but beware they like

1221
01:33:09.560 --> 01:33:13.159
to They're persistent, and so don't
plan them where you don't want them.

1222
01:33:13.800 --> 01:33:16.119
That's one way to look at it. Let's go to Jerry and West Columbia.

1223
01:33:16.159 --> 01:33:25.640
Hello Jerry, Hello Jip Hey,
we will be transplanting three slabo trees

1224
01:33:25.800 --> 01:33:29.039
today. I just want to see
what kind of tips you can get me

1225
01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:32.760
on having a successful transplant. So
are you digging them out of the ground

1226
01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:36.760
somewhere or are you pulling them out
of containers? Okay, out of the

1227
01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:41.760
ground. It's a tough time of
year to do that. You want to

1228
01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.920
get as much of the root system
as you can, which is a challenge

1229
01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:49.359
because it's heavy. Soil is heavy. But try to get as much of

1230
01:33:49.359 --> 01:33:55.960
the roots as you can. Cover
those roots up in the transition. Are

1231
01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.640
you going to have to drive them
somewhere? Are they on your property?

1232
01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:05.079
I'm driving them about? Oh wow, okay, boy, you keep making

1233
01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:11.279
it harder for us there. You
got to keep the roots wet, pack

1234
01:34:11.359 --> 01:34:15.680
them in something wet, and you've
got to keep the wind off of those

1235
01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:20.680
leaves. You know, a couple
of two or three shade cloths put over

1236
01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:25.279
the top of them in the back
of the truck or trailer or whatever.

1237
01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:29.760
And because that's just going to draw
them out more. The challenge is going

1238
01:34:29.840 --> 01:34:34.399
to be can they grow roots in
time before the leaves have lost enough water

1239
01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:39.920
to wear the plant defoliates, So
that that is a challenge. If you

1240
01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:43.680
could wait to do any transplanting.
Fall is the best time to get that.

1241
01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:45.520
Late fall it is the best time
to get that done. Or winter

1242
01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:51.079
in the fall. Yeah, late
fall like November, December, January,

1243
01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:57.039
all those months are good for if
you got to dig up and move a

1244
01:34:57.159 --> 01:35:01.000
plant, much better chance of success. Okay, Now, what about like

1245
01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:05.119
adding anything to the soil? Is
anything? Is there anything you would recommend?

1246
01:35:05.319 --> 01:35:09.199
No, that is going to be
a big tree that has roots going

1247
01:35:09.319 --> 01:35:12.520
far and wide. Don't amend the
soil and the planting hole. It's not

1248
01:35:12.640 --> 01:35:15.479
going to help it. If you
wanted to rototill some soil in a big,

1249
01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:20.840
big area before you dig the planting
hole, some soil, some compost

1250
01:35:21.000 --> 01:35:25.399
or something a little bit, you
could do that, but the tree is

1251
01:35:25.479 --> 01:35:28.560
going to be Okay. You just
need to as you fill the soil back

1252
01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:33.279
with whole. When with soil,
water the whole periodically as you're filling it

1253
01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:38.600
so the soil settles in among the
roots. You want good root to soil

1254
01:35:38.920 --> 01:35:43.880
contact, not a bunch of air
pockets all underneath there. Gotcha? Okay,

1255
01:35:43.960 --> 01:35:45.640
Okay, Chip, thank you,
all right, you bet, thanks

1256
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:51.279
for the call. Appreciate that.
Sweet Green is a product by Nitrofoss that

1257
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:57.439
is a molasses based product. Molasses
and microbes are basically what does the work

1258
01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:02.119
of making sweet grain happen. Is
one of the high organic or nitrogen content

1259
01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:08.199
organic type materials that you're going to
find on the available on the market.

1260
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:13.399
Sweet Green is about eleven percent nitrogen
and it it smells great. I love

1261
01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:15.239
to put some in the back of
the car and haul them around. But

1262
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:20.720
sweet Green is easy to apply,
it does work, and being a sugar

1263
01:36:20.920 --> 01:36:26.880
type product, the microbes just love
it, absolutely love it. You're going

1264
01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:30.760
to find it in Shades of Texas
up in the Woodlands in chenned Garden down

1265
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:33.960
in Richmond Rosenberg area, and you
can also find sweet Green at Fishers Hardware,

1266
01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:38.800
both the one in South Houston on
Southmore and the one in Laport out

1267
01:36:38.960 --> 01:36:43.239
on South Broadway. We're going to
go back to the phones now and we're

1268
01:36:43.279 --> 01:36:46.760
going to talk to Mark in Jersey
Village. Hello, Mark, Hi,

1269
01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:57.600
Skip. I have outsourced my lawn
care to commercial group that has not done

1270
01:36:57.680 --> 01:37:02.239
well, and I've got an estepe
lawn thirty years or more, but it's

1271
01:37:02.439 --> 01:37:10.079
really thin. So I'm taking back
over the management of feeding and everything.

1272
01:37:10.159 --> 01:37:15.600
But I wanted to clarify something I
purchased the naitroposs nineteen ten yesterday, but

1273
01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:23.159
I also got asimite. Is this
something I should apply together or on the

1274
01:37:23.279 --> 01:37:28.399
same treatment or do they work together? Well, well, it doesn't matter.

1275
01:37:28.840 --> 01:37:33.039
Think of as a mite as stocking
up the soil bank account with trace

1276
01:37:33.159 --> 01:37:40.560
mentals and nutrients. The nitrophys is
going to provide the big nutrients that it

1277
01:37:40.680 --> 01:37:45.279
needs in quantities, and especially the
nitrogen that promotes growth. So if you

1278
01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:48.439
want to do them on the same
day, if you want to do them

1279
01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:55.600
six months apart, it doesn't matter
great to delay on the nitrophile. It

1280
01:37:55.760 --> 01:38:00.279
is time to be doing nitrogen fertilizing
to our lawns. You can also yeah,

1281
01:38:00.720 --> 01:38:04.000
yeah, all right. So my
grandson's coming today and he's going to

1282
01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:08.199
be doing the spreading, and you've
given me the clue on how to do

1283
01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:13.319
it. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. My wife's

1284
01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:19.479
uncle and my wife's one of her
cousins, second cousins. I guess little

1285
01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:25.640
child was working with his uncle out
in the garden and the uncle had a

1286
01:38:25.720 --> 01:38:28.960
big pile of manure that he's putting
out on the garden, and this kid

1287
01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:31.079
was going in and just taking his
hands and playing with the manure and stuff,

1288
01:38:31.479 --> 01:38:35.159
and he kept telling him, son, that's manure, that's manure.

1289
01:38:35.560 --> 01:38:39.880
And finally he goes gen you know
what manure is and the guy shakes his

1290
01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:43.800
head no, and he told him
and the kid just runs inside to clean

1291
01:38:43.920 --> 01:38:50.199
up. It was like a revelation. Orgeshidden Gardens is down there in Alvin.

1292
01:38:50.680 --> 01:38:55.159
Have you been to Orgesiden Gardens.
You got to check them out.

1293
01:38:55.399 --> 01:38:59.920
They're in Alvin. And he always
has a stock of some nice plants.

1294
01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:02.920
He's got roses, citrus trees if
that hadn't sold out on them, but

1295
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:08.960
citrus trees like sensuma orange, the
lime, and the Meyer lemon. If

1296
01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:13.399
you like blueberries, he has those
and thornless blackberries as well at Horages Hidden

1297
01:39:13.439 --> 01:39:16.319
Gardens. And of course you're gonna
find vegetables and perennials and other things.

1298
01:39:16.680 --> 01:39:21.279
That tree stabilizer, the three sixty
tree stabilizer I was talking about, that's

1299
01:39:21.319 --> 01:39:27.840
at Horaes Hidden Gardens. Really really
easy and Horaes a great guy to visit

1300
01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:30.199
with. I think you got to
go the best to go on a weekend,

1301
01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:35.680
Friday or Saturday. It is a
good day. Jorges Hidden Gardens down

1302
01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:42.039
in Alvin. We are gonna let's
see here, Oh God, hanging on

1303
01:39:42.199 --> 01:39:49.840
there. I wanted to I wanted
to talk just briefly about successful bloom production

1304
01:39:50.159 --> 01:39:55.800
in your flower beds. In general, we have different kinds of plants.

1305
01:39:55.840 --> 01:40:00.239
We have annuals and perennials. The
perennials typically have their bloom season and then

1306
01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:03.079
they're done, and it may be
a short season, it may be a

1307
01:40:03.199 --> 01:40:09.079
longer season, but that's what they
do. Annuals will live through the course

1308
01:40:09.119 --> 01:40:12.640
of the year but then die and
they don't come back again. And we

1309
01:40:12.760 --> 01:40:15.800
have annuals that have a fairly short
season because they need like let's say,

1310
01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:21.000
cool weather. But then we have
annuals that go a long time in the

1311
01:40:21.079 --> 01:40:27.800
summer beds. One of the best
is Vinca or Madagascar periwinkles what I call

1312
01:40:27.880 --> 01:40:31.880
it, but vinca very heat tolerant, long long, long, long term

1313
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:35.399
bruling. Then we have Angelonia that's
another good one, long long, long

1314
01:40:35.520 --> 01:40:42.960
term. You want to keep the
plants stimulated with good nutrients to push growth.

1315
01:40:43.239 --> 01:40:47.640
That is important. And so as
you fertilize your beds, like using

1316
01:40:47.680 --> 01:40:51.479
a product like Nelson color Star for
example, as you fertilize those beds,

1317
01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:56.479
you're going to get a rejuvenation of
growth. And when you have a rejuvenation

1318
01:40:56.600 --> 01:40:59.680
of growth, you can cheer them
back if you need to, and they'll

1319
01:40:59.680 --> 01:41:05.199
push fresh new growth. But leaves
make sugars that help the plants that blooms

1320
01:41:05.479 --> 01:41:10.319
and if it fruits, set fruit. And that is why it's important,

1321
01:41:10.399 --> 01:41:14.880
even with blooming plants to have a
good supply of nitrogen to support that growth.

1322
01:41:15.279 --> 01:41:18.760
If you're growing in a container,
jungle Land by nitrofoss is the way

1323
01:41:18.800 --> 01:41:24.640
to go. I talked earlier about
their outdoor jungle Land Flour and Vegetable planting

1324
01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:29.039
soil indoors. They have a water
saving potting soil no. It has crystals

1325
01:41:29.359 --> 01:41:33.520
that absorb way many times their weight
in water. And when the roots are

1326
01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:38.279
in the soil and the potting soil
dries out, those crystals don't dry out

1327
01:41:38.319 --> 01:41:41.800
as fast. They slow down.
The roots can still get moisture from those

1328
01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.560
and it makes it a little more
forgiving if you forget to water maybe a

1329
01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:48.319
little bit too long. I know
you don't do that, but people do

1330
01:41:48.439 --> 01:41:51.479
that. Well, if you want
more information, where can I get it?

1331
01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:54.560
Where can I find that kind of
thing? Well, you can find

1332
01:41:54.640 --> 01:41:59.920
it at Lake Hardware down in Clute
you can find it. It Gem's hard

1333
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:05.000
where in Montgomery you can find this
particular product distributed by Nitrofoss the jungle Land

1334
01:42:05.399 --> 01:42:11.640
at the ACE Hardware and Katie at
single ranch. That's widely available and it

1335
01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:17.640
works. So make sure and supply
your plants what they need. And you

1336
01:42:17.720 --> 01:42:21.279
know we always talk about the brown
stuff and the green stuff. By providing

1337
01:42:21.399 --> 01:42:26.800
what they need, you are going
to have. You know that you're going

1338
01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:30.720
to have that bank account so the
roots can thrive. That is critical.

1339
01:42:30.359 --> 01:42:33.960
ACE Hardware is another place where all
the ACE hardwers where you're going to get

1340
01:42:34.119 --> 01:42:40.039
nitrophce Nitrofoss type products. ACE has
everything. You know. Their slogan is

1341
01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:44.000
ACE is a place well. ACE
is a place for everything garden as well.

1342
01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:47.640
Do you need fertilizers, They've got
them fire and controlled. This is

1343
01:42:47.720 --> 01:42:51.920
the season to start with your bait
and then finish with the mound treatments a

1344
01:42:53.000 --> 01:42:57.239
couple of weeks later. If any
of the mounds escape the bait. If

1345
01:42:57.319 --> 01:43:02.039
you just do mound treatments, you're
playing whack them with fire mounts and it's

1346
01:43:02.119 --> 01:43:06.279
just a it's a treadmill. So
start with the bait. Mosquito repellent and

1347
01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:11.279
the mosquito dunks, for example,
they've got those at Ace Hardware, and

1348
01:43:11.359 --> 01:43:15.159
boy is at Mosquito season. As
the mosquitos told me last week when I

1349
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:17.840
was working in my vegetable garden one
day. Hey, we're gonna quit talking

1350
01:43:17.880 --> 01:43:23.600
here our phone number seven to one
three two to one two KTRH. I

1351
01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:27.640
am going to turn the mic over
to Nicky and the news and we'll be

1352
01:43:27.800 --> 01:43:30.560
right back. So if you would
like to give Joshua call at the number

1353
01:43:30.840 --> 01:43:33.880
seven to one three two one two
ktr h, you can be the first

1354
01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:38.479
stup when we come back. Welcome
back to guard Line. Good to have

1355
01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:42.840
you with us today. I'm going
to start off by heading to Jersey Village

1356
01:43:42.880 --> 01:43:46.239
and talking to Gary. Hello Gary, Hi, scare petty doing. I'm

1357
01:43:46.279 --> 01:43:51.039
doing well. Thanks good. I'm
on my way to Dayton to pick up

1358
01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:56.159
a bee hive. I think I
need some pollinators in my backyard, so

1359
01:43:56.239 --> 01:43:59.399
I'm going to give this a try. Oh wow, okay, good.

1360
01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:02.960
Good. Sounds sounds like a plan. Yeah. I wanted to ask you

1361
01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:08.119
about raised beds. In the past, I've used would to make my frame

1362
01:44:09.399 --> 01:44:13.800
that lasts a couple of years and
then it runs out I think I've heard

1363
01:44:13.840 --> 01:44:19.720
you talk about or I've seen some
options for uh modular type. Yes,

1364
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:29.279
raised beds, Yes, absolutely?
And what's Is there a local distributor someplace

1365
01:44:29.359 --> 01:44:34.000
I can go look at these?
Yes? Absolutely, it is Vego Garden

1366
01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:39.079
Beds v E g O. And
if you if you go online uh and

1367
01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:43.800
do and find Vego uh, you're
going to be able to connect with them

1368
01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:48.119
here locally. They have a spot
up in kind of the Klient area,

1369
01:44:48.239 --> 01:44:54.520
sort of north area of Houston,
and they have the beds all laid out

1370
01:44:54.560 --> 01:44:57.720
there. It's beautiful. You can
go see it and check it out and

1371
01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:00.000
all of that, and let me
I'm gonna try to get you a phone

1372
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.399
number or a web I want to
say Vego Garden dot com, but I

1373
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:08.239
want to make sure I'm right about
that. Yeah, I don't, dang

1374
01:45:08.319 --> 01:45:11.800
it, I don't have that with
me. But it's easy to find begore.

1375
01:45:13.079 --> 01:45:15.319
Are you familiar with the price points? Where is it going to be

1376
01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:20.479
better to go back with the wood
frames? Are? Well? I think

1377
01:45:20.720 --> 01:45:25.840
I think long term the metal beds
are probably going to be your better bet

1378
01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:31.720
because even the rot resistant wood does
in time decay and it also warps and

1379
01:45:32.439 --> 01:45:35.600
and there are other issues, you
know with it, and some people don't

1380
01:45:35.680 --> 01:45:39.560
like putting treated wood in something in
a bed they're going to eat, for

1381
01:45:39.680 --> 01:45:45.039
example. You're talking about pollinators though, so those are your options. There's

1382
01:45:45.039 --> 01:45:47.039
a lot of other, you know, options on the market that people do.

1383
01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:53.199
But I would do the vego if
it were me. Okay, all

1384
01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:56.880
right, right, I appreciate the
information, Yes, sir, thank you

1385
01:45:57.039 --> 01:46:00.560
very much. I appreciate that call. You know. The folks at Escaper's

1386
01:46:00.640 --> 01:46:05.880
Pride twenty seven different products, bagged
products. They also have bulk available too.

1387
01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:10.039
By the way, you can go
to Landscaperspride dot com. That's the

1388
01:46:10.119 --> 01:46:13.199
website. While are you there,
check out the Premium potting soil. You

1389
01:46:13.239 --> 01:46:16.359
can use it indoors or outdoors.
It contains prolide, it has color Star

1390
01:46:16.520 --> 01:46:21.279
Noilson color Star fertilizer in It feeds
up to three months and so the roots

1391
01:46:21.399 --> 01:46:27.800
just are very happy. And Premium
Potting Sole pot dirt is an organic certified

1392
01:46:28.680 --> 01:46:32.039
soil. It does really well for
all your flowering plants. It's packed with

1393
01:46:32.239 --> 01:46:36.239
nutrients, worm casting sand, vermiculide, and more so, when you're doing

1394
01:46:36.439 --> 01:46:41.439
a color change in a bed,
get some pot dirt from Landscaper's Pride.

1395
01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:44.880
Mix it into the soil each time
you do that, and you're just gonna

1396
01:46:44.880 --> 01:46:46.760
have better and better results. And
there's many others. Garden Magic, for

1397
01:46:46.840 --> 01:46:53.279
example, has humus and screen pine
and composted rice sALS and pelleted chicken fertilizer

1398
01:46:53.439 --> 01:46:58.880
in it that lasts up to six
months as well. Landscaperspride dot Com go

1399
01:46:59.079 --> 01:47:02.600
there you can find sources are a
nice multi calculator. It's easy, easy,

1400
01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:08.119
one stop shopping there with Landscaper's Pride. We're going to now go to

1401
01:47:08.680 --> 01:47:14.600
uh Pinehurst and talk to Vicky.
Hello Vicky, good morning skips. I

1402
01:47:14.720 --> 01:47:17.239
have a question about weed that's in
my yard. I've looked it up and

1403
01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:20.119
I know what it is, but
I want to know if it dies in

1404
01:47:20.239 --> 01:47:27.920
the summer heat. It's that hory
h O A r y BOLISA vote can

1405
01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:31.880
you spell up from me? Or
yes, h O A r y and

1406
01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:41.000
then the second order bo b O
w l E s I A. That

1407
01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:46.880
is a new one to me.
How did you get that id on it?

1408
01:47:47.159 --> 01:47:54.880
Uh? From uh? From my
phone? Okay taking a picture?

1409
01:47:55.640 --> 01:48:00.359
Okay, well it may well be
hory belicia. Uh. I just noticed

1410
01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:08.560
that our medicine man here locally Meriweather
for our forager. His website has Horri

1411
01:48:08.720 --> 01:48:12.359
Belicia on it with a lot of
information and ID and stuff like that.

1412
01:48:12.920 --> 01:48:15.520
You I want to check that out. Apparently I don't have time to read

1413
01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:20.359
this whole page right now, but
it's on his edible website. So that's

1414
01:48:20.439 --> 01:48:23.479
kind of curious. But you're wanting
to get rid of it, right,

1415
01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:26.720
Yes, I am. I just
won't need to know if it dies in

1416
01:48:26.800 --> 01:48:30.840
the summer. I know it's a
spring and winter weed is what I found,

1417
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:35.479
but I can't find out if it
you know, the summer heat will

1418
01:48:35.560 --> 01:48:40.800
kill it. Yeah. Everything I'm
finding is like edible or like kind of

1419
01:48:40.920 --> 01:48:43.680
like cilantro. I don't want to
eat it. I will get this kinda

1420
01:48:43.920 --> 01:48:47.880
kind of like cilantro. That's good. Is it edible? I'm going to

1421
01:48:47.960 --> 01:48:50.000
have to check on that. I
mean, excuse me? Is it?

1422
01:48:50.199 --> 01:48:55.199
Is it a perennial? That is? That's what you're asking And what we

1423
01:48:55.479 --> 01:48:59.039
thought was that that you had.
The one that I was telling you about

1424
01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:06.000
is forage Texas dot com. Foraging. Mark is extremely knowledgeable and all kinds

1425
01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:13.239
of things regarding flora foraging and whatnot, So I would I would recommend that

1426
01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:17.279
you check that website out really really
well. I'm just sitting here trying to

1427
01:49:17.359 --> 01:49:21.920
real quickly thought if these sites should
tell us that it is a Perennie orange

1428
01:49:23.279 --> 01:49:28.520
and I'm not seeing that. I'll
keep looking. If I figured out,

1429
01:49:28.600 --> 01:49:30.800
I'll say it on the air.
Okay, thank you so much, Skip,

1430
01:49:30.920 --> 01:49:36.359
I appreciate it. You bet too. Yeah, kind of confusing there.

1431
01:49:36.920 --> 01:49:42.880
You know Nelson's turf star Slow and
Easy. We are in that season

1432
01:49:43.000 --> 01:49:46.800
now. And if you go to
my website gardening with Skip dot com and

1433
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:51.039
we're talking about fertilizing plants and when
do you do it and what do you

1434
01:49:51.159 --> 01:49:56.399
do and so on, Well,
Nelson Slow and Easy, that's the one.

1435
01:49:57.000 --> 01:50:01.079
It's so, it's the Slow and
Easy Blue. It's a blue bag,

1436
01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:05.319
makes it easy to pick it out. But it's twenty two two ten,

1437
01:50:05.680 --> 01:50:10.840
nice ratio. But it will last. The nitrogen in it will last

1438
01:50:10.880 --> 01:50:14.319
for months, and the other elements
in it don't tend to wash away as

1439
01:50:14.439 --> 01:50:17.520
much. Now, I would say
putting it down now will give you the

1440
01:50:17.600 --> 01:50:24.359
best gradual feed over time compared to
some product that releases really fast. It

1441
01:50:24.479 --> 01:50:30.239
supports beneficial insects. Beneficial insects beneficial
micro organisms, and by creating a healthier,

1442
01:50:30.319 --> 01:50:34.560
deeper rooted grass plant, you're going
to reduce water consumption and increase the

1443
01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:40.039
ability of that plant to survive when
it's a little on the dry side.

1444
01:50:40.399 --> 01:50:45.319
Nelson Slow and Easy twenty two to
ten. Easy to find, lots of

1445
01:50:45.359 --> 01:50:48.079
places. For example, Plants for
All Seasons carries Nelson Slow and Easy.

1446
01:50:48.359 --> 01:50:51.720
Plants for All Seasons. Is that
garden center you know it already. It's

1447
01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:57.920
on two forty nine Tombaugh Parkway just
north of Luetta, This family owned center,

1448
01:50:58.279 --> 01:51:02.319
the Flowerty's. What a great group
and so knowledgeable. You go there,

1449
01:51:02.600 --> 01:51:08.039
you get good service. They sell
you plants that belong here, that's

1450
01:51:08.079 --> 01:51:12.640
something from timbuck to that won't grow
here. You can take samples in or

1451
01:51:12.720 --> 01:51:15.199
pictures in. They'll help you diagnose
the problem and put the right product in

1452
01:51:15.279 --> 01:51:19.960
your hand to solve it. Plants
for All Seasons dot com that's the website.

1453
01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:24.960
The phone number. Write this down
two eight, one, three seven

1454
01:51:25.119 --> 01:51:30.600
six, sixteen forty six. We
are now going to go to Cypress and

1455
01:51:30.760 --> 01:51:32.439
talk to Melissa. And Melissa,
I'm just letting you know I got about

1456
01:51:32.439 --> 01:51:35.600
thirty seconds. Let's get the question
and then I'll come right back to you

1457
01:51:35.960 --> 01:51:41.359
after break. Okay. I have
a Pendo palm in my yard that's about

1458
01:51:41.680 --> 01:51:45.039
twenty five plus years old, and
I was willing to buy another one,

1459
01:51:45.479 --> 01:51:47.920
and I just wanted we're the best
place to get that in Houston, Vergon.

1460
01:51:47.960 --> 01:51:51.720
And I spend the two seventy five
on one or spend like the five

1461
01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:56.159
hundred to get a bigger one.
That's that part is up to you.

1462
01:51:56.359 --> 01:52:00.199
But Verdant Tree Farm is on Barker
Cypress, so it's direct soule both of

1463
01:52:00.279 --> 01:52:06.520
you Verdon to be er damt Tree
Farm and they have an excellent selection there

1464
01:52:06.760 --> 01:52:11.479
and they're close by and they'll come
out and plan them plan them for you

1465
01:52:11.560 --> 01:52:14.520
too if you want. Oh that's
good to know. Thank you very much.

1466
01:52:15.760 --> 01:52:17.920
Okay, bye, bye bye.
All right, we got to go

1467
01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:21.199
to a break here. Logan,
you were the very first up. When

1468
01:52:21.239 --> 01:52:25.720
we come back, our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

1469
01:52:25.760 --> 01:52:29.920
eight seventy four. Welcome back to
Guardenline. Good have you with us today.

1470
01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:33.039
If someone was telling me earlier who
was it, it was going to

1471
01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:38.640
get some bees and was willing to
do some pollinator planting in the yard.

1472
01:52:39.800 --> 01:52:44.039
He was talking about the B supply
out in Dayton. The B supply is

1473
01:52:44.760 --> 01:52:47.520
I have been to a lot of
different places that have B supplies and things,

1474
01:52:48.199 --> 01:52:53.600
nothing like the B supply. It
is unbelievable all that they have.

1475
01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:57.079
You know, they have a b
rental program. So if you live out

1476
01:52:57.119 --> 01:53:00.399
in the country and you got five
to twenty acres when you're within fifty mile

1477
01:53:00.600 --> 01:53:04.399
radius of the B supplying Dayton,
that you can get part of it.

1478
01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:08.399
Become part of their b rental program. They put bees on your property,

1479
01:53:08.439 --> 01:53:12.039
they do all the work. There's
more information on their website. If that

1480
01:53:12.319 --> 01:53:15.960
prepeaked your interest vbsupply dot com.
You know, when you have bees on

1481
01:53:16.039 --> 01:53:20.960
your property, it is a what
do you call it? A tax?

1482
01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:27.880
Good night? I can't even say
the right word. The taxes come down,

1483
01:53:28.199 --> 01:53:30.079
the local taxes come down on the
property as a result of that.

1484
01:53:30.279 --> 01:53:33.199
Gosh, I can't even think of
the word for it. Bee keeping class.

1485
01:53:33.760 --> 01:53:39.800
There is a strong foundation that you
receive at the bee keeping class when

1486
01:53:39.880 --> 01:53:42.760
you take it. It starts at
nine thirty goes until three thirty, so

1487
01:53:42.800 --> 01:53:45.319
that's a long period of time.
Go to the website. They've added a

1488
01:53:45.399 --> 01:53:48.640
bunch of more classes coming up.
Well. First of all. They have

1489
01:53:48.680 --> 01:53:54.399
the honey extraction class too, where
you learn how to pull the honeysoupers out

1490
01:53:54.399 --> 01:53:58.159
of a hive, uncap them,
spin them in an extractor filter it all

1491
01:53:58.279 --> 01:54:01.760
hands on, come in this.
This's pretty cool. There's candle making class

1492
01:54:01.880 --> 01:54:05.800
with beeswax, and a meat making
class learn how to make meat. If

1493
01:54:05.840 --> 01:54:12.039
you don't know, meat is fermented
honey solution, and it's kind of fun,

1494
01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:17.000
kind of cool anyway. Dbsupply dot
com we are now going to go

1495
01:54:17.239 --> 01:54:24.880
see where were we here everything Logan
in, Katie, Hello, Logan morning.

1496
01:54:24.960 --> 01:54:27.680
How are you doing? I'm doing
well, thank you. How can

1497
01:54:27.760 --> 01:54:33.039
we help my lawn? I put
a weeding feed out and then I put

1498
01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:42.359
a fast reacting nitrogen in and I
still in getting little kind of like yellow

1499
01:54:42.520 --> 01:54:45.479
flowers, try to find something.
I tried to choke them out with that

1500
01:54:46.399 --> 01:54:51.279
nitrogen and it's just not working.
Okay, Well, long density is what

1501
01:54:51.399 --> 01:54:56.039
you're trying to build, and nitrogen
is part of that. Fertilizer in general,

1502
01:54:56.640 --> 01:55:00.239
regular mowing is part of that,
getting the long growing fast. If

1503
01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:05.399
you're treating that is probably a post
emergent excuse me, that is probably a

1504
01:55:05.520 --> 01:55:11.239
broad leaf weed and you would have
to use a broad leaf post emergent product

1505
01:55:11.319 --> 01:55:14.560
to spot spray them. You don't
have to treat the whole yard. Just

1506
01:55:14.760 --> 01:55:18.840
spot spray it with something that kills
weeds after they're up and growing, or

1507
01:55:19.479 --> 01:55:25.760
just grow yourself out of it.
In an established lawn, it's probably axalis.

1508
01:55:25.880 --> 01:55:29.800
There's some other weeds that can be
there. It just we tend to

1509
01:55:29.880 --> 01:55:34.520
not see ongoing problems with those,
Okay, so just try and choke them

1510
01:55:34.560 --> 01:55:40.239
out, yeah, to give it
time and grow yourself out of the problem.

1511
01:55:40.720 --> 01:55:44.279
Or if you want to spray them
a post emergent broad leaf weed control

1512
01:55:44.319 --> 01:55:45.680
product, you can go to the
Ace Hardware down there in pair Land.

1513
01:55:46.279 --> 01:55:49.279
They can give you a product.
Just tell them what you want post emergent

1514
01:55:49.439 --> 01:55:54.800
broadleaf weed control and they can from
their many products on the shelf give you

1515
01:55:54.840 --> 01:55:59.439
the ones you need. All right, thank you, I have a good

1516
01:55:59.479 --> 01:56:04.800
one. I appreciate your call.
Logan, thank you very age. Let's

1517
01:56:04.840 --> 01:56:10.960
see, I'm going to go here. We're going to run now to Charles

1518
01:56:11.199 --> 01:56:15.399
in Spring. Hello, Charles,
good morning. That could be helped to

1519
01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:25.520
day. I have an orange tree
that was damaged I believe in Harvey,

1520
01:56:25.720 --> 01:56:32.399
and then further damaged with the drought. Part of it dyed. I cut

1521
01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:40.479
off the dead wood, which left
me pretty much with a toothpick with a

1522
01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:45.760
few branches. But it had green
leaves and some fruit, all right.

1523
01:56:45.840 --> 01:56:51.560
And what is your question about the
tree, Well, it had green leaves

1524
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:57.640
at the end of last year.
It didn't come back with any leaves this

1525
01:56:57.920 --> 01:57:02.039
year. And I'm getting spring from
the trunk. Okay, should I leave

1526
01:57:02.159 --> 01:57:08.680
those sprouts I grow? If the
sprouts are growing from below the graph line,

1527
01:57:09.359 --> 01:57:12.760
just get rid of it. That's
rootstock. If it's coming from above

1528
01:57:12.840 --> 01:57:17.199
the graph line, then it is
something you can train back into a tree.

1529
01:57:17.800 --> 01:57:24.039
Just from one way to also tell
is the rootstock tends to be very

1530
01:57:24.199 --> 01:57:28.720
thorny, so those sprouts should be
pretty thorny. But that's the best advice

1531
01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:31.359
right now. And then just give
it some fertilizer. If it ends up

1532
01:57:31.399 --> 01:57:36.000
being that you do have some above
the graph sprouts that are going charles them.

1533
01:57:36.039 --> 01:57:40.439
I have to run here, But
I hope that helps you and get

1534
01:57:40.520 --> 01:57:44.239
you off on a good start.
By the way, microlife makes a citrus

1535
01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:48.039
feed that works really well for that. Okay, thank you, yes,

1536
01:57:48.119 --> 01:57:53.199
sir, thank you very much.
It all starts in the soil and It

1537
01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:56.319
all continues in the soil too.
By the way, Heirloom Soils, the

1538
01:57:56.359 --> 01:58:01.119
folks at Heirloom Soils, they are
they the selection in the blend they have

1539
01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:05.880
is amazing, things like the veggie
and Herb soil, which by the way,

1540
01:58:06.159 --> 01:58:11.680
is on sale for one nineteen in
bulk up there in the porder area,

1541
01:58:12.439 --> 01:58:15.279
and they can also deliver it.
You can go there and load it

1542
01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:16.039
up, or they can bring it
to you. They can dump it on

1543
01:58:16.119 --> 01:58:19.920
the driveway, or they can bring
you a supersack, which is a cubic

1544
01:58:20.039 --> 01:58:25.199
yard in a container, a sack
type container. It works really well.

1545
01:58:25.960 --> 01:58:29.279
I was just talking to Luis and
he was saying that aspose as up in

1546
01:58:29.319 --> 01:58:32.960
the Woodlands had now started stalking their
fruit berry and citrus mix. A lot

1547
01:58:33.000 --> 01:58:40.840
of places stock their veggie and herb
mix and their rosesoil mix. Heirlooms Soilsoftexas

1548
01:58:41.039 --> 01:58:44.319
dot com. You need to go
there. You can learn a lot about

1549
01:58:44.439 --> 01:58:46.199
all the different soils. I don't
have time to tell you about them here

1550
01:58:46.239 --> 01:58:50.960
on the air, but heirloom cells
a Texas are soils that are very successful

1551
01:58:51.079 --> 01:58:56.520
and I know they work because I've
used to myself. Let's go to Paarland

1552
01:58:56.600 --> 01:59:00.159
and talk to Kay. Hell Okay, good morning, Sank, thank you

1553
01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:02.960
for taking my call. I have
a question for a friend of mine who's

1554
01:59:03.000 --> 01:59:06.279
having a real problem with caterpillars.
All right, so this is one of

1555
01:59:06.319 --> 01:59:13.960
those asking for a friend, right, Yes, uh, it's any her

1556
01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:18.399
geraniums, Elephanteer's mint, high Biscus
ponsett is on and on is eating everything.

1557
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:26.319
It's a two inch orange kind of
like the black fuzzy caterpillars. There's

1558
01:59:26.439 --> 01:59:30.760
a lot of people call an as
it's orange underneath it has some black hair.

1559
01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:35.640
She went online is that it's called
a wooly bear or a tiger caterpillar.

1560
01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:39.319
Okay, well, it doesn't matter
what it is. I'm going to

1561
01:59:39.359 --> 01:59:43.439
tell you how what she needs to
do. There's two two products. One

1562
01:59:43.680 --> 01:59:50.119
is BT it's for basillistheringensis, the
name of the microbe that makes capillar sick.

1563
01:59:50.199 --> 01:59:54.560
You spray it on the foliage.
The caterpillars have to eat the foliage.

1564
01:59:54.640 --> 01:59:57.840
So you may need a little bit
of surfactant on things that have slippery

1565
01:59:58.239 --> 02:00:02.199
leaves that the spray just rolled.
But it's only gonna last you a day

1566
02:00:02.279 --> 02:00:05.920
or maybe two out there in the
environment. But that would be one.

1567
02:00:06.039 --> 02:00:12.680
It's natural, it's organic. The
other one is spinosaid s p I n

1568
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:16.800
O S A D that also kills
things that each leaves, like caterpillars.

1569
02:00:17.199 --> 02:00:20.640
And again with the serfact then if
you need to, and it's gonna last

1570
02:00:20.680 --> 02:00:25.560
a little bit longer, but if
it's a caterpillar, those two will control

1571
02:00:25.640 --> 02:00:30.920
it. Okay. There's another one
that's called a Muslim moth Muslim. It

1572
02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:33.800
doesn't matter what it is. Yeah, yeah, if it's mama was a

1573
02:00:33.880 --> 02:00:40.359
moth or butterfly, they'll kill it. Oh great, okay, thank you,

1574
02:00:41.600 --> 02:00:45.840
thank you very much. I appreciate
that call of pair. Land Way,

1575
02:00:46.479 --> 02:00:49.039
if you've been to Ana Plants and
Produce, those of you up at

1576
02:00:49.079 --> 02:00:53.279
Lake Conro, you need you need
to hear this. This is your hometown

1577
02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:57.159
garden center, I mean, and
they always have a good stock of lots

1578
02:00:57.199 --> 02:01:00.800
of cool things. Son, you
hear me talk about nitrophos and Nelson's and

1579
02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:05.720
microlife and airloom soils in Nature's way, leaf mole comples. They carry that

1580
02:01:06.119 --> 02:01:11.039
all that out there at Ana Plants
and Produce. They have things to control

1581
02:01:11.079 --> 02:01:15.680
insects and diseases and weeds. They
even have a landscape crew you need to

1582
02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:18.520
contact them and ask about having the
landscape crew come out and do a cleanup

1583
02:01:18.600 --> 02:01:24.079
and whatever you need done around the
landscape there. Make sure your beds are

1584
02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:29.159
in tip top shape. They generally
carry my lawn schedules at the checking counter.

1585
02:01:29.760 --> 02:01:32.880
But Ana Plants and Produce very much
a part of the community, always

1586
02:01:32.920 --> 02:01:38.760
having programs. They have ongoing things
for kids where the kids can come out

1587
02:01:38.880 --> 02:01:43.159
and enjoy it and do things like
that. Ana Plants and Produce. It's

1588
02:01:43.239 --> 02:01:45.039
just a great place to visit,
and you need to check back because it's

1589
02:01:45.119 --> 02:01:48.800
always changing, you know, as
the seasons go by. The different kinds

1590
02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:54.079
of plant material that you'll find,
and that include shrubs and trees. You

1591
02:01:54.159 --> 02:01:58.279
need to go by there just to
see the bling. I'm talking about the

1592
02:01:58.359 --> 02:02:00.359
stuff you put in your landscape,
maybe for a vine to grow on,

1593
02:02:00.640 --> 02:02:05.199
or maybe it's a decorative pod,
or maybe it's some yard art type of

1594
02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:10.680
thing. They are loaded with stuff
like that, really really cool supply of

1595
02:02:10.800 --> 02:02:13.159
it. A and A Plants and
Produce. By the way, they're on

1596
02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:17.239
the east side of Montgomery on Highway
one oh fives, right on the east

1597
02:02:17.279 --> 02:02:21.079
side edge of Montgomery. So all
you folks at the Lake Lake Conroe.

1598
02:02:21.800 --> 02:02:26.520
This is your backyard nursery. Of
course, people in Montgomery, Conroe and

1599
02:02:26.600 --> 02:02:30.479
all through that area. It's easy
to get to and they have what you

1600
02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.239
need. Well, it looks like
we're about to put another show hour in

1601
02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:38.800
the books. We'll be coming back
for the last hour of the show this

1602
02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:43.039
morning. Don't forget what happens after
the last hour of the show today.

1603
02:02:43.680 --> 02:02:47.279
Well, I go to the excuse
me, after the last hour of the

1604
02:02:47.319 --> 02:02:53.439
show today, I go to the
Enchanted Forest down in Richmond. They are

1605
02:02:53.800 --> 02:02:56.479
there. I'm going to be answering
your gardening questions. First of all,

1606
02:02:56.479 --> 02:02:58.920
I'd just like to meet the listeners
to garden Line. Come by and say

1607
02:02:59.000 --> 02:03:02.000
hi, let's talk. If you
want to bring a sample for identification or

1608
02:03:02.079 --> 02:03:05.680
diagnosis, or if you want to
bring a picture to show me an area

1609
02:03:05.840 --> 02:03:10.279
and what does this look like.
Make sure the pictures are in sharp focus.

1610
02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:14.159
If it's something going wrong, get
up really close, but make sure

1611
02:03:14.199 --> 02:03:16.359
it's in sharp focus, and bring
those in. I'm going to be giving

1612
02:03:16.439 --> 02:03:23.119
away six or five different Medina products, and then a whole bunch of little

1613
02:03:23.159 --> 02:03:28.319
small sample bags of Medina products while
I'm there. That is an intented forest.

1614
02:03:28.760 --> 02:03:32.239
FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. If you're heading north

1615
02:03:32.399 --> 02:03:38.800
towards sugar Land where it's off to
the right. Kat RH Garden Line does

1616
02:03:38.840 --> 02:03:44.640
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1617
02:03:44.840 --> 02:03:56.840
to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rict. It's so crazy, Trim, just

1618
02:03:57.119 --> 02:04:18.199
watch him as world. So many
things to sup A sad. Welcome to

1619
02:04:18.279 --> 02:04:21.520
garden Line. Welcome back to guarden
Line. This is our last hour of

1620
02:04:21.640 --> 02:04:26.119
the morning today. We'll be back
tomorrow six am to ten am. Tell

1621
02:04:26.159 --> 02:04:30.000
your neighbors about it. Hopefully they
will want to become listeners as well,

1622
02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:33.520
because you know our number one goal
we want you to have a beautiful lawn

1623
02:04:34.119 --> 02:04:39.600
and a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape. That that is what we're aiming for.

1624
02:04:40.319 --> 02:04:43.680
Gardening should be fun, and so
if it's not fun for you,

1625
02:04:43.840 --> 02:04:47.439
let's fix that. Let's figure out
what may be done differently. There's a

1626
02:04:47.479 --> 02:04:53.039
lot of possibilities on things, but
let's let's make it an enjoyable, enjoyable

1627
02:04:53.079 --> 02:04:58.199
hobby. And let's make sure also
that it's something that really fulfills you.

1628
02:04:58.359 --> 02:05:00.439
And just knowing that I have a
beautiful place, I have a beautiful garden.

1629
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:03.880
I love the smell of the flowers. I like watching the butterflies because

1630
02:05:03.880 --> 02:05:09.239
I planted a garden that attracts them. Those types of things you know.

1631
02:05:09.399 --> 02:05:13.039
Has to grow is a Medina product. In fact, has to grow is

1632
02:05:13.199 --> 02:05:16.399
many Medina products. There are several
different has to grows which I will be

1633
02:05:16.479 --> 02:05:23.079
giving away simple or actually containers of
when I'm at Enchanted Forest today after the

1634
02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:28.680
show. Has to grow four excuse
me, twelve four eight is a liquid

1635
02:05:28.960 --> 02:05:35.119
lawn food plus. It's has to
grow four gosh, twelve four eight liquid

1636
02:05:35.199 --> 02:05:40.399
lawn food plus. I'm not normally
dyslexic, but I think I am today

1637
02:05:41.319 --> 02:05:44.119
anyway. It's lawn care in a
bottle. You look at your garden hose,

1638
02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:46.720
you spray it all over the lawn. Doesn't take long about ten minutes

1639
02:05:46.760 --> 02:05:50.439
for the average lawn, and it's
got the natural food supplements in it.

1640
02:05:50.720 --> 02:05:56.079
That's the twelve four to eight is
a perfect blend for the want and it

1641
02:05:56.159 --> 02:06:01.800
also has Medina soil activator and humate
liquidumy liquid humans. It just makes easy,

1642
02:06:01.960 --> 02:06:05.399
easy for ten into your lawn and
given it a pretty quick boost.

1643
02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:12.159
Really, it's fast, it absorbs
easily, it stimulates the natural soil organisms

1644
02:06:12.319 --> 02:06:17.600
and it's a very effective product.
I've used it on my lawn several times

1645
02:06:17.720 --> 02:06:20.920
myself. Now, if you leave
your clippings on, do it about four

1646
02:06:20.960 --> 02:06:26.239
times a year. The has to
grow liquid lawn food plus twelve four eight

1647
02:06:26.279 --> 02:06:28.960
about four times a year. If
you take your clippings away, Number one,

1648
02:06:29.039 --> 02:06:30.840
quit doing that. Number two you
probably want to do. The has

1649
02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:36.319
to grow about monthly with the hose
en feeding of the lawn Medina products,

1650
02:06:36.439 --> 02:06:41.920
many many excellent products out there on
the market. Hey, the Arborgate.

1651
02:06:42.319 --> 02:06:45.800
The Arborgate. I was looking at
their social media and they have a ton

1652
02:06:46.520 --> 02:06:50.840
of really interesting things on how to
take care of fruit trees right now.

1653
02:06:50.840 --> 02:06:56.800
I've been a series of things that
Beverly and Angela have put together out there.

1654
02:06:57.119 --> 02:06:59.760
You should go watch those. You
can learn a lot. Like I

1655
02:06:59.800 --> 02:07:02.399
said, there's a number of different
ones that are available out there. This

1656
02:07:02.600 --> 02:07:06.439
is the time to take care of
our fruit. I did a post to

1657
02:07:06.720 --> 02:07:12.479
my website Gardening with Skip dot com
a while back, and it was sage

1658
02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:15.680
advice on the basics of fruit tree
success. I would also read that remember

1659
02:07:15.720 --> 02:07:19.159
the arbrogates can have fruit trees year
round. That's amazing. In fact,

1660
02:07:19.239 --> 02:07:24.199
that's wonderful. That's cool. The
Arburgate has a new parking lot in the

1661
02:07:24.279 --> 02:07:29.119
back. No parking on twenty nine
to twenty. You just drive down Trishel

1662
02:07:29.199 --> 02:07:33.319
Road which starts before Arbigate and loops
around behind it and comes back in to

1663
02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:38.720
twenty nine to twenty go to the
back parking lot behind the building and it's

1664
02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:41.680
easy, easy, easy to get
in get out. I don't care if

1665
02:07:41.720 --> 02:07:45.840
it's been raining, what do they
call it a frog strangler rain? You

1666
02:07:45.960 --> 02:07:49.520
can get in and eye of that
parking lot really really easy. Arbrogate's a

1667
02:07:49.600 --> 02:07:53.880
wonderful place, you know, it's
a destination. People come from all over

1668
02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:56.800
to go there. If for those
of you who just moved to the area,

1669
02:07:57.159 --> 02:08:01.600
it is on twenty nine to twenty
to the west of Tomball. Really

1670
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:03.960
easy to get to and when you
go, you're going to be amazed.

1671
02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:07.640
Plan on being there a while.
I want to head out now to Santa

1672
02:08:07.680 --> 02:08:11.439
Fe and we're going to talk to
Joe. Hello, Joe, good morning

1673
02:08:13.399 --> 02:08:22.960
morning. How can I help.
I've got a plant in my yard that's

1674
02:08:22.760 --> 02:08:28.520
kind of taking over the perimeter around
a tree. I was told it is

1675
02:08:28.600 --> 02:08:33.840
a yellow flag Irish and it can
be invasive. I don't know whether to

1676
02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:37.760
let it go or try to take
it out or what's your advice. Well,

1677
02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:43.279
it likes where it is, and
so it slowly spreads by rhizomes over

1678
02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:46.720
time. It's really easy. Just
scrape underneath the rhizome, cut off the

1679
02:08:46.800 --> 02:08:52.079
roots, and you're back in business. I think they're beautiful. If you

1680
02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:56.680
want to leave some and just occasionally
kind of trum it back, that's fine.

1681
02:08:56.680 --> 02:09:00.720
Don't worry about it taking over your
whole property. I mean I doubt

1682
02:09:00.880 --> 02:09:03.560
okay, it would take a while
and I doubt that that would happen.

1683
02:09:05.399 --> 02:09:11.399
It's it's not that bad looking at
planet's little kind of ornamental yellow flower on

1684
02:09:11.520 --> 02:09:16.159
it. Yeah, yeah it is. Uh, it does pretty well here.

1685
02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:18.199
But it's a matter of what you
want to look at your yard,

1686
02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:22.800
your garden, your it's your call
whether you want to keep those around or

1687
02:09:22.840 --> 02:09:26.760
not. So if I leave it
is it is. You don't think it's

1688
02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:31.640
going to comas me any problem down
the road. I don't. But as

1689
02:09:31.720 --> 02:09:35.319
it spreads, when it's wider than
you want it to be, you can

1690
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:39.119
you can trim it in right there. Okay, Okay, it's not it's

1691
02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:45.359
yeah, it's it's not the end
of the end of the world. Not

1692
02:09:45.479 --> 02:09:50.479
the end of the world. Yeah
right, you you know it. It

1693
02:09:50.720 --> 02:09:54.880
likes wet areas, so that tells
me probably you're getting some some wet areas

1694
02:09:56.479 --> 02:10:01.560
in your yard. I wanted the
question for you. Can I mount this

1695
02:10:01.800 --> 02:10:05.880
of you all? So let's do
it real quick. I have some amarillas

1696
02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:11.039
that I was gifted quite a few
years ago, fifteen to twenty years.

1697
02:10:11.840 --> 02:10:18.239
They were ivory with a maroon troup. I have transplanted those things. They've

1698
02:10:18.319 --> 02:10:24.600
grown up. I've given them to
friends. Now, all of a sudden,

1699
02:10:24.920 --> 02:10:28.720
I got about about one minute Joe, for I have to go to

1700
02:10:28.800 --> 02:10:33.880
break it's now become a spider lily, a Peruvian daffodil. Somebody called it,

1701
02:10:33.600 --> 02:10:37.239
what's going on with this plant?
Well, one plant doesn't change species

1702
02:10:37.399 --> 02:10:41.920
like that. I don't know what's
going on, but somehow the other plant

1703
02:10:41.079 --> 02:10:45.600
was there and just came on.
I don't know what else to say about

1704
02:10:45.640 --> 02:10:50.159
that, but I do know that
one species can't change into another one.

1705
02:10:50.560 --> 02:10:54.000
Well, he said, because it
was a hybrid, that it's reverting back

1706
02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:58.920
to its former Well, if a
plant's a hybrid and it produces seeds,

1707
02:11:00.119 --> 02:11:03.800
those seeds will be something different than
what you're seeing somewhat different, okay,

1708
02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:07.960
but it shouldn't be a different species. Hey, I've got a run where

1709
02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:11.800
against a hard commercial break. Thank
you for the call. Appreciate that very

1710
02:11:11.880 --> 02:11:16.920
much. I'll be back seven one
three two one two K t R H.

1711
02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:20.359
Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to
have you with us today. We

1712
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:24.199
are here to answer your gardening questions
and to help you have success. Someone

1713
02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:30.439
earlier asked about azamite. Could they
do the fertilizer and the azmite together or

1714
02:11:30.520 --> 02:11:33.560
would it be a problem, And
the answer is you can do them together,

1715
02:11:33.800 --> 02:11:37.640
but not in the same hopper.
Don't put them, don't mix them.

1716
02:11:37.680 --> 02:11:41.640
The particle size is different and they'll
settle out and you get a lot

1717
02:11:41.680 --> 02:11:43.880
of azamite in one area and a
lot of fertilizer in the other. But

1718
02:11:45.159 --> 02:11:48.039
do separate applications. But if you
can do in the same day, just

1719
02:11:48.399 --> 02:11:52.039
spread one fertilizer and then spread the
asmite, or you can put them put

1720
02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:56.439
them at different times. The asamite
is not there to kick plants into fast

1721
02:11:56.520 --> 02:12:01.079
growth. It is there to provide
the micro nutrients as plants grow that they

1722
02:12:01.199 --> 02:12:05.119
need, and so do it as
you want it. You know, one

1723
02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:09.079
thing that we're learning really about the
as M I two is it can be

1724
02:12:09.159 --> 02:12:16.760
combined with other products, such as
using a compost type material that you're going

1725
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:20.119
to be spreading through a bed,
or other kinds of combinations like that.

1726
02:12:20.479 --> 02:12:24.760
If you want to do at that
route, it works just fine to do

1727
02:12:24.840 --> 02:12:26.359
it that way. You can go. You can use it in combination.

1728
02:12:26.920 --> 02:12:31.720
Just remember to stay at the right
rate. It doesn't take much because it's

1729
02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:35.079
a trace mineral. It's not what
you don't put as much of it out

1730
02:12:35.119 --> 02:12:39.760
as you put out fertilizer. For
example. Just a tracement a forty four

1731
02:12:39.800 --> 02:12:43.560
pound bag will cover six to twelve
thousand square feet. You can do it

1732
02:12:43.640 --> 02:12:46.199
in spring and in fall. You
can just do do it once a year.

1733
02:12:46.199 --> 02:12:50.079
I would just recommend that you go
to Azmite Texas dot com the website,

1734
02:12:50.239 --> 02:12:52.399
take a look at it, learn
a little bit more about it.

1735
02:12:52.840 --> 02:12:56.920
But it's going to be widely available. I think most all of our garden

1736
02:12:56.000 --> 02:13:01.920
center and feed store type sponsors carry
the right now. But I just ever

1737
02:13:01.960 --> 02:13:03.840
where I go I see it.
Let's go out to Kingwood and we're going

1738
02:13:03.920 --> 02:13:09.399
to talk to Sean. Hello,
Sean, Hello, how can we help?

1739
02:13:09.560 --> 02:13:15.319
I have a rather large pine tree
that turned brown when it got hot.

1740
02:13:15.960 --> 02:13:20.439
I guess that was last summer,
okay, and it did not green

1741
02:13:20.560 --> 02:13:22.319
up this spring, and I was
wondering, if there's a chance that it

1742
02:13:22.520 --> 02:13:26.600
is just dormant and it will turn
green or bush, go ahead and cut

1743
02:13:26.680 --> 02:13:31.399
it down. If if there are
no green needles, the entire tree is

1744
02:13:31.479 --> 02:13:35.760
dead. If you have branches that
don't have green needles and other branches do,

1745
02:13:35.399 --> 02:13:39.039
those branches are live, but the
brown ones are dead. Pines can

1746
02:13:39.119 --> 02:13:43.359
only reach sprout from the base of
a living needle. Oh well, that's

1747
02:13:43.840 --> 02:13:50.560
it started to turn green this spring. Yeah, and then then it turned

1748
02:13:50.560 --> 02:13:54.479
brown again, and now it's all
brown. Yeah. Well, whatever it

1749
02:13:54.640 --> 02:14:00.119
was struggling with, that was its
last gasp effort at making it and it

1750
02:14:00.600 --> 02:14:05.159
just didn't ready to be the bearer
of bad news. By the way,

1751
02:14:05.199 --> 02:14:09.039
don't delay on getting it down.
Call Affordable Tree, have them come out

1752
02:14:09.079 --> 02:14:13.039
and take it down. Pine trees
pretty quickly start to slough bark, and

1753
02:14:13.239 --> 02:14:18.000
they're they're very difficult to climb without
well, they're dangerous, and so you

1754
02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:22.039
want to get this one was about
ninety feet tall too, So holy moly,

1755
02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:26.720
Okay, it's a big and it's
probably thirty inches at the base.

1756
02:14:28.239 --> 02:14:31.640
Big All right, Well, well
I don't want to cut this tree and

1757
02:14:31.800 --> 02:14:35.359
it's going to leave a big hole
in the sky. Yes, sir,

1758
02:14:35.439 --> 02:14:39.640
I fully understand that. I'm just
advising you on the fact that don't delay

1759
02:14:39.760 --> 02:14:43.640
in getting it out of there.
Thank you. Sorry to be the bearer

1760
02:14:43.680 --> 02:14:46.680
of bad news. They are a
lot of beautiful pine trees out there in

1761
02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:52.239
the Kingwood area that do well.
Hey, have you considered using sweet green

1762
02:14:52.600 --> 02:14:56.239
on your lawn? Sweet green is
a nito foss product. That is,

1763
02:14:56.560 --> 02:15:01.800
it smells sweet because it's based on
a molasses type materi that has microbes that

1764
02:15:01.920 --> 02:15:05.000
have gone to work on it.
And sweet green is just a it's a

1765
02:15:05.640 --> 02:15:11.880
pleasant scent to be around eleven percent
nitrogen. That is high for an organic

1766
02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:18.800
type nitrogen source. Sweet Green,
because it's of molasses based, really increases

1767
02:15:18.000 --> 02:15:22.479
the population of a lot of different
kinds of beneficial microbes, creating that rich

1768
02:15:22.640 --> 02:15:28.680
environment that helps the plants have their
optimum growth and optimum health. You're going

1769
02:15:28.760 --> 02:15:31.800
to find it at a task Asta
ace, for example. You're going to

1770
02:15:31.840 --> 02:15:35.319
find it at the ace out of
Sincle Ranch on Mason Road. You're going

1771
02:15:35.399 --> 02:15:39.920
to find it at Lake hardware down
include or Gym's hardware up in Montgomery area.

1772
02:15:39.079 --> 02:15:43.840
Easy to find nitroposs products including Sweet
Green. Let's see, we're going

1773
02:15:43.920 --> 02:15:48.359
to go to Freddy Up and Tombol. Hello Freddy, Hello, sir,

1774
02:15:48.399 --> 02:15:52.159
how are you doing today? I'm
well, how are you? Fantastic?

1775
02:15:52.199 --> 02:15:58.039
Beautiful day, beautiful day. I
got a quick question for you and March

1776
02:15:58.199 --> 02:16:03.880
I did a weed and feed in
my lawn, and when's a good time

1777
02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:09.000
for me to put actually fertilizer.
I usually say that that will last you

1778
02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:13.800
about four to six weeks. The
early application like that, that was a

1779
02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:18.119
fast release fertilizer if it was in
a weed and feed, and so I

1780
02:16:18.159 --> 02:16:20.439
would say anytime here in April.
If you want to wait a little bit

1781
02:16:20.479 --> 02:16:24.399
longer, depending on when in March
you put it out, just give it

1782
02:16:24.479 --> 02:16:28.159
four to six weeks and then put
down your slow release fertilizer. Okay.

1783
02:16:28.439 --> 02:16:33.600
Is there a certain a certain fertilizer, that certain fertilizer that you recommend,

1784
02:16:33.799 --> 02:16:37.959
you know, like a turf builder
or anything like that, or yeah,

1785
02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:41.120
no, I don't do the Scots. We have a number of fertilizers that

1786
02:16:41.239 --> 02:16:45.799
we talk about here on garden Line. I mean you've heard me talk about

1787
02:16:45.840 --> 02:16:48.959
different ones. If you wanted to
put out something slow release like that,

1788
02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:54.520
you might consider Nitrofossis Super Turf.
That's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.

1789
02:16:54.079 --> 02:17:00.040
It's got releases nitrogen for the next
two or three months into summer, and

1790
02:17:00.479 --> 02:17:05.559
it also has some iron to keep
things especially green. Sometimes iron chlorosis can

1791
02:17:05.639 --> 02:17:09.600
get into our turf. But it's
a silver it's a silver bag. So

1792
02:17:11.840 --> 02:17:13.239
you know, being up there in
Tombole, I know that D and D

1793
02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:18.959
Feed carries that out west of Tombol. I'm sure there's some other places that

1794
02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:24.639
carry the super turf as well.
You might as you think, yeah,

1795
02:17:24.719 --> 02:17:28.719
go ahead, you think you think
ACE Hardware will carry something like that,

1796
02:17:28.920 --> 02:17:31.760
or almost always almost. I don't
think I've been in an ACE that didn't

1797
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:35.159
have those those for lives. Okay, okay, all right, well all

1798
02:17:35.399 --> 02:17:39.840
buddy, I'll give it a shot. Appreciate it, buddy, all right,

1799
02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.159
you take care. Appreciate the call
very much. If you are done

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02:17:43.200 --> 02:17:48.120
in the Heights and you have not
been to Buchanan's Plants, or even if

1801
02:17:48.159 --> 02:17:50.079
you have, you need to go
back and you need to check them out.

1802
02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:56.520
Buchanans Is it's just like a hideaway
place in the Heights and it is

1803
02:17:56.680 --> 02:18:01.680
wonderful to roam around through there.
If you're interested in native plants, it

1804
02:18:01.840 --> 02:18:05.200
is a must stop. They have
I over and over again, I see

1805
02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:09.799
them on their social media put some
native up and it's like, I didn't

1806
02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:13.120
know that was in the market.
I didn't know you could buy that.

1807
02:18:13.639 --> 02:18:16.360
You know, just a homeowner going
into a garden center could buy it.

1808
02:18:16.120 --> 02:18:20.399
That's how it is with Buchanan's Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights,

1809
02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:24.520
and they don't just have natives.
They have an excellent houseplant collection,

1810
02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:31.000
amazing herbs and flowers and vegetables and
perennials and shrubs and trees. They've got

1811
02:18:31.040 --> 02:18:33.719
a lot of different things there.
But you got to go buy and check

1812
02:18:33.760 --> 02:18:39.680
it out. Also go to the
website Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com.

1813
02:18:41.159 --> 02:18:46.600
They're at the website. You'll find
a lot of very excellent educational pieces

1814
02:18:46.760 --> 02:18:50.159
that will really really help you.
I've been very impressed with the kind of

1815
02:18:50.200 --> 02:18:52.200
product they put out. And then
all the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline.

1816
02:18:52.280 --> 02:18:56.520
Yep, they're gonna have their Buchanans
Native plants on Eleventh Street and the

1817
02:18:56.600 --> 02:19:01.000
Heights. We're going to go out
to sugar Land now and talk to Alan.

1818
02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:05.840
Hello Allan, good morning, Sara. How are you? I'm good,

1819
02:19:05.959 --> 02:19:09.600
I'm good. How can we help
tonight? Well, so I've been

1820
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:13.600
taking some advice from y'all. About
sixty days ago, mid March, I

1821
02:19:13.719 --> 02:19:20.680
went to see in a mulch purchased
a blue bag of the nitro foss We

1822
02:19:20.799 --> 02:19:24.280
didn't feed. I missed the window
for the post and premurder and stuff.

1823
02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:33.120
So I put that down and I
actually called Nitro Falls and asked them,

1824
02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:35.600
you know a little bit more about
this in comparison to the red bag.

1825
02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:39.200
But I normally use the red bag, and I'm not sure why I went

1826
02:19:39.239 --> 02:19:43.239
to blue, but anyways, it
didn't do what it was supposed to do

1827
02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:48.280
as far as killing all the weeds. So my front yard looks great.

1828
02:19:48.840 --> 02:19:54.959
My backyard is still flooded with weeds. And they started to roll away when

1829
02:19:56.000 --> 02:19:58.399
I after about a week of putting
it down, but they're like back in

1830
02:19:58.520 --> 02:20:05.280
full fourth So all right, So
there's several possibilities. The granules didn't stick

1831
02:20:05.360 --> 02:20:09.000
to the leave, you didn't give
a little light watering of the of the

1832
02:20:09.079 --> 02:20:13.639
surface, so the granules stick better
to the lit weeds. Not every weed

1833
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:18.479
is equally susceptible to every chemical that
would normally control a broad leave for a

1834
02:20:18.559 --> 02:20:22.440
grass or whatever it's designed for.
That's a possibility as well. Here's what

1835
02:20:22.520 --> 02:20:28.879
I like you to do. I'm
going to be in the Enchanted Forest nursery

1836
02:20:28.239 --> 02:20:33.040
at eleven thirty today. Pull those
weeds up, put them in bags and

1837
02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:37.079
bring them there. Let me take
a look at them and see. And

1838
02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:39.559
I may have to direct you to
something you can mix up in a sprayer

1839
02:20:39.639 --> 02:20:43.639
and spot treat that you can get
this get control of those weeds or some

1840
02:20:43.799 --> 02:20:46.559
of them. I may say,
don't worry about them, they're going to

1841
02:20:46.559 --> 02:20:50.680
go away. But if you'll do
that, I'll be happy to look through

1842
02:20:50.719 --> 02:20:54.719
your weeds and you could also that's
probably the best way is let me have

1843
02:20:54.799 --> 02:21:01.000
a sample. Yeah, And then
and then since it's been about eight weeks

1844
02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:03.760
since I put down that you know
that blue bag, I know, then

1845
02:21:03.840 --> 02:21:07.520
that's also a quick release as well. According to the factor it is.

1846
02:21:09.280 --> 02:21:13.000
Can I am I able now to
put that silver bag that you guys are

1847
02:21:13.000 --> 02:21:18.399
recommending. Yeah, The nitropost product
silver bag is called Superturf and it is

1848
02:21:18.639 --> 02:21:20.520
time to put that down if it's
been you see now, well that also

1849
02:21:20.600 --> 02:21:24.079
helped choke the weed that as well
or not. Well. Here, here's

1850
02:21:24.159 --> 02:21:28.200
what happens. As you mow,
water and fertilize properly, the lawn gets

1851
02:21:28.319 --> 02:21:33.159
denser and denser. And when that
when that happens, the weeds that are

1852
02:21:33.239 --> 02:21:37.799
coming from seed can't make it up
through that density to sunlight. They just

1853
02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:41.159
can't, and so it reduces them
a lot. And rather than have a

1854
02:21:41.239 --> 02:21:46.280
thin lawn and constantly spraying and dropping
everything in the world on it trying to

1855
02:21:46.319 --> 02:21:50.520
kill weeds, start with a healthy, dense lawn and your problems go down

1856
02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:54.399
a whole lot. Yeah, and
my backyard has tons of sun light,

1857
02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:58.159
so it's definitely not a it's definitely
not an issue. And highly irrigation and

1858
02:21:58.280 --> 02:22:03.159
I mow once a week. All
right, Well, Alan, I'm gonna

1859
02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:05.159
have to run. Sounds like you're
doing the right thing. But if you

1860
02:22:05.200 --> 02:22:11.600
go to my website gardening with Skip
dot com gardening with, there's a lawn

1861
02:22:11.680 --> 02:22:15.600
case schedule. It's free to download, and it tells you exactly when and

1862
02:22:15.760 --> 02:22:20.799
what to put on uh and and
of all these different products that go on

1863
02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:24.760
your lawn. Okay, and the
one the weed ones on the pest Disease

1864
02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:28.719
and weed Management two schedules are both
free. Thanks a lot for the call.

1865
02:22:28.959 --> 02:22:31.600
Good luck with that. I hope
I get to see you today out

1866
02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:37.879
there at Enchanted Forest Garden Center.
We're going to go now to Dickinson and

1867
02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:41.920
talk to Carrissa. Hello, Carissa, Hi, good morning. How are

1868
02:22:41.959 --> 02:22:46.280
you well? I'm well? How
are you? I'm doing good. It's

1869
02:22:46.280 --> 02:22:50.239
a beautiful day, and I just
have a quick question for you. My

1870
02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:54.239
husband and I just recently purchased thirty
six acres on the Dickinson Buy you.

1871
02:22:54.000 --> 02:22:58.000
It's lorgest piece of property, but
it's been abandoned since Harvey, and it

1872
02:22:58.120 --> 02:23:07.200
is completely for grown with BlackBerry briers
which are producing but also poison ivy or

1873
02:23:07.280 --> 02:23:13.280
poison oak. It's huge all over
the trees, the trees here. I'm

1874
02:23:13.360 --> 02:23:16.440
just trying to figure out what is
step one to get this under control.

1875
02:23:16.559 --> 02:23:22.200
Yeah. Step one is to spray
the poison ivy and the blackberries with the

1876
02:23:22.239 --> 02:23:28.040
product containing tri clop here t R
I C l O P y R tri

1877
02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:33.040
cloak pak. When you do that, it will it will translocate down and

1878
02:23:33.120 --> 02:23:37.399
do a really good job of killing
them. You may have to do a

1879
02:23:37.520 --> 02:23:41.479
reapplication, but that should do the
job pretty good for you. And okay,

1880
02:23:41.719 --> 02:23:46.239
that well, you're gonna have to
redo it. I mean it just

1881
02:23:46.840 --> 02:23:50.959
no doubt. You never get it
all with one spraying, right, okay

1882
02:23:50.120 --> 02:23:54.840
y, And then we have we
have mostly pine trees, but we also

1883
02:23:54.920 --> 02:24:00.399
have some beautiful mossy oak but they're
starting to die. I guess maybe not

1884
02:24:00.559 --> 02:24:05.319
starting to but there's many dead ones
on the property. Is it because of

1885
02:24:05.440 --> 02:24:07.399
what I just named it's growing there? Or is there something we can do

1886
02:24:09.479 --> 02:24:13.719
to check what's in our soil?
Or how can we keep those three oaks

1887
02:24:13.760 --> 02:24:16.000
alive? A lot of different things
could be involved in that. It could

1888
02:24:16.000 --> 02:24:18.280
be weather, It could be freezes, could be drought. In fact,

1889
02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:24.799
it probably is those last two.
But nothing. Those plants are not the

1890
02:24:24.840 --> 02:24:26.879
problem. Hey, I got to
run. Thank you very much for the

1891
02:24:26.000 --> 02:24:31.079
call. Len to turn over to
Nicky and the news right now. You

1892
02:24:31.159 --> 02:24:35.520
can call us at seven one three
two one two KTR. If you're a

1893
02:24:35.559 --> 02:24:37.479
jitterbugging, you need to stop,
sit back down, let's talk. Let's

1894
02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:41.719
talk plants. Here we go Garden
line, last thirty minutes of the day.

1895
02:24:43.280 --> 02:24:45.879
UH, if you would like to
give us A call seven one three

1896
02:24:46.159 --> 02:24:50.040
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to talk to you about

1897
02:24:50.760 --> 02:24:54.040
taking care of your lawn by top
dressing it. This is the time of

1898
02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:56.239
year we do that. If you
look at my lawn care schedule, uh,

1899
02:24:56.600 --> 02:25:00.719
the lawn care schedule, there's a
thing on a ration and I talk

1900
02:25:00.760 --> 02:25:05.399
about air rating and putting a high
quality, finely screened leap more compost down

1901
02:25:05.360 --> 02:25:09.319
and so that goes from April through
September. And the reason I have it

1902
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:13.840
at that time is because as the
grass comes out of spring and it's trying

1903
02:25:13.879 --> 02:25:18.399
to wake up and get a new
root system in the ground, air rating,

1904
02:25:18.840 --> 02:25:22.799
you know, does hit some grass
plant parts and it can cause a

1905
02:25:22.879 --> 02:25:26.959
little bit of damage to it.
Overall, it is a way way way

1906
02:25:28.079 --> 02:25:31.040
beneficial activity for the grass. So
I let the grass wake up a little

1907
02:25:31.040 --> 02:25:33.799
bit, get a little strengthen it, and then here we go. It's

1908
02:25:33.879 --> 02:25:39.399
time to do that. If you
live south and west of the Houston area,

1909
02:25:39.000 --> 02:25:43.120
BnB Turf Pros is a company you
want. When I say south and

1910
02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:48.280
west, I mean Missouri City,
Sugarland down south Presno or Cola Siena,

1911
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:52.280
Iowa colony you know over in pair
Land for example, that's about as far

1912
02:25:52.879 --> 02:25:56.280
east as BnB turf Pros go,
but you can go all the way down

1913
02:25:56.399 --> 02:26:03.360
to Manville and they'll come. They'll
come out there. When I was talking

1914
02:26:03.440 --> 02:26:05.959
to BnB turf Pros as we were
about to bring them on the show,

1915
02:26:07.559 --> 02:26:11.719
and I always like to know that
the people that sell the products, either

1916
02:26:11.799 --> 02:26:16.479
I've used the products, or I
have science research based information on the product,

1917
02:26:16.200 --> 02:26:20.840
or I can see the kinds of
service that they give those sort of

1918
02:26:20.920 --> 02:26:26.040
things. B and B turf pro
they really go above to make a personal

1919
02:26:26.120 --> 02:26:31.120
connection with their clients and ensure satisfaction. Go to their website BB there's no

1920
02:26:31.399 --> 02:26:37.760
end in it Bbturfpros dot com and
look at what customers are saying about them.

1921
02:26:37.239 --> 02:26:41.639
They are very highly rated. Listen, when you're doing in a service

1922
02:26:41.719 --> 02:26:46.399
dot company, Oh somebody is not
happy no matter what you do. But

1923
02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:50.639
they have very very high ratings.
They only use products that I trust Here

1924
02:26:50.719 --> 02:26:56.360
on garden Line. They go to
Saanamult to get their products that they're putting

1925
02:26:56.399 --> 02:26:58.440
out there on your lawn. You
can give B and B a call seven

1926
02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:05.399
three two three four fifty five ninety
eight seven one three two three four fifty

1927
02:27:05.479 --> 02:27:09.000
five ninety eight. They do the
aeration and compost, stop dressing. Just

1928
02:27:09.200 --> 02:27:13.879
call them up and see what they
can do for you to turn that lawn

1929
02:27:13.000 --> 02:27:18.399
back around. I want to go
now out to Lake Jackson and we're going

1930
02:27:18.479 --> 02:27:22.399
to talk to James. Hello,
James, Hi Skip, Thank you so

1931
02:27:22.559 --> 02:27:26.559
much for taking my call. I
learned something from you every weekend I have.

1932
02:27:26.840 --> 02:27:31.200
I'd like to get some advice from
you on a couple of things.

1933
02:27:31.040 --> 02:27:35.319
My house is about ready to get
elevated, and they're going to lift the

1934
02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:39.799
foundation up about four and a half
feet off the ground, so all this

1935
02:27:39.959 --> 02:27:43.840
zone up around the foundation is going
to be basically excavated and destroyed. So

1936
02:27:43.920 --> 02:27:48.280
all the shrubs that I have in
there are just going to get trampled on

1937
02:27:48.520 --> 02:27:54.879
and and evacuated. So what I'd
like some advice on. I have a

1938
02:27:54.959 --> 02:28:00.319
couple of plans, like I have
a set of roses, really nice out

1939
02:28:00.399 --> 02:28:05.319
roses that are probably about four feet
in diameter. Wow, and I'm trying

1940
02:28:05.360 --> 02:28:11.319
to decide whether or not I should
just forget about keeping them or just start

1941
02:28:11.399 --> 02:28:13.760
over. I would like to have
some roses when I get done, and

1942
02:28:13.879 --> 02:28:18.959
they would have to be moved.
So would you recommend that I transplant them,

1943
02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:22.559
And if I do, how would
you do that? How long do

1944
02:28:22.600 --> 02:28:28.799
you think you're going to be out
of a shop there on the getting back?

1945
02:28:28.920 --> 02:28:31.600
Yeah, that's yeah, that's a
good question. I think so in

1946
02:28:31.680 --> 02:28:37.760
about thirty days, so into May, well they'll start the work and then

1947
02:28:37.040 --> 02:28:43.639
probably wouldn't be done until into July. Okay, Well, we're picking a

1948
02:28:43.680 --> 02:28:46.719
time of year where it's fixing the
heat up, and so I hate to

1949
02:28:48.600 --> 02:28:50.799
trim the roots and put them in
containers to try to keep them going.

1950
02:28:52.159 --> 02:28:54.879
It can be done, but that's
a more stressful thing. If you can

1951
02:28:56.000 --> 02:29:00.479
get quite a bit of roots and
go set those plants in a semi shady

1952
02:29:00.559 --> 02:29:03.680
area, Like roses need sunlight to
bloom. Well, right here, we're

1953
02:29:03.719 --> 02:29:07.639
just trying to keep them alive.
So a little morning sun maybe under the

1954
02:29:07.680 --> 02:29:11.040
shade of a tree, and then
they're protected. Set the bar root.

1955
02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:13.639
It's basically going to be bear root
when you dig it up, but set

1956
02:29:13.719 --> 02:29:18.959
the roots with whatever soil you can
move over in that spot and then take

1957
02:29:20.440 --> 02:29:26.040
something it could be a bed mix, like buy some bags of veggie and

1958
02:29:26.120 --> 02:29:30.600
herb soil or roast soil would be
better, and then just throw them in

1959
02:29:30.719 --> 02:29:33.120
around there, water and settle it
in around the roots and keep it moist.

1960
02:29:35.079 --> 02:29:37.799
You want to have a little break
from the sun, but enough sun

1961
02:29:37.280 --> 02:29:41.479
to continue to support growth. And
they can set like that, and when

1962
02:29:41.520 --> 02:29:45.680
it's time to plant, you can
just kind of lift them up and move

1963
02:29:45.760 --> 02:29:48.959
them to a new spot and set
them in with some TLC. But that

1964
02:29:48.040 --> 02:29:52.920
would be I think the most practical
approach if you're trying to save those plants.

1965
02:29:52.680 --> 02:29:56.479
Okay, yeah, at one thought
I had was getting one of those

1966
02:29:56.639 --> 02:30:01.239
really cheap plastic swimming pool so that
you could find it, you know,

1967
02:30:01.360 --> 02:30:07.360
like a Walmart, and then setting
the delicately just placing those shrubs inside that

1968
02:30:09.000 --> 02:30:13.440
pool. But can I can I
maybe as I'm lifting the soil the bush

1969
02:30:13.520 --> 02:30:16.360
up out of the soil, can
I put it down on like one of

1970
02:30:16.440 --> 02:30:20.920
those weed barrier cloths and then use
that to lift it up into the pool

1971
02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:24.559
with that? Yeah, I would, you could do that if it's a

1972
02:30:24.600 --> 02:30:26.719
strong enough one. I do tarps
all that. I've got some little tarps,

1973
02:30:28.239 --> 02:30:31.399
and I'm telling you something that would
cause four men to go to the

1974
02:30:31.479 --> 02:30:33.639
chiropractor. You can set them on
the tarp and one guy can drag it

1975
02:30:33.680 --> 02:30:37.280
across the yard, you know.
So yeah, don't. Don't try to

1976
02:30:37.360 --> 02:30:43.000
lift it. But I like the
little plastic tarps because they're slick and they

1977
02:30:43.079 --> 02:30:48.079
glide over the surface very well.
Okay, and so you would slide the

1978
02:30:48.639 --> 02:30:52.360
roses into the container. Well,
yeah, and if you're going to lift

1979
02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:56.879
it to you know, you grab
two sides of the tarp the other side

1980
02:30:56.920 --> 02:30:58.879
guy grabs two sides, and you
can lift the lot that way. You're

1981
02:30:58.879 --> 02:31:03.879
not bending over, You're just using
your arms to do it. And you

1982
02:31:03.920 --> 02:31:05.719
could put them in the pool.
But make sure there's holes in the bottom

1983
02:31:05.719 --> 02:31:09.959
of the pool so it drains well. I mean good size holes, not

1984
02:31:09.200 --> 02:31:13.799
just like a little nail hole.
And in fact, if it's sitting on

1985
02:31:15.000 --> 02:31:18.760
clay soil, the water is going
to have trouble getting out because clay plugs

1986
02:31:18.840 --> 02:31:22.040
up those holes. But yeah,
do that, and then fill it with

1987
02:31:22.760 --> 02:31:24.520
a rose soil is what I would
use. All the plant, all shrubs.

1988
02:31:24.600 --> 02:31:28.120
Fill it with a rose soil watered
in really good, and those roots

1989
02:31:28.159 --> 02:31:33.120
are going to have moisture and you're
doing the best you can to minimize stress,

1990
02:31:33.719 --> 02:31:35.159
but at the same time giving them
a little bit of sunlight to get

1991
02:31:35.200 --> 02:31:41.840
them by. Okay. And then
then last last question I have about thirty

1992
02:31:41.879 --> 02:31:45.719
seconds to break. Yeah, so
I got about an eight foot tall,

1993
02:31:45.799 --> 02:31:48.639
four foot wide canulia and in the
same way, I mean, is there

1994
02:31:50.000 --> 02:31:54.120
somebody that can get to actually help
me transplant that. I'm sure the roots

1995
02:31:54.319 --> 02:31:58.479
really that I don't know. I
would probably cut that back by about a

1996
02:31:58.719 --> 02:32:03.159
third, just because try to get
some of the leaves off. But yeah,

1997
02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:05.479
I don't know who to tell you
to get on that. You just

1998
02:32:05.559 --> 02:32:09.360
have to find some labor local to
do it. Okay, Yeah, all

1999
02:32:09.479 --> 02:32:11.959
right, thank you, James,
appreciate your call. Good luck with that.

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I'd like to hear how that turns
out. We're going to go to

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break right now or a phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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02:32:18.079 --> 02:32:22.600
seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us on

2003
02:32:22.840 --> 02:32:26.920
a great day for gardening. I
was we've been talking about these products and

2004
02:32:28.040 --> 02:32:30.879
things to control this and that and
the other. And it reminded me a

2005
02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:33.280
while back, good while back,
I was in a big Buck store and

2006
02:32:33.399 --> 02:32:37.399
it doesn't matter what the name of
it was, because well, I'll just

2007
02:32:37.559 --> 02:32:41.680
leave it there. Uh. And
I did this several times as a matter

2008
02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:45.000
of fact, just as after the
first time, I did it again and

2009
02:32:45.000 --> 02:32:46.840
again as a test, go up
to somebody in that section and go,

2010
02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:50.639
hey, can you help me with
And I ask them a question for a

2011
02:32:50.680 --> 02:32:54.159
pest control And I could tell as
I began asking the question, their eyes

2012
02:32:54.239 --> 02:32:58.840
glazed over and they were just kind
of grabbing at the shelf. They didn't

2013
02:32:58.840 --> 02:33:01.319
know what they were talking about.
I was saying, Oh, so you

2014
02:33:01.440 --> 02:33:05.840
been working in the garden center while
No, actually I was a hairdresser.

2015
02:33:05.959 --> 02:33:09.280
I was cutting hair before I hard
on to do this, okay, and

2016
02:33:09.360 --> 02:33:15.079
now you're selling all these products that
can cause a lot of damage if misused.

2017
02:33:15.559 --> 02:33:18.079
Another time, I was in and
I had an appointment with the garden

2018
02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:22.799
center manager to a program. I
got their new guy in and oh,

2019
02:33:22.920 --> 02:33:26.520
you're the new manager. What are
you doing well? I was in charge

2020
02:33:26.559 --> 02:33:28.559
of the jewelry counter last week.
See what I'm saying, folks, when

2021
02:33:28.600 --> 02:33:33.559
we go to an independent garden center, a mom and pop garden center,

2022
02:33:33.959 --> 02:33:37.040
or a local feed store, a
local business, we're going to get the

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02:33:37.159 --> 02:33:41.760
advice and the right product for the
job from someone who knows what they're talking

2024
02:33:41.799 --> 02:33:46.760
about. That is very very very
important. Southwest Fertilizers that kind of place

2025
02:33:46.840 --> 02:33:50.920
too, you know, Southwest.
It's on the corner of Businet and Renwick

2026
02:33:50.440 --> 02:33:54.120
and Bob and his whole team there, Bob and his whole team, Aaron

2027
02:33:54.200 --> 02:33:58.360
and all of them. They know
what they're talking about, and they have

2028
02:33:58.639 --> 02:34:01.760
every product you can imagine that you
would need. If I talk about it

2029
02:34:01.840 --> 02:34:05.239
on Guardline, that's just a drop
in the bucket of all the things they

2030
02:34:05.440 --> 02:34:09.280
carry at Southwest Fertilizer, including all
those fertilizers. Do you need a new

2031
02:34:09.319 --> 02:34:13.719
fertilizer spreader? Do you need to
have small engine work done it? They

2032
02:34:13.799 --> 02:34:15.879
do that in the back of the
store. Do you need a tool,

2033
02:34:16.000 --> 02:34:20.319
Well, walk down an eighty foot
wall and pick one out Southwest Fertilizer on

2034
02:34:20.399 --> 02:34:26.760
the corner of Bissinet and Renwick.
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Okay, enough

2035
02:34:26.799 --> 02:34:31.000
of a soapbox there, let's go
talk to David and Montgomery. Hey David,

2036
02:34:31.399 --> 02:34:37.360
good morning morning. I have an
I have an issue with dollar weed,

2037
02:34:39.040 --> 02:34:41.399
and I just laid New Sod down. Of course I have to water

2038
02:34:41.520 --> 02:34:46.639
it in real well, and these
little dollar weeds started popping up everywhere,

2039
02:34:46.879 --> 02:34:52.000
and I need to know you're a
great opinion on how to treat that with

2040
02:34:52.200 --> 02:34:58.879
New Sod. Yeah, there's with
brand new sid i'd let's let's get that

2041
02:34:58.040 --> 02:35:01.319
sade in. Let's get it,
give it a few weeks to get established,

2042
02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.760
to get a good root system in
the ground, and so it's not

2043
02:35:05.959 --> 02:35:11.200
in a week in state. Uh. There are some products that most of

2044
02:35:11.280 --> 02:35:15.840
the broad leaf we control products when
you spray them in hot weather and the

2045
02:35:15.959 --> 02:35:20.280
upper eighties, nineties nineties, they're
stress in augustine a lot, a lot,

2046
02:35:20.520 --> 02:35:24.159
and so we try to avoid that. There's one called Celsius that's pretty

2047
02:35:24.200 --> 02:35:30.319
widely available at our some of our
garden centers and defeed stores for example.

2048
02:35:30.840 --> 02:35:35.360
Uh. And Celsius is a little
more a little less damaging. You know,

2049
02:35:35.600 --> 02:35:37.920
you could be up in the lower
nineties. It's not going to hurt,

2050
02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:41.239
and it's a it's a great one
for dollar weed and Virginia button weed

2051
02:35:41.319 --> 02:35:46.440
both. Then there are many other
products out there on the market that you

2052
02:35:46.559 --> 02:35:52.479
can be directed to that you know, we'll control that. All right,

2053
02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:58.479
Thank you very much. I appreciate
your call very much. Let's go now

2054
02:35:58.680 --> 02:36:01.799
to League City and we're going to
talk to Linn. Hello, Linn,

2055
02:36:03.079 --> 02:36:07.440
good morning. So I need to
transplant my tomato plants into a larger container.

2056
02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:13.520
I'm going to use large pots for
that, and what do you recommend

2057
02:36:15.040 --> 02:36:20.360
Like I think one of your earlier
callers said that he used was it heirloom

2058
02:36:20.639 --> 02:36:24.920
or fust to grow? Well,
you're talking about what do you use for

2059
02:36:24.079 --> 02:36:28.639
soil? Yes, okay, First
of all, if it's a tomato,

2060
02:36:28.799 --> 02:36:31.159
I would put it in a pot
that holds ten gallons or more of soil.

2061
02:36:31.639 --> 02:36:35.399
You can grow a tomato and a
five five gallons of soil. But

2062
02:36:35.559 --> 02:36:39.360
you're especially if it's a big plant, you're having to water it when it

2063
02:36:39.399 --> 02:36:41.520
gets hot. You're watering a couple
times a day to keep it from going

2064
02:36:41.559 --> 02:36:46.079
into us stress. So that's why
I like a little more soil volume.

2065
02:36:46.520 --> 02:36:50.440
Uh. The product I think I
was talking about at the time was heirloom

2066
02:36:50.559 --> 02:36:56.840
soils Veggie and Herb mes heirloom soils
Veggie and herb mex. Uh got it,

2067
02:36:58.159 --> 02:37:01.120
thank you. It is easy to
find, uh, you know you're

2068
02:37:01.159 --> 02:37:07.000
you're gonna All you have to do
is go to your ACE Hardware dot com

2069
02:37:07.120 --> 02:37:09.200
and find find the ACE our league
city feed. Yeah. ACE Hardware is

2070
02:37:09.280 --> 02:37:13.520
near you wherever you are. Uh, you're going to be able to to

2071
02:37:13.840 --> 02:37:16.639
You got two aces too, by
the way, You've got uh the Kilgore's

2072
02:37:16.639 --> 02:37:20.639
Ace Hardware on the main street in
League City, and you've got uh the

2073
02:37:20.959 --> 02:37:26.360
U League City Ace Hardware on West
League City Parkway, so they're both close

2074
02:37:26.360 --> 02:37:31.200
to here. They carried those products. Okay. The gentleman that had the

2075
02:37:31.360 --> 02:37:35.520
question about the dollar weed, I
have a similar issue with that, but

2076
02:37:35.719 --> 02:37:46.079
not newly established in Augustine and I
have dollar weed and ax flas Okay,

2077
02:37:46.159 --> 02:37:50.959
I mean it's ox fallis is just
every too much too much oxalis? Uh

2078
02:37:50.479 --> 02:37:56.479
is, It's sends seeds everywhere.
It is pretty amazing how that plant works.

2079
02:37:56.959 --> 02:38:01.959
I would again the Celsius would be
an option for that. There are

2080
02:38:01.040 --> 02:38:05.079
a number of products that you could
use for it. The folks at Bunye

2081
02:38:05.159 --> 02:38:11.200
have one called weed beater, though
I would do the weed Beater Ultra that

2082
02:38:11.440 --> 02:38:16.760
I think is the best blend for
that particular kind of weed. Just do

2083
02:38:16.920 --> 02:38:18.840
it when the temperatures are cooler,
doing the earliest time of day even this

2084
02:38:18.959 --> 02:38:22.079
time of year. Do it in
the morning. The weed Beater Ultra.

2085
02:38:22.200 --> 02:38:28.239
Fur Loom also has some products that
work well for that. But let's just

2086
02:38:28.319 --> 02:38:33.559
simplify it and say Celsius and bun
Eyed weed Beater Ultra are two good options.

2087
02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:35.959
Okay, thanks, so much all
right, you bet, thank you

2088
02:38:37.079 --> 02:38:43.520
appreciate that call. When was the
last time or have you even been to

2089
02:38:43.639 --> 02:38:48.000
Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Nelson
Water Garden and Nursery is well. First

2090
02:38:48.000 --> 02:38:52.280
of all, it may surprise you
to know that they have a nursery,

2091
02:38:52.280 --> 02:38:58.120
and they do have a nice nursery
out there. The Nelson folks have been

2092
02:38:58.600 --> 02:39:03.559
leading the water garden world for a
very long time. They absolutely know how

2093
02:39:03.680 --> 02:39:09.440
to create the most beautiful water gardens. Maybe you want a little pond with

2094
02:39:09.600 --> 02:39:13.239
koy in it or goldfish in it. Maybe you want a waterfall to enhance

2095
02:39:13.280 --> 02:39:18.520
and provide that sound of water.
Maybe you want a disappearing fountain, a

2096
02:39:18.680 --> 02:39:24.079
giant beautiful urn container water spills over
the side and recirculates. Those are so

2097
02:39:24.239 --> 02:39:26.360
cool and the birds will thank you
too, by the way. They love

2098
02:39:26.799 --> 02:39:31.040
a constant, good source of water. They can build, They can design

2099
02:39:31.120 --> 02:39:35.399
and build everyone. They do it
one at a time. They'll build it

2100
02:39:35.479 --> 02:39:37.520
for you, or they'll help you. If you want to try to do

2101
02:39:37.600 --> 02:39:41.399
it yourself, you could start small
little container water garden is a great way

2102
02:39:41.479 --> 02:39:45.120
to go. Ponds are just a
start. When you're out there, check

2103
02:39:45.159 --> 02:39:48.120
out all the nursery plants that they
have a lot of cool supplies out there.

2104
02:39:48.680 --> 02:39:52.600
I would suggest you take people with
you because this is a destination nursery,

2105
02:39:52.959 --> 02:39:58.159
Nelson Water Garden. It's on Katie
Fortman Road, north of Highway Toann

2106
02:39:58.159 --> 02:40:01.399
the Katie Freeway. You just go
out there, turn right on Katie Fort

2107
02:40:01.440 --> 02:40:05.520
Ben and it's a stone's throw away. Take people with you, because trust

2108
02:40:05.600 --> 02:40:09.600
me on this one, you're going
to see scenes as you walk through this

2109
02:40:09.799 --> 02:40:16.280
place that are just absolutely gorgeous and
will make you go yeah, that at

2110
02:40:16.360 --> 02:40:18.799
my place. That would be perfect. At my place, a little back

2111
02:40:20.000 --> 02:40:24.440
entertainment area, you know where we
gather our guests. Nelsonwatergarden dot com.

2112
02:40:24.680 --> 02:40:28.319
That's the website. I really recommend
you go check them out. In fact,

2113
02:40:28.319 --> 02:40:31.719
today will be a great day to
get out there. We're going to

2114
02:40:31.799 --> 02:40:39.760
go now to Janet in Montgomery.
Hello Jennet, good morning morning. Yes,

2115
02:40:41.600 --> 02:40:46.879
I have a lot of knockout and
drift roses in the yard, and

2116
02:40:48.040 --> 02:40:54.200
I have one section that appears to
have what I believe is rosette disease the

2117
02:40:54.680 --> 02:41:01.399
mites and is that fatal? Can
I do anything? Well? We need

2118
02:41:01.479 --> 02:41:05.559
to identify it A S A P
to be sure. I hate you to

2119
02:41:05.639 --> 02:41:09.120
rip everything out if you don't have
it, and I hate to leave everything

2120
02:41:09.200 --> 02:41:11.879
in. If you do so,
you can send me some photos of it

2121
02:41:13.159 --> 02:41:18.120
up close. There there is an
excellent website for Rose Rosette, and as

2122
02:41:18.159 --> 02:41:22.719
we're talking here, I'm gonna I'm
going to find it for you, Okay,

2123
02:41:24.360 --> 02:41:30.399
but I don't want to miss say
the name of it. Okay.

2124
02:41:30.520 --> 02:41:35.120
Anyway, Uh, what if you
send me pictures of the symptoms. I

2125
02:41:35.360 --> 02:41:39.719
can you know, pretty well diagnose
it if you show me some close ups,

2126
02:41:39.840 --> 02:41:43.159
especially of the new shoots and the
new growth. Okay, all right,

2127
02:41:43.360 --> 02:41:46.159
and how do how do I send
that to you? I'm going to

2128
02:41:46.239 --> 02:41:50.680
put you on hold at the end, and Josh will get on and he

2129
02:41:50.959 --> 02:41:54.239
will give you an email that you
can send it to. Kay. See

2130
02:41:54.280 --> 02:41:58.719
you're in Montgomery, you and me
too far away from enchanted forest where I'll

2131
02:41:58.719 --> 02:42:01.319
beat it day. I was going
to say, you put some in a

2132
02:42:01.399 --> 02:42:05.159
bag, but I probably don't want
to do that anyway, coming into a

2133
02:42:05.280 --> 02:42:09.079
nursery. Anyway, there's good information. I'm not finding the website trying to

2134
02:42:09.159 --> 02:42:13.799
do two things at once here,
but if you do a search for Roserosett,

2135
02:42:13.799 --> 02:42:16.719
there'll be a lot of good pictures
and that that will help. But

2136
02:42:16.760 --> 02:42:18.879
I'll look forward to seeing those.
I'm putting you on hole right now.

2137
02:42:18.959 --> 02:42:24.559
Jennet, thank you appreciate that call
very much. We're putting another show in

2138
02:42:24.600 --> 02:42:28.040
the books. Wow, this one, this went fast. It already just

2139
02:42:28.120 --> 02:42:31.879
seemed like it to me, but
it sure did go fast. I'm going

2140
02:42:31.920 --> 02:42:35.000
to be heading out right after this. In fact, I'm making a B

2141
02:42:35.239 --> 02:42:41.639
line for the Enchanted Forest garden Center
or nursery. That is the one that

2142
02:42:41.760 --> 02:42:46.280
if you're in Richmond Rosenberg, you're
going north, you look towards sugar Land,

2143
02:42:46.319 --> 02:42:48.559
you look off to the right,
drive not look drive off to the

2144
02:42:48.639 --> 02:42:52.760
right. That's where it is.
It's FM write this down FM twenty seven

2145
02:42:52.920 --> 02:42:58.479
fifty nine, Richmond, Texas.
There's going to be a donut truck of

2146
02:42:58.520 --> 02:43:01.399
air. I know, I believe
that. How am I going to get

2147
02:43:01.399 --> 02:43:05.159
by with that one? I'm going
to be answering your questions. I'm going

2148
02:43:05.200 --> 02:43:09.120
to give away six different kinds of
Medina products as well as a whole lot

2149
02:43:09.159 --> 02:43:13.959
of little sample bottles for you.
I'll be answering your questions, both identifying

2150
02:43:13.040 --> 02:43:18.719
problems and plants, diagnosing issues that
may be going on, identifying insects,

2151
02:43:20.200 --> 02:43:22.360
bring me pictures, bring me samples, keep them in a ziplock bag before

2152
02:43:22.360 --> 02:43:26.000
you bring them in. Or let's
just talk. I love to visit and

2153
02:43:26.079 --> 02:43:31.559
meet with Gardenline customers, all of
you anywhere Southwest in fact, typically at

2154
02:43:31.600 --> 02:43:35.200
these events we're going to have someone
drive from far away to come. We

2155
02:43:35.239 --> 02:43:39.959
always have a view of those,
So come out and chanted for us eleven

2156
02:43:41.120 --> 02:43:43.920
thirty to one thirty two days.
I hope you'll be there. Look forward

2157
02:43:43.920 --> 02:43:45.360
to meeting you.